ACCEPTING JESUS INTO YOUR HEART -FALSE WITNESSING – FALSE CONVERT

ACCEPTING JESUS INTO YOUR HEART – FALSE WITNESSING – FALSE CONVERT – ANOTHER JESUS – ANOTHER SPIRIT

As with any of my postings 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.

Accepting is not believing! You must know what you are accepting, lies or truth and even what spirit. True believing is when the mind and heart are ONE. Not separate! You are not accepting Jesus as you believe Him to be you are accepting Him AS LORD and Savior. You misrepresent the Lord by just presenting a Savior! Jesus is LORD before Savior. This is why John the Baptist said repent, why Jesus said repent and why Peter said repent. What is the 99.9% most used evangelical slogan/line of deception for saving a person? It is say this prayer and accept Jesus into you heart! Even if you don’t have them pray a prayer and just say accept Jesus into your heart is of deception of the devil. You have allowed the person their own interpretation and understanding of who ‘their” Jesus is to take root. It is as if remaining in sin and yet right standing with Jesus. This is why “unconditional love” is not true representation. Light has no fellowship with darkness. You have another gospel and another Jesus. People must come to Jesus on HIS terms not their own invitation! It is the Holy Spirit that convicts the heart and when you distort the Word of God you are not representing the Spirit of God. So you are not witnessing Jesus you are representing yourself as Jesus and a false identity of witness! You are NOT GOD. I have come against the heretical phrase “you must know your identity in Christ Jesus” hundreds of times and no on will listen. That is a prideful and boastful statement which damns your soul and the souls of others! There is “spirit” in every word we speak as live and death are in the tongue!

A true witness starts with spiritual conviction of the heart! Look at Saul from Tarsus and his encounter with Jesus! It was Jesus who convicted Saul of sin and it is supposed to be the Holy Spirit in us that convicts the people who have a heart to receive conviction. Some will not be ready or have been already turned over to the desires of their heart. They are required to repent and believe in both their mind and heart! Eve did not die physically she died Spiritually when she had partaken in the “seeds/words” of the serpent. It was because of her mind/thoughts heard what was spoken then took root in her heart which entered her soul. The deception went from the mind to the heart and entered her soul! She believed the lie and accepted it as truth into her heart affecting her soul. The Holy Spirit does not dwell in your heart. Don’t tell me they know what you mean by evangelizing this way as they are already likely deceived by the devil because of the fallen nature. We must speak spirit to spirit which resides in the soul! Flesh speaks to flesh!

Conviction comes from the soul not the heart. The Holy Spirit “pricks” the heart bearing witness to the soul! They are “accepting Jesus” from a person they do not know, so how would they know who they are accepting? They get convicted by the Holy Spirit. If you are not walking in the spirit there is not penetration of the soul. After all we can’t do nothing of ourselves! Without the Holy Spirit there is no spiritual witness to the soul and thus just a “mind and heart game” of false belief. How did Peter do it in Acts. People got baptized right there as water baptism is not required. When you get baptized in the Holy Spirit you are baptized in both water and spirit!

Acts 2:36–39 (NKJV)

36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”

38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Here Peter is speaking to the “house of Israel” and Peter does not mention being baptized in water. The “house” is the people of Israel not the nation of Israel and this was 2000 plus years ago. It was never about the land, state or country. You can’t make a “land” a royal priesthood! The redeemed and born again are the new city of Jerusalem called Israel! It is a spiritual Jerusalem. The Rabbinical baptism is no longer necessary or a true sign of conversion being born again. It is a Rabbinical custom/tradition to wash away spirits! Why would a born again Christian after getting a false baptisms in water have to tarry for the Holy Spirit? If you are baptized the Lord you are baptized in water and Spirit. Go back to Genesis and see how creation began. There were many waters and God created firmament and the waters were divided the heavens were above the water and the earth and creation were blow the firmament. Heaven is Water and Spirit as God is Water and Spirit. YOU WILL NEVER THIRST IF YOU DRINK FROM ME!

Now here is the punchline. Our Father of Faith was not a Jew and was never water baptized and neither were his descendants.

How does a “woman” give birth, by water! When her water breaks it is time for the child to come and be “delivered”. So when someone is “born of the Holy Spirit” they are born of both water and Spirit. You miss an opportunity to get someone born again. Instead you ask them to church when you are supposed to be the church! Rabbinical water baptism was not about sin, it was the “removal” of spirits! A “self cleansing” of spirit just like the pigs going into water to remove the spirits of legion! A false sense of spiritual deliverance! That is one reason why Jesus did NOT need to get baptized by John the Baptist but Jesus said yes. Jesus had NO SIN, there was nothing of Satan in Jesus. It was a demonstration to the people of spiritual baptism in Christ Jesus that was to come. The dove was representative of the New Covenant with Noah which they had known. So the BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS DEMONSTRATED AS BOTH WATER AND SPIRIT IN ONE! When you get water baptism which is not required today it is a confession/testimony of what is supposed to have already happened within you by the Holy Spirit! It is not the “prelude” to receiving the Holy Spirit. You are not saved by the religious works of water baptism. So just know that it is not necessary and the devil uses this as a “false witness” as men can not cleanse themselves as the Rabbinical teachings of water baptism.

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 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.”

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

So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”

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.”

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

Satan often fools people by believing they are saved by water baptism! Notice exactly what Paul says DID YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU BELIEVED! Do you see the deception. THE NEW TESTAMENT DOES NOT REQUIRE WATER BAPTISM. Paul is directly stating it is upon belief in Christ Jesus not an invitation of inviting Jesus into your heart! Repentance comes first! If you had to “dunk them in water” how could you continue to witness to the multitudes as you would spend all day baptizing in water. I got baptized in the Spirit in the middle of a field just me and the Lord. No sermon, no pastor, no one around.

Matthew 3:13–17 (NKJV)

Baptism of Jesus

Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–23

13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. 14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”

15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Jesus allowed John but it was not necessary! Jesus was already “born of spirit” because He was conceived/born by The Holy Spirit. It was not necessary for Jesus to be water baptized. Jesus was demonstrating what the NEW baptism of the Holy Spirit truly was, water and Spirit combined as one. You might ask why? NO MAN OR WOMAN CAN DECEIVE WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES. So the old water baptism was a source of man trying to redeem man/himself which is total deception! A man must be born again!

Remember I told you the Rabbinical water baptism was symbolic of the removal of spirits! Now think about what the water baptism of Jesus. It did NOT remove the Holy Spirit from Jesus instead when the Dove came it bore witness to the Spirit already in Jesus already! Jesus did not get baptized in the Holy Spirit! Jesus was the incarnate fullness of the Father as the Son of God. It was a witness to the NEW COVENANT from the writings of Moses and Noah’s Arc. Jesus was the Christ and the NEW COVENANT. This is the same as Noah’s Arc and Noah releasing the white dove and it came back with a leaf from an olive tree! That is why John did not want to baptize Jesus and said YOU MUST baptize me. Later in the gospel Jesus confirms this to the Pharisees by saying there IS ONE WHO BEARS witness of me accept one! Jesus also told them they searched the scriptures of Moses and they said they followed Moses. Jesus spoke again if you followed Moses you would know me as Moses testified of Me (Jesus) who was to come!

Matthew 3:13–17 (NKJV)

Baptism of Jesus

Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–23

13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. 14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”

15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

I hope you see the foolishness in the churches today that use religious beliefs that you must be water baptized and wait and pray for the Holy Spirit to come! When the Holy Spirit came it was both water and Spirit! You can baptize in the streets just as Paul evangelized! What do we do, we invite them to church to sit in a house/fellowship of deception. There is no spiritual growth in a house of deception so the Holy Spirit is not increasing and sanctifying you in Spirit and Truth because you “digest/eat” forbidden seeds of false doctrine and that works against the Holy Spirit in you!

Matthew 6:22–23 (NKJV)

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 think of this. Abraham our Father of Faith was not a Jew. Secondly, Abraham and his descendants did NOT GET WATER BAPTIZED. There is no record of it in the bible. At least I could not find it.

Every single denomination and nearly all professing Christian churches have mixtures of truth with lies and deception! You are partaking of forbidden “seeds” from the serpent. I don’t need to go into this I am saying that the ecumenism movement of all false denominations/churches is the combined one world religion. It is the serpent Satan himself that sows “seeds” and all the false beliefs, lies, deceptions, gospels, spirits and another Jesus that Paul warns of. All of this is being formed into the One World Religion of the HARLOT BEAST! It doesn’t matter what denomination of deception they are all deceived! So I am not singling out one in specific they are all wrong in one way or the other! Now this being said the Lord normally has a true witness within these denominations but only for a season not long lasting. They try to bring correction but are refused, slandered, mocked and ridiculed. The very people you are trying to help are the ones shouting “crucify him”. I wrote about 2 types of prodigal sons: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/16/two-types-of-prodigal-sons/

Revelation 18:1–8 (NKJV)

The Fall of Babylon the Great

18 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”

And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

John 15:5 (NKJV)

“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.

The mind/thoughts and emotions/heart create the soul/will of a man or woman. The heart, mind and soul is the correct sequence given by the Lord! This has significant purpose and meaning. If you love the Lord with all of your heart you will not be easily deceived in your mind/thoughts even though you are under spiritual attack by deceptive and deceitful teachings of false prophets and brethren! LOVE can only be established by intimacy which is Spirit to Spirit. Why spirit to spirit because your soul is where the Holy Spirit dwells as a “mustard seed”. This is why Paul said he prayed without ceasing! Praying is sharing your heart and thoughts which is your soul with the Lord throughout the day! This is why David said he meditated on the WORD/LAWS. Jesus is the Word and the law is only fulfilled by and through Jesus.

Acts 2:36–38 (NKJV)

36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

37 Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”

38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

A house of people as Peter is stating is the “people alive at that time were called” not the nation as a land, state or nation. Many are called but few are chosen. So today the true Israel is the redeemed in Christ Jesus not the Nation of Israel. If you believe the people from 2000 years ago are alive today then you are believing foolishness and lies of deception. Many were called but few were chosen at that time. Today MANY ARE called but FEW ARE CHOSEN!

That is why Jesus exposed the hearts because it is a reflection of the soul where spirit dwells. I wrote a blog post concerning pastors that say only the Lord knows the hearts of people and that is a lie! A partial truth is a lie! They speak this to deny spiritual discernment/judgment likely because they have secret sin or are not born again in Spirit and Truth and hearing the voice of God directly themselves. I always choose the later, no Spirit or Truth as that rises up the Holy Spirit in me to stand guard! The Holy Spirit does not lie or deceive. This puts up a wall/shield in my spirit against lies, deception and continued lies. Read that article: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/13/the-spiritual-lies-and-deception-of-only-the-lord-knows-the-heart/

Jesus never invited someone into His heart by accepting him. He said pick up your cross. That is “repentance before Lordship then unto salvation” to the ONE you will follow. The disciples never said invite Jesus into your heart! Do you know why? Jesus doesn’t dwell in your heart to begin with. That is right! Nope, never did and never will! This is why people are often deceived into false salvation, false converts, and believe you can’t lose your salvation! This is how real faith is perverted! It is a carnal man/woman trying to “save” another carnal man/woman! Where is the Holy Spirit in that?

This is how bondage remains and people begin to think that Jesus doesn’t love them because they don’t feel like they are making progress spiritually and walk away from faith if they ever had faith to begin with. This is why people believe you sin daily and we are all sinners! Lies, lies, lies and more lies! Those are statements of self justification in disguise of yourself being a sinner! You are not hungering for righteousness or pursuing holiness! You will never achieve it with that mindset by making excuses for sin. A born again saint will get convicted by the Holy Spirit out of love for the Lord and repent of their transgression and seek grace to overcome that transgression! If you deny this process by believing lies that upon receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit you were totally sanctified you open yourself up to more “seeds/words” of deception and lies! You deny the Holy Spirit directly by these statements so either you are NOT BORN AGAIN or have not made Jesus Lord of your life! You are your own lord to yourself which is exactly the nature of the serpent! The word sanctified in much of the scripture means “set apart” not holiness! You may fool those around you but the Lord will not be mocked or fooled. Why would you need to pursue holiness if you were completely sanctified upon being born again?

Romans 10:8–13 (NKJV)

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 1For the Scripture says, Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

If you don’t evangelize (sow) correctly you will not “reap” correctly! When you sow false seeds you reap a false harvest from those seeds! You create tares thinking you have created wheat! Which is likely how you were taught by false teachings/prophets as you are a disciple of the church and NOT a disciple of Christ Jesus. It is just like Jesus told the Pharisees that they search out for one convert and make them twice the child of hell that they are!

If/when the true saints believe the lies they start to fall away as every lie that is spoken and believed takes residence in your soul and WARS against the Holy Spirit. You put yourselves back into darkness and work against the Holy Spirit that leads you into ALL TRUTH! Those who walk in the Holy Spirit have love, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Lies rob you of love, peace and joy because lies are not of the Holy Spirit.

This is why all those football stadium revivals are a joke as people will say thousands got saved! There may be a few whose hearts earnestly desired the Lord and got saved but NOT from a false message of salvation! They got saved despite the false teaching/preaching because they were earnestly seeking beyond the false preaching seeking the person of Jesus. Faith is individually not corporately. Praise is individually not corporately. Worship is individually not corporately! Moses heard the Lord individually at the Red Sea while people were screaming and shouting at Moses. There is only one source of true corporate praise, worship and teaching. That is everyone in ONE ACCORD assembled unto the Lord Jesus.

The church is not a hospital for the sick, afflicted, spiritually wounded and the like. It is a sanctuary for the redeemed in one accord assembled to the Lord in Spirit and Truth. Read Jude! I tell you if we lived under the Old Testament Law there sure would be a lot of people dropping dead in the doorway of the sanctuary.

You will not get saved by putting faith in anyone other than Jesus. This means you are accountable for your own salvation and cannot blame your pastor, family, friends or brethren for losing your salvation at the Judgment Seat of Christ Jesus. So it is your choice to believe lies and become deceived. How do you know TRUTH from Error or LIES and deceit by The Holy Spirit. If you neglect intimacy with the Holy Spirit you are not growing in the love of God!

Godly sorrow and repentance come first not a foolish statement “wonderful plan for your life”. In fact you don’t even know what the plan of God is so you make a “blanket statement” leaving it up to the lost soul you are trying to make a false convert of. Jesus told Paul that he would suffer for His namesake. Suffering and brokenness is the foundation of true spiritual growth and that is why very few are willing to go through that process. You have free will and can walk away from faith or you can press in and grow in the Lord being more and more created in His image and likeness.

The point is that you “confess” which is a statement of verbal belief of their need for mercy, forgiveness, grace and redemption by the life, death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. Cleansed by His blood and saved by His grace! Believing in your heart means your statement of confessing with your mouth bears witness with your heart and soul! How do you witness without the gospel of salvation? If your gospel and personal witness is wrong the salvation will likely be wrong! Stop trying to create someone in your image and calling that the image of Christ Jesus.

We are to preach the gospel of reconciliation and save souls, not hearts! We are called to save souls! The holy Spirit dwells in your soul not your heart or mind! This is why people do not understand true spiritual warfare. What makes up the soul is the heart and mind combined as ONE. What is the Holy Spirit doing when you get a new heart and spirit. The holy spirit takes a position/residency upon your soul, not the complete soul. It is a mustard seed of the Holy Spirit! We are called to grow in Spirit and Truth which is the very person of Jesus.

John 14:6–7 (NKJV)

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

“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

1 Corinthians 3:6–17 (NKJV)

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17 If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

There was a time when I really enjoyed going out and doing prophetic evangelism and witnessing to people. When they encountered the Lord they would ask what church I belonged to and I would tell them it is not about a church building. I would tell them Jesus just ministered to you here and now and you were not in a church building. It is an earthly mind statement to represent a church when you called to represent the Kingdom and Christ Jesus. I haven’t found a church that preaches sound doctrine since shortly after I got saved. I understand people in the pews having difficulties but when the leadership has another gospel and preaches things contrary to Spirit and Truth and won’t allow correction it’s time to leave.

When you get born again a “portion/measure” of the Holy Spirit is place within your soul. It is up to you to foster and grow that mustard seed. You are to fall deeper and deeper in love with the Lord! As the heart gives life to the body! Your mind does not give life to the body, it controls the body.

Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)

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.

Where does thought begin, it begins in the mind. Where are those thoughts rooted, in the heart. So the end product is the heart, mind, and soul the three stand cord of faith and belief. You can also use this for love, trust and faith a 3 strand cord.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NKJV)

12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.

And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 18:24 (NKJV)

24 A man who has friends must himself be friendly,

But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

That is why Paul said have this mind in you which is Christ Jesus. That is why we all need to be washed by the Word in Spirit and Truth in our minds and hearts. When you love the Lord from your heart and soul/spirit you can more easily cast down “strongholds of your imagination” and lies and deceit. If someone called your friend bad names to you, would you go by what the person spoke about them or by your own personal relationship with that friend.

The renewing of your mind is a manifestation from the soul/spirit and heart together as ONE! Being a lover of Spirit and Truth sanctifies your mind! You must be lovers of the Truth! No one preaches on the true fear of the Lord because they do not understand or perhaps only confess the Lord with their lips! The fear of the Lord is in DIRECT EQUAL MEASURE with your love for the Lord. You fear eternal separation thus you fear LOSING salvation from the Lord! You fear doing anything against the Lord because you have tasted the heavenly gift of the Holy Spirit. This is the beginning of Wisdom which is the godly love and fear of the Lord. Your revelations of Christ are received in direct proportion for your love of God. Your love of God is tested over and over as you increase in the Lord. Where much is given much is required! Complete and absolute surrender to the Lord.

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, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 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.

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; but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

How is love reciprocated to Jesus? Spirit to Spirit! Jesus will only receive Spirit and Truth Jesus will not empower a lie as that is the works of Satan. When the Holy Spirit comes into you as a born again Christian you received the “mustard seed” of Spirit placed in you. Why do I say the mustard seed is Spirit because you need the “foundation” of Christ Jesus established in you and the mustard seed is the Holy Spirit.

There is scripture to back this up when Paul said the church was not mature and they were like babes that need milk and not solid food. They had a mustard seed of the Holy Spirit but were not cultivating the mustard seed to grow!

1 Corinthians 3:1–4 (NKJV)

Sectarianism is Carnal

3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

Jesus is Spirit and Truth. When you allow the mustard seed of the Holy Spirit to convict your soul from darkness which is “thoughts/beliefs, lies, deceit, false doctrine, etc.” that are in your soul that is the process of sanctification. You are getting a renewed mind and heart fortified by Spirit and Truth, not the preaching or teachings of men! Lies of darkness are being broken and Spirit and Truth are growing within you. What is amazing that “knowing” what is Spirit and Truth now begins to replace, fortify and strengthen faith because Spiritual Revelations are eternally a part of you now and dwell in your soul! So your heart and mind are being sanctified by Spirit and Truth. Every lie spoken to you that you believe reverses the process and wars against the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 22:37–38 (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.

This is why we need to return to our first love. This is why Jesus said the first commandment was to love the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind. If you have read my post on the mark of the beast you would know spiritually the number 6, 6, 6 is a number of a man which consists of your heart, mind and soul! Man was created on the sixth day and those three attributes of creation are the number of a man.

There is no regeneration of the heart and mind without the soul of a man! Faith is believing in your mind which takes “root” in your heart entering the soul of the man. Faith comes by hearing not by inviting Jesus into your heart.

Jeremiah 51:20 (NKJV)

20 “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war:

For with you I will break the nation in pieces;

With you I will destroy kingdoms;

You have a prophet calling the Word of God his battle-ax! That is what the indwelling Holy Spirit does to your heart and soul. It seeks out darkness and deception and makes war against it until sanctification is completed within you. You reverse the process by believing lies and deception from false prophets and alleged brethren who are not of the Lord Jesus.

Colossians 2:6–10 (NKJV)

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

He who dwells” is not just the heart or just the mind it is the combination of both in unison and fullness of the soul! Psalm 91 will not apply to you if you do not fulfill the very first line of the Psalm. They will be just words with no power to life. Do you see why faith is so critical and having understanding of manifesting (mind & heart combined) true faith from within your soul.

What should be easy such as witnessing/evangelizing has been complicated and distorted by “WORKS” of the flesh. It is like trying to persuade someone into believing rather than revealing Christ Jesus in the Spirit revealing/manifesting real spiritual fruit! If you walked in the spirit they would be convicted automatically and they would either repent when spoken to or walk away. When you walk in the Spirit you represent all of the virtues of Jesus so it is not only conviction but love, grace, mercy, righteousness, etc. So while the Spirit convicts reconciliation exists at the same time. You don’t do the work the Holy Spirit does. Spirit comes from your soul. As a man speaks so is his heart. Mind and heart as one coming from his soul. This is why spiritual warfare is so misunderstood.

Upon the born again experience you receive a NEW HEART and a NEW SPIRIT. They are uniquely different for a purpose. They are two that need to become one in your soul! When you crucify your “soul” unto Christ you are perfected in love and thought/mind. The mind and heart create the soul.

When Job’s friends accused Job of sin because of Job’s suffering they were fleshly/carnally evaluating Job’s heart by his sufferings! They had no revelation Job’s soul where the Spirit dwells! The flesh/body will not live without a heart or mind but the soul is eternal. So the soul determines your eternal fate which is the completion of the image and likeness of Christ Jesus formed within you.

We are saving souls. That is why when Paul says the heart of many will wax cold Paul is referring to the Spirit of God which is the soul of a man. The heart is a reflection of the soul! That is why I can honestly tell you that with the GREAT DECEPTION there are people in churches/assemblies that sing to the Devil their Lord believing they are worshiping Jesus! They are not! They confess Jesus with their lips but their heart and soul are far from Him. It is all about the soul.

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.

The fruit of the spirit is the combined manifestation of the soul by the response of the heart and mind together!

This is why the spirit bears witness that we are children of God. It comes from the soul not the mind or heart. Spirit to spirit! A man must be born of Spirit. God is a spirit not a heart of human flesh. The mind and heart can “play tricks” on our thoughts and beliefs thus affecting our souls that are spirit!

You get a measure of the Spirit when you are born again and you must let that portion of the Holy Spirit grow by “crucifying” the remainder of your old nature in your soul. This is a very hard process and takes a continued path of Spirit and Grace unto complete sanctification. Your free will which is your soul is at total opposition to the Holy Spirit. THIS IS YOUR GREAT TRIBULATION which is why Jesus said even now there is great tribulation in the world. Tribulation is spiritual that manifest physical. What we seeon earth is what is happening in the heavenly realm. Just like Daniel with te prince of Persia! Jesus in NOT only referring to the natural world of creation but the things of this world in your soul. Adam through the fall was to toil as Adam would “eat” the dust of the earth where the serpent was to roam the earth on his belly consuming/eating the dust of the earth. Adam went back to how he was created WITHOUT the breath of life as Adam was created from the dust of the earth! Adam was physically alive but spiritually dead. Your tribulation is not my same tribulation but the process is one of the same. You will have to “die to self” by submitting to the Holy Spirit every day to obtain crucifixion of your soul. PAUL DIED DAILY! Paul is tell us the process he went through to obtain and boldly proclaim Galatians 2:20 & 6:14. That is what every born again person is to achieve before they become a “chaste virgin”. Your pastors and prophets speak nothing about this because they speak falsely that you do not need sanctification/holiness that you already have it by the Holy Spirit. That is a lie. Sanctification is taken out of context by these false prophets as sanctification means “set apart” in this world but no longer of this world. That does NOT mean your soul does not have the things of this world still in it.

Genesis 3:17–19 (NKJV)

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.”

What “bread” mean in line 19. Bread is “seeds/words” of the serpent. That is what is meant by Satan has blinded the whole world by his “seed/words”. Even now I see another scripture that reflects Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. That is where the Son of Man and Son of God were completely separated as the soul of the man (Son of Man) was crucified before the cross of Calvary! NOT MY WILL. Jesus sweat blood! When Jesus sweat blood He was referring to the cup of wrath and sin. Jesus was called to die for our sin. The sweat was as the first Adam eating/partaking of “seeds/words of sin”. Whoever saves his life shall lose it but whoever loses his life shall gain it in everlasting life. The once saved always saved is total rebellion against the Holy Spirit which is supposed to complete the process of crucifixion. Once saved always saved is the vernacular of the serpent in the garden “surely you will not die”.

Galatians 5:17–18 (NKJV)

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.

I have written about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and how it was the separation and “death” of the soul of a man the Son of Man so that the Son of God could fully rule and have complete dominion/power/authority over the soul. How do we know this is what happened and the significance of this event! Jesus sweat drops of blood and the Holy Spirit is NOT FLESH AND BLOOD. Even greater what were the disciples doing, sleeping! Many are sleeping/dying as the bible often refers to sleep as death! They were not paying attention to Jesus when Jesus asked them to stand guard! They were thus denying the affect of the work of the cross within them.

The disciples were not being diligent against the adversary who comes to kill, steal and destroy. They were asleep!

1 Peter 5:8 (NKJV)

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Matthew 10:16–25 (NKJV)

16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues. 18 You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; 20 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

21 Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. 22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23 When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!

In line 21 stop thinking about only your natural family but also a spiritual family. Brother against brother Judas against Jesus, Pastor/Father his child, children a fallen saint against spiritual parents. Do you see the effect of sitting in a synagogue of Satan which is the vast majority of the churches today with false prophets and “converts”/ “saints”.

Matthew 12:46–50 (NKJV)

Jesus and the True Brethren

Mark 3:31–35

46 While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. 47 Then one said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.”

48 But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” 49 And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

The disciples did not “stand watch” when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane. They did not obey the Lord, the spirit is willing but the flesh weak. They had not yet received the Holy Spirit which NEVER sleeps. This is what is not preached today as if you do not complete the death of your own soul by the power of the Holy Spirit you will be a foolish virgin. Why was there 5 wise and 5 foolish? Five is the number of grace and the foolish did not use the grace given them wisely! They still had the love of the world in their soul. That is why the five wise virgins said go out the market and purchase your oil. You can’t do that it comes from the LORD. Ask yourself if the Lord wishes no man would perish why is your false prophet not teaching you these things! Who is he representing, it is NOT the Lord Jesus!

Matthew 26:38–46 (NKJV)

38 Then He said to them, My soul (heart and mind) is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”

39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.

40 Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.” 43 And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.

44 So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then He came to His disciples and said to them, Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand.”

I know you may think I am making accusations but I am talking Spirit and Truth just as Jesus did above. MY SOUL is exceedingly sorrowful watching the saints get spiritual marytered and dying in the churches of today. Yet the deception of once saved always saved has lulled them into sleep/death. They have not loved the truth and have been given over to a spirit of delusion making the lies to be believed as truth and will have no part in eternal life. Examine your own soul now! Repent and ask for mercy as the cross has become of no effect in their spiritual lives.

John 14:1 (NKJV)

Christ Comforts His Disciples

14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

James 1:2–8 (NKJV)

Profiting from Trials

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience (heart manifestation) have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, (mind/thoughts) let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

We receive a new heart to replace the heart of stone! When the 10 commandments were written on tablets of stone that is a reflection of a human heart of stone! When the Pharisees stoned people that was a reflection of their hearts which comes from the soul/spirit. They had hearts of stone. When Jesus wrote with His finger in the sand he was symbolically writing the law as He did on the tablets of stone for Moses. The Pharisees were legalistic as they followed Moses. The Pharisees representing the kingdom of this world and god of this world and Jesus’ side was the representation of the Kingdom of heaven in Jesus. Remember man was created from the dust of the earth! Old creation without the life of Christ Jesus. Jesus was telling them that they had NO PART in eternal life! They had crossed the line! Read my post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

 

The kingdom of the earth belonged to Satan and Jesus told the Pharisees they were of their father the devil. That is a kingdom! The Kingdom of Heaven was in Jesus! The line was the demarcation separating kingdoms and the Pharisees had crossed the line which was the point of no return. Scripture tells us this. Remember the Pharisees were about to stone the adulterous woman. There can be either “spiritual adultery” or “physical adultery” but it was spiritual adultery just as EVE committed spiritual adultery in the Garden. Sin is spiritual adultery! You have partaken in the “seeds/words” of the serpent as truth. That is what Jesus was addressing! The “woman” represents the church! Your false prophet in your pulpit is having you commit spiritual adultery, he is a prophet of Jezebel in Revelations 2! The adulterous woman!

1 John 1:8–10 (NKJV)

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

The Pharisees were never going to be able to CROSSING OVER AND THROUGH THE VEIL WHICH IS THE PERSON CHRIST JESUS. No one can get to the Father except through the Son. They would eventually have Jesus crucified. We know they denied Jesus as the Christ/Messiah to His face and anyone who denies that Jesus came in the flesh is of Antichrist! Even then there were many Antichrists!

John 2:1–10 (NKJV)

Christ Changes Water to Wine

2 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”

His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” (total submission)

Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. Jesus said to them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim.(which would be to come the fullness of the Holy Spirit by the blood covenant of marriage) And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast. (Master is the Father in heaven. Are you your own master or is Christ Jesus your master/Lord) And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. 10 And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”

The third day represented the death and resurrection which is why Jesus said his time had not yet come. The six waterpots of stone is the number of man on the 6th day of creation. So the water turning into wine was the new blood covenant of the Sacrificial Lamb Christ Jesus for the redemption/reconciliation of man. NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THE BRIDEGROOM! We (a saint/disciple) put out the best and get them drunk then put out the inferior or “cheap wine”. This refers to OUR relationship to Jesus after being born again. It is the backsliding nature of humanity of the fall. Having tasted and seen the heavenly gift and falling away from our love of Christ Jesus. You can fall away from salvation! If you have partaken in the NEW COVENANT you have been born again BUT you can still fall away.

The master is the Father in Heaven because Jesus is the bridegroom! Jesus and the Father are one but you can not get to the Father without Jesus. There is only one way to the Father, Christ Jesus.

Why does a person bleed when they are cut or wounded? Because the heart pumps blood! If your heart waxes cold it is solid like a candle as the fire of the Holy Spirit has gone out! That is what we read in Revelations! The seven candlesticks is referencing the HEART of men/women. Now where is the manifestation of power revealed of the Holy Spirit revealed and manifested? It is in the Blood! Your blood is where the LIGHT OF GOD is displayed in power and glorification. Blood goes through your whole body! Blood gives life to the flesh. Thus your lamp must be filled with oil or it will not radiate the fullness of the glory of God. We go from glory to glory which is an increase of the HOLINESS of God by the sanctification work of the Holy Spirit.

The human blood is made from light or the absence of light which is darkness. When you cut yourself and bleed your blood changes color. The blood is exposed to the “earth/air” who is the prince and power of the air? This brings us back to the virgin birth of Jesus. There was no male sperm so no X,Y chromosomes. So how was Jesus born a man? By the Spirit and Light of the Father! The light of God is in the blood! Think of the mount of transfiguration! Jesus had not yet died and resurrected or ascended to heaven yet. Jesus revealed what a Son of God truly is! FULL OF LIGHT AND GLORY. Stop waiting for your heavenly body as you can have a body full of the Glory of God now, IT WILL COST YOU YOUR LIFE DYING TO YOURSELF!

Knowing that the blood is the “source of life” and you could “bleed to death” why are there vaccines, viruses, cancer, etc. It is the works of the devil through humanity that do this. Satan is trying to kill the saints through alterations of the human body against the Father’s original created state of being. The Covid vaccine is killing people because of DNA altering. It is a slow process but many people have died or gotten so sick they can no longer take personal care of themselves. Why have all the foods been subjected to GMO and altered so they no longer “have seeds” to create a harvest.

My point goes back to the very beginning a false witness has a different gospel and a different Jesus so it produces a false convert! Instead of revealing Christ by the Holy Spirit they present the image of themselves which is of the Devil! That is what Jesus told the Pharisees when He told them they search for on “convert” and make them twice the child of the devil that they are! YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW! IF YOU SO SATAN YOU REAP SATAN. IF YOU SO FALSE DOCTRINES OF DEMONS YOU CREATE FOLLOWERS OF DOCTRINES OF DEMONS.

If the Pharisees were doing this it was a “form of legalistic witnessing” which is works of the flesh! Works of the flesh is the manifestation of the Devil through the fallen nature! You are of your father the devil.

How did the serpent present the “seeds/fruit” to the WOMAN. YES IT WAS THE WOMAN WHO WAS TO BEAR HER OFFSPRING THE CHILDREN OF GOD!

Genesis 3:4–6 (KJV 1900)

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

This is what the false prophets do also. They present evil “seeds/words” masquerading as spirit and truth. Even when they use their own intellect which is what they learned in seminary, churches, false brethren, etc. it is NOT INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

1 Corinthians 3:19–23 (KJV 1900)

19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; 22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; 23 And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

We are witnessing the Great Apostasy in such profoundness that saints that did not the FULLNESS OF SPIRIT AND TRUTH have already been given over to a spirit of delusion which renders a reprobate and not means of reconcilation with the Lord. The spiritual battle has never changed from the days of the Incarnate Christ Jesus the battle is a truly false saints/converts verses true saints/converts. This is the battle within the assembly and throughout the world.

If what you have read bears witness to you about the false prophet in your church. GET OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE SEPARATE. Revelation 18 is speaking to the church who are/were the redeemed!

Revelation 18:1–8 (KJV 1900)

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,

Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,

And is become the habitation of devils,

And the hold of every foul spirit,

And a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,

And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,

And the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,

Come out of her, my people,

That ye be not partakers of her sins,

And that ye receive not of her plagues.

For her sins have reached unto heaven,

And God hath remembered her iniquities.

Reward her even as she rewarded you,

And double unto her double according to her works:

In the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,

So much torment and sorrow give her:

For she saith in her heart, I sit a queen,

And am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,

Death, and mourning, and famine;

And she shall be utterly burned with fire:

For strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

I realize that at times I kept reciting the same scriptures but I felt that to be necessary as the Holy Spirit lead me to do that. I hope this posting has witnessed to the remnant that you must leave Mystery Babylon the Harlot church. When you come out do not look or turn back or you may become a pillar of salt!

1 Corinthians 2:1–5 (KJV 1900)

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE

THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE

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 would like to tell you that while writing this article I was under great spiritual attack and the powers of a principality hit me so hard the other day that I barely new my first name. I have spent 6 days writing and rewriting struggling to convey what the Lord put on my heart under constant spiritual opposition. I got to the point the Word of God got so confusing that I left my property and drove off to meditate. When I reached the town line my confusion lifted and the Lord spoke I am not the author of confusion and the scriptures I was wanting to write came back to me as I became aware of the witchcraft creating the confusion. The lack of sleep likely contributed as I have averaged 12 or more hours of writing for each post and numerous hours of meditating on Scriptures. I have only been getting 1.5 – 2 hours sleep per night and the Lord has kept me alert during the process of sleep deprivation. I know the lack of sleep is the Lord keeping me from the darkness that is attacking me. The Holy Spirit does not sleep and it is the Holy Spirit that is keeping me awake. Somehow by the grace of the Lord I am not physically tired the way I should be with such lack of sleep.

With only a few hours to do daily chores I meditate while doing my chores and receive more to write. As I proof read the Lord give me more to write and I add it as He speaks to me so I it is fresh in the Spirit and immediately write it on the post. This post might not flow as smoothly as I desire but the principles and thoughts are provided. May the Holy Spirit bear witness what the Lord desires you to receive and may you walk in increased revelations of Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth. My computer kept freezing up, my mind and thoughts were under attack so I had to leave to get out from under the spiritual attack. There will be many times you may not think as clearly as you like even though your heart is set on the Lord. This is an attack. Unlike Daniel who was fasting the Lord did not call me to a fast when I started so I may have been more susceptible to an attack. This is not the first time I have been attacked by principalities as I have been hospitalized from many of them. Job went through the same thing and other saints also. I have left many demonic places that I was sent and had to fast to break off the attacks through prayer and fasting. I have written and rewritten this post about 6 times so I am going to publish this knowing the enemy of my soul did not want this to be published. The victory is the Lord’s. So those things being said I gave it my best and the rest is in the Lord’s hands.

Now let’s begin with the spot on the bridal gown.

Ephesians 5:26–27 (NKJV)

26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

You have to go back to the Garden of Eden to understand what the Lord said about the woman as Adam was a man, and Eve was the woman that would produce the Children of God! Every single word has to be taken exactly as it is written as the “I AM” spoke it for all of creation.

Adam was created in the image and likeness of the Father! Adam was a Son of God! Jesus came as the “second Adam” a Son of God! Adam being in the image and likeness was true representation of the Father in the fullness of Spirit and Truth!

An angel is a messenger or carrier of the WORD OF GOD. Lucifer was a messenger that was “Above the Fiery Stones of God” which were the thoughts and words of the Father to be released by Lucifer in heaven. So it was Lucifer who was a “high ranking angel” that spoke on behalf of God the Father throughout heaven relaying the thoughts/word of God!

So when you or an angel is believing the “messenger” that once spoke truth and now speaks a lie you easily believe it as truth! A lie becomes your truth because of the messenger! You did not question the source of truth you believed the messenger! Before Lucifer fell the angels were of their original state/abode as they were created by spirit. When Lucifer fell Lucifer “started his political campaign/conspiracy” to over through the Father’s government of divine order. So when Lucifer ran for his political carrier to over take and rule the government of the Father he spoke lies of deception to the angels in heaven. Now you know the origin of politics and why truth today is called conspiracy theory. Lucifer could not establish his rule in heaven wanting be as god the Father decided that if he ruled the son Adam he could establish his governing authority anyhow and create his kingdom on the earth. Some of the angels who believed Lucifer’s lies because of Lucifer’s “CALLING”/ Position. Lucifer was created and called/appointed! Jesus told us many are called but few are chosen! So it is upon the earth! Many are called to be TRUE messengers of Jesus but there are false prophets speaking with “forked tongues” which are not sanctified tongues but speaking a mixture of lies and truth to deceive! We know that true testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy as it is written in Revelations. Let us see how the Prophet Isaiah had his ministry established.

Revelation 19:10 (NKJV)

10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Isaiah 6:1–13 (NKJV)

Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet

6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one cried to another and said:

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory!”

And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

So I said:

Woe is me, for I am undone!

Because I am a man of unclean lips,

And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King,

The Lord of hosts.”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, and said:

Behold, this has touched your lips;

Your iniquity is taken away,

And your sin purged.”

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

Whom shall I send,

And who will go for Us?”

Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

9 And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

Keep on hearing, but do not understand;

Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

10 “Make the heart of this people dull,

And their ears heavy,

And shut their eyes;

Lest they see with their eyes,

And hear with their ears,

And understand with their heart,

And return and be healed.”

11 Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,

The houses are without a man,

The land is utterly desolate,

12 The Lord has removed men far away,

And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

13 But yet a tenth will be in it,

And will return and be for consuming,

As a terebinth tree or as an oak,

Whose stump remains when it is cut down.

So the holy seed shall be its stump.”

Here we see the gospel way back here in Elijah as repentance came first and his sin was purged, I am a man of unclean lips among a people of unclean lips. This is before the incarnate Christ Jesus so the heavens opened and the he saw Lord/Jesus on the Throne! Isaiah then tells us about the house was shaken and filled with smoke! That is the foundation of the house Isaiah was in and a new foundation established in Christ Jesus.

Who establishes the foundation of the new church built upon the Chief Cornerstone Christ Jesus, the Apostles and the Prophets! The house which is a place of worship was shaken and sanctified and establish on the foundation of the Lord! The house is supposed to be today’s assembly of the saints with sanctified lips of holiness, spirit and truth on the foundation of Christ Jesus. The whole house was filled with smoke! The smoke is the anger of the Lord as a prophetic judgment.

Notice the command to go. Go to the people who are not established in the house because the house is only for those who are established in the fullness of spirit and truth! It is not designed to be a “hospital for the sick, weary, broken people of the earth. The church is for the equipping of the saints! To be a saint you must be born again. It’s very clearly written saints are the body of Christ. If you are not of the body you should not be in the church assembly. I am sharing what is written. The great commission was to go out into the world and the church has brought the world into the church! Totally backwards and the saints are not being matured because no on can discern the spirits that are in the church! The church has brought leaven into the church along with people in spiritual bondage and demons into the church who like to play “leap frog or piggy back” on the saints! The “church temple” is not holy in righteousness as it should be. Spiritual adultery is happening unaware within the church assembly. Not everyone there is your brethren! In the Old Testament these people brought into the sanctuary/holy place would have been destroyed! Let the dead bury the dead! It might sound cruel but those words are of the Lord.

Matthew 8:21–22 (NKJV)

21 Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Jude (NKJV)

Jude

Greeting to the Called

Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,

To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:

Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Contend for the Faith

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Old and New Apostates

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, (note: real spiritual authority) and speak evil of dignitaries. Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Apostates Predicted

16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

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.

Ephesians 4:11–16 (NKJV)

11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

If it were so why would would we need to be a living witness to the world? The sanctuary is supposed to represent a holy place set apart not a spiritual buffet of spirits! If the love of the world is in you the love of the father is not. THE TRUE CHURCH IS TO GO OUT INTO THE WORLD REVEALING CHRIST NOT THE WORLD ASSEMBLED IN THE CHURCH!

Isaiah was sent to the people of Israel to blind their eyes, deafen their ears, dull their hearts, etc. We no longer need to go out and do this because it is assembled among the congregation! It also says only a tenth of Israel would be a remnant. This states that Spiritual Israel is the redeemed and not the nation or state of Israel. Notice the tree being cut down but leaving a stump which would be for growth of the people of the 10th that would be the remnant.

Isaiah had to go through sanctification to be a man of clean lips which means only the Word of God was spoken and manifest among the people of Israel by the prophet Isaiah. This is how Isaiah could make such a bold proclamation because HE knew the will and Word of God! YES we are called to know both the WILL AND FULLNESS OF HIS WORD. How did Isaiah do this, by the Spirit of the Living God!

Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)

11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to Me void,

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Notice the word “My” is upper case which reflects the Lord. Isaiah is stating COMPLETE faith of what he hears from the Lord and total trust and belief in fulfillment of the Word of God spoken to him AND through him! You can not call down fire without hearing, discerning and believing what the Lord is speaking and doing with unbelief? Here is another misconception no man can commission you as you must be sent by the Lord. Isaiah was sent to go and come against the prophets of Baal of Jezebel and Ahab.

This is what the wrinkle in the garment is stating. You have not gone through the fullness of the refiners fire and you have a wrinkle. The sanctification process is not complete and it is because of a lack of true heart desire as all thing are possible for those who believe!

If you do not believe every single Word of God the mustard seed has not grown into maturity because the sanctification process was not completed.

This is why having ENCOUNTERED the Lord as the heaven opened is so profound! One of the most profound and disturbing thoughts is how can people call themselves a Christian without KNOWING the resurrection! Jesus revealed himself to everyone that was His after His resurrection. Paul who was not there with the original 12 disciples to witness the Lord’s resurrection yet encountered the resurrection! Why are professing Christians not encountering the resurrection like Paul? Paul is a living example of a life in Christ post resurrection who came out of the Harlot church of the Pharisees and never went back after his encounter with the Lord. How is Paul continued to receive revelations and today the only testimony most people have is the day they allegedly got saved? If you are not growing in Christ then you are not born again. I’ve had people rebuke me and tell me they have been a Christian for 40 years and I tell them I am glad they are impressed with them self and remind them there is no age discrimination, race discrimination or ethnicity discrimination in heaven and I walk away.

Where is the true living witness of the church experiences of encounters with the resurrected Christ Jesus as Paul encountered Jesus? Surely the Lord is the same yesterday today and forever more. Why is this? Why is there last testimony that they got saved years ago if they indeed got born again? What is the Lord doing today? When you have to watch the false prophets, sit under false prophets you are not building your own testimony of continued growth. You are living under a false testimony of others. The church has become a system of “welfare” not an independent life in Christ solely dependent and reliant on Christ Jesus as like the great commission was stated. They say you need a “relationship” but deny true relationship by false doctrine and false belief! Judas had a relationship but Judas did not want Lordship submitted to Jesus. Jesus had more direct talks with demons that people proclaiming to be saints have today. Why are people not hearing the voice of God directly from the Holy Spirit?

Matthew 23:13 (NKJV)

Jesus Condemns the Pharisees

13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Read my article on Jesus vs. The Pharisees: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

Genesis 3:15–19 (NKJV)

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.”

Let me just make a quick point on the characteristics of a serpent. The bible tells us about cunning nature of allurement and deception but it does not mention physiology! Adam new physiology as Adam named all the creatures of the Earth. When a serpent/snake consumes it food it swallows it whole head first. Who is the head of the church and Lord of the saints? Who is the head of the woman a man? That means it attacks the Holy Spirit as the devils version of a mustard seed is planted within you! That is the spot on your wedding gown. Once the seed of the serpent has been digested you start to allow it to strip away the Holy Spirit. Don’t try to quote 1 John 4:1 that will not work because you can’t apply it when you are deceived and willfully took the seed of the serpent. When you partake of lies and deception is sows seeds of unbelief and attacks your “spirit man” the Holy Spirit and just as a mustard seed the Lord gives so does the devil! The seed/word(s) of the devil is enmity with the seed/words of the woman/church/bride NOT EVE. Yes it is written woman NOT EVE. This means that all of their offspring that was called to be the church as the body of Christ is call “woman”. The church/woman/bride which should be the true saints of the Lord is being devoured by the enemy of our souls even after being born again! You can loose your salvation! You have allowed the same seed from the garden to take root that was of the serpent which lies and deceit of false prophets!

You are damning you souls from unbelief of the truth of the Word of God by believing the lies/seeds being sown into you. You trade truth for error and the mustard seed of the devil grows and the mustard seed of the Lord diminishes. We know that one lie is built upon more lies. So just how bad has the devil got you deceived. The devil even has a phony version of spirit that masquerades as the Holy Spirit and people do not discern the difference. Lies infers the Antichrist spirit is within a person who lies. There is no such thing as that is your understanding or interpretation it is either TRUTH OR A LIE. If you catch one lie by discernment there likely more that you have already believed and more to come. This is what is meant by the wrinkle as you have not been completely sanctified by the Word of God.

If you take your own soul for granted you place NO value on the souls of others! Paul preached the Gospel with tongues because it was the voice of God through Paul! Remember Isaiah with the HOT COAL TO HIS TONGUE, this is what Paul was referring about speaking in tongues! THE TRUTH OF GOD SPOKEN THROUGH HIM A SANCTIFIED TEMPLE OF TRUTH AND POWER. There are two types of tongues one is forked and of the devil which speaks a mixture of lies and truth for deception and unbelief. The Holy Spirit knows the difference.

Hypocrisy is asking God to be faithful and true to HIS word when you yourself are NOT. If you are a hypocrite which means “of the devil” then you are about to be a reprobate mind. If you continue to mock the Lord he turns people over to a reprobate mind. I have had to deliver that word to someone in person and I hope I never have to do it again. Believing lies about Jesus is not faithfulness or reverence towards Jesus it is making a mockery of the blood of Jesus! Why do I say that is because you have no seriousness of your own soul the price paid to redeem your soul and don’t don’t value other people’s souls. is why “you must be born again”.

When you were a new born you depended on your parents for everything. Then you crawled on the floor until you could stand. Once you stood you learned to walk. It is the same once you get born again. You need to grow in you journey with the Lord to completion.

A disciple just means a follower. What you follow and who you follow is your Lord! Only Jesus can disciple anyone just as Jesus did on the earth so it is with the Holy Spirit. Do you see why no man can disciple you! You must receive divine revelations of Truth by the Holy Spirit. When you listen to men you may well be listening to truth mixed with error. So dependency on seminary, church, brethren, TV prophets, other books, etc. is the pathway to deception! Unverified gossip received as UNTESTED and VERIFIED TRUTH. If there is ONLY one name by which all men shall be saved then there is only one name that can teach/disciple you.

Psalm 12:1–8 (ESV)

1 Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone;

for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

2 Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;

with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,

the tongue that makes great boasts,

4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,

our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

5 “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,

I will now arise,” says the LORD;

I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

6 The words of the LORD are pure words,

like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,

purified seven times.

7 You, O LORD, will keep them;

you will guard us from this generation forever.

8 On every side the wicked prowl,

as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

Romans 3:4 (NKJV)

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.”

Galatians 2:20–21 (NKJV)

20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

What is the evidence of being crucified with Christ and what is the end results. Paul reveals this in Galatians 6.

Galatians 6:14–15 (NKJV)

14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

When I mentioned earlier that the “church” was for only the saints I gave you several scriptures backing that claim. The great commission was go out into the world and NOT bring the world into the church. Well there you have it in Galatians 6. How will the saints be edified and strengthened with fellowship with the world siting in the sanctuary? I know there are some “hot heads” about what I am writing but your pastor will receive his measure of judgment for every soul he leads astray and so will you for spreading Gossip which is unverified truth by the Holy Spirit. I say the Holy Spirit because it comes directly from Jesus and NOT your interpretation of scriptures!

Paul is telling us how to become Sons of God restored back to the image and likeness of the Son of God who is Christ Jesus as the Second Adam! If the world is crucified to you, the god of this world is crucified unto you. You will be the fullness of Son’s of God once you get your new heavenly body! Not before this, so you are still subjected to all of the evil of this world until you get your heavenly body. This is the completion of what Jesus died for. You see the Apostle Paul said that he prayed he would be considered worthy to partake of the resurrection that implies until you get your heavenly body you need to contend for the faith as Jude warns us.

The closer you walk with the Lord the more of a “target” you are by false brethren as well as Satan and his cohorts. You are also a target of slander, mockery, persecution and abandonment from people you love and care about. Truth is not to be debated it is to be preached! Eve debated truth and the longer you debate truth the more lies you will hear! Do you know that people repeat curses they have over you? Do you not know this is possible? Probably not because it only discerned spiritually. I was on a fast interceding for a church in Florida during my travels. I stopped and Jezebel and Ahab were in the front row of the church and Jezebel was manifesting to appear spiritual. So I fasted and prayed to see what the Lord wanted me to do. Toward the end of my fast my cousin was talking on the phone when I walked into the kitchen. I immediately said MUTE THE PHONE and she looked at me like I was nuts! I said louder MUTE THE PHONE so she did. I said that woman on the telephone is repeating curses over you that were assigned to her! She is repeating every assignment over you by telling you about what she is going through and that is a “probing spirit” looking for access to your soul. If you have experienced any of these things and have bitterness or un-forgiveness you will be hooked spiritually. I could not hear the actual conversation but I felt it in the spirit. Spirits create “atmosphere” that is why ungodly people that want to appear spiritual will attempt to get close enough under the “umbrella” covering of the anointed one! You must discern these matters. This is a two way street the devil tries this also. Even worse lays hands on you by one of his own.

Galatians 6:1 (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.

Jesus is the WORD and the fullness of the WORD! That is what Paul is telling us. Paul was filled with the Word and Spirit of God! The fullness of Spirit and Truth was in Paul there was NO UNBELIEF in Paul. I wrote about Saul from Tarsus on my website. Feel free to read it. https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/02/saul-from-tarsus-and-the-harlot-church-of-revelations/

With unbelief you can not even be born again! It is impossible to please the Lord with unbelief. Jesus said when he “returned” would he find the faith which is the fullness of Truth of God’s Word established rooted and grounded in a people! If Jesus had not shortened the days no man would be alive. The carnal man and intellect believes this is “physical/natural” death but it is a “spiritual” death falling away from the Father!

Your tunic/skin was never meant to be of you as it is the representation of the serpent! If you read my post on what really happened in the garden you would understand this better. How do you kill the serpent by manifesting the fullness of Jesus within you! The glory comes from within you lighting up your body which passes through your skin as a light unto the world. The works of the flesh have been crucified by the fullness of Christ Jesus manifested in you. Jesus demonstrated that on the Mount of Transfiguration and told Peter not to tell anyone until after His resurrection! We need to submit and allow the Holy Spirit to complete that “work of sanctification” within us by the grace of God! Where sin abounds grace abounds MORE! I am NOT stating sin is okay, I am merely stating the same grace for salvation is all sufficient unto sanctification and holiness. If you need more grace and your heart motive is right call on the Lord for increased grace! Jesus desires all of you in His image and likeness. YOU MUST believe His grace is sufficient or you have unbelief!

What is the true Sabbath, it is Jesus as in Matthew 11:28-29. which is Christ Jesus. It is not a day of the week it is the full restoration of Christ Jesus in you living and dwelling in his SPIRIT AND TRUTH! Galatians 5 talks about the works of the flesh and the works of the Spirit! You find rest in Jesus and only in Jesus he is our Sabbath. In our lives real rest comes with the crucifixion in us is completed. That is when Jesus said IT IS FINISHED was when the price was paid in full for the wages of sin. So it is for us, true rest comes when the flesh/soul has been crucified with Christ and the fullness of Christ lives in you. You have no will of your own and have the mind of Christ which Paul preached. As long as there is a spot or wrinkle there is work to be done! We must seek, desire and submit to the inner working of the Holy Spirit. Worshiping Saturday is fine and not a problem until you make it legalistic and a requirement. I have actually been condemned by people who say I am not born again because I do not acknowledge Saturday as the Sabbath. Jesus is my Sabbath.

Romans 14:5–6 (NKJV)

One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

Matthew 11:28–30 (NKJV)

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

So the “seed” of unbelief of the serpent is the “spot” on the bridal gown. You still have unbelief of the fullness of Truth which CAN ONLY COME FROM JESUS! NOT A FALSE PROPHET!

The bridal gown is the representation of the “chaste” virgin Paul was diligently trying so hard to create within us so that we would be without spot or wrinkle. On the mount of transfiguration Jesus revealed and displayed what the first Adam was. Pure light in the image of the Father.

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.”

Again ever word is very specific and if you change one word you remove the power of god from the Word of God! The devil knows this and the devil changes the words thus stripping the Spirit and power of restoration to becoming a fully developed and restored Son of God. The woman mentioned above is NOT EVE! The woman represents the church and is NOT gender specific! Every true child of God will experience great sorrow, pain and tribulation on earth. The conception is being BORN AGAIN! So the born again person will suffer for the Lord this is not your best life now! Paul bared the marks of Christ!

Matthew 22:30 (NKJV)

30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

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.

Notice once again the Father did not say EVE he said wife! A wife is someone you have consummated relationship with. The two become ONE! Adam and EVE in their original state were not corrupted by unbelief from deceit and lies of the serpent. Holiness was joined with Holiness! Adam committed spiritual adultery when he partook of the “seed” of the serpent. Adam was of the spirit of God and Eve was no longer of the spirit of God. They became “kindred spirits” this is also method of discernment “who hangs out with who”.

So what fellowship has light with darkness. If light fellowships with darkness you have spiritual adultery with another god. I have news for you there are many false gods! Lucifer is the head of these other gods knows as princes of principalities! Daniel with the prince of Persia.

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.”

This is why the world is full of false prophets! Satan masquerades as an angel of light and HIS preachers/ministers masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Have you ever wondered why the term minister is even used?

Hebrews 1:14 (NKJV)

14 Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

You must discern which are of the kingdom of heaven or of the devil! Do not be deceived was the words Jesus spoke in Matthew 24.

I think we have covered enough about the spot on the wedding garment. Now lets move on to the wrinkle.

THE WRINKLE

The wrinkle is in reference to sanctification and holiness. It is the uncompleted work of sanctification within us. It is a process that we must submit to! Jesus will not go against free will I don’t care what the false prophets want to preach about “predestination” as they have NO CLUE! If a man with a legion of demons can run towards Jesus for deliverance then there is free will. Jesus did not run to the man! The demons did not inspire the man to run to Jesus in fact they did not want to come out! Calvinism is mixed with truth and deception but to the glory of God it is by your faith unto salvation and hopefully the Holy Spirit will witness to you truth vs error.  I don’t endorse any denomination because I follow the Lord not a religious structure.  So I am not attacking Calvinism but I wonder as with any denomination how someone can preach for decades with spiritual conviction that there is a mixture of truth and error.  We are all human and must see the Lord for ourselves.  I don’t claim to have all the answers but I do believe it takes faith and predestination was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world so that all men/people would be saved.  A true preacher with a heart after the Lord and submitted to the Lord would not continue in preaching falseness for decades! A heart that truly desires spirit and truth Jesus would NOT ALLOW continued deception to have dominion over your soul! This is what the wrinkle is all about! You have not allowed the Lord to sanctify in fullness of HIS WORD so you still have lies within you. You are not completely sanctified by the Word unto holiness. Without holiness no man shall see God. When you get the gospel of salvation wrong you have another gospel, another spirit, another Jesus. That is what Paul told us.

If you do not understand the fall of Adam your whole gospel of salvation will be wrong. You can’t be redeemed from what you do not know!

Adam fell because he “looked” upon Eve with lust! Why do I say this because Jesus said it! Whoever looks upon a woman with lust has already committed adultery! This is why I wrote that love is the most perverted virtue of God! Whenever you lust you are turning away from divine love! God is love! Lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life!

The most perverted virtue of the Lord: https://abidingbread.com/2025/04/12/the-greatest-perverted-virtue-of-christ-jesus/

That is why the “spirit of loneliness” opens the door to lust masquerading as love! Adam demonstrated all three of these attributes, the lust of the eyes was towards Eve, the lust of the flesh was sensual love of Eve and not the fullness of spiritual LOVE OF GOD. The pride of life was disobeying the Father and the truth of God’s Word. Adam knew the truth but choose what he believed was best for him in essence becoming a god unto himself. That is why you have “your best life now” and prosperity preachers! Your best life is a spiritual life in Christ Jesus. That is why you so many professing television stations and shows put the false prophets on their shows because the TRUE GOSPEL will not make you wealthy. That is why you have so many denominations of religious beliefs. A different gospel a different Jesus, a different spirit. Adam choose Eve over God because it was not good for man to be alone!

Galatians 1:8 (NKJV)

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

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.”

It is a “spirit of loneliness” that opens the door to lust and creates all three attributes of the fallen nature! The “spirit of loneliness” is behind divorce, pornography, sex trafficking, prostitution, alcoholism, drug addition, suicide, lust, fornication, etc. The “spirit of loneliness” is what brought upon the “spirit of lust”! The “spirit of lust” brought on the of “spirit pride of life” by choosing what Adam desired what he thought was best for himself which was denying the Father and choosing his wife Eve. Adam loved Eve more than the Father and had unbelief of what death was! Death had never been witnessed to Adam at all as Adam was the “first fruit”. So what is death when death is not revealed?

False prophets preach lies and deception by several ways! Some are truly ambassador’s of Satan. Some preach what has not been revealed to them which is Gossip which the Lord hates! Some are deliberately seeking to damn your soul intentionally. Like I said a humble pastor or prophet would say that mystery has not been revealed to them at this time. Why would a humble man do this. Daniel “sealed the book” for an appropriate time and was troubled because no one had understanding even Daniel who interpreted Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. The scrolls in heaven are opening so more of the books written are being revealed now. The mysteries are being revealed to a “remnant”. Just the word “remnant” means many have fallen away! You put your leftovers in the refrigerator, those are remnants of food. The Word of God is food for our souls! You preserve the “remnant” you keep them for the future events to come.

Loneliness gets into your thoughts and mind which renders a sense of abandonment or isolation. When loneliness starts you need to increase time and intimacy with the Lord. You need to do this alone one on one with the Lord. Intimacy is between two. Start with worship as the Lord inhabits the hearts of those who praise him. GET out of the atmosphere you are in, walk by a stream where it is quiet talking to the Lord. It was about 16 months after my salvation I had deep loneliness as I had not Christian fellowship or church. I did a search on spiritual loneliness and found A.W Tozer the saint must walk alone. It really resonated. If you are seeking the deeper things of the Lord you will be very lonely at times as you can’t share the deeper things of the Lord with “babes” in Christ as they would not understand. So your loneliness is to build you not destroy you as your fellowship becomes deeper with the lover of your soul, Christ Jesus. You get to know the Person of Christ and not just the Written Word. It’s like the Garden of Eden all over again! The narrow path is very lonely that is why very few find it. Do not be discouraged keep walking towards the arms of Jesus and rest your head upon His bosom like John! No one will understand as I have even had one friend tell me that no man should be an island to himself. I said you don’t understand and John wrote the book of Revelations from an island I am perfectly well being an Island if that is the Lord call upon my life. I have been an island for over a decade. I will not compromise my salvation, spirit and truth by sitting in houses of wolves and venom. I didn’t leave them they left Christ. That is why I wrote about there are two types of Prodigals the one in sin and the one after holiness that the church kicks out, mocks and scorns. You reach the point of peace and revelations of Christ that are not preached or taught and find contentment and fullness in Jesus. You no longer grieve over your condition you intercede for those who abandoned you as they have abandoned the Lord. Just as David spent days caring for the sheep and his own father did not consider him worthy to be king the Lord exalted the humble shepherd and anointing as King of Israel. Keep going forward and do not look back you have much work for the kingdom and be at peace Jesus has not forsaken you. It was “a people” who had forsaken Jesus.

You have come out of the Harlot Church and are separated to the Lord. Just as the prophets of old you walk alone in revelations of Christ Jesus with a heavy heart of burden for the church to return to their first love.

This is the process of sanctification that needs to be completed our you wedding garment will have wrinkles. Even if there is only one wrinkle it needs to be address. Humility is the foundation of submission.

John 15:1–14 (NKJV)

The Relationship of Believers to Christ

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 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. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 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.

“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. 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. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

“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.

The Relationship of Believers to Each Other

12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 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.

I believe the false ministry of “works” has damned so many souls into believing they are saved by deception just as the serpent deceived Eve in the Garden. I remember when the Lord was revealing his gifting he had placed within me as a “new born” in the Lord. I was so on fire for the Lord and wanted everyone to come to the Lord. I would sit at McDonald’s with a coffee to get words of knowledge for people thinking I needed to give them words of knowledge to witness to them. IT works but it is not the right thing to do. I am so thankful the Lord corrected me very early on. I was witnessing but I was “performance based thinking or of works” thinking without even realizing it. You might say to yourself people were hearing the Word/Gospel. I wasn’t perverting the Gospel I was becoming a perverted/twisted messenger of the gospel! You must walk in the spirit and submit all things to the Spirit even what you hear. Have you ever thought to pray over your natural senses for sanctification? If the five senses are your natural “warning tools” they were designed for your “spiritual warning tools”. How do you filter all the lies and deceit by hearing and bearing witness in the Holy Spirit. Okay, moving on.

While sitting having coffee and observing the people looking to see if the Lord would speak or give me a word of knowledge I could approach them. The holy Spirit spoke to me and said: “I only do what my Father is doing, I only speak what my Father is speaking”. Immediately by the grace of God I felt like I had been born again all over! It was the second best liberating feeling ever. The Lord exposed the “snare and trap” the devil was trying to get me into. “Surely if you are the son of God turn this rock into bread”! Came to my spirit and I understood. What the Lord showed me was let the Lord prepare the hearts to receive and secondly a true prophetic utterance must hold back until the prompting of the Spirit which gives true life and restoration. Knowledge without Spirit has no life! Does this sound like Saul from Tarsus with knowledge but not the Holy Spirit. You end up going before the Lord rather than with the Lord and that subjects you into the clutches of the devil. So I was blessed that the Lord revealed this trap the devil was trying to get me to operate from the flesh and not the Spirit. It was so freeing, my heart motive was right but my method was wrong.

It is the presence of the Holy Spirit in you that ministers, not us as carriers of His Spirit. So when I would receive words of knowledge without the unction to go and speak I would pray for that person as I was given the word of knowledge from my seat. Secondly you offer the Word of the Lord you do not force it upon them. There is the power of agreement when you ask if you can pray or give them a prophetic word. When they agree they are open to receive. Jesus asked people what do you want, what can I do for you. This is the form of a “servant”. This is the foundation of ministry that is talked about but not applied correctly. How so, you go to minister in your knowledge and understanding making you as God! That was the snare the Lord revealed to me. Your first thought should be Lord what would you like to do for this person. What is your desire! What is my part in this matter? That is how you minister and set captives free! That is how people get healed. You are not praying what they think is the problem you are getting to the root of the problem because you are a servant of the Lord and listen and follow the Lord by the Spirit of God. The symptoms of affliction is not the root of affliction. The woman with the blood issue for 12 years had exhausted all methods and monies to get well but when she went to Jesus and touched the hem of his robe she was healed. Notice the number 12 which is the government of God. She was not healed by the wisdom of men or modern medicine of her time. So we must seek the Lord on what He wants to do. That is how demons get cast out! When you receive the revelation you get the empowerment of the Spirit of Revelation MAKE SURE you are prompted to cast it out if not do not cast out the demon. You may think this is foolishness of thought but that person was not attempting to harm you personally because you belong to Jesus or infiltrate the body of Christ. If you cast out a demon in a person with an unrepentant heart they will come back 7 fold! You have made that person worse off! You know that you know. That is what the demons see, they are exposed! That is what walking in the spirit is like. I only do what I see the Father doing, I only speak what I hear the Father speak. I don’t do it because I can!

Let me expose another perversion that is spoken out of ignorance and yet it is deceitful. God loves you unconditionally. God loves the soul of a man/woman but not the demons or things of a fallen man. So it gets perverted even more, love the person and not the sin. These are statements often from sinners themselves! As a man thinks so HE IS! When you walk in the spirit you will often feel as others feel that seek healing and ministry. You see you need the level of anointing and mercy to have true compassion. The Father felt everything His Son endured. Sometimes it is mercy and compassion that brake the yoke of bondage, other times is authority that casts out the demons. You need to walk in all the virtues of Christ Jesus. Authority and power are not the same. The translations do no real justice in interpretation. Authority comes by intimacy and relationship with Jesus and power comes from the Spirit. Paul I know Jesus I know but who are you? That is the authority! The power is for restoration. Only one leper went back and was made complete. The authority cast out the spirit and the power rendered restoration caused such as regrowing lost digits/members such as ears or a nose of a leper.

Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)

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.

So you have a false converts making more false converts. That is the ministry of a Pharisee making twice the child of the devil! I am exposing hypocrites leading people to hell in the name of Jesus.

If you are walking in the power of God the Holy Spirit convicts them and loves them at the same time. The combination does not imply unconditional love. confess Jesus is Lord and that is what they do not want to do so they get up and leave or take another seat.

The approach you take when you witness matters and it is not a prayer card or a rehearsed prayer. It is by following the Holy Spirit and doing what the Holy Spirit says to do.

Really, why should they repent if god loves them unconditionally. If the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin would the Holy Spirit say hay man, you are awesome and god really loves you. That is totally opposite of what Jesus did, he exposed the heart! Instead of seeking the Lord and asking the Lord what He would like to do for that person! A woman came to me at a revival for prayer and I was called by the pastor so I told the woman I would return in a moment. When I returned I stood a moment a distance off and sought the Lord in prayer. The Lord revealed she had been beaten and raped. You don’t pray for healing in the beginning without know what and how to do it. So the lead me to minister. I said would you both come out from the crowd so I can minister privately. They did, so asked the woman if I could whisper in her ear. She said yes. Her boyfriend did not know this had happened it was personal that is why the Lord had me whisper it was not up to me to tell the boyfriend and he would have heard if I just blurted it out. I whispered tell about the time you were beaten and raped. She immediately collapsed into my arms in tears saying I have never told anyone but the Lord about this. This revelation to her was that the Lord wanted to heal her. Do you realize that light entered and overpowered the darkness within you with TRUTH. I said this is the Word of the Lord for you. The Lord sees your heart pure, unadulterated before Him. You did not deserve this even though the pain is real. You suffered ungodly actions by an ungodly person and that does NOT make you ungodly! I laid hand and she got set free as Spirit and Truth was manifest. So when a pastor says only the Lord knows the heart that is a lie, it is a partial truth and a partial truth is a lie. The Lord reveals the heart to his faithful and loyal servants to set the captives free. Many pastors despise this type of ministry because when Jesus sets you free you follow Jesus not a man.

Every single spoken or written word has spirit behind it. Life and death are in the tongue! This is what troubles me when people use the name of Jesus out of true spiritual meaning and revelation. They use a name without the virtues of that name and thus without authority of that name and people turn away from Christianity as it appears to be reduced to a religion rather than the power of God unto salvation. What did Paul say about taking/partaking of the body and blood? A man ought to examine himself before partaking if you do it wrongly you bring sickness and “sleep”/death upon yourself! Do you see if you use the name of Jesus wrongly you are putting judgment upon yourself as you misrepresent Jesus! You are representing yourself in the name of Jesus! Do you see why I want to vomit! You are representing a Jesus that is not the true Living God making a mockery of Jesus.

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. 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.

Use great caution with allowing anyone to lay hands on you as you may receive other spirits and sins. Think Old Testament “escape goat” when sacrifices were made two lambs were used on “without spot or wrinkle” and one that had “spot and wrinkle”. One was for atonment of sin and the other was sent out with sin! What are we cleansed with, the blood of the lamb. What “blood” is laying hands on you. The power is in the blood! I have been in churches where I know in the spirit people doing/performing things because they want to be seen by people as being from the Lord! They lay hands looking to be of the Lord and they are imparting spirits into the one they pray for. When you are sick you are most vunerable as you want to get well. If you need a heart surgery you don’t go to a proctologist.

1 Timothy 5:22–25 (NKJV)

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

23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

24 Some men’s sins are clearly evident, preceding them to judgment, but those of some men follow later. 25 Likewise, the good works of some are clearly evident, and those that are otherwise cannot be hidden.

The laying on of hands is the transference of sin/sharing in other people’s sins! In the old testament oil was used to anoint people. Make sure you know who is laying hands on you. We need not fear when people touch us from friendship because your mind and heart were not “set” on receiving anything other. In other words your thought and motive was not seeking. I hope you understand. That is why Jesus told Mary in the tomb do not touch me I have not ascended and been glorified yet! We do not have our heavenly bodies so when ungodly people touch us by the laying on of hands in a ministry perspective you might be partaking of their sins. They are sending their body to yours. It is a form of spiritual adultery just as Adam did with Eve by partaking of the sins of Eve! The apple represents the womb of a woman where the two became one! They both partook of the same sin of unbelief believing they would become as God.

When you read the Old Testament it was a cry of loneliness that the prophets cried out! The cry was where are the true people of God was their cry out! This is the cry today by the true mature Son’s of God, where are the true Sons of God! Why does the “whole earth” moan for the return of the Son’s of God?

LONELINESS CRIES OUT! Adam was not alone because God the Father was still there but only walked with Adam in the cool of the day. There the cry was for “his kind”.

This is why scripture can get twisted so easily. Do not forsake the assembly is taken totally out of context. It is referring to those who have already come out of MYSTERY BABYLON which is the leaven of the Pharisees! You may very well be sitting in Mystery Babylon and need to come out. What Paul was saying indirectly is “Don’t let the true saints get lonely like Adam was!” I am paraphrasing. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH TODAYS ASSEMBLING AS YOU READ IN JUDE EARLIER.

Another scripture manipulated is Faith comes by hearing the Word of God and you need a preacher so you can hear the Word of God. I recently corrected a man about this who admitted he needed to surrender his “filter of old school teachings”. I said how was the Word Written, it was God breathed! So are you hearing God speak to you directly! My sheep hear my voice and follow me and I know them. Faith comes by hearing the voice of God directly. He who has ears to hear, he who has eyes to see!

This is why when you feel lonely you MUST seek the LORD IN FELLOWSHIP or lust will attempt to open the door to your heart! I could give many testimonies. How did Jezebel present herself to Jehu? She adorned herself in sensuality appealing to a man! Jehu came in the Spirit of God and not as a man! How did Sampson fall! How did Adam fall? It is not a woman’s fault as that is the natural attraction of a man to a woman. The devil knows this and uses it against us just as he does the Word of God by twisting and manipulating Spirit and Truth. The problem is false conversion in the assembly of the saints as well as the falling away of the saints who believe the lies of the false prophets they listen to. I have seen woman in church that could be women of the street. They say it has nothing to do with their appearance it is the fault of the man reacting out of immaturity but it is them doing what they accuse the men of doing and tempting men into sin. Why “bait the hook” if you are not trying to catch fish! There are evil spirits, lust, pride to name a few.

Okay one quick testimony. When I was in Montana ministering for the Lord somewhere nearby they were going to have a NUDE bike ride. A professing Christian said to me that it did not bother him either way. So I gave him a parable the Lord had me speak. I said there 3 IDENTICAL female triplets in bikinis and on a scale of 1-10 of beauty they are 15. You look at the first one with not thoughts, you look at the second one and no thoughts but when you set eyes on the third you mind/thoughts are what I wouldn’t do to be in bed for 30 minutes with her. Tell me are the first two ugly? What is making you desire the third identical triplet? It is a spirit of lust in the woman. Men can have the spirit of lust also. It is not gender specific as a lustful charismatic preacher has a lustful spirit in his teaching of false doctrine. When a man looks at these women dress as a woman of the street the devil is temping the NATURAL AFFECTIONS of a man! So this also applies to the natural affections of a woman lusting after a man.

Adam was troubled being alone because he was the “first of his kind” and the Lord had fellowship with Adam in the cool of the day. Notice not all day. So Adam was alone in that sense of understanding of being lonely. That is my cry to the Lord, where are the Son’s of God the true believers! Jesus was the “first fruit”, the first of His kind for us! Jesus came to fellowship with us by reconciling us with the Father! Jesus is one with the Father and if you are in Christ you are one with the Father and the Son. I have absolutely no fellowship and no church for the past 10 years! I am a spiritual prodigal son being persecuted by the false church and false brethren. Read: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/16/two-types-of-prodigal-sons/

Here is the evidence of free will I mentioned earlier about the false doctrine of demons of Calvinism that states there is no free will involved in salvation. They also totally eliminate Abraham as the Father of Faith! You are not the “seed” of Abraham without faith! They say faith is imputed when you are saved then have the audacity to say people were never saved to begin with. So they preach no faith of Abraham and you were never saved to begin with so once saved always saved is what they preach. They eliminate the Great Apostasy. My bible says who ever adds to the word of God “book” the plagues written in that book will be added to them and whoever subtracts from the Word/book their lives are blotted out of the “book of life”. This doctrine of demons is sending people to hell! Strong word because we are at the end hours.

Mark 5:1–9 (NKJV)

Demons are Cast into Swine

Matt. 8:28–34; Luke 8:26–39

5 Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. And the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

Just a quick note why would he cut himself. He was trying to let the demons out from within him as he wanted to be free! How many people of the world go into a church to be set free only to leave the same way or worse spiritually! That is how a spirit of religion is created/birthed. A false witness will not render true conversion it renders hopelessness or even worse believing you have salvation and redemption but you do not! That creates the spirit of religion and atheism. The church has become a market place that Jesus brought a whip and turned over the tables which symbolizes the LAST SUPPER. They were not serving/offering Jesus! A form of godliness but denying the power unto godliness! I have witnessed this time and again! Ichabod is written over the church building as the glory of the Lord has departed!

When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him. And he cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God that You do not torment me.”

The man ran toward Jesus BUT the demons cried out because they did not want to come out! The demons knew their “eternal” fate! The man running implies free will even though under demonic influences and possession. The gates of hell shall not prevail against ANYONE WHO SEEKS JESUS! Tell that to the people that believe Calvinism and the global ministries of Calvinism the doctrine of demons! This is what people do not see just as Adam fell without demonic possession by his own FREE WILL even those in demonic possession or influence can have free will to come to the Lord.

What was the precursor Jesus did so this man could truly worship Jesus, CAST OUT DEMONS! You can’t dwell in the “HOUSE OR TEMPLE” WITH SATAN AND WORSHIP JESUS. Many churches have been turned over to their idol worship because that is the desire of their “itchy” ears and a wicked heart. I said turned over and if you are turned over there is no return.

For He said to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!” Then He asked him, “What is your name?”

And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.

Hebrews 6:4–6 (NKJV)

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 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.

That is why only the High Priest was allowed to enter the Holy Place of the Sanctuary! The modern day church is filled with Antichrist spirits trying and believing they are worshiping Jesus but thy are singing songs of worship to the BEAST! There are many people that have an outward appearance of being free that internally in their hearts do not want to be free they just need fellowship from loneliness! Much of the assemblies have been reduced to a demonic “county club of paid membership” when the gospel is to be free to receive! These are false converts who have a form of godliness but not the power thereof! Their signs and wonders are as Pharaoh and his magicians. They are in the pulpits and pews! The spirit of Antichrist is still in them they are not born again or have fallen completely away from Spirit and Truth.

What people refuse to believe is that just as we are called to grow in faith and love, both faith and love are tested. You may be in a church assembly that is masquerading as light and truth and being tested. You may have been given over to it by not coming out from among them.

Deuteronomy Chapter 13 was given to me after leaving an international ministry school as I spoke to the Lord the third day of attendance and said to the Lord why have you brought me here as YOU CALLED/SENT ME HERE it IS not my desire to worship their false gods! I said Lord they do not know you or worship you they worship other gods. I won’t go through all the details but in fasting and prayer as I was in intercession I told the Lord I would NOT leave the battlefield until the Lord spoke because I did not know the souls number of souls that he had sent me there for. I said Lord speak to me when I may go. I received my instructions by visitation. I was free to go. Two weeks later the Lord spoke to me while meditating on the Lord. Deuteronomy 13 chapter 1. You should read it for yourself. If you want the deeper things of the Lord your heart and faith will be tested at high levels of testing you must submit to the testing to grow in Jesus. Many are being tested by sitting in synagogues of Satan believing they are serving and seeking the Lord in Spirit and Truth.

If you are not seeking Jesus from a pure heart, you are there for just fellowship with one another and not meeting in “one accord” of spirit and truth in Christ Jesus. People are deceived and being led astray tossed to and fro by false prophets working for the devil. Why do I make such a bold statement they are not born again, or have fallen away, light and darkness do not fellowship together. Light and truth exposes the darkness it does not fellowship or sit in darkness! They would have come OUT FROM MYSTERY BABYLON THE HARLOT CHURCH. You must be lovers of Truth! Lovers of Jesus.

John 5:43–44 (NKJV)

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?

Believing in Calvinism you eliminate faith and the father of faith! Without faith you have unbelief! You are relying on human intellect not spiritual revelation in Spirit and Truth. Now think about what I said about Adam. Adam had free will to choose Eve if there was no free will Adam would not have fallen! Adam had to have faith! Ask yourself these questions as if you were Adam in the Garden or in the days of Noah. Adam: what is death were death never existed or was witnessed? What is death where death did not exist? How could Adam know what death was as he had never “witnessed” death. Adam needed faith in what the Father told him! Now take that same analogy and apply it to NOAH and the flood where there was no rain! Noah was saved by faith in believing. The Father was protecting Adam and Eve while testing their faith! Why do so many refuse the process of having their faith tested so they can grow in maturity in Spirit and Word.

Unbelief is the original sin in the Garden of Eden. When you believe the lies, deceptions false teaching of a man or woman (not a woman preacher) you are damning your soul and putting spots on your wedding gown and wrinkles of incomplete sanctification. Abraham went through great measures of testing to demonstrate faith, love and trust in the Lord and those who belong to the Lord will go through great testing also. Submit to the process no matter the cost because the glory that awaits you is much more than you can comprehend.

Abraham believed in what the Father told him to do and the revelation was not given until Abraham was actually going to complete the offering of his son. It was a 3 day journey to perform the sacrifice and Jesus was in the tomb 3 days. Paul fasted and prayed 3 days before getting his eye site and the Holy Spirit. We are all called to die to “self”. Jesus death for 3 days represents the “Trinity” the fullness of God. Only when you go through your 3 days will you be resurrected in the fullness of God. Paul died daily until Paul finally wrote Galatians 2:20 & 6:14. Abraham said to Isaac while ready to complete the sacrifice, the Lord will provide the sacrifice! The angel stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac. So the wrinkle represents the INCOMPLETENESS of sanctification which is dying to yourself which is your mind, heart and soul being totally in the image and likeness of Jesus sanctified by the TRUTH of Word & Spirit. Your mustard seed has NOT fully developed in FULL AND COMPLETENESS OF THE WORD OF GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH being established in you. You must walk by faith with the Lord through the process of brokenness it takes to be completely full of the Spirit IN Word and Truth.

Now that all of that was explained it was necessary so you would better understand the wrinkle. The wrinkle represents the IN-COMPLETION of sanctification. We must be fully sanctified in the Word by the Spirit. Stop trying to beat the Word of God into you and love the Lord and the Word will be established in you. It’s all about abiding in Jesus.

Matthew 22:37 (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.

John 17:17–19 (NKJV)

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.

2 Corinthians 6:17–7:1 (NKJV)

17 Therefore

Come out from among them

And be separate, says the Lord.

Do not touch what is unclean,

And I will receive you.”

18  “I will be a Father to you,

and you shall be My sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.”

7 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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!

John 15:7–8 (NKJV)

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

Hebrews 8:10–12 (NKJV)

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

A house is not a state, nation or physical land mark. This house will be the Son’s of God!

It is up to the bride to prepare herself for the Bridegroom in fullness and completion of Spirit and Truth without spot or wrinkle.

THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST

THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST

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.

This post will be short as it expounds on the mark of the beast which I revealed in an earlier posting. So just as a reminder I will give the outcome of my expounding on the Word of God from that earlier post. I want to be upfront with all of you. Very few will recognize accept the posts that I have written as they have already been given over to the beast the son of perdition within their hearts. So they are spiritually deaf they do not have ears to hear.

The mark of the beast is the number of a man 6, 6, 6. It is not 666 which is six hundred sixty six. It is the heart, mind and soul of a man from original creation which was Adam. Adam had a mind, heart and soul. By the Wisdom of God there is no physically outward mark that could be manipulated, twisted or produce by an MAN or even Satan!

If you can not discern the spirits as Paul wrote, you will not discern the mark of the beast. The foolishness of man is trying to figure out in the natural/carnal mind what is Spiritual. The Lord did it this way to protect those that are fully in love with Jesus. This is a form of protection for the REMNANT the true children of God. Know that the Lord loves you deeply and do not let your hearts grow weary! Keep the wind of the Holy Spirit keep the fire of the Holy Spirit burning within you! Hallelujah!

Revelation 13:18 (NKJV)

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

So if the mark of the beast is the number of a man, and the “son of perdition” will be as a man, the image you will worship is yourselves created in the “image and likeness” of Satan in the body of a man. I explained all of this in my previous writings. I expounded on what really happened in the Garden of Eden. You yourselves have become the fullness of a child of the devil! So you naturally will worship the son of perdition because he comes as god to himself! You yourselves have become your own god!

2 Thessalonians 2:3–4 (NKJV)

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, 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.

There is no third temple in Jerusalem as that is a sign and wonder of great deception. That is why the Pharisees were so angry! How can this be so that in 3 days he will destroy and rebuild the temple! The temple is the “body of a man”. So the fullness of the image of Christ Jesus and fullness of the Image of the Beast will be in the body of a man and all of humanity. Sons of God Christ Jesus or a child of the devil.

This concludes my writings of the Mark of the Beast post and the Image of the Beast.

2 Timothy 3:1–9 (NKJV)

Perilous Times and Perilous Men

3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 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! 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, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

What is a true church and assembly, it is a household! Your church is the workings of Satan and because you did not come out from among them and be separate as the Lord instructed you suffer the same judgment of Lot’s wife!

2 Corinthians 6:17–7:1 (NKJV)

17 Therefore

Come out from among them

And be separate, says the Lord.

Do not touch what is unclean,

And I will receive you.”

18  “I will be a Father to you,

and you shall be My sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.”

7 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

DAVID VERSES GOLIATH – KING SAUL – THE TWELVE SPIES OF MOSES

DAVID VERSES GOLIATH – KING SAUL – THE TWELVE SPIES OF MOSES

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.

Let’s start out with the Written Word of David verses Goliath. I am expounding from my original post and building upon it. Just so you know I spend a minimum of about 20 hours a day for the past several weeks writing as it takes me nearly 10-12 hours to write but I spend much more time meditating spending time with the Lord so that I may receive more and write more. I have been averaging only 2-3 hours sleep per day for several weeks.

Please first read my post so you will better understand this one as I am building upon my first post. I tried to do an online bible study where comments were welcome so the brethren could share and be edified but I do not get any comments.

Read this post first: https://abidingbread.com/2025/12/02/david-vs-goliath-the-mark-of-the-beast/

OK, let us start with the Word of God. I am beginning with the actual events of David verses Goliath but you must realize David was anointed as the NEW KING in chapter 16 which is before this event! I am not going to repeat from what was in my previous blog post but I will expound on the additional things the Lord has revealed. So while all of the chapter is written for you to read I will only be commenting on what is in bold type.

1 Samuel 17:1–58 (NKJV)

David and Goliath

17 Now the Philistines gathered their armies together to battle, and were gathered at Sochoh, which belongs to Judah; they encamped between Sochoh and Azekah, in Ephes Dammim. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and they encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array against the Philistines. The Philistines stood on a mountain on one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.

First point of mention is that a mountain or “high place” is a place where gods dwell so this is direct reference to the gods they served were NOT the same god!

And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him. Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.” 10 And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” 11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.

Am I not a Philistine is the same principle of my blog post about what happened in the Garden of Eden. What you see here is the “Philistine” known as Goliath is NOT REPRESENTING the Philistines he is representing the god they serve! Remember that each nation was on a mountain or “HIGH PLACE” think of where gods dwell and how that relates to the principalities of Galatians 6.

The god/spirit in Goliath recognized that servants of Saul had fallen from the Lord just as Saul himself had fallen! We know this by the new testament with Paul when the demon spoke Paul I know, Jesus I know but who are you! This is why Paul tells us to know no one by the flesh! The battle was not man against man but against one god verses the True Living God! KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM!

In line 9 is the same principle of the prophet Elijah against the prophets of Baal and calling down fire on the sacrifice of the Lord then killing 850 false prophets. Prophets represent their King or their God! That is what Goliath was, a prophet of HIS god! The words Goliath spoke were prophetic with REAL SPIRIT from his god! Sitting under false prophets is fellowship with other gods! Paul address this another Jesus, another spirit and another gospel!

When Saul and all of Israel heard the words of Goliath they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Does this sound familiar?

12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse, and who had eight sons. And the man was old, advanced in years, in the days of Saul. 13 The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone to follow Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah. 14 David was the youngest. And the three oldest followed Saul. 15 But David occasionally went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

16 And the Philistine drew near and presented himself forty days, morning and evening.

The reference of Goliath and the 40 days is no different than Jesus after being baptized and going into the wilderness. How do I make this conclusion? By what this chapter represents and the fact that Goliath was seeking the Israelites for 40 days just as Satan in the wilderness with Jesus! So now we know it was god against God, this is symbolic of JESUS in the wilderness! It will come to light in a few moments!

17 Then Jesse said to his son David, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at the camp. 18 And carry these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers fare, and bring back news of them.” 19 Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

20 So David rose early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, and took the things and went as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the camp as the army was going out to the fight and shouting for the battle. 21 For Israel and the Philistines had drawn up in battle array, army against army. 22 And David left his supplies in the hand of the supply keeper, ran to the army, and came and greeted his brothers. 23 Then as he talked with them, there was the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, coming up from the armies of the Philistines; and he spoke according to the same words. So David heard them. 24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were dreadfully afraid. 25 So the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel; and it shall be that the man who kills him the king will enrich with great riches, will give him his daughter, and give his father’s house exemption from taxes in Israel.”

26 Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

27 And the people answered him in this manner, saying, “So shall it be done for the man who kills him.”

28 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”

Some of the highlighted text will be combined in my comments. What I want to point out here is a base line so let me just say that you must remember all of Saul’s army was in fear, corporately in representation as NO MAN would step forward! This is symbolic of your pastor/leader of the flock when you sit corporately together under wolves and false prophets. That is why the Lord says come out from among them! Now they accused David of having pride in His heart! Keep all of this in mind as we continue!

29 And David said, “What have I done now? Is there not a cause?” 30 Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing; and these people answered him as the first ones did.

31 Now when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him. 32 Then David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

33 And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”

34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, 35 I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.” 37 Moreover David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

There is a lot above to expound on. When they accused David of pride who’s voice/spirit were they speaking? We know live and death are in the power of the tongue and the devil is the accuser of the brethren! Keep this in mind about the accuser as it will come together shortly. So what is David actually speaking to Saul in the passage above? I will show you!

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.

David was giving HIS TESTIMONY OF FAITH! DAVID WAS PROPHESYING OF THE ONE WHO WILL DEFEAT GOLIATH! WE OVERCOME THROUGH JESUS. HALLELUJAH!

And Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you!”

38 So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail. 39 David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” So David took them off.

Now this will conclude my portion of followup from my previous post but I will show you how this applies to the 12 spies Moses sent out also. When a Christian is born again he is clothed in a robe/garment of righteousness in Christ Jesus BY FAITH! We are given a robe of righteousness! David was already anointed King unaware to Saul why did the Lord do this before this battle! What did Saul’s armor represent in the spirit as Saul would not battle against Goliath! When you loose faith you loose the righteousness of Christ Jesus thus you are of your previous state, FALLEN! When you are not willing to die for your Lord you do not represent the Lord as stated in Revelation 12:11 so when SAUL put his armor on David it was the Lord telling David to take it off! Very important that David did not put it on , Saul tried to put it on David! There is great significance in the spirit regarding this. This is why light has no fellowship with darkness! The armor of Saul had fallen and had no effect or protection because Saul fell from the righteousness of Christ Jesus as Saul had no faith that the Lord would bring victory! There was no protection of the Living God in that armor! David went back and stood on HIS TESTIMONY of God’s faithfulness of his prior deliverance’s while protecting the SHEEP! All of Israel was called to be of the “HOUSE OF THE LORD”! So you see all of Saul’s army was unprotected because the lost faith in Jesus! The enemy knew this by the god he served! That is why Goliath called them men as they now represented themselves as men and not of the God of Israel! You are only saved by faith!

Now here is the punchline and oh how the HOLY SPIRIT IS STRONG! David was anointed KING already and what bloodline was Jesus born of, the blood line of David!

IT WAS NOT DAVID IN THE FLESH THAT WENT TO BATTLE IT WAS THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH! IT WAS JESUS IN DAVID! HALLELUJAH! PRAISE THE LORD! JUST AS JESUS WAS SLAIN BEFORE BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD SO IT WAS WITH DAVID! I KNEW YOU BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN YOUR MOTHER’S WOMB! HOW MANY ISRAELITES WERE IN THE ACTUAL CONFRONTATION/BATTLE ONLY ONE THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. BY DAVID PROPHESYING THE NAME OF THE LORD. ONCE AGAIN THE LORD WAS TRYING TO SHOW ISRAEL THAT HE WAS THERE GOD AND SAVIOR AND THAT THEIR SALVATION WAS ONLY THROUGH THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, CHRIST JESUS.

Proverbs 14:34–35 (NKJV)

34 Righteousness exalts a nation,

But sin is a reproach to any people.

35 The king’s favor is toward a wise servant,

But his wrath is against him who causes shame.

David was fulfilling scripture that wasn’t even written yet! This is the armor David walked in! Paul tells us. Remember I said Goliath represented the god he served and Paul says we do not wrestle against flesh and blood!

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.

Revelation 2:10–11 (NKJV)

10 Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

11 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.” ’

What is every born again believer called to be “KINGS AND PRIESTS” . David was walking out his calling that had not even been declared public throughout Israel. David was wearing the crown of life spiritually! What did Saul try to do, kill the Anointed King. However David merely touch Saul’s garment but spared Saul’s life. Who is it that can spare our lives but the KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!

40 Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine. 41 So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. 42 And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking. 43 So the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

45 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

48 So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. 49 Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. But there was no sword in the hand of David. 51 Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.

And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. 52 Now the men of Israel and Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as the entrance of the valley and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell along the road to Shaaraim, even as far as Gath and Ekron. 53 Then the children of Israel returned from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their tents. 54 And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.

55 When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?”

And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”

56 So the king said, “Inquire whose son this young man is.”

57 Then, as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. 58 And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?”

So David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”

So when you reflect on the 12 spies that Moses sent out you see the very same principles! They lost their faith so they lost their robes of righteousness falling from the Living God. You must believe, follow and do as the Lord says! You must believe the Lord is able, and be willing to die for your faith and testimony of Christ Jesus!

Only 2 of the 12 believed so by faith just as Abraham righteousness was accounted to only 2 of them! Look at all of the battles of Abraham contending and standing in Faith! If you read my posting of the Garden of Eden and what really happened you will understand the magnitude of what happened.

https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/15/what-really-happened-in-the-garden-of-eden/

TWO TYPES OF PRODIGAL SONS

TWO TYPES OF PRODIGAL SONS

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 all know the story of the prodigal son which was each of us in some way before coming to the Lord in repentance and receiving the mercy, love and grace of salvation through faith. The prodigal son “wanted his best life now” (many false prophets preach this) and asked his father for his inheritance now and not having to wait for his father’s death. The son wanted to “live high on the hog” a metaphor for living luxurious or in prestige.

What transpired was the complete opposite as the inheritance was wasted foolishly and the son ended up being the hog with no real life!

Luke 15:11–32 (NKJV)

Parable of the Lost Son

11 Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. 1But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

17 But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! 18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, 19 and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’

20 And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. 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. 23 And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; 24 for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.

25 Now his older son was in the field. And as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant. 27 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and because he has received him safe and sound, your father has killed the fatted calf.’

28 “But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. 29 So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. 30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’

31 “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. 32 It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’ ”

THE SON’S OF GOD BECOME PRODIGALS OF THE CHURCH

When a born again Christian desires and seeks the deeper things of Christ and has a hunger for the fullness of Christ that person is excommunicated, ridiculed, slandered, mocked and forced to remove themselves from the brethren that rejects him/her. You see being “born again” is the indwelling Holy Spirit which is the call to be the fullness Christ becoming a “Son of God” just as Christ Jesus is the Father’s Son.

There are very very few that have the commitment, desire and hunger for righteousness because of the suffering involved and persecution involved which is the refiners fire! Many want the power and “fire of Jesus” but not the refiners fire which burns out the dross of impurities! They want “spiritual milk” and want to “suckle like a new born” and never desire to grow in spiritual maturity. These same people wonder why they don’t hear the voice of God or grow in revelations of Christ Jesus. So they become just as it’s written in the Word of God and persecute those who desire the complete and fullness of being a “SON OF GOD” and not just a “babe who still suckles”. The bible says a grown man leaves his home to marry! Thus those who seek to be true Son’s of God must leave their home/brethren to grow in Christ Jesus. This however is exactly what is needed! When Saul became Paul he left the Pharisees and never returned to the Pharisees yet wished they would come to Christ also. Every single disciple was taught by the Spirit of God. Far to many people believe it was the Son of Man who taught but it was not! This is why so many sit under false prophets today and embrace doctrines of demons.

Well if we are the “bride” we must often leave the “church” to become one with our Bridegroom. Oh how they preach do not forsake the assembly but it is the assembly forsakes Christ that abandons the call of the “bride” to make herself ready for the Bridegroom!

After all, are you getting married to the brethren or the Bridegroom? So they take scripture and twist it to appear to be godly and holy and they are wicked and poor just as Revelations tell us. They think highly of themselves and look down on you mocking the work of Christ in you! Jealousy is a murdering spirit and that is the attempt to get you to conform to them in sleep and false rest. So the Son’s of God are spiritual prodigals of the church they once attended. Mediocrity, apathy and sleep are the natural things of the church you once were a part of as they lull themselves to sleep. Your faith is your own and that is by design because your salvation is between you that the one who is divine, Christ Jesus!

So you see the paradox of the prodigals which one is the lost son who is spiritually dead and the other that is a mature Son of God seeking the image and likeness of his Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. The church you once adored has become a cross themselves in hopes to quench your desire for the fullness of Christ Jesus. They do not know and do not understand what it is to be a spiritual man! Do not be dismayed as this is the will of God for you. So in the loneliness of no fellowship among the brethren you turn to your best friend, Christ Jesus finding greater love than the brethren ever dreamed of. In your loneliness the Lord has allowed you draw closer to Him as Jesus walks with you in the “garden” of your heart.

This is he same tale told in the Word of God and a testimony of the patriarchs that walked before you that rejected the ones who the Lord desired to send them to deliver and restore yet they denied Christ the one you adore. You are being built and conformed to the image of Christ and walking the path of His sufferings that Jesus has called you to grow in. So let it be known that you have true revelations of Jesus and love that endures which is stamped in your heart that those around chose to depart. You know your Savior intimately and true yet you are humble and very secure! Your faith and love grew stronger same as your revelations of truth. Your faith is now unwaivering not tossed to and fro your on the solid rock many have thrown.

So there you have it simple and true your redeemer now dwells richly in you! The pearl of great price is no longer seen as a cost for you wouldn’t have changed the process to get where you are! So greater love has sustained you and faith has endured, while others forsake you the Lord is all yours!

To the prodigals of “Son ship” few that they are, where would the world be if there were non at all! You have spiritually within you the mirror of God do not dim the reflection just keep moving on. The days are upon us that the true light must shine where Moses once hid the glory your must be revealed. The testimony of the Son of Glory will be revealed through as you bear witness to the God above all. You will witness to Satan that you are not his by revealing you are of the God above all! The journey was not easy but test and tried your race is completed in the presence of the Divine! Now enter in my faithful servant and find rest and pure peace for all of this you see is your through Me says the Lord. As it is written so it shall be that is the Son’s of God displayed in the end of all time revealing the victory that was written before time.

There are truly Son’s of God who have become prodigals sons of the church they once adored. Just as Paul wrote from prison the feelings the same the desire to be there has not changed but spiritual hindrance is NOT A GAME!

THE MARK OF THE BEAST

THE MARK OF THE BEAST

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 amazing at the amount of speculation and gossip at what the mark of the beast is. Some say a micro chip, brain implant, bar codes, tattoos or just about any type of symbol or implant. I guess we will know soon enough.  This had me searching scripture and wondering about Satan entering Judas and there was no mark.  Also David vs. Goliath and no mention of a mark.  So I am sharing what I have so far for all of us to seek the Lord.  We know that we are called to discern the spirits so truthfully there should not be a mark necessary if you have spiritual discernment.  So time will tell but I thought I would share my thoughts as we all seek the Lord.  I believe AI will be the backbone of enforcement but it could have something to do with facial recognition and the “eyes” as Jesus said if single are full of light.

If you take the full counsel of the Word of God from Genesis all the way to revelations the Mark of the Beast is spiritually is revealed. That is why the Word of God as it is written is a “mystery”. Why is it a “mystery” you might ask. Plain and simple. It is a mystery to keep you searching but NOT only searching in the Written Word but directly from the Living Word by revelation of the Holy Spirit. Why hasn’t it been revealed by the Spirit earlier in time? The same reason the seals of the Book of Revelation exist. There is no one worthy but Jesus to open the seals! Daniel was told to seal the book for the appropriated time to be revealed.

Jesus has told us all the way from Genesis to Revelations what the spiritual Mark of the Beast is. The reason it is not in plain sight is because you need spiritual eyes and ears to see and hear what the Lord is saying! 

2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJV)

15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

If you read my blog post David VS, Goliath you would have better insight. What was Goliath called besides a giant! Goliath was called a beast! When David told Saul that he had killed a lion and bear they were “beastly animals” Kings of their domain so to speak! It was considered great courage if you defeated a lion or bear! Some native tribes there initiation of “manhood” was to kill a lion with a spear demonstrating courage! You were not considered a mature man until this was completed and established. You really should read that blog post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/12/02/david-vs-goliath-the-mark-of-the-beast/

Daniel 8:23–27 (NKJV)

23And in the latter time of their kingdom,

When the transgressors have reached their fullness,

A king shall arise,

Having fierce features,

Who understands sinister schemes.

24 His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power;

He shall destroy fearfully,

And shall prosper and thrive;

He shall destroy the mighty, and also the holy people.

25 “Through his cunning

He shall cause deceit to prosper under his rule;

And he shall exalt himself in his heart.

He shall destroy many in their prosperity.

He shall even rise against the Prince of princes;

But he shall be broken without human means.

26 “And the vision of the evenings and mornings

Which was told is true;

Therefore seal up the vision,

For it refers to many days in the future.”

27 And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days; afterward I arose and went about the king’s business. I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it.

Those who have an ear to hear what the spirit is saying and eyes (vision as Daniel) will know the mark of the beast that was a “mystery” of the end of the age. That is directly why the beast system is called MYSTERY BABYLON. It WAS called mystery Babylon until the time of the seals being opened by the Lord. As the seals are opened so is the mystery! This teaching here and now is a direct witness to the times we are in and the end of the age!

If you are not walking in the fullness of the Spirit of Truth you will not know the mystery! I will let you read it in Paul’s own writing as Paul unfolds the MYSTERY OF INIQUITY. The mystery was given to Paul because Paul WAS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND NOT A FOOLISH VIRGIN! YOU CAN’T PRESENT WHAT YOU DO NOT HAVE! WE KNOW IN PART AND PROPHECY IN PART! WE HAVE A LOVING GOD THAT WISHES NO HUMAN WOULD PERISH AND TODAY I AM WRITING ABOUT THIS MARK OF THE BEAST AS THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS INSTRUCTED.

2 Corinthians 11:2 (NKJV)

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.

What is a chaste virgin? Paul tells us directly in two passages of Ephesians. Why Ephesians you might ask? Ephesians is the book of spiritual warfare. It is how we do warfare and how we are prepared for warfare! If you are not a chaste virgin you are not equipped for warfare in the end of the age! You armor is not complete nor sufficient!

Here is the marks of a chaste virgin that is required. The same Apostle that wrote the majority of the New Testament tells us but the Epistles BRING CORRECTION TO THE CHURCH that is why the Apostles and Prophets were murdered just as Jesus was sentenced to be murdered! The church will not tolerate correction! Real apostles and prophets have dusted off their shoes to a stiff necked people!

Matthew 10:14–42 (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!

16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues. 18 You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; 20 for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

21 Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. 22 And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. 23 When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

24 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. 25 It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household! 26 Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

27 “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. 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. 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

32 Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

34 Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36 and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ 37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. 38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

40 He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. 41 He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. 42 And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”

1 Corinthians 2:7–9 (NKJV)

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

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.”

The carnal mind can not understand the MYSTERY AS IT IS HIDDEN WISDOM WHICH WAS ORDAINED BEFORE THE AGES OF GLORY! When was the Lamb of God slain, before the foundation of the earth/world being created! That is part of the mystery! Now let’s read the requirements to be a chaste virgin and at the same time reflect on the 10 virgins at the Wedding Banquet/Ceremony. The wise virgins were FULL WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH IS THE WORD OF TRUTH! THE FOOLISH VIRGINS WERE NOT! WHAT DID THE SERPENT DO IN THE GARDEN? WHAT DID THE SERPENT SPEAK TO JESUS IN THE WILDERNESS AND WHAT WAS JESUS REPLY!

Here is the requirements to be a chaste virgin! Jesus also told us the requirements needed. I will get to that after I reveal what a completed chaste virgin looks like.

EXAMPLE ONE

Galatians 2:19–3:9 (NKJV)

19 For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

What was the purpose of the law? To reveal sin and reach the point that you alone could not cleanse yourself of sin and unrighteousness! You needed a Savior! When Paul says he was crucified with Christ he died to the law so the fullness of grace could be established through faith in Jesus. Paul NO LONGER LIVED that is a chaste virgin which represents one attribute of the five WISE virgins being filled with the Spirit of God. If you deny this statement you deny Christ! In Jesus there is NO darkness so if you have darkness/sin you are not in the fullness of Christ Jesus.

What does Jesus tell us in Matthew 24 over and over again? SEE THAT NO ONE DECEIVES YOU! Jesus said IF THERE BE ANY DARKNESS IN YOU HOW GREAT IS THAT DARKNESS.

Darkness is un-crucified flesh NOT SANCTIFIED BY THE TRUTH OF THE WORD and the fallen nature of the Serpent all the way back to the garden. This is what John 1:1 states. John 1:1 is what I say over and over and over. YOU MUST NOT SEPARATE THE WRITTEN WORD FROM THE LIVING WORD CHRIST JESUS. Think Saul of Tarsus vs. Paul of Christ Jesus. Saul was a scholar’s scholar! Saul was master of the Word without Christ Jesus. What was Saul doing back in the days of Saul? Handing over Christians to be stoned to death. Have you read my blog post Saul and the Harlot Church? You really should: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/02/saul-from-tarsus-and-the-harlot-church-of-revelations/

John 1:1 (NKJV)

The Deity of Christ

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In Galatians 3 Paul is telling the Galatians they were bewitched which is what happened in the garden when the serpent bewitched eve! The lies and deception were allowed back in which subjected them to the Law which was written for the fallen nature not the resurrected in Christ Jesus. Paul tells them they fell from faith and when you fall from faith you fall from grace.

This is the great Apostasy at the end of the age and the great apostasy comes before the revealing of the Antichrist. You will NOT PURSUE SPIRIT AND TRUTH WITH BELIEVING LIES. Once saved always save is the twisting of surely you will not die! All the way back to the garden! We see it here now. Adam needed faith to believe the Father even when Adam did not completely understand. When you fall from faith your belief is in your ability and not in Christ Jesus. Your ability is the same as Satan saying I will ascend! Who has bewitched you? This puts your right back into the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”. You do not just fall, you fall into something. The act of falling is not the landing point. If you are not justified by faith then all that remains is the law and the purposes of the law!

This same principle is behind the unbelief which creates the doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture. That is the doctrine of Babylon and the purpose of the tower of Babylon as “I will ascend to the heavens”. Again I wrote three postings on that you can read. I also wrote about the real events and hidden meanings of what happened in the Garden of Eden. When you fall from faith you embrace the law and the law was written to the “fallen nature of the serpent” which was in us! Read: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/15/what-really-happened-in-the-garden-of-eden/

As a man believes so he is! So all the way back to the garden is a sign of the beast. I will reveal it more as we go along.

When you partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you partook of the “image and likeness” of Satan! This is why Adam and Eve were cast out so sin could not enter into PURE LIGHT or there would be sin in heaven or and in the Father! The FATHER is the tree of life which is the fullness of the “image and likeness” of the Son Christ Jesus. That is why Jesus said IF YOU HAVE SEEN ME YOU HAVE SEEN THE FATHER. IT IS THE TRINITY UNFOLDING AND MANIFEST AMONG THE PEOPLE.

Galatians 3:1–4 (NKJV)

Justification by Faith

3 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?

Our sufferings are designed by Jesus to conform us into His “image and likeness” the devil is a tool used to do this! Job’s sufferings were a testimony designed to reveal the end of the age and to reveal Christ Jesus who would suffer our wages of sin. All of the sufferings of Job are a prophetic insight of the end of the age. IT was the friends/brethren that accused of Job of sin! Who is the accuser of the brethren in the spirit? Why did Job lose his family? What did Jesus say about Himself and the purpose of His coming? Jesus did not come to make peace but to create division. Jesus divided what was for him and against him. I truly believe Job’s wife was a Jezebel.

Why do I say that you might ask with so very little scripture about her! I have been subjected to many Jezebels since I was three years of age! How do I know that because it has been revealed to me by the Lord. All those who are called of the Lord suffer martyrdom even as far back as conception! Did Joseph have to move Mary as they wanted to kill Jesus all the way back to the womb! Why do you think there are so many abortions? How many of those aborted babies might have been called by the Lord? Job was a prophetic voice revealing Jesus testimony of Jesus as Job would not deny the Lord even when great suffering was placed upon him. That is exactly what the saints are called to do at the end of the age! When Job’s wife told him to curse God and die that is the same thing Jezebel did in writing AS THE KING to Elijah as Jezebel killed the prophets of God. What loving wife would tell her husband to curse God and die! It was in her heart but remember what the Lord told Satan. You may afflict him and take everything that Job has but do NOT KILL HIM! It was the desire of Job’s wife to kill Him but it was forbidden! So when Job’s wife said curse God and die, how is that different than what Jezebel wrote to Elijah? Let it be done to you as you have done to mine by the end of the day! Now you know! Elijah killed a total of 850 false prophets. That was thousands of years ago. He was outnumbered 850 to 1, how many false prophets are there today?

Genesis 50:20 (NKJV)

20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.

BACK TO GALATIANS

Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? just as Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

Without faith we can not please god! That is what prompted me to write a very controversial title blog post called SPIRITUAL HALF BREEDS. Yes the Lord had me write that! I suggest you read it:

https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/04/spiritual-half-breeds/

EXAMPLE TWO OF BEING A CHASTE VIRGIN

Galatians 6:14–15 (NKJV)

14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

What Paul writes here is the fulfillment of what Galatians 2:20 produced! Dead to the world, the things of the world, the pride of life, lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh. Paul was the living example of a chaste virgin a new creation in Christ in the fullness of the “image and likeness” of the Son of God which is Christ Jesus.  This is why even the demon spoke, Paul I know, Jesus I know but who are you! Jesus and the Father are ONE. That is why the book of Romans is so powerful when Paul expounds on partaking in the death and resurrection! Remember if you are not crucified to the world you are not crucified to Christ! If the love of the world is in you the love of the Father is not! Now let’s see what Jesus tells us on becoming a chaste virgin!

EXAMPLE THREE

John 17:14–19 (NKJV)

14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 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.

Just as we read in Galatians 3 and the spiritual bewitching of the serpent we read above you are only sanctified by the WORD OF TRUTH and believing any lies that are spoken, preached or prophecy which is NOT SPIRIT AND TRUTH you will NOT BE A CHASTE VIRGIN! Keeping from the evil one references the lies and deceptions of the evil one! If we were removed from the world there would be no living testimony within a “people”. With out the fullness of the Word of God and Living God which are ONE dwelling in you you will not be a chaste virgin. SO IF THE FULLNESS OF THE WRITTEN WORD IS NOT WITHIN YOU THE FULLNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT WITHIN YOU. While every man/woman thinks their wisdom shall sustain them it is total folly! The only way to achieve the fullness of the Written Word is achieved in one way!

John 15:1–11 (NKJV)

The Relationship of Believers to Christ

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 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. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 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.

“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. 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. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

“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.

Hebrews 8:10 (NKJV)

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

What type of people dwell in a house the Lord builds? It is the family of God or people that belong to the Lord by salvation and not a land, state or nation! Many are called few are chosen! Does that sound like a land, state or nation? Few are chosen!

2 Corinthians 3:1–3 (NKJV)

Christ’s Epistle

3 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as some others, epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.

I HOPE YOU ARE BEGINNING TO SEE ALL OF THE FALSE NONSENSE TAKING PLACE WITHIN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE BRETHREN. All the false expounding and teachings of scriptures and that you are not truly receiving SPIRITUAL FOOD! You are babes and not being preached unto maturity because the abundant life is a spiritual life in Christ Jesus. In order to receive in Spirit and Truth you yourself must be born of the spirit. In addition you must NOT remain a babe in Christ and seek to be a chaste virgin with a heart, mind and soul totally given over, sanctified by The Word of Truth by the Spirit of Truth by total surrender and abandonment of your own thoughts, feelings and beliefs. When you obtain the status of a chaste virgin then you will only speak and only do what the Father is doing and speaking just as Jesus did! None of you and all of Jesus.

Revelation 14:1–5 (NKJV)

The Lamb and the 144,000

14 Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. 5

And in their mouth was found no deceit, (lies because it came from the mouth)

for they are without fault before the throne of God.

1 Peter 1:25–2:3 (NKJV)

25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.”

Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

2 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

How do you know you are listening to the pure Word so that you may grow. It is very simple yet complex at the same time. You must hear the voice of God for yourself and not through anyone else as what they speak must witness in the Holy Spirit within you.  That is why Jesus told HIS disciples if they hear you they have heard ME/Jesus. The Apostles and Prophets spoke the true living Word of God in Spirit and Truth NOT AS PARROTS reciting what they others said, taught or believed! Seminary creates parrots not preachers! The Holy Spirit only comes from one source and it doesn’t require paid tuition! Those that are born again walking by the Spirit of God know when lies, deceit, manipulation and twisting of scripture is being spoken because it stirs up the Holy Spirit with in you that something is not right! Why does it stir up the Holy Spirit because it is NOT OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD.  There are ONLY two primary spirits, Christ and Antichrist!

Acts 16:16–24 (NKJV)

Paul and Silas Imprisoned

16 Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. 17 This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” 18 And this she did for many days.

But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour. 19 But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities.

20 And they brought them to the magistrates, and said, “These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city; 21 and they teach customs which are not lawful for us, being Romans, to receive or observe.” 22 Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods. 23 And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. 24 Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Paul was greatly annoyed, grieved in the Spirit of The Lord that is what prompted him to cast out the demon. What the woman spoke was true but NOT SPIRIT AND TRUTH! The carnal minded man who does not walk in the Holy Spirit would say “praise the Lord”! But the spiritual man would cast out the demon! It is an “inner witness” not an outward emotion, feeling or belief.

Colossians 3:16–17 (NKJV)

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Are you seeing the mark of the beast as we go forward as I’ve laid almost all of the ground work. Now lets continue.

Matthew 24:36–39 (NKJV)

Illustration of the Days of Noah

Mark 13:32–37; Luke 21:34–36

36 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Noah is a precursor to Christ Jesus at the end of this age. Noah was a preacher of righteousness but was denied by those whom he warned. Noah was called, led and followed God and was not established by any seminary or false prophets! Called by God! The whole earth was deceived. People fell from Spirit and Truth (unbelief) and/or denied Spirit and Truth of God’s Word.  The people were not born again as this is before Pentecost,but it takes faith to be saved! They were not saved because they had unbelief!

Genesis 6:1–8 (NKJV)

The Wickedness and Judgment of Man

6 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.

And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

This is what the Lord is referring to in Matthew 24 as in the days of NOAH. The intent, thoughts and heart were only evil continually! Think about that! There was nothing within humanity that desired anything good! It is the fullness of evil within humanity! It is the fullness of the tree of knowledge of good and evil developed within you which is the spirit of Antichrist rising throughout the world today. The revival by these false preachers, prophets and apostles is the spirit of Antichrist and too many deceived or professing Christians praise the revival of Antichrist because the have NO SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT. Again read my post about Jesus and the Pharisees! The blind and deaf are leading the blind and deaf! If you are not “listening/seeking/verifying” by the Holy Spirit you rely on carnal knowledge which is your wisdom and NOT THE WISDOM OF THE LORD.

We are getting close to finishing. I want to reflect on David vs. Goliath as I wrote in my blog post:

https://abidingbread.com/2025/12/02/david-vs-goliath-the-mark-of-the-beast/

The battle of David vs. Goliath is very important and I am working on a second posting which will cover more. What I want to show you is that NOTHING IS CIRCUMSTANTIAL in the Word of God. Everything happens exactly as the Lord wills it to happen. Jesus is in total control.

When David killed Goliath where did the stone land? Why did it strike where it struck Goliath. Surely a greater miracle would have been to go right through the protective armor! See nothing is by chance! Why is Goliath not only referred to as a giant but a beast! How was Goliath conceived physically/spiritually and how does that compare to the virgin birth of Christ! Mary was a chaste virgin that the Holy Spirit conceived Jesus. Jesus could only be fully manifested by a chaste virgin! Are you a chaste virgin so that the fullness of the Spirit of God dwells within you. Is the manifestation of the SONS OF GOD coming forth in these last hours! TIME IS SHORT!

So now that I have revealed all of this let us conclude the number of the beast. It has been clearly defined right in the Word of God! This is not my opinion I am revealing to you it is Spirit and Truth.

Revelation 13:16–18 (NKJV)

16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

The mark of the beast is not natural it is spiritual! That is why there is hardly any true spiritual discernment. If you can’t discern the demonic spirits do you really have the Holy Spirit? Is Jesus not omniscience and all knowing.

When a pastor says right from the pulpit that ONLY THE LORD KNOWS THE HEART that is from SATAN! Why because it is a partial truth and a partial truth is a lie! Jesus reveals the heart to those that belong to him. Jesus revealed the hearts of everyone that came to him! If Jesus reveals your heart to you why can’t Jesus reveal the hearts of others to you! Do we preach to intellect or to the heart! What was the very first thing Jesus revealed to Saul from Tarsus who was an ambassador of the Harlot Church! Jesus said Saul why do you persecute me! That pierced the heart of Saul as Saul replied who are you LORD! It is the Lord by the Power of The Holy Spirit that convicts the human heart and soul!

Now with all of the foolishness about micro chips, tattoos, bar codes, vaccines and about anything else you can pull out of your “junk drawer” let’s get down to real solid spiritual food!

The days of Noah their heart and mind was totally committed to evil and destruction! What does the soul contain which is your very persona and nature of your being? It is made from you heart and mind! What is a man created with? A mind, heart and soul! What are we trying to redeem, souls! The number of a man is his heart, mind and soul! That is the number of the beast! As I have said with absolutely no replies online what is the only thing in common with the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. The Lord wants to restore us in His “image and likeness” the tree of life from the garden and Satan wants to create in us his “image and likeness” from the tree of the knowledge of good an evil. How is a man created and what is the number of that man, 666!

The number 666 is the human mind, heart and soul of a man! Free will is of the soul! That is what the Garden of Gethsemane is all about! It is the crucifixion of the soul which the essence of a man! What happened was the separation of the SON OF MAN AND THE SON OF GOD! This might sound crazy to you but most of the professing Christians worship the Son of Man and NOT the Son of God. When you say that the fullness of Jesus was a Jew you are worshiping the Son of Man! Who is NOT DIVINE! I can’t say this enough!

Who created the world, who created a man. Don’t tell me it was a Jew! When Moses asked the Lord whom shall I say sent me the Lord replied tell them “I AM”! When you worship a religion/denomination, land, state or country are you really worshiping the Lord? The true Israel is a people redeemed by the blood of Christ and Born of His Spirit! How do we know this, we will expound more. Just think about this, flesh and blood will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. A man must be born again to even see the Kingdom! Jesus didn’t come to redeem a parcel of land as all the earth will be burned in fire! Again read my post on Jesus vs. the Pharisees. Many are called but few are chosen! This applies to the nation/state of Israel not all will be chosen even though all were called! This applies to the whole world and as there is no longer Jew or Greek (Gentiles) but only those in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 22:37–38 (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.

The Lord by HIS divine wisdom does NOT allow any human to calculate this number because it must be spiritually revealed! IT MUST BE SOMETHING THE DEVIL CAN NOT MIMIC, TWIST OR COUNTERFIT.  That is why the Mark of the Beast is spiritual not physical.  There are only two kingdoms which represent the primary spirits, Christ and Antichrist! The mark of the beast is NOT man made or man applied! It is spiritually discerned!  Anything other than spirit is subject to the fall of man/Satan.  If it were something simple or obvious it would be easily twisted, manipulated and manufactured for greater deception!  There would be the potential for a false witness which kingdom  you belonged to.

So knowing this who do all the fools belong to that say it will be known by a fleshly mark and not by spirit. A foolish generation that seeks a sign and wonder! Show me a sign because I do NOT KNOW YOU ARE THE CHRIST JESUS! I NEED THE PHYSICAL SIGN BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE THE SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT WITHIN ME. When you spread spiritual gossip you lead the sheep astray. That is why the stone David slung hit Goliath in the forehead were “THE MARK OF THE BEAST” WAS! The right hand signifies the power given unto the beast as Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father! This has nothing to do with the physical it is TOTALLY AND ABSOLUTELY SPIRITUAL! IN THE LAST DAY YOU WILL EITHER BE A “SON OF GOD” OR A “CHILD/SON OF THE DEVIL” so while you are looking for a physical mark you will not find one!

My personal thought by knowing this revelation is that AI through facial recognition AND/OR fingerprints will enforce the world system and that is already in place waiting to be implemented. The reason I believe this is with all of the “retina” scanning as the “eye” is the gateway to the soul!  I believe it is very possible the “one world government” will implement a “mark” in a form of “allegiance” which is “worship” to a one world government.   I have written before about the “pledge of allegiance” and how that is a masonic oath of Freemasonry.  That shows the USA is not of the True Living God but of Lucifer as god.  So the “mark of the beast” will be no different but on a world wide for of worship to the beast.  I saw a picture of the Prime Ministers podium in the UK and they are going to mandate teh BRIT card and it stands for “BIOMETRIC REGISTRATION IDENTIFICATION TRACKING.  AI be the backbone of enforcement as your facial recognition or fingerprints are already in a database and will be used globally.  When a newborn baby is born in the USA they take a footprint and a thumb print and use it for identification purposes!  IT IS REQUIRED.  So those who take the mark of the beast will have already been given over to the beast system in the heart, mind and soul. 

The weaponry and technologies are inspired by the devil and the fallen angels from Genesis 6.  How is this possible, go all the way back to Genesis 6 when the sons of god had offspring with the daughters of men.  I suggest you read the forbidden book Enoch 1.  Why is it forbidden because it tells you the wisdom and knowledge of the fallen angels gave instructions to men how to build swords and weapons for warfare as well as witchcraft, etc.  It is not in the divine nature to KILL.  How do you think nuclear bombs were made, heck how was COVID created!  By the inspiration of Satan, how was the vaccine for COVID created by the inspiration of Satan!  As I told the doctor of the widow I take care of when they wanted to force the vaccine.  I said COVID was created by man by the inspiration of Satan so I do not trust man inspired by Satan for the CURE.  MY GOD IS ABLE BUT IF HE CHOOSES NOT I WILL STILL NOT BOW TO SATAN!  Think of the fiery furnace once again!  

Matthew 6:22–23 (NKJV)

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!

Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)

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.

What was going on in the days of Noah, and what was their mind totally give over too?

Genesis 6:5 (NKJV)

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The thoughts is the mind, then you have the heart and the two comprise the soul! There is your 6, 6, 6! The number of a man totally given over to the indwelling of the Antichrist! Who was hell originally created for, the Devil and his minions!

How do we recognize the Mark of the Beast? Scripture tells us! This is why there is so much hype on the state of Israel because it is the devil working by deception and very few understand because the eyes of their heart are filled with darkness yet they believe they walk in the light of Christ Jesus. Why did Jesus tell the Pharisees they were of the devil? Have you read my blog post of Jesus vs. The Pharisees: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

When you read that post you will understand what is going on through the world! There were two great commissions in operation at the same time. The Pharisees had theirs and Jesus had His! Good verses Evil, two totally different “trees”!

Matthew 7:16–20 (NKJV)

16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 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 do you see the mark of the beast and why Satan has blinded the church of today and why there is no spiritual discernment. Why people are still calling good evil and evil good!

See my post on what spiritually happened in the Garden of Eden:https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/15/what-really-happened-in-the-garden-of-eden/

If you can’t discern the spirits you are either fooled into believing you are born again or you have fallen in the Great Apostasy and under the spirit of delusion because you refused to love the Truth and Truth is the person of Christ Jesus. So you allowed Satan to blind you again just as the foolish Galatians!

Either way you believe you are serving Jesus when you are serving Satan! Total and utter deception and destruction. That is why I wrote that Saul from Tarsus was an ambassador of the HARLOT CHURCH WHICH WILL BE ENFORCED THROUGH ALIGNED GOVERNMENTS! WHAT IS THE BIG DEBATE ABOUT ISRAEL TODAY! WHO ARE GOD’S PEOPLE!

1 John 4:1 (NKJV)

4 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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.

If you do not know Jesus as the PERSON/CHRIST by HIS SPIRIT you do not belong to Jesus!

John 10:27 (NKJV)

27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Matthew 7:15–20 (NKJV)

False and True Teaching

Luke 6:43–45

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 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.

Matthew 7:21–23 (NKJV)

True Way into the Kingdom

Luke 6:46

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 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!’

Well the mystery of the mark of the beast has been settled. You either know Jesus by HIS SPIRIT or you don’t know Jesus at all! If the Lord does not speak to you then you have either fallen away in the Great Apostasy or you are not born again in Spirit and Truth. You do not have the Holy Spirit.

1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV)

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.”

People are looking for an outward mark of the beast but it is inward and spiritual! The carnal man looks for a carnal reality according to his own intellect but human intellect is far short of the Wisdom of God! Do you have the spirit of wisdom and revelation?

Ephesians 1:17–23 (NKJV)

17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Why does the Book of Revelations specifically say “HE WHO HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCHES?

Revelation 3:6 (NKJV)

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

Hebrews 6:4–6 (NKJV)

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 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.

I believe this is the condition of the church today as they have fallen from their first love after they were once enlightened, tasted the Holy Spirit and have fallen away from the Lord.

1 Peter 5:8–11 (NKJV)

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 11 To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

When you believe in once saved always saved there is no need to contend for the faith, spiritual growth and the pursuit of righteousness and holiness. You have allowed the Devil to repeat the same lie spoken in the Garden with different vernacular. What does Satan do, manipulate, twist and distort the Word of God!

May the saints be blessed, encouraged and victorious in Christ Jesus and may the Lord Jesus get the fullness of HIS inheritance from the finished work of Calvary on the Cross! In parting I leave this final chapter to wrap everything up with a nice bow! I hope and pray that the Spirit of the Living God bears witness to you about this writing as the end of the age and the last hour is about to hit!

John 15:26–16:15 (NKJV)

The Promise of the Holy Spirit

26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

16 These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service. And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. But these things I have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them.

And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

“But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; 11 of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

THAT IS THE BOW I GIFT WRAPPED FOR YOU!

Matthew 22:37 (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.’

Philippians 2:5 (NKJV)

The Humbled and Exalted Christ

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Romans 8:16 (NKJV)

16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

You may ask how or what do you do? How to prepare spiritually perhaps this post will help explain the difference of “swords” between Hebrews 4:12 and Ephesians 6 as you will need the “whole armor” of the Lord! This article should help you understand!

https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/13/the-progression-of-spiritual-experience-and-growth/

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

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’?”

And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 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.’ ”

Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 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.

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. 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)

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

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;

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

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

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

61The 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. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 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? Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 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)

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.

Hypocriteone 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

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)

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, 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.

Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 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. 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. 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, 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,’ 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. 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. 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.

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, 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, you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; 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, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 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.

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; 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

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. 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. 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.

“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. 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. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

“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? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 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.

For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 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. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 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)

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)

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 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.”

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

So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”

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.”

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 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”

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.”

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.’ 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.”

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?”

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.

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

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)

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? 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.”

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)

As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 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)

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

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. 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. 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. 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

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

Did I commit sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge? I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you. 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.