Put Your Name here.....

Without the gift of the Holy Spirit one cannot understand the spiritual teachings of the bible. That is made very plain by Jesus, when he said: "Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth" (John 16:13) And that teaching was confirmed by the Chosen Vessel thus: "But as it is written, eye has not seen, nor the ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by his spirit"(1Cor.2:9-10):

So if you are a temple of God, in whom the spirit of God dwells, you will be able to understand what I have briefly written on the allegory of Galatians four. 

In the last few weeks, my readership has increased by hundreds, but I wonder how many readers understand what I have written?

One's road to Damascus

To have received the gift of the holy spirit, one has to have been met, by God Almighty, on one's road to Damascus. And today, you should be able to call to remembrance that experience. For the inspired words of the Chosen Vessel are these: "But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;" (Heb.10:32). The third chapter of Lamentations begins with these words: "I am the man (put your name there) that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."

After explaining the wrath of afflictions God heaped upon him to bring him to repentance, he said: "My soul have them still in remembrance, and is humble in me" (Lam.3:20).

If you can't put your name there, you are not converted and you don't have the Holy Spirit: and you can't understand the bible - however much you may read it. "For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons..."(Heb.12:7).

Please, carefully note the inspired text that follows, for it tells us why so many that were in WCG were bastards, and not sons. They came to the church without chastening and repentance. They couldn't put their names there. Therefore, they were bastards(Heb.12:8). 

The tenth Generation

Also, God inspired Moses to write: "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord" (Deut.23:2).

The tenth generation is the final generation for entry, for the eleventh generation indicates sin, as it oversteps the law. That is why there were eleven veils in the temple, separating the sanctuary from the Holy of Holies. That meant sinners, that is, the children of the flesh, Hagar the bond woman, were separated from the children of the spirit, represented by Sarah, the free woman, and her son.

Yet, people who were born out of wedlock, that is, bastards, were allowed to attend WCG's services, and some were even baptised. That is an indication of the level of biblical ignorance that existed in WCG.

Sadly, that was primarily true among the ministry. For in my 22 years attending services with WCG, I never met a single minister that was converted.  

Arthur Suckling

The only exception is probably Arthur Suckling. In 1975, when he first invited me to church, he gave a sermon detailing the sufferings he endured in the army or navy, because he wanted to keep the Sabbath. He can put his name there.

I was also baptised by him, (around 2.30 in the afternoon, on 2nd June 1975, in Woking) and in 1980, when I was being stripped naked of garments of pride, and being clothed with humility ( 1Pet.5:5), he was there, by God's mercy, to comfort me. May he find mercy of the Lord in that day.

Also, in 1995, every single minister I met, I asked him, "Did you speak out against the Tkach's heresy?" They all said, no. That is a complete failure to earnestly contend for the faith.

The Temple Details.

 I have written briefly on the allegory of Galatians four, There is much more to be said about Jesus and his wife, the church, which Paul describes as a great mystery (Eph.5:32).  However, God willing, I shall return to that mystery at a later date.

But for the present, I want to focus on a few details of the temple. You may remember that I asked, "who were the four men carrying the tabernacle?" When the tabernacle was finished, consecrated and sanctified, no one was allowed to touch it. To touch it was an immediate death sentence.

We subsequently learned that the true temple, not made with hands, is the Christian body, which is sanctified by the Holy Spirit dwelling in him (1 Pet.1:2). The Christian is therefore inviolate, with special protection. To touch a Christian is a death sentence. So King David was inspired to write: "Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm"(Ps.105:14-15). And the prophet was also inspired to write: "For he that touches you touches the apple of his eye" (Zec.2:8).

When Jesus was on earth, he warned people not to offend God's elect or even to despise them.  For he said: "Woe unto the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offences come: but woe to that man by whom the offence comes! (Matt.18:7)  Later, he said: "Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels always do behold the face of my father who is in heaven" (Matt.18:10).

For those who offend God's elect, Jesus added, "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matt.18:6).  If that is better, I shudder to think what could be worst.

However, the four men, that carried the tabernacle represented four angels. For of the angels he says: "Are they not ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to them that shall be heirs of salvation"(Heb.1:14).  The angels also bear us up thus: "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, (as they carried the tabernacle) lest thou dash thy foot against a stone" (Ps.91:11-12), and (Luke 4:11).

The angels that always behold the face of God, are sent to destroy those that despise and persecute God's elect. The command is, "Touch not my anointed!"

The Temple

Moses was admonished of God to make the tabernacle according to the pattern he had seen in the mountain. Later, the children of Israel donated lots of resources for the building of the tabernacle, and God gave Ehud the knowledge and skill to use the materials to build the tabernacle. When it was finished, it was consecrated, and four men, two at the front and two at back carried it by two poles, through four rings; two on either side of the tabernacle.

The details are very significant. For instants, who were the four men that carried it? But more importantly, what was the pattern that Moses saw in the mountain? A pattern of what (Ex.25:40; Acts 7:44; Heb.8:4-5)?

Years later, King David had a burning desire to build a temple for the Lord.  But because he was a man of war, that honour was given to his son, Solomon. But did Solomon, with all the knowledge and wisdom he had, know what was the pattern that Moses saw in the mountain?

The Sanctuary 

The sanctuary, represented in the allegory, by the bond woman, Hagar: it was from there that the first covenant was administered by the Levitical priests. The administration of the 24 courses, introduced by King David, was from the lighting of candles to the offering of sacrifices, for the sanctification of the flesh. Not the conscience (Heb.9:1-2).

The Levitical priests were not allowed into the Holy of Holies. That honour was reserved for the High Priest, on the day of Atonement (Lev16:1-20). Here again, the details are recondite and sublime; and the admonition is, "He that has ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit says unto the churches"(Rev.2:17).

However, a brief summary is, the sanctuary has been destroyed; the Levitical priesthood abolished and the bond woman and her children have been cast out. I appreciate that I haven't explain what was the pattern that Moses saw in the mountain, but I will come to that. Although, it is sad that, as we approach the end of the world, the men who claim to represent God don't understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.

The Holy of Holies

The Holy of Holies was located behind the second veil, and it was this veil that was "rent in the midst" just before the death of Jesus (Luke 23:45). The rending of the veil revealed that access to the Holy of Holies was now being made manifest by the death and resurrection of Jesus. Access was not possible while the first tabernacle, that is, the sanctuary was still standing (Heb.9:7-8).

Of course, after Jesus's resurrection, he entered into the Holy of Holies, to offer himself a sacrifice, without spot, for the redemption of God's elect (Heb.9:11-12).

The pattern that Moses saw

The pattern that Moses saw was from inside the Holy of Holies. But what was it? At the Passover, after Jesus cast out those that were selling oxen, sheep and doves, he made a comment that appeared to his audience to be ridiculous. He said: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up(John.2:19). His audience didn't understand what he was saying, but John was inspired to record, "He spoke of the temple of his body."

For the first time in the history of the world, Jesus revealed that the temple was a pattern of God reflected in the duality of the human body, which is the fulfillment of the plan he purposed in himself before the foundation of the world. The plan was, "Come let us make man in our own image, and in our likeness."

At a later date, Paul asked the Corinthians: "Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you"(1 Cor.3:16)? With all the confusion that was in Corinth, some could have honestly said, "We didn't know that." Also, what about the thousands that attended WCG, and are now in GCI, UCG, LCG, COG/Hulme, RCG, PCG, COG/Dave Havir, are they temples of God?

In another passage, Paul shocked by the defilement that was in the church, responded with, "What? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own"(1 Cor.6:19)? And again, (2Cor.6: 16).

Yet, despite all the rebukes and admonitions, people are still carnal.  In WCG, we had adultery, fornication, drunkenness and other sins too awful to mention.

The duality of man

The duality of man takes us back to the allegory of Galatians four, where it is written, "Abraham had two sons." God also has two sons, Adam and Jesus, and both of them are portrayed in the temple. Adam in the sanctuary, and Jesus in the Holy of Holies. Adam is an image of God, as all human beings are, who are born according to the flesh. But Jesus is of the spirit, He is "The likeness of his glory, and the express image of his person...(Heb.1;3).

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Today, we have an army of men who claim that God has appointed them to preach the gospel. So one would expect these men to know, and be able to explain to their congregations, what was the pattern that Moses saw in the mountain?  Supposed that question was posed to the Chosen Vessel, by a member of the church at Ephesus? Do you think the Chosen Vessel would be blushing with the embarrassment of ignorance?

To be continued

The Folly of Science.

Today, science has been elevated to the status of a religion, where people, included those who call themselves Christians, every morning march up to the temple of the gods to do homage, and listen to their latest empirical assumptions.

Yet, the Chosen Vessel in his Epistle to Timothy, admonished thus: "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and opposition of science falsely so called" (1 Tim.6:20). Note the phrase "falsely so called." The term science is derived from the Latin, meaning knowledge.  But God describes it as false knowledge, and warned his people to avoid it. But try telling that to David Hulme, who preaches psychology, and calls it the gospel.

The "vain babblings," are the idiotic, nonsensical theories we hear, ever so often, on anything from climate change to carbon footprints. But Paul warned Timothy that "vain babblings" have the same affect on the mind as cancer on body (2 Tim.2:16-17. The "vain babblings," spiritually, kill people's minds..

Also, in Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians, he says, "The wisdom of this world comes to nothing"(1 Cor.2:6).  And he added, for it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent" (1 Cor.1:19). All the empirical assumptions, conjectures, surmises and speculations spoken and written by the gods of science, who are now dead, have come to nothing. Yet, every morning, the worshippers of science march up to temple of the gods to sing their praises.

Of course, we have several branches of science, but the biological branch is the worst that has ever afflicted the world.  The gods of science, thinking that they can improve nature, invented pesticides, which are sprayed on the land by people in protected suits, for fear of being poisoned. 

The pesticides kill what the gods of science label pests, but these creatures were placed in the soil by God to purify the land. The pesticides poisoned the land, the birds, the animals, the food and our bodies. When we inevitably get sick, we are prescribed legal drugs, with their destructive side effect to hasten our death.

In addition, for 5.5 thousands years, cows were eating green grass, drinking water and producing milk. Then the gods of science said, to get more milk and better beef, cows must be fed bone meal. As a consequence, cows now get sick, and to get them better, a multibillion pound/dollar industry called: veterinary surgery has been developed to poison cows and other livestock with legal drugs. For sick animals never get better. Often, the solution is, kill all of the sick animals to save  those that are not sick.

We even now need pet insurance, to protect our cats and dogs from the poisons of processed foods.

If this madness were scripted in Hollywood, no one would believe it. Yet, it is reality in the evil world in which we live.

When I was boy, growing up in Barbados, our dog ate the scraps that fell from th poor man's table, and not a single cat or dog ever went to a vet.

To be continued

The Allegory, Part 2.

 I did promised to return to the allegory of Galatians four, so I have torn myself away from all my preoccupations to fulfill my promise.

The first covenant, as represented by Hagar, the bond women, was abolished at the time of reformation (Heb.9:9-10. At the reformation, which occurred at the death and resurrection of Jesus, the old covenant was abolished, along with the Levitical priesthood, the ordinances, ritual sacrifices and the fulfillment of the prophesied destruction of the earthly Jerusalem, which occurred in 70AD. That was the complete casting out of the bond woman, and her son.   That is, the children of Israel, born according to the flesh.

They were replaced with the new covenant, as represented by Sarah, the free woman. For Paul said, God, "who also has made us able minister of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life(2 Cor.3:6). The Levitical priesthood, which administered the letter of the law, was replaced by the Mechisedec, where Jesus is now the high priest, who administers the spirit of the law, from the heavenly Jerusalem, under the new covenant.  That law is now written in the hearts and minds of the children of God (2 Cor.3:3).

That was the fulfillment of the promised covenant, prophesied by Jerimiah thus: (Jer.31:31-35), and also referenced by Paul, in (Heb. 8:8-12).

The new covenant was established in the church of God on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came and wrote the law of God in the hearts and minds of his sons and daughters. If you have not received the gift of the Holy Spirit, it means you don't belong to God, and your life is not worth living, as you are a child of the bond woman. 

However, I am reminded that Stephen was murdered by the council for explaining that the old covenant had been abolished, and that Jerusalem would be destroyed. The council, including Paul, ignorant of the teachings of Jesus, murdered an innocent man (Acts 6:9-15) and Acts 7:1-60).

As the Chosen Vessel would say, "As I wrote afore in few words..;(Eph.3:3). Similarly, this is very brief, but I shall take time to explain the meaning of the temple or tabernacle of God.

To be continued

Revelation, Enlightenment and Verbal Inspiration

 I have written briefly on the allegory of Galatians 4. But I will return to the subject and explain the New Covenant, as represented by the free woman, Sarah, and her son, Isaac. 

However, before returning to the allegory, I want to bring to the attention of those who have ears to hear, another mystery of God. Those who failed to understand this mystery, the bible, for them, will remain a sealed document.

As is usual with the Chosen Vessel, he often introduces mysteries that were concealed in the Old Testament, by saying, "It is written." Here is a similar example thus: But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them to us by his spirit (1 Cor.2:9-10):

The question that screams at us for an answer is this: who are the people that love God? For Jesus says, "He that has my commandments, and keep them, he it is that love me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my father, and I will love him and manifest myself unto him (John 14:21). 

That statement rules out an army of people, who pay lip service to keeping the commandments of God, and that was and is primarily true of the hireling ministry, who were and are nothing more than duplicitous politicians.That behaviour makes them carnally minded, and therefore unable to understand the allegory of Galatians 4, why Paul was in continual sorrow or what God has prepared for those that love him.

However, after using the analogy of the inscrutability of the human mind by others, to illustrate that God's mind is also inscrutable, and we can only know the things of God, if he reveals them to us by his spirit: Paul says, "We  have received, not the spirit of the world (of course, the spirit of the world is the devil), but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are feely given to us of God (1Cor.2:12). Thereby, the Christian moves from revelation to enlightenment. That is, "The eyes of their understanding being enlightened ;(Eph.2:13-18).

Of course, those that have not received the spirit of God, the revelations of the spirit of God are foolishness unto them, because they are carnally minded (1 Cor.2:14).

Next, Paul moves to verbal inspiration thus: "Which things we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches:(1Cor.2:13). From the divine vocabulary, the Holy Spirit chooses the words to enable the writer or speaker to explain what God has revealed to him. Hence, "All scripture is given by the inspiration of God" That is wonderfully sublime.

In contrast, note the phrase, "Not in the words which man's wisdom teaches." Man's wisdom is derived from empiricism, which is based on assumptions, conjectures, surmises and speculations, all leading to erroneous conclusions. The gods of science usually invent a vocabulary, designed to hide their ignorance and blind the public. For example, what the bible calls fear, the gods of science call "anxiety:" without understanding or defining what it means

Today, when any of our leaders, and especially scientists, open their mouths to speak, they invariably begin with phrases, such as,  "I think, I believe, in my opinion, the evidence indicates, the assessment is, etc., etc. Which means, we are ignorant. Plus, the Chosen Vessel was inspired to write: "For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent(1 cor.1:19).

Yet, people who claimed to believe in God, have more faith in medical science than in the healing power of Jesus Christ. Ye, it doesn't matter how many drugs  are given to the sick, they never get better. In fact, the side effects of the drugs often hasten their death.

Today, we have millions of people in care homes, on every medication under heaven, yet not a single person ever leave a care home alive. Yet, every morning people march up to the temple of the gods of science to pay homage: often leaving awe struck at the latest promise of rejuvenated health, which never occurs.

If this madness was scripted in Hollywood, people would fall about laughing.

All Israel Shall Be Saved.

The Chosen Vessel, as he was loving called by his Lord and master, Jesus Christ (Acts 9:15) is writing one his most recondite and sublime Epistle to the Romans. The Epistle is replete with doctrines; not a single word of exhortation is written, until chapter twelve.

Sadly, this Epistle, like Ephesians and many other Epistles, were sealed documents in WCG. None of the hireling ministry ever understood the Epistles of Paul.

In this post I want to examine and elucidate a concern the Chosen Vessel expressed about the children of Israel. He began by saying: "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit. That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish (and we have to add, had it been possible. For only Jesus can die for redemption of God's elect) that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh (Rom.9:1-2):

The question that demands an answer is this: If all Israel shall be saved (Rom.11:26), why would the Chosen Vessel (had it been possible) be willing to sacrifice his salvation for the salvation of his kinsmen, according to the flesh?

Understanding the phrase, "according to the flesh," is essential to understanding, why the Chosen Vessel was in "great heaviness and continual sorrow?" Of course, King Solomon was inspired to write: "He that increases knowledge, increases sorrow." The Chosen Vessel understood that there are two Israels, one according to the flesh, and the other according to the spirit. The Israel, according to the flesh, is destined for destruction. They are called, "vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction (Rom.9:22).  and that made Paul very sad, especially knowing that they were his kinsmen.

To begin to understand this deep, sublime mystery, one has to be able to understand the allegory of Galatians 4:22-31.

The allegory begins, "For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free woman."  The free woman, Sarai, despairing of being able to have a child, pleaded with Abraham, her husband, to go in unto Hagar, and make her pregnant (Gen.16:1-4).

The son conceived, and born from the relationship, was Ishmael, and is described in the allegory, as a child according to the flesh.

In the allegory,  Hagar, represents the old covenant, given from mount Saini, and administered from the earthly Jerusalem, who is in bondage with her children, that were born according to the flesh.

Sarai told Abraham. "Cast out the bond woman and her son; for the son of bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free women." 

That means, cast out the old Jerusalem, Hagar, and her children; the old covenant and its rituals, which were performed by the Levitical priests.

The casting out occurred at resurrection of Jesus. The abolition of the Levitical priesthood occurred at the same time. On the day of Pentecost, the new covenant was implemented, and the heavenly Jerusalem began to give birth to her children. Hence, the quotation from Isiah thus: "Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break (in the allegory, Sarah represented as the barren that did not bear) barren forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate (Hagar) has many more children than she that has a husband.

The Chosen Vessel, a man endowed with exceedingly great wisdom, anticipated the question that most thinking people would ask: "Is there unrighteousness with God (Rom.9:14). For God choose Isaac instead of Ishmael, and Jacob instead of Esau, and that decision was made in eternity, and was revealed in the dispensation of the fullness of time. Paul's initial reply to the question is, God forbid. But then he proceeded to prove by pure, logical deduction, that God cannot be unrighteous. The basis for that process of reasoning is contained in the analogy of God being the master potter. where the question is asked: "Can the thing formed say to him that formed it, why has thou made me thus" (Rom.9:21?" Well, you can ask the question, but are you justified in asking it?

When pure reason led Paul to the proof that God cannot be unrighteous, his exclamation of wonder is recorded here (Rom.11:33-36).

 

To be continued.