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Chapter 16
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Nation within -- Nation Without
Mat 24:7 KJV) For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
This statement surely has its outward application as to nations of the world. It also has its application to the Kingdom that lies within each of us. The Kingdom of God within us is rising up against the kingdom of my own making that also lies within me. When that happens and I don’t choose the ways of the Lord as King over me -- earthquakes within the dirt-man start happening.
(Mat 24:8 KJV) All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then -- all of those delayed choices to surrender to the Lordship of Jesus within me begin to birth many sorrows within me.
(Mat 24:9 KJV) Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Then -- these rebellious choices deliver me up to be afflicted and even be killed rather than give up my stiffed- necked rebellion to the Lordship of Jesus over me.
(Mat 24:10 KJV) And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
Then -- I get offended. I have experienced myself and see people almost every day that are offended because of the pain of the life they have chosen.
Then -- resentment brings hate to the ways of the Lord because they are so painful. It is a serious thing to refuse to bow to the Lordship of Jesus over me and cling to The Lie that I can run my life and be my own lord evidenced by the life of self-rule.
I believe this hatred will arise in those that refuse to hear the Kingdom message of blessings by inheritance only and submission to the Lordship of Jesus over them.
(Mat 24:11 KJV) And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
There are many teachers and prophets teaching today about events that will allow a person to remain in their religious beliefs and just trust Jesus to take them to Heaven without ever bowing to His Lordship over them.
They are totally committed to this Lie that says you can be saved and then -- live by self-rule: doing right by doing good things and then -- die and go to Heaven. That is a false message.
Self-rule can easily adopt living right and doing good as part of its lifestyle. There needs to be a definition of rebellion. When we talk about rebellion -- we tend to think of someone that is evil and involved in murder or stealing and refuses to obey God.
Rebellion is self-rule. Self-rule has many faces. I can be a very good person and still be completely in charge of my own life; I can do many good things but be totally un-yielded to Jesus as Lord.
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is the same tree. One side of it is good and one side is evil -- but it is the same Tree. The tree that represents those that are submitted to Jesus as Lord is the Tree of Life. It’s a different tree. We can’t be a part of the Tree of Life unless Jesus is Lord.
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You can’t just accept Jesus as your personal Savior and then -- live as lord over yourself and be blessed. That life may bring much increase and much good works but Jesus said: You call me Lord and so I am -- then why don’t you submit yourself to Me.
(Luke 6:46 KJV) And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
(Mat 24:12 KJV) And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
The root of iniquity is self-rule
(Mat 24:13 KJV) But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
He that submits to the Lordship of Jesus over them and endures to the end of self-rule shall be saved.
(Mat 24:14 KJV) And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
The Kingdom message Jesus is talking about isn’t the grace message that allows you to be saved and live as lord over yourself. Buying and selling and then storing up to be blessed isn’t the message Jesus preached. The Kingdom message King Jesus preached is the message of blessings by inheritance and submission to Jesus as King and Lord over His Kingdom.
We can’t be a personal property owner -- even an owner of yourself -- and enter the Kingdom of God that is eternal. I call that eternal Kingdom of God the “Omega Kingdom” to differentiate between that and the “Grace Kingdom” of God that allows people to do all kinds of things and still live.
I can hear Christians say: Well -- What about Ephesians 2:8 ?
(Eph 2:8 KJV) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
(Eph 2:9 KJV) Not of works, lest any man should boast.
We are saved by the grace of God because grace allows God to wait until we believe by faith that He is Lord over us and supplies all our needs through inheritance. Grace isn’t given for us to use to be our own lord. Grace is given so we can stay alive until we hear the Gospel of the Kingdom and we make Jesus both Lord and King over us.
Rebellion against the authority of the King isn’t allowed in the Omega Kingdom of God. It can’t even enter it. Nothing that can defile can enter the Omega Kingdom of God. Every knee will bow to the Lordship of Jesus the Christ or it won’t enter the eternal Kingdom of God -- period.
(Rev 21:23 KJV) And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
(Rev 21:24 KJV) And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it
I can’t believe that Jesus is Lord and yet -- continue not to submit to Him as my Lord.
(Rev 21:25 KJV) And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
The reason there is no night there is there has never been any Sin there. Night never existed until Sin entered Creation.
(Rev 21:26 KJV) And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
(Rev 21:27 KJV) And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
The Lie says you can be your own lord and still be blessed. That belief will not enter the Omega Kingdom of God.
As the final completion and burial of the Alpha Kingdom nears its end -- everything is moving faster and faster. It’s something like water going down a drain. As everything is dying -- it is sucked into the infinite darkness of Sin. As it gets nearer and nearer to the darkness it begins to go faster and faster until it is gone into the grave of the Alpha Kingdom.
I saw a Discovery Channel program where they were showing the black holes that are in every Galaxy in the Universe. To me -- this is a testimony in the stars as to what is happening to the Alpha Kingdom. Remember -- all of Creation -- including the stars and galaxies -- are a part of that Alpha Kingdom and it will all pass away with a great noise.
(2 Pet 3:10 KJV) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
This gives us some idea as to the magnitude of the power of The Lie that Satan was the father of. Its destructive power even destroyed Satan that gave it life and would have gone on forever. Jesus the Christ had to die to destroy it. That Kingdom was so great when it was alive that the Lord can use the death of it as a foundation for The Truth to stand on. God will build a new Universe that will last forever. That Universe will be standing on the death of The Lie that says we can bless ourselves by our own power.
As the stars get near the black hole of The Lie -- they are drawn into that black hole. The drawing power of that black hole is so strong that not even light can escape it.
That describes exactly what is happening to the Alpha Kingdom. Those swirling galaxies are telling us that the Universe -- as it was originally created -- is coming to an end as we know it.
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These scientists are telling us that as this black hole (to me that black hole is the symbol of Sin) is killing everything that gets near it. It eventually consumes all the stars around it and when there is no more food for it to consume -- guess what happens; The black hole dies just as when there are no more people that will believe The Lie -- The Lie dies.
Science tells us the black hole explodes with a great noise and new galaxies are born again out of that explosion.
What a testimony to us as to what God is doing. When a seed falls into the dirt and dies -- it brings forth much fruit. (John 12:24)
(2 Pet 3:10 KJV) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
If that isn’t a prophetic statement as to just exactly what is getting ready to happen -- I don’t know what could be plainer. Trouble is increasing in the whole world as men and women try to find some purpose and meaning for their lives.
What they are really doing is they are trying to establish a peaceful life in a world system that is dying. The world system of the Alpha Kingdom of buying and selling by doing my own will to be blessed is dying. God has decreed it so and we will never change it.
If I entangle myself in it -- I will die in it. It’s like a cancer that is consuming its host. Yet -- people are desperately trying to use it to establish their goals and purposes to be blessed. It will never bless them.
In order for me to be blessed in the Alpha Kingdom -- or Egypt as it is sometimes called in the Bible -- I have to be sent there by God to accomplish His purpose and not mine.
When and if God sends me into Egypt to accomplish His purpose for me being there -- then He will finance and protect me while I’m there using His methods of blessing by inheritance and His favor toward me.
Then -- the promise of no weapon that is formed against me will prosper will become a reality to me.
Of the nine lepers that wanted to be healed so they could return to the lifestyle that made them sick in the first place -- none of them were made whole. The only leper that was made whole is the one that returned back to Jesus to worship Him as Lord over him. That leper wanted God’s will and purpose for his life and not his own will for himself.
The only things that can pass through the Cross into the future Kingdom of God are things that die first. The Cross is the Doorway into the future Omega Kingdom of God. It’s the Kingdom of the resurrection. You have to die to get in it.
The stone that was rolled in front of the tomb of Jesus the Christ -- wasn’t to keep Jesus in the tomb -- it was to keep the world out. The stone was a symbol of The Truth that everything that isn’t in the tomb is dead. The tomb is the womb where a new life was conceived as well as the birth canal where that life would come forth.
To the natural world or the Alpha world as I call it -- it looked like Jesus was dead. No! It was the outside world that was dead in Sin. It looked like Jesus came out of the tomb thru the same door He entered in -- but that isn’t what happened. When three days were passed -- another door was opened into the Omega Kingdom of God and Jesus entered that Kingdom by the way of death to His own will.
Jesus is now the King of a new Creation and Christ is now Lord of that same Creation which was brought forth because they both died to doing their own will to be blessed. They are alive from the death of being their own lord and have submitted themselves to each other. Jesus the King is the authority of this new Kingdom and Christ is the Lord of this new Kingdom.
Creation is no longer in the hands of one being -- but two beings in one body. They are exactly the duplicates of the two beings that were brought forth to establish this new Kingdom. Adam and Eve were brought forth as two beings in one body called Adam.
(Gen 5:2 KJV) Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
The stone was rolled away so those that were still living in the Alpha Kingdom of God or what we call the natural world -- could look into the tomb and see that it was empty. The stone was rolled away so we could look in and see that -- if you die to your own way -- you enter another world through another door.
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