Many precious hearts are still aching today, July 8, 2009, because of the loss of a special icon, Michael Jackson, the king of pop. It has been quite a phenomenon to watch the last few days unfold since his death. And for the Christian, we can't help wishing that he might somehow be in heaven with the Master, rejoicing and singing his praises, around his throne of grace. But we just don't know, and this is the most difficult part of a special someone's passing on from this life.
God has centered everything in his own dear Son, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only one who is indeed the greatest star of all time, and throughout all of eternity. So each and every one of us must seek him and find him, and hold him close in our hearts like nobody else. For to know him is to love him with one's entire being. For to us who know him so intimately and specially, "He is like the light of the morning, like the sunrise bursting forth in a cloudless sky, like the refreshing rains that bring forth tender grass from the earth" (II Sam. 23:4).
There is always much talk of revival. But we must find the way to it before it can ever be realized. For if such a wonderful event would ever be realized, then the way of it must be sought at the very one and only foundation, who is Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. When all of the human errors and fabrications are put to rest, and Christ's Spirit's power is finally allowed to take center stage, when his power is released in the truth that makes us free (Jo. 8:32), only then will we experience great revival in this world, that perhaps the world has never before known. I'm sure that would be a wonderful day that would make straight the pathway to the King (Lu. 3:4-6) for hurting and aching hearts everywhere!
This is the task that the church needs to attend to today, to become the true light in the world, so that all might come to know him and his wondrous power. Only then will joy replace earthly sorrow, and a happy new day dawn on the earth with the one true King of glory leading songs of praise to his dear name, on earth and in heaven.
The Scripture verses following this latest post, dated July 6, 2009, I believe can lead the way to great revival of faith on earth. They lead us away from all of "the weak and beggarly elements"(Gal. 4:9) that separate us from the love and power of God in our lives. They have the power to lead us into the throne room of the great Shepherd and King of all kings! It is my earnest prayer that many would pay close attention to such an important matter as this is while they still remain on earth to do so. Our salvation is before us today, and there is no other future day whereby we can be saved. For only Christ can heal the broken-hearted, and set the captives free. This is what Michael Jackson needed, and what everyone needs to release us from earthly cares and troubles. Michael is over there, now, already in eternity. But we are still here, and we must make our lives shine with the light of Jesus so that the great light and love of God in Christ will shine out brightly and bring many troubled hearts into his kingdom on high.
Anita Whalley. There Is A Kingdom. http://www.ThereIsAKingdombyAnitaWhalley@Amazon.com (Ctrl + click)
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Quick Breakthrough Scripture References for Foundational Christian Doctrine
Dear Fellow Christians and Patriots:
Greetings!
Enclosed you will find one of the most important lists of Scripture references you have ever seen in your life. It supports the new covenant of our Savior and Lord Jesus. It also negates "Judeo-Christian Zionism", premillenialism, dispensationalism, and all other earthly kingdom fables, heresies, and mentalities! It is most essential and critical information for anyone concerned over what has gone wrong in Christianity today, and the neutralizing factors at work to sabotage it and to take it over for unchristian interests nationwide and worldwide. Please feel free to use it to the greatest advantage wherever you can to show others his great way and light.
Essentially, modern Christianity has been hijacked by nefarious earthly interests whose goal it is to destroy it and to destroy American freedom, all at the same time! It is well along the way to completion! But it can be stopped cold if enough people are alerted and take real action today. There is no time to lose, and time is short!
Come on, Christian soldiers and do your part to fulfill your obligations to Christ and to our beloved America! It is a very sad day when Christ's new covenant needs to be so defended. It was not so 250 years ago. How far we have slipped into apostasy today! We squander our greatness, our integrity, our future, and our valuable resources of treasure and human lives to support depraved myths and fables. Yet how straight and true is Christ's new covenant that establishes our feet upon his higher course. It is his new testament credential of highest and unequalled excellence that brings us all of his far better things, in this world and in the next. It should be self-evident where we need to take our stand today, but to many it is not.
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." --Francis of Assisi.
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is therefore good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men" (Mt. 5:13).
Quick Breakthrough Scripture References, etc.
The One True Gospel – Our Only Foundation (I Cor. 3:10-15 The Straight and Narrow Way (Mt. 7:14)
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Darkness and Light
"The darkness is disappearing and the true light is already shining." I Jo. 1:5-7, 2:8. See also Acts 26:18; Mt. 4:16).
Christ is the light of the world – Jo. 1:9, 3:20-21, 8:12, 12:46. See also Is. 9:2.
***WHY DID CHRIST COME INTO THE WORLD?*** (see in ezinearticles.com)
God's secret plan centered in Christ – Eph. 1:9 (vv. 3-14). See also I Tim. 3:15-16.
God's purpose – Acts 17:27; Eph. 3:10-12.
He is the mediator of better things – Heb.12:24.
He came into the world to give us "all good things" (Ro. 1:7; He. 9:11-12).
"A name above all names" – Phil. 2:9.
"A better hope" – Heb 7:7, 19.
He came "to serve others, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Mt. 20:28. See also Mt. 10:45).
"He came to seek and to save those…who are lost." (Lu. 19:10).
"…to preach Good News to the poor, to proclaim captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the downtrodden will be freed from their oppressors, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come." (Lu. 4:18).
To bring truth to the world (Jo. 18:37. Also see I Jo. 4:4-6).
"…this is the very reason why I came" into the world. (To go to the cross for our sins.) (Jo. 12:27).
Why Christ came into the world -- to destroy the works of the devil. I Jo. 3:8. Note also Heb.2:14. He broke the devil's power, and the power of sin (Heb. 9:26). See also Rom. 8:3.
Note also Isa. 53:10-12 & 61:1-2.
"…for the benefit of the church" – Eph. 1:22.
The new, life-giving way – Heb. 7:19, 22; 8:6; 10:20.
Christ made all things new – II Cor. 5:17; Heb. 10:20-23; Rev. 21:5-9.
Christ is everything we need to be right with God – Jo. 6:26-51.
In Christ lie all treasures… -- Col. 2:3.
Cling to Jesus – Jo. 20:16-18. See also Heb. 11:27.
Christ is "all that matters" – Col. 3:11.
"Today is the day of salvation" – II Cor. 6:1-2. See also Lu. 17:20-21.
For the prize of his "high calling" – Phil. 3:14.
The fullness of God – Eph. 3:19. When we find the secret wisdom of God (I Cor. 1:17-18, 2:4-16) that is all connected to his Good News (Gospel), his grace, we enter into his fullness. We accept that the old covenant of the Jewish law system, which was but a worldly sanctuary (Heb. 9:1-2), and a temporal tabernacle with external regulations (Heb. 9:23), was cancelled by Christ (Heb. 10:9).
In Christ and his priestly sacrifice you have entered the real Temple in heaven. You are really there in him! This is why Christ made such a vehement point of the destruction of the earthly temple in Jerusalem (Mt. 24:2). He did away with it, finished its limited usefulness forever, and made it completely obsolete! Thus it is an evil work that modern Judeo-Christian Zionists support now, for it goes completely against Christ and his finished work! Christians have no legitimate calling nor business supporting the Jewish aspirations and the erecting of another temple in Jerusalem to replace it, and "they must stop listening to Jewish myths and the commands of people who have turned their backs on the truth" (Titus 1:14, 15-16). For Christ abolished the old (II Cor. 3:11; Eph. 2:15; Heb. 8:13, 10:9), and replaced it with the far greater and more perfect new (Heb. 9:12). Anyone who disobeys God in this will fall (Heb. 4:11). For earthly Jerusalem is in bondage to Sinai (Gal. 4:24-25), and opposes Christ. We, as Christians, don't go around defending and supporting those who oppose Christ and refuse to believe in him! It is evil to do so, no matter for what strange mythological reason we may feel led to do so! But Jerusalem above is free (Gal. 4:26. Note also Heb. 12:22, 28), and it is these truths of the new covenant that set us free! It is in the new covenant where, by faith, we receive a kingdom which cannot be moved (See II Cor.3:6-18; Gal. 2:16-21, 3:8-29; Heb. 9:15, 10:9-20, 12:24). In all of these wonderful truths and new realities, the Christian is transformed into a new person. New life has begun (II Cor. 5:17; Gal. 3:21), as the Christian is made spiritually whole by the power of the Spirit and the Word.
In these matters the Apostle was most adamant! We are to remain in Christ and in his new covenant, and not return to the old. Only by so doing can we enter the real Temple in heaven. Christ and the apostles left us no room to go after the old things of the old Jewish law system that was an inferior, external, earthly system, under any delusion, assumption or pretext! His new covenant leads the way out of it, and that alone! By failing to obey Christ and follow it, the church is now in a position of gravest and most serious rebellion and error against Christ, his Word, and his Spirit which could easily bring all of western civilization down all around us. Just stop and look all around you. It has already begun!
The heavenly kingdom was good for America and all the world. The earthly one, in earthly Israel, is not at all a good thing for the world, because it violates God's real commands (see I Jo.23-24; II Jo. 9; Heb. 7:15,10:29. See also Mt. 15:8-9; Mk 7:7-9; Jo. 12:48-50; 15:9-11). We have seriously departed from Christ when we follow the Jewish law system, and support it, and we will never find the real Temple that is established on high in the heavenly realms (Heb. 8:1-2,5, 9:11, 23-24) by going that route. The way is blocked when we follow the wrong path!
The new covenant of Jesus Christ is forever. – II Cor. 3:5-17 (esp. v. 11). It is a better covenant (Heb. 8:6-13; 10:9-10), and it moves us forward into new life in Christ (II Cor. 5:17; Heb. 7:22), by faith (Heb. 11:6).
A HEAVENLY CALLING
Christ's Kingdom is not of this world -- Jo. 18:36. It is not in Israel. And it never will be!
His heavenly kingdom he proclaimed as already being near, or at hand 2000 years ago nearly -- Mt. 4:17, Mark 1:15; Lu 4:16-21; Eph. 1:3, 20 & 2:6.
Our calling is heavenward -- (in the heavenly realms) Eph. 1:3. See also v. 20 and 2:6. Phil. 3:14, Col. 1:5, 3:1-4, Heb. 3:1 & 6:19.
The real Temple is in heaven – Heb. 8:5, 9:24.
We are called to his higher calling and purpose -- Ro. 8:28.
We (Christians) are the new people of God – Gal.6:16; Eph. 1:13, 23; Lu. 12:31-32; Jas. 1:17-18. See also Rom. 8:14, 20-30.
Christians are God's own holy people – I Cor. 1:2, 15:2; Gal. 6:16; Eph. 1:4, 14; Jas. 1:17-18. They are God's own true Israel.
We are foreigners and aliens here -- I Pet. 3:11.
God chose us out of the world – Jo. 17:14-18.
He rejected the notion of certain Jews of his day that he came to be a king over Israel (Jo. 6:15). It is still very displeasing to him today!
Today, an astonishing number of Christian people are hung up on the notion of an earthly theocratic kingdom in Israel. Yet, the sacred Scriptures clearly do not support it. They are very clear on the heavenly kingdom, instead, however. It is sad and surprising how easily some men can use pernicious and manipulative words to encourage otherwise intelligent people to buy into earthly oriented theories. It is most unfortunate that these matters which pertain to Christ's new covenant have not been more thoroughly addressed in much of theology. It has created a great void, and abyss for many to fall into. This book There Is A Kingdom addresses this issue. The author, Anita Whalley, knows most personally how difficult it can be to come back to the Scriptures only (sola Scriptura!) with total trust and discover the joy and wonder of Christ and his new covenant that offers so much more of all good things from the hand of a most loving and gracious Lord. She also knows the cessation of the difficulties when once she found Christ's new covenant and entered into it for herself at long last!
This book is available at Amazon.com and is must reading for any who long for God and for his real truths--Real good reading to brighten up a rainy summer, and a lifetime beyond, too!
SPIRITUAL THINGS*****************
Jo. 4:21; Ro. 7:6, 8:5-9, 23-24; I Cor. 2:14.
God is not the author of confusion – I Cor. 14:33.
Lacking spiritual discernment – Ro. 8:5-9; I Cor. 2:14.
Spiritual blindness – Jo. 9:35-41, 15:22.
The old (law) and the new way of the Spirit – Ro. 7:6; Gal. 5:1.
The Holy Spirit – Jo. 16:17; Ro.6:8-18, 8:12.
These are the Gospel truths that make us free! – Jo. 8:32,36.
The word of God is full of living power – Heb. 4:12.
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CONFUSED VALUES—RIGHT vs. WRONG (Heb.5:9-6:1)
Winds of doctrines – Eph 4:14. Strong delusion – II Th. 2:7-12
The devil's trap; following heresies –Ro. 16:17; Col. 2:4; II Jo. 10-11; III Jo. 11;
Woe..who call evil good, etc. – Isa. 5:20. See also I Pet. 2:16; III Jo. 11.
Rebuilding things torn down (destroyed) – Gal. 2:18-21.
Grieving God's Spirit – Eph. 4:30. Note also Heb. 10:28-29.
Fallen from grace – (Gal. 5:3-4), and frustrating God's grace (Gal. 2:21). We are still under sin's curse when we ignore the new covenant and cling to the old Jewish law system – Gal. 3:10-13. We forfeit God's richest blessings in supporting the way of the old system. But we gain a new sense of spiritual wholeness and wellness in the God-centeredness found in the new covenant!
Christians are supposed to serve God, not men – Mt. 4:10. Today, Christians are serving unbelieving Judaism in Israel. They believe that such darkness and evil are light and good (Isa. 5:20; I Pet. 2:16), because they believe in unbelieving Israel as God's kingdom instead of, or over heaven. They have failed to discern the spirits of error and of apostasy. Indeed, it is an extremely serious shortfall in modern Christendom! How can we even claim to be Christian when we don't hold Christ's words about his real reason for coming to earth to be even equal to those of men today, let alone actually of higher and greater authority? (See the above – Christ's real reason for coming to earth, in his very own words. Hint – It wasn't to establish any earthly kingdom in Israel that supposedly had to be "postponed". Yet America currently sends Israel over $7,000,000.00 a day to support everything Israel believes in, and wants and does!)
Is it really any wonder why we are in such serious trouble today? The church has inadvertently taken the broad path of destruction (Mt. 7:13-14) by failing to heed the entire content and warnings of sacred Scripture. It has been deceived and led astray (I Jo.2:26), and doesn't seem to care!
No favorites with God, re. race or peoples, such as the Jews – Acts 10:34-35.
Believing Jews and Gentiles are now joined together in his church – Eph. 3:10. The rest are lost –I Jo. 5:12.
Israel -- conditional nature of God's covenant with Israel – Jer. 13, Gen. 17:1, 9-14, 23-27, 18:19, 22:1-19, 26:5; Heb. 11:8, 17; Jas. 2:21-22.
Re. the LAND, all was fulfilled – Joshua 21:43-45, 23:14-16; I Ki. 8:56.
Worthless observances – Gal. 4:10; Col. 2:16-17.
It (the law system) was a "yoke of bondage" that the Jews could not bear (Acts 15:9-10; Gal. 5:1). All of these things are termed "useless', and "obsolete" (Heb. 8:6-8 & 13), "worthless" (Phil. 3:11), and thus "abolished" (II Cor. 3:11; Eph. 2:15; Phil. 3:7; Heb. 7:18-19, 8:13 & 10:9-10). Christ's new covenant replaced it forever. Compare all of this to the "yoke" of Christ – Mt. 11:28-30. It is his yoke that contains "good tidings of great joy…" – Lu. 2:10-11. See also Ro. 3:23 & 6:23, and Jo 3:16, etc.
"The old system in the law of Moses was only a shadow of the things to come, not the reality of the good things Christ has done for us" (Heb. 10:1. See also 8:5). He cancels the first covenant in order to establish the second (A better covenant-Heb. 8:6-13). And what God wants is for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time" (10:9-10). "This is the new, life-giving way that Christ has opened up for us through the sacred curtain, by means of his death for us" (v. 20). So, v. 22, "Let us go right into the presence of God with true hearts fully trusting him."
Christ already made it possible to be in his presence (Heb. 10:21-22). So why on earth would anyone need to call back up the cancelled old covenant and Jewish law system to regain what we already have in Christ? As the truth starts to set in, and our minds start to clear and the light of Christ starts to more fully shine in, we begin to recognize the great scope of the deceit that has been perpetrated on the visible church.
The current misrepresentation of Christ's reason for coming here, to establish a glorious earthly kingdom in Israel is false, and a great offense to God. The Scriptures are very clear re. Christ's real reason for coming to earth. We just need to apply ourselves to his Word of truth and start dealing with what Christ actually gave to us by his coming here. For only by doing this can we ever hope to gain a fuller understanding that gets us on our way heaven bound and heavenward, for the world is passing away (I Jo. 2:17). We finally recognize how we have been robbed of our great inheritance in Christ. He provided this for us, and it is not the right thing to do, to shun this wonderful gift and claim the Scriptures are saying something entirely different. Instead we ought to be continuing in this teaching of Christ, so that we will "have fellowship with both the Father and the Son"(II Jo. 9). No wonder many Christians are so weak today, as they have gone wandering back to Jewish myths and have not seen that the old covenant and Jewish law system is abolished by Christ, nevermore to rise again. For only eternal things remain (Heb. 12:26-27).
Whatsoever things are of good report and beauty, whatever "is true and honorable and right" we are to think on these things! Whatever is "pure, and lovely and admirable, excellent, and worthy of praise", these are the things that we American Christians are supposed to support and think upon (Phil. 4:8)! We have no business whatsoever thinking of and supporting evil rebellion and unbelief against God in Israel. But we do have a most serious business with God and his truths and with our own precious Constitution and all of the other documents of freedom! For without these beautiful things, another time of the dark ages looms dead ahead of us! Time to get busy and be about the Lord's business, America! Can't you understand? Time is no longer on your side!
These are the true foundations of the Christian faith (Ps. 11:3) that have been eroded away by judaistic-centered fables and inventions of the day, thus making the Gospel a weak shadow of what it should be. Henry Haley, in his Bible Handbook, rightly called it apostasy. The idea of a glorious earthly kingdom did not originate with Christ, as the above reveals, for he never came here to establish such a thing at all! These clear Scripture passages above ought to be what defines all the rest of Scripture, instead of the reverse order of things as they are today. Because it is really evil to accept evil and to support it, no matter what the rationale! We are not free to "follow a multitude to do evil" (Exodus 23:2), so isn't it really about time that today's professing Christians start caring enough to do some serious and honest work with God and his holy Word and finally seek to get it right? If not, why not???? And pray tell, how on earth can Christians truly "Occupy" (Luke 19:13) without it? Or without our Constitution which makes it possible to serve Christ? Both are under attack today, even while you rest and take your ease! Yet your allegiance ought not to be to unbelieving Israel, but to God and to our own once Christ honoring country!
"You are not slaves; you are free. But your freedom is not an excuse to do evil. You are free to live as God's slaves" (I Pet.2:16).
"Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, 'He is a voice shouting in the wilderness:"Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him! Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills! Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places! And then all people will see the salvation sent from God"'" (Lu. 3:4-6 NLT).
How badly the church today needs to straighten out the pathway it is following and smooth over the rough places to fulfill its proper role in Christ's Great Commission and really lead a needy world to Christ and his kingdom instead of actually redirecting it back around to itself (or back into the world all over again.)!
Anita Whalley. There Is A Kingdom. http://www.booksurge.com/There-is-a-Kingdom-The-Heavenly/A/1419686798.htm (Ctrl + click). It is high time that this book really began to circulate out there! Do your part and order a copy or several today. It's high time to take an active part and support this good work today. And spread the word! Please! This information is one great way to start, and There Is A Kingdom will take you even further on the magnificent Christian journey that Christ makes available to any who follow his truths. It also includes George B. Fletcher's most excellent and thorough treatment of the fabled two-stage second coming theory, in which the first stage is declared by moderns to be the secret rapture of the church!
I know this is the first time that all this information has come to many of you. For others it is not the first time at all, and massive indifference has won out once again! Surely there are some out there who will follow the call and take a stand for what is right! The battle is everywhere today, and so we must work in every direction to defend what's true! Basic knowledge in the right places is a very big help. This book gives one that basic knowledge so that we don't need to be helpless any longer and cave in to falsehoods. A little preparation saves the day, but apathy digs many graves (see Heb. 6:12)!
The time is now to defend Christ's new covenant out there. If we Christians don't do it, who will? We have the necessary tools available, so, come on, let's do it Christians!
"When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps" (Prov. 16:7-9).
To all of you who faithfully follow Christ's call to defend the real truth, I am most grateful, and I salute you as my fellow laborers in Christ! It is good when we Christians can stand up together for Jesus, as well as for America!
Special note – This is an expanded version of the same material that some of you received earlier. I simply felt that a little more information would likely be most helpful to those who were interested in the truth and desired a little more than the most basic information that it contained. Perhaps in all of your travels you can put either one to good use. Please feel entirely free to do so, and God bless you in all of your faithful endeavors for God and country. --A. Whalley.
Greetings!
Enclosed you will find one of the most important lists of Scripture references you have ever seen in your life. It supports the new covenant of our Savior and Lord Jesus. It also negates "Judeo-Christian Zionism", premillenialism, dispensationalism, and all other earthly kingdom fables, heresies, and mentalities! It is most essential and critical information for anyone concerned over what has gone wrong in Christianity today, and the neutralizing factors at work to sabotage it and to take it over for unchristian interests nationwide and worldwide. Please feel free to use it to the greatest advantage wherever you can to show others his great way and light.
Essentially, modern Christianity has been hijacked by nefarious earthly interests whose goal it is to destroy it and to destroy American freedom, all at the same time! It is well along the way to completion! But it can be stopped cold if enough people are alerted and take real action today. There is no time to lose, and time is short!
Come on, Christian soldiers and do your part to fulfill your obligations to Christ and to our beloved America! It is a very sad day when Christ's new covenant needs to be so defended. It was not so 250 years ago. How far we have slipped into apostasy today! We squander our greatness, our integrity, our future, and our valuable resources of treasure and human lives to support depraved myths and fables. Yet how straight and true is Christ's new covenant that establishes our feet upon his higher course. It is his new testament credential of highest and unequalled excellence that brings us all of his far better things, in this world and in the next. It should be self-evident where we need to take our stand today, but to many it is not.
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." --Francis of Assisi.
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is therefore good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men" (Mt. 5:13).
Quick Breakthrough Scripture References, etc.
The One True Gospel – Our Only Foundation (I Cor. 3:10-15 The Straight and Narrow Way (Mt. 7:14)
****ezine articles.com – Has your Darkness Really disappeared?*****
Darkness and Light
"The darkness is disappearing and the true light is already shining." I Jo. 1:5-7, 2:8. See also Acts 26:18; Mt. 4:16).
Christ is the light of the world – Jo. 1:9, 3:20-21, 8:12, 12:46. See also Is. 9:2.
***WHY DID CHRIST COME INTO THE WORLD?*** (see in ezinearticles.com)
God's secret plan centered in Christ – Eph. 1:9 (vv. 3-14). See also I Tim. 3:15-16.
God's purpose – Acts 17:27; Eph. 3:10-12.
He is the mediator of better things – Heb.12:24.
He came into the world to give us "all good things" (Ro. 1:7; He. 9:11-12).
"A name above all names" – Phil. 2:9.
"A better hope" – Heb 7:7, 19.
He came "to serve others, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Mt. 20:28. See also Mt. 10:45).
"He came to seek and to save those…who are lost." (Lu. 19:10).
"…to preach Good News to the poor, to proclaim captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the downtrodden will be freed from their oppressors, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come." (Lu. 4:18).
To bring truth to the world (Jo. 18:37. Also see I Jo. 4:4-6).
"…this is the very reason why I came" into the world. (To go to the cross for our sins.) (Jo. 12:27).
Why Christ came into the world -- to destroy the works of the devil. I Jo. 3:8. Note also Heb.2:14. He broke the devil's power, and the power of sin (Heb. 9:26). See also Rom. 8:3.
Note also Isa. 53:10-12 & 61:1-2.
"…for the benefit of the church" – Eph. 1:22.
The new, life-giving way – Heb. 7:19, 22; 8:6; 10:20.
Christ made all things new – II Cor. 5:17; Heb. 10:20-23; Rev. 21:5-9.
Christ is everything we need to be right with God – Jo. 6:26-51.
In Christ lie all treasures… -- Col. 2:3.
Cling to Jesus – Jo. 20:16-18. See also Heb. 11:27.
Christ is "all that matters" – Col. 3:11.
"Today is the day of salvation" – II Cor. 6:1-2. See also Lu. 17:20-21.
For the prize of his "high calling" – Phil. 3:14.
The fullness of God – Eph. 3:19. When we find the secret wisdom of God (I Cor. 1:17-18, 2:4-16) that is all connected to his Good News (Gospel), his grace, we enter into his fullness. We accept that the old covenant of the Jewish law system, which was but a worldly sanctuary (Heb. 9:1-2), and a temporal tabernacle with external regulations (Heb. 9:23), was cancelled by Christ (Heb. 10:9).
In Christ and his priestly sacrifice you have entered the real Temple in heaven. You are really there in him! This is why Christ made such a vehement point of the destruction of the earthly temple in Jerusalem (Mt. 24:2). He did away with it, finished its limited usefulness forever, and made it completely obsolete! Thus it is an evil work that modern Judeo-Christian Zionists support now, for it goes completely against Christ and his finished work! Christians have no legitimate calling nor business supporting the Jewish aspirations and the erecting of another temple in Jerusalem to replace it, and "they must stop listening to Jewish myths and the commands of people who have turned their backs on the truth" (Titus 1:14, 15-16). For Christ abolished the old (II Cor. 3:11; Eph. 2:15; Heb. 8:13, 10:9), and replaced it with the far greater and more perfect new (Heb. 9:12). Anyone who disobeys God in this will fall (Heb. 4:11). For earthly Jerusalem is in bondage to Sinai (Gal. 4:24-25), and opposes Christ. We, as Christians, don't go around defending and supporting those who oppose Christ and refuse to believe in him! It is evil to do so, no matter for what strange mythological reason we may feel led to do so! But Jerusalem above is free (Gal. 4:26. Note also Heb. 12:22, 28), and it is these truths of the new covenant that set us free! It is in the new covenant where, by faith, we receive a kingdom which cannot be moved (See II Cor.3:6-18; Gal. 2:16-21, 3:8-29; Heb. 9:15, 10:9-20, 12:24). In all of these wonderful truths and new realities, the Christian is transformed into a new person. New life has begun (II Cor. 5:17; Gal. 3:21), as the Christian is made spiritually whole by the power of the Spirit and the Word.
In these matters the Apostle was most adamant! We are to remain in Christ and in his new covenant, and not return to the old. Only by so doing can we enter the real Temple in heaven. Christ and the apostles left us no room to go after the old things of the old Jewish law system that was an inferior, external, earthly system, under any delusion, assumption or pretext! His new covenant leads the way out of it, and that alone! By failing to obey Christ and follow it, the church is now in a position of gravest and most serious rebellion and error against Christ, his Word, and his Spirit which could easily bring all of western civilization down all around us. Just stop and look all around you. It has already begun!
The heavenly kingdom was good for America and all the world. The earthly one, in earthly Israel, is not at all a good thing for the world, because it violates God's real commands (see I Jo.23-24; II Jo. 9; Heb. 7:15,10:29. See also Mt. 15:8-9; Mk 7:7-9; Jo. 12:48-50; 15:9-11). We have seriously departed from Christ when we follow the Jewish law system, and support it, and we will never find the real Temple that is established on high in the heavenly realms (Heb. 8:1-2,5, 9:11, 23-24) by going that route. The way is blocked when we follow the wrong path!
The new covenant of Jesus Christ is forever. – II Cor. 3:5-17 (esp. v. 11). It is a better covenant (Heb. 8:6-13; 10:9-10), and it moves us forward into new life in Christ (II Cor. 5:17; Heb. 7:22), by faith (Heb. 11:6).
A HEAVENLY CALLING
Christ's Kingdom is not of this world -- Jo. 18:36. It is not in Israel. And it never will be!
His heavenly kingdom he proclaimed as already being near, or at hand 2000 years ago nearly -- Mt. 4:17, Mark 1:15; Lu 4:16-21; Eph. 1:3, 20 & 2:6.
Our calling is heavenward -- (in the heavenly realms) Eph. 1:3. See also v. 20 and 2:6. Phil. 3:14, Col. 1:5, 3:1-4, Heb. 3:1 & 6:19.
The real Temple is in heaven – Heb. 8:5, 9:24.
We are called to his higher calling and purpose -- Ro. 8:28.
We (Christians) are the new people of God – Gal.6:16; Eph. 1:13, 23; Lu. 12:31-32; Jas. 1:17-18. See also Rom. 8:14, 20-30.
Christians are God's own holy people – I Cor. 1:2, 15:2; Gal. 6:16; Eph. 1:4, 14; Jas. 1:17-18. They are God's own true Israel.
We are foreigners and aliens here -- I Pet. 3:11.
God chose us out of the world – Jo. 17:14-18.
He rejected the notion of certain Jews of his day that he came to be a king over Israel (Jo. 6:15). It is still very displeasing to him today!
Today, an astonishing number of Christian people are hung up on the notion of an earthly theocratic kingdom in Israel. Yet, the sacred Scriptures clearly do not support it. They are very clear on the heavenly kingdom, instead, however. It is sad and surprising how easily some men can use pernicious and manipulative words to encourage otherwise intelligent people to buy into earthly oriented theories. It is most unfortunate that these matters which pertain to Christ's new covenant have not been more thoroughly addressed in much of theology. It has created a great void, and abyss for many to fall into. This book There Is A Kingdom addresses this issue. The author, Anita Whalley, knows most personally how difficult it can be to come back to the Scriptures only (sola Scriptura!) with total trust and discover the joy and wonder of Christ and his new covenant that offers so much more of all good things from the hand of a most loving and gracious Lord. She also knows the cessation of the difficulties when once she found Christ's new covenant and entered into it for herself at long last!
This book is available at Amazon.com and is must reading for any who long for God and for his real truths--Real good reading to brighten up a rainy summer, and a lifetime beyond, too!
SPIRITUAL THINGS*****************
Jo. 4:21; Ro. 7:6, 8:5-9, 23-24; I Cor. 2:14.
God is not the author of confusion – I Cor. 14:33.
Lacking spiritual discernment – Ro. 8:5-9; I Cor. 2:14.
Spiritual blindness – Jo. 9:35-41, 15:22.
The old (law) and the new way of the Spirit – Ro. 7:6; Gal. 5:1.
The Holy Spirit – Jo. 16:17; Ro.6:8-18, 8:12.
These are the Gospel truths that make us free! – Jo. 8:32,36.
The word of God is full of living power – Heb. 4:12.
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CONFUSED VALUES—RIGHT vs. WRONG (Heb.5:9-6:1)
Winds of doctrines – Eph 4:14. Strong delusion – II Th. 2:7-12
The devil's trap; following heresies –Ro. 16:17; Col. 2:4; II Jo. 10-11; III Jo. 11;
Woe..who call evil good, etc. – Isa. 5:20. See also I Pet. 2:16; III Jo. 11.
Rebuilding things torn down (destroyed) – Gal. 2:18-21.
Grieving God's Spirit – Eph. 4:30. Note also Heb. 10:28-29.
Fallen from grace – (Gal. 5:3-4), and frustrating God's grace (Gal. 2:21). We are still under sin's curse when we ignore the new covenant and cling to the old Jewish law system – Gal. 3:10-13. We forfeit God's richest blessings in supporting the way of the old system. But we gain a new sense of spiritual wholeness and wellness in the God-centeredness found in the new covenant!
Christians are supposed to serve God, not men – Mt. 4:10. Today, Christians are serving unbelieving Judaism in Israel. They believe that such darkness and evil are light and good (Isa. 5:20; I Pet. 2:16), because they believe in unbelieving Israel as God's kingdom instead of, or over heaven. They have failed to discern the spirits of error and of apostasy. Indeed, it is an extremely serious shortfall in modern Christendom! How can we even claim to be Christian when we don't hold Christ's words about his real reason for coming to earth to be even equal to those of men today, let alone actually of higher and greater authority? (See the above – Christ's real reason for coming to earth, in his very own words. Hint – It wasn't to establish any earthly kingdom in Israel that supposedly had to be "postponed". Yet America currently sends Israel over $7,000,000.00 a day to support everything Israel believes in, and wants and does!)
Is it really any wonder why we are in such serious trouble today? The church has inadvertently taken the broad path of destruction (Mt. 7:13-14) by failing to heed the entire content and warnings of sacred Scripture. It has been deceived and led astray (I Jo.2:26), and doesn't seem to care!
No favorites with God, re. race or peoples, such as the Jews – Acts 10:34-35.
Believing Jews and Gentiles are now joined together in his church – Eph. 3:10. The rest are lost –I Jo. 5:12.
Israel -- conditional nature of God's covenant with Israel – Jer. 13, Gen. 17:1, 9-14, 23-27, 18:19, 22:1-19, 26:5; Heb. 11:8, 17; Jas. 2:21-22.
Re. the LAND, all was fulfilled – Joshua 21:43-45, 23:14-16; I Ki. 8:56.
Worthless observances – Gal. 4:10; Col. 2:16-17.
It (the law system) was a "yoke of bondage" that the Jews could not bear (Acts 15:9-10; Gal. 5:1). All of these things are termed "useless', and "obsolete" (Heb. 8:6-8 & 13), "worthless" (Phil. 3:11), and thus "abolished" (II Cor. 3:11; Eph. 2:15; Phil. 3:7; Heb. 7:18-19, 8:13 & 10:9-10). Christ's new covenant replaced it forever. Compare all of this to the "yoke" of Christ – Mt. 11:28-30. It is his yoke that contains "good tidings of great joy…" – Lu. 2:10-11. See also Ro. 3:23 & 6:23, and Jo 3:16, etc.
"The old system in the law of Moses was only a shadow of the things to come, not the reality of the good things Christ has done for us" (Heb. 10:1. See also 8:5). He cancels the first covenant in order to establish the second (A better covenant-Heb. 8:6-13). And what God wants is for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time" (10:9-10). "This is the new, life-giving way that Christ has opened up for us through the sacred curtain, by means of his death for us" (v. 20). So, v. 22, "Let us go right into the presence of God with true hearts fully trusting him."
Christ already made it possible to be in his presence (Heb. 10:21-22). So why on earth would anyone need to call back up the cancelled old covenant and Jewish law system to regain what we already have in Christ? As the truth starts to set in, and our minds start to clear and the light of Christ starts to more fully shine in, we begin to recognize the great scope of the deceit that has been perpetrated on the visible church.
The current misrepresentation of Christ's reason for coming here, to establish a glorious earthly kingdom in Israel is false, and a great offense to God. The Scriptures are very clear re. Christ's real reason for coming to earth. We just need to apply ourselves to his Word of truth and start dealing with what Christ actually gave to us by his coming here. For only by doing this can we ever hope to gain a fuller understanding that gets us on our way heaven bound and heavenward, for the world is passing away (I Jo. 2:17). We finally recognize how we have been robbed of our great inheritance in Christ. He provided this for us, and it is not the right thing to do, to shun this wonderful gift and claim the Scriptures are saying something entirely different. Instead we ought to be continuing in this teaching of Christ, so that we will "have fellowship with both the Father and the Son"(II Jo. 9). No wonder many Christians are so weak today, as they have gone wandering back to Jewish myths and have not seen that the old covenant and Jewish law system is abolished by Christ, nevermore to rise again. For only eternal things remain (Heb. 12:26-27).
Whatsoever things are of good report and beauty, whatever "is true and honorable and right" we are to think on these things! Whatever is "pure, and lovely and admirable, excellent, and worthy of praise", these are the things that we American Christians are supposed to support and think upon (Phil. 4:8)! We have no business whatsoever thinking of and supporting evil rebellion and unbelief against God in Israel. But we do have a most serious business with God and his truths and with our own precious Constitution and all of the other documents of freedom! For without these beautiful things, another time of the dark ages looms dead ahead of us! Time to get busy and be about the Lord's business, America! Can't you understand? Time is no longer on your side!
These are the true foundations of the Christian faith (Ps. 11:3) that have been eroded away by judaistic-centered fables and inventions of the day, thus making the Gospel a weak shadow of what it should be. Henry Haley, in his Bible Handbook, rightly called it apostasy. The idea of a glorious earthly kingdom did not originate with Christ, as the above reveals, for he never came here to establish such a thing at all! These clear Scripture passages above ought to be what defines all the rest of Scripture, instead of the reverse order of things as they are today. Because it is really evil to accept evil and to support it, no matter what the rationale! We are not free to "follow a multitude to do evil" (Exodus 23:2), so isn't it really about time that today's professing Christians start caring enough to do some serious and honest work with God and his holy Word and finally seek to get it right? If not, why not???? And pray tell, how on earth can Christians truly "Occupy" (Luke 19:13) without it? Or without our Constitution which makes it possible to serve Christ? Both are under attack today, even while you rest and take your ease! Yet your allegiance ought not to be to unbelieving Israel, but to God and to our own once Christ honoring country!
"You are not slaves; you are free. But your freedom is not an excuse to do evil. You are free to live as God's slaves" (I Pet.2:16).
"Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, 'He is a voice shouting in the wilderness:"Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him! Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills! Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places! And then all people will see the salvation sent from God"'" (Lu. 3:4-6 NLT).
How badly the church today needs to straighten out the pathway it is following and smooth over the rough places to fulfill its proper role in Christ's Great Commission and really lead a needy world to Christ and his kingdom instead of actually redirecting it back around to itself (or back into the world all over again.)!
Anita Whalley. There Is A Kingdom. http://www.booksurge.com/There-is-a-Kingdom-The-Heavenly/A/1419686798.htm (Ctrl + click). It is high time that this book really began to circulate out there! Do your part and order a copy or several today. It's high time to take an active part and support this good work today. And spread the word! Please! This information is one great way to start, and There Is A Kingdom will take you even further on the magnificent Christian journey that Christ makes available to any who follow his truths. It also includes George B. Fletcher's most excellent and thorough treatment of the fabled two-stage second coming theory, in which the first stage is declared by moderns to be the secret rapture of the church!
I know this is the first time that all this information has come to many of you. For others it is not the first time at all, and massive indifference has won out once again! Surely there are some out there who will follow the call and take a stand for what is right! The battle is everywhere today, and so we must work in every direction to defend what's true! Basic knowledge in the right places is a very big help. This book gives one that basic knowledge so that we don't need to be helpless any longer and cave in to falsehoods. A little preparation saves the day, but apathy digs many graves (see Heb. 6:12)!
The time is now to defend Christ's new covenant out there. If we Christians don't do it, who will? We have the necessary tools available, so, come on, let's do it Christians!
"When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps" (Prov. 16:7-9).
To all of you who faithfully follow Christ's call to defend the real truth, I am most grateful, and I salute you as my fellow laborers in Christ! It is good when we Christians can stand up together for Jesus, as well as for America!
Special note – This is an expanded version of the same material that some of you received earlier. I simply felt that a little more information would likely be most helpful to those who were interested in the truth and desired a little more than the most basic information that it contained. Perhaps in all of your travels you can put either one to good use. Please feel entirely free to do so, and God bless you in all of your faithful endeavors for God and country. --A. Whalley.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Relationships:course corrections take us further on in life
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
A Shining City on a Hill
As our former President Ronald Reagan said, "America is a shining city on a hill." But yet, I must differ with him on this point, at least a little bit, as much as I hate to. America was once that shining city set on a hill, and this was so good, largely, at least a lot more of the time than it now is, regrettably. Sure we still do a lot of good in the world, but I feel that we also undo the good that we do. And so we must ask ourselves, do we actually break even in all of our efforts today? Let me explain.
I believe that America's goodness was built upon the foundation of a purer theology that adhered more strictly to the guidelines of Scripture fact and content and did not pass beyond that boundary line into the areas of theory and conjecture that we now see so significantly predominating many peoples' minds in the churches of this day. And this was brought to light as a result of the great Protestant Reformation of the 1500's. There was much less room for such indulgences in empty human speculation, invention, and tradition in our earlier days, and as a result more of the pure Gospel light permeated American culture, in its churches, society, and its laws.
I wouldn't say that our nation had total sight, for very little seemed to be pursued in the entire area of our Lord's new covenant in the Protestant Reformation, regrettably, though the Westminster divines had very great intelligence and wisdom, and recognized many wonderful doctrines that shed a broad light for Christ across the land. I will address these later on at some point, but for now my major concern must rest with my Lord's new covenant, for it is so very badly needed., since it has been so greatly neglected. The lack of information about it has caused much mischief, hardship, and even calamity today in our most holy faith, and in the world. When the true doctrines of the faith are ignored and neglected, it follows along that people suffer as a result. Sadly, this is just as true today as at any earlier time of the dark ages. But we have the Scriptures readily available today, so what is our excuse?
There was a time when the church knew of the doctrines of God's grace and adhered to them. In these, one thing we recognized, that all men are sinners, totally depraved, just as the sacred Scriptures explain.
Americans also believed that" all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Though sadly, it seems they still saw "through a glass darkly" (I Co. 13:12), and failed most miserably to apply it to everyone, for this would have been the Christian thing to do, and also the decent and lawful thing to do.
One foundational Bible fact that the opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence, referred to above, exemplified in human form is found in Romans 2:11. There we read that "there is no respect of persons with God." All are equal (see also Acts 10:34-35), and all are equally born in sin, and lost, except they come to Christ, who justifies the lost "by faith" in Christ (Ro. 3:28, 5:1), who imputes his righteousness to them. Thus we see the Scriptures declaring the rights of all men. We are all in the same fallen condition, until God's grace enters our lives and redeems us out of our fallen state, and lifts us upward on the first leg of our heavenly journey. It is Christ's Holy Spirit who quickens us to accept God's grace and salvation. Without him none would come if left completely to ourselves. We just don't have it in us to come, for we are all totally depraved, just as the Scriptures teach.
And so also, when it comes to Jew and gentile, Christ tore down the middle wall of partition that separated us. "He abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace…" (Eph. 2:14-17).
Here is peace for the Jew among the gentiles, and peace for the black man among the whites. Peace for the Palestinians in the Middle East, and true equality, with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for them also. But we must be very careful here to be sure that this is really being offered to them, and that they are not being treated in something lesser than a first class way, for there are very real signs that this is what is actually happening.
Do American Christians care today? American Christians need to make sure that all people are treated fairly and equally, and not play favorites with only a handful. God has not given us any command at all in Scripture to play favorites, for God does not do so, just as we have seen in the Scriptures above. So, too, Christian doctrine ought to be consistent with these Scripture guidelines, and not contradict them. Christian doctrine should compel believers to be respectful to all peoples on the earth, for Christ died for all. When it claims special favored status for the Jew over the Palestinian, for whatever reason, then it is not following the mandates of Christ's new covenant. Certain modern American Christian ideas, or "doctrine", have espoused an unequal treatment of some who never deserved it, and so America has a very serious problem today at the very core of its belief system.
It is hard to get the attention of a group of people who insist that they are right, even though they are in serious violation of the very foundations of God's wonderful better credential of the new covenant, and our very own wonderful documents of freedom and rights. When all that they care to see is the erroneous idea of glorious earthly kingdom over any of the truer ideas brought forth in Christ's new covenant, then it becomes a really serious problem! When an indigenous people must give way, and maybe even be annihilated in order for another people to reestablish their old cancelled law system and set up their glorious earthly kingdom in place of the heavenly prescribed in sacred Scripture, modern Christianity has run amuck!
All people need mental peace and space to make up their own minds about the things that God has laid before them. They need to hear the Good News of Christ and his Gospel of love and peace. And they need the godly counsel of the straight and narrow way that contains the credential of Christ's new covenant, so that they can grow in his grace and enter into his heavenly Kingdom some day. What they don't need is to be placed theologically on a side rail waiting for the next train to come along to proceed forward into some other earthly destination. There is no benefit in such a message. The beneficial message supreme is in the glorious new covenant that is filled to overflowing with his rich blessings. This alien message is wrought with calamity from start to finish! People don't need an extension of the old covenant, and this is what we have in many of today's churches!
Do American Christians really believe in the opening sentence of our Declaration of Independence, but maybe for just a certain few that they favor, and not for others who stand in the way of what they want and are pushing for? This is the danger of the premillenial mindset. And it is misguided, because it is outside of Christ's new covenant. It is outside the boundary lines that God has set in place to provide for his people, and to keep them safely on the straight and narrow way.
In Heb. 8:13 we read, "In that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."
The shadows and rules of the old covenant have indeed been cancelled. They have all been replaced by the new covenant. This is extremely important information, and we need to pay closer attention to it than we have in the past, for the new covenant has been seriously neglected. This has created great confusion and problems that would not have been, had the church down through the years been diligent to learn of it and to apply it to the church's teaching. I'm sure the apostles would have agreed, for they diligently labored to impress it on our minds. But we read right over it anyway!
It does not have to be that way any longer. We can see clearly now, if we have the will to.
The way of Christ's new covenant has been laid out for you. I especially wrote my book, There Is A Kingdom, to expedite anyone's progress into the place of God's richest blessings. There one can discover God's new way that is so beneficial and rewarding for any whose hearts are waiting on him for their help. There they will not be disappointed!
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I believe that America's goodness was built upon the foundation of a purer theology that adhered more strictly to the guidelines of Scripture fact and content and did not pass beyond that boundary line into the areas of theory and conjecture that we now see so significantly predominating many peoples' minds in the churches of this day. And this was brought to light as a result of the great Protestant Reformation of the 1500's. There was much less room for such indulgences in empty human speculation, invention, and tradition in our earlier days, and as a result more of the pure Gospel light permeated American culture, in its churches, society, and its laws.
I wouldn't say that our nation had total sight, for very little seemed to be pursued in the entire area of our Lord's new covenant in the Protestant Reformation, regrettably, though the Westminster divines had very great intelligence and wisdom, and recognized many wonderful doctrines that shed a broad light for Christ across the land. I will address these later on at some point, but for now my major concern must rest with my Lord's new covenant, for it is so very badly needed., since it has been so greatly neglected. The lack of information about it has caused much mischief, hardship, and even calamity today in our most holy faith, and in the world. When the true doctrines of the faith are ignored and neglected, it follows along that people suffer as a result. Sadly, this is just as true today as at any earlier time of the dark ages. But we have the Scriptures readily available today, so what is our excuse?
There was a time when the church knew of the doctrines of God's grace and adhered to them. In these, one thing we recognized, that all men are sinners, totally depraved, just as the sacred Scriptures explain.
Americans also believed that" all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Though sadly, it seems they still saw "through a glass darkly" (I Co. 13:12), and failed most miserably to apply it to everyone, for this would have been the Christian thing to do, and also the decent and lawful thing to do.
One foundational Bible fact that the opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence, referred to above, exemplified in human form is found in Romans 2:11. There we read that "there is no respect of persons with God." All are equal (see also Acts 10:34-35), and all are equally born in sin, and lost, except they come to Christ, who justifies the lost "by faith" in Christ (Ro. 3:28, 5:1), who imputes his righteousness to them. Thus we see the Scriptures declaring the rights of all men. We are all in the same fallen condition, until God's grace enters our lives and redeems us out of our fallen state, and lifts us upward on the first leg of our heavenly journey. It is Christ's Holy Spirit who quickens us to accept God's grace and salvation. Without him none would come if left completely to ourselves. We just don't have it in us to come, for we are all totally depraved, just as the Scriptures teach.
And so also, when it comes to Jew and gentile, Christ tore down the middle wall of partition that separated us. "He abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace…" (Eph. 2:14-17).
Here is peace for the Jew among the gentiles, and peace for the black man among the whites. Peace for the Palestinians in the Middle East, and true equality, with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for them also. But we must be very careful here to be sure that this is really being offered to them, and that they are not being treated in something lesser than a first class way, for there are very real signs that this is what is actually happening.
Do American Christians care today? American Christians need to make sure that all people are treated fairly and equally, and not play favorites with only a handful. God has not given us any command at all in Scripture to play favorites, for God does not do so, just as we have seen in the Scriptures above. So, too, Christian doctrine ought to be consistent with these Scripture guidelines, and not contradict them. Christian doctrine should compel believers to be respectful to all peoples on the earth, for Christ died for all. When it claims special favored status for the Jew over the Palestinian, for whatever reason, then it is not following the mandates of Christ's new covenant. Certain modern American Christian ideas, or "doctrine", have espoused an unequal treatment of some who never deserved it, and so America has a very serious problem today at the very core of its belief system.
It is hard to get the attention of a group of people who insist that they are right, even though they are in serious violation of the very foundations of God's wonderful better credential of the new covenant, and our very own wonderful documents of freedom and rights. When all that they care to see is the erroneous idea of glorious earthly kingdom over any of the truer ideas brought forth in Christ's new covenant, then it becomes a really serious problem! When an indigenous people must give way, and maybe even be annihilated in order for another people to reestablish their old cancelled law system and set up their glorious earthly kingdom in place of the heavenly prescribed in sacred Scripture, modern Christianity has run amuck!
All people need mental peace and space to make up their own minds about the things that God has laid before them. They need to hear the Good News of Christ and his Gospel of love and peace. And they need the godly counsel of the straight and narrow way that contains the credential of Christ's new covenant, so that they can grow in his grace and enter into his heavenly Kingdom some day. What they don't need is to be placed theologically on a side rail waiting for the next train to come along to proceed forward into some other earthly destination. There is no benefit in such a message. The beneficial message supreme is in the glorious new covenant that is filled to overflowing with his rich blessings. This alien message is wrought with calamity from start to finish! People don't need an extension of the old covenant, and this is what we have in many of today's churches!
Do American Christians really believe in the opening sentence of our Declaration of Independence, but maybe for just a certain few that they favor, and not for others who stand in the way of what they want and are pushing for? This is the danger of the premillenial mindset. And it is misguided, because it is outside of Christ's new covenant. It is outside the boundary lines that God has set in place to provide for his people, and to keep them safely on the straight and narrow way.
In Heb. 8:13 we read, "In that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."
The shadows and rules of the old covenant have indeed been cancelled. They have all been replaced by the new covenant. This is extremely important information, and we need to pay closer attention to it than we have in the past, for the new covenant has been seriously neglected. This has created great confusion and problems that would not have been, had the church down through the years been diligent to learn of it and to apply it to the church's teaching. I'm sure the apostles would have agreed, for they diligently labored to impress it on our minds. But we read right over it anyway!
It does not have to be that way any longer. We can see clearly now, if we have the will to.
The way of Christ's new covenant has been laid out for you. I especially wrote my book, There Is A Kingdom, to expedite anyone's progress into the place of God's richest blessings. There one can discover God's new way that is so beneficial and rewarding for any whose hearts are waiting on him for their help. There they will not be disappointed!
Pick up your copy today on Amazon.com in the Christian books department, and settle in for a truly happy journey that leads upward to Heaven.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Dear God, We Want the Future Right Now!
Today it’s as if much of the modern church has essentially given up on the present. One can almost hear people saying: enough of this already! We don’t need God’s grace in Christ any more, and the Holy Spirit isn’t getting anything done. It’s curtains, right now! So you may just as well bring Christ back to us and get the glorious future earthly kingdom into Israel. But first we want you to come and rapture us away to heaven so we won’t have to hang around here any longer. Chop, chop!
Many such ones today never take any time out to stop and think about much of anything else. If they could bring themselves to go further, they might become aware of God’s real Plan A that has always been in place, but that they never gave any thought to.
God’s Plan A is the far more perfect plan for everyone, and in many ways that they have never been able to recognize or appreciate. Much of the church today would be better served if it would expand its horizons into areas of Scripture that it has given little, if any, real thought to.
It matters not how strongly human desire wants to change or rearrange God’s plans. It will not prevail, because He is the omnipotent Master, and if men do not choose to learn the easy way God has already provided, then they will end up learning the hard way, if they can even do that much. They waste precious time that is available to them, especially now, in some cases where unemployment has them stuck with extra time on their hands. What a perfect time to put to good use reading a really good book that will help them to no end in grappling with the present and the future. So, if you haven’t done so yet, then now is the time. Go to Amazon.com and into the religious, then to the Christian and inspirational books area and type in There Is A Kingdom by Anita Whalley. There you can order the one book that will stimulate your spirit as God’s refreshing breezes with a heavenly scent blow in upon it.
Today it’s as if much of the modern church has essentially given up on the present. One can almost hear people saying: enough of this already! We don’t need God’s grace in Christ any more, and the Holy Spirit isn’t getting anything done. It’s curtains, right now! So you may just as well bring Christ back to us and get the glorious future earthly kingdom into Israel. But first we want you to come and rapture us away to heaven so we won’t have to hang around here any longer. Chop, chop!
Many such ones today never take any time out to stop and think about much of anything else. If they could bring themselves to go further, they might become aware of God’s real Plan A that has always been in place, but that they never gave any thought to.
God’s Plan A is the far more perfect plan for everyone, and in many ways that they have never been able to recognize or appreciate. Much of the church today would be better served if it would expand its horizons into areas of Scripture that it has given little, if any, real thought to.
It matters not how strongly human desire wants to change or rearrange God’s plans. It will not prevail, because He is the omnipotent Master, and if men do not choose to learn the easy way God has already provided, then they will end up learning the hard way, if they can even do that much. They waste precious time that is available to them, especially now, in some cases where unemployment has them stuck with extra time on their hands. What a perfect time to put to good use reading a really good book that will help them to no end in grappling with the present and the future. So, if you haven’t done so yet, then now is the time. Go to Amazon.com and into the religious, then to the Christian and inspirational books area and type in There Is A Kingdom by Anita Whalley. There you can order the one book that will stimulate your spirit as God’s refreshing breezes with a heavenly scent blow in upon it.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Update to President-elect Obama -- 12/4/08
Here’s what’s very much on my mind, President-elect Obama. I hope that you will be much more receptive to such important issues than President Bush was. We all know what he did, namely his own thing, and very little else! He clearly preferred to ignore many vital bits of important information that could have saved a lot of people an awful lot of trouble and grief! Please don’t do that to us again! I don’t think you will.
I feel a very urgent need to keep this enclosed urgent matter in the forefront of our foreign policy concerns. It regards the Middle East situation, and terrorism. It is most critical information! So please, just save everyone a whole lot of time, energy, frustration, and further calamity and give it the serious attention it surely deserves.
For the last few years many people have been using the term “Judeo-Christian” to represent the Christian faith and its criteria of practice. This is clearly a gross misrepresentation, and it is totally wrong, as the Scriptures clearly confirm.
We must begin realizing that the Christian faith is totally a “Christian” entity--of Christ--and must be recognized as such. Judaism, on the other hand, rejects Christianity, and is in no wise any party with Christ. Christ cancelled Judaism or the Jewish law system forever, with his everlasting sacrifice on Calvary’s cross for the sins of the whole world. For this insightful breakthrough we can turn to such scriptures as Hebrews 10:8-10 where we read:
“Christ said, ‘You did not want animal sacrifices or
grain offerings or animals burned on the altar or other
offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them’ (though
they are required by the law of Moses). Then he added,
‘Look, I have come to do your will.’ He cancels the first covenant in order to establish the second. And what God
wants is for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all time.” (NLT. See also KJV and other translations. They all take us to exactly the same place!)
Because of what Christ did for us at Calvary, in cancelling the old covenant, and in tearing down Judaism forever by his own sacrifice of Himself in our place and on our behalf, the Judaism part of the modern term “Judeo-Christian” clearly is a gross misrepresentation of the Christian faith, and it has seriously corrupted it in the eyes of many. Many other scriptures show us this also, as I discuss at greater length in my recent book. In our time, however, the term “Judeo-Christian” seems to have launched us upon a whole new rebuilding of Judaism--the rebuilding of all of the things that Christ tore down (See Galatians 2:18) almost 2000 years ago.
This extremely important insight is what is at the very core and center of our current international crisis with the Islamic world. Nor would it do us any good whatsoever to declare this area of human life off-limits to any consideration of international security and politics. It is the fundamental crux of the entire matter now before us in this security crisis of gargantuan proportions. If we were to just relegate this most important consideration to the untouchable realm of religion without any meaningful consideration of it, our security would continue to be threatened. That would be carrying the separation issue to an absurd extreme, which would be the height of human folly, since all of mankind believes in something in some one religious sense or another. And if we are ever to restore any moral foundation for America’s leadership in this world, then we are obligated to address this serious matter. Else wise we have no moral grounds for serious leadership on earth any longer.
The most helpful thing would be for this nation generally to stop confusing the Christian faith, complicating it needlessly, and combining it with Judaism, because God has made it abundantly clear in the sacred Scriptures that this is unacceptable to Him. And in recent years it has been very instrumental in wreaking havoc in America’s international affairs and security. It has not benefited other nations either.
True diplomacy, if we would have it, must start with this overwhelming reality. In fact God is the real Diplomat, in all that He accomplished 2000 years ago in the work of his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He sent forth grace, and love, and mercy, into all of this needy world, and now we have ruined it by confusing it and mixing it back up with unbelieving Judaism. We ourselves didn’t do it, but we are blindly following it and those who did do it, and so begins our troubles! We’re in a huge mess over this matter, with militant Islam going after us in their own kind of “holy war”. Religion is indeed at the very heart and soul of this contention with militant Islam, and if we don’t have enough sense to address it, then we have nothing in us of any value at all!
But we can stop it if we can bring ourselves to come into the truth at long last and mean business with the living God who wrote the inspired Scriptures. We don’t have to be the helpless pawns in the devil’s game. God gave us all that we need to succeed and be victorious in Him. But we must get serious with Him!
And also, I would submit to you another important insight. It is simply that the great Christian faith has been around this troubled world for almost 2000 years. It has lifted much of lost humanity, and breathed new life into many lost souls. Even the Arabs know that! And don’t you think that they will indeed begin to sympathize with us in our situation here if and when we finally begin to demonstrate to them that we are not so entirely out-of touch with their thoughts, concerns, and feelings either? If we do our own homework with Christ, then they will undoubtedly gain new respect for us and sympathize with the predicament that we all now face with the modern unbelieving state of Israel. If we continue in our current mindset they will continue to view us as superficial, shallow, and shortsighted professing “Christians” who know or care little about the real Christian faith.
Thus, “holy war” with the western hypocrites! If you are truly wise, President-elect Obama, you will begin in earnest in this one vital area among the many to indeed “today..begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today”, just as you have promised you would do. If you are willing to follow God’s truth, you will make it a much better world than what we now have facing us.
For more important information in this vital area of things, my book on all of this is available on Amazon.com in the Christian inspirational books department. There Is A Kingdom, by Anita Whalley. Complimentary copy is available from the author with the receipt of Barack Obama’s correct mailing address. --Anita.
Here’s what’s very much on my mind, President-elect Obama. I hope that you will be much more receptive to such important issues than President Bush was. We all know what he did, namely his own thing, and very little else! He clearly preferred to ignore many vital bits of important information that could have saved a lot of people an awful lot of trouble and grief! Please don’t do that to us again! I don’t think you will.
I feel a very urgent need to keep this enclosed urgent matter in the forefront of our foreign policy concerns. It regards the Middle East situation, and terrorism. It is most critical information! So please, just save everyone a whole lot of time, energy, frustration, and further calamity and give it the serious attention it surely deserves.
For the last few years many people have been using the term “Judeo-Christian” to represent the Christian faith and its criteria of practice. This is clearly a gross misrepresentation, and it is totally wrong, as the Scriptures clearly confirm.
We must begin realizing that the Christian faith is totally a “Christian” entity--of Christ--and must be recognized as such. Judaism, on the other hand, rejects Christianity, and is in no wise any party with Christ. Christ cancelled Judaism or the Jewish law system forever, with his everlasting sacrifice on Calvary’s cross for the sins of the whole world. For this insightful breakthrough we can turn to such scriptures as Hebrews 10:8-10 where we read:
“Christ said, ‘You did not want animal sacrifices or
grain offerings or animals burned on the altar or other
offerings for sin, nor were you pleased with them’ (though
they are required by the law of Moses). Then he added,
‘Look, I have come to do your will.’ He cancels the first covenant in order to establish the second. And what God
wants is for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all time.” (NLT. See also KJV and other translations. They all take us to exactly the same place!)
Because of what Christ did for us at Calvary, in cancelling the old covenant, and in tearing down Judaism forever by his own sacrifice of Himself in our place and on our behalf, the Judaism part of the modern term “Judeo-Christian” clearly is a gross misrepresentation of the Christian faith, and it has seriously corrupted it in the eyes of many. Many other scriptures show us this also, as I discuss at greater length in my recent book. In our time, however, the term “Judeo-Christian” seems to have launched us upon a whole new rebuilding of Judaism--the rebuilding of all of the things that Christ tore down (See Galatians 2:18) almost 2000 years ago.
This extremely important insight is what is at the very core and center of our current international crisis with the Islamic world. Nor would it do us any good whatsoever to declare this area of human life off-limits to any consideration of international security and politics. It is the fundamental crux of the entire matter now before us in this security crisis of gargantuan proportions. If we were to just relegate this most important consideration to the untouchable realm of religion without any meaningful consideration of it, our security would continue to be threatened. That would be carrying the separation issue to an absurd extreme, which would be the height of human folly, since all of mankind believes in something in some one religious sense or another. And if we are ever to restore any moral foundation for America’s leadership in this world, then we are obligated to address this serious matter. Else wise we have no moral grounds for serious leadership on earth any longer.
The most helpful thing would be for this nation generally to stop confusing the Christian faith, complicating it needlessly, and combining it with Judaism, because God has made it abundantly clear in the sacred Scriptures that this is unacceptable to Him. And in recent years it has been very instrumental in wreaking havoc in America’s international affairs and security. It has not benefited other nations either.
True diplomacy, if we would have it, must start with this overwhelming reality. In fact God is the real Diplomat, in all that He accomplished 2000 years ago in the work of his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He sent forth grace, and love, and mercy, into all of this needy world, and now we have ruined it by confusing it and mixing it back up with unbelieving Judaism. We ourselves didn’t do it, but we are blindly following it and those who did do it, and so begins our troubles! We’re in a huge mess over this matter, with militant Islam going after us in their own kind of “holy war”. Religion is indeed at the very heart and soul of this contention with militant Islam, and if we don’t have enough sense to address it, then we have nothing in us of any value at all!
But we can stop it if we can bring ourselves to come into the truth at long last and mean business with the living God who wrote the inspired Scriptures. We don’t have to be the helpless pawns in the devil’s game. God gave us all that we need to succeed and be victorious in Him. But we must get serious with Him!
And also, I would submit to you another important insight. It is simply that the great Christian faith has been around this troubled world for almost 2000 years. It has lifted much of lost humanity, and breathed new life into many lost souls. Even the Arabs know that! And don’t you think that they will indeed begin to sympathize with us in our situation here if and when we finally begin to demonstrate to them that we are not so entirely out-of touch with their thoughts, concerns, and feelings either? If we do our own homework with Christ, then they will undoubtedly gain new respect for us and sympathize with the predicament that we all now face with the modern unbelieving state of Israel. If we continue in our current mindset they will continue to view us as superficial, shallow, and shortsighted professing “Christians” who know or care little about the real Christian faith.
Thus, “holy war” with the western hypocrites! If you are truly wise, President-elect Obama, you will begin in earnest in this one vital area among the many to indeed “today..begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today”, just as you have promised you would do. If you are willing to follow God’s truth, you will make it a much better world than what we now have facing us.
For more important information in this vital area of things, my book on all of this is available on Amazon.com in the Christian inspirational books department. There Is A Kingdom, by Anita Whalley. Complimentary copy is available from the author with the receipt of Barack Obama’s correct mailing address. --Anita.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
A Living Faith
We see in our nation today so much of an all-inclusivism that does not care to address the content of religious practice. Instead we have reached the dreaded point of a preference of ignorance pertaining to beliefs. It doesn’t matter about the power of false ideas, just as long as one believes in something--anything, really, no matter what, just as long as it is currently non-violent. So an important question must be asked. That is, where is truth in all of this exercise in this all-inclusive dogma that supports just about anything under the sun? Alongside of that one must also ask just how helpful to the individual who is earnestly longing for God’s real truth all of this modern falling away really is! Of what benefit is actual truth when all that modern man seems to want to do is to ignore it and to demean it to a point of irrelevance and bury it in a multitude of new age and new world trivia to prevent it from troubling all of those who would indeed prefer to see God finally dead after all.
Along the dusty, winding trail to this dark point in time, the church has, it now appears, desired to remain aloof from the most powerful and uplifting elements in the faith of Christ. Outside of naming his name as the Savior sent to us from God, it has become apparent that the key to religious practice must generally remain aloof from any in-depth application to Christ’s new covenant. Thus has the stage been set for the return to the darkness from which Christ came to set mankind free.
Instrumental to our arriving at such a low point in history has been the practice of dead ritual alongside of false doctrines in far too many cases. Dead ritual in churches is a pernicious disease that feeds the church like an epidemic when the church chooses another way to God that eschews any intimate relationship with Him. It is the choice of those who choose to come upward in another way, in fact any other convenient way, except the one true way prescribed in sacred Scripture! It feeds upon stage settings and showmanship. It indulges itself in endless works of ritual in many different forms, but that adheres to empty religious practice and human exercises so reminiscent of the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ day.
As this has run its complete course, it appears, today, after years of attacks upon the Word and its wonderful liberating truths, we now have arrived at the point wherein we start to notice and even feel our awful spiritual emptiness and deficiency. So in order to feed our hunger we must inject something, even anything, into our empty religion of the day. And so, what else could we possibly care to choose but more empty rituals! And so, in the forms of such observances as the Jewish feast of tabernacles and the Passover observance we strive to find and claim the blessing that eludes us from God today. This is the place of modern fundamentalistic evangelical Christianity today. The most recent claim is that these are God’s feast days and observances, and are not actually a part of the Jewish law system. And yet they did make up a great and significant part of Jewish practice, and still do today. If they are not a part of this, but are of God entirely instead, then God would show his one true light through them. If they were indeed of God and his new covenant, a statement of exception would be forthcoming from the Word, at such places as Col. 2:16. They would be recommended far more than Christ’s new covenant agenda for the church. Instead, however, the New Testament Scriptures at such places as Heb.7:18 and 8:13, Phil. 7:11, and II Co. 3:11 clearly show us the futility and worthlessness of such empty activities. What the modern church hopes to gain from such dark endeavors is what they have indeed been missing out on in their empty and lifeless ritualistic gathering themselves together to usher in the new age of Zionism. In spite of all of the empty claims and rhetoric to further the cause of Christ, they have chosen to ignore the valuable insights of the new, and have now chosen to revert back to the old. And so they prove themselves continually that they themselves are of the devil’s works of darkness.
The power to release the captives (Lu. 4:18) and set them free (Gal. 4:24-25) is not taken into account, while they seek to enslave the church (Gal. 2:4-5) and reestablish it brick by brick upon that “unbearable yoke” (Acts 15:9-10) that the apostle Luke discouraged so vehemently in the infant church. The old way that led to death (II Co. 3:6-9 and Tim. 1:4-7) is what much of the church is all about today! Minds have become closed (Eph. 4:17-18) and so have they regressed back to “the weak and beggarly elements” (Gal. 4:8-10). In claiming not to be works-oriented in their concept of salvation, they become ever more so. Again, they have reverted back to that other foundation that is based on mere human reasoning and logic (Gal. 1:11-12). This is far outside of the realm of grace, but takes them right back into the works of the law and human effort (See Gal. 2:16-21 and 3:1-3). So much of empty religious ritual has taken its toll, and empty religion outside of the actual and true faith of Christ as revealed in his new covenant have masterfully set the stage for the new world order and Zionism’s overcoming of Christianity. (Take a closer look at the back of your dollar bill if you still doubt this!) This is the real program of antichrist--to finish off God’s grace in Jesus Christ. This is Satan’s shining hour--his crowning achievement that paves the way for ever increasing darkness and despair. This is the great fulfillment of empty established religious practice absent God’s real truths.
What has supposed to have been the Good News of God’s grace or unmerited favor (Gal. 2:4-5) in the age now come (Heb. 6:5) has failed to make its mark today as it should have. One primary reason for this is the church’s failure to give due honor to the new covenant. Everything else, it seems, is far more important than paying heed to what should matter the most!
Some today in the church still mention the word “revival”, hoping that somehow it will just materialize out of thin air. This is just merely another part of the modern church’s folly and hypocrisy. There is really only one way for the church today to prove its calling and election in Christ. It must address its own grave shortcomings and indifference to the true will of God on the earth, and become willing to learn and accept the things that matter most that have been eluding it for so long. I think that, should such a thing as this happen, then real revival will come to the world without any other kind of human endeavor and effort whatsoever! The actual power of the Holy Spirit will become manifested as the real truth of the Word appears. Without this, this world will continue into an ever deepening downward spiral into hell!
To learn much more valuable information on this important subject that should rightly matter to every Christian, go to Amazon.com and look up There Is A Kingdom by Anita Whalley in the inspirational books section. This is a great Christian book that is bound to take one into God’s larger place of miracles and heavenly breakthroughs, and bring dead-end “Christianity” to end forevermore.
We see in our nation today so much of an all-inclusivism that does not care to address the content of religious practice. Instead we have reached the dreaded point of a preference of ignorance pertaining to beliefs. It doesn’t matter about the power of false ideas, just as long as one believes in something--anything, really, no matter what, just as long as it is currently non-violent. So an important question must be asked. That is, where is truth in all of this exercise in this all-inclusive dogma that supports just about anything under the sun? Alongside of that one must also ask just how helpful to the individual who is earnestly longing for God’s real truth all of this modern falling away really is! Of what benefit is actual truth when all that modern man seems to want to do is to ignore it and to demean it to a point of irrelevance and bury it in a multitude of new age and new world trivia to prevent it from troubling all of those who would indeed prefer to see God finally dead after all.
Along the dusty, winding trail to this dark point in time, the church has, it now appears, desired to remain aloof from the most powerful and uplifting elements in the faith of Christ. Outside of naming his name as the Savior sent to us from God, it has become apparent that the key to religious practice must generally remain aloof from any in-depth application to Christ’s new covenant. Thus has the stage been set for the return to the darkness from which Christ came to set mankind free.
Instrumental to our arriving at such a low point in history has been the practice of dead ritual alongside of false doctrines in far too many cases. Dead ritual in churches is a pernicious disease that feeds the church like an epidemic when the church chooses another way to God that eschews any intimate relationship with Him. It is the choice of those who choose to come upward in another way, in fact any other convenient way, except the one true way prescribed in sacred Scripture! It feeds upon stage settings and showmanship. It indulges itself in endless works of ritual in many different forms, but that adheres to empty religious practice and human exercises so reminiscent of the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ day.
As this has run its complete course, it appears, today, after years of attacks upon the Word and its wonderful liberating truths, we now have arrived at the point wherein we start to notice and even feel our awful spiritual emptiness and deficiency. So in order to feed our hunger we must inject something, even anything, into our empty religion of the day. And so, what else could we possibly care to choose but more empty rituals! And so, in the forms of such observances as the Jewish feast of tabernacles and the Passover observance we strive to find and claim the blessing that eludes us from God today. This is the place of modern fundamentalistic evangelical Christianity today. The most recent claim is that these are God’s feast days and observances, and are not actually a part of the Jewish law system. And yet they did make up a great and significant part of Jewish practice, and still do today. If they are not a part of this, but are of God entirely instead, then God would show his one true light through them. If they were indeed of God and his new covenant, a statement of exception would be forthcoming from the Word, at such places as Col. 2:16. They would be recommended far more than Christ’s new covenant agenda for the church. Instead, however, the New Testament Scriptures at such places as Heb.7:18 and 8:13, Phil. 7:11, and II Co. 3:11 clearly show us the futility and worthlessness of such empty activities. What the modern church hopes to gain from such dark endeavors is what they have indeed been missing out on in their empty and lifeless ritualistic gathering themselves together to usher in the new age of Zionism. In spite of all of the empty claims and rhetoric to further the cause of Christ, they have chosen to ignore the valuable insights of the new, and have now chosen to revert back to the old. And so they prove themselves continually that they themselves are of the devil’s works of darkness.
The power to release the captives (Lu. 4:18) and set them free (Gal. 4:24-25) is not taken into account, while they seek to enslave the church (Gal. 2:4-5) and reestablish it brick by brick upon that “unbearable yoke” (Acts 15:9-10) that the apostle Luke discouraged so vehemently in the infant church. The old way that led to death (II Co. 3:6-9 and Tim. 1:4-7) is what much of the church is all about today! Minds have become closed (Eph. 4:17-18) and so have they regressed back to “the weak and beggarly elements” (Gal. 4:8-10). In claiming not to be works-oriented in their concept of salvation, they become ever more so. Again, they have reverted back to that other foundation that is based on mere human reasoning and logic (Gal. 1:11-12). This is far outside of the realm of grace, but takes them right back into the works of the law and human effort (See Gal. 2:16-21 and 3:1-3). So much of empty religious ritual has taken its toll, and empty religion outside of the actual and true faith of Christ as revealed in his new covenant have masterfully set the stage for the new world order and Zionism’s overcoming of Christianity. (Take a closer look at the back of your dollar bill if you still doubt this!) This is the real program of antichrist--to finish off God’s grace in Jesus Christ. This is Satan’s shining hour--his crowning achievement that paves the way for ever increasing darkness and despair. This is the great fulfillment of empty established religious practice absent God’s real truths.
What has supposed to have been the Good News of God’s grace or unmerited favor (Gal. 2:4-5) in the age now come (Heb. 6:5) has failed to make its mark today as it should have. One primary reason for this is the church’s failure to give due honor to the new covenant. Everything else, it seems, is far more important than paying heed to what should matter the most!
Some today in the church still mention the word “revival”, hoping that somehow it will just materialize out of thin air. This is just merely another part of the modern church’s folly and hypocrisy. There is really only one way for the church today to prove its calling and election in Christ. It must address its own grave shortcomings and indifference to the true will of God on the earth, and become willing to learn and accept the things that matter most that have been eluding it for so long. I think that, should such a thing as this happen, then real revival will come to the world without any other kind of human endeavor and effort whatsoever! The actual power of the Holy Spirit will become manifested as the real truth of the Word appears. Without this, this world will continue into an ever deepening downward spiral into hell!
To learn much more valuable information on this important subject that should rightly matter to every Christian, go to Amazon.com and look up There Is A Kingdom by Anita Whalley in the inspirational books section. This is a great Christian book that is bound to take one into God’s larger place of miracles and heavenly breakthroughs, and bring dead-end “Christianity” to end forevermore.
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