Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

Then a body of true shepherds will come in the era of the sixth seal, a revived true church of Jesus. And they will more effectively and quickly destroy the three kinds of false shepherds, and likely wipe out many false churches, within only one generation. That short period of time, that “month,” will cause many named nations in the Middle East to become truly free and democratic nations, as well as many unamed far-off nations (i.e., those erroneously called “islands” or “coastlands” in most English versions of the Scriptures). Yet this has necessarily occurred yet, but is beginning to occur in ways most have not yet recognized, such as with the dichotomization of the elect from the non-elect, the division between those who love in a just way and the loveless. Still, this process is happening so rapidly now that some who are living today may be able to see the revival of Jesus’ true church in the sixth seal’s era, possibly even the return of Jesus and the fulfilling of these Messianic prophecies.

No prophecy in God’s Word was ever meant to be so obscure that it could not be rightly interpreted or could not be recognized on the day of its fulfillment. So we will understand and see all the Old and New Covenant Messianic prophecies fulfilled someday. Zechariah represented the Messiah when he took this job as the good shepherd, when he broke the two staffs called Favor and Union, and when he took up the task of becoming a “foolish” good shepherd again, for the rest of his life. But he also represented the Messiah’s body one earth, God’s faithful shepherds who will come in the future, all who proclaim the truths of Jesus until His second advent. For the true shepherds whom Jesus actually sends are the body of Jesus on earth. And, like Jesus, they too will grow impatient with members of false churches, and strive to usher them into God’s true universal church of Israel, to be discipled by Jesus Himself, as their only Head and Lord, for their real salvation into heaven.

The people in God’s church of Israel rejected the Messiah Jesus during His first advent, and valued Him, their God, as worth only thirty pieces of silver. And now most members of both the Old and New Covenant branches of the false churches still detest Jesus to this day. For, when some honest men come into their churches, striving to speak only the paraphrased words of Jesus, all according to the grammatical and historical contexts of those words, they are detested, rebuked and chastised by the shepherds and members of those churches. And, if they detest the literal and intended meanings of Jesus’ words, then they also detest Jesus Himself. They prove their hatred of Jesus every time they show disdain for His truths. And they also hate all the true shepherds sent by Jesus, whether they are secular authorities striving to judge by His natural laws in a land, priestly shepherds striving to get the people to live according to the traditions of Jesus, or teachers of His truths. For two thousand years now, we have seen those false churches inundated with delusions, as a punishment from God, abandoned to Satan, caused to choose only false shepherds who slaughter them for personal profit.

Here Zechariah was prophesying about how Jesus abandoned the church that rejected Him and how they rejected all the true servants He sent. Jesus withdrew His favor and broke their unity. Jesus, the Messiah, ceased form serving as the Good Shepherd of the false humanistic churches long ago, even during the time He lived and gathered disciples at His first, more than two millennia before His second advent. For many centuries, He has allowed false shepherds to deceive, exploit and even kill

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His of the church, to illustrate how lies destroy, and how His truths are not like those lies. But so few of the elect were awake enough to learn those lessons. Since God’s people preferred the alluring lies of the false shepherds and hated His truths, He was forced to hand them over to their false shepherds.

Since even the elect suppress their spirits, so they can live entirely by the desires of their flesh, they refuse to be taught and trained directly by God. Our God Jesus cannot teach His genuine truths even to elect spirits, not while they cling to false churches who intentionally distract them with physical rituals and focus them on things of the flesh. Nor can any true shepherds even attempt to shepherd them. So God calls His true shepherds out of those false churches, so they might teach, protect and heal His awakened elect, those who have left those false churches. For those true shepherds soon learn that any attempts to teach any truths to the carnal who hate those truths and love the lie, will utterly fail. So true shepherds leave false churches, and accept the fact that “What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another” (11:9, ESV). For there is absolutely nothing those true shepherds can do for the shepherds and carnally superstitious members of those false humanistic churches. The only ones they can serve are the elect whose spirits have been awakened by Jesus, spirits that hear and heed Jesus confirming the truths that true shepherds feed them, since those true shepherds receive those truth from Him too.

All the people in false churches die a slow spiritual death, and sometimes even a physical death, from the false teachings of false shepherds. So true shepherds find only grief as they watch the false shepherds exploit and devour the sheep, or see how the fat sheep bully, butt, abuse and even kill the weaker sheep of those doomed flocks. Yet there is nothing they can do for them. For God has truly annulled His Old Covenant promises to provide His favor and union for them, since those are mere conditional promises, only granted to souls who at least honestly attempt to fulfill His Law. Yes, His favor, with His blessings of His just loving care, and a union with Him and His people, are also the unconditional promises of His eternal Abrahamic and New Covenants. But God only made those eternal covenants with the elect whom He awakens, in whom His own personal works cause their spirits to worship Him in truth, by personally teaching and training their spirits. And God cannot annul or break His unconditional covenants, since they depend entirely upon Him keeping His own promises. God can only nullify His conditional covenants, and only after the covenanting souls first break their promises. So false churches do not receive an unconditional New Covenant relationship with their God Jesus, but are under either His conditional Old Covenant relationship or a conditional relationship to keep His natural laws, and can break their promises which can sever that relationship.

All those who cling to false churches remain under a conditional relationship with their Creator God Jesus, and that relationship can be justly nullified at any time, possibly forever. However, literally all the elect will enter the eternal and unconditional New Covenant relationship with Him before or during the last day at the gates of heaven, and become serving priests in the family of God. Some have already entered that new unconditional relationship, and very many more will enter it in the end times, before the Messiah’s glorious advent. And the New Covenant is not a conditional covenant made only with the natural descendants of Jacob’s flesh in the land of Israel, since God promised to bless all the people of the world through His eternal and unconditional Abrahamic Covenant, which Jacob’s elect spirit received through different promise. Also, that Abrahamic Covenant remained totally unfulfilled until our God Jesus ratified and fulfilled it through His New Covenant. Therefore, the New Covenant was made with some elect souls of natural Israel, the elect descendants of Jacob, but also with all the Gentile elect in the world too, since literally all the elect hold a relationship with God through the Abrahamic Covenant too. But non-elect souls can only enter a very conditional relationship with God, under the condition that they fulfill all His Old Covenant laws, as either

 

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converted or natural Jews, or else under the condition that they fulfill the subset of His natural laws, if they are not Jews. But literally all the non-elect and all the elect are sinners, who break His laws.

Even God’s conditional Old Covenant was international, made with the Jews who wandered in the wilderness of Gentile lands, and with Jews living all over the world, both the Jews living in the land of Israel and the Diaspora. And it was made with the many Gentiles who came with the Jews during the Exodus, then with all the Gentiles who converted to Judaism since then, with all the Gentiles who promised to obey God’s conditions in His Old Covenant Law. So this Jewish Old Covenant branch of God’s one and only international church, created through Abraham, consists of both natural Jews and converted Gentile Jews. Then God made the New Covenant only with this Old Covenant church, and only with the elect sinners in that church, not with the non-elect sinners in it. For God can only promise to save the elect, because only the elect were created with spirits that are able love in a just way, as He also loves. Only the elect can learn to serve His creations as He does, through wise, just love. Only elect spirits will even bear the desire to repent into that loving kind of life, into an abundant life built on a solid foundation of pure truth. Non-elect spirits hate such a life.

So it was a conditional promise that God nullified when He withdrew His favor and union from the false church in Israel during the days of Zechariah, and when He now withdraws His favor and union from all the other false churches in all the nations of the world to this day. God justly hands false churches over to delusions from Satan for the destruction of their flesh, and to divisions that weaken and destroy them. God bears no obligation to serve as the protecting, teaching and providing God of unfaithful churches that break the conditions of His Old Covenant laws or the subset of those laws called His natural laws, those who hypocritically bear His name everywhere on earth. For those false churches have never entered, known nor taught the eternal, unconditional New Covenant salvation through a new kind of unconditional relationship with Him, but are all churches formed by humans who entered conditional relationships, often even with a god they created in their own imaginations.

Now we know that, immediately after God’s true and faithful servant, Zechariah, was rejected and forced out of the false church, he broke the staff called “Favor.” Since this was a symbolic action that prophesied about future events, we know that future false churches of the world will also reject the true ultimate Servant of God, the Messiah whom Zechariah figuratively represented in this prophecy. So God will withdraw His favor from future false churches, and will no longer even try to guide their ways with His shepherding “staff.” And we know the reason for God withdrawing His favor, because they intentionally break His laws. Thus, we also know that His conditional covenant was justly nullified when He withdrew His favor. God could not fulfill His conditional covenant promise to grant His favor to a false church, because the motives and intentions of their spirits did not want to obey His laws nor trust in the words of His faithful servants whom He sent (e.g., Deut. 30:15-20; II Chron. 7:14). For it is impossible for God to grant His favor to spirits which lack faith in His words, in the words He uttered through His faithful servants whom He truly sent. After all, God formed His church of Israel through Abraham in order to serve the entire world in His name, through His will and authority alone, as His priests, to shine as His light in the entire world. Thus, if they walk only in darkness, God is forced to withdraw His faithful shepherds and favor from those false churches, then destroy them, to protect the rest of the world’s elect from their false teachings.

The corruption of churches in a land will adversely affects spiritual and moral views of the land. Therefore, it negatively affects the justice and every other aspect of the land, possibly of the whole world. So, of course, God takes religion very seriously, and most severely punishes Judea-Christian churches that teach and judge falsely in His name. And God usually starts by removing His favor and destroying their unity, that is, by handing them over to delusions, which cause foolishness, an insane

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disparity between the rich and poor, extreme poverty, wars, rebellions, crimes. ruthless dictatorships, scapegoat persecutions, unjust suffering and countless deaths of the innocent. Meanwhile, God also sends His truths to them through His faithful elect, in hopes that other elect in the land might repent into those truths. But the powerful and rich, who make their profits by devouring the dupes of their land, resist those truths about loving justice and equity, which restrict their ability to make their illicit profits. So they stir up their dupes with lies, to attack those who proclaim the truths of God’s justice.

But the Abrahamic Covenant was fulfilled and ratified by Jesus in His New Covenant, which only He can work in us and through us. And both those covenants involve God’s promise to save all the Jewish and Gentile elect of the world throughout history. So that promise will never be broken or nullified by God, and definitely cannot be broken or nullified by any created entity on earth or in heaven, not even by any elect souls themselves. The covenant that created God’s one and only pure and true church, His real priesthood whom He later called Israel, will exist eternally, even in heaven after the material universe ends. Therefore, this one true church of awakened, taught, trained and purified elect, consisting of only the sanctified ones or “saints,” will not die, will not be eliminated by fake “Jewish,” “Christian” or “Muslim” churches. Rather, those harlot churches are doomed to destruction in the end times, and only His true church of Israel will exist on the day Jesus returns.

But God can nullify the conditional, temporary Old Covenant, which He made with the church that He created through the unconditional, eternal, Abrahamic Covenant. For the temporary, conditional Old Covenant was made for only one reason, to provide a brief outline of God’s attributes and ways through His written Law and through the examples of His judgments made both for and against His priesthood of Israel, so they might learn to better serve the world. The Old Covenant was merely a teaching tool, a textbook for God’s people. It was not His Holy Spirit whom His Abrahamic and New Covenants promised to send, so He could personally teach and train the spirits of His elect to worship Him in truth. Then God also sent prophets and elders as tutors of His words in that textbook. Yet a textbook or a tutor is not nearly as capable of affecting changes in and through an elect soul as well as the Spirit of one’s heavenly Father and oldest Brother, since God’s Holy Spirit created and maintains all existence in real time, and bears the power to affect genuine changes within His elect.

If we consider all this, we see that the Old Covenant originated from God, was written by God, who never contradicts Himself. Thus, the Old Covenant never contradicts anything in the New Covenant. But the New Covenant reaches far beyond anything that the Old Covenant can provide for us. Our direct New Covenant relationship with God’s Holy Spirit more fully harmonizes, explains, applies and trains our spirits to fulfill exactly the same briefly outlined laws and attributes of God written in the Old Covenant Scriptures, which is still an extremely valuable textbook for all the disciples of Jesus’ Holy Spirit. Yet that textbook, and its tutors, cannot possibly teach us all that the Spirit of our omniscient, omnipotent Father and Brother can teach us, through their experiences of creating and maintaining all the truths and principles holding together both the spiritual realm and our perceptions of the material realm. Also, many of God’s Old Covenant laws were symbolic, figuratively reporting what was to come in the New Covenant. So, at best, the Old Covenant provides a shadowy outline of a much deeper and greater relationship with our God. And the unfulfilled laws and priesthood of the Old Covenant must be entirely replaced by the far greater and completely fulfilling New Covenant.

The highly conditional Old Covenant relationship with God was only meant to exist until God began to fulfill the Abrahamic Covenant through His unconditional, eternal New Covenant. God stated that he would withdraw His favor from His church, and His union with them, if they did not heed Him and follow His ways. Thus, Zechariah told us that God would end His Old Covenant relationship with His church at an unspecified time related to the advent of the Messiah, and more specifically by

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the time of that Messiah’s second advent. God will no longer grant His favor to any church, nor His union with them, if that church tries to maintain an Old Covenant relationship with Him, or one based on fulfilling the conditions of a subset of His Old Covenant laws, such as His natural laws. And God certainly will not grant His favor or union to any church which replaces His just and loving laws with unjust and loveless laws invented by wanna-be human gods. From the day the Messiah ratified His New Covenant at His first advent, God will only provide His favor and unite with the elect whom He personally awakens, teaches, trains and gathers into His New Covenant relationship.

And, if God no longer grants His favor to a church, it also means He will no longer send any true preachers nor any genuine prophets through them, although He will send true preachers and prophets to rebuke them. God will only let the false churches raise up their own false shepherds, who are are inept and destructive, who lie and deceive. Any church that trusts in a man to create and enforce laws is actually worshiping that man as a god who replaces the only real Lawmaker, who usurps the rule of the real Creator God. And such a church can never have a right relationship with the real God, never through human wills taught by human ignorance, relying solely upon the strength of human flesh to fulfill laws. Whether it is a sincere Old Covenant church or something worse, God will not favor that church or unite with it, not after Jesus has brought us into the New Covenant relationship with Him, with the Spirit of our God serving as our personal Teacher of all matters of life and faith.

Almost every so-called “Christian” and “Jewish” church on earth today creates its own laws, which differ greatly from one church to another, and deviate far from God’s laws. Yet each claims that their man-made laws are God’s laws. But all God’s genuine just and loving laws actually reflect His attributes and reveal who God actually is. Therefore, all their differing man-made laws expose how each of those churches actually worships a different man-made god, an idol shaped by imaginations and self-serving wills of extremely sinful men in each church, by deceivers, by false shepherds. Not one of those churches truly enters the real New Covenant’s personal relationship with the real God.

Most false churches also drone on and on about the Neoplatonic doctrines of “free will” too, which are humanistic teachings that portray humans as the creators of their own spiritual attributes and the shapers of their own destinies. In other words, they nullify the salvation promise of God’s New Covenant, where God stated that He would personally shape the wills of elect spirits, whom He created in His own image by inherently granting them His own attributes. And it is because of those self-creating and self-shaping false doctrines, ehich emphasize “free will,” that most believe a ritual or deed performed by man’s will of the flesh can cause God’s weaker will to save them from hell. Then this focus on physical deeds distracts their captive elect members from allowing their spirits to be personally taught and trained directly by the Holy Spirit of Jesus, in a New Covenant relationship with Him. So those false churches are actually anti-Christs, who try to steal salvation from the elect.

False churches do not actually proclaim that a spirit’s mind must place all of its faith only in our God, only in the power of Jesus’ Holy Spirit to personally and rightly teach and train our spirits as our only Head Teacher. Rather, they all teach that we must trust only in teachings and power of men, of human gods whom they esteem and serve more than the real God Jesus, and therefore worship as greater gods than the real God. They all actually proclaim faith in man, not in God. But they know that the Old Covenant made absolutely impossible demands, saying that, if the people obeyed Him through their own human strength, He would grant them His favor and unite with them. However, at the same time, the laws of the Old Covenant itself clearly condemned literally all humans as sinners, finding none to be truly righteous, not even those who truly understood some of God’s own intended meanings of His laws. Thus, it is obvious that the Old Covenant Law did not provide any way to build a right relationship with God, in a way where God can truly favor them and unite with them.

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Nothing in the conditional Old Covenant can possibly build an eternal right relationship with God, since all attempts to obey His written laws through weak, infantile, easily manipulated human wills are surely destined to fail. Only the power, knowledge and wisdom of the Creator God Jesus can possibly cause us to even begin to fulfill God’s intended meanings of His Old Covenant Law. So this is exactly what God promised to do in His New Covenant, to personally teach and train elect spirits until we built up a completed, perfected, eternal relationship with Him. Then God will show favor to us and unite with us, empower us to overcome even the gates of hell, to completely nullify the works of Satan, so we can build up God’s just and loving kingdom on earth. We need the Holy Spirit of Jesus to become the only Head Teacher and Lord of our spirits, in His New Covenant relationship, to be delivered from Satan and his world order, and to enter our eternal homes in our Father’s heaven.

God’s favor is sometimes granted to the elect trapped in false churches, because He eternally loves them and will eventually save them into His New Covenant. But this favor will only last for a time, if they resist the Holy Spirit of Jesus and stubbornly prefer the fleshy appeal of false churches. And, since false churches also try to convince the elect to fear and reject the truths taught by God’s true servants, many elect remain trapped in those false churches, without any kind of trusting relationship with God. But if their fearing minds of flesh suppress their spirits, refusing to allow their spirits to heed the comforting counsel of Jesus’ Holy Spirit to alleviate those superstitions, God may withdraw His favor and allow fake shepherds in those false churches to destroy their flesh, so He can then save those elect at the gates of heaven on the last day. And this is also what has happened with the elect physical descendants of Abraham, even by God’s design, until God gathers the full number of elect Gentiles into His true New Covenant church of Israel during the end times. And that process of gathering all the Gentiles into His true church of Israel will not be completed until Jesus completes the calling of the Gentile elect out the the Great Prostitute, shortly before Jesus returns to the earth.

So literally all the loving elect Jews are God’s people and a branch of God’s true church, even if they remain in an Old Covenant relationship with God at the present time, even if they currently reject their Messiah’s New Covenant relationship. For God’s eternal, unconditional Abrahamic Covenant can never be nullified, and it declares that God cannot reject the chosen or elect descendants of Abraham. Scriptures also say that God Himself keeps the spirits of many Jews hardened to Jesus and His Gospel of real salvation, until the appointed time when He completes the calling of all elect Gentiles on earth into Israel. Furthermore, literally all elect spirits will be saved in the end, on the judgment day, into the eternal priesthood which serves all life in heaven. But God will not always and consistently grant His favor to all the elect on earth, nor always unite with all of them in all their works, to make all their works effective. For some elect surely do corrupt His Law and sin in His name. So the utterly holy God cannot condone or partake in those lies and sins. And those elect will not be able to stop lying and sinning as long as they rely on human wills of human gods who try to create their own salvation through the heavenly gods which those human gods invent for themselves.

The Jews first rejected the Messiah’s New Covenant salvation. Then the Gentile church also rejected Jesus and His salvation about a generations after that, when they became fake humanistic churches. Thus, God withdrew His favor from both, even as both kinds of false churches grew and spread throughout the entire world. So not one genuine prophet has ever come out of those false churches, to utter the words God commanded him to speak, not since the end of the first century. So, although God has shown some limited favor to some captive elect since then, and blessed some with His union, the false churches themselves have not done many true works of God throughout all those centuries. In fact, their lies and sins have been heaped up so high that it is difficult to even see the

 

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minuscule collection of their truly good works. And all those truly good works were done only by the elect through God’s power and blessings, in spite of their false shepherds, not because of them.

God once told Abraham that He would spare an evil city and nation even if He found only ten good men among them, men with spirits that truly sought His favor and union, to build kingdom and His righteous kind of love among them (see Gen. 18:23-32). God will not destroy any church or people as long as the real Creator God has sent a remnant of honest and faithful souls to actively serve Him among them. But when a stubborn and rebellious people forces out all faithful and honest servants sent by God, and only a few remain hiding among them in fear, then God will lead His few faithful ones out of those people, then destroy those people. And remember, the worst kind of punishment from God, the kind that all the wicked in hell will receive eternally, is the handing their souls over to delusions and lies (II Thes. 2:9-12). Once God hands them over to lies and delusions, the people go from bad to worse, eventually destroying their own flesh. These deluded souls may continue to be ever learning, but they will never be able to come to a knowledge of genuine, useful and effective truth or wisdom. For, if the Author of all truth and wisdom forsakes them, they can find no real source of truth and wisdom, and will only be able to believe lies and delusions that falsely affirm other lies and delusions. So, with useless knowledge, all their labour will only harvest empty wind.

Those who do not love the truth often work very hard and long hours all their lives, like whipped slaves full of anxieties and woes, hoping to gain the rewards of Satan’s world order. But, since all their works are done through lies and delusions taught by false shepherds, their lives come to their appointed ends without bearing any good fruits they can take with them to heaven’s gates on the last day. They zealously pursue things of this world, possibly even the lies of false churches too, yet only ever manage to find emptiness in life, not the ultimate goals and achievements that God wants His elect to experience on earth. Meanwhile, their false sense of justice, based on the deceptions of their false shepherds, merely causes more injustice, until they utterly destroy themselves and many others.

If delusions and lies fill a mind, all is lost, unless God restores a right thinking. Still, even the most deluded spirits inwardly know one fact, that their entire souls are doomed and all is lost while they pursue those delusions and lies. Yes, their minds of flesh will always deny this fact, but their spirits will still realize and ponder this fact, even while their minds of flesh lie to them. So they deliberately continue to sin through those lies and delusions, knowing that God’s plagues shall fall heavily upon them. And while they drive away the honest, faithful shepherds sent by God to rebuke their lies and delusions, their spirits know full well that God will soon doom them to emptiness and death. Yet they will not repent. For they love Satan’s world order so much, they will sacrifice everything for it, even all joy and hope in earthly life. They hopelessly hope in lies. And even many elect are trapped in this kind of thinking, because they have never heard the true Gospel of Jesus’ New Covenant salvation.

Of course, the union of the Jewish tribes in Judah and Israel were broken in about 930 BC, after Solomon’s death, when his son, Rehoboam, became a cruel dictator and God handed over the ten sinful northern tribes of Israel to Solomon’s servant, Jeroboam (see I Kings 11:20 to 12:24). And this occurred more than 500 years before Zechariah made this prophecy. Therefore, this prophecy is about a different kind of union withdrawn from national priesthood of the church, about a different kind of Judah and a different kind of Israel splitting apart. Judah was the tribe of David and the physical body of the Messiah. And God also gathered most Gentile converts into that tribe of Judah throughout history, as He still does in Jesus to this day. God placed Caleb and others from his Gentile tribe, as well as Rahab, Ruth, and many other Gentiles into that tribe of Judah. And, after the Messiah came from Judah, all Gentiles grafted into God’s church of Israel enter His tribe of Judah.

 

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So when Zechariah broke the staff called Union, and prophesied that God would be “annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel,” this was not about what happened in the days of Rehoboam and Jeroboam, 500 years before that time. Rather, this was a prophecy about how the Messianic part of the church of Israel, associated with the seed of David, the tribe of Judah, where God gathers His Gentile elect, will annul its brotherhood with the rest of the naturally born members of the church, represented by all the other tribes of Israel. The union between the Gentile converts to Messianic Judaism and the rest of Israel would be broken at some indeterminate time after that Messiah’s first advent. And although the true apostolic church of the Messiah Jesus was always a sect of the Jewish priesthood of Israel from its beginning, it was forcibly separated from the rest of Israel after the first Jewish rebellion in 66-70 BC, only one generation after Jesus came to Israel. And that broken union will not be mended until shortly after God’s favor returns to both Judah and Israel, which will not occur until the very day Jesus returns, when all Israel’s elect shall recognize Jesus as their Messiah.

Before Zechariah broke the staff called Union, he broke the staff called Favor, and chose to abandon the flock to the false shepherds. Then the “sheep traders,” those who dealt with the false shepherds to make a profit through the abuse of the sheep, “knew that it was the word of Yahweh” (Zech. 11:11, ESV). So they knew that God wanted them to be just in their treatment of this good and honest shepherd, Zechariah. Thus, they gave him thirty pieces of silver, which was about five weeks wages for a skilled working man. Now Zechariah had been the chief shepherd for only a month, yet that wage was still an insult to the dignity of a man who had been abused and offended simply because he was striving with all his heart to straighten out a very shoddy and corrupt system of managing the sheep. And obviously these were important sheep, destined for the sacrifices in God’s temple. These sheep must have been those kept near Bethlehem for the temple sacrifices. For Zechariah “took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of Yahweh, to the potter.” So Zechariah, the whole shepherding operation he worked for, and the potter, must have been known by the priests in the temple, in the “house of Yahweh.” That sheepherding operation was not a private business, but was directly associated with the Jerusalem temple. So those “sheep traders” were the priests who administered the temple sacrifices and shepherding operation, obligated to obey the will of Yahweh.

The corrupt “sheep traders” were actually priests and leaders of the church of Israel. And Zechariah represented the Messiah at His first advent, when Jesus chose to be crucified and to ascend into heaven. Then, as reliable historical records in the Bible indicate (e.g., Mat. 26:14-16), the leaders of the church actually did pay thirty pieces of silver to the false shepherd named Judas, for his betrayal of Jesus. They wanted Judas to be on their side, so the people would believe that a knowledgeable insider gave them hard evidence to support their false accusations of blasphemy and corruption that they made against Jesus, their Messiah and God. They valued the Jesus’ works, dignity and worth, as He shepherded of the flock of Israel for three years, to be thirty pieces of silver, ten pieces of silver per year of His pure devotion and service. Thus, Zechariah was being extremely sarcastic when he called that sum “the lordly price at which [he] was priced by them.” In reality, those priests were simply trying to purchase a false reputation as “just” stewards of God’s temple and God shepherding operation for the temple’s sacrificial sheep, whom they were obligated to keep in perfect condition, since only healthy and unblemished sheep could be sacrificed for God’s purposes. Yet those priests were illegitimately stealing a profit from that shepherding operation and cared nothing for the sheep.

When the priests and leaders of the sheep of Israel bribed Judas, they did not pay him very much. For they never highly valued any human lives except their own. They payed as little as possible to those who did all the actual works which produced their wealth, and were even willing sacrifice the lives of their workers for their own personal financial gain. So they valued their own worthless and

 

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parasitic lives very highly, even providing themselves with many excessive self-indulgent luxuries while their workers suffered and died, and while neglecting all their social responsibilities which God obligates literally all human beings to uphold. But they did not value truly precious souls at all.

Then God told Zechariah to throw away those thirty pieces of silver, and specifically in the temple and to a potter. But Zechariah did not choose the potter, but left that choice to the temple priests, as God commanded. That is, Zechariah threw the thirty pieces of silver back to the priests who paid him, and they gave it to a potter. Since he threw the coins disdainfully on the ground, the priests would have needed to bow before that money to pick it up, as a sign that they bowed to and fully worshipped the ruthless demon Mammon, instead of God. God Himself arranged these events in this way as a prophecy about what would happen to the thirty coins given to Judas, which was the “lordly price” or their perceived value of their God and Messiah Jesus. And, just as the false shepherds in Zechariah’s day knew they were condemned when Zechariah broke the staff called Favor, so too did Judas and the priests in the temple knew they were condemned by God, that God had withdrawn His favor from them. For those priests intentionally plotted to murder Jesus, solely because Jesus was a Good Shepherd who exposed their corruption and hypocrisy. So Judas also returned his thirty pieces of silver to the temple priests, in the same kind of disgust that Zechariah had. But those church representatives refused to accept them because it would harm their reputation.

So Judas threw his thirty pieces of silver on the ground in the temple (Mat. 27:3-5), knowing that doom awaited him, after being handed over delusions. And he knew his wicked heart could never truly repent into the truth or rejoin the true disciples of the Messiah Jesus, like Peter did after he had also betrayed Jesus three times. So Judas condemned himself to death, and committed suicide. Since he did not even try to seek his own forgiveness or the restoration of a relationship with God and the other disciples, we know that Judas still hated Jesus for not becoming the kind of fake Messiah he truly desired, for not becoming a Roman-like king of the world who would make him very rich and powerful. For Jesus instead chose to do spiritual works, to teach God’s loving and just truths, to die for the forgiveness of sins in a way that would restore spiritual relationships with the teaching God.

That suicide of Judas was a result of his unrepentant sins and dark delusions. Even so, we must realize that only his unrepentant sins condemned him, not his act of committing suicide. The elect with spirits that are able to repent, but with a mind of flesh that causes them to commit suicide, can indeed be forgiven on the judgment day, and can enter heaven. For Jesus is the only Judge, and He will teach the elect, to cause their repentance, on the last day at the gates of heaven, although the truth He teaches will not be accepted by the non-elect. And no human god or church ever bears the right or authority to judge anyone to be worthy of hell. But Judas was not one of the elect, not able to repent at that time, and obviously will not repent even on the judgment day either, since the reason he did not repent while living on earth was because his spirit only ever desired the wealth and power of Satan’s world order, instead of the eternal spiritual treasures Jesus brought to the sheep of Israel.

Meanwhile, the priests refused to keep the money they paid to Judas from church funds, since it was blood money, used to purchase the murder of an innocent man. To those priests, that cash was now unfit to be placed back in the church funds, since it had actually accomplished the very murder they intended it to cause. So they decided to redeem this blood money by using it to purchase a burial place for strangers, for the non-Jewish corpses not buried by their own people. And, as it happened, they found an inexpensive property owned by a potter, likely sold at a low price after all the good potting clay was removed and the land become a useless plot of pits, worthless for growing crops or any other purpose, except to bury unwanted corpses. So, when the priests bought this land from the

 

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potter with those thirty pieces of silver (see Mat. 27:6-7), they fulfilled Zechariah’s prophecy down to the last detail. The apostles recognized that the temple priests had fulfilled Zechariah’s prophecy.

Now the apostle Matthew said “this fulfilled what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet” (Mat. 27:9-10), not “through Zechariah.” But Matthew attributed the prophecy to Jeremiah since Jeremiah was the principal prophet in the Jewish division of the Bible often called the “Later Prophets,” which include the prophecies through Zechariah. And Matthew was citing a section or division of the Bible, not the precise prophet nor the book penned by that prophet. To Jewish rabbis then and now, works of prophecy, especially Messianic prophecies, reached the height of clarity and inspiration through Jeremiah. So, although Isaiah was their favorite prophet, most called all the books of the prophets “the book of Jeremiah” (i.e., those in the scroll called the Neviim, which contained Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, the five Major Prophets and the twelve Minor Prophets, where all the prophets were grouped under the title of Jeremiah). So Matthew did not erroneously cite Jeremiah in this reference.

So we can be sure, according to the interpretations of the apostles and other Jews, that Zechariah did indeed symbolically represent the betrayal and death of the Messiah, that is, when he broke the staff called Union, “annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel,” and after the priests valued his works for God to be worth only 30 pieces of silver. After the Messiah’s first advent to shepherd Israel, which was also long after God’s favor was removed from its false church, God further divided that church into two parts, which Zechariah called Judah and Israel. But the actual physical division between Judah and Israel had occurred more than 500 years before then. Therefore, we can be sure that what Zechariah called “annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel” was symbolically representing a division between a figurative “Judah” and figurative “Israel,” that is, between the New Covenant branch of God’s church (Judah) and the Old Covenant branch (Israel). And those two branches of the church divided only after New Covenant part had also became totally humanistic and corrupt. At first, the true apostolic church was sent by God to testify to the other part. But, after both became false churches, God divided them. For what is divided is weakened, and God does not want wicked liars to be united and strong. Then God further fractured those two divisions for the same reason, making many sects of false “Jews” and fake “Christians,” to keep those two parts weakened.

After the true Messianic part of the church had written the New Covenant Scriptures, the false church eliminated them. So that fake humanistic church, supposedly worshipping the Messiah Jesus, also lost God’s favor, and were further divided themselves. For His true apostolic church already had completed the works they were to do in their appointed time. And the predestined time of the true theocratic government of the Messianic King Jesus, which was to favor and unite the whole church of Israel, would not exist until all lies and sins of the false churches and the world had been exposed and documented. But that predestined time would not occur until the future end times. So the bright light of the true apostolic church remained in written records for God’s elect, but that true church itself has not been seen since then. And it will not be seen again until the revival of the sixth seal’s era, in the generation which will see the return of Jesus, who will unite and favor that true church.

All the physical divisions of false churches are spiritual and moral, invisible to the eyes of flesh. But awakened elect spirits can learn to see and understand how the spiritual lies and sins of those fake churches divide them from one another, and separate them from God. Then the awakened elect also see how God ordained that there must never be any spiritual union between His true church and any of the various sects of false churches. God’s elect, whom His Spirit is teaching to love in a just and equitable way, must never be unequally yoked with the loveless non-elect, whose only desire is to become unjust human gods deluded into thinking they are superior to their siblings in the family of humankind, although they are actually parasites devouring God’s sheep. Thus, God Himself breaks

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apart and nullifies all the illicit spiritual covenants made between churches, whenever they have not been ratified by Him, their Owner and the only Authority who is able to ratify any human covenants.

A carnal and untaught elect soul might be conned into thinking that he or she has made a binding covenant or contract with a false church or with an individual non-elect soul, or even with a devil. But none of those covenants or contracts are ever valid and binding, not unless God Himself, the only Owner of all spirits and all that exists, has ratified them. So an elect soul who tries to become a beloved brother or sister of the members of a false church will never be able to actually do so, unless God Himself first awakens the elect spirits of some members, allowing them to form truly binding love covenants through their elect spirits. A true elect soul will inevitably become frustrated in one’s efforts to find God’s favor and a true unity with God and His people in those false churches. Perhaps an elect soul may find another elect soul or two in a false church, but all the elect in false churches will be manipulated, hindered from accepting real truths, ostracized and marginalized by the false church. For the human lords and demons that own a false church will never tolerate God’s truths.

Yet truths eventually flow out of the hearts of God’s elect children. And the spirits of God’s elect can never fully embrace the lies and delusions taught and practiced by false churches. God’s Spirit governs His elect, and eventually forces a division between them and the non-elect, and nullifies all the covenants that elect spirits made with the non-elect, both covenants of fellowship and covenants of marriage. Any attempts made by elect stewards of God’s truths to enter false churches and reform them will also ultimately fail, for this reason. If God does not grant His favor and unity, then there is nothing anyone else can do about that. If God hands them over to self-destructive delusions because they do not love His truths, then no one will be able to wipe away those delusions and replace them with God’s created realities and truths. The most that any elect soul can do is go where God sends one, say what God calls one to say and do what God wants one to do. Then God might send one to draw out some of the elect trapped in false churches, causing them to leave those false churches. But false churches themselves cannot become God’s true churches, for a true church must be created by God from its beginning, when He awakens, teaches, trains and calls only His true elect souls into it.

Lies and delusions are the only building materials used by a false church to construct its spiritual foundation, floors, walls and roof. Its whole structure is corrupt and unredeemable, even if it may decorate its yard, exterior and interior with a few trinkets of truth. Yet every false church is built on land and by people owned by God. So God will never need to purchase a false church, nor the elect trapped in it, if He wants to evict the non-elect from it and tear it to the ground. Rather, God is the Owner who can simply command the ending of a false church, whenever He desires. Our God Jesus can nullify the works of Satan and call His elect to share in that demolition work at any time, then build His own true church where the false church existed, and anywhere else He chooses. Or, when God repossesses a false church, He may simply burn it to the ground and cast its ashes into the pit.

A false church is an evil spiritual entity, consisting of core doctrines invented by corrupt men and demons. So God can never convert its deceiving foundational principles into truths. God cannot allow its human gods to usurp His headship, while also causing its people to worship of Him as their only God, in spirit and in truth. God cannot transform the hierarchical class system of a false church into an equitable and just system. God cannot permit the people in a false church to think they can judge and edit His Word in any way they desire, nor believe they can manipulate His decisions with magic “sacraments” and form prayers, but also teach them to place all their trust and faith in His love, thoughts and words at the same time. God cannot let ignorant wanna-be human gods teach the church, then also save the people through His New Covenant works of personally teaching and training their spirits, to prepare them for their eternal lives and works in heaven. Opposing works

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cannot be done in a false church, both at the same time, since they destroy one another. Thus, the only way God deals with false churches is by utterly destroying them, although God will always build an alternative true church or loving family for the elect whom He rescues out of those false churches. And God uses truths as the foundational principles to build up true churches or loving families, so their frameworks and structures may be sound and able to withstand storms of life.

God calls His elect children out of false churches. God never reforms false churches. Rather, God removes His elect from them, so He can gather them into His one true church which He Himself must build from the ground up, constructed solely of His truths and realities. Thus, God always has commanded His true and faithful servants, His true flock, to have nothing to do with fake churches or their false shepherds. This is why Jesus commanded, “Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit” (Mat. 15:14, ESV). Then He also commanded all His true and faithful shepherds: “And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town. Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town” (Mat. 10:14-15, ESV). Over and over again, God tells us to turn away from those liars (cf., Mat. 18:15-20; Rom. 16:17; I Cor. 5:11-13; Gal. 1:8-10; II Thes. 3:6; II Tim. 3:5; Titus 3:10; II John 1:10-11, etc.).

All God-ordained shepherds, all who are truly called, taught, trained and sent by the real Jesus, and all who are in their flocks, must avoid false churches. None must try to reform them. For reformation with redemption is a work that only God Himself is able do, and only for individual elect spirits, and only in His appointed times. So humans are not capable of reforming and redeeming the people in false churches through their own human skills, powers or wills, and God never calls anyone to do that kind of work. Rather, God only calls His true servants to wait upon Him and take in the elect He rescues from false churches. God calls His true servants to speak truth and love in a just, equitable way, which nullifies the works of Satan that built those false churches. For God cannot redeem the evil core foundational principles and inferior structure of a false church, and neither can we do so.

Of course, God’s elect can speak with individuals from false churches, or work beside them to do honest tasks for God’s people and God’s properties, if they do so outside of the fake churches that falsely claim to speak and act in God’s name. But the elect must never regularly fellowship in any false churches, nor partake in any their works, since God’s wrath against false churches is greater than it is against the secular world order. So God’s punishments against false churches will be worse than they will be for those in the secular world order, especially the delusions into which God will cast those false churches. So we must not sit comfortably in the padded pews of false churches, allowing their false shepherds to deceive us with their lies and delusions. And God will help His elect to maintain distance from those false churches, or discipline His children when they become deceived by those false churches. There is never a good reason for the elect to join false churches.

Nor can common ground be found between the elect and non-elect, even when it comes to sharing superficial entertainment and the like. For the motives and intensions of elect and non-elect spirits will ultimately conflict with one another. Yet even the false churches that employ many Christian words and symbols to attract the elect, are all formed by non-elect wanna-be gods, never by the hands of Jesus. Then all subsequent wanna-be gods exalted to the highest positions of esteem and authority in false church hierarchies also will be non-elect souls, nurtured by the previous non-elect leaders, and by Satan. Furthermore, since all their core doctrines are lies or half-truths, which can never remain fully consistent with any actual spiritual and physical realities, literally all teachings from a false church will lead to unrealities and delusions, and will never bear harmonious spiritual meanings that can be truly useful for life and faith. Rather, all their teachings will ultimately cause

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sins and deaths, even the teachings which seem innocuous. For their false shepherds make wrong assumptions about the Bible verses they love to quote, in order to feed their selfish ambitions and keep the elect captive in their churchy kingdoms. Nothing is from our God Jesus in those churches.

For instance, false churches want the elect to join them in their wars against abortions. But the elect must realize that they should make biblical judgments, and only rebuke specific kinds of abortions, only when they are indeed sins. Yet the elect also approve of the kinds of abortions required to save the lives of mothers. But truly biblical judgments are not be tolerated by many false churches, who use the topic of abortions for political purposes, and are more than willing to murder innocent and suffering mothers to pursue their selfish ambitions. Also, our methods of opposing certain kinds of selfish and sinful abortions are often completely different from the method of false churches. Many of them want to aggressively intimidate or even terrorize women into submitting to their unjust and oppressive laws and ways. And they will even attack female children for the political purposes of their human gods and churchy kingdoms. But the awakened elect cannot partake in any such things.

The ways in which the awakened elect strive to nullify the works of Satan and sins are nothing like the ways used by false churches. And false churches seldom allow the elect to prioritize the healing of sinners. God commands all His true servants to first address the causes of sin, if possible, which is done by teaching truths and realities about self, others and God, so a sinner might repent into a truly loving life. For the highest priority of true justice is to restore and redeem losses caused by sins. But almost all false churches believe in the Roman humanistic ways of revenge and terrorism. So they seek only revenge against sinners, then strive to force all others into submitting to the wills of their human gods by threatening them. So false churches often will turn against us and attack us whenever we follow God’s just ways of nullifying the works of Satan and countering the causes of sin. Thus, if the awakened elect do God’s true, biblical works, they must do them in Jesus, not in false churches.

We cannot allow a false church to berate and attack other sinners while we are trying to heal the elect sinners among their victims, the people who are willing to hear truths about themselves, about others and even about God. And we cannot allow false churches and secular authorities to make terrorizing and excessively punitive laws, if we are able to stop them. For we must join our God Jesus in His works of undoing Satan’s works and building up good lives for continuously repenting sinners in God’s just, merciful, equitable, loving kingdom. For we know that loving justice can only be stopped or hindered by the vengeful power of violence forcing souls to obey human wills, except when dealing with the truly psychopathic or mindless non-elect. Since literally all humans, both the elect and non-elect, are sinners who can even murder through the lies they believe in anger, we need to carefully plan for a gradual change of sinners, lies and sins, with a limited suppression, incarceration or even elimination of the most harmful and deadly sinners. For humans can only perform loveless sins worked through the core delusions poured into the minds of their spirits by Satan, and can only overcome sins through the core truths and greater power worked in elect spirits by their God Jesus.

It is impossible for Satanic ruthlessness to ever accomplish anything truly good, just and loving. All merciless and unjust force simply produces a merciless and unjust reaction leading to more death and destruction, since it comes from the lying and murdering devil who loves to work the death and destruction of God’s creations. Ruthlessness never originates from the honest and life-giving real Creator God Jesus. God only blesses those who are merciful, although He sometimes commands the quick and merciful deaths of those who cannot stop being merciless, for this is the limit of His own mercy when He casts the merciless non-elect, who cannot be healed, into their second death of hell. To do God’s loving and righteous will on earth as it is done in heaven, the awakened elect need to do their works according to God’s own teaching and training, as the light of earth, as a city set on a hill

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for all to see, as the priesthood of God to all the family of humankind. And we must do the will of the real Jesus with His own power enabling us to effectively accomplish His real works. Any heaven built up on the earth must be constructed by the will, guidance and power of our God Jesus Himself.

If we look at some words of this prophecy in the book of Zechariah, as they were originally written, they might connote slightly different meanings than we see in this particular English translation. So the words translated as (1): “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd” (11:15, ESV), might be translated as (2): “Take equipment for yourself, to shepherd the foolish once more,” or it might also be translated as something like (3): “Take [or confiscate] the equipment of a foolish shepherd for yourself once more.” The first implies that Zechariah must become a foolish shepherd, which does not seem right. Besides, the equipment of both foolish and wise shepherds, their staffs and other tools, were exactly the same. So this also makes the first translation seem to be unlikely.

Thus, we logically must consider the second and third translations. The second one suggests that the people whom God told Zechariah to shepherd were foolish. And that was clearly true. Then the third translation indicates that God wanted Zechariah to replace the foolish shepherds, by taking away their equipment for himself, so he could shepherd the flock by himself. And this also seems to be something God might want Zechariah to do, because Zechariah was symbolically playing the role of the Messiah, who will become the only Good Shepherd of Israel and all the world. In fact, this seems to be the best translation, because the reason God told Zechariah to do this was because, in the future, God would be “raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs” (11:16, ESV). So, for an indeterminate amount of time in the future, an evil shepherd would abuse and kill the church of Israel, until God sent a “woe” to him and destroyed him (11:17). And that evil shepherd would be Satan. Satan would form a false church of Israel for a long time. Then the Messiah would finally come to shepherd Israel by Himself, in the way God told Zechariah to symbolically represent that Messiah, by confiscating all the false shepherd’s equipment.

Satan was prophesied to become the chief shepherd of the false church of Israel, both its fake Old and New Covenant branches, until the Messiah returns. For the foolish people in the priesthood of Israel did not love the truth or the justice of God. So God handed them over to Satan, to be deluded for the destruction of their cruel and bullying flesh. So now Satan hires his own preferred non-elect, many loveless and ruthless hirelings who abuse the sheep, who do not “seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.”

God never does evil Himself, and never calls His faithful elect servants to do evil. So, clearly, what God was actually telling Zechariah was that he should spiritually feed the foolish people of Israel with the good and nourishing food of His truth, so that perhaps some elect might escape the doom He appointed for those who do not love the truth. And Zechariah must do this as a symbol of the future Messiah, who shall destroy Satan and his false churches, then take up His role as the only Shepherd of Israel, as the almighty Good Shepherd who truly cares for those being destroyed, who does seek the young, heal the maimed, nourish the healthy and keeps the whole flock alive and well.

Throughout history, God allowed many false shepherds to come in their own names, pretending to be God’s chosen heads of His church of Israel, yet served only for their own glory, profit and power. But this prophecy spoke of a “shepherding one” (Hebrew singular masculine participle of rawaw). So God was saying that He would send only one evil shepherd to abuse the flock of Israel, until the Messiah came. However, if we look back on what actually occurred throughout history, how has

 

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history been fulfilling this prophecy about this one evil shepherd? For God did not send only one human “shepherd who did not care for those being destroyed,” but countless false human shepherds.

Thus, the only way this prophecy could have been fulfilled throughout history, with only one evil shepherd taking over the flock of Israel, is if that one evil shepherd is actually Satan. The singular reference to only one evil “shepherd” of Israel, who remains alive throughout history until Jesus returns, must refer to Satan. And, if Satan is God’s only appointed shepherd of both the Old and New Covenant branches of Israel until the Messiah returns, then we cannot assume that false churches are merely partly in error, and are generally serving God. No! They are actually serving Satan, not God. They are actually destroying the people in their false churches, as God says they are. They not saving any of those people, not doing any good. Those false churches were handed over to Satan for the deluding of their souls, leading to the destruction of their flesh, since they did not love God’s truth.

Most other Scriptures do not prophecy that only one evil shepherd shall devour the church of Israel until the Messiah comes to destroy him, until the Messiah creates His own true, just, loving and faithful priesthood of God. Most prophesy about very many false prophets and wicked “shepherds” coming to deceive and exploit the church of Israel. And, throughout history, this is what we have seen, countless false and foolish shepherds. Many thousands still remain in synagogues of the Jews and in Gentile’s churches, especially in the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters. Nothing in the biblical prophecies ever declares that only one evil teaching and judging shepherd or pastor or false church was to corrupt the people throughout history. Certainly, if we harmonize this prophecy with the other prophecies, we see that one great false shepherd of Israel was to send that multitude of other false shepherds to synagogues and false churches. And God did this because He wanted His elect to know that it is not a church or synagogue, nor the shepherds in them, who save their souls.

Throughout history, God Himself has personally revealed various life-altering biblical truths to His foolish elect sheep. Then those elect have proclaimed those truths many times and in many places, while actually living and experiencing God’s blessings from those truths. For it was because those elect knew those blessings of God that they strove to share those truths, and expose the lies of Satan in the false churches and synagogues. But Israel refused to hear them, and chose to cling to their false shepherds, institutions and man-made traditions instead, without bothering to see if those truths were from God. For Israel never really wanted their Creator, but cast all their attention upon human deeds done by human saviors. Nor did Israel ever actually understand that His teaching and training of truth and wisdom to their spirits is their salvation. Rather, they preferred lies which appealed to the desires of their flesh. Therefore, God temporarily darkened His priesthood of Israel throughout the earth, after He came to Israel the first time, in the days of Satan’s fourth kingdom of Rome. After our God Jesus completed the works that allowed Him to send His Holy Spirit to His elect, so He could personally teach and train their spirits for their salvation, He handed the church over to Satan. And He would not revive His true and faithfully serving priesthood of Israel until His elect turned their focus back to their Head Teacher and His saving truths. So this true church will soon arrive.

If we examine the words of Zechariah, apart from man-made traditions, it indicates the beginning of what we have actually seen in history, since shortly after the Messiah’s first advent. For we have seen only false humanistic churches and synagogues, those who practice Satan’s religion, those who only worship human beings, those who violently oppose the true worship of God within the minds of elect spirits, solely in His truths alone. Israel began to fall into this humanistic darkness back in the days of their Babylonian captivity, then institutionalized their humanistic religion during the days of the Greek Seleucid Empire and Roman occupation. Then, after the first advent of their Messiah, after Zechariah figuratively personified the Good Shepherd who was rejected and valued for only thirty

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pieces of silver, Jesus formed the New Covenant church, until the apostles recorded their light of truth for the future generations of the elect. Then that church was also hijacked by humanists. Thus, Satan became the chief shepherd of all Israel, until Jesus would teach His elect to love His truths.

In Zechariah’s day, the Jews were already beginning to practice the worship of man, in ways they learned from Babylon and Persia, in ways that esteemed some men above others, in hierarchies that dehumanized some of their own elect siblings in the family of humankind. Israel focused almost entirely upon men and their physical deeds, ignoring the ways in which God saves by redeeming the conditions and motives of human spirits. In Zechariah’s day, this was a primitive form of humanism. But it was pure evil nonetheless. It was indeed a religion created by Satan. Shepherds were no longer humble brothers among their peers, all equally unprofitable and fallible servants of one and the same God. Rather, their religious teachers were beginning to become an esteemed class of worshiped gods raised above all others. And they strove against one another through selfish ambitions, just to gain the largest followings and the most accolades of other men, as well as the best incomes. Then Jewish churches became increasingly Hellenized under the rule of the subsequent Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires. Finally, by the time of their Roman occupation, not much was left of the true Israel of God.

By the time of the Messiah’s first advent, most Jewish churches were humanistic. False teachers, like Philo, corrupted the Jewish churches with pagan, Greco-Roman humanistic philosophies. And those Jewish churches loved this. They boasted about it. Then the true apostolic church was established by our Messiah and God Jesus. But the appointed time for the rule of the Messiah over a true Israel had not yet arrived. So that true church was also handed over to Satan, by the second century, and the aggressive works of Roman humanists also overcame them. Thus, the so-called “Christian” churches soon became much worse than the humanistic Jews. Gentile false churches adopted far more corrupt and oppressive humanistic Greco-Roman doctrines and traditions than the Jews had ever embraced.

This brought a curse on every shepherd or pastor who falsely claimed to serve God in those false churches and synagogues, on all who were not diligent in seeking the real truth and teaching it to the people. And there have indeed been very many greedy, selfishly ambitious, lazy and inept shepherds in that false Israel, false teachers who not only lead God’s people astray but also devour the flock, who feed only their own egos and wallets. This curse became worse than God’s curse upon pagan priests, since pagans merely preach lies and do evil deeds through their total ignorance of God and His truths. God more harshly punished those false shepherds in the false churches by granting Satan permission to cast them into even deeper delusions than the pagans. So, whenever God sent His elect to proclaim His truths, more pagan elect were able to hear those truths than the elect trapped in those false churches, since their deeply deluded false shepherds prevented them from hearing those truths.

God reserves His worse curses for deliberate deceivers who falsely claim to speak and act in His name, who lie by claiming to teach and judge according to His authority and by His commands. And whenever a shepherd claims that God or God’s Word teaches what he preaches, he is actually saying that his words originated from God. For the Bible is God’s Word. God’s Spirit poured the concepts and truths of the Bible into the human spirits of His faithful prophets and His apostles, who wrote down what God commanded their spirits to record. Although the actual physical words expressing those concepts were formed by their minds of flesh, in the languages their flesh learned, the concepts and truths they wrote are indeed from God. Thus, a shepherd is teaching God’s words in God’s name whenever he explains or interprets the Bible’s words for the people, and acts as a representative of God. So, if that shepherd teaches his own thoughts and opinions as though those concepts came from God’s Word, his words are a lie. He is preachings false doctrines and intentionally misrepresenting God. And he is slandering God, since he is pretending that God said what God did not actually say

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nor intended to say. So, if he deceives the people in God’s name, about God and God’s words, that shepherd is a far worse sinner than pagans who simply reveal their own thoughts in their own names.

Let me also repeat that a false teacher is actually inventing a false god too. For he pretends that God said what he actually invented in his own mind, as though God was the kind of God who would condone and approve of whatever he is teaching. But the real God did not condone nor approve of his false teachings. Rather, another god did. And that other god must be either himself or a demon, whom that false shepherd worships and wants his people to worship together with him. Ultimately, that other god is actually the one who manipulates that false shepherd into believing and teaching those false doctrines, who is Satan himself. So that false shepherd is leading the people into Satanic idolatry. For all teachings by all gods reveal their preferences and desires. Thus, all doctrines from all gods actually define the attributes and character of those gods. Therefore, if a false shepherd teaches the people that lies, injustice and inequity come from his god, then his god is actually Satan.

A shepherd’s false words, which the people trust because they believe they come from God, create a false image of God in their minds. And that false image often represents Satan, not the real Creator God. Those false words make the people think God is someone whom He is not, for God definitely is not Satan. So the lies of false shepherds not only slander or blaspheme God’s good name, but also lead the people into idolatry, the worship of a false god or gods, even into the worship of Satan. Now some may deny this. But it is clear that almost all humanistic pastors want the people to trust them far more than God, and to esteem them as their final authorities in all matters of life and faith. So these false shepherds are actually asking the people to worship them as their false gods. And, when the people esteem or fear these false human gods as their law makers and saviors, then serve them as their lords, they do indeed commit idolatry. And, when the people believe their unjust, loveless lies about a god who is actually Satan, then worship that god, they are actually worshiping Satan as well.

All this idolatry can be forgiven, if our God Jesus awakens an elect spirit, if He makes one’s spirit able to receive Him as one’s only authoritative Head Teacher and Lord, if He causes one’s spirit to allow His Holy Spirit to teach and train one’s spirit. Then that spirit will repent into a knowledge of the real truth, in a way that bears genuine fruits of repentance through one’s spirit and flesh. And this repentance always brings a restoration of one’s relationship with the real God. On the other hand, the preaching of these false pastors frequently results in an unforgivable sin among the non-elect, which is called the blasphemy or slander of the Holy Spirit. And this sin is almost always committed by the non-elect in false churches, but seldom by the non-elect pagans from any of the other false religions.

To commit this unforgivable slandering of God’s utterly holy Spirit, Satan inspires false shepherds to deliberately lie about the words and deeds of God’s Holy Spirit, in ways which make the holy words and works of God’s Spirit look evil, so the people will flee from God. Then, at the same time, Satan causes those false shepherds to make that devil’s evil words and works look holy, so the people will run to him. And God cannot ever justly forgive this a kind of lie, because this is not merely a carnal deception, but an attempt to reverse the way in which the spirits of their people perceive spiritual realities, which those false shepherds do for the nefarious purposes of gaining power and income.

The blasphemy of God’s Spirit, made by spirits to directly deceive other spirits, is far more powerful than other lies. For the rightly perceived spiritual realties of God’s holy attributes can cause some elect to repent and escape from false churches. However, the slandering of God’s Spirit alters the perceptions of their spirits, in ways that cause spirits to falsely affirms that Satan is their holy god, whom their spirits must worship. It turns the wills of their spirits to Satan. Even the wills of the elect. Spirits can actually become inwardly loyal to Satan, then actively war against God and His people.

 

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This blasphemy of God’s Spirit is a sin which can only be committed directly by spirits, never by minds of flesh. For this kind of lie deems other spirits to be either evil or holy. And these kinds of moral or spiritual judgments can only be made by spirits. So false shepherds are indeed trying to make the spirits of their people believe that the real God’s Spirit is evil, and that Satan’s evil spirit is holy. But, even in false churches, God cannot allow the spirits of the people, especially the elect trapped among them, to believe that Satan is the holy Creator God, and that the real God is the evil demon Satan. For, if false shepherds can make their spirits believe this, they can make ordinary, sleeping, elect souls into twice the sons of hell that they are themselves, and also transform their common, lazy, lethargic non-elect members into fully aggressive psychopaths, because the most evil sins are worked by spirits, not by impulsive, self-serving, amoral and unmotivated minds of flesh.

And there is a very good reason why God cannot forgive a spirit’s blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. For an unrepentant intentional sin cannot be forgiven. Yet a spirit’s lie to slander the holiness of God’s Spirit is always deliberate and intentional, since all of God’s holiness has been written and revealed in all of His spiritual and physical creations, which surround literally every spirit and can be seen by every spirit. So one’s blind flesh may grow angry at God and falsely accuse Him of being evil. But no spirit can ever honestly do that. Thus, no spirit can claim ignorance as an excuse for calling God’s Spirit evil and calling Satan’s spirit holy. Only an awakened non-elect human spirit, who thoroughly hates God, can intentionally slander God’s Spirit like that, then portray Satan’s spirit as holy. Thus, when a God-hating non-elect spirit intentionally tries to convince others that the just, loving words and deeds of God’s Spirit come from the devil, while also trying to convince them that the unjust, loveless lies and deeds of Satan are holy works of God, there is no existing truth remaining in God’s creations or in God’s Word that will be able to turn that spirit towards repentance and forgiveness. Nothing more can be revealed to cause that lying spirit to repent, since all the truths that could have brought repentance and forgiveness have already been revealed to that very intentionally lying spirit.

Nonetheless, this blasphemy of God’s Holy Spirit is a very common sin committed by very many false shepherds throughout history, and will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven. If anyone’s spirit coldly and deliberately does this, that spirit has sought God’s wrath during this life on earth and is destined for hell, with no chance of going to heaven. But remember, this sin must be done intentionally by the spirit itself, which means it must be done in a way where one’s spirit will never possess even the slightest desire to repent. Of course, that one’s fearing mind of flesh might regret that sin, as it suffers the consequences. Still, even if the flesh begins to fear, that flesh cannot save those false shepherds from hell, no matter how many magic sacraments their flesh might perform.

If anyone slanders the words or deeds of Jesus or of the Father, solely because one’s mind of flesh is ignorant or deceived, or through the anger, greed, lusts or other impulses of the flesh, but one has an elect spirit that Jesus created for Himself, then one’s spirit will eventually repent and receive His forgiveness. For this is not the slander of God’s Spirit by one’s spirit. Rather, one’s flesh merely slandered His words and works. And, if anyone’s spirit does possess a real desire to repent, then that one must have an elect spirit, and definitely did not commit the unforgivable sin of slandering God’s Holy Spirit. For only elect spirits can ever truly desire to repent from their sins. Only the non-elect spirits cannot ever truly repent. And only non-elect spirits can hate God enough to claim that His Holy Spirit is evil, and only after Satan awakens their spirits, only after those spirits gain enough spiritual knowledge of God and of Satan to create such a slanderous lie. It is impossible for the elect to slander God’s Spirit in the way the non-elect do. For God created all elect spirits with an inherent love and respect for Him, and made them in His own image. Thus, they cannot hate their own image.

 

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Only the non-elect, who do not possess a spark of desire to serve God through God-like love, are able to commit this unforgivable sin. Nevertheless, very many false shepherds have committed and now commit this sin. Countless shepherds throughout history have taught their people that the just, merciful, equitable, redeeming, loving Spirit of God should be hated, because it is evil, communist, traitorous, liberal, Satanic and so on. At the same time, those false shepherds teach their people to be blindly loyal to the unjust, ruthless, biased, vengeful and hate-filled spirit of Satan. Almost all of the wealthy, self-indulgent shepherds in every land lie against the loving Holy Spirit of our God Jesus. Almost all the false shepherds who devour God’s flock slander the just Spirit of our heavenly Father.

All those false shepherds are eternally cursed. And their self-serving blasphemy of God’s Holy Spirit is not a small matter, like they think it is. When those false shepherds tell their people to bully God’s weak sheep, but esteem them while they devour the fat sheep, all because the fake holy spirit of their god Satan demands it, they have earned their eternal dark delusions in hell. Then their god Satan also wants them to believe another lie, that God’s true biblical doctrines are irrelevant. But true teachings of the Bible describe the attributes of God’s Spirit. So they are actually saying that the Holy Spirit is worthless. They believe that only the rewards of Satan’s world order, the power and wealth he offers, are worth anything. And this too is the slandering of God’s Spirit. They teach many other lies like these, which exalt Satan and blaspheme the Spirit of God. So we can never join their false churches.

Zechariah 13:1-9 (ESV): “On that day [This refers to the day mentioned in chapter twelve, the day of

the glorious advent of Yahweh, the day that Jesus returns, when the whole remnant of Jewish people shall look

upon the One whom they have pierced and repent to Him, after He destroys the armies of the beast.] there

shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse

them from sin and uncleanness. And on that day, declares [Yahweh] of hosts, I will cut off the

names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will

remove from the land the [false] prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. And if anyone again

prophesies [falsely], his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live,

for you speak lies in the name of the Lord.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall

pierce him through when he prophesies.

“On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put

on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the

soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’ And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your

back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

“‘Awake, O sword, against My shepherd, against the man who stands next to Me,’ declares

[Yahweh] of hosts. ‘Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn My hand

against the little ones. In the whole land, declares [Yahweh], two thirds shall be cut off and

perish, and one third shall be left alive. And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them

as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon My name, and I will

answer them. I will say, “They are My people”; and they will say, “[Yahweh] is my God.”’”

The earth has endured false shepherds from the day God first gave His human creatures the ability to discern between good and evil. And those liars have wrought horrifying suffering and deaths upon their siblings in the family of humankind, as well as every other living entity on earth, since then, shattering peace and comfort in every small corner of this planet. But, from the very beginning, God’s mercy and power also sent His faithful elect servants to speak His truths against those insane, power-hungry false shepherds. Thus, love survived. And, during the last four thousand years, God accelerated His campaign of truth, through the tiny nation of Israel. Yet Satan, the lord of all those

 

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false shepherds, soon responded by sending the worst of his false shepherds to kill that truth and love. For two and a half millennia, that devil’s false shepherds have worked bloody wars, tortures, devastations, famines, enslavement and ruthless injustice through the most malignant religion he has ever invented, through humanism. Now times are racing faster than they ever have before, in this conflict between good and evil, between truth and lies. Yet the lessons taught by both evil and good are almost completed in this temporary realm. So it is nearing the day when God shall put away all false shepherds, as well as their lord, so He may expound upon those lessons that history illustrated.

God told Zechariah that He Himself will surely crush the false shepherds and purify His priesthood of Israel, even if the flesh of two thirds must die in the process. And God will not spare the worst of those liars, the false prophets who so confidently proclaim that they will lead everyone to material riches and prosperity, but always end up casting all who follow them into a faithless hopelessness and utter destruction. But the method that God shall purify Israel, when the Messiah returns, was this: “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness” (Zech. 13:1, ESV). Just as our Messiah Jesus spoke about His Holy Spirit flowing like living waters (John 7:38-39), God spoke about a fountain of flowing waters, also representing His Holy Spirit, who will cleanse us all from all lies and sins.

This “house of David” is the New Covenant church, established through the works of Jesus on the cross, built on the foundation of His teachings. It is the temple in Jerusalem too. But that temple is the symbol of the body of flesh belonging to the Messiah Jesus, David’s eternal heir to the throne. And His true New Covenant church is that body on earth. So this prophecy is saying that Jesus will return to both. He will come to His true church scattered throughout the earth and He will physically return to Jerusalem as well. Then He will send His Holy Spirit to compel the elect spirits of all the Jewish survivors in Jerusalem to repent into the truths about Him and themselves, as well as His truths about salvation, justice and God-like love. Yet His Spirit will also enter the elect remnant of Israel’s Diaspora on that day, and all the Gentile elect brought into the true Israel, bringing its gifts of genuine prophecy, healing and the blessed counsel of our Creator God, with knowledge and wisdom.

This Holy Spirit of Jesus will teach and train elect spirits to know and follow His ways, cleansing us, prompting our spirits to make and fulfill covenants of love that will sanctify us, which will set His true Israel apart for the purposes and works of our heavenly Father. When Jesus returns, so will rational thinking return to the minds of elect spirits, as our thoughts are led by the perfectly rational Spirit of God. Then our thinking will be based solely on a foundation of the spiritual and physical realities created by our God. And that “fountain” of living waters from Yahweh Jesus, those ever-flowing waters of His Spirit serving as the only authoritative Head Teacher of every individual elect man among us, will wash away every deception and every stain of tears shed because of those lies.

But first it will be necessary to remove the false shepherds and their enablers, as well as the idols they bowed before. For those liars portrayed their own parasitic flesh as gods worthy of worship, along with a host of other false gods, such as the ruthless demon Mammon and Satan himself. So the esteem and service of those idols, including money and those human gods, must be purged from the land, along with all their lies. Otherwise, the cycle of lies and deadly sins would continue. Therefore, God told us: “I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness. And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of Yahweh’” (13:2-3, ESV). And notice how God did not specify that he would only destroy the false prophets who spoke “lies in the name of Yahweh.” This is significant, because it

 

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suggests that literally all the prophets in those end times will be false prophets, that all will be lying shepherds coming falsely in the name of God to deceive, exploit and devour God’s flock of sheep.

This prophecy implies that Israel will not listen to God or anyone else in the last days before Jesus returns, to no one except their own false prophets. And they will do this even though the Roman beast will be occupying their lands and terrorizing their people at the same time. Or, perhaps, it will be because that beast’s armies will be oppressing them that they will turn to their false prophets for false hope. Yes, God will send Israel His two true prophets then as well, to preach publicly for all to hear, even in their own temple grounds. And it is likely that God will also send other true prophets to many individuals and groups in Israel as well. Yet it seems that Israel will not heed any of those true prophets at all, only their own false prophets. For God says this about that period of time: “On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive, but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth’” (13:4, ESV). So “every prophet” that Israel will go to, before the day Jesus returns, will be a false prophet, likely rallying the troops of Israel to war against the beast, but deceiving them for his own personal gain. But, after their Messiah physically descends onto the Mount of Olives, the false prophets who survive will repent into the truth, admitting they were fakes, merely “workers of the soil” whom their parents sent out to work in fields belonging to other owners, as hired servants.

But most of the shepherds who exploit God’s Jewish flock of Israel, falsely in God’s name, will not live to see their Messiah walk across the Kidron Valley into the temple on the day He returns. In fact, most of their supporters and followers will not survive that season or that day either. For God told us what would happen to those false prophets in that period of time, during Israel’s tribulation of war and the sword. In those days, Yahweh will command: “Awake, O sword, against My shepherd, against the man who stands next to Me … Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn My hand against the little ones. In the whole land … two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive. And I will put this third into fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘they are My people’; and they will say, ‘Yahweh is My God’” (13:7-9, ESV). But this is only God’s doom for the false shepherds and their followers, not for the true shepherds and His faithful servants.

In the context of the previous chapter, we see that the deaths of two thirds in that city will occur at a time when God will “make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples,” when “the siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah,” and “all the nations of the earth will gather against it” (12:2,3b, ESV). This will happen just before the Messiah’s return, when He “will give salvation to the tents of Judah first,” then “protect the [surviving elect] inhabitants of Jerusalem,” and “when they look on Me, on Him whom they have pierced” (12:7,8, 10, ESV). So two thirds of Jerusalem will perish just before Jesus returns, while the beast’s international armies are murdering innocent Jews throughout Judah. But Jesus will protect and preserve the elect Jews in that land, all who are able to repent into the truth and live through just, equitable, God-like love, to serve their God as His priests.

All who uttered false words in God’s name will be taken away on the day of Christ’s second advent, along with the rest of the wicked. Consequently, there will be none left to cloud and confuse the thoughts of God’s elect any longer. God’s elect will clearly see how all the lies about God, about God’s words and about God’s spiritual and physical creations were vain and foolish, and caused the world so much pain and death. They will realize that the origins of all suffering and injustice during the millenniums of Satan’s rule over the world order, and especially in the days of the antichrist called the beast, did not come from God, but from those who believed and acted upon the devil’s lies. Then they will understand how all that anguish and torment could have been prevented if they

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had a faithful priesthood serving God rightly in their synagogues and churches, honest souls who would choose and empower the humbled secular servants of the people who acted in God’s name.

Because false synagogues and churches cast themselves into the same darkness that is found in Satan’s secular kingdom of the world order, they have been ultimately responsible for suppressing the light of God, preventing it from shining into the world. False teachers and false prophets from false synagogues and churches caused the world to fall into the pit of total darkness. And when God’s elect awaken and become aware of this fact, they will never again allow those times of horror to return, not as long as our God Jesus lives in them and on the earth, rebuking and nullifying those lies. They will never let false teachers and false prophets replace the pure light of God’s truth with corrupted doctrines of men and devils again. And the elect who now become zealous for the truths, verities and realities which Jesus wrote in His creations or reveals in His Word will spare many souls today from needless pain, suffering, exploitation and death. Knowing and wisely applying God’s genuine truths can transform whole lands into places of peace, security and loving justice for all.

From the moment Jesus enters the gates of His temple, He will never again allow false shepherds to sow and grow darkness in the hearts of His priesthood. Then, as His elect look back at all the soul-crushing losses they endured during the times of their delusions and lies, they will fear that history might repeat itself, and not tolerate even the smallest deviation from the truths taught by Jesus, their beloved and saving Lord and God. The awakened elect will become so afraid of any lie escaping into their land and into the world, to work pain and destruction, that a mother and father will take their own lying child to the elders to be executed, if that child does not repent into the truth. And those parents shall willingly become prime witnesses and accusers of their own adult child who dares to deceive, bully or devour God’s sheep, since they will know the great damage those lies can cause.

The sorrow of loving parents losing their own child will not be greater than their fear of allowing that child’s lies to enter the world, thus releasing all the death and destruction of Satan’s world order once more. The awakened elect will love God and His truth more than their own sons and daughters, and will be faithful to their God Jesus for the sakes of their other sons and daughters. To save their other beloved sons and daughters from destruction, parents will put to death any unrepentant, lying son or daughter. For this is just love. And this is not the sacrifice of one for the sake of the many, but the nullifying of Satan’s evil works in one soul to preserve all that is true, to preserve abundant lives.

But the two thirds that God will slaughter in the end times will not include very many of God’s elect. For Jesus, as He returns, will spare most of His elect who previously had been taken captive by false synagogues or false churches, even though they too had become liars and deceivers for a time, along with the rest. For many elect Jews will have fled from false synagogues and very many Gentile elect will have abandoned false churches, through their spirits’ repentance during the end times, especially during the sixth seal’s revival (Rev. 6:12 to 7:17). Or, at the very least, immediately after some elect see Jesus descending from the sky, they will realize how much harm they caused through their false synagogues or churches, and repent into the truth. Also, not long before His arrival on earth, Jesus will call many elect out of the false churches of the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters (Rev. 18:4; Jer. 51:5-6). Furthermore, although the beast will persecute and kill many elect in the end times, many will still survive, while many others will be brought back to life on earth during the first resurrection, on the day of His return. Therefore, very many elect will join with Jesus at His return.

But our God Jesus will remove all the wicked non-elect from the earth in His wrath, which remains upon all those loveless souls who are never able to repent into the truth, who refuse to show mercy to their siblings in the family of humankind. Jesus will not destroy even the weakest elect, who barely

 

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love Him or His creations, since false shepherds deceived and abused those souls. So, on the last day, these will bear legitimate excuses of ignorance, immaturity of spirit and coercion into lies and sins, then repent for their forgiveness. But the non-elect possess no excuses, since they worked that ignorance in the elect, distracted them with things of the flesh to keep their spirits immature, then coerced them into believing lies and committing sins. So Jesus will slaughter those vile non-elect. But Jesus will first separate the elect from the non-elect, before He returns with His wrath against those non-elect. For, right now, there are loving elect taken captive by the non-elect everywhere, in false churches and synagogues, in Hitler’s and Trump’s political parties, and in other Satanic places.

Of course, the minds and bodies of flesh belonging to the non-elect are the same as the minds and bodies of flesh belong to the elect. So non-elect minds and bodies of flesh, even those transformed into psychopaths, can feel strong emotions of the flesh, even very deep feelings of attachment in a carnal kind of “love.” Yet the non-elect can only experience this conditional kind of fake “love,” and only for those who gratify the needs or desires of their flesh, or for those who provide their flesh with esteem and pride, or for those who give them a sense of purpose. So this fake kind of “love” is a selfish, superficial emotion of the flesh, not real love. And it is temporary, easily fades as soon as the carnal reasons vanish. But permanent, true and God-like love originates from elect spirits, then may or may not produce emotions of the flesh. In fact, some elect do not even know they love God or others at times, since they feel no emotions manifesting. Yet their spirits have actually made strong covenants of love with God or others, and are willing to sacrifice much or die for that love.

None but the elect can actually develop genuine love in their spirits, in an unconditional and eternal way, in the way God also loves. Only the elect have spirits made in God’s image, which are capable of making true covenants of love with other spirits, including God, who is a Spirit. Now, of course, since we live on such a brutal planet, the minds and bodies of flesh belonging to some elect become too hardened to ever allow their emotions to express love. Or cognitive problems might also cause stifled reciprocal social and emotional responses. Furthermore, some elect minds of flesh become so utterly deceived and corrupted that their spirits are thoroughly suppressed, held solidly captive by their flesh, prevented from ever seeing and hearing enough to repent into the truths that build love.

Thus, some of those elect spirits cannot be healed while they live in the flesh. And this too was ordained by God, because those elect become specialists in heaven, with specific tasks assigned to them, related to what their spirits learned on earth. Nevertheless, for some of the elect, only “the destruction of the flesh” can free their spirits, so those spirits “may be saved in the day of the Lord” (I Cor. 5:5), since they cannot repent on earth. All these will be purified, healed and completed on the judgment day, and will repent into the truth on that day. For their earthly flesh will no longer be able to prevent their repentance. Consequently, it is impossible for us to judge whether or not anyone is going to hell. That judgment must be left to our God Jesus, and to Him alone, since only Jesus can judge the motives and intentions of the spirits whom He Himself created for life in heaven. If we see a sinner who remains unrepentant at death, it means nothing. For death is not their final judgement. Rather, Jesus’ judgement on the last day, at the gates of heaven, is their final judgement. And it is not possible for infantile human spirits to know whether or not Jesus will find an elect spirit in a sinner.

Many elect have become so very hyper-vigilant, after suffering such long periods of terror, that their flesh no longer allows their spirits to express love through the normal emotions of the flesh. Also, the hypocrisy of false churches hurts some elect so badly that they can no longer feel love for either man or God, not through the defensive and bitter condition of their flesh. Other elect have been taught or have been teaching false doctrines for so long, and are so brain-washed into believing those lies came from God, that they cannot be corrected or healed while remaining in their bodies of flesh.

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And some elect flesh become so emotionally reliant on their false shepherds, or on their imagined “visions” and “signs,” that they can no longer live or love without that “guidance” or “support.” Nevertheless, none of those elect will be condemned on the judgment day. Although they did not repent from the fears, lies and delusions in which they placed their faith and hopes upon during their earthly lives, all these will repent into the real truths of God, and learn to truly love on that last day.

False churches have made some elect chase after worthless emotional experiences for such a long time that they cannot remember how to live real lives any longer, but instead follow every lying charlatan that comes their way. Thus, some elect in the end times will die, and will only gain their freedom from lies on the judgement day. Some will not live to see the day of Jesus returning. Yet most elect during the end times will find an honest, fruitful and joyful life of loving and being loved, before and after Jesus returns to rule the earth. And even some of the most deceived elect will be able to repent more each day during eras of the sixth and seventh seals, into an abundant life. These will grow extremely ashamed of their past lives and say: “I am no member of a false church. I am one who tends the fruit bearing crops and living creatures, for I serve Jesus, who taught me since my youth to provide for the needs of all life” (see Zech. 13:5). For these will awaken to see what Jesus’ Holy Spirit has been working inside their spirits since the day they were born, and respond to Him.

False pastors, priests and religious shepherds also always seem to want to dress in the garments that the people expect religious “leaders” to wear, because they have taught the people to choose their religious shepherds according to superficial criteria like clothing, not by their teachings. They want to distract and deceive the people into following them based on outward “signs” of the flesh, and not actually judge them by the fruits of their spirits, such as whether or not they speak and act according to the words of the real God. False shepherds may wear a priest’s Roman robes or a pastor’s suit and tie. But they all figuratively and even literally “put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive,” a religious garment to make their dupes think they are serving God. But they are all are false prophets. For, if some false shepherds do not falsely claim to be prophets themselves, then they quote and esteem other false prophets who falsely claimed to see visions, dream dreams or hear words directly from God’s own mind and mouth. So all those liars belong to families of false prophets, and bear the names of false prophets, either from the past or in their current times. All are denominations taking the names of liars whom God forever cursed in this prophecy of Zechariah and in all the Scriptures.

In reality, those false shepherds in religious garments serve only themselves, only their own selfish ambitions, in ruthless pride and greed. They want nothing to do with God’s own interpretations of His own words in the Scriptures, nor anything to do with the real Creator God Himself. So the elect who are duped by those deceivers in their false churches, who even partake in their religious mind games and emotional garbage, will be greatly humbled after the light of God’s real truth exposes the hypocrisy and the destructive foolishness of those false shepherds, along with all the loveless, evil works of their false churches, once Jesus awakens the spirits of those elect. Then the awakened elect will no longer buy or sell the lies of those false shepherds and their fake churches. The elect, after they learn to love rightly through the teaching and training of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, will then praise only Jesus, and stop worshiping false shepherds. They will no longer falsely “evangelize” in the names of false shepherds and their churches, to spread their lies and delusions, as they did before.

After the great revival of the sixth seal’s era, very many elect will learn to identify themselves as common and equal workers in the fields of God’s earthly kingdom, as inept infantile sinners being taught and trained to live abundant lives by one Head Teacher, as equal disciples of Jesus who serve only Him as their Lord and God. Yet, in those end times, some will ask those awakened elect: “What are these wounds on your back?” (13:6). For the false shepherds and their deceived flocks will have

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inflicted many internal and permanent wounds upon the parts of elect lives that they do not display in public. Then the elect will live with the inflexibility and pain of those scars, until they receive healing and new bodies at home. So the awakened elect, all who came out of false churches, will honestly answer, saying they are “the wounds I received in the house of my friends.” For their false shepherds and non-elect in the “houses” of fake churches did pretend to be the friends of those elect. But those deceivers lied to those elect, betrayed them, sinking their teeth deep into their souls and psyches. They were wolves in sheep’s clothing, trying to devour the elect to feed selfish ambitions.

Then again, this prophecy may refer to physical scars on the back. For, throughout history, pagans and fake Judaeo-Christians have worn tattoos, which the Bible considers to be scars or “wounds.” Then some pagans and false Judaeo-Christians also practiced self-flagellation and self-mutilation, to invoke “religious” feelings in their minds of flesh. For extreme pain releases chemicals in the brain and opens the thalamus, which enhances thoughts and emotions of the flesh. Some false religions flagellate themselves particularly during times of trouble, so they can feel better, and so they can also delude themselves into thinking they will raise their status in their false churches. Some even teach that self-torture appeases and manipulates their gods, makes their gods feel sorry for their suffering souls, then grant them their wishes. Of course, all this is carnal superstition and utter nonsense. The only thing that self-torture does is temporarily make their minds of flesh feel a little better for a moment. But they interpret this fleshy feeling as a “spiritual” or “religious” experience.

Of course, the elect stop practicing self-punishment whenever they learn the true teachings of God’s Word, since God’s Law forbids such things (e.g., Deut. 14:1; Lev. 19:28; Phil. 3:2), and Jesus came to fulfill God’s Law in His elect and through them. But those superstitions are always revived in false churches, especially in troubled times. So there is no doubt that the Great Prostitute and many of her harlot daughters will practice self-flagellation again in the end times. Thus, some elect who attended those false churches, but repented into the truth during the end times, may actually have physical wounds on their backs at that time. However, this prophecy about wounds on their backs is almost certainly figurative, speaking about spiritual and psychological wounds caused by the false prophets and fake shepherds. Many elect who repent and flee from those liars during the end times will remain deeply scarred from their past experiences in false churches. Yet they will most often keep their scars covered, in the same way that most Jews in Zechariah’s day kept their backs covered with their garments. Still, some friends and family will see those internal scars and ask about them.

And, lest we forget, God did promise to destroy the false shepherds, even though they claimed to serve Him and belong to Him, even though they stood in His presence at the temple. And He also promised to strike the souls in the flocks of those false shepherds, even the most insignificant among them. For God declared: “Awake, O sword, against My shepherd, against the man who stands next to Me. Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn My hand against the little ones” (13:7, ESV). Just because a priest or pastor uses religious words and tells the people that he speaks in the name of God, and that he stands beside God, it does not mean that he is a real shepherd who was actually sent by God. It does not mean that he is telling the truth. And God will see through his lies, then destroy that false shepherd. It would have been better for him if he chose to be a poor “worker of the soil,” instead of a lying priest or pastor. And all who enable and support a false shepherd, even the least among them, share in his lies and sins. So they too will be judged together with their false shepherd. For a very long time God let His “sword” sleep in its scabbard. But, in the end times, God will awaken His sword against those false churches, annihilating them all, including the Great Prostitute. And if any remain in them, even “little ones,” they will not survive His wrath.

 

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Note the singular form of “shepherd” in the above verse. The use of singular forms usually indicated that God will judge each one individually. Each false shepherd will be held accountable for his own sins. But his own sins will include the lies of others that he repeated and the sins of others that he condoned. All the lies and sins of the “great men” he admires and taught his flock to esteem will be placed upon his head as well. Even if a fake priest or pastor condones lies or sins perpetrated many centuries or even millenniums before he was born, he will share in the guilt of those lies and sins. For his spirit partakes in those lies and sins as soon as his spirit approves of them. And earthly time means nothing to the God who created it. To God, if one condones old or new lies and sins, then one partakes in them. So, even if some false churches are ancient, even if their lies and sins have been repeated for many centuries, it does not make them legitimate or true in God’s eyes. Nor are any of the false shepherds in those ancient churches innocent, just because they repeat ancient lies and sins.

The elect need to know this, and must never try to “make themselves great again,” like their lying and murdering forefathers seemed to be. There is nothing “greater” about the past, except its greater ignorance and sins. Now let the elect move on to the purer and more loving truths God is illustrating in the present, the truths He Himself created and put into effect from the very beginning of time. For only these truths will prepare them for the revival of His true New Covenant church in the end times.

Because this prophecy is about false churches in the end times, just before Jesus returns, we must interpret this prophecy in a way that pertains to the churches at that time. Thus, when God declares that He will “strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,” it means that God will strike down the false priests and pastors in the end times, and the people in their false churches will be left without their false teachings, foolish guidance or destructive leadership. So the non-elect among those scattered sheep will join the beast and other secular leaders of Satan’s world order. But the elect among those scattered sheep will find the real Jesus and follow Him as their only Shepherd. Not all the elect will come to Jesus immediately, and some will not enter His New Covenant church until the day He returns. Yet His true church will be revived during the era of the sixth seal, and grow during the era of the seventh seal, being purified into ready bride at His second advent. Yet this prophecy tells us that the elect in His true church will suffer much then, and two thirds of the earth’s population will perish during the end times. As the Revelation also prophecies, God’s wrath will not be held back, and He will utterly crush all the millenniums of lies and sins from Satan’s world order.

God declared: “In the whole earth [Hebrew=erets, which should be interpreted as the whole ‘earth’ here, not merely the whole ‘land’] … two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive. And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people’; and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God’” (Zech. 13:8-9, based on ESV). If the only surviving third of the earth will be refined through “fire,” until that third calls upon God and until God can call them His faithful people, then that third will include only the awakened elect who will serve the Messiah Jesus after He returns. And this refining through “fire” will not be pleasant. Also, this means that none will be “raptured” safely into heaven before they will suffer in God’s “tribulation” of “the whole earth,” as dispensationalists like to say. All the surviving elect, who shall see the return of Jesus, will suffer as they remain on the earth, while the two thirds of the world’s population will be “cut off and perish.”

Yet literally all these surviving elect will find the real Jesus, either at the beginning of the end times (during the sixth seal’s revival) or at least by the day of His return. For all this surviving third of the earth’s population will receive the two promises of God’s New Covenant salvation: all will learn to worship the real Creator God in their spirits, and God will recognize them as His beloved, faithful children. Although Jesus may remove the earthly lives of some elect during the end times, His main

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purpose will be to separate His elect from the non-elect, then illustrate His ways on the earth for a thousand years. Therefore, most elect will be separated, sanctified and serve Him when He returns.

Since this prophecy did not mention secular powers, it is prophesying only about false shepherds and their false churches in the end times, both the Jewish Old Covenant branches and the more numerous Gentile New Covenant branches. Now we know the most corrupt of the Gentile false churches, the Great Prostitute, will exist until the beast annihilates her, shortly before he goes to his own doom at Armageddon. So this prophecy about the destruction of false shepherds and their false churches cannot be entirely fulfilled until that Great Prostitute is destroyed, in the last months of the beast’s seven-year reign. And, when Jesus strikes down all the false churches, He said, “I will turn My hand against the little ones.” Here He was not referring to children. What He meant was that He will not spare even the least esteemed members in those false churches, those not involved in the leadership, guidance or teaching of the false churches, those who are not shepherds of false churches or do not directly and consistently assist the false shepherds. Therefore, all the awakened elect must ensure that they leave most of the false churches and synagogues before the era of the seventh seal begins, since that seems to be when Jesus will begin to destroy the harlot daughters of the humanistic Great Prostitute. Then He will call the trapped elect out of the Great Prostitute just before He destroys her.

Two thirds of the population of the earth will die too, by God’s plagues in the end times. Jesus shall kill all the non-elect in the world by the time He sets His feet on the earth. Consequently, all of the surviving elect will have experienced many extreme tribulations by the time Jesus returns. As God declared, “I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested.” By the time the elect are ready for Jesus to return, they will know that death is just a part of their eternal lives, and not something to be feared by them. Rather, they will know that death in the flesh means going to their final lessons at the gates of heaven, where they will be perfected and completed, then enter their warm and welcoming homes forever, finding their preordained and joyful destinies at last. God will purify His remnant of elect spirits during the end times, in a process lasting from plagues of sixth seal’s era until the moment Jesus stands on the Mount of Olives. And the remnant of elect Jews will enter a New Covenant relationship with their God too, when Jesus comes to them in Zion. All the surviving Jews will serve more directly with Jesus, as the hosts of all the Gentiles who come to Him, as His faithful, purified priesthood should serve the High Priest of His one true church. Then His power will cause His will to be done on earth just as it is in heaven.

 

Seven Bowls of Wrath

The seven bowls of God’s wrath are rapid and violent plagues of God, the last of acts of His wrath against the beast’s kingdom. And, for the elect, the seven bowls of God’s wrath will be a countdown to Christ’s return. As soon as the last bowl has been poured out, Jesus will come to destroy the beast and all the wicked on earth, then restore the earth with His holiness in it, so all can live loving and just lives for a millennium. These seven bowls of God’s wrath actually build up to the climax of the whole history of the world, to the prophesied day when peace and justice shall be established on the earth for the first time, since the day Adam sinned, the day He begins to recover all this world lost.

Revelation 14:6 to 16:1 (ESV): “Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an

eternal Gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and

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the hour of His judgment has come, and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea

and the springs of water.’

“Another angel, a second, followed, saying, ‘Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who

made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her [harlotry].’ And another angel, a third,

followed them, saying with a loud voice, ‘If anyone worships the beast and its image and

receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine of God's wrath,

poured full strength into the cup of His anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in

the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their

torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the

beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.’

“Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God

and their faith in Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying, ‘Write this: Blessed are the

dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ‘Blessed indeed,’ says the Spirit, ‘that they may rest

from their labors, for their deeds follow them!’

“Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a Son of Man ,

with a golden crown on His head, and a sharp sickle in His hand. And another angel came out

of the Temple, [This should be translated, ‘another angel came from the Temple.’ For it occurs in heaven

and no temple building exists in heaven. Jesus is heaven’s only ‘temple.’ Thus, one cannot come ‘out of’ Jesus,

only ‘from’ the presence of Jesus.] calling with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, ‘Put in

Your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.’

So He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.

“Then another angel came out of the Temple in heaven, [Again, this should be translated as ‘from

the temple,’ because there is no temple building in heaven, since Jesus is the temple.] and he too had a

sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the

fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, [This would be a

vineyard sickle, likely with about a 20 centimeter (8 inch) blade.] ‘Put in your sickle and gather the

clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.’ So the angel swung his sickle

across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great

winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood

flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse's bridle, for 1,600 stadia.

“Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues,

which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished. And I saw what appeared to be

a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image

and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,

‘Great and amazing are Your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are Your

ways , O King of the nations! Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You

alone are holy. All nations will come and worship You, for Your righteous acts have been

revealed.’

“After this I looked, and the Sanctuary of the Tent of witness in heaven was opened, “and out

of the Sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen,

with golden sashes around their chests. And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven

angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever, and the

Sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one

 

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could enter the Sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished. Then I

heard a loud voice from the Temple telling the seven angels, ‘Go and pour out on the earth

the seven bowls of the wrath of God.’”

Remember that Jesus told us that a time would come when “lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold, but the one who endures to the end will be saved” (Mat. 24:12-13, ESV). That time would be this current era, the era of the fifth seal, since now Satan’s invention of Roman humanism has reached it pinnacle, both inside and outside the church. God’s name is slandered everywhere on the earth, more than it ever was at any other time in history, causing the most full and widespread rejection of God’s laws and ways ever experienced within humankind. Yet, at the same time, the world has never seen knowledge grow so rapidly and extensively in history, including the exposure of humanistic lies. The advancement of physical technology is fine, but seeing exactly how all human beings are equal, and all how all the spiritual evils of humanism have oppressed human souls for thousands of years, is one of the greatest revelations that God could give to his elect. Now study after study has exposed the ways of humanism, both inside and outside the church. We have seen how their human gods are actually the most deluded, wretched and foolish of all men, how their elite in their hierarchies are mere lying exploiters, and how their financial systems of all kinds are used to accomplish that exploitation, at a cost of incalculable and unfathomable suffering and death.

God meant this fifth seal’s era to be the time when churches would become more corrupt than ever before, and even persecute truly elect believers in a partnership with lawless secular governments. This was to be the era when the greatest increase in persecutions of those truly bearing God’s name, both Jews and Christians, had to take place. During these last few centuries, God would save only “the one who endures to the end,” that is, only the one whose spirit heeded the words of Jesus and continued to love in a just and pure way until one’s flesh died. And, because some elect from the fifth seal’s era will “endure to the end” and “will be saved,” it means that all that occurs until the day of Christ’s return, within the eras of the sixth and seventh seals, will happen in a very short time.

For God’s judgment of the world can begin now, since all has been exposed. And it required very many generations to expose good and evil to humankind. But it will take only one generation for God to judge the motives and intentions of human spirits who have been drawn to either good or evil. And all humans certainly are now making choices and dividing into two camps. So now is the time when the Gospel of salvation will be proclaimed to all the elect on earth, before the background knowledge which has exposed all that is good and all that is evil. Now “the hour of His judgment has come,” when elect spirits can finally worship Jesus in the whole of His truth, and the wicked can die.

Jesus will return even before the deaths of a few elect living in the fifth seal’s era, only about 40 years after the plagues of the sixth seal’s era begin. All God’s plagues upon Satan’s unjust world order shall be completed within one generation. Also, Jesus said that, immediately after this era of the fifth seal, “this Gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come’ (Mat. 24:14, ESV). Now, in this prophecy of the Revelation, a flying angel ends God’s judgment of that devil’s kingdom “with an eternal Gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth” (14:6, ESV). Just before Jesus returns, literally all the elect remaining on the earth will have heard about the New Covenant salvation of our God Jesus, about the forgiveness of repentant sins to restore a teaching and training relationship with our Creator God.

Just before God completes the judgment of Satan’s world order, by pouring out the seven bowls of His wrath upon the beast’s Roman kingdom, John described the mood of all life in heaven (14:1-5). Jesus stood upon the true and most eternally real Mount Zion. With Him stood the 144,000 martyred

 

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Jewish virgin males. For, among the Jews, both the holiest and the most evil of human conditions exist. After all, the humanistic corruption of God’s priesthood on earth began with the Jews, which is far more evil than any of Satan’s secular humanist corruptions. But these 144,000 were the most pure-minded and blameless human spirits that would walk on earth during the revival of that church, in the sixth seal’s era. Then these 144,000 played harps and sang “a new song” in heaven, one that only they could learn, as the representatives of mortal human purity on earth. They sang it before Jesus on His throne, and before the “the four living creatures” who see all and guard His throne, as well as before the 24 elders, who are the 12 sons of Jacob and the 12 apostles sent out by Jesus. So the atmosphere in heaven, before the final cleansing of Satan and his kingdom from the earth, was peaceful and somber, involving a great assembly of the chief servants of the King, before Jesus who created the elect as His younger siblings in the family of the heavenly Father. Now all those times of producing earthly illustrations that taught His elect what is not in God, would end. Now only the earthly illustrations of God’s true attributes would be produced on earth, after Jesus had returned.

This shall be when seven angels shall be sent, one at a time, beginning only a few months before Jesus will end the beast’s seven-year reign, before Jesus will return to destroy all the wicked in the world and rule the earth Himself. But first one of these three angels will come to preach the “eternal Gospel” to the Gentile elect who have not yet repented, to the elect in “every nation and tribe and language and people.” This means there will still be some Gentile elect who have not repented and joined the revived true church, not until a few weeks or months before Jesus returns. So no one will be able to judge whether or not anyone is elect or non-elect by that time, and no one should ever make that kind of judgment at any time, since Jesus alone can do so. Yet this will be the time when the “fullness of the Gentiles has come in,” that is, into the New Covenant priesthood of Israel, just before all of its natural Jewish members will be saved on the day Jesus returns (Rom. 11:25-26).

And this true Gospel, proclaimed by an angel sent and empowered by our God Jesus, will be entirely effective, turning the last of the ordained unrepentant Gentile elect to Jesus. It will be nothing like the countless different kinds of fake gospels invented and proclaimed by false preachers and false churches in our day. Nor will the proclamation of that true Gospel be entrusted to the administration of the human heads of churches, since human heads utterly failed to proclaim it for two millenniums now. Rather, the angel from heaven, an obedient and faithful servant of Jesus, will preach it directly to the minds of elect spirits, will pour its concepts into their spirits. This angel shall also have the power and ability to soundly crush the lies of deceivers, or will crush the deceivers themselves. Also, look at how this angel shall fly “in the middle of the sky” (ἐν μεσουρανήματι). The sky overlooks the land. So the ruler of the air (atmosphere or first heaven, which we call the sky) is the ruler of the world order, who is currently allowed to be Satan, the owner of all the sinners who have not been purchased by Jesus. The sky basically serves as a figurative “throne room” of the earth. But God is the ruler of the highest third heaven, so God rules over Satan and the earth, as the Owner of that sky.

Thus, since this angel will fly “in the middle of the sky,” by God’s command, he signals that the fallen angel named Satan will soon lose his kingdom. God sends an angel into the figurative “throne room” of Satan to proclaim the true Gospel to all elect souls on earth, to all in Satan’s kingdom, to all the lands God shall soon confiscate from Satan. This preaching angel will fly within the territory of “the ruler of the air,” where Satan sits on his throne to govern his world order. This implies that God is about to remove Satan’s power over the subject kingdom of the world order, is about to dethrone Satan and cast him into prison, which is exactly what Jesus will do on the day He returns.

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Gospel, they will know that God alone can save them, that they themselves are not their own saviors in charge of their own destinies through a fictitious “free will.” Rather, God decides whether or not His concepts shall enter the minds of their spirits, then filter down into their minds of flesh. Then they will begin to truly revere and respect Him, and all His words given to His people for their good, so they might learn love in a just and pure way, straight from their spirits, and truly worship Jesus.

Second, as the elect learn to respect and trust the Father and Jesus, they will see their own great foolishness, ignorance and ineptitude, that is, in contrast to the wisdom, knowledge and omnipotence of God. They will begin to understand that all true wisdom, knowledge and ability, all good human skills and attributes, including the ability to love, must be granted to them by God. All good things are God’s free gifts to His children, granted through His unearned and unmerited grace. Thus, the elect will begin to give God literally all the “glory,” leaving no glory for themselves or for their previously worshiped human gods. When the elect realize that “the hour of His judgment has come,” when they see that Jesus shall soon destroy the kingdom of Satan’s world order, they will no longer pursue carnal rewards through selfish ambitions, which Satan’s world order has taught them to covet.

Then the elect will truly fellowship in local churches, knowing and caring for one another with grateful and wise hearts, truly worshiping the real God by loving and serving His creations, jus as He does. They will no longer worship humans, as they did in the false churches for almost two thousand years. Then Jesus will come, when this full number of Gentile elect enters the true church of Israel. And, on the day Jesus arrives, all the surviving natural branches of Israel, the physical descendants of Jacob with elect spirits, shall repent into that real Gospel about Jesus and enter His true church as well. That angel’s proclamation of the real Gospel directly to the spirits of all remaining unrepentant elect, in an irresistible way, so all will repent into salvation, will indeed be a deeply welcome event.

After the first angel proclaimed the Gospel, “also another, a second angel, accompanied [the first angel] saying: ‘It fell. Babylon the great, who effectively caused all the nations to drink from the wine of [God’s] wrath due to her [spiritual] harlotry, fell’” (Rev. 14:8, ALT). This “Babylon the great” is the mother of all false humanistic churches, who is later described in greater detail (see chapter 17). This false church always committed spiritual harlotry, by claiming to worship the real God while she actually worshiped other gods, including many human gods and the demon Mammon, since those false gods paid her for her favors. And, by falsely claiming to worship the real Creator God, she also falsely claimed to be His “bride,” His true church. Yet she ignored the real God and His words. She made herself into her own god, who invented her own teachings and laws, regarding all matters of life and faith, to become the head, lord and god of her people. She behaved as though our resurrected Jesus was not able to teach and train each individual’s spirit, as though each man’s only Head, Lord and God was not Jesus. So the real religion of this false church has always been the religion of humanism, Satan’s invention, birthed in Babylon, which is why she is called “Babylon.”

This false church is called “great” for a couple of reasons: (1) she is a more faithful Roman humanist than most of her harlot daughters, even more faithful than most atheistic secular humanists; and (2) she has been the primary evangelist of all forms of theistic and secular humanism throughout history and throughout the entire world, the entity “who effectively caused all the nations to drink from the wine of God’s wrath due to her spiritual harlotry.” Now look at how her demise is announced just prior to the pouring out of the seven bowls of God’s wrath upon the kingdom of the beast. Here John emphatically declared that she “fell,” since he repeated the word “fell” (ἔπεσεν, aorist, past tense) twice. So this prophecy assured us that she had fallen by this time, just as the seven bowls of God’s wrath were about to be poured out upon the beast’s Roman kingdom. So we can assume that this false church, associated with Babylon and the city of Rome, will be burned and destroyed by the

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beast and his puppets (see Rev. 17:16-18) shortly before God pours out the seven bowls of His wrath. And, because the seven bowls of wrath are poured out at the very end of the beast’s seven-year reign, the very corrupting Great Prostitute will perish in the seventh year of the beast’s reign.

Many will die from the plagues of the seven trumpets, and from the plagues of the seven bowls of wrath in the days of the seventh trumpet. Then all the loveless non-elect survivors will perish on the day Jesus returns. For “the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the bowl of His anger,” will have been drained to the last drop with seven bowls of God’s wrath, with the seven plagues that His seven appointed angels will inflict upon the seven European nations of the beast. After these plagues destroy two thirds of the population of the earth and most of the beast’s kingdom, Jesus will simply remove the life-giving spirits from the rest of earth’s non-elect on the day of His return. Then all will go to their judgment. And, if anything good is found in any of those who perished in any of His plagues, that is, if any prove to be even His most stubborn and unrepentant elect, Jesus will teach them for their repentance on that last day. But all the vile non-elect spirits, who will be entirely filled with the darkness of the lies, delusions and perversions that they carefully crafted for themselves and cherished during their parasitic lives on this earth, will be cast into hell, tormented by their own darkness for eternity. Also, after God’s wrath completes its works on earth, all the lessons learned from both the evil and good in all history will be employed for the education of His elect, both on earth for a millennium and at the gates of heaven for the judgment day. Jesus will use both human failures and human faith to illustrate His wise truths or principles created in the very beginning.

A third angel accompanied the first two and told us that anyone who “worships the be beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand” will also “drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of of His anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name” (Rev. 14:9-11, ESV). Of course, in the spiritual realm of both heaven and hell, no physical fire, sulfur, smoke, day or night exists. But these physical things on earth are symbols of what exists in that eternal, more concrete spiritual reality. Such things do exist in their spiritual forms in hell, and bear far more power and effectiveness, which none of those non-elect spirits shall ever be able to escape or nullify. The fires of their own ungratified desires, based on the lies they invented for themselves, wreaking with the stench of their own artificial ingredients, will burn and smoke like sulfur in the void of hell. And the eternal Sabbath rest in the light of God’s truth, producing love in and from all His elect, will never be known by any of those self-deceiving non-elect, nor by their loveless father, who also was a liar and murderer from the beginning. Also, make no mistake, in the non-linear time of the spiritual realm, in both heaven and hell, all the elect spirits born with God-like attributes and all the non-elect spirits born with Satan-like attributes will exist forever, both as their immature and mature selves, both at the same time.

When God describes hell as a place where the non-elect and the demons “will be tormented with fire and sulphur in the presence of holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb,” it indicates that hell will be visible from heaven, able to be seen from heaven by both angels and Jesus. Yet, in heaven, Jesus will be the body God made of spiritual substances, just as other human bodies will be made of spiritual substances in the lands of heaven. And the elect will be greater than the angels, once they are completed and perfected on the judgment day. So, if angels will be able to peer into hell, that means that the elect will likely be able to do so as well. It also means that hell must exist somewhere within the greater realm of the bright lands of heaven, likely near the throne of Jesus, so Jesus can govern the realm of hell through His throne-room edicts. Yet hell must be very tiny and unobtrusive

 

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place in heaven, merely a dark speck existing near Jesus’ throne, since nothing in the description of His throne room, or in the description of the whole of heaven, ever mentions hell, only the light of Jesus. And this makes sense, because a very small amount of space-time in the spiritual realm can fit an almost infinite number of souls, especially an empty void of space-time, which is what hell is.

The spiritual fire in hell is that which burns in every evil heart, even here on earth. It consists of the insatiable false hopes and wicked desires of the non-elect, which are utterly frustrated forever. Their indignant rage through their spurned arrogance will eternally burn, with a stench far worse than burning sulphur. And, after they are cast into hell, our Lord Jesus, together with His elect angels, shall watch them fall into that empty, dark, bottomless pit. Yet our loving Lord and His loving angels will have neither pity nor mercy for any of them, except to grant them the ability to cling to their beloved lies and delusions forever. But, since their ruthless hearts never had any pity or mercy for their victims, God will not show mercy or pity for them. And hell will not hold a single created thing from God, not even a speck of heavenly dirt, since even that would be abused or exploited for their perverted pleasures. So the torment of their ungratified desires will always increase and never cease, as their insanity swells within, as their rage burns in their hearts and releases the dark smoke of lies.

Of course, since all the elect sin, all the elect will feel some burning on the last day too. They will know the fire of Christ’s rebukes on the judgment day. But the elect will feel it only for a moment, temporarily, only until their spirits soon repent into His truth. And that will not take long, all their hindering bodies of flesh will be replaced with cooperating spiritual bodies by the time they reach the gates of heaven. Then they shall all enter their eternal Sabbath rest, forever free from having to do works for themselves, to keep their amoral and unruly bodies of flesh alive. That rest will enter into God’s love, immediately after the fiery words of Jesus and His wise teaching shall purify them.

The only reason that wicked non-elect souls will be sent to hell, where there shall be absolutely no rest for them, is because they will never repent into the truth, never throughout all eternity. For they all were made in the image of Satan. So every attribute of their spirits can only embrace the darkness of their own preferred lies, in a deluded hatred of God and His realities. And all of them will forever want to be their own gods, doing the works of inventing their own perceived realities, refusing to acknowledge that the Creator God made and maintains all realities, and designed all to function in ways which most benefit life. The non-elect will never rest from their own works of inventing lies about how they themselves made and now maintain all that exists, or how they designed all things to function in ways which most benefit themselves. This is why the worst of them are humanists, who believe in man’s god-like “free will,” who want to believe that all life on earth, including man, chose to evolve into what they have become, that all created themselves through their own wills, as their own gods. Thus, it is not possible to offer those deluded souls the kind of Sabbath rest which exists in heaven. For none will ever want to rest from their own works for themselves, but will always want to be their own gods ruling over their own fates for their own selfish purposes. Their innate selfish ambitions never let them enter God’s Sabbath rest from works for oneself, like will have in heaven.

The non-elect must be cast out of heaven and forsaken in hell, left to fall forever deeper into the lies and delusions they love so much more than the light of reality and truth. And let me repeat that all the “patriots” in the beast’s lands will loyally esteem, heed, trust and serve the beast as their savior, although he will be the lying and murdering embodiment of Satan. And their loyal, serving esteem for the beast will be their worship of the beast, and their worship of Satan in the beast. Thus, they will go to hell for their sins of worshiping false gods through their patriotism. They will also provide visible proof that they worship the beast, by willingly receiving a physical mark on their foreheads or hands, where this mark will be either the name of the beast or a symbolic number representing the

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beast (666). This mark will be necessary for them to buy and sell any goods or services in the beast’s seven nation. And all the patriotic businesses in the beast’s lands will forbid anyone to conduct any kind of financial transactions unless they wear this physical mark, unless they too worship the beast (Rev. 13:16-18). So this mark will not only be a form of worship and patriotism, but ensure the beast’s financial control over all his people, forcing those who do not zealously support him to become the beast’s worshiping supporters who, therefore, esteem and serve the beast and Satan.

Consequently, all legal financial transactions in the beast’s kingdom will be a terrible sin worthy of eternal hell, since buying and selling will require one to wear the beast’s name or number, as a sign that the purchaser and seller worship the beast. For all legal transactions will involve the worship of Satan along with the beast, since Satan will dwell in the human body of the beast. This will include purchases of goods or services required to survive. Only illegal black-market purchases will be acceptable to God, by those who do not wear a mark of the beast. And the elect in the beast’s lands, those not yet found and executed by the beast, will likely make black-market purchases from the elect still trapped in the Roman Catholic church. For the beast probably will not require members of that church to wear the mark of his number or name, and some of its elect members will hide and support the elect from the other churches, that is, until God calls all the elect out of that false church in the last weeks or months of the beast’s reign, just before the beast destroys that Great Prostitute.

Consequently, God does not judge us by whether or not we obey the man-made laws of a land, but by whether or not our spirits guard and seek to fulfill His higher laws and ways. For some laws and ways invented by humans are evil, such as laws requiring the worship of false gods like the beast, or laws that require us to esteem and serve other false gods, like Satan, Mammon or human gods. And, since slavery and despotism require humans to worship human “lords,” and those “lords” commit fraud by pretending to “own” humans whom God actually owns, we also disregard laws of slavery and laws requiring a blind loyal worship of dictators. Then we may even “steal” slaves whom men stole from from God, to serve God according to His higher laws of true justice and love. Yes, we first ensure that God calls us to do those kinds of works, and we do obey the laws of a land which have reasonably good purposes. Yet we are never bound to any laws of any land, if those laws are not just and loving, according to how God defines justice and love in His Word and in His creations. Nor do laws of truly “Christian” lands oppose God, who forbids humans to own other humans, and whose New Covenant only allows Himself to teach and train human spirits to fulfill His Law, thus forbids us to force the untaught to obey any laws not revealed to them in His spiritual and natural creations.

Naturally, in the beast’s kingdom, God will forgive any elect who purchases necessities of life from a black market source, even from someone wearing the mark of the beast, as long as those elect do not wear the mark of the beast themselves. For the black market will be the only place where they can obtain what they need to survive, until they can flee out of the beast’s lands. But if one intentionally chooses to wear the mark of beast, simply so that one can buy and sell as a worshiper of Satan and his beast, then one cannot have an elect spirit. For it is just about impossible for any of the elect to sees the worship of Satan as an insignificant sin. Nor can the elect take that mark to willingly partake in the beast’s murdering of other innocent elect souls, or in his blasphemies against God. An elect soul would lose all one’s money and possessions, or willingly die, rather than esteem and serve the beast by taking his mark on one’s forehead or hand, and therefore partake in all of that beast’s sins.

All who shall wear the mark of the beast shall do so willingly, because it will involve the genuine worship of that beast, including the loyal service and support of the beast in all his evil works. And all true worship is through the will of a spirit, through motives and intensions of a spirit. The kind of worship the beast shall require must be done willingly from the core of one’s being. So wearing that

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mark to inwardly worship the blaspheming, murdering beast will be a deliberate sin of one’s spirit directly against God. All who wear that mark will sin straight from their spirits, solely because their spirits love the beast’s darkness and hate God’s light. The beast will not allow any other kind of worship, and he will be able to distinguish between true and false worship. Since their spirits will intentionally commit this sin through evil motives, such as greed and a lust for power, those spirits will never be able to truly repent from their own innate desires. Thus, God will be perfectly just when He will not forgive those unrepentant intentional sins. And God will be fully justified when He eternally separates those permanently deliberate evil ones from all His good creations, forever from His beloved human children and angels in heaven, by casting all those beast and Satan worshippers into hell. Also, since the beast will never allow anyone to wear his mark unless they worship him through an almost gleeful and heart-felt willingness of their spirits to partake in his own Satanic blasphemies and murders, only the non-elect will be allowed to wear that mark. Thus, only the non-elect will go to hell for wearing the mark of beast. Not one of the elect will ever be allowed wear it.

This requires a careful, detailed explanation because many do not comprehend all that this prophecy implies, due to false doctrines taught by humanistic churches. Since humanism worships human sinners, it is the most deluded of all religions and makes its members utterly incapable of a rational understanding of God’s Word. So they often interpret Scriptures incorrectly. And literally all of us are also sinners, with a darkness in us, which often reveals itself through our biased and erroneous views and thoughts. So none of us can even trust ourselves to interpret God’s Word rightly. Rather, we must all wait upon the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus to interpret His own Word for us, to pour His own thoughts into the minds of our spirits, until we actually develop a more complete and right understanding. And that work of His Holy Spirit takes time. For our infantile and ignorant human spirits first need to learn the most basic concepts, one at a time, then allow enough time for those concepts to filter down into our faulty and forgetful minds of flesh, until we can actually apply them in our lives. After this, we need to build upon those basic principles, with a more full and complete understanding, until we can begin to act wisely through real love, as God does. So, to rightly interpret God’s Word, it requires the rejection of humanism and all other deceiving distractions from the realities God created, as well as much time in allowing one’s spirit to be taught by God’s Spirit.

Now the ESV translates the phrase, ὧδε ἡ ὑπομονὴ τῶν ἁγίων ἐστίν, as, “here is a call for the endurance of the saints.” This is OK, since the noun ὑπομονή literally means “stay or remain under” something, and described those who did not give up, such as soldiers who held their position while under attack. But this is not a “call” for “saints” to endure an attack. Rather, it refers to an attribute which God creates in all of His awakened and sanctified elect, in all the “saints.” The noun ὑπομονή is modified by a plural genitive, τῶν ἁγίων (translated here, “of the saints”). Now, in our day, the word “saint” implies a rare, special kind of Christian canonized by humanistic sinners. Yet when we interpret it in the way it was used by the apostles in the first century, the plural of ἅγιος here refers to literally all the members of their true church. Everywhere in the New Testament, the noun ἅγιος actually indicates a sanctified person, place or thing—anyone or anything God Himself sets apart for His purposes. It never referred to anyone who made oneself “holy,” nor to anything that any human being, even one dressed in fancy pagan-like robes, deemed to be “holy” through magic words or a magic ceremony. For no entity in all creation is able to make anyone or anything holy except God Himself, according to His own will, through His own authority and by His own power to purify.

Thus, τῶν ἁγίων refers to all whom God Himself will set apart and sanctify, those whose spirits God Himself will personally teach and train for eternal life with Him in heaven. And God has promised to do this for literally all the elect who ever lived or who ever will live. In other words, the phrase in

 

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the quote above is basically saying that literally all the elect in the end times will remain under attack by the beast, but will endure their suffering, solely because God will cause them to endure the attack. So ὧδε ἡ ὑπομονὴ τῶν ἁγίων ἐστίν (14:12) simply means, “here is the [God-given] endurance of the sanctified elect,” because God’s power will not allow any of them to receive the mark of the beast.

Then the ESV translates the next phrase (οἱ τηροῦντες τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τὴν πίστιν Ἰησοῦ) in an unacceptable way. In both the Old and New Testaments, God assures us that literally no one can ever “keep” or “obey” His commands, never through the human will or by human strength. All of the Scriptures clearly and emphatically deny such a possibility, but declares that all, without any exceptions, are ignorant and foolish sinners who never truly seek God. Scriptures repeatedly tell us that the one and only way any human being can “obey” or “keep” God’s commands is if: (1) God’s Spirit personally teaches His ways to one’s human spirit enough to partially “keep” or “obey” some of them, but never all of them, or (2) God uses His power to cause His commands to be obeyed, spontaneously in and through one’s actions, whether or not one’s spirit and flesh are willing to do so. That is, no one is able to know and apply God’s laws rightly except through God’s will and power.

Humanists never seem to comprehend how utterly helpless, hopeless and fleshy mankind truly is. But true believers know, with all certainty, that it is always be necessary for God to cause all the good that they will ever do during their lives on earth. And there is a good reason for this utter reliance on God, so the elect can develop and deepen their relationship with their Father. This is why, neither here nor anywhere in the entire New Testament, the apostles did not ever even imply that it was possible to “obey” God through a human will and human power. They never referred to “those who keep the commandments of God and their faith originating Jesus.” And, since the prophets and apostles repeatedly reminded us that God created and maintains literally all spiritual and physical existence, we can also conclude that very many genitive forms of God’s names would be genitives of origin, contrary to what humanists want us to think. Therefore, a far more accurate and honest translation of the above phrase would be something like: “those who are continuously guarding the authoritative words/teachings originating from God and [continuously guarding] the faith originating from Jesus.” In both the local and global context, we must logically conclude that the modifying nouns (here translated: ‘of God’ and ‘in Jesus’) are actually genitives of source and origin. Then the core and intended meaning of the verb τηρέω is “guard,” to keep safe and uncorrupted in the heart.

Humanists want to believe they obey God’s laws and produce their own faith through their own wills. None want to believe that God is the source of all our righteousness and all our faith. So they interpret all genitives referring to God as anything except genitives of source, and conclude that very few genitives of source exist anywhere in the Greek New Testament. But God’s will and works cause us to fulfill His Law and build faith in our spirits. Also, God creates and shapes our wills. The core attributes of our wills of flesh and wills of our spirits already exist at birth. Then the final forms of our wills are almost completed by about four years of age, with no chance of being radically altered after that. No human wills are ever able to oppose themselves, in order to recreate and reshape themselves, not without strong external influences. Rather, each will is what God created it to be and desires what it was born to desire. No wills will to be different wills. Then we should realize that the Greek New Testament was somewhat unique, since it used ecclesiastical constructions and terms, with a global emphasis on the fact that God created and maintains all existence. Furthermore, both Hellenistic and classical Greek employed genitives of source. So genitives of source, especially genitive substantives referring to God, actually seem to be common in the Greek New Testament.

Next, look at the participle. Different Greek words indicated different kinds of guarding, but τηρέω refers to a general kind of guarding, including the kind that protects and keeps safe. Also, the aspect

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of the present active participle form of τηρέω suggests a continuous, repeated or ongoing guarding. In its ecclesiastical use, this guarding takes place inside the heart. It is performed by elect spirits that are being renewed and transformed by God. Then the object being guarded is a plural accusative form of ἐντολή, which refers to any spoken, written or implied words, teachings or concepts, often those which serve a ruler’s purpose and relate to his particular goals or objectives. Therefore, τὰς ἐντολὰς τοῦ θεοῦ can refer to God’s 613 commandments in the Old Testament, which come from God and serve His purpose of working justice through love. But, in New Covenant times, an ἐντολή would refer to the “fulfilled Law” of God, to the kind of just love that Jesus teaches to our spirits for the purpose of making us able to love in the same way He loves, which is greater than His 613 laws.

So this clause (in Rev. 14:12) is not about keeping or obeying the written commandments or laws of God and maintaining one’s faith through human wills. In reality, it is about our spirits guarding what Jesus teaches, about preserving and protecting the effects of His salvation from any corrupting and negating attacks. And one guards the truth by allowing one’s spirit to hear Jesus, by maintaining a healthy skepticism regarding the claims of others, by prayerfully studying realities in His creations and in His Word, then pondering and fact-checking both information and our emotions of the flesh.

What this verse (14:12) actually means is that, in the end times, Jesus will motivate our spirits, cause our spirits to continuously guard and protect the authoritative and trustworthy concepts that originate from God, to prevent those truths from being nullified, corrupted or abused, so we can learn to love, so we can serve His good purposes. By doing this, we will also continuously guard our spirits’ faith and trust in God’s love, power and words, which is the saving faith that originates from Jesus. All the awakened elect being saved by Jesus will bear the attributes of continuously guarding the teachings of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, along with the faith He places in their hearts. And this implies that all will be learning much from God, through prayerful Bible studies, so they can answer the lying attacks of Satan’s servants, to protect and preserve the truths God places in their hearts, as well as their faith.

Minds of flesh always resist God, and are easily swayed by false logic or lies. But all elect spirits eventually learn to love Jesus and inwardly guard the truth and faith which comes from Him. As John also taught: “For this is the love of God, that we should continuously guard His authoritative principles, and His authoritative principles are not burdensome” (I John 5:3, ALT, from: αὕτη γάρ ἐστιν ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ θεοῦ ἵνα τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ τηρῶμεν, καὶ αἱ ἐντολαὶ αὐτοῦ βαρεῖαι οὐκ εἰσίν). If an elect spirit does not guard Jesus’ teachings, if that spirit does not cherish and protect His words, then that spirit has been “taken captive” by one’s mind of the flesh. Then that elect spirit has been expelled from the chamber of one’s soul. So one’s spirit cannot develop a trusting relationship with Jesus and will remain very immature. If an elect spirit does not inwardly guard the integrity of the truth that Jesus teaches, then one cannot build a just and loving life which fulfills the laws and ways of the heavenly Father, and cannot spontaneously say or do what Jesus prompts one’s heart to say or do. But Jesus will free and awaken many elect spirits in the end times, then cause all to zealously guard His truths taught by His Holy Spirit, as well as the saving faith He will grow in their hearts.

Now, after this, John heard a voice from heaven, presumably God’s voice, proclaiming: “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on” (14:13a, ESV). Then “the spirit” of John responded and declared: “Yes, because they will be resting from their painful toils, for their works follow along with them” (14:13b, ALT, from: ναί ... ἵνα ἀναπαήσονται ἐκ τῶν κόπων αὐτῶν, τὰ γὰρ ἔργα αὐτῶν ἀκολουθεῖ μετʼ αὐτῶν). So John, who had faced death all his life and was nearing death in his old age, agreed that all those dying “in the Lord” (with eternal spirits awakened, taught and trained by Jesus) receive a great blessing from their loving heavenly Father in death. When Jesus allows our spirits to cast aside these perceptions of life in the flesh, when our spirits have completed the vexing

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and painful labors of earthly training, then all that our spirits learned about God-like love, including our spirits’ good motives and right intentions, will go with us to the gates of heaven. And, in that place, we will find no lying Hitlers or Trumps eagerly torturing God’s beloved children, no selfishly ambitious parasitic psychopaths stealing the daily bread from the innocent, no bitter wars to fight against dark delusions of greed and hate. At last, our spirits will receive cooperating bodies that can rest in the peaceful light of the eternal spiritual realm, knowing all evil in all the past and future earthly time is to be justly judged, with all reparations fully completed, through the power and wisdom of our God Jesus. Nothing in that static line of earthly time will be left undone, except to use its events as lessons in the teaching time of that judgment day, to complete and perfect our spirits.

Those “who die in the Lord from now on” might refer to the awakened elect who would die in the last days, after John received the prophecy of the Revelation. But, in context, it refers to those who will be murdered by the Roman beast during the last three and a half years of his reign. It did not specify a time here, but the context implies the martyrdom of members of the revived true church in the days before Jesus returns. This martyrdom will begin before “Babylon” (i.e., the Great Prostitute) has “fallen,” and also before the seven bowls of God’s wrath are poured out on the beast’s kingdom.