Sunday, June 27, 2021

BLESSINGS IN TRUTH PROPHESIES

My Dear Precious Ones,
   After Paul assured the followers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Thessalonian church to have confidence in the teaching of Jesus that the holy people, Jews and Gentiles alike, who had been resurrected from the dead at the same time as Jesus Christ was resurrected, that the current believers' spirits alike would meet Jesus in the air when their bodies die (Matthew 27:5-55)  That is the hope to which we are called, not like the Sadducees who previously neither believed in heaven nor the resurrection.  There were many Sadducees who had been converted to Christianity and had adopted the truth about their spirits, their real self, going to heaven.  
    Paul warned the Thessalonians not to be too complicit in their lives on earth.  He warned them that incidents of death come quickly, just like when one feels safe and at peace that something could happen to them and their earthly bodies from which there is no escape.  He admonished the believers that death can overcome them quickly when they become taken out of their bodies and unite with Jesus Christ in the air to be transported to heaven.  Paul encouraged them, and you, that you are children of light and day currently in the world and also citizens in heaven at the same time.   He said that people are not completely residents of either heaven or earth as long as they are in human bodies because their bodies are in communication with the devil's sons of the earth who tempt them.   Paul was of the belief at that time, as a young Christian, that Jesus was coming into the earth to institute a mass exit from earth and take the Jews to heaven.  However, in his teachings he had truth but the truth was that when the bodies of people die that their real self, the spirit of the person, unites with Jesus Christ in the air and He takes them to their Promised Land, which is My Kingdom of God where there is no death, only life ever lasting. 
     In His warning in II Thessalonians that that day was soon coming, either in body or spirit, he was concerned that the people would be easily deceived into believing that a falling away from Me would come first when people with an anti-Christ motivation would be in control of the earth.  That event actually began with Adam and Eve, not after the ministry of Jesus Christ; but the religious training of the Pharisees, of which Paul had formerly belonged, were taught that it would happen again with a great falling away and that it would all be part of My salvation of the earth.  My salvation of the earth began with the ministry of John the Baptist and culminated with the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead which was followed by His ascension into My heaven and His sending My source of power, the Holy Spirit, to live inside of people who become born of My Holy Spirit and baptized in My Holy Spirit.  They became Christ-people, just like Jesus Christ. 
    Paul warned the people about events that had already happened.  Later in his writings to the churches Paul was less convinced and less dogmatic about the immediate coming to earth of Jesus Christ.  It has now been 2200 years since then and Jesus has not come to take over the earth for Israel, which was the hope of the Jewish people.   My old covenant with Moses was declared null and void when My new covenant of the Holy Spirit with all of humanity began on the day of Pentecost in the upper room and in many lives since that monumental event.  (Jeremiah 33:31-43; Acts 2:1-13; Joel 3; 1-5; Acts 2:17-25)  He encouraged the church in Thessalonica that, as Gentiles, they had been chosen by Me to be part of the bodies of the first fruits of the works of the Holy Spirit in the earth which would work for the salvation of the earth. (II Thessalonians 2:13-14) However, the devil did his works in the lives of the people in the first churches.  The devil had deceived some of them to unite with the Jewish Law again which Jesus, and also Paul, referred to as the Law of Sin and Death. 
    Paul encouraged them in his second letter to the Thessalonians to stand firm in their new traditions taught by Jesus Christ and the apostles. (II Thessalonians 2:15) Some people had already been deceived and left the Church of Jesus Christ and they had united with the Parisees' old covenant law which had deceived them in the past relating to men yielding to the tradition of circumcision.  Later in Paul's writings, he was less stringent on teaching about the soon coming back to earth of Jesus Christ.  In fact, in his letters to the other churches he  advised maidens not to get married because Jesus was coming back to earth soon.  Later Paul wrote to the women in his letter to the Ephesians about how to relate to their husbands, which he interpreted as them being submissive to their husbands with their husbands ruling over them.  With even greater revelation from My Spirit, Paul wrote even later to the Galatian church that men and women must be submissive to each other because in Christ there are no males or females, no Gentiles or Jews, but that all people are equal in My sight. 
    Revelations bring truth.  Truth does not come easily or immediately to anybody.  Jesus Christ, Himself, studied the prophesies in the Law relating to His ministry until he was 30 years old. That is when I could trust Him with My knowledge about the events relating to the salvation of the world through Him.(I Thessalonians 2:13-17)
    With the disciples of Jesus, including Paul, they were all programmed efficiently with Jewish Law to which they referred as the law of sin and death.  It took deprogramming them of errors before I could reprogram them with Truth.  You must also take the warning of Paul to heart to watch for false teachers and false prophets.  My Holy Spirit is the umpire who declares to  you what is truth and what is error.  He is the only trusted Discerner of Truth.
     Your Father of Constant and Progressive Unveiling          

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