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TABLE OF STUDY CONTENTS
PAGE SUBJECT
Table of Contents

1 Section One: Our Messiah, Jesus Christ... YahShua HaMashiach


2 Table of Contents for Section One
3 - 5 Introduction: What is His Name?... What is His Son’s Name?
6 - 7 Jesus... MORE Than a Man
8 - 11 Plan of the Ages
12 - 13 The Spirit, the Water and the Blood
14 - 16 Chronology of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection

17 Section Two: Understanding the Parables of the Messiah


18 Table of Contents for Section Two
19 - 26 Parable of the Ten Virgins
27 - 32 Parable of the Talents

33 Section Three: Living a Godly Life


34 Table of Contents for Section Three
35 - 50 Forgiveness
35 - 39 Part 1: The Importance of Repentance
40 - 42 Part 2: Forgiving Others
43 - 44 Part 3: The Penalty of Not Forgiving Others
45 - 50 Part 4: God’s Forgiveness
51 - 52 Part 5: Warning of Rejecting God’s Forgiveness
52 - 53 Part 6: Forgiving Ourselves
53 - 55 Part 7: Those, Who Accept God’s Forgiveness, Are Made Worthy
56 - 65 Marriage
66 - 67 Sexual Submissiveness in Marriage
68 Silence of Women in the Church
69 Importance of Hair Length

71 Section Four: The Importance of the Law... the Ten Commandments


73 - 89 Honoring the Sabbath, the Fourth Commandment

91 Section Five: Study of the Book of Daniel


92 Table of Contents for Section Five
93 - 97 Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream of the Great Image
98 - 104 The 4th Beast in Daniel’s Vision
105 - 109 Daniel’s Vision of the Ram and the Goat
110 - 115 The Seventy Weeks of Daniel
115 Chart of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel
116 - 118 The Seventy Weeks of Daniel Supplement... Evidence Supporting
2011-2018 as the “Last Week”
119 - 120 Captivity and Rebirth of Israel
121 - 126 Daniel’s Vision of the Glorified Christ


TABLE OF STUDY CONTENTS
PAGE SUBJECT

127 Section Six: Living in the End Times


128 Table of Contents for Section Six
129 - 149 The “Rapture” or “Gathering Up”
132 Understanding of Jesus’ Literal Miracle of Walking on the Water

150 Section Seven: Servants in Christ, Stand Up and Blow the TrumpetR
UMPET


Section One:

Our Messiah, Jesus Christ...


YahuShua HaMashiach


IN THIS SECTION:

PAGE SUBJECT
2 Table of Contents for Section One
3 - 5 Introduction: What is His Name?... What is His Son’s Name?
6 - 7 Jesus... MORE Than a Man
8 - 11 Plan of the Ages
12 - 13 The Spirit, the Water and the Blood
14 - 16 Chronology of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection

17 Section Two: Understanding the Parables of the Messiah


Introduction:
What is His Name?... What is His Son’s Name?

Who has ascended into heaven, or descended?


Who has gathered the wind in His fists?
Who has bound the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth? ...

What is His name, and what is His Son’s name, if you know? ~ Proverbs 30:4

Jesus, YahShua, has said...


“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him;
and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:44).

All believers must first be drawn by God, to Christ. Does the Lord require perfect knowledge of His ways before
He draws them?... No. And so, we speak and so do, each according to our own faith and understanding. But for
those without knowledge of the Messiah’s true name, it is not an offense for them to call the Lord by another name,
as long as they are referring to the One True Messiah... YahShua, Yeshua, Jesus.

The Christ has many names... Jesus, Yeshua, YahShua.


His true name, however, is YahShua HaMashiach.

Jesus (YahShua) knows His audience and the hearts and minds of men and women... “For the Word of God is
living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and
of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). If someone
calls on the name of the Lord, by the only name they know of, whether it is Jesus Christ, Yeshua, YahShua, or
another name they have learned (in different countries), fully recognizing Christ for His suffering and sacrifice for
their salvation, then the Lord knows this and will receive them, knowing that which is in their heart and to Whom
they were calling.

In other languages, the Mashiach (Messiah) is called by other names also, each meaning the same thing (as long
as these names are referring to the true Mashiach, YahShua, and not to false gods, etc.). And because of this, God
puts no difference between a person calling on His name in English, Hebrew, or in any other language, for the
Lord judges according to the hearts and minds (Revelation 2:23), and not according to one’s ignorance.

The Lord is no respector of persons, nor of the language they speak (Acts 10:34-35). If this weren’t so, then only
the Israelites would be saved, and the Gentiles would be lost because of their ignorance of the Hebrew language.
Yet the Gentiles (non-Jewish people) who believe, who are truly converted in their hearts, are saved because of
their belief and acceptance of Jesus for their salvation (Romans 1:16), even though they have no knowledge of
His Hebrew name, YahShua... “For Messiah was lifted up from the earth, so He might draw ALL men to Himself
“ (John 12:32). Amen.


“Yah” + “Shua” = “God’s Salvation” or “God Saves”...
The Importance of Christ’s True Name

The name, “YahShua”, holds great power. It is the name God, Himself, gave to His Son. The name, “Yah”, refers
to God. “Shua” refers to salvation. Several Old Testament Scriptures reveal that God, Himself, has become our
salvation:

Yah is my strength and my song,


and He has become my salvation. ~ Psalm 118:14 CJB

Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid;


‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song;
He also has become my salvation.’ “ ~ Isaiah 12:2

The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation;


He is my God, and I will praise Him;
My father’s God, and I will exalt Him. ~ Exodus 15:2

If one truly understands the majesty of Christ’s name, YahShua, then we realize something spectacular:YahShua is
God, Himself, manifest in the flesh for our salvation...

Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign:


Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son,
and shall call His name Immanu El. ~ Isaiah 7:14

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son,


and they shall call His name Immanu El,”
which is translated, “God with us.” ~ Matthew 1:23

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him,
and without Him nothing was made that was made.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men...
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right
to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word became 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. ~ John 1:1-14

I and My Father are One. ~ John 10:30


“Yah” + “Shua” = “God’s Salvation” or “God Saves”...
The Importance of Christ’s True Name (cont)

If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also;
and from now on you know Him and have seen Him. ~ John 14:7

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:


God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,
seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world,
received up in glory. ~ 1 Timothy 3:16

Therefore, there is great power in YahShua’s name. It is the name God has given to His Son, and it is also
God’s name...“I have come in My Father’s name...” (John 5:43); “Holy Father, guard them by the power of
Your Name, which You have given to Me, so that they may be one, just as We are....” (John 17:11 CJB) and,
“And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.”
(Zechariah 14:9). When you are calling on YahShua’s name, you are calling on God, Himself. What an
amazing declaration of God’s power and infinite wisdom and righteousness!

Thus says the Lord:


Even from the foundation of the world, there has been but One...
One Way, One Truth and One Life...
Call on His name!

Do not wait, for now is the Time...


Today is the Day of Salvation...
Call out!

And come back to Me, by way of My Son, the Holy One...


The only name under Heaven by which you must be saved.

For He is called: Jesus... Christ... The Lord.

His name: YahShua HaMashiach...


The name of My Son, the name I gave Him...
MY name...
Oh Immanu El.

[From Letters from God and His Christ - Volume Seven - “Thus Says the Lord Against the United States... You Have Hastened the Day!]


Jesus... MORE Than a Man

Jesus is the Gift...Blessed Are They Who Know and Accept Him

[God speaking] Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, Mashiach of My people. Like dissolutioned lambs,
all have wandered and went their own way, becoming lost in a world of self-servience, doubt and the
deceitfulness of worldly men chasing after the desires of their corrupted hearts.
My children, yea all My children of this earth, hear and have understanding - I am the God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob from which was born the Gift and
Salvation of Men, My only begotten, Jesus, Yeshua, the Christ and Messiah, the Lord of all creation.
You search in the world for proof, digging in the earth, feeding yourself with man’s books and intellectual
dialogs in your vain attempt to understand God. All your doings are vanity wrought in arrogance. Oh
you lost sheep, why do you wander? I am near to you, search your hearts and know Me. I have given
all you shall ever need through My many servants. They are in perfect agreement and have written all
in the Scriptures of Truth.
Bread and water I have given you as meat for your body, but the Scriptures of Truth shall sustain you
unto life everlasting, if you would just believe and live by that which is uttered from the Father’s mouth
and fulfilled in the Son of Salvation.
Listen and fulfill your solemn desire to have proof, for I have given it to you so you may believe. My Son
is the Word, as I am the Word, and if We are the Word than He must fulfill all the Word speaks of Him;
and if He fulfills all spoken of Him throughout the generations and the generations to come, why then
do you not believe JESUS IS WHO HE IS?

Repent in His name and be lifted up!


Resist the Truth and be judged!
Raise your fist against Heaven,
and gather against the Holy One of Israel, and you shall be no more,
being destroyed and consumed by that which you would not hear...

THE WORD OF GOD!

Which proceeds from the mouth of Him who is also the Word,
slaying all enmity in the dry and parched lands,
covering them in scarlet, leaving no middle ground or partition.

All is wiped away, and set up again in righteousness forever and ever.

Thus is the inheritance of the saints:


Rest and glory in the presence of the Lamb,
who shall be your Shepherd forever and ever...

Life without end. Amen and amen.

Jesus, YESHUA... YahShua is His name.

[A Letter Given to Timothy, Volume One - Letters from God and His Christ]


Jesus... MORE Than a Man

In Part One of Jesus...MORE Than A Man, we will examine over two hundred Old Testament
Messianic prophecies, and the fulfillment of these prophecies in the New Testament. Please pray
for understanding before reading God’s Word. Also, it is important to read each verse, in the context
of the entire chapter, to fully understand the verse’s true meaning.

All Biblical Messianic prophecies


are fulfilled in God’s only and unique Son...
CHRIST JESUS, OUR LORD...
yahshua hamashiach!

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?


The odds of someone fulfilling just a few of these prophecies is highly unlikely. The odds of someone
fulfilling many of these prophecies seems impossible. The odds of someone fulfilling over two
hundred Messianic prophecies is beyond human comprehension.

Only our God in Heaven, Creator of all things, could have fulfilled all prophecies by His only
begotten Son, who also is the Word of God. (John1:1)

These prophecies were provided to us,


His beloved children,
so we would know beyond all doubt,

Jesus is the ONLY way...


and the Messiah!

Please click on the “Jesus... MORE Than a Man” icon


on this website, to download the complete study (FREE PDF),
which includes more than 200 Messianic prophecies
and their fulfillment in Jesus Christ, YahShua HaMashiach.


“Plan of the Ages”

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

Plan of the Ages


Question asked for Kathy, regarding her vision:
What was the circle of stars and patterns outside her window the other night?

Answer from God the Father:


1. Kathy, beloved of My heart, you asked and so you were given a sign, a sign beyond understanding.
Listen as I reveal its meaning to you. What you saw was that which you most desire of your God.
In the window you saw the reflection of God shown in the eyes of His created.
2. Behold the Light from Heaven where the twelve stars circle the framework that binds them
together, the needlework of the universe, the plan of the ages knit together with the finest of
linens, held fast by the hand of God, worked and worn by the twelve, given freely to all who
would wear and accept its pattern which is never-changing but set forth in many different colors
and times.
3. It is also the pool circled by the twelve trees, one tree withered and died and was uprooted and
replanted with an oak of quick growth overshadowing the others. All with branches far reaching
across time filling the entire earth. They had been planted in the good ground drinking from the
spring forming the pool.
4. Again you have seen the pool, the pool in the beginning, which was placid and sheen, soon
corrupted and roiling. So God wept and His tears filled the entire earth covering His sadness and
cleansing His creation, save those few who loved Him who need not drown in His sorrow. His
weeping ceased, leaving its remnants upon the land and in the deep. Shining above, behold the
new hope shown in its arc of colors and in the eyes of His promised.
5. Again Kathy, envision the pool settled, turned to an ocean of waves and raging seas. One last
Tear of the Father fell from Heaven upon the earth in the center of the pool that had turned
cloudy and green. Behold a single drop breaks the surface sending its ripple to every end of its reach
with smoothed waters in between its ripple and center. Riding upon its ripples are twelve twinkling
stars whose light has went out, yet does the ripple continue on, becoming waves now turned to tidal
waves.
6. The One is come and is yet come and has come already. He will again walk upon these waters
as He has shown. And you shall see the waters no more, even the sea has passed away. Only
the Mountain remains, filling the entire earth. Amen, the King has come. - [Volume Two, Letters
from God and His Christ]


“Plan of the Ages”

PART 2: EXPLANATION OF THE “PLAN OF THE AGES”

Paragraph 1
a. reflection of God shown in the eyes of His created - The image of God shown in you or
your acceptance of salvation in His Christ, now shown as His Spirit living in you. We are
the temple of God.


Jesus is the image of God.
I am the perfect reflection of the Father, and have breathed into you My breath,
So you might live and become the reflection of Me...
The only image that has within Him eternal life.
Be born again into My image and wear the raiment of God, in His kingdom without end,
Which is coming and is come and has come already. ~ Jesus

[A quote from “The Judgement of God is True and Without Question. The Error of the People is Great,
Brought Forth Out of Deception and Evil Arrogance, Leading to Corruption and Death.” - Volume Two - Letters from God and His Christ]

Paragraph 2
a. Behold the Light from Heaven - The Light from Heaven refers to Jesus the Christ.
b. Twelve Stars - Refers to the twelve apostles.
c. the Framework - Refers to Jesus’ sacrifice.
d. the needlework - Refers to the words spoken by Jesus.
e. the finest of linens - Refers to Jesus’ miracles.
f. held fast by the hand of God - God’s will... What He has purposed comes to pass.
g. worn by the twelve - All words of Truth and miracles done by Jesus would also be done
by the apostles, through the Holy Spirit.
h. wear and accept - Acceptance of Truth and salvation in Christ, followed by works in faith,
through the Holy Spirit.
i. different colors and times - Many different peoples and nations will come to Christ over
time, between His first coming and His return.

Paragraph 3
a. pool - This refers to Jesus and the world He created.
b. twelve trees - Refers to the twelve apostles.
c. one tree withered and died - Refers to Jesus’ disciple, Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.
d. oak of quick growth - This refers to the apostle, Paul.
e. branches far reaching - The Gospel has spread across time and throughout the world,
separating into many different churches or branches of the same Tree.
f. spring forming the pool - This refers to Jesus, who formed the earth.


“Plan of the Ages”

PART 2: EXPLANATION OF THE “PLAN OF THE AGES” cont.

*Please Read Genesis, Chapters 1-9, to better understand the interpretation of paragraph 4

Paragraph 4
a. the pool - This refers to the world.
b. pool in the beginning - This refers to the Garden of Eden.
c. soon corrupted and roiling - Sin started in the Garden, with the devil tempting Eve,
leading to the entire world in corruption during the time of Noah.
d. God wept and His tears filled the entire earth - This refers to the Great Flood.
e. cleansing His creation - God destroyed the wicked in the flood.
f. those few - This refers to Noah and his family (1 Peter 3:20).
g. His weeping ceased - God stopped the rain and the waters receded.
h. leaving its remnants - (double meaning) This refers to the lakes, seas, etc. that were left
after the water receded. This also refers to Noah and His descendants.
i. the new hope - This refers to God’s covenant with Noah.
j. arc of colors - This refers to the rainbow God set in the sky after the flood, the sign of the
covenant between God and Noah (See Genesis 9:12-13).
k. shown in the eyes of His promised - This refers to the covenant God made with Noah and
his descendants, as they looked upon the sign of the covenant, the rainbow.

Paragraph 5
a. pool settled - This refers to the earth being calm and at peace, resting from the wickedness
of men for a time after the flood.
b. ocean of waves and raging seas - This refers to a large population of peoples and
nations, living in sin and warring with each other.
c. one last tear drop - This refers to Jesus Christ.
d. center of the pool - This refers to Israel.
e. turned cloudy and green - God’s people had become stagnant and rank, corrupted,
confused, impure, through envy, lust and greed, and all kinds of sins.
f. single drop breaks the surface - Jesus’ sacrifice conquered sin and
changed everything (the New Covenant).
g. ripple - Jesus’ sacrifice and the Gospel spreading throughout the world.
h. every end of its reach - Jesus’ message and gift will reach every single person on earth...
Then He will return. (See Matthew 24:14)
i. smooth waters in between its ripple and center - The hearts of those, who follow and
accept Jesus and the Gospel, are calm.
j. center - This refers to Jesus.
k. ripple - The waters in front of the ripple are not calm, but being moved from their place
and stirred up until the ripple, turned wave, washes over them.
l. twinkling stars riding on the ripple - This refers to the apostles spreading the message that
Jesus brought, which broke the surface, changing everything.
m. lights went out - The original twelve apostles have died.

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“Plan of the Ages”

PART 2: EXPLANATION OF THE “PLAN OF THE AGES” cont.

Paragraph 5 cont.
n. ripple continue on, becoming waves, now turned to tidal waves - The spread of the Gospel
has continued through the generations, growing in strength until it will be preached to
the whole world. These waves will crash against the shores of all those at rest, who have
false beliefs, causing many to become clean through Christ and many more to resist,
leading to much killing and war. Then Jesus will return in full power and glory. Indeed,
Jesus’ words will come down on the world and the wicked as a tidal wave, destroying all
that is wicked and evil, until the earth is completely swept clean in His crashing waters.
These waves and tidal waves are also representative of the current state of the world
today and all its conflict, war and evil. The waves and tidal waves also represent the
literal waves and tidal waves that are occurring in the world today, and the increase of
disasters and all kinds of troubles - “birth pains” (See Luke 21, especially verse 25. Also
see Matthew 24 & Psalms 46:2-3)

Paragraph 6
a. the One is come - Jesus is in the world now, in spirit.
(See Acts 2:17-18; Revelation 2: 7, 11, 17, 29; Revelation 3: 1, 6, 13, 22)
b. is yet come - This refers to Jesus’ return.
c. has come already - Jesus came already as a man to die on the cross.
d. He again will walk upon these waters - Jesus will put all the world’s trouble beneath His
feet (See Psalm 8:6; Matthew 22:44; Matthew 14:25; Mark 12:36).
e. the waters no more - Wickedness and troubles will be gone from the earth.
(See Revelation 21:1)
f. even the sea has passed away - This is in reference to Revelation 21:1.
g. only the Mountain remains filling the entire world - The Mountain is Jesus.
(See Daniel 2:35)

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The Spirit, the Water and the Blood

This is He who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood.
And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear
witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there
are three that bear witness on earth: F15 the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree
as one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of
God which F16 He has testified of His Son. ~ 1 John 5:6-9

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
These verses speak of God’s plan of salvation for mankind and how they came to pass. The verses speak of
how God accomplishes His will, which is always the same and unchanging... first testifying of His will, in
advance, through His servants, the prophets; then, the manifestation of His will by His Spirit moving in the
world; then, bringing that action to fulfillment, in a precise manner, according to the Scriptures. This short
study is a testament to God’s glory, in the hope of bringing us into a better understanding of the majesty of
God’s Word, which surpasses all human knowledge and ability.

PART 2: Three meanings... all are VITALLY important


A. PROPHECY:
Spirit: God the Father/the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophets (2 Peter 1:20-21).
Water: The Word of God prophesied of the coming Messiah.
Blood: Sacrifice, in blood, for sin is required by God for forgiveness of sin
(Hebrews 9:22).
* These three testified of Christ’s coming in advance... prophecy.*

B. EARTHLY BIRTH
Spirit: Holy Spirit came upon Mary - virgin birth (Luke 1:34-35).


Water:
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Blood: human birth of the Savior (Luke 2:7, 11)
* These three testified of Jesus’ coming into the world as a man... Immanu El.
The Word became flesh (John 1:14).*

C. PROPHECY FULFILLED
Spirit: The Holy Spirit given after Jesus’ resurrection (John 20:22; Acts 2:4).
Water: Jesus poured out the Word of Life to the thirsty (John 6:68; John 7:37-39).
Blood: God’s sacrifice of His Son and Jesus’ sacrifice of Himself on the cross
(John 12:32-33; John 19:16-18).
* Prophecy fulfilled, sin forgiven... The Truth made manifest.*

ACCEPTANCE OF TRUTH
The only way man can testify to the truth and accept the Truth of Jesus,
for their salvation and the gift of eternal life, is by having these three,
the Spirit, the Water and the Blood, in his heart.

“By three shall you be saved... The Spirit, the Water and the Blood.” ~ God


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The SPIRIT, THE WATER AND THE BLOOD

PART 3: Conclusion
Therefore, God is in Jesus, and Jesus is in God (John 10:30, 38; 14:10-11). The Spirit is God; and the
Spirit, God sends and gives, is Jesus, who is also the Spirit (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22), which
Jesus also gives (John 20:22)... Jesus is the Way to God (John 14:6).

The Water is the Word of God, and the Word is God, and the Word is Jesus who is with God (John 1:1-2).
The Water was poured out to the thirsty, and that which was poured was Christ (John 7:37-39).

The Blood is sacrifice, atonement for sin. The sacrifice is the Son, sent from the Father, to be sacrificed
for all, because of sin (Romans 3:24-25). The sacrifice is God’s, and Jesus is the Sacrifice... The Cup filled
with blood and water, poured out from the Savior’s side (John 19:34-35), of which all must consume to
have life (John 6:47-58)... Jesus also being the One who resides at the right hand of the Father (Acts 2:33).

• The three are in agreement.


• The three are one.
• Jesus is all three.
• God is all three.
• They two are one, and three.

As I am in the Father, He is in Me;


We two as one and three,
being that third part which is given to men. ~ Jesus
[“I Have Purchased You in My Own Blood... You Are Mine” - Volume Six - Letters from God and His Christ]

Jesus is the WAY,


the TRUTH, and the LIFE.

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chronology of jesus christ’s crucifixion & resurrection

Part 1: INTRODUCTION
The chronology of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection is critically important because the first three Holy
Days, commanded by God that we keep forever (Leviticus 23), are fulfilled through these events. He was
crucified on Passover, “slept” in His tomb during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and rose from the dead at
the beginning of First Fruits.
Jesus “slept” in His tomb three days and three nights as He, Himself, spoke of in Matthew 12:40, saying,...”The
Son of man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”. The “heart of the earth” refers to
His tomb, or grave, not the man-made “hell” most churches proclaim. To say that One such as Jesus, being
completely sinless and pure, being the Son of God, would descend into the lake of fire, which is reserved for
the wicked, or worse yet, He somehow descended into a fictitious pit of torment... This is blasphemy! “Hell”
(sheol) is the grave. Jesus descended into His grave for three nights and three days. (To better understand,
please read the Q & A Bible/Letter study, entitled: “Does the Hell of the Churches Exist?”, pages 78-87].

PART 2: The crucifixion transpired on Passover.


Scripture, very clearly, shows that Jesus Christ was crucified on Passover. This is especially important to note
because Jesus is our Passover, solidifying further that He is, indeed, our Messiah.

Now the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto Him,
Where wilt Thou that we prepare for Thee to eat the Passover? And He said, Go into the city to such
a man, and say unto Him, The Master saith, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at thy house
with My disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the
Passover. ~ Matthew 26:17-19

But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the Passover. Will ye therefore that I
release unto you the King of the Jews? ~ John 18:39

PART 3: Chronology of Jesus’ Crucifixion


Please note: The Hebrew calendar observes Holy days from the evening of one day to the evening
of the next. Therefore, Passover occurred from sundown on Nisan 14 to sundown on Nisan 15, and
so on. The Feast of Unleavened Bread began at sundown on Nisan 15 and lasted seven days, ending
at sundown on Nisan 22. Please see the chart on page 42.

In Leviticus 23:5-6, we see that Passover begins the days of Unleavened Bread, and the Feast of
Unleavened Bread is celebrated for the seven days following Passover. In The Bible, these eight days
were often referred to as either Passover as a whole, or The Feast of Unleavened Bread as a whole...
“Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called Passover” (Luke 22:1).

Evening of Nisan 14 (Tuesday evening): Jesus ate an evening Passover meal with His disciples and instituted
the New Covenant symbols...”And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and
gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat. This is My body. And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave
it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is My blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for
the remission of sins” (Matthew 26:26-28).
Tuesday night, after their meal, Jesus was betrayed by Judas, and arrested in the Garden of Gethsamane.
During the night, Jesus was brought before the high priest (John 18, Luke 22, Matthew 26, Mark 14).

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chronology of jesus christ’s crucifixion & resurrection

PART 3: Chronology of Jesus’ Crucifixion cont.


Early Morning of Nisan 14 to evening, the beginning of Nisan 15 (Wednesday morning to Wednesday
evening): Jesus was brought before Pilate early in the morning on Wednesday (Mark 14:2 & 15:1).
After enduring scourging, mocking and severe beatings during the day on Wednesday, Jesus was
crucified and died around 3 p.m...”And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani? That is to say, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? Some of
them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one
of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave Him to
drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save Him. Jesus, when He had cried
again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost” (Matthew 27:46-50). This was also the Preparation
Day for the annual Sabbath, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, not the weekly Sabbath (Mark 15:42,
Luke 23:54).
The bodies could not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day...”For that sabbath day was a
high day” (John 19:31), so Pilate besought that their legs be broken. The legs of the two criminals,
crucified with Jesus, were broken, but Jesus’ legs were not broken because He was already dead
(John 19:31-33). Jesus’ body was then placed in the tomb just before sunset...”When the even was
come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple.
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own
new tomb, which he had hewn out of the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the door of the
sepulchre, and departed” (Matthew 27:57-60). [Note: Jesus, our Passover Lamb, died near twilight,
thus fulfilling Exodus 12:5-6... “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may
take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same
month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight”.]
Again in Matthew 12:40, Jesus tells us...“As Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s
belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”. Wednesday
night was the first night and Thursday was the first day that Jesus slept in death in His tomb.

Evening, beginning of Nisan 15, to evening, beginning of Nisan 16 (Thursday evening to Friday
evening): This was the “high day” Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread (John 19:31 & Leviticus
23:4-7). (The Feast of Unleavened Bread began the night before at sundown). It is described as
the day after the “Day of Preparation”...”Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation,
the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate” (Matthew 27:62). Thursday night was the
second night and Friday was the second day that Jesus slept in death in His tomb.

Evening, beginning of Nisan 16, to evening, beginning of Nisan 17 (Friday evening to Saturday
evening): The high-day Sabbath now past, the women bought and prepared spices for anointing
Jesus’ body before resting on the weekly Sabbath day, which began at sunset on Friday...”And when
the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought
spices, that they might come and anoint Him” (Mark 16:1)...and “And they returned, and prepared
spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment” (Luke 23:56).
Friday night was the third night and Saturday was the third day that Jesus slept in death in His
tomb. He arose at the end of the Sabbath, on Saturday, at sunset.

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PART 3: Chronology of Jesus’ Crucifixion cont.

Evening, beginning of Nisan 17 (Saturday evening): The women rested on the weekly Sabbath
(Luke 23:56), according to the Fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:8-11). Jesus rose at the end of the
Sabbath, exactly three days and three nights after His burial... ”Then certain of the scribes and of
the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from Thee. But He answered and said
to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given
to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s
belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew
12:38-40).
The Feast of First Fruits was observed on the day after the weekly Sabbath following Passover (Leviticus
23), from sunset on Saturday to sunset on Sunday. Jesus arose Saturday evening, at sunset, this being
the beginning of First Fruits. This is why Jesus is called the “first fruits” of those that slept...”But now
is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept” (1 Corinthians 15:20).

Nisan 18 day (Sunday): The women brought the prepared spices early in the morning, and at
that time Jesus had already left His tomb...”Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the
morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain
others with them” (Luke 24:1 & John 20:1), finding that Jesus had already risen...”And they found
the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord
Jesus” (Luke 24:2-3, also Matthew 28:1-6, Mark 16:2-6 & John 20:1). He did not rise Sunday
morning, but at sunset on Saturday, at the end of the Sabbath and the beginning of First Fruits.

Why is the true chronology so important?

This does away with “Good Friday”, “Easter Sunday*” and one of the false
reasons the churches use to justify changing the Sabbath to Sunday.

By rightly dividing the Word in the Bible, God’s glory is revealed!... Showing all
that whatsoever God does is very purposeful, precise and always points to Jesus,
for He is the fulfillment of all things! Amen.

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Section Two:

Understanding the Parables


of The Messiah

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IN THIS SECTION:

PAGE SUBJECT
18 Table of Contents for Section Two
19 - 26 Parable of the Ten Virgins
27-32 Parable of the Talents

33 Section Three: Living a Godly Life

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Parable of the Ten Virgins

PART 1: PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS ~ MATTHEW 25:1-13

1 At that time, the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the
bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take
any oil with them. 4 The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time
in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom!
Come out to meet him!’ 7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the
wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ 9 “’No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both
us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’ 10 “But while they were on their way
to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And
the door was shut. 11 “Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’ 12 “But he replied,
‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’ 13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

INTRODUCTION - “Be Watchful and Ready”

In this parable, the Messiah is decribing the time of His coming for His “bride” or true disciples
and followers, those truly converted in their hearts. He is telling everyone to be watchful and
ready... “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming”... “Therefore
you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. Who then is a
faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food
in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.”
~ Matthew 24:42; 24:44-46

PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25:1-13

VERSE 1
a. virgins - Usually refers to those who are forgiven, or spiritually clean; but in this case, “virgins”
refers to Christian churches and also to individual people, who proclaim they are Christians or
followers of the Messiah... His body, His “bride”.
b. at that time - Refers to the present day (the end of the age), when the Lord’s return is at hand.
c. lamps - Refers to the church’s or messianic community’s faith/spirit/proclamation of faith, and also
to an individual’s faith or trust in Christ.
d. went out to meet the Bridegroom - Refers to the Christians who are waiting patiently for Jesus to
return. (Jesus is always the Bridegroom).

Verse 2
a. self-explanatory

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Verse 3
a. The foolish ones took their proclamation of faith (lamp), but did not have the Spirit or the Truth
in their hearts. They only proclaimed it, they did not actually believe it in their heart. This is in
reference to both individuals and churches.
b. The light has went out of the modern churches and peoples.

*NOTE: Referring to verse 3 above. The churches have become lukewarm. In Revelation 3:14-
22 ... “And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,’These things says the Amen, the
Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: I know your works, that you are
neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I am rich, have
become wealthy, and have need of nothing’--and do not know that you are wretched, miserable,
poor, blind, and naked-- I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be
rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be
revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears
My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. To him
who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with
My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Verse 4
a. the wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamp - Refers to the true believers who have
steadfast faith/the Holy Spirit/the Word (the oil) in their hearts (jars), along with their testimony
(lamp).
b. the oil - Represents faith, the Holy Spirit, and the Word
c. the jars - Refers to an individual’s heart
d. the lamp - Refers to an individual’s testimony, faith, and that which is shown from that faith... a
reflection of their heart condition... “The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye
is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of
darkness. Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. If then your whole
body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright
shining of a lamp gives you light.” - Luke 11:34-36

Verse 5
a. long time in coming - It has been over 2,000 years since Jesus said He would return.
b. They all became drowsy and fell asleep- Refers to the people and churches letting their faith waver
and slip away because it has been so long. The light has went out of the modern churches through
their lack of faith/trust, false testimony and teachings (or doctrines of men), and disobedience
(forsaking of the Moral Law - 10 Commandments), a complete leading away from the Truth....
“Knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to 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 creation.” - 2 Peter 3:3-4
c. fell asleep - Many died in their sins because of their rejection of the Truth... “This is why I said to
you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not trust that I AM [who I say I am], you will die in
your sins.” - John 8:24

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PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25:1-13 cont.

Verse 6
a. at midnight - Refers to the beginning of the Last Week, the seven years of judgment... the time
appointed.
b. the cry rang out - Refers to the last trumpet sounding, before Christ’s return for His bride... God’s
prophets and servants proclaiming Jesus’ coming is very near, even at the door, and a call to
repentance. This time is now (Please study Matthew 24 and Luke 21).

The Letters From God and His Christ


are a fulfillment of this trumpet sounding and “cry ringing out”!
Hence, the name the Lord gave for His websites:
“TrumpetCallofGod.com & TrumpetCallofGodOnline.com”

The Bridegroom is coming and His return is very close. I have been sent out ahead of Him,
with a multitude of others who hear His voice. We go out to prepare His Bride so she shall be
fit for the King. I must make a straight path for the Lord to follow and announce His coming!
John went out baptizing with water, unto repentance, in preparation of the One coming after
Him, whose sandals John was not worthy to loose. The One coming is coming again and so
I, together with all those who would be His Trumpet Call, are going out baptizing with Spirit
and Truth, according to that Spirit and Truth given us, so all, who have ears to hear, might
be spared from the Day of Troubles that is coming upon the whole world. Correction and
guidance, through testimony and proclamation, must be given. ~ Timothy

Surely the Lord God does nothing,


Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. ~ Amos 3:7

c. Come out to meet Him - Jesus is telling everyone to call on His name in repentance. We must then
change our ways, becoming new in Christ by walking in His very footsteps, continually separating
ourselves from the world.

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times
of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus
Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of
restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets
since the world began. ~ Acts 3:19-22

The Lord lives, and forgives those who call on His name with all humility and
supplication. Come to Me, and repent. ~ Jesus speaking [”Return Home...Your Father
Calls” - Volume One - Letters from God and His Christ]

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PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25:1-13 cont.

Verse 6 cont.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. Behold, I
stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come
in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. ~ Revelation 3:19-20

He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. ~ 1 John 2:6

And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and
do those things that are pleasing in His sight. ~ 1 John 3:22

The Trumpet is blowing, the bride is being prepared...


The wedding supper approaches.

(Jesus speaking) ~ Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six,
“Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen...*All Shall Be Saved. The First Harvest Shall Be Lowly...The Second, Plenteous.”

Verse 7
a. Then the ten virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps - This is referring to when a person hears
God’s call to repentance (trumpet), and turns to Christ. “Trimming their lamps” refers to the newly
converted changing their lives, now endeavoring to live a Godly life according to the Word of
God.
b. woke up - This refers to those who have heard God’s message and were pricked in their hearts,
having been awakened out of their slumber.
c. trimming (or “prunes”) - “I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Every branch in Me
that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may
bear more fruit.” (John 15:1-2)

Verse 8
a. Give us some of your oil, our lamps are going out - Some of those who woke up continued to stumble,
falling back into sin, unable and unwilling to obey the Moral Law (The Ten Commandments), not
having fully accepted the Truth into their hearts, nor did they read the Word of God, nor did they
receive of the Holy Spirit, neither has Christ come to live in them and through them. Instead of
trusting in God, through Jesus, for their salvation, they are relying on others to save them.
The light has went out of the churches and the once-believers. They are like the Parable of the Seed
sown in a stony place, first receiving the Word with joy, then it quickly dies within them because
of the pressures of the world. They had no firm root structure in the Truth. (See the Parable of the
Sower - Matthew 13:20-21)

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PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25:1-13 cont.

Verse 9
a. No, there may not be enough for both us and you- The Holy Spirit and understanding of truth is
only given by God, through Christ and His Spirit, not from other people. Most people do not have
a strong enough faith to overcome. They have only enough faith/trust for themselves. Their faith
may be weakened by the non-believers lack of faith.
b. Instead go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourself - Go and listen to those who testify of
the Truth, on God’s behalf (“those who sell oil”), and believe what they are saying (“buy some for
yourself”). Then own what you have purchased through belief, by asking God, in Jesus’s name, to
forgive you and come into your heart. It is a personal decision made between each person and
God, to accept their salvation in Christ... It is a gift from God.
c. those who sell oil - Refers to those who testify on God’s behalf (i.e. God-appointed apostles,
prophets, teachers)
d. buy some for yourself - Refers to an individual believing what they are being told about the Lord,
even to the writing of it on their hearts.

Verse 10
a. but while they were on their way to buy the oil, the Bridegroom arrived - The people waited too
long, they remained lukewarm in their faith, because of their lack of faith and false-righteous
heart. Those who sold the oil were taken to be with Jesus.
b. The virgins who were ready went in with Him to the wedding banquet - Those who went into
the wedding banquet are those who Jesus saw of Himself in, those who waited patiently in faith,
walking in His ways and also keeping the Commandments...“Here is the patience of the saints;
here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus” (Revelation 14:12).
These will be taken up to Heaven by Jesus... “Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught
up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with
the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). This is before the seven-year period of God’s judgments.
The forgiven, who are truly converted in their hearts, do not fall under God’s wrath... “Most
assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting
life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life (John 5:24).
c. And the door was shut - Many will be left behind, to endure refinement* in the Day of the
Lord (by fire, so to speak).

*NOTE:“The Refiner’s Fire”- For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which
is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood,
hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be
revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he
has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but
he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. - 1 Corinthians 3:11-15

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PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25:1-13 cont.

Verse 11
a. Later the others also came. ‘Sir, Sir! Open the door for us!’- After the true believers were taken up,
the rest of the people left behind came saying, ‘Jesus, Jesus!’ ‘ Take us up, we also proclaimed your
name’ ...

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will
of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your
name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare
to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”- Matthew 7:21-23

b. open the door for us - In other words, the people left behind are saying, “We didn’t open our hearts
to You, Jesus. We have went our own way and have put our trust in men, instead of You... We
refuse to be broken*, but please let us in.”

*And whoever falls on this stone will be broken... ~ Matthew 21:44

Blessed are those


Who believe without seeing.

Verse 12
a. But He replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’ - Jesus was saying He did not know them
because their mere proclamation of faith was not enough. Faith without works is dead; and
likewise, works done without faith are also dead. So then, even more blessed are those, who
do what they have heard, for these live by faith...and by their doings, and by their example, will
many be led to salvation. Jesus is also emphasizing the fact that He did not see of Himself in them.
They should have held their lamps up so He could see their faces, but they had no oil or way to
light their lamps...no light to shine on their faces, nor upon their works in faith... they remained
in the dark. They did not know or obey Jesus, nor did they walk in His ways, nor did they keep
the Moral Law of the Father. Many proclaimed faith, but had no works. While others had works,
but no faith, a mere boasting. Both being found liars before The Lord having choosen lawlessness
- the forsaking of the Moral Law of 10 Commandments, remaining void of the Spirit. Therefore,
He did not know them, because He did not see of Himself in them.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. - James 2:26

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PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25:1-13 cont.

Verse 12 cont.

“So then, all those, who boast of their own works leading them to Heaven, shout in vain, shown in
vanity for pride’s sake...” ~ God speaking [“I Am the Lord God Almighty!... The Only God! Why, Oh
Peoples of the Earth, Do You Fight Against He Who Has Overcome the World? Kick Not Your Foot
Against the Rock.” - Volume Two - Letters from God and His Christ]

“Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know
Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever
keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He
who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” - 1 John 2:3-6

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your
name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to
them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ “- Matthew 7:21-23

Here is wisdom: God is just in everything. And if the Father’s justice is not a respecter of persons, then
it shall surely come to pass in these last few short days (years)... Those who would be first shall be last,
and those who were last shall be first.
For what shall I do, and what shall I say, to these who speak My name continually, invoking My words
from Scripture and My statutes, and then going in that self-same hour and disobeying them? Shall any
man, who thinks himself righteous because he knows My name, be taken out of the Lord’s day as a
reward for his disobedience and high-mindedness?... Surely not! What of all these men, who speak My
name and My Word continually, in the judgment of others, to exalt their own selves? Shall I then reward
them for their lack of humility, exalting them to Heaven, though they stand firm for themselves and not
Me?... Surely not! Of My servants, I require all humility and meekness and faith, rightly dividing My
Word unto edification of their brothers and sisters, not in justification of themselves, by themselves, for
their own churches who do not keep My commandments nor honor My statutes.
Thus says the Lord to all servants, who call of themselves servants in My name: Do you really know
Me? Do you abide in Me?... And if I abide in you, then where is My fruit of My own Spirit of which I
have given you?... I have not seen it! What have you done with My gifts? My lost sheep, where have
you laid them?... They lie next to your faith, which has also been misplaced. Why do you now come
against Me? For all you have done shall be accounted to you, unless you repent and cast away these
filthy robes of arrogance and pride. You have asked of Me forgiveness, in My name, and I have washed
you in My own blood...you are now married unto Me, beloved! How is it that you now play the harlot
and return to those same things of which I have forgiven you? Beloved, the Lord does not change!
Yet you have endeavored to change My Word to suit your own selfishness, to hold onto that which is
abomination in the eyes of God! Shall I then gather you up and reward you for your error?... Surely
not! Are you saved in spite of your error?... Yes, the Lord does not lie to His sheep. But remember this:
The Lord will surely correct and discipline those He loves, making His bride fit for her Husband when
He returns for her.
My servants, hold your lamps up so I may see your faces! Why have you poured out the pure oil I gave
you and intermingled it with the dirt upon the ground? Your lamps will not light, they have gone out.
Hurry and buy some new oil, quickly, from those who I have sent to sell you of the pure oil, which I
have given them. ~ Jesus speaking [“Many Are Called, Few Are Chosen...*All Shall Be Saved. The First
Harvest Shall Be Lowly...The Second, Plenteous.” - Volume Six - Letters from God and His Christ]

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Verse 13

a. Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. - In other words, stay vigilant
in your faith and obedience, because we do not know the precise time Jesus is returning.
However, we do know the season of His coming because of the trumpet sounding. Jesus told us
exactly what to look for and what must happen right before His coming (Matthew 24, Mark 13
and Luke 21). Many of the signs, spoken of in the Gospels, are happening right now.

So look up...
Your redemption draws nigh!

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Parable of the Talents

PARABLE OF THE TALENTS ~ MATTHEW 25:14-30

14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted
his property to them. 15 To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents,
and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.
16 The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work
and gained five more. 17 So also, the one with the two talents gained two more. 18 But
the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his
master’s money. 19 “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled
accounts with them. 20 The man who had received the five talents brought the other five.
‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’ 21 “His
master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few
things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
22 “The man with the two talents also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with
two talents; see, I have gained two more.’ 23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and
faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many
things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ 24 “Then the man who had received
the one talent came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where
you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 So I was afraid
and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’ 26 “His
master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not
sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? 27 Well then, you should have put my
money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back
with interest. 28 “’Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents.
29 For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever
does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. 30 And throw that worthless
servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Unfortunately, this parable is often mistaken as a parable regarding money. As we know from
several verses in the New Testament, including 1 Timothy 6:10... “For the love of money is
a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows“, and Matthew 6:19-21, “Do not lay up for
yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and
steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and
where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be
also”... Jesus put NO value in earthly money or riches.

Rather, this parable is regarding stewardship of the Lord’s gifts given to men and our individual
service in the Lord. This parable is also a gift, to guide and teach us, intended only for those
who have eyes to see and ears to hear... “And He said, “To you it has been given to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘Seeing they may
not see, and hearing they may not understand’” (Luke 8:10).

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PART 1: INTRODUCTION cont.


The Lord places great importance on stewardship... “And the Lord said, “Who then is that
faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them
their portion of food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing
when he comes. Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has. But if that
servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male
and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk, the master of that servant will come
on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut
him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant who knew his
master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with
many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be
beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and
to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.” (Luke 12:42-48).

Thus says the Lord Jesus:


One who is called by My own name,
Who also proclaims faith in My name, saying they follow Me,
Yet serves Me and others in a way contrary to Me
And those gifts received in Me, is a liar...

For by one’s actions is the heart revealed.

Mere proclamation is empty, and faith dead, if no good works follow.

PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25: 14-30

Verse 14
a. The man going on a journey is Jesus.
b. His servants are those who believe in Jesus.
c. His property refers to His gospel and His ways and salvation/forgiveness or Holy Spirit.

All is the Lord’s and given to us to share with all,


including our money and things and salvation and truth...
“For the world is Mine, and everything in it.” ~ Psalm 50:12

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PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25: 14-30 cont.

Verse 15
a. The talents represent our faith, works in faith and spiritual gifts (not money).
b. According to his ability - Or in other words, according to or in proportion to his faith. (Please see
Matthew 9:29 and Romans 12:6).
c. went on His journey - At the time, Jesus was talking to His disciples, so when He spoke to them He
was referring to His Ascension. And at this present time, we are anxiously awaiting His return.

Verse 16
a. man with five talents gained five - This is not bringing five people to faith, but rather, it is his works
done in faith, and his gifts from the Lord used for the Lord’s purpose as a testament of God’s love.
In a sense, he doubled what the Lord had given him in his life, through all his works done in faith,
and sharing what he had with others - a giving heart (i.e. He told people about Jesus, obeyed the
commandments (2 John 1:6), followed Jesus’ ways, cleaned up his life, etc.).
b. The man who received five talents received a lot, so more was expected of him (Luke 12:47-48).

Those, who know the Truth, must walk in its ways (1 John 2:6),
and further the Kingdom in them and help others to do the same.
You cannot force another person to become a believer...
You can only share, lead, and be an example for them,
with the hope they will also come to believe (1 Timothy 4:12),
because the Lord had first called to them (John 6:44, 6:65).

Verse 17
a. The explanation of this verse is the same as the man with five talents, but on a lesser scale.

Verse 18
a. The man who had received one talent was weak in faith and lazy (vs. 26), hiding what he had from
others, neither increasing or decreasing. This servant was neither cold, nor hot... He remained
lukewarm. (Revelation 3:15-16)

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PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25: 14-30 cont.


Verse 19
a. This verse refers to Jesus’ return.

Verse 20
a. The Master is Jesus.
b. The man with five represents the faithful servants working in Christ, bearing fruit. (Please see the
explanation of verse 16 on the previous page).

Verse 21
a. This verse is self-explanatory.
b. Come and share in your Master’s joy - In other words, “come and be with Christ in His Kingdom”.

Verses 22 & 23
a. The explanation of these verses is the same as for verse 21.

Verse 24
a. The hard man refers to The Rock/Jesus, because His commands and laws are beyond question. He and
His laws are permanent and unmovable. The Lord is the Lord of all.
b. harvesting where you have not sown - Jesus gives us the “seed”, but we must scatter it for others and
also plant it in our hearts... It is a free-will choice.
c. harvesting where you have not sown - This also means Jesus harvests where others have planted (i.e.
prophets, apostles, pastors, anyone who proclaims the true Gospel and the words of the Bible).
d. gathered where you have not scattered seed - This is a reference to the Gentiles and other nations
not of Israel (Matthew 15:24), and also of all those who would come to believe in Christ after His
ascension (John 10:16).

Verse 25
a. so I was afraid - This servant feared the Lord, but feared the reproach of the world more... He was
ashamed of his faith.
b. hid it in the ground - The faith of this servant died because he bore no fruit, choosing rather to keep it
hidden, making no effort to share it or increase it... “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:17, 20, 26).
c. here is what belongs to you - The servant never made the gift (faith, truth, salvation, forgiveness and gift
of the Spirit) the Lord gave him his own. He never accepted Jesus into his heart. In a sense, the servant
gave Jesus’ gift back, because he never really accepted or embraced it in the first place.

Verse 26
a. This explanation of this verse is the same as the explanation for verses 18 & 24.

Verse 27
a. should have put my money on deposit with the bankers - This servant should have at least sought to
learn more about what the Lord had given him, by reading the Bible, going to fellowship or learning
from those who had received more than he.
b. banker - This refers to the prophets, the apostles, pastors and the Bible itself.
c. with interest - This refers to a strengthening of faith, through seeking knowledge and understanding.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,


And all these things shall be added to you. ~ Matthew 6:33

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PART 2: EXPLANATION OF Matthew 25: 14-30 cont.

VerseS 28-29
28 “’Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. 29 For everyone who has
will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be
taken from him.
a. Those, who have faith/trust and obey, and also use what the Lord has given them, will receive salvation
and all the Lord has prepared for them in His kingdom. And in this current life, they will have more
peace, joy and happiness in their own lives... What you sow in your life, you will reap; and the more you
sow, the more you will reap.
b. Those, who have little, are ashamed of what they have, and/or they reject what they have been given...
To them will the devil come and take away what little they have.
c. Read the Parable of the Sower, and Jesus’ explanation of the parable, for better understanding (Matthew
13:3-9 and Matthew 13:18-22).

Verse 30
30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.’
a. When the Lord returns for all those who are His, in who He sees of Himself, those to whom He has
given of His gift, of which they have accepted and used, He will gather them up to Heaven, and the
rest left to refinement and judgment. He will remove the light, and only the darkness will remain on the
earth...There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
b. The servant, with the one talent, will be left behind and not allowed to escape to Heaven (Luke 21:36),
because he had rejected that which he had been given by Jesus’ death and resurrection. (See also the
Parable of the Ten Virgins - Matthew 25:11-12).

PART 3: CONCLUSION
We are born freed from sin through Jesus... It is only our embracing of sin and rejection of Jesus that makes us lost
to the Kingdom. So then, turn from sin and embrace your Savior, and be born again out of a world of sin. Shed
the image of the world, and put on the image of Christ, who is the perfect reflection of the Father in Heaven. All
men are no longer slaves to sin... All are free men. But one must choose to stay free. Only those fully baptized
in the Spirit, wearing the image of Christ, may enter the Kingdom. All corruptible must put on that which is
incorruptible.

Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you,


Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” ~ John 3:3

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it,
But cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes.
So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” ~ John 3:6-8

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PART 3: CONCLUSION cont.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away;
Behold, all things have become new. ~ 2 Corinthians 5: 17

For this material which can decay must be clothed with imperishability,
This which is mortal must be clothed with immortality. ~ 1 Corinthians 15: 53

FROM JESUS, OUR LORD AND SAVIOR:

All sin is abolished... All are saved through Me, because


of My death and resurrection, which has overcome sin
and death. So then, none are lost because of sin, for
all sin is forgiven. Only one’s rejection of that Truth
and forgiveness leads them to damnation, for they have
chosen sin over salvation in their rejection of the Spirit
and Christ. Forgiveness is lost to them, because they
have chosen to keep what I have taken from them.

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Section Three:

Living a Godly Life

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IN THIS SECTION:

PAGE SUBJECT
34 Table of Contents for Section Three

35 - 50 Forgiveness
35 - 39 Part 1: The Importance of Repentance
40 - 42 Part 2: Forgiving Others
43 - 44 Part 3: The Penalty of Not Forgiving Others
45 - 50 Part 4: God’s Forgiveness
51 - 52 Part 5: Warning of Rejecting God’s Forgiveness
52 - 53 Part 6: Forgiving Ourselves
53 - 55 Part 7: Those, Who Accept God’s Forgiveness, Are Made Worthy

56 - 65 Marriage
66 - 67 Sexual Submissiveness in Marriage
68 Silence of Women in the Church
69 Importance of Hair Length

71 Section Four: The Importance of The Law... The Ten Commandments

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Part 1: The Importance of Repentance

In repentance is there salvation and blessing; sin unrepented, however, imprisonment and cursing... Life or death.
If one comes before the Father, and repents in the Son’s name, that very same one shall receive salvation, blessings
and eternal life. If one does not come to repentance before the Father, in the Son’s name, even though he lives,
he is already dead, having not confessed his sins, whereby he is still imprisoned, accursed of God in judgment
ending in death, the death none shall awaken from.

Repent, therefore, and be saved!... Quickened by the Spirit.

I, the Lord your God, have commanded all everywhere to repent and come to Me in the Christ’s name and build
Me a church, a church of men, not by men, a church all in all in Christ... One God, one Son, one Church, one
name, the only name given by which you must be saved! ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Three
- Worship the Lord Your God as I Am, Not as Men Would Have You Worship]

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” ~ Matthew 4:17

So repent therefore, because all the dead in Christ and those still living in Christ, will be raised to life at the Last
Day, receiving life everlasting. ~ Timothy [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Three - The Word of God is
Truth... Leading to Life]

Then Jesus said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.” ~ Mark 1:15

All sin is forgiven through Me, and forgiven are those who are penitent before Me. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and
His Christ, Volume Three - In and By the Word are God’s Prophets Sent Out For His Glory, To Glorify Him Who Is
Coming Quickly]

Repent! And give Me glory, according to the New Covenant by which you are saved. Call on My name, by the
name of He who I have given My name... One commandment broken are all commandments broken. One sin,
reveled in My name, are all sins accounted to you. One sin repented in the Christ’s name, all are forgiven you. ~
God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Four ~ Transgression]

I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. ~ Luke 13:3

Yes, these things are forgiven the penitent man. And that penitent man’s devotion is proven by works in obedience,
wherein he shall shed the skin of the world and become reborn, fully established in Christ by My Spirit, and hated
of the world, leading to strife with your neighbors and loved ones. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Four - Walk Not Where Others Walk]

Even so, little ones, the Lord is not without mercy. I wish that all come to repentance and none are lost. My will
is that you come to know My love, the love which is fulfilled in Christ Jesus, the Lord. ~ God [Letters from God
and His Christ, Volume Five - The Vineyard]

We also can receive of Him, if we accept Him as He really is, and accept all things He suffered for us, through
our repentance in His name, who is also our Advocate before the Father. ~ Timothy [Letters from God and His
Christ, Volume Five - Jesus...The Only Way]

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Part 1: The Importance of Repentance cont.

My beloved son of men, you are being reborn and have been already. In the moment, in which you came before
Me in repentance, were you freed from the power of sin... This is My gift to you, this I did for you. Your freedom
was not accomplished by human means. Rather, by My grace and the love of the Father are you saved. ~ Jesus
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Born Again]

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from
the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven
must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy
prophets since the world began. ~ Acts 3:19-22

Repent for all you have done, crucify your life daily; humble yourself before your God, in My name, purge yourself
of all that binds you to this world... And you shall surely see the Kingdom of Heaven. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and
His Christ, Volume Six - Keep Not the Company of the Wicked... This is Where All Seeds of Dissension Grow]

Churches of men - REPENT! Tear down all you have built up by yourselves, of yourselves, and for yourselves. Tear
down your four walls and begin again in Me, says the Lord. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six
- Awake, All You Churches of Men]

What of your sins and disobedience? You are forgiven, for My Son died to wash you from all sins... past, present
and those stumblings of tomorrow. Remember, the penitent man shall know God and penitent you must become.
Remember the words of Paul, saying, “I die daily.” This must you do also. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Two - Those of Steadfast Faith in Christ are Free From Doubt, In Them Sin Has Also Vanished]

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. ~ 1 Corinthians 15:31

Accept My sacrifice and repent, and then shall you awaken to glory in hence six years less. ~ Jesus [Letters from
God and His Christ, Volume Four - Those Who Seek to Possess What is Worldly Shall Lose That Which is Heavenly.
Those Who Forsake the World Shall Gain Heaven... Seek Christ Jesus, He is the Way!]

Through Me are all things established in life and given breath... My breath I have placed within them. It is God’s
will that none are lost, but that all are saved and come to repentance. I have called to them, and the Father shall
draw them by His Spirit, which He has poured out. And all, who drink from His cup He has poured, shall come
to Me... I am that Cup! I am the Cup of Your Salvation! ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six -
Understand Love, Know Forgiveness... Partake of the Whole Fruit of the Spirit, and Make It Part of You]

Though they stumble, by no means have they fallen. For they do continually come before Me in repentance, with
their faces to the ground. Blessed is this man, who comes before Me ashamed and grieved of his trespasses, for I
shall surely lift him up and set him upon hallowed ground... My servants, remove your sandals from your feet, for
wheresoever you come to Me, I am there. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Turn to the Lord
When You Stumble... Turn Away, and You Shall Surely Fall]

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
~ 1 John 1:9

The Lord lives, and forgives those who call on His name with all humility and supplication. Come to Me and
repent. To this end I gave My life as a ransom and payment in full, for your sins past, present and those sins of
tomorrow. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - Return Home, Your Father Calls]

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Part 1: The Importance of Repentance cont.

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He
has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He
has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead. ~ Acts 17:30-31

For it is the Father’s will that all come to repentance and salvation in His Christ. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His
Christ, Volume One ~ The Pearl]

Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to those in Damascus
and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn
to God, and do works befitting repentance. ~ Acts 26:19-20

...Come now and confess all that you have done, and ask My forgiveness. Cast all that has become burdensome
upon Me. I shall carry it for you. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - The Seas Rage; The Earth,
It Trembles... All is Quiet For Those Who Rest In the Lord]

For all you have done shall be accounted to you, unless you repent and cast away these filthy robes of arrogance
and pride. You have asked of Me forgiveness, in My name, and I have washed you in My own blood... You are
now married unto Me, beloved! ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Many Are Called, Few Are
Chosen...*All Shall Be Saved. The First Harvest Shall Be Lowly... The Second, Plenteous.]

The day is coming, and is already here, when the Father shall receive the worship He really wants... The first
harvest shall be lowly, of the lowly; and the second harvest shall be plenteous, of the refined and penitent.
Repent, therefore, and humble yourselves, and escape all these things that must shortly come to pass. Repent, I
say, repent in truth, and take up your crosses and follow after Me. If you repent, and then return to those things
of which you have repented, endeavoring not to change, has not your repentance become unrepentance? My
children, if you come before Me, repenting of your transgressions, in where you have not kept the Law of the
Father, and then continue in your transgression forsaking the Law, have you not committed greater evil? For you
have made Me the author of sin, saying, ‘We are in Christ. We are free from the Law.’... Desecration! ~ Jesus
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Refinement...The Day of the Lord]

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing
that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. ~ 2 Peter 3:9

...Question not your worthiness, rather question if you are forgiven, and if you have come to full repentance. ~
God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - Those Whom the Lord Has Cleansed Are Now Clean, and
Worthy of the Kingdom]

These things shall be taken from you unless you come to repentance. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Two - I Am the Lord God Almighty!... The Only God! Why Oh Peoples of the Earth Do You Fight Against He
Who Has Overcome the World?... Kick Not Your Foot Against the Rock.]

Call on My name and confess all you have done. I will separate your sin from you, and cast it away, and remember
it no more. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Two - Love and Forgiveness Awaits All Those Who
Turn From the World to Christ]

Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the
dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem. ~ Luke 24:46-47

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Part 1: The Importance of Repentance cont.

I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just
persons who need no repentance... Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over
one sinner who repents. ~ Luke 15:7, 10

Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly
and remove your lampstand from its place--unless you repent... Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and
will fight against them with the sword of My mouth. ~ Revelation 2:5, 16

Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will
come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you... As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. ~ Revelation 3:3, 19

If one comes before Me, in all repentance and truth, with sincere remorse in their hearts, these shall surely be
born again. Those, who do not and will not, shall be born once and die twice. And to those, who are born twice,
it is appointed to them to die once, but by no means shall they die the second time. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and
His Christ, Volume Six - Born Again]

And those among you who have received, even of you who have fallen on your faces and received of Me, wailing,
and repenting with many tears, even of that which I have numbered and counted unto love’s purpose, a true
washing... You shall, by no means, suffer in the Day of the Lord’s wrath. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Six - The Cups of the Thirsty]

To these I have spoken, as I have done to you first... So by you they might receive Me, and repent also, coming
into true knowledge... The only joy wherein all shall find peace... I AM THAT I AM, and there is none like Me. ~
Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - The Cups of the Thirsty]

They said, ‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given
to you and your fathers forever and ever. ~ Jeremiah 25:5

Repent, My people, and give Me glory! Christ Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life! Do not just say you know
Him, live in Him!... Yea, abide in Him. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Seven - The Day of
Slaughter, The Day of Glory, A Day of Harsh Judgment, A Day of Deliverance, A Day of Recompense, The Day of
Astonishment... The Great and Terrible Day of the Lord!]

Repent, oh sons and daughters of men. You have become so very poor, thinking you are rich. Repent, and
call on Me in truth and all humility, in the Christ’s name, Jesus, Yeshua the Gift, and you shall receive true
understanding. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Seven - For Those Who Speak Against the
Lord’s Words Given to Timothy]

The Lord has spoken, and says, repent... And I, Myself, shall place your feet, once again, on the path of truth,
where all understanding comes from God, and is given through Christ to all those who truly abide in Him, and
He in they... The Lord does not change! ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Seven - For Those Who
Speak Against the Lord’s Words Given to Timothy]

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Part 1: The Importance of Repentance cont.

For even those, before Me, were after Me, and knew the Father... Who, knowing Him, knew and saw the time of
My coming as from afar off, having already repented before the Father in His name, which is also My name, the
name He gave Me... Immanu El. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Seven - Salvation is Given and
Must Be Received... Once Received, Forever Shall It Belong to the Redeemed]

The Day is at hand! The Day of the Lord!... REPENT! And give Me glory! Kiss the Son, you know His name...
Yeshua, the Holy One of Israel. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Seven - The Lord Has Spoken
and Will Not Repent... Heed His Words and Give Him Glory!]

Beloved, awake! Awake out of your sleep, be shaken out of your slumber... Arise and serve your God! Repent
and receive of Me, even of Christ, the Holy One... Stop stifling My Spirit. Stop persecuting all those I send to you
in His name! Ears open! My people, the time has come... Lo, it is here! ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Seven - Return to Me! Stand Up or Bow Down... Call Out, Cry and Wail!]

Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Repent, turn away from your idols, and turn your
faces away from all your abominations.” ~ Ezekiel 14:6

Repent in all humility, rededicating yourselves to Me by means of the Truth, and not according to all these perverse
doctrines of men taught amongst the churches. Return unto Me, even as a child, and assuredly I say to you, you
will enter into My week of rest and escape all these things, which are coming upon the earth. ~ Jesus [Letters from
God and His Christ, Volume Seven - Thus Says the Lord, by the Spirit of Truth: Obey the Commandments!]

Therefore, repent and turn, and then prove that you have truly received, by new works and pure testimony... Even
as an example of Christ in you... Becoming a lampstand, a beacon of hope amongst all this darkness... A renewed
and refined people for My name, of My name, the name of My Son. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Seven - Thus Says the Lord, by the Spirit of Truth: Obey the Commandments!]

REPENT, and cast off all this darkness in My name, and I will again receive you to Myself, in where I shall hold
you even tighter. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Seven - The Master’s Table]

Therefore, again I say, repent of all this evil. Receive of Me... And escape... So you may truly be counted worthy to
stand before the Son of Man, when He comes in His Father’s Kingdom. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Seven - The Master’s Table]

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,” says the Lord God. “Repent, and
turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin.” ~ Ezekiel 18:30

And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will
escape the judgment of God? Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not
knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? ~ Romans 2:3-4

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Part 2. Forgiving Others

“Forgive everyone who sins against you, and I shall also forgive you,” says the Lord.

Are we only blessed by having obeyed God, knowing that disobeying God is sin? Or has God blessed us with
a deeper understanding? To obey God is righteousness, but to understand why we obey is a greater joy and a
blessing. We must forgive all others, so their sins against us can be released... And in this are we also freed,
by letting go of anger and not giving into hate. By allowing ourselves to be filled with anger and hate, we are
prevented from the fruit of the Spirit, having consumed the corrupt fruit of the devil. Give up hate, and judge not
your neighbor; neither hold onto trespasses. There is no forgiveness in the judging of those who have wronged
us. The person, who does not judge, has already forgiven them in their own heart. Trust in God! He is the only
Righteous Judge. We are the judged, having passed from judgment into life, by the grace of God, through Christ.
Rather, let us be fully converted in our hearts, embracing complete forgiveness, as Jesus has completely forgiven
us and those who have also sinned against us, by His death on the cross.

In absolute forgiveness is there also absolute freedom... Complete joy.

Yet I say to you, forgive him and love him. Honor your father despite his iniquities and wrongdoings. For the Son
has taken his punishment and forgiven him, if he so chooses to receive it. Therefore, as I have forgiven you in the
blood of My most beloved Son, also must you forgive those who have sinned against you. ~ God [Letters from
God and His Christ, Volume One - See With the Eyes of Christ]

I have commanded you to love one another and forgive those who have hurt you, as I have done for you. ~ Jesus
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - The Kingdom of God and His Christ Is Coming... Awake!]

Tear down these walls and forgive. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Love One Another
and Obey All I Command You, Says the Lord Your Redeemer]

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ
forgave you, so you also must do. ~ Colossians 3:12-13

As for they whom you love and also hate, control your anger. Careful, I say to you. Hate that which is against
God... Do not hate them who were created by God. For He is rich in mercy and forgiveness. ~ Jesus [Letters
from God and His Christ, Volume One - The Servants of God Have Been Sent Out to Blow Their Trumpets to the
Nations... Hear Them, for the Spirit Dwells Within Them]

But if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me, but all of you to some extent--not to be too severe. This
punishment which was inflicted by the majority is sufficient for such a man, so that, on the contrary, you ought
rather to forgive and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with too much sorrow. Therefore I
urge you to reaffirm your love to him. For to this end I also wrote, that I might put you to the test, whether you
are obedient in all things. Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I
have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are
not ignorant of his devices. ~ 2 Corinthians 2:5-11

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I forgive you for those things spoken evil of me, as I am commanded by Him who has forgiven me in His blood
and suffering, who also has forgiven you if you so choose to accept that forgiveness. For we are commanded
that we forgive every one who sins against us, as we are forgiven by Him who all have sinned against. ~ Timothy
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Three - The Word of God is Truth... Leading to Life]

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you. ~ Ephesians 4:32

Yet one more command do I give to you, of which you know: Forgive. Do not just speak it aloud or say you have
done so. For it is written, and remains standing, “For if you do not forgive even every one who has trespassed
against you, neither will My Father in Heaven forgive you.” ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six
- Love One Another and Obey All I Command You, Says the Lord Your Redeemer]

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men
their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. ~ Matthew 6:14-15

It is the strong man that chooses love and forgiveness through sacrifice of himself and his own desires, not
following after the ungodly men of this world. His justification is in the Lord and he chooses to follow Me... in My
very footsteps. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Keep Not the Company of the Wicked, This
is Where All Seeds of Dissension Grow]

And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one. ~ Luke 11:4

Many in your life have sinned against you, and all have sinned against Me. Have I not forgiven them through My
Son’s sacrifice? ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One -The Christian Path]

I ask you to love those who have hurt you; and to love them is to forgive them as I have forgiven them and you.
~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Understand Love, Know Forgiveness, Partake of the Whole
Fruit of the Spirit and Make It Part of You]

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. ~ Matthew 6:12

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven
may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your
trespasses. ~ Mark 11:25-26

Yet in their heart, of which I know, they have not confessed; neither have they let go of offenses; neither have they
forgiven even everyone their sins, which have been wrought against them; neither have they given up that which
I require; neither, in their weakness, has My strength been made perfect in them. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and
His Christ, Volume Six - Whatsoever You Have Done to the Least of These, My Children, Assuredly I Tell You, You
Have Done It Even Unto Me, Their Father, Says the Lord Your Redeemer]

Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he
sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day returns to you, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive
him. ~ Luke 17:3-4

My commandment to you is to love those who have wronged you and forgive them, starting with your own self;
and be patient with those whom you have wronged. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Bear
Fruit According to the Spirit of Truth]

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Do you not know the Word of My mouth, in where I taught you, saying, “You must forgive everyone who has
sinned against you, and if you will not, neither can My Father in Heaven forgive you your trespasses”? ~ Jesus
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Seven - The Master’s Table]

“But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and
pray for those who spitefully use you. To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from
him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who asks of you. And from
him who takes away your goods do not ask them back. And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to
them likewise. But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who
love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the
same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners
lend to sinners to receive as much back. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return;
and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil.
Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn
not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you: good
measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same
measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” ~ Luke 6:27-38

Remember the words of your Savior also, you shall forgive your brother even seventy times seven times, as I have
forgiven you. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - Stand Firm in the Face of Those Who Would
Mock You for My Name’s Sake]

Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to
seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. Therefore
the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had
begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not able to
pay, his master commanded that he be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and that payment be
made. The servant therefore fell down before him, saying, ‘Master, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’
Then the master of that servant was moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. But that
servant went out and found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii; and he laid hands on him
and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged
him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’ And he would not, but went and threw him into
prison till he should pay the debt. So when his fellow servants saw what had been done, they were very grieved,
and came and told their master all that had been done. Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, ‘You
wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. Should you not also have had compassion on
your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until
he should pay all that was due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart,
does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” ~ Matthew 18:21-35

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Part 3. The Penalty of Not Forgiving Others

In the parable of the “Unmerciful Servant”, on the previous page (Matthew 18:21-35), the king wanted to
settle all accounts with his servants as God wishes to “settle accounts” with all who have sinned against
Him. It is God’s will that none are lost, but all come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). If we repent as the servant in
the parable, and ask of Him mercy, God is quick to give us mercy and forgive our debts, or sins (Psalm 85:5),
by His Son Jesus Christ, who has already paid our “debts” for us (Romans 3:25; 1 John 2:2; 1 John 4:10). So
then, if we ask forgiveness of the Lord, but hold onto hate and anger, not forgiving others, we are not truly
converted in our hearts... And in the Day of the Lord, we will be left to refinement.
But all those who accept Christ, and truly forgive one another, will escape judgment, having been fully
converted in their hearts, becoming a completely new person and child of God, by Christ. (Also read 1
Corinthians 3:11-15; Luke 21:36; John 5:24; Matthew 6:14-15).

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‘Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity
on you?’ And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should
pay all that was due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you,
from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses. ~ Matthew 18:33-35

Yet one more command do I give to you, of which you know: Forgive. Do not just
speak it aloud or say you have done so. For it is written, and remains standing, “For
if you do not forgive even every one who has trespassed against you, neither will My
Father in Heaven forgive you.” ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six
- Love One Another and Obey All I Command You, Says the Lord Your Redeemer]

Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and
running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use,
it will be measured back to you. ~ Luke 6:38

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your
trespasses. ~ Matthew 6:14-15

And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him,
that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not
forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses. ~ Mark 11:25-26

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The Master’s Table

[Jesus speaking] Beloved, why have you turned from Me? How is it, that I behold in your
hearts, malice?... No love for God at all. You reject My forgiveness, and make My sacrifice of
non-effect. You sit there upon your thrones, which are held up by man’s doctrines, wearing
all robes of arrogance and pride, with no foundation beneath you... You are fallen. You hold
all My children’s sins against them, even those sins you have imagined, as though they have
sinned against you... Where are your hearts?! Do you not know the Word of My mouth, in
where I taught you, saying, “You must forgive everyone who has sinned against you, and
if you will not, neither can My Father in Heaven forgive you your trespasses”?... This is to
deny Me and My Father. You have rejected the Lord of glory and His sacrifice, saying within
yourselves, ‘It is sufficient for me; yet of them, it is not sufficient’... HYPOCRITES!... Evil and
deceived generation! For which is the greater evil? To reject your own forgiveness, or to hold
the sins of another against them, though they have not sinned against you? Both come from
the evil one... in whose footsteps you walk. And this is why I said, “Neither can My Father in
heaven forgive you your trespasses.” For you have taken your own sin, and bore them upon
your own shoulders. And what’s more, you have taken the sins of others, and endeavored
to place them once again upon their shoulders, so you may count them unworthy, and turn
away. You have placed their sin not upon them! - You bear yours, and theirs, even now
having counted both to yourselves...

I have forgiven all their sins!...

Now...
Yesterday’s...
And tomorrow’s...

Nor do I remember them.

Therefore, you remain in your sins. And not just in yours, but all those you have heaped upon
others... Even these you bear also. For what I have taken cannot be returned again.

Therefore, again I say, repent of all this evil.

Receive of Me, and escape...


So you may truly be counted worthy to stand before the Son of Man,
when He comes in His Father’s Kingdom.

[Excerpt from The Master’s Table, Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Seven]

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Part 4: God’s Forgiveness

God’s forgiveness can be summed up in one name - YahShua HaMashiach, Jesus The Christ; and by one
event - His sacrifice on the cross. This sacrifice was of such a kind, that only by the power of God, through
the Messiah, could the sins of mankind be atoned for. With the precious blood of God’s only Son, Jesus
Christ, the perfect Lamb without spot or blemish, all nations were sprinkled. Jesus laid down His life, even
enduring death on the cross, so all who believe and accept His sacrifice would be freed from the power of
death, which is sin, thereby granting them eternal life...

YahShua, the Greatest of All Loves.

The greatest love of all is to die for those who hate you. For I did not come just to die for My friends and
those who love Me... I came to give up My life for those who hate Me, and for those who do not know Me,
and for those who know of Me but wish to have nothing to do with Me, who hate My name and the sound
of My voice, so in time they may come to know Me and hear Me. And when this day comes, there will be
great rejoicing, for I had already saved them and forgiven them by My blood, though they did not ask. ~
Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Understand Love, Know Forgiveness... Partake of the
Whole Fruit of the Spirit and Make It Part of You]

Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we
esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was
wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we
are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every
one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us
all. ~ Isaiah 53:4-6

... Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and
to give His life a ransom for many. ~ Matthew 20:28

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures
forever. Oh, give thanks to the God of gods! For His mercy endures
forever. Oh, give thanks to the Lord of lords! For His mercy endures
forever: ~ Psalm 136:1-3

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Do not anguish over your past sins, for I have washed them away... All of them... Past sin, present sin, and yes,
your sins of tomorrow. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - Jesus Christ’s Love and Forgiveness
Are With You]

Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord shall not impute sin. ~ Romans 4:7-8

All those forgiven must be taken up... The Father does not punish those He has forgiven through Me, lest My
sacrifice be made of non-effect and all are punished and judged. If all are punished and judged, then none are
forgiven. Know this, all are forgiven. It is only their rejection of the Spirit and My sacrifice, in which they are
already forgiven, that leads them into punishment and judgment. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume
Three - Restoration in Marriage]

There are three that testify on My Son, Christ and Jesus’ behalf: They are the Spirit, the Water and the Blood; and
by these three shall you be saved. These three are in agreement, and are one, leading one way along the road
called Holy. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Four - “One”]

“There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. And
when they had nothing with which to repay, he freely forgave them both. Tell Me, therefore, which of them will
love him more?” Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.” And He said to him,
“You have rightly judged.” Then He turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered
your house; you gave Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with her tears and wiped them with
the hair of her head. You gave Me no kiss, but this woman has not ceased to kiss My feet since the time I came
in. You did not anoint My head with oil, but this woman has anointed My feet with fragrant oil. Therefore I say
to you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves
little.” ~ Luke 7:41-47

NOTE: The verses above are similar to Luke 18 below, where Jesus teaches the same lesson, but
according to a humble and penitent man, compared with a man who thinks himself righteous.
Those, who are forgiven much, love the Lord more than those who are forgiven little... Just as
those who humble themselves, begging for mercy, love the Lord more because of His mercies.
The high-minded man loves the Lord less, because he does not feel he is in need of a Savior or
the mercies of God.

“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and
prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men--extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even
as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ And the tax collector, standing afar off,
would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ I
tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be
humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” ~ Luke 18:10-14

Who comes to love Me the most? Those whom I have forgiven a little or those forgiven much?... For this reason did
I come into the world - to save the afflicted who are gravely ill. In Me shall all find healing from sin, by My death
suffered on the cross, raised to life the third day... As all those who shall also receive life in the third day. ~ Jesus
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Let the Lord Lead and His Word Be Your Guide]

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...C ome now and confess all that you have done, and ask My forgiveness. Cast all that has become burdensome
upon Me. I shall carry it for you. Oh beloved, open your heart to Me, and let Me fill it to overflowing with the
Water of Life. Trina, My most precious one, you have done wrong, yes, as have all. Not one upon the earth has
done right. Know this beyond question... You are forgiven, for your name was written in My book before the
very foundation of the earth. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - The Seas Rage; The Earth, It
Trembles... All is Quiet For Those Who Rest In the Lord]

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him,
having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was
contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. ~ Colossians 2:13-14

He has sinned as you have, as all have, and is forgiven equally to you and those who have sinned. Even those
who have sinned greater or lesser than Timothy are forgiven equally of My Covenant. All sin is sin and requires
forgiveness leading to salvation. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Two - Harken to Those Who
God Has Sent to You, For They Prepare the Way of Christ’s Coming and Will Guide Many Out of the Storm and
Many More Through the Storm]

Thus says the Lord to His servant: You are forgiven your sins, by the blood shed for you, by My only begotten Son. By
His blood, alone, are you made worthy. By His suffering were you cleansed. By His own stripes were you healed for
today’s sins, for yesterday’s sins and those of tomorrow. One, who asks anything in Jesus’ own name, shall surely have
it, starting with forgiveness of sins. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Men of Promise]

Though we remain imperfect, yet by our belief in God’s only Son, accepting His sacrifice for the forgiveness of
our sins, are we made righteous. Though we yet stumble, by our belief and love for Christ, we will surely be lifted
up... We shall not fall. By grace we are saved... The gift of God in Christ Jesus. Amen. ~ Timothy [Letters from God
and His Christ, Volume Six - A Letter from Timothy, Inspired by the Spirit - To Elder Moses]

Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins; and by
Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
~ Acts 13:38-39

We have entered into an inward spiritual covenant, the circumcision in our hearts, a freedom from sin by
forgiveness, an everlasting atonement in the blood of Christ. ~ Timothy, Inspired by the Spirit [Letters from God
and His Christ, Volume Four - Love, Forgiveness and the Law (The Ten Commandments)]

Beloved, you are beloved of the Lord and have become My disciple; and if you ask of Me forgiveness, you shall
surely have it for even all you have done... Yet if he comes to Me, and asks of Me forgiveness, a continual washing
in My own blood, he shall have it. Even if he comes to Me seven times, even seven times seventy times, I shall
forgive him. I forgive all those who come to Me... So then, beloved, come to Me... I shall forgive you. ~ Jesus
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Blessed Are Those Who Overcome For My Name’s Sake]

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake. ~ 1 John 2:12

Let all forgiven be rewarded equally to their forgiveness which is equal. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Two - God is Sovereign]

Yes, I have died for the forgiveness of your sins... Those of today, yesterday, and those sins of tomorrow. Yet man
does continually stumble in this world, and so he must continually come to Me... And even seventy times seven
times shall I cleanse him and lift him up. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Born Again]

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You speak without full understanding of the mercies of God, fulfilled in Christ. You only need look to the thief on the
cross and have understanding. A man, having never known baptism by water, nor stepping foot in any church, was
assured of salvation, having asked the Christ with a true and penitent heart. In that same moment, He was forgiven and
will enter into paradise at the Last Day, as Jesus had spoken to him that day, saying, “In truth I speak to you this day, you
shall be with Me in paradise.” ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - To the Church at the Lord’s Right
Hand... Hear the Word of the Lord]

I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in
order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins
and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me. ~ Acts 26:17-18

All those, without sin, live forever and suffer not. And so I was without sin and abide forever, and came to carry the
infirmities of those who came to Me in faith, asking that I should heal them. In the same way, I carried their sin, though
I had no part in sin Myself. How can one, who is in need of a physician, heal others? Or one, who has sinned, bear
and forgive the sins of another? Trent, I was completely clean, so by this, you and all those who seek Me, might also
be clean. Remember and understand My words, spoken and written down in the Scriptures of Truth: No man takes
My life from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it up again.
This commandment have I received of My Father... I am and will always be the perfect Lamb without spot or blemish...
Given up for many... Sacrificed... I am the restoration of all things. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six
- Whatsoever You Have Done to the Least of These, My Children, Assuredly I Tell You, You Have Done It Even Unto Me,
Their Father, Says the Lord Your Redeemer]

Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” And they divided His garments and cast
lots. ~ Luke 23:34

Note: Even during the crucifixion, Jesus was our Advocate (1 John 2:1), asking the Father to forgive
even those who were responsible for His suffering (Luke 23:34). If we were in His place, would we
have done the same? Unfortunately, most people would not. Truly the Lord’s ways are not our ways
(Romans 11:33)...

By grace are we saved (Ephesians 2:8).

Behold the Lamb of God!... Without spot or blemish sent to die for the sins of the world, bearing the full weight of
transgression in His own body. My Son, you are, and will always be, the Risen Lamb of God, whereby you took the
leaven of the world, having completely unleavened all men once for all time by your blood, having been the perfect
sacrifice for sin, acceptable to God, whereby men have been reconciled to the Father... They themselves becoming
once again My sons and daughters free to enter the Garden and My love, which they shall never again be separated...
Their new life lived in and for Christ Jesus, the Lord and Savior, in whom I am well pleased. ~ God [Letters from God
and His Christ, Volume Five - Unleavened]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good
pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him
we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made
to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His
good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather
together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth--in Him. ~ Ephesians 1:3-10

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And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be
forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective,
fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. ~ James 5:15-16

All sin is sin, and requires forgiveness. All sin is not equal, only forgiveness is equal. All sin is forgiven through the
cross. Only the people’s rejection of that sacrifice leaves them in the dark, separated from God. ~ God [Letters
from God and His Christ, Volume Two - Those of Steadfast Faith in Christ are Free From Doubt; In Them Sin Has
Also Vanished]

My beloved daughter, I have both redeemed and forgiven you, by Him I sent to suffer and die for you. It
is only your rejection of that Truth that leads you into temptation. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Four - “One”]

Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; but he
who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”-- because
they said, “He has an unclean spirit.” ~ Mark 3:28-30

I have forgiven all their sins!... Now, yesterday’s, and tomorrow’s... Nor do I remember them. ~ Jesus [Letters from
God and His Christ, Volume Seven - The Master’s Table]

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled
with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord,
fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened
with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the
Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from
the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. ~ Colossians 1:9-14

...There is no sin too great that I have not forgiven you. I sent My Son to die for you and raised Him so you may
have eternal life with Me. Repent, and accept My Son, and I will separate your sins from you as far as the east is
from the west, and remember your iniquities no more. Open your heart to Me, and I will fill it with running waters
of joy, love and peace. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - Boundless Love]

For your repentance to Me and love for the Son has caused me to remember your sin no more. It is separated from
you as far as the east is from the west. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - A Warning About
Falling Back Into Sin and the Ways of Demons]
Forgiveness
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him God has exalted to His
right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. ~ Acts 5:30-31

The Lord lives, and forgives those who call on His name with all humility and supplication. Come to Me and
repent. To this end I gave My life as a ransom and payment in full for your sins past, present and those sins of
tomorrow. Now go out My beloved sheep, forgiven in My blood, and sin no more. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and
His Christ, Volume One - Return Home, Your Father Calls]

All sin is sin and requires forgiveness, which is equal, as is the reward equal, given freely to all who ask. ~ God
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Two - Let the Lord Lead, You Only Need Follow... Let Go of Your Pride]

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Part 4: God’s Forgiveness cont.

Even so, call on My name in all repentance and faith and you shall live, for I first died for you and was raised so
you may also be as I am and dwell with Me where I dwell. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Two
- Innocence Destroyed in Evil Arrogance, With Slothful and Wicked Ignorance, Wrought by False Truth, Permitted
Under “Human Rights”]

Thus says the Christ, the Word of God:... Do you not understand I have broken all the cords that
bind you, and freed you from your chains of imprisonment? Yet you say, ‘Cast these cords from us’?
Do you not know the power and mercies of God?... I am that power, through which God has shown
His mercy... Beaten, mocked, bruised, scourged, nailed to the cross, pierced and buried, stricken by
God... Only to rise again on the third day, so you would be spared and healed in My blood, shed for
your transgressions against God.
Thus says the Lord God, the Only God: My mercies endure forever, for all who partake and accept of
My mercies. For these shall live forever, abiding in the light of the Lord, because of My Mercy sent to
them. There is none other, nor any other way found by which you may enter into the love and mercy
of God. One Son given up for many... One Way to sanctification and life, life without end... For I so
loved the world, I gave My only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but
have everlasting life. ~ Jesus and God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Five - Stricken]

Part 5: Warning of Rejecting God’s Forgiveness

All sin is abolished. All are saved through Me because of My death and resurrection
which has overcome sin and death. So then, none are lost because of sin, for all sin is
forgiven. Only one’s rejection of that Truth and Forgiveness leads them to damnation, for
they have chosen sin over salvation in their rejection of the Spirit and Christ. Forgiveness
is lost to them, because they have chosen to keep what I have taken from them. And this
sin is the only sin whereby you shall surely die. ~ Jesus

All sin is sin, and requires forgiveness. All sin is not equal, only forgiveness is equal. All sin is forgiven through
the cross. Only the people’s rejection of that sacrifice leaves them in the dark, separated from God. ~ God [Letters
from God and His Christ, Volume Two - Those of Steadfast Faith in Christ are Free From Doubt; In Them Sin Has
Also Vanished]

My beloved daughter, I have both redeemed and forgiven you by Him I sent to suffer and die for you. It is only your
rejection of that Truth that leads you into temptation. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Four ~ “One”]

Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; but he who
blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation-- ~ Mark 3:28-29

So then, God must judge His people by all they have done, being judged according to the New Covenant which
separates them from all that has corrupted them. Only their rejection of My Covenant will lead them into this
judgment... And their acceptance thereof, out of judgment and into life. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Four - Judgment, Transgression... And the Word]

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Part 5: Warning of Rejecting God’s Forgiveness cont.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ~ 1 John 1:8

If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. ~ 1 John 1:10

Woe to those on His left on that Day. They will be cast into the fire. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume One - Those Whom the Lord Has Cleansed Are Now Clean, and Worthy of the Kingdom]

What of the wicked and the heathen? Shall they be equal to the redeemed? No, they shall be cast out and burned
with fire, unless they come to repentance before the One True God, in the Son’s name. ~ God [Letters from God
and His Christ, Volume Two - Let the Lord Lead, You Only Need Follow... Let Go of Your Pride]

Repent not, and rage with fists toward Heaven, you shall be baptized with fire and death, which is in the lake of
sulfur. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Two - Baptism by Fire]

None are forsaken, all are forgiven in the blood of Christ. It is only your rejection of that Truth that keeps you from
joy and life. ~ Timothy [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Three - All Who Love the Truth Obey and Strive
Everyday to Walk in Its Ways]

So repent therefore, because all the dead in Christ and those still living in Christ, will be raised to life at the Last
Day, receiving life everlasting. All the rest of the dead, who rejected Him or did not know Him, will also be
raised and live at the end of the Millennial Kingdom. In that Day the penitent will receive life everlasting; and the
wicked, condemnation forever separated from God. This is the second chance for those who will choose Christ
and repent; or the second death for all those who will not accept the Truth nor will they repent of their evil deeds.
So yes, fear Him who has given you life, because He can also take it away. ~ Timothy [Letters from God and His
Christ, Volume Three - The Word of God is Truth... Leading to Life]

Let all evil, that remains evil unrepented, be punished equally to evil’s deeds. ~ God [Letters from God and His
Christ, Volume Two ~ God is Sovereign]

Understand glory and the power of the cross, by which I have sprinkled all nations, all peoples, and all men. Only
one’s complete rejection of this Truth, in the hating of My name, keeps them from salvation and life, of which I offer
them in rivers of living water, mixed with My own blood, having been poured out from My side, of which all must
drink, even to the eating of My own body to gain life, life without end. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume
Seven - Salvation is Given and Must Be Received... Once Received, Forever Shall It Belong to the Redeemed]

Hear the Word of the Only Begotten Son of Glory and God: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. In the beginning was the Word, of which I AM, the same as God by whom all these
worlds are, and were, created. Even you did We create in Our image, vessels and temples of Our spirit. You have
desecrated and destroyed all We had given you, by which you have also destroyed yourself. You say, ‘God shall not
destroy us. We have neither heard nor seen Him. He only exists in the minds of men and in the pages of books.’
Thus says the Christ, the Word of God: You shall surely die! You have sealed your own fates by your evil arrogance and
rejection of the Truth. I was sent to redeem and restore you to glory, yet you forbear and cast Me from you as cords
about your necks. Do you not understand I have broken all the cords that bind you, and freed you from your chains
of imprisonment? Yet you say, ‘Cast these cords from us’? Do you not know the power and mercies of God?... I am that
power, through which God has shown His mercy... Beaten, mocked, bruised, scourged, nailed to the cross, pierced
and buried, stricken by God... Only to rise again on the third day, so you would be spared and healed in My blood,
shed for your transgressions against God. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Five - Stricken]

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Part 5: Warning of Rejecting God’s Forgiveness cont.

Know this, all are forgiven. It is only their rejection of the Spirit and My sacrifice, in which they are already
forgiven, that leads them into punishment and judgment. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Three
- Restoration in Marriage]

By three shall you be saved... the Spirit, the Water and the Blood. By three shall you be condemned... blaspheming
the Holy Spirit, not forgiving everyone their trespass, and by your rejection of the Truth of forgiveness in Christ. ~
God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - The Dust Has Been Shaken Off the Feet of God’s Messengers
as a Testament Against You]

Part 6: Forgiving Ourselves

Many of us not only struggle with forgiving others, but with forgiving ourselves as well. If we do not forgive ourselves,
then we are not forgiven. Unknowingly we have denied the Lord’s forgiveness. Though we have asked for His
forgiveness, and He has forgiven us, we have not accepted - therefore, we remain in our sins. For the Lord has
reached down to us to take our sins from us, yet we hold fast to our guilt and feel unworthy, attempting to punish
ourselves because of the new way we now see ourselves. As we must forgive others, let us start with ourselves.
The devil strives to keep us from our joy in the Lord, by using our own guilt and the weight of our sin to hold
us down. To let go and accept the love and forgiveness of the Lord, by repentance, is righteousness and a
joy... a lightening in spirit.

Do not keep what the Lord has taken...


Cast your burdens on the Lord, and be free!

You only need speak to Me and accept My forgiveness, and forgive yourself also and be
joyful. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Understand Love, Know
Forgiveness, Partake of the Whole Fruit of the Spirit and Make It Part of You]

My commandment to you is to love those who have wronged you and forgive them,
starting with your own self; and be patient with those whom you have wronged. ~ Jesus
[Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Six - Bear Fruit According to the Spirit of Truth]

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Part 6: Forgiving Ourselves cont.

Beloved, why do you ask of your sins and their forgiveness? Do you not know they were forgiven before the
foundation of the earth through My Son, the Christ. For He knew you then and knows you yet still. For I have
forgiven you, yet you have not. Confess all in your heart, and feel My presence, and My forgiveness will come
into you and give you peace. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - Open Your Heart to the Lord,
and He Will Give You Rest]

I know your guilt remains and is a heavy yoke about your neck... Cast it away. I have forgiven you in My blood
on the tree and solidified your salvation upon My rising. You accept it not... This is to insult the Most High, for
you have been saved by grace. You shall accept this gift through faith. No one can be saved of themselves. It is the
gift of God manifest through His only Begotten. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume One - The Seas
Rage; The Earth, It Trembles... All is Quiet For Those Who Rest In the Lord]

Say not that you are unworthy, for by My own sacrifice, yea, in the outpouring of My own blood, even unto death,
are you made worthy. And if by this, you are washed, how is it you do continue to throw mud on yourself, holding
onto all uncleanness in your hearts, shown also in your deeds? ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume
Six - Love One Another and Obey All I Command You, Says the Lord Your Redeemer]

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Part 7. Those, Who Accept God’s Forgiveness, Are MADE Worthy

Who the Lord has cleansed call him not unworthy.

If Jesus alone is worthy, then by our acceptance of Him


We also become worthy, because He Himself comes to live in us.

Worthy is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world!


By His blood are we made worthy -
A cleansing of all people, reconciling us to the Father,
Enabling us to enter into the Holy Place. Amen.

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Part 7. Those, Who Accept God’s Forgiveness, ARE MADE Worthy cont.

So My loved ones, be blessed as I am blessed... Accept your salvation in Christ by way of your repentance to Him
and love from Him. Then shall the Spirit come upon you. First as a lightening from your burdens... They have been
taken through Christ’s blood and your acceptance of His sacrifice. ~ Timothy [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Two - Seek First That Which is First, This is Where Joy Abounds, Then Comes Wisdom]

Rather, grace is the gift of God given to all those who come to Him in faith, who believe in the name Jesus Christ
and accept His sacrifice into them, as the payment for forgiveness of sin. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Two - I Am the Lord God Almighty!... The Only God! Why Oh Peoples of the Earth Do You Fight Against
He Who Has Overcome the World? Kick Not Your Foot Against the Rock]

Who the Lord has cleansed is worthy of His purpose. Call him not defiled or unworthy. What the Lord has
cleansed, in the blood of the Lamb, is a new creation... Virgin. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume
Two - All Have Been Purchased, Few are Chosen]

And yes, there is forgiveness for those who ask in faith, with remorse, and total acceptance of My love... Forgiveness
always. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Four - Walk Not Where Others Walk]

I say, “Let there be a Lamb without blemish sacrificed for the atonement of sin”, and so it is. Even let the Lamb
be My Son, a cleansing of all men. Sing hallelujah! ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume Four - To the
Church Who Is in the Midst Of and Sits Upon the Seven Hills]

My son, when you have returned home, go and pray and kneel, and lie at My feet, and know I am with you. Go
and let go of your will, and of all these things you count to yourself as unworthy, for whom I have cleansed is
worthy of all I shall bestow upon them. Therefore, have peace, and know I am your Lord. I have cast all these sins
far away from you, never to be remembered again. Take all that is of burden to you, and lay it at My feet. Leave
it there, and go away in freedom... without hindrance, with joy in your heart... knowing, and in belief that, if all
these things you possess were taken, you would be richer in the lack... ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume Six - Trust in Me, For the Time is at Hand]

Say not that you are unworthy, for by My own sacrifice, yea, in the outpouring of My own blood, even unto death,
are you made worthy. And if by this, you are washed, how is it you do continue to throw mud on yourself, holding
onto all uncleanness in your hearts, shown also in your deeds? ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume
Six - Love One Another and Obey All I Command You, Says the Lord Your Redeemer]

...Question not your worthiness, rather question if you are forgiven, and if you have come to full repentance.
For what the Lamb has washed in His blood, is now worthy of the Kingdom. For you are saved by grace through
faith, this not of yourself. Neither by your works are you saved, lest you should boast. All men fall short of glory.
Therefore, did I send My Son in your stead, to take the burden of your sin. For your belief in Him and obedience
to Him have placed you at His right hand in the Day to come. ~ God [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume
One - Those Whom the Lord Has Cleansed Are Now Clean, and Worthy of the Kingdom]

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Part 7. Those, Who Accept God’s Forgiveness, ARE MADE Worthy cont.

Ultimately, forgiveness is necessary for our salvation. Jesus Christ has already forgiven us
by His sacrifice on the cross, but we must repent and accept His forgiveness. Then we must
forgive others and ourselves as well. This requirement of forgiveness, given to us by Christ,
is for our own well-being, enabling us to have richer, fuller lives in the present... And in the
Kingdom, eternal life.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in
Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself,
according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory
of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved. In
Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward
us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery
of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in
Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might
gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven
and which are on earth--in Him. In Him also we have obtained an
inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who
works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first
trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also
trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation;
in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of
promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of
the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. - Ephesians 1:3-14

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PART 1. KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER

1. Marriage is a holy union (sanctified).


2. Marriage should be Christ-centered.
3. Traditional Christian marriage vows encompass the full spirit of God’s Law.
4. Love your neighbor as yourself, but strive to love your spouse as you love your Lord.
5. When each spouse knows their place in the marriage, and fulfills their individual responsibilities,
there will be peace in their house.
6. Guard your heart against evil, and think before you speak, because what you say can be more
damaging than what you do. Anger is rarely justified.
7. If you know God’s decrees, you must obey them. By doing this, you show that you love each
other and the Lord.
8. God requires peace in the households of all His people.
9. Forgiveness is the greatest act of love. In true forgiveness, there is no remembering of falsehoods
or sins that went before.
10. Do not live in the past. Focus on the present day that the Lord has given you.
11. Everything we have belongs to the Lord. Then, what is the wife’s is the husband’s; and what is
the husband’s is the wife’s, but the husband is the head of all in his house.
12. God’s plan for marriage gives us peace and balance in our lives.
13. Worldly things are not important. The order of priorities in marriage are as follows: God and
Jesus FIRST; then, your spouse; then, your children.
14. Just as you separate yourself from your parents to be united to your spouse; you must also
completely separate yourself from the world and be joined to Christ.
15. Respect each other.
16. Make time for each other.
17. Pray for your spouse.
18. Trust one another. Comfort and support one another.
19. Be considerate of your spouse’s needs.
20. If a husband loves his wife and treats her with respect, she will willingly and gladly submit to
him; and if the wife submits to her husband, he will feel love and respect from his wife, and he
will show her even more love and respect. And it continues in this way as a harmonious circle,
interconnected and dependant upon the other’s actions.
21.Children first belong to the Lord, they are only given to us under our care. They are a gift from
the Lord and should be treated that way.
22. Stepchildren require extra love and understanding from all parents, including stepparents,
because of their situation.
23. Learn and live by the Ten Commandments. Write them on your heart!
24. Read the Bible, and study It with your spouse. God provides all answers in the Bible.
25. Humble yourself and let go of your pride.
26. Jesus is the Restoration and Healer of all things, including broken marriages. He is the “World’s
Best Marriage Counselor”.

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PART 2. “MARRIAGE” AS SPOKEN OF IN THE HOLY BIBLE AND


THE LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

Everything we are taught in this life, including marriage, is a preparation for our life in the future
when we will live and reign with Christ. If we follow God’s decrees regarding marriage, we will be
able to better understand the kind of relationship we should have as Christ’s bride.

I have sanctified marriage, and all the world works to desecrate that which the Lord has granted
as a gift. Those who live in the ways of the Lord and follow His laws, to them marriage will be
wonderful and joyful, as it was meant to be. To those who live outside the Law, and follow the ways
of the heathen, and act in the manner of demons, to these marriage is a large stone tied about their
necks. For the vows taken at the marriage union encompass the full spirit of the Law. Therefore,
those who forsake the Law become unequally yoked when married. They fight against themselves.
For all things bestowed on man encompass My Law, and only come to fulfillment by following its
letter. What one does becomes manifest in all aspects of his life. What one does not do likewise
becomes manifest as troubles and sorrows. Blessed are those given and received in marriage who
keep My commandments, for they shall experience love, compassion, understanding, much joy,
and earthly fulfillment. For all those who first marry their Lord, and become the bride of Christ,
shall likewise have the Lord and His Christ in their midst. For God gave to man a woman, and saw
that it was very good.
So to all those who have wives, treat them as you would treat your Savior, as if He abided in your
home. Love your wife as you love your God.
Wives, also love your husband as you love the Lord, and give unto him respect and supplication,
as you do to your Lord. I have made him the head of his house, and you have I taken from his side.
You are part of each other, you are one, but you dwell at his side. No house can have two heads,
or two wives formed from one rib. Trust in what the Lord has made and brought together. Peace
is what the Lord desires of you and you of each other. Therefore, to the husband, duties for the
husband. To the wife, duties for the wife. Your duties are all of equal importance, each balancing
the others.
Accept what the Lord has given you, and have joy. Let go of that which you hold on to so tightly
and all that you stand firm against in your relationship. Embrace your spouse, and they shall
embrace you.
Did the Lord make the branches of the willow tree firm or yielding? In the yielding of its branches to
the wind does it live wholly, and not break in half. In its yielding does it spread its seed to the wind,
and give shelter to those beneath its branches. It only needs a firm root structure, and to be near
the Stream, wherein flows its very life. As for those in marriage who smite those near to them, with
their mouths or with their hands: Woe I say to them, woe. To lash out at another with one’s tongue
is worse than he who smites his beloved on her cheek. For whatever a man conceives in his heart
to do that is wicked, he is already guilty, whether he acts or acts not on his evil notions. Therefore,
pay close attention to those things conceived by your heart, for the tempter is ever present, waiting
to devour you by that which you have conceived. Focus on your Lord continually, and the tempter
shall flee from you. Then shall springs of living water flow from your heart, and love flow from your
lips. For whatever a man puts in his mouth does not defile the man, but whatsoever proceeds from
his mouth, this defiles the man or exalts him in the eyes of the Lord. (continued on next page)

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THE LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

(Continued from previous page)


If you are a man or a woman of God and are the bride prepared for His Son, you shall not write a bill of
divorcement to your spouse, save for adultery. If your spouse, being far removed from God, leaves you
or writes you a bill of divorcement, this is excusable, for they know not My decrees. Those who know
My decrees must follow them, and will be judged by that which they had followed, and by that which
they have not followed. Those who do not know the Lord shall be judged by that which they have done
in their life, for I created all and all with My image. Therefore, all know right from wrong, and either
choose wickedness or righteousness.
I wish that none suffer at the hand of another. I wish for joy and peace in the houses of My people.
Therefore, if your husband or wife continually bring against you much pain and sorrow with their
tongue or hand, you shall then separate yourself from them, and not write them a bill of divorcement,
lest they come to repentance and you have already transgressed. For the greatest of all acts of love
is forgiveness, then followed by mercy and compassion. For as the Christ had suffered and died to
forgive you, you shall forgive all those who have sinned against you, starting with your spouse. For if
one had a child that was unruly, disobedient and abusive toward his parents, would his parents then
write that child a bill of divorcement, and put them away? Or would that parent still love them, and
seek help from the Lord and those around them? Then when all these ungodly acts are overcome with
love and the Lord’s help, will there be much rejoicing. All evil is manifest of the evil one, and must be
overcome. Even if a spouse seeks forgiveness for adultery, you shall give it to them, for this is the way
of the Lord. If they seek forgiveness not, write your bill and let them go their way. Are My people not
forgiven of all their adulteries against the Lord if they come to Me and ask? Do I not then hold them
even closer? Remember always My children, look on others with compassion and love, because that
which you accuse them you have also done unto them, and even so to your God. Neither live in the
past My people, for evil and resentful things abide there. Carry these things not to the present. For in a
house where these things of sin in marriage no longer live, nor do they abound, you must let evil die!
Let it rest. It is you who give all things of your mind life, or choose to let them die and rest. Likewise
does the Lord do unto the things you have committed against Him. For in true forgiveness there is no
remembering or wondering of falsehoods that went before. Focus on this day the Lord has given you.
The Lord has only given you this present day, not yet tomorrow. Even yesterday has the Lord taken from
men. Today is yours, tomorrow is the Lord’s.
Jesus: Live life for your God, live the way of His Christ. Treat others as you would have them treat you.
Always trust in your Lord. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He who believes in Me has
everlasting life, and during this life will I give him cups of living water to drink until I come. Then will
they who thirst, thirst no more, for I am with them forevermore. Amen. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS
CHRIST • Volume 1 - “God Created Man in His Image, and from His Rib Did He Give Unto Him Woman,
and Together Shall They Live as Two of One Flesh, With The Lord as Their Father”]

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THE LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

Genesis 2: 20-24 NIV


...But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep
sleep; and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh.
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her
to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
woman, for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be
united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Trina, become My student and also your own teacher. Seek answers inside yourself, for I reside
there. When asking yourself of which works shall I do or do not, first ask yourself what works serve
your God best and which works has God appointed unto you already. Remember also, you are of
one flesh together with your husband.
Here is wisdom for those married, in regards to work, money and children. First remember, all is
the Lord’s and given by Him, each according to their faith. Then what is the wife’s is the husbands,
likewise what is the husband’s is the wife’s, but the husband is the head of all in his house. I require
peace in the houses of those who believe in Me. For I first made man, and then from his side did
I give unto him woman. Two of the same flesh, as one by marriage and unified by the sharing of
flesh. Two of one body with the husband as the head and the wife and children, the members.
In this is there balance, leading to peace, which brings forth even more love and time for prayer
and worship of He who is the whole body and you both its members. All members of a body are
important. The body must function in concert according to what the head has decreed. Shall the
head say to the feet, “I do not need you”, or the feet say to the head, “I do not need you”? Can the
head act without the body or the body without the head? Certainly not. When one member suffers,
all suffer. Cut off the head, then all perish. This is the same for your body, your family and the body
of Christ’s believers.
First the Lord! Then prayer and worship, followed by study of His words. Then husband, next wife,
followed by children. All other things are but a wisp of wind catching your attention, quickly passing
into nothing, remembered no more. Only life is...All things created by the Father are remembered
and abide forever in their restoration, and the Restoration am I. All things created by the hand of
man are but dust carried away by the wind, never seen of again. My peace I give to you, not as
the world gives. Amen. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 2 - “To Each of These, Who
Have Recieved of the Truth, Is It Appointed to Put Their Lives in Order and Share All They Have Been
Given in Accordance With the Will of the Father.”]

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THE LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

Ephesians 5:22-33 NIV


Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the
head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also
wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her
holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to Himself as a
radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same
way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves His wife loves Himself.
After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church
- for we are members of His body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be
united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery - but I am talking
about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself,
and the wife must respect her husband.

This I say to you both, to put off what I have decreed is to be faithless and slothful. Only doubt and
lack of faith causes you to stumble in this way. This you already know...why do you persist? Must I
behold every word for you to follow or will you trust the heart, the new heart I have given you? For
anger can be justified, but more often it is used for evil, and by evil, for his own ends.
Timothy, make time for your wife. Do not shun her or bring her low, but raise her up. Show her even
more love. You are the head. Fulfill her requests, for it is in you to do these things and only you. I
have set before you many things and through you must they be obeyed and set forth in the times I
have commanded you. Tonight, sit together in My Word. Take extra time for each other and know
I am with you, for I will never cause you to stumble. Only the one who is against Me causes such
things. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 1 - “Do Not Act in Anger, and Do Not
Put Off the Decrees of God - Honor Your Wife”]

This I tell you, Timothy. It is indeed wrong for you to argue on My behalf without first consulting
Me. For whose behalf do you argue, yourself or that of God, your Father?
It is also wrong for your wife not to show respect to her husband in all things that are his duties
and not hers. This being all the works of shelter and money and of utmost importance, concerning
things of My Word. For I have set him as head of his home and head of the sanctification of all
who dwell there. I too have set you above all who believe in My Word, for I have called you as a
prophet and you have accepted.
Beloved, would you question Jeremiah, Daniel, John or even Moses in this way? I do not build
him up in his name, but rather say to you these were ordinary men with extraordinary duties and
messages to perform and behold to My people. To doubt the messenger is to doubt the One who
sent him also. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 1 - “Respect Your Husband”]

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THE LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

Beloved, be not contemptible toward your husband. For his works are well and good. Neither speak ill
of his ways, for he is becoming the new man I have made, with a completely new heart. For the man you
married, his ways are dead. But yet his essence remains, only now purified. Keep him not from those
things that bring him joy. For your reward is coming quickly, and to him only tribulation lies ahead. You
are his love and joy, also be not his hindrance and grief. Instead, rejoice when he rejoices and cry when
he cries. For his time is coming when his every day will be filled with all manner of grief, suffering and
hardship. His times of life’s little joys will be lost to him. Do not feel the need for recompense, for his
reward will be great in the Kingdom to come.
Likewise Timothy, do not get caught up in these joys of the world and think not of your wife. For she
should be first in your mind, save the Lord. To her show much love, respect and consideration. Trouble
her not by your doings, for you must keep the peace in your house.
Blessed are those who patiently endure for the Lord’s sake. They fulfill the promises. My love and peace
be with you both. Amen. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 1 - “Patiently Endure With
Love and Respect Until Your Reward Comes”]

I Corinthians 13:4-8 NIV


Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-
seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices
with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

I Corinthians 13:13 NIV


And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 Peter 3:1-12 NKJV


Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the Word, they,
without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, when they observe your chaste conduct
accompanied by fear. Do not let your adornment be merely outward--arranging the hair, wearing gold,
or putting on fine apparel -- rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty
of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. For in this manner, in former
times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own
husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are
not afraid with any terror. Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the
wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not
be hindered. Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers,
be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary
blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. For “He who would
love life And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips from speaking deceit. Let
him turn away from evil and do good; Let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are
on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the Lord is against those who
do evil.”

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THE LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

Viola and Carolyn, My daughters in Myself and now of Myself. Viola, behold your daughter and your
husband. Carolyn, behold your mother and your father. Daughter, of mother’s flesh and flesh of her
father’s; mother, of daughter’s flesh and flesh of her husband’s, both of each other and both of his called
Alfred, in you forever. Two become one flesh in marriage sanctified in their union, bringing forth life
given of the Father made through Me, the Son. Two have fallen asleep and two are yet awake, four
together again in the Kingdom of the Father forever. Viola, do not look on your child with contempt or
recompense, for you and your husband reside there. She is of your making, given you from the Father
under your care as a gift. Do not exasperate your child. Honor and give care to the widow, for as you
are is also she who is of your womb. I reside in her so love her as you love Me. Time is short, let love
shine. Be not tempted of the evil one. He knows you shall not give into outward things of evil, for
the Truth is with you. You see clearly outwardly. Careful, I say to you, he is a subtle deceiver working
always to exploit that which you yourself have conceived inwardly. Judge not your daughter, lift her
up and encourage her in all things of the Lord, for the Lord, and by the Lord. Peace and love is what I
require of all members of My body, which flesh you have eaten and now become. Carolyn, honor the
fifth command of the Father always and in all ways. For it is the first commandment with promise for
all children. I honor My Father, who is in Heaven, always. So shall you honor your mother and father
who will soon be in Heaven. Honor your mother, for she is also your father though he sleeps. For your
parents are two of one flesh. To honor one is to honor both. And to honor them is to honor Me and to
know the Father who is in Heaven. For I honor Him and know Him. So to obey Me is to love Me and is
to know and love the Father, by your obedience. For I am of the Father and He is of Me. So respect the
wishes of your mother and give unto her even more love. For you both are children, sisters and widows
in the family of God.
So then when you both join Me in the Father’s house you shall be no more as you are, but new. No
more widows or children or sisters or mothers and daughters. All are the bride prepared, and now
become the bride in gowns of white, the saints. So beloved mothers and daughters, make no divisions.
All wheat that belongs to Me is gathered and tied together and stored in the Master’s barn. It is the tares
that must be separated and burned. The tares grow in vain forever separated and cast out. My children,
you are the good wheat planted in the good ground. Do not uproot each other in harsh words and
judgment. Grow together in the field I have planted and is within you.
I am coming so very quickly. My sickle is in My hand. I shall reap all I have planted. Do not divide
what I have brought together and rewarded equally from My works. Be all in all one family in Christ,
and dwell together in the Kingdom of God. Amen. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume
2 - “Honor One Another as You Honor Him Who Gave You Life”]

Deuteronomy 11:18-21 NIV


Fix these words of Mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on
your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you
walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the door frames of your
houses and on your gates, so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that
the Lord swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

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THE LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

Beloved, come now together with your husband. You who are two must now become one in the
Lord. Come now and put away all that fills your heart with anger, and to Timothy do in like manner.
Free yourself of all judgment and contempt. Love your daughter, the daughter of your husband, with
a double portion. For children as she need all that you can give. Remember, she is My beloved child.
She is Mine, given into the world, under your care. That which is your husband’s gifts, also are yours to
have and make your own. Embrace that which you see as a burden. Love those who do not love you.
Then shall you be liken unto Me. Strive to be Christ-like in all your ways. For the world first hated Me,
yet do I love them still. The people of the world heap up their sin to heaven and burden themselves
with their evil-doings. Yet I embraced them and carried their burdens and ask them still if I may lighten
their loads.For your children you have taken out of the world, as I have asked. Faith remains in its midst.
Where does the Lord God send his shepherds? Do they stay in the barn with the sheep who are safe
and well? Or do they spend most of their time tending to those who are in the field? And those who are
sick and injured, how much more attention are those given? Beloved, you honor Me daily. I am with
you. He who is against Me is also in the world. Give him no power. He has none, only that which you
give him. Act not in haste or anger; act in love, and love shall be returned to you ten-fold. Ask of your
husband in all truth, and he will give unto you in accordance with My will. He is becoming one with
the Spirit and the Word. Make haste for I am here. Prepare the way, My feet will soon stand upon the
Mount. Amen. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 1 - “Become of One Mind and One
Body in Christ Jesus”]

All those forgiven must be taken up...the Father does not punish those He has forgiven through Me, lest
My sacrifice be made of non-effect and all are punished and judged. If all are punished and judged,
then none are forgiven. Know this, all are forgiven. It is only their rejection of the Spirit and My sacrifice,
in which they are already forgiven, that leads them into punishment and judgment. So then those two
of one flesh, one redeemed and the other sanctified because of the other’s faith, this is the will of the
Father. Is it written in stone? Will it come to pass for all in marriage? No, for the first gift received from
the Father, following the breath of life, is free will. So the sanctification of the unbelieving spouse is the
process by which they may come to the Truth, by the example of the other. If one receives My Spirit, then
both share in its fruit. Also, if one has given into deception and darkness, both must overcome together.
If one part of your body is injured, do you ignore it because it causes you pain? No, you immediately
go to the physician to accept healing medicines through the physician’s knowledge. If one lets that
injury or sickness linger, it will spread and become diseased until the whole body dies. Amputation is
not an option, lest you go through life unwhole, with part of you missing and tossed away. Kathy and
Art, you are the children and the two become one body. Your hard times, the dark and the deceptions
of the evil one, which led to multiple injuries and great sickness in your marriage. You each forsook the
other and did not seek the physician. The physician am I! The healing medicines, My words understood
by My knowledge given through the Spirit, called Holy. The life-giving waters are the Bible and these very
Letters. You chose amputation which is divorce. Understand the fullfillment of Plan of the Ages purposed
by God...I AM THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS! Your Helper, your Healer, the Very Breath of Life!
All life lived in Me will never die! I am the Light of the World that the darkness can never put out. I AM!
Amen. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 3 - “Restoration in Marriage”]

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THE LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

1 Corinthians 7:3-5 NKJV


Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife
does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have
authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time,
that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt
you because of your lack of self-control.

Mark 10:7-9 NKJV


“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become
one flesh’; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not
man separate.”

1 Timothy 3:1-12 NIV (A GOAL FOR MEN)


Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled,
respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not
quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his
children obey with proper respect. (Although this verse refers to deacons and overseers, the
qualities listed would be admirable for any husband and family man). *NOTE: Are not these
also the qualities of Christ who is the Bridegroom? He is our example in all things.

Proverbs 31:10-31 NIV The Wife of Noble Character (A GOAL FOR WOMEN)
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has
full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm, all the days
of her life. She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. She is like the merchant
ships, bringing her food from afar. She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her
family and portions for her servant girls. She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings
she plants a vineyard. She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.
She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night. In her hand she
holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers. She opens her arms to the poor and
extends her hands to the needy. When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of
them are clothed in scarlet. She makes coverings for her bed; she is clothed in fine linen and
purple. Her husband is respected at the city gate, where he takes his seat among the elders of
the land. She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with
wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband
also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” Charm
is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give
her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate. *NOTE:
These verses are not only for a wife of noble character, they are what Jesus, the Bridegroom,
requires of His bride (His church), who are all those who believe and love Him.

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PART 3. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND MARRIAGE

We know that keeping the Ten Commandments is critical if we are going to have a happy, healthy
life. Keeping God’s Law will also bless your marriage. For instance, the Commandments one through
three regard respect and love for the Lord. If both spouses keep these commands, your marriage
will be strong with God at its center. Also, if this same respect and love that you show to your Lord
is shown to your spouse, your marriage will be blessed. If you keep Commandment number four,
keeping the Sabbath holy and as a day of rest, you will have a restful day of spiritual rejuvenation
with your Lord and your spouse, and your marriage will be blessed again. Commandment five,
honoring your father and mother, is also a matter of respect and that same respect should be
shown to your spouse. The final five Commandments regarding murder, adultery, stealing, lying
and envying, are all self-evident. If you keep these commands, you will have a much easier life and
a more blessed marriage. If one or both spouses break any of these commandments, the result will
be great pain and confusion and chaos in the family. God gave us these commands as a blessing
for us, to keep us from pain. If we hold true to all of them, we will be blessed and our marriage will
be blessed and our family will be blessed. (The Ten Commandments are listed in Exodus 20: 1-17)

FROM JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD & SAVIOR:


COME AND SHARE IN THE LORD’S JOY
So then beloved, all My children given in marriage in My name, love one
another and wash each other’s feet. I gave up everything unto death so you
could all become My bride, My church. So come and partake of that which
I offer you and know Me. Then will you come to love Me, and to love Me is
to love the Father who sent Me. For I have asked for your hand in marriage,
and the Father has given you to Me. I have paid the ransom, built a great and
beautiful house for you...come and be where I am, forever united as one in
love, for the Father’s joy. Submit in all things I ask of you, and your joy will
be fulfilled. The union you seek is already here and dwells within you. Let our
love grow until I return...

The trumpet will sound...


All will be gathered and given gowns of white.
Behold the glorious wedding party,
All seated before the Father in the tabernacle of Heaven for His glory.
Let us be joined together, no longer separated,
All as one in Christ in His Kingdom... Life without end. Amen.

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Sexual Submissiveness in Marriage

PART 1. SEXUAL SUBMISSIVENESS IN MARRIAGE, AS SPOKEN OF IN


THE HOLY BIBLE AND LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

1 Corinthians 7: 2-5 KJV


(2) Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let
every woman have her own husband. (3) Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence; and likewise also the wife unto the husband. (4) The wife hath not power
of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband hath not power of
his own body, but the wife. (5) Defraud ye not the other, except it be with consent for a
time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that
Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

A question was asked about the above verse: Does this verse mean that both
husband and wife should be submissive sexually to one another?

The answer: In a healthy relationship, yes.

• Verse 2 - Paul says that we should all be married, a man to a woman, to avoid fornication, or
sex outside of marriage.
• Verse 3 - Paul tells the husband to show his wife love through intimacy and physical contact and
for the wife to do the same for her husband. This not only encompasses the actual act of sex, but
also all acts of intimacy between a husband and wife.
• Verse 4 - Paul states that neither the husband or wife has control over their own body, but the
respective spouse has control over the other’s body.
• Verse 5 - Paul says that we should be sexually submissive to one another unless both partners
have agreed to abstain because of fasting and prayer. We should then come together again at
the end of this time of abstinence, so we are not tempted.

Remember, if a husband loves his wife and treats her with respect, she will
willingly and gladly submit to him; and if the wife submits to her husband, he
will feel love and respect from his wife, and he will show her even more love
and respect. And it continues in this way as a harmonious circle, interconnected
and dependant upon the other’s actions.

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Sexual Submissiveness in Marriage

PART 1. SEXUAL SUBMISSIVENESS IN MARRIAGE, AS SPOKEN OF IN


THE HOLY BIBLE AND LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

Thus says the Lord to His people, who abide in marriage as they should: Listen to My servant and
apostle, Paul, and have understanding. As I have given up of My body for all those I love, even unto
death, likewise should all those, who love one another, love them as I have loved you. In all ways
did I submit unto My bride, which is also My body, even unto the relinquishing of My power over
her, nor did I judge My bride. Because of this, she has become My bride. In the same manner, she
must give of herself unto Me to make the union complete and everlasting. The Father has given her
hand to Me, and I have called unto her, saying, “How I long to gather you into My arms, and love
you as My own, and make you My bride. Come and see...I have already prepared a place for you.
Become My virgin and accept these robes of white, and walk in them and wear them well, so we
can walk together in the Garden, forever and ever.”
Now listen with ears open: As I have done, do likewise, for any bride joined must be cleansed and
made fit for her husband. Also, all earthly husbands must also become clean, lest your holy union
be unclean. The Father gave you marriage, by which you come together as one, in His name.
So then, when there is division or separation, how then can two come together, as one in the flesh,
when a division in spirit remains? I have told you already, and you also know within your hearts,
that all those in marriage must first come together in spiritual intimacy, closer than flesh. Then can
you fulfill this closeness through that which is fleshly. This is also a gift from the Father and should
be treated as such, according to how He has commanded you and how you should receive it and
experience it.
Those in marriage can reach new heights of ecstasy through the unification of flesh. Only by this
union, being that which is a completion, or a finishing, of love’s desire that you become completely
one, because you had first become one in the Spirit, with all thankfulness to God for bringing you
together in His name, under His commandments.
One can not give into complete abandonment of oneself, melding into the love of another, unless
first absolute trust is established. Trust is earned, not given. So all those, who first trust in God
because of what He has done by way of Me, have placed the Cornerstone in their marriage...
and from this Foundation can all new and shining houses be built, and those that already exist be
strengthened.
When one of you two has an obstacle or stumbling block, then you both have fallen; and as two
together, as one, must all these adversities be overcome. All those, who overcome together in Me,
will receive even greater things than these which they now think will lead them into happiness. As
We, the Father and the Son, are long-suffering, so then shall you be...love is patient.
Remember that any rent, which is not quickly mended, is made worse with time, further tearing
away from the fabric of your marriage. Mend all rents speedily, and with a greater thread, and with
more tender hands than in the past.
As all things are made new in Me, so then, all those, who believe in Me, must be remade in My
image, walking in My ways...so goes restoration in marriage...your marriage of old must die and be
forgotten through forgiveness, and be completely remade on a new foundation...This is a process,
My beloved little ones. [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 3 - “A Letter Regarding
Submissiveness in Marriage”]

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Silence of Women in THE Church

PART 1. SILENCE OF WOMEN IN THE CHURCH, AS SPOKEN OF IN


THE HOLY BIBLE AND LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

1 Corinthians 14: 34-35 KJV


(34) Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but
to be under obedience, as saith the Law. (35) And if they will learn anything, let them ask their
husbands at home, for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

A question was asked regarding 1 Corinthians 14: 34-35, which tells women
to be silent during the meetings of the church. If a person does not understand
this verse, it would seem to be very chauvinistic...it is not.

From Timothy, With Guidance and Understanding Given by God’s Spirit -


Regarding 1 Corinthians 14: 34-35

Let the women stay silent out of humbleness and in all similitude before God and those who speak
for Him. This honors God by honoring them who He has appointed. Let it not be a shame but an
offering of self-control. Let the women who would be God’s daughters remember their questions
and ask them of their husbands at home and let them together search the scriptures, building trust
in the Lord and with each other. This honors the Lord and also honors the husband by building him
up in spirit, acknowledging the position to which God has appointed him in the sanctification of all
in his house. Through the husband showing understanding to his wife and seeking to serve her in
this capacity, this honors the wife. She respects her husband by acknowledgement; he honors his
wife by fulfilling her supplications (requests).
Men have one kind of understanding, the wife another. Both are balanced and in agreement. To
the men, understanding from God as pertaining to God’s will and purpose of His Word; women,
understanding from God unto love and faith in the Word with empathy for all.

So women, save your questions and concerns until the end, and ask your husband; and let your
husband ask of the teacher if your husband has not yet received understanding. If then the teacher
stops and asks you directly if you have understanding, you then may answer him directly, because
at that moment he has complete understanding in himself and wishes to share that knowledge
through questions.

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Importance of Hair Length

PART 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF HAIR LENGTH, AS SPOKEN OF IN


THE HOLY BIBLE AND LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

1 Corinthians 11: 12-16 KJV


(12) For as the woman is of man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
(13) Judge in yourselves: Is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? (14) Doth not even
nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? (15) But if a woman
have long hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given her for a covering. (16) But if any man seem
to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

A question was asked regarding the verses above. Should a woman have
long hair, and a man, short hair? If our goal is to truly honor God, the
answer is yes, because the Bible in its entirety is the inspired Word of
God. To honor Him we must obey what is written.

• Verse 12 - Paul says that “woman is of man” meaning by Adam; “man also by woman” meaning
all men are born from women; “but all things of God”. (Perfect balance between men and
women because we are all of God).
• Verse 13 - Paul is asking, “Does it feel right to you, in your heart, for a woman to pray to God
without covering her head?”
• Verse 14 - Paul is simply stating that it seems “unnatural” for a man to have long hair or to
resemble women. Men should pray in all humility with their heads uncovered as an act of
baring themselves before God, nothing hidden, with their pride set aside.
• Verse 15 - Paul states that a woman’s hair is her “glory” and is given to her as a covering. Therefore
women with long hair do not need to cover their heads; women with short hair should cover
their head...an act of humbling themselves before God.
• Verse 16 - Paul states that if anyone is “argumentative”, the church has no such custom, nor do
the churches of God. Keeping peace within Christ’s church is far more important to God than
to have divisions in His church, especially over things such as hair length or how to pray. Just
pray...pray without ceasing, keeping in mind proper respect, humility and always pray in Jesus’
name.

Let us remember the weightier things of faith and Truth,


forever striving to please and honor God in all we do.

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Section Four:

The Importance of The Law...


The Ten Commandments

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IN THIS SECTION:

PAGE SUBJECT

72 Table of Contents for Section Four

73 - 82 It is Important to Keep the Weekly Sabbath Exactly As It Was, And Is, Written

83 - 88 Why and When the Sabbath Was Moved to Sunday, the First Day of the Week

89 The Heavens and the Earth Shall Pass Away, Recreated Anew... The Law Stands Forever,
Unchanged and Unchangeable... Neither Has God Blessed Any Other Day, The Seventh
Has He Blessed... Keep It Holy.

91 Section Five: Study of the Book of Daniel

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Honoring the Sabbath, the Fourth Commandment

section 1: It Is Important To Keep The Weekly Sabbath


Exactly As It Was, And is, Written
God set the example by He Himself resting on the seventh day of creation, whereby we should also
rest on the seventh day, the day the Creator blessed. God gave us the Sabbath as a gift of rest for
us to spend with Him, a sign between us and Him, refreshing our spirit, faith and body. Although
it is to be accepted as a gift for all those who take joy in God’s Sabbaths, it is not optional, it is to
be obeyed, a commandment of the Most High. Just as we are not to worship any other gods, nor
make any graven image, nor misuse God’s name, nor dishonor our parents, nor kill, nor commit
adultery, nor steal, nor bear false witness, nor covet, neither should we forget the Sabbath Day, to
keep it holy. Nor should we keep it on any other day; the seventh day of each week we shall keep
it without question! We must ask ourselves if God made it so important as to make it one of the Ten
Commandments, why then do we rationalize it as not being as important as the other nine? Are not
all God’s commands to be obeyed exactly as He has written them, or are we and the churches so
arrogant that we have any say in the Commandments of God, that we might change them to suit
ourselves?
Commemorating any other day would say that we do not honor His act of creation because we
are changing the day of rest. God did not rest on the first day, then proceed to do His work for
the following six, but He worked for six, and rested on the seventh. To not honor the seventh day
acknowledges that we do not truly appreciate His gift of creation, nor do we accept His gift of the
Sabbath, a day that we are supposed to share with Him, by honoring Him, speaking of Him, and
worshipping Him.
If our minds are consumed by housework, yard work, our careers, shopping, sports activities, etc.,
then we have not given that day to Him, but only to ourselves. The fourth commandment states
specifically how to honor the Sabbath...no work for anyone in your household, including servants
and animals and no buying or selling. God states to “keep it holy” meaning no sinful behavior,
always keeping Him first and foremost in our minds and hearts; also, to speak of Him constantly
and to fill our houses with prayer and worship.
To not honor the Sabbath, the seventh day, is to not honor God. Breaking the fourth commandment
is as serious offense as is breaking any of the other commandments.
In the United States, the seventh day on any calendar is Saturday. There is no room for disagreement.
Either your calendar says Saturday is the seventh day, or it doesn’t. Sunday has not become the
seventh day, nor has Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. In other areas of the world,
they should also observe the Sabbath on the seventh day of each week.
Throughout this study, we will show that Saturday is the accepted Sabbath day, not only by God
and Jesus, but by faithful Christians all around the world. We will also discuss why Saturday, the
seventh-day Sabbath, was changed to Sunday, the first day of the week.

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the Sabbath

Throughout the Old Testament, the Sabbath is always referred to as the seventh day, not the first.
Specific instructions are given to us, including rest for all, no buying or selling, and to keep the
Sabbath holy. Those who keep the Sabbath, the seventh day, as God has commanded, will be
rewarded. Please note the following verses:

Genesis 2:2-3 ~ God Rested on the Seventh Day and Blessed It


(2) 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. (3) 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.

Exodus 16:23-30 ~ Rest on the Sabbath, the Seventh Day


(23) And He said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the
holy Sabbath unto the Lord. Bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe;
and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. (24) And they laid
it up till the morning, as Moses bade. And it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.
(25) And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a Sabbath unto the Lord. Today ye shall not
find it in the field. (26) Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath,
in it there shall be none. (27) And it came to pass, that they went out some of the people on
the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. (28) And the Lord said unto Moses, How
long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My laws? (29) See, for that the Lord hath given
you the Sabbath, therefore He giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye
every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. (30) So the people
rested on the seventh day. (31) And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna. And it
was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Exodus 20:8-11 ~
The 4th Commandment: Honor the Sabbath, the Seventh Day, and Keep It Holy
(8) Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (9) Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy
work, (10) But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do
any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy
cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. (11) For in six days the Lord made Heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed
the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Exodus 23:12 ~ The Servants Are Not Allowed To Work on the Sabbath, the Seventh Day
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest. That thine ox and thine
ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21 ~ Rest on the Sabbath, the Seventh Day, Even During Harvest Time
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest. In earing time and in harvest
thou shalt rest.

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Leviticus 23:3 ~ The Seventh Day is the Sabbath of Rest, a Holy Convocation
Six days shall work be done. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation. Ye
shall do no work therein. It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 26:2-4 ~ Those Who Keep God’s Commandments Are Rewarded


(2) Ye shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary. I am the Lord. (3) If ye walk in My
statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them, (4) then I will give you rain in due season,
and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15 ~ Obey the 4th Commandment, Honor the Sabbath, the Seventh Day
(12) Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. (13) Six days
thou shalt labour, and do all thy work. (14) But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine
ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant
and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. (15) And remember that thou wast a servant in the
land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a
stretched out arm. Therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 10:31 ~ No Buying or Selling on the Sabbath


And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would
not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the seventh year,
and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 13:15 ~ No Buying or Selling on the Sabbath


In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves,
and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into
Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

Isaiah 56:2, 6 ~ Blessed Are All Those, Including Foreigners, Who Keep the Sabbath
(2) Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth
the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. (6) Also the sons of the
stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be His
servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of My covenant.

Isaiah 58:13-14 ~ Those Who Keep The Sabbath Are Rewarded


(13) If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and
call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine
own ways, nor find thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words, (14) then shalt thou delight
thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee
with the heritage of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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the Sabbath

Isaiah 66:23 ~ Worship the Lord on the Sabbath Day


And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another,
shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:21-22 ~ Bear No Burdens on the Sabbath Day, But Keep It Holy
(21) Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath, nor bring it
in by the gates of Jerusalem. (22) Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath
day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

Ezekiel 20:12-13 ~ Punishment for Those Who Do Not Keep God’s Commands
(12) Moreover also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might
know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. (13) But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the
wilderness. They walked not in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which if a man do,
he shall even live in them; and My Sabbaths they greatly polluted. Then I said, I would pour out My
fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Ezekiel 20:19-20 ~ Keeping God’s Statutes Is a Sign Between God and You
(19) I am the Lord your God. Walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do them. (20) And
hallow My Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that ye may know that I am
the Lord your God.

PART 2. New Testament Evidence: Jesus Christ Honored the Sabbath

Jesus Christ and His disciples kept the Sabbath as commanded in the 4th commandment. Jesus not
only kept all of the commandments, but told us they will be kept forever, and that not even one of
these commandments will pass away. As a person choosing to follow Jesus, His ways become our
ways. The examples He gave us throughout His ministry on earth should also be kept today, without
question. The New Testament gives us numerous examples of Jesus honoring the Sabbath day:

Matthew 12:10-12 ~ It is Good to do Good on the Sabbath


(10) And behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked Him, saying, Is it
lawful to heal on the Sabbath days? That they might accuse Him. (11) And He said unto them, What
man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath
day, will he not lay hold of it, and lift it out? (12) How much then is a man better than a sheep?
Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath days.

Matthew 24:20-21 ~ The Sabbath Should Be Kept Even in the Last Days
(20) But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day. (21) For then shall
be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall
be. (In this verse, Jesus is referring to the last days.)

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Mark 2:23-28 ~ Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath; The Fulfillment of Personal Needs is Allowed on the
Sabbath (eating, sleeping, etc.)
(23) And it came to pass, that He went through the corn fields on the Sabbath day; and His disciples
began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn. (24) And the Pharisees said unto Him, Behold, why do
they on the Sabbath day that which is not lawful? (25) And He said unto them, Have ye never read what
David did, when he had need, and was an hungered, he, and they that were with him? (26) How he
went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is
not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him? (27) And He said unto
them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. (28) Therefore the Son of Man is
Lord also of the Sabbath.

Luke 4:16 ~ Jesus Taught On The Sabbath


And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And, as His custom was, He went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

Mark 3:1-5 ~ Jesus Helped Others on the Sabbath


(1) And He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there which has a withered hand.
(2) And they watched Him, whether He would heal Him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse
Him. (3) And He saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth. (4) And He saith unto
them, Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill? But they held their
peace. (5) And when He had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness
of their hearts, He saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out. And his hand
was restored whole as the other.

Luke 23:55-56 ~ Jesus’ Disciples Rested and Kept the Sabbath, Even During Jesus’ Death, As He Also
Kept the Sabbath Even in Death
(55) And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre,
and how His body was laid. (56) And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the
Sabbath day according to the commandment.

Acts 13:14 ~ Christ’s Apostles Kept the Sabbath


But when they departed form Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on
the Sabbath day, and sat down.

James 2:10-11 ~ In Breaking One of the Commandments, We Transgress the Whole Law
(10) For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. (11) For
he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou
kill, thou art become a transgressor of the Law.

Luke 16:17 ~ The Law, the Ten Commandments, Will Never Pass Away
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the Law to fail.
[Note: Jesus is saying it is easier for the skies (heaven) and earth to fade or be destroyed than even one
point or word of the Law of God to be changed or destroyed. They are written as it were, in “everlasting
stone”. The Ten Commandments stand forever; only the laws found in ordinances have passed away,
having been nailed to the cross with Jesus. - Colossians 2:14]

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PART 3. New Testament Evidence:


Jesus Christ Honored the Sabbath, Even in Death

There are only eight references in the Bible to the first day of the week, none of them referring to the
Sabbath (five of them refer to the day when the tomb was found empty). Jesus rose from the dead
Saturday evening, having rested on the Sabbath, the last day of the week.

The Biblical Chronology of Jesus Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection

Tuesday: Jesus Christ ate an evening Passover meal with His disciples (at the beginning of Nisan
14*, biblical reckoning) and instituted the New Covenant symbols (Matthew 26:26-28). Jesus was
then betrayed by Judas, arrested and during the night brought before the high priest.

Wednesday: Jesus was crucified and died around 3 p.m. (Matthew 27:46-50). This was the
preparation day for the annual, not weekly, Sabbath, which began at sunset (Mark 15:42; Luke
23:54; John 19:31). Jesus’ body was placed in the tomb just before sunset (Matthew 27:57-60).

Thursday: This was the high-day Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread (John 19:31; Leviticus
23:4-7). It is described as the day after the “Day of Preparation” (Matthew 27:62).

Friday: The high-day Sabbath now past, the women bought and prepared spices for anointing
Jesus’ body before resting on the weekly Sabbath day, which began at Friday sunset (Mark 16:1;
Luke 23:56).

Saturday: The women rested on the weekly Sabbath, according to the Fourth Commandment (Luke
23:56; Exodus 20:8-11). Jesus rose near sunset, exactly three days and three nights after burial,
fulfilling the sign of Jonah and authenticating the sign He gave of His messiah-ship.

Sunday: The women brought the prepared spices early in the morning while it was still dark (Luke
24:1; John 20:1), finding that Jesus had already risen (Matthew 28:1-6; Mark 16:2-6; Luke 24:2-3;
John 20:1). He did not rise on Sunday morning, but near sunset the day before.

* Nisan is the first month of the civil year and the seventh month (eighth, in leap year) of the
ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar.

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PART 4. the Sabbath IN LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

The Sabbath is noted numerous times in the Letters from God and His Christ:

For as I am Lord of the Sabbath, I may also command those who serve Me on the Sabbath. Indeed
all good works are acceptable on this day, the seventh day. Question not others until the due time
for you, rather question yourself first. Wash your robes completely in the blood of the Lamb and the
Law of the Father. Then shall I give you also the words to speak, and a voice to cry out. For Timothy,
though he does receive payment for his doings on the Sabbath day in this case, know also do many
like him who serve Me rightly, also receive that which is due them for their service. Timothy has not
dishonored Me on that day I have set apart. For he has done well and good works on this day. For
it is I who have placed him there. He has done no work, nor selfish things. He has honored Me in
his speech with others, written that which I have asked, and prayed without ceasing. For on these
Sabbath days, when he is not about his own house, he has rested in the Lord. Did not My apostles
volunteer and give up their time to serve Me? Did they not receive payment to sustain them from
those with whom they did reside? (God speaking). [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume
1 - “Honor Those and That Which Have Been Set Apart”]

So My children of Zion, celebrate Passover, but not as in the days of Moses. For even I, Christ the
Lord, did keep this Sabbath before My death, and by My death and resurrection as the Lamb,
did I become the new Passover, sacrificed for all. Celebrate Passover as a remembrance, and as
a thanksgiving of you and I united. For aforetime past you were separated from Me. Now we are
together again forever in the kingdom prepared by the Father. Know this, for even Passover has
passed away...I am the Passover. For he who believes in Me has everlasting life. Keep the Sabbath as
commanded by the Father. Passover as it was written in the days of Moses, do it not. Remember Me,
and embrace and teach My covenant, and give thanks. The Passover as it was written is a sign post.
Read its writing, and have understanding. Take its meaning to heart. (Jesus speaking). [LETTERS
FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 1 - “Honor Those and That Which Have Been Set Apart”]

Kurt, you are beloved of My heart and in you am I well pleased, but this I hold against you. You
have dishonored Me in not keeping the commands of the Father.
I know you have written them on your heart, save one, for the fourth have you written upon the
bottom of your feet and do continually tread upon it. It is ordained for those who have come into
the truth to walk in that which has now become a part of them. Honor the Father and He shall
honor you. Even in your stumblings are you forgiven and lifted up. Amen. (Jesus speaking). [LETTERS
FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 2 - “Walk in Faith and Truth with Obedience to God”]

To the church of men named for the Sabbath day, hear My words. In you I am well pleased. You
have kept all My commandments and stood firm for the commandment that all have forgotten
and were deceived into changing. You have remembered Me and I shall remember you. (God
speaking). [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 3 - “Churches of Men, You Are to be
the Embodiment of Christ...You Have Become a Stain on His Robes”]

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PART 4. the Sabbath IN LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST

Timothy, write these words concerning the Sabbath day, the seventh day of the week. Saturday is
the day you shall keep holy, and holy you shall keep it. You shall do no works on this day, neither
shall your children, nor any guests in your house. You may do all works for the Lord and things that
are good and fruitful in His eyes.
You shall be prepared for the Sabbath by evening of the day before, or 6 p.m. in your family’s case,
as I have commanded you. You shall keep My Sabbath from waking unto sunset, for the Lord is the
light, and you now live in the light. Therefore, it must be kept holy and in the light, during the hours
of the day when the light shines.
You shall pray three times that day and everyday, and worship and speak of Me the whole day, and
to others speak of Me also on the Sabbath day.
Even on the Sabbath day, the Day of the Lord who comes quickly, shall you do the work called of
you by the Lord. Even to do battle on this day will be well and good, for you fight for the Lord.
Then shall the final Sabbath day come. For it is the seventh day of creation, the one thousand year
Day of the Son and His Kingdom, in which the entire world shall rest from their evil-doings, and
live in the sanctuary of God. Indeed, many things shall be put to rest in the seventh day, even that
of death and evil. So go and honor your mother and father, for keeping My commandments is well
and good on the Sabbath day. Also, to take time for your own family is well and good on this day,
for I also made the Sabbath for men and for their families, so they might enjoy and love one another
in My presence. For those who rest on, and in, and for Me on this day I have set aside, will I also
rest with them. My company shall they keep and the Son shall be in their midst. Therefore, go and
play and give thanks to your God. For this day is for you, and by keeping it in love and thanksgiving
do you honor Me, and give Me glory.
For oh, so many years have I longed for My children to return to the garden, and be happy and one
with their Creator. Therefore, remember the Sabbath and I shall remember you. Bless the Sabbath,
and I shall bless you. Love one another as I love you. Think not on your works or cares, but think
only of your God and Savior. Spare yourself troubles and the weight of the world for just one day,
for the six to follow bring with them enough things of this world to overcome you. Let Me and the
seventh day heal you completely from your suffering of the six days before. For even the Lord God,
Creator of Heaven and earth, rested on the seventh day. So bear your cross six days and let the Lord
carry it on the seventh. Rejoice and be merry, for this is My will for you. Then when evening comes,
you may return to that which you choose, to once again take up, being that of the plow or sheers.
But take not up your hand in sin and be wary of those who do sin on My day. For the Sabbath is
My gift to you. Why, oh peoples, do you forsake it and toss it away as if the devil had laid it upon
your doorstep?
Therefore, honor your God and take pleasure in His Sabbath, and in all things give thanks and glory
to your Creator.The Day is coming. The Day is nearly upon you, where the Rightful King shall rule,
and His Kingdom shall be a Sabbath one thousand years long, even after forever and ever. So says
the Lord God, it shall be done on earth as in Heaven. Amen. (God speaking).
[LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 1 - “Remember the Sabbath and Your God, and
He Shall Remember You”]

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One commandment broken is all commandments broken. One sin reveled in My name are all
sins accounted to you. One sin repented in the Christ’s name, all are forgiven you. (God speaking).
[LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 4 - “Transgression”]

If you work on the Sabbath, you transgress the law. If you cause another to work on the Sabbath,
you transgress the law. You have proclaimed by your mouth that you will keep My Sabbath, and
rationalized by your mind that you still keep it, having not kept it at all. Yes Trina, Timothy has
known these things. I have closed his mouth, so you may come into a greater understanding, where
you may become that rock and hard place among a valley of thorns, whereby in time others will
come and gather. In sin is there iniquity found. Do not let iniquity lead you into sin whereby others
will find a way to turn away from the light that now shines in you. (Jesus speaking). [LETTERS FROM
GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 4 - “My Disciple and Lampstand”]

Read not the Letters if you so choose. When you return to the Bible, be very careful not to add
to or take away from its words. What God has written and what He has not written are of equal
importance. For example, the fourth commandment: We shall keep the seventh day holy, not the
first, nor the second, nor the day of our choosing, but exactly how God has written it. No work
for us, nor our family, nor our servants or guests, nor even our animals, unless that work is to do
good on the Sabbath as Jesus has taught us. He is the Lord and may add to or take away to give
us understanding, we may not. This would be dangerous and arrogant. God is specific, so it
should be easy to obey, yet we rationalize and listen to the churches. What if we applied this same
rationale to “Thou shalt not kill”, saying, ‘it’s alright to kill the bad people, and not the good’.
Again, Jesus put this to rest when He said, “Love your enemy”. (Letter from Timothy Written With
Understanding Received From the Spirit). [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 5 - “What
I Have Written, Stays Written, And What God Has Poured Out Is Poured According To His Will”]

Thus says the Lord, break My commandments, just one, and you transgress the law! Ignore My
commandments and you transgress the law! Change My commandments, you blaspheme the
Spirit, you shall surely die! Woe to you, oh churches of men, you are deceived by the founders and
your forefathers, who were deceived by the devil, even satan. Repent and return to My Sabbaths,
and forsake all of man’s holidays and false worshipping, and I may yet have mercy on you and hide
you from the great and terrible day of God’s wrath that shall come upon the whole world! (God
speaking). [LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST • Volume 5 - “Consummation”]

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PART 5. The Jewish Observation of the Sabbath

The Jewish people have carefully kept the Saturday Sabbath for many millennia. Since the ancient
Israelites defined sundown as the end of a day, the Sabbath runs from sundown on Friday night
until sundown on Saturday. With all of these references to the observance of the Saturday Sabbath
found in the history of the Jewish people, the life of Christ, and the practices of disciples and other
followers of Christ, one would naturally assume that Christian churches would have continued with
the Jewish Sabbath. So tightly linked is Saturday to the Sabbath that in over 100 languages (one
source says 160) the name for Saturday is some variation of the word “Sabbath.”

The following is a partial list:


Afrikaans - Sabado
Arabic - Sabt
Armenian - Shabat
Catalan - Dissabte
Czech - Sobota
Esperanto - Sabato
German - Samstag, Sonnabend
Hebrew - Shabbat
Hungarian - Szombat
Italian - Sabato
Latin - Sabbata; Sabbatum
Polish - Sobota
Portugese - Sabado
Romanian - Simba tu
Swedish - Sabbat
Serbia - Subota
Slovak - Sobota
Spanish - Sabado
Yiddish - Schabes

PART 6. The Calendar REMAINS Unchanged

The Jewish people have observed this date for many millennia without interruption. When the
Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar in 1582 CE, ten days were deleted in order
to bring the calendar in synchronism with the seasons. But the sequence of the days remained the
same. Thus, 1582-OCT-4 (a Thursday) was followed by 1582-OCT-15 (a Friday), and the Sabbath of
1582-OCT-16 happened exactly 7 days after the previous Sabbath of OCT-9.

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Section 2: Why and When the Sabbath Was Moved to


Sunday, the First Day of the Week

PART 1: HISTORICAL REASONS FOR THE CHANGE OF THE SEVENTH-DAY


SABBATH TO THE FIRST-DAY SABBATH

• The Roman emperor’s, Constantine’s, affection for sun worship led him to endorse Sunday, the first
day of the week, a day dedicated to honoring the sun, as a weekly day of rest in the Roman empire.
This created considerable hardship on those Jews and true Christians who continued to keep the
biblical Sabbath on the seventh day of the week. (A century later the Council of Laodicea would
essentially outlaw Sabbath-keeping and Christian observance of the biblical Holy Days.)

• The Pagan Roman religion and Mithraism, a religious competitor of Christianity, reserved Sunday
as their day of religious observance. Many Christians did not make a clear distinction between
this sun-cult [Mithraism] and their own. They held their services on Sunday, knelt towards the
East and had their nativity-feast on 25 December, the birthday of the sun at the winter solstice.

• The Government intermittently persecuted the Jews at this time; it was safer for Christianity to
be considered as a separate religion rather than as a sect of Judaism.

• Relations between the Jews and Christians were hostile at that time. The early Christian church
had suffered much persecution from the Jews.

• The Roman Catholic church took it upon themselves to change the Sabbath day from Saturday
to Sunday. They felt it was their “divine” right to make this change as they also felt it was their
right to add “holy” days (holidays) and such things as purgatory and indulgences, which have no
basis in the Bible. Many Protestant churches, who have ties to the Catholic church, still hold to this
error today.

PART 2: Confessions From Catholic Clergyman


James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of our Fathers, 88th ed., pp. 89.
“But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing
the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day
which we never sanctify.”

Stephen Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism 3rd ed., p. 174.


“Question:  Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of
precept?
“Answer:  Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists
agree with her-she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for
the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.”

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John Laux, A Course in Religion for Catholic High Schools and Academies (1 936), vol. 1, P. 51.
“Some theologians have held that God likewise directly determined the Sunday as the day of
worship in the New Law, that He Himself has explicitly substituted the Sunday for the Sabbath. But
this theory is now entirely abandoned. It is now commonly held that God simply gave His Church
the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days. The Church
chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days as holy days.”

Daniel Ferres, ed., Manual of Christian Doctrine (1916), p.67.


“Question: How prove you that the Church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
“Answer. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of, and
therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other
feasts commanded by the same Church.’

James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore (1877-1921), in a signed letter.


“Is Saturday the seventh day according to the Bible and the Ten Commandments? I answer yes. Is
Sunday the first day of the week and did the Church change the seventh day -Saturday - for Sunday,
the first day? I answer yes . Did Christ change the day’? I answer no!
“Faithfully yours, J. Card. Gibbons”

The Catholic Mirror, official publication of James Cardinal Gibbons, Sept. 23, 1893
“The Catholic Church, . . . by virtue of her divine mission, changed the day from Saturday to
Sunday.”

Catholic Virginian Oct. 3, 1947, p. 9, art. “To Tell You the Truth.”
“For example, nowhere in the Bible do we find that Christ or the Apostles ordered that the
Sabbath be changed from Saturday to Sunday. We have the commandment of God given to
Moses to keep holy the Sabbath day, that is the 7th day of the week, Saturday. Today most
Christians keep Sunday because it has been revealed to us by the[Roman Catholic] church
outside the Bible.”

Peter Geiermann, C.S.S.R., The Converts Catechism of Catholic Doctrine (1957), p. 50.
“Question: Which is the Sabbath day?
“Answer: Saturday is the Sabbath day.
“Question: Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
“Answer. We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church transferred the
solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.”

Martin J. Scott, Things Catholics Are Asked About (1927), p. 136.


“Nowhere in the Bible is it stated that worship should be changed from Saturday to Sunday .... Now
the Church ... instituted, by God’s authority, Sunday as the day of worship. This same Church, by the
same divine authority, taught the doctrine of Purgatory long before the Bible was made. We have,
therefore, the same authority for Purgatory as we have for Sunday.”

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PART 2: Confessions From Catholic Clergyman

Peter R. Kraemer, Catholic Church Extension Society (1975),Chicago, Illinois.


“Regarding the change from the observance of the Jewish Sabbath to the Christian Sunday, I wish
to draw your attention to the facts: (1) That Protestants, who accept the Bible as the only rule of
faith and religion, should by all means go back to the observance of the Sabbath. The fact that they
do not, but on the contrary observe the Sunday, stultifies them in the eyes of every thinking man.
(2) We Catholics do not accept the Bible as the only rule of faith. Besides the Bible we have the
living Church, the authority of the Church, as a rule to guide us. We say, this Church, instituted
by Christ to teach and guide man through life, has the right to change the ceremonial laws of the
Old Testament and hence, we accept her change of the Sabbath to Sunday. We frankly say, yes,
the Church made this change, made this law, as she made many other laws, for instance, the
Friday abstinence, the unmarried priesthood, the laws concerning mixed marriages, the regulation
of Catholic marriages and a thousand other laws. It is always somewhat laughable, to see the
Protestant churches, in pulpit and legislation, demand the observance of Sunday, of which there is
nothing in their Bible.”

T. Enright, C.S.S.R., in a lecture at Hartford, Kansas, Feb. 18,1884.


“I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am
bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic Church
alone. The Bible says, ‘Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.’ The Catholic Church says: ‘No.
By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day and command you to keep holy the first day of the
week.’ And lo! The entire civilized world bows down in a reverent obedience to the command of
the holy Catholic Church.”

part 3. Confessions from Protestant Clergyman

Anglican/Episcopal

Isaac Williams, Plain Sermons on the Catechism , vol. 1, pp.334, 336.


“And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded
to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day .... The reason why we
keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe
many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it.”

Canon Eyton, The Ten Commandments , pp. 52, 63, 65.


“There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday .... into
the rest of Sunday no divine law enters.... The observance of Ash Wednesday or Lent stands exactly
on the same footing as the observance of Sunday.”

Bishop Seymour, Why We Keep Sunday .


We have made the change from the seventh day to the first day, from Saturday to Sunday, on the
authority of the one holy Catholic Church.”

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Baptist

Dr. Edward T. Hiscox, a paper read before a New York ministers’ conference, Nov. 13, 1893, reported
in New York Examiner , Nov.16, 1893.
“There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not Sunday.
It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from the
seventh to the first day of the week .... Where can the record of such a transaction be found? Not in the
New Testament absolutely not.
“To me it seems unaccountable that Jesus, during three years’ intercourse with His disciples, often
conversing with them upon the Sabbath question . . . never alluded to any transference of the day; also,
that during forty days of His resurrection life, no such thing was intimated.
“Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history . . . . But what a
pity it comes branded with the mark of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, adopted
and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!”

William Owen Carver, The Lord’s Day in Our Day , p. 49.


“There was never any formal or authoritative change from the Jewish seventh-day Sabbath to the
Christian first-day observance.”

Congregationalist

Dr. R. W. Dale, The Ten Commandments (New York: Eaton &Mains), p. 127-129.
“ . . . it is quite clear that however rigidly or devotedly we may spend Sunday, we are not keeping the
Sabbath - . . ‘Me Sabbath was founded on a specific Divine command. We can plead no such command
for the obligation to observe Sunday .... There is not a single sentence in the New Testament to suggest
that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed sanctity of Sunday.”

Timothy Dwight, Theology: Explained and Defended (1823), Ser. 107, vol. 3, p. 258.
“ . . . the Christian Sabbath [Sunday] is not in the Scriptures, and was not by the primitive Church called
the Sabbath.”

Disciples of Christ

Alexander Campbell, The Christian Baptist, Feb. 2, 1824,vol. 1. no. 7, p. 164.


“’But,’ say some, ‘it was changed from the seventh to the first day.’ Where? when? and by whom?
No man can tell. No; it never was changed, nor could it be, unless creation was to be gone through
again: for the reason assigned must be changed before the observance, or respect to the reason, can be
changed! It is all old wives’ fables to talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day.
If it be changed, it was that august personage changed it who changes times and laws ex officio - I think
his name is Doctor Antichrist.’

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Disciples of Christ

Alexander Campbell, The Christian Baptist, Feb. 2, 1824,vol. 1. no. 7, p. 164.


“’But,’ say some, ‘it was changed from the seventh to the first day.’ Where? when? and by whom?
No man can tell. No; it never was changed, nor could it be, unless creation was to be gone through
again: for the reason assigned must be changed before the observance, or respect to the reason, can be
changed! It is all old wives’ fables to talk of the change of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day.
If it be changed, it was that august personage changed it who changes times and laws ex officio - I think
his name is Doctor Antichrist.’

First Day Observance , pp. 17, 19.


“The first day of the week is commonly called the Sabbath. This is a mistake. The Sabbath of the Bible
was the day just preceding the first day of the week. The first day of the week is never called the Sab-
bath anywhere in the entire Scriptures. It is also an error to talk about the change of the Sabbath from
Saturday to Sunday. There is not in any place in the Bible any intimation of such a change.”

Lutheran

The Sunday Problem , a study book of the United Lutheran Church (1923), p. 36.
“We have seen how gradually the impression of the Jewish sabbath faded from the mind of the Christian
Church, and how completely the newer thought underlying the observance of the first day took
possession of the church. We have seen that the Christians of the first three centuries never confused
one with the other, but for a time celebrated both.”

Augsburg Confession of Faith art. 28; written by Melanchthon, approved by Martin Luther, 1530; as
published in The Book of Concord of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Henry Jacobs, ed. (1 91 1), p. 63.
“They [Roman Catholics] refer to the Sabbath Day, a shaving been changed into the Lord’s Day, contrary
to the Decalogue, as it seems. Neither is there any example whereof they make more than concerning
the changing of the Sabbath Day. Great, say they, is the power of the Church, since it has dispensed with
one of the Ten Commandments!”

Dr. Augustus Neander, The History of the Christian Religion & Church Henry John Rose, tr. (1843), p. 186.
“The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance, and it was far from
the intentions of the apostles to establish a Divine command in this respect, far from them, and from
the early apostolic Church, to transfer the laws of the Sabbath to Sunday.”

John Theodore Mueller, Sabbath or Sunday , pp. 15, 16.


“But they err in teaching that Sunday has taken the place of the Old Testament Sabbath and therefore
must be kept as the seventh day had to be kept by the children of Israel .... These churches err in their
teaching, for Scripture has in no way ordained the first day of the week in place of the Sabbath. There
is simply no law in the New Testament to that effect.”

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Methodist

Harris Franklin Rall, Christian Advocate, July 2, 1942, p.26.


“Take the matter of Sunday. There are indications in the New Testament as to how the church came
to keep the first day of the week as its day of worship, but there is no passage telling Christians to
keep that day, or to transfer the Jewish Sabbath to that day.”

John Wesley, The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., John Emory, ed. (New York: Eaton & Mains),
Sermon 25,vol. 1, p. 221.
“But, the moral law contained in the ten commandments, and enforced by the prophets, he [Christ]
did not take away. It was not the design of his coming to revoke any part of this. This is a law which
never can be broken .... Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind, and in all
ages; as not depending either on time or place, or any other circumstances liable to change, but on
the nature of God and the nature of man, and their unchangeable relation to each other.”

Dwight L. Moody
D. L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting (Fleming H. Revell Co.: New York), pp. 47, 48.
The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment
begins with the word ‘remember,’ showing that the Sabbath already existed when God Wrote the
law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been done
away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?”

Presbyterian

T. C. Blake, D.D., Theology Condensed, pp.474, 475.


“The Sabbath is a part of the decalogue - the Ten Commandments. This alone forever settles the
question as to the perpetuity of the institution . . . . Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole
moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand . . . . The teaching of Christ confirms the
perpetuity of the Sabbath.”

Sources:
www.biblesabbath.org/confessions.html - Confessions from Clergyman
http://www.religioustolerance.org/sabbath.htm - Jewish and Calendar facts
www.gnmagazine.org/ - Chronology of Christ’s Crucifixion and Resurrection
www.dictionaries.travlang.com/otherdicts.html - Translations of the word “Saturday” in other languages

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The Heavens and the Earth Shall Pass Away, Recreated Anew...
The Law Stands Forever, Unchanged and Unchangeable...
Neither Has God Blessed Any Other Day, The Seventh Has He Blessed...

Keep It Holy.

Thus says the Lord, thy God: You shall not desecrate My Sabbaths, nor the seventh day of the week, which I have
commanded you!
Thus says the Lord: As I had spoken to Moses, so shall it be done. As I had spoken it before the congregation,
so shall it be done. Yea, as the blowing of the great trumpet with lightning and thunderings had I spoken it upon
Mount Sinai. In the presence of the tribes of Israel and before the holy angels did I trumpet My Law. Yea, the Lord
has written with His own hand and given it to My people. Behold! I, even I, have written it upon their hearts by
the power of My Spirit. The Son of Man came to redeem you from your transgression of that burned into the stone
of the everlasting covenant by which man shall live, of which none have kept and shall surely die.
Yet a New Covenant I have sent to you in Christ Jesus, to save you from the penalty of that which you have
forsaken. Has then your Christ died whereby the Law has also died? Not so! You shall live because of Him and by
that which He upholds and has magnified in Himself, being the only One who is without sin, having kept every
tittle of the Law. For it is written of that which the Lord Christ had spoken, “It is easier for heaven and earth to pass
away, than one tittle of the Law to fail.” For the Spirit of the Law is shown in His vesture. He, being the same One
who taught you the Law anew by His example and by His word and deeds. For the Law if fulfilled in Christ, Him
being the Lord of the Law, and the Lord also of the Sabbath. If He then is the Lord of the Sabbath, having obeyed
every command of the Father, why do you not follow Him? You say you follow Him and honor Me. Verily I say
to you, you shall all be found liars in the Day of Reckoning. For every word spoken of God and by His Son stand
forever, without any variableness or shadow of turning.
Oh church of adulteries, how We mourn for you. You have been judged and shall be left utterly desolate in
the Day of the Lord’s wrath. You say you speak for Me and have Christ’s authority. You have trampled upon the
grave of the Resurrected One, making His sacrifice of none effect. Woe to those who blaspheme the Spirit! Your
whoredoms are piled to Heaven. Every Law you have broken and yet still do you embrace the sins I hate. In all
you do have you crucified the Son of Salvation again and again, denying His name by all your deeds you call
mighty and true. Oh, unholy church of men, mother of all fornications and lies, your destruction comes nigh.
You have become Egypt, “Let My people go!” Stop desecrating My Sabbaths, cease from your heresies, hold your
tongue from your blasphemies! And repent! And I may yet have mercy on you.
Shabbat (Saturday) is the seventh day and the Sabbath which I have ordained from the beginning. The Holy One
comes quickly and will take from you His own. He shall snatch them from your very breast. No more shall My
children receive nourishment from you, no more shall they sit in your deceptions. The light is taken from you. You
are left alone, estranged by your false doctrines. Your fate lies with him who is coming who shall lead many into
perdition and death...you shall bear him a son, a man who bears the number of his name, his prophet.
You will not be alone when desolations come. You and your enemy, Ishmael (Islam), shall be destroyed along with
the father that bore you both, the father of lies.

Even so, it shall be done.


The Mighty and Strong One shall come and then return in His glory.
And anyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

[LETTERS FROM GOD AND HIS CHRIST - VOLUME 5]

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Study of the Book of Daniel

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92 Table of Contents for This Section


93 - 97 Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream of the Great Image
98 - 104 The 4th Beast in Daniel’s Vision
105 - 109 Daniel’s Vision of the Ram and the Goat
110 - 115 The Seventy Weeks of Daniel
116 - 118 The Seventy Weeks of Daniel (Supplement): Evidence Supporting
2011-2018 as the “Last Week”
119 - 120 The Captivity and Rebirth of Israel
121 - 126 Daniel’s Vision of the Glorified Christ

127 Section Six: Living in the End Times

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PART 1: NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM IN DANIEL 2

Read all of Daniel 2 to understand the context of the following verses:

Daniel 2:31-45 KJV


(31) Thou, O King, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was
excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. (32) This image’s head was of fine
gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass. (33) His legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay. (34) Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which
smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. (35) Then was
the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like
the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found
for them; and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
(36) This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. (37) Thou, O king,
art a king of kings; for the God of Heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power and strength and
glory. (38) And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the
heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head
of gold. (39) And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom
of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. (40) And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as
iron; forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron the breaketh all
these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. (41) And where thou sawest the feet and toes, part of
potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength
of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. (42) And as the toes of the feet
were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. (43)
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of
men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. (44) And in the
days of these kings shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and
the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these
kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. (45) Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of
the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and
the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter; and the
dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

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PART 2: Explanation of Daniel’s Interpretation

A. Head of Gold (Daniel 2:38)


1. Represents the Babylonian Empire which ruled from around 606 to 561 BC
2. The Babylonian Empire was wealthy and powerful.
3. The city of Babylon was very extravagant. Babylon was
celebrated as the most splendid city in the world.

B. Chest and Arms of Silver (Daniel 2:39)


1. Represents the Media/Persian Empire HEAD OF GOLD
which ruled from around 538 BC.
2. This empire would be inferior to the
Babylonian Empire, as silver is inferior
to gold.
3. This empire was also rich, but did not CHEST &
have the great wealth or imperialistic ARMS OF
power of the Babylonian empire. SILVER

C. Waist of Brass (Daniel 2:39)


1. Represents the kingdom of Grecia or
Greece
2. Ruled from about 330 BC WAIST
3. This kingdom conquered nearly the OF BRASS
then known world.

D. Legs of Iron (Daniel 2:40)


1. Represents the Roman Empire
which ruled from around 27 BC. LEGS OF IRON
2. This empire would be strong as iron
and would eventually have the
whole world under its control.
3. Iron was the hardest known metal
at that time, able to break other
metals to pieces. This is also how
the Romans established their
empire; they ruled with an iron STONE CUT
hand and used ruthless means to FROM THE
gain their power. MOUNTAIN
4. The Roman Empire separated into WITHOUT
two empires, Eastern & Western, HANDS
represented by the two legs.
FEET & TOES
OF IRON AND
MIRY CLAY

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PART 2: Explanation of Daniel’s Interpretation

E. Feet & Toes of Iron & Potter’s Clay


(Daniel 2:41-43) STONE CUT FROM
1. Represents the revived Roman THE MOUNTAIN
Empire. (or European Union). The WITHOUT HANDS
iron represents the Roman aspect.
2. The revived Roman Empire, or
European Union as it is now called,
began in 1993, although it has been
in the process of being established
since WWII. Eventually it will
become global.
3. This eventual global empire will be FEET & TOES
strong as iron, but partly broken OF IRON AND
or brittle as miry clay. Many of the MIRY CLAY
nations will be very wealthy and
many will be very poor (as they are now).
4. This empire will begin as a unified body of many
nations and peoples (Daniel 2:43).
5. The empire will begin as a congregation of united
nations, but will not remain united, as iron does
not mix with clay. Some of the nations will be loyal and
some will be disloyal and rebel.
6. These feet (the Eastern and Western Hemispheres) will turn into ten regions with
ten kings (represented by the ten toes), ruled by the antichrist in the “spirit” of
world unity and as a desperate attempt to “save” the world from collapse.
Again, strong but weak and rich but poor. Unified but greatly divided.
These ten regions combine and work together to give power to the world
government, just like toes give balance and strength to the rest of the body.
7. The feet represent the end of this age with toes being the final aspect of change
in the world government. Then the image will be struck on the feet and come
to an end, being overcome and destroyed by the Stone.

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PART 2: Explanation of Daniel’s Interpretation

F. Kingdom of God (Daniel 2:44-45)


1. God’s Kingdom will be established during the time of the toes. When you see the world
divide into ten regions, you will know that God’s Kingdom is very near. We know this
because the Stone (Jesus) strikes the image on the feet. Striking the feet of any image brings
about the collapse of the entire structure.
2. “During the time of these kings” (Daniel 2:44) refers to the kings and nations in verse 43,
who are united, yet do not “cleave” to one another.
3. God’s Kingdom shall be an everlasting Kingdom (Daniel 2:44).
4. God will appoint His own King over the world to rule His everlasting Kingdom. This King
will not be from the earth or mankind (Daniel 2:44).
5. God’s Kingdom is stronger than all other kingdoms (Daniel 2:44). It will destroy, or put an
end to, all kingdoms present and those that have went before once and for all (Daniel 2:35).
They shall never rise again (Daniel 2:35 & Daniel 2:44).

G. The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain Without STONE CUT FROM THE
Hands (Daniel 2:45) MOUNTAIN WITHOUT HANDS
1. The Stone is Jesus, and refers to His Second
Coming.
2. The Mountain in verse 45 refers to God,
because Jesus is sent from God, and is of
God... The same as God.
3. As a stone who would be hewn from a
mountain, so Jesus is of God, with the
same attributes and power.
4. The last Kingdom is not set up by human
means or “hands” - it comes from Heaven.
5. This everlasting Kingdom from God will
completely destroy all kingdoms that went
before (Daniel 2:45). They will be destroyed
quickly and all at the same time (Daniel 2:35).
6. These destroyed kingdoms will be forgotten and there will be no evidence that they ever
existed (Daniel 2:35). As “chaff” blown away by the wind, so will be these destroyed
kingdoms.
All must be wiped away in preparation for God’s Kingdom on earth. Jesus is the one who
will accomplish all these things, and He Himself will become the Kingdom that fills the
entire world...the Mountain (Daniel 2:35).

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PART 3: SUMMARY

Nebuchadnezzar did not have this dream for any reason regarding himself, other than to show him
who the One True God is. Rather, God gave this dream to Nebuchadnezzar to bring Daniel to a
place of honor for God’s own purpose; and more importantly, He gave this dream as a timeline for
all future generations, so we would know the kingdoms that will come and go before the return of
the True King, Jesus. This dream also tells us in which kingdom or time period to look for Christ’s
Second Coming.
We know that Daniel 2:44-45 refers to Christ’s Second Coming, because during His First Coming
He came as the Lamb, in peace, not overthrowing or destroying any kingdom, but only to conquer
sin through His death and resurrection.

When Jesus returns at His Second Coming, He comes as the King of kings and Lord of lords,
to conquer the whole world and to destroy all that leads us into sin, establishing His Kingdom,
which will stand forever and ever.

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PART 1: THE 4TH BEAST IN DANIEL’S VISION (Daniel 7:1-27)

(1) In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed,
then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. (2) Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by
night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. (3) And four great beasts came
up from the sea, diverse one from another. (4) The first was like a lion, and had eagles’ wings. I beheld till
the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man,
and a man’s heart was given to it. ( 5) And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up
itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it, and they said thus unto it,
Arise, devour much flesh. (6) After this I behold, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back
of it four wings of fowl; the beast had also four heads, and dominion was given to it. (7) After this I saw
in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had
great iron teeth. It devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was
diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. (8) I considered the horns, and behold,
there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up
by the roots, and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
(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. (10) A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him, thousand thousands ministered
unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The judgment was set, and the books
were opened. (11) I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake; I beheld till
the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. (12) As concerning the rest of
the beasts, they had their dominion taken away, yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time. (13) I
saw in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man came with the clouds of Heaven, and came
to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. (14) And there was given Him dominion,
and glory, and a Kingdom, that all people, nations and languages, should serve Him. His dominion is an
everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His Kingdom which shall not be destroyed. (15) I
Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me. (16) I
came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me
know the interpretation of the things. (17) These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall
arise out of the earth. (18) But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom
forever, even forever and ever. (19) Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from
all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake
in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet. (20) And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the
other which came up, and before whom three fell, even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake
very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. (21) I beheld, and the same horn made war
with the saints, and prevailed against them. (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. (23) Thus he said,
the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and
shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. (24) And the ten horns out of
this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise, and another shall rise after them, and he shall be diverse from the
first, and he shall subdue three kings. (25) And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall
wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws, and they shall be given unto his
hand until a time and times and the dividing of times. (26) But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take
away his dominion to consume and to destroy, unto the end. (27) And the kingdom and dominion, and the
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most
High, whose Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.

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PART 2: Explanation of THE FOUR BEASTS

The four beasts in Daniel 7 are the same as the four kingdoms in the Great Image of Daniel 2,
starting with the chest and arms. To understand Daniel 7, you will also need to read all of Daniel
2 and refer back to it.

Important Note: Babylon is not counted in these kingdoms because it already existed at the time of
Daniel’s vision. “And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.” - Daniel
7:3. Note the important words here are “came up” meaning in the future. Also, in Daniel 7:17,
“These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.” The very
important phrase “shall arise” meaning in the future, AFTER the then-present kingdom of Babylon,
tells us that these four kingdoms would come after the kingdom of Babylon. Therefore, the count
begins with the empire of the Medes/Persians as one. The other three kingdoms then follow.

The four beasts are four kingdoms that will rise


out of the sea and the earth

In Daniel 7:3 & Daniel 7:17,


0 - Babylon already
four great beasts will come up 1
existed
out of the sea and the earth.
These beasts are the four
kingdoms that will arise.
1. The first beast, the lion with
two wings, represents the 1
Media/Persia kingdom (the 2
arms and chest of silver
on the Great Image). It is
represented by a lion with
wings because a lion is swift 2
and kills its prey suddenly
by biting it on the neck.
The Medes and the Persians
snuck into Babylon and
killed the king of Babylon in
3
one night (Daniel 5:30-31).
The two arms of the image 3
and the two wings of the
lion also represent Media
and Persia. 4

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PART 2: Explanation of THE FOUR BEASTS

2. The second beast, the bear with three ribs in its mouth,
represents the empire of Greece which is also the waist
of brass on the Great Image in Daniel 2. The bear
1
represents the strength of Alexander the Great and his
kingdom. Alexander the Great is actually Alexander
the III of Macedonia, represented by the three ribs in
the bear’s mouth. The bear was also raised up on one
side, meaning the empire was unequally held together
by Alexander. When Alexander the Great died, the 2
empire was split into four lesser kingdoms ruled by four
of Alexander’s generals and their armies, which are the
four feet of the bear retaining its claws (armies).

3. The third beast, a leopard with four heads and four


wings, represents the Roman Empire, also represented
by the legs of iron on the Great Image of Daniel 2. The
four heads of the leopard represent the four kings and/or 3
period of rule in line with those kings who established
the kingdom (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonines).
The leopards’s spots represent the many peoples and
nations that the Roman Empire tried to blend or 4
intermingle with itself, as the leopard blends into its
surroundings. Also the spots are the many blemishes or
atrocities that are shown up as the spots of the leopard
become clear, once the leopard is taken from its natural
surroundings.
The four wings represent those parts or aspects of the kingdom by which the kingdom ruled,
which are four:
1) Emperor/Ruler/Authority (absolute)
2) Government/Laws/Structure (keeping all in line)
3) Army & Navy/Enforcement of the Law/Oppression (ruthless)
4) Forced Taxation/Funding for the Army and Infrastructure/Oppression
(used to keep the countries poor & dependent upon the empire)

In Daniel 7:12, the first three beasts were stripped of their power (or lost their kingdoms) but
continued on until the time of the fourth beast. For example, the kingdom of Media/Persia is still
Iran today; the empire of Grecia/Greece is still the country of Greece today; the Roman empire
is still the country of Italy today. Their world kingdoms were removed from them, but they were
allowed to continue on as their own country.

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PART 3: The Fourth Beast

The focus of this study is on the fourth beast because the three previous beasts/kingdoms have
already passed.

A. THE FOURTH BEAST IS THE FOURTH KINGDOM


1. The fourth beast represents the final world empire
because it is the fourth beast and there is no mention
of any beasts coming after it.
2. This beast/kingdom is the same as the feet and
toes of iron and miry clay in the Great Image of
Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream (Daniel 2).
3. This kingdom will be more powerful than any of the
other previous kingdoms (Daniel 7:7).
4. In this beast’s iron teeth are his power (Daniel 7:7 &
Daniel 7:19), which originates from Rome (iron), or
the revived Roman empire. Also, this beast/kingdom
has bronze or brass claws (brass/bronze is representative of the Grecian Empire on the Great
Image of Daniel 2). Just as the former empires of Rome and Greece nearly conquered the
then-known world, the fourth beast will actually accomplish this (Daniel 7:23). “He shall do
that which his fathers have not done, nor his father’s fathers” - Daniel 11:24.
5. When this kingdom comes into full power, it will be ruthless, showing no mercy (Daniel 7:7,
Daniel 7:19 & Daniel 7:23).
6. This kingdom will be completely different/diverse from all the rest (Daniel 7:7, Daniel 7:19 &
Daniel 7:23). Daniel would have seen the modern world, with modern weapons, buildings,
technology, etc. vs. the kingdoms of old, which for the most part, probably seemed quite
similar to each other when compared with the fourth kingdom.
7. This kingdom or beast will be the last and final world kingdom and ruler leading up to Christ’s
return (Daniel 7:26-27). Note, the Stone, Jesus Christ, strikes the feet of the Great Image in
Daniel 2; the feet and toes also being the last world kingdom.

B. The Fourth Beast will Have Ten Horns


1. The ten horns represent ten regions or ten kings (Daniel 7:24).
2. The ten horns are the same as the ten toes on the Great Image of Daniel 2.
3. The ten horns/kings are ruled by the “beast”, and are also part of the beast.

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PART 3: The Fourth Beast

C. The Little Horn


1. During the time of the ten kings/regions (horns),
there came up a “little horn” different from the
others (Daniel 7:8, Daniel 7:20 & Daniel 7:24).
2. This little horn, who is the Antichrist, will rise to
power (Daniel 7:8). Note: This verse means when
you see ten regions or kings established in the world,
then the Antichrist will come into power, because
he “rose” or came up after the other ten (Daniel 7:8,
Daniel 7:20 & Daniel 7:24).
3. This little horn (the Antichrist) will depose three of the other ten horns/kings, “or pluck
them up by their roots”, meaning they will be stripped of their rule of their region (Daniel
7:8 & Daniel 7:20).
4. As the ten horns’ power comes from their regions, the little horn’s (Antichrist’s) power does
not come from his land, but his power is in his eyes and mouth, and also from the beast,
which the horn securely rests upon (Daniel 7:8 & Daniel 7:20). Note: The Antichrist’s power
is not his own. It comes from the dragon (Satan) (Revelation 13:2, 4).
5. This little horn will come into power speaking “great things” (Daniel 7:8, Daniel 7:20 &
Daniel 7:25) and all the world will believe him (Revelation 13:5-6).
6. The little horn will be a man, because he has eyes and mouth like a man, but his power is not
his own. As all the horns are part of the beast, including the little one, only the little one has
eyes and a mouth, to see as the beast and speak for the beast (the “little horn” is ruler of the
beast and the beast itself). The rest of the horns are deceived, having their power taken from
them by the beast, because they neither see nor speak, meaning they have no authority of
their own.
7. The little horn (Antichrist) will be allowed to make war and overcome the saints (Daniel
7:21, Daniel 7:25 & Revelation 13:7). These saints are the new believers in Christ who were
converted after the Gathering Up or Rapture. The Antichrist will also change set times and
laws (Daniel 7:25). He will only have complete rule for 3 1/2 years (Daniel 7:25). (“time” =
1 year; “times” = 2 years; “dividing of time” = 1/2 a year.) “It shall be for a time, times, and
half a time, and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people,
all these things shall be finished” - Daniel 12:7 (also see Revelation 12:6, Revelation 12:14 &
Revelation 13:5).
8. The little horn, or Antichrist, continues blaspheming (Daniel 7:11) God until his government/
kingdom is destroyed by Jesus at His 2nd coming. The Antichrist himself (his body) will be
cast into the lake of fire or slain (Daniel 7:26) (also see Revelation 19:20).

Note: To better understand the fourth beast and the final world ruler (Antichrist), also
read Revelation 13. It perfectly parallels the fourth beast and the “little horn” of Daniel,
encompassing all of the attributes of the three beasts that went before into the final beast and
its leader, the Antichrist.

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PART 4: JUDGMENT

Note: There are three judgment periods, the first being the seven-year period of judgment.
The second judgment, immediately following the first, is the First Throne Judgment. During
this First Throne Judgment, the Antichrist and his false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire
(Revelation 19:20), and Satan is bound for 1,000 years (Revelation 20: 2-3). Then Jesus will
judge those still alive on the earth who had received the mark of the beast and those who
worshipped the beast’s image (Revelation 19:20). This will happen at the end of the age, after
the twenty-one judgments take place and the Antichrist’s army is destroyed (Revelation 19). This
judgment period lasts forty-five days which falls between the end of the age and the beginning of
the Millennial Kingdom (see Daniel 12:11-12). What Jesus will say and do during this judgment
period is described in Matthew 25:31-46.
The third period of judgment is the Second Throne Judgment or Great White Throne Judgment.
This period of judgment occurs at the end of the Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 20).

A. SEVEN-YEAR PERIOD OF Judgment


1. After the ten kings are cast down or overthrown by the Antichrist, and the Antichrist takes full
power, then God takes His seat (Daniel 7:9). Please see the KJV for this verse; the NIV, by
misinterpretation, has mistranslated it.
Note: The rest of verse 9 describes how God looked to Daniel. Most ancient thrones had
wheels to move the throne around. However, on God’s throne, His wheels of fire represent His
power to create and purify or destroy, which is a never-ending power, continually working. As
burning fire in a furnace has the power to create glass from sand, or purify precious metals, it
also has the power to destroy.
2. God will cast judgment upon the whole world as a fiery stream (Daniel 7:10), meaning several
judgments in sequence, one after the other; not as a flood, where they all happen at once.
(This refers to the twenty-one judgments of Revelation). Any stream flowing into a low-lying
area will eventually fill and flood that area, drowning and destroying all in that area that were
not evacuated and did not call for help.
3. The thousand thousands who ministered unto Him are the angels who attend God (Daniel 7:10).
4. The ten thousand times ten thousand who stood before Him are the people (saints) who were
evacuated in the Rapture before the judgments. They stand before God (Daniel 7:10). “Ten
thousand times ten thousand stood before Him” - Revelation 5
5. The period of judgment was set. Important Note: In Daniel 7:10, the angels and the saints
were already in Heaven when the stream was issued.
6. The books that were opened, in Daniel 7:10, are the books that contain the judgments, and
the writing inside are the types of judgments that will be cast (Revelation 5).
7. Also during this time of judgment, all the books of the Bible that were previously “sealed” will
be opened, or understanding given, to all those who genuinely seek God through Christ.

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B. Christ’s Second Coming AND


First Throne Judgment

1.The horn or Antichrist continues blaspheming


God (Daniel 7:11 & Daniel 7:25) until his
government/kingdom is destroyed by Jesus at
His Second Coming. The Antichrist himself
will be cast into the lake of fire (Daniel 7:11,
Daniel 7:26 & Revelation 19:20).

C. The Kingdom is Christ’s Forever and Ever

1. When Jesus is done fulfilling all God has asked of Him, He


will approach God (Daniel 7:13).
2. God will then transfer authority to Jesus; and give Him the
kingdom which includes all peoples (the saints) and nations.
All people everywhere will worship Him and give Him glory
forever and ever (Daniel 7:14, Daniel 7:18, Daniel 7:22 &
Daniel 7:27).

Jesus’ dominion is everlasting!

Revelation 19:11-16

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PART 1: Daniel 8: 3-27

(3) Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two
horns, and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up
last. (4) I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might
stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to
his will, and became great. (5) And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on
the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground; and the goat had a notable horn between
his eyes. (6) And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the
river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power. (7) And I saw him come close unto the ram, and
he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns; and there
was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped
upon him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. (8) Therefore the he goat
waxed very great; and when he was strong, the horn was broken; and for it came up four notable
ones toward the four winds of heaven. (9) And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which
waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. (10)
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars
to the ground, and stamped upon them. (11) Yea, he magnified himself even to the Prince of the
host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
(12) And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast
down the truth to the ground. (13) Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto
that certain saint which spake, “How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and
the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?”
(14) And he said unto me, “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary
be cleansed.” (15) And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for
some meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. (16) And I heard
a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man to
understand the vision.” (17) So he came near where I stood, and when he came, I was afraid, and
fell upon my face, but he said unto me, “Understand, O son of man, for at the time of the end shall
be the vision.” (18) Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward
the ground, but he touched me, and set me upright. (19) And he said, “Behold, I will make thee
know what shall be in the last end of the indignation, for at the time appointed, the end.” (20) The
ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. (21) And the rough
goat is the king of Grecia, and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. (22) Now
that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation,
but not in his power. (23) And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come
to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. (24)
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and
shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. (25) And through his
policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify himself in his heart,
and by peace shall destroy many; he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes, but he shall
be broken without hand. (26) And the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true:
wherefore shut thou up the vision, for it shall be for many days. (27) And I Daniel, fainted, and was
sick days. Afterward, I rose up, and did the king’s business, and I was astonished at the vision, but
none understood it.

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Part 2: interpretation of The “Ram”

1. The ram has two horns (Daniel 8:3-4)


which are the kings of Media and Persia
(Daniel 8:20).
2. The ram is represented by the Lion of Daniel 7.
3. The ram is also represented by the Arms
and Chest of the Great Image in Daniel 2.
4. The two horns are represented by the
two wings on the Lion of Daniel 7.
5. The two horns are also represented by the two
arms attached to the chest of the Great Image in
Daniel 2.
6. The ram conquers all empires around him (Daniel 4).

Part 3: Interpretation of The “Goat”

1. The goat is the empire of Grecia (Daniel 8:21)


2. The goat is represented by the bear in Daniel 7.
3. The goat is also represented by the waist of brass of the Great Image in Daniel 2.
4. The goat, or empire of Greece, was very great in power (Daniel 8:8).
5. The goat had a notable horn, or ruler, between his eyes (Daniel 8:5).

part 4: interpretation of The


“Notable Horn of the Goat”

1. This horn represents the first king or ruler


of the empire of Greece (Daniel 8:21),
who was Alexander the Great.
2. This horn is broken in Daniel 8:8, which
represents the death of Alexander the Great.
Then, four notable horns came up.

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PART 5: THE INTERPRETATION OF The “Four


Notable Horns of the Goat”

1. The four notable horns of the goat are four lesser


kingdoms (Daniel 8:22) ruled by four of Alexander’s
generals after he died.
2. These four generals or kingdoms did not have
Alexander’s great power (Daniel 8:22).
3. These four kingdoms or regions are
represented by the bear’s feet in Daniel 7.
4. These four generals ruled in four different
areas or directions, represented by the “four
winds of heaven” in Daniel 8:8.
5. From one of the four horns comes up a little horn
(Daniel 8:9).

PART 6: THE INTERPRETATION OF “The Little Horn”

1. This little horn is the Antichrist, the same as the little horn in Daniel 7.
2.The little horn, or Antichrist, comes out of one of the four notable horns (Daniel 8: 9 & Daniel
8:23), which means he will come from one of the regions ruled by Alexander’s generals. This
includes modern-day Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.
3. The Antichrist will come from an island in the Mediterranean because he will “rise up out of
the sea” (Revelation 13:1). This is an important verse because John is looking at the sea, and
he sees the beast rise up out of the sea. The sea they knew at that time was the Mediterranean.
Also this correlates to the areas ruled by the four generals. In Revelation 13:1, we have a
picture of John looking at the “sea” (singular), and seeing the origin of the beast. In this case,
the sea is the actual sea. In Revelation 17:1 & Revelation 17:15, the use of the word “waters”
is plural and is used with the word “many”, meaning many kinds of peoples. NOTE: In regards
to Revelation 13:1, this verse is incorrect in the NIV. The KJV is correct.
4. The Antichrist will rise up at the appointed time of the end (Daniel 8:17, Daniel 8:19, &
Daniel 8:23). This eliminates all other kingdoms and kings that have went before because the
end has not yet come, nor has Jesus appeared. Therefore, the Antichrist could not have come
at any point in the past.
5. The Antichrist will prosper by his practise of false diplomacy and false peace (Daniel 8:12,
Daniel 8: 24-25). He shall show himself a “savior of men” (Daniel 8:11) by making peace, a
false peace ensnaring all (Daniel 9:27). This false peace shall last for only the first 3 1/2 years
of the tribulation period (Daniel 9:27). [Note: In Revelation 6:2, the rider on the white horse
(Antichrist) carries a bow, but no arrows (meaning by peaceful means) and then a crown is
given him, and he goes forth conquering, and to conquer.]

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6. The Antichrist shall be mighty, but not by his own power (Daniel 8:24). He will
have satan’s power (Revelation 13:2 & Revelation 13:4).
7. The Antichrist will magnify himself (Daniel 8:11 & Daniel 8:25; Daniel 11:36);
even as being the Messiah (Daniel 11:37). [Note: The Antichrist is portrayed as a
rider on a white horse in Revelation 6:2, which is the same way Jesus is described
in Revelation 19:11 at His second coming. The devil wishes to be God; so he
merely imitates God using people’s limited knowledge of the Bible to deceive
them by that which sounds like the truth. Satan goes as far as deceiving the people
into thinking the Antichrist is killed and then rises from the dead in Revelation
13:3, 12. Again, Satan tries to make the Antichrist appear to be the Messiah.
8. The Antichrist, or little horn, will remove the daily sacrifice and desecrate the Holy Temple (Daniel
8:11, Daniel 9:27 & Daniel 12:11). The duration of time from the beginning of the little horn to his
end is seven years (Daniel 9:27). The 2,300 days (6.3 yrs) is the “time appointed” (Daniel 8:19) by
God to cleanse the sanctuary, the earth, (Daniel 8:14) through God’s judgments, starting with the
sixth seal judgment (Revelation 6:12). [Note regarding the seven seals in Revelation 6: Seals 1-5
are a “letting”(2Thessalonians 2:6-8) of evil and desolations by God to fulfill prophecy. When the
fifth seal is opened, all those who were martyred in the past, for their testimony, appear in Heaven
along with all those both dead and alive in Christ, who receive white robes and are told to wait a
little longer. Although the martyrs are the only ones speaking, all in Christ, up to this point in time,
are there. The fifth seal is the result of the rapture of the Christ’s church, found in Thessalonians
4:15-17, 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 and Psalm 27:5-6 (also see the “Gathering Up” study previously
in this volume for additional verses). The fifth seal is also a pronouncement of God’s judgment
on all those who dwell upon the earth, which starts with seal number six.] The time allowed for
the Antichrist to desecrate the temple and trample the saints is only for the second 3 1/2 years of
the last week (Daniel 7:25, Daniel 12:11 & Revelation 13:5). Obviously for this prophecy to be
fulfilled, the temple will have to be rebuilt. Plans for rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem have
already begun and are nearly complete!
9. In verse 10, the Antichrist persecutes, or “casts to the ground”, the new believers in Christ “the
hosts of heaven” and their leaders, “the stars” (who have been left after the Rapture). The “stars”
are “they that be wise that shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn
many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever” (Daniel 12:3). The Antichrist “stamps” upon
them meaning the Antichrist will violently oppose and will kill many of the saints (Daniel 8:24,
Revelation 6:11 & Revelation 13:7).
10. Many people will follow the Antichrist, or little horn, because of their rebellion or transgression
against God (Daniel 8:12). They will become the Antichrist’s people by the taking of his mark
(Revelation 13:16). The Antichrist will speak great blasphemies against God and the Holy Covenant,
“casting down the truth to the ground” (Daniel 8:12, Daniel 7:11, Daniel 7:25 & Daniel 11:30).
11. He shall speak against Christ and even think to gather an army and fight against the Prince
of princes, Christ Jesus (Daniel 8:25, Daniel 7:21, Daniel 7:25, Revelation 17:14 & Revelation
19:19).
12. The Antichrist’s army will be destroyed without hands, by the sword of Jesus’ mouth (His words),
and the brightness of His coming (Daniel 7:26 & Revelation 19:21). The Antichrist shall also be
destroyed without hands (Daniel 8:25), at the First Throne Judgment (Daniel 12:11-12), where he
is thrown into the lake of fire (Daniel 7:11 & Revelation 19:20).

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PART 7: THE INTERPRETATION OF Verses 26 & 27

In verse Daniel 8:26, Daniel is told to shut up his understanding of the vision because it would
not happen for many days (years). We know he has understanding from Daniel 8:16, where
Jesus* says, “Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.”
Understanding was not given to anyone else (Daniel 8:27), but Daniel only. Daniel was told to
seal up the words, “But thou Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, to the time of the
end” (Daniel 12:4). In the time of the end, these books will be opened and understanding given.
We are in the time of the end right now.

*NOTE: We know it is Jesus speaking in Daniel 8:16, because the “man” stands between the
banks of Ulai, meaning he is standing on the water. This is also described in Daniel 12:6, “And
one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river”. We also know
it is Jesus by how Daniel describes His appearance in Daniel 10:5-6, which coincides with
Revelation 1:13-15. The appearance of Jesus, in The Book of Revelation, is very similar to the
way He is described by Daniel, in chapter 10. We know it is Jesus being described in Revelation
chapter 1, because of verses 1, 2, 5 & 9, where Jesus’ name is mentioned.

PART 8: CONCLUSION: Timothy’s Final Note

Each of Daniel’s visions are about the same events, with more details and understanding given
each time. All things, asked of us by God, are a progression... So too is our understanding. The
Bible itself is a progression of understanding, understood only by those who receive of God’s
Spirit and accept Christ’s sacrifice and forgiveness into their hearts, by way of their repentance,
humbling themselves before God.
Those who do not accept God or His Spirit, which is received through Christ, can not understand
the Bible, and over their heads is a veil placed by God, lest their eyes see and their ears hear,
coming into the Truth by iniquity (2 Corinthians 3:14-16; Ephesians 4:18).
The Bible interprets itself, but understanding of that interpretation can only come from God,
through His Spirit (Exodus 31:3). I know some of you are saying, “I believe, and yet I don’t
understand.” If you believe, then you do understand the Truth and love which is in Christ
(Ephesians 1:18; Colossians 2:2; 1 John 5:20). The progression of understanding is different for
all, although God does give greater understanding to those whom He has chosen, who are called
according to His purpose. There are many gifts received of the Spirit, the gift of understanding
is just one. All, who accept Christ, receive different spiritual gifts, according to their faith and
God’s will. Each one is manifest for the common good of the whole body of Christ, which we
are its members, arranged in a way that is pleasing to God, for His purpose. To better understand
spiritual gifts and the body of Christ, please read 1 Corinthians, chapter 12.

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PART 1: Daniel 9:24-27

(24) Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the
transgression, and to make and end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring
in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most
Holy. (25) Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to
restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore
and two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. (26) And
after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of
the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be
with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. (27) And he shall confirm
the covenant with many for one week, and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice
and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate,
even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

PART 2: Seven Objectives to Fulfill God’s Plan of Saving Humanity


and Ushering in His Kingdom, Which Occur During the
Seventy Weeks of Daniel (Daniel 9:24)

1. Finish the transgression.


Encompasses the 70 weeks of Daniel, concluding with the end of transgression by God
pouring out His judgments (Daniel 9:27, Revelation, chapters 6-9 & 16), and Jesus’ First
Throne Judgment (Daniel 12:11-12).

2. Make an end of sins.

3. Make reconciliation for iniquity.


Jesus overcame these two by His sacrifice of Himself on the cross, and by His resurrection.

4. Bring in everlasting righteousness.


God will cleanse the whole world by pouring out His judgments (Daniel 8:14; Daniel 9:27,
2 Peter 3:7), and completely destroying evil and everything that leads us into sin (Jeremiah
31:34; 1 Peter 4:7), making way for Christ’s Kingdom (Revelation 20:3), and the New Jerusalem
(Revelation 21:1-2). He will live and reign forever (Isaiah 9:7). [Also read Isaiah 33:5 and
Jeremiah 23:5].

5. Seal up the vision.

6. Seal up the prophecy.


Numbers, chapters 5 & 6, state that Daniel’s visions and prophecies are fulfilled and completed.

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PART 2: Seven Objectives to Fulfill God’s Plan of Saving Humanity


and Ushering in His Kingdom, Which Occur During the
Seventy Weeks of Daniel (Daniel 9:24) (continued)

7. Anoint the Most Holy. This is two-fold:


- Jesus’ First Coming: He is baptized with the Spirit of God in the sight of men
(Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:32-34).
- Jesus’ Second Coming: He is crowned King (Revelation 11:15, 17).

PART 3: Three Periods During the Seventy Weeks of Daniel 9:25

1. 1st Period: 7 weeks or 49 years.

2. 2nd Period: 62* weeks, or 434 years.


*The term “threescore” in the Bible refers to 60. A “score” is equal to 20 years.

The total for the first and second time periods together is 69 weeks or about 483 Jewish years
or about 476 modern years.

3. 3rd Period: 1 week, or the last week, is remaining. This one week equals 7 years.

PART 4: THE Beginning of the Seventy Weeks

1. The 70 weeks begin with the “going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild
Jerusalem” (Daniel 9:25).

2. Artaxerxes, king of Persia, gives the commandment to Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, during
the 20th year of his reign, or around 444 B.C. (Nehemiah 2:8).

PART 5: THE Seven Weeks of Daniel 9:25

1. The 7 weeks are equal to 49 years.

2. Jerusalem’s streets and walls are rebuilt “even in troublous times” (Nehemiah, chapters 4 &
6), under Nehemiah’s leadership (Nehemiah, chapters 2 & 3).

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PART 6: THE Sixty-Two Weeks of Daniel 9:25

1. The 62 weeks are equal to about 434 years.

2. The 62 weeks occur after the period of 7 weeks.

3. There is 62 weeks that will occur “unto Messiah”.*


*7 weeks + 62 weeks = 69 weeks. A total of 69 weeks, or 476 modern years from the
declaration of Artaxerxes to Nehemiah to rebuild Jerusalem, to Christ’s crucifixion and
resurrection.

4. Messiah is “cut off” after the 62 weeks. (Daniel 9:26).


This refers to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, who suffered and died for the sins of the world
(Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 53; Psalm 22), “but not for Himself”. This marks the end of the 69
weeks.

PART 7: THE Prophetic Gap in Daniel

1. The prophetic clock (or end of the 69 weeks) stops with Christ’s crucifixion and
resurrection.

2. 37 years after Jesus’ death, in 70 A.D., the “people of the prince*” who is to come” (Daniel
9:26), destroys the city and the temple. Many wars and desolations continue (Daniel 9:26).

*The prince in Daniel 9:26 is not the Messiah. Daniel is referring to a “prince” or ruler, who
will come in the future, “prince that shall come”. The people who followed Jesus, the Messiah,
would not have destroyed the city or the temple. In 70 A.D., Jerusalem was destroyed by the
Romans.

Note: A similar “prophetic gap” is noted between the two descriptions of the coming of
Messiah (Jesus) in Zechariah 9:9-10. In Zechariah 9:9, Messiah is riding on a donkey, at His
first coming. In Zechariah 9:10, He rules the earth, at His second coming, more than 2,000
years later. There is no mention of the time in between.

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PART 8: THE 70th Week or Last Week of Daniel 9:27



1. The one week/last week or (70th week) begins with a 7-year* “covenant” or a 7-year* peace
agreement. This covenant will be made with “many” (Daniel 9:27 & Daniel 11:23), meaning
between many countries (possibly the Middle East or possibly the world) and Israel, confirmed
by “he” or the “prince” (the Antichrist).
*The covenant is made for 1 week, or 7 years (Daniel 9:27).

Note: The Antichrist, or “prince” of Daniel 9:27, comes in peaceably (Daniel 8:25 & Daniel
11:21). [The Antichrist will prosper by his practise of false diplomacy and false peace (Daniel
8:12, Daniel 8:24-25). He shall show himself a “savior of men” (Daniel 8:11) by making
peace, a false peace ensnaring all (Daniel 9:27; Daniel 11:23). This false peace shall last for
only the first 3 1/2 years of the tribulation period (Daniel 9:27). [Note: In Revelation 6:2,
the rider on the white horse (Antichrist) carries a bow, but no arrows (meaning by peaceful
means) and then a crown is given him, and he goes forth conquering, and to conquer.] -
From the previous study of Daniel’s Vision of the Ram and the Goat.

2. During this 70th week, or last week, Israel is allowed to rebuild the temple and offer sacrifices
(Jeremiah 30:18). This will probably be one of the stipulations of the peace agreement in
Daniel 9:27.

3. The Antichrist, or “prince” of Daniel 9:27, is of the people or empire (Daniel 9:26), who
destroyed the temple that last time in 70 A.D. In 70 A.D., the Romans destroyed Jerusalem
and the temple. In modern times, the Antichrist will be a part of, or rule, the Revived Roman
Empire.

Note: Rome will be the capital of the Revived Roman Empire and eventually the world
(Revelation 17:9, Revelation 17:18). Rome is called the “city that sits on 7 hills”.

4. The Antichrist will break the covenant which he had originally confirmed, the 7-year peace
agreement between Israel and other nations. He will stop the temple sacrifices in the middle
of the last week, or about 3 1/2 years into the 7-year period of peace (Daniel 9:27). The
Antichrist enters the temple and proclaims himself as God (Daniel 11:37), and demands
worldwide worship (Revelation 13:14-17). The image, the abomination of desolation, is set
up in the temple for worship (Daniel 7:25; Daniel 11:31; Daniel 12:11; Matthew 24:15;
2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:14). This is followed by 3 1/2 years of great tribulation,
or 1,260 days (Zechariah 14:2; Matthew 24:16-22; Revelation 11:2-3; Revelation 12:6,14).
“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time,
no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be
saved; but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened” - Jesus (Matthew 24:21-22).

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PART 8: THE 70th Week or Last Week of Daniel 9:27 (continued)

4. (CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE)

Prophecy Against Gog Fulfilled & God’s Power Shown


The peace agreement, or “covenant” of Daniel 9:27, will most likely follow an attack by the
Middle East and Russia (Ezekiel 38-39). The cities and countries in Ezekiel 38 are places now
identifiable in Russia and the Middle East.
“It will come into their minds to do this” (Ezekiel 38:10).
They will attack with a huge army (Ezekiel 38:15) and many planes (Ezekiel 38:16). This will
also take place in “latter days” as stated in Ezekiel 38:16.
And when this happens God shall glorify His name in all the world (Ezekiel 38:23), by
destroying all but a sixth part of their armies (Ezekiel 39:2 KJV only), with an earthquake
(Ezekiel 38:20), madness (Ezekiel 38:21), pestilence, heavy rain and flood, hail, fire and
brimstone (Ezekiel 38:22).
All the army and planes shall fall, not damaging any structures (Ezekiel 39:5).

5. At the end of the 70th week, or last week, Messiah returns!


Jesus establishes His Kingdom (Isaiah 11:1-10), a kingdom like none that has ever been
(Revelation 21 & Revelation 22:1-5).

This Generation Shall Not Pass Away

All others, who have went before, having prophesied of the return of
Messiah have failed; the time was not yet, nor did I speak to them. I
have spoken to you and many others, yea the time is near...behold,
He is at the door.
Timothy, write and receive understanding. As it was written, there
was seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks unto Messiah’s first
coming; so shall there be threescore and two days, and then seven
days going forth after the Restoration Day of My people to their land.
After the seven days have been completed, Messiah shall reign.
Behold, the generation who shall see the coming of the Son of Man in
His glory. These are they who shall not pass away before His coming.
Blessed are the wise who wait and watch and see these things come
to pass during their generation... they shall be lifted up.
[12/30/05 From God the Father, Given to Timothy]

Please refer to “The Seventy Weeks of Daniel” chart


and explanation on the following pages.

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69 Weeks
(476 modern years Prophetic Gap in Daniel 1,000 Year
or 483 Jewish years) (1,915 Years of the 2,520 years of Israel’s estrangement) (70 years) Reign of Christ

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7 Weeks 62 Weeks 62 Days* 10 Days of


(49 Years) (434 Years) (62 years) Trouble
(10 Years)
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Rev. 2:10
Prophetic Gap in Daniel** 3
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(Ezekiel 6:4-6; Leviticus 26:18)


1 2
Last
Signs of the Week
“end of the age” (7 Years)
Matthew 24 & Luke 21
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= End of 70th
May 15, 1948 1949
Israel becomes Week of Daniel
444 B.C. Anoint the Most Holy - Christ’s crucifixion & Prophetic
a nation. clock restarted
Command Jesus baptized at 30 resurrection 70 A.D. Restoration Day
given to rebuild years of age after 62 weeks Romans destroy about 2018
(Reconciliation for Jerusalem, • Seal up the vision
Jerusalem (Luke 3:21-23) • 2nd Coming -
iniquity and end of sin) including the temple
1st Anointing Crown Most Holy
(2nd Anointing)
about 2011 • Bring in everlasting
• Rapture of the True “Church”...escape for righteousness
the truly converted in Christ (Luke 21:36)
1. Jerusalem rebuilt. about 2008 • Beginning of the 70th Week, the “Last Week”
2. 3 1/2 years. Duration of time from the beginning of Jesus’ ministry to His crucifixion. Beginning of
3. Last Week / 70th Week of Daniel (7 years) the Ten Days
- 7 Days (7 Years) (Years) of Trouble * Denotes prophecy from the Letter from God on the
- Judgment/Tribulation period of 7 years. (Revelation 2:10) previous page of this study.
4. Ten days of trouble (Revelation 2:10) **See “Captivity and Rebirth of Israel” Study (on page
- Period of ten years, which includes the Last Week. 99) to better understand the Prophetical Gap.
THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL (SUPPLEMENT)

EVIDENCE SUPPORTING
2011-2018 AS THE “LAST WEEK”

PART 1: Prophetical WORDS IN the Letters from God and His Christ

For the time draws hence. In seven years I send My Son to pluck from the earth all those both dead
and still living who belong to Me; the rest left to fall under My judgment. ~ [Letters from God and
His Christ, Volume 1 - 6/2004 -“The Harvest, Judgments and Communion with the Spirit”]

For the time draws hence, six days (years) less, they will not see the Thief come... Then one week...
Then My emblazing cross shown in all the heavens and eyes of those upon the earth. Even the blind
will see. ~ [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume 3 - 5/4/2005 -“Ensign”]

Soon the battle will be won, for the victory was written before the battle began, and with the Word
and with a word will it end, and he and his false prophet destroyed. The end must come...The end
shall come, and all will be done within one week. You stand in the midst of the last month. Hurry!
Do not be left behind! ~ [Letters from God and His Christ, Volume 1 - 2/18/2005 - “Let the Word
be Your Guide”]

Yes, Timothy, you may know the season, for it is within your lifetime, yea within the few short years
hence. For you shall not reach fifty before all things come to pass as it is written and the Son of Man
has come to earth in His triumph. Have faith and live by what you have, oh son of promise. (Note:
I am 36 years old). ~ [Letters from God and His Christ, Personal Letters - 2/9/2005 -“Keep Your
Promises... For He, Who Makes The Promises and Fulfills All That He Has Made, Is Coming”]

Part 2: The Biblical Term “Generation”

A. The Lord tells us that the “generation” who sees Israel returned to its people would also see
the Second Coming of Messiah.

The days of our years are [threescore years and ten]* - Psalm 90:10.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Return, O Lord,
how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.” - Psalm 90:12-13

[* threescore years = 60 years] + 10 years = 70 years

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Part 2: The Biblical Term “Generation” (continued)

B. We can also learn from the Bible how long a generation is by averaging the generations of
each of Jesus’ parents, found in Matthew, chapter 1, and Luke 3:23-38.

JOSEPH’S LINEAGE

Lineage # of Generations Period of Time Generation (Yrs)

Adam to Abraham 20 generations roughly 2000 yrs. about 100


(Luke 3)
Abraham to Jesus 42 generations roughly 2000 yrs. about 47
(Matthew 1)

MARY’S LINEAGE

Lineage # of Generations Period of Time Generation (Yrs)

Adam to Abraham 20 generations roughly 2000 yrs. about 100


(Luke 3)
Abraham to Jesus 56 generations roughly 2000 yrs. about 35
(Luke 3)

Add the four generations together and divide by four:

[100 + 47 + 100 + 35 = 282] ÷ 4 = About 70 years per generation

Another interesting note: Both Mary and Joseph were descendants of David.
David’s son, Solomon, was Joseph’s ancestor.
David’s son, Nathan, was Mary’s ancestor.

C. Therefore, if we add the year 1948 (when Israel recieved their statehood) and the 70-year
generation. Jesus’ Second Coming will be around the year 2018. The 70th week of Daniel
9:27 would then begin around the year 2011, seven years earlier. The “rapture” or “gathering
up” of Christ’s Church will also be in or around 2011.

[1948 + 70 = 2018] - 7 years (70th week) = 2011

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Part 2: The Biblical Term “Generation” (continued)


D. In Matthew 24:36, “the day and hour unknown” seems to indicate that we may not know the time
of His coming. Jesus did command us to know the season of His coming. Otherwise, why would He
tell us of all the events that would lead up to His Second Coming (Matthew 24)? Jesus goes on to tell
us to be ready, though we don’t know the day or the hour (Matthew 24:44). In Mark 13:28, Jesus tells
us of a fig tree budding its leaves, telling us summer is near. In the next verse, in the same way, the
“signs” will tell us when Jesus’ Return is near, even when He is “right at the door”.
In Mark 13:35-37, Jesus tells us to be diligent and watchful, looking for the season of His coming,
because He has told us in advance what the signs will be; and those who see all these things with
their eyes and in their understanding will be the generation that does not pass away (Mark 13:29-30;
Matthew 24:33-34; Luke 21:32).

NOTE: The Letters do not state the “day or the hour” of Jesus’ Return. They do tell us the season and
years of Jesus’ return (Note: the “rapture” is not the Return of Christ, but is rather a “gathering up” of
His Body/the Church). Not only do the Letters from God and His Christ agree with the Bible, they are
proven by it. Keep in mind, God does know the day and the hour and has revealed the season and
year, because the time is now at hand. God is the Author of both the Letters and the Bible. He is the
same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

As God is Three Aspects, All as One... So Too is the Coming of the Son of Man

(God speaking) If the Son of Man comes in full power and glory, and every eye shall see
Him, then how is He also come as a Thief? Here is wisdom: The Son of Man comes at a
day and hour unknown to spoil the house of the strong man. All that belongs to the Lord
shall be taken, and all that belongs to the strong man, left.
The Son of Man first comes as Spirit, poured out on the nations, to call on His elect...
then as the Thief to take them away. For those forgiven must be taken out to make
the way open to the strong man’s servant, so he may rule. Those, forgiven and fully
converted in their hearts, have no place in judgment...they have passed from judgment
into life. When the Day of Troubles is concluded, and the Father’s judgments carried out,
then behold!...the Son of Man comes on the clouds, with the trumpet shout of God, in
His raiment of power and great glory. When the thunder and lightning crashes, filling
the heavens, and the sun, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the glorious ensign
separates the heavens before the eyes of all, then shall you know the Son of Man, the
Lord of Lords, Christ Jesus, the Son of God who is come as God, shall appear!

The end is come, darkness destroyed, the strong man bound.


The Bright and Morning Star has risen...the new Day begun.
His reign, a thousand years and forever after...His seat taken.
Give praise, thanksgiving and worship...The One True King has come!

[Volume 3 - Letters from God and His Christ]

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Prophecy Fulfilled...the Prophetic Clock Restarted

Captivity and Rebirth of Israel...Prophecy Fulfilled May 15, 1948...the Prophetic Clock Restarted
All end time (“last days”) prophecies rest solidly and go forth from Israel’s year of statehood and
require knowledge and understanding of the Old and New Testaments in a complimentary fashion.
The fulfilment of these prophecies hinge on Israel returning to their land according to Isaiah 66:8,
Ezekiel 4:4-6 and Leviticus 26:18, by which God stated the exact day that Israel would become a
nation again!...May 15, 1948.

Who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made
to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion
travailed, she brought forth her children. ~ Isaiah 66:8

Ezekiel 4:4-6 also explains the “prophetical gap” on the chart, on page 95.

Ezekiel was in Babylon as part of the captivity of the Jews, which lasted 70 years:
“And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment. And these nations
shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.” ~ Jeremiah 25:11

Jeremiah 25:11 was fulfilled “exactly” as written in the book of Ezra:


“Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth
of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia,
that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing,
saying, Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia, the Lord God of heaven hath given me all the
kingdoms of the earth; and He hath charged me to build Him an house at Jerusalem,
which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all His people? His God be with him, and
let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of
Israel, (He is the God), which is in Jerusalem.” ~ Ezra 1:1-3

[NOTE: The Israelites were freed exactly 70 years after they were taken captive.]

When the Israelites were freed by Cyrus, only a small part out of the total captivity decided to
return to their homeland, disobeying the Lord’s decree...neither did they repent before God. So
then, according to Leviticus Chapter 26, and also knowing God does not change (Malachi 3:6), the
captivity among foreign nations would then be accounted to them seven times because they had
not repented, nor listened to God.
“And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto Me, then I will punish you seven
times more for your sins.” ~ Leviticus 26:18
“For I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore, ye sons of Jacob are consumed.” ~
Malachi 3:6

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Prophecy Fulfilled...the Prophetic Clock Restarted (continued)


While in Babylon, God commanded Ezekiel to physically act out the prophecy regarding their estrangement
and how each act would be accounted against the Israelites.

“Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city. And set
thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house
of Israel. Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. According to the
number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shall bear their iniquity. For I have laid upon thee the
years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days. So thou shalt
bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side,
and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days. I have appointed thee each day for a year.”
~ Ezekiel 4:3-6

390 days - iniquity of the house of Israel (Ezekiel 4:5)


+ 40 days - iniquity of the house of Judah (Ezekiel 4:6)
= 430 days (or years according to Ezekiel 4:6...”a day for a year”)

430 years - of prophesied estrangement (which seemingly did not come to pass)
- 70 years - of captivity in Babylon (which was fulfilled)
= 360 years of seemingly unfulfilled estrangement

360 - years of seemingly unfulfilled estrangement


x 7 - “seven times more” from Leviticus 26
= 2,520 years of estrangement accounted to the Israelites....this was fulfilled!

Important note: The above years are biblical years, not modern years.
A biblical year = 360 days or 12 months with each having 30 days.

2,520 - years of estrangement accounted to the Israelites


x 360 - days in a Biblical year
= 907,200 total days

Counting 907,200 days forward from the day the Israelites were freed
from their Babylonian captivity, is exactly May 15, 1948!!!

Going forth from the “Restoration Day” (Restoration Year) of Israel, things will move faster and
faster, and will likewise increase in their severity as a woman’s contractions during childbirth
(Jeremiah 30:3-7; Revelation 12:2).

“Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.” (Acts 15:18) Amen!

Please note: This is the first draft of this study. Look for future pages to be added, which will include
finer details, such as specific dates, etc., and other Bible prophecies that were fulfilled to the day.

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PART 1: Daniel 10:1-21

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called
Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long. and he understood the thing,
and had understanding of the vision. (2) In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. (3) I
ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all,
till three whole weeks were fulfilled. (4) And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I
was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel, (5) Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and
behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz. (6) His
body also was like beryl, and His face as the appearance of lightning, and His eyes as lamps of fire,
and His arms and His feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of His words like the voice
of a multitude. (7) And I Daniel alone saw the vision. For the men that were with me saw not the
vision, but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. (8) Therefore I was
left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me. For my comeliness was
turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. (9) Yet heard I the voice of His words. And
when I heard the voice of His words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the
ground. (10) And, behold, and hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms
of my hands. (11) And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words
that I speak unto thee, and stand upright. For unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken
this word unto me, I stood trembling. (12) Then said unto me, Fear not, Daniel. For from the first day
that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were
heard, and I am come for thy words. (13) But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me
one and twenty days. But, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained
there with the kings of Persia. (14) Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy
people in the latter days. For yet the vision is for many days. (15) And when he had spoken such
words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb. (16) And, behold, one like
the similitude of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said
unto him that stood before me, O my lord, by the vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I have
retained no strength. (17) For how can the servant of this my Lord talk with this my lord? For as for
me, straightway there remained not strength in me, neither is there breath left in me. (18) Then there
came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me. (19) And
said, O man greatly beloved, fear not. Peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he
had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak, for thou has strengthened
me. (20) then said he, knowest thou wherefore I come unto thee? And now will I return to fight with
the prince of Persia. And when I am gone forth, lo, the prince of Grecia shall come. (21) But I will
shew thee that which is noted in the Scripture of Truth. And there is none that holdeth with me in
these things, but Michael your prince.

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PART 2: The “Certain Man” is Jesus Christ

1. Verse 5, “I lifted up my eyes and behold” indicates that Daniel is having an actual vision, not
a dream.

2. Verses 5 & 6, “a Certain Man” is Jesus Christ. The following chart displays the parallels
between the “Certain Man” of Daniel, and Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation.

Daniel 10:5-6 Revelation 1:13-15, 17

Appearance A Certain Man Like the Son of Man

Clothing Clothed in linen Clothed with a garment


Whose loins (chest Girded about the paps
and waist) were (chest), with a golden girdle
girded with gold
of Uphaz

Face Like the appearance Head and hairs white


of lightning like wool
His countenance was as the
sun shineth in its strength

Eyes As lamps of fire Like flames of fire

Arms & Feet Liken in color to Like fine brass, as refined


polished brass in a furnace

Voice The sound of His words His voice as the sound


like a multitude of many waters

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PART 2: The “Certain Man” is Jesus Christ (continued)

3. The “Certain Man”, Jesus, is dressed like the high priest of the temple. He was clothed in linen
which characterized the garments of the priests (Exodus 28:39-43). He was girded with gold
similar to the golden belt the high priest was required to wear in temple service.
The purpose of the high priest’s sash or girdle was to hold the breast plate with the twelve
stones representing the twelve tribes of Israel.  The high priest would go before God, bearing
the tribes of Israel on his chest. The description of Jesus’ clothing is important because He is
the high priest, after the order of Melchisedec (Hebrews 5:10).

4. We also know Daniel is seeing and hearing Jesus in chapter 10:5-6 by reading in Revelation
chapter 1, verses 1, 2, 5 & 9, where Jesus’ name is said. Daniel 8:16 and Daniel 12:6 confirm
this by showing and stating that “the Certain Man” is standing on the water, as did Jesus Christ
walk on the water in Matthew 14:25 and John 6:19.

PART 3: During the vision, Daniel loses his strength (Daniel 10:7-9)

1. Daniel alone saw the vision. The men who were with him were terrified and fled and hid
(10:7). This vision was not a dream, but Daniel was fully awake.

2. The scene is very similar to that of the apostle Paul on the road to Damascus in Acts 9:7. The
men heard a voice but saw no one as in Acts.

3. Daniel retained no strength or “vigor” in the presence of the Lord. This is similar to Isaiah’s
response in Isaiah 6:5, “Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen
the King, the Lord of hosts”. Also John has a similar response in Revelation 1:17, “And when
I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.”

PART 4: Daniel is strengthened by the angel, Gabriel, who also


gives him understanding (Daniel 10:10-13)

1. We know this angel is Gabriel because in each of the previous visions Gabriel is commanded
by Jesus to make Daniel understand and to give him strength. Also in the book of Luke,
Gabriel’s responsibilities are similar.
He is the messenger and revealer of the Word of God. As God has told me, “Those two men
then asked you many questions, and taught you many things. One was the angel Gabriel,
messenger and revealer of the Word of God. The other, your most beloved, My Son. They
will lead you through your trials to the Kingdom of God.” (Letters from God and His Christ,
Volume 1, Page 26)

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PART 4: Daniel is strengthened by the angel, Gabriel, who also


gives him understanding (Daniel 10:10-13) (continued)

1. In Daniel 8:16, “And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and
said, Gabriel, make this man to understand this vision.”
In Daniel 9:21, “Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had
seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of
the evening oblation.”

In Daniel 10:11, “O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words I speak to you.”
Daniel 9:23, “And I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved; therefore understand
the matter, and consider the vision.

In Daniel 10:12, “Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel. For from the first day that thou
didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were
heard, and I am come for thy words.
In Daniel 9:22, “O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.”

In Luke 1:11-20, Gabriel is the angel who is speaking with Zachariah, telling him of the
future birth of his son, John, who would prepare the way of the coming of the Lord.
In verse 19, “And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence
of God, and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew these glad tidings.
In Luke 1:26-37, the angel, Gabriel, is sent to Mary to tell her that she will bear a son, the
Messiah, and His name shall be Jesus. Gabriel also tells Mary that her cousin, Elizabeth, will
also bear a child.

An important message regarding verse 12:

Verse 12 is very important for all those who love the Lord and seek understanding
and wish for their prayers to be heard and answered. Daniel was greatly beloved
for three distinct reasons:
1. Daniel sought after God to know Him. Likewise we must seek after God by His
Son, Jesus, and study His Word, to truly know Him.
2. Daniel willingly gave up his comforts for three weeks as an offering to the Lord.
Likewise we should willingly chasten our own lives as an offering to the Lord,
seeking always to do what is pleasing to Him and in line with His Word.
3. Daniel humbled himself before God and prayed not only for himself, but for
others also during his time of mourning (Daniel’s prayer 9:3-19). Likewise, we
should not only pray for ourselves, but for others also; and humble ourselves in
prayer at least three times per day, as Daniel has showed us by his example in
Daniel 6:10.

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An interesting note regarding the angel speaking to Daniel and the


spiritual battles being waged unseen:

In verse 13, we know it is an angel speaking to Daniel, and not Jesus, because the angel
says the “prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days”. No one, neither
human or spiritual, could withstand Jesus; neither would He need the help of angels.
These twenty-one days are the same length of time Daniel was chastening himself and
praying and mourning (verse 2 - “three whole weeks”). In verse 12, the angel explains that
from the first day of Daniel’s prayers, his words were heard. Only at the end of the twenty-
one days is the angel able to come to Daniel because during this three week period,
Gabriel is involved in a spiritual battle against the prince of Persia. During this battle with
the prince, Gabriel is helped by the archangel, Michael. We know it is a battle from verse
20 where Gabriel says, “Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia”.

PART 5: The time of the vision is in the latter days (Daniel 10:14)

Verse 14 explains “what shall befall thy people in the latter days. For yet the vision is for many
days”, which plainly tells us that the vision will not occur until the latter days. “Many days” in verse
14 means “many years” as the term “day” is often used to represent a “year”. The phrase “latter
days” is used throughout the Old Testament, and refers to the time of the end or the end of the age.
The phrase, for the most part, refers to the time of the redemption of Israel. (See Numbers 24:14;
Deuteronomy 4:30; Deuteronomy 31:29; Isaiah 2:2; Jeremiah 23:20; 30:24; 48:47; 49:39; Ezekiel
38:8; Daniel 2:28; Hosea 3:5; and Micah 4:1). Also, in 1 Timothy 4:1, the term “latter times” refers
to a time distant in the future.

PART 6: Daniel loses his strength and becomes dumb (Daniel 10:15-19)

In verse 15, Daniel loses his strength again and is unable to speak. In verse 16, the angel touched
his lips and he is able to speak again. This is very similar to Isaiah’s experience in Isaiah 6:5-7, “Then
said I, Woe is me! For I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of
a people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the
seraphim unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from the altar.
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken
away, and thy sin purged.” In verses 17-19, Daniel is again strengthened by the angel.

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PART 7: The angel explains why he has come to Daniel (Daniel 10:20-21)

In verse 20, the angel asked Daniel if he knew why he had came to him. The angel explains that
he is returning to fight with the prince of Persia to make way for Greece to rule, meaning the
angel himself was involved in the struggle of nations, as was the angel Michael, in ways we do not
understand and ways that are unseen. The struggle would last from about 536 BC to 333 BC when
Greece would finally defeat the Persian king Darius III at Nineveh. (see the previous study on the
vision of the Ram and Goat for more understanding).
In verse 21, the angel tells Daniel that he is going to reveal to him what is written in the “Scriptures
of Truth”. Therefore, the angel was going to tell Daniel what was already recorded or inscribed
(God’s Word or will). There is no one with Gabriel who “holdeth”, or withstood in these things,
except for Michael, the archangel.

An interesting note regarding Michael, the archangel:

Michael, the archangel, is only mentioned six times in the Bible; three times in
Daniel and three times in the New Testament (1 Thessalonians 4:16; Jude 1:9 &
Revelation 12:7).
One of Michael’s responsibilities is to watch over the children of Israel. He is called
a “chief prince” and “the archangel”, meaning he rules over the other angels, such
as a general who rules over an army. In the end days, Michael will lead the angels
in the final battle against satan and his fallen angels, where satan and his army will
be cast to earth (Revelation 12:7-9), where he will make his final stand against God,
culminating in the battle known as Armageddon (Revelation 16:16).

In Daniel chapters 11 & 12,


the full vision of the latter days is revealed to Daniel.
(This study will be added at a later date.)

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Section Six:

Living in the End Times

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IN THIS SECTION:

PAGE SUBJECT

128 Table of Contents for Section Six

129 - 149 The “Rapture” or “Gathering Up”

151 Section Seven: Servants in Christ, Stand Up and Blow the Trumpet

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Part 1: Introduction

Question: Will there be a gathering up of Jesus’ true followers to Heaven (or commonly known as
the “Rapture”)? And when will it take place?

Answer: Yes, when the last trumpet* is sounding preceding the judgments of Revelation. This is the
first resurrection of God’s people.

*Note: The last trumpet sounding is not the last trumpet judgment of Revelation, but rather it is the
last call and warning going out to the whole world to come to repentance because the Lord’s return
is at hand and the age is at its end.
(The Letters are part of this very trumpet call and the warning that must go out...this is their
purpose.)

From Timothy: The Bridegroom is coming and His return is very close. I have been sent out
ahead of Him, with a multitude of others who hear His voice. We go out to prepare His
Bride so she shall be fit for the King. I must make a straight path for the Lord to follow and announce
His coming! John went out baptizing with water, unto repentance, in preparation of the One
coming after Him, whose sandals John was not worthy to loose. The One coming is coming again
and so I, together with all those who would be His Trumpet Call, are going out baptizing with
Spirit and Truth, according to that Spirit and Truth given us, so you might be spared from the Day
of Troubles that is coming upon the whole world. Correction and guidance, through testimony and
proclamation, must be given.

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Letters from God and His Christ

The “gathering up” is proclaimed in the majority of the Letters from God and His Christ. The reason
being that without the gathering up, there is no need for the trumpet call and if there is no trumpet
call, then there is no escape and all fall under God’s judgment. What of those who need not suffer
His wrath because they had repented and gave heed to the Lord’s correction before the time of
judgment? They shall not suffer God’s wrath, nor shall they be taken through. To be taken through is
still to suffer. To be in a world under God’s wrath is still to suffer because of the storm around you in
which you behold great suffering and tribulation. Shall God leave His children as prey for the lion,
who goes out amongst the people, devouring and seeking to devour whom he will? If you say yes,
then forgiveness is no more forgiveness and God’s love has become enmity. (Letters V3 - pg. 33)
The following are excerpts from Letters from God and His Christ.

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For the time draws hence. In seven years I send My Son to pluck from the earth all those both
dead and still living who belong to Me; the rest left to fall under My judgment. ~ [Volume 1 - “The
Harvest, Judgments and Communion with the Spirit”]

That same hand will deliver you from the time of troubles to come, as you have foreseen in your
dreams. ~ [Volume 1 - “The Lord’s Love is All Around You, Focus on What He Has Given You”]

Only those who have made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb, will I keep from My hour
of judgment, which I will rain down upon the whole earth until that great and glorious Day of
My Son’s return. ~ [Volume 1 - “Live the Way of Christ in White Robes, The Parable of the Starving
Man”]

So I will take My people out of it and let it go its way. Doomed as it may seem, many more of My
people will I take out of it in the years remaining. ~ [Volume 1 - “The Gift of Discernment”]

Timothy, your family will see and know My dwelling place, for My Son will bring them. Take much
comfort in this. [Volume 1 - “The Mystery of Heaven”]

The little girl in your dream represents both the innocent and the saints who will be shut up by the
father of lies and trampled on by the wicked. But know this: The upright and innocent of this day
will be carried away to safety, represented by the carriage, which is the carriage of God, Christ
Jesus!....For the oppression of the saints and the innocent is indeed a marker, but not a sign. The
sign undeniable is the carrying away of all those who belong to Me before the Wrath of the Lamb
and judgments of the Father rain down upon the earth and the wicked. [Volume 1 - “Persevere
When Adversity Comes, For Your Redemption Draws Nigh”]

time is very short now, for the end is drawing closer. Shake off the dust from your feet. For the
Lord (Son) comes as a thief...I am the First and the Last, the keeper of My saints. Amen. [Volume 1
- “Trust in the Lord”]

And the flock He has known, and does know presently, will He take from the field, and house them
in the house in which He dwells, until the day of His return, when they return with Him to join
His new flock which remain. Do not fret for those of the flock that are slain during the times of the
wolf’s ravaging. For them will He raise up to His house, and they too will arrive with Him at His
return. [Volume 1 - “A Conversation with the Lord of Lords and The Parable of the Good Shepherd
Those Whom God Has Cleansed Are Now Worthy of His Kingdom”]

Refer to Jude 14 - “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, behold,
the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints.”

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Listen to My Son! For He also have I sent into the midst of the world, to gather who He will, and
who is willing. Soon I will call Him back, and with Him all those who are Mine. ~ [Volume 1 - “The
Antichrist and the Judgment of This Wicked Generation”]

The body of Christ shall soon be gathered, and those who will be gathered must hurry. For the door
is shutting, and many will be left standing outside. ~ [Volume 1 - “Forsake All, and Come With Me,
and I Will Make You a Light Among Men”]

But the apple tree planted in the good ground, that has plenty of water, too this tree will its keeper
come and harvest its ripe fruit at just the right time, and cast away the corrupted fruit, and stomp
under foot all the fruit that is upon the ground, along with all those that live and crawl upon the
ground who devour the fallen fruit. For unto this orchard does its master not leave even one ripe
or whole apple unplucked... all will He gather into His basket. ~ [Volume 1 - “The Parable of the
Apple Tree Orchard”]

The dominion of Christ is at hand and satan’s will soon crumble, but first a rising up*, and then
the end will come.
3. Raising up of the dead in Christ
4. Raising up of those yet alive in Christ
~ [Volume 1 - “A Return to Innocence; The Rising Up”]

The Thief has entered the house, and will steal away all who are willing and not tied or fastened
down or shackled to the house. Amen. ~ [Volume 1 - “Run from the Forest, Loose All That Binds You”]

Praise be to God, for He has sent His only Son to gather up His daughters, and heal their hearts
forevermore. Amen. ~ [Volume 1 - “Christ is Your Sanctuary”]

First shall there be a gathering up of all those who have washed their robes in the blood of the
Lamb... first those asleep, then those yet living. ~ [Volume 1 - “Come to the Lord, He Will Never
Forsake You”]

Awake from your slumber, and open your eyes, for I am in the midst of the world, and have come to
gather up My sheep, the lost sheep, My beloved sheep. I have come to take you with Me, so you shall
be where I dwell. ~ [Volume 1 - “I Stand Upon Your Doorstep...Open Your Door and Be Healed”]

raise up and bring forth those who sleep in Me, steal those away yet alive in Me....hide My chosen in
the Mountain. ~ [Volume 1 - “The Day, the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord, Has Come!”]

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For in a moment will all in the boat and all those on the shore, arriving in many different ways,
be taken up to join the Father and the Son. This time is not yet, for you are still in the midst of the
waters and remember that there are still many whom you love deeply that have not yet made it to
the boat or the shore. ~ [Volume 1 - “The Walls Are Crumbling, Take Refuge In the Rock “]

UNDERSTANDING OF JESUS WALKING ON WATER


Read Matthew 14:25 - 33 & John 6: 16-21 “Jesus Walking on Water”
Obviously this miracle proved that Jesus was the Son of God, because He literally did
walk on water. But Jesus also wants us to understand His miracles. In John 6:26, Jesus
says, “Verily, verily I say unto you, ye seek Me not because ye saw (understood) My
miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled.”
We, the faithful believers, are represented by the apostles in the boat, who went out,
separating themselves from those on the land, at Jesus’ command. Though we in the boat,
obey and are separated, we remain in the midst of the waters (peoples), waves (troubles),
and strong winds (prevailing powers, deceptions and lies). The boat, which keeps us from
drowning and keeps us above and separate from the waters, is our faith and the blessed
hope of Jesus’ return, though we are still jostled about (persecution, slander, etc.).
So we wait patiently, holding tight to the boat, so we do not stumble and fall out of the
boat back into the waters. We can now see through the storm, a figure coming upon these
waters, but not clearly, so we still fear because of our doubt and lack of understanding of
the power of God. Then, when things seem most fearful, Jesus will call to us, saying, ‘Be
of good cheer...It is I...Be not afraid.’
Jesus walks upon these waters, putting all things beneath Him, and all water near to Him
is calm. Neither does the wind or rain affect Him. This is how it will be for all those who
draw close to Him. Jesus is also coming to tread under His feet all these waters, waves
and strong winds, causing them to cease at the sound of His voice.
Then Peter (the “rock”), who is very strong in faith says, ‘Lord, if be Thou, bid me come
unto Thee on the water.’ Jesus said, ‘Come.’ But when Peter saw the wind boisterous, he
was afraid, and began to sink. Peter cried, ‘Lord, save me’. Immediately Jesus stretched
out His hand, and caught Peter, and said unto him, ‘O thou of little faith, where fore
didst thou doubt.?’ Likewise, do we stumble in faith because of the world and its ways.
So then, to be saved, we must call on Jesus to save us, and He will speedily. With Jesus’
strength will He pull us up out of the waters and place us back in the boat and rebuke the
storm, and then He Himself will enter the boat with us. We then will arrive immediately
at the place we were heading for and had waited patiently for...Heaven.

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”Neither shall you suffer My judgment in the terrible Day of the Lord God Almighty, for I do not
punish those who I have forgiven, for they have passed from death into life, and from punishment
into salvation. Therefore Kurt, I will gather you up along with all those from the four corners in
whom Christ resides, and gather them to Myself, by way of the Son. With Me shall you dwell until
the week of My judgment is concluded. Then will you return with the King.
Behold the King has come, and with Him has He brought His saints... His treasure He had set aside,
and had stole away out of the earth, to once again make His possession, and Him theirs forever
and ever. Amen. ~ [Volume 1 - “Those Whom the Lord Has Cleansed Are Now Clean, and Worthy
of the Kingdom”] (Refer to Jude 14).

It is My love for you that brings Me back to save you from, and take you out of, that which has hurt
you. ~ [Volume 1 - “Come, Love Awaits You”]

God: In His hand He has His sickle. Reap, oh Son of Man, reap! Take up all the sons and daughters
of promise. Gather them into My barn, and shelter them from the storm that is coming and is upon
them. So says the Lord, God of Heaven and earth, so shall it be done.
Jesus: The Son of Man, who has risen, is descending. Come meet Him in the air. Yes, even you
who sleep, awake! I have heard your shout, now hear My shout. Be spared from that which I must
accomplish. ~ [Volume 1 - “Come Up Hither”]

Be watchful and ready, for He comes to steal away all those who belong to Him. ~ [Volume 1 -
“Purify Your Faith, and Come to the Father as It is Written”]

When you hear the shout and begin to rise to meet Me, look next to you...there will your mother
be, also your daughter. Then soon after, during the last week, all beloved sparrows of the world will
fly. ~ [Volume 1 - “Sing Hallelujah! The Time Has Come for All of the Lord’s Sparrows to Take Flight
and Leave Their Nests”]

Grieve not, for in a blink of an eye, a mere twinkling, will she be with Me and many that she loves
will soon after join her, in the air**, to meet their Lord. ~ [Volume 1 - “Blessed Are Those Who
Diligently Seek After Their Lord, They Will Be Lifted Up”]

Therefore, I am come to correct and discipline those I love, and gather up all those who love
Me and walk in My ways, for they will be sheltered from the storm and given understanding as
nourishment for one week. ~ [Volume 1 - “I am He Who Searches the Hearts of Men”]

The Son of Man comes to gather the lost, now found, in Him. Escape to the Father’s house, be not
left and shaken....The Lord comes with a shout and the trumpet call of God. Who will hear the call?
Who will be gathered up? ~ [Volume 1 - “Return Home, Your Father Calls”]

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For all new creations will be plucked from the earth, and replanted in the garden at dawn on the new
day, and flourish in the light of the Lord....Rise up and meet Me in the air. ~ [Volume 1 - “Bear Much
Fruit, the Harvest is Near”]

Flee to the Father and the Son shall lift you up. ~ [Volume 1 - “Evil, Desecration and Blasphemy Must
Come...They Will Be Hollowed Out and Burned With Fire”]

In a moment...an instant...in a twinkling of an eye, will My people be with Me. In that day, one will be
there standing in the world, content and unhappy; and another next to him very discontent and filled with
joy. The discontent man will be taken and his joy fulfilled; the other left in sorrow. Do not grieve for him
for he need only take one step to his left, the Father’s right, and fill the space left open by the other, and
receive the reward the other went up to receive. For in the world’s loss, many will find understanding and
follow these who have already left. In that Day you will see the angels ascending and descending on the
Son of Man. ~ [Volume 1 - “A Day in the Lord”]

Note: After the Gathering Up, all those left who put their faith in Christ and died, will also be gathered up
by the angels, by way of Christ, through which all is accomplished, according to the will of God.

Come up hither and receive your reward. Both young and old come. Yes, Samantha and your mother
will be there. They are the young and the old, the awake and the sleeping. You know the road you are
taking, for this short journey is through Christ the Lord. It is also through Him that you arrived in this
place as a babe...Ascend My people and escape. The road was laid from the beginning. It leads you
from the world back home. Amen. ~ [Volume 1 - “The Highway of Holiness Leads Up the Road of
Salvation”]

“Come My peoples, come My peoples from every land, tribe and nation. Come My peoples and
be gathered from the four corners of the earth.” Your Lord and Savior calls you back to Him.
Who will be reconciled to the Father and be lifted up? I come hence in a few short days (years) to
steal away all those who belong to Me who now dwell in the strong man’s house. I am the Thief
who comes at the hour and day unknown... I must gather the wheat into My barn...~ [Volume 1
- “Reconciliation”]

He has taken away the sins of those who love Him, they shall be gathered up. ~ [Volume 1 - “Lift
Up Your Hands to Heaven, For Behold Your Redeemer Lives”]

To them will you go and guide to My pasture, so I may gather them into My barn. ~ [Volume 1
- “The Servants of God Have Been Sent Out to Blow Their Trumpets to the Nations...Hear Them for
the Spirit Dwells Within Them”]

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The time has come for Me to come and gather My sheep back to Myself, and keep them with Me,
and shelter them in My Father’s house...
Until the time of lifting up, all must be divided. ~ [Volume 1 - “The Seas Rage; The Earth, It Trembles...
All is Quiet For Those Who Rest In the Lord”]

2. First Resurrection. First Harvest of the End of This Age.


This first resurrection is for those who belong to Christ, both those who have died in Christ and those
who are still alive. At this time Jesus is gathering the “wheat” into the barn. The redeemed have to
be gathered up before the judgments and tribulation start because the innocent and forgiven will
not be judged or punished. ~ [Volume 1 - “The End of This Age and the Beginning of the Next”]

Chart of the End of This Age and the Beginning of


the Next
First Resurrection. Christ Returns
First Harvest of and Establishes
the End of This His Kingdom
Final
2 4 Second Resurrection.
Satan is released. 6 8 Battle

1 3 5 7 9
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Signs
of the
End of
This
Age-
Present
Time
Seven Years of
Judgments
from God
& Tribulation
from the
Antichrist
Thousand Year Millennium -
7th Day, a Period of Resting
and a Reward for the Redeemed
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Final
Judg-
ment
Eternity
with the Lord

“RAPTURE” or GATHERING UP”

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The redeemed taken up...the rest taken through. ~ [Volume 2 - “Walk by Faith, Not by Works, Lest
Your Feet Stumble Over Those Works Done Without Faith”]

Awake, be drawn, be lifted up, return home and be sheltered in the love which never fades...the
love everlasting, always there for His people...the same yesterday, today and eternity to come....
Sleepers in Christ awake and come forth. All people yet alive in Me, who have been awakened to
Me, come forth. All arise and meet your God and your Lord. Come up hither and join with Me in
the Father’s house. I have prepared a place for you. Take comfort, dwell in My sanctuary and be
with your God. Let all kneel and worship forever and ever. Take these robes of white and become
new, My beautiful beloved saints of the Most High....The great division has commenced and all will
be gathered in preparation for His coming. ~ [Volume 2 - “Be Blessed...Be Lifted Up...Be Glorified”]

Come and be taken up...I have prepared a place for you where you can rest in joy, truth and love
while the fierce storm passes below you. ~ [Volume 2 - “Love and Forgiveness Awaits All Those Who
Turn From the World to Christ”]

Carry Me home and I shall come quickly and carry you home to the Father. There shall you find all
those you call friends of this earth and many more beyond number that will be your brothers and
sisters and fathers and mothers forever and ever. All brought together as the family of God, closer
than blood, all of the same blood, the blood of the Lamb, given up for them so they might become
of one body, one spirit, one love in Christ for the happiness of the Father, which He shall share with
them forever and ever in His paradise....
One God. One Son, the Way to the Father. One love everlasting, brought together through the Son,
to reunite all those who were separated, now gathered up to the Father forever dwelling in the
Kingdom of His Christ and His joy. Rejoice! Amen. Forever amen. ~ [Volume 2 - “Come and Share
My Joy Fulfilled Through Faith Until I Come”]

I shall separate you and gather you to Myself beloved son. Come and share My joy....The righteous
lifted up. The earthly left standing in bewilderment, soon kneeling, bowing down, then lifted up as
the righteous. ~ [Volume 2 - “ Remember Me Now and Together Shall We Be Always”]

All wheat that belongs to Me is gathered and tied together and stored in the Master’s barn. ~
[Volume 2 - “Honor One Another as You Honor Him Who Gave You Life”]

To these they shall be lifted up, not proceeding those yet asleep in death who are redeemed in
Christ. ~ [Volume 2 - “The Judgment of God is True and Without Question. The Error of the People is Great,
Brought Forth Out of Deception and Evil Arrogance, Leading to Corruption and Death.”]

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The redeemed shall be lifted up, housed in My barn. ~ [Volume 2 - “Escape the Grasp of the
World’s Thief...Run to the True Thief who Steals You Away to Everlasting Freedom “]

All that you have is Mine; and all I have the Father has given Me to give to you, so you can be lifted
up...be taken out of, not taken through. ~ [Volume 2 - “God is the Father of All, Who Sent His Son
to be Your Father, So By His Example You Can Become Fathers, Mothers, Sons and Daughters in the
Family of Christ in His Kingdom“]

All those forgiven must be taken up...the Father does not punish those He has forgiven through
Me, lest My sacrifice be made of non-effect and all are punished and judged. ~ [Volume 3 - “
Restoration in Marriage“]

All I ask of you is for your safety to keep you and your most precious fireflies hidden from the world
as a treasure, so when I come I may gather you to myself and you will be where I am. ~ [Volume 3
- “Have Faith...Overcome Adversity...The Time of Rest is Coming“]

The trumpet will sound, all will be gathered and given gowns of white...
~ [Volume 3 - “Come and Share in the Lord’s Joy“]

Be bold for Me and I shall be emboldened for you, and you shall be amazed at the mighty hand of
the Lord that reaches down from Heaven and grasps you tightly and carries you home.....So I have
taken you out of and will again....You will be taken and she will be left....For I have left 144,000
workers in the field to harvest the hidden wheat and gather it from the storm, shelter it from the
fierce winds, protect it from the scorching heat. ~ [Volume 3 - “Be Separated From This World and
Become Joined to the Father Through Christ“]

Thus says the Lord to the churches, you have misunderstood the Lord’s purpose and made His
forgiveness of non-effect and His judgment unjust. Woe I say to you, you do greatly err.
Shall the Lord thy God lie to His prophets and give them false testimony?! Certainly not! Pray for
yourself, oh church of arrogance, that you and all your members are not left standing upon the
earth in bewilderment when I, yes, even I, send My Son to gather up His chosen flock and shelter
them from My fury. You have read My Son’s words, for they are also My words, and you have not
heard nor understood. Repent therefore because of your pride, and pray double for those that you
have lead from the Truth of the forgiveness in Christ. Behold, the angels ascend and descend upon
the Son of Man. ~ [Volume 3 - “ I Will Take My People Out Of“]

Look up and behold the Lord, all are lifted up. [Volume 3 - “Have Faith“]

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If the Son of Man comes in full power and glory and every eye shall see Him, then how is He also
come as a Thief? For here is wisdom: The Son of Man comes at a day and hour unknown to spoil
the house of the strong man. All that belongs to the Lord shall be taken, and all that belongs to the
strong man, left.
For the Son of Man first comes as Spirit poured out on the nations to call on His elect, then as the
Thief to take them away. For those forgiven must be taken out to make the way open to the strong
man’s servant so that he may rule. Those forgiven and fully converted in their hearts have no place
in judgment...they have passed from judgment into life.
When the Day of Troubles is concluded and the Father’s judgments carried out, then behold! The
Son of Man comes on the clouds with the trumpet shout of God, in His raiment of power and great
glory. When the thunder and lightning crashes filling the heavens, the sun, the moon, and the stars
are darkened and the glorious ensign separates the heavens before the eyes of all, then shall you
know the Son of Man, the Lord of Lords, Christ Jesus, the Son of God who is come as God, shall
appear! The end is come, darkness destroyed, the strong man bound. The Bright and Morning Star
has risen...the new Day begun. His reign, a thousand years and forever after, His seat taken. Give
praise, thanksgiving and worship. The One True King has come! Amen! ~ [Volume 3 - “As God is
Three Aspects, All as One...So Too is the Coming of the Son of Man”]
[NOTE: The top of page 56 gives understanding regarding the above Letter. Refer to 2 Thessalonians 2:6-8.]

For the time draws hence, six days (years) less, they will not see the Thief come...then one week...
then My emblazing cross shown in all the heavens and eyes of those upon the earth. Even the blind
will see. ~ [Volume 3 - “Ensign”]

For once the Master has stole away His special flock and sent out His shepherds to gather together
His wild flock, these who gather shall gather and none can come against them, for as I AM are they
who I send, for I am shown upon and within them. ~ [Volume 3 - “In and By the Word are God’s
Prophets Sent Out For His Glory, to Glorify Him Who Is Coming Quickly”]

The Lord’s Day approaches, He comes as a Thief, stealing away all those in His right hand; and
casting judgment from His left upon all those who dwell upon the earth who did not heed My calling,
for they did not repent of their evil deeds. ~ [Volume 3 - “ I Am God and My Son is the Christ... You
All Stand Upon the Doorstep of Revelation”]

The Day is coming, the day is already here, when the dead shall hear My voice and come forth
and all you who are alive and remain, you shall also hear and come out, all together unified as one
body, securely reunited in My body, in life and joy forever and ever. Amen....
You will be taken out of this world which has all together become liken to that Babylon I
will destroy in the hour of My God’s judgment. Many more will I take out after the elect have been
lifted up, they will be martyrs. ~ [Volume 3 - “Judgment Into Life”]

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This is the beginning signs of the division in yourself and is also the beginning of your separation
from the world, ending in your complete separation from this world, united with Christ in Heaven.
~ [Volume 3 - “God is Spirit and Love... Let Us Worship and Obey Him According to That Which He Is”]

Only their rejection of My Covenant will lead them into this judgment; and their acceptance
thereof, out of judgment and into life. ~ [Volume 4 - “Judgment, Transgression...and the Word”]

He is one of many lampstands I have sent out to guide My lost sheep and gather My wild wheat,
so all may be housed in My barn. ~ [Volume 4 - “One...”]

The One who stays comes quickly to deliver and let....Escape these things and be lifted up; your
Father calls you home. And whoever He calls shall come to Me, and I shall bring them and there
shall they be with Me forever and ever. ~ [Volume 4 - “Weighed in the Balances”]

The trumpeters are trumpeting...the angels are singing...the call has went out...who will be lifted
up? All those who have ears to hear...these shall depart from the world and not be found....As I have
risen and ascended, I now descend so you may rise, and then a short season, and then all shall see
Me as I am. ~ [Volume 4 - “The Call”]

Repent in His name and be lifted up!


[Volume 4 - “Jesus is the Gift...Blessed Are They Who Know and Accept Him”]

My rest is coming and you shall be carried away.


[Volume 4 - “Walk in the Lord, Establishing Your Love by Faith and Obedience”]

Be My lamp set upon a rock; and I shall lift you up to Heaven, consumed by the Light which is
everlasting. ~ [Volume 4 - “ My Disciple and Lampstand”]

And all those who follow and believe in Him shall also rise and live...meeting Him in the air.
~ [Volume 4 - “ Proclaim NOT the Hell of the Church of Men; In Their Words is No Mercy
Found, Only the Makings of Satan”]

He, who comes as a Thief, shall snatch them away. ~ [Volume 4 - “Those Who Waited Shall Not
Want; They Are the City Called Martyrdom, Filled With All My Newly Glorified Lambs Who Will Sit
in the Presence Of the Shepherd At His Right Hand”]

The Thief has already entered the house. He has but to call out and you shall be snatched away.
[Volume 5 - “The Last Trump”]

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Before the sixth seal is broken, I shall deal to the hard-hearted a glancing blow, one shall be taken
and the other left....No more, for the upright in heart shall not be found, nor seen. Yea, even the
dead who sleep, having lived unto to the Lord, shall be gone from the earth. The earth shall starve,
its light taken...darkness is across the land filling the entire earth....Come to Me, your Father, and be
lifted up to Me by way of My Son, abiding with Me forever and ever. ~ [Volume 5 - “The Last Trump”]

At My right hand is where you shall reside in the Day that comes quickly, wherein you shall not be
found by your husband, nor any of your neighbors. [Volume 5 - “Harken First Unto The Lord, For
He Is The Beginning Of All Things”]

Darkness has fallen across the land, the light removed from its place and found no more in the
earth....The light is taken and judgment must now reign. ~ [Volume 5 - “The Mountains Shall
Crumble and Fall Upon the Desolate”]

Therefore be ready, and give heed to My correction, and you shall be clothed in white and escape
the judgment that must shortly fall upon the whole world....Be not downhearted, yet shall you be
lifted up, being redeemed by your faith and love for My Son, Christ Jesus. ~ [Volume 5 - “Thou Shall
Not Tempt the Lord Your God”]

Blessed are they who see and hear Him, for they shall be gone from the earth and none shall find
them, for they have both accepted and received of My cup filled with the blood of atonement.
[Volume 5 - “Woe to the Captives of This World; The Prison House is Opened, Yet You Remain
Therein Holding Onto Your Sin, Abiding In Your Transgression”]

These shall be gathered and nourished for one week in the house of the Lord. ~ [Volume 5 - “Woe
to the Captives of This World; The Prison House is Opened, Yet You Remain Therein Holding Onto
Your Sin, Abiding In Your Transgression”]

To My little flock who resides at My right hand, the first fruits begotten by the words of My mouth,
spoken through My prophet, Timothy, gathered by the hand of the Lord, given unto Me as a precious
treasure which I shall not lose, but hide in My bosom at the last day....He has given everything to
the Son, and so the Son shall gather everything to Himself according to His good pleasure and the
judgment of the Father, from which all things came forth and have been purposed and established
from the beginning. ~ [Volume 5 - “The Lord Calls His Sheep, They Know His Voice; Enter In At His
Gate And Become All Of One Fold, Forever Grazing In The Pastures Of God’s Graces”]

He has poured out His Spirit on all flesh in these last days, calling all to repentance, so they may
escape His Day of Judgment (7 years). ~ [Volume 5 - “What I Have Written, Stays Written, And What
God Has Poured Out Is Poured According To His Will”]

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They shall be lifted up into eternal life....Therefore, glorify God; then shall all shepherds and all
sheep, both awake and sleeping, and all lambs be gathered and taken.....I am coming quickly with
My right hand outstretched to gather the first harvest and to send My warriors into the battle. ~
[Volume 5 - “The Lord Calls His Sheep, They Know His Voice; Enter In At His Gate And Become All
Of One Fold, Forever Grazing In The Pastures Of God’s Graces“]

Then in the Day which comes quickly, I will come, and you together with them will be lifted up
when I receive you to Myself.
Destruction comes nigh! This world shall be judged! Be taken out of, not taken through...Heaven or
hell? ~ [Volume 5 - “As You Have Received, So Must You Give“]

Behold! I have a mighty and strong One, the Right Arm of the Lord, the Prince. He comes as a thief
and shall plunder the strong man’s house, receiving back unto Himself all that belongs to Him and
He sees of Himself in them, for these are they who know Him and He Himself resides in them and
among them. ~ [Volume 5 - “The Light is Taken From You...Heed the Trumpet of the Watchman“]

Repent and return to My Sabbaths, and forsake all of man’s holidays and false worshipping, and I
may yet have mercy on you and hide you from the great and terrible day of God’s wrath that shall
come upon the whole world! ~ [Volume 5 - “Consummation“]

The Holy One comes quickly and will take from you His own. He shall snatch them from your
very breast. ~ [Volume 5 - “The Heavens and the Earth Shall Pass Away, Recreated Anew...The Law
Stands Forever, Unchanged and Unchangeable. Neither Has God Blessed Any Other Day. The
Seventh Has He Blessed...Keep It Holy“]

Come, gather together in His name and He will be amongst you, and take you to be where I am. ~
[Volume 5 - “Prophecy Against the Great Nation, Ishmael“]

These have passed from death into life, despair into joy, and judgment into salvation; taken from
the earth to their rightful places I have prepared for them, paid for in blood, by the Lamb....Come
into My joy and be lifted up - do not look back....Your redemption from this world draws nigh. ~
[Volume 5 - “The Truth Absolute“]

Blessed are the wise who wait and watch and see these things come to pass during their
generation... they shall be lifted up. ~ [Volume 5 - “This Generation Shall Not Pass Away“]

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These shall not be found upon the earth in those days....All houses built upon the Rock shall stand
and be lifted up....You shall find joy indeed, for the Truth shall set you free, and by your testimony
shall your life in this world end, and your eternal life begin, in an instant, when you’re lifted up to
Heaven. ~ [Volume 5 - “Heresy“]

Thus says the Christ, the Redeemer: Come to Me, embrace all I have done. Live unto Me, and I shall
come live in you, and return quickly to receive you to Myself, plucking you from the furnace which
shall rage even seven times hotter than in all times past. ~ [Volume 5 - “The Vineyard“]

So then the One from Heaven descended so He might live to die, so again He might rise again
whereby we are also approved of God by Him, so we may also rise at the Last Day, meeting the
Lord in the air, taking us to be where He first ascended...so that through Him we might also ascend
and be where He is forever and ever....The Lord first descended, than ascended, so that He might
descend again and lift us out of affliction the second time. ~ [Volume 5 - “Ascension into Grace“]

Your journey to the Lord is nearly complete...soon lifted up....


[Volume 6 - “All Things Work For the Good of Those Who Love and Obey the Lord“]

And the blessing is this My child: Those who obey, and take up their cross, and follow Me, shall be
lifted up out of affliction; the rest left and purified, or burned as it were, by fire, even seven times.
[Volume 6 - “Keep Not the Company of the Wicked, This is Where All Seeds of Dissension Grow“]

I shall take My people out of the earth; it shall be done; it shall surely come to pass, for I have
written it...it will be done. ~ [Volume 6 - “Hear the Word of the Lord“]

He shall gather His saints and lift up the flock of the slaughter and heal all who were trampled
under the feet of oppression; even all those who were beheaded for their testimony shall rise and
abide forever in His presence. ~ [Volume 6 - “Awake, All You Churches of Men“]

Escape to the Father’s house! ~ [Volume 6 - “Awake, All You Churches of Men“]

I shall indeed gather you up beneath My wings and carry you to Heaven....The wheat is gathered...
the saints have been established in glory and do follow the Lamb turned Lion wherever He goes. ~
[Volume 6 - “Firstfruits in Love (for Pentecost)“]

If they heed My words and all you send them, assuredly I say to you, I shall deliver them.
~ [Volume 6 - “Testimony“]

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Fully embrace and love Him, and oh yes children, worship Him even as do the angels in Heaven,
and assuredly I say to you, I shall forget your iniquities and gather you up. ~ [Volume 6 - “To The
Church Who Bear My Name, Who Neither Know My Church Nor Remain in His Body”]

My Kingdom is coming...all My sparrows shall fly to Me. ~ [Volume 6 - “Understand Love, Know
Forgiveness, Partake of the Whole Fruit of the Spirit and Make It Part of You”]

And He shall surely chasten them, so they shall continue to grow in that love until the day comes
when He shall gather them and comfort them in the Father’s house for one week. ~ [Volume 6 -
“Bear Fruit According to the Spirit of Truth”]

I must gather My flock; they must become one-fold and be hidden in the shadow of the Lord where
there is no shadow - only salvation and the light of understanding which comes from His graces
who died to save them and comes to foster them under His wings, high and lifted up to the house
of the Lord where the Father dwells, so they might become the Bride of the Bridegroom together
in the house of their Father and their God, for one week....Blessed, oh how blessed, are they who
believe and embrace Me though they have not seen. For they shall surely see and embrace Me
though their feet no longer touch the ground.....The Lord shall return; He shall gather. ~ [Volume 6
- “The Kingdom of God and His Christ Is Coming...Awake!”]

The wheat and the tares must be separated for the harvest, and the wheat taken into My barn....He
shall leave you in darkness, having gathered up the light. ~ [Volume 6 - “Abide in the Doctrine
of Christ”]

And by this does the Lord love His sheep and they know His voice; and so He will lift them up out
of their affliction and troubles in spite of their errors and stumblings....Behold, I am coming quickly
to take them from the field to house them in My barn. ~ [Volume 6 - “In Purification of Faith Shall
All My Disciples Find Strength and Freedom From Fear”]

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Throughout the Bible, we see examples of how God has protected His people from His wrath.

“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 has
passed from death into life.” (Jesus speaking) - John 5:24 KJV

So then, if judgment falls on the whole world, we must leave this world, so we do not “come into”
judgment. We have passed from judgment into forgiveness in the same way we have passed from
death into life. We will be taken to the only place where life is and death is not...Heaven.

For any person to come to Jesus, we must be called, first, by the Father.

“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. It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall be all taught of
God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto
Me. (John 6:44-45 KJV)

And He said, “Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto Me, except it were
given unto him of My Father.” (John 6:65 KJV)

* NOTE: “At” refers to the beginning of the last day or time period. Jesus did not say “during” or “at
the end of”, etc.

Psalm 12:5-7 KJV


(5) For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy; now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will
set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. (6) The words of the Lord are pure, as silver tried in a
furnace of earth, purified seven times. (7) Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them
from this generation forever.

To better understand this verse:


(5) When you see persecution and people have lost all hope, then will the Lord arise; and the Lord
says He will set the oppressed in safety from the Antichrist and all those who persecute His saints.
(6) The Lord’s words are absolutely true, so to bring His people who have denied the truth into
the truth, they too shall be purified seven times (or seven years) in a furnace of earth (judgments
on earth). (7) The Lord will preserve them (the oppressed, believers) from this generation (the
oppressors, “those that puffeth” and the people that must go through the furnace.)

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Psalm 27:5-6, 10 KJV


(5) For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion, in the secret of His tabernacle He
shall hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock. (6) And now shall mine head be lifted up above
mine enemies round about me. Therefore, I will offer in His tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing,
yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord. (10) When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord
will take me up.

To better understand this verse:


During the time of troubles, which is the present day (Matthew 24:4-14), God shall hide us in His
pavilion or tabernacle, or dwelling place (Heaven); He shall take us up by way of Jesus (the Rock).
(6) And when we are surrounded on every side by enemies of God and by all kinds of troubles, then
will we be lifted up above all these things. Therefore, we will be joyful and sing praises to the Lord,
in His tabernacle or dwelling place (Heaven). (Refer to Revelation 7:9-17)
(10) When your closest relatives forsake or leave you because of your faith, then the Lord will take
us up. (Refer to Matthew 10:35-36)

Matthew 13:30 KJV


Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers,
Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat
into My barn. (Jesus speaking)

Matthew 24:40-41 KJV


(40) Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. (41) Two women shall
be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Luke 21:28, 36 KJV


(28) And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your
redemption draws nigh...(36) Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man (Jesus
speaking).

NOTE: (Luke 21:36)


The word “escape” is derived from the Hebrew words “geruwth“ from “guwr” which means “to turn
aside from the road for a lodging or any other purpose (i.e. sojourn as a guest); also to “gather”.
The word “escape” is derived from the Greek words “ek or ex” which means “out”. Also derived
from the Greek word “pheugo” which means “to vanish, escape, flee away”. [Source: Strong’s
Exhaustive Concordance]

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1 Corinthians 15:51-53 KJV


(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, and the
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (53) For this corruptible must put on
incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality (Paul speaking).

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 KJV


(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, and so shall
we ever be with the Lord. (Paul speaking)

1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 KJV


(9) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation from our Lord Jesus Christ,
(10) who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. (Paul
speaking)

NOTE: Whenever Paul is speaking, he is speaking to the group of believers in the


towns of Corinth, Thessalonica, etc.

2 Thessalonians 2:6-8 KJV


(6) And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. (7) For the mystery
of iniquity doth already work, only he who not letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. (8)
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming (Paul speaking).

To better understand this verse:


(6) And now you know the body of Christ’s believers holds back the Antichrist, so he may be
revealed at the appointed time (during the seven-year period of tribulation allowed by God). (7)
For the hidden spirit of antichrist is already at work in the world; but Jesus’ spirit, who holds back
the Antichrist, will hold him back until God commands Jesus to let and gather up to Heaven all
those who believe and love Him. (8) Then shall the Antichrist show himself during the period of
tribulation. At the end of the judgment/tribulation period, Jesus will reveal Himself and will destroy
the Antichrist’s army with the words of His mouth and the brightness of His coming, then throwing
him and his prophet alive into the lake of fire (Rev. 19:20-21).

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Genesis 19:22, 29 KJV


(22) Haste thee, escape thither (there); for I cannot do anything till thou become thither. Therefore
the name of the city was called Zo-ar (Humble or Small). (29) And it came to pass, when God
destroyed the cities of the plain (Sodom and Gomorrah), that God remembered Abraham, and sent
Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

NOTE: God would not or could not do anything to Sodom and Gomorrah until Lot had escaped
completely out of those cities. He did not hide him in the city and put a protective covering over
Lot. He completely took him “out of” Sodom. When God will pour out His wrath during the 7-year
period of judgment and tribulation, He will pour it out on the whole world. There will be nowhere to
“escape” to. Even to be protected during the judgments, would still be to experience them, because
you would be observing His wrath on everyone around you. The only way to truly “escape” the
judgments would be to be completely taken “out of” the judgments. To be completely taken “out
of” the judgments, a person would have to, and will, leave this world.

Zephaniah 2:3 KJV


Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought His judgment; seek righteousness,
seek meekness. It may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.

2 Peter 2:9 KJV


The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the
day of judgment to be punished.

Psalm 90:10, 12-13 KJV


(10) The days of our years are threescore years and ten. And if by reason of strength they be
fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. (12)
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. (13) Return, O Lord,
how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

NOTE: In these verses, the Lord is telling us three things:


1. A generation is seventy years long (vs. 10).
2. We are able to calculate the approximate time “or season” of the Lord’s return a(vs.12).
3. The generation born during the time of Israel’s statehood (1948 and after) will see the
coming of the Lord, and will not reach eighty because their years will “soon be cut off,
and they will fly away”.

To better understand how “a generation” and Israel’s statehood relates to the Rapture and Second
Coming of Christ, please refer to the Seventy Weeks of Daniel Supplement, called “Evidence
Supporting 2011-2018 as the Last Week” on pages 125 thru 129.

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Part 4: POINTS TO REMEMBER

• Belief in the Rapture Is Not Necessary In Order to Be Saved


We are saved by believing that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead the
third day, not because of our belief in the “gathering up”. Those who belong to Christ will be
taken up at the “gathering up” whether we believe in it or not. Many Christians have erred on
various points in the Bible, including the “rapture” or “gathering up”. Though they err, Jesus
knows their hearts, and that will be the determining factor of their salvation.

• The Word “Rapture”


The Rapture is a word to which some critics object because they say it isn’t in the Bible. In
fact, it is in the Latin translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:17. The Latin rapturos means “an ecstatic
catching away” as does our English word. (Source: When Will Jesus Come? - Dave Hunt)

• Two Distinct Events - The Rapture and the Second Coming


The “Rapture” or “Gathering Up” and Christ’s second coming are two distinct events. Christ
must first of all come for His saints to gather them up to heaven, or He could never come with
His saints from Heaven to rescue Israel at Armageddon. The “Rapture” will come when least
expected; the Second Coming takes place only after all the judgments have been fulfilled. By
then everyone should know that Christ is about to return in glory and power. That these are two
distinct events is also clear from Christ’s own words, “I will come again and receive you unto
Myself that where I am there ye may be also.” Christ is catching up His bride to present her to
His Father. The Second Coming has an entirely different purpose: to rescue Israel in the midst of
Armageddon and to destroy the Antichrist, his false prophet and his evil world empire.
The days of Noah and Lot are similar to today as far as sin and wickedness are concerned, but
then all of history is filled with sin and wickedness. The main focus in these verses is: Life was
going on as normal, then God’s judgment came suddenly upon those under His wrath, or today
they would be the “non-believers” who still revel in their sin and are completely married to the
world. Likewise today, people go on with their daily lives, ignoring God and some even rebelling
against Him, so then the Lord’s Day will indeed come as a thief. In our day, the first act of God
will be the “gathering up” of His people, not a judgment. These verses when compared with
the verses in Revelation would seem to indicate that Jesus contradicted Himself in regards to
His second coming. (i.e. “as a thief...day and hour unknown” eludes to an unexpected coming
where no one sees Him, compared with verses that say “every eye shall see Him”, “He shines
from the east unto the west”, “with full power and great glory”. The Book of Revelation provides
markers or events that will lead right up to the time of His glorious coming. How then can His
coming be unknown and unseen, and known and seen by everyone...undeniable, if they are at
the same time? Therefore, His second coming is two events: The first as a “thief”, the “gathering
up”, mercy and forgiveness; the second as a “glorious appearing”, wrath and judgment.

• The Bride Shall Be Taken to the Father’s House For One Week
In Christ’s day, the Jewish bride was taken to the father’s house where the two were in seclusion
in the honeymoon quarters for seven days. Christ must have had that custom in mind when He
promised to take His bride to His Father’s house. (Source: When Will Jesus Come? - Dave Hunt)

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Part 4: POINTS TO REMEMBER (continued)


• The Rapture Would Create the Perfect Environment for World Unification and the Ushering
into Power of the Antichrist
In order for the Antichrist to come into power under a “one-world” government, all religions, races, etc.
must be reconciled. In order for this reconciliation to happen, something global and cataclysmic must occur.
The world-wide disappearance of millions of people will be the catalyst that allows the Antichrist to begin
his short “reign” of power. Everyone will be confused and shaken, and will seek someone to give them the
answers regarding the disappearance of their loved ones. The Antichrist will come in peace and give them
the “hope” they are looking for. [Please note: The Antichrist is only allowed, by God, to have this short time
of power. Also, the “hope” the Antichrist will give people is a false hope, completely built on blasphemy and
lies. Unfortunately, many people will not see his deception. In this way, the Antichrist will be able to deceive
many and create his one-world empire.]

Judgement Into Life

[Jesus speaking] I am come and am yet come and have come already. I am amongst you in
spirit, bestowing Truth, you of this world will not hear Me.
You who have heard Me will hear Me again. The Day is coming, the day is already here, when
the dead shall hear My voice and come forth and all you who are alive and remain, you shall
also hear and come out, all together unified as one body, securely reunited in My body, in
life and joy forever and ever. Amen. You shall be spared, for you had placed your full faith in
the hands of My Father, and He has given you to Me. You shall share in My joy, which is the
Father’s joy He shares with you because of Me. You came from God by Me, and by Me shall
you return to the Father and live in His house where I had prepared a place for you from the
beginning. You will be taken out of this world which has all together become liken to
that Babylon I will destroy in the hour of My God’s judgment. Many more will I take out after
the elect have been lifted up, they will be martyrs. And yet a remnant will remain who shall
be hidden in the earth for a time, times, and the dividing of time... To these is it reserved to be
taken through.
Everyone, who loves Me and will come to love Me, will come because of Me, for your places
in eternity have been prepared and forever shall you be with Me. Your places have always been
and were prepared by My death and resurrection. For no one may enter into My Father’s joy except
by Me.
I am Life without End. By My death you have accepted, will you be as I am. My body was
broken for you so you would not suffer judgment for your sin. My body is without sin in the
same way you have become My body without sin.

You have passed from judgment into life!


Come and sing praises to the Lord in His tabernacle!
Sing praises and give worship to the Holy One, who keeps all the promises
and brings them to pass through Me. Amen and amen.

[Volume 3 - Letters from God and His Christ]

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Section Seven:

Servants in Christ,
Stand Up and Blow the Trumpet

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IN THIS SECTION:

PAGE SUBJECT

152 Table of Contents for Section Seven

153 - 159 Servants in Christ, Stand Up and Blow the Trumpet

153 - 154 Part 1: Spiritual Gifts Enable Us to Serve God According to His Will
154 Part 2: In Serving The Lord, We Must All Work Together
155 Part 3: Beware of Satan’s Attempts to Interrupt the Work of God’s Servants
156 - 157 Part 4: Satan Has No Power Over Christ
157 - 158 Part 5: The Lord is Our Strength
158 - 159 Part 6: Servants, Obey the Word
159 PART 7: Speak, My Children... Arise and Speak!

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Servants, stand up! says the Lord of Hosts. Stand up for Me, and I, even I, shall feed you
with knowledge and understanding...the Word of God as your drink, and the knowledge
of the Lord as your meat...you shall sing and you shall stand up, you shall shout with a new
voice in the face of adversity. And in that very same day, you shall be gone, you shall surely
be taken and be found no more in the earth...eternal joy and all tears wiped away in the
presence of the Lord, your Redeemer, is your reward, and it shall never again depart from
you, says the Lord. [Jesus speaking] (“Servants, in Christ, Stand Up and Blow the Trumpet!”
- Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6)

The Lord calls all of His servants to stand up and serve Him. This we know, yet we hesitate for any
number of reasons, and while these hindrances come forth from our own hearts, the devil is always
ready to prey upon our weakened state. However, Christ has given us the means to resist the devil and
temptation, through spiritual gifts and by His own Spirit dwelling within us, allowing us to fulfill God’s will.

Exercise: Everyone, write down the spiritual gifts the Lord has given you. Also write down all the “fruit”
you see in your own life. Write everything down, even if you question whether it applies to this study.

Part 1: SPIRITUAL GIFTS ENABLE US TO SERVE GOD ACCORDING TO HIS WILL


Each of us is given spiritual gifts from God, enabling us to serve Him according to His will....

Now you together constitute the body of the Messiah, and individually you are parts of it.
And God has placed in the Messianic Community first, emissaries (apostles); second, prophets;
third, teachers; then those who work miracles; then those with gifts of healing; those with
ability to help; those skilled in administration; and those who speak in various tongues. Not all are
emissaries, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? or teachers? or miracle-workers? Not all have
gifts of healing, not all speak in tongues, not all interpret, do they? Eagerly seek the better gifts... (1
Corinthians 12:27-31)

Fully knowing the struggles we would have as humans because He also lived as a man, living in this world
but not belonging to this world, Jesus gives us everything we need to accomplish the will of the Father
through His Spirit.

When the Spirit comes to live in our hearts, we are given spiritual gifts to enable us to do the Father’s will.
Also, as Jesus now dwells in our hearts, the fruit of the Spirit will also be present in us. If we indeed have the
Spirit within us, we will display the fruit of the Spirit...

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
humility, self control...(Galatians 5:22-23)

...For the mouth speaks what overflows from the heart. (Matthew 12:34)

The good person produces good things from the store of good in his heart, while the evil
person produces evil things from the store of evil in his heart. For his mouth speaks what
overflows from his heart. (Luke 6:45)

Human being, you have already been told what is good, what ADONAI demands of you - no
more than to act justly, love grace and walk in purity with your God. (Micah 6:8)

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Part 1: SPIRITUAL GIFTS ENABLE US TO SERVE GOD ACCORDING TO HIS WILL


Of all the fruit of the Spirit, we are told that we MUST have love or everything we do is in vain...

I may speak in the tongues of men, even angels; but if I lack love, I have become merely blaring
brass or a cymbal clanging. (1 Corinthians 13:1)

We have acknowledged that we have spiritual gifts and we have also acknowledged that we exhibit the fruit
of the Spirit. These gifts and blessings from the Father, that we all own, will enable us to serve Him according
to His will, and to walk the path He has laid before us.

Part 2: in serving the lord, we must all work together

As individuals we are each given gifts of the Spirit, but these individual gifts are meant to accompany the
gifts God has given to our brothers and sisters in Christ. If all of Christ’s members work in concert, truly
accompanying the other, then Christ’s body will be able to do the will of the Father.

Now there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. Also there are different
ways of serving, but it is the same Lord being served. And there are different modes of working,
but it is the same God working them all in everyone. Moreover, to each person is given the
particular manifestation of the Spirit that will be for the common good. To one, through the
Spirit, is given a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge, in accordance with the same
Spirit; to another, faith, by the same Spirit; and to another, gifts of healing, by the one Spirit; to
another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, the ability to judge between
spirits; to another, the ability to speak in different kinds of tongues; and to yet another, the ability
to interpret tongues. One and the same Spirit is at work in all these things, distributing to each
person as he chooses. For just as the body is one but has many parts; and all the parts of the body,
though many, constitute one body; so it is with the Messiah. For it was by one Spirit that we were
all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and we were all given the
one Spirit to drink. For indeed the body is not one part but many. If the foot says, “I’m not a hand,
so I’m not part of the body,” that doesn’t make it stop being part of the body. And if the ear says,
“I’m not an eye, so I’m not part of the body,” that doesn’t make it stop being part of the body. If
the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If it were all hearing, how could it smell? But as it
is, God arranged each of the parts in the body exactly as he wanted them. Now if they were all just
one part, where would the body be? But as it is, there are indeed many parts, yet just one body.
So the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you”; or the head to the feet, “I don’t need you.”
On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be less important turn out to be all the more
necessary; and upon body parts which we consider less dignified we bestow greater dignity; and
the parts that aren’t attractive are the ones we make as attractive as we can, while our attractive
parts have no need for such treatment. Indeed, God has put the body together in such a way that
he gives greater dignity to the parts that lack it, so that there will be no disagreements within the
body, but rather all the parts will be equally concerned for all the others. Thus if one part suffers,
all the parts suffer with it; and if one part is honored, all the parts share its happiness. Now you
together constitute the body of the Messiah, and individually you are parts of it. And God has
placed in the Messianic Community first, emissaries; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those
who work miracles; then those with gifts of healing; those with ability to help; those skilled in
administration; and those who speak in various tongues. Not all are emissaries, are they? Not all
are prophets, are they? or teachers? or miracle-workers? Not all have gifts of healing, not all speak
in tongues, not all interpret, do they? Eagerly seek the better gifts. (1 Corinthians 12)

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Part 3: BEWARE OF SATAN’S ATTEMPTS TO INTERRUPT THE WORK


OF GOD’S SERVANTS
Because of the importance of the work God has put before us, satan will continually try to lead us into temptation,
away from the work of the Lord. The devil has many tools he uses against God’s people...doubt, fear, lust,
procrastination, pride, arrogance, and all other sin. And while these sins comes forth from our own hearts, the
devil will use them to lure us away from doing the will of God.

And it is perfectly evident what the old nature does. It expresses itself in sexual immorality, impurity
and indecency; involvement with the occult and with drugs; in feuding, fighting, becoming jealous and
getting angry; in selfish ambition, factionalism, intrigue and envy; in drunkenness, orgies and things like
these. I warn you now as I have warned you before: those who do such things will have no share in the
Kingdom of God! (Galatians 5:19-21)

The Spirit expressly states that in the latter times some people will apostatize from the faith by paying
attention to deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come from the hypocrisy of liars
whose own consciences have been burned, as if with a red-hot branding iron. (1 Timothy 4:1-2)

But Yeshua turned his back on Kefa (Peter), saying, “Get behind me, satan! You are an obstacle
in My path, because your thinking is from a human perspective, not from God’s perspective!”
(Matthew 16:23)

Do not deprive each other, except for a limited time, by mutual agreement, and then only so as to have
extra time for prayer; but afterwards, come together again. Otherwise, because of your lack of self-
control, you may succumb to the Adversary’s temptation. (1 Corinthians 7:5)

...so that we will not be taken advantage of by the Adversary - for we are quite aware of his schemes!
(2 Corinthians 2:11)

We wanted so much to come to you - I, Sha’ul (Paul), tried more than once - but the Adversary stopped
us. (1 Thessalonians 2:18)

Be sober, be vigilant; your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may
devour. (1 Peter 5:8)

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
(1 John 5:19)

For we are not struggling against human beings, but against the rulers, authorities and cosmic powers
governing this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm.
(Ephesians 6:12)

Know this, Beloved, some of the boys represent people in your life and the world, who will try to cut
you down and sway you from your task; and all represent the many hordes of demons sent by the evil
one, for they can not desecrate your beliefs, so they will try to rip them from your body with pain and
anguish. (“Persevere When Adversity Comes...Your Redemption Draws Nigh” - Letters from God and
His Christ - Volume 1)

Even now do you possess the power of the Spirit. You only lack the faith to use what I have given you.
Doubt is your enemy which also leaves the door open to the devil. He does continually hiss at you as a
serpent, winding his way about your feet, waiting for the moment to strike you down when you waver.
(“The Lord Will Carry You” - Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6)

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Part 4: satan has no power over christ


While satan may seem frightening and powerful, he has no power over us, only that which we give him.
We can overcome satan, because Christ dwells in us, and if Christ dwells in us then we can overcome
anything...including satan.

The seventy came back jubilant. “Lord,” they said, “with Your power, even the demons submit
to us!” (Luke 10:17)

Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination
met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed Paul and us,
and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the
way of salvation.” And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to
the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out
that very hour. (Acts 16:16-18)

We know that everyone who has God as his Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the
Son born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. (1 John 5:18)

Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good. (Romans 12:21)

You, children, are from God and have overcome the false prophets,
Because He who is in you is greater
Than he who is in the world. ~ 1 John 4:4

Therefore, submit to God. Moreover, take a stand against the Adversary, and he will flee from
you. (James 4:7)

As in your dream, you and your husband must fight against both real and spiritual demons
with your strength of will, and faith in Me and My Word. I will give you the strength to shove
and push all demons from your safe place which surrounds your family. In the few short days
(years) to come, I will make your husband great so no one of evil may stand against him, for I will
put My Word in his mouth. No one of evil can stand up to the Word of God, for it is indeed a
razor-sharp, double-edged sword. (“Persevere When Adversity Comes...Your Redemption Draws
Nigh” - Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1)

Then, when you are attacked from every side, will you rise up and rebuke the demons in My
Name and in faith. More demons will come against you, but I will come upon you and increase
your strength seven-fold. Not one will prevail against you. (“Demons are No Match For Jesus”
- Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 1)

Please read also: “Where Darkness Lived Now a New Light Shines” - in the Letters from
God and His Christ (page 67), and “Seek Those Things of the Light Only” and “Death
and Awakening” (pages 60-61)

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Part 4: satan has no power over christ cont.

The Armor of God

Finally, grow powerful in union with the Lord, in union with his mighty
strength! Use all the armor and weaponry that God provides, so that you will
be able to stand against the deceptive tactics of the Adversary. For we are
not struggling against human beings, but against the rulers, authorities and
cosmic powers governing this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in
the heavenly realm. So take up every piece of war equipment God provides;
so that when the evil day comes, you will be able to resist; and when the
battle is won, you will still be standing. Therefore, stand! Have the belt of
truth buckled around your waist, put on righteousness for a breastplate, and
wear on your feet the readiness that comes from the Good News of shalom.
Always carry the shield of trust, with which you will be able to extinguish
all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. And take the helmet of deliverance;
along with the sword given by the Spirit, that is, the Word of God; as you pray
at all times, with all kinds of prayers and requests, in the Spirit, vigilantly and
persistently, for all God’s people. (Ephesians 6:10-18)

Part 5: THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH

Although we, as humans, are weak, our strength is made perfect in Christ. And although we fear and
lack confidence, Christ dwelling within our hearts enables us to do the seemingly impossible.

“ADONAI is my Rock, my fortress and deliverer, my God, my Rock, in whom I find


shelter, my shield, the power that saves me, my stronghold. (Psalm 18:2)

ADONAI is my strength and shield; in him my heart trusted, and I have been helped.
Therefore my heart is filled with joy, and I will sing praises to Him. (Psalm 28:7)

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For
You are with me; Your Rod and Your Staff, they comfort me. (Psalm 23:4)

And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect
in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the
power of Christ may rest upon me. (1 Corinthians 12:9)

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Part 5: THE LORD IS OUR STRENGTH cont.

By David: ADONAI is my light and salvation; whom do I need to fear? ADONAI is the
stronghold of my life; of whom should I be afraid? When evildoers assailed me to devour my
flesh, my adversaries and foes, they stumbled and fell. If an army encamps against me, my
heart will not fear; if war breaks out against me, even then I will keep trusting. Just one thing
have I asked of ADONAI; only this will I seek: to live in the house of ADONAI all the days of
my life, to see the beauty of ADONAI and visit in His temple. For He will conceal me in His
shelter on the day of trouble, He will hide me in the folds of His tent, He will set me high on
a rock. Then my head will be lifted up above my surrounding foes, and I will offer in His tent
sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, sing praises to ADONAI. (Psalm 27:1-6)

For God gave us a Spirit who produces not timidity,


But power, love and self-discipline. ~ 2 Timothy 1:7

Part 6: servants, obey the WORD

As we’ve already established, the Lord has given us everything we need to accomplish His will. We
only need stand up in faith, completely trusting in the Lord for strength, and move forward. We are
commanded to obey the Word...”Don’t deceive yourselves by only hearing what the Word says,
but do it!” (James 1:22)

“Therefore, children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways. Hear instruction, and
grow wise; do not refuse it. How happy the person who listens to me, who watches daily at
my gates and waits outside my doors. For he who finds me finds life and obtains the favor of
ADONAI. But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
(Proverbs 8:32-36)

For anyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have plenty; but from
anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away. (Matthew 13:12)

“And whoever hears My words but doesn’t act on them is like someone who built his
house on the ground without any foundation. As soon as the river struck it, it collapsed
and that house became a horrendous wreck!” (Luke 6:49)

But He gave them this answer: “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s
message and act on it!” (Luke 8:21)

If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. (John 13:17)

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Part 6: servants, obey the lord cont.

So give directly to the poor, as your heart leads you, for in serving God shall no man
profit by monetary means, but shall profit only by that which the Lord God gives. And
the profit God gives is true, and in no wise is it of men or mammon. For the Lord delights
in that which one gives to another, in My name, and by the works of their own hands
and feet in all righteousness...this is the tithe in which the Lord delights most. If one
comes to you, saying, ‘Give me a cup of water’...give them a drink in My name. If one
comes, saying, ‘I need a shirt, for I am naked and cold’...give them your shirt and your
coat also. And if this same one asks, ‘Will you walk with me this far?’...go with them
double. So tithe not just of your money, but of your possessions, of your body, of your
strength, of your time, of your very life, and you shall receive ten-fold in Heaven and in
the Kingdom to come. Do this, and you shall really know Me and the Father also, for I
am of the Father. [Jesus speaking] (“Receive the Lord’s Blessing” - Letters from God and
His Christ - Volume 6)

Then Jesus said to His disciples,


“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself,
And take up his cross, and follow Me.” ~ Matthew 16:24

PART 7: SPEAK, MY CHILDREN... ARISE AND SPEAK!

And so comes the consummation, and it shall come quickly... Behold, the Day is it
hand. So then, beloved, who call of themselves by My own name, run and speak
to the desolate. Run and raise your voices, blow the trumpet and the alarm of war!
Speak to the poor in spirit and the destitute of Truth. Speak, My children... Arise
and speak! Listen to the watchmen, and give heed and so do. Follow Me, and obey
all I have taught you, beloved, and keep My commandments and those written in
stone by the Father’s own finger. Yea, keep them, even to the writing of them on your
own hearts, says the Lord, your Redeemer. You are bought for a price... Now follow
Me. And take the hands of all who will, and bring them with you. [Jesus speaking]
(“Servants, Arise. The Kingdom of Men is Finished...The Kingdom of The Lord and His
Christ is at Hand!” - Letter from God and His Christ - Volume 7)

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