Being1inChrist

To know God is a vengeance on my way of life. God’s vengeance on earth is played out in my earth when the truth exposes the lies of my earth, that I think I know something independent from Him by my laws. Christ is The Light of all knowledge that God says to my world, “let there be Light”; “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” Christ then shines into my life and exposes all that exists in darkness, without understanding of truth. Everything in me, from birth was in darkness because it thought it lived according to what its own darkened sun, knowledge, gave it. If I see my world as the literal world with a sun, a moon, stars, gravitational pulls, a sea, and land I can understand the truth of who and what I am without the knowledge of God. The sun, moon and stars represent the light I think I get from understanding things, life and people. This is called Baal worship.

“And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded”

“And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.” 

“Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

This is what the vengeance of God is consuming in our world. It is consuming every thought of self/Baal worship and exposing the lie of free will. Everything in me that does not submit to the supremacy of Christ as Lord must be destroyed. Beyond the earth, in what we call space, is the darkness that is never ending. This is a parable of where the parts of me are sent, into eternal darkness, never to be remembered. The following verse is to be seen, as all scripture, as inward.

“I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt (This saving us out of our old world), afterward destroyed them that believed not.  (the parts in us that are unbelieving). Likewise also these (put your birth name here) filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee (my self righteous serpent disputing against the truth of my total depravity and trying to claim righteousness by law). But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves (all we know in the flesh is beastly and for the flesh). Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever (Thoughts! thoughts about whatever and whoever that have not submitted to Christ as Lord.). And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.”

If I read these verses inwardly and see all of it within my own personal world it is easy to see the meaning behind the names that are mentioned, Egypt, Michael, the devil, brute beasts, Cain, Balaam, Core, clouds, water, winds, fruit, raging waves of the sea, wandering stars, Enoch, seventh from Adam, thousands of saints, murmurers and complainers walking after their own lusts and all for advantage of the flesh. I see all of this in me that has to be destroyed. Peter had it and is why Paul rebuked him openly. What he was doing was for the advantage of the flesh.

“But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?”

I am shown daily the hypocrisy that is still crawling around in my world. The hard speeches, speaking in my mind against dignities, my grumbling about the way any day plays out. Like King David said, “I am for peace, but when I speak they are for war.”  Daily I have to fight back the constant attack of my old Canaanite world that is always trying to fight for their country. I feel the sweat of blood running down my face as I struggle to fight against a world that KNOWS it is dying and cannot stop its ultimate death. The one dying in a fight tries hard to stay alive, even when they know it’s over. At times I feel like a dying man, who tries to eat one last meal even though he knows it will make him sick. One last great stand is what my old world tries every day. But, thanks be to God that Christ is the one doing the fighting and giving me the strength to go on. I know that my new man will live at the death and demise of my old man. Everything in my beast hates Christ because everything in me wants the glory of being my own lord by my own laws. I want to stand before God in my own strength and claim my own righteousness.

Above when Jude was quoted I need to remember that he is speaking of the way my old man is inside me. He hides himself in me, like Judas among the disciples, feasting on Christ’s love for me. But, like Judas, my old man wants to look religious, but not be religious. I want to act as though I’m concerned for the poor, but I’m not.

“Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.”

The bag is where I keep my money. The bag is me and my worth is within myself, not Christ. We live and move in these bag skins and in them we hold our own worth. This worth is what God’s vengeance is consuming. Everyone thinks they have worth within themselves and no one believes that they are totally evil. No one believes that what we were created from conception was a serpent feeding on itself, dust. Because none of us believe the truth unless it is given to us to believe the truth of these scriptures.

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

My old man does not believe these scriptures because my old man finds worth within himself as his and titles it Christ. We want the name only, not the life.

“And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.”

The vengeance of God is real to an Elect of God. They know that every thought must be brought into obedience to Christ. I have to fight hard every day to keep my thoughts in line with truth. I fight hard against the thoughts of planning anything. The other day I was in the hardware store and heard the man behind the counter say that snow was coming next week. I was shocked that it was coming so early and gasped. I told the man, and couldn’t believe as it came out of my mouth, “that’s not good, it’s too early for snow”. My old man thought God should not be making it snow so early. My old man thinks he knows what’s good and what’s evil. Then my old man wanted to look up the weather “FORECAST” and plan to be prepared. The carnal man whithin me who is dying and fights hard everyday to not die says there’s nothing wrong with that thought but the new man says, “don’t plan, rest in Christ as Creator and have peace. Live day by day and remember that Christ said “take no thought for tomorrow.” My old man loves to know what’s happening at all times so he isn’t taken off guard because he actually believes “he’s on guard” and that his planning and prognosticating actually have power to affect his world. The new man within me knows this is a lie – that nothing happens outside of Christ and nothing can thwart the will of God. To the new man the knowledge of Christ being all in all is peace but to the serpent nature it’s death. It wants, NEEDS to feed on the dusty thoughts of the protection of the flesh but the new man is learning to rule over him. “EVERY” thought must be brought into obedience to Christ, not some.

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 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; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

So the vengeance of God is against the old serpent thoughts of “you shall be as God” in every aspect of my life. Every thought is examined whether it is for the flesh or for the Spirit. Apostle Paul said if we walk in the Spirit we will not FULFILL the lusts of the flesh. He did not say that there were no lusts of the flesh that wanted to be fulfilled but that we could have dominion over them by walking in the Spirit. If we see the reason behind the thought we can learn to discern between flesh and Spirit. Flesh is always about the flesh and the Spirit is always about God and my Brother/Sister. I used to love country music until the Spirit of Christ began having me listen to the lyrics that were being pumped into my heavens. Every song was about adultery, getting drunk, being in a bar, bar fighting, fast trucks, dogs, or some other thing that made the flesh lust. Music downplays the hurtfulness of sin. It makes evil melodious and makes us think these things aren’t that bad, everyone does it. Just this morning after I had gotten out of bed Christ allowed an old song play into my head. I heard the lyrics and repented for allowing it to play in my head. About an hour later it sprung up again and I stopped it before it even got a word out. The other day I was talking to my wife and I said “I don’t know how some of these businesses stay in business.” The next thought was, “Christ creates everything to be what it is, it’s not based on good food, good customer service, good product, etc. etc. It’s based SOLELY on Christ and Christ alone. He and He alone is The Creator of everything. Christ has thankfully been putting a watch on my mouth but the thoughts still come. Thoughts are like the Canaanites that were kicked out of their own land by the Israelites, by God. They want their land back, so they fight in every which way to get a foothold to take back their country with thoughts that originate from a dead old world where the serpent was supreme because he believed he knew everything. To bring every thought into subjection to the obedience of Christ means that I carry around the dying of the Lord Jesus so that the life of Jesus may be manifested.

“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.”

If my flesh does not feel distressed, perplexed at what’s happening to it, persecuted, forsaken and cast down then I am not being led of the Spirit of Christ. What did Apostle Paul mean by “I die daily” if the flesh is always happy? I never saw a happy dying person who knew they were dying. Nor have I ever seen a happy dead person laying there in that lifeless, cold skin, void of a heartbeat. Christ did not project Himself as always walking around just whistling to the birds. Scripture says He was without food, without shelter and was hated by everyone. That’s what is going on inside of an Elect. They are walking around in an internal world that does not want to feed them, does not want to shelter them and hates them to the core, wishing for their death so they can go back to listening to country music, drinking whiskey while driving down old country roads, and thinking they got the world by the tail. “And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.” But instead the flesh is being shut down. He is dying and there isn’t anything he can do about it. “And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.” My satanic nature is no longer on the throne and he is being told what to think and what not to think. So he’s mad as hell and will fight to his last breath just like the guy on the cross next to Christ railing on and on even though he’s minutes from death. That guy is my old man. My man of sin. The old Serpent. The Devil in me. The great red Dragon who is mad as hell that he’s lost his kingdom. The old man losing his throne IS VENGEANCE on him. Every thought has to be put down, every desire, every sweet memory of flesh has to be seen in the light of truth, that it was for flesh and not for the kingdom of God. Daydreaming about the past in any situation before receiving the truth is an enemy of the cross of Christ. My flesh often wants to think of my childhood and people from the past and romanticize it as being very good. Yet it was through those years I learned all the doctrines I am still fighting today. Vengeance on a world of make believe. Vengeance on a world that imagined its own personal greatness as an individual separate from God. This is why the Apostles had surnames. They saw their life, before Christ, as dead and gone and they were to see themselves as a complete new creation, speaking in a new tongue, a new language where everything is spoken in parable.

“All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

He spoke to the disciples in parable and they needed Him to explain everything He said. Christ spoke in parables to keep the Truth away from the flesh. They didn’t yet have the His Spirit inside of them to interpret. Christ was still outward to them.

“His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.”

This is what happened to the disciples on the day of pentecost. The Spirit of Christ came upon them and began to speak in parable and they finally understood it. Look at what Peter said:

“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Did the sun stop shining that day? Where was the blood and fire and vapor of smoke? Peter said that the things that they were hearing was a fulfillment of what Joel had prophesied. Where were the literal signs in heaven and the signs in the earth beneath? It was parabolic language of what was taking place within them. Their heavens were shaken, their own knowledge had stopped shining, no moon, no church light in their world, it had turned to blood, unclean because they saw their religion as unclean. The Spirit of God had descended on them, The Spirit that John the Baptist said would burn them with fire.

“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

This is the vengeance of The Lord that will come to every Elect that will be blessed to enter the kingdom of God and love God with all their heart and soul and their Brother as themselves. This is the judgment of Christ upon my old world and the judgment where the prince of this world is cast out of my world and new heaven and earth are created.

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” ; “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” “Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.”

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

Notice the personal pronouns. “I saw,” “I John saw,” “I heard.” We see our first heaven pass away. We see a New Jerusalem descending in our minds from Christ, all parabolic speech. We hear a great voice out of our new heavens saying that God is living within us now. Then we begin to know that the former things, all I ever was in my old world is passing away. The sun of my own knowledge is being darkened, its light is seen as unclean, in blood, and we see these words as faithful and true. This is the vengeance of The Lord on a world that was never meant to remain. It was only created as a womb for the Elect to be born OUT OF and then destroyed. The prince of my world is cast out and now Christ speaks to me and guides me into all truth. All of this is a new tongue, a new language from a new world. The prince of this world is my anti-christ nature that wants and desires all glory for all things. Christ in me is The Spirit of Christ speaking to a new man from a new planet, a new earth. New earth means that I don’t desire what I used to but desire truth in all things. That truth is a new Sun of righteousness where my old sun of unrighteousness used to shine, now Christ is The Light of my world. The sun of my own righteousness is not needed because I don’t trust in the literal anymore, in my years of knowledge acquired as a deadman. I don’t think I have a light of truth separate from The Truth and The Light. My new moon is my new Church and she is clothed in Christ. Her light is the reflection of The Sun of righteousness not her own light. I have no knowledge except Christ and Christ alone. When the new world begins to appear the old world fades away and it is a vengeance upon a people inside me that never wanted Christ as their ruler. “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” Every thought passing through a dark heaven/mind is as a small light from a distant darkness that cannot comprehend anything. We think we know everything, but in truth we know nothing. We come into this world dead in thought of God and unless Christ enters us we die in the same condition. We may speak of God, say the name “Christ” but inside we think we are the SUN that shines upon our earth. “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Many things in me believe that they are worshipping Christ and use His name but it is all based on INIQUITY, self righteousness, self glorification, Baal worship.

“When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.”

Parable speech again. Trusting in myself that I will stand before the Almighty God based on my goodnesses or alternately I will not stand before the Almighty God because of wicked acts is the definition of “self righteousness.” Believing I stand or fall based on what I do or don’t do is self righteousness. God created the literal heavens and earth I did not. God created my first heavens and earth, I did not not. God has created my new heavens and earth, I did not. I lay no claim to anything but Christ as my Creator. I did not create what I was and I did not create what I am, or what I am going to be. Christ has and is doing it all. To think, or shine in my world a ray of hope in something I’ve done is to rely upon your own sun or moon or stars, that you apparently created. “Knowledge puffs up.”

The vengeance of God is parable speech of God exposing everything I thought I was, based on my own sun light, my own knowledge. “If I speak the language of men and of angels and have not LOVE (Christ), I am become as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.” To know God is to know love and to love is to have Christ as your Sun. The Sun shines on the good and the wicked. God gives everyone everything, we can claim nothing as ours, not even our past sin. Our past life was the creature that was subjected to vanity by God so that the new man would have a hope of deliverance. All sin from the past was a vanity we were subjected to so that when it was revealed who we are we would have a hope of deliverance. Before I knew who I was I did not want a deliverance from who I was because I loved myself, my vain creature. But now that I know who I am I want deliverance from this creation. I look for the deliverance from the vanity of the flesh. I groan within myself in hope of the day I walk away from this skin bag and all its desires, hopes, hatred, and pride. My sins of the past were based on ignorance of the supremacy of Christ. Now I am being delivered from the past and only have a future set before me. A day when I will be released from this world and enter behind the veil. The curtain will open and I will walk through it into eternity, without the pulls of this flesh dragging me down. The vengeance of God is coming to the old way of thinking and threshing my mind, separating the wheat thoughts from the chaff thoughts and then gathering the chaff to be burnt in the fire. Wheat represents thoughts based on the Spirit and chaff thoughts based on the flesh. One is for God and my Brother, wheat and the other for self and self alone. Peter explains it this way.

“Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” 

The word “old” in “old sins” literally means past sins. Past because Christ now lives in us and we are not seen as the old man anymore. We are seen as in Christ, without sin. But, as Christ walked this literal world full of sin yet without sin, so our new man is walking around in a world full of sin. Everything that was in the world when Christ walked around literally is in our world that we are walking around in inwardly, within us. We have to contend with everything He did but within our own world. We have disciples and followers who are being converted and we have a world full of antichrists, who hate us for being here. My Caiaphas, Annas, Pilate, Judas and so on all hate the new man who has exposed the lies of the old world. It was so much better for my world before my new man showed up preaching repentance to a world that did not know it needed to repent. It had problems but it was controlled by Pilate and Pilate was controlled by religion, my Jews. My gentile had its own laws and my Jew had its laws and they argued from time to time but in the end they got along for the whole of the world. All parable speech, a new language for the new man, who exists in eternity and is desiring to be clothed with eternity. He has the down payment but looks forward to the full reward, where he is loosed from this world into a world where there is only ONE RULER, Christ. He walks around in a world where he sees all the superficiality of it and all its inhabitants. He desires to be in the new world where he is not subject to the vanity of his own world where there is nothing good in it. All of it, from the sun to the moon to the stars, the sea, to the land and all its inhabitants, man and beast alike are all corrupted and there is NONE good in it. “There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”

My creature knows this and knows it must all come to an end and I groan within myself because my new man sees all the lies. He yearns to dwell in a place where you can look someone in the eye and know they are real and not fake. I long to be in a place where all of creation is without sin. No more death, no more pain, no more worry, where true love exists, and is the foundation on which the world exists. But before we can get there we must go through the vengeance of our old world’s power. The removing of every Canaanite, Hitite, Amorite, Girgashite, Perizzite, Hivite and Jebusite from the land in which we are overtaking as Christ’s kingdom.

“When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”

A new King has risen from the heart of this world and He will rule this world and expose all Amorites hiding in the bushes and rocks. He will not leave one stone unturned, “See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Every thought exposed and shown from where it slithered from, “you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.” Vengeance belongs to God and God will avenge His people from a world within them that hates truth and loves a lie. As Pilate asked Christ, “what is truth?” The truth is God is the Creator of everything through Christ and we can claim nothing as ours separate and independent from Him. His power comes to us when we have the knowledge of our absolute weakness. When we acknowledge our utter helplessness that is the power of God. “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:; “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong“. Power comes in weakness. When my flesh is weak in its own power then the power of the cross rests upon me. When I know nothing then I know everything comes from Christ. When I am powerless He is all powerful. It is the opposite of everything I have ever been taught. It is the opposite of every hero movie or book ever read. Christ humbled Himself and walked in the strength of His Father. Christ claimed no power at all, all that was His came from His Father. Humility is strength and power. Thoughts of my own mental or physical power is thrown out when I receive the power of Christ because my thoughts of strength are against the truth of Christ being all power. Vengeance to my world is that I am made weak and feeble and give up all rights. Nothing is stronger than humility. Christ riding in on a white horse is “TRUTH” coming into my world proclaiming Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords. His eyes as a flame of fire because they are seeing all the pride that is still in me that is going to be burnt up. His name is The Word of God because all that He proclaims is what God has spoken. He is the living manifestation of God.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. 

The flesh sees Christ riding in on a white horse like the Jews saw their Messiah appearing, coming to take vengeance on all the gentiles. My flesh sees Him the same way, coming in to wreak havoc on all those who are not “good” according to my standards. I see Him this way because I believe that I am better than others and have something they don’t have therefore they are going to receive the wrath of God in literal terms. Yet what “I John” am really beginning to see is the white horse as the power of God riding through my life and Christ is sitting on it. I am coming to see that when I claim no power as from me or by me I am weak and when I am weak He is strong. Strong to defeat all the pride and arrogance that is still hiding in my land. The power of Christ is a broken spirit and a contrite heart. “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” This is what brings God near to us riding on a white horse. “The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.” My Leviathan is the king of all my doctrine/ children of pride. “Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?… He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.” I thought in my Leviathan pride that I was all good in the eyes of God based on my knowledge of scripture. I saw everything outward as though the book of the revelation of Jesus Christ was a prophesy of a literal second coming where Christ would destroy all wicked people. I did not know that the revelation of Jesus Christ was inward, inside of me and it is what every Elect must go through. Like Paul, Christ Himself must reveal Himself to us. No man can know His name.

But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 

He learned what he knew because of the revelation of Jesus Christ IN HIM. He was not taught it by man, or other Apostles, but by what was revealed IN HIM. He got knocked off his high horse and was blinded. Parable speech saying, He began to realize he knew NOTHING, he was blind and didn’t know it. It manifested in literal blindness for a time and then as Christ taught him truth he began to see the truth of his own utter impotence. He had no power and fell to the ground on his face and it is here in this humble state do we begin to resurrect from the earth and be transformed into the kingdom of God. This is the wrath of God on my world. I would have never thought God wanted what He wanted. I was ignorant to the truth for many years and am coming to see my utter impotence within myself for the purpose of laying hold of true power, a broken spirit and a contrite heart. Pride is of my devil and all pride is satanic. “You shall be as God” is the enemy of the cross of Jesus Christ because it denies the sacrifice of self for someone else. “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” The wrath of God is coming to my world to take vengeance on everything in me that thought it was a god and served itself and no one else. Every thought of knowledge, in any fashion or any subject, where I thought I knew something indepedent from God must be brought into obedience to Christ as The Author and Finisher of it. Nothing is mine. Nothing belongs to the flesh. The little the flesh has must be taken from him and given to the new man who has everything. To have everything is to know you have nothing of yourself. All comes from God and is given to you to give to someone else. “Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” It is the same thing that is spoken in parable in the following verses:

“And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.”

When we believe together and have all things common we sell our possessions and goods and part them to each other when the other has need. Our physical possessions are only a parable of our time, our joy, our happiness, our care, our patience, our kindness, our heart. We sell what belongs to us and we give to one another daily, hourly minute by minute. We “rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.  Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.” As the other has need, we give up our time for the other and give to them whatever they need. We continue daily in God and Christ Who are our temple. “And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.” We break our bread daily by putting down the flesh for the other. From one house to the other we break our bread for the other. Deny the flesh and its own desires for the other person’s need. This is breaking bread and confessing our sins one to another, from house to house. Eating the meat of denying the flesh for the other in gladness and singleness of heart. We have one goal and one only, to serve God with all our heart, soul and mind and each other as ourselves. And as we do this The Lord adds to us daily the parts of us to be saved. The parable of a commune village couple. Everything is equally given to the other when the other has need. When one is sad the other is there to comfort. When one is happy the other is there to rejoice with it. Each breaking their own bread for the other. Christ said He was “the bread of life” and we too become the bread of life to each other. This is what was meant and IS MEANT by the Lord’s supper. Showing us to break ourselves for the other. Shed our own blood in figure to wash away the sin of the other. Die to self for the other. “And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.” As often we break our own bread and sell our own possessions for the other we do show the Lord’s death. This is what He did and is what we are to do. As often as we deny our own flesh’s possessions and sell what we have for the other we are remembering what Christ did for us. He died for our sin so we could live. He gave His life for me so I could give my life for you.

“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.”.

Giving my life for someone else is eating Christ’s flesh and drinking His blood. This is proof of Christ living in us and us in Him. Eating manna is reading the word of God but not applying it with love. Love is the life in the blood. “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.” To love is to die to self, to break your own bread for the other. To drink Christ’s blood is to forgive the other’s sin. If I know what I have been forgiven for then it becomes easy to forgive the other’s sin. This is a wrath to my old man and not the wrath the carnal mind has imagined. It is a wrath of God to me to die for you. It is the wrath of God on my flesh to die for someone else so that they can live. My flesh hates this doctrine because it is the second death to it. I can die to my own wrongs and accept that Christ dies for me but to do the same for others is a second death, if it hurts. If it does not hurt then I have been resurrected and the second death does not hurt me. To die for you becomes second nature and not a death. If I am living and reigning with Christ then I have partaken of the first resurrection in that area of my life. But, if I am not, then I must go through the lake of fire of God’s love being burnt into me in the areas of my life where I have not partaken of the first resurrection.

“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….And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”

It is the wrath of God upon my old man in every area of my life until everything is resurrected and a new man stands before the throne without spot or blemish. An offering in the old testament had to be without blemish and without spot, “Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke.” This is when what is sacrificed does not hurt because it is without blemish. There is no yoke on it and it is blameless. Nothings weighing me down and nothing pulling at me from my old man. Then I can, in the first resurrection, die by breaking my own bread and spilling my own blood for your sin without it hurting me. All of this takes time and is wrath upon my world who hates Christ’s doctrine of selflessness. But if we are an Elect of God chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world then we will come to the first resurrection by the death of the old man. We rise from his dust/ground from which he was made. We have to die to resurrect. We must first descend before we ascend. “Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?” We must die, descend, before we can resurrect, ascend far above all the principalities and powers in our heavens “which he wrought in Christ (Who is in us), when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,” : “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:” We must go through the fire of God’s eternal love, which is a wrath/death to my old man and a life/resurrection to my new man. This is eating the flesh of the Son of man and drinking His blood. This is eating bread that gives eternal life. Eating manna means we are reading scripture but it doesn’t have love in it, it is based on doctrine or tradition or whatever makes the old man feel he has done enough. The wrath of God to my old man is the demise of his thoughts, his desires and everything that made him think he was something independent and separate from God. It is where he is put down and a new man rises from the earth who is then taught the fire of God’s consuming love. “Our God is a consuming fire” ; “God is love.” All the carnal imagery of Christ literally riding through a literal heaven followed by a myriad of literal angelic beings to take vengeance on the ungodly is a puffed up, self righteous fairy tale of our carnal minds, our self righteous old man. If it is not happening inwardly within our own world, why do we think the literal is real? If I can’t stop being a selfish sloppy unclean swine now in this earth inside me, why do I believe that Christ is going to come in a literal white cloud and wisk me away to bliss, even though I remained a selfish swine being driven to and fro in my mind and emotions? We must become like Him to see Him. True love must reign before I can dream about being wisked away in a chariot. All of this is a work of Christ in me and it is not a work that I can perform on my own strength. But it will happen to God’s Elect because we are the Elect of God in Christ Jesus, predestined to be conformed to Christ’s image.

  “Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”

Eating this bread in a cold doctrine and not based on the love of God is eating unworthily, bringing judgment to my world. Having no forgiveness for sin and not being kind and gentle will bring judgment to my world . Not discerning the Lord’s body is not serving out of love but out of a cold doctrine or tradition where the tradition is put above the love of God. Even if the doctrine holds truth, if it is done out of an adherence to a doctrine and not the love of God it is unworthy of the kingdom. The Pharisees were the most adherent to doctrine, precepts and laws, YET Christ said that unless our righteousness surpasses theirs we would not enter the kingdom.

“For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

And Christ also said to hear what they said.

“The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.”

Do what they say but don’t do it like they do it. What were they not doing or doing wrong even though they had truth? They did it to be seen and glorified in their flesh as if they were “good.” They bound heavy loads on people that they themselves could not keep. They did not have love, which is the true fulfillment of all law and is the foundation of the truth of Who God is. “God is Love.” I have often kept doctrines of truth to my own demise because they were not held out of love. They exalted me and not Christ. David ate the show bread that no one but priests were allowed to eat. Why wasn’t he stoned? Christ and the disciples walked through the corn and picked corn on the sabbath. Hosea was told by God to marry a whore and have children of whoredom. Ezekiel was told to eat bread mixed with cow dung, which is unclean. Christ ate with pubilcans and sinners. According to the law He would have defiled Himself by doing that. Scripture goes on and on to seemingly contradict itself but it is only for the true meaning to come out. If you want to live by law then you will die by law. If you are given to live by the SPIRIT of the law that God is love then you have been given life. But it is a learning process to learn true love, through God’s wrath consuming what is in our world that does not live by the spirit. God’s love appears as wrath to a selfish, self-centered world. His wrath is administered by trials that test our love. Things that cause us to be patient and kind when the letter of the law says to do otherwise.

“And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, hey say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him.”

The law said she should be stoned, period! What changed about that law? “You that are without sin cast the first stone at her.” That was the true law. The world in me as a whole is under the literal law that all may be guilty before God.

“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.”

The Elect are under the law of the Spirit. This means that the law of the flesh is being fulfilled by the law of the Spirit of life (love) that Christ had. What the law could not do in the flesh, fulfill the law out of love for God and neighbor, God sent His own Son to fulfill, that we who are in Christ may stand without fault before God in the Spirit. Our flesh, our carnal mind still wars against the Spirit and must be put down again and again by the law of the Spirit. It is a wrath to the old man to be continually told that the law of the Spirit triumphs the law of the flesh. I cannot allow the flesh to get angry, bitter and resentful over its laws being broken because the law of the Spirit says to love and be kind when the opposite is what the law of the flesh says should happen. The law says she should be stoned. The spirit says she’s to be given forgiven. The rock that is thrown at her is Christ and Christ crucified. Forgiveness. Christ said He did not condemn the woman and that was a judgment of forgiveness. And forgiveness is a wrath to the carnal mind because the carnal mind wants vengeance. Forgiveness is by faith and the law is by works. In the law there is no forgiveness, only judgment according to precepts. Faith says that judgment was placed upon Christ and He alone has obtained eternal redemption for us. To love, as Christ loved, fulfills all law, for love is the fulfillment of the law. The carnal mind hates and cannot love because it holds to laws and not the Spirit. To hold on to the Spirit of the law is to know that we are all guilty before God in the flesh but Christ fulfilled the law and took our judgment upon Himself. If we are given to believe this then we become Christ to each other. The carnal mind hates this because the carnal mind wants to believe it has its own righteousness based on a law it is keeping (name it within yourself.) The Spirit of the law that says none are righteous, no not one, and that righteousness belongs to God and Christ alone and that I am in no wise righteous on my own, is HATED by my flesh. It denies it any power or glory whatsoever. To the fleshly mind, law is power! Love without laws of the flesh is to become lawless. What the carnal mind cannot understand is that love is more powerful than laws and if I have Christ’s love in me then what I do or don’t do is because of the power of the Spirit within me. The man of sin that Apostle Paul speaks of in II Thessalonians 2 is lawless of the spirit of love. He is us and we are him in the flesh, the carnal mind. Briers, thorns, thistles, and weeds grow where there is no love. They choke out love. They are the parable of anger, rage, bitterness, and depression because their laws are not being met. True love does not need law. This is why it is a Spirit of freedom because it cannot lie, cheat, and steal from others. It needs no other laws because true love has compassion, kindness, gentleness, and patience and allows itself to be defrauded. Love understands that people struggle against their flesh, just as you do. Love knows that people do not have it in them, of themselves, to be kind and gentle because they are flesh just as you are. Love knows that only God is love and only Christ can administer His Father’s love into my heart. This is wrath to my flesh because my flesh wants to live by the literal laws it has made up according to its world’s standards. This is the ten horns of the beast that Babylon sits upon. It is our fleshly laws that we live by according to the seven days a week, seven heads of the beast.

“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.”

Law makes me angry and bitter because no one lives by my laws according to my world. Love gives peace and a sound mind because love knows that only God is love and only God can create a loving heart within us and our new man finds rest in this knowledge. Love trusts in God not in man. Love is a thief to the flesh, to the carnal mind because it steals its honor, which we have stolen from Christ. Christ is a thief to our flesh but He is only taking back what rightfully belongs to Him. To truly love is to give yourself totally to others without the thought of getting something in return, not even the glory of being a “good” person. Law tries to impersonate love by checking a box and then expecting a gold star, while true love is the unfeigned, hidden man of the heart, which can only be Christ. Love is a wrath to the flesh, a hell that torments and kills the man of sin that has controlled all flesh based on the carnal law of “checking boxes.” The truth that this law-keeping is worthless in the sight of God is a torment to our old man. There is a great gulf between true love and law keeping and only Christ can bridge that gulf.

“And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.”

“And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.”

God’s wrath has come to the Elect and they are being taught the Spirit of love from a new heart that operates out of the truth that no man can be Christ to another unless they have Christ in them. Therefore we do not judge anyone according to the flesh. The following verses are to be seen as what is happening inside our own world and how we must go through these trials to come to be intimate with what true love is, was and will be.

“What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called…”

“And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.”

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

“And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.”

“And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”

True love is the wrath of God on my world.