Come Out Of Her My People

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S____ wrote:

Hi again S____,

It is not pleasant having to witness to God’s truth. As a matter of fact we are promised that if we remain faithful to God’s Word, we will be “cast out of their synagogues.”
Joh 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Now you have asked me:

“Is it wrong for me to worship God standing in the midst of these people? What about the parable of wheat and tares? I often pray for them and find opportunities to share with them what God teaches me.”

So, to answer your question directly, no, it is not wrong for you to “worship God standing in the midst of these people.” That is what you should do. But if, after a very short while, you are still being tolerated, then there must be something wrong with your testimony. Anyone who is faithful to God’s Word shall [ be] put out of the synagogue.” God’s Words are sure. If you can continue for more than a figurative “forty and two months” to be tolerated by “that great city,” then you must not be bearing witness faithfully to the words of “lamentations and mournings and woe” which are all that is to be found in the “little book” which all of God’s elect are to eat and ingest. It may be sweet in our mouth, but when it is ingested, it is “sour in our belly.”

Now you told me:

My desire is to know my God through the Scripture, so my spirit will not rest until I really know what HE meant through HIS Word.”

If you want to understand Revelation ten and eleven, then you must read Ezekiel 2 and three. Ezekiel 2 will tell you what is in the little book of Rev 10. But it is Ezekiel 3 which explains the reason why the two witnesses “torment them that dwell upon the earth” and are then “overcome by the beast which ascends up out of the bottomless pit” and kills the two witnesses. They are overcome and killed only “after they have finished their testimony.”

Next I want you to read the very latest post in the ‘You Asked’ E- mail section. Read the letter to J___ entitled Who Are The Parents of The Man Healed of Blindness? The last part of that letter deals with the spiritual understanding of the word ‘killed’ in Rev 11. We must never lose sight of the fact that this book ‘Is, Was and Will Be’ and the time ‘Is, Was and Will Be’ at hand to “keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

You ask :
“What about the parable of wheat and tares?”

This is a perfect example of how we fail to see God’s Word as ‘Is, Was and Will Be.’ We are to live “every word of God.”

Mat 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

It is nothing less than Babylon still in us which leads us all to think that “every word of God” means every positive, highly thought of, respectable Word of God. With “the forehead of a harlot” still in us, we tell ourselves that we have never blasphemed God, we have never murdered or robbed banks or molested children or one thousand other sins which others have committed. In other words, we never see ourselves as the Pharisee looking down on the publican, we never see ourselves as the Jews who dragged the woman caught in adultery to Christ to be stoned, we never see ourselves as the ninety and nine who do not need repentance, we never see ourselves as those who looked down on the woman at the well and we never see ourselves as the older son who despised his prodigal brother. But what do the scriptures teach?

Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye [ God’s elect] walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature children of wrath, even as others.

Until we come to see that all that is in Adam and Eve is also in us, we will not be brought past the point of being that self- righteous Pharisee looking down on that elect publican, that elect prostitute, that elect woman at the well, that elect lost sheep and that elect prodigal son. Until we see that we “were ALL by nature the children of wrath even as others we cannot be God’s elect. God’s elect look behind themselves and see all that they are in Adam. And here is what is in Adam:

1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

So until we come to see ourselves as the seed that fell by the wayside first, until we come to see ourselves as the tares first, we will never be the wheat which is gathered into the barn.

We live by every word of God, and as hard as it is for the carnal mind to understand “every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God… Is, Was and Will Be an Is, Was and Will Be word. For example:

Christ told Nicodemas:

Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemas wanted to know how this was accomplished and Christ told him:

Joh 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

And what does Christ mean by ‘water and spirit? He tells us:

Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh [ water]; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit [ the new man].
Joh 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

So let not God’s elect wonder how we are brought to the point of being God’s chosen vessel. It is through the fiery plagues of God’s wrath inflicted now first upon the “children of disobedience” which spirit we all have served in Adam.

Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye [ God’s elect] walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath even as others.

Adam and Eve both had the “lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life” before either of them ever ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were naked, corruptible clay. How could they possibly have done anything but eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Only after we come to see that we are what we are by the grace of God are we able to begin to be conformed to the image of the son of God. Only after we see ourselves as a “marred vessel in the Potter’s hand” are we able to begin to see all that is in the Adam which we “by nature” serve.

So never look down on Babylon. But be sure that you are not right at home in a city where your spiritual body is supposed to be lying dead in the streets. It is their calling to hate you and to cast you out and rejoice over your lifeless body as they see it.

Rev 11:5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Rev 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
Rev 11:7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Be sure to read the latest post entitled Who Are The Parents of The Blind Man to understand these verses in Rev 11.
I hope this answers your question about what you are to do while you are still in Babylon.

Mike

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