THE POWER OF LOVE
Mike Balloun teaches today. 12/10/22
Being taught by the Father…. The power of love
The Book of Revelation proves to be no mystery…provided that we remember its three fold division and interpret it in the light of Daniels last Vision…the 70 weeks prophecy until the Restoration of Israel.
Chapter 1 (let us remember there is a special blessing that accompanies the reader, hearer and keeper of things Written within it) The vision of the heavenly Temple prepared for our present times. Chapters 2 and 3 give to us the career of the ‘Church’ on earth up until the 70th week of Daniel. Chapters 4 and 5 deal with the preparations in the invisible 1st heaven for Christ’s investiture of King of this Realm and His administrating the Judgments of the Last Week of Daniel. Chapters 6-18 reveal the wicked condition found in this Last Week. Foretelling of judgments by which those who corrupt the earth shall be destroyed, while the remnant of Israel and the remaining part of the Church passes through the purging of the Great Temptation and Jacobs trouble. The seals, the seventh which includes the seven trumpets; and then the last trumpet sounding is developed into the 7 vials in which the final wrath of God is finished. Chapters 11-14 are parenthetical inserted to provide details related to the first 3 ½ years and second 3 ½ years, in the placing of the two Witnesses of God, the first-fruits offering and harvest of the Faithful along with Vintage Wrath of God. The manifesting of the Anti-Christ and False Prophet from among the dead, the horror related to his ruling. Chapter 16 documents the vials of wrath. The seventeenth Chapter 17 give the long history of the Woman and the connection with the Anti-Christ beast. Chapter 18 describes the fall of restored Babylon. Chapters 19-22 give the Visible return of the Lord to this Earth, the final destruction of His enemies, and the setting up of His Millennial Kingdom. Followed by a short season of loosing satan from the Abyss, followed by the his and the Earths populaces last judgments. The prophecy closes with a description of the heavenly City of Jerusalem.
Jesus Revelation given to John is divided up into three time frames; what just was seen by him, and then …those things that are, which Christ revealed personally to John…and those things which shall be afterwards or hereafter.
Those things that are, are set forth in the first three chapters of Revelation. The things that are started with the inauguration of the Church which is to say; the Nation of the One New Man initiated by the Holy Spirit through Paul’s separating declaration in approximately 62AD while in Rome Acts 28:28. That from then forward Israel as a Nation corporate was officially rejected as it relates to the future inheritance of ruling with Jesus the Christ from the heavenly sphere of this Earth, and henceforth He would no longer consider the ‘saved’ as a part of the Commonwealth of Israel, to be a part of their future inheritance (which would have been both an earthly and heavenly ruling inheritance). But now those ‘saved’ in Jesus would uniquely be set apart as a New Nation (matt21:43). A people called out for the Father to be another First Born son, a people called to be the Sons’s Bride….And that primarily from the Gentiles. So it is this Nation and the things that are then begun with Acts 28:28 up to 30 years before Johns writing down the Revelation.
It was is then that the Dispensation of Grace and Mercy extended to all mankind in the calling out of a ‘saved’ people exclusively into the Nation of the One New Man unto a conditional inheritance with Jesus in the heavenly part of His Kingdom in this Realm to come in the future.
This present Dispensation ends during those things which shall be afterwards or hereafter…the end of this Dispensation of grace and mercy in its intended purpose being completed during the 7 year period, transitionally moves from grace and mercy, briefly back through the Law of Moses into the dawning of a new Age; the Millennial Kingdom of righteousness, in the establishing of Israel in the New Covenant (hebs8). The transition begins with the unsuspending of the unfulfilled prophecy of the 70th week of 7 years of Daniel. And with the Judgment Throne being set up in the unseen heaven of this Realm seen in Revelation Chapter 4. That is to say when Jesus the High Priest intermediary comes to this Realm’s heaven to take His investiture as King, take up His first-fruits and Harvest offerings unto the Father and administer God’s final judgments upon Israel, the Gentile Nations and satan and his forces. All that must happen before Jesus reveals Himself to His Jewish Brethren and all will be accomplished in this Seven year period (His revealing of Himself to the Jews will be like unto that of Joseph, who after having revealed them to their selves, he revealed himself to them). Wherein individuals and events over that prophesied designated final seven-year period according……..
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HOPE OF THE LIVING KIND
Mike Balloun teaches today. 12/03/22
UNEDITED NOTES:
Hope…of the living kind….
First Peter 1:3-2:2 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials, that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ: whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory: receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what time or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them. To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.
Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear: knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ: who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake, who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth. For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;….”
First Peter 1:3-5 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again (Peter here speaks of justifications rebirth of the spirit with the gift of eternal life) unto a living hope (that of the revelation of a further work through the spirit/Spirit is to be done on the soul through or by continuing acts of faith hebs6:11,12, made possible) by the (drawing daily upon the Atonement power provision available to the seeker in Christ associated with the) resurrection of Jesus Christ (The Overcoming Son of Man raised up out) from the dead, ( with the promise of reward to the faithful of a like Rapture or Resurrection raised up and out from the dead to Him in the air/heaven of this Realm when He returns to be its King) unto an inheritance (of conditional promises; chiefly that of being glorified in the likeness of Him 1jh3:2) incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away (therefore an inheritance including but going on beyond the Millennial Kingdom reigning with Him in this Realm, an inheritance that reaches into the New Heaven and New Earth), reserved (by our spirits re-birth in imputed justification thereby becoming a child of God) in heaven for you (hebs12:23), who (those with living hope) by the power of God are guarded (during the process of child training by the law of the spirit of life in Christ) through (the training unto maturity by) faith unto (faith roms1:7) a salvation (beyond merely the spirits conversion, unto the saving of the soul {verse 9;hebs10:39;james1:21} that work that answers to all the *mysteries………….
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THE TWO RAPTURES AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST (PART 4)
Mike Balloun teaches today. 2022-11-12
THE TWO RAPTURES AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST (PART 4)
THE FIRST RESURRECTION
FULL UNEDITED NOTES:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tveix4x2l3xe4c8/AAC1M5Rl1-NuQwwz9Pxx1DFLa?dl=0
Many years ago when I was a young Christian man I was introduced by a friend at his home bible study to a respected Pastor who also traveled the Country for his denomination and debated Biblical doctrine with other denominations leaders. The subject on which he spoke that evening was that once a man received Jesus and was born again he was forever eternally saved and could not lose his salvation. At that time I strongly opposed that doctrine based primarily upon my understanding at that time of Hebrews 6 & 10 (as well as 1cor6;eph5;gal5) and later when only my friend, his wife and I were alone together, and I questioned him, he referred me to 1 john 3:9 and 5:18 where it is Written “No one that is a child of God sins because God’s seed remains in him.” The Pastor argued that the meaning of these Scriptures is that once a man was born again/saved he could no longer sin in the eyes of God and therefore could not lose eternal life. In light of all the Passages in Scripture that seemed to me contrary, this statement of belief seemed absurd (but yet there those Verses were in the Word). I could not explain there meaning at the time though I was sure that was not the meaning of those Verses. Knowing the Verse in Psalms that David wrote; “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:…” I asked the Pastor what seemed to me at the time a good rebuttal; “Pastor do you regard any sin in your heart?” His response was “No one that is a child of God sins….”
Someone watching online last week made an observation and wrote…”…right now it’s the part where you use 1st Peter (1:Verses 3-9 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.)… to explain what the hope is, and said something unique to your past lessons, “sin accounting” is not our problem “in” Him…. Progress or non-progress is the weight of the new man’s conviction/purposed determination…(??)”
A thorough explanation of “sin accounting’ is not our problem, being “in” Christ…but progress or non-progress is the weight of the new man’s conviction…” would require more time and space than what we have here but we will set out a brief skeleton understanding for a seeker of Truth to consider.
A sister Passage to that of 1 Peter 1:5 “Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” in Romans 8.
The “For the law of the spirit (pneuma with no definite article in the greek) of life (this being a synonymous expression with Peter’s ‘divine nature’ of 2pet1:4) in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death”
What like to Peter’s Truth has Paul been expounding and now sets before us?
Some (as did the Pastor mentioned above) have supposed that the preceding sentence “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus” points towards the words of Paul concerning justification before God through the imputed righteousness of Christ brought out first in early Chapters.
They are failing in seeing the essential progressiveness of God’s Salvation Plan of ‘begating’ being set forth by Paul. Something after justification and the gift of the divine nature, and the accompanying love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Spirit…and in their blindness hold forth the error of a limited doctrine of ‘saved by grace only’ as being the completed Salvation Plan of God. And therefore they teach this Verse as saying that there is no longer any place for condemnation in the born again/saved as we are then and now seen by the Father as ‘perfected’ by imputation in Christ’s Atonement.
Making the following Verses 3-25 of warning exhortation redundant… “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh (hebs8), God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit….
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Continued… THE TWO RAPTURES AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST (PART 3)
Mike Balloun teaches today. 2022-11-12
THE TWO RAPTURES AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST (PART 3)
THE FIRST RESURRECTION
(UNEDITED NOTES):
There are two great principles that govern mans relationship with God and His righteous dealings with us. One principle is His gift of everlasting life in the rebirth of our spirit by grace through childlike faith, and the other principle is reward according to obedient works by grace through progressive maturing knowledge into adult (first born son) like loving faith unto the souls salvation in everlasting glory.
This most critical Truth of God’s Salvation Plan goes obscured and untold, that of immediate imputed righteousness based upon faith in another’s work verses a future wonderous bestowment for personal righteousness worked out by increasing loving overcoming faith,...when rightly understood the all important critical message enlightens, fearfully warns in all its “ifs” and inspires the sincere student and teacher of the Bible to strive like Paul, to work out their ‘soul’s’ salvation with fear and trembling, to get into the ‘race’ with the prize of attaining unto the heavenly calling, to seek early and late intimate sanctifying knowledge in the knowing of God through His given Word, unto attaining the prescribed necessity of God’s exclusive plan for those ‘saved’ who would be Raptured alive or caught up from among the dead at the First Resurrection; that is of worthiness.
This maturing process in loving obedience reaches out to grasp a hold of the fullness of the propitiation power of Christ’s salvation Atonement; that of a saved souls purpose becoming one with God’s purposes, that of the amazing privilege of becoming worthy of regal intimate oneness with Him (like that of a Wife or Firstborn Son) to rule over this world in the Age to follow. This is according to God’s desired revealed will, stated in Scripture, and that which should be understood, that which was determined by God from before the foundation of this world….the fullness of the Gospel pertains to the royal heavenly calling to rule in the place of fallen Lucifer. The attaining of this high calling hinges now entirely upon the heart response and free will of a ‘saved/born again’ man (for the calling to regal oneness can only be extended to the ‘saved’ not the unsaved). “Saved/born again” in the past tense meaning those who have been set apart having redemptions gift of everlasting life with renewed spirit and the love of God shed abroad in his heart. Those sanctified/set apart/saved in the past tense to be sanctified/set apart/saved in the present tense with faith’s view of a future salvation…another way to express the same thing would be; we are born again from above the first time in the spirit that we might be born again from above again the second time in the completeness of God’s Salvation Plan; in the soul.
Simply said this is the two principals stated above that comprise the marvelous Gospel of God.
This heavenly calling, being the greater part and purpose of the Gospel of Jesus Christ’s Atonement, once clealy seen by the born again believer, it will become that believers loving passion for attainment, as it was for Paul (phil3) .
This greater purpose of God has been so obscured by the religious leaven of ‘grace only’ meaning imputed righteousness without qualifying works accomplishes all God’s salvation plan for man … Packaged up in different ways, all false messages of a false security sadly prevalent in modern day Christendom.
When the scales of religious leaven are removed and this Truth of the Gospel’s two principals of God’s gracious dealings with man are revealed in Scripture; one with the unsaved, the subject on which relatively little is Written of in Scripture, and the other with the saved to be saved on which the vast majority of God’s documented dealings center … allows the seeker to reconcile or connect in perfect harmony with the meaning of all the seemingly contradictory Scriptures. In that some Scriptures are touted by this denomination to prove their doctrine of once saved always saved and then another denomination gathering certain Scriptures to prove their doctrine that the saved may lose their eternal salvation…as almost all differing doctrinal beliefs are centered around; ‘saved’ and ‘lost’,… those having eternal life and those having eternal death,… Heaven or Hell issues;…
The Truth understanding reveals what is imputed and what is the resulting ‘gift’ and what is rewarded according to faithful works by the saved. These works of righteousness are not the imputed righteousness of Christ, although only through a vital connection with Christ the works can be performed, (john15:5,rev19:7,8)…words in perfect harmony with “not by works of righteous we have done, but by grace, are we saved by faith, and that not of ourselves.” when properly viewed).
Scripture holds forth a time for Judgment, not just for the unsaved but much is Written about Judgment especially…..
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THE TWO RAPTURES AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST (PART 3)
Mike Balloun teaches today. 2022-11-12
THE TWO RAPTURES AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST (PART 3)
THE FIRST RESURRECTION
(UNEDITED NOTES):
There are two great principles that govern mans relationship with God and His righteous dealings with us.One principle is His gift of everlasting life in the rebirth of our spirit by grace through childlike faith, and the other principle is reward according to obedient works by grace through progressive maturing knowledge into adult (first born son) like loving faith unto the souls salvation in everlasting glory.
This most critical Truth of God’s Salvation Plan goes obscured and untold, that of immediate imputed righteousness based upon faith in another’s work verses a future wonderous bestowment for personal righteousness worked out by increasing loving overcoming faith,...when rightly understood the all important critical message enlightens, fearfully warns in all its “ifs” and inspires the sincere student and teacher of the Bible to strive like Paul, to work out their ‘soul’s’ salvation with fear and trembling, to get into the ‘race’ with the prize of attaining unto the heavenly calling, to seek early and late intimate sanctifying knowledge in the knowing of God through His given Word, unto attaining the prescribed necessity of God’s exclusive plan for those ‘saved’ who would be Raptured alive or caught up from among the dead at the First Resurrection; that is of worthiness.
This maturing process in loving obedience reaches out to grasp a hold of the fullness of the propitiation power of Christ’s salvation Atonement; that of a saved souls purpose becoming one with God’s purposes, that of the amazing privilege of becoming worthy of regal intimate oneness with Him (like that of a Wife or Firstborn Son) to rule over this world in the Age to follow. This is according to God’s desired revealed will, stated in Scripture, and that which should be understood, that which was determined by God from before the foundation of this world….the fullness of the Gospel pertains to the royal heavenly calling to rule in the place of fallen Lucifer. The attaining of this high calling hinges now entirely upon the heart response and free will of a ‘saved/born again’ man (for the calling to regal oneness can only be extended to the ‘saved’ not the unsaved). “Saved/born again” in the past tense meaning those who have been set apart having redemptions gift of everlasting life with renewed spirit and the love of God shed abroad in his heart. Those sanctified/set apart/saved in the past tense to be sanctified/set apart/saved in the present tense with faith’s view of a future salvation…another way to express the same thing would be; we are born again from above the first time in the spirit that we might be born again from above again the second time in the completeness of God’s Salvation Plan; in the soul.
Simply said this is the two principals stated above that comprise the marvelous Gospel of God.
This heavenly calling, being the greater part and purpose of the Gospel of Jesus Christ’s Atonement, once clealy seen by the born again believer, it will become that believers loving passion for attainment, as it was for Paul (phil3) .
This greater purpose of God has been so obscured by the religious leaven of ‘grace only’ meaning imputed righteousness without qualifying works accomplishes all God’s salvation plan for man … Packaged up in different ways, all false messages of a false security sadly prevalent in modern day Christendom.
When the scales of religious leaven are removed and this Truth of the Gospel’s two principals of God’s gracious dealings with man are revealed in Scripture; one with the unsaved, the subject on which relatively little is Written of in Scripture, and the other with the saved to be saved on which the vast majority of God’s documented dealings center … allows the seeker to reconcile or connect in perfect harmony with the meaning of all the seemingly contradictory Scriptures. In that some Scriptures are touted by this denomination to prove their doctrine of once saved always saved and then another denomination gathering certain Scriptures to prove their doctrine that the saved may lose their eternal salvation…as almost all differing doctrinal beliefs are centered around; ‘saved’ and ‘lost’,… those having eternal life and those having eternal death,… Heaven or Hell issues;…
The Truth understanding reveals what is imputed and what is the resulting ‘gift’ and what is rewarded according to faithful works by the saved. These works of righteousness are not the imputed righteousness of Christ, although only through a vital connection with Christ the works can be performed, (john15:5,rev19:7,8)…words in perfect harmony with “not by works of righteous we have done, but by grace, are we saved by faith, and that not of ourselves.” when properly viewed).
Scripture holds forth a time for Judgment, not just for the unsaved but much is Written about Judgment especially…..
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Illustrating The Rapture and The Bride of Christ (PART 2)
Mike teaches today. 10/29/22
ILLUSTRATING THE RAPTURE AND THE BRIDE OF CHRIST PART TWO…
Principal statements…in illustrating the Rapture and the Bride of Christ.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE RAPTURE’S AND FIRST RESURRECTION OUT FROM AMONG THE DEAD? Briefly stated it is the conclusion of God’s plan for a worthy competent government for this Realm; the heaven of this Realm being preeminent then starting there (thus the Raptures and First Resurrection catching up answers to the changing and fitting to dwell with Him in that higher and greater part of this Realm, where there by necessity is need for that more abundant kind of ‘Life’ (john14:2,3;10:10;1cor15:44) and to then Rule over its earth (psalms96:9-13).
Let the Christian with ears to hear and a heart to receive realize that it is not in ‘death’ or that which follows now that fits one for heavens but that is reserved for the First Resurrection or Rapture in the future. When we die we go where Jesus went when He died, to await Resurrection (as He did)…which will be either in the blessed First Resurrection (rev20:6;ex28:1,2 & rest of chapt) or that general great judgement for the rest of the dead 1000 years later (rev20:11).
WHO WILL BE APART OF THE RAPTURED AND FIRST RESURRECTION?
To here state it simply; only those judged worthies (lk20:35a;phip3:11).
The entire purpose for the setting forth of the Scriptures, in its doctrines, by Jesus and His Apostles, is to promote holy living by those who are ‘saved,’ who will hear and strive to attain unto the great prize of the high calling (a more in depth Scriptural understanding is to be set forth in the next lesson).
CONTINUING NOW WITH WHEN WILL THE RAPTURE AND FIRST RESURRECTION OF THE BRIDE OCCUR?
AS noted before but now to be simply illustrated, according to specific Scripture the timing for the Rapture and First Resurrection is; ‘when the fullness of the Gentiles must come in’ (roms11:25) and the ‘times of the Gentiles’ ruling is forcefully put to an end (lk21:24;rev11:2,15).
In full accordance with these End Time events then Glorified Jesus, the High Priest, Who has been 2000 years in intercessory ministry as The High Priest, advocating for the members of His “Body” (Who cannot be Advocate and Judge at the same time,…so it understood that The Father is now the Judge john15:1;hebs12:7-10).
So in the fullness of these times, at the predicted 70th week of years of Daniels Vision is unsuspended, Jesus will leave the Throne of the Father in the Third Heaven (2cor12:2) and will come into the unseen first heaven associated with this World’s Realm. Where He will receive, at that Time, His investiture as King and Judge of this Realm; its heaven and earth, and oversee the Last Days judgments of God in this Realm (dan7:9 with rev4:1,2).
Jesus having received His Kingly investiture in the first heaven of this Realm, remains here now in this Realm for 1007 years. Manifest first in its heaven, where He will administer God’s Judgments for both this Realm’s sphere; its heaven and its earth, until the end of the 7 years, at which time His Second Coming Presence shall be manifest on the Earth, the other part of His Kingdom (and that at the great sound of a Trumpet; matt24:30b;1thess4:16;1cor15:52).
(The Last Trump in Scripture is described in Revelation 11:15-18 “And the seventh angel sounded (began to sound the ‘tekiah Gedolah’); and there were great voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign fore ever and ever…. (therefore before the ending of last trump,; all the following will have been completed ) (1) the nations were angry, (2) and thy wrath is come, (3) the time of the dead, that they should be judged, (4) and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints and them that fear thy name, small and great’ and (5) shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.” All will be accomplished during the sounding of the 7th Trumpet toward the end of the 7 yr period.)
THE END TIME CLOCK OF 7 YEARS IN WHICH THE RAPTURES AND THE FIRST RESURRECTION OF THE BRIDE WILL OCCUR, BEGINS WITH…Isaiah 28:14-19 with Daniel 9:24-27 the last days rulers of Israel and the prince (the little horn of Daniel chapt 7) enter into a vain accursed 7 year protection agreement. This is the spiritual catalyst for Daniels 70th week of 7 years now to be unsuspended, the clock starts, it is the time-table that shall now finish this 6000 year Age.
Jesus Words in Matthew 24 and 25, Mark 13 and Luke 21 are parallel Scriptures dealing with that specific 7 year Time just before His Return. Jesus speaking of the End Time events before is Return alludes to Daniel, which serves to confirm the prophetic word of Daniel as the end time timetable.
Jesus marked reference point in Matthew 24:15 is Daniel’s 12:11.
Daniel 9:27 declares that this abomination is ½ way through the 7 year agreement, when the Anti-Christ will stop…...
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Illustrating The Rapture and the Bride of Christ PART 1
Mike teaches today. 10/22/22
Temporary Notes (small sample):
Illustrating The Rapture and the Bride of Christ PART 1 OF TWO PARTS
The great work of the Father for His Beloved Son, is for Him to have His own heavens realm and share it with His Consort chosen out of mankind, this has been the subject set forth in Scripture as the great mystery from the foundation of the World (eph1;3,4,9,10; 3:9,1-11;hebs3:1).
The Son of Man having been found to be of a perfect ruling character; in that He is both manifest as a selfless sacrificial Lamb and mighty conquering Lion. His Consort/Wife is given unto Him by the Father (john17:6). And the Son gave Himself up for her (eph5:25-27; titus2:11-14).
The Old Testament set forth Israel as the ‘wife’ of God the Father with the assurance of then and now an Earthly inheritance; though she be in a present state of divorcement (isa50:1;jer3;ezk16) she shall be restored at the end of Daniels 70 weeks (dan9:24) to her chosen place and ‘marital’ ruling status in the Earthly Land of Kingdom Promise as set forth in many Passages.
What is not taught and therefore not understood is that the ‘kingdom’ call that the Nation of Israel rejected was that CALL of an additional sphere in this realm, that of dominion in the unseen first heavens associated with this earth. The Earthly command to take dominion extended to Adam was always in anticipation of the higher spheres calling in this Kingdom; the heaven of this Earth;… with its higher and greater state of ‘life,’ authority and honor (dan4:26b “…after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.”).
From Abraham and his sons we have recorded in Scripture their awareness of the prospects of that part of this Kingdom, that they fixed their hearts upon and earnestly desired (hebs11:9-16). That which leavened Christendom has wrongly interpreted and misappropriated as a faith promise to the merely born again believer who has received eternal life, that being of their sure inheritance in the 3rd Heaven with God, after they die or if they are alive when Jesus Returns then they will not die but automatically be changed in a twinkling of an eye and caught up into Heaven and abide in their promised mansion. And that is in answer to what modern day Christendom has taught; that by simply ‘believing’ in Jesus sustitutionary work, and being justified in Him that they are automatically the ‘Bride’ of Christ, to be recipients of good things in the blessings of the Lord while alive on the Earth, to be changed with a glorious body and Raptured into Heaven or if they should die before His Second Coming, at death they are caught up to Him in Heaven. Setting aside all those doctrines for a minute let us look at Scripture.
Israel is depicted in the Old Testament as the “wife” of God. She was chosen by God out of all the Nations to be His “wife”…not all the Nations are the ‘wife’ of God, only Israel.
The Father will present unto the Son His Bride (john17:6) selected out of all the ‘saved’ incorporated into His Body (1cor12:12).
Not all that make up the ‘Body’ will be the ‘Bride’…but only those selected, this can be seen in one place typically as mentioned, in that the Nation of Israel was chosen out of all the Nations to be the Fathers Wife.
Being then also set forth typically in Eve being sought out and found suitable from among ‘others’ and presented unto Adam who only could be the “help meet (in his likeness) for him” …who would be able to share His Love, Regality and Kingly Authority as his bride / wife (gen2:18-25).
Again Scripture gives type with Rebecca being sought out and chosen from among others of Abraham’s clan/family and presented to Isaac, the son who was to be heir (gen24 being typical of the Holy Spirit in this Dispensation seeking out a Bride for Christ).
And the heavenly Bride of Christ, being those selected out of the Nation of the One New Man, to share in the Oneness marriage Union, is no more clearly seen typically than from the story of Ruth, the alien Gentile, presented unto rich and stately Boaz (ruth2:1)
So as it was stated above; that before the Age of Re-Creation that God the Father had determined the Son and His Consort would replace satan in this Realm typically set forth first in the creation of Adam and Eve. And not only will Jesus and His Bride reign in this Realm they shall be the last Rulers in this Realm. For in the future this Realm is appropriatly to be done away with and the New Realm is Created (rev21:1). Then being of a single Heaven and a new Earth following the Millennial reign of Jesus and His Bride.… the New Heaven diadem is in the form of the New Jerusalem that crowns the New Realm, becoming that place wherein “…the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it (being now one Throne from which They reign); and His servants shall serve Him; and they shall see His face (esther1:14;hebs12:14b); and their names shall be in their foreheads (implies they have His Character and glory…..
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Illustrating the greater Dispensations' within the 2 "Ages" of God's Salvation Plan of this Realm
Mike teaches today. 10/15/22
Link to Lessons 1 and 2, and the illustration chart: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7ao0ueyiqiwq4e1/AACkX_adlR5KIkGHVb4e-1Tea?dl=0
Lesson 1: Illustrating the greater Dispensations' within the 2 "Ages" of God's Salvation Plan of this Realm
Lesson 2: Illustrating the Timeline of the choice Vine' planted by God
Temporary Notes:
Illustrating the greater Dispensations' within the 2 "Ages" of God's Salvation Plan of
this Realm
(those 2 'Ages' typically set forth in Genesis 1:2b-2:3 the time of Re-Creation as 6
davs of Work; being the 6000 years of the 'Age' we now are close to closing out;.. and
1 dav of Rest; the following 'Age' of 1000 years of rest in this Realm called the
Millennium ..this great pattern of Septenary Truth is first understood from the
Word of the Psalmist 90:4 and 2Peter 3:8
"But, beloved, do not forget this one
thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day." And is then recognized throughout Scripture from Genesis to
Revelation as a critical Scriptural foundation on which man is to comprehend God's
basic time line for Restoration of all things.)
Starting from the 1st Dispensation; commonly called 'Innocence' which might better
be named; the Dispensation of Trial, beginning with Adam's Creation and
terminating with Eve's being deceived by fallen Lucifer, and then Adam following
her into transgression curse of God in judgment 'death'. It is here in sin's entrance
that God had mercifully an answer; the shedding of animal blood for the remission
of their sins (Genesis 3:21;4:4;hebs9:22) and although they were forgiven and
eternally redeemed / saved by that blood from the Lake of Fire, yet the efficacy of
that blood could not get them back into the Garden of Eden and glorious presence of
the Lord.
God not leaving them without hope of restoration, God promised that from the seed
of a woman He would bring the ultimate Son of Man Deliverer Who would be
victorious over satan and take his ruling authority away from him (gen3:15).
How long this first Dispensation was we are not specifically told, but we are told
that Seth, who took the place of Abel in the theocratic line, who Cain slew, was born
when Adam was 130 years old. Since the fall and expelling from the Garden was
before that point, even before the birth of Cain and Abel, we know the Dispensation
was less than 130 years.probably less than 100 years.
Adam and Eve then, having been expelled from the Garden, was the event that began
the 2nd Dispensation of 'Conscience' that ended with the Flood of Noah.
Calling this Dispensation that of 'Conscience' is a bit of a misnomer, in that what is
implied by the name is that there was no law or revelation of God made to man from
the expelling from the Garden to the command of God to Noah to build the Ark. That
there was revelation of God to man is testified by Enoch, the 7th from Adam, who
was a highly informed prophet of God (jude14). Who guided men's consciences. Men
have always been, then and now, answerable to their conscience.albeit his
conscience requires continual education in the knowledge of God.
Civil Government was the 3rd Dispensation. Civil Government was instruction given
by God for all Civil Governments to exercise punishment upon men commensurate
with their crimes, after Noah came out of the Ark, including capital punishment
upon all murderers (genesis9). This Dispensation lasted for 427 years up till the call
and Covenant Promises given to Abraham.
During this Dispensation Seripture reveals that God's servants made blood sacrifices
id offerings unto Him. In the day of the birth of Peleg (meaning division) the Eart
was divided into various languages and peoples Genesis 10:25 with 11:1-9, 16-19.
The fo Dispensation in the first Age 2000 years after Re-Creation is called 'Promise!
it begun with the call to Abram (acts7:1-5) and continued till the giving of the Law at
Mount Sinai.
The Old Testament record of the seven-fold covenant is documented in Genesis12:1-
3. The basis from which all prophecy then proceeds.
Paul declares in Galatians 3:17 that from the going forth of the Covenant Promises
with Abraham there was 430 years till the giving of the Law of Moses at Mount Sinai.
When one does the math it means that Israel was in Egypt for 215 years before
Moses brought them out, and a year later the Law was given.
Abraham was 75 when he came out of Ur...25 years later Isaac was born and when
he was 60 he had twin boys; Esau and Jacob. Jacob was 130 years old when he went
down into Egypt which equals 215 years for a total of 430 years.
Israel multiplied in Egypt and when God raised up Moses to deliver them from their
bondage they came out as a Nation by the strong right arm of God some 3 million
men, women and children. So it was that the Dispensation of Promise closed.
The 5th Dispensation of the Law was when God began to deal with Israel, to take
them to the Promised Land to their……..
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MAKING A DIAGRAM OF BIBLICAL TRUTHS -mFROM EARTH'S CONSTRUCTION TO EARTH'S DESTRUCTION
Mike teaches today. 10/08/22
MAKING A DIAGRAM OF BIBLICAL TRUTHS -mFROM EARTH'S CONSTRUCTION TO EARTH'S DESTRUCTION
CHARTING THE AGES….. laying the foundation for understanding the Scriptures:
God’s call to mans regality…
First the defining of a few words used in Scripture: … the Hebrew word; olom, the Greek words; aion and aionios. For a complete understanding of these two words see Marvin R. Vincent’s four-volume set, Word Studies in the New
Testament.
Olom: means ‘age lasting’….or horizon to horizon…the corresponding word in the Greek is; ‘aion’ and W.E Vines New Testament meaning is a period of indefinite duration of time in relation to what takes place in that period.
The force of the word is not so much that of the actual length of a period, but that of a period marked by spiritual or moral characteristics.
This is illustrated in John 17:3 in respect of the increasing knowledge of God.
“And this is ‘life (zoe) eternal (aionios) that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
‘Aion’ is the noun for ‘age’… ‘aionios’; is the word usually translated ‘eternal’ or ‘everlasting’ it is the adjective from the noun -aion-. Neither word means eternal or everlasting. The only way the Greek or Hebrew words can express ‘eternal’ is by using ‘aion’ in the plural….as in rev 1:6,18;4:9,10;5:13,14;7:12;10:6;11:15;14:11;15:7;19:3;20:10;22:5.
Sometimes ‘aion’ is mistranslated as ‘worlds’…as in Hebs 1;2;11:3.
Matthew 12:32 contrasting aions or ages …there are two of them set in the framework of the 7000 years typified in Genesis 1:2a-2:3.
The Greek word ‘oikonomia’ is the word translated ‘dispensation’ in English.
It means; Primarily signifies the management of a household or of household affairs, the management of the property of others;…stewerdship.
Scripture is all about these 7000 years of time…. Related to this Earth and its heaven with a starting point and an ending point.
Scripture; in its promises and warnings are focused upon the 1000 year Day of the Lord.
It is not about ‘Heaven or Hell’ issues related to ‘saved and unsaved’ in ‘eternity’ beyond this ‘age’ as the Church has misrepresented it from one degree of error to a greater degree of error over the last 1700 years or so, till its fully leavened state of Scriptural ignorance of today.. 2tm3:7.
A great deal of the leavening affect is because of the misusing these words, aion and aionios to represent ‘eternity’ as something that has to do with being ‘saved’ and accepted into Heaven or being ‘unsaved’ and forever lost in Hell after this time… when ‘eternity’ begins.
Scriptures entire emphasis on the Age of the Kingdom inheritance has been all but replaced with an almost exclusive emphasis on ‘salvation by grace’….leaving the vast majority of ‘saved’ Chrisitan’s completely unaware of the Truth of Scripture in the spiritual battle for their souls, and woefully short of spiritual maturity in morality and will disinherited from the Kingdom and all its promises.
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MAKING A DIAGRAM OF BIBLICAL TRUTHS
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THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 20:31
Mike Balloun teaches today. 09/24/22
THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 20:31
“But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”
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THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 19:17
Mike teaches today. 08/20/2022
THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 19:17
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THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 19:1-16
Mike teaches today. 08/13/2022
THE BOOK OF JOHN CHAPTER 19:1-16
Full unedited notes:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dhdn4oqmof3r7qy/John%2019%20lesson%20one.docx?dl=0
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VERSES 1-5 “Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,
And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him.
Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man!”
What a great contrast between the First Adam, the one set forth before Angels/angels in splendor and might over the newly re-created Earth; and the Second Adam… forcefully dressed with kingly cover, mocked and set forth by the serpent an meant as and affront to God “Behold the man”…(seemingly) a pretensions religious man, shamelessly powerless, my purchased slave, broken and beaten, unworthy to rule.
When we observe the Jewish religious leaders vicious unwarranted hate of Jesus and the miscarriage of justice by the authorities of Rome, how well all men, who are seekers of truth, should gauge the depth of wickedness of the nature of satan that permeates all mans souls as a consequence of being born of Adam, that in being born again into Jesus we are found not to be free of, but rather are called by Jesus to daily crucify.
The Law of Moses is seen to have had but little effect to control this abiding nature within the soul of these religious Jews.
TWO QUESTIONS
The first ‘question’ will come to everyone lost in the World of satan…”Behold the man” ‘What do you think of Him?’ or “Who do you say that I am?” This first question comes as it relates to His being Savior…for Justification for redemption before God …”was He a mere man? Or was He Crucified that you might be redeemed’?
The Second question comes to all redeemed as to His right of Kingship…. “will you have this Man as King over you?” our response is critical to our everlasting existence.
VERSE 11 “Jesus answered, thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee form above” therefore he that delivered Me unto thee, hath the greater sin.”
TO whom does Jesus refer to when He says “he, therefore, that delivered Me unto thee, hath the greater sin (than you).”…Judas? The religious leaders of Israel; Caiaphas and Annas in particuar?
Jesus here sets forth the Truth of different levels of assigned guilt for sin, as He had in different places taught (lk12:48;17:2;2pet2:21).
Pontus Pilate knowing Jesus was innocent tried to free Him, but yet he reluctantly condemned Him and therefore was guilty of injustice against the innocent, that all men in authority, throughout time, will account for at the Judgment Seat. To which Jesus here alludes. (Here THE future Judge, reveals the grounds on which judgment shall fall upon him as Judge.)
The Truth discovered is that greater is the sin, that is against ‘light’ than sin against ignorance.
And certainly the Sanhedrin and in particular the High Priest knew God’s Law condemned most emphatically their wicked actions, and therefore would stand more guilty than the unenlightened Gentile heathen Pontus Pilate.
And here we might ask who had the greater ‘light’ the Leaders of Israel or Judas? And we suppose that Scripture answers that question explicitly as Judas in Matthew26:24 and Psalm109.
In that as bad as Israel’s Leaders sin was, in the main in favor for Jesus Crucifixion (and their continued rejection of Him after His Resurrection for another 33 years), and even the worse sin for Judas betrayal, who’s fate was sealed at his hanging of himself in the going to his place.
But going far beyond those rejections of ‘light’… ultimately the responsibility for Jesus unjust death was laid at the feet of the over-ruler of this Earth and it Nations, in the heavens of this Earth, the epitome of a rejecter of Light; satan himself.
Who’s condemnation and fate, unanticipated by him, was also sealed in the ill conceived wicked deed, as just worthiness of everlasting confinement in the Lake of Fire.
So it is that responsibility, and accountability answers to authority and ‘light’ in degrees of knowledge of God’s will refused,..so first in the greater sin stood:...Lucifer, followed by Judas, then the High Priests and conspiring Sanhedrin, Israel as a Nation, Pontus Pilate and Rome (psalms75:4-7;dan4:26,32;psalm61:11;58:11roms13:1,2).
(On the other hand, in the same way, the one who knows more and more of God’s will and desires to emulate Him, grows in favor and reward).
Like Pontus Pilate of old, today, as then politicians do not trace their positions higher than what they can see.
(Christians wrongly assume or even taught by ministers that they should ‘vote’ and use their influence to set aright the wrongs of governmental authorities….
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