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Mike Balloun teaches today. 08/12/23 THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY OF THE CHURCH (PART 3) VERSES: Matthew 13:31-33, 25:14-30; 2nd Timothy 3:1-9 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/uk5rc9muugaxhq4jko8tw/h?rlkey=lz0epw1nvw7zya13m9tiz6trp&dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Both these texts speak to this time we live in which had become corrupted by the time the Apostolic Age ended… “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” [Matthew 13:31-33] “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.” [2nd Timothy 3:1-9] Eschatology is that great part of Biblical knowledge that deals with the end of this current 2000-year-old Age, with death and judgement, with the Heavens and Hades/the intermediate place of the dead, and the eternal state. The word of extreme importance for the deliverance of today’s leavened Christian with a sincere heart that is being advanced in these exposés, is the clear understanding of the prophesied great deceiving leavening effect upon the early Church, after the Apostles would pass, until the whole of sanctifying Church theology was corrupted. That specific forewarning prophecy to the Church, beginning with Christ and echoed by the Apostles, sadly culminated in the 4th Century (300 AD to 399 AD) with continuing edicts of the Roman Emperor that effectively caused the ‘Church’ to be amalgamated into Babylonian Paganism wherein she is now today unwittingly, comfortably, and apathetically entrenched. Apostolic Truth’s guiding hand to the early Church, in regards to true eschatology, was that the redeemed (having the gift of eternal life) who were true witnesses of Christ, could rightly have faith-filled anticipation of an inheritance in Christ’s future Kingdom. This early Church understanding was that the promise of regality in His Future Kingdom at His Second Coming was attained through overcoming the World and satan in Christlike righteous behavior. This true eschatology filled the early Church mightily with selfless willingness to suffer in the crucifixion of the flesh/carnal soul in pure, consecrated, obedient service to Christ for about 300 years. Until a number of notable pagan ‘tares’ rose up among the wheat with corrupting doctrinal “leaven” to remove or pervert the “Kingdom of (this) heavens” inheritance from the Apostolic Message. See Matthew 13:33… “Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Here is the verse with commentary… “a woman (Mystery, Babylonian harlotry system) “hid (the Greek implies that it was hid stealthily) in (God’s Word of King and Kingdom Truth) three measures” (over a period of time) “…till the whole (theological/religious belief system… of the Church) was leavened”. This happened during the 100 years of the 4th Century. (For more on the leavening by Mystery, Babylon see the following books, ‘The Holy Roman Empire” by James Bryce; ‘The Organization of the Early Christian Churches” by Edwin Hatch; ‘The Two Babylons’ by Alexander Hislop. See also ‘The Church, the Churches, and the Mysteries” and “Mystery Babylon the Great and the Mysteries and Catholicism”, both written by G.H. Pember.) The nominal Church chose to follow the path of least resistance when the Roman/Babylonian system held forth the olive branch of acceptability offered by Constantine, the Emperor of Rome. They chose, what turned out to be, paganized Christianity in compromising self-preservation over further suffering and persecution as true witnesses of the only God and His Redeeming Christ and returning King Who is coming to reward His faithful and punish His enemies and establish His greater Kingdom on the Earth. The challenge presently is to shed light on the continuation of the Church’s corrupted eschatological belief system of the 4th Century in order to awaken the deceived redeemed from the leavened lukewarm religious state and come out of Mystery, Babylon, and live a life commensurate to attaining the Kingdom inheritance and escape Mystery, Babylon’s judgements. Judgements every generation of leavened Christians will experience, not just those who are alive drinking of Her cup at the time of His Return, but all the redeemed of Christ throughout the generations since His First Coming, who lived a life reflective of Her leaven and refused to come out of Her during their lives. These will face judgements in accordance to Her sins, and they will lose eternal life glory, albeit they will retain their gift of eternal life once every farthing due to God by them is paid. This Babylonian system is a lying, thieving, corrupted secular and religious system purposefully designed to steal the redeemed Christian’s inheritance in the regal part of the literal Millennial Kingdom of Christ, in the revitalization of this Realm’s heaven and earth, which is a work of Christ’s to begin at His Return. This inheritance is being stolen right out from under the noses of the apathetic redeemed deceived Laodicean religious, leaving only the frightful judgements for unfaithful service behind. This message of awakening the sleepy-headed lukewarm Christian is the most relevant and important thing that Christians will be confronted with in their lives. It’s not a popular message, in fact the birds (a type for demons) are lined up to immediately devour and steal away the seed so that it will not take root on fertile soil. The Kingdom of heavens ruling in God’s Theocratic Government is Scripture’s doctrinal great common denominator that flows from Genesis and the Old Testament through the New Testament Book of Revelation (read and compare Genesis 1:28 and Exodus 19:3-6 with 1st Peter 2:9 and Revelation 20:4-6 and note the regality and the charge to take dominion as kings and priests associated with the inheritance of the Nation of the One New Man in Christ). It is this Message of Man’s right of royalty proclaimed by God that is encapsulated in the Word of Genesis 3:15 and perceived by the enemy. Satan then designed the lethal corrupting ‘system’ of Babel/Babylon for the disqualifying of Man from that Kingdom as its chief target (which was brought out in the previous lesson). “There is no new thing under the sun.” As it was with what happened with Adam and Eve, and then with Israel, satan’s plan continues… God appoints, the devil deceives, and God’s people disqualify themselves. So those in the Church today do the same. He has had much success with this strategy. It hasn’t changed. It’s been reshaped and reformed and given a lot of bells and whistles, especially at the time of Nimrod and his wife, but it’s still the same program of disqualifying the ‘seed of man’ from regality and taking authority in this (his) Realm. His purpose in leavening this message of inheritance is to keep us from God’s purpose for us, which is to replace him and those that currently rule with him. Religious Babylonian Paganism mixed into Christian foundational doctrines perverted the Truth of God’s salvation plan (which is to say that after a man was redeemed, there was the further necessity for spiritual maturity unto overcoming of the flesh, the World ,and satan in order to qualify to rule in resurrected regality). This perversion of truth, for the most part, came over that period of 100 years during the 4th Century, which involved key human players; starting with the Roman Emperor Constantine, who hid the first measure of religious paganism into nominal Christianity… to Augustine (354AD to 430AD) who assimilated Roman/Babylonian paganism into Christian Church theology. So it was (as any sincere seeker of Truth may find out) that the leavened theology of the 4th Century departed from the guiding hand of Apostolic foundational Written Truths. And the leavening has continued over this long Age of eschatology (that Age being from the time of Constantine until now). The Paganized Church expanded quickly in its state of mixed pagan darkened understanding, and as then, so today, it still adheres to and promotes deceiving and disqualifying eschatological beliefs to the Redeemed Christian through false, misleading, paganized doctrinal lies concerning; ‘where the soul goes at the death of the body’… of ‘works’… of a corrupted understanding of ‘the heavens, Hades, and Hell’… of ‘eternal life’… of the ‘First Resurrection’… and ‘the Millennial reign of Christ’. Satan’s continued misdirecting and leavening evolved when further development in darkness came out of Martin Luther’s protesting of the ‘Church’ doctrine and practice of “works” unto redemption and eternal life, proclaiming that the Written Word of God declares it is by His “grace only” that the Lost/unredeemed are justified and sanctified before Him. Ushering in what is referred to as the ‘Reformation’ in the 16th Century. This leavened Truth of ‘Grace only’ (being a true fact in regards to our justification, but only a half-truth in God’s salvation plan, in that we are responsible for walking in sanctification) of the Protestant/protesting ones, had but little un-leavening effect on the Paganized Church (the Catholic Church being the only Church at the time). In that the ‘freed’ protesting ones defiantly moved from one leavened doctrinal ditch of religious ‘works only’ and raced blindly over Scriptural Truth to the other leavened doctrinal ditch of religious ‘grace only’. In that Luther rightly protested on justification by faith in God’s grace only with the gift of eternal life… yet at the same time, he failed in knowledge or at least to express the doctrinal verities of Scripture on the punishment due to the servants of Christ for ‘works’ or lack thereof on the faithless redeemed and also in regards to the “prize” for ‘works’ of service on the faithful servants of Christ. Luther didn’t understand the accounting which all the redeemed shall be called to at Christ’s Judgement Bema where exacting recompense for good and evil ‘works’ will be justly carried out to the last farthing. And where determination for a select worthiness for the First-fruits rapture and the First Resurrection in the literal Millennial Kingdom inheritance will be discovered or lost. And furthermore, Luther (and all those who bought into the ‘grace only’ message such as Calvinists andArminianists) did not protest the paganized Church on its false eschatology, but in their ‘Grace Only’ declaration ,fractured that one corrupted Church into multiple yet still corrupted new ’denominational’ groups. The Mystery, Babylonian Harlotry continued unimpeded, perpetuating the disqualifying leavening darkness of Paganism that cleverly masqueraded and maneuvered among the presumed sincere ‘brilliant’ (but blind) religious men in maintaining the redeemed man in spiritual darkness to essential foundational understanding of the Scriptures. That being of God’s Salvation Plan of Man’s spirit, soul, and body, through the redeemed spirit/Spirit-led overcoming worthiness, united again together in a Resurrection glorious spiritual form, as the New Creature, who would then rule with His Son in His Kingdom in a Theocratic Government in this Realm for a 1000 years. So it was that the ‘reformation’ leaders did not actually reform the leavened Babylonianized Church, but just created a paralleling ‘Grace Only’ tributary flowing alongside, dumping in the same sea of disqualifying unbelief. It was not until the 19th Century into the early 20th Century that the Truth of Biblical first century Apostolic Eschatology began to marvelously be set forth again by many notable Godly authors and ministers who left denominations and committed to go back to Biblical unleavened understandings conveyed from the earliest writings of Scripture in their original recorded languages. Yet misconceptions in the Church still prevail, like the wide un-passable chasm in Hades, and will according to Scripture right up to the Second Coming, just as they did at the First Coming. And the large portion of the Body of Christ will be taken in utter surprise. As were the Antediluvians (those who lived at the time of Noah before the Flood) at the close of their 120 years of scoffing. Or surprised like Lot’s remaining family members on the day of his departure beginning the day just like any other; proceeding as usual down the streets of Sodom, who then suddenly cast a terrifying glance upward as the fiery hailstones began to thump upon ground and roof. How sadly late will the importance of the unleavened Truth be of “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues” be to today’s apathetic Christian. The Word says, “Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp (of Paganized Christianity) bearing His reproach.” [Hebrews13:13] To the one that believes they aren’t in the ‘camp’ because they do not go to Church, recognize that this thinking is just another deceiving lie to make you think that you are not of the Babylonian Whore’s system. That paganized understanding probably prevails in your thinking, otherwise you’d be seeking the pureness of the Truth and not just apathetically saying, ‘Well, I don’t go to church so I’m not in danger of taking of Her plagues’. THE LEAVENING OF TRUTH After seeing the big picture from Genesis to Revelation, the Babylonian system’s intent is to: 1.) keep men from being redeemed and 2.) even more importantly, to keep redeemed men from seeing the Call of God to rule in this Realm. The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth developed many alternative religions for Man to align themselves with, to keep them in the first place from being God’s redeemed. As it is only the redeemed of God who can then be called to rule with Him in His coming Kingdom. 
When a man is born again, he becomes an heir; butheirs do not inherit until they come of age.(Galatians 4:1-2) And even then, along the way of life,he may disinherit himself by misconduct. Only those who spiritually mature beyond mere ‘babes’ of redemption, who grow in selfless Christlikeness, will come into the inheritance. (Romans 8:17, Acts 20:32) (A doctrine of Truth typed by the children of Israel redeemed out of Egypt and all heirs of the promised land, yet only a few went in.) So it became necessary to deter God’s redeemed in the Earth from their inheritance by way of their disqualifying themselves by introducing false corrupting doctrines into God’s Written Word. What is disqualifying today’s redeemed is his own false doctrinal beliefs that deter him from answering the call to the literal coming Kingdom of Christ to this Realm. And every false view set forth from the ‘Church’ (essentially two groups; Catholic or Protestant, two birds of the same feather) is designed for one purpose only; to maintain a religious doctrinal barrier to keep the redeemed out of hearing or answering the Kingdom inheritance call. Leavened, unscriptural doctrines from the 4th Century to the 21st Century must by necessity touch all doctrines. It is an intermingled web of deception. In the 4th Century, the Roman/Babylonian Paganized Church was formed. This is an easy assessment, given that in the historic Nicaean Council, Constantine determined what a Christian should believe or suffer death. Imagine that! A pagan Roman Emperor had risen to the place where he commanded what you should believe with the threat of death if you didn’t. That’s the foundational platform on which the paganized Church began! Immediately, the Roman/Babylonian Emperor essentially became the Head of the Church, ruling on its Theology. Babel, in answer to its immediate concern, effectively mixed Christianity into their 2-part deceiving system which was set up in Babel; secular and religious. And in that amalgamation, the fallen spirits accomplished primarily through one man, the Church ‘catholic’/universal in its corruption, which was spewed from the mouth of the Lord, but yet found its beginnings in the New Testament Church in the 4th Century and thrived for centuries in Europe, and still thrives today now Worldwide. (Matthew 13:31-32) In the one massive group, its Babel-mixed fully leavened theological doctrines centered/centers around external ‘works’ for Eternal Life coupled with a fully leavened eschatology, and in the other large group the half-truth of “Grace Only” for the gift of Eternal Life (that includes the ‘gift’ of glory without works) rules the theological landscape with its similar corrupted eschatology. We begin with a summary of the Theological eschatology of Catholics today, adapted from the “United States Catholic Catechism for Adults”: When the Redeemed ask sincere questions, this is their response… (our comments in parenthesis)… “Question: I would really like to know the Truth as to what happens to us (redeemed) after we die? Answer: Our Church (Catholic) teaches that immediately after death, our soul separates from our earthly body and we stand before God for judgement. We then enter (the) heaven, Purgatory or hell (eternal lake of fire). (The) Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness. Those who are free from all sin (purged by Mass) enter heaven immediately. Purgatory (in Hades in the center of the Earth) is a place of purification, for those who die in a state of grace and friendship (redeemed) with God but who are not yet fully purified. Those in Purgatory are assured a place in (the) heaven after their purification. We pray for those in Purgatory, that they may soon be with God in (the) heaven. Hell is for those who have willingly chosen to reject God and his love. If we persist in a state of serious sin, we damn ourselves to hell (the eternal Lake of Fire). At the end of time (after the prevailing of the Catholic Church in this World), our Lord will come again (to this Realm) to judge the living and the dead. All souls will be rejoined with their bodies (at this time), and those in Purgatory will be joined to the blessed in (the) heaven. The Last Judgement will reveal that God’s justice triumphs over all the injustices committed by his creatures and that God’s love is stronger than death.” In answer to the 4th Century Catholic Church’s external ‘works’ for ‘salvation’ doctrine and its wicked and oppressive leavened Biblical doctrines and practices (made evident in the murderous precedent of its first ‘Pope’/Constantine and its well-documented history), Protestants/protesting ones came forth in the 16th Century, religiously and defiantly, with their equally leavening doctrine. At the heart of their revolutionary protesting was their re-defining of the meaning of Truth’s declaration of being ‘saved’/having “Eternal/everlasting life” by grace only (through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God’s grace only; without ‘works’). So it was/is, having not come into any further light on Truth’s meaning of “Eternal/everlasting Life” it was/is taught by false teachers today as an all-inclusive Scriptural term (in that they say if you are redeemed, you inherit the fullness of God’s ‘Salvation Plan’, regardless of your walk). But Scriptural Truth holds forth a two-fold meaning for God’s salvation of Man: in that “Eternal/everlasting “Life” has two different applications; that of Duration and Quality. And this Truth should be understood in conjunction with God’s ‘Millennial Kingdom’ inheritance Truth that has also a dual application; that of a ‘heavenly’ part and an ‘Earthly’ part. THE TWO APPLICATIONS OF ‘LIFE’ Eternal (everlasting) ‘Life’ having to do with God’s gift (Romans 8:15) by imputation to all His redeemed children and the other application, which is Quality ‘Eternal ‘Life’ plus Glorious ‘Life’; having to do exclusively with God’s “reward”/“prize” endowed to first-born sons. (Philippians 3, Luke 20:35, Romans 8:29-30, Colossians 1:27; 3:24) Eternal ‘Life’ having to do with justification/merely redeemed children or “babes” (Hebrews 5:13-14) and Quality ‘Eternal ‘Life’ plus Glorious “Life’ having to do with sanctification/spiritual maturity of the redeemed found worthy of the inheritance as ‘first-born sons’/ joint heirs with Christ; the First Born. (Romans 8:17, 1st Peter 2:2, John 17:17) Eternal ‘Life’ having to do with forgiveness of guilt for inherent Adamic sin in the renewal of the spirit; (Romans 5:12)… Quality ‘Eternal ‘Life’ plus Glorious ‘Life’ having to do with reward for the redeemed/rebirth of the spirit who went on in the overcoming of the sin nature inherent in the soul unto a son of God. (Romans 8:1-14) When and if “Eternal Life” and “Eternal Life plus Glorious Life” are joined together in the soul (1st Corinthians 15), it will be at the appointed time of the 7-year Great Tribulation, in the catching up of the faithful living and also at the First Resurrection out from among the dead, as a part of Christ’s Return to this Realm in the End of this Age. (1st Thessalonians 4:16-17) That united ‘Life’ realization will have been as a result of recompense of ‘reward’ for ‘works’ after redemption by the sanctifying Word of Truth (John 17), and for having lived on the Earth in sanctified faithful service to Christ. This being determined at Christ’s Judgement Seat that all the redeemed must answer to. “Eternal Life and Eternal Life plus Glorious Life” united together equal= God’s “Great Salvation” Plan; that of Man ruling in regality as First Born Son/sons, and replacing Angels/angels as the ruling authorities in this Realm; its ‘heavenly’ and ‘Earthly’ parts of His Coming Millennial Kingdom. (Hebrews 2:3 with 3:1) Babel’s system was designed by the fallen ruling spirits to remove the threat of this invasion in their ancient and present Kingdom (the Earth and its heaven) by a qualified Man. That qualifying of a people to rule in this Realm is to be found in Scripture’s redemption of the Nation of Israel and their Call to holiness. A Nation that was disqualified in its being incorporated into Mystery, Babylon through its leavening of God’s Truth. Later, it was not difficult for the fallen spirits to adapt into the New Testament the religious leavened view of the Torah by the Jew, the root of Judaism’s unbelief, that being a prideful righteousness of their own making; the assertion and presumption of God’s Kingdom inheritance (Genesis 15:7) entirely based upon their lineage from Abraham. It wasn’t hard for the spirits to cleverly interject the same like corrupting teaching of an all-inclusiveness in the lineage of Christ; an imputed righteousness, having received both justification and sanctification with Eternal life and Eternal glory entirely based on being redeemed into the ‘lineage of Jesus Christ’. (Revelation 3:14-22) As effective as it was with Israel before, this removed the necessity of the redeemed to be practically holy. The embracing of this fatal leavening doctrine, is to reject these clear Scriptural distinctions (along with others yet to be mentioned). This Roman/Babylonian Harlot system teaching has stolen the heritage of millions of God’s merely redeemed, who then must also answer, and be accountable at the Judgement Seat of Christ for what they did with Redemption’s gift/ “talent/pound.” (Matthew 25:14-30) The sincere redeemed of the Lord among this group also darkened in spiritual Babylon (Protestants) also ask the question: “I would really like to know what happens to me at death? And Mystery, Babylon answers: “When you die as a born-again Christian, you are made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into glory and go to Heaven to be forever with the Lord.” This being a hodgepodge of religious tares’ teaching on the afterlife without Scriptural Truth basis (the afterlife eschatological Truth of Scripture will be addressed more thoroughly shortly in a future lesson). One of the foremost teachers of that time (the 16th Century) in the beginning of that ‘protesting tributary’, from whom an entire denomination of the redeemed was formed, wrote: “It is therefore as absurd and unsuitable that they, the righteous (merely redeemed), should do good works, as if they were to say God should do good, the sun should shine, the pear-tree should bring forth pears, three and seven should make ten, as all this ensues of necessity of the case from the nature of the thing.” This leavened doctrine is; that by imputation of Christ’s righteousness (they, in great error, apply it to mean; both justification and sanctification) to the merely redeemed without any consideration of ‘works’, that all God’s salvation plan for Man is secured!!! (This smacks of religious retaliation exegesis for the Catholic Church’s long oppressive heresy.) Nevertheless, this is a complete rejection of Christ’s exhorting Words to His Church; in the necessity of overcoming the disqualifying carnality in the soul for inheritance in His glorious eternal life. (See Revelation 2&3, the guts of the doctrine of the Book of James and the Book of Hebrews, and Christ’s personal excluding Words to the redeemed relative to the Kingdom inheritance in Matthew Chapters 5-8; and also Romans Chapters 5-8.) This is still drinking from the deceiving cup of Mystery, Babylon, in designed spiritual darkness, having left the Apostolic established Truths and Eschatology of the first century in understanding the fullness of the Salvation Plan of God. The religious doctrinal lie promoted by Mystery, Babylon through the ‘Old Man’ within every redeemed person, whose fallen nature is akin to it (it being exceedingly sinful), cannot clearly be discerned because the redeemed person fails to differentiate in his mind the Old Man interjecting into his reasoning from that of the voice of Truth. Unfortunately, the New Man’s reasoning is un-renewed to the Word of God; so he grabs onto the false doctrine “Grace Only” Message, which appeals to the Old Man’s nature of wanting no accountability, with joy and rejoicing. (Because of this lying religious reasoning being received as ‘Truth’, the redeemed is deceived from the necessity of ‘suffering’ with Christ and overcoming the Sin Nature within, the World, and satan in qualifying worthiness to rule in the Coming Kingdom in the deceivers’ stead). Those purveyors of this false doctrine say that ‘Christ has already done it for the Redeemed!!!’ ‘He suffered so you would not have to suffer!’ ‘He overcame so you would not have to overcome!’ ‘He rules from Heaven over the World and when you die, you will be made perfect in holiness glory and will immediately go to Heaven and rule with Him forever!' This is lethal leavened doctrine. All Religious corrupting leaven, no matter what doctrinal falsehood, or from which denomination in came forth (as they are all eating out of the same corrupted pasture and all are flowing from the same tributary), work together unanimously for one purpose; to dissuade man from Truth in God’s Salvation Plan’s purpose; that of an attained worthiness for ruling regality. (1st Peter 2:9 with Philippians 2:12-13)

Mike Balloun teaches today. 08/05/23 THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY OF THE CHURCH (PART 2) VERSES: Revelation 16:15, 17:5, 18:4-6, 20:1-6; Jude 1:14-15; 1st Peter 4:7 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/mtedtj3vhli8of1gvew7i/h?rlkey=s30367wmlxhundyj52sy2vdi0&dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 In our last discussion, we learned that Eschatology is a discourse on the last things/Last Days, and that the dictionary definition is:(thepartoftheologyconcerned with the culmination of this age, death,judgement,andthe final destiny of the soul and ofhumankind.) Having stated and summarized our intentions in the previous lesson, we continue… End-Time Christian eschatology centers around Christ’s Second Coming and establishing His Millennial Kingdom in this Realm. There are 3 schools of thought. Pre-millennialism, Post-millennialism, and Anti-millennialism (also known as Amillennialism). The first two differing groups, Pre-millennialists and Post-millennialists, agree that before the end of the world, which is to say before the creation of the New Heaven and Earth (Revelation 21:1), there is to be an extraordinary Age of a thousand years in which justice and peace will prevail in the Kingdom of Christ, according to Revelation 20:1-6 (to be shown below). Pre-Millennialist teachers of Biblical eschatology declare that Christ’s Second Coming will take place before that Millennium, which answers to that Millennium’s beginning. The Post-Millennialist teachers of Biblical eschatology say that the Second Coming will not take place until after that peace-filled Millennium. The Amillennialists declare there is no Millennial reign of Christ upon this Earth. Revelation 20:1-6… “And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is 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.” (Note that the Bible should be taken literally, except for where it is absurd to do so. But sadly, many men and denominations teach traditional doctrines that have, for centuries, been spiritualized to allow for leavened doctrines.) It is acknowledged that not all of any group believe exactly the same, yet the general beliefs are here summarized to show that the 3 interpretations of the Bible are as different and as hostile as light is to darkness, and as unleavened is to leavened! (A summary of those 3 specific views follows in the next few paragraphs which includes added brief Scriptural insights noted in parenthesis along with specific citations from Wikipedia noted in quotes.) Beginning with the last mentioned, as a generalization of this traditional view… the Anti-Millennialists teach “there will be no Millennial reign” of Christ and His Righteous on the Earth (much less from the unseen heaven related to this Earth, as they have no light at all in the matter). “They interpret the 1000 years of Revelation 20:6 as symbolic and not a literal duration of time.” They teach that the Millennium began at the Resurrection of Christ, and that it “has already spiritually begun” and is running concurrently with this present (evil) Age. So, Christ’s reign is that of a spiritual nature and at the of end of this present ‘Church’ Age, He will “return in final judgment and establish a permanent” Kingdom “reign in the New Heaven and New Earth”. Anti-Milennialists/Amillennialists also say that the chaining of satan began at the beginning of the spiritual millennium (2000 yrs ago) and therefore he has been chained and is now (currently) “prevented from deceiving the Nations”. They believe that the (merely redeemed) Church “and its spread in the Gospel” (of Grace) is the Kingdom, and that “it will forever be”. Their belief being that Christ now rules from Heaven with the departed ‘saints’. “The Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches have long held Anti-Millennial doctrines, as has the Roman Catholic Church, which generally embraces an Augustinian eschatology.” (The Theologian Augustine, who lived from 354-430 AD, was at first a Pre-Millennialist, as that was the unleavened doctrinal belief for the first couple of centuries after Christ, but later switched his views.) “Anti-Millennial doctrines are common among Protestant denominations such as Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, Methodist and many Messianic Jews.” This encompasses millions of redeemed people who are deceived about their eschatology. Briefly, the Post-Millennialist eschatological teaching is that there is a “Golden Age”/Millennial period of time, not necessarily literally a thousand years, but is taken symbolically, as a period of time when “Christian ethics” (that are supposed to be currently at work) will prevail in the World, after which Christ will Return. So, “Post-Millennialism holds that Jesus Christ establishes his kingdom on earth through his preaching and redemptive work done in the first century and that he equips his Church with the gospel, empowers the church by the Spirit, and charges the church with the Great Commission (Matt 28:19) to disciple all nations.” “Postmillennialism expects that eventually the vast majority of people living will be saved. Increasing gospel success will gradually produce a time in history prior to Christ's return in which faith, righteousness, peace, and prosperity will prevail in the affairs of men and of nations. After an extensive era of such conditions, Jesus Christ will return” (in the Second Coming) “visibly, bodily, and gloriously, to end history with the general resurrection” (without any real distinction between the First and Second Resurrections. As postmillennialists, like Amillennialists, generally contend that the departed redeemed go to Heaven to be with Christ) “and the final judgement after which the eternal order” of the New Heaven and Earth “follows”. Postmillennialism teaches Satan is bound and “also teaches that the forces of Satanwill gradually be defeated by the expansion of the Kingdom of Godthroughout history up until the second coming of Christ.” Pre-millennialist eschatology teaches Revelation 20:1-6 as literal and is the oldest of the interpretations (in the first century known as ‘Chiliasm’ from the Greek word meaning ‘thousand’) and states that Jesus will return Bodily to the Earth and usher in a Millennial Kingdom on the Earth (note that the Kingdom will also include its unseen heaven). “Premillennialism is often used to refer specifically to those who adhere to the beliefs in a literal earthly millennial reign of Christ as well as a rapture of the faithful coming before or after the Great Tribulation preceding the Millennium”. (The correct and alternative Pre-Millennial view being that those living followers judged as faithful will join Christ in a First-Fruits rapture at the mid-point of the Tribulation Period, and then there is a second rapture or ‘Harvest’ towards the end of the 7-year Tribulation Period which is of the surviving faithful living who are caught up to join Christ in the air/first heaven along with the faithful dead in Christ in the First Resurrection out from among the dead at the sounding of the Last Trump. {See 1st Thessalonians 4:16-7… “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” } This rapture is before the final Great “Vintage” where Christ pours out the Wrath of God on His enemies. John, in the 14th Chapter of Revelation, uses this eschatological terminology based on God’s established use of the agricultural symbolisms of the first-fruits, the harvest, and the vintage.) Pre-millennialist eschatological exegesis (interpretation) takes the chaining of satan and being cast into the Pit in the center of Earth as literal and it being immediately after the coming 7-year Tribulation Period at the return of Christ to the Earth. That chaining for a 1000 years runs concurrently with the Millennial Kingdom of Christ in this restored Realm after which satan will be released for a short period of time on this Earth. (True Pre-Millennialist eschatological exegesis of Revelation 20:1-6 sees the martyrs and faithful of Christ ruling with Him in the Millennial Kingdom in this Realm. Those being both the living at that time of His Return and the faithful dead, whether dead for only hours or for centuries, who were waiting in Hades/the intermediate place of the dead for the First Resurrection, having been judged worthy at the Judgement Seat of Christ.) Pre-millennialist teachers teach a Second Resurrection and Great White Throne Judgement after the Millennial Kingdom of Christ for the remaining dead, as well as the vaporizing of the current Earth and its heaven. And the creation of a New Heaven and Earth joined with a New Heavenly Jerusalem. THE SAD GREAT SPIRITUAL DISCORD IN ESCHATOLOGICAL EXEGESIS (supposed systematic interpretation) ANSWERS TO SATAN’S SUCCESSFUL DESIGN OF AN ANCIENT SYSTEM IN THE CONTINUAL DISQUALIFYING OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF GOD’S REDEEMED FROM THE ‘CATCHING UP’ FOR THE LIVING FAITHFUL AND BLESSED FIRST RESURRECTION (the out-resurrection from among all the other dead - see Philippians 3:11, Luke 20:35 where in the Greek, it is called the resurrection out from among the dead), AND FROM THE GLORY-FILLED SALVATION OF THEIR SOULS, LEAVING THEM REDEEMED BUT FAR SHORT OF THE FULLNESS OF GOD’S SALVATION PLAN AND THEREBY SUBJECT TO FEARFUL JUDGEMENTS AT CHRIST’S BEMA ACCORDING TO MANY SCRIPTURES THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL AND EPISTLES AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION. (To use but one Book as an example, see Hebrews 2:1-3; 3:12-14; 4:1,11; 6:4-8; 9:27; 10:26-31,38,39; 11:6; 12:17,25,28,29.) UNLEAVENED Eschatology Scripturally, the Lord and the Holy Spirit connect the culmination and termination of this “present evil World/Age” leading up to Christ’s return comparatively with the ancient Age of Noah (see Matthew 24, specifically Verses 36-44 and Genesis 6:1-13 which speak of the condition of the Earth in the Last Days being as it was in the time of Noah, which was exceedingly corrupt and full of violence.) The tumultuous last days of those times of Noah and these times (Last Days) were declared by God, but yet were/are viewed with darkened minds in apathy by those experiencing them. Correct eschatology counters apathy. The Last Days, through Scripture, are thereby to be discernable to God’s people, but the specific day and hour is untold. The state of the World in the Last Days will be like unto the ‘days of Noah’… which is to say discernable from both sides of the Flood. Pre-Flood with lawlessness in selfish pursuit of carnal desires, and in spite of the warnings of Enoch and Noah, they were unconcerned and carried on with their self-absorbed un-repented wicked lives right up to the flood. Additionally, the End-Times comparison of Scripture includes those ‘days of Noah’ following the Great Flood/Judgement of God. (Read Genesis 9:1-18,25; 10:1,6-10,32; 11:1-9. These passages of ancient Biblical history reveal today’s universal two-part corrupting ‘World’ system: the secular part and the religious part of Man’s legalized lawlessness, which were devised by satanically-inspired Nimrod, the first ‘Anti-Christ’, in his bride City of Babel/Babylon. Scripture revealingly, and as will be seen, justly connects them also with the End-Times judgements to come upon this present progressively as predicted, unreconcilable evil Age. (2nd Timothy 3:12-13 with Revelation 17-19:3) “And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” New Testament (eschatological) “Mysteries” is a term used to proclaim that merely religious men who have not sought the Truth by God’s prescribed ways have no means by which they may comprehend them. The word “Mystery” here is used by the Holy Spirit to associate the End-Time Woman with ancient Babel/Babylon. That further revelation, from comparing Scripture with Scripture, is needed to see the connection that must be understood for a correct interpretation of its eschatology. And in their short-sighted denominational eschatological bias, any attempts to interpret the ‘mystery’, results in their easily being deceived by the religious spirits and also becoming men that thenleaven the Truth. The eschatological understanding of the mysteries of God are only revealed in Scripture, and true exegesis relies completely upon other comparative Scripture revealed to define the ‘mysteries’ meaning. Which is to say all doctrines of eschatology Truth must bear up and harmonize with all Scripture or it is not Truth’s interpretation. Which by necessity, must extend back into and harmonize with Old Testament Scripture as well. Genesis (which means ‘Beginnings’) finds its endings in the Book of Revelation. In Scripture’s declaration of “MYSTERY, BABYLON”… ‘MYSTERY’ is not a part of her name, but states something about Her that connects the New Testament with the Old, and reveals the necessity of more revelation to rightly reveal “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (Revelation 17:1-5)… which is to say the New Testament eschatology before us in the Book of Revelation must find its roots (with the dots being connected…) throughout the Old Testament of Moses, the Psalms, and the Prophets. Genesis 3:15 holds forth a ‘Savior’ from the seed of woman. This Truth sailed the flood waters with Noah. Ham was profane and his seed Nimrod was the first typed (foreshadow of) Anti-Christ this side of the Flood, and was the builder of the first City; Babel. Its establishment was in direct defiance to God, as mankind was supposed to scatter out and replenish the Earth. (Genesis 9:1) As a side note, after the Flood, there is no mention of God commanding Noah to ‘take dominion’ in the Earth as with Adam’s calling (for Adam was at that point, un-fallen). Instead, God made only a Covenant of continuing promise, along with the threat of justice that He would surely administrate, with Noah and his seed.) The designed intent of the Babel/Babylonian System was a post-Flood refining and re-establishing of Pre-Flood devised successful alternatives by the serpent to appeal to the ‘flesh’ or fallen carnal nature of Man, to ease his state from the Curse of God pronounced in the Garden of Eden, in order to maintain control by appealing to the appetites of his darkened soul and further alienate man from God and His regal purpose for creating him. The wicked Devisors of the scheme for man’s continuing idolatry were fallen angel spirits along with satan’s first king-priest demigod; Nimrod, the seed of Ham, who was demonically-inspired. The wicked spirits’ goal being that Man and his seed, in answer to Genesis 3:15, would continue to disqualify themselves from replacing them and ruling in this Realm as God’s Theocratic Government. (An eschatological Truth was revealed at least in a limited way to Abraham, which involved him and his seed/Seed in the future receiving a part in not only the Land God gave them as an everlasting possession, but a part in the heaven associated with this Earth. This was also shrouded in mystery, and was to be revealed by Christ at His First Coming. (Genesis 15:5; 17:8; 22:16-18, Hebrews 11:16 with Matthew 13:11, Hebrews 3:1, Philippians 3:14) And because of the Systems of Babel’s religious leavening effect, the heavenly kingdom inheritance in God’s Theocratic Government Truth shrouded in a ‘mystery’ was obscured/unperceived and lost to the Old Testament Covenant people of God/the Nation of Israel. {See Matthew 13:11, Mark 4:11, and Luke 8:10 where Jesus tells His disciples “…Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others {it was veiled} in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.”} The result of the Nation of Israel’s unrelenting leaders’ leavened ancestral teaching was spiritual Israel’s current diaspora {dispersion} into darkness and into ‘Mystery’ Babylon Harlotry for the last 2000 years {sentenced to be there until their final measured grave judgements in God’s ‘Great Tribulation’ retributional 7-year Period, which will bring them into the Truth and restoration at Christ’s Bodily Return and establishment of His Earthly Millennial Kingdom.) And while God’s chosen people then descended into the darkness of this World’s MYSTERY Babylonian Harlot system, God called out another Nation of people out of the Pagan Gentiles. They, being the redeemed in Christ out of paganism were then called to be found more worthy upon further examination at Christ’s Judgement throne for the Celestial part (wherein satan and fallen angels now rule over this Earth) of Christ’s Theocratic Government in this Realm, which the religiously leavened Nation of Israel’s leaders rebelliously shirked. And again, ‘Mystery’ Babylon’s system of progressive leavening assault on the New Testament people of God/the Nation of the One New Man (as predicted by Christ in the heavenly kingdom parables, and by the Apostles; Peter, Paul, John and Jude) through the ‘tare’ teachers, after the Apostles’ passing away, would finally cause its complete corruption from God’s point of view. And for the last 1700 years, the ‘spiritual Nation’ of redeemed people of God have joined the ‘spiritual Nation’ of Israel in being assimilated into Mystery ‘spiritual Babylon’s’ Harlotry. Millions of people in the conglomeration of ‘Christendom' follow the Harlot and drink of the same corrupting poison that Israel did. If they don’t come out of it, they will be judged as partakers with it. (The last Apostle John’s revealing visions of the Church in Revelation Chapters 2 & 3 are not a Church steadily rising in glorious victory, but of Churches partially leavened unto the last Church being fully leavened, which comes into full rise in Revelation 3:15-17… “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked…”. The state of today’s Church that is eschatologically unleavened is discovered in Revelation 18:4-5 in that they came OUT from the Babylonian World system… “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.” Note, that God is judging only those Christians that remain inside the Harlot’s system in that anyone found in Her will receive of Her judgements as if they are Her. This being typed in Nehemiah and Ezra. In that for the last 1700 years, there have been many True witnesses of Christ who have come out of Babylon with a call to others to also come out. But like in the ancient days, Christians have become comfortable in Mystery Babylon.) RETURNING TO BABEL Those wicked spirits/fallen angels, being superior in intellect and more universal in experience, were in coalition with Nimrod, and they revealed new ‘inventions’, and directed the ‘reestablishing’ and furtherance of cultural Pre-Flood developments, with means of circumventing God’s Word (the prophetic words of Enoch, spoken or written, that also sailed the seas with Noah - see Jude 1:14-15) with misdirecting instruction, which laid the groundwork and set up the superstructure for this current World’s two-pronged evil system, 2300 years before Christ. That system being that which is secular; denoting its own morals,attitudes, activities, orotherthingsthat have no spiritual orreligiousbasis; and then also that which would be religious or spiritual which would naturally appeal to the unescapable religious thoughts of Man; flesh-centered spiritual alternatives of pagan god worship. Then and there, was the first God-defiant organization by Man. It was tutored by the first enemy of God in willful apostasy from and open rebellion against God. Then, from that first determined organization, it was to be passed down, and that through Man’s first deified King and Priest; Nimrod. That system being the co-conspirator prototype for all the future Kings and Empires of Man (religious and secular) ruling over Man in legalized lawlessness, and in gaining and holding wealth and power by controlling commerce and government. From Babel/Babylon, came priesthoods and their deceiving promises in the afterlife, promoting self-serving sacrifices and offerings to propitiate spirits and demon deities. With it came the construction of beautiful edifices and splendid adornments to infatuate the religiously minded, to turn inward worship of spirit and truth in faith to outward religious works. And for the religiously curious, there was the introduction of Pantheism, reincarnation, demonism, theosophy, spiritualism. For the sensual, there was carnal practices mixed with religious worship (as seen in the early Christians in Corinth -1st Corinthians 5), and then for the intellectual, there was the leavening of philosophy into all its perversions. Satan has many lures, and all were purposefully designed to co-mingle error with truth, to steal and obscure the path unto God’s regal purposes for Man. That two-part deceptive system which began in Babel/Babylon has historically been used by God to bring judgement on His people (see Jeremiah 29:21-23 where God delivered Israel into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, as judgement for their sin) and in continuing connectivity of the Old Testament and the New Testament, Babylon is again seen as being used as a part of God’s End-Time judgements… but this time on both leavened Nations of His people. (Jeremiah 30:7, Daniel 9:24-27, Revelation 4:12; 17:1-19:6) Then, as in the pattern of God afterward judging Israel’s enemies after using them to judge His people, (as in Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon), so it is in the anti-type in that after God’s enemies are used in the End-Times to administer judgement upon God’s house/God’s people, then comes God’s judgement on ‘Mystery,’ Babylon. (See 1st Peter 4:17… “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” See also Revelation 17:16 & 18:8-9) Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon (being the type for the Anti-Christ and his spiritual bride, which is the imitation of the anti-type which is found in Christ and His New Jerusalem Bride - Revelation 21:2) were the key players in ancient Israel’s great demise 1600 plus years removed from Nimrod and Babel. And it will be Babylon’s secular and religious arm by way of the Anti-Christ who will be the key players in the Last Days’ demise of Israel, now on the horizon 4000 plus years removed from Babel. Corresponding with Israel’s ancient just judgement and loss of authority in this Earth, Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon began what is called in Scripture by the Lord the “times of the Gentiles”. (Luke 21:24) And it will be the Anti-Christ Beast of Revelation who will close the “times of the Gentiles” in the destruction of Jerusalem and slaughter of God’s people. And immediately God declares He will close the book on ‘Mystery,’ Babylon with double Judgement on all those within Her spiritual walls. (Revelation 18:6… “Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.” Note that it is double because of Her ancient history of polluting the Earth with Her wickedness.) Under Nimrod, Babylon was the first Gentile City to rule with violence and shedding of blood and is therefore responsible for all the blood of the slain since Noah’s Day according to that Covenant, and under the Last Days’ Anti-Christ, the blood will run horse-bridal deep, and Babylon will be the last Gentile Empire’s City. (Genesis 10:8-12, Isaiah 14:4-10, Revelation 11:17; 18:24; 19:20) These two eschatological events (God’s judgements on His House and then His judgements on the willing wicked executioners) finalize through the Anti-Christ, whose capital will be Babylon, and from whom will come God’s last and most fiercest retributive and cleansing fires on Israel until there is but a small remnant of Jews remaining when Christ appears Bodily. (Zechariah 12:10) “Mystery” Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand that made the whole World drunk. The nations are mad (Jeremiah 51:6-7) and the Church out of which He now calls all His people (Jew and Christian) is fully corrupted. But Christian religious leaders are ‘drunk’ in the Babylonian system, and like the Scribes and Pharisees, they are now ‘blind’ in Scriptural understanding of God’s revealed eschatology and are ‘blinding others’ to Scripture’s Last Days’ warnings to His People. (Revelation 18:4-5’s ‘call’ for His people to come out of ‘spiritual Babylon’ is typed in Genesis 12:1-4… “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country (his home being ‘Ur of the Chaldees’/Babylon, which was filled with idolatry), and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.” Note that Abram had to come all the way out of Ur (literal and mysterious spiritual Babylon), over the Euphrates River. This is a type and shadow of Christians needing to come all the way out of ‘Babylon’ and to not keep one foot in it, if they are to receive the blessings. See also Joshua 7:21… “When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.” (The anti-type here being ‘don’t hide/bury any ‘bits of Babel’ in your tent/heart, or you will be open to suffer God’s severe judgements, determined at the Judgement Seat of Christ.) Since the time of Constantine, Christendom is leavened and Laodicean and has believed religious eschatological lies for the last 1700 years. Lies of leavened eschatology that cross over into Pre, Post, and A-millennialism chiefly in the assuring of God’s people that most definitely they will all have been removed from the Earth before the perils of the Last Days set in. Truth resists this idea with the warning of Revelation 18:4-5 as it comes as the Age is closing. Therefore, there will be then people of God (a broader term in the Book of Revelation and End-Time prophecy that encompasses both the Old and New Testament people - Revelation 12:17;14:21) left on the Earth as late as the 6th vial being poured out, where we have Christ’s last warning to His redeemed in Revelation 16:15… “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” And presumably that down to that last terrifying hour of this present evil Age’s judgements, when some of His people will not have come out and will be yet found in both literal and spiritual “Mystery” Babylon, and therefore will sadly and unnecessarily be partakers of their plagues (this being typed in the firstborn of Israel dying alongside the firstborn of Egypt if they did not apply the blood of the lamb over their houses). The recorded warnings come but months before “Mystery” Babylon’s and Her Anti-Christ’s woeful judgements fall upon them which climax with Jesus Christ appearing from the first heaven, removing in a moment the scales from the eyes of all beholders on the Earth, as He thrusts through the clouds and bursts visibly into this Earth’s atmosphere. (2nd Kings 6:17, Revelation 19:11-21) (We pray that God takes the religious Babylonian scales off the eyes of deceived Godly men now… and let them see these “Mysteries”… that may only be revealed by the means of His eschatological Word seen in its sanctifying Truth, and having mercy on them and those they would have otherwise led in harm’s way… in Jesus’ Name we sincerely ask.) This is the crux of the matter concerning the Corruption of End-Time Eschatology… In the search for Truth in God’s Word, one must go back not to the denominational forefathers’ understanding and teaching, nor back to just 2000 years of Church History to Christ’s First Coming, nor even back to Moses’ Law and God’s people redeemed out of Egypt, nor just back to Abraham, or Noah. Rather, full revelation ‘mystery’ in Truth goes back to Genesis Chapter 1, and finds unbroken connectivity throughout the Bible to the last Words of the Book of Revelation. Chiefly, that the call to the future Theocratic Government of God in this rejuvenated Realm includes Israel, and that the Promises for a literal inheritance by Abraham and his seed in a literal Millennium in this Earthly Realm, began with Adam and Eve. They were disqualified by the serpent’s twisting of God’s Words in the Garden which ended in the catastrophic near-destruction of Man in Noah’s Day. Noah’s recorded Words from God were again leavened by the serpent, resulting in Babel and God’s confusing the language. And from there, open idolatrous Paganism ruled the landscape of religion in the World; that Babylonian Paganism out of which God called Abraham and his seed. From whom God raised up a Nation in the World to deliver the Gentiles out of that Babylonian darkness and bring them into the light of the One true God. The Nation of Israel’s calling and authority unto God’s Theocratic Government in the Earth was lost in paganized Judaism. It was then that God raised up another Nation 2000 years ago, in contrast with Paganized Israel and the Pagan World, to be more worthy of His Theocratic Kingdom calling. They started out as a Nation that stood out wholehearted in that Calling, and stood uncompromisingly against the Paganism of the World. But that being only for a short while until (that which God’s Nation of Israel did before) leavening corruption led the Nation of the One New Man/Christ followers unto compromising and finally incorporation into Babylon’s Paganism through the ‘Babylonian’, in nature and form, Roman Emperor Constantine. And so it may be easily discovered in history, that what was openly Pagan for 2300 years before Christ and for about 300 years after Christ, now became for the great part ‘Christianized’. A better description would be “Christianized Paganism”. The ruling idolatrous Babylonian Pagan wolf has now put on sheep’s clothing; that of nominal/lukewarm Christianity. It was thereby able to devour/extinguish the light of the Truth-bearing Nation, bearing Witness of God in the Earth in God’s Gospel Calling after Redemption to the Redeemed unto overcoming this World’s Babylonian System and thereby overcoming its ‘author’, unto a celebrated worthiness unto inheritance in His Son’s Millennial Theocratic Kingdom in this Realm. And in exchange, leavened nominal Christianity became Paganized, today’s ‘Paganized Christianity’ being now veiled in Babylonian nature and form, and (*setting aside for a moment the ‘Reformation’) for 1700 years, has grown rich and is “in need of nothing” down unto today, 2023. (Matthew 6:22-23, Revelation 3:15-22) * the reformation rightly having separated in protest against ‘works only theology’ as it relates to being ‘saved/redeemed’… yet Protestants have maintained for the most part the 1700-year-old ‘Christianized Babylonian’ eschatology)

Mike Balloun teaches today. 07/29/23 THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY OF THE CHURCH (PART 1) VERSES: Matthew 3:31-33, 22:2-14; Hebrews 10:26-31; Revelation 3:16 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/husikgmxjhxicj5ysaa10/h?rlkey=ffvrw928c2cve3gtgc36jlrmw&dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Eschatology refers to things that have a prophetic impact. It is the study/science of last things; including the Last Days/the culmination of this Age. The dictionary definition is: “the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind”. The theological institutions of Christian denominations, made up of Religious redeemed men, are full of leavened eschatology inspired by this World’s Babylonian system over the centuries unto today. In every generation, a minority of humble servants who have not ‘bowed their knee to Baal’ may be found. But with that being said, Christians in general have no idea of the origin of their thoughts and beliefs, or that they run destructively contrary to God and His Word. But the enemy and ‘god of this world’ who inspired them does. In that satan is in an all-out spiritual war to maintain his current status and authority in this Realm; its earth and its heaven from whence he rules over mankind. (Ephesians 6:12, Isaiah 24:21, Revelation 12:7-9) From the Garden of Eden, God’s intent for His Theocratic Government in this Earth was revealed in His Written account of the Creation of Man. Satan’s intent is to disqualify mankind from that Theocratic Kingdom. God tells us the end from the beginning; the end being God will have His Theocratic Government in this Realm, as seen in Adam’s and Eve’s creation when He then called them to multiply, take dominion, and RULE in the Earth. But due to satan’s clever leavening of God’s Word (his twisting of God’s command), Man fell, and his dominion was usurped. And in the continuation of God’s intent to have His Theocratic Government in this Realm, He called and redeemed Israel out of Egypt by the Passover blood. He then further called that Nation, from the foot of Mount Sinai, to be sanctified in holiness through obedience to the Law of Moses. And shortly thereafter, the religious leaven instilled in some religious leaders began to corrupt the Nation (see the example of Korah and how all those who sided with him and rebelled against God’s established authority fell down into Sheol, Korah having corrupted the crowd, being carried away by his leavening theology). And the leaven increasingly continued down through Solomon’s apostasy (of idolatry in religious acceptance of other gods) with its destructive results ending in the fracturing of the Nation (it being split in two, and the great majority of the Tribes entering into open idolatry). That leavening continued until the whole ‘meal’ of Torah was finally corrupted (Matthew 13:33) and the Religious Leaders at the time of Christ (who, now fully manifest in their darkened religiously leavened minds and hearts) led the nation in rejecting God’s Messiah, who was to take the throne of David in the Theocratic Government of God and rule in this Realm. He would have become King and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit would have come upon the Nation, and they would have become the Theocratic Government in this Earth, had they not rejected and crucified Him. Thus, the Nation of Israel was set aside. They were rejected as unworthy and were cut off/disqualified from the celestial part of His Millennial kingdom. (But not permanently disqualified from taking the earthly portion of God’s Theocratic Government in this Realm, as that was an irrevocable promise given to Abraham. (Genesis 15 & 22) See Romans 11 where Israel was broken off, so that the ‘Nation of the One New Man’ (made up of primarily Gentiles) could be grafted in. (See Verse 19… “The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”). See also Acts 28:28 which is when Paul declares that God will go unto the Gentiles to call out of people for God’s name, in the fullness of His great salvation plan. Note that leavened Denominationalism has twisted and spiritualized the Old Testament Scriptures of Israel’s sure inheritance and says the Jews have been replaced/cut off permanently and Christians have replaced them in the inheritance of the Kingdom promises. This is critical doctrinal leaven. For God has appointed only a ‘parenthetical insertion’ of time (of up to now approximately 2000 years), to call out a Nation of people from the Gentiles (Matthew 21:43) to inherit the heavenly portion of the Kingdom of Christ (Hebrews 3:1) that had been rightly Israel’s, “until the fullness of the Gentiles come in” (Romans 11:25) when God will once again deal with the Jews’ leavened blindness. In Romans 11:20-23, Paul also warns the Nation of the One New Man who were grafted in due to Israel’s rejection, to… “Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.” The Nation of the One New Man (Christians) are told not to be high-minded, but to fear because if Israel was cut off by prideful leavening and letting their theocratic government calling slip away in unbelief, how much more will our retribution be if we lose/reject the heavenly kingdom calling? See Hebrews 2:2-3… "For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation”? This “great salvation” (the greater salvation than Israel had come into) includes the gift of justification and “the prize of the High calling” for sanctification (Philippians 3:14). See also Hebrews 3:1 where the author of Hebrews (most likely Paul) addresses New Testament believers as “partakers of the heavenly calling…” (the prize includes an inheritance of ruling in regality in the heavenly Kingdom of Christ). In this present parenthetical period of time known as the ‘Age of Grace and Mercy’, God called forth and still calls out of the Gentiles a people for His Name. (Acts 15:14… “Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.”) Which is to say a Nation and people more worthy of the celestial part of the theocratic Millennial Kingdom of Christ. (Matthew 21:43… “Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”) The destiny of the soul after he has secured “eternal life” and after this Age, (eschatology) is tied into the parable given by Jesus in Matthew 22:2-14… “The kingdom of heaven (the greater privilege beyond being redeemed, of ruling as the Bride of Christ in His Millennial Kingdom from the heaven associated with this Realm - Revelation 20:4-6) is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son (the Nation of Israel, as they are called God’s firstborn son in Exodus 4:22), And sent forth his servants (prophets) to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come. Again, he sent forth other servants (more prophets), saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them (Jerusalem’s killing of the prophets). But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city (which would happen in 70AD in the destruction of Jerusalem). Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways (unto the Gentiles), and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage (to ‘invite’ them is to ‘redeem’ them so they could have an opportunity to be a part of the heavenly Kingdom). So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: (invited/redeemed but lacking the wedding garment of righteous works - Revelation 19:7-8): And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness (not eternal death, but judged not worthy of the heavenly Kingdom and shall remain tied outside in the dark until some time after the Wedding until festivities of the wedding are over… until the dawning of a new day/age), there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many are called (being redeemed), but few (choose sanctification) are chosen.” In the parable of Matthew 22:2-14, there is a compelling change from the Nation of Israel to the nation of ‘the One New Man’. But just as Israel was not ready in their hour of visitation when Christ came to set up His kingdom, many redeemed in the church (who were invited to the feast/offered the Kingdom) are also going to be found unprepared (found as having no garment of worthiness to Rule at the time of the Marriage Supper) when He comes to set up His Millennial Kingdom in this Realm. A lack of a wedding garment represents ‘unreadiness’, which is in contrast to the fine linen garments of preparedness which are “the righteousness of the saints”. See Revelation 19:7-9… “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the (air/heaven of this Realm - 1st Thessalonians 4:17) marriage supper of the Lamb (at the time of the First Resurrection). And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.” These garments are of the Bride who had “made herself ready” by works of faithful righteousness (done after redemption) in loving service to God. These are they who qualify to be in the Kingdom of heaven. “For many are called, but few are chosen” could be better interpreted as ‘Many are called, but few choose’. An example of Christ’s stubborn unfaithful servant who is found unworthy will be shut out of the Wedding and bound hand and foot in a locale of ‘outer darkness’ (compare with Matthew 25:30). This punishment is not just punitive, nor eternal, but answers to every farthing of debt left owing Him for refused faithful service to God after redemption, as well as corrective and refining (Matthew 5:26). On the one side is the awesomeness, wonder, and glory, and on the flip-side of being accepted as a faithful servant, is the severeness of judgement that can come upon the apathetic, lukewarm, unprepared, hard-hearted, backslidden, or apostate redeemed person once they die and stand before the Judgement Seat of Christ. (2nd Corinthians 5:10) (If Israel was judged 70×7 in exponential judgement in order to have a purged people, how much more will New Testament believers, who have been redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb, given greater Written promises, and the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit within us to overcome, be judged? See Hebrews 10:26-31… “For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”) Christian teachers with their leavened eschatological understanding today do not understand the vital connectivity between Israel and the Nation of the one new man/Body of Christ. In order to connect the dots to have proper Eschatology, you cannot lose the continuity of the Hebraic-Roots of Christianity which provides the necessary eschatological connectivity from Genesis to Revelation. Following the first Century after Christ, leavened doctrinal error concerning the connectivity began permeating the early Church, and Christendom began losing sight of the Truth of Scripture in the 2nd Century when the leavening influences of the ‘Tares’ and ‘Tarish doctine’ in the redeemed Body of Christ began to separate the Nation of the One New Man from its Scriptural Hebraic roots. And by the end of the 4th Century, Christianity was thoroughly leavened when it was made ‘legal’ by the World’s Babylonian system (Revelation 17), headed by by Rome’s ‘first pope’; Constantine. Jesus and Christianity was given a leading place in Rome’s polytheistic worship of multiple gods. Jesus was just one in their pantheon of gods. This great affront to God resulted in the Nation of the One New Man drinking the cup of idolatry and being incorporated into the secular and Religious Whore’s system. Today’s Christians who know the Bible, but do not to strive to obey it are like the Scribes and Pharisees; hypocrites. Many are drunk on the cup of the mixing of religious and secular reasoning. Babylon has put religious leaven in the cup, and causes the nominal of the One New Man to drink of it. This defining corruption of doctrinal leaven is first traced in Revelation 1-3, as seen in Christ’s warnings to the churches. There was doctrinal leavening to an extent at that time (late in the 1st Century), but it would become exponential, and fatal during the time of Constantine. Due to this corruption, Christ is no longer found walking in the midst of the Lampstands. (Revelation 2:1) The lukewarm Church is told in Revelation 3:16… “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” See also Matthew 13:27-33 which speaks of the tares/leaven in the Church of Christ.… “Let both grow together until the harvest (First Resurrection): and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened” (which speaks of Truth-filled Christianity’s infiltration of Tare teachers and the Truth concerning the Kingdom of heavens finally being fully leavened over time.) The growth and the spreading of leaven as described Matthew 13:31 is what happened to the Nation of the One New Man. It was supposed to be a natural humble bush from the mustard seed, but it sprung up and swell up as an all-encompassing doctrinal tree whose size had become inordinately large wherein the birds (a symbol of doctrinal leavening demons) lodge in the branches and make their nests there. Again, Spiritual connectivity in doctrinal Truth to the Hebraic-Roots is what connects the old covenant Messiah with the New Testament Christ. It is the key to understanding prophecy as to why Jesus is the King of kings and also the Lord and God of this world in a coming future sure reality. His Return/Coming to set up His Kingdom in this Realm after a 7-year Tribulation Period and then rule over this Earth and its heaven for a thousand years, is Pre-Millennial in view and Truth’s eschatology. The leavened alternative teachings of Amillennialism (the teaching that there is no Millennium) and Post-Millennialism (which teaches that Christ’s Return is after the Millennium) have a deadly leavening effect in the Earth, yesterday and today, because they deceive people from the Truth about God’s literal coming Millennial Kingdom, causing them to become then religiously apathetic. Being willingly blinded by their love for this World, they fail to see the Truth of the worthiness of faithful service to Christ as required to be resurrected or caught up and enter into the exclusive literal Millennial Kingdom of Christ, which is to be established soon in this Realm. Nor do the merely redeemed realize that along with this sure sorrow-filled loss, exacting punishment for those redeemed who refuse to be instructed in the Truth and stubbornly remain in a state of deceived lukewarmness towards God’s great Salvation Plan. It will not matter whether they lived to see those days manifest or not, or if they are alive in those final days as Christ’s recompense Judgements transcend time. A Pre-Tribulation, or Mid-Tribulation Rapture of the Select worthies and the doctrine of Pre-Millennialism eschatology, when clearly discerned, speak both of the severity and the mercy of God. Whereas most denominations are Amillennial or Post-Millennial, and tend to Antinomianism. Sadly, satan is doing what he did with Eve; deceiving her and trying to cause the Son of God to abdicate His future Throne in this Realm… for the benefit of His lost Bride. (Which is to say, Scripture states that Adam was not deceived; only Eve, and that Adam, without his appointed wife and regal Co-heir, could not enter into Dominion in this Realm. Although it does not follow that Christ, like Adam, would follow his bride into death, as Christ has already secured eternal glory, regality, and the gift of eternal life for His Bride, but now she must be found worthy in herself to rule with Him in this Realm. And for her to disqualify herself from ruling in regality, potentially and typically it would type that Christ would follow His Bride into loss of regality in this Realm in the future and allow satan to continue to rule.) We need to clearly see Anti-Millennialism and Post-Millennialism eschatology in the light of Scripture’s clear unleavened eschatological teaching of Pre-Millennialism. In that the person who stands in belief of either of those two other demonically conceived End-Time ‘theologies’ is both deceived and in danger of defiling others and standing with the enemy against God’s purposes. It is deceived hostility between Truth and error, between righteousness and unrighteousness, between God and satan. Catholicism and Protestantism stems from Constantine’s leavening of Christianity. In the fourth Century, more developed leavening error came into the Church when the renown theologian Augustine’s teachings formed the basis for the Theology of Catholicism, which teaches ‘salvation/redemption by works’. (Works unto salvation, and Anti-Millennial doctrines of the Catholic Church will be spoken of more in depth later in this series.) Martin Luther protested (starting Protestantism) and retorted with the leavening of the ‘Grace Only’ doctrine. (Note historically that Luther and other ‘Reformists’ did not protest the Anti-millennialism eschatology of the Catholic Church, and thus many Protestant denominations remain in error such as Lutherans, Anglicans, and Methodists. But this now 500plus years old ‘Grace Only’/‘Cheap Grace’ message is false doctrinal quicksand and a slippery slope of error, in that the equally leavened Truth states that “no works” are necessary for inheriting any of the blessed promises of the Scriptures because of an all-encompassing imputed righteousness in Christ’s Atonement. In this misleading doctrine, there is an overemphasis on God’s attributes of mercy, love, and tenderness, while dismissing His attributes of Holiness and Justice. It is a belief due to the designed ignorance concerning the Truth of the ‘Gift and the Prize’ clearly taught in Scripture. There is so much confusion and error today due to teachers’ lack of understanding the fullness of God’s Salvation Plan. They teach deceiving, corrupted doctrines with small portions of truth that effectively disqualify the denominationalized adherents. The destructive error comes in when they teach that part of His Grace (undeserved, unmerited favor, without works) as the whole Truth of God’s great Salvation Plan for Man. Historically, Calvin and Luther did not understand the difference between the Gift of justification and the Prize in sanctification; the two parts of the great Atonement of Christ. And millions follow “the broad way that leads to destruction” having drank from the cup of the Harlot, and will suffer the sad consequences of the just judgements of Christ levied on His redeemed faithless servants. Some of those will be severe, particularly for teachers, as ‘theirs is the greater accountability’. Especially those that have callously twisted and re-defined the Greek words to their benefit in order to make their leavened doctrinal beliefs seem more solid. Satan has used such leavened ‘Church Tares’ to corrupt key Greek words in Scripture’s text from the early centuries to maintain a deceitful and destructive hold on Eschatology, and on the vital understanding of the End-Times. He has stolen from the Redeemed that they might be disqualified, being content with their one ‘talent’ (see the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30), that they might become Laodicean in nature, apathetic and without revealed knowledge of the grave judgements which they will face at the Bema of Christ. (2nd Corinthians 5:10, Hebrews 9:27) Again, while all 66 Books of the Bible are infallible, and perfectly inspired by God and written by men as directed by the Holy Spirit, men still have twisted and leavened the Truth to suit their satanically inspired doctrines. Today, what is taught in Christendom, and received as Truth, when closely examined by the sincere of heart, it is soon discovered that it is not reflective of what is in His New Testament Word. As some key New Testament Greek words also were redefined in their meaning to accommodate error of doctrine developed after the 4th Century (several key words we will look at throughout this series). The enemy has put Christians in a spiritual fog. It’s one thing for satan to experience the loss in his kingdom in the those being redeemed out of his kingdom in Christ, but from the enemy’s wicked viewpoint, it’s entirely another for the redeemed person to come into the working knowledge of sanctification in the knowledge of God’s full Salvation Plan. Satan’s final destiny is more impacted when the redeemed’s eyes are opened to Truth and are made acutely aware of his diabolical intent to deceive and disqualify us from the Millennial Kingdom inheritance and replacing him in this heaven’s ruling, while he is chained up for that 1000 years in the “Pit” within Hades. Overwhelmingly, Christians’ eschatological viewpoints are mostly aligned with what their denominations or their own families believe versus their having compared their views with the Truths of the Bible for themselves. Christians believe what they believe and do not have a solid basis for what they believe about Scripture, only what someone else has told them. And even if they study the Word, it is with denominational eyes or some religious bias that skews their view from seeing the Truth. There has been so much wrong teaching ‘in that which is evil is called good, and that which is good called evil’ that is going unquestioned because of what has been passed down generation after generation, which has fed the fuel for the dominantly materialistic religious views of today… New, even more diluted, tributaries are branching forth out of old fully leavened denominations which are disqualifying millions more from the inheritance of the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, due to the End-Time prophesied false doctrines, including that of “Gain is Godliness.” Paul, that great Pharisee, who had no idea he was contrary to God. This is also true of sincere denominationalized Christian teachers who unwittingly have been blinded by satanically inspired doctrines and resist Truth. Many Christian leaders today believe wrongly, as Paul did, and many continue to “kick against the pricks”, and would even die for their beliefs. They have fervor, but they are in ignorance. They are sincere but sincerely wrong. There are great consequences for teaching error, as ‘Shepherds’ will be judged more harshly for misleading the sheep. (James 3:1) It is a real challenge to break through the wall of years of indoctrination of denominational corrupting leavened error and come to a place of enlightenment and understanding, but God is able to do just that to any who are sincerely willing, in light of the grave consequences, to turn from ‘doctrines of men’ and seek His Truth. Once God reveals it to us, we must not be derailed from correcting our error and must not shirk our responsibility over those we have been entrusted to teach. As teachers, a blessed place to be is to be able to speak His Truth boldly and peacefully with assurance in our own hearts, after we have 1) made sure we have a good translation of the original Scriptures 2) made sure of the right interpretation of the good translation 3) made the correct or right application of a given passage after comparing Scripture to Scripture. To recap, the advancement of God’s Plan to develop redeemed children into governing first-born sons requires a vital spiritual connectivity by the Nation of the One New Man (called primarily out of the Gentiles), to the Old Testament Kingdom promises of the Theocratic Kingdom. Without which, you cannot connect the Old Covenant Messiah with the New Testament Christ. As we’ve discovered, this dis-connectivity is the featured leavened doctrine of all denominational schools of thought; the disqualifying teaching of the New Testament ‘Tares’, all by the deceitful design of satan, to obscure the Truths found in ‘Pre-Millennialism eschatology' of the Coming of Christ and His worthy Bride to establish His Theocratic Kingdom in this Realm in His Millennial Kingdom, Who are Scripturally ordained by God to replace satan’s current evil theocratic kingdom. (Revelation 20:4-6) In this lesson, we are laying the foundation for the superstructure, and in future lessons will go further into more details as to what various Denominations believe, but not too much in depth, as it is much better to spend time on the Truth versus what is not Truth… as it is better to light a candle than to rail against the darkness.

Mike Balloun teaches today 07/15/23 🔥 PREPARING FOR THE JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST (PART 3) 🔥 VERSES: Matthew 16:27; 1st Corinthians 15:20-23,40-42,52; Ephesians 5:6; Romans 2:5-16; Revelation 7:9-17, 22:12 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/26d44ook302ym11v0m5ny/h?rlkey=fv9rg4pukl81a6wsk50g2pa98&dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 It is the Last Days; the 7-year Tribulation Period; it is the End of Man’s Day. It is the Judgement “Day of Christ” and the “Day of the Anti-Christ”… It is the Day of strictly Judicial Judgements on all Men. And for the redeemed, the ‘Bema' of Christ is based on the sole principle of works. (Matthew 16:27… “For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward (render/repay) each according to his works.” Revelation 22:12… “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward (recompense) is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.”) The chronological order can be summarized as follows: In the closing out of this Age of Grace and Mercy, there are various great transitional judgements from that ‘Last Days’ Judgement Throne, which is to be set up in this Realm’s heaven 7 years before Christ’s Coming. This period of time ushers in the ‘Millennial Age of Justice’ where Christ and His victorious overcomers rule with a rod of iron, for 1000 years, which then ushers in the final Judgements at the Great White Throne. (Revelation 2:27; 19:14-15) Chronological overview… Christ’s worthiness (to be administrator of Justice in this Earth) and His investiture (pronouncement of His Kingly authority) are the End-Time Judgement Throne’s first declarations. Then, there is the coming forth of the ‘Two Witnesses’ for the first 3 ½ years (wherein they testify and bring judgement light on the ‘Covenant with Death’ that Israel made with the Anti-Christ - Isaiah 28:15-18, Revelation 11:3). Then Christ’s Bema qualifying judgement comes upon the living redeemed and there is the glorious “hope of glory” / ‘catching up’ of the redeemed Overcoming First-Fruits offering unto God. God uses agricultural symbolism to reveal deeper principles, such as the type and shadow of the firstfruits of the harvest seen in Deuteronomy 26:2… “That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there.” (See also Revelation 12:5, where the anti-type of the firstfruits is the ‘man-child’ who is being ‘caught up to heaven' and offered up unto God as the first-ripened in the Last Days’ harvest… “And she (the Woman representing ‘the Church of God’/mother all of God’s redeemed people) brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.” And these Firstfruits are described in Revelation 14:4… “These are they which were not defiled with women (‘women' symbolizing the harlotrous wicked religious world system); for they are virgins (a reference to their spiritual purity). These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among (the living) men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.” Then, in 1st Corinthians 15:20-23, we see the order… “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. (He being the first to rise up out from among the dead/among those who are ‘asleep’) For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming” (they that are among the dead at His ‘heavenly Parousia’ -2nd Coming- will be taken up into the 1st heaven of this Earth’s Realm towards the end of the Tribulation to join the Firstfruits who were caught up while alive at the mid-point of the Tribulation.) This catching up of the man-child/firstfruits is followed by the casting down of satan from this Realm’s heaven (Revelation 12:9), and the bringing up from the pit of the Anti-Christ and the False prophet (Revelation 13) who kill the Two Witnesses (Revelation 11:7). This is followed by JUDGEMENTS on the following groups of people… JUDGEMENTS on… Israel and Jews worldwide (It is the time of “Jacob’s Trouble, seen in the following verses… Jeremiah 30:7… “Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's (Israel’s) trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.”… Zechariah 13:8-9… “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.”… Ezekiel 20:34-38… “And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.”… Ezekiel 22:19-22… “Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst therof. As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you.”… Daniel 12:1… “And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.”… Malachi 3:1-3… “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.”). All the while, a contingent elect of Old Covenant Jews will be protected from the Anti-Christ and his wicked agents. (See Matthew 24:16-21… “Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”… Revelation 7:1-8… “And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. (This sealing being at the mid-point of the Tribulation period.) Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.” With Revelation 12:13-17… “And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman (God’s People/the “Church of God”: Jews and unripened Christians) which brought forth the man child. And to the woman (Jewish contingent - Matthew 24:15-21) were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, (3.5 years) from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman (Jewish contingent), that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God (Zechariah 13:8-9), and have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (unripened Christians).) JUDGEMENTS on… the living unripened members of the Body of Christ judged unworthy at His Bema who were not awake and not praying, which speaks to their having believed false demonic doctrines leading to their lack of spiritual maturity. They were therefore not a part of the First-Fruits offering, and are now called to the Gospel of “Fear God” (Revelation 14:6-6) and to awaken and patiently endure unto the Harvest ‘catching up’ just before the Vials of Wrath are poured out on God’s enemies (Revelation 15:1). (See Revelation 13:7-10… "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword (even in this time, Christians are still under the law of love; they are not to fight back, but instead love their enemies, not retaliate, lay down their lives, for a “better resurrection” as the martyrs did as seen in Hebrews 11, specifically Verse 35… “not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection.” … Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” Revelation 14:12-16… “Here is the patience of the saints (until the soon coming Harvest): here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.” Revelation 7:9-17… “After this (after the sealing of the 12 Tribes of Israel, John sees ahead towards the end of the Tribulation, after the Harvest, those caught up into the “air/1st heaven” and he describes the following…) I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” With warnings to the people of God on the Earth in the Last 3 ½ years of the Tribulation… Revelation 18:4-5… “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her (out of spiritual Babylon), my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities”) So it is seen from this verse and other Scriptures, that there will then be people of God on the Earth down to the last plagues, and presumably beyond even unto the Coming of Christ from the unseen first heaven to the Earth. (The ‘people of God' in the broader End-Time definition consists of both Jews and those of the ‘One New Man’- as shown previously in Revelation 12:17; 14:12. Israel was told that they would be a Nation of priests and kings in Exodus 19:6… "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.” And the Nation of the One New Man was told also in 1st Peter 2:9… “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light…”) The present-day teaching of assuring His people that they all will be removed from the Earth before the “Tribulation” and Wrath of God of those last days, resists the seriousness of God’s ‘calling out’ and His warnings. God is not tacitly (implied without being stated) encouraging His people to remain in religious Babylonianism by declaring an all-inclusive miraculous deliverance from the just Wrath He is about to inflict upon the religious Whore. Wrath is not meant for ripening… rather, it is punitive, thus His call to ‘Come out of Her’. It is not true exegesis of New Testament teaching nor worthy of Christ to ignore powerful exhortations throughout Scripture to console and reassure the Redeemed of Christ that they are certain to escape the persecution of the Tribulation Period regardless of their spiritual maturity. Or that they will be judged worthy at Christ’s Bema simply because they are redeemed. Nor that they will be ‘caught up’ and stand alongside those faithful sufferers for Christ who do overcome. In that, what is the need of the Judgement Seat if all the redeemed are to be found worthy?His Just Judgement Seat implies gain or loss of inheritance in His Kingdom for which Paul strove and fought mightily out of his concern for, which was after having been redeemed and set in the race for the prize. Yet, there was a real possibility of his being rejected if he did not heartedly train his mind and body and run the race as God had mapped out. (Philippians 3:11-12, 1st Corinthians 10:24-27) Ephesians 5:6… “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.” The implication is obvious. The Mercy of God during these Days of Judgement is that He allows the Tribulation period appointed for His enemies, to also bring about the maturing of His people. The Hour of the Reaping by Christ will come, and He will rescue the ripened from the Vintage Wrath of God Matthew 13:30,41,49… “Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn….. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world….. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth (Revelation 14:16), and sever the wicked from among the just…” and those that remain will be gathered with the tares to be burnt (Revelation 14:19). Matthew 24:50-51… “The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” John 15:6… “If a man abide not in me (note that you can’t ‘abide’ in Jesus unless you are redeemed), he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned” (Revelation 3:16). Revelation 20:6… “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.” And though we speak this way (about the severity of God; even on His ‘people'), in accordance to the Written Word, it is also understood that eternal life is yet assured in Scripture. And where there might be a Scripture which seems to contradict the Truth of both (both His goodness and His severity), it is but the lack of understanding on man’s part, in that there is no contradiction in Holy Scripture. Revelation Chapters 15 & 16 have to do with the destruction of the ‘destroyers of the Earth’. (Revelation 11:18… which constitutes both men and angels seen in Isaiah 24:21; the high ones that are on high; satan and his angels, and the kings of the earth, upon the earth; the confederation of nations aligned with the Anti-Christ - Revelation 17:12) In that Chapter 15 Verse 1 declares the 7 vials fill up the Wrath of God. “And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.” (God’s “loud voice” call to fear Him, not man, has went out to the respondent in renouncing the system and the Anti-Christ, which answers to the ‘coming out’. This then prompts God’s terrible finishing judgements on the people on the Earth… including the redeemed who go from sharers of His Judgement Wrath with His enemies, to the experiencing of whatever follows as being received as ripening unto Harvest. - Mark 4:28) Judgements continue…. JUDGEMENTS on… The End-Times literal city of ‘Babylon’ and Mystery Babylon; the pretentious religious/but materialistic-at-heart Babylonian Whore. (Revelation 17&18) On… the defiant unregenerate on the Earth (Revelation 16:8; 19:17-19, Deuteronomy 32:39-43) On… the Anti-Christ & false prophet (Revelation 19:20) On… satan and his spirit forces (Revelation 20:1-3, Isaiah 24:21-22) On… the Nations upon the Earth after His actual 2nd Coming to the material earth (Matthew 25:31-46) and restoration of Israel (Zechariah 14:9, Ezekiel 28:25-26) and the setting up of His Millennial Theocratic Government. At the End of the Millennial Age Judgement, and the time there is a time allotted for satan to be loosed out of his prison. (Revelation 20:7-10) then, God’s JUDGEMENTS continue…. On… the final rebellion when the devil and his angels are cast into the Lake of Fire for ever and ever. Note that it is seen and forever established that the ideal conditions in the Millennial reign of Christ do not of themselves produce ideal beings. Though they experience the ideal condition of there being no satan nor fallen angels to deal with, (as they are in chains for the 1000 years), Man still has the sin nature for which he is held responsible for. Though in the Age of Justice, it is less uncontrollable… yet when circumstances lend themselves to it, the sin nature may rise up. The fallen nature cannot be cleansed or rehabilitated, for circumstances do not change character… only rebirth from above and renewal of mind in the minding of the things of the spirit/Spirit can change character.These living in the Millennial Kingdom, whose lifespans are increased due to those ideal conditions, do not for the most part, submit out of loving humble obedience, rather they submit because the new Theocratic Government and conditions are far better as Christ and His appointed ones rule with a rod of iron.Submitting, but not from the heart and after a number of blessed generations, when people are as numerous as the sand on the sea, they precede without first-hand experience of the Judgements of the “End- Times” of this Age, and they are susceptible.This answers to why many are easy prey for satan’s deceptions when he is loosed towards the end of the Millennium. (Psalms 18:44… “As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.” Psalm 66:3… “Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.” Isaiah 65:20… “There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.” See Romans 8:7… “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”) And then after satan and all the evil spirits are forever incarcerated in the Lake of Fire, the “earth and the heaven fled away”, the time has come for the resurrection of Judgement …of all the remaining dead (men and spirits raised as they were when they died, to be faced there with the judgement of life or death verdict) as opposed to the resurrection into incorruptibility determined at the Judgement Seat of Christ - 1st Corinthians 15:52… “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” Then there is the Great White Throne where the Son of God/Son of Man take up the final and completing judgements on all mankind who had no part in the First Resurrection, and on spirit beings as well. All will be judged based completely upon Works. (Revelation 20:11-15… "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Jude 1:6… “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” Romans 2:5-16… “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. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature (by their consciences) the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”) Then Death and Hades are cast into the eternal Lake of Fire along with all those whose names were not finally found “written in the book of life” (Revelation 20:14-15… “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”) Which closes that great 7000-year Age of Restoration/Reconcilliation of all things (Acts 3:21) and opens the Age of New Beginnings; the Eighth Day. In the creation of “a new heaven and a new earth. …the Lord said unto John, “It is done.” (Revelation 21:1; 6… "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 he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.”) (Revelation 21:7-8… “Where the overcomer shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murders, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”) So it is that we saw KINGDOM JUDGEMENT REWARDS ON THE LIVING OVERCOMER BEGIN TO MANIFEST IN THE TRIBULATION PERIOD on the Firstftuits… and then culminate in the First Resurrection. The Truth of Scripture is that all Christians (and all in Hades) will eventually be resurrected, but this First Resurrection catching up into the ‘air/first heaven’ is in glory as was the selective Firstfruits Rapture catching up into this first heaven. THIS IS THE GREAT REWARD OF AN INHERITANCE IN THE MILLENNIAL HEAVENLY KINGDOM. (1st Corinthians 15:41-42, Revelation 20:4-6) “… for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3,10-12,19 etc… “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven…… Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you….. “Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”) Kingdom Inheritance is based upon determinations at the Judgement Seat of Christ in doing the will of the Father, which is to say; by faithful hearing of the sayings of Jesus Christ and doing them while alive on the Earth. (Matthew 7:21-27… “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. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”) The Rapture of the living faithful who are watching and praying, and the First Resurrection (out from among all the other dead) are exclusive to proven overcomers. In that Paul sets the First Resurrection out from among the dead as the obtaining of the prize; that of the High Calling in Christ. (Philippians 3:8-14… "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of (out from among) the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”) For all of those first resurrected shall be priests and… REIGN as kings in His Theocratic Government. “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.” [Revelation 20:6] It is the great harbinger of Christ’s bestowing further rewards. God is calling the unredeemed to the Cross: He is calling the redeemed to worthiness for the Crowns. False doctrines which rob God of His glory will rob us of ours: Therefore, "let no manrob you of your prize.”(Colossians 2:18… “Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind…” Revelation 3:11… "Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.”) Does anyone care about crowns and rewards today? Do any think in these terms? Do any have purifying hope? (1st John 3:3… “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”) Or has the enemy replaced the grandeur of their attainment and any sobering thoughts as to the cost, with religious presumption (thinking they have already attained)? Note that if even Paul, who had suffered so much and did so much in loving obedience to Christ, did not think he had attained, why does the average Christian believe that they have? Eternal life is the gift of God to all Believers (Romans 6:23), but the Kingdom and its accompanying rewards are for those accounted worthy at the Judgement Seat of Christ. (Luke 20:35, 2nd Thessalonians 1:5) It is that for which Paul feared that he would at the last be rejected. (1st Corinthians 9:27… “lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”) The great exhortations of reward are designed to establish us in hope in the face of all tests, trials, chastenings, and temptations while in pursuit of our heavenly calling of Christ-like selflessness. (See Luke 6:23,35… “Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.… But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.”) Rewards are intended to incentivize us to service while Christ is away. The variety of rewards validates holy ambition, as the Word exhorts us to be an overcomer of the flesh, the World, and the devil. The promised rewards are unique to the inheritance in the Kingdom of God. Kings and priests (Revelation 1:6) eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7) They are not to be hurt by the second death (Revelation 2:11), they eat of the hidden manna, and they will be given a white stone, and on the stone a new name will be written which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. (Revelation 2:17) Power will be granted him over the nations and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, even the authority Christ received of the Father. (Revelation 2:26-27) He’ll be given the morning star (Revelation 2:28) and he will be clothed in white raiment with assurance of his name in the Book of Life, having his name confessed by Christ before the Father and before His angels. (Revelation 3:5) He’ll be kept from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world. (Revelation 3:10) He’ll be a pillar in the temple of God, and he shall go no more out. He will have the name of God written on him, and the name of the City of God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from God, and will have Christ’s new name written on him. (Revelation 3:12) He’ll be able to sit with Christ in His Throne (Revelation 3:21) to follow Him whithersoever He goeth (Revelation 14:4) and he will drink of the fountain of the Water of Life freely. (Revelation 21:6) He will also inherit all things that are the Father’s; as a (firstborn) son. (Revelation 21:7) Crowns will be determined for the overcoming redeemers by Christ at His Judgement Seat. It has been said, ”There will be No crown without a cross.” “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.” [Revelation 19:12] Jesus is seen having many Crowns, as He gave and overcame much. Relative to all these rewards are Crowns for distinguishing different kinds of service. THERE ARE 5 CROWNS BROUGHT OUT IN SCRIPTURE… CROWN OF INCORRUPTION “Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” [1st Corinthians 9:24-27) The incorruptible Crown belongs to those who overcome the impulses of the lusts of the flesh, in that he that sows to the flesh shall reap of its corruption: but he that sows to the spirit, reaps of it incorruption. (Galatians 6:8, 1st Corinthians 15:51-52) The flesh is a corrupting enemy to be overcome, therefore the Crown of incorruption. (Awarded with having an incorruptible glory-filled body!) CROWN OF REJOICING “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?” [1st Thessalonians 2:19] This Crown being offered to those who have effectively ministered the Gospel of eternal life to the unregenerate of the World. CROWN OF GLORY “The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.” [1st Peter 5:1-4] This is the Crown promised to those who shepherd the redeemed/regenerated with a heart of sincerity in accord with holiness. CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” [2nd Timothy 4:7-8] This Crown is promised to those who have faithfully wrestled with the wicked spiritual forces set against a righteous life with an eye to Christ’s Second Coming. CROWN OF LIFE “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.” [James 1:12] With “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” [Revelation 2:10] This Crown appears to have in view those who have suffered physical and mental persecution faithfully even if it meant their death. GOD EXAMINES OUR HEARTS… “I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” [Jeremiah 17:10] There is a judging that goes on in eachredeemedindividual every day. Working out your Salvation with fear and trembling speaks not only to the future hope of the salvation of the soul, but to the workings out by thespirit/Spirit all the convictions from our conscience on a daily basis. Our spiritual condition is known in the spirit realm moment to moment. As that is what determines our tests, trials, sufferings, temptations, judgements, rebukes, reproofs, exhortations, and encouragements. We are more spiritual or less spiritual based on our daily responses. The true spiritual condition we are in presently speaks of the Written Word’srighteous characterthat has been worked out within us. Our state or condition when we pass from herewill not need to be thoroughly analyzed to see where we are at spiritually. To be judged worthy to be a part of the Bride and to rule and reign as kings and priests in Christ’s Millennial Kingdom will be completely self-evident to the Lord. That condition we will find ourselves in when we pass; if it be in anygaugedpersonal worthiness,will correspond with our position and our rewards and status in HisComing Millennial heavenlyKingdom. Or if our condition at death or at the time of His decision for ‘catching up’ of the living worthies warrants; the judgement will beexclusion from His Millennial Kingdom… along with any punishment deemedJustfor lack of developing service to the Lord. The Judgement Seat of Christ is not a long, drawn-out corporate affair, but is theplace of determination for when ourpassing through the Spiritual Judgement Fire will occur; either in the first or second resurrection. Which afterwards shall leave the redeemed in the highly judicial state relevant to who we really had become IN HIM while living our redeemed lives out on the Earth. That Judgement Fire brought to bear on those of the First Resurrection is both destructive and cleansing in its immediate discovery of individual worthiness for resurrection clothing in shades (degrees) of Glory. (See 1st Corinthians 3:10-15 with 1st Corinthians 15, especially 1st Corinthians 15:40-42… "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead.”) We are being judged daily with our ‘minding the things of the spirit or things of the flesh’in our maturing obedience and sufferings unto approved ‘first-born’ sons of God, with the first resurrection and salvation of the soul in view . Andin accordance with Christ’s Judgements at His Bema,we will bedeterminedworthyor unworthy of the First Resurrection when we pass from here, in that moment according to what we are at that moment as His eyes search the reins of our hearts after our death.All those who have preceded us will have been judged at the Bema as towhether they have the appointment topass through the assessment fires of the First Resurrection previously determined at the King’s Judgement Seat, at the time when He comes into His Kingdom at the closing of this Age. It makesScriptural sense then that all those Christjudged worthies of His heavenly Kingdom at His Bema, wouldin‘effect or consequence'face the fiery assessment for rewards, not individually manifest as they came before the Bema, but allat the same time; that is to say;in the‘catching up’. When 1st Corinthians 3:13-14 occurs (“…their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work.If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward”), those gifts and crowns will then appropriately match the specific ‘glory’ of his personal resurrection and rewards with his appropriate appointed authority in His heavenly Kingdom. In that the‘flesh’ does not pass away, nor is it cleansed from someone in death, but only in resurrection, which is to say in the‘catching up’. Then the soul that was previously sanctified while living, who was judged at the Bema at their death and found worthy for the future First Resurrection out from among all the other dead in Hades (be it 2000 years ago or yesterday), will then, at the catching up, in the twinkling of an eye, experience the fiery cleansing from all flesh and death. While that which remains, that cannot be consumed, will represent each glorified soul’s individual reward for service and the eternal proof indicative of the extent of having lived in keeping with Christ’s commands. This would have beenfirst experienced by the living faithful at the‘catching up’ at the First-Fruits offering. The‘effect’ of theJudgement Seat of Christ that manifests in that fiery assessment ‘catching up and changing in the twinkling of an eye’ on the Firstfruits and First Resurrection is the salvation of the soul. It is 1000 yrs before the Great White Throne Judgment when those redeemed into Christ during the 2000 years of the Age of Grace and Mercy who were judged unworthy at the Bema after their deaths, will now come forth out of Hades and pass through the assessing fire of 1st Corinthians 3 that answers to Verse 15… “…but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” “And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass (represented in the Old Testament as the Brazen Laver for cleansing which every priest who would enter into the holy place must first wash his hands and feet), having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.” [Revelation 15:2-4] The sea of (molten spiritual) glass mingled with (a spiritual) fire represents the Lake of Fire and the second death… which has no effect on the overcomer. (Revelation 20:6) It is Isaiah’s “And they (the dwellers on the eternal Earth) shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed me: for their worm (soul) shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.” The implication of Revelation 20:6 adds frightening clarity on what 1st Corinthians 3:15 may mean in regards to the Christian who quickly passes through the collapsing burning structure of religious works and escapes only with his eternal life… unto more severe judgement fires that must be justly brought to bear upon certain souls, which would include His servants found at His Bema as ‘wicked’ and ‘evil’. (John 15:6, Luke 12:5, Hebrews 6:8, 10:39) (Again, not literal fire, nor ever-lasting death in the Lake of Fire for those who once received His gracious gift of redemption from eternal ‘Hell/Lake of Fire’, but an intense spiritual punishing and purifying judgement fire that finally burns the taint of death and flesh off, that they may come forth, never to a state of glory, but cleansed. “For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.” [Deuteronomy 4:24] On one side of the spectrum, God uses both the threat of punishment and on the other side, He offsets His severity with the promises of reward to motivate us.May we allow both His positive and negative motivators to impress on ourselves the seriousness of working out Christ-like character while alive on this Earth, that we redeemed (by overcoming the flesh, devil, and the world in service to Christ) may receive in Judgement at His Bema, what He has intended, which is… resurrection glory to rule in this Realm, replacing satan and his angels, in Christ’s Millennial Kingdom.)

Mike Balloun teaches today 07/08/23. PREPARING FOR THE JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST (PART 2) VERSES: Matthew 25:19; 1st Peter 4:17; Revelation 3:16, 9:2, 14:4; Daniel 9:24-27; Luke 21:34-36 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9zg21vwwng8i901arzczz/h?rlkey=x8pd2w63r5qg49r0za3y66njm&dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Matthew 25:19… “After a long time the lord of those (redeemed) servants came and settled accounts with them.” 1st Peter 4:17… “For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?” Late in the first century, Christ instructed John to write the seven exhorting and warning letters (Revelation Chapters 2&3) to seven different literal Christian churches, which had various degrees of developing leaven. (Note that those warnings are not only given to them, but to us/the redeemed too.) The recorded instructive Words of Christ to His redeemed (those called to overcoming maturity) were then to be taken literally and prophetically, and were heeded and unheeded, then and throughout this 2000-year Age of Grace and Mercy. These Letters to the 7 representative Churches are interpretable and applicable today on two levels… 1) on a corporate level; on these current End-Time congregations/denominations and 2) on an individual level; on different kinds of redeemed individuals within the congregations/denominations. Today, there will be those who hear His instructive Words of warning and reward relating to His coming Kingdom and obediently respond and learn to adhere to Him, and those who won’t. In those 7 Letters, Jesus contrasts the actions of the then living redeemed faithful“overcomer”as opposed to the actions of the living redeemed unfaithful ones who were being “overcome.” The final judicial result on the redeemed for how they lived on this Earth being determined after death at the Judgement Seat of Christ. These redeemed will then and there be judged worthy of rewards and inheritance in His coming Millennial Kingdom, or judged as those who will suffer consequences and be excluded from that Kingdom and all its accompanying rewards. Those of the 7 Churches have run their race. Their judgements for what they did while alive are long since set. They were instructed to serve God faithfully and fruitfully, to be overcomers of their carnal souls, satan, and the World, and warned not to be overcome, as we also are warned through what was recorded in Scripture and given to them. It has been rightly said: The Bible was written for all times, especially the End-Times. What are the Just judgements this World’s ‘last generation’ is facing, along with the pretentious Church and the living redeemed lukewarm Christian individuals who are ‘alive’ unto the World? These soon coming End-Time Judgements answer to a great degree to “…all the (un-revenged) righteous blood shed upon the earth…” since the days of God’s Covenant with Noah up to the time of the coming “Armageddon”. (In Genesis 9:5-6, after the Flood, when God tells Noah and his sons to be fruitful and multiply, and to fill the the Earth again, He also makes a Covenant in the sky (a rainbow) as a sign He will not flood the Earth again, and in the Covenant, He also says, “And surely your blood of your lives will I require (as a reckoning/accounting); at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.” That there is an accounting for all the blood shed on the Earth by man is seen in the next two New Testament verses… Matthew 23:35… “That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar..” In Revelation 6:10, we can see that those who were martyred for Christ cry out, “And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” (Note that during the 7-year Tribulation period, there is a transitioning from the Age of Mercy to the Age of Justice, thus the cry for vengeance/Justice.) In these next verses, we can see that in the Last Days, God defers to Jesus to fulfill His Word relative to that Covenant He made with Noah concerning that ‘blood for blood’ principle. In these verses, it is clear to see that the shed blood in the Tribulation period is not arbitrary or random slaughter, but precise and Judicial recompense relative to the blood shed by His enemies since the time of His covenant with Noah. Revelation 14:20… “And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.” Revelation 16:6… “For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink (in that the waters are turned into blood once again in the End-Time Judgements); for they are worthy” (for it is their just due). Revelation 17:6… “And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration” (amazement). Revelation 18:24… “And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.” Revelation 19:2,13… “For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”… “And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.” Had the blood been accounted for, it would not have been mentioned in these verses as needing avenging/recompensing.) The state of mankind before the flood (‘the days of Noah’), which is what led to the Earth’s destruction, is coming on us today progressively and numbingly. (There’s a numbing within Christendom throughout the Earth in that they presumptuously think, ‘We are fine’ not knowing that they are like the lukewarm Laodicean church that was “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.”) Matthew 24:8,12,37,38 says, “All these are the beginning of sorrows… “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”… “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark…”) All this being like our current spiritual darkness which will soon lead to the climactic end just as it was for the spiritually unaware Amorites who were judged when their figurative ‘cup of iniquity’ had become full; it having accumulated over a long period of time. (Genesis 15:16) “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” [Matthew 24:21] And that God- determined timeline of the fullness of this World’s iniquity, in the wisdom of God, will also divinely coincide with “the fullness of the (calling out a people for His name from the) Gentiles has come in…” (See Acts 15:14… “Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.” And Romans 11:25… “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.”) The fullness of the World’s iniquity will also coincide when the “Times of the Gentiles” will have run its prophetic course; a time which spans from ancient Babylon to End-Time Babylon. (Luke 21:24… “And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles (from the time of Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon until End-Time Babylon) be fulfilled.” Christ’s coming Kingdom in the 7th ‘Day’ ends the “times of the Gentiles” and their authority in the Earth forever. See also Revelation Chapters 17 & 18) Foundationally, these Last Days correspond with God’s appointed and revealed timeframe for ‘restoration’, which is to say the pattern set of 6 days of work followed by a day of Rest. We see then God’s established principle must be fulfilled now as the 6th Day (of 1000 years for 2nd Peter 3:8 says, “…that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day”) of redemptive/restoration work since the fall of Man is upon us who live today… to be followed by a ‘Day’ of Millennial Rest in the Kingdom of Christ. Scripture reveals a Judgement ‘Throne’ for Justice to be set up in the heaven of this Realm, for a pre-determined 7-year period, to administer final judicial Judgements at the very end of those 6000 years of restoration work. Judgements which include the seals, trumpets, and vials which greatly affect all the ‘living’ in what is appropriately called the Last Days or End-Time. These Just Judgements will begin to come forth which answer to the Noahatic Covenant for Gentiles and their Nations, also Just Judgements that answer to the apostate Nation of Israel and Jews. (Daniel 9:27… “And he (the Anti-Christ) shall confirm the covenant with many (including Israel) for one week (those 7 years referred to as the Tribulation Period): and in the midst of the week (in the middle of the Tribulation) he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. To be understood with Isaiah 28:15… “Because ye (Israel) have said, We have made a covenant with death and with hell (with death/the Anti-Christ who will literally be resuscitated and brought back from that place called “Death’ in the ‘pit’ in Sheol/Hades/the intermediate place of the dead) …are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through (initiated by the Anti-Christ 3 ½ years after the covenant), it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves…”). Additionally, the End-Time Throne’s Justice and Just Judgements will also come upon the then living members of the Nation of the One New Man (Christians/members of the Body of Christ). All pre-Millennial Rest (typed by the Sabbath day) Work will be completely accomplished in a final 7-year prophesied period that closes out God’s 6 ‘Days’ of Restoration Work. THE SETTING UP OF THE LAST DAYS’ JUDGEMENT THRONE See Revelation 4:1-3… “After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set (‘being’ set in the Greek) in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne (this part of the furnishing being a token in remembrance of the Covenant with Noah after the Flood), in sight like unto an emerald.” See Genesis 9:11-13… “And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” Jesus, speaking to John, says, “come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter…and behold (look), a throne was (then being) set in (this Earth’s Realm’s) heaven…” A closer study reveals Revelation Chapters 4 & 5 describe the exact duplicate event foreseen by Daniel in 7:9-14 (note that the ‘thrones’ are wrongly interpreted in the King James Version as thrones being cast down; see any of 35 + other translations where it is rightly translated as something akin to “thrones are being set up”. The Revised Version reads… “I beheld till thrones were placed” which is to say placed in position for someone to sit on them. The Book of Revelation reveals the same main throne surrounded by 24 other thrones in Revelation 4:4… “Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads.”) The final result of this setting up of Thrones is that heavenly transaction wherein the Son of Man receives His investiture as King in this Realm and an everlasting dominion to be shared with His saints. (Revelation 11:15-18… “And the seventh angel sounded; 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 for ever and ever. And the four and twenty elders (in that they have tenure, they are called Elder Angels, having had authority in this Realm since its Creation), which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets (Old Testament redeemed Faithful), and to the saints (New Testament redeemed Faithful), and them that fear thy name (those who repented and/or were martyred during the Tribulation), small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth (the confederation of men and fallen angels in these Last Days). Note that this Realm will not be ruled by Angels anymore in that timeframe as seen in the fact that the Angels are seen laying down their crowns, which are a symbol of their authority, so that the crowns can be given to worthy glorified men who will co-rule with Christ from the first heaven and over the Earth in the Millennial Rest. Hebrews 2:5… “For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.” 1st Corinthians 6:2-3… “Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?” See also Revelation 20:4-6 where men take thrones… “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection (which answers to judged worthies to rule with Christ in the Millennial Rest). Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death (any further judgement at the Bema of Christ) hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”) These future Just Judgements; in the seals, trumpets, and vials, relate back as far as God’s Covenant declarations to Noah. Judgements that also would include Israel’s ancient supernatural calling out of the Nations, who was given authority in the Earth over all the other Nations, but through stubborn unbelief that authority was taken from them and given to the Gentile King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (“God hath made thee (Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon) ruler over them all” - Daniel 2:38). And that authority is prophesied by Daniel to remain down through 4 successive worsening beastly empires that follow; empires and a timeframe that hundreds of years later encompassed Christ’s First Coming. Had the Nation of Israel received Christ as their King, they would have gotten back that appointed authority in the Earth. But instead, having then and now rejected the Messiah, God has deferred Israel’s sure restoration judgements that will finally converge on them in the End-Times prophesied terminating judgments on the Anti-Christ/Beast and the last Gentile empire to rule in the Earth. A Last Days’ Empire not yet fully developed according to prophecy, but will be shortly in the Last Days. …Which brings us again to that future Judgement Throne yet to be set up. “For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.” [Luke 21:22] So it is that some prophesied Judgements to be pronounced at that Throne will have been deferred throughout this Age of Mercy and Grace. Those Judgements, not being swept under a rug, will then commence and be completed in that coming short 7-year transitional Age, all in accordance with God’s prophetic, now concluding, timeline (of 70 weeks of years) given to Daniel (Daniel 9:24-27) which culminate in the Return of Christ the Messiah, with the restoration of Israel to be His promised preeminent Nation on the Earth in His Millennial Kingdom. Thus, what Daniel’s and John’s written depiction of the setting up of the Throne of Justice has in view is the “consummation/finalization of taking away the Last Days’ dominion and kingdom of satan and its utter destruction… being the result of that heavenly court then set in order… that over the next 7 years, this Realm’s heavenly government/the “powers” of this heaven, “shall be shaken” (Luke 21:26b, Isaiah 24:21) …and be transferred to the Son of Man and “His saints (worthies) of the high places (the heaven related to this Earth) and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven (earthly) shall be given to the people (Jews) of the saints (Bride out of the Nation of the One New Man) of the Most High” (…places - Daniel 4:26 and Daniel 7:13,14,18,26,27 with Revelation 2:27;12:5;19:15). This setting up of this Last Days’ Judgement Throne of Justice in this Realm, in addition to the culminating things mentioned above, also correspond with the fading of the ‘Age of Grace and Mercy’ with its existing Throne of Grace in the Third Heaven. That Throne from where grace and mercy are dispensed for the sincere, redeemed seeker’s sanctification in living in faithful service to Christ will be less and less… as the redeemed are completely leavened in doctrine, thereby presumptuous and worldly. (Matthew13:13,33, Revelation 3:17) Christendom, now (or then), does not resemble the 1st Century church at all. It is made up of Laodicean-like religiously minded believers, who are unable to see their true condition (that of being in need of repentance), disqualifying themselves as the ‘Age of (dispensing) Justice’ now to be strictly enforced is opening. They will be religiously deceived in their calloused thinking, in the wrong camp, and be caught up in the Last Days’ Judgements from that coming Last Days’ Throne to be set up. (Proverbs 1:25-26… “Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes…” Isaiah 55:6… “Seek the Lord while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.” Revelation 3:16… “So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”) All of this sanctifying Written Truth to one degree or another has been presented to generation after generation of redeemed Gentiles since the first century after Christ, to be heeded by the redeemed hearer in faith, who are thereby exhorted and warned to live their lives on Earth accordingly. These Truths were meant to be purifying and refining so that believers in all generations would live their lives as if they themselves were the ‘living’ who were faced with so “great tribulation”. And with a view to being prepared whether they live in the time He will reappear, having that living hope of being caught up alive or if they should have to “taste of death”, regardless, to be prepared to stand before Christ’s Judgment Seat/Bema/Throne. The End-Time Judgement Throne will be set in this Realm’s unseen heaven and has to do with judgements on all those who are living on the Earth at that time and the 7 years that follow. The Throne of Grace is set today and is for the living redeemed to obtain mercy and grace unto faithful and fruitful service to Jesus our Lord. But the Judgment Seat of Christ has to do with judging His redeemed, primarily after their death, for recompense for service while they were alive…. “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done (while alive) in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord (in severe judgements for unfaithful service while living after redemption), we persuade men…” With… “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment…” (Hebrews 9:27) But during the 7 years of the Last Days of the 6000 years of restoration, the Judgement Seat will also make Judgements that were previously reserved for the redeemed after they died (Judgements having to do with their Resurrection; to be determined either in the First or the Second resurrection). But then in those 7 years, millions of living redeemed Christians across the globe will be evaluated at the Judgement Seat of Christ as to whether they are to be found worthy of the experience of being caught up away to that End-Time Throne while alive and never tasting of death, either at the time of the First-Fruits Rapture, or if they were unprepared at the time of that mid-Tribulation Rapture, they will be evaluated while remaining alive whether they are worthy to be caught away, and also like the First-Fuits, to never taste death at the time of the End-Time Harvest, which is towards the end of the 7-year period. (1st Thessalonians 4:16-17) So we may see how the following all work in conjunction throughout the 7-year period: 1) the End-Time portable Judgement Throne set up for Justice consummation in this Age 2) the Throne of Grace (that also answers to the Father’s chastisements while alive to purify us) for the redeemed to attain mercy and grace in faithful service to Christ 3) the Judgement Seat of Christ (although it primarily has been to judge those redeemed in Christ after dying over the last 2000 years as it relates to their future resurrection, now in the End-Times, the Bema of Christ comes into play for judgement on the redeemed before they die, while they are yet living, in that Kingdom rewards manifestly start in the time of the 7-year Tribulation Period when those who will be judged worthy will then not taste death and be caught up into the first heaven). These 3 all harmoniously occurring throughout the 7-year period just before Christ’s visual 2nd Coming on the Earth as King of this Realm and commencement of His 1000-year Kingdom. His Second Coming; constituting His heavenly Parousia, being when He steps down out of the unseen heaven of this Realm and enters the seen Realm. (Revelation 1:7… “Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.” Acts 1:11… “…who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven” {which is visibly}). THE TWO WITNESSES AND THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE END-TIMES Shortly after the setting up of the Judgement Throne in this Realm’s heaven and the Son of Man’s Investiture as Messiah/King, the two witnesses, in displays of supernatural judgements in the power of the Old Testament prophets, come forth in accordance with the setting up of the Throne of Just Judgement with the changing of Ages, and they prophesy and exercise God’s annulling judgement power in testimony against Israel’s and the Beast’s “Covenant of Death”. According to Scripture, the two seemingly invincible witnesses continue to witness throughout the first half /the first 3 ½ years that correspond with Daniel’s End-Time 70th ‘Week’. “And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast (Anti-Christ and False Prophet) that ascendeth out of the pit (same events of Revelation 13:1a,5,11) shall make war against them, and kill them.” (Revelation 11:3,7) The ‘great tribulation’… ‘Jacob’s Trouble’ … the ‘Hour of Temptation” suddenly comes upon all the living of the Earth. What had immediately preceded and initiated the two witnesses’ deaths by the Beasts was that Christians who were faithfully living on the Earth as ‘alive unto Christ’… were then purposefully and uniquely judged at the Bema of Christ as living overcomers of satan and were caught up into the first heaven (Revelation 12:11… “And they (the man-child/living worthy sons judged at the Bema) overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”) and they received the promise of reward in Revelation 3:10 to “…keep thee from the hour of temptation (mainly the Great Temptation to take the Mark of the Beast), which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the Earth.” Their ‘catching up’ resulting in satan being cast out of the first heaven down to Earth. (Revelation 12:12… “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”) Thus this “keeping” promise of Christ (in Revelation 3:10) then answers to the ‘rapture’ of those living faithful who are watching and praying in that hour. (Luke 21:36… “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man” (the disciples in the Garden failed to watch and pray and fell into temptation, these who were watching and praying are delivered up from temptation into the first heaven.) (See also Matthew 24:40-41… “Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left (to endure the last 3 ½ years of the Tribulation). Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”) “These were redeemed from among (living) men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.” (Revelation 14:4b) The ‘First-fruits’ supernaturally caught up from living men on the Earth to the unseen first heaven related to this Earth “unto God, and to his (End-Time Judgement) throne and to the Lamb. (Revelation 12:5 speaks of the First-fruits being caught up to the Throne that had just recently been set up; perhaps that portable one, which the prophet Ezekiel described as having whirling wheels, from where God judged Israel… “And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it…” - Ezekiel 1:26) Which would seem to correspond with Daniel’s and John’s visions of a Throne/Thrones being set up in this Realm. This Lamb, Who was standing in the midst of those Thrones (Revelation 5:6), now brings up a contingent of His sanctified redeemed. Christ is also referred to in the same Passage as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, which is an allusion to Israel’s imminent restoration in sanctification through ‘Jacob’s Trouble’ now forthcoming. Christ is in the midst of the End-Time ‘Thrones’ personally breaking the seals, and systematically administrating God’s Last Days’ Judgements in this Realm on the Gentile Nations and Israel. While also interceding and mediating as Advocate before the Ancient of days for His unripened servants left on the Earth. (See Job 2:1… “Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord.” Up until the time of satan’s casting down from this Realm’s heaven, where he is now ruling, Scripture declares satan accuses the saints who are resisting him; accusing them day and night before God. It would appear that this is his constant affair as his angels bring him intelligence on those servants of Christ living in the End-Times, who are most heartedly engaged in Christ’s service, being watchful and praying. These saints are typed by one of the children of the ‘Woman’ from Revelation 12 (she symbolizing the whole redeemed family of God). This “man-child”, who is to be brought forth to rule, is the ripening End-Time First-Fruits sons unto God. Satan is aware of God’s intent to raise this child up into his kingdom and replace him there, and with equal intent, he sets about to argue their disqualifications. And when his temptations and accusations fail, he attempts to assail them violently as they ascend into his heavenly kingdom “to devour her child as soon as it is born.” Which brings the forces of God to bear upon him and he is violently cast out of the first heaven to the Earth. Now having lost the heavenly portion of his kingdom, he now being full of wrath, sets about to destroy the remaining seed of the “Woman’; “those which keep the commandments of God” (the Jews) whom he knows are promised the Earthly portion of his kingdom in open unrestrained warfare, and those who “..have the testimony of Jesus Christ” (the remaining unripened living Body of Christ), who are exhorted to faithfully endure. (Revelation 14) The redeemed faithful living End-Time witnesses of Christ on the Earth played then dramatically into this middle of the week (middle of the 7-year period) event in that their catching up also resulted in the murder of the two witnesses. Satan’s expulsion from Earth’s heaven will so enrage him that he will precipitate Jeremiah’s prophesied Jacob’s Trouble on the Jews, as well as the time of trial and “Great Temptation” on the unprepared (asleep and not watching) Christians (which are the vast majority of End-Time living Christians left on the Earth). The first half of 3 ½ years ending with the death of His two witnesses gives way to the last 3 ½ years, in the bringing up (out of Hades’ pit) the Beasts in the power of outraged satan to kill the two Witnesses and fully develop the Last Gentile World Empire, which will be one of terror for all dissenters. It is in this First-Fruits mid-tribulation event that the Judgements of Christ’s Bema will first begin to manifest, and that being on the living New Testament bondservants of Christ, 2000 years since His departure and 3 ½ years after returning to the heavens of this Earth (when He entered this Realm at the beginning of the 7-year period for His unseen Investiture). That being parabolically set forth in Matthew 25:14,19… “For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.” … “After a long time (at least after 2 Days/ 2000 years) the lord of those servants cometh (unto the heavenly part of this Realm first), and reckoneth with them” (then living on the Earth). Luke 19:15… “And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the (heavenly portion of the) kingdom, then he commanded these servants (the living First-fruits) to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money (the Truth regarding redemption/rebirth in divine nature, the love of God, the Word, the Throne of Grace, and the Holy Spirit), that he might know how much every man had gained by trading” (in His spiritual economy). These living judged by Christ as worthy of First-Fruits will be the first actual recipients of His Kingdom blessing, realized in the catching up glorious change in the “twinkling of an eye”. THE HARVEST The heavenly part of the Kingdom of Christ being secured, attention is turned to the Earthly part of His Kingdom. Just Judgements from the Throne on the inhabitants of the Earth continue exponentially. Until towards the end of the Tribulation period when the further Judgements of the Bema of Jesus Christ will then be manifest in the Harvest of the remaining living and dead judged worthies caught up to join the First-Fruits, followed quickly by the securing of the Earthly portion of His Kingdom. The time of the Harvest ingathering/‘catching up' is just before the closing of those last 3 ½ years (Revelation 13:5), and after much tribulation, towards the end of the 7 years of increasing tribulation judgments, and just before the last terrible Vial is poured out on the Earth. (Revelation 16:17) Before the climax of “the great winepress of the wrath of God”, there is the Harvest of all those redeemed dead who were found faithful and those remaining faithful Christians living on the Earth, who had been un-ripened at the First-Fruits offering 3 ½ years earlier who are now awake, and “watching and praying”. (Revelation 16:15… “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” God is warning those left behind that they may qualify yet, through much tribulation, to be a part of the Harvest. These are those remaining living Christians who repented and are now fully ripe, having overcome the flesh, the World, and satan, who ‘endured patiently’ the great persecution and temptation to worship the Anti-Christ. Then the One Who sits “on the white cloud”/the Bema of Christ, having then determined those tribulation faithful out of His living ‘Body’… “…thrust in his sickle, on the earth, and the earth was reaped” (the Harvest of His faithful living - Revelation 14:7-20). Who then are gloriously “…caught up together with them (‘them' being those resurrected dead found faithful previously at the Judgment Seat of Christ… having been found worthy for the First Resurrection, they are gloriously brought up out of Hades and are caught up almost simultaneously together with the judged worthies of the living) …in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air” (in the 1st heaven fulfilling 1st Thessalonians 4:14-17… “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”). The Harvest is now gathered together with the First-Fruits up into this Realm’s unseen heaven, as the full Bride, now to be wed to Christ (at the great Wedding Supper) “…and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Then after this heavenly wedding, they are empowered as regal co-rulers and poised to rule with him. (Daniel 7:18… “But the saints of the most High (Places) shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.” See also 1st Thessalonians 4:14 with Revelation 19:7-14, and Zechariah 14:3-9) See Luke 19:12-17…“He said therefore, A certain noble man (Christ by Resurrection) went into a far country (the Third Heaven… it is the time for our preparation) to receive for himself a kingdom (an appointment from the Emperor to be King - Daniel 7:13-14, Revelation 5:1-9), and to return (to this Realm). And he called his ten servants (already His redeemed servants with the gift of eternal life), and delivered them ten pounds (representative of the ‘Truth with amenities’ of His mission entrusted to them), and said unto them, Occupy (faithfully promoting His Truth) till I come (with the appointment He had declared as His, He has now attained). But his (End-Time) citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us (this is the 7-year End-Time indictment against the living dwellers on the Earth). Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little (in that if one can rule themselves, they are found worthy to rule over others), have thou authority (in my heavenly Kingdom) over ten cities (on the Earth… the reward is too wondrous to conceive). And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds. And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities. And another (redeemed servant) came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow (the disqualifying from kingdom inheritance here is cited as wickedness and not misuse but disservice, due to his irreverential opinions of his Lord). And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank (sharing the Truth if but halfheartedly to others that would have brought forth at the very least a small return), that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds. (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.) For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath (Truth and lives and shares it) shall be given (more Truth and authority); and from him that hath not (exercised the Truth into which he came), even that (perfecting Truth unto heavenly glory) he hath shall be taken away from him. But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them (see Hebrews 10:13 and Revelation 11:18), bring hither, and slay them before me.” Christ’s Words of Truth… “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” And “And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”

Mike Balloun teaches today. 07/01/23 🔥 PREPARING FOR THE JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST (PART 1) 🔥 VERSES: 2nd Corinthians 5:10; Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:12, 22:12; Luke 12:58-59; 1st John 1:8-9 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/xfyxfvjtia30ng028ia1m/h?rlkey=pfpuihswfo0bg2yttnj3ch0xg&dl=0 Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 “For we must all (all redeemed, as he is addressing believers) appear before the judgment seat (Greek Bema/tribunal court seat relating to the members of His own “Body” as opposed to His kingly Throne of permanency over all His subjects in His Kingdom) of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that (works in service) he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror (the required severity in just judgements) of the Lord, we persuade (redeemed) men…” (for it is only redeemed men that will stand before the Judgement Bema of Christ). [2nd Corinthians 5:10] Note that the part about “the terror of the Lord” would be superfluous if the Judgement Seat of Christ was only about losing rewards. It is also written… “And as it is appointed unto men once to die (pronounced at the Garden of Eden Curse), but after this the judgment…” (Hebrews 9:27) It is not specified here what ‘judgement’ or specified when the Judgement is after they die. We are told in Scripture that there is an immediate judgement on all mankind in Luke 16:19-31 (at the point of death when a man’s assignment in Hades/Intermediate Place of the Dead is determined), and there is a future Judgement 1000 years after the First Resurrection out from among the dead. (Revelation 20:5) This second resurrection being for the “great white throne” judgement for those remaining in Hades (those not being a part of the First Resurrection) when all the “…dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books (of recorded works) were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to works.” (Note that the “Great White Throne Judgement” is not just for the unredeemed but also for the redeemed found unworthy of the First Resurrection (Luke 20:35, Revelation 3:10)… as opposed to what most in Christendom purport. That being the erroneous teaching that when a man dies, there is a judgement based solely upon having been ‘saved’ or not… the ‘saved’ then are immediately delivered up into of Heaven while the ‘unsaved’ are cast into Hell/the Lake of Fire.) At the Judgement Seat of Christ, there are determinations for recompense for godliness and good behavior of the redeemed as well as recompense for ungodliness and bad behavior of the redeemed. The Judgements at the Bema on the redeemed (either immediate upon death or later) are judgements associated with His Second Coming and His Millennial Kingdom in view. And are entirely about worthiness in service to Him and reward, or conversely unworthiness in service to Him with loss of reward and even punishment. Christ having Co-Rulers in His Millennial Kingdom in glory is in view; not eternal life, for all in His “Body” (all His redeemed) already have eternal life in their possession as a gift. Christ’s Millennial Kingdom Judgements are pronounced sometimes before death (as the case with Paul in 2nd Timothy 4:8 where God, before his death, assured Paul of his reward… “Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing”; and in the case of the 12 Disciples whom Jesus told before their deaths that “when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” (Matthew 19:28) Another example would be both the First-fruits “man-child” (seen raptured in Revelation 12:5) as well as those “alive” who are caught up at His Coming as part of the Harvest, as neither of those would even experience death. (1st Thessalonians 4:17 and 1st Corinthians 15:51) Or some judgements may be reserved much later than the time of their death, as seen in certain martyrs who are in Hades (comforted under the altar in Hades’ Paradise) and are then given white robes as encouragement before the First Resurrection for having been slain for their testimony. See Revelation 6:9-11… “When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.” Note that the timing (after the 5th Seal and before Christ’s Return) of their being rewarded with white robes is probably immediately AFTER the catching up of the First-fruits/Manchild. (Revelation 3:10) This explains the reason for their crying out, in that their inquiry as to how much longer they’d have to wait for God’s recompense was spurred by the event of the First-fruits being caught up into the heavens associated with this Earth.) So regardless of when the Judgements from the Bema Seat of Christ were made… (those related to the especially “blessed” of the First Resurrection rewards in His Millennial Kingdom inheritance) …they will manifest on the worthies out of His “Body” in “that Day” of His Return. The Throne of Grace and Mercy in this Age of Mercy and Grace (a name coined after the Throne of Grace and Mercy) is to prepare the redeemed for the Day of Judgement at the Judgement Seat of Christ. (Hebrews 4:16… “Let us (redeemed) therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”) Christ’s Atonement set aside an Age of ‘grace and mercy’ for both redemption out of the lost Gentiles in the taking of “a people for his name” AND out of those redeemed of that new Nation of the One New Man. His Atonement was/is for the perfecting or spiritually maturing of those people unto worthy firstborn sons to rule with Christ in the 7th Millennium Rest. (Read Hebrews 3&4… “Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling (a calling to glory; of which many are called but few are chosen/few choose), consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end. (Next, Paul uses Israel as an example to New Testament believers to show that being merely redeemed out of Egypt/saved out of the “World” does not assure one entrance into the Promised Land/heavenly kingdom inheritance…) Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion (as in the ‘provocation’ when Israel provoked God to anger because of their unbelief/rebellion and their refusal to go into the Promised Land and fight, much as we provoke God in our refusal to go fight for the inheritance of the gospel of the heavenly Kingdom), In the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’” (His ‘rest’ being when He has redeemed and sanctified a people in His Theocratic Government in this Realm. Many within Christendom also shall not enter into that ‘rest’ finally attained in the 7th day millennial Rest due to their “going astray in their hearts”.)… Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, while it is said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” For who, having heard (having not rejected the gospel of Redemption), rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? (coming out of Egypt symbolizing our Redemption) Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? (all but Joshua and Caleb, who symbolize that New Testament group of believers who are both redeemed and Overcomers) And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief (refusal to obey in going in and taking their inheritance from the ‘Ites’ in their believing what the 10 spies said instead of believing/trusting God as Joshua and Caleb did). Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear (a warning to us as well) lest any of you seem to have come short of it (short of the conditional promise, due to our disobedience). For indeed the gospel (of inheritance after Redemption’s deliverance out of satan’s kingdom) was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God (the New Testament merely redeemed and the Old Testament merely redeemed will not enter God’s Rest… which is the seventh millennial day Rest after the restoration of man; in the pattern given in the 6-day restoration of this Earth in Genesis 1:2b-2:3… that is to say until He has sanctified a willingly obedient portion of them to take dominion over the current evil spiritual forces and Rule over this entire Realm; its heaven and earth, in His Theocratic Government… then He will Rest from His restorative Work for man). For he who has entered His rest (the Overcomers in His Millennial Kingdom Rest) has himself also ceased from his works (over the flesh, the world and the devil, for which he fought violently {Matthew 11:12, Ephesians 6:12, 2nd Timothy 2:3} and was judged faithful at the Judgement Seat of Christ) as God did from His (…rest from His works, in the typical pattern set forth in Genesis). Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit (dividing between unbelief and belief), and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account (at Christ’s Bema Seat). Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God (who intercedes day and night for the redeemed with sanctification of the soul in view), let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” In Hebrews 3 & 4, Paul is energizing us to do what Israel didn’t do and reminds us that we have a greater High Priest who not only intercedes for us on our behalf but also helps us in our infirmities, in that His Atonement has made sanctifying provision. He uses redeemed Israel, who rejected their higher calling, as an example for us to not reject the purpose of our Redemption, which is the heavenly Kingdom calling unto inheritance. Note that Numbers 13:24 says… “But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.” Today, do not harden your heart against the gospel of the heavenly Kingdom inheritance. Do not be complacent in the Wilderness, but instead, be ‘of a different spirit’ and rise up and arm yourself with the provisions of Christ’s Atonement and defeat the giants that would keep you from entering in.) This current Age is appointed between the two advents (two Comings of Christ), wherein the Resurrected Christ has been consecrated as the High Priest and intercedes for His Body at the Throne of Grace and Mercy at the right hand of the Father in Heaven. During this interim Age of approximately 2000 years, He is Advocate for His “Body” while they are alive, whereas after death, He is their Judge (in that He cannot be both the Advocate and Judge at the same time to the ‘living’). The Judgment Seat of Christ pertains to the Believer’s afterlife, whereas the Throne of Grace and Mercy, where we can draw upon His provision of mercy and Divine influence, pertains to this life. (The Throne of Mercy and Grace being made accessible by His Blood Atonement which was greater than that of the blood of bulls and goats.) The SOUL is declared saved (or not) at the Judgment Seat. The redeemed soul living on the Earth may approach the Throne of Grace and its Mercy (that Throne in Heaven established on redemption grace) where additional mercy and grace might be obtained for the necessary sanctifying work in the crucifying of the carnality in the soul. (Hebrews 4:16 with 2nd Corinthians 6:1, James 4:6, 2nd Peter 1:1-12) The works of righteousness or spiritual fruit accounted to the spiritually maturing (for works done after they are redeemed) may be acceptable to God, and worthy of the First Resurrection. This worthiness (or lack of) will ultimately and definitively be determined at the Judgement Seat of Christ. (See 2nd Peter 1:1-12… “…Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things (submitting to a sanctifying work upon your soul) you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”) The Judgement Seat of Christ is for the final assessment of that sanctifying work on the redeemed soul and is extremely judicial based upon strictly defined and personally developed righteousness. The Judgement Seat of Christ will, to many, frighteningly remove all contrary ideas that Death is a magical additive unto holiness and cure for ungodliness for their works done while in the body (alive). Exacting justice for service to the Lord after redemption is the full focus of the Judgement Seat. (A righteousness seen in type, in that immediately after Israel’s redemption by blood and before their inheritance, there was instruction in the removal of the leaven/removal of their ongoing sin. {Exodus 12:15} Israel did not reject the Gospel of redemption/deliverance but their unbelief was the rejection of the Gospel they heard of the Kingdom inheritance. See again Hebrews 3:15-16 and also 1st Corinthians 10:1-15… “Moreover, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware that all our fathers were under the cloud, all passed through the sea, all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall (a warning to the modern-day Church that believes they are already guaranteed a right to rule with Christ in glory merely by believing at their Redemption and not as a reward for overcoming). No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it (James 4:6 says “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”) Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to wise men; judge for yourselves what I say.”) The Father Chastens the members of the Nation of the One New Man. The Throne of Grace and its mercy does not exclude chastising judgements upon the living redeemed. The Father chastens His redeemed children, having repentant faithful and fruitful works in view that will be discoverable at the Judgement Seat of Christ. (See Hebrews 12:8 with John 15:2… “But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons”… “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”) Hebrews 4:16… “Let us therefore come boldly (into the fellowship of the Lord and with humble confidence/assurance) unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” These disciplining judgements being administrated from the Throne may be mitigated by drawing upon the provision of Atonement Grace and mercy by those approaching reverently, and if necessary, repentantly, being ‘alive’ in service unto Christ or wanting to be restored in service, appealing for grace and mercy under the law of the spirit of life in Christ; that abundant and attainable provision of divine intervention which also answers as an appeal for Justice’s demands to satan’s accusations. (Accusations which satan makes in order to exclude us from replacing him in the heavens associated with this Earth. - Revelation 12:9) Again, we, being redeemed by Christ, may only approach that Throne and attain grace and mercy while we are yet living out our lives in this World, and while Christ is still in His office as High Priest interceding on our behalf (for after we die there is no appealing for grace and mercy; there is only exacting justice awaiting every soul). See Luke 12:58-59… “When you go with your adversary (the devil who legally accuses you) to the magistrate, make every effort along the way (along the way = while alive, for there is no provision for grace and mercy once you have died) to settle with him, lest he drag you to the judge (the Just Judge), and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison. I tell you, you shall not depart from there till you have paid the very last mite” (a place where God extracts all the honor that was withheld from Him by the merely redeemed walking in unbelief that was due to Him. Note there is nothing yet to pay for redemption, for that was paid by Christ). Yet while alive we have the promise of 1st John 1:8-9… “If we say that we have no sin (the religious idea of ‘antinomianism’ in an imputed sinlessness in Christ), we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” As long as we do not critically appraise God’s goodness, and are contrite and confess our sins while pursuing sanctification, we remain in fellowship with Him and access to the Atonement provisions of Christ to overcome can continue. This ongoing cleansing (beyond Redemption’s cleansing) just spoken of in 1st John 1:9 is typed in Peter’s need to only wash his feet which daily get polluted by walking in the ‘World’. See John 13:6-11… “Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?” Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed (redeemed) needs only to wash his feet (from daily contamination from the sin of the flesh; the cleansing of 1st John 1:9), but is completely clean (with confessing repentant right hearts); and you are clean, but not all of you.” For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.” It is declared in Scripture that Jesus Christ has been given all judgement authority. “For the Father judgeth no man (eternally), but hath committed all (eternal) judgment unto the Son: That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.” [John 5:22] Scripture shows Christ as Savior at the First Coming, and in the interim; Intercessor/Advocate and Administrator in the Nation of the One New Man in this Age of Grace and Mercy. However, in His Second Coming, seen in the soon coming Age of ‘Justice’, there is the setting up of God’s/the Father’s Judgement Throne/Bema from where Christ then receives His investiture into the office of the rightful King and Judge of this Realm. (See Daniel 7:9,10,13,14 with Revelation 4:2 and the rest of Revelation Chapters 4 and 5. Note that Daniel 7:9-10 and Revelation 4:2 speak of the same event of Christ’s Judgement throne being set up in the heavens associated with this Earth. Revelation 4:2 says, “Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set (‘was being’ set in the Greek) in heaven, and One sat on the throne.” And Daniel 7:9-10 says, “I watched till thrones were (being) put in place, And the Ancient of Days was seated; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, Its wheels (possibly the same portable/moving throne described by the prophet Ezekiel) a burning fire; A fiery stream issued And came forth from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered to Him; Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court was seated, And the books were opened.”) The Throne/Bema of Judgement from which God’s Last Days judgements upon His enemies will flow; the setting up point being the transitional point from this Age of Mercy to the next Age in Justice. And the commencing of the Great Tribulation judgements that Jesus referred to in Matthew 24:21 that He tied with Daniel’s prophecies, particularly the setting up of that Judgement Throne in Daniel 7:9, the investiture of Christ in Daniel 7:13-14, the appearance of the Anti-Christ and his end/fate in Daniel 7:11, the Bride out of the Body of Christ receiving the heavenly Kingdom reward in Daniel 7:18,27. All this occurring in the Week of Years unto the consummation of all Just Judgements in this Realm unto desolation, before Israel’s restoration in the Earthly portion of the Kingdom of Christ. (Daniel 9:24-27) Note that the Week of Years refers to last 7 years of the 70 weeks of years that needed to pass before Israel could be restored to receive their Inheritance as kings and priests on the Earth in the earthly portion of God’s kingdom, which was promised to them, the timing of which Daniel had inquired of God in Daniel 9.) The present judgements and threats in this, now 2000-year old Age, on the redeemed are in accord with chastening disciplines, tests, and trials as it relates to the redeemed running a race for an Inheritance prize; a race that must be run legally. (1st Corinthians 9:24-27 with 2nd Timothy 2:5) Legally, which is to say that they in the first place must be those dead unto the Law of Moses…“Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.”…… “but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6&7) while under “the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus”, minding the things of Christ and thereby being “kept by the power of God.” (Romans 8:1-5, 1st Peter 1:5) Being thereby “alive unto God through Jesus Christ”, we are to be instructed in perfecting/maturing spirituality, now being under the “law of Christ”. (Galatians 6:2, Matthew Chapters 5-6) Christians typically have no problem with being “dead unto the Law” through Redemption, but in their actions, they are NOT ‘alive’ unto Christ. Then there are many in the Messianic Movement who are not “dead to the Law” who run the race as one under the Law as opposed to heeding the commands of the One greater than Moses; Jesus’ commands. (See the following verses in Romans 6:11-14 and 7:4-6… Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”……. “Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit (under the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus) and not in the oldness of the letter.” See our YouTube video entitled, “Dead to The Law or Spiritual Polygamy” for a more in-depth teaching on this. See also Luke 11:33-35 and Galatians 2:19-21… “For I through the law (judicially I have been crucified with Christ) died to the law (to the law means it has no power to judge or punish the dead) that I might live (in a newness of life, free from the law of sin that condemned me to death… free and empowered to pursue a personal righteousness in an overcoming life given…) to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,(under the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus), who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God (by attempting this righteousness through the law of Moses); for if (a personal) righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”) Within the ‘merely redeemed’ are 2 classes of Christians; ‘babes’ without concern (without terror/reverent fear) refusing the maturing ‘meat’ of obedience to Christ’s commandments and the other class being those redeemed who have been ‘meat-eaters’ (especially teachers) and have become or are becoming apostate scorners. (Hebrews 5:11-6:8) Whose Judgements at Christ’s Bema are reserved for them, says Scripture; in that the one group will be ‘unbound’ and “beaten with few stripes” and cast into “outer darkness” and the other ‘bound’, “beaten with many stripes”, and cast into “blackness of darkness”. (See Matthew 22:13, 25:28-30 and the Book of Jude) Jude 1:11-13 describes apostates in the church who have “gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit”, who are “clouds without water”… “twice dead” and “raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever) and they are also described as being either “beaten with many stripes” in Luke 12:47-48… “And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.”) So it is, that the glorious prize of First Resurrection and heavenly Kingdom inheritance promises to be declared to the Overcomers of the flesh and satan’s World at the Judgment Seat of Christ are accompanied by these solemn and sobering exhortations and threats to those who are being overcome by the flesh and this World’s offerings while we are alive. What then should be in view throughout our redeemed lives is the highly judicial judgements which we will be faced with when we depart this life. It is that exacting just judgement, without prejudice as to who you are, which if you go into the ground with unconfessed and unforsaken sins and your character was that of the World and the flesh, then you will stand at the Bema and be judged in that same condition. The law in force at the Bema of Christ is “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” and it will be pronounced in certain finality. Again… “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ (that is to say after we die); that every one may receive the things done in his body (that is to say those things done by the eyes, ears, heart, minds, lips, hands, and feet while we were yet alive), according to that he hath done, (as the righteous Judge that searches the reins and hearts… in its secrets, motives, and attitudes; declares Revelation 2:23) whether it be good or bad (if un-repented willful behavior): Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, (note that if judgement rewards were all this BEMA represented, there would be no need to speak of its terror) we persuade men” (to become “fully” persuaded - Romans 4:21). Whether with warning persuasions of spiritual words, or with judgements in chastening disciplines, or hard circumstances in tests and trials, all of these are being prompted by God for our spiritual maturing, our soul’s salvation, so that the best result, a oneness in union, may be realized after death or at His Coming. For a merely born-again foolish Christian, it is after death or at Christ’s Coming that the word “terror” will manifest at the Judgement Seat of Christ. “And (He) shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites (believers who united themselves with the “World’ will be united with them in judgement): there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24:42-51 - these being temporary, longer or shorter punishments for the believer who had received the gift of eternal life.) While an appeal by the redeemed at the Throne of Grace will help to deliver the leavened while he is alive, there is no appeal to the Blood for relief of judgement for the leaven-eater after he dies at the Judgement Seat of Christ (the foolish Christian who had no fear of God nor prick of conscience for his sins will face the stark reality of his circumstances after the religious opium that gave him a false sense of security wears off that he had been blinded by in life. He will have died in his sins, deceived by that opium). In Ephesians 3:1-11, Paul speaks of the mystery (here, and also in the Book of Colossians) as the hope of glory; an inheritance in the heaven of this Realm offered to the New Man. That mystery is that which was hidden from before the foundations of this world, and which was hidden within the Old Covenant that is revealed by Paul in the New Testament Revelation, that came first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. That mystery being now of the one new man in Christ, the future New Creature; to first be saved/redeemed and then developed by the Word and Holy Spirit into a qualified worthy to rule with Him from the heavenly realm. That it was a mystery to the “spirit rulers” of this world, is made clear from 1st Corinthians 2:1-8 as well as in Ephesians 3:10. It is the Wisdom of God who hid the Mystery of Glory to Men through Christ’s Atonement that would bring out and bring in a people worthy to take over the future ruler-ship of this entire Realm from the satanic forces who rule over Earth from the unseen heavenly part… in the Millennial Age that is to come. It is in the fulfillment of this Mystery that the JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST has in view. The closing of this Age of Grace and mercy brings the Return of the Lord to this Realm in the dawn of the Age/Day of God’s judgements in deferred ‘Justice’ (deferred for the past 2000 years). (Romans 2:5… “But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God…”……. 1st John 4:17… “Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.” We all must examine ourselves/judge ourselves before we face the Just Judge. (1st Corinthians 11:31… “For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.”) May we heed the many warnings in the Word, such as, “Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” Many who presume to hear, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant…” will in actuality, hear “Depart from me, I do not know you…” when their works come to light at the Judgement Seat of Christ by Him who searches the reins of our hearts.) His Return corresponds with the Judgement of His Living and dead Servants. (In the Greek, servants are ‘slaves’ in that He is our Master and we are not our own… Matthew 25:14-30, Luke 19:12-27, 2nd Peter 2:9) We will try to put Scripture’s Last Days’ different great transitional judgements in their order at the closing of the Age of Grace and Mercy, in that its final outcome purposes of “consummation” which are ‘suspended’ during this current Age, as prophesied by Daniel, are accomplished in the closing of the that Age (the 7 years of Tribulation) and in the opening of the Age (Millennial) of Justice. This “Day” of Judgement in Just Righteousness also runs on through the 1000 years of Christ’s Kingdom (Revelation 20:5), and for a short time following; which climactically ends with the Great White Throne Judgement. (Revelation 20:7-15). The Day of Judgement is based on the sole principle of works. (Matthew 16:27… “For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward (render/repay) each according to his works.” Revelation 22:12… “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward (recompense) is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.”) In Part 2 (next week) it will be shown chronologically on whom Christ’s judgements come and what the different judgements of recompense for good and recompense for bad works are. Specifically, throughout the Age of Justice, starting with the 7 years of Daniel’s 70th week unsuspended, and moving throughout the Millennial Age of Justice… unto the final destruction of this Realm and the Great White Throne Judgment… and into the Age beyond.

Mike balloun teaches today. 06/24/23 https://www.facebook.com/groups/4hgtxstudy REDEEMED FOR A PURPOSE VERSES: 1st Corinthians 2:6-8; 1st Peter 1:9-12; Philippians 2:12; Matthew 16:24-27 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0wlnaw4whctlogi67zeqx/h?rlkey=614xb2275j0r1xyv7zhtefqix&dl=0 “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are (being made) perfect (the redeemed): yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” [1st Corinthians 2:6-8] Christians, as members of the Nation of the One New Man, live in a World controlled and governed by satan and his angels. Their positions and power in this Realm date back before Re-creation and Man being made 6000 years ago. Their current ‘glory’ in which they rule in this Earth is a usurped/stolen one from God through Man. Satan and his princes of this world were acutely aware of the threatening word that God declared unto satan in the Garden of Eden, which came as a result of his chicanery. In that Word to satan, God predicted the coming of the seed of the woman that would ‘crush his head’ which would bring righteous judgment upon him and ultimately take back from him his usurped ‘glory’ in authority over Man and creation in the Earth. Later, satan further came to understand through the Covenant of God with Abraham that from Abraham would come that promised seed. And later still, satan was made aware in God’s Words given to Moses, that another and greater than he (Moses) would come, He being the true Messiah who would bring Israel back to God after their prophesied future falling away. Satan and his princes were well aware of all the Scriptures of the Old Testament in regard to that Seed. The ‘princes of this world’ had seen and understood that God’s promises of that seed were closely tied to redemption ever since Adam and Eve were redeemed, in that the Redeemer could not himself be unredeemed. Some of their seed down to Abraham were redeemed by the efficacy of the blood and life of an appointed animal sacrificed unto God by the heartfelt offeror for remission of their sins. In that whenever the conditions of God’s redemption were met, then that man who had been born under the curse of death in the kingdom of satan, was then given eternal life. Upon receiving eternal life, man’s spirit (man being a triad being composed of spirit, soul, and body) was then animated. (1st Thessalonians 5:23) And after hundreds of years, Abraham’s seed was many in the Land of Egypt when God remembered His Covenant with Abraham and determined to bring them out from under the great oppression of satan’s agents. God called Moses, a descendant of Abraham, and gave him the ‘gospel message’ of a mass ‘redemption’ of Abraham's seed. And in answer to redemption, the Passover lamb sacrifice was offered unto God, and a people, an entire Nation of people, were immediately redeemed; born again of God. Their spirits were infused with life and delivered from death’s eternal curse, being forever spiritually translated out of the kingdom of satan into the eternal Kingdom of God's Church (God’s ‘Church’ being the redeemed from the Garden of Eden until today). The battle for the authority in the Earth apparently was on, in earnest, for the first time since satan had acquired that authority and its inherent glory from Man in the Garden of Eden rebellion. Being then redeemed, Israel was brought out of Egypt and set on course to realize the purpose of their redemption; to overcome the ‘Ites’ of Canaan and inherit the promised kingdom to Abraham’s seed. The type symbolizing the anti-type of redeemed believers overcoming spiritual giants (satan, the World, and their flesh) to inherit the prize of the High Calling to heavenly inheritance in Christ’s Coming Kingdom. Redemption was no longer an issue in Israel's success or failure (having been baptized in ‘death’ in the Red Sea and resurrected on the other side) in overcoming and inheritance; as success completely hinged upon obedience or disobedience. Note that after deliverance, comes instruction (as seen in God giving the redeemed of Israel the commandments after their rescue). It was apparent to satan that God intended to place redeemed (and empowered) Israel between him and the Gentile Nations as that promised seed of a woman in their redemption and restoration of Man’s Earthly kingdom and kingly authority. In that then every man of satan’s kingdom was potentially a redeemed ‘saved’ citizen of Israel (who would thus potentially play a role in fulfilling Israel’s call to be a kingdom of kings and priests and a ‘light unto the Gentiles’). Every foot of ground claimed by Israel was a foot of terra firma lost by satan and his princes. Now at the time of Christ, satan and his princes of the World had 4000 of years of experience with God’s redeemed being taken out of his kingdom, including that entire Nation of Israel appointed as God’s Theocratic government in the Earth. And although satan and his princes had suffered losses, God’s redeemed were no closer to taking his authority in the Earth away from them than what they were when God instituted redemption for man in the Garden of Eden and gave them the promise of restoration by the seed of a woman. In that although Israel was redeemed (by the blood of the lamb), they had failed in establishing a holy Nation by which God could fulfill His Word. This was due to the weakness of the flesh; being always susceptible to the World’s satanic secular and religious system cleverly developed and patiently presented that they would be led astray and estrange themselves from God. They, although redeemed, were brought again under satan’s service in this Earth. But this ‘Seed’ of a woman ... THE promised Seed, greater than Moses, withstood all temptations of the World system. This having failed, He furthermore withstood satan’s direct offer to grant Him authority over “all the kingdoms of the world… and the glory of them… if thou… therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.” Now it became clear to satan and his princes that Jesus was the Son of God. In that He declared the gospel of the Kingdom of God was at hand, accompanied by signs and wonders, and everywhere He went, He cast out demon spirits and healed the sick. And not only had He power and authority in the Earth, but He was anointing his followers who also were casting out demon spirits and healing the people in His Name. All evident to the princes of this world that the prophesied Seed that was to come and crush their head in authority in this Earth and establish His Kingdom on the Earth forever had now come to claim it. The threat of a restored Israel led by their Messiah, apparently the Seed of the Garden Promise of restoration of Man’s Earthly kingdom, looked inevitable. Satan’s ultimate test of Jesus’ righteousness before God or not was “skin for skin” (Job 2:4) meaning… His scourging with the threat of death by Crucifixion which led to His death. The Gospel of grace to the unredeemed is contrasted with the Gospel of glory to the redeemed. Satan and his princes had seen the results of the Gospel of grace to the redeemed for 4000 years as not a real threat to their Earthly kingdom. But after Christ’s Crucifixion death, burial into Hades, and Resurrection in Glory, the dynamics changed in that it was no longer just the Earthly Kingdom at stake, but to the surprise of satan and his co-rulers, God’s wisdom in the hidden mystery was it was always about the right of just conquest of the ruling heavenly Kingdom. In that shocking discovery, satan finds out that the redeemed will be empowered to assault his heavenly Realm for its conquest. Being redeemed alone was/is not a threat to their kingdom… as not one merely redeemed will replace a prince of satan on his throne. But had they known the depths of the Atonement, the princes of this world would have done everything within their power to stop Christ’s sacrificial death. So what was the mysterious hidden wisdom of God that, had they known, “they would not have crucified the Lord of glory”? It is the Gospel beyond redemption; that of the salvation of the soul of a man. This was a hidden mystery even to His faithful Angels. (1st Peter 1:9-12… “Receiving the end (goal) of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.”) After ‘being born form above’, believers are instructed to take up their crosses and follow Christ, crucifying their flesh (their psuche; carnal soul in the Greek) and evangelize the World with the Truth concerning the (full) Gospel of the Kingdom, which is a Gospel beyond Redemption. It is the full gospel about the calling unto sanctification that would cause the displacement (and replacement) of satan and his hordes from their Realm wherein they now rule. It was satan and his princes of this World’s failure in seeing the fullness of the Atonement ramifications for crucifying the Lord of glory that they later, in the preaching of Paul’s Gospel, learned more fully to regret. (Ephesians 3:1-11) In that through the preaching of the Gospel of Glory to the redeemed, that “so great salvation” opportunity (beyond the past experience of saving redemption) had/has a present and future aspect; the present aspect of sanctification and the future aspect of reward. That Gospel being that out of the redeemed there would come those who have worked out a holiness in their soul through reverential grateful selflessness for which they later will receive the reward of the First Resurrection in glory. And they would replace the ruling princes of satan on thrones in the heaven above this Earth, who would then be cast down to Earth and then shortly thereafter cast into the Pit, the lowest part of their present dominion in the center of the Earth, and ultimately into the Lake of Fire. The salvation of the soul has to do with the preaching the Gospel of Glory to the redeemed/to those who are in the the process of sanctification by the Word in the wisdom of God’s hidden mysterious dispensation in which we live. That being the Age in which Israel’s Earthly calling is suspended, while God is calling out of a people more worthy for His Name out of the Nation of the One New Man (Matthew 21:43); a heavenly Bride, and firstborn sons to rule as His Theocratic Government over the Nations of the Earth from the heaven of this Realm. (Daniel 4:26, Revelation 20:4-6) Obedience to the Word will bring Christ’s Atonement purging to the soul, and at the same time will bring the World’s hatred. (Hebrews 9:14, John 17:14,17) The redeemed Nation of the One New Man is now twice over more at peace with the World. In fact, there is very little enmity between the Modern-day Church (especially the Western Church) and the World (in either direction). Why? Because the Truth surrounding the salvation of the soul expressed by the Word has been targeted and leavened out from the Gospel of the Nation of the One New Man. In that if there is no salvation of the soul, there is no threat to satan’s kingdom. And as Israel failed, so satan is determined that the Nation of the One New Man will also fail. There is a stark contrast between the Gospel of redemption to the ‘unredeemed perishing’ versus the Gospel of Glory to the redeemed. In that mere redemption does not fit a Man for heavenly glory. This is the part of the Atonement of Christ that had the princes of this World had known, they would not have Crucified the Lord of Glory. It is that greater part of the Atonement that the entire Written New Testament is built around. Why? Because the wisdom of God, in hidden mystery, looked beyond the gift of redemption, to a salvation that makes Man worthy to rule instead of the princes of satan. This is the great offense to the World, the Gospel of the Cross of Christ: in that redeemed Man (saved in the past tense) may now take up his own Cross and crucify his flesh/soul (the working out of his own salvation; the present tense of being ‘saved’). Note that in the Greek, there are 3 tenses to the word salvation: there is having been saved, being saved, and the future tense of ‘will be’ saved. At redemption, our spirit has been saved, we are then (as a present ongoing work) told to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” as Paul says in Philippians 2:12, and the future tense speaks of being saved body, soul, and spirt, in glory in the First Resurrection, when the souls of those found worthy are infused with glorious abundant life/light. Glory cannot be imputed, as it is a reward for personal righteousness. The Forerunner paved the way for a personally acquired righteousness beyond the imputed gift of righteousness that ultimately, when exercised, would qualify them for Christ’s resurrection glory to fill their souls as a holy New Creature from a personally attained righteousness justly, then worthy of replacing the princes of this World who rule unrighteously in a stolen ‘glory’ from Adam (the future tense of ‘saved' being the fullness of God’s Salvation Plan). Had the rulers of this World known that their Crucifying Christ would result in Man’s empowering abilities (beyond redemption; that of the shedding abroad of the agape of God in the heart, the revealing Word of the hope of glory, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus and being kept by the power of God, and the indwelling of the power of the Holy Spirit) for the sanctification of the soul unto a worthiness of resurrection out from among the dead unto heavenly ruling glory displacing them and sealing their fate... they would not have Crucified the Lord of Glory. Matthew 16:24-27… “Then said Jesus unto his (redeemed) disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself (his old man/nature within), and take up his cross (only a redeemed man can take up a cross), and follow me (this he must). For (because) whosoever will save his life (carnal soul) shall lose it (his glorified soul): and whosoever will lose his life (soul in selflessness in the abilities I will supply) for my sake shall find it (saved unto a future glory). For what is a man profited, if he shall (not deny his soul/flesh and yet) gain the whole world, and lose his own soul (disqualified from eternal Resurrection glory)? or what shall a (redeemed) man give in exchange for his soul” (to be glorified)?” The man who is satisfied with having ‘eternal life’ does not understand that it is the quality of his eternal life that is at stake. For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels (at the time of the First Resurrection); and then he shall reward every (redeemed) man according to his works” (either crucifixion of the soul unto glory on the one hand or his flesh works at peace with the World but at enmity with God. Either way, they each will receive a just recompense of reward). Redemption has to do with eternal life through the spirit’s rebirth; Sanctification of the soul has to do with glory; a present work of faithful obedience with the promise of glory in the reuniting of spirit in the glorification of the soul and body in resurrection. In the leavened teaching in the Body of Christ, the ‘saving of the soul’ is represented to mean the Gospel of redemption to those who are unredeemed and perishing (the so-called Gospel of Grace only). But it is most difficult to find the Gospel of redemption as that to which Paul here calls the hidden wisdom of God, and a mystery had the princes of this World knew they would not have Crucified the Lord. For redemption’s gracious gift of eternal life by the shedding of blood had been known since the Garden revealing. The wisdom of God, in the saving of the soul of man unto oneness glory, was shrouded in the Garden redemption of Adam and Eve (and throughout the Old Testament); the hidden mystery of Christ Crucified unto Man’s Glory. Scripture defines the ‘saving of the soul’ as a further work after a believer is born again/redeemed in 1st Peter 1:9… “…receiving the end (goal) of your (redemptive) faith, even the salvation of your souls.” Not to be confused with redemption in the spirit’s rebirth, the salvation of the soul is to be obtained by the careful observance of the Word of God unto fruitful maturity and crucifying the deeds of darkness resident in carnal old man. Speaking to the redeemed, James writes, “Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted (implanted seed of the) word, which is able to save your souls.” Without this implanting of the Word in the renewal of the mind and thinking, and acting accordingly, which is able to save our souls, we would instead of becoming what we might have been, be lost or ruined. “But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” (Hebrews 10:39) The saving of the soul becomes the sole purpose of the redeemed. It is at the center of the heart of God. The salvation of the soul is about an inheritance as the rest of refined faith, and approved works at the Judgment Seat of Christ. In type, it is the race with the prize in view (1st Corinthians 9:24-27, 10:1-12); a crown and position of authority in Christ’s Millennial Kingdom. The Biblical economy of God’s family as His children and His sons has to do with inheritance. The first-born son has the rights of ruler and priest along with a double portion. But those rights may be forfeited, as seen in the types of Esau, Ruben, and the Nation of Israel. Now Adam having lost the first-born rights through unfaithfulness, the faithful 2nd Adam has now secured them. Jesus, having received the First-Born inheritance, now seeks His Bride (Eve in type) with whom He shall share those rights. Had satan or his princes understood, they would not have unwittingly provided the just ground on which God would extend the Gospel of the inheritance of Glory to mankind. They would not have instigated nor allowed Christ’s Crucifixion. (1st Thessalonians 2:12, Colossians 1:25-27, Hebrews 2:10)

Mike Balloun teaches today. 05/27/23 LUCIFER'S RISE AND FALL IN THE LIGHT OF REDEMPTION VERSES: Ezekiel 28; Isaiah 14; Revelation 20:1-3; John 17:21-23a STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/m2o1e6yov0sk6qf4lasap/h?rlkey=4eggjccyp1fs06s7g1nkvuorl&dl=0 Why did Lucifer, created in splendor and majesty, fall? Why did he not repent? Why is he called the "that old serpent… the Devil, and Satan…”? Scripture says he is presently the god of this world/age; prince of the power of the air. Who is he? He is a disinherited spirit being, existing in a spiritual body in the unseen sphere of this Realm where spirits reside, which is unseen to natural human eyes. Specifically, where is he? He is relegated to this Realm's unseen heaven, known as the first heaven, which is not limited to the atmosphere of gases surrounding this Earth or even the Solar system in which we live… but in the far-reaching space of this Realm (seen and unseen intrinsically united together in the design of God), wherever destruction may be perceived. That ruin being due to his rebellion against his Creator and God's judgment upon his once thriving Kingdom in this Realm (its heaven and Earth) that God had originally appointed him to rule over as a part of God’s Theocratic Government in His Universe. (Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14, Genesis 1:2a) There are 2 foundational Truths that can be perceived from Scripture: The first being that God desires oneness unity/union with His intelligent free will Creation. This desired unity was first exhibited with spirits/angels to one degree or another, then much later and more recently with humans/living souls first with Adam and Eve, and at last with those out of His redeemed Body. A future fullness of oneness union with God is reflected in Christ's prayer and is the Atonement’s greater and little understood contingent purpose recorded in the 17th Chapter of John (and then in other additional revealings throughout the New Testament). John 17:21-23a… “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one…” What does all this speak to us? What is this all about? Again, its foundational understanding is all about God’s desire to have a “Oneness” with His intelligent beings. The second foundational truth we can see from Scripture is that oneness/unity was/is prevented through the lack of worked out capacity within the created being. That lack being reckoned as no failure of the Creator. The absence of that oneness with God is laid at the feet of His created intelligent beings, who were apathetic or deceived, or who wickedly exercised/exercise their own free wills wickedly. God did not create pre-programmed robots, but intelligent beings with free will to choose to be faithful in all circumstances, evidently leading to a deeper intimacy with their Creator, or choose a path that prohibits that from happening. God does not force His all-powerful sovereign will, even at the loss of His own desired will, as seen first with Lucifer and then again with Adam. In answer to His just holiness, He chooses not to exercise His Sovereign power as it relates to free will. In that, it is impossible to give to a free will agent (angel or man) what only he may attain by way of exercising his volition/will at the crossroads of God-given experiences. So it is from the Creator’s desired will view (again, which He does not always realize from His intelligent created Beings) that for His intelligent free-will agents, there is to be a discovered growing humility in loving gratefulness in an awe- filled fear (not being afraid of their Creator, which pushes them away, but a fear that draws them closer, therefore not to be confused with the ‘spirit of fear’) /awareness that everything possessed or ever will be possessed by them has at its core God's benevolent nature. For He desired/desires to share more fully His endless bounty with them. His bounty has to do with unfathomable oneness with Him. Christ’s Words spoken about the one who was forgiven much loveth much (Luke 7:36-50) are a clue to: the fall of satan, the design for the making of Adam/Man, and after his fall the design for fallen mankind as the redeemed seed of Adam, which ultimately is to become Scripture’s answer to the serpents’/satan’s final judgment demise of Genesis 3:15… and the New Creature of the New Testament destined for oneness union with God. Lucifer’s and Adam’s shunning the wisdom of God led them into prideful ungratefulness and lack of humility, being then without developing capacity unto a ONENESS worthiness, which led to their demises (although manifest under different conditions). Adam was created and given the authority over God's limited Re-creation (in that not all things previously ruined in Lucifer's rebellion were restored, in that the Earth’s material things were the focus in the 6-Day Re-creation), and then the Woman was made from the Man and given to him as a helpmeet. They, together were to multiply and take dominion and rule over the restored Earth. Their creation they awoke to, albeit in a “very good state”, paled in the glory and dominion to the onetime great Cherub’s/Lucifer’s dominion, who on the day of his creation, becoming conscious, (awoken to himself) was in the very manifest presence of God in Heaven, awakened in an unexcelled beauty and perfection in all God's Creation. In comparison to Lucifer, all other created beings seemingly paled. Lucifer came into being in the Holy Mountain of God surrounded by the Garden of God, unto ministerial authority and glory that reached unto the very Throne of God. Alas, a glory that proved too heavy for him to bear, in that Scripture declares God to have said this to him relative to his fall: “Thine heart (in the power of your free will) was lifted up because of thy (God-gifted) beauty, thou hast corrupted thy (God-granted) wisdom (rejecting the retaining of the knowledge and fear of God that would always offset the inferior inclination to selfish pride) by reason of thy brightness” (splendor). [Ezekiel 28:17a] See Verse 15 which also speaks of Lucifer… “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.” (Sin being here seen as originated by Lucifer.) As we can see by the many references to Lucifer before his fall, God didn’t make Lucifer less than perfect, God made him intelligently aware with a free will, which made him only vulnerable to himself (his own choices). But rather than retain God’s to-be-further-gleaned wisdom, which would have offset any propensity or inclination to selfishness or pride, he rejected it. He refused the antidote for the poison that could enter into a free will. The antidote being the revealed wisdom/wise dominion of God (the growing awe/feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder of God… in that fear of God is the beginning of wisdom/wise dominion and manifests in humility and gratefulness in thoughts, words, and actions in the experiences brought to bear upon the created free will agent in order to further capacitate them toward God’s desired oneness in a future glory). (You can do no harm to Scripture by substituting Lucifer for his spiritual seed in the reading of these next Verses, as they speak to a universal truth concerning God’s free-will created beings. “Because that, when they (Lucifer) knew God, they (he) glorified him not as God, neither were (was he) thankful; but became vain in their (his) imaginations, and their (his) foolish heart was darkened…” [Romans 1:21] “And even as they (Lucifer) did not like to retain God in their (his) knowledge, God gave them (him) over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient…” [Romans 1:28] “Who (Lucifer) knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do (does) the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” [Romans 1:32] All this indictment to lost men or redeemed man given up by God is, in the first place, also applicable to Lucifer, they being similar darkened-hearted free will agents.) It then can be understood in the light of that previous great 'spirit/angel' having been created with an unlimited free will (in that to limit the free will on the one end is to limit it in ‘oneness’ on the other) and Scripture speaks of Lucifer being created “perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee,” that the man Adam, like Lucifer, was in the same sense made "perfect" from the day of his creation, and also with an unlimited free will. In that in the first place, it is evidently not in God’s will… nor more “perfect” to ‘limit’ the free will of choice in His intelligent beings (although He wisely has limited their power). So additionally, it is evident that being created “perfect and very good” with free will did not in itself constitute a state of selflessness, like Himself, that He yet desires to be developed through free will for a certain glorious co-ruling oneness union with Him. In answer to this, was the 6 Day Re-creation and its new leading player, Man, was determined. (Ephesians 1:4) In that the material being Man/Adam was made in the image of God, also with freedom of will, as were the spirits/angels before him, but with one command (not to eat of that certain tree), being a new being, another free will agent empowered with authority now under open test and trial… (“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest (wisely) cleave unto him… Deuteronomy 30:19). Adam and the Woman, made in a “very good” state, but being yet capable of a much deeper appreciation of their Creator (as was Lucifer at his creation), was by freedom of will tempted by Lucifer, the fallen great spirit, to venture beyond his single required limit. In anticipation, God made Man more limited (“lower than the angels”); out of physical earthly material and thereby more confined and more restricted in his Kingdom, and with much less splendor (glory) than Lucifer, and placed him, nonetheless capable for the task set before him (the spoken task to protect/tend to the Garden, take dominion, and multiply… and the unwritten task of growing in wisdom’s intimacy) in close proximity to the fallen spirit enemy. All is set forth for this eternal grand and glorious reason… to attain the oneness unity with a “New Creature” (Galatians 6:15) of His free will agents, tested, tried, and capacitated to then be adopted as first-born ruling sons who then would be His kings and priests in His restored and expanded Theocratic Government throughout His great creation. In God's design, He purposefully limited His new creation; man/Adam and limited his influence; in that previously He created myriads of angels in perfect states and set them over His vast estate (yet subject to infirmity due to free will), but now God determined to make one being in a perfect state; made in His image, from whom He would bring forth/build another like being (woman), together capable of reproducing after their own kind. (In this marvelous plan, always with fallen man and redemption in view, then procreation may be understood; in seeing the marvelous wisdom of God that through one man came sin and death unto all mankind and therefore reciprocally, in just answer to that, through also one Man comes merciful redemption with the gift of eternal life, and that for merely receiving by faith His/Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice. But in God’s predetermined purpose, far beyond that redemption gift of eternal life, comes the opportunity for redeemed Mankind’s oneness co-ruling glory as a resurrected New Creature in Christ, that “so great salvation” which answers to God’s true redemption purpose. After which, the resurrected glorified man, having fulfilled procreation’s great purpose, being then righteously “sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body”, a spiritual being, likened to Angels, after which will not procreate. In that in God’s predetermined purposes, every one of Adam and Eve’s offspring in redemption could/should develop eternal humility in loving gratefulness through the revelation in God’s Word in faith and personal living experience upon the Earth as a material being, under the curse of death, and could/should eternally recognize the exceedingly sinfulness and exceedingly destructiveness of self-willed pride. God, having already been through the sadly disappointing experience with Lucifer; that being the possibility of an honored and elevated intelligent being with a free volition of his own, who rejecting the offsetting wisdom of God in a proper appreciation for his Creator, develops a destructive sense of pride, as opposed to God’s desire of a oneness. So God, in untold attempts of reconciliation through loving mercy and holy justness, and through untold Ages later, had in the counsel of His own hidden will, before the foundation of this world, had looked beyond Adam and Eve in His New Creation unto their offspring, condemned under the just judgment of God as Adam’s seed, who were all considered present at the fall, being then in his loins. (Hebrews 7:9, Romans 5:12,17-19) Who therein would be hard pressed under the curse of death in the sin nature, yet wooed by the Holy Spirit until their discovery of their inherent sinful nature and need for God’s gracious redemption provision. (Note; For if they had procreated before the fall, his seed would have come forth in the image of God, not the image of man, without the need of redemption and subject to the same perpetuating infirmity of Lucifer or Adam.) And so it was after Adam and the Woman’s fall, that they reproduced, and their seed, naturally born into the Earth under the condemning state of God's wrath; born into death. And, again, although Adam and Eve were redeemed, and received the promise of eternal life in a future resurrection of restored bodies by repentance and the shed blood of an innocent animal, all their offspring were yet destined to taste of pride-filled death (Hebrews 9:27); in the firsthand terrors of rejecting their Creator, in that all come forth in the image of fallen man condemned, but not without the gracious witness of the Creator and the sufficient flicker of conscience with the free offer of redemption from eternal death to eternal life, that was never far away. (Romans 1:19-20) God’s Redemption and subsequent faithfulness under trial to the enlightened over the first 4000-year history of man held a shadowy mysterious promise, and that being not only of redemption’s eternal life, but an eternal glorious heavenly inheritance. (Hebrews 11:10,13-16) God’s view of the redemption of man, before his making, was/is always to elevate redeemed and proven faithful under test and trial, spiritually matured and capacitated mankind while alive, and to later, after generation followed by generation, He would bring in the full complement of people for His Name sake, or worthy of taking His Name, then bring him/them up, and out from under the dominion of death in Hades in the First Resurrection, out from among all the rest of the dead, changed magnificently in a twinkling of an eye, as the manifest New Creature now finally comes forth into that likeness for His long-desired oneness union “in glory”, caught up into the heavenly realm of this Earth, to be wed with Jesus the Son of Man, wherein they might rule with Christ over this earth from its heaven, both in the Millennium and with further promise in the New heaven and New Earth. But the shadow, after 4000 years, has taken on the reality of that then previously mysterious oneness heavenly calling, being now fully revealed to the sincere, attentive redeemed in Christ Jesus, through the Scriptures for the last 2000 years, as a reward far beyond the gift of eternal life, to be presented by God for that reverential gratefulness expressed in a free moral agent’s life of selflessness in the crucifixion process of the carnal enmity of the old man, unto a capacitated worthiness while under trial and test, in this World, ruled by its god, unto that future predicted oneness glory to rule in his stead. And as all the redeemed into Christ’s Body are faced with the wisdom of the designed plan of God, determined before the foundation of the 6-Day Re-creation, that of man having been redeemed and renewed in spirit in Christ, is now to have the New Testament-revealed depths of the enmity of the sinful flesh within him. This is the appointed dynamic of God, peculiar to the redeemed in Christ, now born again from above; with the divine nature, the love of God, the Holy Spirit, and the Word of the New Testament, wherein now the 2 internal natures struggle; the old man of Adam and the new man in Christ. This dynamic with purpose is revealed as the wisdom of God to the renewed mind in the Word of Truth, where in the battle for Godliness, it is intended and essential that there be the personal revelation of the exceedingly sinfulness of sin (Romans 7:13) resulting in an ever-increasingly deeper appreciation of God’s Majesty. Being now under the more exacting moral commands of Christ our Master, beyond the law of Moses, in that the now redeemed in the New Testament are thoroughly equipped and thereby are commanded to overcome the now even more insidious symptoms of its enmity corruption. The greatly expanded command to the redeemed of overcoming the now more fully revealed sin nature is balanced/offset by the revelation of their mercifully and justly walking under “the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus that has set me free from the law of sin and death”. The law through which the redeemed, who have rightly discerned, maintain unbroken fellowship without perfection by vigilantly repenting and keeping a good conscience before the Lord, drawing upon the grace of the divine influence upon their hearts, kept by the power of God, while they unrelentingly battle the evil forces, within and without, in their pursuit of Christlikeness. Willingly choosing to exercise their free wills to overcome/crucify the embedded tendency of the disqualifying prideful will of infirmity in the carnality of their soul. (Romans 5:1-5) And again to repeat… this spiritual battle, in the foreknowledge of God, before the making of Man, was determined/appointed for this Realm; the extremely hostile fallen spirit environment of the originator of pride, so that the enlightened redeemed person yielding his soul up in selflessness might overcome while under trial and test in the heartland of pride. They do this by daily drawing upon mercy and grace through ‘loving faith in God’ as justly granted in that it is the blessing for ‘believing without having seen’ (John 20:29), fighting the contrary root nature of pride (first manifest by Lucifer) within and without. That pride being the bane (curse/affliction) of the free will agent without the personal capacity of reverential gratefulness found in a free will yielded to the wisdom and fear of God. Now fearful gratefulness is to be discovered in redemption, it is the boon (desirable state) found in the depths of self’s true transforming awareness; that of God’s ‘awesomeness’ yet ongoing willingness to forgive the sins in the increasing enlightened repentant seeker yielding his members unto righteousness in selfless, often suffering, acts of free will. Whose eyes are wet with tears of grateful loving appreciation for redemption’s forgiveness and for the promises to the overcomer (the typical heart in action seen in the unnamed woman of Luke 7:36-50). That is, the promise to be completely changed in the First Resurrection to be fit for oneness “union” with their Maker. In that now God might pour out of Him the never-experienced oneness fullness of His loving bounty on His adopted firstborn sons who then will be able to bear the weight of their glory spread over the shoulders of their Bridegroom and King, with eternal loving grateful capacitated awareness of His selfless enabling work that brought them from the depths of their diabolical depravity. The issue with Lucifer, a highly intelligent free-will being, in his highly privileged created state that he awoke and grew in, that later erupted as pride, was his lack of exercising God-granted wisdom (wise-dominion) in ruling humility (the heart with humility, seeing themself, more and more, in the light of God’s awesomeness, being what God looks for, as you cannot rule in His Theocratic Government without humility). Lucifer being then without proper and proportionate gratefulness, was thereby without increasing awe and appreciation for his Creator. Wisdom, which Scripture declares God withholds from none of His intelligent beings, offsets, to a sufficient degree, the immature prideful tendency naturally latent in all free moral agents. (James 1:5… “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”) But particularly susceptible to pride are ‘masters/teachers’ (James 3:1), and even more so were the ‘apostles’ (2nd Corinthians 12:7-10… here note the documented ‘wisdom’ given to Paul who indirectly sought for it and then having been given it joyously exercising his will walked in it, embracing the trials and circumstances of this living on the Earth that he learned were meant to capacitate him for the First Resurrection in glory. (Philippians 3) And even more so than Paul and the Apostles, are those heavenly ruling agents (Daniel 4:30) who were even more exalted, having a ruling splendor and glory, who would be tested in wisdom as free moral agents to look at their authority, greater abilities, beauty, and accomplishments, from a pride-filled view. Yet the very makeup and definition of free will must mean an awareness in self-direction and choosing, and this is ordained by God. But along with the gift of free will, comes an acquired wisdom in right discernment, that was always close at hand, from the Beginning, for His intelligent created beings to glean, as seen on display in God’s awesome/fearful creating demonstration as His spirits/angels looked on. (See Genesis 1:1 with Job 38:2,4-7… “Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge/wisdom? … Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” See also Exodus 20:20… “And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove -- you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.”) And from the 6-Day Re-creation, for the first four thousand years, God’s un-fallen spirits/angels have looked on and wondered what in this World was God doing with Man in that it was a great mystery… that is until Christ, the Son of Man was resurrected. Now they see clearly in the further revealed awesome wisdom of God what the Creator intends to do in redeemed and then the further sanctified Man, to capacitate them to be the inheritors of the Kingdom with Christ to handle the great glory attained through their willingly exercising their free wills in suffering selflessness while carrying the heavy burden of death throughout their journey, all which will be found to be in preparation to elevate them to rule with the Son of Man. Though they (un-fallen angels) themselves yet rule as kings and priests in this realm as God’s representatives, it is without redemption (it being not necessary), sitting now on heavenly thrones relative to this Realm (its heaven and Earth; one out of many Realms within God’s Universe), and that on their own, but somewhat yet comparatively limited merit of appointment and right, through ongoing wise choices (but less meritoriously in that they are less capacitated than overcoming redeemed man, having always been without selfish pride, in a certain state of holiness being without sin, and the need of redemption, and the fighting of a spiritual war for sanctification unto a personal overcoming of the flesh, world, and devil). And in their obtained wisdom, now are discerning the superiority in worthiness of Jesus the incarnate Son of Man and those Men over Whom He throws His resurrection mantle, who according to prophetic Scripture will most certainly receive and pick up those Angels’ crowns and replace them as rulers in the Age to come. This they (the Angels who did not follow Lucifer in his rebellion) now foresee, and as a result cry out... “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” ... “And they (God’s Angels) sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain (in unmatched humble loyalty to the Throne and selfless manifest love for Man), and hast redeemed them (them- not ‘us’, which is a critically important distinction that is in the original Greek text) to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made (us) them unto our God kings and priests: and (we) they shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels… ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth and such that as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I (John) saying Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power. Be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. And the four beasts (living creatures) said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders (‘elders’ meaning Angels who had been directly involved as part of those original Angels ruling under Lucifer ever since Lucifer's appointment over this Realm many Ages ago, long before the 6-Day Re-creation, and…) fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.” (at John’s {a worthy man’s} proclamation - Revelation 5) What the un-fallen yielded Angels have is understanding drawn upon the wisdom provided by God in the experience they are now faced with, and thereby wisely exercise their free wills in holy willing obedience. A state of holiness and great favor but yet lacking for the holy ‘union’ with God in the ruling oneness He desires. (A possible allusion to Genesis 2:20… “And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.”) Typically, there is not a created creature fit for Oneness with God outside of the proven selfless New Creature to come forth in Christ at His return to this Realm as its King. Un-fallen Angels being without the oneness capacity attainable only by the redeemed fallen man, who then must overcome to be a Man elevated in the First Resurrection into glory above the ruling Angels. And then to be far superior to that of Lucifer or Adam’s creation ‘image’, and far greater in glorious splendor. It is the prophetic and yet unseen appointed distinguishing point in time that raises the redeemed overseer up into Christ’s glory and justly leaves the merely redeemed man yet of lesser stature and position eternally to an un-fallen wise Angel. (Psalms 8:5 with Hebrews 2:6-7) “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any (redeemed) man love the world, the love of the Father is not (not chosen by the free will of the redeemed/ not active) in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (the clever deceits that darken the soul to wisdom that disqualified the Woman), is not of the Father (here it must be the redeemed being addressed by the Holy Spirit in that only the redeemed may know Him as Father), but is of the world. And the world (and its present purposes appointed in the capacitating the redeemed in test and trial) passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth (as a capacitating act of his free will) the (desired) will of God (after being redeemed and then overcoming the flesh, the World, and devil, while alive in this World) abideth for ever” (2nd Corinthians 4:17, as His tested and tried overcomers, capacitated for a worthiness unto that God-desired oneness as adopted firstborn sons to rule in resurrection glory). (1st John 2:15-17) This great spiritual Truth is set forth Scripturally for the redeemed to attain its wisdom, in that God’s future ruling ‘firstborn sons’ are to be from redeemed fallen mankind; and further sanctified in worthiness through the exercising of their free will, to the Word’s commands, unto the reward of the First Resurrection glorious oneness union. It is a regal glory like never before nor never again to be repeated (in that redemption and its purposes once served, then sin {at the least in God’s eternal co-ruling consorts} will be put away forever). They will reign in oneness royal splendor with God for ever and ever from the heavenly Realm. Then by necessity, the redeemed living today must awaken from the ‘Eve’-like darkness and come into the working knowledge of the exceeding sinfulness of sin by renewing their minds to that freeing Truth, and exercising their free wills towards a holy and separated Christ-centered lifestyle while living in this World. This was/is the purposeful allowance in the design of God for Adam; a living soul, even the intent behind His Re-creation of the limited portion of this now twice fallen Realm. In that the free will man, in the wondrous privileged state; created as the ‘Head’ over all God’s Re-creation in this Realm, he would fall, as the ‘spirits’ did from a more grand state prior to him. But in God’s design, he did not utterly fall. On the contrary, He Himself was prepared to take on the likeness of ‘Man’ and suffer as a Man, to ensure their redemption, and that as a gift simply by faith alone in His provisional grace. And in the doing, He had pre-determined through His own humbleness in giving up His place in the God-Head to also provide the advanced means for their willing transformation into a New Creature to be brought back with Him into that oneness union with the Father as the Son of Man, like none before nor ever will be again, a New Creature having “made herself ready” (in the manifold wisdom of God being what makes this creature uniquely different from all others). A created being now fit for an unimagined unity/oneness with God, that is with the overcoming character with the knowledge of good AND EVIL; a oneness desired by God in His First-Born sons, that Angels could not or had not availed themselves. The offering of the Son of Man was the further means to this desired ‘oneness’ that Jesus proclaimed in John 17; that which prophetically Hebrews 1-3 describes as the End of this Age’s manifest pre-ordained results in “bringing many sons unto glory” as “so great salvation” and the “heavenly calling inheritance”. It is expressly said that regarding angels, God “…hath… not put in subjection the world to come whereof we speak” but glorified men sanctified out of the redeemed Body of the Son of man… and presented unto Him at the First Resurrection to be His worthy Bride in a oneness mystically understood in that joining of un-fallen Adam and his bride. (See Genesis 2:22-24 with Ephesians 5:31-32)

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Mike Balloun teaches today. 04/01/23 THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2:14-15 CHRIST’S DAY OF TRIUMPH IN HADES VERSES: Genesis 1:1-2, 6:4-6; 1st Peter 3:19-20; 2nd Peter 2:4-9; Jude 3-7 STUDY NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/jthx3jnl01eom22zy2bs3/h?dl=0&rlkey=fyexra4rohg53kqhagnhguz58 AUDIO: Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Here Paul includes the unseen parts of this Realm with the seen earthly things, and in the doing, he brings in the ‘spirits’/fallen angels (principalities and powers) who rule on and over the Earth from the first heaven, as well as in the locale of “Death” in the underworld of Hades (Hades being the abode of the dead in the Greek). So it is, that Jesus the Christ’s/Son of God’s incarnation work of Atonement included 1) on the Earth 2) in the center of the Earth 3) in the unseen heaven surrounding the Earth, and 4) in the Heaven of heavens. On the Earth, on the Cross, Christ put away the ordinances/decrees of God’s Law in regard to the Curse of death resulting from Adam’s sin and the Law of Moses, in that Jesus the Christ was “…made a curse for us: (He willingly gave up life on the Earth under the Curse; “forsaken” by God - Psalm 22:1) …for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree…” And after dying on the Cross, Jesus the Son of Man’s ‘internal spirit’ went back to God as all men’s do at dying; albeit Jesus' spirit was remarkable, having never been tainted by spiritual death. Then, His fleshly body went to the grave, and He as Man created as a ‘living soul’ (see Genesis 2:7, as opposed to being a spirit being) and was taken to Sheol/Hades; the intermediate place of the dead, in the middle of the Earth (as every dead soul has since Adam’s sin). See Ecclesiastes 12:7… “Then shall the dust (body) return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.” See also Luke 23:46… “And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.” Jesus was under the Law of Moses being a circumcised Jew of the seed of Abraham. And being hung on a tree, He was Cursed by the Law of Moses as a condemned soul. Having died on the Cross, He was immediately ‘under arrest’ and brought into the place/locale of Death in Sheol/Hades by the ‘angels/spirits of Death/death’; they being the executioners of the Law upon its condemned. (Luke 16:22, Psalm 16:10) In type, it is Jonah in the belly of the Whale/belly of the Earth for three days and three nights. SATAN RULES FROM THE HEAVEN OF THIS EARTH AND HAD THE KEYS AND FULL POWER OF THE PLACE CALLED DEATH AND THOSE SPIRIT BEINGS THERE WERE/ARE HIS TRUSTEES/TORMENTORS… They got their power over men from the ordinances of the Law. Jesus was held as captive, and was afflicted and taunted in the lower parts of Hades; “Death”. (Matthew 12:40; 18:34, Jonah 2, Romans 10:7, Psalm 69) “…being put to death in the flesh (body as a man), but (in the God-determined moment… He was) quickened (made alive - filled with life and life-giving power from the state of death that He was in without His spirit) by the S spirit” (pneuma). (1st Peter 3:18) Which is to say, His now glorified/glory-filled spirit was sent back to Him by the Father into that place of “Death”… in the power of God, ordained “before the foundation of this (present) World… according to the working of his mighty power”. (1st Peter 1:20) In that moment and in that Place, He suddenly was no longer just a soul/man of the flesh cursed with death, but became the life-giving spiritual being. (1st Corinthians 15:45-46) All satan’s ‘spirits/angels’ in authority there in ‘Death’s locale now with all their force resisted His departure. It is then that He exerted His great conquering spiritual power as the victorious Second Adam. “And Having spoiled (in the Greek, spoiled is better understood to mean violently disarmed and stripped the) principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly (there in the place of “Death”, disgracing them by ‘leading captivity captive’ (making a show of them) throughout Sheol/Hades. That great procession being viewed by all the hordes and hosts of the Underworld. Up and out of the Bottomless Pit they came, into the upper regions of Hades, across the Great Abyss, and now in full view and the ever-increasing sound of loud cheers of those rejoicing in Abraham’s Bosom/Garden), triumphing over them in it.” (See Judges 5:12, Psalms 68:18, with Ephesians 4:8 where leading captivity captive speaks of parading prisoners of war around in triumph.) Jesus, the Second Adam, yet in Hades, without His awaiting, uncorrupted body, having been dead is now “made alive in (His) spirit” in the power of God. He has now defeated the governing forces; the spirit/angel principalities and powers in the locale of Death, who/which could not hold Him, for the place is for law-breakers. It is the great Day of His Triumph. The victorious Son of God/Son of Man is now a life- giving spiritual being; the first begotten from the ‘dead’. (Revelation 1:5,18) And now in this, His great overcoming capacity, He determines to make a ‘proclamation’ to other spirits/angels in Hades. Those spirit-beings hearing this ‘proclamation’ are those who were not among His captives which He led in His victory train throughout Hades. Rather, these are those who had been chained for thousands of years in the dark dungeons of the prison ‘Tartarus’ located along the Bottomless Pit in the lower parts of Hades. And the timing of that proclamation being quite possibly before His departure in Resurrection from Hades back to His body in the tomb. (See 1st Peter 3:19-20 “By which also he went and preached (/proclaimed) unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.” See also 2nd Peter 2:4-9… “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished…” And see Jude 3-7… “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. 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, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT CLASSES OR GROUPS OF FALLEN SPIRITS/ANGELS… 1) those angels/spirits who chose to give up their God-appointed government/habitation, “which kept not their first estate” in which they were to abide/remain in (who may or may not have been a part of Lucifer’s original rebellion) to become as men and who entered into this material realm which was under the curse of Adam’s sin from the Garden of Eden. And these spirits/angels/sons of God “…took them wives… and bear children to them…” The result was Nephilim/giants… an ungodly, unauthorized offspring that increased the hardness of the hearts of men towards God, in that they were wicked and filled the Earth with violence. (Genesis 6:1-5) For which God judged these spirits/angels who chose to be like men and their progeny, the Nephilim, along with natural men, to die like men in the Great Flood of Noah’s day. The Nephilim/the offspring of angels, drowned and were disembodied as the natural men (save 8) were drowned and disembodied. And the first class or group of spirits/angels, being then still spirits (not subject to physical death, but yet in the form of men - Hebrews 13:2, Genesis 19:1-4)… God chained and put into darkness in a place/locale in Hades called Tartarus. (This place/locale can be contrasted with the place where Scripture reveals wicked souls/men go who are brought into Hades; where they are delivered up to the place of Torment. - Luke 16:22-23) A WORD ON HADES/SHEOL (Starting with fallen Adam and Eve, souls partially restored/reconciled - being repentant and propitiated by the blood - their spirits are re-energized with eternal life, but with physical bodies, doomed to die… are then to be separated from the living. Being born-again as spirit eternal beings, with the promise of a full future restoration of spirit, soul, and body, they must then enter into an intermediate place, being yet in the continuing state of death… until the fullness of the promise is complete. (Genesis 3:15) That intermediate place for the ‘dead’ having been provided for, in that God created Hades in the Center of the Earth presumably 6000 years ago at re-Creation or shortly thereafter as a result of man’s fall, wherein there is a Garden of comfort to those souls deemed in need of comfort, and other places, such as Tartarus in Hades, which were set aside for men and spirits/angels passing from the living, who were deeded not fit for comfort, pending the final great judgement day.) Now before we speak further on those 2 classes or groups of fallen angels… A WORD ON THAT WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE ‘GAP THEORY’… (Not to be confused with some modern-day interpretations/explanations being called ‘Gap Theory’ which vary widely and contain error mixed with partial truth.) The name comes from the observation that there is a long gap of time between Genesis 1 Verse 1 and Verse 2… Genesis 1:1… “In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heaven(s) and the earth.” The existence of a pre-Adamic World is discovered in the description of the Creation being described as in an uninhabitable condition in Verse 2… “And the earth was (“was” should be “became” here as it is translated in Genesis 2:7, 4:3, 9:15, 19:26; Exodus 32:1; Deuteronomy 27:9; 2nd Samuel 7:24, etc.) without form (Tohu - meaning formlessness), and void (Bohu - meaning undistinguishable ruin, destruction); and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” (Note that the principle of creation being cursed as a result of the fall of the being that held dominion over it is not a new concept. Just as the Re-creation was cursed due to Adam’s fall, the original Creation being cursed due to Lucifer’s set the precedent.) This judgment death of a physical kind had already been experienced by some beings, as ‘written/testified’ in the fossils of this Earth… albeit not made in the image of God as Man was, nor for the same purposes, but evidently of a similar earthly structure. Some presumably with intelligent life, were living on the Earth as a part of then unfallen Lucifer’s Kingdom at the appointment of God, and also after his rebellion (Ezekiel 28 & Isaiah 14). These pre-Adam earthly material living beings also were judged and died in the first great flood waters that first covered the Earth as seen in that ‘judged state’ of Genesis 1:2 (the Earth being in darkness, chaos, and void/without form). And those very flood waters that brought those earthly but eternal created beings death also formed their grave, becoming the habitat for these disembodied spirits. Thus, a reason and purpose for that Age-lasting existence of the water-covered Earth. And at the same time, the heavens of that/this Realm, Lucifer’s greater part of his Kingdom from which he ruled, having fallen under God’s judgments, was also in a state of destruction, and became the eternal/age-lasting restricted abode of the (then and still now) relegated fallen Cherub and his governing angels who followed him into that original sin. (The Prison/place of quarantine for him and his co-conspirators being the destroyed heavens of this world.) Now the Nephilim were/are neither spirits/angels nor ‘living souls’/men, but were born of women in this earth’s material bodies, and when the first of them died in Noah’s day, it was in the judgment manner and form of those who were a part of the rebellion of Lucifer, whose outward bodies died in the Original Creation destruction; that is to say by flood waters. Allusions to the Nephilim/Anakims/Emims/Rephaim/ Zamzummim (all names for the ‘giants’ in various cultures) in Scripture could place their disembodied abode in the flood waters, which is to say in the Seas too with those pre-Adam beings then fallen becoming the ‘devils and demons’ who now manifest in this re-Creation Age of the last 6000 years among fallen man… “And the sea gave up the DEAD which were in it…” [Revelation 20:13a] Which ‘dead’ then would answer to the Nephilim and the ‘demons/devils', ‘intelligent beings’- but neither souls nor spirits. Revelation 20:13 is the time and the place that answers to the words of those devils being dis-possessed from a man by Christ “…art thou come hither to torment us before the time?” [Matthew 8:29] See also Job 26:5 where “dead” in Hebrew is ‘Rephaim/giants’. See also Vulgate translation… “Behold the giants (dead) groan under the waters, and they that dwell with them.”) For they are neither men nor spirits, but illegitimate beings, who presently are working malevolently on Earth out of the Seas like the ruling spirits/angels in this Realm are working malevolently out of its heaven. These unseen beings of the Sea have a certain limited freedom. In that they must for the greater part remain unseen with limited power and abilities compared to spirits/angels, but apparently are subservient underlings working willingly with the satanic forces causing disruption yet in God’s ordained salvation plan for man of ‘faith without seeing’ now proceeding on the Earth, which when accomplished, will end in all of their great demise. Additionally, the above analysis could also answer to the exclusion of the ‘Seas’ in the New Heaven and New Earth. Revelation 21:1… “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.” (The seas being associated with the taint of death, defilement, and befoulment.) 2) So the fallen spirits/angels of this 2nd class/group are not currently a part of that class or group of fallen spirits/angels who are chained in Tartarus for leaving their “estate” in the days of Noah. This second group is addressed in the prophetic Word of the Book of Revelation. These spirits/angels are far greater in number than those who sinned with women, and these had direct involvement with the rejection of the Gospel of the Messiah by the Leaders of the Nation of Israel, and were behind the torture and crucifixion of the Son of God. They have had final judgment pronounced over them according to Scripture, but, for the purposes of God, their everlasting punishment has been deferred. They currently remain in complete freedom, until Christ’s Second Coming to this Realm, when He first enters into its heaven to claim His victorious right and casts these angels/spirits out of this Realm’s heaven down to the Earth. (Revelation 12:7-13) And after that “…short time” which is 3 ½ years of great tribulation on the Earth, the chief fallen angel/spirit satan will then be chained by an Angel/spirit (most likely by one of the 2/3 original governing Angels who did not rebel leading to the great catastrophe of Genesis 1:2). And all his following are cast into that same place/locale in Hades that the first class/group of spirits/angels were chained and cast, 4-5 thousand years ago, called the Bottomless Pit/Tartarus. And together they will remain there during the 1000yr/Millennial Period time of Justice and righteousness. (Revelation 20:1-3) But after that 1000 years, they will be unchained and released for a little season to deceive the Nations. (Revelation 20:3,7) And then shortly thereafter, as set forth above, following the Last Great Rebellion, the devouring fire of God that comes down out of heaven (Revelation 20:9) engulfs the opposing deceived Nations on the face of the Earth, and brings the fulfillment of the Judgement long pending in that satan and the confederacy of spirits/angels that accompanied him in the original rebellion before the re-Creation and Adam, and continuing rebellion during this Age after re-Creation, will then be cast into the Lake of Fire to be forever in torment. (Revelation 20:10) This class or group of spirits/angels are forever condemned. So this class or group of fallen spirits/angels are those who originally rebelled with Lucifer who did not, or have not left their habitation, ‘estate’… and are of that group of angels relegated to this heaven and are yet united with satan in open warfare against God, all the while in the over-ruling of this World, its heaven, and earth and continuing presence in the underworld, all in great opposition to Christ’s successful mission in this Age of Mercy and Grace to be followed by His return. This greater group, in terms of numbers, of fallen spirits was unaffected, as it related to the judgment chaining of the angels in Tartarus who left their “estate” in the days of Noah and King David. Then immediately after these spirits/angels are finally put away in everlasting judgment, then those fallen spirits/angels who had left their first estate, who had been chained up since Noah and King David’s day, who therefore had not accompanied satan in his continuing war against God throughout the greater part of this Age, including direct confrontation with the incarnate Son of God, and who did not come up in the unchaining of the other spirits/angels out of the Bottomless Pit/Tartarus in the post-Millennial day for a short season, are those spirits/angels that Peter spoke of that Christ preached/pronounced to and are “….to be reserved unto judgment.” It is just then that Scripture announces, at the Great White Throne… when “…..Death’ and Hades delivered up the dead which were in THEM” [Revelation 20:13b]… (the remaining souls/men and angels/spirits in the entire underworld). IT IS THE SECOND RESURRECTION as the First Resurrection preceded it by 1000 years. (Revelation 20:5-6 with 20:11-15) These include the souls/men who are those redeemed who remained in Hades at the First Resurrection, who were not found worthy to be a part of Christ’s Bride and adoption of the Father as First-Born sons to Co-Rule with His Son, as Kings and Priests in His Millennial Kingdom. So it is, that the group of fallen angels now to be judged at the Great White Throne, who were chained up at the Flood of Noah, and later also, had no knowledge of the plan of God as it related to the incarnation of the Son of God, nor had a direct part in rejecting and crucifying Him. They were preliminarily judged right along with ancient men in Noah’s day, and like men generally then and now, who are all preliminarily judged at death, are then reserved/kept for final judgment. About these then, we learn from Peter who uses the comparative in his first Epistle… “By which also he went and preached (proclaimed) unto the spirits in prison’ Which sometime (or formally) were disobedient…” To the content and results of this preaching or proclamation work of Christ on that day of His Triumph, it is yet to be seen/“…to be reserved unto judgment” Day. Again, that is to say, at the Great White Throne Judgement by Christ and now His Bride of a 1000 years - is that time when these words of Scripture answer to. (1st Corinthians 6:3… “Know ye not that we shall judge angels?”) Just a brief word about Christ’s “proclamation” to the spirits/angels chained in Tartarus for their unlawful interaction with women… Although Scripture does not directly reveal what was proclaimed, several possibilities/scenarios drawn from Scripture emerge: 1) That Christ preached/proclaimed the ‘Gospel’ of redemption to them, in that these antediluvian (pre-flood) angels, having been of the 2/3rds of the angels assigned to this Realm that had not rebelled with Lucifer nor had any part in the Garden of Eden’s conspiracy against Adam and Eve, who later, 1000 years plus, left the 2/3 unfallen heavenly Government of this Realm and took on the form of man, not as a part of a further conspiracy against man, but out of being drawn away by lust alone, and were then judged accordingly as men in that form, as they were condemned with man, save 8 souls, in the flood of Noah. And that Christ after His Triumph in Hades over satan’s principalities and powers, extended His redemption specific for man unto these relatively few now fallen spirits/angels who had been judged with men. And although they must complete their sentence, they presumably gladly received His redemption mercy, and will be judged accordingly at the Great White Throne. 2) Conversely, these spirits/angels were a 1/3 part of those spirits/angels who had formed God’s heavenly theocratic government over this Earth and heavenly Realm under the ruling Cherub Lucifer who had rebelled against God and who were culpable for the destruction waters and chaotic state of the Earth and its heaven found in Genesis 1 Verse 2. And later, a small portion of these were the key players in the conspiracy to pollute a pure bloodline, or otherwise cause mankind to completely be disqualified from taking any dominion and ultimately ruling, in this part of God’s Universe. That conspiracy, presumably motivated by satan, being that a number of fallen angels/spirits would take on the form of man and take unto themselves as many wives as they would, in order to produce a race of wicked and corrupting hybrids called Nephilim. That these Nephilim were the cause of God’s judgment of a second great flood, in whom only Noah and his survived, is documented in Scripture as related above. (Genesis 6) This was not the end of the conspiracy, as then after the flood of Noah, there was another breakout of the same kind in the Land of Canaan. Whom God eventually destroyed with the sword, the last by the hand of David, the King of Israel. Now as fanciful and unrealistic as all this Scriptural historic events of spirits and supernatural beings physically invading the Earth may sound today, it does not stop in Scriptural history, in that in the 24th Chapter of Matthew, Christ reveals the prophetic end-time scenario that there will be a similar repeat of those days of Noah. With those historic and future catastrophic events in view, it is plausible that in conjunction with Jesus’ Day of Triumph in Hades over those governing principalities and powers of that region in Hades, that His preaching/proclamation to those chained in Tartarus, was not so much of the redemptive kind, as that of the warning kind (in that the prophetic Word of Christ in Matthew 24 could involve them personally again - Revelation 9:1 and Revelation 20:7). A warning to those spirits who were yet seemingly un-judged as it relates to eternity (as it seems there must have been some defining point of judgment between their having been chained and incarcerated and when their like heavenly compatriots’ destiny was finally sealed, that of being cast into the Lake of fire forever - that defining point being the rejection and Crucifixion of Christ?) In that it is Written and should be understood that in regards to these spirits/angels alone now in Tartarus, again are “…to be reserved unto judgment” until the day of the Great White Throne judgment. So it is, that just as satan and his fellow angels are being cast into the Lake of Fire forever, this other class of fallen angels, having heard the Proclamation of Christ in Tartarus, then being legally served/sentenced, are released and raised up to be judged, as Death and Hades are being emptied. These places in the Center of the Earth, having served as the intermediate places for the dead, are themselves now to be cast forever into the Lake of Fire in their confining entirety; that consisting of: Abraham’s Bosom, the place of Torment, the Great Abyss, the Bottomless Pit, and Tartarus. Those dead who were not a part of the First Resurrection, having remained there in Hades until that final destruction and the time of their complete emptying in the Second Resurrection, both men and spirits and others from this Age or another, will then be judged at the Great White Throne Judgment… And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the Lake of Fire/the Second Death.” (Revelation 20:10-15)

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Mike Balloun teaches today 03/25/23 THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2:11-14

Mike Balloun teaches today. 03/18/23 THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2:6-10 VERSES: STUDY NOTES: AUDIO: Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 UNEDITED NOTES: Good News Bible Since you have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord live in union with him Keep your roots deep in him, build your lives on him, and become stronger in your faith, as you were taught. And be filled with thanksgiving See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed down by human beings and from the ruling spirits of the universe, and not from Christ. For the full content of divine nature lives in Christ, in his humanity, and you have been given full life in union with him. He is supreme over every spiritual ruler and authority. King James Version As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord (He is not only our Redeemer He is also our Master and Judge), so walk ye in him (this is My Beloved Son; hear ye Him): Rooted (as a tree in redemption Truth) and built up in him (in further Truth), and established in the faith (unto fruit-bearing trees/ branches having been planted in the soil of the Christ matt13:18-23;7:24,25), as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving (a gratefulness that is founded on Christ, in the being delivered out from under the law of sin and death, and from the kingdom of satan, and brought into the wonderous possibilities in the hope of glory under the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, outside the hopes of Israel under the law of Moses, in this day of grace and mercy in the calling out of a New Nation in Christ…gratefulness being the foundation for spiritually growing in faithful fruitful service unto the reward).loving relationships are founded and maintained only in gratefulness). Beware lest any man spoil you (from the inheritance of the Kingdom as did the Midianites the Nation of Israel) through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him (the Son of Man) dwelleth (resides) all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (in a 6 foot Man). And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: For 2 thousand years Jesus Christ has been received by innumerable multitudes in the first step of faith, in that they happily received the Saviors redemption benefits in the circumcision of the foreskin of their heart, which is to say; in the regeneration of their spirit, with the gift of eternal life, along with the shedding abroad of the love/agape of God in their heart… and readily confess Him to be the LORD. But few redeemed now in the Body of Christ actually know why or how to take the next critical steps of “what shall I do Lord (to now make you my Lord acts22:10) …?” Paul has set forth in the first Chapter of Colossians the realities of Jesus as the Son of God, Creator of all things; seen and unseen, all earthly and heavenly beings, He being the first-born/having preeminence over every creature, the incarnate Son of Man, and Anointed Redeemer of man under the power of darkness, Reconciler of all things back into order, and the Head of His Body; the called out ones, He being the first born from among the dead that He might have preeminence in all things that were heretofore hidden mysteries, that of riches of glory in His inheritance to be shared with those “in Him” “..if ye continue in faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel…which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Since they/we have received Christ Jesus as Redeemer He is now to be the Lord personal.. revealed by His Apostle Paul as the condition for inheritance “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus (the Anointed Redeemer as a gift now receiving Him as) the Lord, so walk ye in him:…” for “…your reward…: col2:18 …LORD here means; Supreme Ruler…Commander-in-Chief/Supreme commanding authority of the hosts of heaven and earth and Head and Master of His Body. So He is not only Savior/Redeemer but Master, King, and Judge of His Body. The Truth in the wisdom of God (to be grasped) in making Jesus Lord by walking obediently unto worthiness according to His Written Word (compare Matthew 7:21 and Luke 6:46-49). In the history of Christendom, although millions are continuing to be redeemed in Christ so mercifully in this dispensation of Grace and Mercy, yet never has Jesus the Christ been so spurned from being made Lord as today by the redeemed. In that today’s Christian has been effectively been “spoiled” from making Jesus Christ their Lord by many modern day plausible liars, although their doctrines may differ, these are like those whom Paul warned against then, who teach false “philosophy, and vain deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not according to Christ.” In that they have been taught and so teach……

Mike Balloun teaches today. 03/11/23 THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 2:1-5 Colossians 2:1-5 There is a vulnerability in immaturity down here in this World when one is born again from above, becoming a spiritual baby in Christ (naturally speaking a baby cannot stay a baby but spiritually a new born may stay a baby according to Scripture hebs5&6). It reminds us of Adam and Eve’s naivetes… who having an instinct for growing in maturing ‘knowledge’ of God were then susceptible to the conspiracy of satan to deceive them into forfeiting God’s governing appointment in this Realm. THE PERILS OF A BABY Philosophy; can be defined as natural Man’s study of facts and information unto an understanding of reality of existence, as opposed to just another Man’s idealistic or imagined ideas. Theology…is the natural man’s study of the nature of God and Man’s religious beliefs derived. Then there is ‘Christian’ theology; of the kind that seminaries and ‘Christian’ private schools teach (that often take the once loving Christ centered pupil/baby) and rather than Scripturally prepare them, only succeed in dampening them into a apathetic peace with God, in the perpetuating age old denominational error that will quite their zeal and most likely eliminate them from the hope of glory, as well as all whom they will wrongly instruct in the Word of God (including their own children). These three schools of thought are mixed up in different measures into deadly concoctions of man’s wisdom that are served up to the unsuspecting seeker of wisdom, understanding and knowledge (rev17). Nevertheless there is true Christian theology; which is the sought after knowledge of God rooted in the Bible; both the Old and New Testaments, that can be seen only through the eyes of Christ. This New Testament of Christ was the basis of Paul’s appeal to the Colossians; as his Letters were to be received as Christ’s last Testament/Will. Read Galatians 3:15-17…that Testament promise of God to Abraham was sealed by the death blood of appointed animals Genesis 3:8-18 thereby “…the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land,….” That Seed of inheritance being Jesus the Christ the Son of God, come in the flesh/body of man, born of a Woman, Who fulfilled all God’s Written stipulations for Man’s inheritance. Who then received from Him as the victorious Son of Man, Son of God the sure Word of the inheritance of the promises to Abraham, along with all the additional promises of God Written in His Word that would be attained by His Christ…Who then willingly died that He might ‘legally’ bequeath a sharing in His great bounty with His spiritual seed, to be born from above into His Body. And so now in His New Testament/Will, sealed in His own Blood (hebs9:16), He would dictate in Writing …according to the conditional stipulations to be set out, those whom He would give out of all His treasures. Thus within that New Testament bequeathing, it is briefly Written (maybe 10 percent of His Testament)….That all Gentiles who hear the Word of faith in the unseen Messiah who believe in their hearts and confess Him as the Redeemer shall inherit the gift of eternal life even as did the redeemed Jews…BUT then extensively (90 percent) of His Written Testament is about all who would be partakers of His glory and co-rule with Him in this Realm, must then go on to learn to walk in a life of worthiness in accordance to His stipulated Testament/Will. Last Verses of Chapter 1: “Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all (Christ’s) wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Whereunto I also labor, *striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily… with 2:1…For I would :that ye knew (fully understood) what great *conflict I have for you…” ….in that you are yet immature, lacking in wisdom in your understanding of being in Christ and the spiritual war in the attempt of satan to eliminate you from overcoming in the hope of glory. * agōnízomai… from agṓn (G0073), conflict. To contend for victory in the public games (1 Cor. 9:25). It generally came to mean to fight, wrestle (John 18:36). Figuratively, it is the task of faith in persevering amid temptation and opposition (1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 4:7). It also came to mean to take pains, to wrestle as in an award contest, straining every nerve to the uttermost towards the goal (Luke 13:24 [cf. 1 Cor. 9:25; Phil. 3:12ff.; Heb. 4:1]).

Turn your videos into live streams with Restream https://restre.am/ANIm Mike Balloun teaches today. 03/04/23 THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1:24-29 unedited notes (portion): Colossians 1:24-29 VERSE 25: “Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;…” Paul, ‘an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of the Father,’ was appointed as minister to show how God fulfilled His Old Testament Word that resulted in the closing (or suspending) one dispensation, related to His Jewish household (acts13:26) and now the beginning of another dispensation/ household. The closing dispensation was a period of time documented by God in the Old Testament that started in the Garden with the promise of the Messiah from the Seed of the Woman (a Jewish woman) Genesis 3:15 that culminated in the final refusing of that Jewish Seed by the Leaders of the Nation of Israel approximately 4000 years later at the time Paul was writing this letter from Rome in around 62 AD (acts 28:28). It was the now passing dispensational Word of separating a seed or people from the seed of the serpent, that encompassed the promises to Abraham, in that his seed would be the great blessing of all kindreds of the Earth (gen12:2,3acts3:25). It was the dispensation wherein God foresaw that the Nation of Israel would provoke Him and spoke by Moses these prophetic Words, that answer to Paul’s declarations “They have moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked Me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation:” (duet 32:21; prov 1:23-25). The 11 Disciples were un-successful in the commission of Matthew 28:18-20 in answer to Joel’s prophecy of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the Nation of Israel (joel 2; acts 2:17-18)... in that the Leaders of Israel continued to refuse Christ and the Holy Spirit throughout the time of the reoffer of ruling with the Messiah, documented in the Book of Acts…in that they were called to be God’s witnesses / ministers in the promises of Abraham in proselyting the Gentiles, being a blessing and bringing them in to the Commonwealth of Israel (exd 19:6; eph 2:11-12). Saul, a great religious zealot, having no ministering part of that New Covenant Commission to Israel and having set himself against Christ and His Disciples…and who had spearheaded the anti-Christ movement resulting in the Disciples failure among the Jews,…was thereby uniquely chosen and called to suffer and bear witness to unbelieving Israel of the faithful fulfillment of the Word of God relative to the Garden Seed and the promise to the seed of Abraham to bless the Gentile Nations …in that God had fulfilled all that had been declared, thereby Scripturally placing the fault for the closing of the dispensation calling on the Nation of Israel. And now in the closing of the Book of Acts comes the opening of a new Dispensation, this one Jew has been raised up on a supernatural plain in direct communication with resurrected Christ to fulfill the heavenly call the Nation of Israel would not. He was to take the Word of the Lord; of the gospel hope of glory in Christ Jesus, not now first to the Jew (acts 13:26) but now first to the Gentile, who would readily receive it, resulting in the forming of a new spiritual Nation more worthy of the call, drawing upon the Messiahs Atonement power (under the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus) unto qualifying fruitfulness for the inheritance of the mysterious heavenly kingdom glory (acts 28:28 matt 21:33-45). VERSE 26 “Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages (unknown to the Angels and Spirit rulers of this World (1 cor 2:6-16). and from generations (Men), but now (since the Nation of Israel persisted in rejecting God’s Christ, the Nation is rejected from the mysterious calling and) is made manifest to his saints (individuals within the New Body/Nation then formed):… It is the closing of one long Dispensation and the outbreaking of a new one…..a Mysterious dispensation. In that How could it be that on the one hand it said that God has fulfilled His clear Word told to Israel; in that Abraham’s seed would be preeminent in the Earth and sure avenue that God would bless the Gentiles, when in reality, seemingly contradictory, they now had refused the calling, and yet the Gentiles were being blessed?... This being documented by Paul in that on the other hand there was within those same Scriptures a hidden great mystery that fulfilled His Word of blessing to the Gentile Nations through Abraham’s seed;… It was by the means of the Seed of Abraham, Who was rejected and crucified by the Nation of Israel but raised up in resurrection by God from among the dead out of Hades/Sheol, up into Heaven, exalted to His right hand, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has shed forth on the Gentiles. Which…...

Mike Balloun teaches today. 02/11/23 THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1:15-20 VERSES: STUDY NOTES: AUDIO: Subscribe to Receive Updates from For His Glory TX: http://eepurl.com/o7-J9 Unedited Notes: Paul the Apostle of God to the Gentiles is setting forth the Lord Jesus Christ as the incarnate eternal Son of God the Father, through Whom He has worked His will, for their great benefit. Declaring here revelatory Truths of Christ’s superiority in merit that are meant to more surely establish the redeemed to continue in their faith and grow in qualifying maturing Christlikeness in the hope of a future glory by the spiritual nourishment supplied to the Body found in the commandments of Christ, the Head, alone. Not to lose sight of the Head, being not moved away from their living hope in the gospel of glory, the Truth which they had heard from Epaphras and were now reading, that alone that has the power to sanctify unto a certain worthiness (john17:14-19 “I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world (redeemed out of satan’s kingdom), even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.”). And in opposition to the Word of Truth, there were beguiling tares planted among them, in the first measure of leavening doctrines, designed by the enemy to dissuade the Body away from the enabling fruit-bearing power of the sanctifying Head (col1:6;2:18-23 with matt13:24-30;33). In those days the first measure of corrupting leaven was the questioning of Christ’s true identity…. which answers to these great Truths of Who Christ is, that are set forth in this Passage to the Colossian Believers. Religious leaven is designed to offset, sidetrack and obscure sanctifying Truth in spiritual growth and fruitfulness, doctrines from vain men who were/are puffed up in their ambitious religious minds used by satan to disqualify the redeemed from ruling glory. With those things in mind Paul in wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of God further describes the Redeemer to the redeemed Colossians, who’s opinion of Christ and His glory, along with all the redeemed, needs be elevated. VERSES 15-18 “Who (the incarnate Lord Jesus Christ) is the image (express/exact hebs1:3 visible image, as he that hath seen Him has seen the Father) of the invisible God, the firstborn (A Jewish saying relative to preeminence not time of creation; for the eternal Son of God manifest as the Son of Man was not created. Note that Adam was the last creature formed but he was first in rank and dominion) of every creature: For by him (the eternal Son gen1:1 “God” there is to say the Son) were all things created (in the two spheres), that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers (Paul briefly alludes to 4 classes of angel beings in his superior knowledge of the angelic hierarchy…as if to say, if there was any truth in what those vainly puffed up among you were teaching in regards to Angels and the Gospel, and if Angels were in any capacity worthy of worship I would have told you. Their very existence is owned of Jesus Christ our Lord): all things were created (in the beginning of creation and its re-creation) by him (the eternal Son of God who later after re-creation was incarnate), and for him: And he is (a stronger statement than he was, in harmony with Genesis statement of I am) before all things, and by him all things consist. And he (the Son of Man) is the head (by incarnation, death, burial and resurrection) of the body, the church: who is the beginning (of course the beginnings of all things 3 times mentioned before here, but He, now as the Son of Man, is also the beginning of a new thing), the firstborn from the dead; that in all things (done in the past as Eternal Son and now in the present and future as the Son of Man) he might have the preeminence (from Gk prṓtos first. To be first, chief, to hold the first rank, highest dignity).” Paul lays before the Colossians these establishing Words in the further knowledge of God.. (in their hope of attaining unto glory; in the inheritance of the heavenly Kingdom, to be realized in Christ at His Return)… marvelous reasons they should walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing (VERSE 10) by drawing their attention on to Jesus Christ’s 2 great all-encompassing qualifications for preeminence covering both spheres of existence. As the Son of God, He is eternal, He is God. He is due glory and honor as Creator. There is nothing that is Created that was not created by....

Mike teaches today. 02/04/23 Unedited notes: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/64y2qgep8wp2xvttt127x/Doc1.docx?dl=0&rlkey=s28z1khv2tokgf8b5n664pg9g The Book of Colossians Verses 13 & 14 ….. VERSE 13, 14 (“Giving thanks unto the Father….) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:…In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:…” The Spirit of God depicts the New Testament redeemed in Christ as having been put into special state and place above this World. It is a position we redeemed are to endeavor to hold. As opposed to being in a state and place that we must press to get out of to gain higher ground. In a couple places Scripturally this position of the redeemed being translated “into the kingdom of his dear Son..” is depicted as having the position and title of ‘servant’…(redeemed) who’s master has gone into a far country, who called his servants, and delivered unto them his goods to be good stewards over for which they will be rewarded (make them rulers or much as they entered the joy/glory of the Lord) or as in the case of some who were not faithful servants (being merely redeemed was declared unprofitable), who minimized his stewardship and justified his actions, was declared wicked, cast out into outer darkness, excluded from the kingdom of heaven. (matt25:14-30). From another Old Testament view…this Passage alludes to God (the Father) Who had extended His strong Arm (His Son) of redemption to bring Israel out from the power of the Pharaoh by the blood of the Passover lamb and delivered them out of Egypt through the waters of ‘death and resurrection’… forgiving their sin and raising them up positionally in the calling of a peculiar people a royal people kings and priests in the Promised Land …albeit they first needs pass faithfully through the wilderness. All typical of the greater Redemption wrought by the Father for all mankind over the power of darkness by the Blood and Resurrection Atonement of His Son declaring them a peculiar people and calling them unto the heavenly Kingdom. And by extending faith, of a vicarious kind in Jesus, the Christ of the Father, anyone may be spiritually incorporated into His Son’s eternal ‘Body.’ Being then, by the sovereign power of the Father, translated out of the kingdom of satan of this Earth’s World into the Realm of Heaven, positionally speaking, as a member of His Body to be spiritually where the ‘Head’ Resurrected out from among the dead now resides. Scripture tells us all the redeemed names are written in the Lambs Book of life and receive the gift of eternal life. But with the redeeming (as typically seen with Israel) comes the further calling unto worthiness of the ‘first born’ blessing in order to inherit in Christ’s coming Kingdom (phil4:3 with Hebs 12:23). It is in the attainment of that calling to co-rule in Christ’s Kingdom that will manifest at His coming again into this Realm from Heaven…It will be the end of 2000 years of redemptions ‘positional’ calling purpose; the Father will have attained is Bride for His Son. The Dispensation closes as Christ declares who of out of the redeemed will have attained by faithfulness the reward of resurrection glory as a ‘frist-born’ son of the Father. It is to the possibility of gaining or losing of this reward; of the hope of glory in Christ’s coming Kingdom, that Paul writes to the Colossians (rev3:4;22:19) But Christ’s Kingdom with His overcoming co-rulers does not begin until satan’s kingdom is finished and thrown down. This is typed in Scripture as the Kingdom of David did not begin until Saul’s was finished. And it was only after David had suffered, and after his valiant men had shared in his sufferings, that he ascended the throne, that they were able to share in his is glorious kingdom ruling. That satan is the power of darkness and has an unseen kingdom and is the god over this World is seen in Scripture (matt12:26;rev13:2). He is the evil spirit working in the disobedient (eph2:2) as the Holy Spirit is working in the obedient. Scripture says satan has cast a ‘veil’ over the eyes and heart of those who refuse to believe the glorious light of the Gospel. “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (2cor4:4). It should be understood that the ‘Gospel’ to which the Holy Spirit speaks of here is not just the gospel of redemption in Christ but the gospel of glory in Christ to be attained after redemption, which is the context of the Passage just read refers too. The context is satan was/has darkened the minds of the ‘saved’ leaders of Israel lest they come into the revelation of their inheritance ‘in Christ’ their Messiah. And this blinding of satan has a further application to the New Man in Christ who refuses to believe in the gospel of reward to the overcomer----

Mike Balloun teaches today. 01/8/23 Temporary notes: The Book of Colossians Verses 5-12 As we previously noted the Book of Colossians has the common denominator with the Book of Ephesians and Philippians and Philemon Written by Paul in a two year period (60-62AD) from Rome while imprisoned; that of the confirming and further revealing of the Mystery of God’s Salvation Plan in the heavenly call in His Son… But one notable difference is that whereas Ephesians reveals God’s overall design and description of the heavenly call to the redeemed in His Son with a full panoramic view from its conception, by the Father before the creation of Man, unto its consummation of Jesus on His Millennial Throne in this Realm; in the gathering of all things, in the heavens and the earth, and putting them under His feet,..and gave Him to be Head over all the Church, which is His body, ... which is declared to be the redeemed One New Man made up of Jews and Gentiles. Whereas the Book of Colossians focuses on the Gentiles calling into the Nation of the One New Man. There is need for doctrinal correction, as there are those religious ‘tares’.. like those Paul wrote of to the Galatians, who would bring them out of their state of freedom back under the bondage of the Law, and others who would promote misleading doctrines of demons’ intent upon robbing them of their inheritance. Along with critical instructions in practical living. All admonishment/warning so as they might attain unto the reward; the hope of glory. VERSE 5-8 “For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; Who also declared unto us your love in the” Spirit.” Paul the renown Apostle here validates Epaphras and his message as a fellow worker with him in service to Jesus Christ. What we are learning from the text is what they had heard from Epaphras; that there is an inheritance as a part of the Gospel of grace in Christ, unto the faithful “the hope of glory” (Verses 23- 27) the reward (3:24) that Christ at His Coming will bestow upon all who He finds worthy of the First Resurrection as a result of required increasing fruitfulness in Him after redemption;…this is the critical part of the “truth of the gospel” … that was being preached to the redeemed of Colossae by Epaphras before Paul writes this Epistle. It is in the increasing fruitfulness after (redemption) that qualifies for resurrection glory. This is the part of the Gospel message preached by Epaphras to the ‘saved’ Colossians being now confirmed by Paul in this Epistle. Pauls words of Epaphras extoling their expressing the love (agape) that the Holy Spirit had shed abroad in their hearts assures them of Epaphras’ sincerity to portray them before Paul in a favorable light….not as a talebearer. And establishes that foundation of love on which all further instruction in worthiness will rest. VERSE 9 “For this cause (in light of what Epaphras preached; the hope of glory to you) we also (along with him), since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the (after; {redemption and the honeymoon}) knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” Paul had given the usual structure of a letter, to whom, the introduction of himself, salutations, and thanks to the Father for them, and had spoken kind words to them, as would all be in a letters proper structure. But now its time to set aside formalities and begin to speak his Apostolic mind. Paul having heard and discerned the Colossians vulnerabilities and needs exhorts them not to be spiritually complacent…In that although they have the first aspect of ‘knowledge’ of God that suffices to redemptions faith and incorporation into the ‘Body’ of Christ…there was a great deal of critical knowledge of God and themselves in the Gospel that they were yet lacking. His opening prayer reveals their current state of need; that was for the 2nd aspect or class of knowledge for maturing; that of the advanced will of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, relative to the attaining of the fullness of the salvation Gospel, the purpose for which they were freely redeemed, that knowledge of God that comes only by wisdom and understanding in intimacy centered around the comprehending of His Written Word/Christ. Pauls’ prayer for the redeemed; called to be ‘saints,’ was not health, not wealth, not that they be safe, happy, or comforted. He did not pray for his will or their will…but what he knew was God’s will…that which was/is the utmost essential need of the ‘saved’ to be able to answer the heavenly call in the hope of glory [Complete notes will be available soon. Please check back.]

Mike Balloun teaches today. 01/21/23 THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS CHAPTER 1 UNEDITED NOTES: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/559b6gnl5mus23dbzuauz/Doc3.docx?dl=0&rlkey=6d6plcufsvzj7eg695jd2vn1v Chapter 1 Verses 1 &2 “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Paul was taught the Gospel of Christ and set apart by the other Apostles to spread the Good news…but was on his way to arrest Christ followers when he was arrested by Jesus. And this by the will of the Father. These words setting forth his commission in such a way as being instructive to those among the Colossians who were intent upon setting at odds the unity of God; the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Godhead in unity appointed him an Apostle. To the ‘saints’/(the words fundamental idea is separation, consecration, devotion to the service of Deity, sharing in God's purity and abstaining from earth's/the worlds defilement). An allusion to Israel who were to be God’s ‘saints’…under the Law of Moses they were commanded to be holy because their God was holy. They were to express that holiness in the outward expressions of ritual observances…of not eating certain declared unclean animals, of touching nothing dead, of keeping the Sabbath, new moons, feast and holy days, ect. But ‘saints’ in the ‘Body’ of Christ are observers of the spirit/Spirit in the inward man unto holiness and are under no such outward earthly ordinances. Members of the ‘Body’ of Christ by redemption grace/Gods undeserved unmerited favor, have His Atonement provisions unto faithfulness of an inward changing kind in complete wholeness…namely these provisions shedding abroad in the heart ‘the agape of God’ by the Holy Spirit, the provision of mercy and ‘grace/of the divine influence of the power of the Holy Spirit upon the heart (for sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace (meaning the right by way of Christ’s redemptive ‘grace’ to draw by loving faithfulness upon the Holy Spirits divine influence upon your heart in maturing knowledge and understanding of the Father’s intent.”), the Mediation of Jesus the High Priest, and the Written Word. Paul purposefully address them as ‘saints’ because it is a state that can only be applicable to the regenerated who had heard and received the Gospel of ‘grace’ with eternal life before and now the great concern of Paul in this Epistle is their going on in sanctification unto the ‘reward’…that which the enemies among them sought to stop. The 2 spiritual laws of God involved here is 1) that from the grace of imputed justification comes forth the gift of eternal life…which is unquestioned in this Epistle, but it is the 2nd greater spiritual law that is under attack; that being ‘the hope of resurrection glory’ is a ‘reward’ that only comes forth upon those maturing in loving faithfulness. To the saints and the faithful brethren in Christ in Colossae,… in Christ can be a past tense term for all who have been redeemed; who have been brought out from the kingdom of satan, and are then incorporated into Christ’s ‘Body’ that makes up the Nation of the One New Man, by way of redemption, regardless of their active observance of the Head or not. Or in Christ can be a term for a present state in closer living communion wherein a pursuer of Christ’s reward may stand, a member of His inner circle or ‘entourage’…determined by context. Paul’s salutation is designed not to exclude anyone but exhort all, especially those teetering on believing a contrary false ‘Gospel’ and losing their standing…But if all those in Colossae were to be at that moment judged as it relates to the reward it is not likely all would have been found to be ‘in Christ’. “In Christ” is to be understood as those who were faithfully active in observing the Head…which is the keynote of the Epistle. Paul’s fit salutation of; ‘grace’ to you, and peace from God our Father... an allusion to a new standing with God set in the Atonement of His Christ/anointed one. A standing much the superior of that in which Adam or Israel stood. A standing under grace, mercy and peace, not under the law and its curse; wrath and eternal death for disobedience (john1:17;gal3:13). God is not “Father” to all men as some suppose, but only to saints and believers in the Atonement of Jesus His Son. (in addition it should be understood that Scripture holds forth that the “saved” children of God are ‘saved’ for a purpose; that is to be trained by the Father to be ‘sons’…firstborn joint heirs, but refusing training and discipline unto holiness they may be found ‘bastards/illegitimate’ …having taken His Name in vain…and judged unworthy of sonship hebs12. This is an example of all redeemed are brought into the Body of Christ as God’s children but not all will be found at the Judgment Seat in the……...

Mike Balloun teaches today. 01/14/23 THE BOOK OF COLOSSIANS (INTRODUCTION)

Mike Balloun teaches today. 12/17/22 CAPACITATING THROUGH SUFFERING UNEDITED NOTES: Loves Sufferings Passage…Or the attaining of the glorious life through the passage of suffering Or self-consciousness verses God-consciousness “The Earth and all that is in it is the Lord’s”…. But the ‘World’ and all that is in it is the devils. The devil is declared by Scripture to be the god of this World…which is to say the architect, the designer the mind and control behind it. Those unsaved in the World are in a state of deception and ignorant of how the World came to be and what the World really is, it is an enigma to them. But to the informed born again Godly the World is laid bare for their understanding by the Scriptures, particularly by those Words to Whom we are commanded to heed “This is my Son, hear Him.” Jesus says this in regard to the World: matt16:26 it shall not profit a man who would gain the whole of what the World offers and then in the doing lose his soul. Jesus declared His disciples were not of the World even as He was not of the World. The Word says that the Truth is hidden to the lost in that the god of this World hath blinded the minds of them which believe not. Those. He says His are to be the light for the blinded in the World. He says that the things of the World can steal away the effectiveness of the Word from the heart of the hearer. Satan offered all the kingdoms of the World to Him in exchange for worship. He said those in the World are caught up in seeking things of the World. Scripture says Christ followers will wrestle with the ruling spirits of this World. Scripture says that believers can love this present World. We are to keep ourselves unspotted from the World. It is Written a friend of the World is an enemy to God. It is Written there was a World before this one that God destroyed. The Word says marvel not if the World hates you. What was the origin of the ‘World’? The intent of God for the Creation of Man was to rule and take dominion in this restored Realm. To bring God’s will to the Earth as it is in Heaven, this is made clear in Genesis 1 & 2. The experience of Genesis 3 answers to the design of the ‘World’ (meaning an alternative order, disposition, and purpose. It being described by James as earthly as opposed to heavenly, sensual and devilish conceived by the deceiver (james3:15). Its malicious objective was to focus upon the new creature’s belief. Their obedient belief in God’s Word was their foundation for guidance and instruction in ruling over the Earth in His developing theocracy. Attacking their belief was the foundational purpose for the design of the ‘World’ system …that answers to satan’s slandering lie about God’s intention towards them, initiating false reasonings that resulted in unbelief in her heart about God. Doubting His Word and willingly yielding to the temptation of disobedience,… and in a twinkling of an eye brought her lively spirit in all its communion capacities into the unanimated state due to that separation from God, predicted in the Curse. Which is to say from a God-consciousness into a self-consciousness. Self-consciousness being the great abdicating demise of the Garden sin, and then and now answers to the ‘souls’ God-less reasonings and the bodies sensuality without animated spirit;… that forever manifests in the lust of the flesh (desires without the control of the spirit), the lust of the eyes (evil curiosity to contemplate unholy things) and pride/vainglory of life (satisfaction and boasting of things of this World). This state of ‘soul’ without unanimated spirit is in every person born into this Earth, because the curse of death is transmitted through the seed of fallen Adam (roms5)…he is thereby born into the “World.” A citizen of the World. To then be removed from being a member of the World is to believe God’s gracious Word of redemption. Because the original sin entered into the ‘heart’ (spirit-controlled soul) through the door of disbelief and brought death…so hence ‘belief’ with the ‘heart’ (soul controlled) in God’s Word is the point of redemptive faith unto being born again, and becoming a child of God (roms10:10). So, it is, in the justice of God, by one man’s sin all mankind conceived and born into this earth have imputed ‘death; unanimated spirit, sentenced to be “flesh” which is to say controlled by the self-conscious soul encased in a sensual body. And so, also it is, in the justice of God, that by one sinless Man’s Blood Atonement sacrifice all men may be ‘imputed’ eternal life and made alive in their spirit by grant of His divine nature resulting in eternal life. They needed not to suffer with Christ to obtain this gracious gift with eternal life. Yet this experience does not bring the soul completely out of the deep darkness into the brilliant light of the Truth…but can be likened unto that shadowed estate of the blind man seeing “men as trees walking’ …..the redeemed soul is set on a path with “…a dawning……..