Can you hear what the Lord by His Spirit is saying to the seven churches? Five are told to repent; the other two are called the synagogue of Satan.
In other words, don’t go to the churches. The churches have not repented and they are not His. Instead, you must overcome the churches.
If you think you can find God by going to church, you’re wrong. Don’t even bother with the rest of this presentation.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” (Rev 2:7)
“repent” (Rev 2:5)
“synagogue of Satan” (Rev 2:9)
“repent” (Rev 2:16)
“repent” (Rev 2:22)
“repent” (Rev 3:3)
“synagogue of Satan” (Rev 3:9)
“repent” (Rev 3:19)
“him who overcomes” (Rev 2:7)
“he who overcomes” (Rev 2:11)
“him who overcomes” (Rev 2:17)
“he who overcomes” (Rev 2:26)
“he who overcomes” (Rev 3:5)
“he who overcomes” (Rev 3:12)
“he who overcomes” (Rev 3:21)
People always ask, “What must I do to be saved?” The answer is God’s growth process:
God’s growth process is shown throughout Scripture. If someone perseveres with Him, He can grow them from babe to child to young man to father in the Word.
God has a process. You must start it. Once started, you must persevere in it to the end.
And Peter said to them, “Repent, and let each of you be baptized in the name* of Jesus Christ … and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 2:38)
*His name is called The Word of God. (Rev 19:13)
like newborn babes, long for the pure milk of the word, that by it you may grow in respect to salvation (1Pet 2:2)
I have written to you, children (1John 2:13)
I have written to you, young men (1John 2:14)
I have written to you, fathers (1John 2:14)
“it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved” (Matt 10:22)
1John 2 – The Three-Lusts Battle
From the beginning, a battle has been raging between God and Satan, one of God’s created beings. The battle involves the three lusts. God fights the evil one over the boastful pride of life; the Word of God fights against the lust of the flesh; and the Spirit of God focuses on God’s kingdom instead of the lust of the eyes.
You’ve probably never heard about this battle before, and the church can’t teach you about it because they don’t understand it. However, it is one of God’s main themes and is all through Scripture.
You must understand this battle … “it is your life” (Deut 32:47).
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. (1John 2:16)
“ungodly lusts” (Jude 18)
“the lusts of men” (1Pet 4:2)
“the world ... and its lusts” (1John 2:17)
“fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul” (1Pet 2:11)
Eve was tempted by the evil one
lust of the flesh: good for food (Gen 3:6)
lust of the eyes: a delight to the eyes (Gen 3:6)
boastful pride of life: desirable to make one wise (Gen 3:6)
The Lord was tempted by the devil
lust of the flesh: “command that these stones become bread” (Mt 4:3)
boastful pride of life: “throw Yourself down” [angels will catch Him] (Mt 4:6)
lust of the eyes: showed Him all the kingdoms of the world (Mt 4:8)
The parable of the sower
boastful pride of life: the devil takes away the word so they may not believe (Lk 8:12)
lust of the flesh: when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, he falls away (Mt 13:21)
lust of the eyes: the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word (Mk 4:19)
God has His thoughts and ways. Man has his own thoughts and ways. Only one is right. Which will you choose? Wickedness = the things of man. Can’t you please get past what man thinks, speaks, and does?
You must change your attitude. Reject all of men’s church and religious teachings, doctrines, practices, and traditions. Believe God only, and let Him teach you His ways and His thoughts in His Word.
“When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you shall surely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity” (Ezek 33:8)
“Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live.’” (Ezek 33:11)
Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; And let him return to the LORD (Isa 55:7)
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa 55:8-9)
Righteousness only comes from believing God and His Word alone. However, if someone becomes self-righteous and turns from God, what happens? All of their righteous deeds are forgotten.
This is God’s way. People must grow and persevere with Him to the end. Yet the church will not teach this. Will you believe God or will you believe the church?
“When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.” (Ezek 33:13)
“Yet your fellow citizens say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their own way that is not right.” (Ezek 33:17)
“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.” (Ezek 18:24)
“it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved” (Matt 10:22)
Whether 2,000 years ago or today, the problem isn’t Romans or Jews. It’s religious leaders. Religious leaders are the killers of the Word of God.
The warning of Ezekiel 34 is that the Lord is against church pastors. He will teach the people Himself.
Thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I shall demand My sheep from them and make them cease from feeding sheep … I shall deliver My flock from their mouth” (Ezek 34:10)
“with force and with severity you have dominated them” (Ezek 34:4)
“Because you push with side and with shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad” (Ezek 34:21)
“Behold, I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out … and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered” (Ezek 34:11-12)
“I will feed My flock” (Ezek 34:15)
“they shall hear My voice; and they shall become one flock with One Shepherd.” (John 10:16)
“You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for I am.” (John 13:13)
God chose to make a covenant with a certain people – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants. He gave them Israel as their homeland forever, and He gave them His Law.
However, He warned them that He would cast them out among the nations if they disobeyed Him. For His Name’s sake (His Word’s sake), because of His promise to the fathers, He also said He would one day restore them to their land from all of the places to which He banished them.
God did indeed fulfill His Word. On May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was reborn. This is a great miracle that could only have been accomplished by the Hand of God.
Today, Israel is prosperous, living securely, and has nuclear capability. All of this will be a factor in the coming Battle of Hamon-gog.
“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds” (Ezek 36:17)
“Therefore, I poured out My wrath on them … I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.” (Ezek 36:18-19)
“But I had concern for My holy name” (Ezek 36:21)
“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when they will no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.” (Jer 16:14-15; 23:7-8)
After 40 years of Israel being a nation, the walls of Jericho came down and Israel went into the land. After 40 years of Israel being a nation again, God again had a wall come down (Berlin Wall), allowing His people to come into the land from the north country (Russia) and prove His Word by Jeremiah the prophet.
Ezek 38-39 – The Battle of Hamon-gog
The Battle of Hamon-gog coincides with the Sixth Seal of Revelation. A group of nations led by a country to Israel’s uttermost north (Russia) will attack and invade Israel. But God will step in and defend Israel.
Israel will win the war, but their victory comes with worldwide death and destruction. Why? Because the Battle of Hamon-gog will be a nuclear war. God will allow nukes to hit “Magog” (Russia) and “the coastlands” (the U.S. and other countries).
“Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.’” (Ezek 38:3)
“After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.” (Ezek 38:8)
“And you will come from your place out of the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great assembly and a mighty army” (Ezek 38:15)
“And it will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord GOD, “that My fury will mount up in My anger.” (Ezek 38:18)
“And with pestilence and with blood I shall enter into judgment with him; and I shall rain on him, and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire, and brimstone.” (Ezek 38:22)
“And I shall send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the LORD.” (Ezek 39:6)
And the sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. (Rev 6:14)
“Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come; and who is able to stand?” (Rev 6:16-17)
End Times – See, Hear, Understand
You need to know what’s coming. You can find it in God’s Word. What will you see in the world? What will you hear in the world? You’ll need to go to God for His understanding.
“Lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and return and be healed.” (Isaiah 6:10)
The first part of God’s growth process is learning from The Father. God uses the Old Testament, specifically Moses and the Prophets, to bring about attitude change (repentance).
What is the proper fear of God? What is the difference between good and evil according to God? What does God think of man? What is God’s mind on all things?
You must hear God’s voice in Moses and the Prophets in order to begin to learn the basics of how God thinks and the attitude He’s looking for from His creation.
Download: Moses and the Prophets reading suggestions
“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ But he said, ‘No, Father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’” (Luke 16:29-31)
“For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me*. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?” (John 5:46-47)
And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!” (Luke 24:25)
(*Moses wrote about the LORD God of Israel.)
For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. (Rom 14:10)
So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God. (Rom 14:12)
“And do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matt 10:28)
“I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who after He has killed has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him!” (Luke 12:5)
“outer darkness” (Matt 8:12)
“weeping” (Matt 22:13)
“gnashing of teeth” (Matt 25:30)
“where their worm does not die” (Mark 9:48)
“and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:48)
“the furnace of fire” (Matt 13:42)
“burned with fire” (Matt 13:40)
“eternal fire” (Matt 25:41)
“eternal destruction” (2Thess 1:9)
“eternal punishment” (Matt 25:46)
“It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Heb 10:31)
The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. (Eccl 12:13)
“Fall on us and hide us from the presence of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of their wrath has come; and who is able to stand?” (Rev 6:16-17)
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