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Lazarus and the rich man

Let's study this as God instructs those who want to learn knowledge and to understand doctrine for precept must be on precept, line upon line, (Isa 28:90-10) here a little and there a little. Keep in mind that Jesus spoke in parables for the purpose that all listening would not understand; now we can understand this doctrine, if you will hear what I hear (Acts 3:23).
*Mark 4:11-12 “And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.”
It was not their time to understand and be forgiven (1 Cor 15:23), is it yours?

*Luke 16:20-31 “And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”

Let’s start after the intro with verse 21…
“And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores”.
This shows clearly how the rich man does not love his neighbor as himself as if he were him. In fact it appears that the rich man does not even give Lazarus any crumbs because Lazarus is left desiring to be fed, and in the very next verse Lazarus died that implys he died of starvation.

Next verse 22...
"And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom:"
We know that Jesus does not lie. If Lazarus went to Abraham's bosom then where is Abraham? We know Abraham is dead and in Gen 25:8 it says that Abraham gave up the ghost, and died. What is this ghost and where does it go?
*Eccl 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
*Eccl 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing...
*Ps 146:4 “His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.”
So then Lazarus spirit returned to God who gave it just as Abraham.
The word bosom is Strong's #2859 and means inheritance. Jesus is saying that Lazarus will receive the same inheritance as Abraham at his judgment (Heb 9:27). What was and will be Abraham’s inheritance? He inherited land (Ezek 33:24), (Heb 11:13-16). Lazarus was meek he suffered long without resentment. The meek shall inherit the earth (Matt 5:5), land.
Lazarus body was buried as also the rich man.
Continuing now with the last part of verse 22..."the rich man also died, and was buried.

Next verse 23...
"And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom"
The word hell here is Strong's # 86 it is the word Hades and means grave.
Jesus knows that no man can speak from the grave Ps 146:4, Gen 3:19 and those who live by every word of God would know that (Deut 8:3), (Matt 6:33), (Mark 12:30-31). Jesus is telling a story to proclaim that how you treat others in this lifetime as yourself is where you will be placed for eternity, possibly as the rich man afar off from the walls of the coming city of God. This will be his eternal punishment, will it be yours? (2 Tim 2:15). The rich man will weep, being humbled he will never be considered as rich again.

How will the rich man like his eternal placement in God’s new world? Verse 24...
"And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame".
God's judgment on him is the flame that will humble him at his judgment (Jer 23:29).
The rich man is tormented by God’s final judgment and his final placement. If the rich man was in a literal hell fire he would need more than water on his tongue. The water the rich man wants on his tongue is to cool his tongue from arguing with God. He tried weeping and gnashing and in the end he discovered God’s final word (Matt 8:12), (Matt 25:30), (Matt 22:13-14). The rich man wants Lazarus to come and place cooling words in his mouth to try to change God’s mind.

Let's side step for a moment I need to show you who else will be weeping and gnashing at their judgment?
*Matt 13:38-39 “The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.”
Who are the children of the wicked one? And what happens to them?
The children of the wicked one (tares) are demons, they are the devil’s angels (Matt 25:41), (Rev 12:9), (Acts 19:15-16), (Matt 12:28). They will be wailing and gnashing their teeth also at their judgment.
*2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;.
The word hell here in 2 Peter 2:4 is Strong’s # 5020 it is the word Tartaros and means incarcerated in eternal torment.
*Matt 13:42-43 “And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
I have been given ears to hear and I am commanded to tell the world what I hear to stop the curse on the earth (Mal 4:6). The devil and his angels are the only ones that the furnace of fire is prepared for; it is not prepared for any of God's flesh and blood children. If any of God’s flesh and blood children were put in this fire it would only be their one death (Heb 9:27). It does not burn the devil or his angels; it contains them because they are immortal. God does no lasting harm to anyone; each of us receives what we need to learn (Rom 13:10) for our eternal placement in God’s coming New World at the time when all the rest of God's children will be resurrected to immortal life.
*Job 36:22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
God will not forever kill any of his children not even the devil and his angels. Nothing is impossible for God; he has the ability to exterminate any immortal of his just as easily as he made them if he wanted to. It never entered his heart or mind. If God were to forever kill any of his created children he would be a hypocrite (Ex 20:13). All is for a reason (Isa 45:7).
God wants all of his mortal children to learn the knowledge of good and evil before becoming a god (Gen 3:22), (Psalm 82:6).
*Matt 25:32-41 “And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. 41Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.”
Those on the left hand are goats these are the tares; the devil’s angels. Only they go into a literal fire, this is their placement. Our correction will be our placement also by our works of loving others.
Now continuing Matt 25: 42 “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”
The word punishment here is Strong’s #2851 and it means correction. All will be corrected.
The word righteous here is Strong’s # 1342 and it means justice and innocent. All the innocent children (John 6:44) will know justice when God puts his laws into their minds at their resurrection (Heb 10:16). All will be given eternal life, all will believe (John 3:16) each in his own order (1 Cor 15:23).
*John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
Our carnal mind that we all were born with is enmity against God, it hates him. It does not want to follow his way; it wants its own way that is in tune (Eph 2:2) with the devil. This carnal mind is what we must overcome if we ever want to walk into the gates of the New Jerusalem (Rom 8:7), (Rev 21). We must replace our mind of evil with God’s mind (Phil 2:5).This is your chance to be chosen for his government or as a worker (multitude) in his coming great city (Heb 11:16).
*Revelation 3:12 Him 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 is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
*1 Corinthians 6:3 “Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?”
The coming government of God will judge angels. All will be as the angels. This will include God’s angels and all of God's mortal children when they are resurrected as angels (Matt 22:30) and the devil’s angels (Matt 25:41). Some were created for honor some for dishonor (2 Tim 2:20).
*Mark 12:24-25 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? 25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
*2 Pet 3:7 But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
The word perdition is Strong's # 684 and means ruin and loss.
* John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
Only one mortal born child will perish. He is the son that is born of Satan, the beast of Rev 13:1-18. The son of Satan will not be resurrected. All mortal children of God are born ungodly (Rom 8:7). All are sinners, all will be resurrected to immortal life with new hearts and minds (Heb 10:16-20) and placed for eternity by how they have treated others (Pro 24:12), (2 Cor 11:15). None of God's children will be lost.

Let’s now go back to Luke 16…
Verse 25 "But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou are tormented."
Verse 26 "And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence."

The rich man’s eternal placement will be far away (great gulf) from the coming kingdom of God (Rev 21:10-27). Most will never be able to enter into it and many who will live in it will never have a need or desire to leave it. Those in this lifetime that have endured evil things in this life patiently with meekness, gentleness, and kindness will be comforted in their next life for eternity (Rev 7:14-17).
The parable of Lazarus and the rich man is like the parable of the sower (Matt 13:18-23). If you knew where you are now and where you are going to be placed for eternity would you try to change it? Would you try to warn your family as the rich man in Christ's story?

Verse 27 "Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house."
Verse 28 "For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment."
Verse 29 "Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them."
Verse 30 "And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent."
Verse 31 "And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."

Will you hear the prophet like unto Moses proven on this website by the word of God (Acts 3:22)? I have delivered the true word (Rev 12:5) at the heel of time (Gen 3:15) bruising Satan by exposing his lies to the world.
Will you treat your neighbor as yourself as if you were them? Your neighbor is anyone God causes to be placed before you during anytime of the year, not just in the winter. They are your own kind. Will you especially love your own children as yourself as if you were them? How you treat anyone is how you are treating God, he made them, he placed them in your life (Matt 10:35-36). Have you been denying the substance of things hoped for?
*1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

John the Baptist

I need to show you why John the Baptist will be even lower than the least in God’s coming kingdom.
*Matthew 11:11 "Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he".
*Matthew 3:16-17 "And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
John’s act of baptizing Christ is what made him great. But why didn’t John the Baptist follow Christ after he baptized him?
*Matthew 11:2-6 “Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.”
Why after hearing a voice from heaven declaring God's son did John the Baptist doubt? It was because he was offended of him, he wanted to be greatest.
John the Baptist judged sinners and condemned them. Jesus never did (John 8:10-11).
John the Baptist professed Christ, baptized Christ, and heard the voice from heaven proving Christ. But he followed his own understanding; he did not live by every word of God. He did not love his neighbor as himself as if he was them. He had respect of persons; he refused to baptize the Pharisees and Sadducee's (Matt 3:7-10). He wanted them to prove first to him their repentance. He put himself as God. He was self righteous and taught lies. This is why he will be least. He was not humble and he did not want to be taught by Christ.
Jesus taught ...
*Luke 6:37 “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:”
When you judge not nor condemn not you are giving that person back to God (Matt 5:44). Only he can change someone anyway (Rom 12:21). Put your trust in God, suffer long. Be humble, be kind, be loving all the time as Jesus. Not my will but thine be done.

The Lord's Tithe

I need to show you what God wants you to know about his tithe. Pastors are not going to like this truth because they want to be rich (Rev 3:17) by the name of the Lord (Matt 19:24).
There was a time when those who were of the sons of Levi who received the office of the priesthood where commanded to take tithes of their brethren (people) according to the law.
*Heb 7:5 "And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:”
However the priesthood is now changed and therefore a change of this law is necessary.
*Heb 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Christ our savior who is our new priest, his shed blood saves all. None of God’s children are eternally lost, and by this he brought us all a better hope (Heb 7:19). Your tithe is to go to the Lord. You accomplish this by helping any of the least of his children with whatever their needs are. Yes, like the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:33-37). Christ said, “Go and do thou likewise.” When you do this you are giving your tithes directly to the Lord.
*Matt 25:34-36 "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me."
Then they asked "When did we do all these things?" in verse 37-39.
*Matt 25:40 "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
The Lord's tithe is the money that enables you to feed, house, clothe and care for any of God’s children needing your help? It is the Lord's tithe (Lev 27:30). You can give gifts and free will offerings to any church or to any cause that you like but your tithe should be set aside to assist any of God's children that God places in your life (Matt 25:27-30). Give to the Lord for inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these his children (sinners) you have really done it to him and then you shall be blessed (Luke 6:38), (Rom 3:10). How you treat sinners is how you are treating God. He made them just as he made you to learn the knowledge of good and evil. You are not any better than any one else.
You now know what God wants you to know. Will you grow (2 Pet 3:18)? Will you read all the posts that are written by the prophet that is meek like unto Moses (Acts 3:21-23)? I was given the power of Elijah (Ps 104:4) to deliver the true word (John 1:1), (Rev 12:5) to the world alone (Matt 24:14), (Luke 1:17) from the wilderness (Rev 12:6) at the heel of time (Gen 3:15)? As Elijah told the people that he was a prophet of the Lord (1 Kings 18:22) so I tell you. As Elijah proved the true God by fire (1 Kings 18:37-38) I also prove God by fire; hear me (Jer 23:29). His word now delivered here does turn the hearts of the fathers to the children as proof (Pro 14:25). His word will prepare a people without respect of persons. Will you be one of them? His true Gospel is now being preached to the world as a witness (Matt 24:14). Come sinners, the truth does set you free. Free to forgive. Free to love. Free to patiently wait, trusting in God's power to save all his children. Or will you continue to believe the lies of the devil that gives him the power to forever kill God's children? The one you believe in is your God. Satan has deceived the whole world until now (Rev 12:9) his time is short (Rev 12:12), (Rev 3:11).
God is love. Love NEVER fails (1 Cor 13:8). Live by every word of love (Matt 4:4). His word is now rightly divided on this website (2 Tim 2:15) from the book of the knowledge of good and evil, (2 Cor 11:13-15) your Bible.
Where will God's word (love) of fire place you for eternity?

Philadelphia

Philadelphia

Revelation Chapter 3 verses 7-11
*Rev 3:7-11 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. 9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. 11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Let’s take a closer look at each of these verses line upon line starting with verse 7…
“These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;”
The angel is describing the person and what he will teach. First he says he is holy. The word holy is Strong’s number 40 and means saint. A saint is someone who lives by every word of God. Then this verse says he is true.
TAKE NOTE: this person is not described as being trustworthy as the person described during the Laodicean era (Rev 3:14).

Next the angel says this person has the key of David.
Who was this person then that was holy and true and had the key of David? This person was Herbert W. Armstrong who began the Worldwide Church of God. He had the key of David revealing to the world the lost ten tribes of Israel and where they are today in his booklet first printed in 1967 “The United States and Britain in Prophecy”. Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong also taught the world that the Sabbath and Holy Days (Lev 23) given to the twelve tribes of Israel are to be kept by all in his booklet first printed in 1957 “Pagan Holidays- or Gods Holy Days- Which?”, also available on the Internet.

Let’s take a closer look now at the first part of verse 8…
“I know thy works: behold”
This verse is God stepping in for the word behold is Strong’s number 2400 which is derived from Strong’s number 1492 which is derived from Strong’s number 3700 which means to see something remarkable.
Continuing…
"I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name".
God is telling Mr. Armstrong that because he would not allow any man to silence the word of God from him that he would show him honor...
Next in verse 9 …
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Here again is the word “Behold” for yet again you will now see something remarkable.
A synagogue is a church. God is telling Mr. Herbert W Armstrong that those which say they are Gods people (Jews Gen 49:10) but are not lie. And that God would cause those who thought they were Gods people but who were not to worship (serve) Mr. Armstrong by joining the Worldwide Church of God.

Let me prove this to you precept on precept, here a little and there a little...
The details of what happened to Mr. Armstrong and his church are described by a prophecy in the Old Testament.
Isa 22:20-25 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

This is telling us that Mr. Armstrong who had the key of David teaching the Sabbath and Holy days as the Jews would become rich but that this church would be removed and would be cut off. This did happen to the Worldwide Church of God, it is no more.
Mr. Armstrong was holy and true however he was not trustworthy. Had he known this he most likely would not have made predictions and teachings that were false.

And now verse 10…
"Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth".
Let's examine this first line "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience"
What is the word of God's patience? God's patience is in the fact that he has allowed Satan's teachings to be in all churches until the woman of Rev 12 exposes his lies (Rev 12:9) now going to the world at the heel of time as a witness.
Now the next line "I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth"
The word thee is not to all those that were in his church it is only Mr. Armstrong. God kept his word as Mr. Armstrong will not go through the Great Tribulation. He has passed away.

I was a co-worker member of the Worldwide Church of God by my free will gifts and offerings beginning in 1980 while keeping the Sabbath and Holy Days from home, I was unable to attend services. I left this church in 1995 because Mr. Joseph W. Tkach had changed Mr. Armstrong’s primary teachings. Many other people left around the same time and a large portion of them began The United Church of God in 1995 of which I was baptized into in 2005. The Ministers of the United Church of God think that because they formerly were a part of the Worldwide Church of God (Philadelphia era), that they too will be protected as Mr. Armstrong from the Great Tribulation. This is not true. UCG is Laodicean they do not use any of Mr. Armstrong’s booklets, they have produced their own booklets. The Laodicean church becomes lukewarm only because a prophet is raised up from them (Acts 3:22-23) who is trustworthy, faithful and a true witness (Rev 3:14). I deliver the true word to the world (Rev 12:5). All who will hear this witness can now become hot! This Good Tale (Gospel) shall be preached in all the world as a witness, by this true witness, and then the end shall come.

Lastly let’s look at verse 11...
“Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown”.
Let's examine this first line "Behold, I come quickly"
This is truer now then it was during the Worldwide Church of God. This is the heel of time. Because I am God’s faithful servant every post on this website is trustworthy and true. I write and post all that God commands, these truths are coming from him.
And the last line "hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown".
God was again instructing Mr. Armstrong because as is true for Mr. Armstrong runs true for any who love God and put him first in their life. We must overcome our carnal mind of hate and we must endure to the end, hold on and never give up if you want to be allowed inside the walls of the coming New Jerusalem. Much is required.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

*Jer 10:3-5 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be no afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
*Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
People have been setting up a tree and then decorating it for a very long time. This custom is vain (worthless) it does no one any good.
*Mark 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
What is the commandment of God that has been rejected?
*Exodus 20:3-5 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God,
What is serve them? To serve any thing is to give your time for it.
God has heard for many years throughout the world his children singing about a Santa Clause that is coming to town. The song says "he sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when your awake, he knows if you've been bad or good so be good for goodness sake". God has seen for many years parents putting their children on the lap of a stranger in a red suit to take their picture while instructing them to tell Santa what they want for Christmas. Like any Santa has any real power.
Only God your heavenly Father of love everlasting sees you when you're sleeping. Only God your Father of love knows when you're awake. Only God your Father of love knows when you've been bad or good. How would you feel if you were God, the great creator of all and the Father of all and many of your children were singing your qualities giving glory to someone else? Only God is who you should be good for because your works are being written in the books of life for your eternal placement (Rev 20:12).
Many people say they know Christ was not born on December 25th, yet they celebrate Christmas anyway. They say it is to honor Christ their savior’s birth. How can it honor a birth when it was not his birthday? God didn't give us his birthday cause he does not want us to celebrate it. Our savior is not in a manger any way. Our savior is sitting at the right hand of God in all power and glory. The birth of Christ was not on December 25th and can be proven by any in-depth study of its origins. Nowhere in our upbringing has anyone of us celebrated someone else’s birthday by giving everyone else a gift except the one having the birthday.
We have vainly believed in lies and taught them to our children to do our own way. Many are about to tell their children "Santa is going to come down the chimney and bring gifts for you". Under the Christmas tree will be gifts that will say "From Santa". What a lie. Only God our Father gives good gifts (James 1:17). Only God gives us the ability to give gifts (Deut 8:18). And then we tell our children not to tell lies? What hypocrites. Pretending to worship God by your traditions is just that, it is pretending. Our God is real; he has feelings just like ours. God loves holidays only he calls his Holy Days (Lev 23). He is our Holy Father; he wants to be in our celebrations. He made these days Holy for us, his spirit is in them. In God's world all will keep his Holy Days.
Satan has deceived the whole world to know another God, one that worships on Sunday, one that loves this world and all it’s holidays, one that wants us to fear a hell fire. Doing the customs of the people is vain; it does not bring you close to God your real Father (Col 2:8). Whose world is it right now? (Matt 4:8-10). The lies in this world separate you from the true God (love), (John 4:23).
Many believe they are saved by grace. Many think they do not have to be perfect to receive eternal life and this is true for everyone.
*Eph 2:5,8-9 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
No one first must profess Christ in this life to be given eternal life in our next life. Many who have professed Christ now have not really known him. All will be given eternal life at their resurrection from the dead (Matt 22:29-30) and then will be their judgment and placement in his world (Ezek 37:26).
No one immediately goes to heaven or hell when they die, it is a lie. Your body goes to the grave. The spirit that God gave you returns to God to await your resurrection (Eccl 12:7). The proof by the word of God of this and more is on this website. All will be saved each in their own order, God’s order. No one can come to know God until he draws them (John 6:44). He will draw all to him (Rom 14:11).
*Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
If you want to live inside the walls of God’s New Jerusalem in his world you must become perfect in love (Luke 12:48) by overcoming your carnal mind (Rev 3:5). Perfect in love loves God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Perfect love is doing his will and not your own. Keeping the laws of God are not negotiable because you can only begin to love God with all your heart, soul and mind when you live by every word of God (love) as Christ did so can you (Matt 4:4). These are your works of love that will place you inside the walls of his city forever. Much is required to whom much is given. You must overcome your carnal mind by loving God more than yourself and with his love loving your neighbor as yourself. Anyone not doing the laws of God will be saved by grace and will be placed outside the walls of the kingdom. If God is drawing you to him now, your placement will be determined by your works of perfect love (1 Cor 13:2-3). If God is not drawing you to him now, your placement will be determined by how you have treated others as yourself.
*Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
*Rev 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
You are saved by grace, however only those who will be allowed to enter into the city of God (Rev 21:11-27) will live now in truth (John 4:23).
*Rev 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Abomination is Strong’s number 946, it means idolatry. The customs and traditions of men is idolatry. They are worthless. Satan has deceived the whole world to keep God's children from truly knowing and honoring our Father of Love. Our Father has allowed it to teach us the knowledge of evil to humble us. When our minds become open to the truth we will never want lies again and neither will we lie to others. Now we can know our carnal mind that is against love (God). Now we can overcome its pulls that lead us to believe in lies. Now we can live by the true word of God without fear, seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness (Matt 6:21).
This truth is now given to us at the heel of time (Gen 3:15). I only have a total of 1260 days to give this truth to the world before Satan is cast down to the earth (Rev 12:6, Rev 12:9). Evil and more lies like the world has never seen before will soon take over this world (Matt 24:21-24), (2 Thes 2:9).
Is the real God in your heart? You may have unknowingly been praying to the wrong one. Are you praying to a heavenly Father of love and mercy who has all power to save all his children? Or are you praying to a heavenly god of hate, revenge and murder that for now rules this world that would if he could throw some of God’s children into a hell fire forever. This god of deception is about to be cast from heaven to the earth (Rev 12:13).
Satan is not love. Satan has no mercy. God created (Isa 45:7) us to hate him to learn the knowledge of good and evil (Rom 8:7), (Gen 3:22). Satan has no eternal power over any of God’s children.
God gave us all mortal life; he will give us all immortal life, that's what being born again is. He will place us according to our works of loving others as ourselves either with his love or ours no matter how good or evil. Depending on what you do with what you know he will have a place for you. It will be either near or far from his coming city (Rev 21:10).
*Luke 12:47And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
God is your Father. He is the Father of your children, his children. He sent his son to die for all, his son suffered for hours hanging on a cross so that all of us can know God our Father forever (John 3:16). God will marry his son to a bride of 144,000.
*John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Eternal life is to know your Father of love. All will know him (Heb 8:11-12). God says not to have any other god's before him because he will give all eternal life in HIS world. God is calling many to choose the few who will truly love him. These are those who will be chosen to live forever inside his city walls.
Oh how we have all been deceived, holding to men’s teachings to worship God our own way over God’s way.
*Isa 28:14-18 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Now we can become perfect in love, now we can be wise. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them. What is the oil that you need to bring?
*1 Sam 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. The oil is the spirit of the Lord (Gal 5:22-23). What is the Spirit?
*2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
God’s word instructs us to honor Christ's death, and Easter isn't it (Lev 23:5). This also can be proven by an in depth study of its origins. The memorial of Christ’s death, the taking of bread and wine is to be observed only once a year at Passover. That is how often. Any time other than that day is worthless and you may be doing harm (1 Cor 11:29-30) to yourself.
*Luke 2:41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.
This is why God says not to love the world (1 John 2:15); you cannot do good if you do (Rom 3:12). Doing good is doing things God's way. Only God is good. Almost everything of this world that you think you are doing to please the real God is worthless. Prove all things. When you think; it is of your carnal mind (2 Cor 11:15). You must not think you must live by every word of God (love) now rightly divided (2 Tim 2:15) precept on precept here a little and there a little (Isa 28:9-10) by the will of God for us at the heel of time.
*Ps 14:2- 4 The Lord looketh down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
*3 John 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
*Luke 6:46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
Do you want to live for eternity inside the walls of the coming New Jerusalem for eternity? You must want it with your whole heart soul and Gods mind (Phil 2:5). Seeking his will as for hid treasure (Matt 13:44).
Do not judge anyone who keeps Christmas or Easter or any other of this world’s holidays. Be merciful, they might not want to live inside those pearly gates. Much will be required for those who live inside God’s government city. It is not for everyone. They may want to live outside the walls of the New City. Do not harm anyone’s feelings, love everyone. God does. Fathers and Mothers turn your hearts. He has a place for all; he draws his children to him in his time. He directs us all (Pro 3:6), (Pro 16:9). The gift of truth from God our Father is the greatest gift; give this to your children.
*John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
True grace and truth is now going to the world by the promise of God to Eve (Gen 3:15). This is the time of the restitution of all things before the return of Christ to prepare a people for his coming millennium.
*Matthew 10:26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
*Acts 3:21-23 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Those who say they are Christian and do not believe "The Good Tale" will not be allowed through those pearly gates. They will not be counted among the people that will go into that city.
The word him in Acts 3:22 is Strong’s number 846 its definition is she. God has raised me up from the lukewarm church. I am the woman of Revelation 12. This is the deliverance of the man child (John 1:1), (Rev 12:5). True grace and truth is given to the world to prepare a people of all nations, tongues (Rev 7:9) and kindred’s. There is no respect of persons with our true God.
I will remain in the wilderness (Rev 12:6). This means you will not see me preaching this on TV or on the radio. You will not find this in bookstores. If any or all of you wish to be my spokesperson may you so be blessed (Matt 10:41).
*John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.