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Rev 20:1  And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 

Rev 20:2  And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 

Rev 20:3  And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 

Rev 20:4  And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 

Rev 20:5  But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 

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

If you have read the writings on the “Revelation of Jesus Christ” then you will know to some degree that the phrase “thousand years” means “Teaching” and that it is a parable of something else.

H505

אֶלֶף

‘eleph

eh’-lef

Properly the same as H504; hence (an ox’s head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand: – thousand.

Total KJV occurrences: 504

H504

אֶלֶף

‘eleph

eh’-lef

From H502; a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow: – family, kine, oxen.

Total KJV occurrences: 8

H502

אָלַף

‘âlaph

aw-lof’

A primitive root, to associate with; hence to learn (and causatively to teach): – learn, teach, utter.

Total KJV occurrences: 4

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

Each day is as a thousand years to an Elect because each day we are being taught by Christ. We are being taught how to die to self, which is the first resurrection. If you are given to learn to die to self, then the second death of dying for someone else’s sin against you, doesn’t hurt you. You are reigning in life because you do not live unto yourself. God is teaching you every minute of every day that it is a creation from Him. It is the covenant we have been given by God through Christ.

Jer 31:33  But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 

Jer 31:34  And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. 

It is a daily teaching. It is not a one and done, but a daily, hourly, minute by minute instruction into the knowledge of God. If you are being taught of God then He is showing you who and what you are as a Serpent beast. This Serpent beast is the most subtil, self righteous beast of all His creation.

Gen 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

The Serpent slithers through life as an angel of light, portraying to all other beasts that it is good and contains knowledge in and of itself. It rules the world within us. He influences everything about us from the way we talk, walk, dress, where we live, who we associate with, what we believe about ourselves and others, so on and so on. His premise is simple: You are the god of your own world and as such you are justified (righteous) in all you do. All have a serpent in their garden from the church elder (Jew) to the gang member (Gentile), it’s there, posing as an angel of light but only the Elect are blessed to be shown their serpent nature, their man of sin. As an Elect, you will be brought to see this within yourself. It MUST take place for the purpose of teaching. The first resurrection is where we die to this serpent nature and are being taught to live for others at the cost of the serpent’s desires. Christ told the Pharisees that they were children (images) of their father the Devil.

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

This was a lead up from the beginning of John 8 where the Pharisees brought the woman taken in the act of adultery and brought her to Christ. They quoted scripture to Him from Moses and how the outward law said she should be stoned. There was no forgiveness. It also says they did it to tempt Him. But Christ simply says “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”

To die to your own desires to be God (to be the judge) is the first death and while we learn this daily, the second death becomes less and less painful until it doesn’t hurt to die for others’ sins against us. All Christ has to do is remind us of what we have been forgiven for and that makes the fire of love burn up my serpent desire to judge anyone. As we are tried in this truth, our Satanic nature is thrown into the lake of fire, which is the love of God. In the parable of the lake of fire we are taught the enormity of God’s love for us. It is a consuming love and it consumes the Serpent’s desire to be as God. It consumes the unforgiveness we all have and teaches us love for one another. The Serpent teaches me that I am my own god and that I can judge who and how I want. Revelation 20 describes it in a parable as a Dragon. It is the same great red Dragon of Revelation 12 that is attempting to devour the man child (our new Christ like nature that is developing) as soon as He is born. He attempts to devour this new creation with raging selfishness. Reigning with Christ for a thousand years is learning to rule this beast within us on a daily basis.

Gen 1:28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 

We are being taught how to rule the thoughts that we are independent from God and have the right to hold unforgiveness towards a Brother/Sister, or towards anyone. Reigning with Christ will bring peace to a world within where there is nothing but chaos and darkness. The world within us, before our conversion, is a world with no Light and no forgiveness, full of darkness in its lack of understanding.

Gen 1:2  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 

When in the darkness of being ruled by our man of sin, we live in a dead state where everything is about ourselves. If I do concern myself with others, it’s for my own good. Life is all about my happiness, what brings me joy, what will make me FEEL good about myself, how I can get attention and FEEL good. It is a world where every thought, every second is somehow for my own personal happiness and no thought for anyone else. This is the man of sin who is hidden to us. He is too subtil to be recognized. Our world within may be full of “good” works but we have no idea that they are motivated by a serpentine nature looking to survive. Remember the serpent’s famous mantra “Thou shall not surely die.” His purpose is to drive us to the pursuit of self above all others. NOBODY knows that this is what truly motivates them. We will deny this to our dying breath (because we will surely die!) if left in our original beastly state. This is what we, the Elect, are being delivered from. It is our Egypt (a world of slavery to self) and The Dragon is our Pharoah. We are being delivered from an inner world of constant selfish drive, where dying to myself, the first death, is unthinkable and impossible. And, dying for someone else’s sin is even more so. It’s simply not in the nature of the beast to forgive. True forgiveness brings about death of self. This is the antithesis of the beast mind/nature. True forgiveness forgets that a wrong ever took place. The beast nature is all about learning from and remembering its experiences so that it can stay on top of all threats.

Rom 5:7  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some

would even dare to die. 

Rom 5:8  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 

When I was young and would make a mistake I was told “You’d better get your mind right” which meant if someone hit me, I was to hit them back even harder, to teach them not to hit me! Then I went into the army and they reinforced that same ideology. Then as I began working it was the same. To get to the top you have to step on some people. Forgiveness was never taught, it was seen as weak. Oh, sure I could forgive AFTER there was REPENTANCE! This was my serpent/Pharisee version of forgiveness which was based on law, my own law that protected me from humiliation. But forgiveness based on my own death to pride, and my own desires for retribution, was impossible. The core of “turning the other cheek” is this…ALL belongs to God in Christ. I have no “rights.” My preservation comes from the Father and His Will is the only Will in the universe. Knowing what you are being forgiven for is the foundation of being an Elect. Knowing you were created The Great Red Dragon is the height from where you must fall. You must know, really know at the core of what you are is Lucifer, Satan, The Great Red Dragon, The Beast, and Leviathan.

Isa 14:11  Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 

Isa 14:12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 

Isa 14:13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 

Isa 14:14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 

Luk 10:18  And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

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

Rev 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? (who can tame their Leviathan?)

Job 41:1  Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 

Job 41:2  Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 

Job 41:3  Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? 

Job 41:4  Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? 

Job 41:5  Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 

Job 41:6  Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? 

Job 41:7  Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? 

Job 41:8  Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. 

Job 41:9  Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? 

These verses plainly show that we cannot war or overcome our own beast. No one can tame his beast, no one. And if you think you can, then you’ve been tamed by it. Simply ask yourself, is there anything that you wish you didn’t do or behave in a certain way? And if there is, then you’ve been shown you do not have a free will independent from sin or from God. We do not have the power to do or not do something. We are either a servant to sin or a servant of Christ. We are not and never have been free despite what The Dragon says. This is the parable of our bruised heel and the serpent’s bruised head spoken of in Genesis: Our new man must continually kick the serpent in the head to get him off his supposed power on the throne.

Gen 3:14  And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: 

Gen 3:15  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Rev 13:3  And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 

Rev 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 

He has a head wound unto death because He cannot rest in the truth that Christ IS THE CREATOR, not himself. It takes a humbling experience to know truth. But the truth still does not stop Him from trying to crawl back up on the throne every day. And this is where the thousand year reign comes in. As an Elect we get up every morning knowing that today the enemy will come. He will come as a roaring lion or a lamb speaking as a dragon (angel of light), seeking what part of me he can attempt to destroy by unforgiveness, by selfishness, or by self righteousness. Each day, one day is as a thousand years, we are taught something about dying to self through the second death. If it hurts, then in that area we have not FULLY partaken of the first resurrection. It gets easier for the Elect to die for their Brother/Sister’s sin, when you know what you are at your core. This is reigning with Christ and this is having dominion over the beast of my field. It is a fight. It’s not for the weak of heart and is why there are so few who ever will be chosen. Many will be called to the fight but not many are chosen to go all the way to the cross.

Mat 20:16  So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

It takes a humbling experience to know truth. Everyone experiences humbling situations but only the Elect are given the gift of the revealing of the man of sin and the resulting humiliation by what they see in themselves. This is the head wound where the Serpent’s pride is humiliated. At the same time it is a bruised heel to the Elect because the Serpent trips them up in their daily walk, by tempting them in their flesh. It is the Serpent eating its tail until he is dead. Christ uses this circular method to kill the Serpent in us and recreate a new man where the Serpent does not exist.

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

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

Rev 21:3  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 

Rev 21:4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 

Rev 21:5  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 

Rev 21:6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 

Rev 21:7  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. 

Rev 21:8  But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. 

This last verse is explaining our pain in the second death. Where there is still pain from pride involved in forgiving someone then we still have a part of us that must remain in the lake of fire (God’s consuming love) until it is completely burnt up and no longer exists. To truly forgive, we must see and fear God as being All in All. This releases us from the sin of pride. But the parts of us that are still trying to hang on to their “godhood” are fearful, unbelieving, abominable in the sight of God, murderous to the truth, whoremongers, sorcerors and idolaters in that they are constantly chasing and worshipping false doctrines/false gods to satisfy their beast. There are areas of our life that are still believing in our own righteousness which makes us a liar. Only God is righteous.

Mat 19:17  And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 

This is the process of the subtil Serpent whispering lies to us, as he slithers through us as an angel of light telling us we can be as God to know what’s best for our life or what’s evil for our life.

Gen 3:4  And the serpent said unto the woman (put your name there, instead of woman), Ye shall not surely die: 

Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And then it is the process of us overcoming the Serpent by denying it what it so desires, godhood.

Mat 4:1  Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 

Mat 4:2  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 

Mat 4:3  And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 

Mat 4:5  Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 

Mat 4:6  And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 

Mat 4:7  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 

Mat 4:8  Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 

Mat 4:9  And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 

Mat 4:10  Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 

Mat 4:11  Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels (comforting messages of Truth from God) came and ministered unto him. 

Luke 4:13 says that after the temptations the Devil left Christ “for a season.” As at the end of each teaching in school comes a test, so at the end of a teaching in an area of our life comes a test/temptation. Our old man is restrained for short periods, long enough for us to hear the Spirit of God and take in more of His Truth, and then once again our Satanic nature returns to us and we go to war against it. In this way, our new man is created and gets stronger, while the old man becomes weaker.

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

Our Satanic nature never gives in because it is created to be the iron it takes to sharpen us. It is our brother, the old man, who God uses to sharpen us.

Pro 27:17  Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Why friend? Because the Serpent comes to us as our friend! As he did The Woman in the garden.

Mat 26:47  And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. 

Mat 26:48  Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast. 

Mat 26:49  And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him. 

Mat 26:50  And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. 

He comes, as I keep repeating, as my friend, my old friend, the old red Dragon, who has horns like a lamb but speaks as a devil. He has been with me my entire life, tripping me, causing me to fall, and then saying “let me clean you up.” He has been betraying me my entire life from one pit fall to another and always trying to come in as a messanger of light. He says to me “this is what you should do” or “that isn’t fair” always acting as if it is for my own welfare. He has been my closest confidante my entire life and I called him God! This is why it is so hard to crucify him.

Psa 55:12  For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 

Psa 55:13  But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. 

Psa 55:14  We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. 

AND THIS IS THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN: Coming to know who is my brother and reigning over the serpent in me, my brother. It is as waking up from a hard night’s drunk, hungover from a lifetime of drinking the serpent’s potion and then coming to see what he has done to me.

Gen 9:20  And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 

Gen 9:21  And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. 

Gen 9:22  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. 

Gen 9:23  And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness. 

Gen 9:24  And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger sonhad done unto him. 

Gen 9:25  And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. 

Gen 9:26  And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 

Gen 9:27  God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. 

As the Elect, we have lived a lifetime of exalting self over everyone and everything, never actually knowing that we were being led by Christ as a lamb to the slaughter of our old man. We go through a lifetime of self exaltation so that this old man can ultimately be crucified to the cross. Yet it is by looking upon him, the serpent on the cross, that I can be healed from his bite. I am healed by confessing this is what I am, look at it hanging on the cross. Christ took on that form and my sin so that when I looked upon my old man hanging there I could also see Christ there saying, “forgive him for he knows not what he does.” It’s from this humbled place that I can do unto my Brother/Sister as Christ has done for me. The pain of pride is burned up and we can forgive them, for they know not what they do, just as we didn’t know for so long. This is how we are not hurt by the second death and reigning with Christ every day, a thousand years. This is being a priest to my Brother/Sister by forgiving them as Christ has forgiven me. We forgive to our own hurt, yet we aren’t hurt. Our new man is preserved through the fire.

Nothing in scripture is to be seen in a linear, one and done, event. The thousand year reign is describing our daily teaching experiences we are going through in which we are learning to hear and heed the Spirit of Christ who is reigning in our life and teaching us to submit to His loving authority by dying to self in a daily battle. We know that anything we do to the least of these our brethren we are doing unto Christ, offending Christ. So when we do not forgive each other, we’re tresspassing against Christ. My brother/sister has no more control over anything than I do. We must remember that these exercises the Lord puts us through are for our good, for developing the new man, and for ultimately creating us to be like Him and live with Him in eternity. For the joy that was set before Him he despised the shame. Likewise, we have a joy set before us – the promise of being free from the slavery to sin (the delusion of being my own god) and an eternity of peace, love and joy which results from having Christ as my head.

As we keep repeating, the thousand year reign is a daily, hourly, minute by minute teaching, showing us how to reign, how to bring every thought captive under the supremacy of Christ as The Alpha and Omega of every minute of our lives.

2Co 10:5  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 

2Co 10:6  And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

The first resurrection is NOT a one time event, one and done but a minute by minute ressurrecting from something in me that was spiritually dead and now comes forth as a living creation. This process plays out in every Elect’s life. In Matthew 18 this process is played out in parables. From the first six verses where we are taught that being resurrected is becoming a child. A child is a new beginning, something resurrected from the dead. Then in the next three verses we are taught that offences will come to this child in us and woe to that man to whom those offences come through. This child is our new man/Christ in us, giving us new thoughts grounded in Truth, and the man who is causing the offence is our old man, or our old way of thinking, which has been ruled by lies or the GREAT LIE, from which all lies stem, that “you shall be as god.” Then in the next five verses we are taught that the child in us is special to God and He is always watching out for us, watching over those precious new thoughts of Truth that are being developed whithin us. And He tells us that we are like a lost sheep, lost in our world of dead doctrine. He then goes on to teach us about how the old man trespasses against our new man and that he is then corrected. If he receives the correction then he is converted from an old man to a child, in other words, we’ve gained our brother. If he is not converted then more trials are sent until he is converted or he is not converted and is never resurrected. Not everything in me is resurrected, only that which is suitable for The Master’s use.

2Ti 2:20  But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 

2Ti 2:21  If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work. 

Back to Matthew 18, Christ then moves on to the parable of the unforgiving servant who is forgiven a great debt but cannot forgive his fellowservant’s small debt. He is then cast into prison until the great debt owed is paid for in full (describing the pain of the second death.) This parable explains the inward struggle of the first resurrection and how the second death will eventually not hurt us. We must always remember that the first resurrection is in aorist tense, which means it is ongoing and present all the time. My old Satanic nature is always offending Christ in me. Christ then comes to me in scripture, and in new ways of thinking where it is explained to my old man where he has offended – generally it’s always the same way – trying to control or be the god of a situation. If he receives the teaching humbly, he is converted in that area from an old man to a child. If he does not receive the message then another trial is sent our way with many more witnesses against our error. Again, if I am given to receive it, I am converted in that area of my life and have partaken of the first resurrection in that area of my life. If not, then a huge trial with many witnesses are sent to me. If I receive it, I’m converted, if not then that part of my old man is lost and not converted. If you are an Elect, then you are an Israelite. If you are an Israelite then this is what you should know about yourself.

Deu 9:4  Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee. 

Deu 9:5  Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

Deu 9:6  Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

The first resurrection is understanding that Christ made me what I am and He alone has begun to resurrect me from my spiritually dead state. Whatever the day holds has been created by Christ for my good. To receive this message is to be as a child, a new beginning where I know nothing. As a child I know that my old man was forgiven a great debt that cannot be repaid and that the old man was created to do exactly what he has done and still continues to do. It is not my place to hold unforgiveness towards myself because what I did in a spiritually dead state was only what I was originally created to do. But, as a child I know that when my old man tries to whisper to me about right and wrong or how it used to be, he is offending Christ. Christ in me is then sent to my old man and he is taught his offence and converted. Or, he stubbornly refuses, as he was created to do in that area of his life, and he stays dead. My previously drunkard and rebellious old man is not resurrected as a drunkard and rebellious old man. That part is dead and will never be resurrected. What is resurrected is a child who does not desire these things, who does not have the desires to do what he saw the old man do, it repulses him, because he is a new creation.

Mat 18:1  At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 

Mat 18:2  And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 

Mat 18:3  And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. (the first resurrection)

Mat 18:4  Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

Mat 18:5  And whoso shall receive (accept) one such little child in my name receiveth me. (the second death doesn’t hurt)

Mat 18:6  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.  

My old man does not want to receive a gullable, naive child who just goes through every day without a care believing that God has it all outlined for him, with no planning, no thought of the day, no responsibilities! This is a repulsive stench in the nose of a man who has led a life he thought he planned. In the first resurrection, we are being taught to see Christ as Lord of every minute of every day. I am to submit to what Christ has laid out for me and see it all, whatever the day presents to me, as coming from the hand of my Creator. My old Serpent offends me regularly by trying to cast doubts on what or how the day is playing out. This saddens the child in me and Christ then reminds the old man in me what his supposed planning had gotten him – a life of bondage and problems. A millstone, that which grinds wheat to flour, is placed on the old man’s thoughts and they are milled into nothingness. He would have been better off to have drowned in the sea of the world’s doctrines then to offend the Christ in me.

Mat 18:6  But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

In other words it would have been better for me not to know the truth then to deny it. But, even though my old man knows the truth he still tries to speak great swelling words of vanity to my child in me. He promises me liberty but in truth he is still a slave of his own lusts. Liberty to him means being out from underneath the thumb of God’s will, which is impossible of course, but it doesn’t stop the thoughts from coming, constantly rising up out of yet another head wound to try to regain his position on the throne. It’s futile but he was created to be relentless. Parts of him will never be converted and will go to the place of the unknown, never to be remembered….THANK GOD! But, as after every teaching comes a test. The Serpent tries to amass an offensive of false doctrine like a dog returning to it’s vomit. It is then destroyed by the fire of the truth and incinerated into the unknown.

2Pe 2:18  For when they (the old man) speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 

2Pe 2:19  While they (the old man) promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 

2Pe 2:20  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 

2Pe 2:21  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 

2Pe 2:22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. 

Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. 

But, as was said, “it must needs be that offences come.”

Mat 18:7  Woe unto the world (the world of the old man) because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! 

Mat 18:8  Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 

Mat 18:9  And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

It is better for us to give up our whole life, as we saw it, give our right hand, right eye, and walk through life maimed, then to go along with the teachings of our stiffnecked old man who thinks he’s his own god. I am lost before I know the truth, lost in my old man’s world of godhood. But Christ comes to us and begins to resurrect us from the grave of the rotting old man. He leaves all for me. My old man had better take heed that he does not despise the little naive child in me because Christ stands guard over him. “Take heed what you hear.” And the same applies outwardly to each other.

Mat 18:10  Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels (thoughts) do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. 

Mat 18:11  For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. 

Mat 18:12  How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 

Mat 18:13  And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. 

Mat 18:14  Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Christ is in us and whatever is being done to the child in me is done to Christ.

Mat 25:40  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

So when my old man slithers through me, as the serpent he is, he is offending Christ in me. This offence must be dealt with by correcting the old doctrine in me, played out by what the old man has learned and is trying to bring me back into bondage to, godhood. Christ then brings the old man into judgment and he is either recreated into a child or he stands stubbornly on his doctrine. The process is repeated by more trials until the old man is converted or he is incinerated. Not all of me is saved. I am separated inside as sheep and goats, and some enter the kingdom and some are destroyed. In either case a new creation arises from the grave of my spiritually dead, and resurrected into life. The second death is repeating this process for another, when their old man comes against us. The second death doesn’t hurt us if we have been sufficiently resurrected (mature enough spiritually) to know that our brother/sister is fighting the same battle. His/her old man can no longer “hurt” my new man who knows the great debt he has been forgiven and so it should be no trial to forgive their much smaller debt against us. This parable is describing the thousand year reign where we are taught the truth and converted from a spiritually dead beastly life to a life giving spiritual being, who possesses life within them. Our first beastly Adam was made a beastly soul, our last Adam is BEING made a life giving spirit.

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

Mat 18:21  Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 

Mat 18:22  Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. 

Mat 18:23  Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants. 

Mat 18:24  And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. 

Mat 18:25  But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. 

Mat 18:26  The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 

Mat 18:27  Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. 

Mat 18:28  But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. 

Mat 18:29  And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. 

Mat 18:30  And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt. 

Mat 18:31  So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done. 

Mat 18:32  Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: 

Mat 18:33  Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? 

Mat 18:34  And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. 

Mat 18:35  So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. 

It should be obvious to us by now that our old man will offend against Christ within us. But, we must remember that he is BEING recreated, BEING resurrected. We often lose sight of all we have been forgiven and this plays out in unforgiveness towards others. We must be forgiving towards others and FORGIVING TOWARDS OURSELVES. We cannot let the old man bring us down by his constant badgering and complaining. He will never be happy until he’s dead. Herein lies the patience of the saints:

Rev 14:9  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast

and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 

Rev 14:10  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without

mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the

presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 

Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest

day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his

name. 

Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.