WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

We tend to only embrace the thought of “sin” but we do not completely understand what really took place. How do we get better understanding? We use ALL of the Word of God as the New Testament testifies to the Old Testament and visa versa!

So let’s examine and expound on scripture. I will place my comments between lines of scripture so it’s easier for you to see what is going on here in the Spirit realm. I am sure there is much more than I will reveal but what I am going to focus on is just how subtle and cunning the serpent really was.

Genesis 3:1–24 (NKJV)

The Temptation and Fall of Man

3 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The very first thing which is not stated is that even Adam and Eve needed faith to believe what they did not totally understand. How do we know this? Well what is death where there never was death before? Adam and Eve had NO first hand witness, personal knowledge or experience of what death was! This statement about death was something they had no knowledge of but that is what the serpent was presenting them! So the serpent attacked them from lack of knowledge. Please reflect on the once saved always saved as that is what the serpent implied by surely you will not die! The Lord tells us that His people perish because of lack of knowledge! This is why the Lord has me to tell people “have you asked the Lord”. With all of the false preaching saying that the Lord only speaks through the Written Word is a lie. How do we know that, the Word was God Breathed! It came from the mouth of God, all of creation was spoken into existence! Our Lord Jesus is ALIVE NOT DEAD and still speaks today! God is the same yesterday, today and forever more.

What was the flood where there was no rain or waters coming up from the ground? You see without faith it is impossible to please the Lord. Notice that is New Testament scripture. Now what is not obvious because of the cunning nature and forked tongue of the serpent deception was easy to be portrayed. What the serpent did was represent himself as God without them even knowing! You see who does Satan desire to be? Satan wants to be God and Satan was representing “self” that is why Jesus tells us to pick up our cross and die to “self” as Satan was representing himself and not the TRUE LIVING GOD. What eyes is the serpent speaking about? Surely Adam and Eve were not blind. The serpent was referring to the “eyes of your heart” as Paul states may the eyes of your heart be enlightened. That statement by Paul is referring to restoration of the TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS. These eyes are spititual! This means the knowledge of the True Living God was removed from Adam and Eve! Thus Satan has blinded the whole earth, new Testament Scripture! Okay, let’s continue. Notice the statement knowing good and evil! Why is good presented first? It is a lie masquerading and disguised as truth. We know from the scriptures that Satan calls good evil and evil good. So by presenting it as good it was actually evil! In addition the Lord Jesus tells us that a good tree can not bare bad fruit and a bad tree can not bare good fruit! Jesus is telling about what happened in the garden! When Jesus was up on the cross and the Father put all the sins of the world upon Jesus what did the cross represent? The cross represented the works from “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”! Jesus was on that tree destroying the power of that tree! Holiness and righeousness overcame sin as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represented the “likeness and image” of Satan! That is why Jesus said without holiness it is impossible to see the Lord. The power of that “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” was overpowered rendered ineffective to the Spirit of the Living God! That is why the Holy Spirit departed before the death of Jesus on the cross. Death did not have a hold or power over us any more! A born again child of God can only overcome by the COMPLETION of sanctification by the power of the Holy Spirit. What happened on that tree was absolutely incredible!

Acts 5:30 (NKJV)

30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.

Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)

14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Matthew 7:17–20 (NKJV)

17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Now when you partake of “the tree” you partake in the “image and likeness” of that tree! So that is why Jesus came to restore us into HIS “image and likeness”. You are either a tree of righteousness or a tree of the image and likeness of the devil! That is why Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden so they could not touch the tree of life. That is also why Jesus told Mary do not touch me I have not ascended.

John 20:17 (NKJV)

17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”

1 Timothy 5:22 (NKJV)

22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.

6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

How do we appear before the Lord according to the New Testament without being born again? In line 7 above it says their eyes were open means their hearts were opened and full of darkness rendering no SPIRITUAL knowledge of the TRUE LIVING GOD CHRIST JESUS. This is why Paul says may the eyes of your heart be enlightened meaning let the light and knowledge of Jesus into your heart. God is a spirit!

Ephesians 1:18 (ESV)

18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Hebrews 4:13 (NKJV)

13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Genesis 3:7 (KJV 1900)

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

I purposely added Genesis 3:7 KJV to make a vital point but I will not be expanding on that now. Why do Freemasons wear aprons! They worship Lucifer and the fallen nature of humanity! Why do I hear Christians say it is okay to be a Freemason and a Christian! What fellowship does a Christian have with the unfruitful works of darkness. Some of today’s worldwide ministries are Freemason’s claiming to be Christian organizations! They use outward works to appear fruitful by providing housing/shelter, food and emergency relief. Jesus revealed to the Pharisees that they cleaned the outside of the cup but NOT the inside of the cup! What do we know about a cup? How about the cup of sin, wrath, etc. These false Christians that are Freemason ministries even call for corporate prayer for global peace and repentance. The Lord laughs at this as they mock the Living God as the Lord closes His ears to their prayers! They are not in righteous standing with the Lord! If you are not in right standing with the Lord your prayers will not be answered. It is all a HEART MATTER WHICH IS NOT PREACHED!

Luke 18:9–14 (NKJV)

Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Isaiah 59:1–2 (ESV)

Evil and Oppression

59 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,

or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

2  but your iniquities have made a separation

between you and your God,

and your sins have hidden his face from you

so that he does not hear.

How does Isaiah 59 apply to today’s church! It must apply in significance as we do not truly see much power in the church today. Do not confuse signs and wonders performed by demonic spirits as true manifestations of the Lord Jesus. Pharaoh’s magicians performed signs and wonders.

James 5:16 (KJV 1900)

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

BACK TO GENESIS

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Light penetrates darkness and people do not come to the light.

John 3:19–21 (NKJV)

19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

BACK TO GENESIS

9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”

You are not naked if you are clothed in robes of righteousness, but those are only provided and given by the Lord Jesus! The prodigal son story in Luke.

Hebrews 4:13 (ESV)

13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Luke 15:21–22 (NKJV)

21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

Isaiah 61 (NKJV)

The Good News of Salvation

61 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,

Because the Lord has anointed Me

To preach good tidings to the poor;

He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives,

And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

And the day of vengeance of our God;

To comfort all who mourn,

3 To console those who mourn in Zion,

To give them beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they may be called trees of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins,

They shall raise up the former desolations,

And they shall repair the ruined cities,

The desolations of many generations.

5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,

And the sons of the foreigner

Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

6 But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,

They shall call you the servants of our God.

You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,

And in their glory you shall boast.

7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,

And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.

Therefore in their land they shall possess double;

Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

8 “For I, the Lord, love justice;

I hate robbery for burnt offering;

I will direct their work in truth,

And will make with them an everlasting covenant.

9 Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,

And their offspring among the people.

All who see them shall acknowledge them,

That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”

10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,

My soul shall be joyful in my God;

For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,

He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,

And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth brings forth its bud,

As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,

So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

GENESIS CONTINUED

12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

What do people do these days? They hold others accountable for their own faults, problems and hardships. There is no repentance in blaming others! There is no denying your own wickedness! There is no excuse for sin!

GENESIS CONTINUED

13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

You will not be able to blame your pastor or anyone else for your own rebellion and itchy ears!

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And you shall eat dust

All the days of your life.

Notice Satan shall eat the dust of the earth. Did you know the devil is a spiritual carnivore? Adam was created from the dust of the earth and Satan shall eat the dust of the earth! How does Satan “feed” off from us and get power? He “feeds” and gets empowerment by the works of the flesh as in Galatians 5.

Galatians 5:16–26 (NKJV)

Walking in the Spirit

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Now when we walk in the Spirit, the Spirit is our Sabbath living in Christ Jesus and the works of the flesh have ceased! The Sabbath is not a day of the week under the New Covenant! Jesus is our Sabbath when we live and walk in the Spirit! “Go and sin no more”!

Matthew 12:1–8 (NKJV)

Controversy Over Sabbath-Labor

Mark 2:23–28; Luke 6:1–5

12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? 6 Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

GENESIS CONTINUED

15 And I will put enmity

Between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head,

And you shall bruise His heel.”

Enmity means warfare!

enmity

■ noun (plural enmities) the state of being an enemy; hostility.

GENESIS CONTINUED

16 To the woman He said:

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;

In pain you shall bring forth children;

Your desire shall be for your husband,

And he shall rule over you.”

1 Corinthians 11:3 (NKJV)

3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:22–25 (NKJV)

Marriage—Christ and the Church

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

1 Timothy 2:12–15 (NKJV)

12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

GENESIS CONTINUED

17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it

All the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Till you return to the ground,

For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

We read in line 19 that Adam was created from the dust and to the dust he would return. This is the results of the forbidden fruit. This has nothing to do with a natural death it is referring to a spiritual death. The spirit of the Lord had departed from dwelling within Adam and Eve. Hence the name Ichabod, the glory departed. Ichabod is the modern day church void of the true SPIRITUAL representation of Jesus! In line 17 the ground was cursed. I once saw a post of a “money exchanger” in Israel marketing a tour of Israel on YouTube and he pointed and said there is where David walked in the valley of the shadow of death. I rebuke him in his comments and I said you have no revelation of truth. That is not the valley of the shadow of death, the whole earth is the valley of the shadow of death! The whole earth was under the curse not just the land of Israel. A saint is surrounded by people who are physically alive but spiritually DEAD TO CHRIST JESUS, THEY MUST BE BORN AGAIN! So what is happening NOT only in the modern church as well across the whole earth all this evil is manifesting and calling itself good! That is a combination of the Great Apostasy with those who were never born again to begin with! Once saved always saved is from the pit of hell! Please read my three postings on the lies of the pre-tribulation rapture. It is from the Devil and the Babylonian doctrine of “I WILL ASCEND” which is of Lucifer!

1 Samuel 4:21–22 (NKJV)

21 Then she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”

Here is scripture that not only describes Adam spiritual state when he partook of the forbidden fruit being as Ichabod but it also refers to a “CHILD” and the glory has departed from Israel! In Isaiah 9:6 a child was born! I believe by referring to Israel as a child it is in direct correlation with either you as a PERSON are of Jesus redeemed by His blood and resurrected by His indwelling Holy Spirit or you are not of Jesus as the glory of God is not within you!

Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV)

6 For unto us a Child is born,

Unto us a Son is given;

And the government will be upon His shoulder.

And His name will be called

Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Ephesians 3:14–21 (NKJV)

Appreciation of the Mystery

14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)

18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

These scriptures tell us the real Israel is not a physical land or state but a redeemed people in Christ Jesus who are born again! As I have written in my Jesus vs The Pharisees post Jesus turned the Pharisees over to the wickedness of their own hearts by calling them hypocrites seven times. Seven is the number of completion. Please read that post as Jesus told the Pharisees they would search out for one proselyte (convert) and make that convert twice a son of hell! You see there is a great commission for the devil! Then there is the commission of Apostles! There were two active commissions working at the same time in the state/nation of Israel when the incarnate Christ Jesus was in Israel. That is why even then there were many Antichrists. A moment ago we confirmed that Israel was a “child” and that “child” was Christ Jesus incarnation/birth so Israel is human and not a land, state, nation or province! What is a born again Christian called, A CHILD OF GOD! What is the world battling over now? The United States is a “kindred spirit” with the nation of Israel. Ask yourself and seek the Lord which “great commission” the USA is in allegiance with and if the USA is in allegiance with the commission of the Pharisees. What spirit is operating in our government and nation! We are NOT one nation under the true living God Christ Jesus. WHY DO THE NATIONS CONSPIRE AGAINST THE “ANOINTED ONE” CHRIST JESUS.

Matthew 23:15 (NKJV)

15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

Hypocrite—one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). “The hypocrite’s hope shall perish” (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here rendered “hypocrite” rather means the “godless” or “profane,” as it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes.1

Psalm 2:1–8 (NKJV)

The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom

1 Why do the nations rage,

And the people plot a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves,

And the rulers take counsel together,

Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces

And cast away Their cords from us.”

4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;

The Lord shall hold them in derision.

5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,

And distress them in His deep displeasure:

6 “Yet I have set My King

On My holy hill of Zion.”

7 “I will declare the decree:

The Lord has said to Me,

‘You are My Son,

Today I have begotten You.

8 Ask of Me, and I will give You

The nations for Your inheritance,

And the ends of the earth for Your possession.

THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF CHRIST JESUS

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THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF CHRIST JESUS

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

I just want to make a point that “rebellion” and “delusion” overlooks righteous judgment because of either “the falling away” apostasy from Spirit and Truth or outright denial of Spirit and Truth which is rebellion.

There are many false prophets, wolves in sheep clothing and hirelings in the pulpits and Christian circles, world known ministries, Christian radio and Christian television! These facts as they are indicate the condition of your heart for those who sit under these people as EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON EARTH will have had at one time or another heard the TRUE GOSPEL OF CHRIST JESUS FOR SALVATION! Having heard the TRUE GOSPEL IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH denying the Spirit of Truth will render righteous judgment from the Judgment Seat of the Lord Jesus.

So when you knowingly sit under these false prophets, wolves in sheep clothing and hirelings in the pulpit you are may very well condemning your soul like the parable of the frog in the pan of water being heated up slowly.

When you discern these wolves and hireling you should immediately seek the Lord in prayer for HIS will for you to be there. The Lord will always bring light and truth where there is darkness, lies and deception! That is why you must seek the Lord in prayer on what He wants you to do in this matter. Are you there to reach a few souls as many will not embrace Spirit and Truth or where you NOT SENT THERE BY THE LORD TO BEGIN WITH! After all it is the Lord who orders the steps of a righteous man.

Perhaps you are being tested which IS NOT PREACHED. How is faith, loyalty, devotion, long-suffering displayed and how do these virtues of Christ Jesus in you grow in maturity? How was Abraham’s faith test so why shouldn’t your faith be tested? How did Job bear witness and glorify the Lord by his sufferings and testimony, “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away blessed be the Lord.” Is the Lord Jesus himself displaying and revealing the hearts of those who have rejected the Lord Jesus. YOUR HEART is being OPENLY DISPLAYED NAKED BEFORE THE LORD. If the Lord asks you will you be humble and attempt to bring leaders or saints to Spirit and Truth. Or will you remain in fellowship subjected to doctrines of demons and deceitful workers of iniquity? If you do, you partake in the judgment of the house you sit in, this is a fact many do not want to accept.

Matthew 10:14–15 (NKJV)

14 And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

Did not Lot and his family have to depart Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot’s wife turn into a pillar of salt! Will you partake in the judgment upon them by continuing to sit and fellowship with evil?

The Lord will give you the desires of your heart even if the Lord is not your desire! Read my post Jesus vs. The Pharisees: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

Make no mistake, you are being tested! This will be more prevalent as we continue with a testing I went through and I share as a teaching. Remember the Lord Jesus wished no one would perish and that all would come to saving grace in Christ Jesus.

Acts 7:51–60 (NKJV)

Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.”

Stephen the Martyr

54 When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Read my blog post about Saul from Tarsus being of the Harlot Church of Revelations: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/02/saul-from-tarsus-and-the-harlot-church-of-revelations/

2 Thessalonians 2:3–12 (NKJV)

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

What we just confirmed is that these people were not only once followers of Christ (disciples means followers but NOT born again followers). The disciples DID NOT BECOME APOSTLES UNTIL PENTECOST WHICH IS BEING BORN AGAIN! By the wisdom of God our Father no one can be disciples without the Holy Spirit because it was Jesus by the Spirit of The Lord that taught the disciples. Today’s church has lost this truthful foundation. That is what is meant by if the Lord does not build the house they labor in vein! So the doctrines of men and doctrines of demons will not render Spirit and Truth or holiness. Only Jesus can do that by the indwelling Holy Spirit! This is why people worship the Son of Man and NOT the Son of God! They follow the teachings of men not the Lord!

1 Corinthians 2:10–16 (NKJV)

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Notice the spirit of a man is the spirit of this world which is the god of this world Lucifer the Devil! Doctrines of men is doctrines of demons!

Now what I about to share for the first time publicly is not being boastful, prideful or from a nature or spirit of being superior. I believe the Lord is having me share this because we are truly in the last hours NOT DAYS and we all know whether born again or not that the world is growing more wicked every day. We are little seeing prophecy of the Book of Revelations being manifested and fulfilled before our eyes. So by the will of the Lord Jesus I share this testimony about Jezebel as Jezebel is in the book of Revelations.

The Lord sent me as I did not chose to go to TWO world wide seminaries/ministry schools in immediate succession where the whole teaching administration’s teaching was twisted and manipulation of scriptures which was doctrines of demons. I discerned by the Spirit of the Living God that these people worshiped other gods! On the third day of the first school/seminary I went back to the parking lot mid evening when the facility was vacant and had a real stern discussion with the Lord while looking up at the stars similar to Abraham.

I said Lord, why did you bring me here and ask me to give away all of my household possessions, sell my home and travel for you. These people do not know you or worship you, they serve other gods. My desire is for more of you and you alone Lord. Why would you subject me to this constant spiritual warfare and evil. Remember I had only been there three days!

Right there in the parking lot I had a Moses moment as the Lord replied to me. I brought you here to reveal me and testify of me! I said Lord “who am I that I should be considered worthy to represent you”. This statement not only reflects Moses it also reflects the virgin Mary being considered worthy.

After four months of constant spiritual warfare not only from leadership but from students many who were deceived I cried myself to sleep as I was fasting and praying to the Lord.

Just a quick note, you should read my post about the damnation of spiritual gossip: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/03/the-spiritual-damnation-of-religious-gossip/ The reason I mention that is because the Jezebel spirit spreads gossip getting other to pray for you! What they are really doing is putting curses upon you! Remember witches operate in covens! What my Jezebel leader said to my class behind my back was Glen doesn’t know Jesus or hear from Jesus so we must pray for him! READ MY BLOG POST! LIFE AND DEATH IS IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE!

In my fasting and praying myself to sleep I said to the Lord. Lord if I have offended you by the constant subjection of the Holy Spirit to this constant spiritual warfare I ask for your forgiveness. I do not want to subject you Lord to this warfare as I love you Lord and anyone I love I desire to protect. Lord if I have been deceived in any way, shape or form and knowing or unknowingly come into agreement I declare right now that I have been redeemed, reconciled, washed in your blood, bought and paid for by your blood and atonement. Lord Jesus you are mine and I am yours! Lord I will NOT leave this battlefield until you speak to me to leave for I do not know the souls you will place before me to be a living witness and testimony! I will endure this suffering for your namesake but I do NOT desire to partake in what this place represents or in the gods they serve!

I fell asleep crying in my prayers as the anguish of spiritual attacks was wearing down my flesh’s ability to see, read the Word and other bodily functions yet my heart, mind and soul were steadfast on the Lord Jesus. At three in the morning I was immediately awoken to the Lord standing before me! It was glorious and powerful. I could see the outline of a man in complete body of light, pure light. Jesus spoke to me spirit to spirit no audible voice as I rented room in a home with other men who attended the same ministry school.

Jesus spoke to me. My son you have not grieved the Holy Spirit by these constant attacks. Your spiritual battle has been against the spirit of Jezebel as that principality is running this ministry school. You are free to go the choice is yours. At 6 am I went out to the kitchen to get a coffee and one of the students that attended the same ministry school ask how I was doing. I said I am well by the grace of God as Jesus was in my room at 3 am and answered my prayers of intercession. He replied with excitement and said I could feel a presence in the house and I kept speaking I wanted more but did not receive more. I said the Lord told me I am free to go now and leave school. Here is a point I want to make. If you think of the house layout I was at the far end. The man I rented from was in the middle who was a graduate of this ministry school and the third man I spoke with at 6 am was at the far end. The man I rent from who graduated NEVER FELT THE PRESENCE OF GOD. Unfortunately I was called a fool by both men for leaving the school.

Now let me point out there were 1400 students in first year! How many of them became disciples of Jezebel! This is an international school across the globe!

When I left the school and was driving from the west coast all the way to the east coast the Lord told me to fast and pray to break off any spirits that would attempt to follow or continue to attack. What I was doing in prayer is what the Lord does for us. Spiritually I was closing a door that NO man could open because it was Jesus who closed the door! Think of Noah and the Lord closing Noah inside the Arc which by the way was symbolic of the Arc of the Covenant! How do we know this? Did not Noah release the Dove from within the Arc! Why was it even called an ARC? You see that is the same thing that happened when Jesus got into the boat with the disciples during the raging waters! The LIVING NEW COVENANT CHRIST JESUS GOT IN THE BOAT. WHAT WAS THE NEW COVENANT INTENTIONS, SALVATION! THEY WERE SAVED FROM THE STORMS OF LIFE ON EARTH! WHICH ARE TRIALS, TRIBULATION, ETC.

About one month later I spoke to the Lord in prayer. I said Lord you came to me and spoke to me that it was Jezebel so Lord it is my desire to know more about Jezebel so that I may have your wisdom. I said Lord do NOT allow me to be consumed by evil spirits through my studying of Jezebel but make it known to me the methods, whiles and schemes of the devil.

I would like to give testimony about Jezebel and testing the spirits. When the Lord told me I was free to go I submitted my withdraw papers to leave at the end of the quarter which was just about 2 weeks remaining before the Christmas break. The pastor that was my instructor was a female who was also a Jezebel and my primary attacker. Having revelation from the Lord’s encounter and constant spiritual battles. While in class this same woman pastor (Jezebel) came to my class in an attempt to ridicule me. She walked in and interrupted the class and spoke over the class directly to me and said you have a meeting with me tomorrow at 1 pm in a very confrontational manner which everyone knew was a form of discipline. When I went to see her in a one on one meeting she was attempting to review my classwork in disguise but it was a confrontation of submission to her demonic authority. So I “tested the spirit”. I said where should a person be spiritually by the end of their first year of attendance in school. Where do you see me know and what do I need to improve on to complete my first year. I was “baiting the hook”. This is the reply I received as she spoke. “Can I be perfectly honest with you”. I said certainly. “She said a person should have a close relationship with the Lord and be growing in the Lord”. “She continued: You need to work on your pride, arrogance and obedience developing humility”. I smiled, laughed and said you really ought to get to know me as I am a good person.

I could see in her eyes the spirits of hatred and murder! She was so mad and trying so hard to control her manifestations. I walked out. She scheduled a meeting with the dean of the school for all three of us. When I attended the meeting the dean said well I have read your student application and it would appear that you may have a calling but you will never be established in ministry without this school as we are able to establish you! Immediately my spirit was taken to the encounter with Jesus and Satan in the wilderness and I received divine revelation. I responded to both of them. I see what is going on here as you call me arrogant and prideful but what I have is confidence in Christ Jesus and I do not need your school as I have all sufficiency in Christ Jesus which I had prior to coming here. I had everything I needed before coming here!

You see Satan will accuse you of WHAT IS IN HIM! Satan is the accuser of the brethren and they were trying to get me to bow to Satan! ALL THIS CAN BE YOURS IF YOU BOW BEFORE ME! That is exactly what Satan spoke to Jesus. Also did Jesus ever ask if he could be truthful? You have to be kidding me! In my private meeting with Jezebel when I tested the spirit her first reply was “Can I be perfectly honest”. Which in the Holy Spirit I received and heard “Can I speak lies that you will believe”! Why would a Christian filled with the Holy Spirit not be honest already! There is no darkness in Christ Jesus so why the lies of accusation towards me! We are called to speak in Spirit and Truth because Spirit and Truth dwells within us! I needed to share this testimony before concluding my posting. So as I conclude I want you to read what the Lord spoke to me a couple weeks after leaving that international ministry school.

The Lord by the unction of the Holy Spirit spoke to me as I meditated on my experiences of the Lord while at that ministry school and the Lord spoke Deuteronomy chapter 13. I want to give you one last suggestion. Whatever you go through all things work out for the pleasure of the Lord so any experiences like this are meant to grow you not to destroy you. So reflect, meditate and seek the Lord on every experience. What is the Lord showing, revealing, strengthening you of, delivering you from, etc. so you can get revelation not head knowledge. Head knowledge dissipates in time when you do not perform or those actions or thoughts in a reoccurring timely manner. Revelations of Christ are eternal forever a part of your spiritual growth. That is exactly what Jesus told the disciples that the Comforter must come to bring all of His teaching back to their remembrance and to give them greater revelations they were not ready to receive. Without continual spiritual revelations of Truth you are not growing Spiritually. That is why I write from my heart and that is why I say everything that is written in the Word of God is actual living experiences and we will in our journey experience everything contained in the Word of God whether in the physical and/or spiritual.

I was not at the scourging post of Christ in the natural but I was taken there in the spiritual to get a great revelation of the Grace of God! This happened in one of my meditation times with the Lord as I was meditating on my life in Christ Jesus thanking Jesus for His grace. How many of us could endure in the physical what Jesus sustained torture Jesus endured without the Father POURING out HIS GRACE! Without grace I would have had enough before the cross and wanted to die! It was by the FATHERS GRACE THAT THE SON ENDURED THE CROSS! It is by the grace of Jesus that the cross of Christ Jesus may do a work within us rendering a pure and holy image and likeness of Christ Jesus.

The Lord replied in the spirit Deuteronomy chapter 13. So in closing I will share what the Lord spoke with Deuteronomy 13.

Deuteronomy 13:1–18 (NKJV)

Punishment of Apostates

13 “If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’—which you have not known—‘and let us serve them,’ 3 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. 5 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.

6 “If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known, neither you nor your fathers, 7 of the gods of the people which are all around you, near to you or far off from you, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, 8 you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; 9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 And you shall stone him with stones until he dies, because he sought to entice you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 11 So all Israel shall hear and fear, and not again do such wickedness as this among you.

12 “If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to dwell in, saying, 13 ‘Corrupt men have gone out from among you and enticed the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” ’—which you have not known—14 then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination was committed among you, 15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock—with the edge of the sword. 16 And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the Lord your God. It shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. 17 So none of the accursed things shall remain in your hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers, 18 because you have listened to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep all His commandments which I command you today, to do what is right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

I want you to realize that I had only been saved 8 months when I registered for ministry school and I had numerous encounters with the Lord prior to registering for ministry school. Some encounters I was taken to the third heaven and some encounters while on earth. I even had one close Christian friend witness and outer body experience I was having who later turned against me. If you desire Christ and earnestly seek the Lord you will experience your own Patmos Island as you will have Christ and Christ alone.

When you reach a point in your spiritual journey you will understand there are two types of prodical sons. One is your personal turning away from God the other is the Church you attend denying Christ in you! So you end up on a spiritual island of Patmos! So when a Christian says the Lord will never leave you or forsake you they speak it as a punchline and not true Spiritual revelation of being forsaken by the Leodicean Church! A true man of God walks alone with God because all who forsake the Living God will forsake the true man of God. This is a very harsh reality but spiritual truth. That is why the apostles and prophets were martyred preaching the GOOD NEWS OF SALVATION. Imagine killing messengers of good! What do we see today with all of the killing everywhere. Here is the testimony of my friend witnessing my outer body experience when I was caught up to the third heaven to be with the Lord. Remember there is a difference between praise and true worship! That is why many do not have these experiences as they do not comprehend the difference! What did Jesus tell the woman at the well!

John 4:23–24 (NKJV)

23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

My friend and I both loved the fall scenery and in northern New England the fall foliage is really pretty. We had gone out into the woods to a nice stream. My friend likes to take pictures as he was (past tense as he walked away as a friend) a photography buff. I love to worship the Lord so I had my Apple Ipod and earbuds and worshiped the Lord. During my worship I was taken to the third heaven with the Lord in the Spirit. During my time with the Lord unknown to me there was a women a distance off walking and approaching on the path to my direction. My friend unknowing to me was watching me from a similar distance and was observing me. I IMMEDIATELY CAME OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND WAS BACK IN MY PHYSICAL BODY AND TURNED LOOKING DOWN THE PATH AT THE WOMAN APPROACHING. When we got in the car to leave he said the Lord revealed something to him about me. I said feel free to share. He said when I looked at you it was if your body was there as I could see your body but it’s like you yourself were not there. I said you are correct I was with the Lord in the third heaven. He then asked how did you know that woman was approaching. I said very easily. Intimacy is between two not a multitude! So she was NOT ALLOWED to enter my intimacy with the Lord! That is why I came back to my physical body! In the Spirit even though I was in the third heaven with Jesus I was aware of my surroundings by the Spirit!

While you may question this there are numerous scriptures to back this up. One is the woman who touch Jesus robe. She did not touch Jesus and Jesus said “who drew from me”. You see virtue was released! How is it Paul had his encounter on the road to Damasus and the others did not see Jesus? How is it Phillip was translated to minister to the Etheopian? How is even our prayers as individual saints are each unique and distinguished as individuals in the nostrils or the Lord Jesus? Do not be deceived by corporate worship trying to get you in the presence of God as each of us is an individual. When you partake of corporate worship too often it is sensual. In one instance as I was worshiping in corporate worship at a church I had a Jezebel come stand next to me as I was in the end of the row on the isle side. Jezebel kept stamping her feet like a bull attempting to get me out of the presence of the Lord!

I share this NOT from pride but from revelations that most Christians do not understand. The incarnate Christ was both human and divine. Thus being a new creation in Christ by being born again we too occupy two realms simultaneously. We occupy the earth physically but spiritually we dwell with Christ seated at the right hand of the Father! This is how we know what the Father is doing, by the Spirit. This is how we learn to walk in the Spirit!

So this leads me to the pre-trib rapture lie! When I was at a bible study which two pastors were going through the book of Revelations one pastor spoke and said we need to tell people about events in the book of Revelations so they will be saved and won’t go through these things written in Revelations and be taken in the pre-trib rapture. I spoke so all of the people could hear. That is not the gospel of salvation! I said preaching the pre-trib rapture is a lie as I have already been raptured! I got the deaf and dumb looks towards me in doubt so I said I am seated in heavenly placed through Christ Jesus and I am at the right hand of the Father in Christ Jesus. I have already been raptured because I am in this world but not of this world!

That is why I debunked and wrote about the lies of the Babylonian doctrine of demons regarding the pre-trib rapture. People that believe and embrace the pre-trib rapture are very likely not born again, deceived or have fallen away in the apostasy. The whole concept of the Babylonian tower was to ascend to heaven making yourself as god! Is that not the spirit of Antichrist and the profession of statement Lucifer spoke. I WILL ASCEND! The reason for the pre-trib rapture is because they DO NOT HAVE A LIVING TESTIMONY OF CHRIST JESUS WHICH IS REQUIRED AT THE END OF THE AGE! THEY WILL DENY CHRIST SO THEIR HEARTS ARE ALREADY ALIGNED WITH THE SPIRIT OF THIS AGE! YOU DO NOT ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR ENEMIES SO THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE IS THEIR FRIEND. A true Christian has a friend that is closer than a brother!

John 15:13–15 (NKJV)

13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

In all of my writings and postings you will observe this one simple principle if you pay close attention. I could just post a scripture online but I normally tell you from my heart what that scripture has done for me personally or how it affects a saint personally! The devil knows the Word of God but the devil will not expound or reveal truth about the scripture as he presents it manipulated, twisted and out of context. The devil will appear to speak in Spirit and Truth by reading the word but the devil can NEVER BECOME THE LIVING WORD which is what the devil wants! The true distinction is are they writing/reciting from the heart or head knowledge! If they do not write from the heart then it is likely they only know what is written and NOT THE PERSON OF CHRIST JESUS. If there only/last testimony is there salvation where is the working of the Holy Spirit within their heart as they have NO new revelation of the PERSON OF CHRIST JESUS. So while I may only intend to write one chapter in my postings I end up with a sermon and a longer post because when you are in the Spirit the Lord is limitless! All things pertaining to a life in Christ are eternal they have no END! The heart is the witness of true conversion and not merely the words someone speaks, reads or writes!

When I first got saved there was a man from India who was a Christian. He would put postings online that I would read and reply openly on his postings. After about a week of doing this he messaged me privately. His name was Thampi Joseph. I believe that was it or it was Joseph Thampi. Either way he messaged me and said to me brother Glen I truly appreciate your replies to my posting that edify my followers. I replied brother Thampi I meditate on what you post and write what it means in my heart and then write from my heart what it means on your postings. He replied a week later and said brother the Lord has His hands upon you. I will send people to you online through messenger to minister too. I sent monies to him for bibles as he led people to the Lord. You see “what is the evidence from your heart” not merely what you speak! You will know them by their fruit. What is the parable of the sowing of seed!

I will close for now but once again I must say this. I am not bragging or boasting as my desire is to reveal Christ and NOTHING OF ME. That is exactly what Jesus said to Satan in the wilderness. That is the same prayer I prayed when I got saved in 2010years. Lord I want to be able to say to Satan: YOU HAVE NOTHING IN ME! I would then pray John 1:1 Lord your Spirit dwells within me and the Word became flesh Lord be it in me as it was in you! Consume this flesh so I may reveal you! If you do not know Jesus in the Spirit you do not know Jesus at all because Jesus is no longer of the flesh Himself.

2 Corinthians 5:16 (NKJV)

16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer.

Romans 8:14–17 (NKJV)

14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

Hebrews 6:1–8 (NKJV)

The Peril of Not Progressing

6 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. 3 And this we will do if God permits.

4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; 8 but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

I pray that you might be encourage by this post to pursue the fullness of what Christ Jesus has called you to and may the fullness of Christ dwell richly within you. Do NOT become the Laodicean Church! Stay on fire for the Lord!

THE PROGRESSION OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE AND GROWTH

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THE PROGRESSION OF A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE OF GROWTH FROM HEBREWS 4:12 TO EPHESIANS 6:10-20

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

The very first point of mention is that even though a sword is mentioned in both scriptures the spiritual implications of those scriptures above is completely different. You can read my posting of David vs. Goliath to get better understanding. https://abidingbread.com/2025/12/02/david-vs-goliath-the-mark-of-the-beast/

Too many Christians directly equate Hebrews 4:12 with the armor of God and they are completely different applications and one precedes the other in being equipped for battle. We know that a kingdom divided can not stand as well as when we are born again we receive imputed righteousness from Christ Jesus. This imputed righteous by the indwelling Holy Spirit still needs to do a work within us BEFORE we take the battle field in the Spirit realm.

Just because you received the Holy Spirit does NOT mean you are totally filled with light! We know this by the parable of the 10 virgins! So we still have darkness within us that the Holy Spirit wishes and desires to “cut away” from within us. That is the double edge sword. Too many also it is symbolic of the brethren as “iron sharpening iron” but that is just scratching the surface because when you sharpen any knife, sword or iron you need “honing oil” which is the Holy Spirit because we are talking about spiritual growth unto complete sanctification and holiness! Think Galatians 2:20 & 6:14.

The Word of God in Hebrews 4:12 is the living God not just the Written Word. It is the Lord by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit that crucifies our old nature and gets us to the Garden of Gethsemane. What sorrowed the Lord is that the disciples fell asleep which means the same application process of what Jesus went through was not a living witness to them. They were called to die to “self” just as when they partook of the last supper! When you take communion you are actively committing to dying to “self” as whoever does not partake of the Body and Blood is not worthy to follow Jesus.

Hebrews 4:12–13 (NKJV)

12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Notice heart, mind and soul! These represent the first commandment Jesus spoke that we must love Jesus with all of our mind, heart and soul! This is not possible when you deny the Holy Spirit access to these areas of our very being! Also notice the saints will give an account of denying the process of sanctification and pruning!

John 15:1–11 (NKJV)

The Relationship of Believers to Christ

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

This is of vital importance as in the New Testament I can not reflect on even one single Apostle given unto a sinful nature! So this false metaphor Christians repeat that no one is without sin is TOTALLY VOID of the life, death and resurrection of Christ Jesus! You deny the gospel and the power of God by this statement! You deny the double edge sword which is the person of Christ Jesus! I say PERSON of Christ Jesus for a reason which I will expound on as we proceed. When you deny the double edge sword you deny THE FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST JESUS.

Romans 6:1–14 (NKJV)

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Have you allowed the Cross of Christ Jesus to work within you? I am not talking about stumbling as we live in a fallen world and the influences of darkness as no saint is exempt from spiritual attacks of Satan. I am talking about the same sin being repetitive. I realize that many forms of bondage are not easy but are you calling on the Lord to crucify that sin, asking for HIS power and GRACE to overcome? Why is the mindset stronghold of being saved your final destination. Why are the churches sending out newly saved people telling them they are ready to minister? They have a testimony but are not yet ready for ministry. There is no real discipleship from the Holy Spirit. I keep saying this over and over you are to reflect, represent and reveal Christ Jesus. This means you do not represent your pastor, church, denomination, your own beliefs which may be false but you preach and speak IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH. When you speak with a mixture of flesh and spirit I guess you could say you speak with a forked tongue. I am not saying this out of cruelty. I have witnessed by the Holy Spirit when someone speaks starting out in the Spirit and then adds their own interpretation of expounds with their own intellect rather than revelations of Spirit and Truth. Hey, we are human and all being refined. This is why prophet utterance is only speaking by the power and unction of the Holy Spirit. Just as Jesus said the words I speak are not my own but of my Father. I only do what I see my Father doing! We must all develop this in our own walk with the Lord. Today the church has people say a prayer, dunk them in water and sends them out. How come it took three and a half years for discipleship when JESUS TAUGHT THEM and even then without the Holy Spirit they would not remember what they had been taught. In addition there were things Jesus said He could NOT teach them until the Holy Spirit dwelt within them. That is why in my previous post I said all of the Apostles had the same Gospel but each grew in continued revelations of Christ. Paul preached on Grace because it was a personal revelation by the Thorn in the flesh. Paul knew this was also a spiritual attack and wrote Ephesians six. John wrote the Book of Revelations. All of the Epistles were their testimonies of continue Revelations of Christ Jesus. It is the Apostles and Prophets that lay the foundation of Christ Jesus but not only the denial of the five fold ministry but also the false people in the five fold ministry corrupt the Word of God. The five fold ministry is the fullness of Jesus as five is the biblical number of GRACE! A true Apostle walks in the total of the five fold ministry or how could you “BUILD THE CHURCH”. Today we only have a pastor who eliminates the five fold ministry and he alone represents an all in one presence. Is the pastor prophetic? Let’s put it this way which office of the five fold ministry in the bible battles Jezebel? What office of the five fold ministry took on principalities? Which office took on Kings of other nations? When the church does not have the five fold ministry the saints suffer in edification. There again just as there are false pastors/prophets there will be false in all five offices. That does not mean those offices do not exist. It’s so sad today that the saints can’t distinguish between prophecy and the office of a prophet! When Paul said above all the gifts he wish all would prophesy he was referring to being living witnesses/testimonies of Christ Jesus. The spirit of prophecy is testimony of Jesus. Anyone that speaks/proclaims/preaches is prophesying but that does NOT make them a prophet! So preaching is a testimony of Jesus Christ. Many have another Jesus that they preach and thus a different Spirit.

I get many excuses when I bring up these points when people say Moses wasn’t perfect and yet Moses was commissioned. They do not see the difference between the Old Testament and New Testament! Visitation is NOT habitation, why do you think they brought the Arc of the Covenant?

Exodus 33:15 (NKJV)

15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

It is important to understand when the Lord went with them did the Lord only go in part or in fullness? Is the fullness of the Holy Spirit been developed and established within you? Is there still any darkness that you have within you? If so, the fullness of Christ is NOT going with you or within you!

Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Covenant! Those born again do not live under the Old Covenant. To understand the New Covenant the Old Covenant is needed and visa versa. To understand the fullness of the Old Covenant the New Covenant is needed. That is why the full counsel of God’s Word is vital and essential!

Matthew 5:48 (NKJV)

48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Philippians 1:6 (NKJV)

6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)

14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Matthew 6:21–23 (NKJV)

21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22  “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Now let us look at how by allowing the fulfillment of Hebrews 4:12 which is the Person of Christ Jesus to work within you unto complete sanctification and holiness you can not fulfill Ephesians 6:10-20.

Ephesians 6:10–20 (NKJV)

The Whole Armor of God

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

If you do not put on which means submit to Hebrews 4:12 you are unable to put on the power of His might or the completed armor. Thus you are not truly equipped for the battlefield! Are you sanctified by His Word? Has all of HIS WORD which is the LIVING WORD CHRIST JESUS FORMED WITHIN YOU. ARE YOU ESTABLISHED IN HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS. I know this is contrary to the preaching of today but this is critical in the hour we live!

John 17:18–23 (NKJV)

18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Christ Prays for All Believers

20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

Now let us try to wrap this up. As you seen in John 17 we are sanctified by truth. Is your church preaching in Spirit and Truth? Truth is established ONLY by The Holy Spirit. So are you allowing Hebrews 4:12-13 to be fulfilled in you? Christ Jesus was not glorified until after His death and resurrection and if Mary had touched Jesus before Jesus ascended that would have changed the outcome. You see human hands can not create the dwelling place of the Lord so a church structure or place of congregation is NOT the church. If Jesus had not ascended into glory before anyone touched Jesus the fallen nature would have been a contamination of the resurrection. You may ask how do we know this. Paul tells us and this is also why the modern day church is in the condition that it is and why false doctrines have created people influenced and inhabited by demons who call themselves Christians.

1 Timothy 5:22 (NKJV)

22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.

I hope you have found this informative and that you received this in Spirit and Truth. I once had a woman come to a prayer group with several sicknesses. I was instructed by church leaders not to pray directly but to give any revelations to the leadership of the prayer group so they could pray. This is in total opposition to the Spirit of God! The one who receives revelation is the one empowered by that revelation because it was received from the Lord by the Holy Spirit. So the revelation empowers the prayer. The two leaders prayed with no healing. I said all that they have prayed is not your problem. I said the Lord revealed that your thyroid is the problem which is creating these illnesses and sickness. I asked if I could gently lay my hand on her throat and she said yes. As I prayed she began to cry as the Holy Spirit was manifesting. Her cry was not of hurt but of revelation of the prayer. When I finished my prayer she stated the revelation to me. She said she had been to a church for the “laying on of hands” for spiritual impartation and she feared she received a different spirit! There you go, the laying on of hands imparts spirits! I asked if I could pray again and she said yes. So I said greater is the Lord in her and greater is the Lord in me. In the name of Jesus come out now! She was delivered right there and set free! I was told this type of prayer was not allowed because the church had a SOZO deliverance ministry which is psychotherapy masquerading as spiritual deliverance! I know because the Lord allowed me to attend a few class session and even under a session. I was not blinded spiritually so I was unaffected by this process but it allowed me to discern and witness first hand this demonic false deliverance ministry. It is done by “probing spirits” as I have discussed in other postings. The Lord is not a probing Spirit He reveals to us by divine revelation as I mentioned a few sentences ago. The reason for probing spirits is to put a spiritual hook in you to create ungodly soul ties of bondage. You then are subject to repetitive sessions of SOZO or falsely believe you are set free. It’s of the devil! Impartation is the laying on of hands for the transference of spiritual gifts bu tit is the impartation of the spirit of those gifts which 99.9 percent of the time is transference of demonic spirits! You are receiving spirits! Paul approached this much differently with Timothy as the calling and gifting is from the Lord only! Notice the gift of God was already within Timothy!

2 Timothy 1:6 (NKJV)

6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

Acts 19:1–6 (NKJV)

Paul at Ephesus

19 And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples 2 he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”

So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”

3 And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”

So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”

4 Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”

5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

THE SPIRITUAL LIES AND DECEPTION OF “ONLY THE LORD KNOWS THE HEART”

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THE SPIRITUAL LIES AND DECEPTION OF “ONLY THE LORD KNOWS THE HEART”

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

I am writing this post as I recall many incidents of pastors preaching this from the pulpits as well as preaching Matthew 7 being taken out of context about “judging”. That is another twisted preaching that has condemned many souls just as “only the Lord knows the heart”.

It is about time this gets rebuked and people become aware that the reason that is a lie is because it is a PARTIAL truth and that makes it a lie.

I remember when I was traveling in Missouri ministering and the Lord spoke to me about settling in Missouri for one year. So the Lord sent me to a company that was not advertising for help to apply for a job. I went in and said I was looking for work and immediately received an interview and offered a job. The Lord gave me a job of little status but wonderful opportunity to minister. I was hired as a tri-state truck driver as I had a commercial drivers license.

This job allowed me to minister on the road while working. I would share the gospel, prophecy and give words of knowledge to the customers. My boss came to me about 3 months later and said my route had doubled in purchase volume and I said yes. I pray and prophesy for the customers.

I was trying to assist a church with ministry but it was not of the Lord and a spiritual battle. Never the less the battle was intense and I ended up hospitalized from demonic attack. The Lord allowed this to happen to witness to others who refused to see it for what it was just as in the book of Job.

My boss was a Christian and I also attended his church but was not involved directly in that ministry. One day the pastor spoke from the pulpit ONLY God knows the heart of the people and I cringed, gave a loud sigh and slouched in my seat. My boss who I sat next to became aware of my gestures. After service my boss asked me why I reacted the way I did. I said what the pastor spoke was a partial truth making it a lie! Jesus will reveal the hearts of people to his TRUE, WILLING AND OBEDIENT servants to minister to the heart needs of the recipient. The pastor said this for one of two reasons or perhaps both reasons combined. First he is not seeking the Lord or the Lord’s desires for HIS people and second the pastor may not receive revelation because he will not act upon it! There is no need to give revelation where it is not fulfilled in obedience.

1 Samuel 23:10–12 (NKJV)

10 Then David said, “O Lord God of Israel, Your servant has certainly heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah to destroy the city for my sake. 11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant.”

And the Lord said, “He will come down.”

12 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?”

And the Lord said, “They will deliver you.”

1 Samuel 16:1–7 (NKJV)

David Anointed King

16 Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”

2 And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.”

But the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’ 3 Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do; you shall anoint for Me the one I name to you.”

4 So Samuel did what the Lord said, and went to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

5 And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons, and invited them to the sacrifice.

6 So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!”

7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

Acts 5:3–5 (NKJV)

3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

5 Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.

One of the very first things Jesus did while in His ministry on earth was to reveal and expose the hearts of people! If your heart is not right you will not receive Spirit and Truth even unto salvation! That is why the Holy Spirit convicts the heart/conscience of the person and they either adhere and submit or refused and walked away! This is also represented in Romans 1 with a reprobate mind. I pray I never have to deliver that word to anyone again. The Lord had me assisting a man who claimed he wanted deliverance but he kept dying the power of God unto deliverance. Meanwhile he claimed to be a Christian and went to church. The problem was he loved his sin more than the Lord and kept making excuses about not getting free. The Lord had me to tell him straight up and very blunt. I said the Lord has given me a Word for you that if you keep denying the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus to deliver you the Lord said He is about to turn you over to a reprobate mind to the point of NO RETURN OR SALVATION! I HOPE I NEVER HAVE TO SPEAK THOSE WORDS AGAIN TO ANYONE BUT I DID AS THE LORD SPOKE. The Lord revealed this mans heart not only to me but also to the man!

Here is the overall point I want to make. Do we minister to intellect or to the heart? How would Saul from Tarsus have gotten saved if Jesus had tried to speak to Saul’s intellect. Saul was a Pharisee’s Pharisee a scholar among scholars with very high intellect. Jesus exposed Saul’s heart!

Acts 9:3–5 (NKJV)

3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?”

Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”

The preaching today is totally void of speaking about matters of the heart! Which includes sin! Instead scripture is twisted, manipulated and taken totally out of context from Matthew 7 and people respond who are you to judge.

When I have confronted false prophets they use this scripture out of context against me.

Matthew 7:2 (NKJV)

2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.

The Holy Spirit had me rebuke him again.

1 Corinthians 2:15–16 (NKJV)

15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Now this point is critical so please pay attention to what I am saying here. I don’t proclaim to be righteous at all in fact I HAVE NO RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MY OWN. THE ONLY RIGHTEOUSNESS I HAVE IS IN CHRIST JESUS. SO WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT REVEALS TO YOU A MATTER OR CONCERN IT IS RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT. This is vital to equip you to stand just as Jesus did in the wilderness with Satan as IT IS WRITTEN. Because it was the Lord by revelation of the Holy Spirit that was speaking NOT me or me making judgment. Also judgment is rendering a decision similar to a verdict in court as Jesus is the righteous one who will pass “penalty” of the judgment. Vengeance is the Lord’s we are merely vessels the Lord works through.

I ended up getting kicked out of that seminary by exposing false prophets, false doctrines and much sin. I had already packed up knowing this was going to happen just as David inquired and knew Saul was hunting him down!

Notice the scripture states the mind of Christ. My actions were not of my own as it was the Holy Spirit that prompted me to confront this false prophet and the false prophet used scripture out of context just as Satan did with Jesus in the wilderness.

Acts 8:9–24 (NKJV)

The Sorcerer’s Profession of Faith

9 But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, 10 to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the great power of God.” 11 And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time. 12 But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. 13 Then Simon himself also believed; and when he was baptized he continued with Philip, and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done.

If you have discernment you will see that we have sorcerers in the pulpits and people think he is wonderful so they give heed and sit under this demonic spirit and false teachings! They even state this man’s power is from God! Simon even got baptized! An outward act of deception of repentance which NEVER happened!

The Sorcerer’s Sin

14 Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. 16 For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

18 And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, 19 saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

20 But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! 21 You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

24 Then Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.”

How many spiritual pimps are in the pulpits today? How many think you can buy the anointing? Is that not the same as the five foolish virgins, perhaps it’s much worse! They had to go “buy” their lamp oil! You can’t buy the Holy Spirit! I seriously doubt that even 2 % of the church assembly truly belong to the Lord so what does that reflect on the church leadership and what spirit are they? There are ONLY two kingdoms and two types of Christ which is the TRUE LIVING CHRIST JESUS and Antichrist!

There is much conversation on why a pastor won’t preach on sin and the major reason is likely they are hirelings and false prophets who entertain “itchy ears” for personal gain whether financial gain, influence, pride or are they commissioned as masquerading ministers of righteousness working for Satan? Itchy ear preachers are often the judgment of those who sit in the pews as the Lord has turned them over to the desires of their own hearts.

Any preacher who says ONLY THE LORD KNOWS THE HEART is giving a partial truth thus rendering a lie. If the pastor won’t address or preach on sin the pastor himself likely has secret sin. Let us get real, humble with a contrite heart before the Lord and repent, cleansed and restored.

Satan will build your ministry quicker than the Lord because you need to die to “self” to have a real ministry with Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 11:1–15 (NKJV)

Concern for Their Faithfulness

11 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me. 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

Paul and False Apostles

5 For I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles. 6 Even though I am untrained in speech, yet I am not in knowledge. But we have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.

7 Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you. 9 And when I was present with you, and in need, I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!

12 But what I do, I will also continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast. 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

THE SPIRITUAL ORIGIN OF ATRIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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THE SPIRITUAL ORIGIN OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

Revelation 3:22 (NKJV)

22 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’ ”

There are many times we need to go back to the beginning of a matter to determine where things went astray as ignorance is doing the same thing over and over with the same bad outcome. Let us go back to the garden and see how the kingdom of darkness started in the first place and the results of submission to the serpent the devil!

Genesis 3:1–5 (NKJV)

The Temptation and Fall of Man

3 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

What led to the fall of Eve was more than deception alone. Eve took ungodly advice which was contrary to the Word of God and she “entertained” this advice and words spoken to her. This happens even today as people do not seek the Lord themselves they take the advice, beliefs, teachings, preaching and recommendations from people verses the Lord Jesus.

Imagine walking with God in fellowship in the garden and knowing the voice of God and yet taking counsel from another entity or person. I once was in a church who allowed the saints to take turns leading bible study and when I did my study on “who’s voice are you listening to” the pastor shut down the bible study! I guess I should not be surprised as today the pastors present themselves as being God Almighty in the pulpits! Who wants to take the place of Christ Jesus? What spirit would shut down true spiritual food of the Word of God?

The knowledge received from the tree of knowledge of good and evil was NOT about good but strictly evil! Remember the devil calls good evil and evil good! The word good was an illusion as there is no truth in the father of lies! So by the Serpent putting good first the Serpent was exalting himself above what God the Father calls good! We know this because scripture tells us that Satan calls good evil and evil good! So Satan placed himself above the Father God and became god on the throne of our hearts! As I have stated in previous postings and writings the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in the image and likeness of Satan! It is imperative to be rooted and grounded IN CHRIST JESUS BY HIS SPIRIT. When the prophets in the Old Testament spoke where they reading from a book? You see the Written Word without the Holy Spirit has no life and truth of meaning or application. Today we have many parrots in the pulpits with self interpretation of what is written without revelations of Spirit and Truth. Like I was telling a friend when I said too much scripture is taken out of context and I told him about “faith comes by hearing the Word of God”. He said that is why we need to read the Word. I said faith comes by hearing the VOICE OF GOD, as the WORD OF GOD WAS GOD BREATHED FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD! Jesus said my sheep hear my voice they follow me and I know them.

Isaiah 55:8–9 (NKJV)

8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Proverbs 23:1–9 (NKJV)

23 When you sit down to eat with a ruler,

Consider carefully what is before you;

2 And put a knife to your throat

If you are a man given to appetite.

3 Do not desire his delicacies,

For they are deceptive food.

4 Do not overwork to be rich;

Because of your own understanding, cease!

5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not?

For riches certainly make themselves wings;

They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

6 Do not eat the bread of a miser,

Nor desire his delicacies;

7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

“Eat and drink!” he says to you,

But his heart is not with you.

8 The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up,

And waste your pleasant words.

9 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,

For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

What the Lord is referring to is the deceptive word of god which is not the true bread of life. You are partaking of a different spiritual bread! Jesus is the “Bread of Life”.

John 6:35 (NKJV)

35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

2 Corinthians 11:4 (NKJV)

4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

Are you seeing what Paul says is in direct correlation to what the serpent did in the Garden of Eden. Do you see how a little leaven ruins the whole loaf of bread that you are eating! Do you see back in the garden when the Serpent said you will know good vs. evil but we know that the Serpent calls evil good and good evil! That is what happened by taking the seed/words of the Serpent. What Satan calls good is actually evil. What came first in what the Serpent offered now that we know he switches the meaning and spiritual attributes calling evil good. The Serpent placed himself before/above God the Father because the Serpent’s good is actually evil. He ascended above the Father in his speech! The Serpent subtly called Father God a liar by saying surely God has not said! Who is the accuser of the brethren! The tree of the forbidden fruit is in the likeness and image of Satan! You see it was much more than just sin because they became children of the devil in his image and likeness. It is total opposite of the TREE OF LIFE in the likeness of the Father! With the Serpent exchanging evil for good which god was the Serpent representing? The god of this world not the Kingdom of Heaven! The Serpent was actually saying you shall be as I am! A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. There are ONLY two kingdoms and two references to Fathers that Jesus spoke. The devil is your Father or Father God the True Living God the God above all gods. The Father was protecting His children by telling us NOT TO PARTAKE! WE MUST BELIEVE EVERY SINGLE WRITTEN WORD ACCORDING TO SPIRIT AND TRUTH! WE MUST ALSO BELIEVE WHAT THE HOLY SPEAKS TO US IN OUR DAILY WALK WITH THE LORD JESUS. There is so much that can be unpacked in Genesis 3:4. The accuser of the brethren, sowing unbelief/doubt, spirit of confusion, spirit of fear, lies and manipulation, pride, lack of provision, lack of knowledge, mockery, accusation, witchcraft, etc. Everything that Satan spiritually is was masquerading in that one verse if you choose to see it. Do you see how subtle the Serpent was at killing, stealing and destroying a child of God!

Romans 3:3–4 (NKJV)

3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect? 4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written:

“That You may be justified in Your words,

And may overcome when You are judged.”

Genesis 3:4–5 (NKJV)

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

If you are an identical twin are you your brother or sister? While you have so much in common and may even share in inner feelings you are still your own person. Do you answer to what you were named or another name? You are an individual but still connected in many ways. Can people around tell you apart? Do not be fooled by appearances you must know the person of Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 61:3 (NKJV)

3 To console those who mourn in Zion,

To give them beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they may be called trees of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

Jeremiah 15:16–21 (NKJV)

16 Your words were found, and I ate them,

And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;

For I am called by Your name,

O Lord God of hosts.

17 I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers,

Nor did I rejoice;

I sat alone because of Your hand,

For You have filled me with indignation.

18 Why is my pain perpetual

And my wound incurable,

Which refuses to be healed?

Will You surely be to me like an unreliable stream,

As waters that fail?

The Lord Reassures Jeremiah

19 Therefore thus says the Lord:

“If you return,

Then I will bring you back;

You shall stand before Me;

If you take out the precious from the vile,

You shall be as My mouth.

Let them return to you,

But you must not return to them.

20 And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall;

And they will fight against you,

But they shall not prevail against you;

For I am with you to save you

And deliver you,” says the Lord.

21 “I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked,

And I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible.”

So artificial intelligence is another means and attempt to destroy the saints in the last days. If you can’t discern the spirits now with your own personal rationalization by spiritual revelation how will you discern when submitted to artificial inelegance. You will become even less reliant on your own spiritual/physical ability to reason and become dependent upon something not even human!

I watched a teaching on AI and it was stated that AI has the ability to duplicate sound waves similarly as the Lord spoke things into creation. There will be a method of using sound waves through AI to stimulate a false spirit which will render a false witness and testimony which will be euphoric and sensual which will become a living experience in the place of Christ Jesus withing the hearts of people. I have already witnessed in my travels for the Lord Jesus this spirit of sensual love that mimics the Holy Spirit but appeals to the carnality of the flesh! It is also feminine in nature, gentle, coddling, comforting and very often renders laughter and loss of control of your physical ability of self control. Self control is a manifestation of the Holy Spirit not the lack of control.

It is imperative to have the mind of Christ Jesus established within you and time is getting short. Jesus must be LORD of you life and not just Savior and if you are not walking in the Spirit of the Lord discerning what is going on it will be easy to be overcome by the beast system.

Artificial intelligence is the end of the age and ready to be implemented as I write this. The final testing is being done and it will be implemented in the near future. I could expound more on AI but I will leave that up to you to search out.

Philippians 2:5–11 (NKJV)

The Humbled and Exalted Christ

5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Without fulfilling line 5 you won’t be able to fulfill the rest of the scriptures just as Psalm 91 if you don’t fulfill line 1 the remaining of the Psalm will not apply. It is what it is and you can’t “name it and claim it”. “Let” is a requirement just as in Ephesians 6 you must put on the whole armor of God!

You must become it by the grace of God by dying to yourself so Christ may rule and reign upon your heart. The church has kept people spiritually ignorant but in the end we are held accountable as individuals because it was the desires of your heart not to seek the Lord in Spirit and Truth and continue to grow in deeper love and devotion to Christ Jesus. I suggest you read 1 Enoch which will reveal what the fallen angels taught humanity and how to destroy humanity through technological development. The Jews would have had these writings and had knowledge pertaining to theses writings that is why there are two references in our bibles to Enoch.

Revelation 3:22 (NKJV)

22 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’ ”

MYSTERY BABYLON DIGUISED AS THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE

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MYSTERY BABYLON DISGUISED AS THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE

(PART 3 OF MY SERIES OF WRITINGS)

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

I had created a Facebook post with just a short message however the Lord showed me as I awakened this morning and immediately saw in a vision how my Facebook post spiritually applied to the pre-tribulation rapture doctrine as Mystery Babylon and the Antichrist Spirit. I have already written two postings on my blog www.abidingbread.com about the pre-trib rapture and this is the third and perhaps the final part.

These wolves in sheep’s clothing who preach the Pre-Trib Rapture are of the Antichrist. Please ready my first two postings as I believe this is the final posting which will wrap it up. The three postings combined is nearly three days of writing and three weeks of constant meditation with the Lord writing what Jesus put upon me in Spirit and Truth. When I was talking with my mom about the Lord the other day I asked her if she knew/reflected on who was the first preacher for the Lord, IT WAS ADAM!

Here is my early morning post on Facebook from 3 am:

It was Adam that gave Eve the Word of God not to partake of the forbidden fruit. The woman did not take heed to her husband and submit to her husband. When Eve fell Adam had not yet fallen so they were “unequally yoked spiritually”. This is why when the consummation of marriage or fornication happens the two become one not only naturally but spiritually! Everything natural and spiritual become one!

1 Corinthians 6:17–18 (NKJV)

17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

When you join with a sexual partner you become one in the spirit so whatever spirits the other person has come upon you! You are either ONE WITH CHRIST OR ONE WITH ANTICHRIST!

Matthew 6:23 (NKJV)

23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matthew 5:28 (NKJV)

28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

It was Adam who refused the Word of God, Adam refused God Himself and partook of the forbidden fruit! Before Eve, Adam was in complete submission and obedience to the Word of God!

This is why Jesus came not as peace but to divide spiritually. Jesus told us a kingdom divided can not stand. Jesus is referring to a “spiritual kingdom” and that is why Jesus says come out and be separate. This also refers to the church assembly, come out from false prophets!

Luke 12:51–53 (NKJV)

51 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. 52 For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. 53 Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

What spiritual world movements have evolved by and through these actions! Think both male and female spiritual corruptions!

Where did the metaphor “happy wife, happy life” originate: The Garden!

Where did the women’s liberation movement originate: The Garden!

SPIRITUAL EVIL RENDERS CONTINUED AND INCREASED SPIRITUAL EVIL!

Today so called educated people can’t even define what a male or female is! THIS IS PART OF THE LAWLESSNESS OF THE GREAT APOSTASY! DENYING THE LAW OF CREATION IS LAWLESSNESS!

Now I will expound on what I awakened to this morning with the vision upon awakening the Lord gave me the vision of the Tower of Babylon.

It was Adam that gave Eve the Word of God (making Adam a preacher of righteousness, does sound familiar to Noah and the days of Noah) not to partake of the forbidden fruit. The woman did not take heed to her husband (Jesus is our Bridegroom/Husband) and submit to her husband. When Eve fell Adam had not yet fallen so they were “unequally yoked spiritually”

Adam was still in the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus in Spirit and Truth. This is why when the consummation of marriage or fornication happens the two become one not only naturally but spiritually! Everything natural and spiritual become one! Because everything is created by Spirit even the trees and fruit are spirit. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was created in the image and likeness of Satan and the spirit of Satan because just as the Lord Jesus knew humanity would fall the Lord also knew Satan would fall. You don’t just take upon the nature of Satan you take upon you the spirit of Satan by LIES! Satan is the father of lies and deceit! The pre-trib rapture is the doctrine of Mystery Babylon and the devil! Yes it is of the devil trying to ascend to heaven WITHOUT CHRIST JESUS. If you are trying to ascend to heaven without Christ Jesus you do not belong to Christ Jesus! The devil said “I WILL ASCEND” “I WILL BE THE MOST HIGH”. It is a blatant lie and those who partake of this lie are partaking in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil! Your pastor is teaching doctrines of demons! They are ambassadors of Satan masquerading as ministers of righteousness. They are spiritually dead to Christ Jesus but have an outward form/appearance but deny the cross of Christ for salvation! They have a form of godliness but deny the power of God! The cross of Christ is to be applied to our life not just heard or seen as if you were alive at the time of the incarnate Christ Jesus. When you deny the cross you deny Christ!

2 Timothy 3:5–7 (NKJV)

5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

When you read above the word women we know that woman refers to the bride so women refers to the brethren! Knowing this scripture clearly tells us there are two types of brethren as there are only two kingdoms.

Revelation 2:9 (NKJV)

9 “I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 3:9–10 (NKJV)

9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. 10 Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Isaiah 14:12–21 (NKJV)

The Fall of Lucifer

12 “How you are fallen from heaven,

O Lucifer, son of the morning!

How you are cut down to the ground,

You who weakened the nations!

13 For you have said in your heart:

‘I will ascend into heaven,

I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;

I will also sit on the mount of the congregation

On the farthest sides of the north;

14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,

I will be like the Most High.’

15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,

To the lowest depths of the Pit.

16 “Those who see you will gaze at you,

And consider you, saying:

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,

Who shook kingdoms,

17 Who made the world as a wilderness

And destroyed its cities,

Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’

18 “All the kings of the nations,

All of them, sleep in glory,

Everyone in his own house;

19 But you are cast out of your grave

Like an abominable branch,

Like the garment of those who are slain,

Thrust through with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit,

Like a corpse trodden underfoot.

20 You will not be joined with them in burial,

Because you have destroyed your land

And slain your people.

The brood of evildoers shall never be named.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children

Because of the iniquity of their fathers,

Lest they rise up and possess the land,

And fill the face of the world with cities.”

The Lord Jesus was protecting us from death which is the spirit of the devil known today as Antichrist, spirit of the age, etc. When you partake of the lie or “fruit/seeds” of the lie you are partaking of the Antichrist and become as he is even all the way back to the garden! This is why when Jesus spoke in confrontation to the Pharisees he told them they were responsible and accountable for the blood of Able all the way to the time Jesus was standing before them and forevermore! If that is the case who is responsible since then? In my posting about Jesus verses the Pharisees I expound on that so I will briefly say that the teaching of the Pharisees is fulfilling it’s great commission just as the times of the incarnate Christ Jesus!

Have you ever wondered about GMO food and the altering of the food is altering the spirit of how it was created! Who wants to destroy all of creation, it is Satan! This is the same with COVID 19 as the vaccine is designed to alter our genetic/created DNA!

When you fall from Christ Jesus you fall “into” something you are not just merely lost! You fall into the spirit of Antichrist just as Adam and Eve!

The forbidden fruit was spiritual and when you partake of the forbidden fruit you partake of the spirit of that fruit! The fruit was “seed” that is the parable of the “seed” is written what grows from that “seed” either wheat or tares and the whole world is sown together. There is much evil in this world because of that “seed”. Once again the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was made in the image and likeness of Satan! YOU WILL KNOW A TREE BY IT’S FRUIT WHICH IS IMAGE AND LIKENESS! AGAIN THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL WAS CREATED IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF SATAN!

Isaiah 54:16–17 (NKJV)

16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith

Who blows the coals in the fire,

Who brings forth an instrument for his work;

And I have created the spoiler to destroy.

17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,

And every tongue which rises against you in judgment

You shall condemn.

This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,

And their righteousness is from Me,”

Says the Lord.

The Lord created the “spoiler” who is the devil who comes to kill, steal and destroy but in line 17 if you are in Christ Jesus the spoiler is cast down because of the imputed righteousness of Christ placed in us through salvation AND being born again in Christ Jesus by HIS SPIRIT.

Please understand there is “spiritual adultery” before the physical/natural manifestation of that “spiritual adultery”. Just as if you look at a woman with lustful thoughts in your heart (this indicates the thought has taken root) as Jesus spoke you have already committed adultery. Did you cast down that thought or did you act upon it? Hence you will know them by their fruit which is an outward manifestation of the spirit within them as Galatians 5 tells us. It is only by the power of the Holy Spirit and walking in the Spirit that you can discern physical works from spiritual works that is why they have an outward appearance of holiness but deny the power of personal sanctification and holiness.

There are many international ministries which help with natural provisions but not Spiritual food in Christ Jesus even though they are ministries not of Christ Jesus. That is a ministry of works and an outward appearance of godliness but denying the power of God and are NOT OF THE LORD JESUS. This is why I get HUNDREDS of messages seeking assistance for food, money, etc. because many use legalism/works disguised as being spiritual fruit.

They say that if you were a Christian you would help the brethren in need, the Holy Spirit freely gives but when requested in the form of legalism masquerading as spiritual this is different. That is why the Lord must be your provider! We must be wise as the serpent and as gentle as the dove. Do not assume because the wheat and tares are together until the harvest and just because the wheat and tares are together doesn’t mean the tares are your brethren!

A Christian must be able to discern where that individual is spiritually. Is the hardship they are enduring the will of God to bring them to repentance? If so by you enabling them by provision will keep them from repentance. Think of what happened to Joseph and how the people were suffering famine (the will of God) because of rebellion and called to be humbled. When they went to Joseph it was not just about provision but a turning back to the Lord as Joseph was serving the Lord! It was the Lord who ALLOWED the division among Joseph family as the devil can do NOTHING that the Lord will not allow!

The Lord does not perform evil Himself, humanity through the influences of the Satan does that for Him. This is why unforgiveness and bitterness is the pathway to evil possession and self vengeance! Satan doesn’t know that he is a string puppet He believes he is God Almighty. It is the falling away from Christ Jesus through the professing church of Christ that has allowed this world to become what it is now and the STANDARD OF CHRIST will be resurrected again at the coming of the Lord just as what happened in Israel when they refused the incarnate Christ Jesus.

Because of the great apostasy and falling away by the church the world is what it has become! The church was called to be the “restrainer” by the power of the Holy Spirit and the “restrainer” is being removed by every saint that falls away from Christ Jesus. That is why Jesus stated when He returns will He find “THE FAITH”. If the days were not shortened no man would be alive, let us not forget it is the Spirit that gives life!

We must also discern the seeds/words which any person speaks or writes as life and death is in the power of the tongue! Any written word is empowered by the spirit that is within that person! The serpent has a split tongue which is why the serpent mixes truth with lies! Think of Satan tempting Jesus with Psalm 91!

Don’t confuse the outward physical presentation with what which is of the spirit as these people give an outward appearance but are not of Christ Jesus. I have had many professing Christians tell me I don’t understand them or their views or I have a different “interpretation”, exegesis and this is witchcraft, yes witchcraft! “Surely God has not said you will die”. They try to get you to believe their false truths which are lies by telling you that you do not understand! God is NOT the author of confusion and confusion leads to submission! We must hunger and thirst for the righteousness of Christ Jesus so we an be filled with His righteousness! We must discern IN THE SPIRIT NOT from flesh which is SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT. As I am writing this the Lord is showing me again the mark of the beast which I revealed in my blog post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/12/02/david-vs-goliath-the-mark-of-the-beast/ which I recommend you read.

1 Corinthians 6:17–18 (NKJV)

17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.

18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

When you join with a sexual partner you become one in the spirit so whatever spirits the other person has come upon you! You are either ONE WITH CHRIST OR ONE WITH ANTICHRIST! I could give testimony of children who are born from rape victims suffer from the spiritual act of rape because of the transference of spirits through the act of rape. The Lord has had me cast out these spirits so I know personally by revelation. Why is the church today not casting out demons. I’ll tell you why because Jesus told us. A house divided can not stand and Satan will not cast out Satan. That being said are you in the house/church of God or the house/church of Satan?

Matthew 6:23 (NKJV)

23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matthew 5:28 (NKJV)

28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

It was Adam who refused the Word of God, Adam refused God Himself and partook of the forbidden fruit! Before Eve, Adam was in complete submission and obedience to the Word of God!  Adam freely chose Eve over Jesus as Adam was not deceived.  Adam loved Eve more than God and did not want to be lonely. Spiritual loneliness is an opening doorway for the spirit of lust which masquerades of love!

Genesis 2:18 (NKJV)

18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

This is why Jesus came not as peace but to divide spiritually. Jesus told us a kingdom divided can not stand. Jesus is referring to a “spiritual kingdom” and that is why Jesus says come out and be separate. This also refers to the church assembly, come out from false prophets!

Luke 12:51–53 (NKJV)

51 Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division. 52 For from now on five in one house will be divided: three against two, and two against three. 53 Father will be divided against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

What spiritual world movements have evolved by and through these actions! Think both male and female spiritual corruptions!

Where did the metaphor “happy wife, happy life” originate: The Garden!

Where did the women’s liberation movement originate: The Garden!

SPIRITUAL EVIL RENDERS CONTINUED AND INCREASED SPIRITUAL EVIL!

Today so called educated people can’t even define what a male or female is! THIS IS PART OF THE LAWLESSNESS OF THE GREAT APOSTASY! DENYING THE LAW OF CREATION IS LAWLESSNESS!

After writing this post at 3 am on Facebook I tried to get back to sleep and only slept an hour and when I awakened the Lord flashed the tower of Babel into my mind and the Holy Spirit then had me reflect on not only what I stated above but from my previous two postings regarding the Pre-Trib Rapture and how that is the doctrine of Babylon.

You are trying to get to heaven WITHOUT CHRIST JESUS! JUST AS SATAN/LUCIFER SAID “I WILL ASCEND”! JESUS CALLS THE HARLOT CHURCH MYSTERY BABYLON!

Now as you have read what I stated above with partaking of the forbidden fruit as well as ADAM being the first preacher of righteousness EVE fell because she did not submit to her husband who was in right standing spiritually and Adam did not submit to Christ Jesus by partaking the forbidden fruit from EVE.  Adam loved Eve more than God.  How do we know this is because Adam never partook of that tree before Eve so the fruit was not the issue.  Adam was unwilling to be separated from Eve!  Just as professing Christians are unwilling to be separated from the Harlot Church of false prophets and spirit of Antichrist.  They chose to validate the lies by they themselves twisting scriptures for their own pride and pleasure just as their false prophet has taught them!  If an individual hungers and thirst for Christ Jesus and seeks ONLY Christ Jesus they would not be deceived so easily.  This is why in many of my previous post I expound by saying “who taught the disciples” as it was Jesus.  What has changed?  A false prophet creates other false prophets!  If you are not taught by Spirit and Truth what are you preaching?

When a preacher preaches the Pre-Trib Rapture THAT IS FORBIDDEN FRUIT FROM BABYLON JUST AS THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL as I literally saw the Tower of Babylon the Lord had placed in my mind and Spirit! You have partaken of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which was a tree in the likeness and image of Satan! Satan gets you to partake in himself becoming as Satan is! Yet you live in the same deception that surely you won’t die! Talk about being cunning!

Please read my previous posts part one: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/08/the-unbelief-of-the-pre-tribulation-rapture/

Part two: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/10/the-unbelief-of-the-pre-tribulation-falling-away-from-grace/

If your pastor is preaching this false doctrine of the pre-trib rapture or the brethren is preaching it to others they are of Babylon not Christ Jesus and are deceived just as Eve was deceived by partaking of the forbidden fruit. That is enmity between the seed of the woman/the body and bride of Christ Jesus and the serpent the devil Lucifer!

This explains why every time I hear this doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture WHICH IS RAMPANT IN THE CHURCH PULPITS, ONLINE MINISTRY BY WORLD KNOWN FALSE PROPHETS AND PREACHERS I WANT TO VOMIT. It is because it is the Spirit of Antichrist and my spirit of the Living God within me is enmity with Satan!

Genesis 3:14–24 (NKJV)

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And you shall eat dust

All the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity

Between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head,

And you shall bruise His heel.”

16 To the woman He said:

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;

In pain you shall bring forth children;

Your desire shall be for your husband,

And he shall rule over you.”

This is why in my previous post about the pre-tribulation rapture I revealed that by adding this doctrine what you try to escape you actually condemn yourself to be inflicted to, as “whoever adds to the Word of God shall suffer the plagues written in this Book. REVELATION 22:18-19

17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it

All the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Till you return to the ground,

For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

DUST HAS NO LIFE AS THE BREATH OF LIFE CHRIST JESUS IS NOT IN ADAM! THE SPIRIT IS NOT INDWELLING!

20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

2 Corinthians 11:3–4 (NKJV)

3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

As I wrote in my previous post if what I am revealing in Spirit and Truth to you witnesses to you please, you must repent to the Lord seeking His mercy, forgiveness just like David in Psalm 51. I urge you to read Psalm 51 and the lamentation of David who was a man after God’s own heart! If this does NOT bare witness in the Spirit of the Lord Jesus well perhaps you have been given over to the Spirit of Delusion and already fallen from Grace as my previous postings expounds on.

I hope this posting has given you revelations of Spirit and Truth and provoked you to come out of Mystery Babylon the Harlot Church and be separate unto the Lord Jesus.

THE UNBELIEF OF THE PRE-TRIBULATION & FALLING AWAY FROM GRACE

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THE UNBELIEF OF THE PRE-TRIBULATION & FALLING AWAY FROM THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

It is imperative that you read my previous post regarding the unbelief of the pre-tribulation rapture so this brief post will expound more spiritual truth and revelations of the Lord Jesus.

I will start with this scripture for you as a foundational principle for relating to what I am expounding on. We all have read this scripture but may not truly see the magnitude and spiritual impact of this because we misplace or misunderstand and “limit” the grace of Jesus by UNBELIEF and/or lack of personal revelations of Spirit and Truth! Remember it is impossible to please God with UNBELIEF. I will put commentary between the lines of scripture as I expound on this. Please read my previous post first or this will not make sense to you as it is a continuance from my post found here: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/08/the-unbelief-of-the-pre-tribulation-rapture/

Let us review the following Chapter of Scripture:

2 Corinthians 12 (NKJV)

The Vision of Paradise

12 It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord: 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or whether out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a one was caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I know such a man—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—4 how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 5 Of such a one I will boast; yet of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities. 6 For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees me to be or hears from me.

In line one Paul is stating that without a doubt that he is not boasting in his calling, gifting or appointment to be and Apostle. What do we witness first hand in today’s modern “churchianity” nothing but boasting, self appointed offices of five fold ministry and self proclaimed gifting and teachings. This is an external boasting of the flesh and not necessarily a true witness in the Spirit of God our Lord Christ Jesus. Why won’t a TRULY CALLED minister of Christ use a title and why didn’t Paul exalt a title by this statement. Because Paul was revealing Christ not Paul the Apostle. Why did Moses hide the glory on his face it was not out of shame of being with God it was humility among the people who he was representing. You either know a person by the Spirit or you don’t truly know them at all this is the first principle of deception and spiritual discernment.

Please bear in mind that the devil comes to kill, steal and destroy! As that is imperative regarding my previous post about The Unbelief Of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture and this posting as well.

The Thorn in the Flesh

7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. 8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Now the main point I want to focus on is this. Paul was NOT talking about something internal within himself but something external coming and attacking him personally? Too many people have a very limited view of Grace ONLY rendering salvation and not in the manner of keeping you from the influences of demonic forces and overcoming the afflictions of darkness. Just reflect on the lives of the prophets and apostles being stoned, whipped, ship wrecked, imprisoned, boiled in oil, etc and yet the GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS SUSTAINED THEM THROUGH IT ALL! This is why the pre-tribulation doctrine is a falling away from GRACE by UNBELIEF and when you fall away from GRACE you are no longer sustained or grow in Christ Jesus. Their love for Jesus is waxing cold or has waxed cold no longer believing in the Grace of Christ Jesus. Think of this, why do people preach that the pre-tribulation happens before the Antichrist arrives? It is because they won’t have to make PUBLIC declaration or confession that Christ Jesus is Lord and they do not have to become a living testimony and sacrifice for Christ Jesus.

2 Thessalonians 2:9–12 (NKJV)

9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

If we are saved by Grace and you fall from Grace are you still saved? The once saved always saved is from the pit of hell! Have these people believing these false teaching and preachers already received the spirit of delusion because they did not love the truth? Do they still belong to Christ or have they fallen from grace? That is between them and the Lord but they could be deceived or they could be under a spirit of delusion. Each of them will have to pray and seek the Lord, I can not attest to their fate I am merely exposing in Spirit and Truth the damning heresy of the pre-trib rapture. If your spirit bares witness with this posting then you have not received the spirit of delusion and can repent if it’s not baring witness I am left somewhat speechless as I wish all would come to the Lord in the fullness of His Spirit and Truth.

I personally believe given the times and hour we live in that many indeed have been given over to the spirit of delusion. You might find this statement crude or offensive but if someone can be saved by faith and born again in Spirit and Truth how would the Lord allow these same people to preach for decades preaching lies and deceit? They are deceived by the devil and/or have the spirit of delusion which I believe is what happens to so many. If they are not humble to correction and reproof then they are not deceived they are a wolf in sheep’s clothing! I only say this because of the times we live in and the closeness of the end hour which we live in. This is between each of them and the Lord. They very likely have an outward form of godliness but deny the power of Christ at the same time which is why we must walk in the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation of Christ Jesus. Personally speaking whenever I hear preaching of the pre-trib rapture I get nauseous like I want to vomit, that is how I feel in my Spirit. This is similar to what the Lord speaks in the book of Revelations.

Galatians 6:1–2 (NKJV)

Bear and Share the Burdens

6 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

I am writing this because the Spirit of the Lord put it on my heart, but I am also bearing the burden of the brethren in meekness and prayer. If you have believed in this false doctrine please seek the Lord in prayers of restoration and forgiveness for believing this false doctrine. The Lord knows your heart in this matter and Jesus alone can restore you. I believe if what I write witnesses to your spirit then you are not given over to the spirit of delusion you have been deceived and it is time to repent, seek the Lord for forgiveness and turn away from false doctrines. When the scripture states you who are spiritual it means spirit speaks to spirit. What is spoken must be received in the Spirit of the Lord. We are not talking earthly knowledge, personal belief, teachings of men/women but true revelation of Spirit and Truth spoken in the fruit of the Spirit.

I pray that you may be perfected in the love of Christ Jesus. Yes perfected so you can stand in these last days without fear with complete trust and faith in Christ Jesus alone and the Truth of His Spirit and Word.

1 John 4:18–19 (NKJV)

18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

Salvation is ONLY by/in Christ Jesus and His Spirit and Truth and not by hearing a false prophet and believing in a false prophet. I personally have not found a church in nearly a decade that preaches in Spirit and Truth and when confronted humbly with truth they refuse to receive the Truth of Christ Jesus. I pray you are humble to receive what the Lord is speaking! I will not sit under false teachings, another spirit or another Jesus! Paul NEVER returned to the teaching and ways of the Pharisees yet he prayed for their salvation and coming to the saving grace of Christ Jesus.

Galatians 5:1–9 (NKJV)

Christian Liberty

5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.

Love Fulfills the Law

7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

I can already here the criticism that these passages only refer to the “law” but it is much more than that! How did you obtain liberty and how were made free? Was it by the law or GRACE? When you fall from Grace you become estranged from Christ and a LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP! Leaven is false teachings and beliefs.

ESTRANGED: In the Bible, “estranged” means alienated, separated, or kept at a distance, primarily describing humanity’s break from God due to sin, but also referring to broken human relationships and internal spiritual struggles, with the overarching biblical theme being God’s pursuit of reconciliation through Jesus Christ. It signifies losing intimacy and fellowship, as seen in Adam and Eve’s separation from God (Genesis 3) or the spiritual distance caused by disobedience, but the Bible also offers hope for restoration. 

Hebrews 3:12 (NKJV)

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Hebrews 11:6–7 (NKJV)

6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

We must remember in Matthew 24 Jesus told us it will be as in the days of Noah! People would not head the Word of the Lord! It is the very same thing happening even within the assembly of the saints!

What is leaven? It is the root of apostasy/falling away of Spiritual Truth and the Living and Written Word of God! This is the same as the serpent spoke to Eve another “seed/word” and not the “Seed/Word of Truth”, a false word that is NOT of the Lord Jesus. The pre-tribulation is leaven, a damning doctrine of demons similar to the serpent in the garden that you won’t die. The pre-tribulation doctrine is of Satan so you won’t have to die as a living testimony of Christ Jesus and for Christ Jesus! The devil can’t kill someone who has already COMPLETELY DIED IN CHRIST JESUS! You have fallen from Grace by unbelief and/or deception and/or not loving the Truth the very person of Christ Jesus. So in Grace I am revealing to you what the Lord put on my heart according to His Spirit and Truth in the Word of God! With the pre-tribulation what would be the need to keep yourself in the love of God!

Jude 20–25 (NKJV)

Maintain Your Life with God

20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22 And on some have compassion, making a distinction; 23 but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

Glory to God

24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,

And to present you faultless

Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

25 To God our Savior,

Who alone is wise,

Be glory and majesty,

Dominion and power,

Both now and forever.

Amen.

If you have read my previous post about the Valley of the Shadow of Death you will understand this better. The Valley of the Shadow of Death is the earth! When Adam and Eve where shut off from access to the Tree of Life because of sin, as sin could not dwell in the Garden which was the habitation of God for fellowship with humanity. So it shall be in heaven and in Christ Jesus “In Him there is NO darkness”. With the access removed and Adam being originally called to establish the earth in the image and likeness of his Creator we now have the earth as the Valley of The Shadow of Death. You see death is a SPIRIT and not merely a location! As saints/brethren of Christ Jesus we are surrounded by people who are physically alive but spiritually dead to Christ Jesus. If they are dead to Christ they are alive to sin and to the god of this world, the devil. We only need to look at the lust of the flesh in Galatians 5 to know this. What we are witnessing today is the rapid acceleration of lawlessness and evil throughout the whole world! Here is the scriptures in reference before I return to Paul in Corinthians.

John 17:15–19 (NKJV)

15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

NOTE: BELIEVING LIES IS A PART WITHIN YOU NOT BEING SANCTIFIED IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH! This is why we must be led by the Spirit of God casting down all lies, false beliefs and deceptions as well as the doctrines of demons speaking through humanity.

Signs of an Apostle

11 I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. 13 For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!

One of the greatest struggles of a Christian is allowing/submitting to the process of total surrender/crucifixion by the Holy Spirit which INCLUDES surrendering the outcome! Think of Jonah! This is also why each of us is called to the Cross of Christ to die to ourselves so that Christ Jesus may fully dwell and manifest within us.

You may give a Word or Prophecy but did you make it about you, your “title” and your reputation, the praises of men or did you reveal Christ Jesus. Notice it was the people/church which provoked Paul to use His title as Apostle because they would NOT recognize the Spirit and Words of the Lord through Paul!

“Commended” is recognition of who Paul was in Christ. Paul was NOT seeking to be puffed up as he was revealing Christ in Spirit and Truth. When a professing Christian will not allow personal correction of Spirit and Truth this is not humility. It is pride as pride comes before the fall! The doctrine of Pre-Tribulation Rapture is the falling away from GRACE! I will elaborate more as we continue.

Matthew 24:12–13 (NKJV)

12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

In further revelations of the false pre-trib rapture we have other scripture to support this. I want you to see how the pre-trib rapture is a false doctrine of the devil actually creating the falling away and great apostasy.

Romans 5:20–21 (NKJV)

20 Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Notice where sin abounds or lawlessness abounds grace might reign through righteousness! Paul’s thorn was EXTERNAL NOT INTERNAL and the LORD gave HIM GRACE TO OVERCOME! Darkness is sin and people sin against us. This world is full of darkness and GRACE is the power to overcome this darkness. That is what Jesus implied to Paul, His grace was sufficient! People will persecute you because you represent Jesus not because you have wronged anyone! Read Matthew 5 and the Beatitudes! The pre-tribulation is a direct denial of this scripture and a refusal through unbelief of God’s Grace!

Isaiah 59:19 (NKJV)

19 So shall they fear

The name of the Lord from the west,

And His glory from the rising of the sun;

When the enemy comes in like a flood,

The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.

That standard is empowered by the Grace of God not in our own ability but in TRUE BELIEVING FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS! You will not receive in/from Christ WITHOUT TRUE FAITH! What you truly see here is astounding not only about GRACE but the life of Paul. Paul was already preaching but needed to grow in this revelation of sustaining and overcoming grace! Remember the road to Damascus and Jesus told the priest that He called Paul to suffer much for the Gospel! Remember Paul stating that he bared the marks of Christ’ sufferings! Paul himself in scripture DID NOT DECLARE THAT HE HAD ARRIVED IN FULLNESS! Every single day here on earth and in eternity we will continue to grow in Christ Jesus if you allow the process and follow and embrace SPIRIT AND TRUTH, not the doctrines of demons through humanity.

Philippians 3:12–16 (NKJV)

Pressing Toward the Goal

12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

When a professing Christian does not receive correction have they already “attained perfection”! Is being saved without total sanctification spiritual perfection? I use the term Christian as this applies to everyone who proclaims to be a Christian including myself. I seek and desire the fullness of Christ Jesus in HIS Spirit and Truth and I am NOT finding that desire or mindset in the modern church today. I have personally been kicked out of several seminaries and exiled from many churches for desiring and speaking in Spirit and Truth. The Lord has even spoken to me to dust of my shoes which means that church would suffer worse than Sodom And Gomorrah.

Matthew 10:14–15 (NKJV)

14 And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

Just reflect on the condition of the world we live in and the lack of TRUE AND SPIRITUAL representation of the world. It is the “body of Christ” that was called to impact the world in Spirit and Truth! So let me put it this way. What are all of these “revivals” and where is the REAL SPIRITUAL EVIDENCE of these revivals today. Why is evil more prevalent and lawlessness abounding if true “REVIVAL” has taken place. The simple answer is that people have likely been falsely saved by ANOTHER JESUS, ANOTHER GOSPEL OR ANOTHER SPIRIT! Many of these revivals are of the Antichrist Spirit! You see if you read my blog post on Jesus interaction with the Pharisees you will understand that TWO “commissions” were at works simultaneously when Jesus spoke to the Pharisees. That is why the gospels tell us that EVEN THEN THERE WERE MANY ANTICHRISTS! The Pharisees were making twice the child of the devil!

Read my post here: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/ The pharisees are fulfilling their “great commission” of the devil and the disciples who became Apostles are fulfilling the Lord’s commission! My blog post will expound on that so feel free to read that post.

Love for the Church

14 Now for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

16 But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning! 17 Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you? 18 I urged Titus, and sent our brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

19 Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ. But we do all things, beloved, for your edification. 20 For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults; 21 lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.

Paul is surrendering the outcome to Christ Jesus as Jesus is the Alpha and Omega and finisher of our faith. That is the humility Paul is speaking and he does not hold bitterness or unforgiveness of the persecution the people do against him.

Don’t be deceived that everyone in a “church” assembly belongs to the Lord including leadership as it is Satan’s desire to be in the pulpit not merely as a spokesman/preacher but as/in place of the Living God. That is what Isaiah refers to when Satan wanted to exalt himself above the Most High! This is rampant in the church today as the Antichrist Spirit is in many of the pulpits, prayer groups, “body” and in the pews.

It is truly saddening that Paul makes a truthful and profound statement about the “body of Christ” that the more he loved the church the less he was loved for speaking in Spirit and Truth! I have found this also in my journey and calling. You can not receive the truth of the Word of God when you are not humble and the Truth of God’s Word WITHOUT the Holy Spirit and TRUE FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS. We may get initially saved by grace through faith but the Lord Jesus will NOT keep you in false doctrine, preaching false doctrine and making false converts. When you choose to remain in these places of false doctrine quite often that is a form of judgment because you chose to have itchy ears and did not desire or love the Truth of The Written and Living Word. Some churches close but others are used to separate those who do not desire Spirit and Truth. There are many witches and demonic spirits within the assembling of the church today so pay attention to a witness of the Fruit of the Spirit and the revealing of growth in the Fruit of the Spirit because if there is no sign of TRUE REPENTANCE AND SURRENDER they are not there to be saved but to to kill, steal and destroy the saints! Look for who they have close relationships with and they may be kindred spirits performing the same works of darkness. Kindred spirits like to hang out together. Addicts hand around addicts, alcoholics hang around alcoholics, etc.

While I am not being led to share names there have been preachers that preached false doctrines of demons for decades and have a huge following. Some have since passed away but the doctrines are still being preached by the false disciples they mentored and some of these have even written their version of God’s Holy Word! Tell me how can a truly redeemed Christian who having been saved for decades be preaching lies and false doctrines! It is because they are not submitted to Christ Jesus and they have become gods upon to themselves and it is their identity and belief they preach and not Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth. If you don’t believe me then you haven’t read about Jesus being tempted in the wilderness and Satan quoting Psalm 91 which is a Psalm of protection from demons! Yes, demons! Do some research on that so it was Satan who was demonic quoting Psalm 91 protection to Jesus while Satan was trying to get Jesus to FALL! I tell you I want to puke and vomit at times when I hear these same false preachers say “you must know your identity in Christ” as that is from the pit of hell. Read Galatians 2:20 and 6:14. Your identity is not conformed in Christ, His identity is to be conformed in you! It may sound like I am being picky but that statement is deceiving because it has pride masquerading as humility! Greater is He in You! When the Lord returns He will be looking for Himself within a people in His image and likeness. We are to be restored to HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS and there is NO darkness in Christ Jesus! This is imperative and the only way to walk in the peace of Jesus in these last days and perilous times is to have the fullness of HIS peace and perfect love full manifested within us! The Antichrist will come as false peace! If you can not discern the spirit you will be deceived! Jesus said My peace I give you so it is the Prince of Peace in us! Who’s identity are we talking about!

Okay, I got off topic a little but I felt the Lord prompting me to add a few things. So getting back to the unbelief which is why the pre-tribulation is so profound. These people make a mockery of the grace of God by embracing, preaching and speaking belief in the pre-tribulation rapture! Remember Paul seeking the Lord about the thorn in the flesh which was EXTERNAL FORCES OF DARKNESS from Satan and Jesus said His Grace was sufficient. Well this applies also to the end of the age when lawlessness will about and MANY WILL FALL FROM FAITH! The pre-tribulation rapture is not having faith in Christ Jesus to sustain you to overcome the spirit of this age as you read in the scriptures I provided. The pre-trib rapture is actually denying the Cross of Calvary to work within us or applied to us. It is an attempt to save your earthly life and Jesus said who seeks to save their life shall lose it! Christ Jesus is the veil and no one has access to the kingdom without Christ Jesus. He is the door that NO man can open and no man can close! What is the pre-trib rapture really about? It is about escaping death and the Cross of Christ calls us to die to ourselves. Furthermore the Word of God tells us that whoever adds to His Word they will suffer the plagues written in His Word! So what they try to escape they actually place upon themselves! Is not this deception from the deceiver Satan who deceives the whole world! It is from the devil! Scripture that is perverted, twisted and manipulated is not Spirit and Truth so adding the pre-tribulation rapture is adding condemnation and the plagues written upon yourself!

Revelation 22:18–19 (NKJV)

A Warning

18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

As I took a brief break as I have been writing and meditating for 8 hours hours now I want to share some more which will help with the end of the age and being a living testimony for Christ. If you have read my blog post https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/ you would have read the verbal exchange between Jesus and the Pharisees. I have always said that if you change ONE WORD that is written you change the whole meaning of Spirit and Truth! This is why the Holy Spirit will reveal the Truth of what is Written because the Written Word and Living Word Christ Jesus are ONE! The devil tries hard to remove the Spirit from the Written Word because the Spirit brings life to the Written Word and the Written Word without the Spirit does not! That is why Peter said where shall we go to Jesus, you have the Words of Life. Jesus came as the second Adam a life giving Spirit.

Okay hopefully you have read my blog with Jesus and the Pharisees. The point I want to make is that every word has significance and what is not spoken or written also has significance! Let me take one scripture from that article.

Matthew 23:31 (NKJV)

31 “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

I emphasized “murder” because when you take the full counsel of God’s Word murder is not the same as killing. I know this might seem a little difficult to understand so bare with me a little. So here is what I want you to see as you read what Jesus spoke.

Matthew 10:28 (NKJV)

28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

So Jesus is implying that the prophets were NOT dead! The act of murder killed the body but NOT the Spirit of God or soul of that body! Now do you see in greater importance of the unbelief and falling from grace of the pre-trib rapture! Do you see why we are called to overcome even onto death for Christ Jesus as a LIVING TESTIMONY! The pre-trib rapture denies the cross of Calvary in your life as you will not have to be conformed to His image bearing a true spiritual image of Christ by applying the cross of Christ and dying to self! So you will not be a living testimony in the end of the age bearing the Image of the Son of God Christ Jesus.

Matthew 16:27–28 (NKJV)

The Prophecy of the Second Coming

Mark 8:38–9:1; Luke 9:26, 27

27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. 28 Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

This belief and doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture is killing Christ in you and true spiritual growth in Christ which can only become fully established and rendered by “death to self” which is the why we are not only to take communion in “remembrance” but in real life and actuality. Reflect on when Steven was stoned and the heavens opened! Hallelujah Steven was taken to heaven as heaven opened to receive him. He was murdered but NOT killed! Please reflect on Galatians 2:20 and 6:14.

Matthew 16:25 (NKJV)

25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

When you deny the working of the cross in your life you are attempting to save your earthly life and that is the foundational and spiritual impact of the pre-tribulation rapture false doctrine which is the Devil.

When Jesus was at the last supper and said we MUST partake in HIS BODY AND BLOOD Jesus had not yet been to the cross! So what is implied is exactly what Jesus told us a disciple MUST do: pick up your cross, deny yourself and follow Jesus! So if Jesus went on the cross we are to also! We are allowing the Cross of Christ to work within us. When you partake of communion it is a symbolic agreement that you are called to the same cross of Christ and die to self so Christ may be manifested in you! The disciples at that time had NO revelation or teaching that Jesus was slain before the foundation of the world. We know why they had no revelation of this as Paul tells us later in this scripture. That being said how is that Paul writes about an event that he was never present at. How did Moses write the first 5 books of the scriptures? How am I writing this today?

John 6:53–58 (NKJV)

53 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

Now let’s take this one step further about communion which will directly contradict what many false doctrines preach. When Jesus said “one of you will betray you” what happened to the disciples. All but Judas examined himself as Paul speaks a man should examine himself before taking communion. Here is where the false doctrines go astray about being predestined to heaven or hell. Why would Jesus give Judas the chance to examine himself and repent if the Lord Jesus desired Judas to be overtaken by Satan. Predestination denies the Father of Faith Abraham, the obedience of Abraham to receive the righteousness of Jesus and it denies that Jesus is Alpha AND Omega knowing the end from the beginning. Jesus already knew Judas would do as he did just as Jesus knew Adam would fall and the Lamb was Slain before the foundation of the world. Jesus doesn’t send anyone to hell and they are not predestined to hell. We were all, every human predestined to be one with the Father through Christ Jesus because Jesus was slain before the world/earth was even created! There is NO repentance even needed with predestination and to believe GOD FORCES HIMSELF UPON SOMEONE! What would you call it when a man forces himself upon a woman/church?

2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)

9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

1 Peter 1:18–21 (NKJV)

18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you 21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

1 Corinthians 2:6–9 (NKJV)

Spiritual Wisdom

6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

This is why in Paul’s writing he talks about falsely partaking of the body and blood of Christ Jesus. In today’s church have you ever heard that communion was a call to the Cross of Christ applied to your own life? Communion has become a religious tradition and not a call to personal sacrifice dying to self and sanctification for Christ Jesus. Some religions relate communion to if you have sin rather than a call to die to sin! Paul expounds this same spiritual truth in the book of Romans!

1 Corinthians 11:28–32 (NKJV)

28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep (are dead). 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

SLEEP MEANS DEAD! Being dead means not alive in Christ!

Romans 6:1–14 (NKJV)

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

As you can see in Romans 6 is in direct relationship to partaking in communion. By partaking in communion you are agreeing with the Lord that you will not only receive the benefits of His Life, Death and Resurrection but you also will go through the cross of Christ to be as Jesus is. The Father is not looking for merely saved people he is looking for sons/daughters and that can only be done by the seeing the true spiritual image of Christ in you the Son of God, and there is NO darkness in Christ Jesus.

1 John 1:7 (NKJV)

7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Having just read 1 John 1:7 how is that saints fellowship with darkness or sit in the synagogue of Satan as Jesus revealed in Revelations?

Ephesians 5:11–14 (NKJV)

11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:

“Awake, you who sleep,

Arise from the dead,

And Christ will give you light.”

As I was writing this post the Holy Spirit spoke to me about the Apostles and prompted me to share as a remembrance for each of us in our individual spiritual growth. Each of the Apostles had the same Gospel but each received continued revelations of Christ even though they were Apostles! Paul received revelations of Grace by his affliction of being buffeted by Satan and it was Paul himself that said he had not “arrived” to perfection. It was John already and Apostle who received revelation and wrote the book of Revelations! Each of us is called to continue our journey seeking the Lord in Spirit and Truth to receive continual revelations of Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 13:9–13 (NKJV)

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

This is why I desire to hear and ask people “what is the Lord doing in your life” and I normally get earthly responses and not a testimony of spiritual growth of revelations of Christ Jesus. Too many people follow and rely on their “old testimony” but what is the Lord doing in your life now! What new revelations of Christ are you receiving, are you growing in Christ? Is your only testimony of salvation which was years ago? I am not being judgmental I am trying to provoke you to spiritual growth. It is the Father’s desire to reveal Himself to you through The Holy Spirit that is why Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the Father! Are people witnessing and seeing Christ in you or are you just talking about when you were saved many years ago? Are you merely stating a scripture or are you empowered by the Holy Spirit while speaking that scripture? Light penetrates darkness and the Light of God needs to be manifest in us! Do you only have the Words that are Written or do you bare the manifest presence of Christ in His Light and Truth?

Matthew 5:14–16 (NKJV)

14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

If anyone has reviewed my social media I do NOT like or endorse any ministry because I exalt Christ Jesus and I cannot spend all of my time vetting people to be sure they are continuously on the narrow path. This is because we are still on the earth and our adversary is after all of us! I do however like some of the faithfully departed saints and enjoy their writings as they are no longer subjected to the god of this world. I don’t do this to be cruel I do it to protect people who might follow me and thus look to see who I follow. I hope that makes sense to you as it is nothing personal. I take my spiritual walk seriously with the Lord and I won’t compromise Spirit and Truth to just “get along” with people. Because I won’t compromise Spirit and Truth it causes much hardship in the natural world and spiritual world but is beyond comprehension of how free I am in the Spirit of God! Believe me Matthew 5 hits home when you belong to Jesus and walk in His Spirit.

No compromise! If the Holy Spirit does not bare witness it is not true. If the Holy Spirit in you does not witness what a pastor preaches even though you know that is written do not come into agreement. The Word might be right but the Spirit is NOT! So as Satan operates by mixing truth with lies and deception! Remember Jesus tempted in the wilderness with Psalm 91, the young damsel with the spirit of divination proclaiming Paul was a servant of Christ preaching salvation. Paul’s spirit was unsettled, troubled and not at peace with what was spoken! I hope you understand what I am speaking to you!

Romans 3:4 (NKJV)

4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written:

“That You may be justified in Your words,

And may overcome when You are judged.”

I tell people that if they haven’t seen someone in a while that is of the brethren that the first thing a person that walks in the Spirit of God does is discern that person again! Why you might ask, because Satan is after them just as he is after me! A saint on earth has not put on the new heavenly body yet where corruptible puts on incorruptible and mortality puts on immortality. We live in a fallen world and Satan is the god of this world.

Until each of us fulfills “our race/journey” we must endure and overcome the evil one! I am not being cruel by not endorsing another ministry I don’t want anyone to be misled or even follow me as I am merely an ambassador for Christ and have no personal representation of my own. I too am subjected to the god of this world and the attacks of the god of this world. Truthfully speaking it takes me nearly a full day to prepare these messages and I am normally under spiritual attack when and after writing these messages so I too am growing in revelations of overcoming by the Grace of the Lord Jesus. Just as the Apostles were forbidden to preach the name of Jesus and were imprisoned, beaten or afflicted that has not changed for any of us in this world until the Lord’s return and ALL EVIL is dealt with.

Well twelve hours have passed in writing this post. I had only intended to write a follow up to my previous post about the pre-trib rapture but just as it is with prophetic utterance sometimes when you start the spirit keeps going beyond what you originally received. No complaints as I enjoy that fellowship with the Lord as Jesus continues to speak to me. So I pray you have received clarity by the Holy Spirit by reading both articles I have written for the Lord as His Spirit has lead me to do. May the Lord’s Grace not only sustain you but may you continue to grow in Christ in revelations of Spirit and Truth by His good Grace. God bless you!

In closing:

Proverbs 1:1–33 (NKJV)

The Beginning of Knowledge

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:

2 To know wisdom and instruction,

To perceive the words of understanding,

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom,

Justice, judgment, and equity;

4 To give prudence to the simple,

To the young man knowledge and discretion—

5 A wise man will hear and increase learning,

And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,

6 To understand a proverb and an enigma,

The words of the wise and their riddles.

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,

But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Shun Evil Counsel

8 My son, hear the instruction of your father,

And do not forsake the law of your mother;

9 For they will be a graceful ornament on your head,

And chains about your neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice you,

Do not consent.

11 If they say, “Come with us,

Let us lie in wait to shed blood;

Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,

And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;

13 We shall find all kinds of precious possessions,

We shall fill our houses with spoil;

14 Cast in your lot among us,

Let us all have one purse”—

15 My son, do not walk in the way with them,

Keep your foot from their path;

16 For their feet run to evil,

And they make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely, in vain the net is spread

In the sight of any bird;

18 But they lie in wait for their own blood,

They lurk secretly for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;

It takes away the life of its owners.

The Call of Wisdom

20 Wisdom calls aloud outside;

She raises her voice in the open squares.

21 She cries out in the chief concourses,

At the openings of the gates in the city

She speaks her words:

22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?

For scorners delight in their scorning,

And fools hate knowledge.

23 Turn at my rebuke;

Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;

I will make my words known to you.

24 Because I have called and you refused,

I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

25 Because you disdained all my counsel,

And would have none of my rebuke,

26 I also will laugh at your calamity;

I will mock when your terror comes,

27 When your terror comes like a storm,

And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,

When distress and anguish come upon you.

28 “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;

They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

29 Because they hated knowledge

And did not choose the fear of the Lord,

30 They would have none of my counsel

And despised my every rebuke.

31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way,

And be filled to the full with their own fancies.

32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them,

And the complacency of fools will destroy them;

33 But whoever listens to me will dwell safely,

And will be secure, without fear of evil.”

THE UNBELIEF OF THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE

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THE UNBELIEF OF THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

Hebrews 11 (NKJV)

By Faith We Understand

11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

Faith at the Dawn of History

4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Faithful Abraham

8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

The Heavenly Hope

13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

The Faith of the Patriarchs

17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 of whom it was said, “In Isaac your seed shall be called,” 19 concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

21 By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.

22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.

The Faith of Moses

23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw he was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.

24 By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, 26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.

By Faith They Overcame

30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. 31 By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace.

32 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35 Women received their dead raised to life again.

Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. 36 Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. 37 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth.

39 And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.

What people are not truly understanding is that the mark of the beast is the same as the “forbidden fruit” from the Garden of Eden. If you take the mark you shall surely die and be forever separate from the Lord Jesus. The mark of the beast will become your life as the Antichrist because you will be disconnected from the TREE OF LIFE, CHRIST JESUS. Hence you are of your father the devil.

John 14:6 (NKJV)

6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

You will NOT get to the Father by partaking in the forbidden fruit or the mark of the beast but the mark of the beast will allow you physical life while it renders spiritual death. So here is the point of the “unbelief of the pre-tribulation rapture”. You believe the lie of the pre-tribulation rapture because you do not have total faith and belief in the TREE OF LIFE. The pre-tribulation is presented as the essence of life by the false doctrine of demons just as the “apple” was presented by the Serpent in the Garden.

Is your saving faith in the truth of God’s Word and your life sustained by the TREE OF LIFE or will you deny faith believing the apple had no impact or consequences. You might as well say that and Adam and Eve never fell from the TREE OF LIFE. The pre-tribulation rapture is evil presented as good!

Isaiah 5:20–21 (NKJV)

20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;

Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;

Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,

And prudent in their own sight!

So what the Serpent presented in the garden to Eve will be presented once again as the Mark of the Beast! It will look and be presented as life which in reality represents death! The pre-tribulation rapture is the denial of true and TOTAL saving faith not being totally rooted and grounded in faith and partaken in the TREE OF LIFE, CHRIST JESUS. Let’s put it this way. In your home if something was found to be toxic or deadly to the life of your household you would REMOVE the toxin to safeguard the lives of your loved ones.

Now with this in mind when the Lord opens or closes a door no man can change that door to life in Christ or the will of Christ Jesus. One thing I have noticed why there is so little true growth of faith is because faith is always being tested to be truly strengthened. The process of which too many deny because it is not pleasing, sensual, palatable, or render worldly provisions. The Lord doesn’t present things as the Serpent presents things that is why it is not pleasing to the fallen nature of humanity.

Mark 8:36–9:1 (NKJV)

36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

The Transfiguration

Matt. 16:28–17:3; Luke 9:27–36

9 And He said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power.”

So it is truly unbelief that preaches the pre-tribulation rapture and not saving faith and belief in Christ Jesus. Once again as I have written this in previous postings. What we will experience is similar to the three Hebrews in the Fiery Furnace. They had saving faith and full devotion and belief in Christ Jesus! What did the fiery furnace represent? Why was it turned up seven times hotter? It is because when a house is swept clean the demonic spirit roams around for a home and returns to the previous owner that spirit brings seven more spirits making this person seven times worse. With the fiery furnace turned up seven times it is the number of completion/perfection which is symbolic of an eternal state in hell!

Matthew 12:43–45 (NKJV)

43 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

2 Peter 2:20–22 (NKJV)

20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

Upon salvation we receive a “measure of faith” and a measure is not fullness of faith! The pre-tribulation rapture is not fullness of faith! Think of the twelve scouts that Moses sent out and the answers he received. Only two of the twelve had true faith that the Lord promised them this land and that they would overcome the giants of the land! This is the same end of the age faith that is required. A pre-tribulation rapture is refusal to stand for Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth through thick and thin, trials and tribulations. How can this be a “true” witness of Christ Jesus with unbelief! If you have any unbelief you have LITTLE TO NO SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY against darkness and evil. This is the widespread condition of the church today! Unbelief masquerading as belief just and an outward appearance of godliness but denying the power of God.

Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

Matthew 17:19–21 (NKJV)

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”

Prayer and fasting is what crucifies unbelief! What did Saul from Tarsus do immediately after his encounter with Jesus? He fasted and prayed for three days! He was a person who did not believe in Christ Jesus before his encounter.

In one of my previous post I posed these thoughts to people to think about the MAGNITUDE of what faith is. When the Lord Jesus told Adam not to partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil which the forbidden fruit represented. Ask yourself, I mean seriously stand in the garden in personal representation as Adam. Now ask yourself, what is death where death has never been before? Similarly, what is a flood where there is no rain or water? You see that is why FAITH is required and essential for a life in Christ Jesus and why the pre-tribulation rapture is of the devil! A similar analysis would be telling your young child not to touch the stove top because it is hot and when you turn your back they touch the stove top and get burned. Did they have faith in what you spoke to them? Are not these actions of the fallen nature as that is where unbelief is rooted when Eve partook of the forbidden fruit! Real belief is in the one whom you follow not merely speak about! Adam chose EVE not the fruit as Adam did not partake prior to the creation of Eve. Could this be similar to a modern day metaphor, a happy wife is a happy life sacrificing your personal beliefs and morals for your wife to sustain a sense of peace. I am just putting that out there. Adam was attacked by the lust of the flesh. We each need to learn for ourselves by Spirit and Truth what the Written and Living Word of God speaks to us as individuals not as a “corporate assembled body” of people. What is the Lord telling and speaking to you not what someone else is saying too you. This would include from the pulpit! My blog post address this: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/03/the-spiritual-damnation-of-religious-gossip/

With the pre-tribulation rapture you do not need to have the “fullness of faith, trust” or even divine Agape love of Christ Jesus. This is why Peter was restored in love by Jesus after denying Jesus three times. Your love for Christ Jesus should be above and greater than the love for anyone else. This is why Jesus told us about the two great commandments and the first was to love the Lord with all of your heart, soul and mind.

Matthew 22:37–40 (NKJV)

37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

The pre-tribulation rapture is a lie from the pit of hell! So let’s look at it another way or perspective. When Christ was on the Cross of Calvary did they not shout if you are the King of the Jews remove yourself from this cross! The pre-tribulation is the same thing! I hope you are seeing how if you believe in the pre-tribulation rapture and your preacher is preaching this you are listening to the devil masquerading as an angel of light! Wolves in sheep’s clothing. They are not spiritually building you up they are leading you to destruction! So if Jesus removed Himself from the cross then they woul have believed? Had not Jesus already performed many miracles and they still did not believe in Jesus! If you truly need to witness a pre-tribulation rapture as your sign or belief to know the separation of the redeemed from the unsaved then you admit you have no spiritual discernment now! You don’t need a sign and wonder to know good from evil or holiness from darkness you need personal revelation from the Holy Spirit by walking in the Spirit not carnal knowledge!

Matthew 13:30 (NKJV)

30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

Notice what happens first! The tares are dealt with not the saints! Noah and his family were not taken up but the “tares” were removed by the flood!

When you embrace the pre-tribulation which is rooted in unbelief you deny the miraculous power of Jesus to bear witness to the world! Noah’ Arc was not just mere wood it was the covenant of Christ Jesus!

Matthew 13:57–58 (NKJV)

57 So they were offended at Him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.” 58 Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

This is why people are so focused on signs and wonders! When it was spoke to Jesus on the Cross about removing Himself they had already denied Jesus but yet still wanted a sign and wonder! Christ Jesus is our SIGN AND WONDER! Jesus had already performed numerous signs and wonders!

Matthew 12:39–41 (NKJV)

39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.

The Serpent is using the pre-tribulation rapture as a sign and wonder and if you need a sign and wonder to repent you do not have complete unwavering faith in Christ Jesus! This is exactly what was spoken to Jesus on the Cross of Calvary “IF” you are the King of the Jews remove yourself from that cross! “IF” requires the “sign and wonder” as it is unbelief masquerading as belief! Many have the illusion of faith believing they have faith just as many believe they are born again and are NOT! This is also why the devil performs signs and wonders to deceive people into following him.

Matthew 7:22–23 (NKJV)

22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

John 5:39–47 (NKJV)

Witness of the Scriptures

39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

41 “I do not receive honor from men. 42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. 43 I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44 How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? 45 Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. 47 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

Do you believe in ALL OF THE WORD OF GOD?

The Lord just reminded me of this scripture to add. You see so much of the scripture is taken out of context for substantiating lies and deceit just as the Serpent did in the garden. The book of Thessalonians is not speaking of a pre-tribulation rapture it is about the second coming of Christ Jesus. When you add to the Word of God about a pre-tribulation rapture you are adding the plagues and pestilence upon yourself! The devil has tricked you into actually submitting to the plagues he himself initiates! This is like partaking in the forbidden fruit from the garden.

Revelation 22:18–19 (NKJV)

A Warning

18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

I was not intending to originally make this statement but it needs to be spoken as the Lord brought this to me at this time to share. There is a “false mimicking spirit” which masquerades as the Holy Spirit which is “sensual” not HOLY! It is prevalent in all of the church body of the undiscerning and sits withing the pews and leadership. It will arouse the “flesh” masquerading as “spiritual” and you see it in much of the foolishness of today’s worship! They are not bringing the Spirit of Holiness they are bringing a “sensual demonic” spirit that masquerades as the Holy Spirit. Crucified flesh or a person that walks in the Spirit of God will know what I am talking about! It makes me want to puke just as Jesus said He would vomit us out of His mouth!

Well while I love to share what the Lord puts on my heart I will close for now before I go off on another topic. I hope you see now that the pre-tribulation is actually unbelief and the mark of the beast is the devils tree of life. I pray the Lord reveal to you in His Spirit of Truth what you have just read.

GLOBAL JUDGMENT & JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

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GLOBAL JUDGMENT  & JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

I am writing this brief posting to hopefully get each of us to think and pray about the times and seasons we are in. I don’t know about other people but I find it extremely difficult these days to find humble Christians who are open to Spirit and Truth of the Word of God and they will not conform to the Spirit and Truth of the Written Word and believe false doctrines of demons and wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Jeremiah 50:6–7 (NKJV)

6 “My people have been lost sheep.

Their shepherds have led them astray;

They have turned them away on the mountains.

They have gone from mountain to hill;

They have forgotten their resting place.

7 All who found them have devoured them;

And their adversaries said, ‘We have not offended,

Because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice,

The Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

They want to believe what they want to believe even if it’s not biblical truth. The Lord will NOT empower lies and your personal sword/false believed Word of God will not sustain you because the Lord only responds to HIS WORD IN POWER. I have been witnessing the great apostasy which the body of Christ denies will happen to them personally for many years in fact ever since my salvation. I also see first hand the “itchy ears” Paul mentions in his Epistles. It’s as if you are speaking to a wall.

2 Timothy 4:1–6 (NKJV)

Preach the Word

4 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Paul’s Valedictory

6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

2 Timothy 3:1–9 (NKJV)

Perilous Times and Perilous Men

3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

They deny the evil spirits in people who attend their assemblies that are deliberately making spiritual war against the saints to their demise. It would be wise to remember you do not need to be physically killed or murdered to be “dead” to Christ! There is virtually no spiritual discernment and the saints are being killed spiritually. This is a form of martyrdom that people refuse to accept because of false doctrines they embrace! The Lord will hold each of us accountable for our own ignorance to His Truth and His righteous judgment is about to strike through great war allowed to be made upon us. This is the same principle from the Old Testament when Israel backslid the Lord used other nations to persecute them to bring repentance. If you don’t believe me just look at the life of Saul from Tarsus become Paul the Apostle. When a Christian gets “born again” they should grow in Spirit and Truth. If the letter of the law kills so does false doctrine. Please read my blog post: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/03/the-spiritual-damnation-of-religious-gossip/ .

So here is what I would like to pose for everyone to personally reflect upon. Many people believe we are very near to the Antichrist being revealed and this is a sign of GLOBAL JUDGMENT as well as spiritual separation of the sheep from the goats. This GLOBAL JUDGMENT will hit the country of America as war from many nations simultaneously. Everything is in place even within our boundaries! It would be wise to remember that Satan was in the GARDEN and America is no garden at all! So if Satan was in the garden how much more can he be in America working through people.

So I pose to you if GLOBAL JUDGMENT and war is knocking on our doorsteps has the judgment of the church already happened? It’s a simple conclusion and it stares us in the face of reality if you chose to see it!

So why is it so difficult to bring real correction to false beliefs and doctrines within the professing body of Christ? The Lord has turned many over reprobate minds and to the spirit of delusion because they do not love the truth. I wrote about this back in 2020 and you can read it here: https://abidingbread.com/2020/08/29/reprobate-minds-spirit-of-delusion/ . If you don’t know the spiritual season how can you pray correctly as you will be praying against what the Lord is allowing! I have heard with intensity these false preachers talk about revival and because of the lack of real spiritual discernment they don’t understand that the revival they speak of is the rise of the Antichrist spirit. I am not diminishing the gospel and the power unto salvation I am stating they do not discern the spirits and times we live in! False teaching/preaching renders false conclusions and discernment. There is a season and time for all that is in Christ Jesus and not knowing the times is the same as Jesus told the Pharisees! Because you say you can see you are blind and because you say you can hear you are deaf! This is what I have been dealing with trying to speak Spirit and Truth to people who believe false doctrines, they are deaf and blind. If judgment has already happened in the house of the Lord 2 Chronicles 7:14 will not suffice as war in the form of judgment is inevitable. We are truly in the days of Noah as Jesus told us in Matthew 24. They didn’t believe the judgment of the flood but Noah was forewarned to prepare the Arc. Is your temple/arc prepared? Have you allowed the Lord to “build you into a Spiritual Temple” in the fullness of His image and likeness? Or are you a “spirtual half breed” as you have not allowed the Lord to crucify the love of this world within you. Can you actually proclaim Galatians 2:20 and Galatians 6:14? Is the world crucified unto you? https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/04/spiritual-half-breeds/

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)

14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

1 Peter 4:17–19 (NKJV)

17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now

“If the righteous one is scarcely saved,

Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”

19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

Matthew 24:12–14 (NKJV)

12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

2 Thessalonians 2:11–12 (NKJV)

11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:1–4 (NKJV)

The Great Apostasy

2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

We are long past the time of people making statements such as “that’s your interpretation” instead of seeking the Lord in Spirit and Truth. We are long past being fed “milk” rather than solid food in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 13:11 (NKJV)

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

So the end of the age is upon us and people will be waiting for their false rapture unable to stand in Spirit and Truth because they are not prepared Spiritually and did not submit to the process of pursuing holiness unto Christ Jesus. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Don’t confuse imparted righteousness with holiness as that is no different than what Jesus spoke to the Pharisees.

Matthew 23:25–26 (NKJV)

25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Matthew 23:27–28 (NKJV)

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

I suggest you read my blog post about Jesus interacting with the Pharisees. You will see that the Pharisees are filling their version of the great commission making twice the child of the devil as Jesus told them! You can read that post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

It grieves me in the Spirit of the Lord to see His crucifixion be taken for granted by the professing saints. If you have never felt the burden of the Lord that is because you have not reached that level of intimacy with the Lord.

1 Samuel 8:5–7 (NKJV)

5 and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

LEGALISM MASQUERADING AS FAITH

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LEGALISM MASQUERADING AS FAITH

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

I have been witnessing far to many professing Christians for many years project legalism upon the saints/body of Christ for provisions which is MISPLACED AND FALSE FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS. It was the Lord who sent the prophet to the widow for food. It was an angel that delivered food to the prophet. It was the Ravens that feed Elijah! Misplaced faith which is NOT in Christ Jesus will not sustain you in the days we are living. This is why so many false prophets are thriving through works of natural provisions but do not preach true spiritual food of Christ Jesus. Don’t confuse a form of godliness by earthly provisions as of the Lord Jesus. That is what the beast system is using against the SAINTS OF CHRIST JESUS. You would be surprised how many global ministries of provisions are of the antichrist masquerading as angels of light. All of your faith, trust and devotion MUST be in Christ Jesus alone! IT WAS JESUS THAT FED THE MULTITUDES NOT THE DISCIPLES. THE DISCIPLES DISTRIBUTED THE FOOD THEY DID NOT PROVIDE THE FOOD. PUT ALL OF YOU FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS!

Luke 18:8 NKJV

[8] I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”

It would be wise to remember the five foolish virgins and the five wise virgins. Notice what the wise virgins told the foolish virgins and where they were to get their oil. The oil which is symbolic of the Holy Spirit can not be purchased from this world!

Matthew 25:1–13 (NKJV)

Parable of the Ten Virgins

25 “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

6 “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

11 “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ 12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’

13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Notice line nine: Go to those who sell and buy for yourselves! When the beast system which is already established is imposed upon the saints will you be able to “buy or sell”? Will you bow to the devil or boldly proclaim Christ which is what the three Hebrews did regarding the fiery furnace! I marvel at believers who do not think they will live through the events written in the Word of God. Everything that is written in the Word of God is to become personal experience of KNOWING as reality and not just a belief! When Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount he told those who followed Him would suffer for his namesake. Read Matthew five!