Jesus destroys them, none will survive. For their brother, the ultimate “beast,” will be granted power to totally annihilate them. And, within weeks of this, Jesus will cast that “beast” alive into hell, as He slaughters the flesh of all the beast’s non-elect worshippers who still remain on earth. Then Jesus will rule over the entire earth through His true priesthood of just, compassionate, humble, awakened elect servants in Israel. Never again will a fake church be able to speak or act falsely in God’s name.
One of the greatest sins of that humanistic evangelical church was, of course, the way in which they more highly esteemed and served human gods than God Himself. And this is an almost universal trait of all humanists in history, not just the fake humanistic churches. This worship of their teaching and judging elders as human gods resulted in church members following only false interpretations of God’s Law invented by human gods, rather than trying to understand and apply God’s Law itself, in the way God Himself interpreted and applied it. False churches built their entire lives around an irrational legal system based on the Talmud and traditions, which served only their human gods in their financial institutions. And those humanly designed deceptions actually nullified many of God’s intended purposes for His laws, then often also ignored God’s requirement to lessen sentences of the guilty based on mercy, by taking into account any sinner’s lack of intent, lack of malicious motives, ignorance, incapacity, coercive pressures or true repentance. So those false churches would ostracize, expel or even murder someone who offended the least of their man-made regulations, even though that person was actually obeying God’s real laws. And their human gods even used their own man-made laws and reasoning to justify the murdering of God’s prophets too. This is what Jesus meant when He accused those fake evangelicals of neglecting the weightier matters of God’s Law, which He defined as justice, mercy and trust. And throughout history, to this very day, all of the humanistic churches, both the mainline and evangelical churches, have been doing exactly the same things too.
Jesus Himself has always sent “prophets and wise ones and scholars” to stand before those fakes, with testimonies about the real meanings of God’s words. Yet those humanistic churches have not only rejected their truths, but have also persecuted, tortured, painfully executed and destroyed those true servants of God, in order to maintain their self-serving systems of power and financial income.
False churches deny that they are doing all this, since they are deluded and see themselves as good, just, law-abiding and loving people. In fact, they even like to preach against the fake evangelicals whom Jesus accused of doing such things, and call equally fake evangelicals “Pharisees” (meaning
“separated/sanctified ones”). They use the name of those ancient evangelicals as an insult and curse.
Yet they call themselves “sanctified ones,” and are exactly the same in essence and aptitude. God’s created reality exposes them as being precisely the same, as fake humanistic churches,as the false priests of God who worship human gods rather than the real God, as those who serve the interests of human liars rather the just and loving purposes of the real God. Surely we can examine history and see this. Even current events prove this, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Now many evangelicals and mainline churches support the doctrines of murdering, raping, lying fascists like Hitler and Trump.
And others are content to pursue money rather than truth, since that is what their human gods tell them to do. Thus, if any elect soul still bears a desire to love in a just, equitable and merciful way which fulfills God’s Law through Christ’s teaching and training of one’s spirit, let that one abandon those fake churches, go to Jesus and His Word in prayer, to worship Him as one’s only true God.
The one and only Creator God, who designed and maintains the highly fragile balance of all that exists, relates to us as our spirits’ Originator and the one true “genetic” example of all that we can become. He comes to us as our spirits’ Father and Brother. So let us warmly and gladly receive Him, so we might study His beauty and learn to become what He is. And let us stop emulating those lying human gods, stop simply offering a few emotions of our flesh to a supposed “heavenly father” which Page 1564
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they invented in their own image. Our personal God relates to us as the Spirit who faithfully serves all of His creations through His spontaneous love flowing from within Him. And this Holy Spirit will come to dwell beside our spirits in the chambers of our hearts and souls. So, when He does, let us heed His wise counsel, as His Spirit teaches our spirits how to love in a truly just and merciful way. He will train us how to take into account all the real factors warranting mercy, while He also shows us how to dismiss pretenses, lies and delusions from self-indulgent, self-serving deceivers.
Our sins have distanced our infantile, ignorant spirits from our Father and His Holy Spirit, since we fall for every deception and continuously end up harming or even killing His people, as well as His other creations. Therefore, we need an intermediary, an intercessor, someone to lead us back to our Father and to reconcile us with Him, so His Holy Spirit may enter the chambers of our hearts and souls, so we might learn to become all we were created to be. And the spirit, body and soul of that intermediary will need to be utterly pure, faithful and sinless. For our Holy God cannot draw close to any spirit that is lost, foolish, ignorant, deceived, deluded and sinful like we all are. And, if one is as far from God as we are, how can that one be our intermediary? Just another average sinner simply is not qualified to represent God to us, nor us to God, as a priestly intermediary. More than this, a truly qualified intermediary will need to eliminate literally all factors which cause the separation between us and God, in order to reconcile the relationship between God and us. And that is our real problem!
So who is qualified to speak candidly as our intermediary, both on behalf of the utterly holy and wise God to us, and with experiential empathy on behalf of our sinful selves to God? What intercessor bears the ability, power and authority to alleviate all that separates God from us and us from God?
Was there ever such a person born on earth? No, not one, not ever ... except the other Person of God.
For Yahweh, our one God, chose to relate to us as our sinless but empathizing oldest Brother, Jesus.
God came to dwell within the family of humankind, to walk among us in a body of flesh, even from the day His human body was born until the day the religious and secular humanists of Satan’s fourth kingdom murdered that flesh. Then He rose from the dead in victory, to condemn all our sins to our temporary flesh, so He might free our spirits from all that separates the Spirit of our Father from us.
Because of Jesus, and Jesus alone, literally all the elect on earth have the gate opened to a permanent home in heaven, no matter how lost and sinful any of us have become on earth. During our lives on earth, and during a long day of judgments with perfect teaching at the gates of heaven after death, all of us will be completed and perfected for wondrous labours in our Father’s kingdom. Not one elect spirit and soul will be left behind. Yet, to lying and unjust evangelical teaching and judging elders, as well as to their most loyal co-conspirators, Jesus asked: “In what way might you successfully flee from the sentence of hell?” In Greek, He began with the particle πῶς (“how?” or “in what way?”).
Then He used an aorist subjunctive form of the verb φεύγω, indicating the possibility of a completed or successful action of fleeing or escaping. Then He specified what they should be fleeing from, by using the phrase, ἀπὸ τῆς κρίσεως τῆς γεέννης. This literally means, “from the judiciary sentence of Gehenna.” And, of course, Gehenna was a continuously smouldering and burning garbage dump in a valley below Jerusalem, where the stench of human refuse sickened and overwhelmed anyone who drew near. Thus, to Jewish people around the world, Gehenna became a synonym for “hell.” For it lay far below the spiritual heaven represented by their temple on the mount, and aptly symbolized that place where unrepentant sinners, with their inner lies and delusions, shall be cast from heaven’s gate like garbage, forever forgotten and never seen again, eternally separated from all genuine life and everlasting realities by an impassible gulf. And their κρίσις or sentence would be passed by the highest Judge, by our God Jesus on the judgment day. Therefore, after this just condemnation and Page 1565
sentence of that omniscient and omnipotent Judge, there could be no appeal to a higher court, nor any possible means of escaping it, since Jesus is one with the Father, and is the Creator of all times.
The earthly time in which Jesus spoke these woes to those fake evangelicals was the heavenly time of their final judgment, the same time their loveless and amoral spirits would experience on the judgment day, after God took their cherished and very well-served flesh from their spirits. For all earthly and heavenly time rests within God, and linear earthly time is simultaneous to non-linear heavenly time. This concept may be difficult for physical brains to grasp, but our spirits experience this difference and similarity between time in the material and spiritual space-time continua every day and all day. Therefore, when Jesus gave this woe in His judgment against them that day, in earthly time long ago, it was an irreversible and eternal judgment, a sentence of hell that could never be reversed, an everlasting prison sentence from which there could be no escape. And there soon will be no place for them to escape into. After God withdraws His maintaining spiritual power from the material universe, causing it to vanish or “burn” away into literal nothing, the only way out of hell will be by entering heaven. But the light of verity in heaven will instantly annihilate all of their beloved lies and delusions in the minds of their spirits, leaving nothing behind. Yet those lies and delusions are the sum total of their very beings. In other words, if they did enter heaven, they would instantly cease to exist at all. This threat of ceasing to exist is actually the substance of that great impassible gulf between heaven and hell. Thus, not one non-elect soul can ever escape eternal hell.
Some do not like to allow the minds of their spirits or their minds of flesh to accept the full weight and significance of Jesus’ words to those fake evangelicals, primarily because they are the non-elect, whose spirits fear their sentence of eternal damnation in hell made by our God and Judge, by our High King and eternal High Priest. So those non-elect evangelicals continue to create many lies about various ways in which a soul can do fake works of repentance to earn salvation into heaven.
And all insist that Jesus would be very unjust if He eternally condemned fake evangelicals like them, in the way He actually does. For they say a just “Jesus,” like the “Jesuses” they invent, would need to give them a chance to earn their salvation, since they are all human gods with a “free will” and they all bear the omniscient, omnipotent power to recreate themselves. Thus, a just God could never eternally condemn His own superior human gods, like them, to eternal hell. And the last thing they want to hear is that neither heaven nor hell can possibly be earned through human works, or that a spirit’s “free will” can never possesses enough knowledge, wisdom or power to ever recreate itself.
For instance, one popular lie of some evangelicals claims that anyone can earn heaven through grace alone, by doing the obligatory work of “repenting,” in the way they have redefined “repentance.”
And they redefined “repentance” as any kind of confession which states that the particular kind of
“Jesus” one has invented in one’s own mind of flesh is now one’s personally serving and obedient
“lord.” So, by the term “lord,” they mean “one who obeys me and is obligated to gratefully usher me into heaven.” And by “repentance,” they do not refer to a biblical definition, to turning away from lies and delusions into the truths of all the spiritual and physical realities created by God. Rather, their “repentance” refers to an emotional feeling in their minds of flesh, which must be hyped up by certain kinds of rhetoric and other external stimuli, so each can delude oneself into thinking one has been “saved” from eternal damnation for all one’s most blatant, intentional, public sins, even while all the internal causes of those sins, and all one’s root spiritual sins of clinging to demonic lies and delusions, will be condoned and practised, without regret nor godly sorrow about the harm and death caused by them. So this fake salvation is greatly preferred by the non-elect, especially by the worst of their psychopaths, since it allows them to pursue the gratification of their core lies and delusions, without having to answer to God, nor to those whom God truly sends to rebuke them. Meanwhile, Page 1566
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those fake evangelicals loath the real Jesus, as well as His real and biblical salvation. They hate the fact that the real God is able to personally teach and train elect spirits to actually comprehend and fulfill His Law, and learn to love in a just, equitable and pure way. For they despise the implications that His salvation is through His unmerited, unearned grace alone, freely awarded to literally all the elect spirits and souls born of His Spirit. All this is totally unacceptable and horrifying to humanistic churches, since it means that humans are not gods ruling over God and their own eternal destinies.
However, literally all the spirits of those non-elect know full-well that they have absolutely no desire nor inclination to possess any genuine, just and God-like love. Thus, not one of those non-elect ever wants the real truth, upon which all love is built. Literally all of them love to cherish only the utter darkness of their own self-serving, self-esteeming, self-worshipping and self-indulgent economic, cultural, political, military and religious lies. Consequently, there is absolutely no possible chance that they can ever actually repent into the truth through love, that is, never in the way God’s Word and God’s natural creations require for salvation into the real heaven. Only the elect have any real potential to love, which means they alone bear a desire for genuine spiritual and physical truths, with a longing for equitable justice as an expression of that love. As a result, none but the elect are able to repent into the truth through love, so their spirits might become fit enough to enter the real heaven and serve all life there, together with their King Jesus. And, due to the elect’s inherent propensities, especially their innate longing to love in the same way God loves, by building that love on a firm foundation of real truth, literally all the elect shall truly repent, either while their spirits dwell in flesh on earth or at the gates of heaven on the long judgment day. Their heavenly Father predestined them for this, just as loving human parents predestine the lives of their children, by providing all they need to live and to become able to do all the kinds of works necessary for sustaining their lives.
So there is no such thing as a “deathbed repentance,” at least not one made through the emotions from the mind of flesh. Nothing is able to save a soul from eternal hell through one’s own so-called
“free will,” which is always from the mind of flesh. Nor are any works of man able to save a dying soul, such as magic sacraments or motivational words of a passionate preacher emotionally enhanced by soft background music. However, there definitely can be a genuine “deathbed repentance” of an elect human spirit into the spiritual and physical realities created by God, albeit only through God’s awakening of that elect spirit, so that elect spirit becomes fully aware of those truths existing all around one, and so the elect spirit’s love can eagerly reach out to grasp those truths, in order build up one’s love upon the solid rock of that truth. But those who truly repent on the deathbed are few and far between. Far more of the lost and sleeping elect spirits will repent at the gates of heaven on the judgment day, after they cast off their deceived bodies and brains of flesh. For, throughout history, many false religions, especially theistic and secular humanism, have trained the elect to ignore the words God speaks to their spirits, and even cause some of their minds of flesh to deny the existence of both God and their own spirits. So, although all elect spirits hear God, most have merely timidly whispered His words against the unjust lies told to their minds of flesh, letting their spirits look in vain upon His truth, without building just and God-like love upon it. Most elect never actually dare to repent into the truths God reveals to their spirits, lest they anger the human gods of false religions.
And these facts—that God will save literally all His elect children into heaven, and that human wills are never able to save the non-elect from a well-earned eternity in the void of hell, where they will no longer be able to exploit anyone or anything—are anathema to all humanistic fake churches. For most need to use the threat of hell as a “pressure sales tactic,” to coerce dupes into buying their fake salvation, so they can steal money from them and make slaves of them. For the human gods of fake churches must be able to tell their dupes: “Right now, today, before you die, which can happen at any Page 1567
moment, you must use your free will to declare that the Jesus I invented is your little servant lord, who will do all you want him to do, that is, if you obey my will. For my invented Jesus is your lord because I am your high god who rules over him more than you do. And, if you do not worship me, you will not earn God’s totally free grace for salvation. Then you will eternally suffer physical torture in the physical fire of a physical hell. For there are no real judgments by God, only automatic sentences of hell for all who do not belong to me, who do not tithe and go to my church. But Jesus, our little obedient servant, will dutifully grant heaven to all tithe payers who esteem and serve me.”
Naturally, there are many variations of these fake salvation messages by these false saviours in the humanistic churches. Yet all of their salvations incorporate three core elements: (1) a strong coercion to highly esteem and obediently serve specific human beings, especially those who claw and deceive their way to the top of the church hierarchies, since those humans become the principal gods of their churches, and think their will is done in heaven as it is on earth; (2) an obligation to outwardly put on a good show of respect for a lesser and secondary god in heaven, which the human gods of the church invented, a god that those human gods give biblical names like “Jesus,” “God,” “Father” and
“Yahweh,” since their subservient heavenly god deserves respect for giving the human gods a degree of fake legitimacy; and (3) a threat of expulsion from the church owned by the human gods, for any who do not adhere to their man-made traditions, which also means eternal expulsion from heaven, since human gods bear the exclusive right to command their invented heavenly god to either send a soul to heaven or to hell, because their invented heavenly god has no power to rightly judge anyone.
All three of the above core elements of a humanistic church are self-serving and based on false doctrines used to perpetuate an exploitative hierarchical system. These are not mere organizational systems needed to maintain order and productivity, and never used for the just and equitable benefit of all in the church. Yet all three elements of a fake church were clearly present in the evangelical church at the time of Jesus’ first advent. And all three can be found in both mainline and evangelical churches today as well. So, since we need true churches, we need to look at how God’s Word defines a true church, and how He wants His priesthood to serve the world. And His Scriptures tell us that a true church always manifests these three core elements: (1) a spontaneous love for God and for His just, loving ways, so we might heed Him to maintain real justice, with a complex order that finds and fulfills the destinies of all, as we serve Him straight from our elect spirits in open hearts, with the kind of love that strongly desires to do His will on earth as it is done in heaven; (2) a spontaneous esteem for God, recognizing Him as the most beautiful, as the most worthy of all trust, which results in a spontaneous and willing compulsion to do His will, according to truths and realities that He reveals to our spirits and our flesh; and (3) a blessed assurance in our spirits, from the Father of our spirits, a certainty that He will be forever with us, His children, in our family’s heavenly homeland.
So the false evangelical church of that day was busy practising the devil’s magnum opus of false religions, so their elite human gods could be worshipped through the esteem and serving of lesser human gods, while that church dehumanized all outsiders. Thus, they impoverished both their own insiders and the outsiders, stripping off all their just and loving spiritual garments granted by God, while also removing all spiritual food and drink from their hearts, leaving all naked and starving in the darkness they created with their walls of lies. And those churches, or at least the chief human gods worshipped by the people in those fake churches, did all this deliberately, so they could gain power and money for themselves. Furthermore, those loveless souls, who were personally lawless regarding God’s laws and ways, yet always making merciless rule upon self-serving rule for their slavish minions, always carefully pretended to be the most loving and righteous ones in all mankind.
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Thus, was Jesus’ condemnation of those fakes justifiable? And could the spirits of those haters of the real God and haters all His created verities, who loved only the darkness of their own self-serving lies and delusions, ever truly repent, ever willingly and gladly enter His everlasting and unrelenting light which exposes and drives away all darkness? Well, many ignorant, irrational and unstable spirits now express opinions declaring that Jesus was not justified in His judgments. Then many also insist that every human being has an omniscient and omnipotent “free will,” which is able to recreate itself, able to refashion a new spirit with a new will that can love God and His light, all through its own infinite knowledge, wisdom and power, without help from the Creator God. But that too is just an opinion from a completely unqualified and untrustworthy source. And two unalterable facts still remain, two realities which cannot be rationally nor honestly disputed: (1) The human gods ruling over false churches are the non-elect, who do not have an omniscient and omnipotent “free will,” no knowledge, wisdom nor power to recreate the created essences of their own beings. All are what the devil created them to be, with the innate attributes and wills they possessed from the beginning, with inherent desires that were further shaped and developed by their hellish father. And all choose to invent lies and delusions, which they love instead of God’s truths and realities. Therefore, those non-elect church leaders will never have a desire to enter the true light of the real heaven. And God will grant their wish, by sending them to the homeland of their father, the devil. And (2) their intentional sins surely warrant condemnation from God’s utterly holy, just, equitable and loving Spirit in Jesus.
Then some might say that Jesus broke His own law, because He called these deceivers, “Serpents!
Offspring of vipers!” For Jesus clearly commanded us to never call anyone a fool or worthless (Mat.
5:22). Since Jesus called these fake pastors names that were far worse than that, they think that Jesus disobeyed His own command. Then some go even further, by claiming that Jesus could not have been God, because God can never contradict Himself by opposing anything He commanded and, since Jesus did that, Jesus is not God. But their first claim is a lie based on a false doctrine that their false pastors invented. Then the second claim is sound logic, but employs a false premise from the first false claim. And, if you put garbage into a sound algorithm, your output is always garbage too.
In reality, Jesus forbade us to judge falsely. We must never spiritually “murder” innocent souls through emotions of the flesh. We must never slander and dehumanize others through anger or fear, must never call them insulting and defamatory names such as “fools,” “worthless idiots” or anything else, not unless they have proved to be what we call them, and only if we have genuine evidence that substantiates our accusations against each and every one of them. In other words, Jesus prohibited us from seeking revenge and gratifying carnal impulses by lying about the characters of others. So we cannot call a caravan of innocent, desperate, suffering immigrants, with parents hoping to save the lives of their children from certain death, a bunch of criminal “vermin,” as though they are somehow less human than us, just because racist liars tell us they will cause economic hardships, even though they could become our land’s most precious resources. And churches must not lie about souls in other churches or in secular institutions or belonging to other races. One political party must not lie about another. A nation must not allow propaganda against people in enemy nations, since only the greedy and power-hungry cause and commit war crimes in both enemy nations and our own lands.
But Jesus was not telling us to do the opposite either. He did not want us to ignore intentional and unrepented sins, so the sinners could continue to destroy innocent lives. Jesus did not tell us to lie about any foolish, evil, worthless, parasitic and destructive people, to ensure that we are always nice and respectful to them, always dishonestly esteeming them. We are not to lie by calling the foolish wise, or the evil good, or the selfish beneficent. And we certainly are not supposed to pretend that the most wealthy and psychopathic exploiters of humankind are worthy of even greater privileges Page 1569
than those who are truly wise and loving souls, whom God raised up and sent to us. Contrary to the popular opinions of the vast majority in churches throughout history, lying is not actually something Jesus commanded us to do. Rather, Jesus actually condemned all forms of lies and deceptions. Our God Jesus wants us to be honest and frank, whenever we need to be, or simply remain silent when it is expedient to do so. And Jesus was perfectly honest Himself. So Jesus was merely being honest, and was looking at the hard evidence, when He called those fakes church leaders “serpents” and “the offspring of deadly vipers,” implying their spirits were born from demons. For fake pastors are like snakes sneaking into mouse holes looking for defenceless prey. Since our omniscient God Jesus only forbade us to lie in false judgments, but also commanded us to love, even by frankly speaking the truth through right judgments that emulate His judgments (Lev. 19:17-18), He did fulfill His laws.
So let me emulate my God Jesus and also call the false pastors of fake churches “snakes.” For they slither into homes to catch and swallow the lives of defenceless souls, the little, common and lost elect who lack the knowledge, wisdom and power to resist their fangs of deception. Those selfishly ambitious salesmen of various kinds of man-made gods cause the spiritually ignorant to fear and flee from the real God and from His calling, while coercing them to embrace the self-destructive lies and sins they should actually fear. And false teachers seek their own glory, power and profit at the cost of their people’s pain, losses and deaths. Now some false pastors and priests are themselves exploited dupes, puppets of the elite in their hierarchies. But, even so, their churches and the powers that rule those churches are surely demonic, unjust deceivers and exploiters, siblings of the secular humanist deceivers and exploiters in Satan’s world order, including Hitler and Trump. So surely it is time for God’s elect to seek Christ’s truly chosen and trained elders, who will labour to build up the faith of their spirits and God-like love in their hearts, so those elect may become God’s kingdom on earth.
The elect need the kinds of teachings and courage which result in productive, godly, sane thoughts, so they can express their spirits’ love through God’s wisdom, trusting that He shall multiply their meagre, humble and inept gifts and works, so their lives effectively serve His just, wise, loving will.
Make no mistake. Throughout history, Jesus has always taught the appropriate truths of heaven to His elect, and at the times those truths were needed most. From the beginning of earthly time, our God predestined certain men to suffer in certain ways, then woke, called, taught and trained their spirits to reveal the light of specific required truths to His priesthood and to the world. And these are the kinds of teaching and judging elders we need in our churches and governments. Also, in any land that has known the real Jesus, if fake elders begin to turn the hearts of His elect from the truth, Jesus will respond by raising up true elders who can rebuke and correct them. This is why Jesus used the redundant personal pronoun ἐγώ when He told us: “On account of this, look, I Myself am sending prophets and wise ones and scholars before you people.” Here our God Jesus emphasized that He would personally work against the abuses of false churches, by sending His own elders to teach us.
Of course, throughout the history of Satan’s four humanistic kingdoms, very few have recognized those true servants sent by our God Jesus, and almost none are found in history books. For humanists of the world order never write history books to provide information about history. Rather, they write history books to lie about their most favoured human gods, or to invent human gods out of common and very weak sinners. Their history books are merely propaganda tools, which esteem anyone who can be used to condone their current lies and delusions, and to slander those who oppose their self-serving lies. Also, we must also realize that, although the false churches have always portrayed our God Jesus as a little lamb who was easily killed by great hero-giant Roman soldiers, simply because the just, wise, law-abiding Gentiles were deceived by lowly Jews, those humanistic churches ensure that they always portray the so-called “servants of Jesus,” those they esteem for their own nefarious Page 1570
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purposes, as being much greater than Jesus. In their humanistic delusions, they teach everyone to believe that, whenever God sends someone to us, that man will be good looking, extremely muscular and desired by women, yet always chaste, charming and polite, perfectly groomed and impeccably dressed. In other words, those humanists always describe a high-functioning psychopath, since they are their elites. For humanists worship human beings, and only allow superior exploiters in positions at the top of their humanistic hierarchies. Thus, the dupes in their fake churches are always looking for saviours who meet the requirements of this superficial criteria. And, because ruthless, deceiving psychopaths are the only ones capable of pretending to be what the dupes imagine a true servant of God should be, those dupes invariably end up blindly following Satan’s chief servants as saviours.
In fact, humanists manage to delude their dupes into seeking psychopathic elders even if those fake saviours are actually ugly, fat, immoral, ignorant, rude, poorly groomed and badly dressed. For example, look at how humanists portray Trump as a handsome, god-like hero. But, back here in reality, the “prophets and wise ones and scholars” that our God Jesus actually sends us are not like those humanistic heroes, but like the rest of us common folk. And the common elect people, whom we call “us,” are the ones who actually did all the real works of our God Jesus throughout history, all that prevented us from being utterly annihilated. Meanwhile, the “superior” elite in literally all of Satan’s hierarchies, all the supposed human gods practising his religion of humanism, destroyed, tortured, killed and exploited to the point where this entire planet is now on the brink of collapse. If we look at source documents and artifacts from the past, or merely read between the lines in better history books, we find that it was always the just, equitable, pure souls with God-like love who have opposed the unjust, inequitable, corrupt, demonic and ruthless laws of Satan’s world order. It is always God’s elect who inspired and caused their lands to adopt more biblical ways. Some elect did not know it was Jesus who taught and trained their spirits to love in a just way, but it was Him who caused them to “show the work of [His] Law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them” (Rom. 2:14, WEB).
It has never been the chief human gods of the religious and secular humanistic hierarchies who saved us. Rather, throughout all history, it has always been the common elect “us” who developed biblical justice systems, a biblical abolition of slavery, a biblical respect for all in the family of humankind, biblical democracy, biblical welfare and healthcare systems, God’s requirement for free education, biblical fair trade practises, biblical prohibitions of exploitation, God’s requirement for fair wages, biblical systems for an equitable distribution of resources, a biblical progressive tax system, the biblical obligation to take responsibility for God’s natural creations, and all other biblical principles.
None of these “prophets and wise ones and scholars” sent by our God Jesus, none of those who have been the true light of the world and the salt wages of God’s faithful workmen, have dared to esteem themselves above the rest of us. None ever wanted to establish a group who would worship them as the god of their church, business, political party or nation. None even took disciples to themselves, because they all inwardly knew there is only one Head Teacher who is able to guide human spirits into an abundant life full of just love. None sought immortality through the lies of history books, or with statues serving as places for pigeons to deposit excrements. None were considered to be “great”
in Satan’s world order while they lived on earth—although a few were canonized and beatified as
“saints” by false churches after their deaths, in much the same way as the false church in Jesus’ day built tombs for the prophets, so they could use them as false endorsements of their fake legitimacy.
We need to understand exactly what our God Jesus was telling us here (in Mat. 23:34). First, the word translated as “send” was the present (durative) form of the verb ἀποστέλλω (“to dispatch someone for the achievement of some objective,” BDAG3). Now there are several Greek verbs that Page 1571
mean “send.” However, this particular verb (ἀποστέλλω) indicated that the Sender is currently and continuously dispatching agents or representatives to specific destinations in order to accomplish particular tasks or missions specified by the Sender, who is Jesus. Thus, when Jesus added the personal pronoun (ἐγώ), as the redundant subject of this present-tense verb, we begin to understand that He was actually saying: “I Myself, personally, am now sending, and will always continue to send, prophets and wise ones and scholars before [the faces of] you people, as My personally chosen agents and representative who will go to the places I specify and accomplish the particular tasks or missions I assigned to each of them, and they will complete their works effectively because I am God, whose wisdom and power will cause them to succeed.” And we must not think these “prophets and wise ones and scholars” can fail, just because false churches destroyed, crucified, tortured and persecuted them. No, actually, the false churches have always tried to kill them because those true servants of God were so successful in accomplishing the tasks and missions which Jesus personally sent them to do. And remember, the esteemed religious authorities in Satan’s world order will only possess the illicit authority to commit violent injustices against God’s sent ones because they will consider all of those “prophets and wise ones and scholars” to be their inferiors in Satan’s kingdom.
So our God Jesus drew a picture of His marginalized, persecuted missionaries truly sent out by Him from the common people. Jesus portrayed His sent-out ones as a lowly class of people who subject to the wills of powerful elite in the nations that are subject kingdoms within Satan’s unjust world order, at least while Satan is able to maintain those unjust subject kingdoms on earth. And the false pastors, who persecute His true elders, were portrayed as the elite in the demonic hierarchies of the devil’s kingdom, wielding power granted to them by the secular authorities whom Satan controlled.
We can assume all this because the elite in the inequitable humanistic hierarchies are the only ones who possess enough power to commit unjust acts of sadistic violence against the innocent, and they can only use that power against the lower classes who have been enslaved in their hierarchies. Yet we also see that the lowly and common people, sent by our God Jesus, must successfully accomplish their works for Jesus, since that would be the only reason fake churches in Satan’s kingdom would murder them. After all, the devil’s offspring cannot kill all the elect souls in their kingdoms, since their duped elect slaves are their most valuable possessions, the only ones with an inner conscience, the only honest and caring souls in their lands. Since their elect property forms the skeletal structure of their lands, and their captive elect hold all things together as the builders and maintainers of their infrastructures, as those enabling their wicked works, they must keep them alive. Thus, their elite, the chief inventors of inequitable spiritual and moral lies, will only allow their enforcers of injustice to destroy the elect who are causing other elect slaves to defect, to flee from their Satanic kingdoms into God’s kingdom, who are influencing their elect slaves into choosing justice over injustice and love over hate. The humanistic elite only want to murder the awakened elect who shine the light of God’s genuine truths, since truth dissolves chains of deception and frees their exploited elect slaves.
So who are these awakened elect influencers, whom Jesus sends to reflect His bright light into the darkness of the devil’s world order? On Jesus’ list of the three kinds, the first and foremost was the prophet (προφήτης). Now our God Jesus had just finished talking about how the fake pastors of the false churches murdered the true prophets of the past, yet confiscated their names and writings from the true church, in order to artificially legitimize themselves and nullify their words, after they killed them. Once those prophets were safely dead, those cunning devils abrogated any real truths from the words which those true prophets received directly from God. And those deceivers did all this so they could reshape those truths into lies which served themselves, which enabled them to trap the elect, by falsely claiming that the true prophets and their words from God were actually the foundations of Page 1572
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their false doctrines which they received directly from the spirit of their hellish father. Therefore, when Jesus said He would be continuously sending out true prophets to expose the kinds of fake pastors and churches found among the evangelicals of His day, He was referring to the same kind of prophets that He sent in the Old Covenant times. Here Jesus was saying that, throughout history, He would wake up humbled elect spirits, then cause their spirits to hear and repeat the concepts that His Holy Spirit revealed to those spirits. Just like the prophets who penned the Old Covenant Scriptures, men who spoke exactly what God told them to utter would be the most valuable kind of teaching and judging elders in the true church. Those who proclaimed words directly originating from God, in prophecies, then also taught and judged in the power and authority of God Himself, worked the most good within God’s priesthood of Israel. Since this would make them God’s most effective agents in freeing His enslaved elect children, it would also make them the most dangerous to God’s enemies.
The second kind of servant that our God Jesus would often send out into the world, throughout all the remaining time of earth’s history, would be the wise (σοφός). And Jesus spoke about those who practised the ecclesiastical or biblical kind of wisdom. Now the word σοφός is an adjective meaning:
“pertaining to knowing how to do something, in a skilled manner ... pertaining to understanding that
[which] results [from] wise attitudes and conduct,” BDAG3). So here, when Jesus used this adjective as an ecclesiastical term, and as a substantive referring to a certain kind of person, He was referring to people whose awakened elect spirits best learned God’s ways. Jesus spoke of those who knew how to effectively and skilfully apply the truths God had revealed in His Word and in His natural creations, who made critical judgments that produced effective, just, equitable and beneficial long-term results. This was the kind of soul who truly understood what good or bad effects and results would occur through what kinds of words and actions. Thus, this kind of person would always try to choose, through the love God put in one’s spirit, to speak only the true and necessary words in any situation, and do only the deeds which, God willing, would result in the most beneficial spiritual and physical consequences for God’s kingdom, for God’s people and all His other creations. In other words, this was the kind of person who knew how to rightly and effectively apply God’s words and ways. And, since God’s enemies practise the use of totally ineffective words and deeds, since they tell lies and make false promises to trick people into worshipping them, they hate and kill the wise.
The third kind of true servant of God which false pastors, and their most loyal minions in their false churches, always feel a need to murder is the honest scholar (γραμματεύς). And more specifically, Jesus was here referring to the biblical kind of teaching and judging elders, who instruct the people regarding their trust in God and His words, but also how to live an abundant life by giving and receiving love. So this kind of teaching often overlapped with teachings about science and secular subjects, but focused on the spiritual aspects of life. Then, in secular terms, a γραμματεύς was a
“chief executive officer of a government entity” (BDAG3). In other words, they were older and experienced experts who could assess data and information in the most rational, accurate and effective ways. And this is also a kind of person whom Jesus calls, teaches, trains and sends to us.
However, here Jesus primarily referred to scholars in the church, and used γραμματεύς as an ecclesiastical term. He was referring to “an expert in matters relating to divine revelation” (BDAG3), to the kind of elder who was such a good biblical scholar that the people trusted his comments and answers the most, such as during the teaching times on the Sabbath days in their synagogues. And here Jesus was specifically referring to mature biblical scholars who are His own faithful, called and sent servants, the kind of teaching and judging elders whose elect spirits had been directly and experientially taught and trained by His Holy Spirit, through many years of often painful but always rewarding life lessons, until they personally and thoroughly knew God, God’s truths, and God’s just, Page 1573
loving ways. Since these kinds of true and honest scholars are so carefully heeded when they refute the false doctrines and lies of false churches and illicit governments, and are so successful at it, the humanistic scholars, who are hired to justify lies, are seldom able to refute them. And, because God’s power compels the spirits of His faithful scholars to teach the truths and make just judgments, for the sake of His people and His kingdom, humanists in the false churches and illicit governments must physically silence them, by imprisoning or murdering them. Thus, fake pastors and priests, with the help of their blind followers, have slaughtered His true scholars throughout the last two millenniums.
Of course, false pastors, priests and churches have also been very busy destroying, torturing to death and generally persecuting their own rival lying pastors, fake priests and false churches too. For, as humanists, they are forced to constantly defend their own brand of lies and delusions which their own elite human gods invented. To maintain their standing in Satan’s world order, their hellish father compels them to continuously war against their equally devious and murdering siblings who espouse different brands of lies and delusions, invented by other human gods trying to usurp the illicit power and authority of the current ones. So Jesus was not saying that, just because a fake elder or false church attacks someone, that one must have been sent by Him. For one attribute does not define a whole entity. One cannot say, “A true servant of God has two legs, therefore, because a Satanist also has two legs, he must be a true servant of God.” Likewise, just because fake servants of God attack others, it does not mean all the victims of their attacks must be true servants of God. Rather, only if their victims ALSO bear attributes of elect spirits being taught and trained by the Holy Spirit of our God Jesus, AND manifest the effects of just, God-like love in their lives, in ways that fulfill God’s laws, in ways that wisely and equitably benefit God’s kingdom, then they are true servants of God.
Yet, if anyone truly is an awakened, called, taught, trained and sent servant of Jesus the Messiah, that one should expect to be persecuted, possibly even tortured and murdered, by fake elders and false churches belonging to Satan’s world order. For all true servants of God partake in the works of Jesus, and His works include nullifying the works of Satan done by fake elders and false churches. So those fakes will defend their evil works, by warring against both God and His servants. They will always at least try to attack those who nullify their lies and delusions, all who threaten to weaken or destroy their exploitative subject kingdoms in Satan’s world order. For their evil and psychopathic works are their only sources of power, income and self-indulgent pleasures. Now, in lands where Jesus sent
“prophets and wise ones and scholars” who succeeded in establishing some biblical justice there, the fakes may be hindered from harming God’s true servants, or stopped altogether, since all humanists are afraid to suffer justice for their injustice. But, in lands where the stubborn elect have not loved the truth, where they have been handed over delusions, God’s servants will be severely persecuted.
On the other hand, all true servants of God know, with all certainty, that neither their essences, nor the spirits of their loved ones, can ever possibly die. They also know that neither they nor their loved ones can possibly live a full and abundant life here on earth if they do not know God and His truths.
Therefore, the “prophets and wise ones and scholars” whom Jesus sends shall be willing to risk the threat of physical death from false churches and illicit governments, in order to build up God’s just and loving kingdom on earth, so their loved ones may be filled with a knowledge of God and His truths. And these true servants of God will also know, with all certainty, that their works for God, all their words of truth and all their actions of love, will eventually succeed and bear good fruit, through the omniscient wisdom and omnipotent power of God. Although they may be powerless in terms of authority and might in Satan’s kingdom, because they are common and lowly classes in the devil’s hierarchy, they do not fear those who have not been ordained by God, who have been sent by the devil. For Satan’s kingdom is an illicit and completely subject little kingdom within God’s infinitely Page 1574
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greater kingdom on earth. The temporary earthly power and authority of the demonic world order is kept tiny, extremely factious, tenuous, fragile and severely limited by the almighty and all-seeing God Himself. And Satan’s eternal kingdom of hell is totally and utterly powerless, since it is merely a dark and empty vacuum, a void lacking any energy or substance at all. Meanwhile, God’s kingdom in heaven will stand forever within the power and principles emanating from Him, from the one and only Source of all energy and substance. So God’s faithful elect have absolutely nothing of real value to lose, but everything of real value to gain, by following the ways of just love in Jesus the Messiah.
The devil cannot stop God and His true servants. Not ever! And the Creator God will soon return to the earth in His body of human flesh, to cast the prince of the air off his earthly throne, into hell. The ruler of darkness, and his entire administration of fallen angels, have been judged and sentenced. So they are angrily pacing the earth in unbreakable chains, fretting about their short and tenuous time in this earthly holding cell before being cast into prison for eternity. To them, this temporary material universe is a merely a place where they must wait until they are forever locked away. So they want to destroy all they can while they can, and always seek God’s permission to kill or crush whomever and whatever God allows. And, since humans possess an ability to intentionally oppose God’s will, in ways no other animals can, and often heed the lies of that devil, God does grant demons a right to cause physical harm and death, at times. But handing sinners over to Satan until they repent is also God’s plan, an action used to teach and train the spirits of His children to rely on Him and trust His ways, to love Him and His truths with greater passion, to learn that even the slightest deviation from the whole truth may cause trouble, harm or even death. Yet a time has come when infantile elect souls on earth can see and learn from events of the past, without personally experiencing the shades of lies, delusions and sins which occurred back then. So, when Jesus returns, we will be no longer need to personally experience all the lies and sins of Satan’s world order, but vicariously experience and learn from the past events instead. Thus, Satan’s world order will then cease to exist on earth.
The end of the temporary earthly imprisonment of fallen angels is near, even the end of all defective spirits that were created with a lack of God-like and just love. For the knowledge of God on earth, as well as an understanding of His spiritual and physical truths, is almost complete enough. Soon we will see days of the worst troubles ever experienced by this planet, a time when “knowledge shall increase,” followed by the first resurrection with a thousand years of peace throughout the world, then the end of the earth and the second resurrection (Dan. 12:1-4). So we should realize, in the same way that “all innocent blood being shed upon the earth completed its falling upon” deceivers like the fake evangelical pastors and their false churches of the first century, it shall fall even worse upon the fake pastors, priests and churches of all history, up to our day and beyond. That first-century false church existing when Jesus walked among us did indeed suffer horrifying pain and death for all the innocent blood they shed, just as Jesus prophesied: “Most certainly I reason with you people, all kinds of these things will come upon this generation” (Mat. 23:36). Yet He prophesied worse for all of the future false churches who will refuse to learn from the experiences of that first-century false church—just as that first-century false church did not learn from the experiences of their past false church of Israel when those liars fell into the hands of the Assyrian torturers they emulated, or the way the past false church of Judah fell into hands of their greatly admired Babylonian psychopaths.
Jesus told the false evangelical pastors and their churches of that day: “Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who is killing the prophets and who is stoning those sent on missions to her! How many times I willed to gather up your children together, that way a hen gathers up her chicks together under the wings. And you people did not will [it to happen]. Look, your house is being forsaken, desolate for you people. For I reason with you, you people definitely shall not see Me from now on, until you Page 1575
might have said, ‘The One coming in the name of the Lord [is] spoken well of [by God]’” (Mat.
23:37-39, from: Ἰερουσαλὴμ Ἰερουσαλήμ, ἡ ἀποκτείνουσα τοὺς προφήτας καὶ λιθοβολοῦσα τοὺς
ἀπεσταλμένους πρὸς αὐτήν—ποσάκις ἠθέλησα ἐπισυναγαγεῖν τὰ τέκνα σου, ὃν τρόπον ὄρνις
ἐπισυνάγει τὰ νοσσία αὐτῆς ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας, καὶ οὐκ ἠθελήσατε; ἰδοὺ ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν
ἔρημος. λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν, οὐ μή με ἴδητε ἀπʼ ἄρτι ἕως ἂν εἴπητε· Εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἐν ὀνόματι
κυρίου, SBLGNT). Shortly after He said this, Rome utterly destroyed Jerusalem. From AD 66 to 135, Rome slaughtered the people of that “house,” the church that would not heed His presence in His temple, and left those self-deluding souls desolate after suffering greatly from internal conflicts.
So now will the elect abandon false shepherds and their loveless, bullying flocks? For Jesus did command us to forsake those who falsely claim to be siblings in our family of God, but do not trust in His teachings and ways (Mat. 15:13-14, cf., Mat. 10:11-42; 18:17; Rom. 16:17; I Cor. 5:11; Gal.
1:8-10; II Thes. 3:6; II Tim. 3:5: Titus 3:10; II John 1:10-11). Now will the elect learn from the past, knowing that God is about to award a condemnation worse than the horrifying destruction of the first-century false church to the fake pastors, priests and churches of our day? Surely we must realize that those fakes have filled up the measure of sins committed by all the past self-serving, arrogant, lying, unjust, false representatives of God in history, from Cain up to the present day. They are those
“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power” (II Tim. 3:5a), the kind of power that teaches and trains elect spirits to fulfill God’s Law, which is the New Covenant salvation promised by Yahweh and worked by our Messiah. Instead, those fakes are “lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (II Tim. 3:2-4, WEB). Throughout history, this has been obvious. And it is blatantly clear in these days of fascist churches supporting Trump.
When will we ever learn? I spent most of my life being fooled by false pastors and priests. And I served their false churches, foolishly aiding their works for their brand of “love,” which turned out to be hatred falsely proclaimed in the name of Jesus, and a sin which heaped up their damnation. To this day, my mind of flesh still cannot think clearly. Their blinders still inhibit my ability to see all of God and His truths existing everywhere around me. But the real Jesus took me and is healing my spirit. Jesus is my Saviour, in whom I trust. He will make right all that is in me, and even accomplish all that my loved ones need as well. Only Jesus is God, the only Saviour, the only One who was able to raise Himself from the dead, the living Messiah who alone serves as the Head Teacher and High Priest of each individual child of the Father. Today I see Jesus beginning to gather up His people, drawing them together like chicks under the wings of a hen, separating them from the liars. Now the elect have begun to say of Jesus: “He is coming in the name of the Creator, in the authority, power, wisdom and love of our heavenly Father, as the only sinless and holy One to whom Yahweh ever gave the authority to grant salvation.” Now we gain God’s promise, that we shall personally know Him in full, because He personally teaches and trains our spirits to fulfill His just and loving Law.
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“Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on His way. His disciples came to Him to show Him the buildings of the temple. But He answered them, ‘You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.’
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“As He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, ‘Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?’ Jesus answered them, ‘Be careful that no one leads you astray. For many will come in My name, saying, “I am the Christ,” and will lead many astray. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
“‘For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for My name’s sake.
“‘Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another. Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray. Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved. This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come’” (Mat. 24:1-14, WEB).
Most biblical prophecies about the last days focus on the events that will occur during a period of only about four decades, when God’s judgments will fall against Satan’s kingdom of the world order, just before our saving Messiah, Jesus, returns to rule over all the nations. Those decades of God’s wrath were assigned to only one generation, since times will be so terrible that, if God did not shorten them, all of humanity would perish. However, those decades are only a brief period within the millenniums of the last days. Those four decades are often called the end times, since they end Satan’s kingdom on earth, so that God’s kingdom can become the only kingdom remaining on earth.
And some also call those four decades the great tribulation, since they will be the worst times earth will have ever experienced since Adam walked upon it. Meanwhile, we have been living within the last days for two thousand years, and another thousand years will transpire after the end times end.
Actually, the prophecies about the millenniums of the last days begin immediately after Jesus’ first advent, after He ratified Yahweh’s New Covenant salvation for us through His blood, followed by His resurrection and the sending of His Holy Spirit. So the last days include: (1) the eras of the first five “seals” described in Revelation 6:1-9, which all simultaneously occur for a very long period of time, and are still occurring to this day, but will only last until the beginning of the end times; (2) the end times during the four decades of one generation’s lifetime, which begin with the era of the sixth
“seal” described in the Revelation and lasts about two decades, followed by two decades of events called the “seven trumpets” and “seven bowls of wrath” which all occur within the seventh seal’s era, and end when God’s judgment is completed against Satan’s world order; and (3) a thousand years of the Messiah’s rule over all the earth during the last and longest part of the seventh seal’s era.
Soon after that millennium of Christ’s rule on earth, there will be second and last resurrection of the dead and the “rapture” of all the living who remain on earth. Then God will destroy all material existence and begin the judgment day at the gates of heaven, where all humans who have ever lived since the beginning of time, both the elect and the non-elect, will answer to Jesus. Then the non-elect will be herded into their preferred eternal home called hell. After that, Jesus will spend the rest of that day, which may be equivalent to a thousand years of earthy time, by judging the elect, that is, by teaching and training them until they are completed and perfected, fit to serve in heaven with Him.
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nefarious agendas. For instance, many humanistic churches want their dupes to think that Jesus will not physically return to rule the earth. Instead, they want them to believe that Jesus will rule the earth vicariously, through their lying and corrupt elite human gods who worm their way to the top of their ruthless and unjust church hierarchies. In other words, they want to establish theocracies where they rule the earth, instead of our King Jesus. Then other humanistic churches want their dupes to believe that their churches, and their churches alone, will be able to deliver them from the suffering of the
“Great Tribulation” in the end-times, through a fictitious pretribulation “rapture.” And they claim they can only save their dupes if they always go to their brain-washing church services, pay tithes and diligently serve the worshipped human gods in their churches, which makes them a tidy income.
Nevertheless, we need to trust God’s Word more than the lies of self-serving men. And the last days did actually begin with the first advent of our God Jesus, in the first century AD. So, by now, after experiencing the last days for two millenniums, we have actually seen many of its prophesied events fulfilled literally, in exactly the way the first-century Scriptures said they would be. Thus, we have every reason to believe that Jesus was speaking literally when He told us that He would return in the same way He left us, after His physical body physically ascended into the physical sky. Yes, the very body of flesh that Jesus ascended in will return. We have no reason to believe He spoke figuratively, so that corrupt elite in fake humanistic churches could rule the world through brutal theocracies. And we also have no reason to deny the prophesies which literally describe how His one and only church of Israel, both its Old and New Covenant branches, will suffer during the great tribulation. Nothing in God’s Word leads us to believe that God will spare good tithing church members in a “rapture,” so they can lead comfortable, self-indulgent lives until they are whisked away into heaven just before the “the great tribulation” begins, while those who are not members of their churches, or do not pay tithes, or do nor worship their false pastors, will remain on earth to suffer horribly, together with the Jewish members of His church. So, as you read Jesus’ prophecies about the last days here, ignore the lies of false churches, so you might truly understand what Jesus actually said in its biblical context.
We can start with the local context, the events that prompted Jesus to describe events of the last days here, in the 24th chapter of Matthew’s Gospel. First, notice how Jesus did not begin by describing His coming New Covenant salvation works for the heavenly Father’s children. Yet biblical prophecies define the last days as a time which begins when the Messiah works salvation for Israel, and for the world. So why did Jesus make this glaring omission? Why did He not begin with a description of His salvation? The reason is that, in previous chapters of this same Gospel, Matthew told us how He had already repeatedly reminded His disciples about His salvation works. Even that very day Jesus told them that He was going to allow His body to be killed by Satan’s kingdom, then cause His flesh to rise from the dead on the third day. And these were His salvation works. Also, these salvation works, which initiated the last days, would occur within a month of Him providing this teaching in this chapter. Thus, in this chapter’s description of the last days, Jesus only gave a summary of the last-days events which would occur after He did His works for our salvation. And Jesus did so for the same reason He repeatedly warned His disciples about His immanent death, then comforted them, by assuring them that He would rise from dead to complete His saving works. That is, Jesus wanted all His disciples throughout history, including us today, to prepare for our future hardships.
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located below the Mount of Olives. While walking there, they had a magnificent view of the temple towering over them. And, to His disciples, this temple, where God promised to hear the prayers of His people, was intensely inspiring. Yet they focused too much upon its architecture and physical structure, and not enough upon God who made it holy. Its outward grandeur distracted them from its intended spiritual purpose, as a simple and beautiful location where all could ponder God’s words.
“And, after departing from the temple, Jesus was travelling [to His destination]. Then, after drawing near, His disciples pointed out the architecture of the temple to Him. So He spoke a concluding remark to them: ‘You are not seeing all these things [that had been happening in the temple]. Most certainly, I reason with you [disciples], [the temple] definitely will not be left here. [There will be no] stone upon a stone that will not be dislodged and cast down” (Mat. 24:1-2, from: Καὶ ἐξελθὼν ὁ
Ἰησοῦς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἐπορεύετο, καὶ προσῆλθον οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπιδεῖξαι αὐτῷ τὰς οἰκοδομὰς
τοῦ ἱεροῦ· ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Οὐ βλέπετε ταῦτα πάντα; ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ ὧδε
λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον ὃς οὐ καταλυθήσεται, SBLGNT). Of course, His prophecy was fulfilled in AD 70, when Rome utterly demolished the temple. But notice how Jesus gave this prophecy as a concluding response (as indicated by the verb ἀποκρίνομαι), addressing the way His disciples were acting like tour guides pointing out (ἐπιδείκνυμι) the architecture or structure (οἰκοδομή) of the temple. And they were doing this after witnessing the absolutely corrupt abuse of that temple. So Jesus rebuked them, saying: “It definitely will not be left here” (οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ ὧδε). And here He used a double negative with an aorist subjunctive for emphatic negation, as “the strongest way to negate something in Greek ... [it] rules out even the idea as being a possibility ... [it] is the most decisive way of negativing something in the future” (Wallace, Greek Grammar, Beyond the Basics, 1996, p. 468). So Jesus prophesied that this temple here most certainly and definitely would be completely torn down.
The disciples shared their awe of the great architecture worked by the hands of mortal men, who constructed an impressive temple for their factious false churches and political purposes, but not so much as a place for God’s presence to reside. So Jesus began by telling His disciples, “You are not seeing all these things” (Οὐ βλέπετε ταῦτα πάντα). Yes, they were seeing the amazing works of men.
But they seemed to have forgotten how they had just experienced, that very day, the spiritual victory of God in a human body walking into His own temple during His Triumphal Entry, just before He ratified our eternal salvation; and just after they also witnessed how their Creator God Jesus had been attacked by the chief priests and elders from various church denominations, those plotting and selfishly ambitious deceivers whom His one and only priesthood of Israel were esteeming, serving and thus worshipping more than God Himself. His disciples failed to see this blasphemous hypocrisy which defiled God’s temple every day and all day, “these things” which God could not ignore. Nor did they seem to fully comprehend the fact that God’s promise to hear the prayers of His true, elect, faithful priesthood of Israel from that temple in Jerusalem had symbolically pointed to the way His Holy Spirit would reside inside the body of Jesus, then later inside those same disciples themselves.
None of His disciples seemed to remember that God is an omnipotent, uncreated Spirit who created all material time and space, and would eventually destroy all of it, because all the physical realities which can be called good are merely shadowy facsimiles of the spiritual realities God created for His homeland in heaven. Furthermore, our ubiquitous God whose power works in real time to maintain the entire universe cannot possibly be confined to stones of a physical building, where pompous men seem to think they can exert managerial control over Him. The almighty and all-knowing Creator will not let His priesthood think they can own and limit Him according to their own wills, simply by creating and ruling over a pile of nicely fitted stones shaped by the hands of men. For men have no true, omniscient, omnipotent “free will” which can command the actions of God, and dream that Page 1579
God has a slavish will which obeys them. Rather, men have ignorant, weak, unstable and easily manipulated wills of mere infants, which can be and need to be built up and shaped by fathers, by the creators of their spirits, either by thee God or by the demon that breathed them into existence.
Now their Creator God had come to His priesthood of Israel, and to the world that He had appointed them to serve. Now Yahweh was about to send His Holy Spirit into the earthly temples of His elect children, because He going to redeem them from slavery to sin, so they would no longer be obligated to serve Satan’s world order. Thus, there was no more need for a physical temple. For that physical temple had never truly fulfilled God’s promise to maintain His presence in Jerusalem, in the hearts of His priests of Israel. And, during that particular time in Israel’s history, this stone temple certainly was not fulfilling the ancient promise of God, to be His presence residing within His true priesthood.
On the day Yahweh God came in the one and only body of flesh He ever took for Himself, to the one and only temple that His Law ever allowed Israel to build, His enemies were policing and managing every word and deed in that temple. His priesthood of Israel was busy uttering carnal prayers for their own glory and loudly broadcasting their self-serving false teachings in its courtyards. So now was the time for the Creator of all spiritual and physical existence to completely fulfill the promise.
Now Yahweh God would forever grant His real eternal presence to His one and only church of Israel, within a new temple not built by the hands of men, located at the place He personally chose within Israel, at the physical body of Jesus. Now God was about to grant Israel His true temple, the temple which that stone temple merely symbolized and figuratively represented. Now the long-awaited Messiah, the Immanuel, the “God among us,” had arrived to fulfill God’s promise, all the promises God made to the entire world through His faithful servant, Abraham, including His promise of His personally worked, unconditional, eternal New Covenant for our salvation. Now Yahweh would forever be present in Jesus, in a temple that was utterly impossible for any of His enemies to take captive, corrupt, abuse or destroy. Then our Holy God would also personally come to and reside in each heart and soul of every individual elect child born of the heavenly Father. God had always heard their prayers, no matter where their flesh had been physically standing, kneeling, sitting or lying down. In the deepest oceans, on the highest mountains or in the far reaches of outer space, God has always been able to hear each one. But now His Holy Spirit would directly and personally speak with each elect spirit, and respond to all queries a spirit made in the name of Jesus. Now thee God would personally teach and train each elect spirit, so all would know Him and grow more like Him.
This is why Jesus needed to correct the superficial thoughts of His disciples, why He had to tell them, in an emphatically certain declaration, that the temple “definitely will not be left here.” The physical temple would be utterly torn down, in a way where its stones would be loosened, dislodged and cast down (as indicated by the verb καταλύω). For the time had come for His people to worship Him from within their spirits and through His revealed truths. And this required God to first pay the price of their sins, so His Holy Spirit could dwell inside them and personally disciple each of their elect spirits. God had to sacrifice His sinless body for them. Consequently, not even this promised real temple—the human body in which Yahweh then dwelt among the priesthood of Israel—would be left behind in the land of Israel. Now God’s real temple would die, rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven for a time, so He might grant every elect soul in every nation an instant access to that true living temple, from anywhere at any time. For His human body would remain a human body in heaven too, since His less substantial earthy flesh would transfigure into its far more real, more substantial, eternal, spiritual substance, the same substance that all human bodies shall be made of in the spiritual realm. And that spiritual substance in that more concrete space-time continuum exists inside and beside us at all times. God’s home in heaven is beside all of us at all times, and holds all Page 1580
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of this temporary material time and space in it, as one time and one place within it, just as the Scriptures say. For God’s Word tells us that He dwells in heaven, is always near our hearts, and our hearts are the homes of our spirits. From that very near place, Jesus now easily steps into our hearts.
But God will not always prevent His personal temple of flesh from standing on this earth. Soon a great revival of His true church will begin, during the era of the sixth seal, when God “seals” His elect with His Holy Spirit. And, in that revival, Yahweh will open the hearts of many Jews, enabling them to realize that Jesus is God, their promised Messiah. That multitude of Jews shall also include 144,000 male virgins who will proclaim His truths, 12,000 from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. It will likely be during this sixth seal’s era that a third stone temple, representing Jesus, shall be built at the same place where the second temple stood in Jerusalem. So, by the time the construction of that new stone temple is completed, a true priesthood of Israel will exist, one which will no longer use that temple for their own political and economic gain, a priesthood that will worship the real God from their spirits and in truth. In addition, all those Jewish and Gentile elect priests of Israel will know that God’s promises for His temple can only be utterly fulfilled in the eternal body of Jesus, their Messiah and Saviour. All this is what God has been waiting for, why He has not allowed Israel to rebuild their symbolic stone temple again, not yet, and why Jesus has not returned in His body of flesh, as our true Temple. Only when Jesus is about to destroy every “stone” erected in all the false churches on earth and, within the lifetimes of His new priesthood, shall entirely eliminate the devil’s world order (which created and maintains those fake churches), will He return in His body of flesh to a physical temple standing in Jerusalem. But, for now, the false churches remain strong, still able to take captive stone temples and abuse them for their own evil purposes, just as they did in Jesus’ day.
After hearing the prophecy about the destruction of the magnificent temple they were admiring, His disciples wanted to know more. For they did not fully understand all the biblical prophecies about the last days. “So, seating Himself down upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached Him privately, saying: ‘When will these things you said to us occur? And what [is] the sign of your
[second] advent, even the completion of the age?’” (Mat. 24:3, from: Καθημένου δὲ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ
Ὄρους τῶν Ἐλαιῶν προσῆλθον αὐτῷ οἱ μαθηταὶ κατʼ ἰδίαν λέγοντες· Εἰπὸν ἡμῖν πότε ταῦτα ἔσται, καὶ τί τὸ σημεῖον τῆς σῆς παρουσίας καὶ συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος, SBLGNT). Notice here that the disciples asked Jesus about the “completion” (συντέλεια, “a point of time marking completion of a duration, completion, close, end,” BDGAG3) of the “age” (αἰών, “a segment of time as a particular unit of history, age,” BDAG3). That “age” they were referring to was obviously the last days, as defined by biblical prophecies. So the disciples knew something about the beginning of that age, since their Messiah had come, which was the initial event of the prophesied last days. But now they wanted to know what will occur during the remainder of the last days, all that would come after their Messiah fulfilled the New Covenant’s salvation promises. What would they experience after this?
As mentioned, especially during these last months of His first advent, Jesus had repeatedly explained how He was about to die, rise from the dead, ascend into heaven, then return to rule the earth. But His disciples naturally assumed all this would occur within a few months or years. In their minds,
“the completion of the age,” the coming events of the last days, where God would destroy Satan’s world order during the end times, after the Messiah worked His New Covenant salvation of their souls, seemed as though it could even be completed in less than a week, or within a year, perhaps by the very next Day of Atonement, or by the next Passover feast at the most. For they still thought in terms of what God would do physically. They could not conceive of God’s plan to alter spiritual perspectives and moral views throughout the world, through a slow and steady process which would gradually unfold over a period longer than two thousand years, which would only find fulfillment Page 1581
and completion a millennium after His second advent, after He had ruled all the earth for another thousand years. They assumed earthly days, but Jesus would do it in a few days of heavenly time.
Seeing that His disciples were bracing themselves for some days of extreme trouble and hardship, but they were not actually preparing themselves to learn His truths and wisdom so they could engage in a lifelong war against the forces of spiritual and moral darkness, Jesus responded with a warning.
Then He followed this with a description of a series of events leading up to the end times, the kinds of world-wide tribulations that would take many generations to complete, and would, in fact, occur over a period of more than two millenniums. In His Revelation to the apostle John, about 60 years later, those times were what He would call the eras of the first simultaneous five seals. Jesus said:
“Watch out! Not anyone should completely deceive you people! For many will come resting upon My name, saying I am the Messiah, and will deceive many. Yet you people will remain to hear wars and reports of wars. Clearly discern! Do not be fearful! For it needs to happen.
But it is not yet the end times.
“For a people grouping [i.e., a race, tribe or any people affiliated with one another through some kind of common bond] will be raised up against a people grouping, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes against places. Yet all these things [are] the beginning of birth pains. Then they will betray you people into tribulation and slaughter you. And you people will be those being hated by all kinds of people groupings because of My name.
“And then many will stumble [into sin] and will betray one another and hate one another.
Also many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And, because the lawlessness [is] to be increased, the love of many will be evaporated. Yet the one persevering [in just and Godlike love] unto the end, this one will be saved. And this, the Gospel of the kingdom, will be proclaimed in the entire world’s population for a testimony to all the people groupings. And then the end times will arrive.”
(Mat. 24:4-14, from: Βλέπετε μή τις ὑμᾶς πλανήσῃ· πολλοὶ γὰρ ἐλεύσονται ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί
μου λέγοντες· Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ χριστός, καὶ πολλοὺς πλανήσουσιν. μελλήσετε δὲ ἀκούειν
πολέμους καὶ ἀκοὰς πολέμων· ὁρᾶτε, μὴ θροεῖσθε· δεῖ γὰρ γενέσθαι, ἀλλʼ οὔπω ἐστὶν τὸ
τέλος. ἐγερθήσεται γὰρ ἔθνος ἐπὶ ἔθνος καὶ βασιλεία ἐπὶ βασιλείαν, καὶ ἔσονται λιμοὶ καὶ
σεισμοὶ κατὰ τόπους· πάντα δὲ ταῦτα ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων. Τότε παραδώσουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς θλῖψιν καὶ
ἀποκτενοῦσιν ὑμᾶς, καὶ ἔσεσθε μισούμενοι ὑπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου. καὶ
τότε σκανδαλισθήσονται πολλοὶ καὶ ἀλλήλους παραδώσουσιν καὶ μισήσουσιν ἀλλήλους· καὶ
πολλοὶ ψευδοπροφῆται ἐγερθήσονται καὶ πλανήσουσιν πολλούς· καὶ διὰ τὸ πληθυνθῆναι τὴν
ἀνομίαν ψυγήσεται ἡ ἀγάπη τῶν πολλῶν. ὁ δὲ ὑπομείνας εἰς τέλος οὗτος σωθήσεται. καὶ
κηρυχθήσεται τοῦτο τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῆς βασιλείας ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ εἰς μαρτύριον πᾶσιν
τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, καὶ τότε ἥξει τὸ τέλος, SBLGNT.)
Keep in mind, Jesus prophesied that all these events were to take place before the “end” (τέλος), meaning, before the end times beg a n . Also, we should realize that Jesus did not say one kind of event or tribulation would end before the next began. Rather, Jesus seemed to say, just like other biblical prophecies about the last days, that one kind would build upon the other, until Satan’s world had filled up the measure of its sins, until his world order was ready to be fully condemned and receive God’s deadly wrath, which will fall upon it during end times. And “the Gospel of the kingdom,” the sobering news of God’s salvation through His body’s tortuous death and His resurrection from the dead, would be preached during this entire time, until it reached the whole population of the world (indicated by ὅλῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ, where the noun οἰκουμένη means “inhabited earth,” BDAG3). From Page 1582
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the first days after Jesus completed His salvation works, during His first advent, until the end times finally arrived, the kingdom of God would grow, build up and advance, just as the devil’s kingdom was prophesied to do so. Both kingdoms had to solidify into their true essences before the end times began. Satan’s world order needed to be exposed as an irrationally unjust kingdom, and God’s kingdom had to be proved right, just and effectively beneficial for all His creations, so that both kingdoms would be clearly divided, before Jesus returned to complete His judgment of the earth.
The kingdoms of God and Satan have both matured, and the people of both more closely associate themselves with the rulers of their respective kingdoms. That is, the citizens of both kingdoms are becoming more like the rulers of their spirits. Each day, the elect realize they need to be more just and equitable through their spirits’ love, more like their heavenly Father and Brother. The elect are beginning to see that they must now learn to mutually respect, care for and love one another, all according to the truths and realities God created and revealed, if they want to even survive, and if they also honestly want to prosper in peaceful, joyful, fulfilling lives. But each passing day, the non-elect are more fervently demanding that they should be allowed to become their own gods, their own creators of their own laws and ways for their own selfish purposes, so they can practise lawlessness in their own personal lives, yet take extreme and unjust revenge against all who might oppose their completely manipulated and enslaved “free wills.” For all the myopic non-elect merely want to get whatever they can, to feed the lusts of their lies and delusions while they can, knowing that they all will soon be cast into the void of hell, where their lusts will never receive anything to gratify them.
Each passing year, God builds His earthly kingdom into a higher, brighter, broader and more solid mountain. Every season of history sees more biblical wisdom proved and accepted as the truth by the honest, just and loving souls of the earth. At the same time, Satan’s kingdom keeps building up its greatest man-made idol, created in the likenesses of a weak, foolish, mortal man. And, in the very beginning, when Babylon created Satan’s humanistic kingdom, the devil’s minions give up every scrap of figurative gold they possessed, to build up the head and core doctrines of that kingdom. So they only had silver left, during the days of the Persian Empire, to pay for the building up of the administration by human gods in that humanistic kingdom, to build the idol’s chest and arms. And after their silver was gone, they sacrificed all their bronze to build the guts and thighs, to hire all the Greek production managers employed by the head through his administration. Then, when they ran out of bronze, they used iron to the legs of their kingdom, to pay their Roman working stiffs in their artificial hierarchy of their kingdom. By the time Jesus came, most aspects of the devil’s humanistic kingdom were complete, and the model for all oppressive hierarchies of the future was established.
Finally, Satan was almost ready to remove the scaffolding and raise the idol of his most destructive religion in history upon its base. Yet, by now, his children had nothing left in the minds of their dull spirits to finish it, except a few chunks of iron. So they mixed their remaining iron with clay and gave this to their most exploited ones, so they might construct the feet supporting it. When the Roman Empire experienced Jesus, Satan’s citizens removed the scaffolding and foolishly raised the entire weight of their structure onto those feet, which had been made of the factious and weak mix of iron and clay. But two millenniums have passed now. So that clay has dried and is cracking more each day. Their exploited base, upon which the worship of Satan and human gods is standing, has begun to break apart. Thus, their idolatrous religion will soon fall, with their hierarchical humanistic systems, all that serves their delusions. So the living mountain of Christ’s kingdom chose this time, near the end of the last days, to reach out and strike down that idol. Soon the end times and His second advent will crush humanism to dust, and He will trample it under His feet. Soon only that mountain will remain, pouring out rivers of abundant life to sustain the four corners of the earth.
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The end times are indeed coming, although not in the way the fake humanistic churches think they will come. Satan’s world order knows it. Now let the elect also know it. Soon Jesus will topple and crush all the evil, ruthless, exploiting, unjust, oppressive hierarchies built on idolatry, on the worship of humans as their highest gods, and on the spiritual laws serving the whims of those psychopathic elite human gods, who are all blind slaves of demons. All their political, economic, military and class systems will soon perish, in just one generation. And all who love those delusions will die with those systems. The only ones our all-knowing and all-powerful God will save from annihilation will be a remnant of elect who humbly serve one another through just love, who value God’s created realities in their spirits, and not according to their wallets—who rely on God’s power and justice rather than the terrorism of vengeful human gods wielding deadly weapons. Only the elect who know that all are equally lowly, wretched, truly sinful and infantile, that all require God’s unmerited, unearned grace in Jesus’ teaching and training of their elect spirits to be saved, will be saved. Let the elect be ready for this immanent coming of Jesus, for His utter destruction of all existing in the world order, for the new world order that existed at the creation of this earth, for reality, equity and true justice.
At the end of the apostle John’s life on earth, while the brilliant light of the true apostolic church was fading into the darkness of fake humanistic churches, Jesus revealed a scroll of earthly times to him.
This book had seven seals, which no one could open except the Person of God who had lived a holy life in a body of sinless flesh upon the earth, then sacrificed His flesh, for a moment, to pay for the sins of God’s spiritual children. None but Jesus was worthy to open the seals, which were to unfold the seven eras of the last days. Only His hands held the authority and power to cause those eras to pass in time, as heaven planned, to advance God’s just and loving kingdom on earth and destroy the devil’s rule over sinners. Then Jesus opened one seal at a time, each to accomplish its appointed task.
Now, as we look at those seven eras of the last days, we must realize that our perception of time has been warped by the deluded teachings of humanism. For their incessant propaganda insists that all human beings are gods who create their own essences and completely control their own destinies. In fact, they have even taught that animals control their own destinies through evolving their own wise attributes. Therefore, humanists make extremely unreal assumptions about time, space, energy and material entities. Somehow, they think material existence is owned by human beings, can be created and controlled by human gods. This includes the assumption that each human god rules over all one’s time within one’s own sphere of existence. So they conclude that, upon the death of a human god, especially a king or any other owner of people, the time associated with that human god’s life has also ended. They will refer to “the era of king so-and-so,” or the era of a certain generation. A humanist likes to name times after people or kingdoms, since he or she believes that human beings are gods who create and own all that exists, even time. But this human-centred view is a delusion.
In the Revelation, humans were placed within and subject to God’s created scroll of time. Then none but our God Jesus ruled over that scroll, over the passing of the eras of time sealed in that scroll, and no human, nor any other created spirit, was able to make those times pass. It was not the other way around, as humanists like to think. And that scroll of times represents reality, while humanists dream delusions. Time keeps ticking according to the will of God, and all lives enter and leave His created time according to His will alone. Time is not subject to any human, nor to any created entity in His material space-time continuum or in His spiritual space-time continuum. All time is created by God and is subject to His will alone. God’s will builds up His desired final end product, progressively within times that are relative to His thoughts and will. Time serves God and His purposes, and He created time to serve Him and His purposes. So time is not what our minds of material matter perceive it to be, but what God ordained the minds of our spirits to experience for the education of Page 1584
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our spirits. Time never begins and ends with lives of human beings. There are no separated distinct eras of kings and kingdoms, nor of anything else, since time is an experience of spirits, and all past and future earthly time is one time, one moment of non-linear spiritual time. In reality, there is only one time, one continuum, which is entirely relative to the mind and will of God. Furthermore, God’s thoughts occur outside of all His creations, outside of both linear material time and non-linear spiritual time. So time is His instantaneous thoughts. All events actually occur within no time at all.
God created time for the purpose of accomplishing His will, where each new moment of time would build upon previous moments of experienced time, until times finished constructing the whole of His one purpose for His material creations. So we must stop thinking of fragmented, separated, distinct units of time, where the events of those times are manufactured by the wills of men, where human beings rule over time itself. We must no long view times as distinct units owned by certain people, and that times do not occur simultaneously with one another. Now we need to start thinking in terms of the purposes for God, where the past has not ended, but remains an integral part of all the future.
Yes, God adds new building blocks at appointed times, to progressively build upon what He chose to construct with the whole of material time, to progressively advance the purpose of His will for all of time, where one time ends as soon as it achieves what He created it to accomplish. So times when those additions occur might be called beginnings of new eras. However, those additions are not to be separated from the previous eras and the future times, not in the way humanists perceive time. Past times are not gone, not erased once a new era begins. When we lay a brick to construct a building, we do not first knock out the brick laid before it. Nor does a bricklayer begin each day by tearing down all the bricks laid on the previous day. Otherwise, the building would never be completed. All the bricks of new events and revelations become one with those which God previously set down in their perfectly planned and predestined places throughout all past times. And all past, present and future times are parts of the whole of the thoughts of God at the beginning of time. And none of the past events and revelations end. Nothing but circumstances, which serve as scaffolding and levelling lines for the builders, are altered, moved or removed. But all that builds on God’s purpose remains.
My point is that the first five seals of the Revelation are not neatly segmented units of time. In fact, there are no initiating events for any of those first five eras. Jesus only revealed specific, notable and identifiable starting events for the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. But the eras of the first five seals can only be identified by principal effects and characteristics of injustice worked by Satan’s kingdom of the world order. And God allows that devil to do all that evil for two main purposes: (1) to punish deliberate sinners through delusions causing destruction, and (2) to demonstrate the effects of delusions, lies and sins. Yet the effects and characteristics in each era of each of the first five seals clearly will continue into all the subsequent eras as well, even into the eras of the sixth and seventh seals. None of the events and evils used to delineate and identify each of the first five eras will cease until Jesus destroys the world order and returns to rule the earth during the era of the seventh seal. In fact, all the characteristics of the first five seals have also been characteristics of the devil’s fourth religious kingdom of Rome from its beginning. None of those eras began at specific times after the first advent of Jesus and none will end until Jesus returns. All those five eras signify are merely the times that their particular characteristics were most dominant and glorified within the world order.
When we look at the major effects and characteristics of the first five seals, and compare them to the events Jesus described in the first thirteen verses of chapter 24 in Matthew’s Gospel, we see how the first four seals, with their four horsemen, portray the expansion and effects of the Roman religion throughout the world. In Daniel’s prophecies, the religious Roman Empire is called the devil’s fourth kingdom, and Rome completes the most evil of all the false religions Satan ever invented to oppose Page 1585
God and to nullify God’s just, equitable and loving ways. But the devil sowed the seed of Roman humanism, all of its essence of core doctrines and ways, in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, who began the worship of self as one’s own chief god. Then, in a process involving much destruction, pain and death worked by his minions from Persia, Greece and Rome, Satan refined, perfected and completed that religious system of injustice. Persia definitely perfected administrative hierarchies designed to oppress the masses through terrorism. Greece developed the doctrines which allowed humanism to metabolize the human lives it devoured. Then the legs and feet of Rome did indeed carry humanism to the ends of the earth. And, as soon as the devil’s religion of humanism was complete, God came to His priesthood of Israel in the body of Jesus, to sow the seed of true, effective, beneficial, just and loving wisdom through a right relationship with God, to teach us all God had been manifesting to humankind through His Scriptures and through His natural creations.
So God will release the horsemen of the first four seals into all the world, and they will do the spiritual religious works of Satan against God. We must remember this as we interpret Scriptures.
For God told us these facts for our spiritual benefit, as a warning, to make us more watchful and to prepare us for the attacks we will face against us. This is why God’s prophecies primarily focus on spiritual matters which cause all the physical events of those eras. To prepare for the future, we must begin by strengthening our spirits, by drawing into a closer relationship with our God Jesus. Then all else, every physical need, will either be provided or become superfluous to our eternal welfare. So we should not do what most interpreters do. We must not simply look solely for physical clues about how physical future events will occur. Rather, we need to realize that Christ’s Revelation reveals information about a spiritual warfare between two opposing spiritual kingdoms, between God’s kingdom and Satan’s world order. During the eras of the seven seals, Satan’s kingdom began by conquering new lands. However, that evil kingdom then reaped the dire consequences of their unjust religion. And we definitely see how its troubles relate to its totally inequitable and unjust class systems, and to its factious hierarchies of human gods. But then that Roman religion began to deflect the blame for all its failures to the church of Israel, especially during the fifth seal’s era, murdering both the Old and New Covenant elect. Like most psychopaths, the humanists of the fourth kingdom blamed the blameless for their own deadly foolishness. Those humanists have convinced their exploited dupes to persecute and murder the honest and wise, souls who benefited the lives of those dupes through their acts of just love. Elite priests of Satan’s kingdom always transfer their own guilt to others, although all of those human gods deliberately cause all the suffering and deaths of their own dupes in their own kingdom, and cause all this intentionally, for their own selfish purposes.
All the events described in the first five seals continue throughout the time leading up to the eras of the sixth and seventh seals, up to the end times. And the eras of these first five seals are what Jesus was talking about in the first 14 verses of Matthew 24. Jesus was talking about all that would occur until the end times put an end to Satan’s world order, until the kingdom of God ruled over the earth.
1. The first seal: “Then look, a white horse, and the one sitting upon it having a bow. And a crown was given to him. Then he went out conquering, so that he might completely conquer”
(Rev. 6:2, ALT). White horses are the rarest colour, and stand out from most other horses. So, in most battles, commanders used dark-coloured horses, like those of the common soldiers, to draw less attention to themselves, so they would not become an easily identifiable target for the enemy. Thus, the white horse of the first seal indicated that conquering commander did not care whether or not the enemy could easily identify him. He was very confident that he would quickly overcome his enemy, without endangering himself, even though he rode on a white horse. Then his bow implied an impersonal and more cowardly kind of warfare, not the Page 1586
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kind where soldiers fight face to face with swords. As for the passive voice in the clause, “a crown was given to him,” it implies that God granted this warrior king permission to conquer and rule through violence, an ability to kill all who opposed him. Lastly, it says that he went out to conquer, through his own deluded and greedy will of his spirit. Then the text adds the conjunctive particle and aorist (punctiliar) subjunctive at the end of the sentence, which suggests, grammatically, that this rider intends to complete his conquering, until he has fully subjugated all. It hints at the ambition of this ruler to conquer literally all that he desires to conquer, which is, in context, the entire world. So this commander, who serves the religious kingdom of Roman humanism, will not stop conquering, but continuously strive to conquer every part of the world, especially wherever any part of God’s kingdom might be established.
2. The second seal: “Then another, a sorrel horse, came out. And there was given to him sitting upon i
t [the ability] to remove peace out of the earth , so that they will slaughter one another.
And a great sword was given to him” (Rev. 6:4, ALT). The red or sorrel horse is common, and symbolizes the blood of death. It is also part of his disguise as a commoner, who rides a common horse. This commander of Satan’s second division seems to be a spy sent out by that devil, because he is given the task of a spy. For his mission is “to remove peace out of the earth,” to weaken lands targeted by his demonic kingdom as potential conquests. And that is the principal role of spies, to cause divisions and internal dissent, until the people in the targeted land begin to “slaughter one another.” Spies try to lower morale and incite anger, so they lie and slander in cunning and convincing ways. First they must lie to worm their way into positions of influence. Once they are falsely trusted, they then lie about doing good works for the benefit of the people, while they are actually working to harm the people, as they sabotage resources, the infrastructure and the defences in the land, all while they are also slandering the innocent so they can stir up trouble and divide the people. By deceit and disguised malicious intentions, they steal peace from a land, cause chaos and many deaths of civilians. So deception would be the symbolic “great sword” of this rider, his “great” power to kill multitudes. The devil’s religion of humanism has always engaged in these practises of sending spies into just, peaceful and orderly places, to destroy the strength of those places through lies. Then Satan’s religion can more easily conquer them and take over. This was the modus operandi of the Roman Empire from the beginning, and their primary method used to destroy the apostolic churches, so they could replace them with their own fake churches. And now, such as with Trump and Putin, they use this same tactic of the same demonic religion.
Satan’s Roman religious kingdom still ruthlessly employs deceptions to murder the innocent.
3. The third seal: “Then look, a black horse, and the one sitting upon it is holding a scale in his hand. Also I heard something like a sound in the midst of the four living creatures, reasoning:
‘A measure [i.e., a khoinix, a little more than a litre or a quart] of wheat for a day’s wages [i.e., for a denarius] and three measures of barley for a day’s wages. And do not be unfair [about what is paid for] the olive oil and the wine’” (Rev. 6:5-6, ALT). A person traditionally wore black clothing while grieving, either in godly sorrow leading to repentance or because of a tragedy.
Here the horse was black because of a tragedy. That is, there was a famine. And the rider on that horse was a salesman, holding a scale, trying to exploit the people by selling basic foods (which, in those days, included olive oil and wine with wheat and barley), but at horrifyingly inflated prices. Thus, he symbolized the effects of economic policies associated with Satan’s fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire. Instead of controlling and equitably rationing remaining food supplies, while also building up or finding new sources of nourishment for the people, Page 1587
these humanistic governments allowed merchants to exploit their people—by stockpiling food supplies so they could sell that food at extremely high prices. Of course, this kind of price gouging is a form of theft in God’s eyes. And forcing the people to pay artificially high prices for basic necessities of life is one of the worst kinds of theft, since it invariably results in the slow and painful deaths of innocent souls, so that the parasitic psychopathic elite might grow obscenely wealthy and powerful. Yet this was a standard practice in the Roman Empire, just as it is today. Every criminal gang, every fascist nation, every ruthless dictator, every right wing wing-nut and every other kind of humanistic son of Satan sees price gouging, the worst kind of theft, as a necessary and good practise made by the “wise” elite in their “fair market economies,” then justify this by saying it provides the same equitable opportunity for every common psychopath to get rich, so it cannot be called unjust or a form of theft. In fact, some even call this kind of theft “the great American dream.” But the deadly and completely artificial famines caused by these demonically justified economic practises—even while the simple cooperation and sound governing practises of the elect are forbidden, but could easily provide for the needs of all the people—prove that these practises are foolish, unjust and evil.
4. The fourth seal: “Then look, a light grey horse and the one sitting above it; the name for him [is] Death. And Hades was following with him [as his disciple to learn his ways]. Then decision-making authority was granted to him over a quarter of the earth, to completely de
stroy by sword and by famine and by death, even through the agency of living things belonging to the earth” (Rev. 6:8, ALT). Here John did not use the normal preposition ἐπί to indicate that this rider was sitting normally “upon” a horse’s saddle. Instead John chose to use the preposition ἐπάνω (“up over”). So he seemed to portray this rider as sitting upon raised, chair-like saddle, the kind that commanders once used to get a better view of a battle field. And his horse was a pale colour, silver or light grey. Yet this horse is described as being
“green” (χλωρός, “yellowish-green,” the colour of young, healthy plants). So this silver or grey horse seems to have been standing in the shade, reflecting the greenish light of sunshine filtering through and reflecting from green trees. Thus, this brief description implies that the rider was a commander sitting on a chair-like saddle with his horse parked under the cool shade of trees in full leaf during the summer months, perched high and quite comfortably so he could casually watch the destruction of a quarter of the earth. And this quarter of the earth, over which this commander was granted “decision-making authority,” likely was not to be defined as a geographical quarter, although it might be. From the spiritual nature of this biblical prophecy, we should probably assume that it refers to 25 percent of the people in the world, within Satan’s religious, humanistic, Roman empire that has conquered the world. So this could refer to something like the elite one or two percent of the population casually deciding to kill a quarter of the earth’s people. These elite can do this because of the power they received from first horseman’s conquering, and as they choose to let many perish from the second rider’s removal of peace in their lands; as well as while they let all the rest suffer and die from food insecurity in the artificial famines caused by the third horseman. Either way, a full quarter of the earth will die through political decisions made by those whom the fourth horseman represents. And all the works of the first three horsemen come together under the leadership of this fourth rider, then continue perpetually in Satan’s humanistic kingdom of Rome throughout its existence, until Jesus returns. There are other interesting details about this fourth horseman as well. First, notice how he was the only rider granted a name, the name of “Death” (Θάνατος), which suggests that he is the commander of the other three riders. And remember how humanists throughout history have loved to cry out, “Let Page 1588
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Death take them all!” Next, we see how the Roman concept of Hades, the eternal place of the dead, is also personified, but as a disciple of Death, as one who is learning the doctrines and ways of Death. For humanistic concepts of afterlife were, are and always will be based solely upon their observations of physical bodies, of dead and dying flesh, never upon spiritual realities. For humanists maintain an entirely material perspective. Thus, their concepts of an afterlife, their Hades, learns and develops the characteristics of Death. Their doctrines of an afterlife bear characteristics of psychopathy, just like this rider does. Lastly, notice the ways in which Death destroys a quarter of the earth, by His sword, which represents violence. He kills by violent crimes, rebellions and wars. Then he also devastates lands by famines and by deaths caused by various other means. On top of all this, Death will even be able to crush the lives of the people through “the agency of living things belonging to the earth” (ὑπὸ τῶν
θηρίων τῆς γῆς). A θηρίον is “any living creature, excluding humans” (BDAG3). So this not only include dangerous wild animals, but also disease-causing bacteria, plants poisoned by pesticides and other life on earth that weakens or kills, any life that can destroy a human life.
5. The fifth seal: “And when He opened the fifth seal, I saw the souls of those having been s laughtered on account of [their faith in] the Word of God and due to the testimony which they were bearing, [with the effect of them now being] under the alter [of God in heaven].
And they called out with a great voice, reasoning, ‘Holy and truthful absolute Ruler, until what time? You are not judging and punishing our blood [shed] by the inhabitants upon the earth!’ Now a white robe had been granted to each one of them. Then a word was uttered to them, so that they will be refreshed for a brief time, until they might have been full and fully s upplied ; as well as their fellow slaves and their siblings, those who are about to be destroyed l ike them also ” (Rev. 6:9-11, ALT). Here, the present tense verbs in the clause, οὐ κρίνεις καὶ
ἐκδικεῖς τὸ αἷμα ἡμῶν (“You are not judging and punishing our blood ...”) indicate a current and ongoing slaughter of those who believe “the Word of God” and testify about its truths, as well as God’s plan to wait until the end times and final judgment day to collectively punish their murderers, the Roman kingdom. Until then, each deceased martyr remains alive at the gates of heaven, wearing a robe of purified attributes, and is being refreshed, granted words of counsel and all needs of their spirits, even of their new bodies, transfigured and restored bodies now made of an eternal spiritual substance. God is compensating for their sufferings.
This fifth seal refers to all the believers of God’s Word who have been or will be martyred, during the entire age of the last days, all whom the humanists murdered since the day Jesus ascended into heaven, and all whom they will murder until Jesus destroys their kingdom. And that religious kingdom of Rome has indeed slaughtered many elect souls, always because Rome hated their testimonies of just, equitable and loving truth, always because those elect interfered with their murdering, oppression and exploitations. Both Satan’s false churches and secular institutions in the devil’s world order, despite all their irreconcilable differences and wars against one another, have been united in their efforts to kill God’s just, loving and faithful children. Yes, they also murder many of their own. But they are good at multitasking.
So they have seldom been too busy with their selfish ambitions and obligations to murder one another that they have forgotten to also slaughter the plain, honest, loving folks, those with elect spirits that beg for a little equitable justice. And the faithful elect spirits in both of God’s Old and New Covenant branches of His church of Israel, both the true Jews and true Christians at heart, have been the most persecuted people throughout history, especially during this last century. Thus, since they have murdered more elect recently than ever before, Page 1589
the era of the fifth seal is likely almost over. So the great tribulation, the end times of the sixth and seventh seals when God will punish Satan’s world order, should begin soon. But until Jesus physically returns, humanists will always continue to murder God’s loving elect.
Now compare the events of these first five seals with Jesus’ words in the first 14 verses of Matthew 24. In summary, the Revelation tells us that the humanistic religious Roman Empire would begin by physically conquering the rest of the world. And they did this, even with much superficial glitter and deception to draw attention to themselves. Then they also sent spies out to destroy the morale of the places they were about to conquer, as well as among those they had already conquered. So the rider of the second seal was active while the first seal’s era of conquering continued. Then, in each land they conquered, Rome used cunning cerebral and spiritual tactics, with increasingly devious lies from their Greco-Roman religious and moral philosophies, as a pretext to justify their violent terrorism which they employed to subjugate the masses. And their highly exploitative economic practises also used Satan’s invention of money to cause incessant artificial famines around the world, even when growing conditions were good and food should have been available to everyone in need.
Now some might now say that none of this is possible, because the Roman Empire ended when the Germanic tribes conquered Rome in the fifth century, or when Constantinople fell to the Turks in the fifteenth century. But make no mistake. Barbarians did not conquer and end the Roman Empire, nor did the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire. For Rome is spiritual kingdom of religious philosophies, doctrines, laws and traditions. And not one ounce of that has ever died, but has always thrived and has now conquered the entire earth. And all those conquerors of the Roman Empire were thoroughly Roman themselves, in all their spiritual, moral, philosophical and even outwardly cultural practices.
So Satan’s fourth religious kingdom of Rome still struts throughout the earth, demanding that we must all worship the human gods in their artificial hierarchies, not matter how much they exploit, oppress and murder us. Yes, through Daniel, God prophesied that the fourth kingdom of Rome would always remain factious, where each subject kingdom and wanna-be human god would war against the other. And those selfishly ambitious fools have indeed been constantly instigating even extreme violence against one another, through their lying and slanderous propaganda. However, that religious Roman Empire definitely did not die. It has done nothing but expand and conquer other lands and other religions throughout history, especially after the “dark ages,” after the feudal times.
And all the deeds of the first five seals have been practised throughout history, including the fifth-seal murders of God’s true elect. But, on the other hand, God’s spiritual kingdom of justice and Godlike love has also grown exponentially upon the earth, always advancing at a steady pace. And, beginning with the Renaissance and Reformation, a dichotomization of citizens from these two opposing kingdoms could be clearly seen. The humanistic kingdom is still gather the non-elect together, as God’s kingdom is uniting the elect. And now this dichotomizing process is stronger than it ever was in the past. Many elect will no longer tolerate the unjust, inequitable sins of humanism.
So Satan’s fourth kingdom of the Roman Empire has always used deceiving rhetoric and slander as their first and foremost weapon against their enemies. And they have always bribed or coerced the ruthless to serve as their spies, to spread lies which destroy the peace of their enemies. Thus, that deeply evil spiritual and religious fourth kingdom has always been trying to use dishonesty against their first, worst and most feared enemy, against God and His true church of Israel. This is why Jesus began His teachings about the last days with a warning: “Watch out! Not anyone should completely deceive you people. For many will come resting upon My name, saying I am the Messiah, and will deceive many.” Here Jesus described the deceivers by a prepositional phrase with a dative object, ἐπὶ
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and accrue benefits from His name, would stand “upon the authority of His name.” These liars would also carefully arrange their words in order to continuously declare that Jesus is “the Messiah”
(ὁ χριστός). So He was describing false disciples, fake Christians. And remember, He said there would be many (πολλοὶ ...). Jesus did not want us to fall for cunning lies of humanistic propaganda with convincing deceptions. He knew Satan’s kingdom would always be attempting to lead His elect away from faith in the real God, into a trust of human gods. Jesus knew they would send in spies, claiming to believe that Jesus is their Messiah, while working day and night to nullify His truths.
Jesus warned us that fake shepherds would come, creating false reasoning from partial truths, from outright lies and through emotions of the flesh. Jesus knew the fourth humanistic religious kingdom of Rome would soon build a fake religion and a fake church upon the weak foundation of their false assumptions, just as His enemies had always been doing in the past, since the days of Moses. There were always those who employed false religion to lure in the gullible elect, to divert them from true faith in the real God and away from God’s just and loving ways. So that is exactly what the religious Roman Empire did, very successfully. By the end of the first century, through cunning philosophical and spiritual tricks of the fourth kingdom, accompanied by much violence, all that was seen as true Judaism or pure Christianity in the world had been replaced by institutions of the fourth kingdom.
By the third century, literally all the “visible” synagogues and churches, all the fellowships that were available to the public, were completely fake and humanistic. The truly awakened and still loving elect had to worship in fear and in secret, never daring to openly proclaim the reasons for their faith.
Not one outward sign of God’s kingdom existed on earth. Yet, God’s real kingdom is not outward.
Now remember that Satan’s children seldom think about, nor care about, anything spiritual, since all that is spiritual, including all just laws, condemn them to the core of their non-elect, loveless, wicked spirits. Thus, the devil’s offspring want only outward, physical shows of religion, the kinds that can provide income, earthly power and bragging rights for them. So the theistic humanists will build brick and mortar buildings, then declare those buildings to be holy churches which serve God. And, once those fakes have been able to destroy or steal all the physical meeting places, schools and buildings used to do charitable works by the true churches within their grasp, they declare those true churches to be heretics whom they have conquered in the name of God. Then they proclaim that they are the only true Christians or Jews, the only true churches, because God supposedly helped them use their brute force and violence to eliminate the true churches and other fake churches. But their works of physical dominance, with all their murdering and plundering, is in vain. For God’s true church is a spiritual kingdom, not physical. So they gain nothing real, not an inch of spiritual ground.
Humanistic churches, no matter how rich and powerful they become through their lies and violence, can do nothing to actually damage God’s spiritual kingdom in any way. For they can only harm flesh and physical entities. And God’s kingdom of elect spirits merely expresses their spirit’s love through their flesh and through physical things. So humanists might eliminate or confiscate some of the entities the elect use to express love from their spirits, but they can never capture nor kill their eternal elect spirits themselves, not with armies and weapons of this earth, and those non-elect spirits cannot enter nor even draw near elect spirits. God and His elect children are spirits made of spiritual substances which can only exist in their own spiritual space-time continuum of heaven, while Satan and his non-elect children exist in their spiritual realm of hell, with an impassible gulf between both.
As Jesus said, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If My Kingdom were of this world, then My servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now My Kingdom is not from here” (John 18:36, WEB). The kingdom of our God Jesus is not from the earth, nor are the elect spirits in His kingdom physical entities, but spiritual entities, who must dwell in a spiritual realm, Page 1591
not a physical realm. So the earthly kingdom of God consists of elect spirits who are actually parts of heaven’s realm and existing now in that realm. Yes, those elect spirits now perceive things in this temporary physical realm through their minds of flesh, which then translate all the perceptions of its senses to those spirits, through the interface of their souls. But those elect spirits are sitting in the lands of heaven above while they communicate with their minds of flesh, since both the spiritual and physical space-time continua occupy the same “space.” And non-elect spirits love delusions of the flesh, because they have no rewards waiting for them in their eternal home of hell, while the elect look forward to their eternal rewards in their eternal homes. Thus, His elect conduct their wars in spiritual ways for spiritual rewards. They fight for the spiritual matters of justice, equity and all the other attributes of God-like love. Big buildings with golden alters mean absolutely nothing to them.
Then Jesus also declared: “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to My voice” (John 18:37, WEB). Jesus spoke of His eternal and unconquerable spiritual kingdom here, and the spiritual truths of loving justice. Jesus was born to be the King of heaven, to be Yahweh God walking among His children, whose spirits were created in His image, in the image of Jesus. And elect spirits dwelling in bodies of flesh on earth also dwell in heaven, since all possess the ability to hear and heed Jesus’ voice, which is being uttered from His Holy Spirit which resides within heaven. All elect spirits, as they are now giving life to bodies of flesh, are made of eternal heavenly substances and are, therefore, part of heaven’s kingdom, existing within it. Therefore, since nothing on earth can conquer heaven, none of the theistic or secular humanists throughout history, to this very day, have been able to conquer the elect belonging to God’s kingdom of heaven and earth.
Of course, the past elect with the most awakened spirits, who most clearly heard and understood the words of Christ’s real Holy Spirit, did not make even the slightest attempt to gather disciples unto themselves, nor try to build huge political hierarchies with a military force that could war against their perceived enemies. Rather, the awakened elect remained almost invisible. For all the more fully awakened elect knew: (1) Jesus is the one and only Head of every individual in His true church; (2) none but Jesus can make disciples and choose the genuine members of His one and only true church of Israel; (3) without the Messiah’s personal teaching, training, counsel and power working in them for their own salvations, men cannot do anything truly good; (4) men c
an never create their own
religions, since all are infantile, weak, easily misled sinners with no power nor ability to exercise decision-making authority over others, except through the express commands and counsel of Jesus’
Holy Spirit, and none are capable of saving anyone, not even themselves; (5) men cannot be trusted as saviours or gods of other souls since, whenever sinners become the elite, they grow ever more deluded and sinful through their power and pride, thus, cannot make and enforce good laws for their people; (6) God will never condone humanistic hierarchies, since all men are equal sinners, since all need Christ’s continuous and ongoing works of salvation and can never do anything truly wise and beneficial for anyone else without it; and (7) God’s true church and loving kingdom on earth is not external like Satan’s world order, and cannot be defended by weapons of the devil’s kingdom, since God’s kingdom consists entirely of elect souls with awakened spirits which hear and trust His truths about just, God-like love, which Jesus’ Holy Spirit continuously teaches them throughout their lives.
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He wants us to live. But that waiting is almost over. Our spiritual knowledge and our exegetical tools are nearly ready for us to part from Satan’s world order and become His true church. Our generations are close to being ready for His return, so we might live in lands that are just, equal and truly loving.
An ever growing body of truths, understanding and wisdom has been passed down from one generation of elect to the next. Now His Kuriakoi possess a greater understanding, and are leaving behind the precepts from the devil’s religion of humanism. Therefore, it is indeed true that God’s true priesthood of awakened elect, together with the rest of His sleeping elect in His kingdom on earth, have been steadily growing and increasing in spiritual and moral power throughout history.
And the evidence is seen in the way the world has increasingly rejected, throughout history, more and more of the unjust spiritual and moral teachings of Satan’s humanistic Roman Empire. But God’s kingdom of elect, those who are “of the truth,” those who practise God’s revealed realities of justice and equity through the love of their spirits, those whose spirits listen attentively to the voice of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, are not a humanistic organization ruled by hierarchies of men. Thus, they have been virtually “invisible” to the humanistic historians of the world, who focus solely on the “great”
men and women who influenced and advanced their factious physical sub-kingdoms and agendas.
So, if we want to heed this warning of Jesus, and not be deceived, one of the first things we must learn to do is to reject the lies of the false humanistic churches belonging to Satan’s fourth kingdom.
This includes all the “visible” churches ruled by hierarchies of human gods. For they are the kinds of deceivers that Jesus, our God, most wanted us to “watch out” for. Jesus plainly told us that many would come in His name. And the prepositional phrase, ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί μου, indicates a state of rest over or upon His name. That is, the ones we should be most careful about watching out for will be those who say they come in Jesus’ name, who say they speak and serve in His name, who use the name of Jesus to falsely legitimize and justify their lying words and sinful works. And those who come bearing the name of Jesus will also be saying, with words of reasoning (λέγοντες), that Jesus is the Messiah, while they “will deceive many.” Thus, Jesus definitely warned us about false churches coming to deceive us, fake churches that use His name. They will make some true claims about Him, in order to gain our trust, but will actually come to deceive us, to make us into their duped captives.
Here, in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus said deceivers would come reasoning that “I am the Messiah”
(Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ χριστός). Then Mark recorded Jesus as saying (in 13:6) that the deceivers would simply reason that “I exist” (Ἐγώ εἰμι). Then Luke told us (in 21:8) that Jesus said the same (“I exist,” Ἐγώ
εἰμι), but added that these deceivers would also try to convince their dupes that “the appointed time had already arrived and its effects would be ongoing” (Ὁ καιρὸς ἤγγικεν, where the perfect tense verb indicates a past action of coming, with current and durative effects). So all these deceivers are definitely those claiming to be religious leaders of fake “Christian” churches. All will try to act as though they believe Jesus is the Messiah, the prophesied eternal King and High Priest who ratifies and puts into effect God’s New Covenant of salvation through His church of Israel. All will reason that Jesus, the true Messiah of salvation, exists. And some will invent sensationalist stories about the prophesied end times, causing the gullible to believe that the Messiah’s victorious second advent, and His rule over all the earth, has already arrived, so the effects of it are already occurring now, that is, as that fake church pretends to rule as the “vicarious Christ” in demonic hierarchies of sinners.
As we saw in the Scriptures that prophesied about the five seals, the kind of deception which sends out spies to demoralize and destroy their opponents was practised by the false humanistic churches of the first and second centuries. They sent spies into Christ’s true churches to divide their people, to confuse, demoralize and weaken them, until they could conquer and destroy them, so the elite human gods of those fake churches could then rule over the lives of their duped people. And this is the Page 1593
standard modus operandi practised by the subject kingdoms belonging Satan’s Roman Empire. So this is what Jesus was warning His disciples about. Matthew, Mark and Luke were all stating that deceivers, claiming to come in Jesus’ name and falsely claiming to be Christians, would enter our midst, as spies attempting to disrupt the works of Jesus’ salvation. And we need to be aware of this.
Just because churches may quote the Bible and claim to come in the name of Jesus, proclaiming that Jesus is the Messiah, it does not make them Christians. For speaking the words with a mouth of flesh means nothing. Only speaking the truth through the will of one’s spirit means anything. And only truly elect spirits are able to genuinely believe and trust in the words and power of the real Jesus. So only the true elect can become His real disciples who place their confidence in every word He utters and rely on His power. But those intentional deceivers never do any of this. So none have ever been true members of God’s New Covenant branch of His one and only church of Israel. None have ever been His real disciples. The biblical kind of salvation always and invariably involves the waking, teaching and training of a spirit, as a life-long disciple of Jesus. And literally all His true disciples can hear His voice and learn His truth, until they begin to shine “of the truth,” as they learn to apply His just, equitable, compassionate ways of spiritual love. His Holy Spirit interprets and expounds on the truths in His Word for all His true disciples, even on truths He reveals in His natural creations.
So, when we see churches proclaiming unjust and psychopathic ways, like the Roman Catholic church has always been doing, or like the evangelicals who support Trump and Hitler do, we know they are obviously, clearly, unmistakably fake churches. For none are being taught and trained by the Holy Spirit of Jesus to do His works on earth as they are done in heaven. None are His disciples and, therefore, not real Christians. For Jesus effectively trains all His true disciples. And all manifest at least some successful love in a just and Godlike way. As for the more frequent failures of awakened elect souls, there is also much repentance through godly sorrow, with an inward turning toward the spiritual and moral truths of God, with fruits of repentance that express His kind of justice through their love. With the awakened elect in His one and only true church, there is never a stubborn and violent attempt to preserve lying traditions, nor a selfish ambition to become elite human gods in oppressive hierarchies. Rather, the daily experiences of the true disciples of Jesus lead them ever deeper into God’s truths, and teach them how to correctly apply those truths. So, if we see none of these works of Jesus’ salvation in their lives, if a just, equitable and God-like love is not beginning to grow and manifest from within them, then we know they are not true Christians, although some in those fake churches may be the sleeping elect, whom Jesus will save later. And, if we see that a spirit loves the darkness of the devil’s humanistic fourth kingdom, that one may not even have an elect spirit at all. Either way, abusing Jesus’ name makes one into a worse sinner than any secular sinner.
So the prophecies about the first and second seals have clearly been fulfilled, and are still being fulfilled by Satan’s kingdom to this day. Physically, Satan’s fourth kingdom of Rome conquered all the lands around them, then took peace from those lands. Yet Rome has continued to conquer and take peace from those lands ever since, albeit often in more spiritual and cerebral ways, through humanistic religious doctrines, traditions and philosophies. And one of their earliest conquests was Satan’s worst enemy, the true apostolic church of the Messiah’s real disciples. Humanistic Roman churches overthrew that church by sending in spies to demoralize and steal peace from within, then overcame the rest through physical expulsion, violence and murder. Simultaneously, as the era of the third seal began, both the theistic and secular Roman humanists began to practise extreme forms of exploitation, especially during the “dark ages.” Those practices were established in all its conquered lands of the world, and continue to this day. Likewise, their exploiting elite, ruling within their rigid humanistic hierarchies, caused unbelievable suffering, death and chaos. Then Jesus opened the Page 1594
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fourth seal, which began to become evident during the time of the Renaissance and Reformation. A fourth horseman called “Death” devastated the earth, and murdered souls even in the Americas, where those Roman humanists had never seen before. But that fourth rider never stopped, and still rides today, together with the first three riders. Thus, there has always been violent rebellions, incessant wars, criminal gangs of government sanctioned murderers, financially and politically induced famines, senseless laws, deadly injustice, wide-spread plagues, man-made environmental disasters that killed both human and animal lives, and the creation of whole nations that became hells on earth. Lastly, the fifth seal’s persecution of God’s elect began in earnest during the last century. Humanists have been slaughtering the awakened elect in the name of capitalism, fascism, communism, Catholicism, Islam and other sects of Rome, with the secular factions leading the way.
During these ongoing and continuous crimes of Satan’s fourth kingdom, as outlined by the first five seals in Christ’s Revelation, we have definitely seen countless “wars and reports of wars,” as that devil’s kingdom fulfills Jesus’ prophecies, especially those regarding the first to the fifth seals. And Jesus’ prophecies in Matthew 24 were more brief, but exactly the same, and even presented in the same order. Thus, we should heed that counsel of Jesus in Matthew 24, regarding His warning about being deceived by fake churches as well as His advise about dealing with those wars and reports of wars: “Clearly discern! Do not be fearful! For it needs to happen. But it is not yet the end times.”
When wars and rebellions come, they definitely will permanently scar our minds of flesh, at the very least. And they may also damage or kill our bodies of flesh. However, the entire universe will soon vanish forever, and our spirits will never need those minds and bodies of flesh ever again. So the harm done to our flesh can only plague us for a moment. Meanwhile, the minds of our elect spirits will remain just as whole and healthy as they were at birth, with just as much of an ability and capacity to love. In fact, after our tribulations, we will hopefully possess even more empathy and love, if our spirits have been awake enough to gain a bit more knowledge and wisdom about spirits, about God, humans and the devil. So, during and after the wars and rebellions, our elect spirits must plod on, being continuously taught and trained by Jesus. For Jesus did not want us to panic and act stupidly through emotional decisions. Nor did He want us to sell the self-serving religions of fake churches, by sensationalizing those tragedies and lying about how church human gods can save us.
When our homes and lives are threatened, we must not preach: “The end is near!” Rather, we must
“clearly discern” (ὁράω) what is happening. We need to do diligent research, by seeking reliable and trustworthy sources of information, so we can understand how the devil’s fourth kingdom is doing what our God Jesus said it would do. And we need to realize that those crimes must occur, both to heap damnation upon Satan’s kingdom and to educate our infantile spirits, within Christ’s plan for our eternal salvation. After those wars and rebellions, Jesus want us go about justly and rightly judging the instigators of those horrors, exposing their inner motives and intentions, so that other sleeping elect souls might better understand how God’s just and loving ways are infinitely superior to the selfishly ambitious, egocentric ways of those humanists. This may not be as glamorous as the works of mighty, muscular humanistic warriors who kill more innocent lives than guilty ones, and all without just trials. But, in the end, this kind of faithful, honest and diligent work to promote the just and loving truths of God will slowly and steadily advance and increase in power and influence, as the devil’s ways continuously deteriorate in popularity and appeal. Then, eventually, the just, equitable love of the elect will overcome all Satan’s lies at His return, so all can live abundant lives.
The fourth horseman of the Revelation has served Satan’s fourth kingdom of Rome from the very beginning, together with his disciple, Hades. Death and Hades have always been arrogantly strutting through the palaces of kings and emperors in the days before Rome was formed, in Babylon, Persia, Page 1595
Greece and the other subject kingdoms of the devil. But Death’s era of greatest glory did not begin until Rome’s factious kingdoms ruthlessly conquered and colonized the rest of the world, during the era we call the Renaissance and Reformation. Then we started to clearly see his effective works, with “people grouping raised up against people grouping, and kingdom against kingdom,” with
“famines and earthquakes against places.” Death’s deadly kinds of evil, which then killed millions instead of hundreds or thousands, has only been fully unleashed and free to harvest all nations for about five centuries. Since then, it murdered the majority of the indigenous populations of whole continents like North and South America, devastated Africa and the Middle East, slaughtered so many souls in Asia, India and Europe that they are beyond estimation, and made genocide common.
Roman humanism has caused all kinds of “people groupings,” all kinds of nations, races, tribes, political parties, financial institutions, ethnic groups, special interest groups and more, to hate and murder one another. There have been more human caused deaths in recent history than there ever was before the Renaissance, primarily due to the lust for power, greed, better military technology and forms of transportation developed by the world-wide fourth kingdom of Rome. Death’s soldiers have actually managed to disturb the entire world’s balance of nature, a feat which we once thought impossible. They have even altered the climate of the entire planet, artificially causing droughts, floods, famines and even earthquakes everywhere. By things like draining water from aquifers and fracking, they have caused the ground to tremble and sink holes which swallow whole buildings or even communities. Still, Jesus told us not to panic. He said “all these things are the beginning of birth pains.” This means those pains will increase in frequency and intensity as we near the birth of His just, loving kingdom which shall rule over all the earth. For some time yet, Jesus will not end Satan’s destruction, which he works through his non-elect children. In the meantime, Jesus wants His elect disciples to clearly discern the events and continue to nullify those works of the devil. By seeing, we can make right judgments and wise actions. We need to follow His teachings, correct the wrongs of the devil and build up His just, equitable loving kingdom wherever we can on the earth.
In Matthew 24:9, Jesus also spoke about the era of the fifth seal described in the Revelation: “Then they will betray you people into tribulation and slaughter you. And you people will be those being hated by all kinds of people groupings because of My name.” Since the context indicates that these actions will be world-wide, it means that neither the awakened nor the sleeping elect will be safe from deadly persecution during this time. But now you might ask, if Jesus invariably works love, justice, equity, order, peace, blessings, general prosperity and abundant life through the hearts of all His elect, why would the whole world hate and murder those elect? There could only be one reason.
That is, the humanistic Roman kingdom of Satan’s beast will establish many fake churches who will falsely come in God’s name. Then these fakes will do much evil upon the earth, thus slandering God’s name and causing the populations of the earth, even many of the sleeping elect, to fear and hate all God’s words and all the people who do God’s kinds of works. In other words, it will be the fourth kingdom’s lies, which will transfer the blame for its own sins upon our God and His innocent children through its incessant propaganda, which will incite this “tribulation and slaughter.” And Jesus did not say we will escape it through a “per-tribulation rapture” either, but that we will die.
Mark’s Gospel told us that Jesus taught, “So you [disciples] watch yourselves. They will betray you people in church councils and local churches. You people will be beaten. And you people will be stood up to face against governing officials and rulers for My sake, for a testimony to them” (Mark 13:9, ALT). Luke wrote that Jesus said, “They will forcibly cast their hand upon you people, and persecute [you], handing [you] over to local churches and to guards, being led to face against rulers and governing officials for My name’s sake. It will turn into a testimony for you people” (Luke Page 1596
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21:12-13, ALT). So, if God’s innocent elect, especially His faithful disciples, will be hated and attacked by churches, then those attacking and hating churches will be false churches. We need to understand this. And why will we be hated by those false churches and by governments supported by those false churches, even though we do good and do not do evil? It will be because of the slander against God and against us produced by those fake churches. Thus, Jesus counsels us to know and proclaim the truths and wisdom of God to them, so that the sleeping elect among them might hear it and repent into it, to heal their spirits’ relationship with God. But this does not mean that the haters from Satan’s fourth kingdom will stop killing us. They will, whenever the can. Yet Luke later added,
“And a hair out of the Head of you [disciples] certainly and definitely will not be destroyed” (Luke 21:18, from: καὶ θρὶξ ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς ὑμῶν οὐ μὴ ἀπόληται, SBLGNT). Jesus is the Head of all His awakened elect disciples, and He is in their hearts and souls. Yes, as Jesus said, they would murder His faithful disciples. But they will not be able to pull out even a single slender strand of truth out from their spirits or their Head Teacher, to destroy it. Jesus and His truths will always remain whole.
So Jesus prophesied that the awakened elect would make all kinds of enemies during the entire last days, starting on the day He sent His Holy Spirit into us, 49 days after His crucifixion, and lasting until the day He returns. Then He also said their hatred and persecutions would be the worst just before the end times began, that is, during the era of the fifth seal. This would be a time when we would need to watch what we say and to whom we say it. For false churches shall zealously guard their false teachings and incomes, shall eagerly strive to silence the truths we speak. And those fake churches shall cajole, bribe or coerce the cooperation of even our most trusted friends and family members, causing them betray us into their hands. Also, many members of false churches will be
“good ole boys,” favoured little psychopathic bullies who just love to indiscriminately beat up or murder harmless souls, whenever anyone gives them the slightest excuse or opportunity, thinking this proves how brave, strong and “good” they are, to their people and their human gods. But, in the end, whenever our faithfulness causes us to be brought before fake churches, governing officials and rulers, our public testimonies will free a little more of God’s real truth and wisdom into our lands.
And light shines into the darkness of lies and delusions, to overcome it. Thus, our testimonies will eventually cause laws and traditions of our lands to gradually become more just, wise and loving.
Luke heard and wrote down what some witness heard Jesus teach about the times when faithful elect servants of Jesus would be brought before fake churches, governing officials and rulers. This witness told Luke that Jesus said even our public trials in government courts will “turn into a testimony” for ourselves, but only if we do this: “Therefore, you [disciples] resolutely lay down in your hearts not to carefully consider beforehand to have a legal defence made for yourselves. For I will grant a mouth and wisdom to you [disciples] which absolutely all the ones being opposed to you will not be able to stand against or contradict” (Luke 21:14-15, ALT). Now this is speaking about when we are put in the witness box to testify, and does not actually forbid us from having a lawyer who defends us according to court protocols. All it is saying is that we must not try to look innocent and lie to appease the prosecution and judges. Jesus commanded us to not worry about trying to find a way to get out of being condemned by governments, not to concentrate on how “to make a legal defence for ourselves” (ἀπολογηθῆναι), so we can avoid being prosecuted. Rather, He commanded us to focus upon the truths and realities that His Holy Spirit wants us to express to those authorities. And, for the awakened elect, Jesus promised to give them a “mouth,” that is, a rational explanation of principles, of His truths, in a way that can be fully understood by the elect hearing us. Jesus also promised to give us “wisdom,” the ability to effectively and beneficially apply His truths. So our duty to God, and our only goal at those trials before public authorities, is to provide the people there with a true Page 1597
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“testimony for the benefit of ourselves,” and primarily for our spirits. It is not to save our own flesh.
And this is exactly what many faithful elect have done throughout history, when facing persecution from the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches who dragged them before the secular courts they established in their lands. Yes, those humanistic secular authorities did execute very many of those faithful elect, in spite of the genuine truths they proclaimed. And those humanists often sent them to horrifyingly tortuous deaths, since humanists rule through terrorism, by terrorizing their unloved masses into compliance. Nevertheless, those elect did publicly proclaim truths, God’s just and wise principles, and in ways which could not be unheard by the public. Their light shone into the public darkness and overcame it. So, because of the sacrifices of those elect, the laws and ways of Roman humanism have been eroded over the centuries, and now we are beginning to gain more justice and more rights. Because of testimonies by God’s elect in the past two millenniums, we now have more democratic governments, more freedom of conscience, more free speech, more freedom of religion, far more access to God’s Word in our native languages, the abolition of slavery, increased rights to fair trials, more prison reforms, better parole systems, more workers’ rights, more women’s rights, better welfare systems, better health-care systems and even rights for animals. Not one of these good things began through works of humanism. Literally all these were initiated and driven by the elect who realized that God’s willed these benefits for His creations, that they were truths written in God’s Word. And all these elect realized this solely because Jesus’ Holy Spirit taught all this to their spirits, causing them to focus more on proclaiming these truths than upon saving their own bodies of flesh.