GOD'S LAST WORD

God's judgment is the fulfillment of truth.

There is no positive work in man's own efforts that will save him from God's judgment.

Although the world is preoccupied with itself, not feeling the need for God in any of it's affairs, with men only interested in what they see and what their senses and their minds understand, God has set up and tracked the ways of man from the beginning with one purpose; to draw those he chose, men (and women) to Himself.

God has shown those He sent His Son to save, that the Bible is His Word, the only Word of God. Those who have been saved did not decide, of themselves, that the Bible is the Word of God. God did not show them because they accurately interpreted His Word. God showed them this truth, through the Spirit of Christ (faith) that God placed in them at the time He saved them.

In the book of Daniel, God told us that near the end of the world, God would take the seals off the Bible for believers to reveal information concerning the end of the world;

“......O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.”   Daniel 12:8-9,Hosea 1:3

In the last 50 years or so, God has removed these seals to reveal an exact time line through the tracking of the life spans of the patriarchs starting in Genesis.

The spiritual meaning of this timeline of Biblical history has also been revealed through believers prayerfully seeking God in His Word.

Another revelation was that there would come a time at the end of the world when God would start to judge first those in the corporate bodies of the churches (the house of God), and then judge the world;

“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: ....” 1 Peter 4:17

The Biblical timeline indicating when the Holy Spirit came out of the churches, was May 21, 1988.

This is why the churches have become Babylon (one with the world), just as the people of Israel turned away from God in the transition from God’s Old Covenant to the New Covenant where the “real Jew” was one who’s heart was circumcised by God;

“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord :.......”    Jeremiah 31:33-34

The churches have not only become one with the world but are even more wicked than the world, using their world proclaimed identity with God as a justification for their intimacy with worldly values and unbelievers.

“Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem:........and she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.”   Ezekiel 5:5-

The purpose of the church age (33-1988 AD) was to spread the Gospel of the new covenant of salvation in Christ. The church age ended because God’s judgment in these last days had to start with the local churches, where the occupants were looking to each other for support, guidance and accountability rather than directly to God through His Word  so that He might start revealing to them the spiritual identity and meaning of the true church, invisible to the carnal mind. This is happening now. There are no “good old days” any more than there ever were in God’s Salvation plan and the term reflects the sentimental delusions of the spirit of the flesh of unbelieving men and women.

The local (visible, man identified) churches have become the world (both referred to as Babylon)......

“Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. ....And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.” Revelation 17:1-5

......and believers have been transformed in the eyes of the world, by God from the delusion of being visible to being invisible. Those in the churches as well as all unbelievers no longer “see” or recognize those believers who have come out of the churches. This is a picture of God’s action in judgment day of translating believers from a carnal orientation of their faith to a spiritual one.

It is because the Holy Spirit left the churches (which of course always had tares, or pretending believers in them) that they no longer live in the faith of Christ.

Though this is hard to believe for someone who is used to feeling that their churches are their “Godly community”, God is reemphasizing in this time of judgment, that only He knows who are His children. In this day of judgment He is reasserting the reality that a saving relationship between Himself and those Jesus died for are only between Him and each believer, with the church being revealed not as a carnal entity but as a spiritual reality (spiritual, invisible to the carnal eye) fellowship of all believers.

The present judgment on the world, which came after the judgment on the churches, started on May 21, 2011.

At first, it was thought that the judgment would be the physical end of the world, which the Bible assures us will take place, however, God has revealed the true nature of His plans and activities piecemeal.

Since May 21, 2011, God has shown believers the truth of spiritual judgment; which is judgment that is not seen in the carnal (physical) realm, but instead takes place in the spiritual realm.

Though God is still caring for His creation, He is no longer saving people for His Kingdom. This means that a believers sharing of the Gospel of Christ is sharing for those who have been drawn (feeding the sheep) and no longer evangelical in nature (disputing about the existence of God);

“And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” Revelation 22:10-12

Because those who do not believe in God's Son and His Word will only receive understanding through their own senses, based on what they can see and touch and understand, God has withheld the ability for these people to see the spiritual truth of God's judgment at this time (Mark 4:11,12).

Likewise God reveals to His elect, spiritual truth both at certain times in history and in accordance with the spiritual needs of each believer according to God’s purpose and unique personal relationship with that believer. God does not just reveal His truth based on the carnal desires and focus of a believer to know God’s truth. God reveals on His truth on His terms.

The carnal, or physical or visible world, which is temporary, is separated from the spiritual world, which is invisible, and eternal, by a breach that cannot be crossed (Luke 16:26).

The only access to the truth of this spiritual world is through the hearing of God's Word. It is only those whom God has saved that can "hear" this truth. This is how God designed His salvation plan.

God’s Word frames and defines the meaning of all things;

“But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3:14-17

God also gives pictures in this carnal realm of both His blessings on the world, it’s sinful rejection of these blessings and His judgment of man’s rejection of God’s blessings (sin). The current chaos in the world is a picture of God’s judgment on the world and the flesh through His revealing of the broad spectrum of man’s sin.

It seems that the phenomenon that is threatening to end the sovereign nations of the world is not racism but greed.

The current threatened collapse of the sovereign nations is, among other things, both a consequence of a greed that has sucked the prosperity out of a nation that not many years ago was a beacon of hope and seems also an attempt on the part of the few reapers of the wealth of the people’s labors, to reset the political, social and economic framework of the world in order to protect their wealth from the natural revolutionary consequences of the accumulation of the wealth of the top .01%. This cycle of the building of societies, centralization of wealth and revolutions of the people have been repeated many times in the past with the most obvious examples being the Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman, Russian, German, and Chinese empires to name only a few.

How to maintain the awareness of what is going on as a believer who is occupying in the world but is not of the world and, at the same time, how to maintain a spiritual presence framed and conditioned by God’s Word without getting entangled in God’s judgment of unbelieving world through the fear of men is a challenge;

“….who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hand from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; Isaiah 33:14,15

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lively, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8.

A believers hope is not in the “fixing” of the culminating judgment of man’s sin, but in the seeking of our Lord in both the loving of our neighbor, which includes relieving the sufferings of others, and, at the same time our “conversation” (behavioral focus) of our witness to the Gospel of Salvation in Christ.

“.... For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” Philippians 3:18-2

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.”    

2 Corinthians 13:5,8-9

The fruit of the spirit is the condition of each member of the body of Christ in his/her personal relationship with God, the evidence of which is manifest in their sharing of the gospel of Jesus Christ in this “day of judgment.”