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Although a Loving and caring GOD had provided their abundance and prosperity:

Their sin, disloyalty and abandonment of HIM will force HIM to vindicate HIS justice with judgment.

Thus, GOD is going to use their enemies as HIS instrument of judgment. Shortly they will be history.

What country or countries does this apply to today? Do not be ignorant of what is going on! On August 22nd, the BRIICS+ countries will begin uncoupling from the U.S. Dollar.

We are already being warned of false-flag events which will incite the masses to promote war.

The only solution is spiritual!

Reassess your priorities in all areas. Listen closely to what The Holy Spirit is saying for it is not business as usual any longer.

Hosea 4:1 NKJV
Hear the Word of the LORD, You children of Israel, For the LORD brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “There is no Truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land.”

The second gate Jesus refers to has prerequisites and that gate should be the focus of those who truly understand what is at stake!

To review, there are two different gates for believers to enter the Kingdom. The first gate is at the entrance to the Kingdom from God—justification. The other gate is at the end of our walk of sanctification spoken of in Luke 13:24. It’s called the “Bema Seat Judgment.”

Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 13:

24  “Strive (G75) to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

25 When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’

26 then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’

27 But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’

28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.

In review, the word strive (Strong’s #75) means “to give diligence to, to be in hot pursuit of, to earnestly fight for, to struggle, to agonize, to wrestle, to contend with an adversary and to put forth every effort (for a prize).” Striving for passage through that second gate means straining every muscle of our body, casting aside every weight and pressing toward the mark of the high calling of God.

Self-denial is an absolute prerequisite for entrance to this second gate. There must be a true submission to Jesus Christ and a renunciation of self in all things. Unfortunately, there is no middle road. We are either on one side of that gate or the other side.  Justification is easy because Jesus did it all for us—there is no striving or agonizing on our part; but sanctification is very difficult, because we are the ones who must continually strive and even agonize to make the appropriate faith choices.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 3:

13  but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end

Why would Paul urge us to exhort each other daily if there were only one gate?  He understood the benefits of entering through the second gate as well.

Paul also wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2^nd Corinthians chapter 5:

9   Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment (Bema) Seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

In his letter of correction to the Corinthian church (and applicable to you and me), Paul writes by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Corinthians chapter 3:

11  For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.

14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

16 Do you not know that you are the Temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Paul clarified the two aspects of our future: the gift of justification (aka the first gate), and the assessment of our works that determines entrance and rewards associated with the second gate.  Now is the time to produce works that will last!

Jesus speaks of two gates, not just one!

Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 7:

13  “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.

14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

And He also spoke in Luke chapter 13:

24  “Strive (G75) to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

25 When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’

26 then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’

27 But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’

28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.

There are two different gates for believers to enter the Kingdom! One gate is at the entrance to the Kingdom from God—justification. The other gate is at the end of our walk of sanctification spoken of in Luke 13:24. It’s called the “Bema Seat Judgment.”

The word strive (Strong’s #75) means “to give diligence to, to be in hot pursuit of, to earnestly fight for, to struggle, to agonize, to wrestle, to contend with an adversary and to put forth every effort (for a prize).” Striving for passage through that second gate means straining every muscle of our body, casting aside every weight and pressing toward the mark of the high calling of God.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 4:

11  Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

12 For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

As a type and shadow, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt (a form of justification), but Joshua by faith, led the overcomers into The Promised Land (a type of sanctification).  They had to overcome the giants of the land (a form of striving), to reach their full inheritance.

Luke recorded by The Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 14:

21   After (Paul and Barnabas) preaching the wonderful news of the Gospel there and winning a large number of followers to Jesus, they retraced their steps and revisited Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch.

22 At each place they went, they strengthened the lives of the believers and encouraged them to go deeper in their faith. And they taught them, “It is necessary for us to enter into the realm of God’s Kingdom, because that’s the only way we will endure our many trials and persecutions.”

There’s one gate at the beginning of the road of faith (called “justification”) that allows believers to enter the Kingdom of God, (Matthew 7:14). And there’s another gate at the end of the road of faith (called “sanctification”) that allows believers to inherit the Millennial Kingdom by faithfulness, obedience, and endurance (Luke 13:34).

Paul summed up this second gate of sanctification when he wrote by The Holy Spirit in Philippians chapter 3:

8  Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ

9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.

13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Paul was saved yet he understood the opportunity and rewards that lie ahead for those who understood the Bema Seat of Christ.

Convergence!

The Holy Spirit keeps speaking the word “convergence” to me.

There are several prophetic themes converging:

Israel

Jerusalem

Temple

Babylon

Russia (Magog)

Rise of China

European SuperState

Ecumenical Religion (one world religion)

Global Government

One world currency

Rise of the Occult

Days of Sodom and Gomorrah

Dismantling of America as a world power

Global Debt exceeding the ability for repayment

Manmade viruses

Transhumanism

Instantaneous global transmission of events

Division within societies

His return is drawing near!

When you and I go before Jesus at the Bema Seat and have our individual review of our life here on earth, will we see that we could have done more for His Kingdom?  Ouch!

Harpazo!

Harpazo (G726) means: to seize, carry off by force; to seize on, claim for one’s self eagerly; to snatch out or away.  It is used 13 times in the New Testament.

I was once told by a certain teacher that this word means to bring up and then return to the original location.  Clearly the Scriptures do not support this teaching.  Study and assimilate these verses for yourself.  The following are the uses of Harpazo:

Mat 11:12

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take G726 ➔ it by force. G726

Mat 13:19

When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away G726 that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

John 6:15

When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take G726 ➔ him by force, G726 to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

John 10:12

But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth G726 them, and scattereth the sheep.

John 10:28

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall G726 ➔ any man pluck G726 them out of my hand.

John 10:29

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck G726 them out of my Father’s hand.

Acts 8:39

And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away G726 Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

Acts 23:10

And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take G726 ➔ him by force G726 from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

2^nd  Corinthians 12:2

I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up G726 to the third heaven.

2^nd Corinthians 12:4

How that he was caught up G726 into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

1^st Thessalonians 4:17

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up G726 together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Jude 1:23

And others save with fear, pulling G726 them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

Revelation 12:5

And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up G726 unto God, and to his throne.

We must understand the use and implications off this word to understand the Book of Revelation of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Each of us should focus on our individual assignments from Above!

Once again:

Why am I here? Where am I going? How do I get there?—the question now becomes: how, then, should I live? What personal changes should I make in my life to fulfill my purpose? What should I focus my attention on first? What should be my priority?  You cannot complete your assignment if you don’t answer those specific questions.  The Holy Spirit will guide you and lead you into all Truth, especially your purpose.

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 4:

1  Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.

2 For indeed the Gospel was preached to us as well as to them (Israelites in the wilderness); but the Word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.

3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,'” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

11  Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

12 For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

There are two aspects of our salvation:  the gift (justification) and the expectation of rewards for our walk which is associated with sanctification.  We will give an account of what we did with our “talents”.

Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 13:

23  Then one said to Him, “Lord, are there few who are saved?” And He said to them,

24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

25 When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’

26 then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’

27 But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’

28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out. 29 They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God.

30 And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”

In other Words:

29 You will see people streaming from the four corners of the earth, accepting the invitation to feast in God’s kingdom realm, while you are outside looking in.

30 And take note of this: Some are despised and viewed as the least important now, but one day the master will place them at the head of the line. And some whom you view as ‘elite’ today will become the least important then.”

FATHER will not look at your status in the world, HE will look at your works to determine how close to HIS Throne you will be allowed to access.  Your righteous works will be the rewards and will be based on what you were given to work with.  Don’t compare yourself to others for their “talents” are specific to their purpose given to them by OUR LORD.  Strive to enter into HIS Rest.

Only those who obediently fulfill the conditions set down by the Father (obedience, faithfulness, and endurance) will be able to inherit the Kingdom from Heaven. And this will entail laboring, struggling, and striving. The “narrow” (strait) gate actually means a gate beset with difficulties.

What are the three most fundamental questions we should each answer?

Why am I here? Where am I going? How do I get there?—the question now becomes: how, then, should I live? What personal changes should I make in my life to fulfill my purpose? What should I focus my attention on first? What should be my priority?

Jesus spoke in Revelation chapter 3:

18  I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

Jesus spoke this revelation to a church whom He described as being lukewarm.  Further, they thought they had their act together because they misperceived themselves as being rich and having become wealthy, with need of nothing.   He saw them as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked!  This is what spiritual blindness will do to a person.

Jesus is exhorting us to do whatever is necessary to be prepared and to reflect Christ in all we do.  If we did not have the capacity to do what He directed, He would not have spoken those Words.  We must have faith in HIS Word rather than our past failings. 

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans 8:

28  And we know that all things work together for good to those who Love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

If we learn to stay clean, Holy, and righteous, by making “faith choices” to put off the sin and self, the rest will follow pretty easily. We’ll be able to partake of Christ’s Life, which will allow us to become overcomers and produce fruit that will eventually lead us to inheriting the Kingdom.  We will then walk in the Rest of GOD.

Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 11:

25  Then Jesus exclaimed, “Father, thank You, for You are Lord, the Supreme Ruler over Heaven and earth! And You have hidden the great revelation of Your authority from those who are proud and think they are wise and unveiled it instead to little children.

26 Yes, Father, You’ve chosen this gracious plan to extend your Kingdom.

27 You have entrusted Me with all that You are and all that You have. No one fully and intimately knows the Son except the Father. And no one fully and intimately knows the Father except the Son. But the Son is able to unveil the Father to anyone He chooses.

28 “Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to Me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis.

29 Simply join your life with Mine. Learn My ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in Me.

30 For all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear.”

There are two kinds of “rest”.  One type of rest refers to the present as in the above Matthew Scripture, and it means “to rest by allowing Christ to live his Life out through us.

However, there is another kind of rest that refers to the future. This rest implies participation with Christ in His Millennial Kingdom rule. This is where we truly will rest from all our labor. So, rest can point to a place as well as an experience.

Paul speaks of this rest as he wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 3:

7  Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His Voice,

8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’

11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.'”

It is your choice as to which path you take but first, you should answer the questions above.

We have the capacity to personally reflect HIS Glory!

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans 8:

28  And we know that all things work together for good to those who Love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Glory is the means FATHER uses to convey and reveal His Presence.  Part of the “sanctification process” is learning to be “conformed into Christ’s Image” so that we can reflect, glorify, and mirror Him in all we do. To mirror something means: to exhibit its likeness, its characteristics, and to physically declare it or manifest it; in essence, to set forth the same image.

Paul also wrote in 2^nd Corinthians chapter 3:

18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the Glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from Glory to Glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

In other Words:

We can all draw close to Him without any hesitation. As we approach HIS Glory, we all become like mirrors who brightly reflect the Glory of the Lord Jesus. We are being transfigured into His very Image as we move from one brighter level of Glory to another. And this glorious transfiguration comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit.

We are to be cleansed by The Word and allow ourselves to be refined by the Refiner’s Fire in whatever method FATHER ordains.  Yes, it is a process similar to gold being refined and the dross surfaces to the top for removal.  Let us embrace the removal rather than run from the corrective process.  Don’t let the natural man usurp this process!

Jesus knew that perfect balance between longsuffering Love and tough Love, between grace and righteousness and between mercy and judgment. He gave us an example of how we are to Love others and even how to Love our enemies. When we become partakers of His Life, we, too, will be able to Love wisely. And this is how the Gospel will be passed on.  There is a balance between Love and Justice and we must be equipped to walk in the same manner as Jesus.  This can only be accomplished by being led by THE SPIRIT in each encounter.

When Christ Jesus walked the earth, He was a “living illustration” of WHO FATHER is. By constantly Glorifying His and Our Father, He not only honored Him, He also gave the world a reason to believe in His reality. We are to do the same.  Our example should lead people to Christ, not exalt ourselves in any way, shape, or manner.  Actions speak louder than words.  However, be prepared to speak forth what THE SPIRIT communicates for the benefit of the listener.

When others experience Christ’s real Love through us, hear His Godly Wisdom, and see His divine power working in our lives, they are going to be drawn to the Lord through us. No illustration of Christ is as effectual as the lives of Spiritual Christians. It’s difficult for the Gospel to take real effect or be understood without a living illustration alongside.  Our lives should be our testimony for all to see!

People need to see the reality of Christ manifested in our lives… this is the real Gospel!  Nonbelievers have seen enough religion, rules, regulations, law, phoniness, and hypocrisy to turn them off. They want to see the real thing!  When the real thing shows up, the counterfeit is fully exposed.

Expect FATHER’S River of Life to flow out of you!

It was written by THE SPIRIT in Ezekiel chapter 9:

3   Now the Glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub, where it had been, to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed with linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn at his side;

4 and the LORD said to him, “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

And in chapter 10:

3  Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 Then the Glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s Glory.

5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even in the outer court, like the voice of Almighty God when He speaks.

18 Then the Glory of the LORD departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.

19 And the cherubim lifted their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight. When they went out, the wheels were beside them; and they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’s house, and the Glory of the God of Israel was above them.

In Chapter 11:

22  So the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the Glory of the God of Israel was high above them.

23 And the Glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain, which is on the east side of the city.

FATHER’S Glory will not reside in a locale of unrighteousness where abominations occur!  As believers, however, we are promised that the Holy Spirit (God’s Glory) will never leave us, because we are stamped, sealed, and confirmed by Him  as Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2^nd Corinthians chapter 1:

20  For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the Glory of God through us.

21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,

22 Who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

It is possible, however, to quench and block His Spirit from coming forth through us, which will then prevent the manifestation of the presence of God in our lives.

Peter wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1^st Peter chapter 4:

7   But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.

8 And above all things have fervent Love for one another, for “Love will cover a multitude of sins.”

9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the Glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

To glorify God means to personally reflect His Presence, to manifest and show forth His Life and His radiance. Glorifying God means displaying His Character and all the fruits of the Spirit to the world. God’s glory is seen by the transformation of a believer’s life. 

Each of us must make our own assessment of whether we are truly glorifying FATHER or promoting ourselves.  Let our Love for others be fervent and our focus is to allow HIS Glory to flow in a greater fashion in all that we say and do.