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A scriptural view of our Father’s sovereignty begins with a proper understanding of how much greater our Father is than all the peoples of the earth:

Isaiah 40:6-7  The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.  (7)  The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

Our total existence in this life is but a vapor before our Father:

James 4:13-14  Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:  (14)  whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Psalms 103:15-19  As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.  (16)  For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.  (17)  But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children’s children;  (18)  To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his precepts to do them.  (19)  Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens; And his kingdom ruleth over all.

God created man in their image and likeness thus we had dominion over the rest of creation:

Genesis 1:26-27  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  (27)  And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Then sin entered the world:

Romans 5:12  Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:

After the fall, man lost dominion and preeminence over the beasts of the earth:

Ecclesiastes 3:18-20  I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.  (19)  For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.  (20)  All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

From God’s perspective Adam and all the souls born from his wife Eve are worms:

Job 25:4-6  How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?  (5)  Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:  (6)  How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

A worm can not see or hear and spends it’s life in the earth!:

Isaiah 24:5-6  The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.  (6)  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Such is the case with any human who God chooses to keep blind and deaf to His Word:

Deuteronomy 29:4  but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

Romans 11:8  according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

Even the children of God are considered to be worms in need of their Father to redeem them:

Isaiah 41:14  Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

The wisdom of all men is but foolishness to God:

1 Corinthians 1:25  Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 3:19  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:

And no one can restrain His purpose:

Job 42:1-2  Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,  (2)  I know that thou(Father Most High)canst do all things, And that no purpose of thine can be restrained.

Our Father’s ways are much higher and wiser than all of us combined:

Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah. (9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

This earth is merely our Father’s footstool:

Isaiah 66:1  Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?

And not even the heavens can contain our Father:

1 Kings 8:27  But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!

All the nations are but nothing in His sight therefore He asks: “To whom then will ye liken God?”:

Isaiah 40:15-18 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. (16) And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. (17) All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity. (18) To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

There is nothing like our Father nor like Him with His Word who have declared the end from the beginning:

Isaiah 46:9-10  Remember the former things of old: for I am God(EL~Father), and there is none else; I am God(Elohim~Father with His Word), and there is none like me;  (10)  declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

But before we can understand the totality of our Father’s sovereignty over all of His creation we must first try to wrap our head around His existence as the Most High God before any of His creation!

We have scripture that declares our Father exists from everlasting to everlasting:

Psalms 90:1-2  A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.  (2)  Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God(EL~Father Most High)

This use of “everlasting” describes an eternal state before the world was created. The term “everlasting” is also used in the same manner to describe God’s throne. We will call this “everlasting past”:

Psalms 93:2  Thy(Jehovah Most High’s) throne is established of old: Thou art from everlasting.

Genesis 14:19  And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God(EL~Father) Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

It was during this “everlasting past” that our Father brought forth His Wisdom also called “Understanding” and set Him up as His Master workman to speak forth all the rest of creation:

Within that 7000 years the Father has predetermined where each nation will exist along with where each man and woman will live in place and time:

Acts 17:24-26  The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;  (25)  neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;  (26)  and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

He is completely sovereign over time and seasons as well as all leadership in every nation that has or will exist:

Proverbs 21:1  The king’s heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.

Daniel 2:20-22  Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.  (21)  And he changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding;  (22)  he revealeth the deep and secret things; he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Daniel 4:34-35  And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him that liveth for ever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation;  (35)  and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

Romans 13:1  Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

Even the number of days each of us will live are predetermined by our Father along with our inward parts being our soul and spirit along with our outward appearance:

Psalms 139:13-16  For thou didst form my inward parts(soul and spirit): Thou didst cover me(with a body) in my mother’s womb.  (14)  I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.  (15)  My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, And curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth(the womb).  (16)  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.

Zechariah 12:1  The burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel. Thus saith Jehovah, who stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him:

Jesus makes it very clear in His prayer to His Father that it is His Father who equipped and sent His Son into the world to secure the souls His Father gave Him:

John 17:1-26  These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father(Most High), the hour is come; glorify thy Son(Jesus), that the Son may glorify thee:  (2)  even as thou(Father Most High) gavest him(Jesus) authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou(Father) hast given him(Jesus), he should give eternal life.  (3)  And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God(Father), and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ. (4)  I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou(Father) hast given me(Jesus) to do. (5)  And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was(everlasting past).  (6)  I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou(Father) gavest me(Jesus) out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they(elect) have kept thy(Father’s) word.  (7)  Now they(the elect) know that all things whatsoever thou(Father) hast given me are from thee:  (8)  for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I (Wisdom~Word~Jesus) came forth from thee(Father’s bosom), and they believed that thou didst send me.  (9)  I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:  (10)  and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.  (11)  And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I (Jesus) come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name(nature, character, authority)  which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are.  (12)  While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition(Judas Iscariot); that the scripture might be fulfilled.  (13)  But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.  (14)  I have given them thy(Father’s) word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.  (15)  I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou(Father) shouldest keep them from the evil one.  (16)  They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.  (17)  Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.  (18)  As thou(Father) didst send me(Jesus) into the world, even so sent I them into the world.  (19)  And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.  (20)  Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;  (21)  that they may all be one; even as thou, Father(‘s Holy Spirit) art in me, and I (the Word) in thee(bosom of the Father), that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.  (22)  And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one;  (23)  I (Spirit of Jesus~Word) in them(disciples), and thou(Father’s Word and Holy Spirit) in me(Jesus), that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.  (24)  Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou(Father) lovedst me(Wisdom~Word~Jesus) before the foundation of the world.  (25)  O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;  (26)  and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

It is our Father who draws those souls He ordains to eternal life to His Son:

John 6:44  No man can come to me(Jesus), except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.

Acts 13:48  And as the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

And it is Jesus who then reveals the Father to those He is instructed to by the Father:

Luke 10:22  All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, save the Father; and who the Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.

The Holy Spirit clearly spoke through Paul that there are some “worms” who were chosen before the foundation of the world by our Father and predestined unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto our Father:

Ephesians 1:1-11  Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God(the Father), to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:  (2)  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  (3)  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:  (4)  even as he(Father)chose(elected)us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:  (5)  having foreordained(predestined)us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself(Father), according to the good pleasure of his will, (6)  to the praise of the glory of his(Father’s) grace, which he(Father) freely bestowed on us in the Beloved(Word who became Jesus):  (7)  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,  (8)  which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,  (9)  making known unto us the mystery of his(Father’s) will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him  (10)  unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say,  (11)  in whom also we(chosen~elect)were made a heritage, having been foreordained(predestined)according to the purpose of him(the Most High Father)who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

2 Thessalonians 2:13  But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

These elect souls were written in the book of life from the foundation of the world and will overcome so as to not be blotted out:

Revelation 3:5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Then there are souls such as Judas Iscariot who were written in the book of life but were or will be blotted out for disobedience:

Acts 1:24-25  And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show of these two the one whom thou hast chosen,  (25)  to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas(Iscariot) fell away, that he might go to his own place(Hell).

But there are also some souls who were never written into the book of life from the foundation of the world:

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.

For more understanding on the book of life and how to remain in that book please see this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2013/03/06/book-of-life/

This remnant of people our Father foreknew from the foundation of the world receive His grace by election but the rest are hardened by our Father:

Romans 11:1-8  I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.  (2)  God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:  (3)  Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.  (4)  But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have left for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.  (5)  Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.  (6)  But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.  (7)  What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:  (8)  according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

2 Peter 2:9 the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

This “election of grace” was determined by our Father before the foundation of the world long before any of us demonstrate the sinful nature we are born with:

Romans 9:10-13  And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac–  (11)  for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,  (12)  it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.  (13)  Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

Such was the case with Jeremiah and John the Baptist who our Father sanctified before they were born:

Jeremiah 1:5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

Luke 1:15  For he(John the Baptist) shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

He has already chosen who He will extend His mercy and compassion to:

Romans 9:14-16  What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.  (15)  For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.  (16)  So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

Those such as Pharaoh were created for the express purpose of magnifying the Father’s name as He continued to harden his heart:

Romans 9:17-19  For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth.  (18)  So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth.  (19)  Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will?

The Father has a right to make His clay into whatever vessel He desires:

Romans 9:20-24  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?  (21)  Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

Those of us who are called to be vessels of mercy must humbly recognize the “election of grace” extended to us:

Romans 9:22-24  What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:  (23)  and that he(Father) might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,  (24)  even us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

So we are here to make our calling and election sure by partaking of the divine nature granted to us through His precious and exceeding great promises found in our Father’s Word:

2 Peter 1:1-11  Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and the Saviour Jesus Christ:  (2)  Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;  (3)  seeing that his divine power hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;  (4)  whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.  (5)  Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge;  (6)  and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness;  (7)  and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.  (8)  For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  (9)  For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.  (10)  Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:  (11)  for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

But the conclusion of the matter is this! In the “everlasting past” the Most High God who we refer to as our Father “produced” a “script” in His mind! He then “brought forth” that “script” out of His bosom and declared that Wisdom His Word and firstborn of all creation! Our Father as the “Producer” then used His Word as His “Director” who delivered the “script”ures to us as the cast of characters created over a 7000 year period on His stage called earth under our Father’s heavens!:

Acts 7:48-50  Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in houses made with hands; as saith the prophet,  (49)  The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet: What manner of house will ye build me? saith the Lord: Or what is the place of my rest?  (50)  Did not my hand make all these things?

Acts 17:24-31  The God(Father with His Word) that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;  (25)  neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;  (26)  and he(Father with His Word) made of one(Adam) every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;  (27)  that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:  (28)  for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his(Father’s) offspring.  (29)  Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.  (30)  The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:  (31)  inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man(Jesus) whom he(Father) hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

The first place the word “generation” is found in the old testament is where our Father called the 7 days of creation the “generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created”:

Genesis 2:4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

That English word “generations” comes from the Hebrew word “towledah” and means “family history”:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8435&t=KJV

God’s “family history” is again referenced in the first verse of new testament called the generation of Jesus Christ:

Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. 

That English word “generation” comes from the Greek word “genesis” and means the “genealogy” of Jesus Christ:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g1078/kjv/tr/0-1/

But as we study the rest of the first chapter of Matthew we discover a generation missing from the “genealogy” of Jesus Christ:

Matthew 1:1-17 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. (2) Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren; (3) and Judah begat Perez and Zerah of Tamar; and Perez begat Hezron; and Hezron begat Ram; (4) and Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon; and Nahshon begat Salmon; (5) and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab; and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; (6) and Jesse begat David the king. And David begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Uriah; (7) and Solomon begat Rehoboam; and Rehoboam begat Abijah; and Abijah begat Asa; (8) and Asa begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Uzziah; (9) and Uzziah begat Jotham; and Jotham begat Ahaz; and Ahaz begat Hezekiah; (10) and Hezekiah begat Manasseh; and Manasseh begat Amon; and Amon begat Josiah; (11) and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away to Babylon. (12) And after the carrying away to Babylon, Jechoniah begat Shealtiel; and Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel; (13) and Zerubbabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; (14) and Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; (15) and Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; (16) and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. (17) So all the generations from Abraham unto David are fourteen generations; and from David unto the carrying away to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon unto the Christ fourteen generations.

When one physically counts the generations from Abraham unto David there are fourteen generations:

1) Abraham

2) Isaac

3 Jacob

4) Judah

5) Perez

6) Hezron

7) Ram

8) Amminadab

9) Nahshon

10) Salmon

11) Boaz

12) Obed

13) Jesse

14) David

And we count fourteen more generations from David unto the carrying away to Babylon:

1) Solomon

2) Rehoboam

3) Abijah

4) Asa

5) Jehoshaphat

6) Joram

7) Uzziah

8) Jotham

9) Ahaz

10) Hezekiah

11) Manasseh

12) Amon

13) Josiah

14) Jechoniah

But when we count from the carrying away to Babylon until Jesus the Christ there are only thirteen generations:

1) Shealtiel

2) Zerubbabel

3) Abiud

4) Eliakim

5) Azor

6) Sadoc

7) Achim

8) Eliud

9) Eleazar

10) Matthan

11) Jacob

12) Joseph

13) Jesus the Christ

Jesus is clearly the 41st physical generation from Abraham so where is the 42nd(14+14+14) generation that the Holy Spirit is declaring through Matthew?:

Matthew 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham unto David are fourteen generations; and from David unto the carrying away to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon unto the Christ fourteen generations.

Peter reminds us not to forget that one day is as a thousand years:

2 Peter 3:8 But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

So if each day of creation represents 1000 years is it possible the 7 days of creation represent 7 one thousand year millenniums where the generations of Jesus Christ were placed to live throughout history(His~story)?:

Proverbs 25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

Isaiah 46:9-10 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me; (10) declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

From the creation of Adam to the days of Enoch were 1000 years that represent the 1st day of creation when God created light and divided it from darkness:

Genesis 1:1-5 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (2) And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (4) And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. (5) And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

It is within that period of time that God divided Cain and his lineage as a picture of darkness from Seth and his lineage from which the light of Jesus came:

Genesis 4:13-14 And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (14) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.

Genesis 4:25-26 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him. (26) And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.

Psalms 119:105  NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.

John 8:12  Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Luke 3:23-38 And Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, (24) the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, (25) the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, (26) the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, (27) the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, (28) the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er, (29) the son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, (30) the son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, (31) the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, (32) the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, (33) the son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, (34) the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, (35) the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, (36) the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, (37) the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, (38) the son of Enos, the son of  Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

From the days of Enoch till the days of Abraham was another 1000 years that represent the 2nd day of creation when God divided the waters below the firmament called heaven from the waters above that first heaven:

Genesis 1:6-8 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. (7) And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. (8) And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Within that period of time God used a flood of waters to further divide righteous Noah and his family from the unrighteous lineage of Cain along with all of Seth’s lineage who as “sons of God” chose to fall back into the sins of Cain’s lineage:

Genesis 6:17-18 And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die. (18) But I will establish my covenant with thee(Noah); and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

Noah was determined to live a righteous life focused on God rather than be consumed with the cares of the world that is also presently taking place today with most Christians:

Matthew 24:37-39 And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. (38) For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, (39) and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

Luke 8:14  And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

Noah’s faith and godly fear of God’s spoken Word moved him to build an ark to save his house:

Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

That ark was washed with 40 days of rain and resting on the water which represents our baptism in the Word who is Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 3:18-21 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; (19) in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, (20) that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: (21) which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; (26) that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, (27) that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

It is our continued baptism in our Father’s Word that brings the death to our old man so that we rise into heavenly places as Noah did!:

Romans 6:3-7  Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus(Word) were baptized into his death?  (4)  We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.  (5)  For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;  (6)  knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;  (7)  for he that hath died is justified from sin.

Ephesians 2:5-6  even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),  (6)  and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:

For more understanding on what it means to be a “son of God” please read this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2019/02/15/who-are-the-sons-of-god-of-genesis-6/

From the days of Abraham till the days of king David were another 1000 years that represent the 3rd day of creation when the waters were gathered to seas so dry land appeared where  trees bearing fruit were put:

Genesis 1:9-13 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. (10) And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. (11) And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. (12) And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good. (13) And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

The same Holy Spirit that moved Moses to pen the book of Genesis also moved John to pen the book of Revelation so that all the prophecies from the beginning of the Bible till its end make the prophecy more sure:

2 Peter 1:19-21  And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:  (20)  knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.  (21)  For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

The waters that God gathered together on the third day of creation were called seas and represent the peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues:

Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

The final beast system rises up out of the sea of the many peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues of all the previous kingdoms:

Revelation 13:1-3 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. (2) And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard(Grecian), and his feet were as the feet of a bear(Medeo~Persian), and his mouth as the mouth of a lion(Babylonian): and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. (3) And I saw one of his heads(Roman) as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;

The harlot sits on top of these many waters of the beast:

Revelation 17:1-3  And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters;  (2)  with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.  (3)  And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

For more understanding on the harlot and her 7 headed beast please see this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2021/01/07/mystery-babylon-the-great-and-her-beast/

The earth that appeared in the third day of creation where God planted fruit bearing trees represents us as the ground and trees that must bring forth good fruit:

Luke 8:15  And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Matthew 7:15-20  Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.  (16)  By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?  (17)  Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.  (18)  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.  (19)  Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.  (20)  Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Those Christians who meditate on the Word day and night will be the trees who produce the fruit:

Psalms 1:1-3  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:  (2)  But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.  (3)  And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Jesus calls this abiding in Him as the Vine that produces His fruit:

John 15:1-6  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.  (2)  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.  (3)  Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.  (4)  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.  (5)  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.  (6)  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

There is corporate body of many false prophets in the earth today who will rise up as a unified second beast in these last days who appear as a lamb of Christ but speak the lies of the dragon:

Revelation 13:11-12  And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.  (12)  And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.  (14)  And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.  (15)  It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

God again showed us by the third day of creation that He continues to build His family and separate those who refuse to obey His will:

Luke 3:9  And even now the axe also lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

From the days of king David till the days of Jesus was another 1000 years that represent the 4th day of creation when God brought forth a great light upon the earth to rule the day:

Genesis 1:14-19 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: (15) and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. (16) And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. (17) And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, (18) and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. (19) And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Israel had become very dark toward the end of Solomon’s reign and divided after his death:

1 Kings 11:4-6 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father. (5) For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. (6) And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.

Though there were times of repentance within Israel, overall it became increasingly darker until Jesus was born as the great light near the end of the 4th 1000 year period in 3 BC:

Luke 2:32 A light for revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of thy people Israel.

Matthew 4:14-17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, (15) The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, (16) The people that sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up. (17) From that time began Jesus to preach, and to say, Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Those who turn to God and His light turn away from the power of satan and darkness:

John 12:46  I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.

Acts 26:14-18  And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad.  (15)  And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.  (16)  But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of the things wherein thou hast seen me, and of the things wherein I will appear unto thee;  (17)  delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom I send thee,  (18)  to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

It was not until after God created the great light of Jesus that God then created all the living creatures of the sea, land, and air on the 5th and 6th day:

Genesis 1:20-31 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. (21) And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. (22) And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. (23) And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. (24) And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. (25) And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good. (26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (27) And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (28) And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (29) And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food: (30) and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so. (31) And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

After the fall of Adam and Eve, man had no preeminence above the beasts:

Ecclesiastes 3:17-20  I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.  (18)  I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.  (19)  For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.  (20)  All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

2 Peter 2:12  But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

But now through obedience in Christ we become a new creature above the beasts:

2 Corinthians 5:16-17  Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.  (17)  Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

Who are led of the Spirit in the putting to death our beastly flesh as a son of God should:

Romans 8:12-14  So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:  (13)  for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.  (14)  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

We know Jesus had no physical seed of His own so let’s search the scriptures for this 42nd generation, that we proved above, is missing from Jesus’ genealogy of Mathew chapter 1:

Acts 17:11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

One of the best ways to discover how truth is hidden in scripture is to examine other passages where the word “generation(s)” is used such as here:

Acts 8:32-33 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth: (33) In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.

Though Jesus’ physical life was taken from the earth first through crucifixion and then His ascension to the right hand of His Father:

Acts 1:9 And when he(Jesus) had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up; and a cloud received him(Jesus) out of their sight.

He declared that His Father would give Him children as His seed who would prolong His days with signs and wonders:

Isaiah 8:18 Behold, I and the children(disciples) whom Jehovah(the Father) hath given me(Jesus) are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased Jehovah(the Father) to bruise him(Jesus); he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he(Jesus) shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.

One of the first signs was our Father sending His Holy Spirit with His Word as His seed into the virgin Mary to produce His Son in the flesh named Jesus:

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Matthew 1:18-20  Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.  (19)  And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.  (20)  But when he thought on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Luke 1:31-35 And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. (32) He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: (33) and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. (34) And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? (35) And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

He came as a Son of God in a son of man:

John 12:34 The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?

Acts 7:56 and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.

Jesus began to sow that same spiritual seed into others to produce disciples who He referred to as “children”:

Matthew 13:37 And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

Mark 10:24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

Hebrews 2:13 And again, I(Jesus) will put my trust in him(His Father). And again, Behold, I(Jesus) and the children(disciples) whom God(His Father) hath given me(His Son Jesus).

Each seed bringeth forth after it’s own kind:

Genesis 1:11-12  And God said, Let the earth(dust~man) put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so.  (12)  And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

So the Father’s seed is His Word which should bring forth sons with the same fruit as Jesus through His Spirit in us:

Galatians 5:22-24  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  (23)  meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.  (24)  And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

He then commissioned His disciples to go out into all the world and make more disciples of all nations:

Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: (20) teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

In obedience to this command, his disciples such as John made more disciples whom he called “my little children”:

1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

1 John 5:21 My little children, guard yourselves from idols.

3 John 1:4 Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

Paul was imprisoning and killing those spiritual children of the first disciples and yet Jesus accused Paul of persecuting Him directly:

Acts 9:1-5 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, (2) and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. (3) And as he journeyed, it came to pass that he drew nigh unto Damascus: and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven: (4) and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? (5) And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:

This is because every believer becomes a member of the body of Christ:

1 Corinthians 12:12-14 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. (13) For in one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all made to drink of one Spirit. (14) For the body is not one member, but many.

This extension of Jesus’ seed produces spiritual children of God who become one man in Christ Jesus made up of both believing Jews and Gentiles:

Galatians 3:26-29 For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus. (27) For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ. (28) There can be neither Jew nor Greek(Gentile), there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus. (29) And if ye are Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise.

Romans 8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he(Jesus) might be the firstborn among many brethren:

So the 5th and 6th days of creation represent the 2000 years from Jesus’ resurrection till today when the 42nd generation of God’s family is made up of a many believing Gentiles grafted into the ONE olive tree from which many Jews were broken off:

Romans 11:17-22  But if some of the branches(physical Jews) were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive(believing Gentiles), wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root(Jesus) of the fatness of the olive tree;  (18)  glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.  (19)  Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.  (20)  Well; by their unbelief they(unbelieving Jews) were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:  (21)  for if God spared not the natural branches(unbelieving Jews), neither will he spare thee(believing Gentiles).  (22)  Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Paul called this a mystery where the believing Gentiles become  fellow-heirs with the believing Jews, fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel:

Ephesians 3:1-6 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles, (2) if so be that ye have heard of the dispensation of that grace of God which was given me to you-ward; (3) how that by revelation was made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote before in few words, (4) whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ; (5) which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; (6) to wit, that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

Thus the reason Jesus could call His first disciples “this generation” as they are one spiritual 42nd generation with us today who will witness the abomination of desolation, the great tribulation, and then Jesus’ coming in the clouds for us all:

Matthew 24:1-3 & 15 & 21-22 & 29-34  And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. (2) But he answered and said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. (3) And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?……(15)When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),…..(21)  for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.  (22)  And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened…….(29)  But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:  (30)  and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  (31)  And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.  (32)  Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh;  (33)  even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors.  (34)  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

And all 42 generations make up ONE chosen generation called out of darkness into the marvelous light of Christ:

1 Peter 2:9  But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

1 Corinthians 10:1-4  For I would not, brethren(NT believers in Christ), have you ignorant, that our fathers(OT Jews) were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;  (2)  and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;  (3)  and did all eat the same spiritual food;  (4)  and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ. 

Please notice Jesus when speaking to the Jews around 30 AD clearly said “ye” slew Zacharias who live around 800 BC proving “this generation” was over 800 years old proving “this generation” is clearly His ONE body, His ONE temple, His ONE olive tree, His ONE nation, His ONE people as His ONE generation throughout His~story(History):

Matthew 23:34-36  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:  (35)  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.  (36)  Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Though “the heavens and the earth were finished” within 6 days there was spiritual work that God finishes on the 7th day before resting:

Genesis 2:1-3 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. (2) And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. (3) And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

Please notice that Jesus declared His Father was working during the time Jesus walked on earth proving our Father is doing a spiritual work in His people throughout the generations:

John 5:17  But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh even until now, and I work.

He is working in us to will and do His pleasure!:

Philippians 2:12-13  So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;  (13)  for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

God did not describe what He finished on the 7th day but purposely hid it for ages and generations until it was revealed through Paul to the Jewish and Gentile saints which is Christ in us the hope of glory:

Colossians 1:26-27  even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,  (27)  to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

The mystery is also that part of Israel was hardened until all the elect Gentiles were grafted into the ONE olive tree which is called “all Israel”:

Romans 11:25-26  For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this mystery, lest ye be wise in your own conceits, that a hardening in part hath befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in;  (26)  and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

For more understanding on “all Israel” please see this link: 

https://sumofthyword.com/2017/12/19/all-israel/

Enoch being the 7th generation from Adam was a prophesy of the 7th millennium when Jesus would come in the clouds to resurrect/rapture His spiritual family to heaven for a time and then come back with those holy ones to execute judgment upon the earth:

Jude 1:14-15 And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his holy ones, (15) to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

Part of this mystery spiritual work is the latter rain outpouring of His Holy Spirit that will come after the 2 days(2000 years) from Jesus on the morning of the 7th day:

Hosea 6:1-3  Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.  (2)  After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.  (3)  And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

Hosea prophesied in the 8th century BC which is within the 4th 1000 year period from David to Jesus birth on 3 BC. “After two days” from Jesus birth “on the third day” would bring us to morning of the 7th ~ 1000 year period which is where we are today in the year 2022 so this “latter rain” is about to come!

Joel prophesied that the “children of Zion” would receive a former and latter rain:

Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

The children of Zion are the church:

Hebrews 12:22-23 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

The former(early) rain came on the church at Pentecost as Jesus promised:

Acts 1:4-5 and, being assembled together with them, he(Jesus) charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard from me: (5) for John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.

The early rain took place at Pentecost in 30 AD:

Acts 2:1-4  And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place.  (2)  And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.  (3)  And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them.  (4)  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

But the Father is patiently waiting until His perfect time to pour out the “latter rain” just before the final harvest of the earth:

James 5:7  Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord(Jesus). Behold, the husbandman(Father) waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early(former) and latter rain.

This latter rain will ripen the harvest that proves who lived on the earth as a son of God and who lived as a son of the devil:

Matthew 13:36-40  Then he left the multitudes, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Explain unto us the parable of the tares of the field.  (37)  And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;  (38)  and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;  (39)  and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.  (40)  As therefore the tares are gathered up and burned with fire; so shall it be in the end of the world.  

There are many Christians that are causing others to stumble as they demonstrate a life of iniquity:

Matthew 13:41-43  The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and them that do iniquity,  (42)  and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.  (43)  Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He that hath ears, let him hear.

Paul lists the works of the flesh that are contrary to the Holy Spirit and will cause a Christian to not inherit the kingdom of God:

Galatians 5:16-21  But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.  (17)  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.  (18)  But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. (19)  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  (20)  idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,  (21)  envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

But those who produce the fruit of the Spirit of our Father will inherit the kingdom of God:

Galatians 5:22-24   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  (23)  meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.  (24)  And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.  (25)  If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.  (26)  Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Those who are busy in this life manifesting the fruit of the Spirit will be harvested after the tribulation:

Revelation 14:14-16  And I saw, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud I saw one sitting like unto a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.  (15)  And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a great voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send forth thy sickle, and reap: for the hour to reap is come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.  (16)  And he(Jesus) that sat on the cloud cast his sickle upon the earth; and the earth was reaped.

Those who lived for their flesh will be left on the earth and cast into the great winepress of the wrath of God:

Revelation 14:17-20  And another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.  (18)  And another angel came out from the altar, he that hath power over fire; and he called with a great voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.  (19)  And the angel cast his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vintage of the earth, and cast it into the winepress, the great winepress, of the wrath of God.  (20)  And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

Those two harvests are separated when when the 7th trumpet is blown and the mystery of God is finished:

Revelation 10:7  but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets.

There is much more on the timing of these harvests here:

https://sumofthyword.com/2016/10/04/the-rapture-of-the-church-is-after-the-tribulation/  

We enter into our “rest” through faith in the finished work of God while on earth in our mortal bodies:

Hebrews 4:1-3  Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.  (2)  For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.  (3)  For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

Once the resurrection/rapture of Jesus’ one body occurs at the 7th trump we will physically enter into that millennial rest reigning with Jesus when He returns to set up His millennial reign:

Hebrews 4:9  There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

Revelation 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Revelation 19:11-16  And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.  (12)  And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many crowns; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself.  (13)  And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God.  (14)  And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure.  (15)  And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.  (16)  And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

It during this time where those left on the earth after the wrath is finished will repopulate the earth during the millennium:

Isaiah 24:3-6  The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.  (4)  The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.  (5)  The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.  (6)  Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: few men left.

At the end of the 7th millennium the devil will be loosed to deceive those mortals who reject Jesus but will be devoured by fire and cast into the lake of fire fore ever and ever:

Revelation 20:7-10  And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,  (8)  and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.  (9)  And they went up over the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down out of heaven, and devoured them.  (10)  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

So our Father deserves the glory for naming every family in heaven and on earth who were chosen from the foundation of the world to belong in His “family history” through His Beloved Son Jesus Christ from “all generations”:

Ephesians 1:3-11  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:  (4)  even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:  (5)  having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,  (6)  to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:  (7)  in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,  (8)  which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,  (9)  making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him  (10)  unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say,  (11)  in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

It is for this purpose that we shall all join Paul in bending our knee to the Father and His Son Jesus Christ:

Ephesians 3:14-15 & 20-21  For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father,  (15)  from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,…….(20)  Now unto him(Father) that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,  (21)  unto him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all generations for ever and ever. Amen.

Philippians 2:9-11  Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;  (10)  that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,  (11)  and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

It is for this reason we should seek to be crucified in Christ every day we live on our Father’s earth:

https://sumofthyword.com/2017/01/19/him-crucified/

It is our Father who chooses when and how much knowledge will be increased so that His will is always fulfilled in His time:

Proverbs 2:6 For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Isaiah 46:9-10  Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me;  (10)  declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

Ephesians 1:11 in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

Our Father has now released enough knowledge for man to create the ability to track and control everyone’s buying and selling as this 10 minute video begins to demonstrate:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/SsVqhaAmN9be/ 

But there has been much confusion about exactly what the mark of the beast is and how one is marked with the name of the beast or his number:

Revelation 13:16-18  And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;  (17)  and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.  (18)  Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.

Could it be that the name and number of the beast have been around since the beginning of man? Let’s pull some scriptures together as “precept upon precept from here a little there a little” to see how one receives both the name and number of the beast:

Isaiah 28:9-10  Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?  (10)  For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.

Please notice that the “beast” of chapter 13 is described as a beast that was, is not, and about to come up out of the abyss:

Revelation 17:7-8  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.  (8)  The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.

The mind that is given wisdom understands the 7 heads of this beast are 7 wicked kingdoms God used to persecute His people. This began with the Egyptians, then the Assyrians, then the Babylonians, then the Medea~Persians, then the Grecians, then the Romans, who killed Jesus, and now the revived Roman empire that is within the United Nations:

Revelation 17:9-11  Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:  (10)  and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.  (11)  And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goeth into perdition.

This 8th beast is the culmination of the previous 7 beast kingdoms whose crowns move from the 7 heads to the 10 horns at the midst of the tribulation as 10 final kingdoms of the whole earth:

Revelation 12:3  And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven crowns.

Revelation 13:1  and he(the dragon) stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.

This link details with much scripture how these 7 heads morph into the final 10 toe kingdoms that Jesus, as the Rock, will destroy as one:

https://sumofthyword.com/2021/01/07/mystery-babylon-the-great-and-her-beast/

Now that we know the beast has been around since the book of Genesis let’s turn our focus on the number and name of the beast.

Father gave us some very interesting clues as to how to count the number of the “name” of the beast which is the number of a “man”:

Revelation 13:17-18  and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name. (18) Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six(chi-xi-stigma).  

The English word “name” means “nature, character, and authority” in both the Hebrew and Greek:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h8034/kjv/wlc/0-1/

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3686&t=KJV

A study of the Greek root words of “chi-xi-stigma” reveal the number of a man who came between “Abba” and “Abel”:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5516&t=KJV

The root word etymology of chxϚ pronounced “khee xee stig’-ma” is an obsolete letter (G4742 as a cross) of the Greek alphabet between the ἀββα (G5~ Abba) and Ἄβελ (G6 ~ Abel).

So let’s see how a cross located between “Abba” and “Abel” becomes the “number of the beast” which is the “number of a man” or 666.

“Abba” Father gives us the spirit of adoption to live in His name(nature, character, and authority):

Abba ~ https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g5/kjv/tr/0-1/

Romans 8:15  For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Abel, which means “breath” in Hebrew, chose to live in that spirit of adoption by offering up a well pleasing sacrifice to our Father by faith:

Abel ~ Greek ~ https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g6/kjv/tr/0-1/

Abel ~ Hebrew ~ https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1893/kjv/wlc/0-1/

Hebrews 11:4  By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.

Abel was the first prophet to sacrifice his “breath of life” and spill his blood for as a testimony and prophesy of Jesus:

Genesis 2:7  And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Luke 11:49-51  Therefore also said the Wisdom(Word who became Jesus) of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they shall kill and persecute;  (50)  that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;  (51)  from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

Hebrews 12:24  and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.

Revelation 19:10  And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Now let’s examine the obsolete letter “G4742 as a cross” of the Greek alphabet located between the ἀββα (G5~ Abba) and Ἄβελ (G6 ~ Abel): 

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/g4742/kjv/tr/0-1/

Please notice the Greek word “stigma” found within the Greek number “chi-xi-stigma”(666) is the marks of persecution left on the body by unrighteous men beginning with Cain upon righteous men beginning with Abel and all those persecuted since then such as Paul:

Galatians 6:17  Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I(Paul) bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus.

1 John 3:11-12  For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:  (12)  not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

2 Timothy 3:12  Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Acts 14:22  confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Cain was the first murderer who chose to obey the devil as his adoptive father and take on his name(nature, character, and authority):

John 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Abba warned Cain to rule over sin but he chose to kill his brother Abel instead:

Genesis 4:2-8 And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. (3) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah. (4) And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering: (5) but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (6) And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? (7) If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it. (8) And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Cain again demonstrated the devil was his father when he attempted to lie to “Abba” Father about killing Abel:

Genesis 4:9-10  And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother’s keeper?  (10)  And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.

Though our Father warned Cain to rule over sin, he chose to yield to it and became the first soul driven from the face of God. Father marked him to “dwell on the earth” as a wanderer with no possible restoration of that relationship with our Father he once had:

Genesis 4:13-16 And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (14) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me. (15) And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah put a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him. (16) And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Just as our Father promised vengeance on those who would have killed Cain, so too those saints who choose to willfully kill as Cain rather than be killed as Abel are proving they have not overcome the devil and thus still love their life more than our Abba Father and His Word:

Revelation 12:9-11  And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.  (10)  And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.  (11)  And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

Matthew 26:52  Then saith Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Revelation 13:10  If any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Since the days of Jesus a murderer is any who hates their spiritual brother or sister. That Christian will not inherit eternal life if they don’t repent:

1 John 3:15  Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

We are to learn to love even our enemies to prove our sonship with Abba Father:

Matthew 5:43-48  Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy:  (44)  but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;  (45)  that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.  (46)  For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?  (47)  And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?  (48)  Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Now let’s examine how Adam and Eve were handled differently by God though they fell into sin before their firstborn son Cain.

Adam and Eve were the first adopted children of our Father who He created to fellowship with “His voice” who is “His Word” in His garden:

Genesis 3:8-9  And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.  (9)  And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

For more understanding of the “voice” of our Father who is also the “Word” of our Father please study this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2017/02/17/trinity-true-or-false/

The devil first appeared as a serpent to tempt Eve with the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life to which she yielded in disobedience with Adam and ate:

Genesis 3:1-6 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? (2) And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat: (3) but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (4) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: (5) for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. (6) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food(lust of the flesh), and that it was a delight to the eyes(lust of the eyes), and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise(pride of life), she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

But unlike Cain, Adam and Eve immediately confessed their sin:

Genesis 3:10-13  And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.  (11)  And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?  (12)  And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.  (13)  And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Now that Abel was killed and Cain banished, God appointed Seth as the seed and offspring who would call upon the name(nature, character, and authority) of our Father Abba with his son and Adam:

Genesis 4:25-26  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.  (26)  And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.

From the days of Adam onward our Father has been raising up offspring who are to call upon Him as He also determines when and where they “dwell on the earth”:

Acts 17:24-31  The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;  (25)  neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;  (26)  and he made of one(Adam) every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons(when they live), and the bounds of their habitation(where they live);  (27)  that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:  (28)  for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.  (29)  Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.  (30)  The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:  (31)  inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man(Jesus) whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Cain represents those children of God from the days of Adam until today who choose not to walk in our Abba Father’s Word who became Jesus:

John 6:66  Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Please notice the serpent was the most subtle beast of the field which Jesus said represents the world:

Genesis 3:1  Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

Matthew 13:37-39  And he answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;  (38)  and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one;  (39)  and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.

The good seed is the Word of God germinating in the hearts of men that produces the fruit of the Spirit:

Luke 8:11  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Galatians 5:22-24  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  (23)  meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.  (24)  And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

Cain represents those tares in our Father’s adopted family that choose to go back out into the world as an antichrist rather than do the will of our Father as Jesus did:

1 John 2:4-6  & 15-19  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;  (5)  but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:  (6)  he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked……..(15)  Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  (16)  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  (17)  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.  (18)  Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.  (19)  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us. 

Jesus proved we can overcome the devil by simply holding fast to our Father’s Word! He proved this when the Holy Spirit led Him into His wilderness to be tempted by the devil with the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life:

Matthew 4:1-11  Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.  (2)  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered.  (3)  And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread(lust of the flesh).  (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.  (5)  Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple,  (6)  and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and, On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone(pride of life).  (7)  Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.  (8)  Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;  (9)  and he said unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me(lust of the eyes).  (10)  Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.  (11)  Then the devil leaveth him; and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Jesus demonstrated our “heavenly calling” by overcoming the devil’s temptation to dwell on the things of the earth:

Hebrews 3:1-2  Wherefore, holy brethren(saints), partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus;  (2)  who was faithful to him(Our Father) that appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

Jesus knew that overcoming the devil through the power of the Word of His Abba Father then would give Him the right to inherit all the kingdoms of the world at the 7th and last trump:

Revelation 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdoms of the world are become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever. 

Now let’s consider how the nature of Cain has transitioned through the 7 heads in ever increasing wickedness to the final 8th kingdom.

An image of the 8th beast of the book of Revelation was shown to Nebuchadnezzar through his dream in Daniel chapter 2:

Daniel 2:28 & 31 but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:…..(31) Thou, O king, sawest, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the aspect thereof was terrible.

The image decreased in value over time from the head of gold, to silver, to brass, to iron, to its feet of iron mixed with clay as it moved closer to the earth:

Daniel 2:32-33 & 42  As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass, (33) its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay……(42)  And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.

This decrease in value is symbolic of how little value life will have as the 8th beast fully manifests:

Matthew 24:21  for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

Matthew 10:21-22  And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.  (22)  And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

2 Timothy 3:1-5  But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.  (2)  For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  (3)  without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,  (4)  traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;  (5)  holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

Until Jesus comes to destroy all those previous kingdoms as one within the 8th beast:

Daniel 2:34 & 45  Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces……(45)  Forasmuch as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands(Jesus), and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Those 10 toes are symbolic of 10 kingdoms with 10 crowns on the 10 horns atop the 7 headed beast yet to come:

Revelation 13:1-3 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. (2) And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard(Grecian~brass), and his feet were as the feet of a bear(Medeo-Persian~silver), and his mouth as the mouth of a lion(Babylonian~gold): and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. (3) And I saw one of his heads(Roman~iron) as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;

Nebuchadnezzar then built an image of gold to replicate what he saw in his dream and set it up in the plain of Dura which represents the image and number of the beast as 60 + 6 + 600 or 666:

Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore(60) cubits, and the breadth thereof six(6) cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura(circle~dwell~Greek~world~kosmos~600), in the province of Babylon.

Greek ~ κόσμος ~ kosmos ~ world ~ numerical value of 600

The word “Dura” is a proper locative noun defined as “circle or dwelling”:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1757/kjv/wlc/0-1/

The root word of “Dura” is the verb “dur” referring to all the peoples, nations, and languages who dwell on the earth:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1753/kjv/wlc/0-1/

Daniel 4:35  and all those dwelling on the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among those dwelling on the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

Isaiah 40:18 & 22 To whom then will ye liken God(Most High)? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?……(22) It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

Nebuchadnezzar then gathered all the nations he ruled and used a herald to preach a message of death to those who did not fall down and worship his image:

Daniel 3:4-6 Then the herald(he who proclaims~preacher) cried(preached) aloud, To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, (5) that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up; (6) and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

The second beast that comes up out of the earth will also preach a message of death for all that dwell on the earth who do not worship the image of the first beast out of the sea:

Revelation 13:1 & 4  & 7 & 11-12 & 14-15  and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads names of blasphemy……(4)  and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority unto the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? and who is able to war with him?……(7)  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation……(11)  And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon(False teachers who will lead the people to worship the beast and his image).  (12)  And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed…..(14)  And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.  (15)  And it was given unto him to give breath to it, even to the image of the breast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

This second beast of Revelation represents those men such as Cain who do the works of the devil rather than Abba Father:

2 Corinthians 11:13-15  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.  (14)  And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.  (15)  It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. 

We know Daniel’s three friends yielded up their bodies in faith rather than serve Nebachadnezzar’s gods or worship his image knowing full well the consequences of their choice. The furnace of their trial was heated 7 times hotter which represents our 7 years of increasing tribulation. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were preserved through the fire by trusting in our Abba Father who is the Most High God:

Daniel 3:17-19 & 26 & 28  If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king. (18) But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. (19) Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated…..(26) Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire…..(28) Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel(His Word), and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego chose to dwell in their minds on the promises of the Word rather than the fears of the earth that Nebuchadnezzar proclaimed which is the same war the saints are facing today:

Revelation 13:6-7  And he(first beast) opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in the heaven.  (7)  And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.

We are to dwell in heavenly places in Christ resting in our Abba Father’s promises in His Word:

Ephesians 1:3 & 2:6  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:….(2:6)  and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:

The beast hates those who dwell on the things of heaven which is where a Christians mind should be set:

Colossians 3:1-4  If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.  (2)  Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.  (3)  For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.  (4)  When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.

We are to be soldiers on service for Christ rather than dwelling on the affairs of earth:

2 Timothy 2:4  No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Many Christians wonder why Daniel was nowhere to be found during the trial of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego when the whole earth was called before Nebuchadnezzar’s image. Daniel represents those Christians who already proved the patience of Jesus before the trial comes upon the whole earth:

Daniel 1:8-9  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.  (9)  Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs……(17)  Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

This same promise is made to all those saints who keep the Word of Jesus’ patience when the hour of trial comes on the whole world to try those Christians whose minds continue to “dwell on the earth”:

Revelation 3:7 & 10-11 & 13  And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:……(10)  Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that hour which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.  (11)  I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown……(13)  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

We are first saved and then called to partake of the heavenly holy calling found in the Word of our Father:

2 Timothy 1:8-9  Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;  (9)  who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal(before Adam),

From the moment we are saved we are to feast on the Word of our Father that brings death to our flesh so that the life of Christ manifests in our mortal flesh in this life:

John 6:53-58  Jesus therefore 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 not life in yourselves.  (54)  He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life: and I will raise him up at the last day.  (55)  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.  (56)  He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me, and I in him.  (57)  As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.  (58)  This is the bread which came down out of heaven: not as the fathers ate, and died; he that eateth this bread shall live for ever.

2 Corinthians 4:10-11  always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.  (11)  For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Cain represents our first born nature that dwells on earthly things as a beast and therefore hold to the nature and mark of a beast:

Ecclesiastes 3:18-19  I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.  (19)  For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

Jude 1:10-11  But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.  (11)  Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

But those who are born from above receive the Spirit of Christ as our second born spiritual man who desires to overcome that name(nature, character, and authority) of our first born carnal beastly nature. This is bearing the spiritual image of dwelling in the heavenly places as a son of God:

1 Corinthians 15:45-49 So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam(Jesus) became a life-giving spirit. (46) Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual(son of God), but that which is natural(son of man); then that which is spiritual(son of God). (47) The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven. (48) As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy(mind the things of the earth): and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly(dwelling in our mind   on heavenly things). (49) And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Cain, as the first born of Adam and Eve, represents our first nature which is our natural, earthy, old man that must be put to death:

Colossians 3:5-10  Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;  (6)  for which things’ sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:  (7)  wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;  (8)  but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:  (9)  lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,  (10)  and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him(Abba Father) that created him(new man~Jesus):

Abel, as the second born of Adam and Eve, represents the new man as the image of Christ in us:

Ephesians 4:20-24  But ye did not so learn Christ;  (21)  if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:  (22)  that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;  (23)  and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,  (24)  and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

The 6th verse of the 6th chapter of the 6th book of the NT talks about the death of that old man that keeps us in bondage to sin:

Romans 6:6  knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him(Jesus), that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

Jesus demonstrated this obedience of the death of His flesh:

Hebrews 5:7-9  Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,  (8)  though he(Jesus) was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;  (9)  and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;

Paul imitated Jesus’ obedience in the death of his carnal flesh and commanded us to do the same:

1 Corinthians 11:1  Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Those Christians who don’t overcome their beast nature prove they are enemies of the cross of Christ who continue to mind earthly things:

Philippians 3:17-19 Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample. (18) For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: (19) whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Cain refused to repent and bring a respectable sacrifice as Abel’s which in type represented Jesus’ physical sacrifice and our spiritual service:

Romans 12:1-2  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.  (2)  And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

We are sons of man(adam) who are to present our bodies a living “continual” sacrifice as a son of God and the temple of God:

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (17) If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.  (19)  Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;  (20)  for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

Once a person is bought with the blood of Jesus they are saved and called as debtors to Abba Father to put to death our flesh:

Romans 8:12-14  So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:  (13)  for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.  (14)  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Peter proved that even Christians are susceptible to being deceived by the devil into lying to “Abba” Father and His Holy Spirit as Cain did:

Acts 5:1-3  But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,  (2)  and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.  (3)  But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Ananias allowed the seed of satan to conceive in his heart and he along with his wife were condemned immediately to hell so as to be an example to the church:

Acts 5:4  While it remained, did it not remain thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thy power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thy heart? thou has not lied unto men, but unto God.  (5)  And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard it.  (6)  And the young men arose and wrapped him round, and they carried him out and buried him.  (7)  And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.  (8)  And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yea, for so much.  (9)  But Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.  (10)  And she fell down immediately at his feet, and gave up the ghost: and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.  (11)  And great fear came upon the whole church, and upon all that heard these things.

We are here to endure the fiery trials that cleanse our temple of sin:

1 Peter 4:1-2 & 12-19  Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;  (2)  that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God…….(12)  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:  (13)  but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.  (14)  If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.  (15)  For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men’s matters:  (16)  but if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.  (17)  For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?  (18)  And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?  (19)  Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.

Ever since the marking for reprobation of Cain, history(His~story) has been repeating in the proving of all sons of men to see who is living in the wicked image of a “beast” and who is living in the righteous image of God:

Ecclesiastes 3:15-18 That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away. (16) And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. (17) I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. (18) I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

Those Christians who choose to forsake the right way and go astray are proving they deserve to be numbered with Cain as a part of the beast:

2 Peter 2:12-15 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; (13) And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to revel in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; (14) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: (15) Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Christians are here to learn to forsake the “cares of this life” so as escape hell and stand before Jesus:

Luke 21:34-36  But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be weighed down with self-indulgence, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:  (35)  for so shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth.  (36)  But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

So from the days of Cain it has always been those who overcome their carnal first nature who prove they are sons of God who will inherit the earth with Jesus:

Revelation 21:3 & 7-8  And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God:…..(7)  He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.  (8)  But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

So the only difference between the mark of the beast throughout the ages and the mark the final global beast of the book of Revelation will be the inability of a person to buy and sell:

Revelation 13:16-18  And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;  (17)  and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.  (18)  Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.

They are already seeking ways to get people to “voluntarily” participate in their biometric digital ID that will soon be used to control our ability to buy and sell as the short videos within this link prove:

https://banned.video/channel/greg-reese

Those in the church who chose to flee this digital dystopian nightmare will find themselves fleeing into thier wilderness in the days ahead:

Revelation 12:6  And the woman(church) fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

The “woman” has represented the “church” in scriptures for a long time:

Isaiah 4:1  And seven women(7 churches in the book of Revelation) shall take hold of one man(Jesus) in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread(leavened doctrines such as a pretrib rapture), and wear our own apparel(self rightousness rather than the death of our flesh): only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.

Romans 13:14  But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Please remember that our life on earth is is but a vapor:

James 4:14  whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

So please forsake this digital nightmare that is coming fast upon us:

Revelation 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues:

For those who come out from among them will be the only souls regognized as sons and daughters of our Abba Father:

2 Corinthians 6:14-18  Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?  (15)  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?  (16)  And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  (17)  Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,  (18)  And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Those who prove they truly love our Abba Father can not even begin to comprehend what He has prepared for us:

1 Corinthians 2:9  but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

Anyone teaching the Word of God in any capacity including their own children, please read this entire post as the vaccine mandates began fulfilling parts of the book of Revelation.

Paul declared that the way to be “pure from the blood of all men” is to teach the whole counsel of God:

Acts 20:26-30  Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.  (27)  For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.  (28)  Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

As a teacher of God’s Word, Paul knew he was just as accountable as Ezekiel to warn the children of God who fall into any wilful sin to repent or their blood would be on his hands and he would answer with the loss of his soul:

Ezekiel 3:17-21  Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.  (18)  When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.  (19)  Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.  (20)  Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.  (21)  Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.

We too as Christians are to be watchmen over each other! Admonishing those who fall into any error from the truth so as to keep ourselves from the spiritual death of our soul:

Mark 13:37  And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

James 5:19-20  My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;  (20)  let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

1 Corinthians 11:1  Be ye(Christians) imitators of me(Paul), even as I also am of Christ.

Acts 20:31  Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

Paul named several sins that if practiced by any brethren in Christ would cause them to be destroyed in hell rather than inherit the kingdom of God:

Galatians 5:13-21  For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.  (14)  For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.  (15)  But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. (16)  But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.  (17)  For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.  (18)  But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.  (19)  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,  (20)  idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,  (21)  envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Witchcraft is probably the last sin Christians would think they are practicing but let’s examine the underlying Greek word to see what our Father declares as “witchcraft”:  

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5331&t=KJV

The English word “witchcraft” was translated from the Greek word “pharmakeia”, which is defined as “medication”, and from where we also get the English words “pharmacy” and “pharmaceutical”. 

Please watch this 15 minute video on how the medieval practice of “witchcraft” developed into the pharmaceutical industry today:

https://lbry.tv/@ODDTV:b/pharmakeia-drugs-black-magic-the-end:0

The Greek word “pharmakeia” is also translated into the English word “sorceries” in the book of Revelation:

Revelation 9:20-21  And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk:  (21)  and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

The pharmaceutical companies use the work of man’s hands to create a multitude of medicines and vaccines from chemical compounds and human fetal cells:

https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/fetal-tissues

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act gives all pharmaceutical companies blanket immunity from any liability for damages arising from a vaccine-related injury or death:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/5546

Medical errors cause an estimated 250,000 deaths in the United States annually:

https://mymedicalscore.com/medical-error-statistics/

Yet most Christians put more faith in man’s, often failing, methods of healing than in our Father’s holy perfect promises for healing:

Jeremiah 17:5-8  Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.  (6)  For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.  (7)  Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is.  (8)  For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

We are not to lean on the arm of the flesh that brings the curse of hell but on the arm of our Father who is Jesus!:

Isaiah 53:1-5  Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?  (2)  For he(Jesus) grew up before him(His Father) as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.  (3)  He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.  (4)  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him(Jesus) stricken, smitten of God(His Father), and afflicted. 

Those OT children of God were to look forward by faith to the stripes of the coming Messiah for their healing:

Isaiah 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.

Whereas the Christian under the new covenant is to look back in faith to those stripes for our healing:

1 Peter 2:21-24  For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:  (22)  who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:  (23)  who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:  (24)  who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

If we do not obey our Father, He promises to put the diseases on us that were only meant for the world:

Exodus 15:26  and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am Jehovah that healeth thee.

Deuteronomy 28:58-61  If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD;  (59)  then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.  (60)  And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.  (61)  Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

No one can receive anything including sickness unless our Father wills it for He controls everything from heaven:

John 3:27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.

Ephesians 1:11 in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him(Father) who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

But He also promises to heal those who repent:

James 5:16 Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

Psalms 103:2-3  Bless Jehovah, O my soul, And forget not all his benefits:  (3)  Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; 

Everything God’s old covenant children experienced were written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the ages are come:

1 Corinthians 10:11-12 Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. (12) Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

After Jesus healed the man waiting for the troubling of the water, He commanded him to “sin no more lest a worse thing befall him” clearly proving obedience is a very important part of our health:

John 5:13-14  But he that was healed knew not who it was; for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in the place.  (14)  Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing befall thee.

We learn obedience by feasting on our Father’s Word daily as much as the Jews ate the unleavened bread in their wilderness:

Exodus 13:6  Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.

John 6:51-58  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.  (52)  The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?  (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.  (54)  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.  (55)  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.  (56)  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.  (57)  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.  (58)  This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

The partaking of our Lord’s supper is a demonstration of our commitment to daily feasting on the Word of God that defines what sin is in God eyes:

James 4:17 To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

Paul warned the church that there will be just as much sickness inside the church, as there is outside the church, for those not daily feasting on our Father’s Word and living by faith in His many promises:

1 Corinthians 11:27-30  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.  (28)  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.  (29)  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.  (30)  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 

Father will bring sickness upon us as a form of chastening to bring repentance but those who refuse to repent could end up being condemned with the world in damnation:

1 Corinthians 11:31-32  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.  (32)  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Once a Christian comes to the knowledge of the truth and then chooses to willfully live contrary to that truth they are counting the blood of the covenant that they were sanctified with as unholy and without any regard for the Spirit of grace that our Father extends to us through faith:

Hebrews 10:26-31 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. (28) A man that hath set at nought Moses’ law dieth without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses: (29) of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? (30) For we know him that said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. (31) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

This is when our Father scourges us to hopefully bring repentance:

Hebrews 12:4-6 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: (5) and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; (6) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Contrary to the belief that drugs have saved lives, our Father clearly told us that no man has any power over the day of their death but Him alone and it is Him who we must fear for He is the one who kills and heals:

Ecclesiastes 8:8  There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

Matthew 10:28 And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him(Jesus’ Father and ours) who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Luke 12:4-5 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. (5) But I will warn you whom ye shall fear:Fear him(Father), who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I(Jesus) say unto you, Fear him(Father).

Father proved this with king Asa who lived a righteous life but in his end looked to worldly physicians for healing rather than Him alone and died:

2 Chronicles 16:12-13  And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to Jehovah, but to the physicians.  (13)  And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

All of our days are ordained to us from our Father and He alone can lengthen or shorten those days:

Psalms 139:16  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.

Father gave His Son Jesus His power through His Spirit:

Luke 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and a fame went out concerning him through all the region round about.

Luke 5:17 And it came to pass on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who were come out of every village of Galilee and Judaea and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

And Jesus in turn gave us as His disciples this same power to heal all disease and sickness through faith:

Matthew 10:1 And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sickness.

Luke 10:19  Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you.

Mark 16:15-18 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation. (16) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned. (17) And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues; (18) they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

He also commanded His disciples to take nothing for they where to heal through faith and free of charge:

Matthew 10:8-10  Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give. (9)  Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;  (10)  no wallet for your journey, neither two coats, nor shoes, nor staff: for the laborer is worthy of his food.

By a doctor’s very methods of healing and extortionate fees associated with their profession proves they do not believe in Jesus’ free powerful peaceful promised healing:

Luke 8:43-48 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any, (44) came behind him, and touched the border of his(Jesus’) garment: and immediately the issue of her blood stanched. (45) And Jesus said, Who is it that touched me? And when all denied, Peter said, and they that were with him, Master, the multitudes press thee and crush thee. (46) But Jesus said, Some one did touch me; for I perceived that power had gone forth from me. (47) And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people for what cause she touched him, and how she was healed immediately. (48) And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.

Yet most Christians willingly yoke themselves to a doctor’s worldly methods of healing rather than faith in the promises of our Father:

2 Corinthians 6:14-15  Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?  (15)  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?

We are the temple of the living God who is dwelling and walking within us. When we put faith in man made medication we are making it an idol of healing by placing it in our Father’s temple:

2 Corinthians 6:16-18  And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  (17)  Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,  (18)  And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

We must learn to come out and remain separate from all man made idols of healing. Placing our faith in all the promises of our Father’s Word will cleanse us freely from all defilement of flesh which includes all diseases:

2 Corinthians 7:1  Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The one time Jesus used a physical substance to heal, it was clay which represents man. Mixing His spit with the clay represents the living water spoken from His mouth which brings the healing in man to both physically and spiritually see:

John 9:1-7  And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.  (2)  And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?  (3)  Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.  (4)  We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.  (5)  When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.  (6)  When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,  (7)  and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

The washing in the pool of Siloam represents the washing of water with the Word which will cleanse our spirit, soul, and body of all the curse including sickness:

Ephesians 5:25-27  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;  (26)  that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,  (27)  that he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But even Jesus was restrained from doing many of His mighty works because of unbelief in the promises by the children of God:

Mark 6:4-6 And Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. (5) And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. (6) And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages teaching.

The Greek word “pharmakeus” from which we get the English word “pharmacist” is defined as a druggist or poisoner:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5332

The Greek word “pharmakeus” is translated into the English word “sorcerer”. Those who distribute and or use “medication” are “sorcerers” in our Father’s eyes for He sees them as practicing magical arts rather than living by faith in the promises of His Word:

Revelation 21:7-8  He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.  (8)  But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

This should explain why most drug commercials list a half dozen possible side effects including death in exchange for the hope of being cured of one sickness!?!?!?

The fact that most pharmaceutical giants are headquartered in the USA should prove Revelation chapter 18 is talking about America:

Revelation 18:23  and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.

Jesus is testifying to the churches that sorcerers within the church will be those cast outside the gates of His Holy city and cut off from the tree of life:

Revelation 2:7  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.

Revelation 22:14-16  Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.  (15)  Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.  (16) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.

Revelation 22:18-19  I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book:  (19)  and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

This link provides many scriptures that prove America is mystery Babylon who is presently deceiving all the nations of the world:

https://sumofthyword.com/2021/01/07/mystery-babylon-the-great-and-her-beast/

It should come as no surprise that America’s billionaire eugenicist Bill Gates is pushing for the whole world to be vaccinated for the covid plandemic with a vaccination that will change your DNA as this 2 minute video reveals:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/VwdD8CIgRbJY/

This link, with multiple embedded links, goes into great detail about the patent 060606 with the protocols for “Luciferase” as well as application:

https://carter-heavy-industries.com/2020/11/15/id2020-bill-gates-luciferase/

The author of “Carter heavy industries” does a great job of continuing research on the abuses of the present oligarchy: 

https://carter-heavy-industries.com/2021/07/09/what-is-graphene-oxide/

https://carter-heavy-industries.com/2021/08/05/delta-is-bravo-sierra-bs/

There is a battle being waged against humanity. Dr. Carrie Madej reveals how Big Tech is collaborating with Big Pharma to introduce new technologies into vaccines that will alter the DNA turning those who chose to take them into hybrids. This will begin the process of transhumanism which will make those receiving the technology into becoming one with the beast:

https://rumble.com/vhknc1-dr-carrie-madej-the-battle-for-humanity-transhumanism-and-vaccines.html

The nanotechnology within these vaccines combined with each person’s unique finger print, iris, or face that this beast alliance intends to scan and store in the “world wide web” as an individual biometric identifier will allow for instant ID of the entire human race:

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-blockchain-id2020

Much of the world is being conditioned to gaze in worship for hours a day into their smart phones as this 3 minute video so sadly demonstrates:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DU1B_XkyIk

So that when the time comes most will willingly give their mark in their hand or head to remain connected to the beast:

Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to give him(the beast) a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

The coming “great reset” will begin the process of a global phasing out of physical cash as they begin phasing in central bank digital currency. This CBDC tracker proves that many countries are already in some form of exploration of digital currency to replace their cash:  

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/

This will give the beast all the control of who can buy and sell as their digital device will be the only way a person can spend their digital currency with the world:  

Revelation 13:17 and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.

All Christians have a spiritual service to God to become a living sacrifice:

Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. (2) And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

But by the midst of the 7 year tribulation many are going to allow their bodies become an abomination by accepting the protocols to be able to buy and sell within the beast:

Daniel 9:27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.

Matthew 24:15 When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),

We as Christians are to learn obedience to all the scriptures to the point we are willing to die rather than conform to the world:

Hebrews 5:7-9 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, (8) though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; (9) and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;

Revelation 12:11 And they(Christians) overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

We have no right to ignore all the scriptures above in an attempt to promote our “beliefs” or we will be called a liar by our Father for going beyond what is written in His Word:

Romans 3:4  God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.

1 Corinthians 4:6  Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

Do we as Christians really want to risk losing our soul by giving man the glory for what our Father promises:

Isaiah 42:8 I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven(man made) images.

Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

Father even promises hereditary curses such as certain types of diseases that will continue to plague families for multiple generations on those who refuse to look to Him alone for their healing spirit, soul, and body:

Deuteronomy 28:58-60 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD; (59) then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance. (60) And he will bring upon thee again all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

Exodus 20:4-6 Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: (5) thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, (6) and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Especially when our Father has finally increased man’s knowledge enough to begin to see how miraculously complex just one cell in our body is as it functions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdjERhTczAs

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Psalms 139:14 I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

Please take a moment to read the home page of this site that reveals how our Father purposely conceals His prophecy for us to discover as precept upon precept here a little there a little throughout His Word:

https://sumofthyword.com/

There is a special blessing promised to the Christian who seeks to understand the prophecy of Revelation:

Revelation 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.

But a proper understanding of the book of Revelation can only be achieved through the many precepts hidden throughout the OT combined with the precepts of the NT making prophecy more sure:

2 Peter 1:19-21 And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: (20) knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. (21) For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Everything the OT children of God experienced were written as both an admonition and prophecy of what the NT children of God will experience at the end of the ages:

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.

Father also promised us that history(His~story) would repeat through the ages:

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10 That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. (10) Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

We have 4000 years of His~story from Genesis chapter 12 to Revelation that proves our Father has created and used increasingly more evil rulers of darkness over this world to chasten His children to bring repentance:

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.

2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Matthew 12:43-45 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. (44) Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. (45) Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.

He uses these spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places ruling through the kingdoms of the world to bring repentance in His children through the course of time:

Deuteronomy 28:25 Jehovah will cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and shalt flee seven ways before them: and thou shalt be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

It is combining this history that is also prophecy of the OT with the NT that will properly define the mystery of who “Babylon the Great” is today:

1 Corinthians 2:12-13 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God. (13) Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.

But as NT believers, we must also discern the Spirit of the Word to properly interpret who “Babylon the Great” is rather than looking at the letter that would point to the ancient city of Babylon that still exists today along the Euphrates river in Iraq:

2 Corinthians 3:4-6 And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward: (5) not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; (6) who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

The phrase “Babylon the Great” is first mentioned in the book of Revelation where she is described as a “mystery” who is a very wealthy harlot with a cup full of abominations and sitting as a master upon the beast during the tribulation:

Revelation 17:1-5 And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters; (2) with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication. (3) And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. (4) And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, (5) and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

This woman is also described as a “great city” who reigns over all the nations of the earth through their leaders before and during the tribulation:

Revelation 17:18 And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

We know that the ancient city of Babylon ruled over a vast empire called Babylon. So is it possible that the OT scriptures of Babylon are prophecies of America as “Babylon the Great” ruling over the whole world through the United Nations headquartered in the city of New York in the USA?

The United States is a melting pot of mingled people from many nationalities, cultures, and religions making her a microcosm of the United Nations:

Jeremiah 50:35-37  A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith Jehovah, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. (36) A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed. (37) A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

She began as a humble God fearing virgin but became a proud self righteous harlot with many gods just like the city of JER(USA)LEM did in the days of Ahab:

2 Chronicles 21:11-13 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray. (12) And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, (13) but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like as the house of Ahab did, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, who were better than thyself:

Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

So let’s combine some NT prophecies in Revelation chapters 17 & 18 with some OT prophecies to see if the United States is indeed a daughter of the ancient city of Babylon ruling a global empire of Babylon in these last days:

Revelation 17:1 & 5  And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters;…..(5)  and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 

The many waters represent the peoples, multitudes, and nations this great harlot will reign over:

Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

The prophet Habakkuk was shown an end time Babylon who, considering herself invincible, flies as an eagle to devour the earth, possessing dwelling-places that are not theirs while gathering many peoples to work her lands:

Habakkuk 1:6-11  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. (7) They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. (8) Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour. (9) They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand. (10) Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it. (11) Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty, even he whose might is his god.

America with her symbol of the eagle sets her nest on high in pride as it controls most of the nations of the earth through its embassies, military bases, banking cartels, and corporations. She does not keep at home but has spread throughout the world exploiting and corrupting all the nations:

Habakkuk 2:3-10 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (4) Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. (5) Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: (6) Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! (7) Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? (8) Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. (9) Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! (10) Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

The city of Babylon had the symbol of the great eagle as does the USA who sitting high in her economic and military nest has spoiled and taken captive many nations through overt and covert operations:

Ezekiel 17:1-4 & 12  And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,  (2) Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;  (3)  and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: (4) he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants…..(12) Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon.

She is a land divided up by many rivers who as an eagle with rustling wings flies to every nation with ambassadors controlling them with treaties for she was strong from her beginning:

Isaiah 18:1-2 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; (2) that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!

Let’s read further in Revelation:

Revelation 17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

The USA as Babylon is making all the nations drunken with the wine of her fornication which is blinding them in pleasures, deceit, and madness from Hollywood and the porn industry that flows out of such places as California, sin city Las Vegas, and New Orleans:

Isaiah 29:9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

Micah 2:11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

America is decked with wealth and a cup full of abominations that are spreading all over the globe:

Revelation 17:3-5 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. (4) And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, (5) and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

She is the youngest daughter of the nations who was tender, delicate and beautiful in her youth but is now a desolate harlot:

Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

The Babylonian “sex” goddess “Ishtar” was adopted by the Roman Empire and given the Latin name “Libertas” which translates to the English word “Liberty”. French freemasons Laboulaye and Bartholdi the sculptor created the Lady Liberty statue that sits in New York harbor, as the goddess of personal freedom and liberty replicating the sex goddess their Masonic movement idolizes:

Isaiah 47:7-8 And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof. (8) Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

America lives as a mistress who uses her power to corrupt the world with her abominable pleasures thus becoming the mother of harlots. She promotes the freedom of sex through her multi-billion dollar porn industry which feeds the abortion industry that has slaughtered over 60 million babies under the banner of “freedom of choice”:

Revelation 18:3 For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.

She is the richest end time nation with seaports in both the Atlantic and the Pacific who make nations rich that trade with her through ships:

Jeremiah 51:12-13 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. (13) O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

Revelation 18:3 For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.

Revelation 18:7 How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.

Revelation 18:19  And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

She is a nation rich in mineral wealth, cattle, sheep, horses, and being the bread basket of the world:

Revelation 18:10-13 standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. (11) And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, for no man buyeth their merchandise any more; (12) merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet; and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble; (13) and cinnamon, and spice, and incense, and ointment, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep; and merchandise of horses and chariots and slaves; and souls of men.

Her merchants rule the earth through her deception with sorcery(Greek: pharmakia = medication~drugs) both legal and illegal as most pharmaceutical giants are headquartered in the USA:

Revelation 18:23 and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.

Isaiah 47:9 but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon thee, in the multitude of thy sorceries, and the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Isaiah 47:12 Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

America is full of a multitude of counsels from the occult:

Isaiah 47:13 Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from the things that shall come upon thee.

She is famous for music and entertainment as well as craftsmen and factories:

Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;

She is a nation perverted by “higher education” and its progressive liberal ideology:

Isaiah 47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

It is this liberal progressive demonic ideology that is going to help America fulfill her end time role as a slaughterer of Christians. She has already slaughtered many people in the form of abortions, eugenics, ethnic cleansing, racism, genocide, and endless wars under the guise of spreading freedom:

Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.

We know the ancient city of Babylon was a walled city with high gates that ruled the Empire of Babylon with many provinces that stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean sea and northward to the black sea:

Jeremiah 51:58 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

Daniel 2:49 And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the provinces of Babylon: but Daniel was in the gate of the king.

America is a militarily walled nation that has not been occupied by a foreign army since it gained it’s independence from her mother Britain whose national symbol is the lion:

Jeremiah 50:1 & 12 & 42  The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon….(12) your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert…..(42)……every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

But mother Britain is going to be confounded when her daughter’s wings are plucked from off her back:

Daniel 7:3-4  And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.  (4)  The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.

America is the world’s policeman:

Jeremiah 50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

President Trump has just commissioned a space force to war in the heavens:

Jeremiah 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah.

America has often been referred to as lady liberty from her inception but has since saddled the end time beast reigning over their kings with coercion:

Revelation 17:7 & 18  And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns……(18) And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

She is used by God to bring the whole earth into submission to the beast before she is destroyed:

Jeremiah 27:6-8 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him. (7) And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman. (8) And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith Jehovah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

For further understanding in how America’s banking industry rules the world through central banks please see this link:

1) https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-the-eight-families/25080

Now that we have enough prophecy from the OT and NT to prove the mystery harlot woman is America, lets discover who this beast is that she rides:

Revelation 17:7-8 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns. (8) The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall come.

Revelation goes on to reveal that the mind who has wisdom will understand that this beast with its seven heads represent seven mountains as seven kings:

Revelation 17:9-10 Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth: (10) and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.

These seven mountains are seven kingdoms such as Babylon:

Isaiah 13:1-4 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. (2) Set ye up a banner upon the high mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. (3) I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones. (4) The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle.

America as an end time “mystery Babylon” has been destroying many nations but will be a burnt mountain in her end:

Jeremiah 51:24-25 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith Jehovah. (25) Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

Though many physical kings reigned during each kingdom’s physical existence, such as Persia, there is a spiritual king known as a prince over their principality who ruled in darkness over each kingdom and their kings:

Daniel 10:13-14 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days; but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia. (14) Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

This gives us the wisdom to interpret the seven heads as five kingdoms that have already fallen before 96 AD when John was on the Isle of Patmos. A sixth kingdom presently existed at his time and the seventh kingdom was not yet in existence at that time:

Revelation 17:9-10 Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth: (10) and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.

In keeping with history(His~story) lets work our way through the scriptures to first identify the five kingdoms that already fell through the Old Testament and the sixth kingdom that was present during the penning of the entire New Testament.

Each successive kingdom conquered more landmass than their predecessor and was more ruthless in their dealings with the children of God for wandering from His commands.

Egypt was the first kingdom that ruled the known world from the time of Abraham in Genesis until the time God destroyed her with Moses:

Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

Exodus 10:7 And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man(Moses) be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve Jehovah their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

The Assyrian kingdom was the second kingdom that ruled the known world from the time of Israel’s division shortly after the death of Solomon until the fall of Nineveh during the reign of king Josiah:

1 Kings 11:25 & 43  And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria……(43) And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

Zephaniah 2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.

The Babylonian kingdom was the third kingdom that ruled the known world from the time of Israel’s captivity by Nebuchadnezzar until his son king Belshazzar was slain and the Medeo~Persian empire began under Darius the Mede:

2 Kings 24:11-12 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came unto the city, while his servants were besieging it; (12) and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

Daniel 5:30-31 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. (31) And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

The Medeo~Persian kingdom was the forth kingdom that ruled the known world first by Darius the Mede who was followed by four primary Persian kings being Cyrus, Darius, Ahasuerus, and then Artaxerxes. These all played a part in the rebuilding of Jerusalem:

Ezra 4:5-7 and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. (6) And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. (7) And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian character, and set forth in the Syrian tongue.

The Grecian kingdom was the fifth kingdom that ruled the known world through Alexander the Great and then his four generals who divided the kingdom:

Daniel 11:2-3 And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he is waxed strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. (3) And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.

The Grecian kingdom existed during the 400 years between the OT and the NT which is often referred to as the dark ages.

The Roman kingdom was the sixth kingdom that ruled the known world from around 44BC to 476AD and was used by our Father to crucify Jesus:

John 11:48-52 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation. (49) But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, (50) nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. (51) Now this he said not of himself: but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; (52) and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.

In order to properly interpret the seventh kingdom that did not exist as of the penning of the book of Revelation we must incorporate prophecies of both the OT and NT as one to reveal this kingdom. The sixth kingdom had been smitten unto death but his death-stroke was healed as the seventh head of the beast:

Revelation 13:1-3 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. (2) And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. (3) And I saw one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;

We already proved above that America is the only country on the earth in these last days that fits all the prophecies of “Babylon the great” as a city/nation ruling a worldwide kingdom called Babylon. Let’s revisit the book of Daniel for more clues of the spiritual beast kingdoms that will inhabit this beast in our latter days:

Daniel 2:19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Daniel 2:28 but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these:

The Egyptian and Assyrian kingdoms were already swallowed up by the first Babylon before the time Daniel became a captive. God was revealing through Daniel the spiritual princes and powers that rule the kingdoms of the world and the part they play up until the final beast of Revelation:

Daniel 2:29 as for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and he that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.

Ephesians 2:2 wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

Please notice that when Daniel first reveals the dream to the king, he describes the great image as being smote and destroyed together as one “image of the beast” by Jesus who is the stone cut out without hands:

Daniel 2:31-36 Thou, O king, sawest, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the aspect thereof was terrible. (32) As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass, (33) its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay. (34) Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces. (35) Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. (36) This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

This great image that will be smote as one at its feet is the beast with his seven headed ten horned kings and their armies of the earth who will be conquered with the sword of Jesus’ mouth:

Revelation 13:15 And it was given unto him to give breath to it, even to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

Revelation 19:19-21 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse, and against his army. (20) And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone: (21) and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, even the sword which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

Now that we know this image of the worldwide beast will be destroyed as one by Jesus at the end, lets take a look at the interpretation which is going to prove both a physical succession of kingdoms as well as authority within the end time beast that comprises all seven kingdoms and their spiritual princes.

The first kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar’s image is Babylon as a head of gold, which we now know to be America, who God is going to give power, strength, and glory so that she rules over all the other kingdoms in the latter days:

Daniel 2:37-38 Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory; (38) and wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens hath he given into thy hand, and hath made thee to rule over them all: thou art the head of gold.

Revelation 17:18 And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Daniel records other visions throughout his book that we will now combine with Nebuchadnezzar’s image to further prove this beast. At the height of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign he was as proud as a lion with eagle’s wings that reached unto heaven:

Daniel 4:20-23 The tree that thou sawest, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to all the earth; (21) whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the birds of the heavens had their habitation: (22) it is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth. (23) And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass,

Until God Most High cut him down as a “beast” of the field who grew hair as eagle feathers and nails as a bird’s claws:

Daniel 4:31-33 While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from thee: (32) and thou shalt be driven from men; and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; thou shalt be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over thee; until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. (33) The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair was grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

God Most High plucked off Nebuchadnezzar’s wings of pride lifted this lion beast up from the earth and made him to stand upon two feet as a man with a humbled heart who praised the KING of heaven:

Daniel 7:2-4 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea. (3) And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. (4) The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man; and a man’s heart was given to it.

Daniel 4:36-37 At the same time mine understanding returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added unto me. (37) Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

But God was also showing Nebuchadnezzar that his kingdom would become a stump without a head of gold as his son Belshazzar who was cut down and swallowed up by Darius the Mede:

Daniel 5:18-22, 28, 30-31 O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty: (19) and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down. (20) But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: (21) and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts’, and his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the Most High God ruleth in the kingdom of men, and that he setteth up over it whomsoever he will. (22) And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this,……(28) PERES; thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians…….(30) In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain. (31) And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.

America was a spiritual tree of life that reached to the ends of the earth through missionaries with the gospel but is falling morally within and besieged by Muslim people of Elam and Media through immigration just before her physical fall:

Isaiah 21:2 & 9  A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease……(9)  and, behold, here cometh a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken unto the ground.

This stump with its roots became the Medeo~Persian kingdom who was inferior to Babylon as the silver breast and arms of Nebuchadnezzar’s image:

Daniel 2:32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,

Daniel 2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. 

This second kingdom was like a bear with a lower side which was the Medes and a raised up side which was the dominant Persian kings of the empire:

Daniel 7:5 And, behold, another beast, a second, like to a bear; and it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.

The three ribs in the mouth of this bear represent the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian empires with their spiritual princes that this Medeo~Persian empire and it’s prince swallowed up:

Daniel 10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days; but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

Daniel was also shown this empire was likened to a ram with a shorter horn that represented the kings of the Medes and a taller horn that came up last which was the four primary kings of Persia:

Daniel 8:3-4 & 19-20 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. (4)  I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; and no beasts could stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself…..19-20 And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongeth to the appointed time of the end. (20) The ram which thou sawest, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and Persia.

Daniel 11:1-2  And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him. (2) And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he is waxed strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.

The third kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar’s image that ruled over the earth was Greece with its spiritual prince as the belly and thighs of brass that banded the Babylonian stump:

Daniel 2:32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of brass,

Daniel 2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee; and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.

Daniel 4:23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass.

This third kingdom was led by its first king “Alexander the Great” who moved like a leopard, with his four generals as heads, to conquer Medeo~Persia:

Daniel 7:6 After this I beheld, and, lo, another, like a leopard, which had upon its back four wings of a bird; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

All of these kingdoms are controlled by demon spirit princes but servants of the Lord such as Daniel have an angel prince from our Father:

Daniel 10:20-21 Then said he, Knowest thou wherefore I am come unto thee? and now will I return to fight with the prince of Persia: and when I go forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come. (21) But I will tell thee that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me against these, but Michael your prince.

“Alexander the Great” was also likened to a notable horn on his he-goat army that came from the west with furry to conquer the Medeo~Persian ram:

Daniel 8:5-8 And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from the west over the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. (6) And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river, and ran upon him in the fury of his power. (7) And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled upon him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand. (8) And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four winds of heaven.

After Alexander the Great’s death at the age of 32, the Grecian empire broke up into four weaker kingdoms within the nation:

Daniel 8:21-22 And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. (22) And as for that which was broken, in the place whereof four stood up, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.

The fourth kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar’s image that ruled over the earth as the legs of iron was the Roman empire that also banded the Babylonian stump:

Daniel 2:33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.

Daniel 2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush.

Daniel 4:23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass.

This fourth kingdom devours all the beast kingdoms before it and is diverse from all the others in its power to devour the whole earth:

Daniel 7:7 & 19 & 23  After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns……(19) Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was diverse from all of them, exceeding terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;……(23) Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

The people of the Roman empire and its prince were used by God to first crucify His Son Jesus in 30 AD and then destroy Jerusalem and its temple in 70AD:

Daniel 9:26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one(Jesus) be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

The power and authority of the previous four kingdoms of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream are manifesting in the last beast:

Revelation 13:1-3 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. (2) And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard(Grecian~brass), and his feet were as the feet of a bear(Medeo-Persian~silver), and his mouth as the mouth of a lion(Babylonian): and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. (3) And I saw one of his heads(Roman~iron) as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;

The Roman Empire was not conquered but fell from within in 476AD due to moral decay thus the death-stroke of it’s head. This mortal wound was healed after America with the allied forces conquered Germany in WW2. They established the UN in 1945 that began unifying the present countries, the Roman Empire once ruled, in relative peace up until presently.

In the last 75 years the UN has grown to 193 member nations of the 195 nations of the world as the whole earth wonders after this resurrected beast:

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/growth-in-un-membership

So from the days of Abraham we have five kingdoms that fell in succession: 1)Egyptian, then 2)Assyrian, then 3)Babylonian, then 4)Medeo~Persian, then 5)Grecian, then the one that was in power in 96 AD being the: 6)Roman, and finally today the 7)revived Roman empire:

Revelation 17:10 and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.

The seed of all those empires now populate the earth which is ruled by the UN who is ruled by the G20 who is ruled by the G7:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Seven

Nebuchadnezzar’s image of iron legs transitioning into feet of part iron and part clay represent the old Roman empire reviving as the roman beast with seven crowned heads:

Daniel 2:33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.

The iron represents the daughter of Babylon which is harlot America who was birthed out of and now leads those nations within the old Roman empire in what is often referred to as the west or NATO. The clay represents the rest of the nations with China and Russia which is often referred to as the East:

Daniel 2:41  And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

Jeremiah 51:33 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

The spiritual princes of the first six physical kingdoms with the great red dragon are presently ruling the world through the revived Roman empire and its banking system represented by the seven crowns on the seven heads with harlot America reigning over them all:

Revelation 12:3 And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven crowns.

Revelation 17:18 And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Daniel saw the Roman empire as the strongest most diverse beast of his visions for it continued from its infancy in 44 BC to devouring the whole earth as ten horns by it’s end: 

Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

Daniel 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

This great red dragon through the seven headed G7 will make a covenant with the UN that will begin the seven years of tribulation:

Daniel 9:26-27 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one(Jesus) be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince(the great red dragon) that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined. (27) And he(the prince~the great red dragon) shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.

Father is going to cast the dragon with his demon “prince” angels down to the earth to make this covenant to start the tribulation so they can use the UN to begin persecuting the church:

Revelation 12:7-10  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon warred and his angels; (8) and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. (9) And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him. (10)  And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night. 

But just before the tribulation begins our Father is going to raise up a corporate body of the manchild born out of the woman church to be the “they” who will nourish the church driven out into their wilderness:

Revelation 12:1-6 And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman(the church) arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; (2) and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered. (3) And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems. (4) And his tail draweth the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon standeth before the woman that is about to be delivered, that when she is delivered he may devour her child. (5) And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne. (6) And the woman(the church) fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they(manchild) may nourish her(the church) a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

This corporate body of the manchild called “they” are the 144,000 men who were purchased out of the earth by the blood of Jesus who have allowed that blood to cleanse them of all the apostate teaching presently in the woman church today so that they are standing in the heavenly places of mount Zion with Jesus:

Revelation 14:1-5 And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. (2) And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and the voice which I heard was as the voice of harpers harping with their harps: (3) and they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four thousand, even they that had been purchased out of the earth. (4) These are they that were not defiled with women(many apostate church denominations); for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb. (5) And in their mouth was found no lie(apostasy): they are without blemish.

During the first half of the tribulation, being 1260 days or “a time, and times, and half a time”, the true church will begin to separate from those who will refuse to go into their wilderness. There will also be some of the church who venture out for a time but do not exercise the faith to overcome the dragon to the point that they are willing to die for their faith:

Revelation 12:11-15  And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death. (12) Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time. (13)  And when the dragon saw that he was cast down to the earth, he persecuted the woman(the church) that brought forth the man child. (14) And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

It is during the first half of this wilderness that the Father will protect most of the true church as He refines them. They will also be spreading the unleavened truth, the corporate manchild nourished them with, that will produce a seed of many more believers who walk in obedience:

Revelation 12:15-17)  And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream. (16) And the earth helped the woman(the true church), and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth. (17) And the dragon waxed wroth with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, that keep the commandments of God, and hold the testimony of Jesus:

For those who still believe the church will fly away before seven years of tribulation please study this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2016/10/04/the-rapture-of-the-church-is-after-the-tribulation/

During the first half of the tribulation, the dragon will begin shifting the crowns of authority from the seven heads to the ten sets of horns above the seven heads of his beast by the midst of the tribulation:

Revelation 13:1 and he(the dragon) stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.

At the end of the two feet are ten toes of iron mixed with clay that represent the ten crowns on the horns of the seven heads of the beast who will rule both the east and west as the 8th manifestation of the beast’s rule over fallen men during the last half of the 7 years called “great tribulation” and the year of wrath:

Revelation 17:10-13  and they are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while.  (11)  And the beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goeth into perdition.  (12)  And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.  (13)  These have one mind, and they give their power and authority unto the beast.

This final kingdom of the whole world will mingle together through the UN as many nations(seeds) of men but they do not cleave to one another:

Daniel 2:42-43  And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. (43) And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay.

Here is the map that the UN and the “World Constitution and Parliament Association” have already drafted to divide up the world into ten political and economic world magna-regions they call kingdoms:

The dragon will give the beast authority for the last 42 months called great tribulation. This is to finish separating God’s people from those who will continue to worship the beast in an attempt to preserve their temporal life on earth:

Revelation 13:4-5 and they worshipped the dragon, because he gave his authority unto the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? and who is able to war with him? (5) and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months.

Please notice that the dragon directs his blasphemy toward the tabernacle of God “even them that dwell in the heaven“:

Revelation 13:6 And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, even them that dwell in the heaven.

The corporate manchild along with the true church and her seed are in their spiritual wilderness dwelling in their minds and hearts on the things of heaven rather than on the earth:

Colossians 3:1-3 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. (2) Set your mind on the things that are above(heaven), not on the things that are upon the earth. (3) For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Our Father is going to give the dragon “authority” over the whole world to help the saints overcome their flesh’s desire for the things of the earth even unto death:

Revelation 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.

The dragon knows he already has those who “dwell on the earth” whose names were never written in the book of life of the Lamb:

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.

For more understanding on the “book of life” please read this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2013/03/06/book-of-life/

So the dragon is looking to devour those saints all over the world who will chose the beast’s earthly things rather than suffering for their faith:

1 Peter 5:8-9 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, (9) whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

Paul teaches us that our “heavenly calling” is to learn to forsake dwelling in our minds on the things of the earth as we train our minds to dwell on the things of heaven:

Hebrews 3:1 & 6  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus;…..(6) but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end.

We are here to imitate the holy life of Christ as Paul did while on earth after his conversion on the road to Damascus:

Ephesians 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: (4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Those saints who have trained their minds to dwell in the heavens while here on earth will manifest the faith and patience to endure every trial firm unto our end as our tribulation intensifies:

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him(the dragon) because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

Revelation 13:9-10 If any man hath an ear, let him hear. (10) If any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword(personal weapon which today is a gun), with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

But those Christians who chose to defend their lives with a personal weapon rather than the weapons of our warfare are proving they love this life more than to be with our savior in heaven and will not endure unto their end:

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh (4) (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds), (5) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Philippians 1:23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:

John 12:25 He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Matthew 24:13 But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

There is a second beast that will rise up out of the “earth” who as a corporate body of the antichrist will prophesy that they are “anointed” with the truth:

Revelation 13:11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Matthew 24:5 & 11  For many shall come in my name(Jesus), saying, I am Christ(anointed); and shall lead many astray……(11)  And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.

They fashion themselves as lambs who minister righteousness but their apostate teachings come from the dragon:

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ. (14) And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. (15) It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.

This religious second beast called the “false prophet” will be given authority by the dragon to do great signs that will deceive many Christians into worshiping the first beast with all the earthly wealth it temporarily possesses:

Revelation 13:12-13 And he exerciseth all the authority of the first beast in his sight. And he maketh the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose death-stroke was healed. (13) And he doeth great signs, that he should even make fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth in the sight of men.

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:

The same authority and earthly wealth the devil promised Jesus if he would worship him:

Luke 4:5-8 And he led him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. (6) And the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this authority, and the glory of them: for it hath been delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. (7) If thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall all be thine. (8) And Jesus answered and said unto him, It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Like Jesus; we must defeat the devil by dwelling in the heavens with the spoken Word by faith. Those who don’t may “shrink back unto perdition” thus proving they “dwell on the earth” as Judas Iscariot did:

Hebrews 10:38-39 But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him. (39) But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.

For more understanding on how Jesus’ disciple named Judas Iscariot shrunk back into perdition please see this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2017/01/18/the-mystery-of-lawlessness/

This second false prophet beast will deceive those that “dwell on the earth” into making an image to the first beast:

Revelation 13:14 And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.

Nebuchadnezzar built an image of gold that he set up in the plain of Dura. This image represents the image of the beast set up in the world:

Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore(60) cubits, and the breadth thereof six(6) cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura(circle~dwell~world~Greek~kosmos~600), in the province of Babylon.  

Greek ~ κόσμος ~ kosmos ~ world ~ numerical value of 600

The word “Dura” is a proper locative noun defined as “circle or dwelling”:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1757/kjv/wlc/0-1/

The root word of “Dura” is the verb “dur” referring to all the peoples, nations, and languages who dwell on the earth:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h1753/kjv/wlc/0-1/

Daniel 4:35  and all those dwelling on the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among those dwelling on the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

Isaiah 40:18 & 22 To whom then will ye liken God(Most High)? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?……(22) It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

As Nebuchadnezzar, the first beast will use the false prophet beast as a herald to preach a message of death to those who do not fall down and worship the image of the beast:

Daniel 3:4-6 Then the herald(he who proclaims~preacher) cried(preached) aloud, To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages, (5) that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up; (6) and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Revelation 13:15  And it was given unto him to give breath to it, even to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

We know Daniel’s three friends yielded up their bodies in faith rather than serve Nebachadnezzer’s gods or worship his image knowing full well the consequences of their choice. The furnace of their trial was heated 7 times hotter, which represents our 7 years of increasing tribulation, that they were preserved through for trusting in our Most High God and Father:

Daniel 3:17-19 & 26 & 28  If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king. (18) But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. (19) Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated…..(26) Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Most High God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth out of the midst of the fire…..(28) Nebuchadnezzar spake and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel(His Word), and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

The prophecies given to Daniel were not to be understood until near the time of the end:

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Father has increased man’s knowledge and ability to run to and fro over the earth with the mass production of vehicles and planes beginning in the early 1900s. The speed, volume, and distance that nations can travel and ship to each other has exponentially increased over the last 120 years.

But nothing has compared to the speed and volume of commerce that now circles the globe through the “world wide web”~”www” since its inception in the 1960s:

https://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/history-of-web/

Just as Nebuchadnezzar demanded all his kingdom come and worship his image; so too the dragon is presently drawing the whole world to wonder(admire ~ worship) after the beast through the image of the “world wide web” as this 3 minute video illustrates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DU1B_XkyIk

Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;

The world is being conditioned by the beast to gaze in worship for hours a day into their devices so that when the time comes most will willingly give their mark in their hand or head to remain connected to the beast:

Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to give him(the beast) a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

Each human has a unique finger print, iris, or face that this beast alliance intends to scan and store in the “world wide web” as an individual biometric identifier:

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insight-blockchain-id2020

Embedded within that link is this 3 minute video that says the world has the right to declare “I AM” through the beast’s protocols:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYy8a7HDJ0g&feature=emb_title

Our Father who is the Most High God is the only “I AM”:

Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

But the dragon who is also called Lucifer desires to exalt his throne upon a congregation using the cloud of the internet to make himself like the Most High:

Isaiah 14:12-14 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! (13) And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; (14) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

There is a planned economic reset that will replace cash with digital currencies which requires the “world wide web” to buy and sell. This will give the beast the ability to control who can buy and sell by controlling who can access the internet through which all exchange will soon take place:

Revelation 13:17  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

The English word “name” comes from the Greek word “onoma” and means “nature, character, and authority”:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3686&t=KJV

Father gave us some very interesting clues as to how to count the number of the “name” of the beast which is the number of a “man”:

Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six(chi-xi-stigma).

A study of the Greek root words “chi-xi-stigma” reveals the number of “Cain” who was the firstborn son of man(adam). Adam became the first fleshly father(abba). Cain was born between “abba” and his second born brother “Abel”:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G5516&t=KJV

Cain represents the firstborn son of man(adam) who as a “son of God” chose not to rule over his earthly flesh but rather follow the name(nature, character, and authority) of his spiritual father the devil:

Genesis 4:2-8 And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. (3) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah. (4) And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering: (5) but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. (6) And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? (7) If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it. (8) And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

For more understanding on who the “sons of God” are please read this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2019/02/15/who-are-the-sons-of-god-of-genesis-6/

Jesus proved some of His Jewish brethren were sons of the devil who chose to murder Him just like Cain murdered his brother Abel:

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

Cain became the first soul driven from the face of God and marked to “dwell on the earth” as a wanderer with no possible restoration of a spiritual relationship with our Father that he once had:

Genesis 4:13-16 And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (14) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me. (15) And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah put a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him. (16) And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Ever since the marking for reprobation of Cain, history(His~story) has been repeating in the proving of all sons of men to see who is living in the wicked image of a “beast” and who is living in the righteous image of God:

Ecclesiastes 3:15-18 That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away. (16) And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there. (17) I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. (18) I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

Those Christians who choose to forsake the right way and go astray are proving they deserve to be numbered with Cain as a part of the beast:

2 Peter 2:12-15 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; (13) And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to revel in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; (14) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: (15) Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Cain represents all humans who are born first as a natural earthy man who desires to dwell on earthly things as a beast. But those who are born from above receive the Spirit of Christ as our second born spiritual man who desires to overcome that name(nature, character, and authority) of the beast. This is bearing the spiritual image of dwelling in the heavenly:

1 Corinthians 15:45-49 So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam(Jesus) became a life-giving spirit. (46) Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural(son of man); then that which is spiritual(son of God). (47) The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven. (48) As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy(mind the things of the earth): and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly(those who imitate Paul who imitated Jesus). (49) And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Those Christians who don’t overcome the beast prove they are enemies of the cross of Christ who continue to mind earthly things:

Philippians 3:17-19 Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample. (18) For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: (19) whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Cain refused to repent and bring a respectable sacrifice as Abel’s which in type represented Jesus’ physical sacrifice and our spiritual service. We are sons of man(adam) who are to present our bodies a living “continual” sacrifice as “sons of God” and the temple of God:

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (17) If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

Romans 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Psalms 82:6 I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High.

For more understanding on being a son of God in the congregation of God please see this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2019/03/16/psalm-82-the-congregation-of-god/

Our Father warned us that by the midst of the seven year tribulation some Christians will allow the dragon to set himself up in their holy place within their temple of God causing their continual sacrifice and oblation to cease:

Daniel 9:27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations shall come one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.

Those Christians who yield to the dragon will be proving “the man of sin” is sitting in their temple setting himself forth as their god which causes their sacrifice to cease as a son of perdition:

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, (4) he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.

John went on to prove that there were many “antichrists” in his day that were already forming a body of “antichrist” that will be a corporate body of the second beast called the “false prophet”:

1 John 2:18-19 Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour. (19) They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.

These last hour “antichrists” are a body of those such as Judas Iscariot who was an apostle of Christ but would not overcome his lust for money.

For more understanding on the abomination of desolation please read this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2017/01/18/the-mystery-of-lawlessness/

As proven above, harlot America is Babylon the great who has been drawing the world into spiritual fornication with her. She continues to fall further into great iniquity as she is inhabited with more and more demons and unclean spirits:

Revelation 18:1-3  After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory. (2) And he cried with a mighty voice, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird. (3) For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.

God’s people must spiritually come out of her or they will fall with her:

Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues: (5) for her sins have reached even unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

The church has always been commanded to come out of all uncleanness but the 7 years of tribulation will help expedite the coming out of all God’s people before the year of wrath commences:

2 Corinthians 6:17-18 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you, (18) And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Father has promised to shorten the great tribulation to 1290 days as the persecution will become so deadly that if He allowed it to go any longer there wouldn’t be any of the elect left to rapture alive:

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the continual burnt-offering shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand and two hundred and ninety days.

Matthew 24:15 & 21-22 When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),…..(21) for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. (22) And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

There is a special blessing for some of the saints who patiently endure the 1290 days of great tribulation who are alive and remain:

Daniel 12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; (17) then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (18) Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Those who are still alive are promised to witness “only with their eyes” the six trumpets of wrath while resting in their spiritual ark of our Father’s Psalm 91 promises until they are lifted up in the rapture/resurrection on the 1335th day:

Psalms 91:1-8  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.  (2)  I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust.  (3)  For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence.  (4) He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shalt thou take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler.  (5)  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;  (6)  For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wastethat noonday.  (7)  A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh thee.  (8)  Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked.

Those 45 days after the 1290 days are the beginning of the “the day of the Lord” also called “the year of His redeemed”. That “year of wrath” begins immediately after the 7 years of tribulation as this link proves with many scriptures:

https://sumofthyword.com/2016/10/04/the-rapture-of-the-church-is-after-the-tribulation/

When Jesus opens the 6th seal, the seven years of tribulation ends as the whole earth realizes He and His Father are about to start their wrath on them that “dwell on the earth”:

Revelation 6:12-17 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood; (13) and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind. (14) And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. (15) And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains; (16) and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: (17) for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?

The 7th seal is the half hour silence that marks the start of the “year of wrath” with the 7 trumpets:

Revelation 8:1-2 And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. (2) And I saw the seven angels that stand before God; and there were given unto them seven trumpets.

Father is going to put into the hearts of some of the beast nations to destroy harlot America by nuclear fire in one day near the beginning of that “year of wrath” after the tribulation:

Revelation 17:16-17 And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire. (17) For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and to come to one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

Revelation 18:8-10 Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged her. (9) And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning, (10) standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

The first 6 trumpets will then begin to rain down many types of fire, break open the pit of the abyss, and overflow the earth with fire, smoke, and brimstone through the next 40 days. The 7th and last trump will be the resurrection/rapture of the saints and the finishing of the mystery of God:

Revelation 10:7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished the mystery of God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the prophets.

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, (52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Once the saints are safely home our Father will then command His angels to pour out the last seven plagues that finish the wrath of God over the remainder of that year:

Revelation 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having seven plagues, which are the last, for in them is finished the wrath of God.

Revelation 16:1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth.

Our Father will use the demons of the dragon, beast, and false prophet to draw all the rest of the world to the valley of Har-Magedon during the outpouring of His bowls of wrath:

Revelation 16:13-16 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs: (14) for they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. (15) (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.) (16) And they gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew Har-Magedon.

At the end of that year Jesus returns to the earth with His army of saints to conquer the beast and set up His eternal kingdom:

Revelation 19:11-21 And I saw the heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon called Faithful and True; and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. (12) And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head are many diadems; and he hath a name written which no one knoweth but he himself. (13) And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God. (14) And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure. (15) And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty. (16) And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (17) And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come and be gathered together unto the great supper of God; (18) that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them that sit thereon, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, and small and great. (19) And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat upon the horse, and against his army. (20) And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone: (21) and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, even the sword which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

If one is not careful to search out the sum of Father’s Word on passages such as Psalm 82, leaven can quickly destroy the unleavened truth that is profitable for pure doctrines:

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (7) Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ: (8) wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 Every scripture inspired of God is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: (17) that the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.

Please patiently study this link to its revealing conclusion :o)

Let’s work through each verse of Psalm 82 considering associated precepts that help us understand what the Holy Spirit is conveying:

Psalms  82:1  A Psalm of Asaph. God(Elohim ~ sons of God) standeth in the congregation of God(EL~ Most High Father); He(EL~ Most High Father) judgeth among the gods(Elohim ~ sons of God).

The 22nd Psalm contains prophesies of Jesus and His bringing many sons unto glory through His suffering:

Psalms 22:1 For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

The God(Elohim) standing in the “congregation” of God(EL) is Jesus standing in the midst of a congregation of His brethren, who are also sons of God, praising His Father who is the Most High God:

Psalms 22:16-23 For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. (17) I may count all my bones. They look and stare upon me; (18) They part my garments among them, And upon my vesture do they cast lots. (19) But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me. (20) Deliver my soul from the sword, My darling from the power of the dog. (21) Save me from the lion’s mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me. (22) I(Jesus) will declare thy(Father’s) name unto my brethren: In the midst of the congregation will I(Jesus) praise thee(Father Most High). (23) Ye that fear Jehovah, praise him; All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; And stand in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.

Psalms 22 is quoted in Hebrews chapter 2 where it is proven that Jesus is in the midst of many brethren who are one congregation of gods(Elohim) before our Father praising Him:

Hebrews 2:9-13 But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every man. (10) For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. (11) For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he(Jesus) is not ashamed to call them brethren(sons of our Father), (12) saying, I(Jesus) will declare thy(Father’s) name unto my brethren, In the midst of the congregation will I sing thy praise. (13) And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold, I(Jesus) and the children(sons of our Father) whom God(Most High Father) hath given me.

The Father is always judging among us “gods” to see who is judging unjustly or a respecter of persons among his fellow brethren:

Psalms  82:1-2 …He(God ~ the Father) judgeth among the gods(Elohim ~ sons of God). How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah.

We are commanded in the OT law not to respect the persons of the wicked or the mighty but in righteousness we must judge our neighbor:

Leviticus 19:14-15 Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah. (15) Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

This same command has been passed on to us in our NT covenant:

James 2:1-9 My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. (2) For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing; (3) and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool; (4) do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? (5) Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? (6) But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats? (7) Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called? (8) Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: (9) but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

Sons of God are required to demonstrate compassion for the poor, the fatherless, the afflicted, and the destitute:

Psalms  82:3  Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

This is pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father as His sons:

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

To rescue the poor and needy in their affliction from the rich or wicked who often oppress them:

Psalms  82:4  Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

We are to love the poor and needy in deed and in truth:

1 John 3:16-18 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (17) But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? (18) My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Those “sons of God” who shut up their compassion do not understand the truth:

Psalms  82:5  They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

They prove they walk in darkness and do not know they are headed to hell for the darkness has blinded their eyes to loving their brother:

1 John 2:9-11 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now. (10) He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. (11) But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

It is God who makes one rich and another poor:

1 Samuel 2:7 Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, he also lifteth up.

Proverbs 22:2 The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.

Jesus taught the parable of the rich man and Lazarus to prove our Father will condemn those who choose not to love the poor as themselves:

Galatians 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Luke 16:19-23 Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day: (20) and a certain beggar named Lazarus was laid at his gate, full of sores, (21) and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table; yea, even the dogs came and licked his sores. (22) And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: and the rich man also died, and was buried. (23) And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

God blessed the rich man with a lifetime of good things and Lazarus with a lifetime of evil things but the rich man did not care enough to give Lazarus the crumbs that fell from his table! Both Lazarus and the rich man were sons of Abraham but the rich man walked in the darkness of failing to love his poor brother Lazarus as himself:

Luke 16:24-26 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame. (25) But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish. (26) And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us.

Jesus made it very clear that all Christians will be judged on how they treated the least of His brethren and this will determine the righteous who enter heaven and the unrighteous who will enter hell:

Matthew 25:31-46 But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: (32) and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; (33) and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. (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: (35) for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; (36) naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me. (37) Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? (38) And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? (39) And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? (40) And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me. (41) Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels: (42) for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; (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. (44) Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? (45) Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me. (46) And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.

As sons of God we are to renounce all that we have to be a disciple of Christ:

Luke 14:33 So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

This develops into a body of Christ who truly seeks equality among the brethren such as occurred shortly after Pentecost:

Acts 2:42-47 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers. (43) And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. (44) And all that believed were together, and had all things common; (45) and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, according as any man had need. (46) And day by day, continuing stedfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart, (47) praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.

Acts 4:32-35 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and soul: and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. (33) And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. (34) For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, (35) and laid them at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto each, according as any one had need.

Those such as Ananias will be judged unworthy to stand in the congregation of the righteous for pretending to love his neighbor unconditionally: 

Acts 5:1-6 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, (2) and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. (3) But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? (4) While it remained, did it not remain thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thy power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thy heart? thou has not lied unto men, but unto God. (5) And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard it. (6) And the young men arose and wrapped him round, and they carried him out and buried him.

Psalms 1:5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

From the very first millennium, it has always been those who walk with God who will be a part of the congregation with Jesus:

Genesis 5:24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.2

Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

For more understanding on who the “sons of God” are in Genesis and Job please see this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2019/02/15/who-are-the-sons-of-god-of-genesis-6/

The congregation of the righteous will only be made up of sons of the Most high God who is the Father:

Psalms  82:6  I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High.

Jesus was the firstborn Son of His Father who is God Most High:

Luke 1:31-35 And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. (32) He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: (33) and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. (34) And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? (35) And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.

We are foreordained to be conformed to the image of Jesus who is the firstborn of many brethren:

Romans 8:29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

As sons of the Most High, we are to learn to love, be kind, give, and be merciful as our Father:

Luke 6:35-38 But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. (36) Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful. (37) And judge not, and ye shall not be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released: (38) give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.

Jesus quoted Psalms 82:6 in the book of John. He clearly said the scriptures cannot be broken thus proving a “son of God” in both the OT an NT are gods:

John 10:34-36 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? (35) If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), (36) say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am Son of God?

The Word of God came to both the Jews and the Gentiles who are called to be “all Israel” but only a remnant will be saved:

Romans 9:24-28 even us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles? (25) As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved. (26) And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God. (27) And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved: (28) for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

For more understanding on who “all Israel” is please see this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2017/12/19/all-israel/

Paul made it very clear that it was the circumcision of the heart that made one a Jew in the Father’s eyes:

Romans 2:28-29 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: (29) but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

One who is called to be a son of God is a debtor to God to be led by His Spirit in the putting to death their flesh:

Romans 8:12-14 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: (13) for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

This death to our flesh must occur in order to be acceptable to God as a living sacrifice to Him:

Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. (2) And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Father expects the death of the flesh in all His sons as He did of His firstborn Son which He sent to die:  

Psalms  82:6-7 all of you sons of the Most High. Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.

Jesus demonstrated that as a “son of God” He must be delivered into the hands of men to put to death his flesh which was the “son of man”:

Matthew 17:22-23 And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men; (23) and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised up. And they were exceeding sorry.

John 12:32-34  And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself. (33) But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die. (34) The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?

The Hebrew word for “man” is “adam” for in our flesh we are all a “son of Adam” and thus a “son of man”:

Luke 3:38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

We are not to put any trust in a “son of man” which is our flesh:

Psalms 146:1-10 Praise ye Jehovah. Praise Jehovah, O my soul. (2) While I live will I praise Jehovah: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. (3) Put not your trust in princes, Nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. (4) His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish. (5) Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Jehovah his God:

Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.

We are commanded to become united with Jesus in the likeness of His death. This is the crucifying of our old man which is our “son of man”:

Romans 6:5-8 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection; (6) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; (7) for he that hath died is justified from sin. (8) But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

Jesus learned obedience through the suffering of the death of His “son of man” so that He can now be the author of that same salvation in us who choose to walk in that same obedience:

Hebrews 5:7-9 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, (8) though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; (9) and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;

Our body is the “son of man” that must spiritually die so that the life of Jesus who is the “son of God” will manifest in our mortal flesh:

2 Corinthians 4:10-11 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. (11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

This is called casting off the works of darkness in our flesh and putting  on the Lord Jesus Christ which is the armor of light:

Romans 13:12-14 The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. (13) Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. (14) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Father has promised that He will punish any of the King’s sons who as princes have on foreign apparel rather than the Lord Jesus Christ:

Zephaniah 1:8 And it shall come to pass in the day of Jehovah’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.

Many are called to put on the Lord Jesus Christ as a wedding garment but few will be chosen to be a part of that wedding for not doing so:

Matthew 22:11-14 But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment: (12) and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. (13) Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (14) For many are called, but few chosen.

As “sons of God”, we are to arise above the earth:

Psalms  82:8  Arise, O God(Elohim ~ sons of God), judge the earth; For thou shalt inherit all the nations.

We are first born a natural earthy “son of man” but when we are born from above we become a spiritual heavenly “son of God” by faith:

1 Corinthians 15:45-48 So also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. (46) Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; then that which is spiritual. (47) The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven. (48) As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

Our natural earthy “son of man” lived in the lusts of our flesh and did the desires of our flesh and mind and were by nature children of wrath who walked according to the prince of the powers of the air:

Ephesians 2:1-3 And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, (2) wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; (3) among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:–

But now as  a “son of God” we are required to put to death that “son of man” and learn to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Ephesians 2:4-6  but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, (5) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), (6) and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:

We learn to dwell in heavenly places through the blood of the Lamb as we learn to live the testimony of Jesus:

Revelation 12:11-12 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death. (12) Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.

Jesus listed some of His testimony and the promises to those “sons of God” who live accordingly:

Matthew 5:1-12 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: (2) and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, (3) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (4) Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. (5) Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. (6) Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. (7) Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. (8) Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. (9) Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God. (10) Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (11) Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. (12) Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

Those “sons of God” who overcome their flesh will inherit all the promises of Father’s Word but those who do not will take part in the second death:

Revelation 21:7-8 He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (8) But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Jesus listed seven promises to the overcomers within the seven churches proving that not all those in the church will receive them:

Revelation 2:10-11 …Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life. (11) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Revelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.

Revelation 2:26-27 And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations: (27) and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father:

Revelation 3:5-6 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. (6) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

Revelation 3:12-13 He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name. (13) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

Revelation 3:21-22 He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne. (22) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

Father has a congregation of gods He has redeemed through the blood of His Lamb to be the tribe of His inheritance whom He will sit as Most High over them:

Psalms 7:6-8 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment. (7) And let the congregation of the peoples compass thee about; And over them return thou on high. (8) Jehovah ministereth judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and to mine integrity that is in me.

Psalms 74:1-2 Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? (2) Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; And mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Psalms 111:1 Praise ye Jehovah. I will give thanks unto Jehovah with my whole heart, In the council of the upright, and in the congregation.

This congregation is continuing to assemble in mount Zion:

Hebrews 12:22-24 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, (24) and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.

So let’s continue to suffer with Christ that we may be glorified with Him as sons of God in the congregation before our Father:

Romans 8:16-19 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God: (17) and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him. (18) For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.

Psalms  82:1  A Psalm of Asaph. God(Elohim ~ sons of God) standeth in the congregation of God(EL~ Father); He judgeth among the gods(Elohim ~ sons of God).

There is a popular belief in some Christian circles that the “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis chapter 6 were fallen angels who produced giants with the “daughters of men” before the flood.

Father purposely hid some of His deeper truths so we must dig deep in His Word to discover the truth. My home page provides the foundational scriptures for proper interpretation of OT precepts such as who the “sons of God” spoken of in Genesis chapter 6 are:

https://sumofthyword.com/

Genesis 6:1  And it came to pass, when men(Hebrew~adam) began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

The English word “men” in the first verse of chapter 6 comes from the Hebrew word “adam”:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H120&t=KJV

This clearly proves the subject of the first four verses are the physical offspring of the first “man” who was “Adam”:

Genesis 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man(adam) of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man(adam) became a living soul.

Is there any sin being named in Genesis 6:1 that would cause God’s Spirit to not strive with man(adam)?

Absolutely not! God told the man and woman to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth with more men and women who were to multiply also:

Genesis 1:27-28  And God created man(adam) in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  (28)  And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Now do we see any sin being named in Genesis 6:2 that would cause God’s Spirit to not strive with man?:

Genesis 6:2  that the sons of God saw the daughters of men(adam) that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.

Absolutely! God did not want the “sons of God” marrying the “daughters of men” or verse 3 would not express God’s displeasure with those “sons of God”:

Genesis 6:3  And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man(adam) for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

God is clearly declaring the “sons of God” are “men” who His Spirit will not strive with forever for marrying the “daughters of men”!

We are told “not to go beyond what is written” in our Father’s Word which includes the first three verses of Genesis chapter six:

1 Corinthians 4:6 Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

But some Christians are going beyond the Word of God by giving heed to Jewish fables such as the book of Enoch which is NOT a part of the cannon set of scriptures:

Titus 1:13-14 This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, (14) not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

If the “sons of God” were fallen angels marrying the “daughters of men”, as is being hyped these days, then Jesus would’ve revealed this when He described the sins occurring in the days before the flood of Noah:

Matthew 24:37-39 And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. (38) For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, (39) and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

Jesus did not even hint of any “angels” being involved. But He did clearly define the “sons of God” as being “sons of the resurrection” which “angels” have absolutely no part in because they never die:

Luke 20:34-36 And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage: (35) but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: (36) for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Only those sons of flesh who are accounted worthy to be part of the first resurrection no longer marry or die but are “sons of God” who are now equal to angels who have never married or died:

Revelation 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

The “sons of this world” are unbelievers who have no regard for the demands of our Father’s Word. But the “sons of God” in our new testament covenant are commanded by our Father not to marry unbelievers:

Galatians 3:26 For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? (15) And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?

The “sons of God” in the old testament covenant were commanded by God not to marry unbelievers as well:

Psalms 82:6 I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High(God).

Deuteronomy 7:1-4 When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; (2) and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; (3) neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. (4) For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.

But it was not long before the “sons of God” were again choosing to marry the “daughters of men”:

Judges 3:5-7 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: (6) and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods. (7) And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

Even before the law, Abraham understood that our God demanded total separation in marriage from the heathens of Canaan so he sent his servant to take a wife for his son Isaac from Abraham’s kindred:

Genesis 24:1-4 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. (2) And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: (3) and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: (4) but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

Isaac passed down this same command to his son Jacob to marry a daughter from his mother’s family so that they would be a pure “company of peoples”:

Genesis 28:1-4 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. (2) Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother. (3) And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples; (4) and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.

Our Father commanded the Jews not to marry the unrighteous during the 2000 year period from Abraham to Christ. Then again the same command was given to the Christians for the next 2000 year period from Christ till today. So it should stand to reason that the 2000 year period from Adam to Abraham would be the same command for “God seeketh again that which is passed away”:

Ecclesiastes 3:15  That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

God’s will today has been His will from the ages which were before us for History(His-story) repeats:

Ecclesiastes 1:9-10  That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.  (10)  Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

“In the ages which were before” the Abrahamic covenant would have been the 2000 year period from Adam to Abraham. God would have demanded those men who were called to be “sons of God” before the flood not to live after their flesh just as He has demanded of Abraham’s seed the whole way up through Christ until today:

Galatians 3:29 And if ye are Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise.

History(His~story) always repeats:

Genesis 6:3 And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

God repented for making men because those He called sons burned in the lust of their flesh for the daughters of men before the flood:

Genesis 6:6 And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Those “daughters of men” were the women who came from Cain’s lineage. He was cursed and driven out from God’s presence for killing his brother Abel:

Genesis 4:9-14 & 16  And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother’s keeper? (10) And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground. (11) And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand; (12) when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth. (13) And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (14) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth;…..(16)  And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Eve made a clear distinction between her eldest son Cain who went out from the presence of God and the new seed of Seth that God blessed her with:

Genesis 4:25-26 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him. (26) And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.

So now we come to the most misunderstood verse in Genesis chapter 6:

Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

The English word “nephilim” comes from the Hebrew word “nephiyl” and is defined as fellows, giants:

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H5303&t=KJV

Science has proven that before the flood the entire earth enjoyed a warm tropical environment. There was enhanced oxygen in the atmosphere that would have supported larger animals such as the dinosaurs. So it should come as no surprise that men would have also had the capacity to be much larger before the flood:

https://www.genesispark.com/exhibits/early-earth/atmosphere/

God created this water vapor canopy on the second day and called it the “waters above the firmament”:

Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

So the Nephilim or giants could have easily been on the earth since the days of Cain and Seth’s early descendants:

Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

The phrase “and also after that” in Genesis 6:4 was pointing 500+ years later when Enoch walked with God for 300 years “after” he begat Methuselah:

Genesis 5:21-24 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: (22) and Enoch walked with God “after” he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: (23) and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: (24) and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, and Enoch were all alive together as the “sons of God” when Enoch was taken from among them.

The “nephillim” reappeared on the earth once more after the flood in the land of Canaan where Moses sent the 12 spies in to see what the people were like:

Numbers 13:17-18 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country: (18) and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

The fact that the Nephilim were the sons of Anak proves that giants come from men and not fallen angels:

Numbers 13:32-33 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. (33) And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

So the question becomes who are the “sons of God” in Genesis 6:4? The shorter answer is the “sons of God” were NOT angels whether righteous or fallen for at no time were any angels ever called a “son of God”:

Hebrews 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?

God specifically says that He never called an angel His son nor are they born of Him for they were created spirits by God:

Hebrews 1:7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh(created) his angels winds(spirits), And his ministers a flame of fire:

But for those Christians who argue that the OT “sons of God” were not the same as the NT “sons of God” let’s consider this passage:

Psalms 82:6 I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High(God).

Jesus quoted that Psalms passage in the book of John. He clearly said the scriptures cannot be broken so a “son of God” in the old testament was a “sons of God” in the new testament:

John 10:34-36 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? (35) If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken), (36) say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

There were plenty of OT Jews who were born of the seed of Abraham but were rejected from becoming sons of God:

Hosea 1:9-10 And Jehovah said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. (10) Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

That passage in Hosea is clearly declaring the OT children of promise through Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as sons of the living God:

Romans 9:7-8 neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. (8) That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

Romans 9:25-27 As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved. (26) And it shall be, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God. (27) And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

Our Father clearly called the children of Israel “my sons” making them sons of God:

Isaiah 43:1-7  But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.  (2)  When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.  (3)  For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.  (4)  Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.  (5)  Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;  (6)  I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;  (7)  Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

Isaiah 45:9-12  Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?  (10)  Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?  (11)  Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.  (12)  I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

But just to be sure let’s examine the only other 3 passages where the phrase “sons of God” is found in the OT, all being in the book of Job:

Job 1:6 Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them.

Job 2:1 Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Jehovah.

We know that God took both Enoch and Elijah to heaven before they died:

Genesis 5:24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Hebrews 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God:

2 Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

We also know Peter, James, and John witnessed Elijah and Moses who reappeared from heaven to speak with Jesus on the mountain:

Matthew 17:1-5 And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: (2) and he was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his garments became white as the light. (3) And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him. (4) And Peter answered, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, I will make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah. (5) While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

Most biblical historians agree that Job existed sometime after the flood up until the time of Jacob. Those “sons of God” mentioned in Job chapters one and two would be those righteous souls who died from the lineage of Seth up through until possibly Jacob depending on when Job actually lived on the earth.

Some of those “sons of God” in Job chapters one and two who presented themselves before Jehovah are listed in the book of Luke:

Luke 3:22-38 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son: in thee I am well pleased. (23) And Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli, (24) the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, (25) the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, (26) the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, (27) the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, (28) the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er, (29) the son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, (30) the son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, (31) the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, (32) the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, (33) the son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, (34) the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, (35) the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, (36) the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, (37) the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, (38) the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

In the underlying Greek text of Luke 3:22-38 the word “uihos” is translated to the English word “son”. Though that Greek word is found only in verses 22, 23, and 38, God was clearly proving the lineage from Adam to Jesus were all “sons of God” as most English translations prove by carrying the word “son” through from Jesus to Adam.

Adam was called a “son of God” who was formed by God from the dust of the ground and He breathed into his flesh the breath or spirit of life:

Genesis 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath(spirit) of life; and man became a living soul.

Jesus was the Word of God who was the image of His Father and the first born of all His creation:

Colossians 1:15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

God sent His Holy Spirit with His Word as the seed placed in Mary who became flesh and named Jesus :

Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Matthew 1:18-20 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. (19) And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. (20) But when he thought on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

For more understanding of the relationship between God’s Holy Spirit and His Son Jesus please see this link:

https://sumofthyword.com/2017/02/17/trinity-true-or-false/

Before we examine the final place in Job where the phrase “sons of God” is used let’s explore Genesis 6 with a little more context:

Genesis 6:1-7 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, (2) that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose. (3) And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. (4) The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. (5) And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (6) And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (7) And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Please notice again that Jehovah clearly labeled the “sons of God” in verse 2 as “men” in verse 3 who in their carnal flesh took for themselves “daughters of men” of all they chose to marry so that God’s Spirit would no longer strive with them. 

Man’s heart was only evil continually to the point that Jehovah repented that He had made men for they grieved Him in His heart. 

Not one place in that text does God blame angels whether righteous or fallen for all the sin but He does mention man/men ten times as the focal point of his anger for most of the corruption on the earth before the flood:

Genesis 6:8-13 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah. (9) These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God. (10) And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (11) And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. (12) And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. (13) And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

There is a very clear distinction made between Cain and Seth! Cain was driven from the presence of God as an unrighteous soul:

Genesis 4:13-16 And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. (14) Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me. (15) And Jehovah said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And Jehovah appointed a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should smite him. (16) And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

In all three passages in the bible where Cain is mentioned outside of Genesis chapter 4, he is described as offering up a poor sacrifice of unrighteous self works:

Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.

He was led of the evil one, who we know to be satan, to slay his brother:

1 John 3:11-12 For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: (12) not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Cain only understood naturally, like creatures without reason which are to be destroyed, for not loving one another such as his brother Abel:

Jude 1:10-11 But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed. (11) Woe unto them! for they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.

Whereas Seth was the only son of Adam described to be after his own likeness and image:

Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

This is the same likeness and image that was passed from God to Adam:

Genesis 1:26-27 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (27) And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

God proved that our image and likeness of Him did not include our flesh:

Genesis 6:3 And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

The English word “man” in that text came from the Hebrew word “Adam”. Eve was taken out of Adam and became the mother of all humans who ever lived on the face of the earth:

Genesis 3:20 And the man called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Eve understood that Cain was driven out from the presence of God and another seed needed to come to replace Abel:

Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For, said she, God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.

Abel was a prophet who prophesied by his offering that God would someday provide a perfect firstborn Lamb as the final offering for sin:

Luke 11:49-51 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they shall kill and persecute; (50) that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; (51) from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

Genesis 4:3-5 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah. (4) And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering: (5) but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

For this offering Abel was recognized by Jesus as righteous. Adam and Eve were given Seth to replace righteous Abel:

Matthew 23:35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

Eve knew Cain and his seed were rejected as sons by the Most High so she was looking for the seed she called Seth to replace Abel. Seth and His lineage were commanded by the Most High God to remain separated from the lineage of Cain:

Deuteronomy 32:7-8 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. (8) When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

These “sons of God” were to remain separated from those God had driven from His face. God followed through with this same principle and commanded it to His sons in Israel’s day:

Deuteronomy 7:3-4  Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.  (4)  For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

So Adam passed on to Seth the same likeness and image he inherited from God. Then Adam begat Seth who begat Enosh in that same likeness and image. Then Adam, Seth, and Enosh as three began to call upon the name of God:

Genesis 4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.

Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

The truth above should be enough to convince us that the “sons of God” were the lineage of Seth that took the daughters of Cain to marry but some Christians are convinced that Job chapter 38 proves “angels” are “sons of God” in the OT:

Job 38:6-7 Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner stone thereof, (7) When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

One of the biggest errors we as Christians make is to think God exists on a linear timeline like we do. God operates outside of time and exists from everlasting to everlasting. He also has the power to declare the end from the beginning:

Isaiah 46:9-10 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me; (10) declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

This was proven by God choosing us before the foundation of the world:

Ephesians 1:3-4 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: (4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

God also proved this by the works being finished from the foundation of the world:

Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

There is only one foundation and corner stone and He is Jesus Christ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world but was not manifested until the end of the times:

Isaiah 28:16 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believeth shall not be in haste.

1 Corinthians 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:19-20 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, even the blood of Christ: (20) who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake,

1 Peter 2:6-7 Because it is contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame. (7) For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;

Ephesians 2:20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;

In Job chapter 38, God was clearly addressing Job nearly 2000 years before Christ came while at the same time declaring the end from the beginning when He spoke of the corner stone of Jesus having already been laid which causes ALL the “sons of God” to shout for joy:

Job 38:6-7 Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner stone thereof, (7) When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Not one “fallen angel” would shout for joy about the corner stone of Jesus being laid 2000 years ago!

All angels stand by the throne of the Father whether the fallen to His left or the righteous to His right waiting to be sent forth by the Father as ministering spirits:

1 Kings 22:19-23 And Micaiah said, Therefore hear thou the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left. (20) And Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner; and another said on that manner. (21) And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah, and said, I will entice him. (22) And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also: go forth, and do so. (23) Now therefore, behold, Jehovah hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; and Jehovah hath spoken evil concerning thee.

Not one of those spirits have flesh and bones as Jesus and man:

Luke 24:39 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye behold me having.

They are all ministering spirits sent forth to do the will of the Father:

Hebrews 1:13-14 But of which of the angels hath he said at any time, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet? (14) Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?

All angels whether fallen or righteous are completely under the control of our Father as His ministering spirits so not one of them ever went rogue and married women!  Man will also be as angels in heaven who neither marry or are given in marriage:

Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

All “fallen angels” are referred to in the scriptures as demons, evil spirits, or unclean spirits for we wrestle against all these principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness, and spiritual hosts of wickedness:

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Some unclean spirits are more wicked than others but they all desire to seek rest by inhabiting the watery house(body) of any foolish male or female believer who is swept of their old sins but have not filled themselves with the Word:

2 Peter 1:9 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

Matthew 12:43-45 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. (44) Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. (45) Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.

Fallen angels have no interest in merely marrying and procreating with human females as they do not differentiate based on sex or flesh:

1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fishes.

They desire a watery house to inhabit regardless of whether it’s a male or female human or swine:

Luke 8:32-33 Now there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they entreated him that he would give them leave to enter into them. And he gave them leave. (33) And the demons came out from the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.

So therefore the flesh that the majority of God’s anger is turned toward is man for in his natural carnal state he has no preeminence over the beasts of the earth:

Ecclesiastes 3:18-19 I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts. (19) For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.

The “sons of men” in their carnal state of flesh have no preeminence above the beasts and since the scriptures CANNOT be broken that would include the “daughters of men” in their carnal state of flesh.

The “sons of God” should not have lusted after and married the “daughters of men” for their disobedience caused God to repent that He made man:

Genesis 6:4-7 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, (2) that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose. (3) And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. (4) The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. (5) And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (6) And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (7) And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

We know that God condemned Cain to be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth for murdering his brother:

Genesis 4:12 when thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee its strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.

So Cain’s likeness and image as a murderer was spreading through his lineage for Cain’s descendant, named Lamech, killed both a man and a young man:

Genesis 4:23-24 And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me: (24) If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

So if murder was becoming commonplace and righteous men were marrying unrighteous women then it would not be surprising at all for God to have given them up unto a reprobate mind:

Romans 1:28-32 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; (29) being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, (30) backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, (31) without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: (32) who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

We must not forget that before the flood it was not very strange at all for man to converse with the beasts of the field for Eve very casually discussed with a serpent about eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil:

Genesis 3:1-5  Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?  (2)  And the woman said unto the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:  (3)  but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.  (4)  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:  (5)  for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

Please remember it was not until after the flood that God put fear and dread of man into animals minds for God also declared they would become food for man after the flood:

Genesis 9:2-4 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; with all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered. (3) Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all. (4) But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

So if man and animal were able to fully communicate and “every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was only evil continually” it would not be very surprising for beastiality to have become rampant upon the earth before the flood:

Leviticus 18:22-25 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. (23) And thou shalt not lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith; neither shall any woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: it is confusion. (24) Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; (25) and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Many forms of sexual abominations and confusion had defiled the land of Canaan after the flood where no beasts were able to communicate with man but rather feared him.

How much more would deviate sexual perversion and murder been devised in the heart of man when the beasts could also communicate their lusts with man before the flood.

It would not be hard to imagine how corrupt all flesh would have become to the point the whole earth was ready to vomit out the inhabitants so that Father had to destroy the earth as well:

Genesis 6:11-13 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. (12) And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. (13) And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

As a side note this website contains an interactive calculator that allows a person to estimate the population of the earth at the time of Noah’s flood with a possibility of up to 30 billion people:

http://www.amunrud.com/noah/population.html

But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah as one who was a righteous man and perfect in his generations which was to walk with God as his great grandfather Enoch did:

Genesis 6:8-9 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah. (9) These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

Genesis 5:21-24 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: (22) and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: (23) and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: (24) and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Noah was perfect and righteous among all those generations of brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins who sprung out of his grandfather Methuselah’s sons and daughters after he begat Noah’s father Lamech who also had sons and daughters after he begat Noah:

Genesis 5:26  and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:30  And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

Methuselah and Lamech both died just before Noah entered the ark but all their generations lived around Noah while he built the ark. Not one of “his generations” were righteous enough for God to invite on the ark with Noah and his immediate family:

Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

Jude is another scripture that some try to twist to prove “fallen angels” are “sons of God”:

Jude 1:5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Jude was simply trying to give us examples of how God is no respecter of Christians or angels who choose to leave their “principality” which comes from the Greek word “arche” and means their “beginning”:

Jude 1:6 And angels that kept not their own principality(arche), but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning(arche) unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

The angels who chose to fall with satan in eternity past are now “principalities” cursed with everlasting bonds under spiritual darkness that roam the heavenly places where Christians wrestle with them:

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities(arche), against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

Jude was not implying the angels that left their proper habitation were committing fornication like Sodom and Gomorrah:

Jude 1:7  Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. (8) Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.

If one pays close attention to grammar it becomes very apparent that it is “the cities about” Sodom and Gomorrah that “having in like manner with “Sodom and Gomorrah had “given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh”. This is obviously speaking about homosexual desires of the whole city that exceeded their desire for Lot’s two virgin daughters:

Genesis 19:4-11  But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter; (5) and they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men that came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. (6) And Lot went out unto them to the door, and shut the door after him. (7) And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly. (8) Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof. (9) And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. (10) But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. (11) And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Jude was proving that both angels and Christians who choose to teach contrary to God’s purpose will be anathema which means to be accursed:

Galatians 1:8-9 But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema. (9) As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

So history(His~story) throughout the bible from Genesis to Revelation will always repeat about only those “sons of God” living and walking as “sons of God” will be taken:

Matthew 24:40 Then shall two men be in the field; one is taken, and one is left:

There are some teachers trying to take these two passages and force the “they” in Daniel 2:43 to mean the angels who were cast out of heaven:

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

Daniel 2:40-45 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things; and as iron that crusheth all these, shall it break in pieces and crush. (41) And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. (42) And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. (43) And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay. (44) And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (45) Forasmuch as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Anyone who pays very close attention to the context of Daniel 2:40-45 can clearly see that the Holy Spirit was implying that the “they” was potter’s clay of many nations mixing with the strength of iron which represents the old Roman empire that is revived as part of the final beast kingdom:

Daniel 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.

Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

The Holy Spirit uses Paul to then define our Father as the potter who has a right to make both vessels of honor and dishonor out of the same “man” of clay which Strong’s concordance defines as dust of the ground:

Romans 9:20-21 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus? (21) Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

Genesis 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man(adam) of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H6083&t=KJV

There will be more truth added to this teaching as more leaven surfaces that needs to be corrected with our Father’s Word :o)

The moment a person believes that Jesus is the Son of God who died for their sins and rose again they are “saved”:

Romans 10:9 because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

They immediately become a born again baby Christian who is first “saved” and then called with a holy calling according to our Father’s purpose and grace:

2 Timothy 1:8-9 Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God(our Father); (9) who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; (20) for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

We are now debtors to God to be led of His Spirit in the putting to death our flesh as we bring our bodies completely under submission to Him:

Romans 8:12-14 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: (13) for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Our Father often uses the word “if” in His Word to set up a conditional clause to warn His sons that we have a responsibility to put to death our old nature of sin such as fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry or we will receive His wrath as sons of disobedience:

Colossians 3:1-6  If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.  (2)  Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.  (3)  For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.  (4)  When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.  (5)  Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;  (6)  for which things’ sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:

Paul understood that even he could be rejected by God for not bringing his body into bondage to Him and His Word:

1 Corinthians 9:27 but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

We are told by Jesus that it would be better to cut off any part of our body that causes us to sin rather than to continue in that sin and be cast into hell:

But Peter warned us some who were bought with the price of Jesus would deny their Master by bringing destructive heresies into the church and drawing other Christians into their lascivious teachings:

2 Peter 2:1-3 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. (2) And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of. (3) And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

Those Christians who choose to destroy their temple by denying their Master are promised by God that he will destroy both their soul and body in hell:

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? (17) If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

Matthew 10:28 And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

One of the ways some Christians will destroy their temple is to fall away from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons:

1 Timothy 4:1-2 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, (2) through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

That is why Paul warned us to use the promises of the Word to cleanse our temple of all defilement of flesh and the many evil seducing spirits that tempt us to go against our Father’s Word:

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

James 4:7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Those promises when exercised are the armor against the wiles of the devil and his many evil spirits we wrestle against:

Ephesians 6:11-13 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (12) For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (13) Wherefore take up the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

We are to live by faith in the promises but if we shrink back from standing on them we are not pleasing to our Father and worthy of perdition which is hell:

Hebrews 10:38-39 But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him. (39) But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.

Jesus referred to this shrinking back as putting our hand to the plow and looking back:

Luke 9:62 But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

We are to continually forget those things of the world that we must leave behind as we continue to press toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus:

Philippians 3:12-14 Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus. (13) Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before. (14) I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

As Christians, we are to abide in the Word by faith continuously purifying ourselves with the promises of the Word but those who continue to live for the flesh are denying the Master who bought them:

1 John 3:3-6 And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. (4) Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness. (5) And ye know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin. (6) Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.

The Christian who is drawn away from this responsibility by his own lust risks spiritual death:

James 1:13-15 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: (14) but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. (15) Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

But the man that endures the temptation and is approved will receive the crown of life for he has proven his love for His Master Jesus:

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

To be approved for the crown of life requires us to endure the fiery trials while also committing our souls in well-doing unto our faithful Creator:

1 Peter 4:12-19 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you: (13) but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy. (14) If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you. (15) For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men’s matters: (16) but if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name. (17) For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?(18) And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear? (19) Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.

Paul warned Christians to prove they are discerning His body or they would bring damnation upon themselves and be condemned with the world in hell:

1 Corinthians 11:27-32 Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. (28) But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. (29) For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh damnation unto himself, if he discern not the body. (30) For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. (31) But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged. (32) But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Christians are to become so sold out to Christ they they love not their lives unto death:

Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

This is called striving against sin to the point of being willing to die for our faith! Father promises to chasten us to keep us from being condemned with the world but also knows who in the church is not worthy of chastening for they have proven themselves bastards:

Hebrews 12:4-8 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin: (5) and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him; (6) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. (7) It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father chasteneth not? (8) But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Unfortunately many Christians prove they are bastards by not heeding past chastening that was to prod them to mature from a spiritual babe on milk to the meat of the Word that washes away the carnality of the soul:

1 Corinthians 3:1-3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. (2) I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able; (3) for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?

The Word of God is very clear that every Christian is to mature from a babe in Christ to a full grown son:

Hebrews 5:11-6:3  Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. (12) For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. (13) For every one that partaketh of milk is without experience of the word of righteousness; for he is a babe. (14) But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil. (6:1)  Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, (6:2) of the teaching of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. (6:3) And this will we do, if God permit.

Only Christians partake of the Holy Spirit with the Word of God but those who chose to fall away from pressing onto perfection that bears fruit will be burned in the fires of hell:

Hebrews 6:4-8 For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, (5) and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, (6) and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. (7) For the land which hath drunk the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receiveth blessing from God: (8) but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.

God works in us to will and do His good pleasure so all we need to do is yield in obedience to His Word and Holy Spirit leading us to work out our own salvation in fear of our Father:

Philippians 2:12-13 So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; (13) for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

We are deceiving ourselves if we only hear the Word but do not act upon its many promises:

James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Being a doer of the Word is to become a “living sacrifice” by being transformed through the renewing of our mind in the Word:

Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. (2) And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

A “living sacrifice” is one who learns to die to this life that the life of Jesus will manifest in the mortal flesh of our bodies while here on earth:

2 Corinthians 4:10-11 always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. (11) For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Jesus expects us to sacrifice our life to be His disciple:

Luke 14:26-27 & 33  If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. (27) Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple…. (33) So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

We are told 6 times that the believer who does not lose his life for the life of Christ will not gain eternal life:

Matthew 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Matthew 16:25  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Mark 8:35  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.

Luke 9:24  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Luke 17:33  Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

John 12:25  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

It would be better for a Christian not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back into the sin of the world:

2 Peter 2:20-22  For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. (21) For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. (22) It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

God is no respecter of persons for He promises wrath on every Christian who chooses to walk in unrighteousness rather than obeying the truth:

Romans 2:6-11 who will render to every man according to his works: (7) to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life: (8) but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation, (9) tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek; (10) but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek: (11) for there is no respect of persons with God.

The devil already has the world devoured so he is seeking the Christians who are not resisting him through stedfastness in the Word by faith:

1 Peter 5:8-9 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, (9) whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.

James 4:7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Jesus warned us that we must fill our mind and heart with the Word and Spirit soon after salvation or the demons that departed will come back with more wicked ones and the last state will be worse than the first:

Matthew 12:43-45 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not. (44) Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. (45) Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.

This Christian was cleansed of his old sins but he wasn’t actively making his calling and election sure:

2 Peter 1:9-11 For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. (10) Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble: (11) for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

We are called by our Father as children of obedience to gird up our minds with His Word seeking to be holy as our Father is holy:

1 Peter 1:13-16 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (14) as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: (15) but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; (16) because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

As believers we are commanded to present ourselves as servants of obedience unto righteousness:

Romans 6:12-16 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: (13) neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. (14) For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. (15) What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. (16) Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Jesus came to set us free from the bondage of sin but if we choose to continue in sin we become a bondservant of sin and will not abide in God’s house forever as His sons will:

John 8:34-37 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin. (35) And the bondservant abideth not in the house for ever: the son abideth for ever. (36) If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. (37) I know that ye are Abraham’s seed: yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

Those saints who allow the Word of God to have free course in them will present themselves as servants unto obedience to God and will have their fruit unto sanctification and in their end eternal life:

Romans 6:20-22 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness. (21) What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. (22) But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

Paul was agreeing with Jesus’ parable where we are born again branches in Jesus as the Vine who must bear His fruit unto sanctification:

John 15:1- 3 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (2) Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. (3) Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.

Our Father as the husbandman(gardener) expects us to bear the fruit of His Vine who is His Word that we must abide in or risk being cut back off of Jesus and cast into the fires of hell:

John 15:4-6 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. (5) I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. (6) If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

To abide in Jesus is to study the Word of God with a hunger and thirst for righteousness as His disciples:

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

John 8:31-32 Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples; (32) and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

A true disciple will seek to be filled with the knowledge of his will desiring to walk worthily of the Lord bearing His fruit in every good work:

Colossians 1:9-10 For this cause we also,since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, (10) to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Whether we are likened to a branch on the vine or as a tree, the requirement to bear good fruit is always the same or be cast into the fires of hell:

Matthew 7:15-20 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. (16) By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? (17) Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. (18) A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. (19) Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (20) Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Paul was warning the church at Galatia that those Christians who practice the works of their flesh will not inherit the kingdom of God but those who learn to be led by the Holy Spirit will bear the good fruit:

Galatians 5:14-25 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (15) But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. (16) But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. (17) For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would. (18) But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. (19) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, (20) idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, (21) envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) meekness, self-control; against such there is no law. (24) And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof. (25) If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

The devil desires to distract us with cares and riches and pleasures of this life so we are too busy to listen and be led of the Spirit to hear the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience as the parable of the sower teaches:

Luke 8:11-15 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. (12) And those by the way side are they that have heard; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. (13) And those on the rock are they who, when they have heard, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. (14) And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. (15) And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Our land must become the good ground that receives the seed of the Word bearing good fruit as all three parables of the sower prove when brought together:

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The more we exercise our faith to manifest the fruits of the Spirit the more we learn to love even those who persecute us that we may prove we are sons of our Father:

Matthew 5:43-48 Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy: (44) but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you; (45) that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. (46) For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? (47) And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same? (48) Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

No matter what persecution comes our way we must endure unto our end to be saved:

Matthew 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

Matthew 24:12-13 And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold. (13) But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

Father’s sons learn to be doers of all His Word and not just hearers:

James 1:21-25 Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. (22) But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. (23) For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: (24) for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. (25) But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

Only those Christians who do the will of the Father will enter into the kingdom of heaven:

Matthew 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. (22) Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works? (23) And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

We as Gentile Christians are grafted into the ONE olive tree but can be cut back off for being highminded rather than continuing in the goodness of God:

Romans 11:19-22  Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. (20) Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear: (21) for if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee. (22) Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

A highminded Christian is one who continues to exalt the things of the flesh rather than learning to be led by the Spirit:

Romans 8:5-8 For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. (6) For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace: (7) because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be: (8) and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Paul warned that many brethren walk contrary to the Spirit of God minding earthly things whose end will be perdition which is hell bound:

Philippians 3:17-19 Brethren, be ye imitators together of me, and mark them that so walk even as ye have us for an ensample. (18) For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: (19) whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Those who mind earthly things continue to love the world and the things in the world:

1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

We are to live in this world without partaking in their sins:

1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; (10) not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: (11) but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

The brother in Christ who continues to be friends with the world is becoming the enemy of God:

James 4:4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

We are to learn to come out from among the world and be separate touching no unclean thing in the world so God will receive us:

2 Corinthians 6:16-18 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (17) Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you, (18) And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

To do the will of God is to learn to die to the world so that we bear much fruit:

John 12:24-26 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit. (25) He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. (26) If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be:if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.

The Christian who sows to his flesh shall reap corruption(hell) but he that sows to the Spirit shall reap eternal life:

Galatians 6:7-9 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (8) For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life. (9) And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

As soldiers of Christ we must learn to increasingly become untangled from the affairs of this life:

2 Timothy 2:3-4 Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. (4) No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

But in these last days many Christians love the pleasures of this life more than they love God. They hold a form of godliness but deny His power to put to death the deeds of their flesh:

2 Timothy 3:1-7 But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. (2) For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (3) without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, (4) traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (5) holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away. (6) For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts, (7) ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

These shepherds and their sheep are ever learning the Word but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and are as autumn trees without the good fruit who are twice dead:

Jude 1:12 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

It is our soul that can be “twice dead” for our body can only die a physical death once:

Hebrews 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

We as souls were first spiritually dead before we were born from above:

Ephesians 2:4-5 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, (5) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),

But the Christian soul who chooses to error from the truth and live in wilful sin will become “twice dead” if he or she refuses to repent from that sin:

James 5:19-20 My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; (20) let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

Hebrews 10:26-27 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries.

As believers we are to continuously lay up the promises of the Word in our heart using them to cleanse us from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God:

Psalms 119:11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The Christian soul who does not fear God enough to do this just may end up “twice dead” in hell as Jesus warned His disciples:

Matthew 10:28 And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.