FOREWORD
This work is a sequel to the book “Word to the Church of Jesus Christ[8]”, published in 2006 by Montreal Remnant Ministries (ISBN 0-978226-0-3), and to the book “The Tragedy and Glory of Believers[9]” published in 2010 also by Montreal Remnant Ministries (ISBN 978-0-9782276-1-6).
LIFE COMING OUT OF DEATH IS THE VERY BASIS OF THE WORD OF GOD FROM GENESIS TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION. This mystery answers the true Salvation of man and the reasons for the Death and Resurrection of Christ Jesus, Our Saviour and Lord. This mystery is also fulfilled in all the believers, who are willing to follow the Lord in His footsteps (Mt. 16:24-25), to die to their natural life and be resurrected to His Life Eternal, who love His appearing (2Tim. 4:8// 1Pet. 1:7-8) and desire to have the testimony that will overcome Satan and cause him to be cast down from Heaven to the Earth (Rev. 12:9,11-13). These are the few chosen ones from among the many called ones (Mt. 20:16). The called believers are not the same and will not go at the same time to the same place as the chosen ones.
Seven times have I reviewed, refined every word of this book before the Living Christ so that He might burn out all dross (flesh) (Lev. 14:7; 16:19// 2.Ki. 5:10,14// Ps. 12:6// Pr. 24:16// Lk. 17:4) that there should not be anything contrary to His Holiness, Righteousness and Truth. This statement has been taken from the above quoted two books since the Lord led me through the same process also for this book.
May this Light and Truth from the Lord benefit and strengthen all true believers to PRESS toward the prize of their high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:14), which means, toward their perfection (Heb. 6:1).
On behalf of the King of kings and Lord of lords:
Brother H a n o l a – servant of the Lord Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
It seems that nobody ever reads the Foreword, I thus abridged it to one page and I am coming to you directly with the NAKED TRUTH.
In reality, any potential reader opens the book somewhere in the middle, scans few words on few pages and if he does not find them appealing or corresponding exactly to his personal beliefs and convictions, he closes the book and that is the END of it. You may do the same with this book, if you wish, but the END will not be with this book, rather, it may be with your LIFE! You see, God will not come down to your kitchen to talk to you personally. He has given us His Word and His true servants, and His Word to us is His final Word – He will not speak to us more than what has been already written. Rather, He opens our eyes to His existing Word so we may SEE its reality so devastating to our old natural man, but glorious to our spiritual New Man! Both are realities of His Word and their simple meaning is: UNLESS THE OLD DIES, THE NEW CAN NEVER LIVE!
We live in the last days of this world governed by man and also in the last days of the Church governed by man! The old merry-go-round life of Christians in various church organizations is coming to a sudden crash. The doctrines, teachings and practices of this traditional Christianity have lost their value and also appeal to every believer, who sincerely seeks reality, truth and the life of Christ so he may live His Word and not just read it, listen to it, study it, discuss it or argue about it “for ever”. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL HAS FAILED! BELIEVERS AND THEIR LEADERS IN GENERAL HAVE FAILED! IS THIS TRUTH SUFFICIENTLY NAKED?
Since His Church has failed in her calling and mission and since the vast majority of her leadership has failed in preparing the Church for her calling and mission as well as for His Coming, THE LORD WILL SPUE HIS CHURCH OUT OF HIS MOUTH (Rev. 3:16). Everybody preaches Jn. 3:16, but nobody preaches and explains Rev. 3:16! Why not? Most of the leadership of His Church is carnal and has no spiritual understanding and eyesight whatsoever. Hence, the believers today are “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked” – in spirit! Leaders can preach and teach and bring excellent logical comparisons, requirements or consequences from the Word of God, but they are unable to bring the Life of the Spirit from the dead letters of the Word of God! Hence, they preach DEATH, NOT LIFE. They themselves had not continued to their own spiritual perfection (Heb. 6:1), but kept their natural character and kept educating their old man in the letters of the Scripture. Since they are spiritually dead themselves, they keep preaching to and teaching the “old man” in their congregations, explaining to him the Scriptures, giving him a pep talk, exciting him and seducing him with the promises of God, which were never applicable to him. All God’s promises are applicable to our New Man and not to our old man, old nature!
The NUMBER ONE responsibility of the ministers in His Church has always been to lead and enable the believers to find the narrow way (their cross) where they follow the Lord and not themselves (Mt. 16:24), where their “old man” is dying and the New Man grows up! And THIS IS EXACTLY where the ministers in His Church generally and specifically FAILED AND KEEP FAILING! That’s why there are only FEW souls that find the narrow way and not the whole Church (Mt. 7:14).
There is no other reason for this horrible spiritual state of the believers today and there has never been brought so much shame to the Lord, to His Holiness, Righteousness and Truth and to His Grace through which we all exist.
The horrible state of this world, which is speeding up to hell in front of our eyes is just a mirror of the horrible state of the Church, which failed to stand in the face of evil and deal with it in the Power and Wisdom of the Spirit of Christ. We talk, talk, talk, preach, preach, preach, teach, teach, teach, discuss, argue and explain. Our mouth is “full of the Holy Spirit” and of the Word of God, but our heart is void of Him, of His Life and Love. He exists in us, but we don’t exist in Him! Hence, we are powerless, foolish and miserable religious creatures spiritually totally useless in the hands of Our Almighty God. Are you, readers, surprised, offended or stunned? Maybe you don’t see this at all… or do you?
Unless we are guided to the narrow way by the true ministers in His Church, our old man will never die and our New Man will never grow! Unless we seek and find the narrow way and start to walk on it, our old man will keep living and ruling us.
Unless our “old man” is dead, WE CANNOT DO ANY part of the Word of God, of His Commandments, advices, suggestions, follow any guidance, any instructions, accept any reproof, obey any voice, because our old man hates all these things (Pr. 5:12-14). We cannot trust the Lord, cannot walk by faith, cannot receive answers to our prayers, cannot grow up in spirit into Christ Jesus, cannot be transformed into His Image and thus CANNOT DO THE WILL OF GOD Our Father, which is in Heaven. And if this is so, Our Father cannot accept the “singing of praises and worshipping” by our old man, who cannot know the truth and whose spirit is filthy (Jn. 4:24). Do we see this also?
Unless we wake up, we will keep sleeping. Unless we abandon the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, on which we have all been feasting for centuries and thereby increasing our death, we will not be allowed by Our Father, which is in Heaven, to eat from the Tree of Life and thereby increase our Life and overcome death (Gen. 3:22-24).
We are like eaglets that refused to learn to fly. What does “mama eagle” do? She shakes her nest with the eaglets, flutters over the young, spreads her wings under them and bears them on her wings so they would not fall down and be killed (Deut. 32:11). She may do it few times, but if they are not willing or lazy to learn to fly, she will let them fall and be killed. They are useless and will never become eagles. A bundle of feathers that cannot fly is a dead eagle!
THIS IS A CALL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO HIS OWN CHURCH IN THESE LAST DAYS BEFORE HIS COMING!
HE HAS BEEN JUDGING, SHAKING AND SIFTING THE “NESTS” OF ALL THOSE THAT CLAIM TO BE BORN-AGAIN CHRISTIANS AND WHO, EVEN MANY YEARS AFTER THEIR BAPTISM, CANNOT “FLY”! THIS HE PROMISED TO DO AT THIS END-TIME ACCORDING TO HIS WORD (1Pet. 4:17-18// Heb. 12:26-29// Hag. 2:6,7). WHY? BECAUSE AFTER MANY YEARS, THESE MULTITUDES OF BELIEVERS ARE STILL HANGING TOOTH-AND-NAIL TO THE OLD NEST OF THEIR NATURAL LIFE SCARED TO DEATH TO LEAVE IT. THE LORD DESIRES TO MAKE THEM TRUE, USEFUL AND LIVING – “FLYING” EAGLES. MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE LORD IS SANCTIFYING, CLEANSING AND PREPARING HIS OWN BRIDE FOR HIS COMING AS THE BRIDEGROOM (Mt. 25:6). OTHERWISE, HE WOULD HAVE NO BRIDE TO COME TO AND TAKE WITH HIM! (Mt. 24:40,41; 25:10) THE CHURCH OF TODAY IS ANYTHING BUT HIS BRIDE.
In the days of Noah, eight people were taken out of the whole mankind of those days! (Gen. 7:13). Would you like to calculate the ratio of the saved ones to the drowned ones? If the Lord compares His coming to the days of Noah (Mt. 24:37) then guess how many born-again baptized believers will be taken into His “Ark”? Do YOU belong to them? How do you know that you do? Your redemption and baptism are not sufficient to guarantee this! Please, keep reading.
His judging, shaking and sifting has become the most important ministry in His eyes for this End-time. No other ministry has for Him greater importance at this time since it is to prepare His Bride to HIS satisfaction and not according to our dreams – the time is at hand. This is the reason why He has chosen even “this earthen vessel”, among others, to this highly unpleasant, difficult, painful, but highly important task to labor until Christ is formed at least in the believers, whom He foreknew and predestinated (Gal. 4:19// Rom. 8:29). Also, to declare the currently most important spiritual facts that are to be diligently considered, seen and understood, believed and performed for the Lord by all of us, who call ourselves Christians and who hope to enter the Marriage Supper of the Lamb and the ensuing Kingdom of God.
Very few believers have been touched by these most important spiritual facts and have responded in any way. No church leader (pastor, teacher, preacher in the USA) has ever responded to us though we mailed our books to thousands of churches of various denominations in about 70 countries of the world, even to more than 1,400 “Christian” bookstores across the USA. This indicates why the Lord will SPUE today’s church, represented by the church of the Laodiceans, out of His mouth (Rev. 3:14-22). Here the Lord also gives His reasons and counsels those believers that do not desire such a “glorious destiny”. No pastor or preacher has ever preached THIS Word of God to his congregation explaining to the believers its true meaning and impact on their Christian lives and destiny. You see, he might lose his congregation in no time should he preach such a sermon. Since every pastor is made a watchman unto his sheep, their blood shall be required from his hand! (Ez. 3:17-21)
We are not necessarily talking about a possible loss of salvation of these believers, but we are definitely talking about their missing the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Mt. 25:10-12) as well as their entry and ruling with Christ in the Kingdom of God (Rev. 20:4), which will follow the Marriage Supper, and most importantly, losing their inheritance and status in the Lord (see later)! Christians are not interested in this Word or where they will end up after the Lord spews them out of His mouth and what they will do there! And nobody tells them. You see, they are all taught and believe that after death, they all go straight to Heaven. Really? From what part of the Word of God did they get this myth? They all take one verse from the Scripture where Paul expresses his desire “to depart and be with Christ…” (Phil. 1:23) and they construct from it a color picture of their own future heavenly bliss. It feels good, reassuring, even logical, but what, if it does not apply to them? How true are their personal dreams and beliefs?
I will not go into details of where believers go after their death or translation, when and why. These details are already described on pages 269-273 of “The Tragedy and Glory of Believers[9]”. They are also shown on the color chart at the end of this quoted book (see Foreword). But I am led to explain three major points showing a gross misrepresentation of the truth of Phil. 1:23, which are as follows.
1) Paul speaks about himself and not about the whole Church. He was an Overcomer while most believers, especially in today’s churches (except the small Remnant), are carnal Christians, just as their leaders are, and the ways to their destinies are quite different. When the Lord declares: “I will spue them out of my mouth”, I honestly cannot see how He will “spue them into Heaven”. Can you? Do sincere Christians and their church leaders see this fact? Or do they believe that “their church” is an exception? On what basis, may I ask? What Scripture would they use as the basis for such a belief? And the Lord said this truth 2,000 years ago!
2) No believer in the New Testament was ever taken or ascended to Heaven where God’s Throne is! (Jn. 3:13) If you want to see where people go in the New Testament after their death, see the Addendum and the color chart at the end of the book “The Tragedy and Glory of Believers[9]”. God knows why we cannot go to Heaven at this time.
You see, just as our ministers miss Rev. 3:16, so they also miss Rev. 12:7-11! Guess who is in Heaven, in the presence of God? SATAN and his devils! They are in heaven, not in hell! Would you like to “mingle with them and enjoy their presence”? And Satan is accusing us before our God day and night! God will not allow any carnal Christians to come there anyway because they have NO “word of testimony that would overcome Satan”! Only the Manchild has it (Rev. 12:11). The testimony of the Church brings shame to the Lord Jesus Christ and not Glory! Is this picture somewhat different from what you were told to believe?
3) Since the Resurrection of Christ, Paul and all the other Overcomers go to the 3rd Heaven, which is part of the Heavenlies (and I call it the 2nd Paradise) where there is the Tree of Life – Christ Himself (Rev. 2:7). God our Father had raised us up in Heavenly places IN CHRIST JESUS (Eph. 2:5-6). Only the Overcomers, the Very Small Remnant (Is. 1:9), who were growing up into Christ in all things (Eph. 4:15), they are IN Christ Jesus. The rest of believers, who are carnal, are NOT LIVING IN HIM though He dwells in their spirit.
Since the believers in today’s church are mostly carnal (wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked – Rev. 3:17b), the Lord desires to shed light on the carnal believers and their immediate destiny. The spiritual facts concerning carnal believers are the following:
Christ Jesus dwells in the SPIRIT of all true believers by His Holy Spirit,but He is NOT living and ruling the SOUL of carnal believers. Hence, the carnal believers are NOT living in Him by the faith of the Son of God as Apostle Paul was (Gal. 2:20)! They are living by the beliefs of their own selves. That is why they are spiritually wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked and the Lord, Who died for them, will spue them out of His mouth. Please, SEE, realize and believe that no miserable, poor, blind or naked creature can ever be and live IN the Holy and Perfect Christ!
The above truth also explains why the carnal believers often behave as pagans, or worse than pagans, though they may be born-again in their spirit. Their soul is not born-again and thus it lives the old natural life and not the new life of the Spirit which is the Eternal Life of God.
The Life of God in our SPIRIT is totally different than the natural life in our SOUL. The Life of God in our spirit must SEPARATE US from the natural life in our soul, if we are to be saved and perfected and have a true relationship and fellowship with God and with one another for eternity! To be SEPARATED from the natural life of our soul also means TO DIE TO IT (1Cor. 15:31).
Have you ever heard any preacher preach and explain the truth above? Really? Today’s carnal ministers preach to the natural souls of believers as if they were already renewed by the Spirit of God, separated from their natural life, perfected, living the Life of God and thus able to do what is preached! Today’s ministers say “you are what the Bible says you are” (Joel Osteen, etc.) and they believe this statement also for themselves. Hence, they are “more than conquerors” (Rom. 8:37) while they also may be “bewitched fools” (Gal. 3:1). The Bible says this also, does it not? The Bible also says that “you are nothing”! (Gal. 6:3). Do they also believe this Word of God? And if you think you are something, you are already deceived in yourself! So, if we believe such statements made by many carnal ministers, we are ourselves “bewitched fools” rather than “conquerors”. Unfortunately, the ministers themselves are deceived and bewitched since they may be one of “all kinds of believers” described in the Bible. The truth is that…
…YOU ARE WHAT YOUR FRUIT SHOWS AND NOT WHAT YOU CHOOSE FROM THE BIBLE BY YOUR OWN BELIEFS, PREFERENCES OR WISHES (Mt. 7:16-20).
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To be continued next week in chapter 1 – part 2
brother Hanola
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