There is only one way that anybody who has grown up inside today’s Churchianity will be able to ACCEPT these truths, and that is IF HE HAD GROWN UP TO KNOW JESUS Christ personally!

When the spirit lead me to these deeper truths about the manifestation of the sons of God, I DEEP DOWN knew this was the truth, because for years God has been putting me through HIS FIRE! And in that FIRE I got to know Him personally, got to know Him as MY Father, MY Lord, MY Saviour. I grew up realizing that HE was the only One who SAVED me, who CALLED me and who DELIVERED me from my enemies. I grew up realizing that EZETTE [my SELF] is my biggest enemy and that there is NO WAY that I can die [defeat my SELF] apart from HIS HELP! That He is the Only who gives me the DESIRES OF MY HEART and the POWER TO OBEY HIM! That HE was the One who opened my spiritual eyes, and that I WAS SPIRITUALLY DEAD before He came and raise me from spiritual death! That my Salvation was all HIS DOING… and that was when I started to realize that I had very very little say in my Salvation! NO CHOICE WHAT SO EVER!!! That I was SPIRITUALLY DEAD and BLIND until He shone HIS LIGHT/TRUTH into my spirit… just like He did with Saul on the road to Damascus.

HE CHOSE TO SAVE ME… it was all His idea! I could not CHOOSE Him, because I WAS SPIRITUALLY DEAD and a dead person cannot CHOOSE! That TRUTH slowly but surely started to take a hold of me, started to DESTROY the false doctrine of FREE CHOICE! IF my salvation was all His idea, and if He was able to SAVE ME, then HE IS ALSO ABLE TO SAVE ANYBODY that He chooses to save!

Over and over again The Spirit took me to those verses where Jesus said; ‘No one can come to me except if the Father draws him.” Verses like, God is the potter and we are the clay; God chooses whom He wants to use as vessels for His glory of vessels of His JUDGEMENT, opened my eyes to the truth of GOD SOVEREIGNITY! That He was truly able to DO AS HE SAYS… I WILL SAVE THE WORLD and I WILL BECOME ALL IN ALL!

The verse; ‘In Adam ALL DIED and IN CHRIST ALL was made ALIVE” started to become LIFE!

DEEP DOWN I knew that I WAS CALLED/PREDESTINED… just like Paul was chosen even before his birth. I spiritually grew up to realize that I have very very little choice in anything, that God is INDEED MY LORD! The one who LEADS me and guides me minute by minute THROUGH GOD ORDAINED DAILY circumstances! That made me feel very very small, but at the same time made GOD VERY VERY BIG!

I grew up in a ‘church’ where WORKS was very very important. Every Sunday we had to recite the 10 commandment, and hear about a very angry God. And every time an evangelist came to town I was the first one at the altar… pleading with God to save me once again! They preached that only SOME will be saved while the rest will to to hell! That only some are CHOSEN, PREDESTINED. That God was a very ANGRY God and that I better obey the 10 commandment or I will go to hell! SO I tried and tried in my own strength to keep the letter of the Word, to be a GOOD Christian. SO I did not smoke or drink or sleep around or commit murder… but now when I think back I started to become puffed up, because I did better than most of the ordinary people out there in the world [outside my denomination] and some INSIDE my denomination. At that stage I had very little personal relationship with God and a very up and down spiritual life.

It was only at the age of 35 that the Spirit lead me to another meeting where I started to learn more about Him! I got baptised with the Spirit and was led OUT of that denomination. I started to follow the Spirit and started to GROW spiritually… started to DECREASE as CHRIST IN ME started to INCREASE. At one meeting I saw this vision of a huge red burning ball coming right towards me. It was only after a while that I realize what that meant… I got baptised with the Spirit AND WITH FIRE! The more I grew In CHRIST, the more I got to know God’s CHARACTER! That He is a GOOD GOD, a LOVING Father! I grew to the point where I realized that there is NO WAY that MY FATHER will only choose some and send the rest to hell! So I started to believe the doctrine about FREE WILL. That God gives every person FREE WILL to choose or reject Him. Well that got MY FATHER off the hook and put the responsibility to ‘get save’ on people alone. BUT…. after more years of GROWING IN CHRIST/ of getting to know yet more of God’s character, God started to open my eyes to His Sovereignty, that HE IS THE ONE WHO CALLS PEOPLE that He is the One who give life to the spiritually DEAD, that He was the ONE who called me! [As I've explained above].

So once again I was confronted with “why only SOME WERE PREDESTINED”! Well at that stage of my walk with God, I knew much more about His character… THAT HE WILL NEVER EVER ALLOW ANYBODY TO GO TO THE HELL that we have been taught about, and that HE IS ABLE TO DO WHAT HE WANTS…. That His will will be done! And that HE IS ABLE to do what He promises! SAVE THE WORLD.

That was when the Spirit lead me to the teaching about the MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD, and all of a sudden all the above puzzle pieces fell into place. All those PREDESTINED verses fell into place. Yes, God did PREDESTINES SOME [not all] to reign and rule with Him after He had made them OVERCOMERS! That it was NEVER His intention to save ALL during their lifetimes in the flesh… that He NEVER EVER SAID that a person’s only chance to be saved was while he lived IN THE FLESH. That the WORLD is NOT going to come to an end at the end of THIS AGE… and that ALL PEOPLE will receive their resurrected bodies, just like Jesus [our pattern] received His, and that God’s Kingdom WILL BE ESTABLISHED ON EARTH [the earthly realm] just as it is IN HEAVEN [the heavenly realm]. That CHRIST will rule UNTIL He has put ALL HIS ENEMIES under His feet.

Friend if Jesus told us OVER AND OVER again to forgive our enemies and to bless those who curse us, and that we need to LOVE OUR ENEMIES… and that our enemies are NOT FLESH AND BLOOD… then how can we THIINK that God is going to KILL PEOPLE… those children that He CREATED!! God KNOW who our enemies are, even when we have no idea that we are BOUND and taken hostage by the evil spirits of this world.

In order to become an OVERCOMER you have to OVERCOME the spirit of religion that is inside today’s Churchianity [called the beast out of the sea in the book of Revelation], with all its lies and false doctrines ABOUT the character of God… and you have to overcome the spirit of this world, the economic and political spirit who is controlling the worldly systems today. Every single overcome in every age and every generation had to overcome SELF and the above mentioned two beasts!

The resurrection from the dead makes absolutely no sense if we believe that we go to heaven after we die… and that is exactly what be were taught to believe. Yes we did believe Jesus was resurrected but that was about it. We were taught that we are going to die and then we are going to live forever in heaven… leaving earth behind. That was why our life, and especially the lives of all the unbelievers. made absolutely NO SENSE. Oh we tried to understand LIFE, but just THINK for a change. HOW DARE we say that we teach the GOOD NEWS when we preach that only a few are going to be saved while the rest are going to hell to burn in a fire for ever and ever? How can we preach that God is ALMIGHTY, but in the same breath say He is not able to save all people? Why do we say He is a GOOD GOD but in the same breath say He is going to send billions to eternal hell? Things just do not add up.

Oh but Friend, as soon as God opens our eyes and we start to SEE God’s OVERALL PLAN for the ages EVERYTHING starts to make sense… then we can really get EXCITED about THE GOOD NEWS.

But the very first thing we need to realize is THE ROLE OF THE OVERCOMERS in the ages to come, and that all the previous ages were orchestrated for the HUGE purpose of PREPARING THE OVERCOMERS for their role in reigning and ruling with Christ.

Then and only then will we understand WHY some believers have to go through so many hardships, trials and difficult situation. Why SOME believers are willing to DIE TO SELF while the rest just keep on enjoying their lives. [I assume most of you reading this is on the OVERCMING CRUCIFYING road and know exactly what I am talking about. ] We got to realize that life here on earth is only our TRAINING GROUND… a place where we can LEARN to overcome all our spiritual enemies! A place where we can LEARN OBEDIENCE throuth the things we suffer. WHY? So that we can take part in the first resurrection and receive our IMMORTAL BODIES in order to reign and rule with Christ in the ages to come.

RULE??? Jesus Christ. THE HEAD. is coming back to earth to RESTORE THE EARTH, not to destroy the earth. Yes, He is coming back to destroy the SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, but not the physical world. He is coming to DESTROY all His spiritual enemies. Together with His body [the immortal overcomers], He is going to reign and rule ON EARTH until ALL HIS ENEMIES are put under His feet, until He becomes ALL IN ALL!

TAKE NOTE: Those MATURE BELIEVERS, the overcomers, remnent, who are going to take part in the first resurrection from the dead, they will all be DEAD IN CHRIST! I am not talking about physical death, but DEATH TO SELF! They would all have DIED to their own will, mind, emotions while they were alive on planet earth BEFORE their resurrection. They will all be like Jesus who could say; ‘I do NOTHING but what I see my Father is doing.” and with Paul they will be able to say ‘I myself no longer lives but Christ is now living His life in me. They would all have lived the CRUCIFIED LIFESTYLE while in the flesh. ALL of them were made willing [by God] to lay down their lives, pick up their crosses, and follow/obey Christ. That’s why they are THE ONES who are going to take part in the FIRST RESSURECTION, and will be able to reign and rule with Christ in the ages to come…. BECAUSE THEY WENT THROUGH THE REFINERS FIRE WHILE THEY LIVED IN THE FLESH.

TAKE NOTE: Some of the overcomers will be dead [in the grave] and others will be still alive on earth at the time of the second coming /first resurrection of the dead.

FIRE? God’s a CONSUMING fire! John said, “Someone else is coming who will baptise you with Spirit AND FIRE.” ONE thing you can be sure off… God’s fire WILL burn all dross OUT of you; will destroy all your spiritual enemies… will make sure that Christ becomes ALL in You my Friend. The only question is just WHEN WILL YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH GOD’S REFINERS FIRE? Will you allow Him to PUT YOU THROUGH HIS REFINERS FIRE NOW, while you are still living in the flesh, or must He do it AFTER you are resurrected from the dead… at the SECOND RESURRECTION from the dead/White Throne Judgement?

EVERY SINGLE PERSON EVER CREATED WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH GOD’S REFINERS FIRE … also called LAKE OF FIRE!

BUT the GOOD NEWS IS… in that fire ALL His, and our enemies WILL BE DESTROYED, until Christ is ALL that is left in us. Man’s enemies are NOT FLESH AND BLOOD, but all those spiritual forces that are keeping him in bondage… the beast within [human nature] and the beast without [the spirit of the world]… and they are ALL going to be destroyed in THE LAKE OF FIRE! Those believers and unbelievers who are NOT going through the refiners fire while they are ALIVE ON PLANET EARTH [earthly realm] WILL have to go through the fire after their resurrection from the dead. That resurrection will take place after the 100 year millennium/tabernacle age.

God’s FIRE is a spiritual fire… a good thing! God’s JUDGEMENTS will lead to righteousness!

Those who will take part in the second resurrection from the dead will be SEVERELY JUDGED… and their judgements will take place in the lake of fire. So they will die physically first, and then AFTER THE GRAVE, will come their resurrection and JUDGEMENT. The overcomers on the other hand will receive their judgement while they are alive in the flesh… and will only be resurrected afterwards in order to reign and rule WITH Christ. They will be ALIVE [LIVE WITH CHRIST/IN CHRIST/THROUGH CHRIST] during the millennium/tabernacle age, while the rest of those who ever lived will be dead.

The Overcomer’s

• judgements [death to self and enemies] will take place while alive in the flesh
• will take part in the first resurrection from the dead
• will reign and rule with Christ in Tabernacle/Millennium age in their immortal bodies
• will be ALIVE when White Throne Judgement AGE and second resurrection of dead will take place
• then the rest of the ages will come through which Christ and His overcomes will continue to reign and rule until Christ has become ALL IN ALL.

Rest of believers and unbelievers will be IN THE GRAVE through the NEXT AGE [millennium 100 years] until the WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT AGE where they will take place in the second resurrection from the dead. During that age they will then have to go through their JUDGEMENTS/ lake of fire. AND as they [rest of believers and unbelievers] die to SELF they will receive their immortality.

QUOTE: John is the only writer of Scripture to use the term “first resurrection.” It is found in Rev. 20:4-6.

⁴. . . And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. ⁵ The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.  ⁶ Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years. 

The fact that there is a “first” resurrection mandates that there be a second to follow at a later time. John makes the point that the first resurrection occurs a thousand years prior to the general resurrection, which he talks about later in the chapter.

In verse 5 he tells us specifically that “the rest of the dead” would remain dead for a thousand years after the first resurrection. He does not define “the rest of the dead,” but he does make it clear that those who are raised in this first resurrection are believers in Christ. He calls them “blessed and holy,” and he calls them “priests of God and of Christ,” called to reign during the thousand years.

Therefore, we can say with certainty that no unbelievers are raised in this first resurrection. John is silent, however, on another intriguing question: Are ALL Christians raised in the first resurrection, or just a portion of them? For the answer to this question, we will look at other passages shortly.

Meanwhile, let us make the point that John is here talking about “resurrection.” By the Hebraic view, this refers to a bodily resurrection from the dead, NOT one’s justification by faith, or going to heaven, or some other spiritual experience. Remember that John himself was a Hebrew, and his writings pointedly denounce the Greek world view that had crept into the Church through what is called “Gnosticism.” Thus, when John talks about the resurrections, one should not adopt a view contrary to what John believed and taught in his other writings.

The Second (General) Resurrection

 In Rev. 20 John continues his thought, telling us of a second resurrection that includes ALL the dead who were not raised in the first resurrection.

¹¹And I saw a great white throne, and Him who sat upon it … ¹²And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds… ¹⁵And if anyone’s name was NOT found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

This is clearly a picture of the great judgement, at which time all sinners will be judged who were not raised in the first resurrection. There are also TWO BOOKS present: the “books” and “the book of life.” All are judged by that which is written in “the books.”

It is a common misconception that these books are the records of every deed done by humanity. Some teach that God keeps a record book on each person in the world. However, this really misses the point. These are the books of the Law, by which all sin is judged. John tells us that “sin is lawlessness” (1 John 3:4), and Paul adds, “where there is no law, neither is there violation” (Rom. 4:15). In other words, the Law of God is what defines sin and righteousness. It is the divine standard by which the works of men are measured. Without a law, there is no crime committed. Thus, the Law is what God uses to judge humanity for sin, or as Paul puts it, “the law brings about wrath” (Rom. 4:15).

So the logical conclusion is that the “books” out of which God judges men are the books of the Law, to which men are held accountable as the divine standard of right and wrong, sin and righteousness. God needs no record book on each person, because in each court case, witnesses will be called to testify (Matt. 12:41, 42). But he does need the books of the Law in order to judge righteously, for “where there is no law, neither is there violation” (Rom. 4:15).

But “the book of life” is also present at this great judgment. If only unbelievers were here to stand before God for judgment, then why would the book of life be there? Furthermore, John’s wording makes it plain that some Christians will indeed stand before God at this judgment. He tells us that only those NOT found written in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire. The clear implication is that many ARE found written therein.

Is it possible, then, that the general resurrection will include both Christians and nonchristians? We cannot be positively sure from Revelation 20 alone, but the passage does clearly imply this. For clear proof we must go to some other passages.

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by Elaine Cook

Before I shared this word at the ’97 Feast of Tabernacles in Portland, the Lord dropped an unusual word into my heart: “. . . in the volume of the book it is written of me. . ” (Psalm 40:7) I didn’t know where it fit at the moment. But, soon I realized it had to do with something that is written in the book — something about you and me. It is not just written of Jesus — it is something written of us, His many-membered brethren. And, as Jesus, we are coming to say with Him: “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.”
In the volume of the book it is written of us. It is exciting to know that, even in the Old Testament there are things written of us, for us, and about us, and we never knew it! As I was praying about what to share, the Lord spoke, “I want them to know about Benjamin.” So, we’re going to learn what is our portion in the volume of the book that is written about Benjamin.

Benjamin is a type and a shadow of God’s remnant people of this day, even that people who are being prepared of the Lord to enter into the New Day — the Kingdom — His Rest.

I met a sister in North Carolina to whom the Lord had spoken repeatedly, “Benjamin is coming! There will be no more food until Benjamin is released by the Father.” We both wondered at this unusual word, but recently it has come into focus and we understand it. As we learn about Benjamin, we will refer to it again and then we’ll understand who it is that is coming and why there is no food until he gets here. We need to go into a little history to get the background to be able to understand what God is saying here about us.

Benjamin’s father was Jacob. And we know that Jacob was born in the promised land. We also know that he took his brother Esau’s blessing by deceit and then had to flee for his life. He was to have a reward, though, for his father told him to go to Mesopotamia to seek a bride. This was the same country where Abraham had lived and the Lord had told him to leave there and to press on to the promised land. He didn’t know where he was going, just as we don’t know how to get to the Promised Land of our inheritance today. Abraham just walked each day as the Lord led him, and he arrived there in due time. He was happy to leave behind his town, “Ur of the Chaldeas”, for that means “Ur of Babylon”. He was living in Babylon (confusion) and the Lord told him to come out of it!

Now, we find the grandson of this great man of faith returning to Babylon, fleeing from the flesh-man and seeking after a bride. It doesn’t look good, but God is in it!

When Jacob arrived in the land of his mother’s people, he fell in love with a beautiful girl named Rachel. She had a sister Leah who was “weak-eyed”, whatever that means. We know that she was not fair to look upon as Rachel was. Jacob loved Rachel and he worked for seven years for her. He said they seemed unto him but as a few days, for the love he had for her.

At last came the day of the wedding when he could hold his beloved close to his heart. What joy and anticipation he had !

But alas, God’s law of sowing and reaping was about to come into play. Jacob had tricked his brother Esau to get the blessing of the firstborn, and now, unknown to him, his father-in-law, Laban, was about to play a trick on him!

He took his new bride to his lodgings that night and he loved her. It was not until the morning light came that he realized that he had embraced Leah. He was distraught with anguish. He cried, “Oh, I have taken Leah unto myself! I have embraced Leah! How could you do this to me?” He sought out Laban and complained angrily, “Why have you done this? Did I not serve you for Rachel?”

The wily Laban answered smoothly, “It is the law that the firstborn, the eldest, must be married before the younger. But if you really love Rachel, we can arrange for you to work another seven years and you may have her also.” Jacob didn’t have to wait another seven years. He simply had to “fulfil Leah’s week” and then he could marry Rachel. He didn’t have too much choice. He found himself with two wives when he loved only one.

Now, thereby hangs a tale — the story of our lives as Christians! Here I am going to open us some types and shadows so we may understand where we have walked. Leah stands for the LAW. Jacob embraced the law first, even though he doesn’t love it. Rachel speaks of the spiritual principles of the gospel dispensation, the 2000 years of the Church Age that we have walked. Rachel speaks of that.

This is the Church Age where the Spirit of the Lord is moving. The life of God is being made manifest in the lives of the people. The Lord has come to abide in temples not made with hands! The Law doesn’t look very attractive in comparison to a spirit-led life. Leah’s eyes were weak; she couldn’t see the things that Rachel saw. Her eyes were dim and weak. She couldn’t see the things of the spirit. All she could see was the letter of the law.

We first embrace that concept. When we are first saved, we embrace the law. We are married to the law for some time — but, at the same time, we are in the gospel dispensation. Many years we labor in works, trying to earn our salvation. Though we came to the Lord by faith, we were soon told that we had to do “this and that” to keep our salvation, to keep in good standing with the Lord.

What would you call that? We thought we had married Rachel, but, in fact, we had embraced Leah — the law! And do you know what the law brought forth?

The law brought forth ten sons. How many commandments are there? Ten! “Ten” always speaks of the law and testing. These ten sons came forth from Leah and the servant-girls. The servant-girls were called “bondwomen”, so all the fruit of the law came from Leah and the bondwomen, and it genders to “bondage.” All the time that the law and the bondservants were being very prolific, poor Rachel is barren. She is so embarrassed and humiliated. One day she couldn’t handle it any more and she pleaded with Jacob, “I must have sons! Give me sons or I die!”

He answered impatiently, “Woman, do you think I can be God to you? Why do you talk like that to me?” He felt as desperate as she did. He wanted to bring forth by spiritual principles. He wanted to bring forth after grace, but that part of him was barren and unfruitful. He couldn’t bring forth anything from spiritual principles, or from grace because the law had taken preeminence.

Remember, Rachel speaks of spiritual principles of the gospel age, and when she felt so badly about being barren for so long, she said she had “suffered reproach.” She suffered reproach because she could not reproduce His image within her. Do you hear it?

And we have been barren for a long time — desiring to reproduce the image of Christ in us, but we didn’t see His image coming forth. We were barren. We could not reproduce His image! But the day came when “. . God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her. And she conceived and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: and she called his name Joseph, and said, The Lord shall add to me another son” Gen. 30:23,24.

The name Joseph means “adding.” It was a prophecy that the Lord was going to add to her another son. I wonder whom that will be? Joseph is always a beautiful type of Jesus. When Joseph came (or Jesus), there were no more sons born through the law or the servants. That was all over! After Jesus gave Himself in sacrifice on the cross for us, the ceremonial law ceased. By dying for us, and giving us of His Spirit, He takes away our reproach and gives us power to produce His image in us. Oh, glory to God!

After Joseph came, the law and the bondmaids were finished bearing. That source of life could no longer be fruitful and multiply, for there was a change of order. Joseph (Jesus) was to rule over all Egypt and come into his glory through the things that he suffered.

And then, in due time, Rachel became pregnant with Benjamin. Jacob had, by this time, become greatly increased with flocks and herds and was longing to go back to his homeland. He said to his wives, “I just want you to see my homeland. It’s called the Promised Land and it’s a very fruitful place, flowing with milk and honey. I want to take you home to my land.”

When he had first come to Mesopotamia, he had come to take back a bride and now he was leaving with two wives, eleven children, and numerous flocks and herds. Herein hangs a tale! When we, who have been born in that fruitful realm of the spirit, return to Babylon, it is to labor until we are able to take the Bride and flocks (sheep), and cattle (some bestial natures who have taken on our hue rather than Laban’s) to that realm of spirit that is our home and our inheritance.

They journeyed until “there was but a little way to come to Bethlehem (Ephrath): and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.”

It looked like they could lose her and perhaps even lose the baby also, but the midwife said, “Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.” And she did. She had Benjamin, but she died in the birthing. And therein is a tremendous lesson — a crystal-clear picture of us!

Here we have Rachel, who speaks of the gospel dispensation, returning to the Promised Land. The immediate destination was Bethlehem, but she died just a short distance from it. Bethlehem means “the house of bread,” or “fruitfulness.” This speaks to us that this Church Age is going to pass away just short of fruitfulness. It’s not quite going to reach “the house of bread” before it brings forth Benjamin. In her dying cry, Rachel called, “Benoni! Benoni!” She named the child “the son of my sorrow.”

Have you noticed that the wives, both Rachel and Leah, chose the names of each child? Jacob had never interfered with their choice, but this time he did. He said, “He shall not be called ‘Benoni.’ He shall not be called ‘the son of my sorrow.’ His name shall be “Benjamin, the son of the right hand.” Hallelujah!

I want you to know, saints, as far as the church system is concerned, in every generation, those who have been a part of this remnant company (and our generation is no exception!), the church that is yet a mixture — part law and part grace — considers us “the sons of their sorrow.” They wonder, “Why can’t they fit in with us? Why do they have to be so different? Why do they always have to be so discontented? Why can’t they be satisfied with our forms and rituals and the traditions we learned from our fathers? Why do they have to want Jesus with all their hearts?” Yes, we are the sons of the church’s sorrow.

I had to leave the church system (and I didn’t want to leave), after I prophesied in the church. This Pentecostal Church was quite cold and no one ever prophesied there, so I was given the choice either to keep quiet or to leave. I felt this was no place for me, so I said, “I’m out of here!” They were not yet ready for any manifestation of the Spirit. Leah was still alive and well and in authority there, and I had embraced Rachel.

There was no way I could go back to Leah. I just couldn’t stand those “weak eyes” that didn’t have any vision, that couldn’t see what God was doing! And Rachel is so beautiful. I had embraced her spiritual principles and I couldn’t let her go.

Rachel travailed and brought forth this son, “the son of the right hand,” a little short of the house of bread, a little short of the fullness, a little short of fruitfulness. Christians are grieved when they consider that we’ve had the Holy Spirit for these 2000 years and we have churches on every corner, yet there are so few believers. Why is it that the world has become so wicked and the church doesn’t have that much power to influence it? Why is it? It is because Rachel is dying.

She didn’t make it to fruitfulness. She didn’t make it to the house of bread. But it’s all right, for that one that she brought forth — that remnant, is going to make it! Yes, he is! Yes, we are! In the volume of the book it is written of us. Glory to God!

I want to go back a few steps to consider something. What city did Rachel and the others leave to go to the Promised Land? They were living at Bethel when they set out on this journey. Bethel means “the house of God.” Why would anyone want to leave “the house of God?” Isn’t it blasphemous to talk like that?

Look at it this way: they were leaving the old way of thinking, the old mind set, the old traditions of men to go with Jesus. They were going to go with spiritual principles. They were on the way to fruitfulness when Benjamin was born, but they had still “fallen short” , for they were yet “a little way” from Bethlehem.

This second son is from the same source of life as the first one. Jacob is his father, and Rachel is his mother. He is born of spiritual principles — a new way of thinking, and this son — this remnant company, is given a new name by the father.

To a specific remnant is given the promise of a new name. It is not given to everyone, but to him that overcometh. Rev. 3:12 tells us: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God .” Where is His temple? Do we have to go anywhere to go to it? We are the temple! He will make of us a pillar — steadfast, strong, sure, tried and tested.

“And he shall go no more out . . ” Out of where? Out of what? He shall go no more out of the realm of the spirit! We are tired of going in and out of the spirit-realm. The Lord says, “Come in and go no more out!” He is preparing a people who will abide in the realm of His Spirit and not come out of it. It shall be their constant habitation, their dwelling-place — they live there! They are not moving out today or tomorrow — they are going to abide there. They are overcomers!

And what else? “I will write upon him the name of my God.” What is the name of my God? His nature! With the holy Finger of God, with the moving of His Spirit, with trials and testings, He is writing upon us His nature.

“And the name of “the city of my God”, which is new Jerusalem” is that which is coming down upon us from above — that birth of the spirit that is from above, from a heavenly realm. This city “cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.” It’s new because we’ve never known it before. All we’ve known is Mr. Adam and his ways, but this new man Christ within, and His ways, we have not known — but we’re beginning to taste that new name. It is given to the overcomers. In every generation “the son of my sorrow” (as the church has called us), has been excommunicated, tortured, slain and burned at the stake. Their names have been cast out as evil. Yet, in God’s sight they have never been “sons of my sorrow.” The Father said,; “This shall not be! They shall be the sons of My right Hand.” The right hand is the authority of God. This remnant company shall have the authority of the throne because they have been willing to let the spiritual principles of God rule in their lives.

At times we have felt like we were “Benoni”, the son of sorrow. We felt, “I’ve missed it. I’ll never make it!” We acted like we were Benoni instead of Benjamin — but you’re not Benoni — you’re Benjamin, the son of my right hand. Oh, glory to God!

Now the plot thickens! We are moving on to:

Scene Two: IN THE PALACE

The setting of this part of the story is in Egypt, and the time is about 17 years after Jacob and his family had returned to Canaan. Benjamin, I understand, was 17 years old in this scene.

We all know what the brothers did to Joseph because he had dreams of ruling. He saw his father, mother, and brothers bowing down to him. Do you have any dream of ruling and reigning? If you do, your brethren would probably like to put you in a pit, too. And, verbally, they may do so because you have dreams of ruling with God. Their accusation is: “Just who do you think you are!”

We all know what his brothers did to Joseph and the cruel, unjust treatment he suffered for many years. Yet, through it all, he learned a mighty lesson (which we are in the process of learning) — he learned to remit sins. He learned to forgive! He didn’t wait until his brothers came and apologized to him. He must have forgiven them long before he saw them again, or he couldn’t have acted as he did.

In every situation in which he found himself — whether in Potiphar’s house, or in the prison, he was the ruler of it. He ruled over every situation, even though he was in bondage. He may have thought, “Lord, this doesn’t look very good, but You put me here and I’m going to do the very best I can.” He was learning to be an overcomer. He learned obedience in the way way that Jesus did — and we do — “through the things that he suffered.” Don’t despise the cross, for it teaches you obedience. It does a good work in your heart.

The Lord intended all the time for Joseph to rule over all Egypt, but He couldn’t trust him to rule in his fleshly, carnal mind, so He set the whole stage so that he would be brought down. He came through suffering unto glory. What are we looking for at the Feast of Tabernacles? We’re looking for glory — for His image and likeness to be produced in us, so don’t think it some strange thing if you suffer along the way. It’s part of the route to the throne.

God meant it unto Joseph for good. Sometimes we forget that when rough times come. We cry, “O Lord, have I sinned, or displeased You? Are You mad at me?” We suffer rejection when things are hard because the church has taught us that if anything goes wrong in our life, we must have sinned! They do not understand the making of an overcomer. Daniel says, “They are purified, made white, and tried.”

If something comes to us that is not too good, the Lord is often testing our attitude and proving how we will respond to the things that He sends. Will we respond in love, in forgiveness, in remitting sins? If we can’t, there will be another “go-around” and another until you begin to face your own heart-attitude and cease blaming everyone else for the problem. Learn to see what God is doing in your situation so that you will be able to co-operate with Him in it.

Remember, God meant it for good to Joseph — and not only that, Joseph said He did this to him so that he would be able to save many alive when there would be famine in the land. “. . God did send me before you to preserve life . . to save your lives by a great deliverance.”

Yes, He’s going to use us to save many alive when the famine is in the land. Look around you and know that the famine is here! There is a great famine today of hearing the Word of the Lord — a famine of spiritual substance that will cause you to be fruitful and multiply, and that will take you to the House of Bread. There is a famine for the Word that makes overcomers! The Word that is being promoted is that which would encourage God’s people to escape from this world, when they haven’t even come into their inheritance. They are willing to leave it all to the heathen just so that they will not need to suffer.

Before the famine came, Joseph was called in to interpret Pharoah’s dream. And when he told him bout the coming years of plenty followed by famine, he advised the Pharoah to set someone to supervise the harvest and to store it up. The Pharoah declared, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?” and he put his ring of authority upon Joseph and called every man to bow before him. He made him ruler over all the land of Egypt!

Joseph, by the wisdom of God, knew what to do. He needed to store up the corn. Have you been storing up some corn? I’ve been storing up corn for so long that sometimes I think I’ll burst at the seams. Some of you are the same and have no one to whom to feed your corn — no one who is hungry for it. Don’t worry, saints, it won’t be long before you will begin to have people come and ask you for some corn — some word of life. You’ll answer, “Yes, I have bought this at a great price, but I will gladly give it to you freely.” They’re going to come to us and say, “How come you’re at peace? How come your countenance is shining with joy and gladness? I want that corn and that wine and that oil that you have!”

Joseph stored up for the years of famine, and in time the famine was sore upon all the land — even the Promised Land where his family lived. Finally, Jacob called his sons together and told them that he had heard that there was corn in Egypt. They must go down there and buy food for the family.

The brothers presented themselves before Joseph and he recognized them, but they did not recognize him dressed in his rich royal robes and carrying in his person all the authority of the throne. They didn’t relate him at all to that stripling they had thrown into the pit.

The story does not tell us that Joseph fell on their necks and wept with joy to see them. No doubt he had already forgiven them, but sometimes the Lord works in a little judgment to bring a person to a place of repentance before forgiveness is realized. Joseph spoke sternly and accused them, “You are spies! Throw these men into prison at once!”

Three days in prison brought some guilt to the brothers’ hearts and they remembered how they had treated their younger brother and had shown no mercy when he cried unto them.

Joseph came again and declared that one of them would remain in prison and the rest could go home with the food, but only on condition that they return with their younger brother. Simeon was taken from their midst and was bound before their eyes. He would remain bound until Benjamin would come to where Joseph was!

The names of people in scripture are always full of meaning for us. Simeon means “hearing.” He imprisoned the “hearing” so they they could not hear! This is what has happened to the brethren who walk in the mixture of law and grace: They can’t hear what the Spirit is saying — and they won’t be able to understand until Benjamin comes to where Joseph is. Benjamin, that remnant company, must come to the realm of spirit where Jesus is walking. Benjamin must come here! And until he comes to this place, the hearing of the church is bound. The reason the traditional church fights God’s movings is because they cannot hear — their hearing is yet bound.

When Benjamin comes to that place in the spirit that the Lord has for them, the church will be set free. They will be able to hear because we won’t simply be telling them truth or teaching them doctrines, but we’ll be living it — walking it out! The Spirit of the Lord shall be alive and well in us. He will have produced His image in us. We will no longer be barren and unfruitful. We will have been to “the House of Bread” where He has taken away our reproach and made us fruitful.

When the brothers arrived home, they discovered their money in the mouth of their sacks of grain. Fear filled their hearts. It was bad enough to be accused of being spies, but now they would be counted as thieves also. Then they had the heart-rending task of telling their father, “The man told us, ‘You shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.”

Jacob cried, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left — if anything happens to him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.” Reuben, the eldest, was moved with compassion for his father and said, “Slay my two sons if I bring him not to thee.” He was putting his own life — his own flesh and blood on the line here.

The famine continued unabated, and in the process of time, their supplies of grain were getting low and Jacob called upon his sons once again to go to Egypt to buy food. They reminded him, sadly, that they couldn’t buy any grain unless Benjamin was with them.

When Jacob protested again, Judah offered to be surety — a guarantee — for the return of Benjamin. If anything happened, he would bear the blame for ever. A different kind of heart is beginning to come forth in the brothers. Those who had no compassion for Joseph are now showing compassion and offering up their self-life to be taken, if need be. They are beginning to embrace ‘the way of the cross.’ What a necessary process this is — yielding up self — if we would “come to where Jesus is.”

As soon as Joseph heard that his brothers had come again, he sent word to them that they were invited to come and “eat with him at noon.” “Noon” signifies “the highest place of light”. Our Joseph is saying, “I’m going to show you My glory. Come and eat with Me!” They could not have come to that place if Benjamin had not been with them. Because Benjamin was there, Joseph said, “Now you can come to this realm of spirit.”

When they came in, the Egyptians were eating at one table because their law forbade them to eat with the Hebrews. Joseph sat by himself at his table. There was a table for the brothers by themselves and it was arranged in order from the eldest to the youngest. They looked at this and the fear of the Lord came upon them. Who could have known about all their ages?

Joseph kept a stiff upper lip when he asked them, “Is your father well? Is this your younger brother?” And he blessed him, “God be gracious unto thee, my son.” (He called his brother his son! We are both brethren and sons unto the Lord, if we have gone on unto maturity). Joseph’s heart so yearned for his brother that he had to leave and weep in another room before he could compose himself. God was working in his brothers’ hearts, and he waited until that work was done before he revealed himself. (How we cry, “Oh Lord, I want to know You and He weeps because He knows there must be some more work done in our hearts before He may reveal Himself to us at noon).

When the food was set before them, the brothers wondered why Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. He was only a young stripling and couldn’t eat all that food! The Holy Spirit has something quite profound to show us here. “Five” is the number of “grace”. That remnant company has been granted five messes (large measures) of God’s grace, much more than their brethren, and they have learned to bestow that grace upon every man.

This grace doesn’t come naturally to us. It has to be worked in us by the spirit, by suffering, and by being brought low in the eyes of our brethren. It comes as we learn to die to self and let Christ rule within.

I talked to someone recently about “remitting sins” which Jesus commanded His disciples to do as soon as He breathed upon them and they were born again. This brother agreed that he would remit a person’s sins against him if he apologized to him and repented of what he had done. I realized that “the law” had spoken. But this “five messes of grace” that are given to Benjamin tell us that this remnant company must remit their sins right now — while they are still angry at you, throwing darts at you and casting your name out as evil. Remit their sins immediately. You have plenty of grace to do that — you have five measures — much more than any of the other brethren have who are under the law!

The ones who are throwing stones at you are yet under the law and don’t have enough grace yet to repent, but you can do that and set them free so that God can work that grace in them. If you don’t remit their sins, they are still in bondage to that offense and will not be able to rise above it until you release them from your resentments and unforgiveness.

I know this Benjamin Company when I meet them, for I see them partaking of five measures of grace. I see it working in their lives. They are learning to remit sins!

At this noon feast — at the highest point of light — Joseph allows the brethren to see that Benjamin is eating this abundance of grace. They are looking at him and realizing that he has something more than they have!

Do you remember that Jesus spoke of His portion of food as, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” Jn. 4:34.

THE SILVER CUP

Oh, what a marvelous lesson the silver cup has to teach us! Joseph commanded his steward, “Restore their money again to each man’s sack. And into the sack of the youngest, put my own silver cup and his corn money.” This was not just a small drinking goblet that he put in the sack. It was a large silver cup from which Joseph poured out wine to others. This was the cup that was put in Benjamin’s sack!

Off the brethren went, feeling mixed emotions: they had food, Benjamin was safe, and Simeon was released. Things looked pretty rosy, but somehow they didn’t have peace.

Their worst fears were grounded when they heard a horseman coming behind them in hot pursuit. “Off your camels!” he spoke to them roughly. “Why have you repaid evil for good? The silver cup of our master is missing and we must search every sack to see if you have done this wicked thing.”

The brothers protested, “We brought the money back that you put in our sacks. We are honest men. God forbid that we should steal silver or gold out of thy lord’s house! If you find the cup with any of us, let that one die, and we will be your slaves.”

The steward searched each man’s sack from the eldest, to the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack! Then they tore their clothes and returned to the city to face Joseph.

Joseph refused their offer of being his bondmen. He didn’t want that at all. His judgment was: “. . . the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.” Joseph wanted the one who had his cup in his sack!

Remember when the “sons of thunder”, James and John, entreated the Lord to let them sit, one on either side of Him in His glory? His answer was, “If you can drink My cup, you can sit there!”

It’s the same with the cup He gives each one of us. If we can drink it, we can be “the son of the right hand” and share the authority of His throne. We can’t just take a few sips, for He says, “Drink ye all of it.” Our cups have all come in different sizes and different measures, but we have all been called to drink that cup. We didn’t ask for this cup to be put in our sack! We didn’t ask to go this way of the cross, to experience things the average churchgoer never experiences. And, while we’re going through it, they are looking down on us and calling us “Benoni”, the “son of my sorrow.”

Although we didn’t ask for this cup, our Joseph did it to us. Jesus did it! He knew what he was doing. He put His cup in the sack of the remnant, the ones who had come forth from Rachel — not the ones who had come forth from the law. There is no cup in their sacks. It is in the sack of the one who was “added” unto Joseph. Joseph’s name means “added” and Benjamin was added unto him. Simply, Joseph is Jesus and we are that company that is being added unto Jesus. He is the Head and we are the Body. The Body grows up into the Head to make one Body. We are that remnant portion that is first added unto Him.

He didn’t add the whole body of believers all at once. He added first the remnant company, typified by Benjamin. The Lord didn’t want us to think that by dint of numbers, we could enter into this new realm of spirit. As always, He has a small number whom He plans to put through the fire and bring them forth as pure gold. The brothers, unwittingly, spoke the truth when they said, “With whomsoever the cup be found, let him die.” This one would not be sent to the gallows. He would be brought into a lifetime of dying-to-self, to his own ways, to his carnal nature, until Christ was fully formed in him. At this time, he would come to be in the realm where Jesus is!

You have to not only know the cup is within your sack, you have to take it in your hand. You have to say, “Yes, Lord, I will bear this cup. I will drink from it. I will drink whatever You put in it. I will take the cup of the Lord.” When we are willing to drink His cup, then He reveals Himself unto us in all His glory.

Richard Wurmbrand, a living martyr of our day who suffered many years of imprisonment for his faith, can tell us something of that cup. In spite of torture and hardship, when he was released, he still had love enough in his heart to pray, “Lord, if You want me to be in the prisons again to minister to the dying there, I will go.” It was hard on his wife to hear him pray like that, but the Lord said “Yes,” and had him put in prison again.

He tells of teaching the scriptures to a young man who asked, “We have read nearly everything Jesus said, but still I wonder what He was like to know as a man.”

Brother Wurmbrand told him about a pastor who was in Room Four where the men were put who had TB. “He would give away everything he had — his last bread, his medicine, the coat off his back. He was a very Christ-like man. You felt that just the touch of his hand could calm and heal.

“One day, as he was talking to a small group of prisoners, one asked him this same question. ‘What is Jesus like? I’ve never met anyone like the man you describe, so good and loving and truthful’.”

The pastor, in a moment of great courage, replied simply and humbly, ‘Jesus is like me.’ The man, who had often received kindness from the pastor, replied, smiling, “If Christ is like you, then I love Him.”

Bro. Wurmbrand adds, “The times when one may say such as that, are very rare. But to me that is what it means to be a Christian. To believe in Him is not such a great thing. To become like Him is truly great.”

On hearing that Joseph would keep Benjamin as his bondman and send the other brothers home, Judah took courage to speak. In great anguish of soul he pleaded for Benjamin. “My lord, you asked us if we had a father and a brother. And we told you we have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him. You told us ‘Except your youngest brother come down with us, we would see your face no more.’ Now, when I come to my father and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life, he will die.”

My friend Faith once asked the Lord, “Why did You call the Benjamin Remnant first and not the whole church?” (It seemed to her a little like favoritism, and she didn’t like that). The Lord answered, “Simply because I have set My Love upon him!”

Judah said of his father: “. . . his life is bound up in the lad’s life.” Not to say that we are above others, but we are that remnant in whom He is first inworking His nature and that is so special to Him. He has this pregnant Bride who is with child of the Holy Ghost and He is waiting for this child to be born that looks just like Him! This is more special to Him than one who is yet a babe and has not yet learned obedience to Him. His turn will come later, in his due order. No one is going to be left out.

“Our father has already lost one other son, beloved of him. If the lad returns not with us, we will bring down the gray hairs of our father with sorrow to the grave. I have become surety for the lad unto my father. Please, I beg of you, let me serve you as a slave and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I stand to see the evil that shall come on my father if the lad does not return?”

Joseph could restrain himself no longer when he saw his brother’s repentant heart. He sent all his courtiers out of the room while he made himself known unto his brethren. He wept aloud and called them to come near to him. “I am Joseph, your brother whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life . .. and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

“And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck. Moreover, he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them, and after that his brethren talked with him.”

The “neck” signifies “the will,” so when Joseph and Benjamin wept upon each other’s neck, it was showing the will fully yielded to one another. Isaiah says, “. . . the government shall be upon His shoulders.’ Where are His shoulders? They are on His Body, even those who are putting on the mind of Christ. His head is upon our shoulders. Our neck is upon His neck — our will fully yielded unto His will!

THE ISSUE IS FOOD

The whole issue of this story of the remnant has to do with FOOD. From beginning to end, food is the issue because there is a famine in the land. There is a lack of food. No food could be forth-coming until Benjamin came to where Joseph was (to where Jesus is!)

At the beginning, I told you that word that the Holy Spirit spoke to a sister: “Benjamin is coming! And there will be no more food until Benjamin is released by the Father” (to come where the Father is, to walk in the realm of the son of the right hand, in the authority of the throne).

To understand more clearly the calling of this remnant company, we need to know the prophecy that Jacob had for Benjamin as he was dying. He had a word for each of his sons, but the word to Benjamin will tell us what our Father is saying about us!

He said, “Benjamin shall ravin (as) a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil” Gen. 49:27.

At first glance, the prophecy doesn’t look too favorable. It compares Benjamin to a wolf! In the original manuscripts, the word “as” is not there. It was inserted by the translators. That makes a big difference! Benjamin is not the wolf — he is going after the wolf! That puts an entirely different perspective to the prophecy.

“Benjamin shall ravin a wolf.” What does that mean? “Ravin” means “to tear in pieces and feed.” What is the “wolf” that he is attacking? The wolf is the beastly, carnal teachings of man’s system of religion. Benjamin is going to tear them to pieces and turn them into food for the hungry. He will tear down the beastly teachings of men’s carnal minds.

We heard Benjamin ravining this morning. One brother said, “Before I came up here, the Lord told me, ‘I want you to know My Heart.’”

I said, “Lord, how can I know Your heart?” After he had listened to Gary Sigler ministering this morning about God’s true heart and His true nature, this brother said to me, “I heard God’s heart! I understood His nature like I’ve never seen it before.” Gary Benjamin was fulfilling his prophetic calling. He was devouring and tearing in pieces that spirit of carnal teachings that would devour the sheep and keep them in bondage! “. . . in the morning he shall devour the prey . . ” What time are we in? We are in the morning of the New Day.

What does it mean “to devour the prey?” To “prey on” means “to hunt or kill for food; person or thing injured; victim, to be a strain upon; injure; rob; plunder.” Ezekiel, chapter 34, brings out this thought very clearly. Verses 8 & 10 say: “As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock has become a prey and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and not my flocks . . . I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.”

Benjamin is going to devour those carnal doctrines that keep His sheep in bondage! One we particularly like to devour is the teaching that you have to have some church — some pastor — to be your “covering”, as if the great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls is not able to “cover us!”

“. . . at night he shall divide the spoil.” We have an abundance of spoil (things won in battle) that the Lord has given us. In the night — in the darkness in which we find ourselves — we are going to share with those who are in that darkness. This remnant is in the morning, and are devouring that which has preyed upon the people — to take away their peace and their confidence in God. We’re going to devour those carnal teachings and bring light into their darkness and set them free to walk in the spirit.

We’re going to divide with them all the spoil that we have won in battle, and in our many “dying” situations. We’ll say, “Here! I’ve gone up and I’ve got this spoil — these treasures of truth to share with you. I know they are true for I have learned them as I “learned obedience through the things that I suffered.” They have been written upon my heart by the Finger of God, for the Holy Spirit has been my Teacher, as He said He would be.

In John 4:34, Jesus tells us what His meat, or His food, is: “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.” And that is our meat, our food, also. That is the food of the remnant: to do the will of Him that sent them, and to finish His work.

I see, by the spirit, that the storehouses of His Word that have been stored up in His remnant people, are being opened up because the famine is sore upon the land. The hungry are coming and asking us for food from this realm where we walk with our heavenly Joseph!

COME TO WHERE I AM
After their joyful reunion, Joseph told his brothers that they were to hurry home to the land of Goshen and tell their father that God had made him lord of all Egypt. He wanted all his family to come to where he was, to dwell with him so that he could provide for them throughout the next five years of famine.

Pharoah was pleased that Joseph’s family should come unto him. He said, “And take your father and your households. . . and I will give you the good (i.e. the best) of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land . . . take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.”

Besides providing land and food for them, Joseph also sent gifts which are quite significant in the spirit. Before we can understand this, we have to know what it means when we say, “Joseph ruled over all Egypt.” We say that so glibly, but we need to consider what it means to “rule over all Egypt.”

“Egypt” means “straitness” — “that which is narrow and confining” — in a word, the sense realm, the realm of seen things, of outward things. Jesus, our heavenly Joseph, rules over all the sense realm! And He calls us, His Benjamin company, to rule over all that sense realm also —the carnal mind, the emotions, the will, the desires and affections. All the outward things that would entice us away from following the new creation man, are Egypt — and we are to rule over them!

This is why Joseph had to wait for Benjamin to come to “where I am”, for he also must rule over Egypt. In this place, the natural man (who operates in the sense realm) is subdued at last, and in all his parts is governed by the spirit. The spirit is no longer “straitened” or confined by the senses. It has liberty to be what the Lord has ordained it to be. The soul is yielded to let the spirit rule! None of the other brothers ever ruled over Egypt — only Joseph ruled, because he had come through suffering unto glory.

The gifts that he sent back with the brothers are very significant. First, each man had a change of raiment. “. . . but to Benjamin he gave 300 pieces of silver and five changes of raiment.” We keep running into this “five” all the time in connection with Benjamin. The changes of raiment given are, again, the number of grace.

Are you aware that we wear different garments in the spirit at different times? When we come before the Lord to worship Him, we have on our holy garments of the High Priest. When we’re with the world, or on the job, we don’t wear that garment. They couldn’t stand to see it, for the Shekinah glory is upon it. We wear another garment for the world to see.

We don’t really understand about these garments, for they are spiritual. One time, a friend (who is a Benjamite) went to see her doctor. She was pregnant and very ill, and she was wondering if she and the baby would pull through alive. Her Catholic doctor put her on the examining table and then left the room for some time. He told her later that such a bright light was coming from her that he was afraid to come back into the room. He said, “The light lit up the whole room!” The Lord permitted him to see the glory of her holy, priestly garment which she wore even though her flesh body was very low! Think about it!

I learned this when we called a dear friend as we were passing through her city, and asked if we might drop by for a visit. “Oh, ” she said, “I feel so bad. Some of my family are coming today. I’d love to ask you to come too, but they don’t know anything about this spiritual walk. They would want to talk about natural things and I’d want to talk about spiritual things with you and Bill. I don’t know what to do.”

I said, “Sister, don’t give it a second thought! It looks like the Lord has told you to wear your garment of accommodation today, for your family’s sake. We wouldn’t come to your place with our holy garments on when you have on your garments of accommodation. We will come another time. The Lord arranges these things.”

She said, “That blesses me so much to know that I am to wear my garment of accommodation today to meet my family where they are. And I am sure you will not feel any rejection over it.”

I replied, “I wear that garment often. Sometimes we wish we could put it off and just wear our holy garments all the time. We do wear these different garments so that people cannot see who we are. We can tell who they are, but they do not know us. We look just the same as anyone else, except our countenance is brighter and our eyes are shining and we have a smile on our face. There is a lot of difference that way, but we do not really expose ourselves unless the Spirit gives us liberty to do so.

Benjamin was given five changes of raiment, so he had an abundance of grace to enable him to help people wherever they were — to meet them at the lowest or the highest place. We must not ever think ourselves too high that we cannot condescend to someone of low estate — to a child, or to an immature one. And if we have opportunity to be with the priests, we’ll all put on our priestly garments and have a wonderful time. Benjamin has enough garments to be “all things to all men”, that he might win some.

Each man — the men of the law — has a change of raiment, but Benjamin has five — he can go from grace to grace, to grace!

He also gave Benjamin 300 pieces of silver. 300 means “perfect wholeness.” Jesus gives us “perfect wholeness” when we come to where He is. He gives us a sound mind (the mind of Christ!) and a sound, loving heart that loves with His Love. This is a gift. Remember the alabaster box that the woman brought full of precious spikenard to anoint Jesus for burial? Judas rebuked her for spending all that money. He called it a waste and said it could have been sold for more than 300 pence. It was the price of “perfect wholeness.”

There is another 300 in Noah’s Ark. The dimensions of the ark were 300x50x30 and that means complete deliverance for the mature. 30 is the number that signifies maturity. If you recall, Jesus could not minister as a priest until He was 30. That is the age of maturity, of eligibility to the priesthood. So — He gave to his Benjamin Company 300 pieces of silver — complete deliverance for the mature.

In King Solomn’s record there is another interesting 300. He had 300 shields, which is complete deliverance from war — complete deliverance from the war that rages within us — flesh against spirit, spirit against the flesh; the carnal mind against the spiritual mind. He gives us complete deliverance from war!

When the second generation was preparing to go into the Promised Land, Joshua said that they had to remain in the wilderness until — was it until all the older, faithless generation had died? I used to think it said that. But it doesn’t. It says, “when all the men of war have died.” Have you been a man of war? If so, that man of war must die before you can possess this new realm of spirit. You can’t take him in with you!

Another well-known “300″ was Gideon’s small remnant army which brought complete deliverance for the whole nation! Benjamin is given the inheritance of the heathen because Joseph is in the midst and rules over all that sense realm.

To his father was sent “ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.” All of these: corn — the Word; bread — the Bread of Life; meat — the strong meat of the Word, did Joseph give unto his family to strengthen them to rise into a new place in God where they would be able to behold the face of their Joseph, and beholding Him, be changed into His likeness. O, glory to God!

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Although this message is complete, I want to share with you several prophecies the Lord has given me concerning His Benjamin company. I heard the Spirit call “Benoni, Benoni” in my spirit. He had my immediate attention!
He continued, “It is time to return unto thy place, O son of My right hand — to leave thy father’s house in Goshen and to meet Me as thy King and Lord over all — to know Me in a new dimension, even as conqueror and ruler over all of Egypt, even that realm that had bound you in long, hard servitude.

“I am presently calling My Benjamin Company to come unto Me where I am, to behold Me as I Am unto them, in a new relationship, in a new dimension. It is time for Me to serve thee thy “five messes” of food from My Hand that thou wouldst know the fullness of My grace unto thee and unto all mankind, which thy brethren have not known.

“And did not Joseph’s brethren behold him with great amazement mixed with fear and dread? But he who was also of the Beloved Wife (Benjamin) rejoiced to see My Day even as thou dost rejoice at this time. Know that this is the time of the fulfillment of the “adding” unto Joseph those brethren who are appointed to be “the sons of My right hand.”

(As Rachel’s soul was departing, she called his name Benoni; but his father called him Benjamin, the son of the right hand.)

As I was writing this little booklet, I was being tremendously blessed at all the wonderful truths for us to enter into in this day. I glanced down at my Bible that was open beside me to this story of Joseph and Benjamin, and suddenly giant tears started rolling down my face. I couldn’t understand that, but it was the Spirit moving upon me. I heard Him say to me: “What a rich heritage is thine, My people! What a rich heritage I have given unto thee! Yea, I have given men for thee and thou hast not known it. (Isa. 43:4, “Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.”)

“I have written My plan of the ages upon the lives of My servants for you to read and to understand. When the time has come for My holy remnant to enter in, they may step forward in My Spirit in great assurance because of all that has transpired in the lives of My set-apart ones in former days. Yea, even those who knew Me not and honored Me not at all, did I use to bring forth My purposes and to show forth My power to deliver in the face of all the evil that man could do.

“Learn to speak of My family with great familiarity, learning from all their downsittings and uprisings, for you are to be possessors of those things that they saw very dimly or not at all. Rejoice that I have washed your eyes with eyesalve that you might see, and circumcised your ears that you might hear.

“These are indeed the days that have been foretold by the prophets. . Walk softly in them while I perform in you My good pleasure and bring forth that remnant son that is to be added unto Me — even My Benjamin son!”

One truth you got to realize, the Bible divide people in 3 groups: Unbelievers, believers and then OVERCOMERS. Overcomers are MATURE BELIEVERS, and they are the ONLY ones who will take part in THE FIRST RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD. WHY? Because they were willing to lay down their lives, pick up their daily crosses and follow/obey the Spirit! They were willing to DIE to SELF, to give up their way/life for the way/life of Christ! The rest of the believers plus the unbelievers will take part in the SECOND RESSURECTION FROM THE DEAD. Yes, all Christians say that they believe in the resurrection from the dead, but have NO IDEA what that is all about, I know because I was one of them!

Jesus is THE PATTERN SON, the FIRST BORN SON of God… and just as He was resurrected from the dead in order to receiving His resurrected IMMORTAL BODY, we will also receive ours!

Friend, the purpose of creation was to manifest the glory of God in both heaven and earth. Jesus died and then was resurrected, having an IMMORTAL body afterwards!

He was not resurrected with only a SPIRITUAL BODY, but with an IMMORTAL body!

Please read this quote by De Jones:

The Pattern of Jesus’ Resurrection

The first and most important pattern is that Jesus was raised bodily from the tomb. The disciples came to the tomb to look for Him, but He had risen. His resurrection was NOT the same thing as His ascension, or going to heaven. It was a physical, literal event, “as He said” (Matt. 28:6). In other words, when Jesus talked of the resurrection prior to that time, He meant to convey the literal meaning of the term, not a “spiritual” event in the sense that some take it.

The only real question is “with what body do they come?” (1 Cor. 15:35? Is the resurrected body physical or spiritual? The answer is: BOTH. He had a heavenly Father and an earthly mother, and the resurrected body was the culmination of that relationship. He could enter the spiritual dimension (“heaven”) or the physical, earthly dimension at will. His Father had given Him all authority in BOTH realms, even as He said in Matt. 28:18 (NASB),

¹⁸ . . . All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.

As a result, He could take a physical form where the disciples could touch Him and see the wounds of His crucifixion (John 20:27). He could also eat food with the disciples (John 21:13; Luke 24:43). Then He could vanish (Luke 24:31) just as suddenly by taking spirit form. The question of whether Jesus was merely a spirit or if He had physical characteristics is faced and answered squarely in Luke 24:36-43.

³⁶ And while they [disciples] were telling these things, He Himself stood in their midst. ³⁷ But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit.  ³⁸ And He said to them, Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?  ³⁹ See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me, and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.  ⁴⁰ And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.  ⁴¹ And while they still could not believe it for joy and were marveling, He said to them, Have you anything here to eat?  ⁴² And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish; ⁴³ and He took it and ate it before them.

Jesus went out of His way to prove to them that He was not a spirit and that he had “flesh and bones.” He showed the disciples His physical scars, which no spirit would have. Then He asked for something to eat. A spirit cannot eat physical food. [End of quote.]

Friend what happened to Jesus is going to happen to us at our resurrection from the dead. We were taught that we are going to heaven when we die… believing that we will only receive a spiritual body. NO we are going to receive an IMMORTAL BODY so that we can reign and rule in the heavenly dimension AND the earthly dimension. Because God’s plan is to establish His kingdom on earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN! Jesus plan is TO SAVE THE WHOLE WORLD. Jesus is now sitting in heaven [the heavenly dimension] with His IMMORAL BODY, just waiting for the last of the Overcomers to come to maturity. THEN He will come back to earth, to come and join them after they have received their IMMORTAL BODIES during the first resurrection of the dead! He will be THE HEAD and the OVERCOMERS will be His BODY.

So what will happen during the first resurrection of the dead?

Quote: We must be careful not to undermine the doctrine of the resurrection by saying that dead believers have now attained their final blessed state. Such a concept makes resurrection a regression, rather than a blessing. It must be clear in our minds that in order for any man to receive the fully blessed state promised from the beginning, one must have the ability to manifest the full presence of God in a glorified, but physical body as well as in a spiritual body.

This need for resurrection is made evident by Hebrews 11:13, 39 and 40, where we are reminded of those who had lived and died in faith in ages past. We read of them:

¹³ All these died in faith, without receiving the promises … ³⁹ And all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promis ed,  ⁴⁰ because God had provided something better for us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

The important thing to recognize here is that whether they went to heaven or not at their death, they were not perfected. The real promise, which entails the entire purpose for creation, is that man would display the glory of God by means of spiritual flesh as we have already seen. This cannot be done in a purely spiritual existence in heaven. It requires the same kind of body that Jesus had after His resurrection.

We ourselves are not going to receive the promise ahead of those who have lived and died in the past. Paul says in 1 Thess. 4:15,

¹⁵ For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, and remain until the coming [parousia] of the Lord shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.

In other words, we will not be perfected without them being present. This is the purpose of resurrection. It is to raise the dead to stand along side the living, so that all may receive the promise at the same time.

Another quote:

The Sadducees were NOT atheists who believed death ended one’s existence forever. They were a religious party that taught the Greek view of the immortality of the soul and believed that the dead went immediately to heaven. In their eyes, this eliminated any need for resurrection.

Paul found it necessary to deal with this issue in

1 Corinthians 15, where Paul devoted an entire chapter to this very question. Paul had been a Pharisee before his conversion, and so it is likely he had debated this very question with the Sadducees in his early years. Somehow this Sadducee doctrine had been introduced to the Corinthian church, and Paul felt that this teaching threatened the very foundations of Christianity. First he reminds the people that Jesus had been physically raised from the dead, with eyewitnesses to prove it. Then he says in verse 12,

¹² Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?  ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised;       ¹⁴ and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching vain, your faith also is vain…  ¹⁷ And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.  ¹⁸ Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.  ¹⁹ If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

Paul makes it clear that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the pattern for our own resurrection as well. The only reason we shall be raised from the dead is because Christ was raised as the Pattern Son.

End of quote. You can read the rest of Dr Jones book on the resurrection by clicking here.

“Lord, Let your Kingdom come and your will be done, ON EARTH as it is [already] in HEAVEN!”

That was the prayer Jesus said we must pray… that THE KINGDOM OF GOD, that’s already in full operation in heaven [heavenly/spiritual realm] will come DOWN from the heavenly/spiritual dimension to be established IN THE EARTHLY DIMENSION! Friend God’s Kingdom is coming FROM heaven to earth! That was His plan from the very beginning; that was why He created THE EARTHLY REALM/dimension…. so that His glory can also be manifested IN FULL in another dimension, in the EARTHLY DIMENSION, and that was why He created MAN [humanity]… and that was why He said; ‘You will have dominion and rule the earth!’

Friend, sorry to shack you… but He is NOT going to rapture all the believers back to heaven and then let Satan make mincemeat off the rest of GOD’S CREATION… He is going to do what He has planned from the very beginning, to establish HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH as IT IS IN HEAVEN… until Christ has become ALL IN ALL!!! Until ALL His enemies are being DESROYED… and His enemies ARE NOT PEOPLE, but spiritual forces that are keeping HUMANINTY and THE WORLD/earthly realm in bondage! Our fight is NOT flesh and blood! It never was and it never will, our enemies are the beast within [our human nature] and the beast without [the worldly spirit... religious, economic, political spirits that are ruling this world]!

1Co 15:25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

Friend, THE WHOLE CREATION is GROANING for the manifestation of the sons of God!!! Even the creation knows that it is in terrible bondage and can’t wait for the SECOND COMING… when God will come back to earth IN THE BODY THAT HE HAS BEEN PREPARING FOR HIMSELF. ALL THE OVERCOMERS/HIS SONS throughout the past ages will then be resurrect from the dead in order to receive their GLORIEFIED RESSURECTED BODIES and in those bodies God will place HIS SPIRIT IN FULL… that will give them IMMORTAL BODIES! Just like the body Jesus received after He was resurrected from the dead.

Rom 8:18-23

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed IN us [Whose glory? GOD'S GLORY! Where will that Glory be revealed/seen? INSIDE OF US, all the overcomers that will be resurrected at the first resurrection of the dead! Where were God's glory seen at the first coming? IN/through HIS FIRST SON, Jesus].

The CREATION waits in eager expectation for the SONS OF GOD TO BE REVEALED [to be manifested/showed in their IMMORATAL RESURRECTED BODIES in the earthly realm] .

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one [God Himself] who subjected it, in hope, that the creation itself will be liberated [set free] from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God [mature sons of God/immortal overcomers who will reign and rule with Christ during the next age in order to SAVE ALL THE NATIONS].

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to this present time.

Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit [we do not have the fullness at this stage (the pentecostal stage), only the first fruit],

groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies[when we receive our resurrected bodies at the first resurrection that will take place at the end of the present pentecostal age].

Friend, we are AT THE END of the pentecostal age… NOT THE END OF THE WORLD, as we’ve been taught. Yes we are at the end of THE CHURCH AGE as we’ve come to know it… just like the Jews ‘world’ ended when their age of being God’s vessel ended! At Jesus first coming, it was NOT the end of the physical world, just the end of THE JEWISH ‘world’. Remember they were the chosen vessel through whom God manifested himself to the world, but because they REJECTED His Son, their ‘WORLD’ [religious world] ended, and from then on God chose people from every nation and race to become part of HIS CHURCH [called out ones]. At first God only chose Abraham as His vessel to shine His light through, then God chose ONE NATION, the Israelites [later becoming the Jewish nation], as His vessel to show forth His glory/light to the rest of the world/creation. Then after His first coming, He started to chose people from every tribe and nation in the world to become part of HIS CHURCH [called out ones]. Friend can you see God’s progression! First ONE MAN, then ONE NATION, and then people out of all nations became HIS CHURCH [called out ones]! AND DURING THE NEXT AGE… He is going to call/save WHOLE NATIONS!

NOW FOR THE QUESTION… what was the reason for THE CHURCH during all the past ages? We were taught that the church started at Pentecost but that is not the truth, the church started when God chose ISREAL to be HIS CHOSEN VESSEL. Church mean CALLED OUT ONES! So first of all God use His called out ones/church to show HIS GLORY and POWER to the rest of the world, but SECONDLY He use His church/called out ones TO be a vessel that help HIS OVERCOMERS to MATURE! Friend, God HUGE PLAN up to now was TO ‘BUILD’ OVERCOMERS!!! Not to save all the people, but to BUILD THE VESSEL/body that will rule and reign with Him during the coming ages… UNTIL HE HAS BECOME ALL IN ALL AND HAS PUT ALL HIS ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET!

Also an interesting truth… God’s first ‘called out ones’/church, the Israelites, was A NATION and in that nation were believers and unbelievers. Later, in the Pentecostal/church age God started to call people out of all nations. Then His called out ones/church only consisted out of believers… but He also made a distinction inside those believers… some of them He has chosen/called to become overcomers. “Many were called [to become believers] , but few were chosen [to become overcomers].”

VERY FEW believers were chosen by God in every generation to become/grow into MATURE BELIEVERS… and they are the ones who will TAKE PART in the FIRST RESSURECTION of the dead, to receive their glorified bodies at HIS SECOND COMING. WHY? So that they will be able to RULE AND REIGN with Him during the NEXT AGE. They are the PREDESTINED ONES that we read about in Romans 8:28. The rest of the believers will not take part in the first resurrection, but will take part in the SECOND resurrection from the dead together with all unbelievers. They will then ALL be thrown into the lake of fire where they will be JUDGED! TAKE NOTE: JUDGED UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS… not eternal torment in some place called hell! But more about GOD’S FIRE later!

So God used His church/called out ones throughout the ages as a training ground for His overcomers. So Gods plan through all the past ages was to prepare a BODY for Him through whom He could COME/manifest Himself during the next age… a body through whom He will manifest HIS FULL GLORY. It is THROUGH those mature believers that He will reign and rule and save all nations during the next age; the tabernacle age, also called the millennium age. That age will cover the next 1000 years until the WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT PERIOD/AGE that will kick off with the SECOND RESSURECTION OF THE DEAD.

Yes Friend, ALL PEOPLE that ever lived WILL BE RESSURECTED FROM THE DEAD… will live again… AND WILL BE JUDGED UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS! Jesus, God’s first born Son, is also the PATTERN Son. By studying His life, we can see what path we need to follow in order to become and Overcomer!

Rom 8:28 -30

And we know that in all things [hardships, trials, tribulations... an overcomer's training ground!] God works for the good of those who love him,

who have been called according to his purpose [to make them overcomers so that He could manifest His glory through them and they could reign and rule with Him in ages to come].

For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son,

that he might be the first born among many brothers. [Jesus was God's firstborn Son... therefore there will be other Sons as well!]

And those he predestined he also called, those he called, he also justified, those he justified, he also glorified. …”

God is working with a plan… IN CHRIST HE WILL BECOME ALL IN ALL, ALL His enemies WILL BE DEFEATED! God is truly THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD! Never mind WHAT today’s Churchianity preach, GOD IS WHO HE SAYS HE IS… IN CHRIST HE IS TRULY THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD!

A SHOCKING TRUTH… it was never God’s intention to save everybody before they die… that He will do later. SHOCKING BUT TRUE! God would have saved them if He wanted to! He is the One who CALL people OUT of the world INTO HIS HOUSE/CHURCH remember… He is the One who chooses whom to use as a vessel of His grace and who to use as a vessel of His wrath!

HIS MASTER PLAN UP TO NOW was to TRAIN HIS OVERCOMERS!!! How? By using ordinary circumstances in their daily lives to help them to overcome the beast within [carnal nature] and beast without [worldly spirit]. Like Jesus they will LEARN OBEDIENCE through the things they suffer… and like Paul they will LEARN to be content in every situation. They are the ones who will take part in THE FIRST RESSURECTION OF THE DEAD, and they are the ones through whom He will come to manifest His POWER to the world in the ages to come. They will received their GLORIFIED BODIES when God pour THE FULLNESS OF HIS SPIRIT into them.

That dear Friend is the NEW REVELATION/LIGHT that God has being pouring into this earthly realm. And the sad truth is; MOST OF HIS PEOPLE TODAY, will not SEE Him come the second time… will NOT RECOGNIZE HIM! WHY??? Because they will not recognize the VESSEL through whom He is going to come! Just as His people during His first coming also DID NOT recognize Jesus as THE VESSEL through whom He came then.

In Romans 8 we read how the whole creation is waiting, moaning and groaning, for the MANIFESTATION of THE SONS OF GOD! WHO are the Sons of GOD??? All the believers through out all the ages that grew up to become MATURE BELIEVERS… OVERCOMERS! Believers who through much tribulation and suffering, have LEARN to be content in every situation, who have LEARNED to TRUST God as their Father! Who were made willing to surrender ALL and follow GOD!

Friend, God will come the second time THROUGH PEOPLE… not just through one Man but this time through HIS BODY [MATURE BELIEVERS/OVERCOMERS], people SPIRITUALLY MATURE enough to manifest Christ to THE WORLD! God has used the past ages for one thing… to PREPARE A BODY THROUGH whom He can manifest HIMSELF in all His Fullness! During the past pentecostal age, God has only sent His Spirit into believers IN PART. But that will change during the next age, when He will send His Spirit into HIS SONS [mature believers/overcomers] in FULLNESS, just like He did with Jesus! Jesus manifested God’s character IN FULL! “If you had seen me, you had seen my Father!”

The purpose of creation was to manifest the glory of God in both heaven and earth.

So this brings us to THE SECOND COMING:

WHO will come the second time? The same One who came the first time… GOD. WHERE is He coming from? He is coming FROM /out of heaven [heavenly/spiritual dimension], into the earthly dimension… and THROUGH WHOM is God going to come in order to manifest Himself for THE SECOND TIME in the earthly realm?

Well the first time He came through Jesus HIS FIRST BORN SON, the first ever MATURE CHILD OF GOD… the first OVERCOMER… the first human being to be raised from the dead!

Well friend this is amazing… if Jesus was THE FIRST BORN SON OF God then I think it is safe to say that there will be more SONS in future! AND if God has manifested Himself THROUGH A MAN [human being] the first time, I think it is safe to say that He will do the same THE SECOND time around… at His second COMING! Take note: Jesus was the first ever MATURE BELIEVER, OVERCOMER, the first Person/Man ever to OVERCOME His enemies… sin, Satan, self, the grave, death. The first HUMAN BEING out of the HUMAN RACE to become an OVERCOMER! That was what made him a SON OF GOD… take note, not only a CHILD of God, but a SON of God! A SON is a MATURE BELIEVER… a believer who grew up spiritually and who OVERCAME His SPIRITUAL enemies!

So Jesus was God’s first mature child… God’s first SON, the first overcomer; the first who was RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD… the first of a NEW CREATION! And because He was the FIRST, we know that there will be a second, a third, a forth etc!!! Yes my Friend, some of God’s children from the very beginning, through all the past ages, in every single generation, grew up to become OVERCOMERS… while they were alive on planet earth, before their physical dead! TAKE NOTE: SOME… NOT ALL OF GOD’S CHILDREN BECAME OVERCOMERS! And TOGETHER they are THE BODY that God has been preparing throughout the past ages; THE BODY that He is going to MANIFEST/come through when He comes THE SECOND TIME.

Remember what happened after Jesus death on the cross? He was RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD; therefore He overcame His last enemy, DEATH! So after He was resurrected He received HIS RESURRECTED BODY, a body that could function in both the spiritual and earthly realms! TAKE NOTE: In order for Him to receive that resurrected body, He had to become an OVERCOMER. Being a believer was not good enough, being a mere child of God was not good enough, He had to BECOME, through many trials and tribulation, an OVERCOMER, a mature child, a SON! One who was WORTHY to receive God’s AUTHORITY both in heaven[heavenly realm] and on earth [earthly realm]. One equipped to reign and rule WITH GOD in both realms. One equipped to MANIFEST God in all HIS FULLNESS!!! Not only in part as we did during the pentecostal age.

Rev 2:7He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Rev 2:11He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Rev 2:17He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receivethit.

Rev 2:26And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: [POWER TO RULE THE NATIONS!!!]

Rev 3:5He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Rev 3:12Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God,which isnew Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: andI will write upon himmy new name.

Rev 3:21To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Rev 21:7He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Remember what happened when Jesus went back to His Father in heaven [heavenly/spiritual realm]… that was AFTER He received His resurrected body? He said that He will send ANOTHER. Someone who will teach us and help us TO MATURE/TO BECOME OVERCOMERS! The One He was talking about was HIS SPIRIT! Well He did what He promised and send His Spirit DOWN TO EARTH, into our earthly bodies. The first time that happened was at Pentecost in Acts 2. From then onwards, up to this present time. God had send His Spirit into believers… why? To help them to OVERCOME, to MATURE… to become MATURE SONS OF GOD! Over and over again in the Word God says that He will reign and rule through His overcomers… that BELIEVERS need to MATURE, GROW UP, OVERCOME! That we need to GROW UP into THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST [be transformed into the CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, the FIRST BORN SON!] That we need to DIE to our SELF [fleshly human natures] so that Christ can live HIS LIFE through us! BUT… not every believer GROW into an overcomer.

Remember what Jesus said? “I do NOTHING that I do not see my Father is doing.” We need to come to that point… where Christ is indeed our ALL, where we have DIED to our own WORDLINESS…where we have OVERCOME THE WORLD!

Joh 16:33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

So friend there were 3 feasts in the old Testament to show us the stages of our spiritual development.

1. First you get the PASSOVER STAGE, that is when you become a Christian by having faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior… where you have passed from spiritual death into spiritual life.
2. Then you are suppose to mature into the next stage, the PENTECOSTAL STAGE, where you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and start to grow up and mature in the spiritual realm…
3. and then we are suppose to move into the last stage, the TABERNACLE STAGE, the OVERCOMER STAGE where we will receive THE FULLNESS OF THE SPIRIT! Presently we have CORPORATELY [as the church/called out ones] come to the end of the Pentecostal age, and are busy moving into the tabernacle age.

Just think back to the time of the First Coming… that was a time of great chaos for God’s people! It was during that time that the law/passover age came to and end, and the pentecostal age started. For God’s people [during that time they were called Jews] THEIR LIFE [religious life as they know it] came to and END! It was the end of their world [religious world as they know it]! All of a sudden a man started to preach THAT HE WAS THE SON OF GOD, and that THEIR RELIGIOUS LEADERS were WHITE WASHED TOMBS, HYPOCRITES, CHILDREN OFF THE DEVIL, blind leaders leading the blind [Just to name a few of the thing Jesus had to say about them in Matt 23]! God’s people had to CHOOSE who to follow. Stay with their leaders, who warned them that JESUS WAS A FRAUD, and THE LEADER OF A FALSE DOCTRINE… or LEAVE THE OLD RELIGIOUS SYSTEM BEHIND in order to follow after THE MAN WHO CLAIMED HE WAS THE TRUTH. Well we know how that ended. THE LEADERS JESUS KILLED, and had all the followers of the NEW WAY [of Christ] killed and thrown out of their synagogues/ churches/ meeting places.

Remember Paul’s story in Acts 9 where he tells us how he persecuted and killed the FOLLOWERS OF THE NEW WAY? Well that was only until God opened his eyes and he SAW CHRIST for himself.

Well, after the religious LEADERS OF GOD’S PEOPLE [the Jews], killed Jesus at at the end of the LAW/PASSOVER AGE, they started to persecuted all the FOLLOWERS OF GOD’S NEW WAY.

TAKE NOTE: Jesus birth, death and resurrection, [First Coming] moved God’s people/called out ones/church into a next age… the Pentecostal Age [also called the church-age].

Friend, God Himself ended the Law Age, because He had another/better WAY in mind. A NEW WAY, where He would from then onwards , pour HIS OWN SPIRIT into His people. But in order for His people to be a part of HIS NEW WAY, they had to leave HIS OLD WAY behind! GOD MOVED INTO THE NEXT STAGE OF HIS PLAN!

So God did what He said He’d do [through His prophets], and Jesus was born out of Judah [that is where the name Jew comes from.]. But when the Jews rejected Jesus AND HIS NEW WAY [that God also foretold through the prophets], He destroyed Jerusalem and the temple 30 years later. Remember in the LAW AGE, the Temple with the animal sacrifices and priests, played a HUGE role, but when God’s people did not want to MOVE when He moved into A NEW WAY, He destroyed His OLD WAY way. [That He also foretold], because that was also part of His plan.

He even gave THE JEWS time [30 years] to repent [change from their way to HIS NEW WAY] but when they refused, He destroyed them. God does NOTHING without telling His prophets first! Friend, IF the Jews had repented, were willing to leave THE OLD JEWISH WAY behind in order to follow God’s NEW WAY, they would have been SAVED. Take note: MOST of the first FOLLOWERS OF GOD’S NEW WAY were Jews, just like Paul.

Friend, God destroyed the OLD JEWISH WAY, DESTROYED THE OLD TEMPLE with the animal sacrifices after He established HIS NEW WAY……. and He will NEVER EVER rebuild it again, NEVER AGAIN go back to that way. PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO ALL THE LIES BEING SPREAD BY TODAY’S ZIONISTS! Read the Word and see for yourself who is God’s SPIRITUAL JEWS… it’s those who have HIS SPIRIT IN THEIR SPIRITS! Those who believe that He is indeed THEIR KING. It is those who are BORN-AGAIN from above by accepting Jesus SACRIFICE ON THE CROSS who are in God’s eyes SPIRITUAL JEWS, because they are the ones who call Him KING!!! The earthly Jews are still rejecting him up to this very day, HE IS NOT THEIR KING… HE IS OUR KING!!! Christians are all those people who have accepted Jesus sacrifice on the Cross and proclaim HIM AS THEIR KING… the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

BUT let’s get back to our teaching and THE SECOND COMING. We [God's people today] have also entered another VERY CRITICAL STAGE IN GOD’S PLAN FOR THE AGES. Just as in the time of Jesus FIRST COMING, we are now BETWEEN AGES! The church-age/Pentecostal age has come to an end and we are just WAITING FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD… and that will take place at THE FIRST RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. Only those believers throughout all the past ages, who have GROWN UP to become OVERCOMERS while they were alive on planet earth, will take part in the FIRST RESURRECTION from the dead… will receiver their resurrected bodies and reign and rule with Christ during the NEXT AGE [tabernacle/millennium age]

That will be THE EVENT that will START the next age… the tabernacle/millennium age. A NEW MESSAGE HAS STARTED TO BE PREACHED, a NEW LIGHT/DEEPER REVELATION TRUTH has started to shine forth… and now it’s once again time for God’s people to CHOOSE… the OLD WAY [Pentecostal way] or THE NEW WAY [TABERNACLE WAY]! Will they be willing to LEAVE God’s OLD WAY behind by accepting HIS NEW WAY [truth]??? Or will they, just like most of the Jews, reject Christ when He comes again through HIS OVERCOMERS? Will they keep believing in all the old religious man made doctrines like the rapture, or the Zionist doctrine that believes God is once again going to evangelize the world through the Jews by going back to the temple worship and animal slaughter? Or are you still going to look for Jesus coming on some literal cloud to sweep you off to some literal place with golden streets called heaven???

The tabernacle age will start at THE SECOND COMING… at the MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD, when God comes from heaven[heavenly realm] into the earth [earthly realm] by manifesting Himself THROUGH the body of OVERCOMERS that He has been preparing throughout all the past ages. That will then also be THE FIRST RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.

TAKE NOTE: Only the OVERCOMERS will take part in the first resurrection and receive their immortal bodies. The rest of the believers AND unbelievers will have to wait for the second resurrection from the dead that will take place AFTER the 1000 year millennium/tabernacle age.

Remember, Jesus is THE FIRST BORN SON and our PATTERN! What happen to Him will happen to us [OVERCOMERS]!

WOW… what a day that will be!!!

2Ti 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

2Ti 2:11It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with [ him speaks of death to SELF], we shall also live with him [during the next millennium age]:

2Ti 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he [all overcomers throughout all past ages] that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

[Please click here in order to start with part 1 of this teaching. ]

What does the SECOND COMING really mean?

As we’ve seen previously, God came the first time from heaven to earth [He came FROM the heavenly realm INTO the earthly realm] to manifest Himself in all His fullness ON EARTH. HOW DID HE DO THAT? By sending HIS SPIRIT into ONE MAN/ ONE HUMAN BEING named Jesus.

Friend, God is COMING AGAIN, a second time… and once again He is going to ‘come’ [show Himself to the world] THROUGH HUMAN FLESH. And once again He is going to come FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH.. BUT this time it is NOT going to be through only one man… the second time God is going ‘to come’/manifest Himself THROUGH MANY PEOPLE… many SONS. Remember God works PROGRESSIVELY! The FIRST TIME He came through ONE SON, the SECOND TIME He is going to come THROUGH MANY SONS.

Romans 8… The CREATION waits in eager expectation for the SONS OF GOD TO BE REVEALED [to be manifested/showed] .

Mark 3:35 “Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother“.

Jesus will always be OUR BROTHER, the first born CHILD/SON of God! And if He is the FIRSTBORN, then we [all who do the will of His Father, is His siblings! So the whole creation is waiting in eager expectation for …............... THE MANIFESTATION/REVEALING of ALL the OTHER SONS OF GOD!

What made Jesus the firstborn SON OF GOD???

The fact that He was RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD, the fact that He was a believer that had OVERCOME all His enemies [spiritually speaking!]

“Rom 1:3  Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh [SON OF MAN];
Rom 1:4  And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
Rom 1:5  By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Rom 1:6  Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:”

God [a spiritual being] put His Spiritual seed in Mary [earthly human being] and Jesus, THE SON OF MAN, was born. After 30 years God publicly announced that JESUS WAS HIS SON; that was also when Jesus received the BAPTIZED OF THE SPIRIT, and that was also when Jesus started His 3 years of ministry. BUT TAKE NOTE at that stage Jesus had not yet overcame ALL HIS ENEMIES. Remember how Jesus was ‘lead into the wilderness’ by the Spirit just after He received the baptism of the spirit? There in the wilderness He was severely tested by Satan, and it was only AFTERWARDS that He was ready to manifest God’s character to the world. There in the wilderness He had to OVERCOME Satan… and the last enemy Jesus had to OVERCOME was DEATH after He had died on that cross. AND HE DID JUST THAT!!! Yes, He died BUT WAS RESURRECTED 3 days later when He received HIS RESURRECTED GLORIFIED BODY after He presented Himself to His Father in heaven!

Just another interesting truth… God, as SPIRITUAL BEING had the authority over the spiritual realm [heaven], but it was only AFTER Jesus, THE SON OF MAN, defeated sin, Satan, and DEATH in the earthly realm, that He gained authority over the EARTHLY REALM as well… that was when God exulted Him ABOVE ALL THING, in heaven, and one earth, and under the earth. When God openly  declared that Jesus,   THE SON OF MAN was now also THE SON OF GOD! The first ONE of a whole new CREATION!

In Col 1:15 we see how Jesus, after He had presented Himself to the Father as the living, resurrected Son of God, became the “first-born of all creation” (Col. 1:15).

BUT… Jesus did not stay on earth, AFTER His victory He went back to heaven [the heavenly realm] … WAITING to come back to earth THE SECOND TIME.

So let’s recap: In order for God to come to earth the first time, He had to prepare for Himself an earthly body/vessel through whom He could manifest/show Himself to the world/earthly realm: JESUS, THE SON OF MAN. And Friend, just as God had prepared for Himself a BODY through whom He could ‘come’ the first time, He has been preparing for Himself ANOTHER BODY through whom He’s going to come THE SECOND TIME.

SO THE QUESTION NOW IS… WHO’S THAT BODY THROUGH WHOM GOD IS GOING TO COME THE SECOND TIME???

We will continue in Part 4!

Because we are PRESENTLY [2012] between AGES, between the Pentecostal/Church Age and the Tabernacle/Millennium Age… I would like to start by explaining the SECOND COMING OF CHRIST that is historically just around the corner.

TAKE NOTE: Individually each believer need to MOVE from deeper revelation to deeper revelation as the Spirit leads him. You first of all need to accept Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour, learn that salvation is by GRACE and not by works [this is called the Passover Stage], then you have to move on to the Pentecostal Stage, by being baptised in the Spirit and started to operate in the Gifts of the Spirit…and then you need to move ONWARDS towards becoming an OVERCOMER, one who will reign and rule during the next age[tabernacle/millennium age].

SO… where are God’s people CORPORATELY today? We [God's people/His church/called out ones] have already moved through the passover stage [at that stage where God's people were called Israelite, and later Jews]. Then we moved THROUGH the Pentecostal stage [that took place during the last 2000 years when God's people were called Christians]… and presently we are starting to move INTO the NEXT AGE! Friend, we are presently BETWEEN ages… waiting for THE ONE thing that will MOVE us into the next age – the SECOND COMING!

TAKE NOTE: Before I continue I just want to make one point very clear: WE ARE NOT AT THE END OF THE WORLD, ONLY AT THE END OF THE CHURCH-AGE [Pentecostal age]! There are still many many more AGES to come!

Friend we as Christians believe that Christ came the first time, and that He will come a second time, but what does that really mean? How is He going to come the SECOND time? If MOST of God’s people rejected Him at His first coming, will most of God’s people also reject Him at His second coming… and will You be able to recognize Christ when He comes the second time???

Well in order to understand the second coming, we first need to understand the first coming… so let’s take a good look at the FIRST COMING.

Let’s answer some very basic questions about the FIRST COMING:

WHO CAME?

From where did he come?

Through WHOM did He come?

WHY did He come?

… and COME??? What does that really mean?

Friend first of all we got to realize that it was GOD who CAME down from heaven to earth. BUT WHY did He come? He came ‘down’ so that ordinary people like you and me COULD ACTUALLY SEE HIM! NEVER BEFORE could anyone SEE God Almighty! Remember, God is a SPIRITUAL BEING who wanted to manifest [show] Himself in another dimension… the EARTHLY DIMENSION! So AT THE FIRST COMING, God came down from the heavenly/spiritual realm/dimension into the earthly dimension/realm to MANIFEST/show Himself in the EARTHLY realm/dimension! So for the very first time people on earth could actually SEE GOD!

But how could the people who lived during His FIRST COMING actually SEE Him? How did He make Himself SEEN? By sending HIS SPIRIT into a MAN named Jesus.

John 1:14 “The Word became FLESH and made his dwelling among us.”

John 1:1 “In the beginning was THE WORD, and the Word was with God, and THE WORD WAS GOD. He was with God in the beginning.” [The WORD WAS GOD and THE WORD became FLESH.]

The purpose of creation was to manifest the glory of God in both heaven and earth.

Friend, that was the reason why God created the WORLD/the earthly realm in the first place… He wanted to manifest/show His glory NOT only in heaven [heavenly/spiritual dimension], but also in ANOTHER DIMENSION… the earthly realm. And that was exactly what He did during HIS FIRST COMING… for the first time ever He manifested/showed HIS GLORY IN HUMAN FLESH. So God ‘came’ FROM heaven [heavenly/spiritual dimension] INTO the earthly dimension when He send THE FULLNESS OF HIMSELF into the man Jesus. ‘GOD HIMSELF BECAME FLESH and dwelled amongst us’… AND now listen to this:

verse 10-11 “He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognized Him. He came to that which was His own [the Jews at that stage were His people/church/called out ones] but His own did not recognize him.”

Friend His own PEOPLE did not recognized God when He came/manifested Himself the first time! WHY? Because they were totally BLIND and BOUND by their own man made doctrines!!! So when God came and manifested Himself THROUGH a very ORDINARY MAN named Jesus… THEY REJECTED HIM WHEN THEY REJECTED JESUS! They believe The Son of God is going to be a king who will destroy their Roman enemies, therefore Jesus did not fit into their man made ideas.

So that leaves us with the question??? Will God’s people recognize Him when He comes the SECOND TIME??? Friend, the only way that they will recognize God is IF THEY ARE WALKING IN THE TRUTH OF what God is revealing PRESENTLY! 2 years back I was still totally bound by Churchianity’s false man made religious doctrines, so if God would have decided to come during that time, I would have rejected Him together with the rest of my brothers and sisters bound in today’s lukewarm Churchianity.

But lets get back to God coming the first time. First of all He came [manifested Himself] THROUGH a VERY ORDINARY MAN, called Jesus [Take note: Jesus at that time, was a very ordinary name.]. So through a very ordinary man, God chose to come down from the heavenly realm to MANIFEST HIS CHARACTER to the world [earthly realm]. Friend there were so many prophecies in the Old Testament telling God’s people HOW and through WHOM He would come the first time, and Jesus fulfilled every single one off them… but still they REJECTED Him! They still could not see/recognize Him IN JESUS!

So through A MAN, called Jesus, God showed HIS CHARACTER to the world… so God came FROM HEAVEN [the heavenly/spiritual realm] ONTO the earthly realm, by sending HIS SPIRIT into an EARTHLY MAN named Jesus! So for the first time ever, God’s CHARACTER could be SEEN in the earthly realm… through an earthly man [human being].

John 14:9…”Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.”

John 10:30 “I and the Father are ONE.”

John 6:46 “No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.”

Jesus said, “If you had seen me, you have SEEN my Father!” Jesus MANIFESTED GOD HIS FATHER! So Jesus Christ was the FIRST BORN SON OF GOD… the first MAN/HUMAN BEING through whom God could MANIFEST/SHOW Himself to the WORLD/the earthly realm. That my Friend was God’s FIRST COMING, Him coming from heaven down to earth!

Friend the whole TRUTH is explained in the Word, God’s whole plan from start to finish is all there, but God only reveal certain truths at certain times. He only revealed a very small amount of His plan to the Israelites during the law age/passover age, they knew nothing about His plan for the next age [church-age/pentecostal age]. PLUS…it was only at the end of the law-age, that God started to shine His revelation light on the next stage of His plan. We are at the END of the church-age, and God has only now [during the last couple of years] started to shine His REVEALING light on the NEXT STAGE of His plan for the ages to come.

Friend sorry to say, but it is of very little use to see/understand only those truths that God revealed in the past. WHAT MATTER IS WHETHER YOU ARE WALKING IN THE LIGHT – WHAT HE IS REAVEALING TODAY! Everything that He’s revealing today is written in the Word of God [Bible] but God reveal His PLAN progressively… at very specific God ordained times.

Let’s look at the past 2000 years [Church/Pentecostal age]. During the dark ages very very little TRUTH was revealed when the Roman Catholics took over the ‘church’, but then God revealed MORE TRUTH through the man Martin Luther… that Salvation is by Faith alone. Years later the printing press was designed and ordinary people started to read the Word for themselves, then later came the Protestant movement, then later the Charismatic/ latter rain movement and then in later years the revelation of the manifestation of the Sons of God. Throughout the ages and generation more and more TRUTH/LIGHT was poured into the earth[earthly realm]… there was continues PROGRESSION/growth… more light generation after generation!

So the question is NOT what God was revealing during the time of Martin Luther, or Calvin, or at the Latter rain movement… the question is WHAT TRUTH IS HE REVEALING TODAY? Are you still stuck at the TRUTH the church received through Luther in the 15 hundreds [salvation by faith alone]… or have you moved on to the truth of being baptised in the Spirit that was poured into the earth realm decades later[think it was during the 18 hundreds]? That is NOT EVEN GOOD ENOUGH… that was what God was revealing in those past generation, but what is He revealing NOW… presently! Some Jews are still stuck in THE TRUTH that was revealed during the Law-age! They have not even moved onwards by accepting Christ as their Saviour, never mind what God has been revealing up to now!

Some Christians are still stuck at the TRUTH God revealed through Martin Luther, or Calvin, they have not even moved INTO the TRUTH of the Baptism of the Spirit… never mind the TRUTH of what God is REVEALING TODAY!!! IT IS SAD! And let me tell you something else, before you start to tell me about the corruption in the Protestant movement, or the Catholic movement or the Latter Rain movement, or the Charismatic movement…EVERY SINGLE TIME God has poured more TRUTH/LIGHT into the earth realm it was GOOD, but just a few years down the line those people/Christians who had receive those DEEPER TRUTH started to change it into RELIGION as they started to mix THOSE DEEPER TRUTH [spiritual revelations] with their own man made doctrines [flesh]! Instead of moving ONWARDS with God into yet more DEEPER TRUTH, they build shrines and organizations… so the GLORY DEPARTED. But they did not even realize it, cause they were to busy playing church.

This is what my next couple of teachings is all about, to try and explain in my very limited words THE TRUTH that God is revealing PRESENTLY! Friend, whether you are going to except them or not, is up to you and God, He is the only One who can SET US FREE from wrong doctrines and open our eyes to HIS DEEPER TRUTHS! ALL GLORY TO HIM! I am putting my faith and trust in HIM and Him alone to do a deeper work in You and me!

Have awesome day as you are drawn closer to God!

Your sister in Christ

Ezette