Spiritual Judgment Studies for God’s Last Days“He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment

Spiritual Judgment

Devotional Studies for God’s Last Days

“He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He.” Deuteronomy 32:4

My style of prayerful Bible study and writing is simply reading through it from Genesis to Revelation bit by bit, settling on a passage or passages which, in the study, give me some sense of understanding whereby I start to reference and include passages from other parts of the Bible in what I write down.

I don’t look for scripture that fits either my moods or the circumstances in the world around me, yet in my writing on my study, all these experiences of my spiritual/mental condition, worldly circumstances around me as well as my developing relationship with the Lord in my role as witness to His Gospel in this day of judgment are incorporated into what God is showing me. A verse that seems to reflect this process is one I’ve used often;

“The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.”  Proverbs 16:33

Introduction

GOD'S LAST WORD

God's judgment is the fulfillment of truth; both to condemn those who do not believe and to have mercy in saving those who do.

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 time line 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.

A WORD ON THE ABILITY TO NURTURE AND MAINTAIN AN OPEN MIND

The American population has been so dumbed down and brainwashed by television, censorship, the media etc, for so long that at this point they can only process the truth within the small margins of what they are told. They no longer have the ability to actually process multiple perspectives and interpretations of the reality going on around them because their minds have been trained in the brainwashing of sports, TV, the pursuit of self interest in consumerism and propaganda from the entities that have been milking them of the fruits of their labor for the past 40 years or so.

As such, they become panicked and aggressive when they are exposed to  ideas or interpretations of reality that go beyond what they have decided is true.

Of course there are those members of society that always saw that things are not what they appear to be and that the nature of man’s communications and actions with others is and always has been fraught with bias and corruption. These members of society are able to consider a wider range of possible and variable causes of a presented truth before they gain any confidence that what they know is indeed the truth.

Now, of course there are those members of society that rebel against the party lines, whether those lines be family, social or political but their identification with their own opposition clouds their perceptions of the truth.

So on one hand there are those who find the shortest route to arrive at what they believe. That route has to do with entertainment, an “us and them” national identity and greed (with it’s younger brother  of envy and jealousy) being the basic framework of their position on truth. Then there are those who feel, for whatever reason, they have been left out and have an increased sensitivity to lies and corruption not in themselves but in others. This group generally settles on opposition to the party line as a defined truth.

Then there are those who do not ever assume that they know the exact truth. This is because they have seen, like those in the “oppositional” group, that things are not what they seem and, in fact, are many times the opposite of what they seem or what the majority of the population have decided to believe. They do not ever assume they have the truth by simply opposing the party line or the popular belief. They understand that they have to constantly be present to the variable evidence of the truth regardless of their own bias and personal belief inclinations. They are dynamic in their processing of new information because they know that the absolute truth of any phenomenon in this life is solely relegated to God. They are aware that God is constantly revealing information relating to his salvation plan in this day of judgment that requires the believer to be alert to the truth movement in each of their individual personal relationships with God.

This group has some degree or form or stage of a spiritual orientation to reality. They know that this life is not the real reality, but, instead, a picture of the reality which is not carnal, or physical, but spiritual and therefore, unseen. They see this life and world as a continual struggle they are engaged in initiated and controlled by the God of creation to draw those men and women He created in His image and that he has elected, into a not equal, but mutual  relationship with Him in the spiritual realm (the Kingdom of God). This last group was scattered all over the world at the end of the church age, during the great tribulation (1988-2011).

Believers after May 21, 2011 became separate from the local (seen) churches which had originally been established by God through the original 12 prophets, to spread the Gospel of Salvation to the world. As these local churches grew throughout the 1955 years of the church age, they became insulated communities (denominations) bound together by their own man-made  use of scripture to arrive at doctrines that were established based on agreement between each other (between men) in order to give each other the kind of emotional support that strengthens  the self- confidence of  men and women  in communities. The result was a false “spiritual” replication of the “us and them” distortion of the Gospel of Salvation in Christ that was/is more reflective of the kind of “spiritual” support men and women give each other in the unbelieving world.  Since this false focus of “us and them” orientation so replicated the unbelieving world’s doctrines of overcoming of other men as ways to make themselves more worthy (to save themselves) the churches became more world friendly.

Believers (those outside or who have come out of the local churches and congregations) are called upon by God to “feed the sheep”, that is to share with others what God is continually sharing with them. This sharing is not dictatorial or framed in absolute interpretations of God’s Word. It is simply the sharing of the fruit of God’s Word in the current days  in a believers witness of the Gospel of Christ,  of what God is showing them, moment to moment, day by day, through His Word.

The difference between evangelization during the church age and the “feeding of the sheep” in this day of judgment is that the content of evangelizing came out of the agreed upon doctrines of the churches whereas witnessing by believers in this, God’s  day of judgment simply has to do with information gleaned and harmonized by God’s indwelling Holy Spirit through each individual believer’s progressive personal relationship with God in His Word during this day of judgment.

The believer, therefore, is not as bound by denominationally “branded” doctrines.

Of course there is still individual and personal bias in a believer’s witness and this is why God’s Judgment as much applies to the pride and flesh of the believer as His Judgment does to the unbelieving world.

Having an open mind in the processing of the sin and corruption being revealed at this time requires that believers use their occupation of the world, at this time, in a way to discern how God’s indwelling spirit harmonizes the  revelation of God’s judgment of the world with the spiritual growth of each believer. So the believer has to use every revelation God gives in his revealing of both  the world’s and the believer’s  sin as a consideration of truth without the constraints of “group think.” In other words, a believer knows that there is a balance between the processing of their own personal sin, and the processing of the progressively revealed sin of the world that is involved in Gods revelation of that truth to both that believer as well as to those “sheep” (other believers) who that believer is witnessing the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to.

This discernment of information and how it relates to God’s judgment is not so the believer can discern  or identify the exact truth of any situation, though the truth of the situation is the object of God’s call to the believer, but instead, to be a witness to a believer’s engagement with God, who is Truth.

This requires an open mind that is sensitive to perspectives outside of the bias represented by the sin of the world and the flesh and is practice, for the believer, in being obedient to God’s will rather than the believers own will. An open mind might be simply defined as the ability to process information that one is not used to or has not been familiar with even if it risks shaking a part of a person’s rigid self-confidence in their belief on certain perceptions and ideas. The idea of “suspending one’s disbelief” is the action the believer uses for themselves in order to give themselves time for God to give them discernment of the truth as revealed in that believer’s intimate relationship with God in His Word, the Bible.

So this study is only for the purpose of stimulating the unique thought process of each reader rather than any attempt to convince anyone of the veracity of this or that particular idea.