1451 LORD HELPS His chosen PCG to establish HIS EVERLASTING COVENANT amidst them Ez.16.60 and some biblical comments on a book of a PCG conference
5th March 5, 2026
SABBATH
Gerald Flurry WROTE in his Ezekiel Booklet 2002---
“CHRIST gave His precious blood for us. And He won’t accept a lukewarm response to such a majestic total sacrifice. He sweat blood for His church and for the world before He gave His blood (LU 22:44) Now it is time for us to do some sweating in gratitude for what He did for all of us”.
Read more of his prophecies quoted in No.1450 written on 26th Feb 2026 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
Whatever LORD does is FOREVER, Ecc. 3:11-13. Learn His words of Ecc. 3:14-22. So He had counselled EVERLASTING COVENANT with All flesh, promised to Noah and His sons, Ge 9:1-17
And today we see it is PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD which would BE ESTABLISHED in EVERLASTING COVENANT, Eze. 16; 60
LORD made marriage COVENANT with PCG ---Eze 16:8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.
They broke COVENANT of GOD by BAMAH matter--Eze 44:7 In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
Read of Bamah COVENANT breaking sin in No. 1010 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
THEN LORD CORRECTS THEM through CHRIST OUR LORD served by GENTILE WORK and ESTABLISH EVERLASTING COVENANT, Eze. 16; 60
The Lord's Everlasting Covenant
Eze 16:59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
Eze 16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Eze 16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Eze 16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
Eze 16:63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
Jn. 6:44-58—First fruits called to be raised by Christ’s flesh and Blood
1 Co 10;11-24 Partaking PASSOVER bread and Blood (given from CRUCIFIED CHRIST) Therefore TRUTH is CRUCIFIED CHRIST, Gal 3;1
Ac 2:38—All flesh Receive HOLY SPIRIT by baptism
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Rom. 4:3—ABRAHAM believed God and was RIGHTEOUS
Rom 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Ecc. 3:14,11—No one can find His work, vs 11
Ecc 3:14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Ecc 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
We are to understand His counsels by His one Book, Ecc. 12:10-14
The above scriptures are written in this article.
Those present in the Ministerial conference of PCG ministry
End February 2026 are answered by works of Haggai-Hag 2:6-9
Hag 2:6 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Hag 2:7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hag 2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
Hag 2:9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
—PCG ministry acknowledges JESUS CHRIST yet LORD questions priests and they answered Him—Hag 2:11-14
Hag 2:11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
Hag 2:12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Hag 2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Hag 2:14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
—Therefore dead H. W. Armstrong should be erased out of minds as LORD would not accept such.
LORD tells to consider—Hag 2:15-19,23 (vs 23—Zerubbabel) Zec. 4 tells that LORD used SEVEN EYES as Zerubbabel, Zec. 4:8-10, served by The anointed ones, Zec. 4:11-14 (They are the Two witnesses) But we all should know—Lamp dispersed when you are at EASE, Job 12:5
PCG did not understand EVERLASTING COVENANT when they appeared in ZION , Jan 5th 2005 conference when Gerald Flurry portrayed life size Nebuchadnezzar –LORD gave the proverbs of King of BABYLON, Isa. 14:4 and LORD took 1st born of poor, Is 14:30,32 in Ships of Tarshish as a posterity to serve Him, walk about ZION and tell the next generation, Ps 48:7-14
It is great PCG understanding the amount of problems in families far more than Jeffry Epstein files! It is difficult to get a smile on face when you think of the troubles caused by lustful world—this in Rev. 12:9. The whole world is deceived by Devil (the father of lusts and murders!)
Heb. 1:1-5
Heb 1:1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Heb 1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Heb 1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
Whatever LORD does is FOREVER, Ecc. 3:11-13. Learn His words of Ecc. 3:14-22. So He had counselled EVERLASTING COVENANT with All flesh, promised to Noah and His sons, Ge 9:1-17
Helpful Comments on Booklet of MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE
Shows THE NEED OF BAPTISM unto JESUS CHRIST, to receive HOLY SPIRIT, Ac 2;38,39
We are to UNDERSTAND SALVATION from HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL
When COVENANT was BROKEN by PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD AT BAMAH –read in No. 1010 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
Isa 17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Isa 17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Isa 17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
Feb 2026
How Does God Govern Today?
PCG booklet on a conference
Look around you. This world is full of disasters, injustice and suffering. Many people never receive real relief, vindication or peace. This misery exists in spite of—and often because of—the governments that are supposed to protect and enhance the lives of human beings.
As God’s Word puts it, mankind has not known “the way of peace” (Isaiah 59:8; Romans 3:17).
COMMENTS—
Col 1:20 -And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, (and H.W.Armstrong did not ACKNOWLEDGE CROSS of CHRIST)
WITHOUT receiving PEACE from CRUCIFIED CHRIST
How could LORD be the SALT and LIGHT OF EARTH,
As KINGS OF EARTH, LORD had appointed in HIS CHURCH??
THE WAY OF PEACE is from BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, wrote PAUL, the MINISTER OF GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST, Col 1;20-23, Paul was to teach GENTILES, 2 Tim 1;11
2Ti 1:11 -Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
THEREFORE, PROPHECIES of LORD. 66;10-12 SAYS TO SUCK MILK from GENTILES, sent as A RIVER, well LORD’S RIVER is ALSO SALTED, sent by Ships of Tarshish, (COVENANT has to be SALTED, that is to REMOVE BARRENNESS, 2 Kin 2;19-21) so that NONE OF THE GENERATIONS of EVERLASTING COVENANT, LORD. 59;21 would NEVER BE BARREN, just as LORD as EPHRAIM was barren serving in Judah, LORD. 26 (read below)
LORD. 66; 10-12—
“Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees” (Isaiah 66:10-12).
LORD 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
LORD 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Col 1:20 -And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Col 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Col 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Col 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
2Ti 1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
This is a time LORD works with PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD leaders, TO ESTABLISH HIS EVERLASTING COVENANT, LORD. 16;60, SHAMING THEM, vv. 15-59, it is EVERLASTING COVENANT promised to NOAH, Gen 9;1-17, and LORD had shown a “BOW” Gen 9;16-17, and THE BOW in CLOUD WAS SHOWN to Gerald Flurry in Eze. 1;28, when Gerald Flurry wrote of VEHICLE OF GOD, read in Ezekiel booklet, 2002, written by Gerald Flurry!
LORD made known EVERLASTING COVENANT
Gave a sign of “BOW”
Gen 9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. Gen 9:17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
In Eze. 1;28, Gerald Flurry was shown the ‘BOW”
THE SPIRIT of LORD, 2 Co 3;17, Gen 1;2, had SHOWN Gerald Flurry while he was seated in CHALDEA, as CAPTIVES, Eze. 1;1-3
Eze 1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
PROPHECIES are for CHURCH LEADERS
For establishing EVERLASTING COVENANT, Ge 9;1-17, Isa. 59;21, which is established in PCG, Eze. 16;60
Therefore PROPHECIES should
NOT TO BE GIVEN TO PEOPLE OF WORLD
1Co 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1Co 14:19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
1Co 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
1Co 14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
1Co 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
1Co 14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?
1Co 14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:
1Co 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Orderly Worship
1Co 14:26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
1Co 14:27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.
1Co 14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
1Co 14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
1Co 14:30 If anything be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
1Co 14:31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
1Co 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
1Co 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
1Co 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
1Co 14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
The BOOK OF MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE OF PCG states
Administration of Spirit More Glorious--
“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be further [more] glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory” (2 Corinthians 3:8-9). It was obvious to Paul that the new administration Jesus Christ introduced would be far more glorious than the old. Both administered the same law.
Comments—
· IN ALL MY 1450 writings I had written of BAPTISM UNTO DEATH OF CHRIST would GRANT HOLY SPIRIT, high-lighted Ac 2; 18, 38,39
Act 2:18 And on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
· HE IS HOLY, so HIS SPIRIT, 2 Co 3;17 is HOLY SPIRIT
WHERE DO WE SEE these SERVANTS and handmaidens of Ac 2;18—
Isa 14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
· THE TWO WITNESSES as STRANGERS were MADE NIGH to GOD OF ISRAEL by BLOOD of JESUS CHRIST, Eph. 2;11-13
· SO THE TWO WITNESSES were AMIDST WCG, and then in PCG!
· O dear ministers, WE BOTH were DISFELLOWSHIPPED for telling RD and Gerald Flurry of BAMAH ABOMINATION, just as fathers of ISRAEL TOO HAD COMMITTED, Eze. 20;29, so PCG BROKE COVENANT through THEM, Eze. 44;7, now the LORD is to be served in Ezekiel temple by US, Eze. 44;15, for PCG BROKE the COVENANT LORD made with them, Eze. 16;8
Isa 14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
SO LORD’S SERVANTS of GENTILES, the STRANGERS Prophesied Act 2:18 And on My servants and on My handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit; and they shall prophesy
· NO ONE could UNDERSTAND prophecies without having HOLY SPIRIT
Job_32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
· LORD had made a WISE COUNSEL which RICH PEOPLE HATE---we see—RICH loves to LIVE LONG—they DO NOT LIKE to be CRUCIFIED with HIM, Rom. 6. 6,7
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2Ti_3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Lam_2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
Ezk_13:3 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
FOOLISH SHEPHERD in COVENANT, Eze. 16;8 HAD NO OIL—
Zec_11:15 And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. Mat_25:3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: they DID NOT HAVE inspiration of God, from OIL OF GOD, and DID NOT FIND profitable doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness
THE RICH WCG and then PCG fell into TROUBLE—
1Ti_6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
· Adultery is HURTFUL when LORD SHAMES them, it happened to PRINCES OF ISRAEL Eze. 22; 1-14
Mat_25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
· WISE knew that THE FOOLISH PRINCES of ISRAEL would GET INTO TROUBLE—Eze. 22; 1-14--
LORD makes PRINCES of ISRAEL UNDERSTAND—
Eze 22:4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
Eze 22:5 Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
Eze 22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
Eze 22:11 And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
Eze 22:12 In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 22:13 Behold, therefore I have smitten mine hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.
Eze 22:14 Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
Eze 22:15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
· SO THE SINNERS are as IN COUNTRIES as HEATHEN---AS IN NATIONS (these MEN are referred as NATIONS, Ps 9;20)
· Now the PEOPLE spoken above in Eze. 22 are PRINCES OF ISRAEL, (service of COVENANT and SABBATHS were amid PCG , which is related to fathers, Rom. 9;4-7),
Jer_4:22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
· LORD had created Gerald Flurry as PHARAOH, TO SHAME him, Rom. 9;17, Then MINISTRY too are SHAMED, as they all do what he says—•Royal Vision ---July/ Aug 2007 ---page 15 “ Will you unify around God’s leader today? ”All of God’s ministers need to unify around headquarters.
SO ALL PROPHECIES are MAKING KNOWN of GOD’S ENDTIME CHURCH, which has to BE SHAMED, Eze. 16;59, according to Judgments OF LORD--Jer_5:4 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
· These WISE COUNSELS are for ESTABLISHING EVERLASTING COVENANT, amidst PCG , Eze. 16; 60 as EPHRAIM, Gen 48;20, to receive BLESSINGS of JACOB for JOSEPH, Gen 49;22-26 (blessings of womb for Joseph, which was Prophesied by JACOB as for EPHRAIM, Gen 48;20)
JUDAH found hard in labour as WOMAN, Isa. 26;
Isa 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Isa 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
· THEREFORE THEY ARE TO KEEP A TRUE PASSOVER to ENTER LORD’S MOUNTAIN, Isa 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Jer_5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Jer_10:8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
· MINISTRY is VAIN—
· Vanity makes proud to seek LUSTS of FLESH, 2 Pe 2;18, and IT IS LORD who SUBJECTED them TO HAVE VANITY, NOT WILLINGLY, but LORD has A HOPE through their VANITY!
Zec_10:2 For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
· THE “LIE” OF H. W. Armstrong, Rom. 1;25-32, against TRUTH, which is CRUCIFIED CHRIST, Gal 3;1 was NOT HONORED by WCG under H. W. Armstrong and NOT HONORED by PCG under Gerald Flurry!
Rom_8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
· WHAT IS THE HOPE OF LORD through VANITY OF MINISTRY, TO SHAME those who committed ADULTERY through NEIGHBOURS’ WIVES, Eze. 33;25,26
2Pe_2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them
Rom_8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, who live in error.
· LORD SEPARATED the CLEAN and UNCLEAN amidst PCG, 2 Pe 2;18---GENTILES who honored were Separated from UNCLEAN who did not HEAR words of Ac 2;38-39, TO DO THEM, for THEN they would have HONORED CRUCIFIED CHRIST, by baptism, Rom. 6, and they receive HOLY SPIRIT, Ac 2;38, which is NEEDED, the ETERNAL SPIRIT Heb 9;14 for PERPETUATING EVERLASTING COVENANT
READ Heb. 9 and see HOW LORD GIVES
SALVATION through ETERNAL SPIRIT Heb 9;14 of JESUS CHRIST SHED for SALVATION
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
Heb 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Heb 9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Heb 9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Heb 9:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Heb 9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Heb 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Heb 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Psa_3:8 Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
Psa_9:14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
Psa_13:5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Psa_27:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psa_65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
Psa_68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
Psa_68:20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
Psa_69:13 But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Psa_69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Psa_70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
Psa_71:15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
Clean seek SALVATION
TO MAGNIFY LORD GOD, Ps 70; 4
Act 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Act 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Therefore SEEK BAPTISM unto HIS DEATH to receive SALVATION
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
LORD COMMANDED TO HEAR FROM APOSTLES WHOM HE HAD TAUGHT, Ac 1;2
Act 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
· SO CHRIST OUR LORD had taught through HOLY SPIRIT to APOSTLES until the DAY HE WAS RAISED TO HEAVEN
· Therefore WE LEARN from APOSTLES OF JESUS CHRIST
And LORD proved to them of
HIS RESURRECTION, Ac 1;3
Which MEANS CHRIST OUR LORD
Is ALIVE, proved of ETERNAL LIFE
Act 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
· SO AFTER RAISED FROM DEAD, even BEFORE HE RAISED TO HEAVEN, LORD JESUS CHRIST WAS TEACHING HIS APOSTLES!
· HOW did CLEAN ESCAPE from ERROR------they RECEIVED BAPTISM unto HIS CROSS, Rom. 6, (H. W. Armstrong made all in WCG and PCG to be BAPTISED unto WATER, which would NEVER GIVE FORGIVENESS of SINS, and make A SINNER to have ETERNAL LIFE, making them FREE OF SINS, AND AS having NEWNESS of LIFE (then they GET ETERNAL SPIRIT Heb 9;14, and are ABLE TO SERVE through HOLY SPIRIT HAVING INSPIRATION of LORD, 2Ti_3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
· HOLY SPIRIT is given when BAPTISED TO JESUS CHRIST—AC 2;38,39 ---(NOT TO JOHN’S WATER”
· IT IS ETERNAL SPIRIT Heb 9;14 --
· H. W. Armstrong introduced “WATER BAPTISM” and Gerald Flurry is HARD HEARTED to have made a DEAD MAN H. W. Armstrong his IDOL, and ministry went ASTRAY! ---they as LEVI, were given to SIN, Eze. 3;25,26, under Gerald Flurry as WATCHMAN, Eze. 33;33.
Ac 2;38-39 is to BE SAVED receiving HOLY SPIRIT
Then BE DOERS of WORD and be SAVED from this UNTOWARD GENERATION, Ac 2;40
Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Act 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Act 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Act 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
· “His” is PETER--- Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost
· Then to receive SALVATION from this UNTOWARD generation is “REPENTANCE” and BAPTISM in the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST for Remission of SINS, receiving HOLY SPIRIT!
· Do we see the UNTOWARD GENERATION in the WORLD NOW????
· MISSILES ---FIRE---KILLINGS---ADULTERY—what news do we hear today the 1st and 2nd MARCH 2026!
· KOD of PCG reported OF MANY RESULTS seen amidst families due to LUSTS, reporting about EPSTEIN FILES!!
· THE WHOLE WORLD is SHAMEFUL!!
· EVEN KINGS, LEADERS OF NATIONS were reported in those files, as the WORLD NOW KNOWS!
One thing I see is HOW LORD shows that WHOLE WORLD is CORRUPT, SATAN the FATHER of LUSTS and MURDERS, Jn. 8;44 had DECEIVED THE WHOLE WORLD, Rev. 12;9
Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
· And this is the TIME LORD WOULD SAVE THE WORLD of HIS for EVERLASTING COVENANT, Rev. 12;10
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
COULD WE SEE, PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD ministry NOW UNDERSTAND FORNICATION AND ADULTERY causes SHAME, AND MANY MISERIES, whole world understands through JIFRY EPSTEIN FILES!!!!
· Read about it in KOD of PCG!
Save yourselves from this UNTOWARD GENERATION
Act 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
BE BORN AGAIN in NEWNESS OF LIFE
CHRIST gave HIS LIFE, To make people BORN AGAIN
In NEWNESS OF LIFE, WITHOUT SIN
Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
WE CANNOT BE BORN of GOD
Without UNDERSTANDING WORD OF GOD
And RECEIVING INSPIRATION of GOD
Through RECEIVING HOLY SPIRIT
Isa. 26 is SONG OF JUDAH
Isa 26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
· PCG walls are DAUBED with UNTEMPERED MORTAR, Eze. 13 (Read in Ezekiel End time Prophet 2002, he wrote of UNTEMPORED MORTAR of PCG ---but he did not write on Eze. 13; 17-20 (about women)
· PCG WOMEN prophesy their OWN WORDS to MAKE MEN FLY to them, Eze. 13;17-20—then ADULTERY as with neighbour’s wives, and LORD CANNOT GIVE INHERITANCE, Eze. 33;25,26
· AND LORD REDEEMS as LAMB His FIRSTFRUITS, who had been DEFILED BY WOMEN, Rev. 14;4---
LIKE HUSBAND AND WIFE,
Is CHRIST AND CHURCH
Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and He is the saviour of the body.
· THAT IS JESUS CHRIST SAVES HIS CHURCH LEADERS from this UNTOWARD GENERATION, Ac 2;
· He is the saviour of the body, Eph. 5; 23
Eph 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Act 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Act 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
· “his” is PETER--- Act 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost
SO BAPTISM unto Rom. 6 granting REDEMPTION, THE FORGIVENESS of SINS, Eph. 1;7, from being DEFILED BY WOMEN, Rev. 14;4, That BAPTISM makes HEARTS CIRCUMCISED to KEEP ORDINANCES, Col 2;11-17, when they PUT ON CHRIST by BAPTISM, GAL 3;26, THEY BECOME SEED OF CHRIST as SEED GOD and of ABRAHAM, Gal 3;26-29,
Then THEY BECOME PART OF EVERLASTING COVENANT, as they RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE by BAPTISMAL WORDS, Rom. 6; 19-23.
ETERNAL LIFE is a GIFT from JESUS CHRIST
Rom 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Rom 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Rom 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
SUCH A SAVED PEOPLE OF ISRAEL AS LEVI
And APOSTLES, Rev. 21;14,
ARE THE FIRSTFRUITS of EVERLASTING COVENANT, Eze. 16;60-63
A BRIDEGROOM marries VIRGINS, just like that, church (LAND OF GOD, JERUSALEM) is to be a VIRGIN, Isa. 62; 4, 5
PRINCES OF EARTH, AS FIRSTFRUITS unto EVERLASTING COVENANT of GOD AND LAMB would be VIRGINS in LORD’S CHURCH as CHRIST is HUSBAND OF CHURCH, Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
· THE WIFE OF LAMB, Rev. 19;7,8, WOULD FOLLOW HIM wherever HE GOES!!
· THEY ARE REDEEMED from ALL THE WORLD, they are apostles AS FIRSTFRUITS of EVERLASTING COVENANT
Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
· Then FIRSTFRUITS would BE SAVED FROM this UNTOWARD GENERATION, which DESTROY UNBORN FRUIT OF BODY, Prov. 1;10-19
PCG could NOT PRODUCE A GENERATION
To be as POSTERITY of this END TIME, because of SINS, and IDOL
OF H. W. Armstrong!
Therefore THEY ARE LIKENED to A WOMAN in LABOUR, who
Could NOT DELIVER CHILD
Isa 26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
THEY WOULD NOW UNDERSTAND
TO LIVE WITH LORD’S DEAD BODY, through Rom. 6; 3-23
Isa 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
· When they RISE through BAPTISM UNTO HIS DEATH, Rom. 6; 6, 7, THEY would be as HAVING NEWNESS OF LIFE, Rom. 6; 3-7,
· CLEAN and as VIRGINS for LORD TO MARRY them
BRIDEGROOM comes TO Ezekiel Temple
As SUN CHANGES ITS CIRCUIT, HE is as SUN, Rev. 1;16,
HE TOO COMES from
ONE END TO THE OTHER, Ps 19: 1-6, to GIVE LAWS, Ps 19; 7-
The Law of the Lord Is Perfect
Then PEOPLE OF GOD WOULD KEEP HIS STATUTES
AND Commandments TO MAKE LORD DELIGHTFUL
Psa 19:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Psa 19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Psa 19:3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Psa 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Psa 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Psa 19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
LORD’S Judgments, Commandments, laws
And FEAR OF GOD teaches TO BE FREE from
SECRET FAULTS, Ps 19; 12
Psa 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Psa 19:8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psa 19:9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Psa 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Psa 19:11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Psa 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Psa 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
· GREAT TRANSGRESSION is FORNICATION before MARRIAGE OF LAMB, such SINS would DEFILE THE EVERLASTING COVENANT which is to CONTINUE FOREVER!!
Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
· Just as Egyptians knew THEIR CALENDAR through SUN in the DAYS OF MOSES, we too keep EQUINOX OF SUN to know the TRUE DAYS HE WOULD COME for PASSOVER
Act 7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
Act 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
From No. 1058
No. 1058--PART 5--Calendar through MARCH EQUINOX is PROVED from Online Bible edition of Authorized Version (Larry Pierce’s) refer “scripture comments on word “ABIB”
PART 6—CONCLUSION
Abib—from online bible—(Larry Pierce’s) refer “scripture comments on word “ABIB”
Mentions MARCH VERNAL EQUINOX
An ear of corn, the month of newly-ripened grain #Ex 13:4 23:15 the first of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, and the seventh of the civil year. It began about the time of the vernal equinox, on 21 March. It was called Nisan, after the Captivity #Ne 2:1 On the fifteenth day of the month, harvest was begun by gathering a sheaf of barley, which was offered unto the Lord on the sixteenth #Le 23:4-11
· PASSOVER month is beginning of year, Ex 12; 2, ---equinox is result of EARTH being TILTED 23. 40 causing SEASONS, (scientific knowledge) when LORD drew the circle of earth TILTING, Prov. 8; 27, through HIS WISDOM, Prov. 8; 1.
· ALMIGHTY required His chosen to worship in SEASONS, the APPOINTED TIMES, Lev. 23; 4—(Gen. 8: 22--While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease).-----Gen. 8: 22 means seasons would REMAIN FOREVER---that MEANS—HIS WORSHIP SERVICES in seasons, Lev. 23 are FOREVER—in the EVERLASTING COVENANT, Isa 59; 21, to begin shortly, Eze. 16; 60-63
· We should note how EXACT HE is to create FIRST DAY of FIRST MONTH, Ex 12; 2, for HIS SERVICE to begin with PASSOVER, causing to PASS OVER to HIS MOUNTAIN, Isa 30; 29, to accept TRUE SERVICE from HIS PEOPLE, for all are to worship through HIS WORDS (SPIRIT), --Which is worshipping in TRUTH and in SPIRIT, Jn. 4; 23, 24
· From EVEN of 1st day of 1st month, we could find the SEVENTH DAY to keep SABBATH!
· When captives return they are to keep TRUE PASSOVER, in Ezekiel temple, Eze. 45: 8-25.
· ERRORS should be ERASED from minds!
· According to CALENDAR through EQUINOX, we note TWELVE MONTHS (NO ADAR 1 and NO ADAR 2) –
· For, there would be TWELVE MONTHS, Rev. 22; 1-2—Rev. 22; 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month:
· ALMIGHTY names the GATES OF CITY by names of TWELVE Tribes-
Eze 48:31-And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel:
Re 21:12 -And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
· LORD honours number TWELVE, we should be mindful of No. TWELVE!
We in ships of Tarshish had kept HIS SERVICE according to David, 1 Ch 23; 30-31, according to Ex 12; 2 (First day of First month) from 2019 in view of SECOND COVENANT the VISION of ALMIGHTY and LAMB, Heb. 10: 7-14, when ALMIGHTY and LAMB are the TEMPLE, Rev. 21: 22, 23
Above quotes from No. 1058 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
BRIDEGROOM JESUS CHRIST, is COMPARED TO SUN
· Psa 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Psa 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Psa 19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
· BRIDEGROOM changes His circuit LIKE SUN
· For HE IS AS SUN in FULL STRENGTH, Rev. 1;16
· SUN the GREATER LIGHT teaches SEASONS
· SEASONS are made because EARTH is TILTED by 23.40 –Prov. 8;27—(Prov. 8 discusses WISDOM of GOD) Pro 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: (UNDERSTAND, THE COMPASS drew CIRCLE of EARTH, TILTING the CIRCLE, which had made POSSIBLE THE SUN to make SEASONS
· THE GREAT WISDOM of GOD CANNOT BE MATCHED by ANYONE!
SO WE SEE, PCG should NEVER HAVE ENGRAVED NAME OF H. W. Armstrong in LARGE LETTERS, and engrave “ dedicated to the GOD ALMIGHTY” in smaller letters!!!!
· We HIS SERVANTS CANNOT ENDURE such foolishness, and
· HOW WOULD LORD ALMIGHTY HATE SUCH RIDICULOUS ACTS of HIS OWN CHURCH ministry of PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD, who has COVENANT, Eze. 16;8 !!
G.F. wrote in Ezekiel booklet, 2002, “CHRIST shed His precious blood for us He sweat blood for His church and for all the world Lu 22:14” ---Now we are to be SWEATING in gratitude for ALL what HE did for all of us ON HIS CROSS-- Read in No.1450
Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isa 53:4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isa 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isa 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isa 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isa 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isa 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see His seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
· Gal 3; 26-29
SEED OF CHRIST as SEED OF ABRAHAM
Gal 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
· SINNERS, MALE, FEMALE, JEWS, GREEK, ---that is ALL IN EVERLASTING COVENANT promised to NOAH, Gen 9;1-17
Gal 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
· If YOU ARE CHRIST’S then you are ABRAHAM’S through the COVENANT of ABRAHAM , ISAAC, JACOB,
Deu_29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu_30:20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Isa 53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isa. 53; 12---says of SINS OF LEVI, princes of earth, Eze. 22;1-11, Eze. 33;25,26—(servant of Ships of Tarshish is to teach PRINCES OF EARTH, Ps 45; 16, and Ships of Tarshish would BRING THEM AS A GIFT to the LORD, Isa. 60;9)
· Psa 45:16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Isa 60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Isa 60:10 And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.
Isa 60:11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
Isa 60:12 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
GENTILES under GW 1 too would ALSO BRING GOLD AND INCENSE, their PRAYERS, and PRAISES to the LORD --Isa 60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD. ---Isa 60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
SO PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD MINISTRY who
Broke COVENANT, Eze. 44;7, WOULD be SAVED BY
CRUCIFIED CHRIST
Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
· Therefore, PCG ministry WOULD PREPARE to be BAPTISED UNTO HIS DEATH, Understanding that it is CRUCIFIED JESUS CHRIST
· Who would SAVE THEM!
Isa 59:20 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.
Isa 59:21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Psa 19:14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.
Isa 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Isa 26:21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
· EARTH DISCLOSE HER BLOOD--Many people would experience TROUBLES AT THIS TIME when LORD CLEANSES HIS CHURCH as HUSBAND OF CHURCH to make them KEEP HIS LAWS, Ps 19
· So we saw even PCG wrote on miserable world due to LUSTS, referring to Epstein files!
Isa 26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Isa 26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
Isa 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isa 26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Isa 26:5 For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.
Isa 26:6 The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
Isa 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
Isa 26:8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Isa 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Isa 26:10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Isa 26:11 LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Isa 26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
Isa 26:13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
Isa 26:14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Isa 26:15 Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
Isa 26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Isa 26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD thinks
Prophecies are for THE WORLD
But they ARE A SIGN of CORRUPTION, for CHURCH MINISTRY to
Learn from the WORLD—
LUSTS, MURDERS, WAR,
Jas_4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
1Pe_2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Jas 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Jas 4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
CHRIST OUR LORD has a SOLUTION
Jas 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
· GRACE is given through HIS CROSS, and MORE GRACE is given as MORE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW LORD SAVES through GRANTING HIS MIND---the MIND OF CHRIST,
Read MIND OF CHRIST at HIS DEATH proving HOW HE TOOK UPON SINS OF HIS OWN PEOPLE TO FORGIVE THEM, for OLD COVENANT laws require PUNISHMENTS, and LORD BORE those PUNISHMENTS at HIS DEATH, read in No,1444 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jas 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Jas 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Jas 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
BOOK of ‘MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE OF PCG’
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Nearly 6,000 years of human history attest to man’s failure to form upright governments. Beginning with ancient Babylon, we have seen one example after another of corruption, tyranny and outright preying on human beings committed by human governments. Throughout this history, mankind has tried virtually every form of governance possible: monarchy, autocracy, oligarchy and combinations of these. Nations like China and Russia have embraced communism. Others have turned to fascism. Northern European nations are famous for various forms of modern socialism. None has brought lasting peace or happiness. Following World War ii, the leading nations set up the United Nations to lead the way toward international government. It too is an utter failure.
What is the alternative to these governments except chaos and anarchy?
About 250 years ago, the Founding Fathers of the United States were in a unique position in history: They had the opportunity to begin a government afresh. Protected and enriched by favorable geography, and informed by centuries of history, they could build this new form of government on some of the world’s highest principles to protect their citizens from some of the world’s lowest vices.
The American Declaration of Independence states that “governments are instituted among men” to secure human beings’ inalienable rights, including “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
But the founders knew human nature! They recognized that they were trying to escape an unjust government and avoid establishing an unjust government of their own. They questioned whether it was even possible for human beings to rightly govern human beings. Nevertheless, they gave it their noblest effort.
Arguing for the Constitution, James Madison wrote in The Federalist No. 51: “It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
The Declaration of Independence references God four times. Some historians assert that these references point to Him as the Founder, Legislator, Judge and Executive.
That categorization is reflected in the manifold separations of powers—the checks and balances of the Constitution of the United States. In this new form of government, the American founders were saying, No human being should possess all or even most of the powers of government.
In fact, only God with His perfect love and wisdom can properly wield such powers!
America, however, did not have the government of God, so its founders tried to establish what they conceived to be the next best thing. It appointed sovereignty to the people and not to the government. The goal was to thereby preserve individuals’ God-given rights.
· Comment---1934—H. W. Armstrong began serving the LORD, without UNDERSTANDING LORD’S CROSS granting FORGIVENESS and HOLY SPIRIT
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Less than 250 years later, this most hopeful of experiments in human governments is melting down; it largely rejects its own founding.
Given human history, the American founders were right to speculate whether righteous human government is even possible. And although they drew on the example we are about to examine, they should have drawn on it more deeply—because this is a perfect government. It is a national government not of men or angels, but of God Himself!
A Covenant and a Government
The government of God has existed on this Earth! In fact, it still exists!
Nearly 3,500 years ago, God led the slave people of Israel on an exodus from Egypt. Soon after their liberation, they arrived at Mount Sinai. Something special and unprecedented was about to happen at this mountain in the wilderness (Exodus 19:1-2).
First, Moses climbed Mount Sinai alone. God, the ultimate authority and governor of mankind, spoke directly to him: “Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
EX 19; 6--And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation” (verses 3-6).
Deut. 4; 13—HIS COVENANT –TO PERFORM TEN Commandments
15—LORD HAS NO FORM—
16—NO FIGURES OF MALE OR FEMALE
· KOD shows FIGURES of H. W. Armstrong and Gerald Flurry
· CHURCH PEOPLE who BELIEVE GOD ALMIGHTY should not have pictures that DRIFT AWAY MINDS, for LORD HAS NO FORM, Deut.4;15
17—WINGED BIRDS ANIMALS
· PCG has some SWANS –
Gerald Flurry wrote—
The crown jewel of our campus, Armstrong Auditorium, has beautiful Austrian Schwartz crystal chandeliers. It houses Azerbaijani onyx and candelabras from Iran. It displays Swans in Flight, a sculpture created by the late Sir David Wynne from England. It sits beside a lovely spring-fed lake , and is adorned with beautiful flowerbeds and landscaping. And within the auditorium, people hear some of the world’s greatest performers playing some of history’s finest music. It brings all the arts together. Entering Armstrong Auditorium is a real festival for all the senses. It is all orchestrated to lift the spirit of man.
That is what we are striving to achieve on this campus: to make it a small foretaste of the wonderful World Tomorrow.
Above is Quotes of Gerald Flurry From No. 1163, 1249 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
Gerald Flurry wrote • Dec. 4, 2020
Rees Zoellner/Philadelphia Church of God
The whole era has been taken captive by Satan—that includes 95 percent of God’s own people.
Comment—Rev. 12;9 written above shows SATAN DECEIVED the WHOLE WORLD!
18-no serpents
19-Nor worship SUN –vv.19- 21
Read in No. 1049 --Wonderful counsellor teaches not to have IDOLS before HIM to sacrifice HIS children (church children) were sacrificed through sun worshipping by Celtic dance which has mysterious pagan origins even as sun worshippers, Deut. 4; 19--
· Article No. 1079 explains FEAR OF GOD which helps church which is as WOMAN of JESUS CHRIST
· No. 1083 HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER Ps 136 for EVERLASTING COVENANT Eze. 16.60 (mercy is His SPIRIT, the WORDS of HIS, Jn. 6; 63, to BE ESTABLISHED IN EVERLASTING COVENANT by believing HIS WORDS)
Quotes from No. 1049-
PCG SUN–WORSHIPPING PROVED
Through ARMSTRONG DANCE—Celtic dances of PCG
Eze.8: 16-those of inner court ---their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
HERE IS PROOF through Celtic dances of PCG
That they worship SUN, the host of heaven, Jer. 19; 13
And EXALT their IDOL , H. W. Armstrong
“Armstrong College and Armstrong Dance, with Original new music from Golden Globe………….. Composer Brian Byrne……..CELTIC THRONE celebrates the DRAMATIC and MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS of IRISH DANCE.-------CELTIC THRONE follows the MILLENIUM LONG JOURNEY of a MUSIC—and DANCE—LOVING people as they migrate from the ANCIENT NEAR EAST to Ireland, Scotland, England and United States”…..
· Through web sites we see the MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN of IRISH DANCE! –
This is what I found…
ANCIENT Celtic dance ---there is evidence to support a linkage between early forms of Celtic dance and that of modern Irish dance.
The CELTS were SUN-WORSHIPPERS who practiced a PAGAN DANCE within circular formation of stones which is related to circular formation of IRISH SET DANCING!
· So the “DRAMATIC and MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS of IRISH DANCE” of GOD’S CHURCH who has the marriage Covenant, Eze.16; 8, had turned to be PAGAN—SUN-WORSHIPPERS, Jer. 19: 13!
We understand from words of King Solomon
Explanation of 1 Kin 8; 40-to FEAR in land of inheritance-- No. 1079
1 kin 8; 40 -That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.—means they should FEAR the ALMIGHTY to preserve COVENANT and live FOREVER SERVING HIM, through inheritance given in EVERLASTING COVENANT, in Covenant they are called, Acts. 3; 25
Solomon prayed of making known of GOD WHO keeps HIS COVENANT with ISRAEL —2 Chr 6: 14--O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest COVENANT, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:---in church of ALMIGHTY we are called in COVENANT with ABRAHAM, Acts 3: 25, 26—and vs. 26 says—MESSIAH was sent to TURN AWAY INIQUITY FROM PEOPLE IN Covenant—
Explanation of 1 Kin 8; 40 In No. 1079
1 kin 8; 40 -That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.—means they should FEAR the ALMIGHTY and live FOREVER SERVING HIM, through inheritance given in EVERLASTING COVENANT forever!
PCG ministerial conference report—contd.
God was introducing a covenant and a government unlike any other in the world. According to its terms, He Himself would govern this physical nation. If the Israelite people would accept and uphold the covenant, they would become His treasured physical kingdom. Israel would become God’s nation. It would be an exemplary nation to every other around the world.
When Moses presented God’s terms to Israel, “all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do” (verse 8). Moses conveyed Israel’s reply to God. The form of government was agreed upon.
Now came the epic inauguration! After God had given Israel three days to prepare for this incredible event, God Himself descended. “And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly” (verse 18).
This was no ordinary founding! This was a mountain roaring with flames, billowing black smoke, and quaking like an erupting volcano because God was coming to Earth to establish a government—His government!
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God had given Israel three days to prepare for this incredible event
Exo 19:10 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
Exo 19:11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
Exo 19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
Exo 19:13 There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
Exo 19:14 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
Exo 19:15 And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
· THESE THREE days represent SHEWBREAD
SERVICE OF DAVID INCLUDES SHEWBREAD—
1Ch 23:29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
1Ch 23:30 And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;
1Ch 23:31 And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
1Ch 23:32 And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the LORD.
DAVID AND HIS MEN ATE SHEWBREAD
Because they WERE NOT MINGLING WITH WOMEN
For THREE DAYS!
1Sa_21:6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
· THAT SHEWBREAD was OLD, and TAKEN OUT from BEFORE THE LORD, to PUT HOT NEW BREAD—
The FULL STORY includes THAT MEN has to BE KEPT AWAY from WOMEN, FOR THREE DAYS, 1 Sa 21; 1-6
1Sa 21:5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.
· 1 Sa 21; 5 MAKES THE MINISTRY to UNDERSTAND that ALL WHO SERVE AS DAVID, are to KEEP AWAY from WIVES for THREE DAYS before OFFERING SACRIFICES OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING in HIS TEMPLE, on SABBATHS AND ALL CONVOCATIONS!
(Bread became OLD and was as COMMON BREAD---they have to PUT HOT BREAD, I Sa 21;6, which means NEW FRESH SHEWBREAD, we are to SACRIFICE BEST THINGS TO LORD GOD ALMIGHTY)
TODAY TOO THERE IS SUCH A JUDGMENT when FASTING and PRAYING
1Co 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1Co 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1Co 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1Co 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
1Co 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Exo 19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Exo 19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Exo 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Exo 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
Exo 19:20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
Exo 19:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
Exo 19:22 And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
Exo 19:23 And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
Exo 19:24 And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.
Exo 19:25 So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.
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The Foundation of Government
This government was utterly unique on Earth and in history. The head of state was God Himself: He actively and directly served as the legislative, judicial and executive power.
For eternity, God’s way of life has been the only way that works—and it works beautifully. His way of life is the way of love. God spelled out that way of life in His law. God legislated this as the foundational law of His nation, beginning in Exodus 20 with the Ten Commandments. All subsequent legislation traced back to these 10 points that define God’s love in action.
The Governor of Israel did not force His subjects to obey. But those who chose to subject themselves to His covenant and His law received abundant blessings, including miraculous protection, abundant food, plentiful wealth, healing from disease, incredible victory and deep purpose.
Although God based this government on His law of love, it was not a government of weakness or compromise. From the beginning, God spelled out certain laws that, if broken, would carry the heaviest punishment: the death penalty. These were part of the civil laws established for this physical nation. They were essentially criminal justice laws.
Exodus 21:12-17 record some of these laws. “He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.”
This was not the first time God instituted an administration of death. He had done so immediately after the Flood (Genesis 9:6). Prior to that time, there was no death penalty for perpetrators. For instance, although Cain killed his brother Abel, God did not execute him. However, after the Flood, God legislated that those who commit murder should be put to death. This law was reaffirmed under the Old Covenant.
Comment—on Gen 9;6
Gen 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
· LORD requires from EVERY BROTHER the LIFE OF MAN—
· Lev_17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood:
· Brother who goes to NEIGHBOUR’S WIFE, Eze. 33;25,26, destroys neighbour’s life—in the sense neighbour would not get offspring from his wife, it could be brother’s baby she would produce! Then NEIGHBOUR has NO GENERATION to CONTINUE IN EVERLASTING COVENANT!
· THEREFORE, the BROTHER IS GUILTY of SHEDDING BLOOD of NEIGHBOUR, Brother and neighbour’s wife gets death penalty, Lev. 20;10-- Lev 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Gen 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
· MAN who has IMAGE OF GOD is “CHRIST the MAN”
· By BAPTISM, CHRIST OUR LORD makes the SINNER CRUCIFIED WITH HIM (in other words, the OLD MAN DIES, a NEW MAN is FORMED by BAPTISM UNTO HIS DEATH, Rom. 6; 3-7
“by man shall his blood be shed”--- Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
· THEREFORE the SINNER has to EAT FLESH OF CHRIST AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, Jn. 6; 53-- to receive LIFE , and by BAPTISM LORD grants ETERNAL LIFE as a GIFT, Rom. 6; 19-23
· Jhn_6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
· Jn. 6; 53---IS PASSOVER
FATHERS of ISRAEL when they LFET EGYPT after PASSOVER—they were baptised unto cloud and SEA, 1Co 10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 1Co 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
PASSOVER TODAY--- Jhn_6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
DAY OF LORD is CLOUDS, GENTILES’ TIMES Eze. 30;3, THEN ISRAEL would get NOWLEDGE TO COVER SEA, Isa. 11; 9-11
THEY PASSOVER from SEA OF KNOWLEDGE
For GENTILES OF Ships of Tarshish teaches ONLY FROM WORD OF GOD
Isa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Isa 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. --------Isa 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
In EVERLASTING COVENANT which is NEW COVENANT, we PASS INTO MOUNTAIN OF GOD, ZION , Isa. 30;29-- Isa 30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
PCG CONFERENCE discussions--
After receiving the civil law (Exodus 21-23), the people of Israel agreed to their part of the covenant. “And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words” (Exodus 24:4-8).
This is how Israel entered into a binding, legal agreement with God. Not only was God now governing Israel, the nation was now officially married to Him! (Jeremiah 3:14).
Administration of the Old Covenant
It is critical to notice that God also established a ministry, or administration, that went along with the Old Covenant. “And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons” (Exodus 28:1). The administration of Aaron and his sons became known as the Levitical priesthood since they were descendants of Levi.
These priests were clothed beautifully (verse 4). The high priest, in this case Aaron, was dressed in the finest attire. “And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre. Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. And thou shalt bring his sons, and put coats upon them. And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons” (Exodus 29:6-9). Aaron’s miter, or turban, signified his office. The office of high priest was passed on to each succeeding generation.
Comments—sons of ZADOK are given an ATTIRE, Eze. 44
1Co 11:34 -- And the rest will I set in order when I come.
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Exodus records that after God gave the laws of the covenant, Moses climbed Mount Sinai once again (Exodus 34:27-28). God reiterated the covenant and the promises to Moses: “Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible [or astonishing] thing that I will do with thee” (verse 10).
This time, while fasting on the mountain for 40 days, Moses, in full communication with God, wrote out the entire covenant. “And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist [knew] not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him” (verse 29).
Moses’s face was so bright that Aaron and the people were afraid to come close to him. Moses told them to come closer so he could tell them what God had given him on the mountain, but he had to place a veil over his face so it wasn’t so bright! This brilliant, beautiful miracle was part of the glorious establishment of the Old Covenant.
This covenant was the greatest form of government ever created. Established by the Creator Himself, it was perfect.
A Glorious Covenant
In fact, the Apostle Paul called God’s government and law in the Old Testament “glorious”! Many who call themselves Christians think of the Old Testament administration as harsh, unloving, even evil. We need to learn to view it the way Paul did.
Paul wrote about this to the saints in Corinth: “[T]he ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away” (2 Corinthians 3:7). Many people think the stones mentioned in this verse are the same as the tables of stone in verse 3, which contained the Ten Commandments. However, that is not true. Verse 7 refers to the script engraved upon another set of stones, which contained the civil law of Israel (Deuteronomy 27:1?8). This civil law contained physical laws and punishments, many of which ended in death.
God founded that civil law on the principles of the Ten Commandments. And the administration of death was contained within the civil laws of Moses. Murder, kidnapping and adultery, for example, were all punishable by death. The administration of death was the civil execution of the punishment for such violations.
In 2 Corinthians 3:7, Paul extols that civil law as glorious. We must realize, however, that this law was not what God had in mind from the beginning. God established it only for a temporary purpose—just as Moses’s face shone for only a little while.
If this administration was only temporary, and it resulted in death, why did Paul describe it as “glorious”? Here are a few reasons:
It was based on the glorious principles of the Ten Commandments.
It showed the need for God’s Holy Spirit. A human being’s power, will and strength are pathetically weak and always unsuccessful without the Holy Spirit!
COMMENT—
PCG did not receive BAPTISM unto HIS DEATH, Rom. 6, WHICH IS BAPTISM UNTO JESUS CHRIST, TO RECEIVE HOLY SPIRIT, Ac 2;38.39, because H. W. Armstrong made them receive WATER BAPTISM!
· SO PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD ministry DID NOT RECEIVE FORGIVENESS AND REDEMPTION, which is given through Rom 6, BY HIS BLOOD, Eph 1;7
PCG writings--
It meted out appropriate punishments to lawbreakers. The punishment was necessary in the carnal society of Israel and prevented a lot of lawlessness and crime.
The civil law recorded on those stones served its purpose for the carnal nation of Israel. Had the Israelites kept it, the nation would have been glorious (Deuteronomy 4:8). More of God’s purpose would have been accomplished.
But did the civil law bring lasting repentance, change of heart, or conversion? Not at all! That was not its purpose.
God upheld this government perfectly. Israel did not. Before God had even finished giving the nation this spectacular gift, the people had already fallen into debauchery and began worshiping a golden calf. This was a disappointing sign of what was to come in the generations and the centuries that would follow.
That covenant was glorious, but something was completely missing from it. That element would be part of a different, future covenant—a better covenant (Hebrews 8:6).
Jeremiah Prophesies of the New Covenant
God revealed to the Prophet Jeremiah that He has much more in His plan beyond the glory of the Old Covenant. “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:31-33).
The nation of Israel had promised to obey God. However, in breaking that law, it broke its marriage agreement with God. So God prophesied through Jeremiah that He would institute a new marriage covenant. The new covenant would be an agreement based on the same law, except that it would be written not on tables of stone, but in the hearts and minds of men!
Unlike the world’s version of Christianity, the New Covenant is not based on doing away with God’s law, but on magnifying that very same law!
It was based on the same Ten Commandments, the same way of love and outgoing concern—the way of love toward God and love toward neighbor. It was to be a new covenant because the administration of that law was new; the law itself was not new.
Evidence of this new covenant cannot be found on tables of physical stone. It is found inside the minds of God’s people. It is evident in the way we act and think. The law is a principle that covers virtually every possible human circumstance and situation. It governs everything from worshiping God and interacting with your family, all the way down to smaller details such as choosing to mow your grass, for example. Most people wouldn’t think God’s law says anything about grass-cutting, but it does. If you have a neighbor who doesn’t mow his lawn, you will start thinking about that. God’s law covers everything because it is a matter of outgoing, loving concern for God and for everyone else.
Administration of Spirit More Glorious
“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be further [more] glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory” (2 Corinthians 3:8-9). It was obvious to Paul that the new administration Jesus Christ introduced would be far more glorious than the old. Both administered the same law. Under the old administration, however, human judges could not impart eternal life; they could only administer death. But now, this new administration, led by Jesus Christ, imparts eternal life! Jesus Christ works through His New Covenant ministry to help His people learn how to repent and how to stop sinning—how to use the Holy Spirit and to exercise the love of God—which eventually leads to being born into God’s Family! This is far more glorious than anything the Old Covenant could ever offer!
“Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ” (verses 12-14). Do you see what a miracle the New Covenant is? Understand the magnitude of what God is doing! God’s ministers can plainly speak the truth out of God’s Word, and God’s people can understand. Both the speaking and the hearing are inspired by the power of God’s Spirit.
This is completely different from how it was in ancient Israel when Moses’s face had to be covered. This is why most people’s minds are still blinded today. They may read the truth in the Bible, but they do not have the mind to understand it. Only the Holy Spirit can give that ability.
COMMENT—could we see the need for HOLY SPIRIT by baptism unto JESUS CHRIST,Ac 2;38,39
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“Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds; but when a man turns to the Lord the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (verses 15-17; Revised Standard Version). Far from being blinded, God’s people experience freedom because of the indwelling of God’s Spirit.
God’s true ministers endeavor to bring God’s Spirit into their judgments, their counseling and their preaching. As they do, wonderful things happen: lives change, marriages change, families change, congregations change. Eventually the whole world will change because of this administration of the Spirit.
“But we all, with open [unveiled] face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed …” (verse 18). Those of us without a veil over our faces are being changed! Into what? “[I]nto the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” This administration leads to people developing the very same character God has!
Yes, the old administration had a certain glory, but next to the New Covenant, it pales by comparison.
God planned to replace the administration of death with a new administration: the administration of the Spirit. God’s ministers today have been made able ministers of the New Covenant. They teach people the way to receive God’s awesome gift of eternal life. The administrators of the Old Covenant simply could not do that.
The spiritual changes taking place in the minds of the members are tantamount to massive spiritual earthquakes, thunder and lightning. This is far more awe-inspiring than anything God did in the Old Testament or any miracle He performed on Mount Sinai.
Chapter 2: A Lifesaving Ministry
Just as He had with the Old Covenant, God also established an administration for His New Covenant. This is not the same system of priests, judges and captains He had established in ancient Israel. It is a new administration: Christ’s own ministry!
Comments---
ALL THIS TIME, the PCG ministry were under Gerald Flurry
•Royal Vision ---July/ Aug 2007 ---page 15 “ Will you unify around God’s leader today?” All of God’s ministers need to unify around headquarters.
NOW THEY SHOULD SERVE WORDS of JESUS CHRIST --
It is a new administration: Christ’s own ministry!
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God’s love is the same today as it was at Mount Sinai. His way of life is unchanged. His spiritual law is unchanged. But compared to the administration in ancient Israel, His New Covenant administration is different in many ways.
In ancient Israel, the physical details based on God’s spiritual law were often very specific. Today, God’s ministers usually don’t have such specifics that outline courses of action.
In this priestly order, there isn’t always just one way to handle a situation. The Bible is the manual God intends His ministers to use, and He expects His New Covenant administration to draw close to Him and to use His Holy Spirit in applying the spiritual principles found in His Word.
A few years after God established the New Covenant administration, the Apostle Paul explained how it was different from the Old Covenant administration. “Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?” (2 Corinthians 3:1).
Paul was asking if ministers of Jesus Christ need letters or papers to prove their credentials. “Ye [brethren] are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart” (verses 2-3).
What is Paul communicating here? He is saying that the proof of a faithful minister is godly fruit in the lives of God’s people! This is not a “checklist ministry” written with ink, but rather a ministry where the Spirit of God is used to write God’s law on the members’ hearts and into their minds!
While the New Covenant is far superior to the Old, Paul is not belittling the Old.
COMMENT—Paul taught gentiles, 2 Tim 2;11
So the NEW SCRIBE is GENTILES learning from Paul—Mt. 13;52--
The NEW SCRIBE brings from OLD AND NEW—
New and Old Treasures
Mat 13:51 Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
Mat 13:52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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Again, the Old Covenant was a spectacular marriage agreement God entered into with Israel. But Israel did not have the heart to obey. The people could see the law on those tables of stone, but it was not a part of them; it wasn’t written in their hearts and minds. They lacked the spirit of obedience.
It is completely different with spiritual Israel. Under the terms and conditions of the New Covenant (which is also a marriage covenant), God uses His Spirit to internalize His law within our minds and hearts. Rather than obeying for carnal reasons, God’s Church today obeys because we love God and want to live as He lives. We love God because He took the initiative in our lives, called us and brought us out of spiritual Egypt. The Spirit dwelling in us enables us to have fellowship with God the Father and Jesus Christ. The spiritual miracle that God is performing today far surpasses any of the physical miracles the nation of Israel experienced at Mount Sinai.
God’s ministers are instructed to consider God’s people in this light. God is writing His laws in their hearts and in their minds—by the Holy Spirit. That is whom the ministry serves! That fact should cause God’s ministers to tremble with godly fear. Ministers bear a heavy responsibility to serve and administer with joy—but also with godly fear.
Paul continued: “And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God” (verses 4-5). Paul gives all the credit to Christ and to God the Father. Ministers must not allow themselves to get puffed up about the positions into which they have been placed. They are the ministers of Jesus Christ.
But notice verse 6: “Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament [or covenant]; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” God’s ministers are ministers of the Spirit, not of the letter. While the Old Covenant was both glorious and good, it did not allow for repentance. It did not lead to a change of heart. It could not lead to salvation—the end result was still death!
But as verse 6 reveals, the Spirit gives life! Within the New Covenant, there is room for repentance. A true change of heart is possible. The power of God’s Spirit working within God’s people leads to eternal life. This is so far above the promises of the Old Covenant. Abundant food, shelter, wealth and power simply do not compare with God’s Spirit and eternal life!
Herbert W. Armstrong elaborated on this in his book The Incredible Human Potential: “The Old Testament sacrificial laws and ceremonial rituals were a mere temporary substitute for Christ and the Holy Spirit. When the reality came, the substitute was ended—but the basic spiritual law—the law of love, codified in the Ten Commandments—continued. But the Church was required, having the Holy Spirit, to obey them not merely according to the strictness of the letter but according to the spirit …, or obvious intent, of the law ….”
God’s people are to obey God, not just according to the strict letter of the law, but by the spiritual intent of the law. Furthermore, God’s ministers are to teach His people the spiritual principle behind God’s law, which is the way of love.
Comments—
H. W. Armstrong did NOT INTRODUCE BAPTISM unto JESUS CHRIST TO RECEIVE HOLY SPIRIT
· HE DISGRACED THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST
· Through WHICH HE CRUCIFIES OLD MAN and MAKE NEW MEN for NEW COVENANT
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Ministers of Jesus Christ
You may often hear the term “ministers of Jesus Christ,” but have you thought about what that really means?
In the same way that Aaron and his sons were part of the Levitical priesthood, true ministers today are part of the priesthood of Jesus Christ. Just as Aaron was the high priest in ancient Israel and there were priests under him, Jesus Christ is, in actuality, our High Priest. He is the literal and living Head of the ministry. God’s ministers serve under Him as part of His administration.
A passage in the book of Hebrews explains this thoroughly.
“So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee” (Hebrews 5:5). Christ did not appoint Himself into the office of High Priest; God the Father did that.
“As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared” (verses 6-7). The realization that Christ is our High Priest should motivate every decision God’s ministers make as His administrators.
As our High Priest, Jesus Christ agonized in prayer throughout His physical life. Why? For the benefit of God’s people. His ministers today, to properly serve God’s people, strive to pray that same way. This is not just a matter of “putting in time” on our knees. This is a type of heartrending, energized prayer that allows God to lead us to make wise decisions in guiding the lives of His people.
COMMENTS-
The Lord's Prayer
Mat 6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Mat 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Mat 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Mat 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Mat 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
Mat 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Mat 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Mat 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Mat 6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Fasting
Mat 6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Mat 6:17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;
Mat 6:18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mat 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Do Not Be Anxious
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Mat 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
ALL THINGS DONE THROUGH WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST written in BIBLE—
· WHEN we use HIS WORDS—
· IT IS HOLY SPIRIT working in preacher and student
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Helping God’s people is not a matter of searching a manual to find out how to deal with a problem. The job of God’s ministers is more than just implementing and enforcing a list of do’s and don’ts. With that said, some decisions are indeed black and white. When applying God’s law, His administration must never compromise.
If someone is creating division, for example, God’s course of action is clear! However, much of how the ministry must deal with God’s people is not black and white. Finding the right course of action requires Spirit-led discernment! Being ministers of Jesus Christ means using Christ’s own mind to determine the appropriate course of action. We must pour our hearts out to God, to the one who is able to save His precious Family from death.
“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him” (verses 8-9). Jesus Christ never sinned, yet He was still learning. He always maintained a humble, teachable attitude. Then, when He was made perfect by the resurrection, He became the High Priest of all those God would call to receive the same precious and eternal promises!
The process of conversion is difficult. God’s people are fighting to overcome, to grow and to change so they can receive eternal salvation. Adding to this challenge, God calls the weak of the world into His Church (1 Corinthians 1:26-29). True ministers of Jesus Christ always strive to follow the example of our faithful, merciful High Priest and to maintain a positive, hope-filled view of every Church member. They work to see each person as God does and to work with them accordingly, with His unfailing love.
Comparing Two Priesthoods
Hebrews 7 compares the priesthood of Aaron to the priesthood of Jesus Christ in detail. Verse 4 states: “Now consider how great this man [it should read ‘this One’ as it refers to Jesus Christ] was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.” The first few verses of this chapter prove that Melchizedek is the same Being as Jesus Christ. (For more proof of this truth, request a free copy of our reprint “Who Was Jesus Before His Human Birth?”)
Anciently, Abraham came up to Jerusalem and paid tithes to Melchizedek. Levi, after whom the Levitical priesthood was named, was a descendant from the lineage of Abraham (verse 5).
“But he [Melchizedek] whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him [Abraham] that had the promises. And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better” (verses 6-7).
There is no question about who is the greatest here! Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek! Paul is saying that since Levi’s great-grandfather, Abraham, paid tithes to Melchizedek (Jesus Christ), the Levitical priesthood is not as great as Jesus Christ’s priesthood.
Most people use these and the next few verses to try to do away with God’s command to tithe. However, rather than doing away with tithing, the passage is making clear where the tithes are to be directed. A different administration, with a different high priest, had replaced the Levitical priesthood. Paul was explaining who should rightfully receive the tithes.
Continuing in verse 11, Paul wrote, “If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?” Paul is perfectly clear here! If perfection by the Levitical priesthood were possible, then there would be no reason for another priesthood. But perfection was not possible, so a greater priesthood under the leadership of Jesus Christ is necessary.
The priesthood of Jesus Christ is not of that carnal, or fleshly, commandment. His priesthood is different, and it leads to eternal life (verses 15-16).
“And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:) By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament [covenant]” (verses 20-22). Paul is emphasizing again that God the Father installed Jesus Christ into this office. He also reiterates that this New Covenant under Jesus Christ is sure and cannot falter.
“And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death” (verse 23). The Levitical priests were physical and would die, leaving their office to a successor. That is not the case with Jesus Christ’s priesthood. He is alive forever! “But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood” (verse 24).
A Lifesaving Ministry
Because this new administration is permanent, look at what Jesus Christ is able to do! “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25). Jesus Christ is able to save those who come to God by Him. This was not true of the Old Covenant—that was not its purpose. As the High Priest of the new administration, Jesus Christ is able to literally save people.
God’s ministers are part of the new administration. They actually have a part to play in saving people!
Human beings do not accomplish this by their own power, of course. It only happens by the power of God’s Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, God uses His human instruments to help bring about that salvation. When a minister visits people, he is there to strengthen and to help save them! Peter, the first-century chief apostle, was personally instructed by the High Priest, Jesus Christ, to feed His “sheep” (John 21:16-17). This is a command to feed the Spirit-begotten members of the Church. If they are to grow and thrive so they can ultimately be born into God’s Family and live forever, they must be fed by righteous ministers who are willing to give their lives for the sheep—just as Peter was told that he would have to do (verses 18-19).
God’s ministers work tirelessly in this endeavor to strengthen people and lead them to salvation! This can mean working for hours on end with a member to help him or her overcome a serious problem. It can also mean removing someone from the Church in order to save him—or to save an entire congregation! Only a minister who is close to God can discern the difference. We cannot turn to a page in a manual and figure out what to do.
A minister making these types of decisions must be on his knees, crying out to God to allow Jesus Christ to lead him into the best course of action that will help to save people. He is the High Priest who knows how to save people! Apart from God, ministers simply cannot do the job, and serious mistakes will be made.
“For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself” (Hebrews 7:26-27). The High Priest of the New Covenant is a perfect Being. He is not like the ancient high priests who needed to offer sacrifices to cover their own sins. He died once for all as a perfect sacrifice!
Law Not the Problem
Paul sums up the entire subject in the next chapter. “Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man” (Hebrews 8:1-2). Members of God’s New Testament Church have a High Priest sitting at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven right now!
The Old Covenant is no longer in effect. “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises” (verse 6). This new, better covenant that Christ administers is established on better promises—eternal promises. The ministry of the Church is privileged to be part of this more excellent ministry.
Comments—
PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD to begin NEW COVENANT which is EVERLASTING COVENANT, Eze. 16; 60, Isa. 59;21
They should take an OATH—
They are to SWEAR, Isa. 45; 23, take a VOW, Ps 50; 14, Gen 9;4, 5, take OATH, according to Plague of their own hearts, 1 Kin 8;38 for EVERLASTING COVENANT COULD NEVER BE DEFILED! Read in Nos. 1426,1427
CHRIST OUR LORD HAD TAKEN AN OATH, Heb. 7.20,21, And then MADE HIGH PRIEST in order of MELCHISEDEC ORDER --read in No. 1429 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
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“For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second” (verse 7). Again, if the Levitical priesthood could bring perfection, there would be no need for the New Covenant (Hebrews 7:11).
What was the problem with the Old Covenant? “For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah” (Hebrews 8:8). The problem was not with the law, and it wasn’t with the covenant; the fault of the Old Covenant was with the people. They disobeyed, broke their word, and therefore broke the covenant.
If the Israelites had kept their part of that covenant, what would have happened? They would have received only national, physical blessings. Their obedience would not have brought them eternal life. They would not have experienced a change of heart or a change in their thinking. They would not have received salvation. These promises were not given at that time.
COMMENTS—
Likewise, PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD broke COVENANT, Eze. 44;7, and we gentiles were witnesses to that GREAT SIN, but gentiles DID NOT GO ASTRAY, Eze. 44;15
Gentiles as 1st born of poor, Isa. 14;30, 32, began to TREAD DOWN INNER COURT PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD, Rev. 11;1-4, serving JESUS CHRIST, La 1;15.
· Gentiles serve for SALVATION, COVENANT and SABBATHS, Isa. 56; 1-7
PCG broke COVENANT as DID EPHRAIM , Ps Psa 78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. Psa 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
· PCG ministry broke COVENANT, they too did not keep LAWS without DEFILING, they profaned SABBATHS BY ADULTERY, Eze. 22; 1-11.
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However, the Israelites failed to keep even the letter of the law. Finding fault with them, God made a different covenant: “Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord;
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people” (verses 9-10). Notice carefully! The New Covenant does not do away with the law; neither is it founded on a different law. God here is talking about the exact same spiritual law that the ancient Israelites couldn’t keep. This New Covenant involves people who have God’s laws written in their hearts. These people have hearts that are able to obey because they are empowered by God’s Holy Spirit.
· HOW DOES LORD PUT LAWS in their MINDS?
· LORD circumcise hearts by BAPTISM, Col 2;11-13
Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
THE BAPTISM, Col 2; 12—HE FORGIVES SINS, vs 13----Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
THE ERRORS of SABBATH KEEPING, PROFANING HIS COVENANT BY DEFILING through ADULTERY, Eze. 33;25,26, Eze. 22; 1-11, WOULD BE TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY---NAILING it to HIS CROSS!!
· BAPTISM CAUSES sins of OLD COVENANT to be NAILED TO HIS CROSS!
· LORD did NOT CARRY THE CROSS HEAVEN, the SINS PERISHED WITH CROSS OF CHRIST in DUST!
· So DID EVERYBODY’S SINS who were BAPTISED UNTO HIS DEATH,
· And because this BAPTISM is to JESUS CHRIST, THOSE WHO HONORED BAPTISM UNTO JESUS CHRIST, received HOLY SPIRIT, Ac 2;38,39.
· Then LORD’S INSPIRATION would be RECEIVED—There is a SPIRIT in man Inspiration of LORD gives understanding Job 32.8, all scripture given by inspiration of God, profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness 2 Ti 3.16.
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“And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest” (verse 11). This New Covenant leads to a wonderful time when God’s Kingdom will rule over the Earth. Then, everyone in the world will know God. Everyone in the world will be able to keep His great law under this New Covenant.
Now notice the distinct difference with the Old Covenant that Paul addresses in verse 12: “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
It is possible to exercise mercy under the New Covenant.
COMMENTS—
Heb 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Heb 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Jesus the Great High Priest
Heb 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
The Final Judgment
Through MERCY
Mat 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
Mat 25:32 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:
· NATIONS ARE LEADING MEN, Ps 9;20--
Psa 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psa 9:18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Psa 9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
Psa 9:20 Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.
· NATIONS ARE LEADING MEN, Ps 9;20--
Mat 25:33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Mat 25:34 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:
Mat 25:35 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:
Mat 25:36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Mat 25:37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
Mat 25:38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Mat 25:39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Mat 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.
THOSE JUDGED AS UNRIGHTEOUS
Are those WHO DID NOT TREAT POOR
Mat 25:41 Then 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:
Mat 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Mat 25:43 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.
Mat 25:44 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?
Mat 25:45 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.
Mat 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
PCG conference notes--
This is not talking about a lack of judgment. God’s government must administer punishment and correction; that is part of God’s love. God uses correction to bring us to repentance. Then as we change, God is merciful toward us, forgiving us our sins and removing them from His memory.
The administration of the Spirit differs from the administration of civil government under the Old Covenant. The administration of the Spirit, under the leadership of Jesus Christ, allows for mercy, repentance, change and conversion. God’s ministers operate with this reality in mind as they work with His people. If one of God’s people maintains a humble, teachable attitude, and he or she is not causing division, there is room to work with that person for a long time to help him or her overcome.
Chapter 3: The Spirit of God’s Law
Within any physical family, problems arise that need to be addressed by the administration of that family. The same is true within God’s spiritual Family. God is deeply concerned that those administering His government treat the family members the right way.
“Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:1-2). When someone approaches the ministry with a problem, the goal must be to restore the person as a productive, growing member of God’s Family. God wants the ministry to use His Holy Spirit to help His people to see and overcome their flaws. The ministers approach this challenge with authority, but tempered with mercy, knowing that they themselves are not perfect either (Hebrews 5:2).
· Comment—
· PCG did not have HOLY SPIRIT as LORD’S CROSS was DESPISED BY H. W. Armstrong and Gerald Flurry followed H. W. Armstrong –
· THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HOLY SPIRIT through baptism, Ac 2;38,39
Letter of the Law Not Compromised
If a minister uses the Spirit of God while he counsels, the members of God’s Church know they are loved! They will be inspired and motivated to change.
In serious cases, using God’s Spirit may mean removing a member from the fellowship. But even that is a tool used in the hope of eventually restoring the one who has been suspended, as well as protecting other Church members.
COMMENTS-
HOLY SPIRIT is WORDS OF CHRIST OUR LORD ALMIGHTY
Ezekiel was a SIGN TO Gerald Flurry
Ezekiel's Wife Dies
Eze 24:15 Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
Eze 24:17 Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
Eze 24:18 So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
Eze 24:19 And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
WHAT IS THE MEANING?
Eze 24:20 Then I answered them, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
· Gerald Flurry broke COVENANT of GOD, which was GOD’S DESIRE!
· AND LORD SHOWED how it would be WHEN LORD TAKES AWAY WIFE OF Gerald Flurry --Eze 24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
· Gerald Flurry HAD TO WORK –NO MOURNING!
Eze 24:24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Eze 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
Eze 24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Eze 24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
Eze 24:25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,
· Desire of their eyes, sons and daughters,--vs 25, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, vs 21---taken away—
· THEN A NEXT GENERATION would NOT BE POSSIBLE!
THE ESCAPEE comes to MEET Gerald Flurry
From SRI LANKA, THE EX.MINISTER
Eze 24:26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
Eze 24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
· WE GENTILES KNEW that LORD is PUNISHING PCG through Gerald Flurry
Our MINISTER went to OKLAHOMA to meet Gerald Flurry
With much difficulty he went escaping from RD Harrison
He went on 24th Aug 2005 and met Gerald Flurry
The MINISTER who went in the strength of 30 members, Jer. 38;10,
He had ALSO said to Gerald Flurry “That he is in a dungeon”
This he told me and my husband in 2019 when he visited us to ask about some facts regarding his hospitalization after an accident, for my husband only had known particulars when he was transferred to three hospitals within about 8 days!
EBEDMELECH went in the SPIRIT of ESCAPEE, written below
And Gerald Flurry was to GIVE THE WORDS OF GOD
To EBEDMELECH as written in Jer. 39
And EBEDMELECH is given LIFE For TRUSTING JESUS CHRIST
YET EBEDMELECH was TREATED BADLY BY Gerald Flurry
Jer 39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
Jer 39:15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
· Gerald Flurry was SHUT UP BY LORD for encouraging RD Harrison for BAMAH COVENANT breaking sin, Eze. 44;7!
Jer 39:16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
Jer 39:17 But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the LORD: and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid.
- LORD had said HE would DELIVER EBEDMELECH on DAY OF LORD!
Jer 39:18 For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.
EBEDMELECH the MINISTER TRUSTED THE LORD OF ZION!!
we Gentiles, TRUSTED the LORD, Isa 14;30,32.
WELL see the WORDS OF Gerald Flurry
To THE MINISTER
Gerald Flurry had yelled “GET OUT, GET OUT”
That instant –he was DISFELLOWSHIPPED
Moreover, PCG minister of India and Sri Lanka
Was NOT GIVEN A CUP OF TEA or A GLASS OF WATER—even covering SUCH A DISTANCE to travel from Sri Lanka to Oklahoma!!!
And the LORD gave Gerald Flurry
The Judgment
Mat 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.
It is VERY SAD!!
Could a minister who represents GOD’S CHURCH be SUCH WICKED????
Minister went in the SPIRIT OF ESCAPEE, Eze. 24
Ezekiel was a SIGN TO Gerald Flurry---Eze 24:24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign:
Gerald Flurry was a sign to minister and us-- Eze 24:26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
Eze 24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
· ACCORDING to that SIGN to US,
· We knew that GOD WOULD BRING TO PASS ALL WRITTEN PROPHECIES to PHILADELPHIA CHURCH of GOD!
· And THEY FULFILLED!!!
And PROPHET WAS NO MORE---
ALL TITLES he had were REMOVED!
No more prophet, Ps.74;9, failed Pharaoh, failed ASSYRIAN, Eze. 17, failed as a FOOL, Hos,9;7, fallen as cherub, Isa.14;12, who as CHERUB, also as THE KING OF TYRE, performing merchant work Eze. 28, is NO MORE forever, Eze.28;19 read in Nos. 1336 to 1346, in www.restoringcaptivity.com
Gerald Flurry cannot say
That he had NOT SINNED
Jer 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten Me days without number.
Jer 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Jer 2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Jer 2:35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Jer 2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Jer 2:37 Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
PCG CONFERENCE WORDS--
This does not mean God’s ministers compromise with the letter of the law. A minister cannot “spiritualize away” God’s law and say, “As long as you keep the Sabbath in your heart, you can work straight through it.” Being administrators of the spirit of the law does not mean getting rid of the letter of the law, but it does acknowledge the attitude as well.
Comment---
LORD TEACHES TO LOVE ALL IN HIS CHURCH
MINISTERS ARE BROTHERS
Jhn_13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Jhn_13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Jhn_15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Jhn_15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Rom_12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
Rom_13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Gal_5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Eph_4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
1Th_3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
1Th_4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Heb_10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
PCG CONFERENCE WORDS--
Notice this description of God in Exodus 34: “And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth” (verses 5-6). Right at the beginning of the establishment of the Old Covenant, God describes Himself as being abundantly merciful.
Other scriptures prove that Jesus Christ was the God of the Old Testament (e.g., 1 Corinthians 10:4). God the Father and Christ are perfectly unified in thought (e.g., John 10:30). God says, “I change not,” and Jesus Christ is “the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8). So, does the fact that Christ is merciful mean that He sometimes relaxes the law?
The description of God in Exodus 34 continues: “Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation” (verse 7).
This is a beautiful description of how Christ’s ministers are to operate. Following the example of our High Priest, God’s ministers do not ignore judgment or the law. They do not allow chaos or lawlessness into their congregations.
Ministers serve God’s people through the administration of the Spirit, meaning God’s people will know that His ministers love them. They will see God’s mercy and forgiveness in the ministers’ counsel. And when God’s ministers must implement a strong correction, suspension or even disfellowshipment, the members will know that the administration of the Spirit does not ignore the law—they will know that those decisions are also made in love.
Law of Love in Action
Philadelphia Church of God Pastor General Gerald Flurry has said that ministers cannot approach shepherding God’s people as if it were a math equation. The Spirit of God cannot flow in that type of counseling! God’s people are not math problems. When true ministers of Jesus Christ must put someone out of the Church, they work to show that individual that such a measure actually represents God’s law of love in action. Even in such difficult situations, the person must know that the administration is working with him or her with a desire to bring him or her back. God’s ministry is eager to throw the person a life preserver, not an anchor! In everything the ministry does, the law of love should be magnified in the eyes of God’s people.
COMMENTS
· My dear ministers---
· Did Gerald Flurry treat us gentiles who were TREATED VERY BADLY BY PCG, like a MATH EQUATION??
· TO THROW US OUT OF PCG?
· IS YOUR WORDS CORRECT, or LORD’S WORDS CORRECT?
· Gerald Flurry even TOLD OUR EX. MINISTER TO DIVORCE my SISTER, just because THEY BOTH STOOD by WORDS OF GOD!
· When our ex. minister quoted scriptures, Gerald Flurry did not understand!!
· EVERY THING IN CHURCH should be DONE ACCORDING TO WORD OF GOD!
· Then WHY DO PCG MINISTRY ERR?----because they DO NOT HAVE HOLY SPIRIT, as they DID NOT RECEIVE BAPTISM unto JESUS CHRIST, Ac 2;38,39
And PCG CONFERENCE WORDS—
Take one example. A couple had been in the Church for a considerable time, yet their family life was a mess; the husband, wife and children were all miserable. The husband was the kind of man who would say one or two words to his family in a week. He never prayed with his family. He never studied the Bible with them. He and his wife were completely divided. All of them were going to fall away if something wasn’t done quickly.
Over the course of several weeks, repeated, difficult counseling sessions were aimed at addressing their problems. Finally, they had to be told, “We really don’t want to have to put you out of the Church, but this is it! There had better be some changes, or you leave us no other choice.” At that stage, it was hard to imagine them turning things around.
In the weeks that followed, however, the demeanor of this family changed remarkably. They came to services smiling! Their marriage was happy for the first time in many years! At services the man started discussing some of the family Bible studies that he had held with his family. The change was truly miraculous!
Sometime later, this family’s minister e-mailed the man, saying how encouraged he was to talk with him and to observe the changes he had made in his family. He told him how great it was that he had applied the counsel. The man thanked him for the encouragement. Since then there has been regular, cordial conversation back and forth between the ministry and the member.
That is an example of the administration of the Spirit!
COMMENTS--
· Such COUNSELLING to be DONE BIBLICALLY
· For that MINISTRY SHOULD BE THOUROUGHLY EQUIPPED with WORD OF GOD, HOLY SPIRIT!
PCG conference words
Bearing Another’s Burdens
Such a case illustrates what it means to bear one another’s burdens. There is no manual telling ministers when to suspend, when to give one last chance, when to give one last warning, or when to encourage. It requires the Holy Spirit and direction from our High Priest.
Notice what Christ taught His disciples in what is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil [or magnify]” (Matthew 5:17). Christ went on to explain how not just the letter of the law must be applied, but even the spirit of the law—the obvious spiritual intent. Magnifying the law means we are motivated by the love of God in everything we do. After all, “this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments” (1 John 5:3).
God had this magnification in mind even during the time of the Old Covenant. “The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable” (Isaiah 42:21). Jesus Christ came and fulfilled this prophecy of magnifying the law—which is the opposite of doing away with the law as most professing Christians teach. With every law God gave, He had this ultimate spiritual reality in mind of magnifying it from the letter to the spirit.
Ministers of Jesus Christ need to magnify God’s law in their own personal lives as well as those of the members. They do this by demonstrating God’s love in how they counsel, how they show mercy, and how they execute judgments. God’s spiritual law must permeate everything we do and think.
Righteousness That Exceeds the Pharisees’
The sermon recorded in Matthew 5 was delivered during Jesus Christ’s early ministry. At the time, He had only been working with the disciples for a short period. The religious, pharisaical leaders of the day were steeped in a ritualistic form of law-keeping. Because of that, Jesus Christ had to reshape and remold the disciples’ minds to show them what His law actually is. Christ had to revolutionize their understanding of the law.
“For I say unto you [disciples], That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven” (verse 20). Christ told them that their righteousness had to exceed what they saw among the religious teachers of the day. That was true for the disciples back then, and it is true for Christ’s disciples today. Our righteousness must far exceed that of the Pharisees. Our understanding of God’s law must go far beyond the letter. It has to be magnified to include the spiritual intent.
Our perfect High Priest continued, “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire” (verses 21-22).
Verses 27-28 give another example: “Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” Similar to how thinking evil thoughts toward your brother is breaking the Sixth Commandment, thinking lustful thoughts about a woman is breaking the Seventh. Christ then magnified the law to show that if you even hate your brother, you are guilty of murder. In fact, if you don’t love him, you are guilty of breaking the law! How ridiculous it is for people to say that Christ did away with the law when He obviously expanded it!
Now notice verses 38-39: “Ye have heard that it hath been said,
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” People have long mocked and ridiculed the Old Covenant, saying, “If it’s an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, then everyone would be blind and hungry.” This law was indeed part of the Old Covenant (Exodus 21:22-25; Leviticus 24:17-21; Deuteronomy 19:16-21), but it is discussing a fair recompense for a crime. This was an important principle in the civil law for a carnal-minded nation. It acted as a great deterrent to people who were tempted to commit a crime.
In the New Testament administration of the Spirit, Christ takes it to a whole different level, introducing forgiveness and mercy. While sometimes problems are black and white and can be dealt with in that fashion, a true minister is not too quick to insist on a letter-of-the-law punishment for an offense. He aims to use the spirit of the law, to give more time for repentance and forgiveness, for example. The right course of action in each case cannot be determined with a letter-of-the-law manual. This priesthood is better than that! God’s ministers endeavor to stay close to God so they can apply the spirit of the law to each situation.
Turn the Other Cheek
Herbert W. Armstrong said in a May 1979 World Tomorrow program titled “Spirit of the Law”: “[H]ere, according to the way of God and being perfect like God and having the mind of God, having the nature of God, and the Spirit of God, here’s what a Christian is to do. He said: ‘I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil. But whosoever smites you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.’ How many people do that today? I wonder how many Church people today really believe what Jesus said. Or do they think He was some kind of a sissy that didn’t know what He was talking about? You know people today don’t think that’s very practical. No, if somebody hits you today, you’re going to double up your fists and get good and angry and hit him right back, aren’t you? Well, that’s all the carnality in you and that’s hatred and that’s a spirit of murder in you that is doing it, and that’s what it is.”
The spirit of this command applies to more than getting hit physically. It applies to anyone making accusations or saying unloving things.
Mr. Armstrong continued, “That’s the spirit of murder in you. That’s what it is, and it takes a lot more courage and it takes a lot more self-control and power and strength to turn the other cheek and let him sock that one, too, than it does to start socking away at him. That’s all there is to it! Oh, Jesus wasn’t any sissy.”
Matthew 5:43-45 continue, “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father ….” Notice the reason God’s people are to live and think this way: It is so they can be sons of the Father! When God’s people make decisions that are guided by the Father’s Spirit, they become more like Him.
Mr. Armstrong elaborated, “But I say unto you, Love your enemies. Oh, but surely we’re not to do that, are we? Now that wouldn’t be practical, would it? People today don’t believe that. People today don’t do these things. Why, people today don’t believe we should obey God’s law and keep it. People today don’t magnify the Ten Commandments and obey them.”
At the time, Mr. Armstrong was in the midst of dealing with his own son’s rebellion. Out of love, Mr. Armstrong used the government of God to fight for the truth God had revealed to the Church. Out of love, he put his own son and other rebellious leaders out of the Church and frequently prayed for their repentance. Mr. Armstrong practiced verse 44, yet he was no weakling.
He continued, “People today don’t believe in loving their enemies. And He says to pray for them that persecute you. If anyone would persecute you and accuse you unjustly of things, deliberately, maliciously, knowing that they’re doing wrong, I’ll tell you, humanly the thing that has always been the hardest for me to resist of anything is to avoid a real indignation over an intended wrong. If somebody makes a mistake and they didn’t mean it, why that doesn’t offend me a bit. I don’t think it ever did. But if someone really intends wrong and does it maliciously and purposely, that’s always been the hardest thing for me to forgive. But you know in Christ we must, even that. ‘Love your enemies, pray for them that persecute you that you may be sons of your Father, which is in heaven.’ Well, there it is.”
COMMENT---
LORD DOES NOT WANT ANY TO FOLLOW DEAD MEN
Blessings for a Defiled People
Comes when they REMOVE UNCLEANNESS
OF A DEAD MAN from CHURCH
EVEN THE DEAD H. W. Armstrong WHO RIDICULED CROSS
OF JESUS CHRIST
Hag 2:10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Hag 2:11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
Hag 2:12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Hag 2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Hag 2:14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
Ministry of PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD
Please PUT AWAY the UNCLEANNESS of the DEAD H. W. Armstrong, when LORD WANTS NOW to BLESS PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD!
Chapter 4: The Weightier Matters of the Law
In Matthew 23:23, Jesus Christ listed what he called the “weightier matters of the law.” What was He talking about?
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”
Here, Jesus Christ confirms that all of God’s laws, including tithing, need to be kept.
But He also emphasizes that there are weightier matters within that law. As Christ said, applying the spiritual principles of judgment, mercy and faith are vitally important!
These “weightier matters” are crucial in the administration of the spirit! These matters are what God’s ministers need to be concerned about most of all! We must understand, apply and teach the spirit—or spiritual intent—of God’s law.
We also must understand that to be a part of the administration of the spirit, God’s ministers must be filled with the love of God. God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God’s law is love (1 John 5:3). Indeed, God’s love is what underpins all the law—including these weightier matters.
With that in mind, you could even say that love is the weightiest matter of the law (Luke 11:42).
Jesus Christ had some strong correction for those people who commanded the meticulous keeping of their interpretation of the letter of the law over the obvious spiritual intent of the law. In the verses following Matthew 23:23, Christ said they were like blind guides who lead people astray. He called them hypocrites who, while looking good and appearing righteous on the outside, were really like a whited sepulchre—an elaborately crafted tomb filled with dead men’s bones and uncleanness.
In verses 33 and 35, Christ called them serpents and a generation of vipers, and said it was their kind of thinking that was responsible for killing the righteous from Abel to Zacharias! He warned them, “[H]ow can ye escape the damnation of hell?”
COMMENTS--
· EVEN DISFELLOWSHIPPING is KILLING the LIFE OF BELIEVERS!
One Body with Many Members
1Co 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1Co 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
1Co 12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
1Co 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
1Co 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
1Co 12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
1Co 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
1Co 12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
1Co 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
1Co 12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
1Co 12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
1Co 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
1Co 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1Co 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
1Co 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
1Co 12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
1Co 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
1Co 12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
PCG CONFERENCE WORDS
This is some of the strongest condemnation in the Bible! But notice the love behind these strong words of correction.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” (verse 37). Christ was eager to forgive! Christ loves people, and He wants to cover them with his love as a hen covers her chicks. This is how we need to think and act as well.
Let’s deepen our understanding of these “weightier matters of the law”—judgment, mercy, faith and love.
COMMENTS--
For “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets,
· JERUSALEM which has ABOMINATIONS is PCG , Eze. 16;2, Eze. 22;1-11
· Prophet as watchman, Eze. 33;33, did not watch adulterous ministry, Eze. 33;25,26
· Similarly, WOMEN OF JERUSALEM were also told TO WEEP—
Luk_23:28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
· women Prophesy their own words to make men fly to them, Eze. 13:17-20—
· read MORE WORDS JESUS CHRIST SPOKE when HE WAS TAKEN TO CRUCIFY in No. 1444 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
CHRIST OUR LORD is WAITING TO HEAR
FROM MINISTRY OF PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD
Isa_30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
Judgment
In administering God’s government, many judgments must be made. This truly is a weighty matter of the law! Pastor General Gerald Flurry has stated that when making these judgments, ministers need wisdom, patience, finesse, boldness—and that love must inspire and motivate all their judgments. It must inspire and motivate how we speak to and deal with people. Every minister of God should pray for more of God’s love every single day.
Wisdom is a vital key required in making proper judgments. It is imperative that we get down on our knees daily to pray in detail for wisdom on how to solve problems. Such wisdom can come only from the mind of God. Put it to the test and see how many answers come while praying. With serious problems, fasting may be required.
Oftentimes, people like a list of do’s and don’ts for every possible situation. Providing such a list is not possible!
Nowhere in God’s Word is there a list of every potential infraction of His law. God’s ministers cannot legislate every possible infraction of the law, because the law is spiritual (Romans 7:14), and God wants His people to understand the spiritual intent of the law (John 4:24).
Both ministry and lay members should regularly pray to grow in wisdom so that we are able to apply the principles of the law.
This magnifies the law and helps to ensure proper judgment.
Another vital key for proper judgment is God’s government. God’s government is hierarchical in form; you can read about it in Exodus 18. Judgments needed to be made for and concerning the people of Israel. Moses was simply unable to handle all this on his own. Positions under Moses were established, and duties were delegated accordingly. More serious matters were brought up the line to help ensure proper judgments were made. This is the same structure established for the New Testament Church—the administration of the spirit. When questions arise about how to proceed with a particular situation, the minister can take the matter up the line of authority to the regional director; if necessary, the regional director may take the matter all the way up to God’s apostle.
Following this biblical governance structure keeps God in the judgments being made. This is essential because God admonishes us in 2 Chronicles 19:6, “Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment.” We are not judging for man but for God, and He must be with us in the judgment. Only He has perfect judgment in every situation. He knows exactly what to do. God wants us to learn to exercise righteous judgment like He does.
There are weightier matters of God’s law, and proper judgment (or justice) in applying the totality of God’s law is one of them.
Mercy
“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort” (2 Corinthians 1:3).
Concerning the phrase “Father of mercies,” Barnes Notes says, “This is a Hebrew mode of expression, where a noun performs the place of an adjective and the phrase is synonymous nearly with ‘merciful Father.’ The expression has, however, somewhat more energy and spirit than the simple phrase ‘merciful Father.’ The Hebrews used the word father often to denote the author or source of anything; and the idea in phraseology like this is, that mercy proceeds from God, that he is the source of it, and that it is His nature to impart mercy and compassion …” (emphasis added throughout).
God has lived for eternity, and His law is simply an expression of His perfect way of life. Mercy is a weightier matter of the law since God is the Father of mercies!
God even rules from a throne of mercy. The representation of God’s heavenly throne was called the mercy seat (e.g., Numbers 7:89). In the tabernacle, in the most holy place, was the ark of the covenant: a chest that housed Aaron’s rod, the Ten Commandments and a golden pot of manna. On top of the ark was the mercy seat. The law was enclosed with mercy!
What is God most concerned about? “Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” (Micah 6:6-7). Is God going to be pleased with physical works alone? Will we receive God’s approval solely because of great tithes and offerings, for example?
Verse 8 answers: “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” This is one of the major aspects of character that God wants from us: to love mercy! There is nothing physical about that. We need to pursue and cultivate a merciful mind. We must come to have a merciful mind that loves to see people forgiven. That is a weightier matter of the law!
Consider the parable of the debtor. In Matthew 18:21, Peter asked Jesus Christ how often a person needed to forgive a brother who sins against him. He wanted to know if there was a limit. Seven times? Christ replied, 70 times seven! Christ then gave a parable about a king who called his servants to pay the debts they owed him. When one debtor couldn’t pay the 10,000 talents he owed, the king commanded that the debtor’s family and all that he owned be sold to pay as much of the debt as possible. The stunned man fell to the ground at the king’s feet and begged for mercy, promising to pay if the king had patience with him.
The king was “moved with compassion” and released him—completely forgiving the debt (verse 27).
But look what happened next. Consider what this man who just had his debts forgiven did. This same servant went and tracked down a fellow servant who owed him a tiny amount of money. Instead of showing this man the same mercy that the king had exhibited, the evil servant threw this man into debtors’ prison until the debt was paid (verse 28-30).
When the king heard what had happened, he was very angry. He took the evil servant who would not show the same mercy that had been extended to him and threw him in jail. Then Jesus Christ said: “So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses” (verse 35).
Why was the king in this parable so angry about what the evil servant had done? Why was Christ so strong in his warning? According to the letter of the law, the one who lent the money had the legal right to throw that debtor in jail, and so he did. The point is that God has forgiven us greatly; therefore, we must likewise have the same merciful, forgiving attitude toward others!
While God is, indeed, very merciful, do not mistake His mercy for tolerance of sin.
Remember this powerful summary of the name of God recorded in Exodus 34:6-7: “The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
Yes, God is full of mercy, graciousness, forgiveness, and is very longsuffering. But there are serious consequences for sin, and very often those consequences have a lasting impact for decades and into future generations. So be thankful for God’s mercy and strive, with His help, to develop this same aspect of His character within yourself—but as stated before, never mistake God’s mercy for tolerance of sin.
COMMENTS
Deu 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
JESUS CHRIST was the EXAMPLE—
Pro_30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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.
Luk_4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Faith
Why is faith a weightier matter of the law? What is the relationship between faith and the law?
“Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law” (Romans 3:31; New King James Version). The word establish means “to cause or make to stand, to make firm, fix, uphold or to keep intact.” Rather than doing away with the law, faith upholds God’s law.
In other words, it requires the faith of Christ to be able to properly keep the spiritual law of God. It means that we trust God to make obedience possible.
Some people might point to verse 28, where the Apostle Paul said that we are justified by faith, apart from the deeds of the law. Yet Paul also said that the doers of the law are justified (Romans 2:13).
Do these scriptures contradict each other? What exactly did Paul mean?
“Rather than contradict, these scriptures complement each other,” the Herbert W. Armstrong College Bible Correspondence Course says. “It is not by the deeds of the law—the actions themselves apart from faith—that we are justified (made righteous before God); that’s only possible through the faith of Christ in us. Yet all who have His faith and exercise it to make obedience possible—the doers of the law acting in faith—which makes it a living faith—are the ones who are justified by that faith!” (Lesson 13).
Simply put: The doers of the law who produce works inspired by faith are the ones who are justified. Righteous works follow faith; otherwise it is a dead faith (James 2:14-26).
It is Christ’s faith dwelling in us that trusts God to give us the love of the Holy Spirit to fulfill God’s law, enabling us to be righteous. If we were able of ourselves to supply the faith that brings about God’s love, then we would earn our own salvation by our works! But in fact, that kind of righteousness is as filthy rags to God (Isaiah 64:6).
It was precisely this wrongheaded approach to law-keeping that Paul condemned. There were those who rejected Christ and the righteousness that comes by the faith of Christ. They attempted by their own righteousness to keep the law as the means of being justified—made righteous before God. This self-righteousness is what Paul condemned. Paul wrote in Romans 10 that there were those who had zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. In verses 3-4, he stated: “For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” The word “end” means aim, outcome or goal. The goal of keeping the law is to become like Christ!
We cannot become a born son of God without faith! Consider all of this within the context of what is recorded in Romans 14:23: “[W]hatsoever is not of faith is sin.”
Faith is indeed a weightier matter of the law! Anything not of faith is sin! This verse appears in the context of a vegetarian who sincerely believes that eating meat is a sin—yet when he is told it’s not a sin or sees other brethren eat meat, if he elects to eat it anyway while he still thinks it’s a sin, then it is a sin for him!
The Principles of Healthful Living booklet states: “We must follow what God has revealed to us to be right according to the Word of God. This does not mean that our consciences always tell us what is right—not at all. We have to continually study to learn what is right and wrong. But God thinks more highly of a vegetarian who might sincerely and conscientiously deny himself the clean meats because he does not know the full truth than He does a person who would do the right thing according to the letter, but who really believes in his heart that he is doing wrong.”
What God sanctions to be lawful may not be lawful for every individual—if the individual cannot act in faith!
Can we begin to understand why the weightier matters of the law cannot be legislated in the letter only? God is building character in us, and character-building requires that we exercise judgment, mercy and faith so we learn to think as God thinks! This requires God’s Spirit—His mind—to be actively at work in us, joined with our human spirit. That is why we have weightier matters of the law: because the law expresses how God thinks and lives!
COMMENTS—
JESUS CHRIST was the EXAMPLE—
Pro_30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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.
Luk_4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
1Co 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
1Co 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
1Co 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
1Co 3:20 And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
1Co 3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
1Co 3:23 And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
· WAS H. W. Armstrong CHRIST’S, when HE RIDICULED HIS CROSS, which is the TRUTH, Gal 3;1
· H. W. Armstrong had the LIE, Rom. 1;25-32
· Gerald Flurry ridiculed LAMB, all these sinners against JESUS CHRIST should REPENT AND BE BAPTISED to receive HOLY SPIRIT said PETER, Ac 2;38, 39
Agape Love
Now let’s look at what we might call the weightiest of all the matters of the law.
Luke 11:42 is the parallel passage to Matthew 23:23, quoted earlier: “But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”
Romans 13:10 says that love fulfills the law. In other words, the whole law, God’s way of life, is summed up in that one word, love—because God is love.
Mr. Armstrong defined the spiritual law of God as “a general principle which, in its spirit, covers every act. God expects for us today to apply the principle to every act. … In the Bible, God does not write down every specific detail of the principle or spirit of His law! He expects us, with His Holy Spirit, to apply the principle to every circumstance, act or question” (Good News, March 1979).
The trouble is, almost no one knows what love really is.
Notice how Mr. Armstrong defined it: “‘Love is an ‘unselfish outgoing concern’ for the good and welfare of the one loved. Love is primarily on the giving, serving, sharing side of the fence—not on the getting, taking, factional, striving side. It is not selfish. …
“Love is unselfish. It is not an emotion, though it may be expressed with an emotional content. True love combines the rational aspect of outgoing concern—desire to help, serve, give or share—along with sincere concerned affectionate feeling” (The Missing Dimension in Sex).
God’s love (from the Greek word agape) is not an emotion. This kind of love comes from outside of us—from God Himself. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” God has to give it. Emotion comes from within. God’s love is from without.
Notice what Christ said when one of the Pharisees challenged Him on what the greatest commandment in the law is: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment” (Matthew 22:37-38, quoting Deuteronomy 6:5).
The First Commandment is the most important. Every other point of the law flows from that one. Keeping God at the center of everything we do is the essence of this commandment. A list of do’s and don’ts may help us understand, in part, how to keep this foremost commandment—but a list could never fully express the spirit of that all-encompassing law.
Even getting excited about the Bible’s prophecies is not as important as getting to know the God behind those prophecies!
Matthew 22:39-40 continue: “And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Loving God includes loving His Family—God’s Spirit-begotten saints—more than we love ourselves. Our neighbors, whom we love as ourselves, are those in this world who have yet to be called and converted.
The Apostle John wrote: “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him” (1 John 5:1).
“That is one of the most beautiful scriptures in the Bible,” wrote Gerald Flurry in the July-August 2004 Royal Vision. “You are to have the same love toward those who are begotten as you do toward God, the one who begat. You are to have the same love, because they are now members of God’s Family; they are begotten of the Father. That could never apply to our neighbor.
“Of course, we place the Father and our Husband, Christ, at the head of this family of love. Nobody could ever replace them. But when someone enters the God Family, the Father wants them to receive the same love He receives. He wants you to love that new member with all your heart, soul, strength and mind—more than you love yourself. That is what makes a family work!
“Paul tells us in Philippians 2:3 to ‘let each esteem other better than themselves.’ That is talking about those in the Family of God. We can love those in the world as ourselves, but we must love God’s Family more. What better way to unify God’s Family than to grow more deeply in this kind of love?”
As it is written, “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (1 Corinthians 13:13). The Greek word for charity is agape—which is the very love of God! This love is what must fill us if we are going to be able to understand, teach, live by and administer the weightier matters of the law!
Chapter 5: Administering the Royal Love of God
As discussed in the previous chapter, the weightiest matter of all of God’s law is the love of God—denoted by the Greek word agape. In 1 Corinthians 13, the Apostle Paul defines this God-level love that we all need to exhibit and apply in every aspect of our lives.
Let’s take a closer look at these qualities of agape love.
A Look at God’s Love
Love “suffers long” (1 Corinthians 13:4): It endures patiently. That means we may have to suffer while continuing to be patient. Agape love prevails when things go wrong. It bears up under the pressure when being oppressed or provoked.
How easy it can be for people to lose their temper! When dealing with someone who is self-righteous, for example, it might be easy to be provoked into speaking or acting imprudently or unwisely. It can even provoke you to sin yourself! Outgoing concern (love) for God and others helps us avoid these pitfalls.
Treat others the way you would want to be treated by God. Remember, God is extremely patient with your shortcomings.
Love “is kind” (verse 4): It is good-natured, gentle, tender and affectionate. It responds to other people’s needs. Consider Jesus Christ’s own example. Think about how much time He spent doing good works. He was constantly concerned about the needs of others; He helped them because He was moved with compassion for them (Matthew 9:36).
Love “envies not” (1 Corinthians 13:4): It isn’t jealous of other people’s blessings and opportunities. On the contrary, it rejoices in them: whether stature, reputation, wealth, health, domestic comforts, education or anything else! Love rejoices that others have such blessings without wishing that those blessings were upon ourselves. Never begrudge another man’s blessings.
Agape love is not possessive. Rather, it allows and encourages others to do their best.
Love “vaunts not itself” (verse 4): It does not brag or sing its own praises. It isn’t boastful and doesn’t like to show off. It does not seek to impress others to get noticed. What is your attitude, for example, in how you dress? We should dress nicely to glorify God and to uphold His standards, just as we should strive to do in all aspects of our lives. We should not be trying to draw undue attention to ourselves, such as causing the opposite sex to lust. Extremes in fashion can be motivated by vanity, rebellion or lust. These are grave sins and are the opposite of God’s love. God’s love does not parade itself above others, thinking it is somehow superior.
Love “is not puffed up” (verse 4): It is not arrogant, proud, haughty or vain. It doesn’t harbor inflated ideas of its own self-importance. This can happen to anyone, but especially to someone who is in a position of authority. It is easy to begin thinking you are entitled to special treatment. We must all guard against such deceit because agape love is humble, modest and unobtrusive. It does not overemphasize the self.
Love “does not behave itself unseemly” (verse 5): It is not rude or lacking in manners and does not act in an unbecoming way. It is polite, courteous, discreet and modest. It avoids profane, indecent, vulgar, improper and unseemly language.
Agape love seeks to do and say that which is proper and becoming under the circumstances. It strives for proper, appropriate conduct and deportment in all relationships and situations. It respects those in authority and holds proper regard for those under our authority. It strives not to offend. It avoids words or deeds that would violate the decency of any given situation.
An Utterly Unselfish Love
Love “seeks not her own” (1 Corinthians 13:5): It is not selfish; does not insist on its own rights or its own ways. It is not self-seeking. It does not pursue selfish advantage over others, but rather seeks the welfare of others. It desires to promote their happiness even if it requires self-denial to the point of sacrificing comfort and time. There will always be times when situations arise and people need help when it is inconvenient to help. It is in these situations that the amount of agape love in you will show through.
God’s family plan is an example of this. God wants all people to have the opportunity to be part of His Family—and more than that, God wants all people who have ever lived to have this opportunity. God’s plan of salvation is not closed or limited to Himself and Christ, or to just a small inner circle of special individuals. It is an opportunity He will freely give and share with all people for all eternity. And He has sacrificed tremendously in order to provide that opportunity to so many.
To say that agape love “seeks not her own,” is to say that it seeks not to be served but to serve—without demanding that others do the same in return.
Love “is not easily provoked” (verse 5). The words “easily provoked” come from a single Greek word, and this simply means that God’s love is not provoked. It is not prone to anger or to exasperation with others. A person with this love does not give way to sudden bursts of emotion even though he may have been emotionally injured. Even when someone must be corrected, it should be handled without provocation and with as many positive and encouraging words as possible.
Agape love “is not provoked” also means that it is not overly sensitive or touchy. It is not easily offended by other people’s words or actions toward us. This is another aspect of God’s love we must be filled with.
Love “thinks no evil” (verse 5): It is not malicious or overly suspicious of others. Agape love is not disposed to find fault with others or eager to impute evil motives to others.
“Thinks no evil” also means that love does not take account or keep record of the sins of others. Exercising agape allows for mistakes and forgives them—and requires separating the sin from the sinner and not condemning the one with the other.
According to one commentary, agape love “desires to think well of the [person] whom we love; [not to think] ill of his motives, opinions or conduct until we are compelled to do so by the most unbreakable evidence.” In other words, we assume the best in another person and we give that person the benefit of the doubt unless there is “unbreakable evidence” to do otherwise. Be careful not to think the worst by relying on your “instinct,” your perceptions, your ability to read body language, etc. Unless there is strong reason not to, we should take others at their word and assume the best.
God’s ministers operate according to this love. They are not out to catch God’s people in an evil deed. That is not how they think. So God’s people should feel comfortable around the ministry. The ministers should be like beloved family members.
Love “rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth” (verse 6): It does not rejoice over the vices of others or feel smug when others sin. It doesn’t hope that others will hurt themselves. It doesn’t gloat over the wickedness of others, and it is never glad when others do wrong. Rather, agape love rejoices in the virtues of others. It is pleased when they do well.
Love “bears all things” (verse 7): It bears the private and personal faults of others and does not seek to avenge itself. The word bear also means to cover. Agape love keeps a private matter private. As Proverbs 11:13 says, “A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.” It is inclined to hide or conceal the faults and imperfections of others and certainly does not gossip about sins or shortcomings! “And above all things have fervent charity [agape] among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins” (1 Peter 4:8). Love is willing to conceal or bear with the private offenses of others patiently. That is why we first go to our brother alone when an offense or grievance occurs (Matthew 18).
Love “believes all things” (1 Corinthians 13:7): This doesn’t mean love believes truth and error equally or that we don’t differentiate between right and wrong. This is referring to the conduct of others.
Agape love is willing to believe the best about someone’s actions—to consider the best possible interpretation of what happened. Have you ever interacted with someone who assumes the worst about a person’s actions and doesn’t even consider that they may have misinterpreted those words or deeds? This verse shows that thinking that way is not actuated by the love of God.
Furthermore, agape love gives room for people to change. It does not lose faith in the ability of a Spirit-begotten son of God to change!
Love “hopes all things” (verse 7). This too is in the context of other people’s actions. However sinister something may appear, agape love holds on to the possibility that we may have misunderstood the situation. There is a hope that the matter may be explained and made clear. Do not make assumptions and automatically jump to the worst possible conclusion.
In the context of Matthew 18, when a person goes to his brother in the right attitude to address an offense or grievance, he should expect a positive outcome because agape love “hopes all things.”
Love “endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:7): This means “to endure or sustain a load of miseries, adversities, persecutions or provocations in faith and patience” (Key Word Study Bible).
Agape love bears up under any adversity and does not complain. The New King James Study Bible says it “accepts any hardship or rejection and continues unabated to build up and encourage.” How well do we bear up under hardship?
Love “never fails” (verse 8): Agape love never fades out or becomes obsolete. It is as permanent as God because God is love—agape love (1 John 4:8, 16). Agape love is adaptable to any and every circumstance anywhere in the universe! It will never cease to exist and will continue to be exercised for all eternity.
The Essence of the Weightier Matters
In a Passover message years ago, Mr. Flurry said, “With this kind of love, we can’t help but solve the world’s problems.” Stop and meditate on that!
Understand this: The essence of the weightier matters of the law—judgment, mercy, faith and the very love of God—is all about relationships. It is about our relationship with God and God’s people first—and second, our relationship with our neighbors.
In The Missing Dimension in Sex, Herbert W. Armstrong stated that God’s law “governs and regulates all human relationships!” That is what it boils down to. In a Good News article, he wrote that God’s law “outlines, in broad detail, our right relationship with the true God [and His Family]; and also man’s right relationship toward human neighbors” (July 1952).
In fact, our relationships with people say a lot about our relationship with God. “How do we show God that we love Him? It has a lot to do with human relations,” wrote Mr. Flurry in The Last Hour. “We must love Christ’s Church—God’s Family! The way you love them is the way you love Christ and the Father. Words mean nothing if they are not followed by deeds—if you say you’re in the light, that must be reflected in your love for the brethren.”
Mr. Flurry continued: “If we don’t work out our problems with each other, we are not abiding in light! There is something wrong if we cannot get along! We must get to the cause to solve our human problems. If we love Christ, we will love each other. If we don’t love each other, we don’t love Christ! …
“A battle is raging between God’s people and the devil—and we have to conquer! If you know God, you will conquer. If you don’t know God, you will be conquered. Families will fall apart. Problems will fester between people. John is talking about human relations in the Church!
“If we keep God’s law of love, we will solve those problems.”
God’s Royal Law of Love
How do we solve problems when they arise? We need to administer God’s royal law of love. “But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors” (James 2:9). The greatest injustice we could commit in our judgments is to have respect for appearances. That is sin because it is based on selfishness.
“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (verse 10). If you break one of the laws, you have broken them all. But notice why!
“For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law” (verse 11). Which law is James talking about? The royal, constitutional law of love. Remember, the Ten Commandments are merely 10 points of the constitutional law of love. And if you break the law in one of these points, you have sinned against God’s constitution and have become a transgressor of the law!
God’s constitution is a perfect, royal law! Although it does not codify every possible circumstance or infraction, the spirit of it does cover every possible circumstance, act or question. That is the law that we must learn to administer, and that is the law we are being judged by now!
“Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom; for the judgment will be merciless to the man who has shown no mercy—whereas the merciful life will triumph in the face of judgment” (verses 12-13; Moffatt).
God holds His people accountable for how they uphold His royal law of love. “Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge” (James 4:11). God wants us to realize that we are the ones being judged. We are the ones on trial to see if we are innocent or guilty according to His royal law of love. We need to show God that we can use His law to solve problems.
“There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?” (verse 12). This verse is not saying that you cannot go to your brother to help him with a fault. God is saying that when you go to him, know that you are being examined! God is watching to see your attitude and how you administer the weightier matters of the law—judgment, mercy, faith, encompassed with God’s love.
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law” (Romans 13:10). Love should underpin everything we do. Showing love toward others is how we fulfill the royal law. And as it says in Romans 5:5, “[H]ope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy [Spirit] which is given unto us.” God’s love must be in us if we are to administer His law of love.
We must understand this because God’s royal Family will administer His royal law in the soon-coming World Tomorrow—and godly love will encompass every detail!
Fulfill the Law and Feed the World!
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ,” Paul told the brethren in Galatia (Galatians 6:2). “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith” (verse 10).
How can we do good to all men as well as those within the Body of Christ? We do this by giving this world what it needs most! By administering the spirit of the law of God, we feed this starving world.
“Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees” (Isaiah 66:10-12).
COMMENTS--
Glory of gentiles is as a flowing stream!
River –No. 1448 water from SANCTUARY came as a river from GOD Eze. 47 and He had added SALT to save PCG from BARRANNESS so that PCG becomes posterity as EPHRAIM
Suck from RIVERS of GENTILES –LORD had added SALT TO REMOVE BARRENNESS of PCG
READ No. 1448 in www.restoringcaptivity.com
PCG CONFERENCE WORDS
These verses reveal what Christ’s wife will be doing after His imminent return. Jerusalem has been one of the least peaceful cities on Earth, but peace will soon flow out of Jerusalem like a river. The message taught and distributed from Jerusalem by God’s royal Family will soon nourish the whole world just as a nursing child is nourished by his mother.
That is our future. As Paul indicated in 1 Thessalonians 2:7, we will be like a nursing mother who cherishes and feeds her little children. That is how much we need to love our fellow brethren and those of the world—like they are our own flesh and blood.
COMMENT--PAUL taught gentiles, 2 Tim 1;11
PCG WORDS
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you” (John 15:13-14). When we do the job Christ has given us, we become His friends. As He said in verse 15, we are no longer servants, but actual friends of God.
COMMENTS
HE died TO REDEEM friends the FIRSTFRUITS, defiled by women, Rev. 14;4
PCG WORDS
God needs people who are skilled in administering His royal law of love. To fulfill such a calling properly, we need a heart after God’s own: one that fears God and keeps His commandments (Deuteronomy 5:29)—a heart that only God can give.
A Heart to Obey
Clearly, the New Covenant and the administration of the Spirit is based on the law of God, which is the love of God! Just two chapters later, God again emphasizes, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them” (Hebrews 10:16).
This is what the administration of the Spirit is all about! This is what God has wanted from the beginning: a people—a family—with a heart to obey. He wants a family that thinks like Him and that will administer His law and government the same way that He does. John 4:24 says, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
God has called a few people out of this world today to begin working with them and to teach them His ways. Those few are, actually, now in contact with an innumerable company of angels, the true Church of the saints, God Himself and Jesus Christ, the Mediator of the New Covenant (Hebrews 12:22-24).
But that is only the beginning! God is about to bring the whole world into His Family! We are being offered the opportunity to share His throne and to help in the administration of His government—a government of spirit and truth! God will give us the heart to keep His commands always if we sincerely go to Him and ask for it. He will give us the Spirit needed to understand and to love and to apply His administration of the Spirit.
COMMENTS—
It is WRITTEN that PHILADELPHIA CHURCH OF GOD would be ESTABLISHED in EVERLASTING COVENANT, and ALL BELIEVERS are to REPENT AND BE BAPTISED to receive HOLY SPIRIT to receive INSPIRATION of CHRIST OUR LORD
There is a SPIRIT in man Inspiration of LORD gives understanding Job 32.8, all scripture given by inspiration of God, profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness 2 Ti 3.16.
PCG had written many biblical teachings, they are very near to be established, when they receive HOLY SPIRIT by BAPTISM, Ac 2;38,39, for they NEED to get inspiration from LORD OUR SAVIOUR who grants SALVATION to ALL of us, EVEN ESTABLISHING EVERLASTING COVENANT with ALL FLESH, meaning people of world would also called in COVENANT of GOD as promised to NOAH, Gen 9;1-17.
Deu 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
Deu 29:10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
Deu 29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
Deu 29:12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
Deu 29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deu 29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Deu 29:15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
· NEW MOONS as BEGINNINGS OF MONTHS should be KEPT, Isa. 66; 23—NU. 28: 9-14
Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Isa 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
NEW MOONS as 1st day of months, Isa. 66; 23,24, Num 28;9-14
SABBATH is a sign forever, for ISRAEL, Ex. 31.17—
Ex 31: 16-Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
All praise and thanksgiving be to the Saviour and Redeemer of ISRAEL AND ALL FLESH, To THE HUSBAND AND REDEEMER OF ISRAEL, Isa 54: 5, TO THE ONE TRUE ALMIGHTY AND LAMB MESSIAH, Rev. 21: 22, 1 Jn. 5: 20, Amen and Amen.
SERVANT of Ships of Tarshish Ps 45.9, 12, 16
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