THE GRACE OF GOD VERSES THE FALSE GRACE OF THE DEVIL

THE GRACE OF GOD VERSES THE FALSE GRACE OF THE DEVIL

Ephesians 2:8–9 (NKJV)

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Please notice that grace precedes faith! We receive the grace of the Lord Jesus by believing in faith. So when a “sinner” hears the voice of God by the preaching of the Word of God by the Spirit of God in a man/preacher/prophet the Holy Spirit convicts the sinner by grace by “pricking” the heart and by Spiritual enlightenment faith and belief can enter the heart and mind! A true born again spirit filled preacher/prophet who walks in the spirit speaks under the unction and power of the Holy Spirit has, speaks, carries and reveals/manifests all the virtues and attributes of the Lord Jesus at the same time. Jesus is NOT DIVIDED, it’s all or nothing! The spirit of righteousness brings conviction, the spirit of mercy and love brings reconciliation and grace is given unto repentance. As grace precedes faith and belief.

Romans 1:16 (NKJV)

The Just Live by Faith

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Any person WITHOUT the anointing of the Holy Spirit can still preach the Word or even distort, manipulate and deceive the Word of God because they are not inspired by the Holy Spirit or preach their own belief and NOT SPIRIT and TRUTH. The Holy Spirit is ALL TRUTH, no darkness so no lies, deceptions or manipulation of the Word of God.

Satan has his own version of grace so that you would believe his lies, deceit, twisting and manipulations of the True Word of the Living God Christ Jesus. We know this to be true both by the Old Testament as well as the New Testament. Satan’s grace is witchcraft! Just as the Holy Spirit brings “enlightenment” which is Spirit and Truth, Satan uses witchcraft to ONLY bring enlightenment NO TRUTH! I was once in a church the Lord sent me to. I did not initially know why I was sent. I sat through the first service and within minutes of the sermon starting the Lord revealed the pastor’s heart to me. The Holy Spirit spoke to me: “Freemason, adultery, fornication and deception”.

As usual most pastors will great new attendees trying to get them as sheep in the pews. So the pastor came up to great me. He acknowledged us being new as I had brought a 73 year old widow with me as the Lord placed her in my care. She too had a witness that we were supposed to go to this church. When the pastor finished his greeting to us. I said the Lord has given me prophetic word for you, would you like to hear it. He said yes. I said this is the Word of the Lord for you. Thus says the Lord, my Word is Holy, unadulterated, pure and to be reverenced. Many confess the name of the Lord but their hearts are far from Him.

The pastor stood for a moment then continued on speaking with others. He came back to me as I approached the exit and said to me I’d like to meet with you for breakfast tomorrow at the local dinner. The Holy Spirit said to me go. So I said yes. At our meeting at breakfast the pastor asked me who discipled you and taught you. I said no man has taught me but the Lord Jesus has taught me. I quoted 1 John 2:27. He said that he would like to disciple me and mentor me. I said I was not in the need of that. He was trying to get me to surrender Spirit and Truth! When I got home after breakfast I was home about an hour and the Holy Spirit told me that the pastor would call me as I gave him my number at breakfast. I said to widow I care for the Lord just told me that the pastor is going to call and want to visit us and the Lord said no. Two hours later my phone rang and the pastor said he and his wife wanted to visit. I said we were unable to visit at that time.

I went to the next Sunday sermon as the Lord instructed with the 73 year old widow I cared for. We were standing as the worship had begun. The Holy Spirit said to me “cover her with my blood” so I reached over to the 73 year old widow and placed my hand upon her and whispered in prayer in the name of Jesus I cover you in the blood of Jesus against the attacks of all unrighteousness and ungodliness in Jesus name. Within a few moments a high ranking Freemason entered the church with their book/bible with the compass and square on it! It was a battle for the pastors heart/soul and a decision only the pastor could make. Quite a few members commented to us and asked if we saw this. The 73 year old widow who was with me did not see it, she was covered by the Blood of Jesus.

The Lord then told me the following Wednesday to go to the evening service and I went alone leaving the widow behind. During his sermon the pastor spoke and said: Illumination is Revelation! Immediately the Holy Spirit spoke in my Spirit. LIGHT AND TRUTH! Illumination without TRUTH is not Revelation! It is deception! That was my last time at that church. This confirmed the pastor would not repent and turn to Jesus. False grace is Illumination/Light WITHOUT SPIRITUAL TRUTH. Only The Holy Spirit and Truth of the Holy Spirit can give true revelations of light and truth. The devils grace is witchcraft.

2 Corinthians 11:4–8 (NKJV)

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.

2 Corinthians 11:10–15 (NKJV)

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.

There is a large misconception that grace is a “corporate” presence rather than an “individual” presence. A false belief is that being in a church building you are corporately “covered” by grace and you are NOT. The pastor is NOT your covering! Only Jesus is your covering!

This is what really deceives people with alleged “revivals” that everyone had a “come to Jesus moment”. That is utter nonsense and deception. I tell you that most of the revivals are the rising of the spirit of Antichrist! Just look at the condition of the world and tell me otherwise. I won’t expound on that at this time but just look around and see for yourselves.

Let us reflect on the serpent and Eve back in the garden. Eve had already known the truth of the Word of God about the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The serpent used FALSE GRACE which is witchcraft to attack the mind and thoughts of Eve to attack the Spirit of Truth. There was a false grace of witchcraft presented to Eve to bring confusion to her mind thus creating doubt and unbelief! Unbelief is the “original sin”. Once unbelief of the Fahter’s Word was created a “false truth” was established! That was the fall of Eve!

2 Corinthians 10:3–6 (NKJV)

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

Adam was “asleep” not protecting his wife! When Jesus went into the Garden of Gethsemane He asked the disciples to “stand guard” and pray. They fell asleep! THREE TIMES! I will just put an excerpt of scripture as you can go read that event.

Matthew 26:40–41 (NKJV)

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.”

All you need to do is look at the Old Testament. Why the Old Testament, that is because grace was not corporate. It was the prophets who received grace of revelations of the Lord to speak the oracles of God. If grace was corporate everyone that heard the prophets would have received grace to adhere to the oracles of God. Today we have sons/daughters of the devil in church assemblies and in the pulpits. Notice I said sons/daughters not lost people of the world who have not heard the gospel of salvation. These sons/daughters of the devil want to hear what is being preached but not from the Spirit of the Lord. They once desired Spirit and Truth but allowed the false grace of witchcraft by the devil to do to them what the serpent did to Eve! They are partakers in the “house/synagogue of Satan” believing they are in the house of the Lord. So all the songs they sing are not worshiping Jesus they are worshiping Satan! All the time believing they will never loose their salvation because they believe Once Saved Always Saved!

Tell me what is the difference in meaning between “surely you will not die” and “once saved always saved”? Different vernacular but same meaning!

1 Peter 4:1–11 (ESV)

Stewards of God’s Grace

Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

What people do not understand completely is they do not believe that judgment has already come for the house of the Lord. They think and confuse it with the “last day”. If you read my blog post on Jesus verses the Pharisees you would see the face to face judgment of the Pharisees who “represented the house of the Lord”. Jesus said that He did not come to bring peace but judgment! The foundation of the church in the New Testament is established by the Apostles and Prophets who were killed for trying to restore the foundation of Christ Jesus in the house of the Lord. The lies of the devil have told people that there are no more Apostles and Prophets. The foundation of Spirit and Truth has been removed and Ichabod is written upon the church and the people who assemble in that church.

Here is an Old Testament example:

1 Samuel 15:16–31 (NKJV)

16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Be quiet! And I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night.”

And he said to him, “Speak on.”

17 So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel? 18 Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”

20 And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

22 So Samuel said:

Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,

As in obeying the voice of the Lord?

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,

And to heed than the fat of rams.

23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft,

And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.

Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,

He also has rejected you from being king.”

Let’s comment on what has transpired this far. Saul actually said that he obeyed the voice of the Lord but Saul was “bewitched” by the people/brethren and desired to please the people/brethren/church assembly. Notice Samuel equates stubbornness with idolatry OF SELF. That is why the Apostle Peter said, should we please men or please God! Saul was anointed to be king, the people were not! Grace was given to Saul not to the people! The people were under a different spirit! Jesus would have said to the people, GET BEHIND ME SATAN! A different grace from a different spirit. The devil will give power to those that are deceived as well as those who are not deceived and serve the devil in personal choice. Remember the example of the pastor I mentioned. He was given a choice to repent and turn back to the Lord but when the high ranking Freemason showed up “his bread and butter” of financial gain and earthly recognition were what he chose. That is why the devil does signs and wonders by a different and false grace and spirit of empowerment! Let’s continue.

24 Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.”

26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

27 And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. 28 So Samuel said to him, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you. 29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.”

30 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.” 31 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul worshiped the Lord.

Ichabod. Name given to Phineas’ son (Eli’s grandson) to commemorate the glory that had departed from Israel, after the ark of God was taken by the Philistines (1 Sm 4:19–2214:3).

Phineas was killed in the battle of Aphek, at the same time the Philistines had captured the ark. When Phineas’ wife heard of the tragedy, she went immediately into labor, and when the child was born she named him Ichabod (meaning “no glory”) to sum up her despair.

No glory is NO LIGHT and TRUTH!

When Saul from Tarsus was on the road to Damascus why weren’t the others that were with Saul “saved” or “convicted” by the Lord? Surely there they were assisting Paul in rounding up Christians so that would have made them brethren. Grace was individually received NOT corporately received. So there is great deception within the assembly of a “church building” that everyone in their assembly/brethren and that the pastor/prophet must be from the Lord and this is deception! People blindly follow a pastor/prophet that went to seminary, bible college, has degrees in divinity, theology but MAY NEVER BE BORN AGAIN! That was Saul from Tarsus! Saul had the written approval of the Pharisees to round up Christians and bring them to the Pharisee High Priest to be stoned. This is happening in the modern church who has already been judged. The Word says that when the number of martyrs is complete the Lord will return. Jesus is not referring to being killed or beheaded physically. Jesus is talking spiritually. The saints who were true to the Lord that have passed are NOT dead spiritually! Jesus is referring to the “second death”. When a new Christian (babe in Christ) receives the Lord by the Holy Spirit and sits in this body/church structure they will deteriorate spiritually because they partake of the body/blood of another Jesus! This is why it is imperative to seek the Lord yourself in Spirit and Truth and to grow in spiritual love with Jesus. Most people do not understand that the church is the “testing ground” to see if you truly love the Lord with all of your heart. If you do you will come out of Mystery Babylon the Harlot Church. I am not attempting to “bash” all churches but the majority are not of the Lord or have fallen from the Lord.

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.

Read my blog post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

In 1 Peter 4 line 8 it says above all love one another earnestly as love covers a multitude of sins. So how do you truly love someone when you remove VIRTUES & ATTRIBUTES of Christ Jesus. A false grace is not of the Lord Jesus so there is NO love of Jesus in false grace. True grace has all of the virtues and attributes of Jesus!

Romans 14:17 (ESV)

17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 8:1–13 (ESV)

Food Offered to Idols

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols? 11 And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. 12 Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ. 13 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.

The food Paul is talking about is TURE spiritual food which is nourishment for our souls edifying our Spirit. Paul is telling us to be careful of food/seeds/words that represent the false grace which is a falling away from Spirit and Truth. The church/pastor/prophet is offering food/words/seeds from idols and worship of other gods. When you repeat these false teachings to others you are potentially condemning their souls. Even if you put all denominations together you would still NOT HAVE SPIRIT AND TRUTH as each denomination falls short of the fullness of Spirit and Truth. Ecumenism is not of the Lord Jesus, you can’t have a diversity of beliefs/spirits and gods and call it of the Lord Jesus. A kingdom is NOT divided.

2 Corinthians 11:1–4 (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!

We also have a false demonic grace in the New Testament which Paul exposes to the Galatians. Paul asks the Galatians “who has bewitched you” that you have fallen from grace! If they fell from the grace of Jesus what grace did they fall into?

Ephesians 4:14–24 (NKJV)

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—Christ16 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.

The New Man

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Galatians 3 (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? 2 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?

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.

The Law Brings a Curse

10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.” 11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.” 12 Yet the law is not of faith, but “the man who does them shall live by them.”

13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The Changeless Promise

15 Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. 16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. 17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Purpose of the Law

19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.

21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Sons and Heirs

26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

As I stated in the beginning it is grace before faith that we believe in Jesus and the gospel of reconciliation. The devil brings his version of grace which is witchcraft which brings confusion, doubt and unbelief! “Did god really say”. Surely god has not said. This is being tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine that Paul is warning us about. There is a spiritual force behind the “false demonic grace” of the devil.

Look at King Saul and his progression to even having a witch conjure up the spirit of Samuel! Saul could no longer hear the voice of God himself and Samuel was no longer alive. Necromancy is of the devil! Not that Samuel was dead spiritually but the spirit of necromancy is of the devil!

Deuteronomy 18:1–22 (NKJV)

The Portion of the Priests and Levites

18The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and His portion. 2 Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He said to them.

“And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it is bull or sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder, the cheeks, and the stomach. The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him. For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons forever.

So if a Levite comes from any of your gates, from where he dwells among all Israel, and comes with all the desire of his mind to the place which the Lord chooses, then he may serve in the name of the Lord his God as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before the Lord. They shall have equal portions to eat, besides what comes from the sale of his inheritance.

Avoid Wicked Customs

When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God. 14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not appointed such for you.

A New Prophet Like Moses

15 The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, 16 according to all you desired of the Lord your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’

17 “And the Lord said to me: ‘What they have spoken is good. 18 I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. 19 And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’—22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

In line 9 above the Word of God warns us about when we enter another land we should not follow the abominations of that land. This would also apply to a “church” or assembly of people. We know that Moses was speaking of the birth of Jesus as the prophet to come who would be the Incarnate Living Word of God. I hope you are beginning to see how there is the Grace of God from the Lord Jesus and the false grace of Satan which is witchcraft that is used to make the lies and deceit appear as truth. This is often cause by a “spirit of confusion” which is witchcraft. It gets you to question your own belief and personal knowledge of Jesus. Remember Adam and Eve walked in the Garden with the Father so they knew the Father! Witchcraft will accuse you of “misinterpretation, misunderstanding, confusion”, etc. That is why the terminology of what is commonly spoken this days is “that’s your interpretation”! Truth is not an interpretation Truth is the Spirit of God, Christ Jesus! There is no interpretation as Truth stands above the wisdom/foolishness of humanity.

Jezebel is the master of getting you to question your belief, interpretation and understanding by using witchcraft! You can reach the point where you question what once was ROCK SOLID in your beliefs. That is the false grace I am referring to as it is a spirit of witchcraft getting you to deny your belief to follow another belief. That is what happened to Eve. She “entertained” the serpent rather than standing firm on Word of God spoken and revealed to her. There is NO POLITICS or DEBATING Spirit and Truth. For iron to sharpen iron there must be “oil” applied or the blade goes dull no matter how hard you try to sharpen the blade. THE OIL IS THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HUMILITY! A spirit pride will not be able to be sharpened in Spirit and Truth! That is why the Israelite’s spent 40 years in the wilderness and yet they still could NOT get Egypt out of their hearts! Moses reminded them of the great “I AM” that delivered them but they were making golden calves.

I have seen this witchcraft and have helped people only to be mocked, ridiculed and forced out of churches as my belief of Spirit and Truth was totally different than the deceptions they called truth.

I hope this posting has helped some of you to recognize the “false spiritual grace” which is witchcraft from the devil. In Revelation 2 that is why Jezebel is mentioned about teaching and fornication as it is lies, deception, witchcraft and false prophecy! You end up worshiping Baal just as Jezebel brought Baal worship to Israel through COVENANT MARRIAGE to Ahab! You end up in covenant to Jezebel because every single word spoken has spirit attached to it. Life and death is in the power of the tongue.

Proverbs 18:21 (NKJV)

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue,

And those who love it will eat its fruit.

Remember the prophets of God always exposed the false prophets of Jezebel and Baal! Today there are churches/assemblies/brethren which are in the house of Jezebel and Baal.

2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

I pray this post has blessed you. There are times you truly need to come out of the “spiritual atmosphere” of witchcraft to hear clearly from the Lord. That is why Elijah ran, remember Elijah had already defeated and killed 850 prophets who served Jezebel. There is a huge difference between a servant and a “master”. Jezebel had the empowerment of her gods behind her and empowering her. That is what came at Elijah, you would run also! He was SENT so he was empowered! He was not afraid the way people think. Jezebel is not merely a spirit it is a principality! Jezebel got her power from the principalities just like the Prince of Persia in the book of Daniel! Daniel did not receive the Word of God until the Prince (principality) of Persia was defeated by the Lord’s angels.

I know what it is to get spiritually hit by a principality as it has happened numerous times to me. Sometimes resulting in severe sickness and hospitalization as Jezebel tried/tries to kill me physically because she couldn’t kill me spiritually. Jezebel is behind people committing suicide! I know this also. I was suicidal since the age of 5 and battled it until I was 49 constantly attached by Jezebel. I might not have been born again but that spirit of Jezebel was trying to kill me to keep the call of God from coming to me. Just as Jesus was in Mary’s womb and Joseph had to move her out of the area because the life of Jesus was threatened.

1 Kings 19:2–4 (NKJV)

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.And when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Jezebel will make you question your calling, self worth as a Christian, your spiritual belief in Christ Jesus and even doubt if your journey with Jesus is real! I am talking severe witchcraft! I was subjected to this by a well know international ministry the Lord SENT me to. I have had the Jezebel spirit speak to me without anyone around. Simply because the Lord exposed Jezebel through me as a servant of the Lord. That Jezebel spirit said to me you have 1 month to live. I heard it several times for about a full day. The Holy Spirit rose in me as I raise my hands to heaven and said. Spirit of death, I will never die as I have eternal life in Christ Jesus. In the name of Jesus spirit of death leave now! I never heard that voice again.

May you be blessed by this post. May you be blessed with revelations of Christ Jesus and be free in the Spirit of the Lord! Do not let anyone bewitch you! If you have been blessed lift up the Lord!

THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATIONS 11

THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATIONS 11

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.

Revelation 11:1–14 (NKJV)

The Two Witnesses

11 Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, “Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.

In line one it is referring to PEOPLE of Israel at the time of the incarnate Christ Jesus. Jesus said that He had come to judge and this is in reference to measuring the people that would follow Him or deny Him at that time. That was a part of Jesus ministry and we know that because people would not pick up their cross and follow Jesus. Secondly Jesus passed final judgment to the Pharisees at that time and told them they were of the devil. You need to read my blog post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

In line two we read the reference to the gentiles was not measured or judged because they had not received the Gospel at that time. Paul would become the Apostle to the gentiles.

In line three the two witnesses will prophesy 3 ½ years clothed in sackcloth. Jesus prophesied for 3 ½ years and told the Pharisees that He was the prophet Moses spoke of as the Pharisees “followed Moses”. Here we have our first and Primary Witness of the Kingdom of Heaven who is Jesus!

Now Jesus said that John the Baptist was the greatest of prophets. It was John the Baptist that witnessed Jesus and his ministry was of repentance! Let’s look at scripture to see this clearly.

Matthew 14:1–2 (NKJV)

Present Response to Jesus

Mark 6:14–16; Luke 9:7–9

14 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus and said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”

Matthew 14:3–5 (NKJV)

Recount of the Murder of John the Baptist

Mark 6:17–29

For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. Because John had said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

John 1:33–34 (NKJV)

33 I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

I need to make a critical point here. When John the Baptist says “I did not know Him” he was referring to the SON OF MAN. We know that John new Jesus by the spirit as the story of Elizabeth and Mary tell us.

Luke 1:41–43 (NKJV)

41 And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

So I have just established that John the Baptist was the first witness. Now lets look at the Words of Jesus.

John 5:31–35 (NKJV)

Witness of John the Baptist

31 If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. 32 There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. 33 You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. 35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

In line 32 Jesus is implying that the Father bears witness to the Son. Line 33 confirms John the Baptist bore witness to the truth. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

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.”

So we have established the two witnesses from Revelations 11. So why are people waiting for a sign and wonder to come again when it has already been fulfilled. Satan has deceived people of the finished work of Christ as a living witness of the Kingdom and the Father. Both John the baptist had the same gospel of REPENTANCE. Jesus had not chosen His disciples yet. Here we have divine order established without the Holy Spirit you can not make disciples. This is why Pentecost is vital and a genuine “born again” new creation is essential. NO MAN can build a true disciple only Jesus by the Grace and Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

1 John 2:27 (NKJV)

27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

Many false converts will use this out of context because they are prideful. If they won’t receive correction from the Word of Truth by the Holy Spirit they are prideful. Pride reveals NO HOLY SPIRIT. Pride comes before the fall! They have fallen or never received the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 6:1–5 (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. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For each one shall bear his own load.

REVELATION 11 CONTINUED

The Witnesses Killed

When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. 10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

Let me see if I can break this down for you. The beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them and kill them. Now hear me out. How did Satan enter Judas if Satan was bound in chains? It was not just a seducing spirit, deceitful spirit, prideful spirit that entered Judas. It was the fullness of Satan that is why Judas was called the son of perdition. Satan was no longer bound up. I will write another blog post about this soon.

The Witnesses Resurrected

11 Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. 12 And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them. 13 In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.

14 The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

In line 12 we must remember that the Holy Spirit departed and Jesus surrendered His Spirit to the Father on the cross just before His death.

Luke 23:46 (NKJV)

46 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ ” Having said this, He breathed His last.

Revelation 22:17 (NKJV)

17 And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Matthew 27:51–53 (NKJV)

Signs Accompanying Jesus’ Death

Mark 15:38–41; Luke 23:45, 47–49

51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

Let us read John 14 as Jesus again reveals/witnessed to the disciples the Father who bears witness of Jesus.

John 14:1–31 (NKJV)

Christ Comforts His Disciples

14 Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.

Christ Answers Thomas

Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

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.”

Christ Answers Philip

Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

Jesus said to him, Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

Notice the “words I speak I do not speak on my OWN authority. Here a distinguishing foundation of true verses false prophets in the pulpits. They are of their own authority under the authority of Satan, there are many Antichrists.

12 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

Here is the foundational problem. False prophets, false witnesses, false disciples false brethren use the name of Jesus. What is in the name of Jesus. How would you know without the Holy Spirit and GROWING in the Spirit by loving the Lord in Spirit and Truth.

15 If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever1the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

You must pay attention to DIVINE ORDER! THE LAW OF FIRST MENTION APPLIES.

First is the love of the commandments/WORD of GOD, Then comes the HELPER/HOLY SPIRIT

which is the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees HIM OR KNOWS HIM CHRIST JESUS. The Holy Spirit dwells within you. Jesus is also is stating judgment AT THAT TIME AND FOREVER MORE. The Pharisees denied the incarnate Christ Jesus and were turned over to their wicked hearts with NO POSSIBILITY OF SALVATION. Read my blog post on Jesus versed The Pharisees. https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

1I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

19 A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. 20 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

When I first got saved I read the book of John as suggested but AFTER reading John I was IMMEDIATELY DRAWN WITH FASCINATION OF PAUL’S EPISTLES! I HAD ENCOUNTERED THE RESURRECTION WHEN I GOT SAVED JUST AS PAUL DID. I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD WANTED TO KILL MYSELF AND LOOKED UP AND CALLED ON THE LORD TO ANSWER ME A QUESTION. I said Lord I have loved everyone the best of my ability so if you are real answer me these question. I have always believed in you BUT NEVER REALLY KNEW YOU. Going to church is NOT knowing Jesus personally. I said Lord please tell my why I am unworthy to be loved. My mother said she wished she never had me since I was 3 years old. My father left me when I was 3 years old. I was a punching bag for my siblings anger as they would take their pain and verbally and physically put that on me. My wife has committed adultery and turned my children against me I have no one. Why am I unworthy of love. I had an encounter immediately in that Field with Jesus. He spoke to me, I have loved you before the foundation of the world, it is my love you need and none other! I fell to my knees in tears as the Holy Spirit entered me and began to “comfort” me with love. Just as Jesus said he would do for HIS disciples that He would manifest Himself to them. POST RESURRECTION Jesus appeared to everyone that was HIS. Why are professing Christians not encountering Jesus or at the least falling in love with Jesus by HIS SPIRIT. You can be saved/born again without seeing the Resurrected Christ Jesus but the HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU IS THE RESURRECTED CHRIST. Jesus told His disciples it was better that He went so the comforter would come and bring ALL OF HIS TEACHINGS BACK TO THEIR REMEMBRANCE AND EVEN THEN HE WISHED TO TELL THEM MORE BUT THEY WERE NOT PREPARED TO RECEIVE IT AT THAT TIME.

John 20:29 (NKJV)

29 Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Blessed are those who believe the Written Word OF GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH, THEY ARE BLESSED.

John 16:7–15 (NKJV)

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.

Judgment from UNBELIEF is equivalent to THE RULER OF THIS WORLD. Unbelief is sin. That was the original sin of EVE she did not believe the Word of God about the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve talked with the Lord each day which meant they were filled with Word each day! Yet unbelief KILLED the Word within them. JESUS IS THE WORD. This is why you can quote scripture and believe you are saved and you are not. When people tell you that you need to read the word each day that is a form of truth and error combined. IT IS NO proof of salvation and being born again! Satan used scriptures against Jesus in the wilderness and your false prophets/pastors do the same thing but manipulate scriptures just as Satan did to Jesus. IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT DISCERNS ALL THING OF TRUTH it is much more than word/seeds.

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.

Christ Answers Judas

22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

25 These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.

29 And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

Many people including myself were taught that there would be to witnesses coming such as two prophets that had gone to be with the Lord. Some believe the choices to be Moses, Elijah, Enoch or perhaps others. There will not be this event happening in the future because it already has happened.  Let us look at scripture.

 

Matthew 17:1–13 (NKJV)

The Transfiguration

Mark 9:2–13; Luke 9:28–36; 2 Pet. 1:17, 18

17 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. But Jesus came and touched them and said, “Arise, and do not be afraid.” When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.

Now as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.”

10 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

11 Jesus answered and said to them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. 12 But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.” 13 Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.

So the false doctrines of the two witnesses that ARE YET TO COME is of the devil and lies and deceit! It has a foolish and idolatrous generation looking for a “sign and wonder”.

So I pray you bear witness by the Holy Spirit that the two witnesses came over 2000 years ago. There are no two witnesses to come today as the false prophets speak in vein. They are still seeking a “sign and wonder” and not seeking or preaching the true gospel. Please read my post about a false witness/false convert/ another Jesus. https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/26/accepting-jesus-into-your-heart-false-witnessing-false-convert/

CLOSING SCRIPTURES

John 5:39–47 (NKJV)

Witness of the Scriptures

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

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

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.

SHEEPLE PAY TITHES BUT DISCIPLES OFFER THEMSELVES TO THE LORD

SHEEPLE PAY TITHES BUT DISCIPLES OFFER THEMSELVES TO THE LORD

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

This what I heard today in the Spirit of the Lord. “Sheeple pay tithes but disciples offer themselves”! This goes all the way back to Cain and Abel and is the same that is going on today! Oh how the people assemble together yet never offer make a true offering to the Lord. They sing songs of praise as an “enticement” to get God to do something. It is as if corporate singing will bring in the presence of God. I have only been in ONE service since saved where the saints had true worship and the saints from heaven entered in with us as I could see them entering in. I kept silent but the prophet who was holding the service paused the service for a moment and said we will not be speaking at this time as a “cloud of witness” has joined us and the Lord can minister as He wishes. Let us continue to worship the Lord.

Genesis 4:1–15 (NKJV)

Cain Murders Abel

4 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the Lord.” Then she bore again, this time his brother Abel.

The “natural” order of physical/worldly inheritance would be to the oldest first male child. Thus Eve said that Cain being the oldest “was of the Lord”.

This is the foundation of what will become jealousy leading to murder! Now think of Jesse, David’s father NOT considering David to be King among Davids older brothers!

Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Abel was a keeper of sheep just as David while Cain was fulfilling the curse of his earthly father! It will always be spirit manifesting in a man/woman that causes outward manifestation of “fruit”.

And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.

Fruit is not from living spirit has no form of life. Fruit from a physical tree is for “reproduction” and it can only reproduce what it is in its original “state of being”. That is the importance of true sacrifice and worship. That is why Jesus told the woman at the well the day had come to worship in spirit and truth.

So the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it.”

Galatians 2:29 & 6:14 come to mind as well as the “father of faith, Abraham” with a demonstration of faith, trust and obedience to the Lord.

Now Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

The field represents the earth as the earth after the fall became the “valley of the shadow of death”. The prince and power of the air was Lucifer/Satan who had dominion over the earth because of the fall of Cain’s father Adam.

Thus “who is your father”? Are you of the devil or of the Lord being born again. What does Satan want to do, kill the saints! He doesn’t need to kill his own. What deceived Christians do not discern or understand Satan has been martyring the saints from the beginning of time! Spiritual martyrdom is death. It is appointed to all men to the first death, the second death will not happen to a saint if they contend for the faith and love the Lord with all of their heart, mind and soul. The anger reached the place of committing murder which was the outward manifestation of the spirit within Cain.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?”

He said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

The point I want to make here is that Abel was not of the “spiritual brethren” that Cain was so there was a spiritual not a physical difference in “brethren”. Too many saints are sitting with the false brethren! Spiritually they are slowly sucking the spiritual life from you! Yet they are your natural/physical brethren.

10 And He said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground. 11 So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”

How can a voice come from blood? This is not preached much or even songs sung about the Blood of Jesus. The power is in the blood! Why because of the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world who did NOT have human DNA from a human man! There was no sperm so no XY chromosomes were conceived! A virgin birth was conceived. Mary was filled with the Spirit because Jesus dwelled within her! John the Baptist was filled with the Spirit because of the Holy Spirit healed the womb of Elizabeth. That is why John in the womb knew Jesus in the womb of Mary, spirit to spirit.

13 And Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear! 14 Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me.”

15 And the Lord said to him, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.

The mark was not a physical mark it is a spiritual mark.

Jesus told the woman at the well the day is coming and is here now that my people will worship in spirit and truth.

Personally speaking I very rarely have put a tithe in the offering. The Lord would highlight a TRUE saint in need and I would tithe to the saint directly not the ministry! You are often giving your tithe to “Cain” thinking you are giving it to “Abel”. Imagine all of the money that was given to Cain that should have gone Abel!

Hebrews 11:4–7 (NKJV)

Faith at the Dawn of History

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

The blood of Jesus will never loose it’s power even from the dust of the earth innocent blood cries out for the 2nd coming of Christ Jesus.

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

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

Today this is the problem from the beginning of time which will continue to reveal the motives, intents and spirits in tithing. Ananias had a tithe and look what happened to Ananias. If you are giving yourself as a sacrificial “tithe” you are presenting the flesh and earthly tithe! A person that is NOT born again can sing praises but they can not worship in HOLINESS because that comes from the spirit within. The Lord will only receive holiness so you must be born again and worship in Spirit and Truth. You can’t “market” the Holy Spirit.

Luke 19:45–48 (NKJV)

Cleansing the Temple

Matt. 21:12, 13; Mark 11:15–17

45 Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 46 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”

47 And He was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people sought to destroy Him, 48 and were unable to do anything; for all the people were very attentive to hear Him.

We should only be tithing to an assembly/brethren of the Lord Jesus and many are tithing to the god of this world which is the spirit of Antichrist in your false prophet/pastor! You are building the wrong kingdom because you do not discern the spirit in the man!

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.

This is very important as if you do not discern who is in the pulpit you are likely building the kingdom of Antichrist who is masquerading as a minister of righteousness. You are deceived yourself and building the kingdom of the devil.

True pastors and saints, listen close any and all tithes received whether individually or corporately should be sanctified in prayer to remove and “spiritual strings” or “spiritual influences” from inhibiting the edification of the saints. Every offering has a spirit attached. Do you now see the manipulation behind the deceptive prayer over the offering of “giving tithe” it is very often trying to work at your emotions to give what you are unable so they use sowing and reaping out of context to deceive you!

You yourselves are the tithe to the Lord! The church was never called to be a “hospital for the sick” but an inhabitant of the righteous in Christ. If the people today were in the Old Testament they would like be dead upon entering.

I would rather tithe to a saint directly by witness of the Holy Spirit than advance the kingdom of Satan. Use discernment!

Romans 12:1–2 (NKJV)

Living Sacrifices to God

12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will 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.

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/

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 UNBELIEF OF THE PRE-TRIBULATION & FALLING AWAY FROM GRACE

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

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

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

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

Let us review the following Chapter of Scripture:

2 Corinthians 12 (NKJV)

The Vision of Paradise

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

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

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

The Thorn in the Flesh

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

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

2 Thessalonians 2:9–12 (NKJV)

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

Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)

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

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

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

Galatians 6:1–2 (NKJV)

Bear and Share the Burdens

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

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

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

1 John 4:18–19 (NKJV)

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

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

Galatians 5:1–9 (NKJV)

Christian Liberty

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

Love Fulfills the Law

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

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

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

Hebrews 3:12 (NKJV)

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

Hebrews 11:6–7 (NKJV)

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

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

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

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

Jude 20–25 (NKJV)

Maintain Your Life with God

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

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

Glory to God

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

And to present you faultless

Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

25 To God our Savior,

Who alone is wise,

Be glory and majesty,

Dominion and power,

Both now and forever.

Amen.

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

John 17:15–19 (NKJV)

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

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

Signs of an Apostle

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

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

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

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

Matthew 24:12–13 (NKJV)

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

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

Romans 5:20–21 (NKJV)

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

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

Isaiah 59:19 (NKJV)

19 So shall they fear

The name of the Lord from the west,

And His glory from the rising of the sun;

When the enemy comes in like a flood,

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

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

Philippians 3:12–16 (NKJV)

Pressing Toward the Goal

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

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

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

Matthew 10:14–15 (NKJV)

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

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

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

Love for the Church

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revelation 22:18–19 (NKJV)

A Warning

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

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

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

Matthew 23:31 (NKJV)

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

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

Matthew 10:28 (NKJV)

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

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

Matthew 16:27–28 (NKJV)

The Prophecy of the Second Coming

Mark 8:38–9:1; Luke 9:26, 27

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

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

Matthew 16:25 (NKJV)

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

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

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

John 6:53–58 (NKJV)

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

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

2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)

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

1 Peter 1:18–21 (NKJV)

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

1 Corinthians 2:6–9 (NKJV)

Spiritual Wisdom

However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 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.

9 But as it is written:

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

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

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

1 Corinthians 11:28–32 (NKJV)

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

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

Romans 6:1–14 (NKJV)

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

6 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 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. 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.

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

1 John 1:7 (NKJV)

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

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

Ephesians 5:11–14 (NKJV)

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

Awake, you who sleep,

Arise from the dead,

And Christ will give you light.”

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

1 Corinthians 13:9–13 (NKJV)

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

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

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

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

Matthew 5:14–16 (NKJV)

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

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

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

Romans 3:4 (NKJV)

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

That You may be justified in Your words,

And may overcome when You are judged.”

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

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

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

In closing:

Proverbs 1:1–33 (NKJV)

The Beginning of Knowledge

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

2 To know wisdom and instruction,

To perceive the words of understanding,

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom,

Justice, judgment, and equity;

4 To give prudence to the simple,

To the young man knowledge and discretion—

5 A wise man will hear and increase learning,

And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,

6 To understand a proverb and an enigma,

The words of the wise and their riddles.

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

But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Shun Evil Counsel

8 My son, hear the instruction of your father,

And do not forsake the law of your mother;

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

And chains about your neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice you,

Do not consent.

11 If they say, “Come with us,

Let us lie in wait to shed blood;

Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,

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

13 We shall find all kinds of precious possessions,

We shall fill our houses with spoil;

14 Cast in your lot among us,

Let us all have one purse”—

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

Keep your foot from their path;

16 For their feet run to evil,

And they make haste to shed blood.

17 Surely, in vain the net is spread

In the sight of any bird;

18 But they lie in wait for their own blood,

They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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

It takes away the life of its owners.

The Call of Wisdom

20 Wisdom calls aloud outside;

She raises her voice in the open squares.

21 She cries out in the chief concourses,

At the openings of the gates in the city

She speaks her words:

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

For scorners delight in their scorning,

And fools hate knowledge.

23 Turn at my rebuke;

Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;

I will make my words known to you.

24 Because I have called and you refused,

I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

25 Because you disdained all my counsel,

And would have none of my rebuke,

26 I also will laugh at your calamity;

I will mock when your terror comes,

27 When your terror comes like a storm,

And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,

When distress and anguish come upon you.

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

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

29 Because they hated knowledge

And did not choose the fear of the Lord,

30 They would have none of my counsel

And despised my every rebuke.

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

And be filled to the full with their own fancies.

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

And the complacency of fools will destroy them;

33 But whoever listens to me will dwell safely,

And will be secure, without fear of evil.”