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GOD IS ONE

PART 2

MAY 2006

 WE ENDED THE APRIL ISSUE WITH BRO. JACKSON ESTABLISHING THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD THE CREATOR, SO WE WILL START THIS ISSUE WITH THE LAST FEW WORDS OF THE APRIL ISSUE.

God had a plan. In this plan it would be a necessity for Him to bring this earth out of its previous judged state. He did not do all of this, and then, after He got it done, say, Now let me see, what will I use it for? He already had a plan, and for that plan He would need a new earth. He did not make another planet. He brought the earth back out of that judged, chaotic state and put life back on it.

Everything God did was all in His foreordained plan. We know what happened, and that was all in His mind before the foundation of the world. The sin of man and the consequences of that sin was all known of God also. Well what does that prove? It proves that He did all of this after the counsel of His own will, His ability to make a choice, make up His mind, I will do what I want to do, it is my business. (So to speak) That is how we have to look at it, and that is what Paul is saying in the scripture we just read. Therefore Paul could say you and I were absolutely chosen in Him before the birds started chirping and before the stars twinkled. I like that. That is when that Logos in the plan of God begins to take on a position in this glorious plan of His. He brings forth His created Son Adam; and the man starts out sinless, and the Creator had given them a perfect garden where there was no sin, just total peace. God left the man there, being capable of making a choice, because it was God who made a choice in the beginning, and furthermore He knew what our choice would be, so therefore He knew exactly how to predestinate us. He knew the thought we would have, the choice we would make and how to go about His plan. All of this was designed by God before the sun even rose. Once God began to project the thoughts out of His mind into activity, creation started. That is why I can see Christ, as He said over here in Revelation, He is the beginning of the creation of God, He is the means by how God has chose to redeem and reconcile this sinful planet, and this sinful people out of this state, renew them, and renew the earth. That is why this earth must be ruled by a man who sits with all the attributes of God imputed into Him. How wonderful, that when the Millennium period is over and that last judgment is set, and the power of God that has been delegated to His Son is exercised, and through all that time His immortal Bride is ruling and reigning with Him. That is a period of a thousand years, and this redemption process will be completed. Do you understand? It is a period of redemption; and you are going to be part of it. It is not that you are making another planet, but you are helping by establishing new laws and authority and in the end, judging everything that is in the grave and that is in hell, and that is cast away forever. What does that make the earth then? It is a new heaven. When the Bible says a new heaven, get your eyes off of Mars. Did you know there is not a man on earth today that can determine the destiny of Mars. Scientists can tell you where every one of those little old specks are going to be a million years from now. Do you know why? It is because of the fact, that when God put them out there in space, everything functions precisely as He ordained. He does not need help out there. How many realize that? That is not your devilish world: it is another planet. When Jesus said, Whatsoever you bind on earth, will be bound in heaven, was He talking about something out there on Venus or Mars? No. He was talking about the spirit world: that spirit sphere around this planet earth. That is where the devil and all his imps are doing their evil deeds. That is exactly where Christ is sitting on the throne right now. I used to think that any time you talk about heaven, you are talking about all beyond the stars. No. That would be star gazing. That is what I say, you are just star gazing. As long as you think like that, you are doing exactly what the devil wants you to do, think beyond the reality of your sphere of knowledge. I say to everyone of you, I want you to know you do not have to be concerned or worry about how all of that out there functions, because God knows exactly where every one of those planets are and what they are out there for. When He put them there, He was not going to let the devil mess them up. It is what is right down here in our part of God’s creation, that the devil was given an opportunity to function in, because he made a choice himself, right here on this earth. I Just want to emphasize the fact, that a new heaven and a new earth, does not mean the celestial bodies out there will be made new. They are not going to be changed. Then when you turn to Revelation 22, in your Bible, what did John see? Behold I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away. Did he mean that Mars, Jupiter and all those have taken their flight from where they are now? He is definitely not talking about that at all. He is talking about this planet earth and this atmosphere, this sphere around the earth. What did he see about the earth? There was no more sea. (I like to talk about this.) Oh Bro. Jackson, you are not a scientist, so how can you? I know I am not, and you are not either, but I wonder why John saw it and wrote it that way? There has to be a logical explanation.

EVENTS AHEAD OF US

Knowing that God has revealed from His word the things that are yet to be, I believe, that in the plan of God, one day when Jesus is delegated the task of ruling this earth and He is manifested from the heavens, He will come first to receive His Bride. Then seven years later, we are going to come back with Him, back down here to begin that long Millennium period. I believe also, because of the scriptures, that He is the Redeemer sent forth to recreate and redeem this planet back to the eternal Father. Therefore I believe, that during that thousand year reign, there is going to be a magnetic pull of all this water we are familiar with, so that it returns back to how it was before the great flood of Noah’s day. (Two thirds of the earth’s crust is covered with water.) I believe, that before the ark was built, and before the flood, there was no such thing as huge oceans. You had lakes and rivers only, but when it rained forty days and forty nights, where did all that water come from? It plainly tells us in (Gen 7:11-13) that the fountains of the great deep were turned loose to bring the flood upon the earth; and only part of those waters have been drawn back up since that time, so we have oceans and seas, instead of rivers and lakes. Notice, “In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (12) And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. (13) In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark.” That should be clear enough. As pertaining to the terminology used there, When it says the great deep opened up, it is not referring to a hole in the ground: It speaks of all that water out there in space that had formed a vapor barrier around the earth, being turned loose to flood the earth. If sin had not entered into the picture and caused God to curse the earth with a flood, that water would still be out there where it was before. Also in the six thousand years of time, this earth would have been completely repopulated, and you would see beautiful vegetation everywhere, and would not have to think about storms or freezing weather. There would be no huge oceans or seas, and this planet earth would have had a perfect climate the entire time. I hope you understand what I mean by saying all of this? God started it out the way I have just indicated; and it was an act of judgment by the almighty God that brought all that water out of space and put it down here, first to cleanse the earth of sinful mankind; and then to leave enough of it for us to have to deal with. Now if that Millennium reign is going to be a redeeming and recreating process, it will bring about a new earth wherein there is no more seas or oceans, but not just suddenly: The Millennium is not just a word to describe that particular time on earth: it actually means one thousand, and we know it is one thousand years. God has His own way of doing things: He is not going to ask any of these long haired scientists what He should do, like, Now are you gentlemen going to agree with me? No Saints, God has a way of causing things to happen; and everything He does, no matter how drastic, it is working out something in His plan for redeeming the earth and believing mankind back to His original picture. Did you ever watch the sun at a certain time of day, how it draws water? I know you have. Well if it can draw water back up so that it can rain a few hours later, just suppose the sun starts drawing water and it lasts for a thousand years. How many can see what I am getting to, a redemption, and a righteous rule? God has a right to rid from the earth a curse that was brought here by judgment, and if at one time it was frozen up in ice and He got rid of the ice, then we should not doubt His plan of redemption and recreation of this planet by a thousand years of righteous rule with righteous saints ruling, and the knowledge of the Lord covering the earth as the waters that cover the sea. No scientists will be asked to make a giant water pump to pump the water back out into space, the great deep that we read about in Genesis. God uses the elements of nature to pull it all right back there and puts it back up there as a vapor barrier. Then as the planet earth goes through the Millennial rule of Christ Jesus and on into the eternal age, that will be world without end, a new heaven and a new earth, as we find it described in Ephesians and Revelation. I do not know exactly why I got onto that subject, but I just have to say, If Christ is the beginning of the creation of God, it has got to be the means of bringing about the redeeming that produces a new creation. It is not referring to creating another planet: It just simply speaks of the final results of this redeeming process. It is the redeeming process and the things He has the capability of doing, that makes this so precious, so go with me to Ephesians 3. I like the way Paul brings this out. He was the Jewish apostle that had the revelation to lay a foundation in the spiritual mentality of a Gentile people, that we would be able to know what God has designed before time and how slowly this comes about, and is materialized in the lives of the redeemed. Paul is saying in the 3^rd chapter, as he is telling about this mystery, how in other ages it was not made known to man. As we come to verse 9, Paul begins to explain it like this, “And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things.” Let me ask you, Do you really think he is talking about the whole human race? He is not. He is talking about the redeemed family of God. They are the only ones that are going to see and understand what the apostle Paul is describing. I know it says, To make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, but I can say for certain, that the world at large does not want to have fellowship with us in any of the revelation God has so graciously bestowed upon His bride saints. They do not want to know any more about what we believe. We believe some things that have been revealed to us by the Spirit of God, and denominational religious people do not want to have anything to do with what we teach. Saints, you just see yourselves sitting there in a pew, but I want you to know, this little congregation is reflecting a picture of something precious, to all who will receive it. You are reflecting a revelation of something the religious world has never had and does not want. We did not ask God for this privilege, but He designed it to be like it is. One of these days the world will find out we know something they do not know, but it will be too late for it to help them. I just have to say to every one of you who love truth, Saints: let’s live it, let’s be thankful to God for it; and let’s be ready to share it with any hungry soul that asks us in sincerity. Let us continue on with this 9^th verse, because I want us to get the picture straight. The apostle Paul is speaking of how God wants us to see what is the fellowship of this mystery God has revealed concerning Gentile people, “which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, (Yes, though it was prophesied in the Old Testament, it was never revealed. It was hid in GOD) who created all things (and the Trinitarian translators added), by Jesus Christ.” Well saints, Jesus Christ had nothing to do with the creation of the world. When I read that verse right out of the Hebrew language, we come down here where I am reading right out of the Hebrew scriptures, the same verse ends without the words, by Jesus Christ, so le me read it in your hearing. “And to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery, which for ages has been hid in Elohim, who created all things.” Now what does that say? It is God Himself that created all things. God did not need help. When He designed this plan, He was not saying to the Son, Now Son, do you agree with this? If you want to climb a tree because of my words that is your privilege: you can take them up a tree if you want to. For you who respect the scriptures I will say, When you are dealing with one God, you are dealing with one Sovereign mind that did all the designing of everything, all the planning of everything, before He ever created anything. When He sovereignly brought the Son into existence, it is to be by the Son and through the Son, that He is seeking to redeem and reconcile something back to Himself; and we have been speaking of the process. That my brothers and sisters, is redemption. I am thankful to God for the wonderful privilege of being called a son of the living God; and I know all of you are also. We were all foreknown of Him, before He ever created anything at all. Praise His great name!

HOW CARNAL MEN DEPART FROM TRUTH

I want to take a few minutes to talk about something apart from the “God Is One,” message we are on. I have always said this, The end picture will tell you what God has been drawing before you all through the centuries. God has never given the revelation of any one particular thing in the beginning of time. There always seems to be a little something He will add every few generations, that will make it a little more clear to those who are open to revelation. Yet with all that, you can see exactly what some people will do with it. That is why I want to say something now, that does not go with my announced subject, and I will read it from Genesis. It is about the Sabbath. You do not see the word Sabbath, mentioned any more until you go to Exodus. Now just think it over. Mankind had lived for almost two thousand years under Grace. Look at the way he went with it. He perverted and tore everything all to pieces. When the days of Noah came into focus, man had drifted so far away from his knowledge of what his ancestors had told him about God, that they had substituted it with every kind of devil worship under the sun. It seems to be in the pattern of man in his carnality, to always institute some kind of ceremony that is pleasing to himself, regardless of how far it is from God’s announced way. That is exactly what we have in the world today. I do not want to stray too far away from my message, but bear with me for a little while. If you have your Bible with you, turn with me to chapter 3, of the book of Revelation. This verse of scripture tells us a lot. I had preached on this last Sunday night and read this verse along with my subject, but after I had ended my sermon and sat down, they were leading the song for the ending of the service, and it was just like the Lord flashed something before my mind, What did you read? I had read the 14^th verse, which says, “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; (Now I want to ask the question, How many know what age we are living in? That is the point right now. What age are we living in? The age of Laodicea. Do not allow anyone to tell you we are not living in that age. That is a spirit in the Gentile religious world, but these words are not for the religious people of the world; they are for people that are going to be of the Bride of Christ out of this hour of time. Notice that it says, Unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans. I grant you, two thousand years ago, there was a natural city by the name of Laodicea and a natural church there also, but all of that are in ruins today. Those natural churches of that area set a type, and that is why the Lord used them to set a type for the dispensations of Grace. We are living in the last age of the time of grace for Gentiles. Why was this not spoken of in some other period? Unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,) These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, (That is none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.) the beginning of the creation of God.” Now every last one of you sitting here could have the natural thought, Oh that goes way back before there was a sun, moon, or stars or anything. If you do, you have it all wrong. I am going to prove to you by God’s grace, you that have a spiritual ear to hear, that this is not even talking about the prehistoric world at all. It is talking about the hour of time you live in. Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness, did not exist thirty million years ago, except in the mind of the Creator. Yet the word creation is used here; and it throws some completely off course. Let us go back over into Genesis and see where this word creation comes in and how it can be used. Back in Genesis, chapter 2, as I read these first four verses, I want you to realize this morning, that the planet you now live on was not just created and manifested into existence six thousand years ago. Get that out of your head if you are thinking like that. These religious people in the world today, even though they are coming by the bus loads, you cannot tell them anything they will accept, beyond what they are traditionally holding on to. They will say, I believe in true biblical holiness that is ordained of God, but I have to answer that like this, If you just try to live a type of holy image and have nothing else to go with it, you are going to come up short. Notice, “Thus the heavens and the earth (The earth, is the planet we are living on.) were finished, and all the host of them. (That is talking about the galaxy of stars, and everything out there in space, so notice this), And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.” The religionists will say today, the earth was made in six twenty four hour days. It was not. He rested on the seventh day from all the work He had made, but you must get a right revelation of the seventh day. Now here is the verse that should be an eye opener to a lot of people, if they will consider all of it. “And God blessed the seventh day, (He had a reason, because it sets a precise type, and that type is going to carry us right straight on through time, even the Millennium, right on into the eternal age, as we see described in Revelation 21 and 22.) and sanctified it; because that in it He had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations (I do not care what language you speak, or what dictionary you use, GENERATIONS is not a word you use when referring to hours and weeks. Why did it say here, these are the generations? Why does it not say, These are the days?) of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.” Now He is not talking about this like He has just got through making the planet and the stars. What is He talking about? He is talking about the re-creating or renewing. In Genesis 1, it says, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, period. That takes you way back, including the original creation, or the prehistoric earth that was judged by the Creator. Then verse 2 says, The earth was without form and void. Why? Because God had judged it. What you read in Genesis 1:2, means, that at that time, there was no life, no habitation of any kind, nothing going on in this entire planet earth. It then goes forward from that setting, and we get our six successive creative days. They were not days when God created the planet: He was re-creating. That is exactly why, in Revelation 3:14, He (Jesus the Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is set forth as the beginning of the creation of God. He is not talking about sixty billion years ago: He is not even talking about six thousand years ago. He is talking about something in which He Himself, is going to be the main instrument, player, and/or person that stands out. If you can get it in your mind once and for all, that these creative days covered a period of approximately a thousand years each, you can begin to understand the terminology used in these accounts of the mighty works of God the Creator. Even a lot of scientists today are saying, as they find certain artifacts going way back, fossils and bones which go back to twelve thousand years or something. That goes to prove, as we go back that far, that this was about the time that God began to bring this planet earth out of that void state described in Genesis 1:2. I will say this to everyone this morning, Jesus the Christ, the Savior of mankind, had nothing to do with any of that which we have been referring to. The sooner we get that settled in our minds, the better we will understand the end picture that is approaching, because all through the Bible, God is known to have done things in a series of three’s. Prophets, priests and kings, and such like. There is much to be learned as we deal with this thought. You have to see this and settle it in your mind once and for all, that when God looked upon the deep and He began to move, it was the first day, then the second, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and then He rested on the seventh, I ask these antagonists, Where was man at that time? He was made on the sixth day, and it plainly tells you in verses 5-7, chapter 2, what all took place. “And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.” Well man was created on the sixth day, was he not? If God is talking about days of twenty four hours, where was the man when He rested? “But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.” I am going to say, that those first days were God’s stages of reclamation; and after He rested on the seventh day, we see Him bringing the righteous angels into the picture. They have already been tested way back in the prehistoric era of the planet, so now they are God’s helpers in this restoration. Those angels that fell, because of their sin and rebellion are judged: They are totally out of the picture on God’s side; and they are serving Satan whose name was Lucifer in the days of their testing. The righteous angels are assisting God in these creative days in bringing the earth back into a proper balance and relationship where the Ice from the Age of judgment is beginning to thaw. There has to be enough of a climate created in this gradual stage for plant life to eventually grow, which will then make it habitable for certain types of animal life. Everything is planned to work in stages.

GOD’S TIME TO GIVE THE MAN A BODY

If we can accept the fact that God was working this reclamation process in stages, then we can also see that the angels are working with Him to bring it all about. No wonder, in the 1^st chapter, the 26^th and 27^th verses, God said, Let us make man in our image: He had already created everything else, so He says to them, (the righteous angels) Let us make man in our own image and after our likeness. God was speaking that, of Himself and His angelic servants who were going to help Him; and certainly not to two other persons in the godhead, like the Trinitarians believe. That is as easy to see as the nose on your face, if people want to look at it right. Notice verse 7, of chapter 2; and then tell me who did the creating. Well you do not have to: this verse tells it all. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” When did He do that? Not at the end of the sixth creative day. He was already a spirit being in the presence of God on the sixth day. Every law that was to govern the propagation of himself once he was materialized or manifested on earth, had already been established in him, the laws of reproduction. Though the man was the last thing created on the sixth day of creation, (at least by the way it sounds) but we find here there is not a man to till the ground. “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.” Right there, was the beginning of life coming to pass on this planet. Let me say this, to every minister, to every congregation, and to every family that is hooked into this internet today, Man himself, (Adam) who consisted of both male and female spirit, has already been in the presence of God in spirit form when He rested on the seventh day. However when God made that one vessel out of clay, there was not another animal walking around anywhere. The animals were created first and man was created last on the sixth day of creation, but that was just the time when God spake the spirit part of him into existence. However as He brings man down in bodily form, He creates the garden and this is where God put a little bit of heaven, (the spirit world), for Adam to dwell in. After He put the man there, He then said, It is not good that man should dwell alone. What does He start doing? Now He starts bringing the animals into existence. Here is where they are no longer a spirit being, but He creates the physical part of each of them. That in itself, should begin to tell people something. Some people just look at the Bible and say, Well, I don’t need to know all those things. You will, if you are here in the end time, because the Bride Church is destined to come into that time with a revelation of the word of God. It is the devil’s purpose to degrade the Bible and make it appear like it has been written by a bunch of crazy men that did not know what they were talking about. Well I have to ask you this morning, What particular day was this, that He created man. Those first six days consisted of no less than six thousand years. The Sabbath that He enjoyed was another thousand years added on to that. All of that time God was waiting for this planet to get closer and closer and closer to the sun. He did not have to wonder when it would happen: He knew exactly when it would be where His next phase would fit in. As the sun and earth came into that perfect relationship, it begins to form a perfect climate everywhere. Not all the ice is melted suddenly, but as it does melt God knew the environment was getting right for what was next on the list. Look at the type, this was the beginning of the eighth day. Does anybody want to argue about that? That is the cycle, or we could say, That is the order of time. You have done had seven thousand years, the sixth, then the seventh which is the Sabbath. Now we come to another stage, don’t we? That is the beginning of Adam, the animal kingdom and life in flesh as it is manifested on the earth. God knew man was going to fall, through disobedience, but all of that was seen of Him before the act of creation started. I want you to know today, that God had already seen what would happen and this was all planned in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ before the first star was created. Let us look at this eighth day first, then we will go on through the scriptures. The eighth day has started, but then He puts man in the garden and tells him about the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. He warned Adam, while the feminine spirit was still in His body, The day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. The “day” that thou eatest thereof (of the tree of knowledge) thou shall surely die. Now saints I ask you, What is He talking about, a day of twenty four hours? No. He was talking about a day of one thousand years. Sure, we don’t know what particular day of twenty four hours it came about, but when it did, Adam did receive the death penalty. But did he die immediately. No. He lived to be nine hundred and thirty some years of age, which was almost a thousand years, but he did die in the same day he disobeyed his Creator; and that is because that day mentioned, was one thousand years. We can call it a dispensation of time. Can you see that? With that in mind, do not forget what day Adam was put there: It was the eighth day in the cycle. Well we want to look at something else now, so go with me to the gospel of John.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE WORD, “WORD”

As we go into St. John. 1:1 and 1:14, let us pay close attention to what we are dealing with. When denominational men read these two verses we are going to read here, they see Jesus as the Word, but to do so, is to put Him way back there millions and millions of years in the past. That is where they put Him, when they believe He was the WORD that was all the way back in the beginning of all creation. Let us read the two verses in John, that have been so misinterpreted for hundreds of years. (John 1:1) “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (The WORD was with God; and the WORD was God.) Where else could the thoughts of God have been except with Him. His thoughts were His yet unspoken WORD, so the Word was with God and the WORD was God. That is how John expressed his revelation, when he wrote the gospel by his name. The 14^th verse, is the one that has been so misinterpreted for so long, because education does not give revelation. (John 1:14) “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” I have explained the process by which the only begotten Son of God was born into the world from the womb of a Jewish virgin girl, so it should be sufficient to say, THE WORD, WHICH WAS AND IS GOD, MADE FLESH, when He created that cell of life in the womb of that virgin girl, but He Himself, was not made flesh, like the Trinitarian people believe. I just have to say, It is because they have no revelation, or they would know how ridiculous that belief is. John knew what he was talking about, but it was the people that came along later to carry the true revelation, that let Satan slip adverse thoughts into their mind. I am not the smartest man that will ever stand in your midst, but I look up and say, Thank you my God, for letting me see something in your word that overshadows and stands above all religious education. It is how God, by His divine grace, gives you a revelation, which is an understanding that goes beyond seminary teaching in the denominational institutions. Those verses, doctors of divinity have played with for hundreds of years. The Trinitarians have argued and fussed for centuries of time, without ever receiving a revelation of God’s word. In this 1^st chapter of St. John, the 18^th verse, is a verse that should shock us into reality. It is John doing the writing. “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, (Now notice, where did John say He was?) which is in the bosom of the Father, He (The One that was in the bosom of the Father, or we could say, The One whose body the Father is dwelling in, in the fullness of all His attributes, has declared Him, as we will read next.) hath declared Him.” To declare Him, is to revealed Him. That is what this means. Brothers and sisters; When John said, He that is in the bosom of the Father, what is he talking about? He is not talking about somebody standing there by His side. You do not know how many of the doctors of divinity, especially on the Trinitarian side, that have interpreted this word, “Word,” as if Christ Jesus is the Word; and the Father says to the Son, Now you do this, this and that; and then they turn right around and say, By His Word, He has created all things. Do you see the implication of such teaching? It is as if the Son was a little servant that the Father would delegate certain creative tasks to. All down through two thousand years of Gentile Christian learning, it has been like walking through a huge woods without a compass, because none of them knew exactly where they were going. That same writer wrote these words, “No man hath seen God at any time; (Now what is he saying? He is saying that God is an invisible being, so He cannot be seen.) the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father.” If He is in the bosom of the Father, He certainly is not standing by His side somewhere. In (1 John 4:12) we find that same expression, No man hath seen God at any time, used in a different setting. “If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.” Are you beginning to see how ridiculous it is, for anyone to say Jesus the only begotten Son of God was the WORD that He, God, used to create all things that are created? Was He? That is an expression used to describe the Father’s heartbeat, because His primary objective was to bring forth His begotten Son into existence at the proper time to fulfill His part in the Father’s redemptive process. When He does that, then He, God will start unfolding things down through time and it is up to you and me to have a spiritual mind that can receive what is made known. Our cry should be, Father, teach me, help me understand your word. When we do get understanding we have to say this, The Son up there with the Father, was not standing by His side already as a materialized being, else He would have been standing there for millions of years. It was a thought in the mind of the Creator, that was laying there in His mind for centuries upon centuries. The Father longed for the time when He could bring forth that Son, because He had foreordained that He would express, or reveal Him (His Father) to people on earth. That is exactly what His heart throb was, and the apostle John knew it. John the Baptist gave testimony of Him who was to come after himself, and he recognized Him and baptized Him, when the time came. This is John, the writer of the gospel of John, that is saying in these next verses, what John the Baptist had said about Jesus. We are in the 3^rd chapter, 31^st verse. “He that cometh from above (Who is he talking about? He is talking about the One he had baptized just a few days earlier.) is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, (Now he is relating the two, what is heavenly and what is earthly. He that is of the earth is earthly. In other words, no matter how smart we might be, we are earthly minded, we cannot think like He who is from above.) and speaketh of the earth: He that cometh from heaven is above all. And what He (He that came from above) hath seen and heard, that He testifieth; (That is exactly why He was sent.) and no man receiveth His testimony. (We will see that further on.) He that hath received His testimony hath set to His seal that God is true. (Now I love this part.) For He whom God hath sent (If He sent Him, it lets me know, that He who is in the bosom of the Father, was just a thought in His great mind before the time for the Son to be manifested in flesh.) speaketh the words of God: (No wonder the Pharisees and doctors of divinity of that day said, How can it be, that He knows so much and never learned letters? He never went to schools of the priests, but He confounded those at the temple with His wisdom.) for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him. (No, it was given to Him in the fullness of all the divine attributes of the Father, to be expressed in and through the person of the Son.) The father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” Now that is what John the Baptist was saying about the Son of God that had been made known unto him. In Him was embodied all the divine attributes of the invisible God that no man had ever seen. Now they are manifested in and through the person of His Son. It took this means for God to be able to express Himself to that generation of people. From this point, let us see what else John the writer says about it. He is writing the words of Jesus. Jesus says this in the 5^th chapter, 37^th verse of John. He has already started His ministry at this time. “And the Father Himself, which hath sent me.” Now see, He is saying, He sent me. Let me say this, there has been an old oneness phrase through the decades of the twentieth century, Jehovah of the Old was Jesus of the New. There is no such thing. We are going to wind up with this, Jehovah of the Old was in Jesus of the New. How does that sound? That puts together a different picture, doesn’t it? Jesus said, “And the Father Himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. (He has done that.) Ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen His shape. (He is invisible.) And ye have not His word abiding in you: for whom He hath sent, Him ye believe not.” Here was the hearth throb of God, that which has been for the centuries, held there in His thoughts until He (God) was ready to start something new. Here He is, standing before the human race; and they are looking at Him like they have seen a devil. That is exactly the way the religious people in the world are even yet today. If you come out with something they were not raised up to believe, the first thing they say is, I don’t know whether I want to get around this or not. The whole world of religious people are like that. They have religion, but they do not have the Spirit of God leading them.

WHAT IS IN A NAME?

Go with me again to the 16^th chapter of St. John. I like this. Think of it, after all the months Jesus had been preaching since His baptism, and all the miracles He had done, and the sermons He had preached, revealing the Father in the spiritual sense of the Word, those Jews absolutely called Him a devil. That is exactly why the prophet Isaiah, in the 6^th chapter said, His name shall be called Emmanuel. John had baptized Him, and many people saw Him every day, but did any of them say, Good morning Emmanuel? Not one. But from that time on, those that began to see something working in this man called Jesus, (who we know is the Messiah) really began to realize that there was something different about Him. He was more than just a normal man of that hour of time. It was that which was expressed through Him, that made Him the Emmanuel. Actually it just says His name shall be called Emmanuel. Well anyhow, the rest of those Jews did not see anything at all about Him that interested them. Jesus had said many things during that short time He had been ministering, and even His disciples would look at Him and scratch their heads in wonderment, like, What is He talking about? I can honestly say, We Gentiles have been the same way. I know I have been just like the rest in my past years, so I am not standing here talking like I have known these precious truths of God’s word all my lifetime. I am still learning; and I thank God for what He has taught me through the years. Go back two thousand years when Jesus was first explaining His teaching to His disciples, as is recorded in the 16^th chapter of John. How simple He begin to talk to them. He was breaking it down on their level of understanding. The 25^th verse says, “These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: (You know what is meant by proverbs: it is putting it in an illustrative way.) but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. (Out from God, not from standing by His side. Does that not make sense? If He came out from God, that was His heart throb. That was God’s predetermined, predestined thought. He waited through the centuries of time, until the time would come, the precise time according to His plan. Then He brings Him forth, but not instantaneously. Anyhow He is on earth and has grown into manhood. I like this.) For the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved me and have believed that I came out from God. (Notice He was telling that to His disciples back then, and I have to say, When we get this picture right in our minds, we are going to see the same picture He was painting for them. It is going to be just as much a joy in our hearts as it was in theirs.) I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.” Now He did not say He was going to go back into His Father’s mind and give up His body. Watch what His disciples said. “His disciples said unto Him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. (In other words, we know what you are talking about now.) Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, (He ought to know all things because John the Baptist said God gave the Spirit without measure unto Him. He was the fullness of the Godhead. He was the very instrument all wisdom, knowledge and all the God attributes would be manifested in and through.) and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.” I hope that what we have been saying up until now has really begun to be clear and plain to you. Let us go further though. He has been crucified, He has been raised from the dead, so let us now go to the book of Romans, which was written by the apostle Paul. Paul said in the 8^th chapter, (and we know that he had a revelation) verse 28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, (That is hard to understand at times, but it is for each one of us that really have a desire to love God and live for Him, because we want to let Him have our lives to work in us what pleases Him.) to them who are the called according to His purpose.” This is not something God just threw out here by chance and sat back to see what all it would come to. No. God had a plan. That plan was in His sovereign mind way back before time started. God never did anything by chance, just to see what would happen. He had a finished plan for everything He has ever done. Who does it say everything works together for good to? To them that love God and are called according to His purpose, so God had a purpose for doing it when He called us to this great salvation. “For whom He did foreknow, (This is you and me.) He also did predestinate (He is giving a promise to you and me, that we are to be conformed to the image of His Son.) to be conformed to the image of His Son, (Which has already been born, He preached, He brought the word of God, He revealed the name of God and did the works of God. That is in the 17^th chapter of St. John. He finished the work of God. Look at verse 4. “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” He finished the work, He has died, He rose again and is seen in heaven sitting on the right hand of the Father. His work on earth as the Son of God is finished, but He is coming back one day soon, to fulfill another purpose. The apostle Paul is saying that we were already chosen in the mind of God, before the foundation of the world. For what purpose? To be conformed to the image of His Son. I like this, because right here, is the beginning of our picture.) that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” Jesus never created a star, He never created an angel, but He was made to become a Redeemer and was brought to this earth, sent by God. God was in Him in the fullness of all His attributes. He was placed down here, and for three and one half years from His baptism, He lived a true testimony. The Bible says He is the faithful and true witness. He lived it every day. He chose not to do it His way. That is exactly why you hear Him say, These are not my words, they are His that sent me. Nothing He said was His own thoughts and ideas. That does not mean He did not ever have certain conversations that He could speak with His disciples. However when He brought forth the Word of God, He brought forth the revelation that consisted of a plan, and revealed the way God wanted to redeemed you and me. The end objective of it is that we might be saved from our wretched way, be reconciled back to God and have our nature changed; and be able to choose to live and be made into the likeness of His Son. That is what it is all adding up to. We can say this, Jesus was the beginning of, not the old creation, but a new creation. That is what it all sums up to. As we go through the scriptures this morning, and think of all these writers through time that have put Christ up there already by the side of God, and have God saying, Do this, and God saying do that, you just have to ask, If that be so, then tell me what He really did do all that time. Why would God bring Him down from such a beautiful place and position, to come into this world of wickedness to suffer and die for each one of us, and then He just becomes an elder brother to all of us? If He was brought down from that wonderful position, to do what He did, then why in the end of time, is He not taken back up to that same position? Do you get the point I am making? Well we know He did not have such a position with the Father before coming to earth the way He did. That idea was dreamed up by people who did not have anything better to say. When you interpret the Bible with the carnal mind, that is how some things sound to you. It goes to show, when you are looking at God’s word through a revelation, that Jesus was the beginning of a new creation. It has nothing to do with planets, stars, mountains, nothing except redemption. If He could redeem this earth back from that prehistoric age to use it again, that is exactly what He is in the process of doing, redeeming you and me, renewing us and giving us something we never had before. We are going to prove it by the scriptures. The beauty of it is, we see it right here, how Paul could talk about it, that we were predestined before the foundation of the world, to be made into the image of God’s only begotten Son.

GOD’S PROGRAM BEING CARRIED OUT

As the apostles began to preach the gospel we can say God’s plan of redemption was already in motion. It has already covered approximately two thousand years of time. Go with me now, and let us see how Paul and Peter preached this. If Jesus is the beginning of the creation of God, we are not putting Him back yonder, we are putting Him back here two thousand years ago when God was starting to build a new creation. It is how He redeemed something, to renew something. Let us go to Acts, the 10^th chapter. This is Peter preaching to Gentiles. He was not an educated doctor of divinity: he was a fisherman. As this little revelation really began to bloom and get hold of us, and we begin to see what God is doing with us, and in us, so that we can be a part of the finished picture of God grace, we are going to be able to see that God is not looking to theologians to finish the end time product. They have had their day, but He is now looking to honest, sincere, simple minded people that are willing to let God take their minds and their lives and instruct them and lead them. I have said this before, but I am saying it again, Every one of the apostles speak consistently in harmony with each other. Whatever one would say, the others would always back it up. Not because of collusion, but because of having the same revelation. In Acts, the 10^th chapter, 34^th verse, we find the apostle Peter saying something precious. I love this, because from here on the picture gets clearer and clearer all the time. “Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth Him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with Him. The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: He is Lord of all. That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; (Now I like this next verse, because it takes away every reason anyone ever had to say, Jehovah of the Old Testament, is Jesus of the New Testament. I wonder where in the world they ever got that statement from? Peter never said anything like that. Look at this 34^th verse.) How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost (That is not the second person of a trinity, being anointed by the third person of that trinity. Get those three person ideas out of your head. There has never been but one person in the godhead, and that is the man Jesus the Christ. Why is this verse we just read, referred to like that? Well let me say this, When the Spirit of God which is the Creator that brought all things of creation into existence, is looked upon as a regenerating Spirit, a renewing spirit, He is referred to as the Holy Ghost. That is why it was the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost that overshadowed the virgin womb of Mary and caused her to conceive. When you think of Jesus, as a person coming down from heaven, What a conglomerated picture! God, the one and only God, is not a person in the first place. Let us establish that. He is a Spirit being, and therefore He is invisible. He has never been seen by anyone; and cannot be seen. However when God brought forth His only begotten Son, then He (God) chose to demonstrate His being in and through that Son. That is exactly what we are talking about, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost.) and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.” Not only was God with Him, God was in Him. That is what it means to be anointed of God: It means God is in you. He was starting His new creation like that. Now go with me to 2^nd Corinthians. This is how the apostle Paul spoke of the same thing. In the 14^th verse of the 5^th chapter, We find Paul saying this, “For the love of Christ constraineth us; (compels us) because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ.” Notice that word, (by), By Jesus Christ. I like the word by, how it is used. Listen carefully, Jesus is not the one doing the choosing. He furnished the elements of Himself and His life to be the means that the debt might be paid for all, but it is God, by His divine sovereignty, that seeks to reconcile you and me through the fact His Son died to pay our sin debt. He cleanses us through that shed blood. Brothers and sisters, as we accept that sacrifice as the total redeeming price for our redemption, then that same Spirit of God that was in Christ, God sends that to give us a new birth. (Verse 18), “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, (to witness, to preach) that God was in Christ, (It is as simple as two and two are four.) that God was in Christ, (Doing what?) reconciling the world unto Himself.” It is not Jesus doing the reconciling, but Jesus was willing to take your place and my place and die for us, that we might have this privilege. As He was willing to die for us, because He was innocent, then God by the innocence of His own Son, heaps upon Him the blame, the responsibility, the reproach and all the sin we were guilty of. As Jesus has done His part, God now reconciles us back to Himself by and through the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why Paul spoke of how God has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Not only is it a word of reconciliation, as we understand and put it together, we begin to see how God is putting together a new creation. A new creation which has been going on for two thousand years of time, because it is a creation that consists of redemption. As we get closer and closer, it is going to become clearer and clearer to each of us. With that in mind, I have to say, an awful lot of people have a lot of strange ideas about how all of this is going to wind up. I like these verses from here on. When the apostle Paul said these words, he had a picture in his soul. Back then, he was doing his best to let the true believer see the reality of what was really taking place. If Peter and Paul could both say that God was in Christ, reconciling the world back to Himself, by what process and means was it? It has been a process of God making new creatures out of us. He is not going out here and making a new bunch of people. He could have just killed us and done that, but no, He wants to prove by this process, that He can redeem us and change our whole makeup and our entire nature to be like His only begotten Son, totally surrendered and committed to doing His will.

CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS

Let us see here, how the apostle Paul gives us another glimpse of reality, as he speaks in a way that all can understand. In the Corinthian church there would have been pagans. Therefore thinking about a resurrection confused many of them. They would say, What is it, and how is it going to work? That is impossible, once that body is dead and decayed. I can just see how those carnal minds would argue and fuss about it. Well the apostle Paul picks up the subject in the 20^th verse of chapter 15, so let us read it. “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits (I like this, the firstfruits) of them that slept.” Here is the beginning of Him who is the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God. “For since by man came death, (That was Adam.) by man (Christ) came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, (It is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment. Paul had a revelation, I show you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but one of these days there will be a change.) even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: (What is Paul talking about here? He is talking about the beginning of the new creation.) Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming. Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet.” Now I want to show you how all these epistles that Paul and the others wrote, prove that they were all looking at the same picture. We are absolutely the product of a new creation. Go with me to Colossians 1:12. “Giving thanks unto the Father, (I have been asked, Bro. Jackson, when a Christian prays, how should we pray? Do we pray to Jesus? Or how should we pray? I have always tried to explain it like this, No, you do not just pray to Jesus. It is true, He is the High Priest, but you pray to God because He is the life giver; and it is through the Lord Jesus that He imputes it. It is by and through the Lord Jesus you have access to what the Father’s promise is.) which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: (That is the end of it all.) Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, (That is the world we lived in when we served the devil.) and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.” (All of this has been going on while we are still down here in this old wicked world.) “In whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins. (Now Paul touches the person of Christ.) Who is the image of the invisible God, (And He absolutely was.) the firstborn of every creature. For by Him were all things created.” Notice, I am reading from the King James. That is not the way the Hebrew or Aramic speaks it. For through Him were all things created. If He had been standing there already as a being we could say, Well see, He did it, but He was not standing by the Father in creation, so that makes a difference. When we look at it in Ephesians, the Hebrew Bible will plainly tell you, It was God the Creator, the life giver, who created all things, but when it comes to reconciliation, salvation, translation, it is by and through the Lord Jesus that God has done this, to bring us back to Himself. Again I say, I really like this part, if we can get the word “by” in its rightful relationship. “For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created,” for Him, not by Him. How many realize that? Now to take you back and show you He could not have existed in the prehistoric world, there is no geological trace that you had thrones, dominions, kingdoms or anything. No archaeological findings. How many understand me? Nevertheless when we finish this message, we will have scripturally shown you that Jesus was only in the mind of the Creator until the day He (the Creator) spake a cell of life into the womb of Mary that caused her to give birth to this Son of God, Jesus. I can see that when Jesus comes and He will get His Bride out of this earth, then you will have that resurrection we have spoken of so many times, and immortality begins to take hold. Do you know what the next step is going to be? He is going to be the King of kings and Lord of lords, and that is why all those thrones and principalities and powers were already foreordained by God before He was even brought into the world. There would come a day, when He who is to be the beginning of the new creation would fulfill that role. How many can see that? The religious world is in a sick mess today, but God has been merciful to us, giving us the truth of His word. There is an awful lot of the word of God that denominational people will not even try to explain and we know why. It is because they do not understand it, and unless God is merciful to some of them, they never will understand, because it is not a revelation to them. They just pick up a few pet scriptures and make them their program for entertainment. The part they like, is the scripture, “that you might prosper in all things,” and they will say, You are going to have money in the bank for whatever your heart desires, but God requires you to be good stewards, so His blessings are based upon your willingness to give to His work first. That is the trap they set for their unsuspecting followers. I want to read this scripture again; and be sure you understand what the original text says as we read these things. It is through Him were all things created. That is God actually before He starts putting man here on this earth, He has this next era of time already planned. That is why we were predestined in Him before the foundation of this world. Then He foresaw what He wants us to be, He foresaw the time that He wants His Son to sit as King of kings and Lord of lords. That is an up and coming thing. It is with that in mind, that we can really see the sovereignty of God. For through Him were all things created that are in heaven, that is not talking about planets, satellites, or anything like that. This all pertains to that which is in the earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, because none of that existed in the prehistoric world. All things were created by, but we want to say this again, It is for Him. In the King James, it is the Trinitarian translators that say, All things were created by Him and for Him. In other words that throws you off course, if you do not already have a revelation. “And He is before all things, (In other words, He is preferred before all things.) and by Him all things consist.” All things are held together, because this is His part in the purpose of God. He is the beginning of the new creation, so everything has to function and work with Him in preeminence and it has to work in that harmony. “And He is the head of the body,” Here comes the important part to you and me this morning, whether you are talking about holiness, whether you are talking about a spiritual walk, whatever you are talking about, the real Bride of Christ has got to begin to have a picture in her mind of herself. As you sit here this morning, let me use this in a natural sense. I know some of you will say, I am going to such and such a place to eat dinner, I like to eat there. Let me say this, If you did not come here this morning, expecting to sit around a table and eat something spiritual, then what in the world are you sitting here for. I did not say that to hurt anyone: I said that, and I mean exactly what I say. I came here hoping that I could eat of something and share it with others. I can certainly see here in the endtime, as we see the world in such a turmoil, that Satan is in an attack mode, making his last stand before the Lord Jesus comes for His bride.

COMMENTS OF REALITY

This world is due for a real wake up situation. I am not going to say we should not have gone into Iraq, but when we did, we ought to have gone in there with some block busters and split those cities wide open like they did in WW2, because that scared the daylights out of those people. These in Iraq have not been scared. They have fought and cut each other’s throats and lived like devils all in the name of Mohammad. I hate to think of our military forces going over there to fight a blind cause when our politicians keep saying, Oh we want to rid the world of terrorism and plant democracy. This thing we call democracy today is nothing but a bunch of demons working their plan of confusion. Our politicians do not want Jesus Christ to come again, because that will tear up their personal ambitions. Well I do; and I pray that it will be real soon. When Jesus Christ comes, He is the only means that is going to rid this world of sin, evil, Muslimism and rebellion, so that terrorism will flourish no more. God is going to take that nation of Israel one of these days, like it says in the 12^th chapter of Daniel, That in that day Michael will stand up, the prince of thy people, you talk about a war in the Middle East, That will be one. Will it really be a war, Bro. Jackson? I don’t understand that. Well stick around then, and see for yourself. I was asked a few weeks ago in an e-mail, Bro. Jackson, do you mean all these things are going to take place before the rapture? I never answered it. There is one thing sure, There is going to be some people alive that are true Christians, that have not been raptured, that are going to see this all come about. It plainly tells me in Daniel 11, that the wise shall understand, but the wicked shall not understand. The wicked will become more and more wicked. You cannot tell them anything that will change them. I have to say, It would have been nice if we could spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in that part of the world like we did Japan, after Japan surrendered. The first thing General MacArthur wanted, Send me a million Bibles. This modern day mentality has thrown the Bibles in a ditch; and we do not really want to put a democracy over there. You everyone know what our democracy has become? It is just a nest of every devil out of hell, where women can walk the streets looking like prostitutes and there is no restraint. Our educators have forgotten all about principals. I grew up when we learned to say, Yes Ma’am, and Yes Sir, and even Thank you, but now, It is get out of my way! There are no principals left. In this Colossian letter it says, He (Jesus) is before all things, He is preferred before all things because God chose Him to be the head. He is the head of the body. He is talking about the body of true believers, the Church. I am going to say this, In this Laodicean age, this closing hour of Gentile time, the living saints that are the part of that living element of the Laodicean people, they are going to measure up to what this Bible is speaking of. “And He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell.” This new redeemed kingdom is built around Him. Let me say this, One of these days soon, Jesus is coming from glory; and He is going to translate these living saints out of here. All of hell is going to be turned loose on this planet earth, after the bride is gone. Then when He does come back at the end of the week of Daniel, you know what it says, All the nations of the earth are going to be gathered together to make war against Him. Every nation on the earth right now has that philosophy. If something does not happen in America in the next few months, America will be in that same category. However I have to believe for the sake of some other things in the Bible, that America will be hit with judgment and all their grand ideas will burst wide open, and we will wonder what is going on in America, but the wise will understand. We went to Iraq with the idea of getting Sadam out of the way and making all the others into new people: we are going to teach them how to love one another and get along. Well what our leaders failed to realize, was that a lot of the trouble over there was because of a religious conflict in the first place. That causes me to say, Oh Lord, have mercy on our military people that have such a great responsibility on them. We were reading out of the book of Colossians this morning, so I want to go back there. We will go to the 20^th verse of the 1^st chapter. It is really talking about how Christ, through His death and crucifixion and the shedding of His blood, you and I have been purchased back to God and God has done this and designed it according to His own will. This is why, in the 19^th verse, it says, “For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell.” What fulness was he talking about? All of the fullness of the attributes of God, because they are all imputed into Him. Everything that God is, is being manifested through His only begotten Son, which is Jesus the Christ, all of His deity and His very being was placed in Christ Jesus. He was a man; and up to the time when God the Father incarnated Him, He had no supernatural attributes. However He was sinless and perfect, because He was the begotten son of God. He was a man, but He was sinless, because He had none of man’s fallen attributes in Him. Genetically, He was not of Mary or Joseph, but because of being carried nine months and nourished by Mary, physically He was her son. God the Creator, created that cell of life in the womb of the virgin Mary, so that is why he had no genetic connection to His mother or to Joseph. Therefore because God created the cell of Life, that makes Him the Son of God. I believe that is about as plain as I could ever explain the mystery of the godhead. Jesus the Son, having God dwelling in Him, we can see God’s way of starting a new creation through His Son. We have gone through many years of our lives, never looking at it in that way. Actually it is only here at the end time, that the end time part of the bride of Christ are to see that by a spiritual revelation. I hope I can express this in a way to make this a beautiful picture to all of you as we close the message out. I said this morning, that certain types have been set forth in the word of God through the years of time. If we looked back there in Genesis, those creative days were not days of twenty four hours, as we have already explained. Let us get that idea out of our mind’s. Those were dispensational days of a thousand years each. It has finally begun to dawn on us, that the religious people of the world have been held in spiritual darkness because so called Christianity has not moved on with God through the years. They have just accepted a little formality and went right along with that, never even desiring anything beyond what they had. That is not what God sent His Son to the cross to pay for. Someone just told me he was reading the other day, about the last Ice Age. I have to say there was an Ice Age. I agree with the scientists on that. It fits right in the scriptures. The scientists say it was about twelve thousand years ago. Well our era of time has been going on now for six thousand years. When we look back to those creative days when God started bringing the planet out of that useless condition, then there was the six days of creation, and on the seventh day He rested. Those seven, along with these six, that makes a span of about thirteen thousand years, does it not? Who wants to argue with that. The way God brought it about and the way it is recorded, man never looked at that and saw a type. I will show you tonight, what He has been doing in us and through mankind for the last two thousand years. He is recreating that all over again. Follow me now, as we look at the 20^th verse. “And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him (It is God reconciling by Him.) to reconcile all things unto Himself; (Notice, to reconcile all things to Himself.) by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.” We have to realize this, Not all of that has not been done in just one period of time. “And you, that were sometime alienated (Paul was talking about those heathen back then, but now we look at ourselves, educated heathen, and most do not know anything about the plan of God.) and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled. (I have to say tonight, He hath reconciled us.) In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight. (That is the end results, what it all adds up to be.) If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister.” He saw it. The apostle Paul did not know this was going to be a process that would cover a span of two thousand years. We look back through time and see what the devil has done to it, what it has produced in the realm of organized religion, and that is just the opposite of what we would want to look at as God starting a new creation. Well now, let us take this and cross on over into the 2^nd chapter. We will keep our mind’s on the thought Paul had. “For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, (Yes, in the Old Testament era it was hid.) and of the Father, and of Christ; (This was all His plan, but just two thousand years ago God brought out of His bosom that thought that had been preconceived, planned, predestined, to begin to set it in motion.) In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” I have to say we are living in the ending of time. Everything that takes place in this world now, just looks like it is another mark on the chart, the end is here. Somebody handed me a print out this morning, that there has been a demonstration in Israel, Palestinians demonstrating. They are condemning America for fighting the Iraqis. They are condemning us for that and putting us in the same boat we do the Iraqis, and Israel has them. The more I look at this, the way it is becoming so twisted and distorted, I feel sorry for our military people. I believe they are the best there are in the military capacity, but how can they carry out something that the political leaders behind them are trying to put forth, when it is a plan that God is not even in? That is the sad part. We would have been better off, if we had wanted to do something about the 9/ll attack, if we would have sent word to the whole Islamic world over there, You are the characters that cooked this up, so our aim is toward you. We do not know which ones are to blame, but one thing is sure, one of these days we are going to hit you right in a vulnerable spot. If we would have gone into Iraq like we did those countries of WW2, half of Baghdad would be in ruins, but those left alive would have respect for what we were able to do. We have tried to save human lives, and especially women and children, and that causes the Muslims to look at us as a bunch of softies. We had every bit of the military capacity to blow half of Iraq off this globe, but we did not have leaders with backbone enough to fight a war. They could have been begging us for mercy, but we went in there to save human lives, hoping to be able to perpetrate our political ideas. Well they are Muslims, they have fought like this for centuries, but do they want this back slidden country, the society of America to put our ideas in over there? No sir. They do not believe in homosexuality and perverts. How many know what I mean? How can we push for democracy in a country that do not believe in the rotten evil we allow in our own country? When we were a Christian nation, we would have had something to show them, but we have nothing to show them in the sense of principals. Back to this point here, From now on, if I can just say it in the right way, Brothers and sisters, we are going to see this book unfold before our eyes. Because of the shortness of time, He is going to let us begin to really see ourselves as a part of that family that He has bought and redeemed. This was in His plan before Adam was even placed in the garden of Eden. That is why we were already foreknown, predestined, planned, chosen in Christ, before the foundation of the world we live in. With that in mind, I could take you back to Ephesians 1. This was the model church of that hour. Here is where we begin to see how God, before He has even put a man on this earth, had a plan for the ages. What you and I now are beginning to see, was already in God’s mind. He saw every last one of us before we even existed. He saw the hour we live in and how we would conduct ourselves in it. Let us look at the 3^rd verse. Paul said, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (Now that don’t sound like Jehovah of the Old is Jesus of the New. Does it? Look what denominational Christendom has done with the gospel. They have perpetrated thoughts and ideas that nowhere fits into the Bible.) who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.” This goes to show, this was how God looked at the whole thing. Then once He did begin to bring forth something into the earth, we can say that God waited for the time to bring forth that which was His hearth throb. “Having predestinated us (because He had foreknown us) unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself (the word by, goes to show it is by Jesus Christ being our Savior, but it is God doing it for Himself. That is why the apostle said, For God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.) according to the good pleasure of His will.” Now let us come on down to the 9^th verse, “Having made known unto us the mystery (That hidden something that was laying there, but we could not understand it.) of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself.” All of that goes to show that what we have read up until this time, God has been in the process of bringing it to pass through having sent His Son into the world, who gave Himself at Calvary, who died on the cross, shed His blood as a ransom, as a means to reconcile a family of sinful people, by changing them and delivering them back to the heavenly Father. God did not have to do it this way, but it is the way He wanted to do it. He wanted to show that He has the redeeming quality. Now with that in mind, go with me to 1^st Corinthians, the 15^th chapter.

FOR OUR BETTER UNDERSTANDING

When we read this scripture in 1^st Corinthians, some of it confuses some people, so I want to break it down before we read it, because as we understand this, in the hour we are living in, and as God, all around this globe, gets His people all in harmony, in unity, seeing the same beautiful picture, they are going to know in themselves what God is doing and why. It gets us prepared. It gets us ready to leave this present world for just a short period. God is doing it to fulfill His purpose. Jesus is going to come again, and when He does, He is going to destroy all the traces of this sinful and horribly wicked world we live in. With that in mind, let us pay attention to what Paul wrote in the 21^st verse, “For since by man came death (That is through the fall of Adam.) by man came also the resurrection of the dead. (Jesus is the beginning of the new creation. It starts with redemption. It is not God creating new people: it is God redeeming sinful people.) For as in Adam all die, (That is the penalty of sin.) so in Christ shall all be made alive. (Those that accept Him will be made alive forever.) But every man in his own order: (Now here is the beginning of this new creation.) Christ is the firstfruits; (He is the only begotten Son of God. He was brought forth from the Father, no sin in Him. He was perfect, yet God was pleased to heap upon Him the sin of the whole world. He takes an innocent man who is not responsible and places responsibility upon Him and the Son willingly took that position. That is why He said, No man takes my life, I lay it down. He did that much for you and me. That is why not only is He the firstborn, He is going to become the firstfruits from them that slept. So in those two capacities He becomes the head, the beginning of this new creation that God is starting. Christ the firstfruits,) afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming. Then cometh the end, (Now what is he talking about? He is talking about the Millennium. The next thing to look for is the Millennium, because there is going to be a thousand year reign of Christ on earth. I want to show you something else right here. We have talked about the six dispensational days, of creation; and the fact that He (God) rested on the seventh day from all the works which He had done. Therefore Him resting on the seventh day (each day being a thousand years) lets us know He sanctified the seventh day as a Sabbath. A Sabbath day, is a rest day. The six days of creation and the day of rest adds up to a total of seven; and that is seven thousand years. Are you still with me? Then when God did put a man down here in a physical body, it was on the beginning of the next thousand years, so we could say that it was on the beginning of the eighth day. How many can see that? It is starting another process. It was in that first day (1000 years) that man sinned and falls from what God had placed him in, so in the day he sinned (1,ooo), he did die. He never did live to be 1,000 years of age. It was because of that fall, that it was necessary for the second Adam to come upon the scene: He comes and pays the debt to redeem this sinful, lost and fallen race; and place them in a new family. He becomes the beginning of that new creation. Watch now, because we can say this, Man has been living under the present penalty of sin and death for six thousand years. According to the scriptures, Christ is coming to receive His Bride to Himself. Then for a little while, He is coming back again to do what? To take over and do what Paul continues to say here. So in that, how long does He rule and reign? A thousand years. How long is that? That thousand years with the six thousand years, again you have seven thousand years, which according to the scriptures, adds up to one week of seven millennial days. Will any of you dispute that? Well brothers and sisters, when that thousand years is over, here is where we come to the final judgment, the great white throne judgment. When that final judgment is finished, Christ has ruled, subdued all adversaries and has purchased, redeemed and reconciled a new family of children back to God. He has ruled and has put down all authority and power, restored righteousness the laws of knowledge; and He has destroyed all traces of sin, death and hell; and there is no more wicked in the graves. When the last enemy, death itself is gone, He has made a new earth, not by creating , but by renewing it. How many can see that? Now let us go on with this scripture. Then cometh the end, that is when the Millennium is over and the judgment is completed,) when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, (That happens at the end of Revelation 20.) even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, (He does that in the Millennium) For He must reign, till He hath put all enemies under His feet. (Now Paul explains the relationship of the Father to the Son in accomplishing this.) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (That is when death and hell give up the dead, in the ending of Revelation 20.) For He (meaning God) hath put all things under His feet.” This is why, when we read back here in the 1^st chapter of Colossians, we see how that God, by Christ, has planned these thrones, dominions, principalities and powers. He is not pointing you back to the prehistoric world when there was no such thing. He is pointing you to the time when Jesus is going to rule in the Millennium. He is not ruling over those things yet, is He? He has to have a family to rule and reign with Him. That is why the Bible says, “He (Rev 1:6) hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. And we shall rule and reign on the earth.” You Methodists who look at the writings of Peter and say heaven and earth is going to burn and we are going to heaven, that is as far as you see; and you do not want to see any further. Organized religion is a shame, because we see how they have done disgrace to the word of God. The (27^th verse) says, “For He hath put all things under His feet.” (Whose feet? Jesus’ feet. When will that be? In the Millennium, when He is sitting in Jerusalem as King of kings and Lord of lords, for the law shall go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. What is He doing? He is going to re-establish divine knowledge and spiritual rulership. For the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the water that covers the sea.) “But when He saith all things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is excepted, which did put all things under Him. (We know it is God who delegated it to be that way. That is why, when you read Colossians 1, that by Him He has planned kingdoms, thrones, and principalities, everything the way Paul wrote about it then. Now, here we are, getting closer and closer to the Millennium, the time when all those things will actually become a reality.) And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, (When the Millennium is over, and we know that is followed by a judgment, death and hell giving up the dead, so what does that do? That goes to show there is no more hell, so where are the wicked then? There is no more graves in the earth, nor dead that have been cast into the sea, because the sea gives up the dead and the graves give up everything they have been holding. What does that do to the earth? Through the redemption process God has ruled and reigned through His Son Jesus; and has reconciled a new family of spiritually begotten children, Jesus the firstfruits and then the rest of us. He is then the elder brother of this great family of God. He will always be your elder brother. That will never change. Therefore, once that last thing is completed, there is no more trace of sin or disobedience on this planet. Then the Son shall deliver the kingdom, after all is subdued unto Him, back to the Father.) then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.” What a wonderful picture! Now to all that have pictured Jesus up in heaven with the eternal Father before all time, what will you do with what we have just presented to you? You say He was there with the Father doing majestic things, yet you never tell what He did. I say to all who will listen, Look what an exalted position they have brought Him down from, (believing He was equal in authority to the Father); and here He is, according to the apostle Paul, which was the messenger to that first age, delivering all things back to the Father; and He takes His place as the first born of this great family of God, the elder brother of all. Brothers and sisters: When the Millennium is over, then you have the eternal age, worlds without end. Hallelujah! A new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. No more death. Praise God! Christ is our elder brother. What a glorious picture! That is why I say, Do not ever let anyone tell you He was up there with the Father throughout all prior ages; and then the Father said to Him, Go do this, now go do that. Oh my, Just think how unrevelated religious people have messed this entire picture up, all through the centuries of christianity. It has been hard for human minds to make their way through this trash and rubbish and filthy junk, with all that in the background, but by the grace and mercy of God, a few have and I am thankful to be one of them. Hallelujah!

SUMMARIZATION OF PRESENT TRUTH

When it was time for us to see the undistorted picture, God knew exactly how to get us focused upon the entire thing the way He ordained us to. With the Spirit of God leading you, you can really see how it all comes into focus. Jesus is the beginning of the creation of God, but we must realize it is a new creation. When we finish this, we are going to prove to you, that God, through the centuries of time, has done all things in three’s. If I would take you back to the prehistoric world, when it is over, and when those angels are all judged by God, and He has thrown this planet into a chaotic judgment that has lasted for thousands of years, hundreds of those angels are already judged and doomed to be destroyed in the lake of fire. Then when we see God begin to bring the righteous angels into our era, it was because they are going to assist Him in His foreordained plan for the eternal ages, so that is why, in Genesis, in three different places, God said, Let us do thus and so. Why do I say that? Because God likes to share Himself with something. He does not like to do it alone. He likes to share Himself with that which He has created, because that is His end picture. In this picture, we can see how the eighth day, after God had rested on the seventh, was our era of which the human was placed on earth, that was six thousand years ago, but from then, down to this, we are ready to go into that seventh age since Adam was placed on earth, which is the Millennium. When that is over, and when Jesus has judged, condemned, and erased everything of evil, then shall the kingdom be delivered back up to God the Father, that God may be all in all. From there, time passes into eternity. The eighth day starts, never to end again. God had created and brought forth angels, He has brought forth man, but now He has a redeemed celestial universe in which there is no sin or evil present. Now we enter into worlds without end. Where are the scientists then? They have had their day. It is all typed in the Bible. But you have to be a child of God, one that He has predestined, one that He has His finger on, one He is looking at, one that He can talk to, one that can look at Him and say Thank You Father for letting me see what you have caused me to be an heir of. I thank God, He can take you out of the hills of Indiana, out of the jungle of Africa, and out of the slums of various places He has brought us from, to partake of the true revelation of His word and plan for the ages. If you are willing to submit your mind and spirit and life to Him, and let Him start on the inside working outward, He can make a complete new creature out of you. When He is finished with you, you will see things you never visualized before, you love things you never thought you could, and you can see the future from an altogether different standpoint. I thank God tonight, that here in the closing days of time He has let us look back, and we can see where time started, what it has done, and what God has done. Now that He has righteous angels, we are going to prove to you that He has those angelic beings, and show you that they are all in three categories. How many realize that? They are spoken of, some of them as winged creatures, others that are not winged creatures. Some are seraphims, teraphims, so on and so forth. It all sums up into three categories, and they all function within a certain capacity fulfilling the plan of God. If God thought enough about the angelic beings, that they were to be tested and tried, I have to say also, When God is through with this new creation, which Christ is the head of, He is going to have His redeemed family back in three categories. Believe me saints, that is how it is. Well I thought we were all going to be equal, you may say. You are in one sense of the word, but the Bride of Christ is the highest calling of God in Christ that anyone can ever be brought to. Still there are others, just like the Old Testament saints, sure they are going to be right there in that glorious kingdom to rule and reign, but they are not portrayed as the Bride. The Bride comes out of every nation. How many realize that? These others are basically made up of Old Testament saints. That is the second category. But let us look at all these, the Millennium itself, a thousand years when life again is propagated in the natural on this earth. How many realize that? I will never forget years ago, I said something to Perry Green about that. I said to him, There will be little babies born in the Millennium. He answered me, Well I would be careful how I preached a thing like that. His dad called me and said, I hear you believe there are going to be babies born in the Millennium. I said, I sure do. Well, I don’t believe that: I believe we are going to be just like Bro. Branham saw his little daughter. I answered him, Yes, but how did he see his little daughter? She was no longer a baby. That shocked him. God is not going to leave some who died as little babies, just to be like that forever. That is why, out of this present mortal realm of flesh we see out here, the era of the miraculous is in front of us, plus the everlasting gospel that is to be preached by the 144,000 Jews, is to be preached to this unbelieving, godless element of mankind, to wake some of them up and seal their spiritual attitude, so that when Jesus does come back to set up His kingdom, He is going to rule and reign over, who will that be? Those nations that are saved mortally. How many realize that? There will be little babies born of that mortal realm. Since death is not going to be an inherited thing, death will only be a disciplinary means during that thousand years. Then we can say, that through that Millennium age, (a thousand years) longevity of life is going to be restored. God would be an unjust God, if He let all those human beings that are born and raised in that Millennium era enter into that eternal age, without having been tested or tried as the ones that are ruling and reigning over them. How many realize that? The devil is going to be bound during all that time, so he will not be on hand to get people in trouble. That is exactly why, at the end of that Millennium, Satan is going to be loosed for a little season. It does not tell you how long, just for a little season. He will go out upon the breadth of the earth from Gog to Magog, and many of them that have been born and grown up will absolutely be tempted to follow that satanic spirit. You can read that in Revelation 20.

SATAN’S LAST STAND

All those that plan to go with Satan when he is set free, will encircle the beloved city Jerusalem, the camp of the saints. That is the Bride’s headquarters. That is where the King of kings and Lord of lords rules and reigns. They (Satan and his followers) plan to take over the kingdom, but that never happens. When they get themselves positioned, that is when fire comes down out of heaven and destroys them all. There is not one shot fired down here from any natural thing. It is divine intervention from heaven. It slays that bunch. That is when Christ takes His last position, the great white throne. This is the judgment of the universe. Here is where death and hell give up the dead. The sea give up the dead. All that are the graves come forth, wicked and all. Whosoever did not have their names found written in the book of life are cast into the lake of fire. It is only for the end when it is used for final cleansing, when it is time for it. It has a beginning, but I have to say, Even though it has a beginning, it will eventually have an end. It will last for a certain period of time until it accomplishes its purpose, then it will be needed no more. That goes to show hell has an ending because it ends in the lake of fire. Then we can see all those that are saved, they come from all nations. You read that in Revelation 21 and 22. God has His angelic, righteous ones in three categories, God has His family of human beings in three categories, and now He has His earth renewed, redeemed and cleansed. Now the eternal age, what a day that will be, when Jesus I shall see, when I look upon His face, the One who saved me by His grace, Oh praise God! When He takes me by the hand and leads me to that promised land, what a day, glorious day, that will be. Yes brothers and sisters, that is what we are all looking for. That eighth day, that glorious day is what we all long to see. It is the next era beyond the Millennium. It has already been typed. That is the eternal age. That is the perfect age. Sin will be no more. God is all in all. Then Jesus is seen as your elder brother. You look and see Him in Revelation 21 and 22. Is He still on the throne? Not in the same sense as the Millennium: He is no longer the King in that sense. How many realize this? But through Him we have all been lifted back up to become sons and daughters of the living God, that God may be all in all. I have to say, It is a beautiful day to look forward to. You see how the Millennium closes, with Satan turned loose for a little season, then you see how the great white throne is set and how the last judgment is set. Paul said also in the Corinthian letter, that we will judge angels. The last judgment would absolutely cleanse the whole universe of every diabolical and evil spirit. He said the saints shall judge the world, even angels. That will be those that sided with Lucifer. They have not had the final judgment yet. We have to be a lot different than the Methodists and Baptists. How many understand what I am saying? You have to have a revelation of something in you that God enables you and me to be changed from mortal to immortal and we have proved our faithfulness to Him. Throughout the Millennium we reign with Jesus. Then when we are in that position, what a day that is going to be!

BIRTH PROCESS EXPLAINED

I have something here, that has been on my mind for quite awhile. I have mentioned many times about the birth of Christ; and especially the fact that He was born from a virgin womb. Well I have had people ask me, How could Jesus the Christ be born of woman, yet not have any part of the human traits about Him? I am not a doctor, but I want you to know I am not ignorant of that. I studied under the GI plan, three years of agriculture and animal husbandry. I know all the ins and outs, ups and downs about the biological process of conception, birth, and how it all goes about. Allow me to say this with respect to each and every one of you. I look back through the centuries of time of the human race, how the devil has caused man to look upon woman and how women have become so accustomed to that kind of devilish behavior in our nation, and over in Iraq and those places, how the woman has a very low esteemed place in their society; and I think of what started it all. When Eve gave in to the serpent’s advances, that opened the door for all of this. Brothers and sisters, that bunch of Muslims that claim to be the descendants of Abraham, sure do not portray any of the attributes and character of Abraham whatsoever. I have to say, When Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans, right out of the area where they are doing all this fussing today, he had a little wife named Sarah that went with him. I believe God saw something in Abraham and Sarah, that showed they would become models, or we could say, images of something that He purposed to instill in some chosen people down through the centuries of time. He designed every woman’s body to be a mother. I realize how the devil and sin has entered the picture, but that does not change the mind of God. He is just letting Satan’s bunch have their day, but I want to tell you, It is just about over. I am going to say these words carefully and precise, It is very necessary, when we look at how God said in Isaiah, He shall overshadow a virgin, that we get a revelation of all that was included in fulfilling that prophecy. In that virgin womb of Mary, there had never been the presence of man’s sinful seed deposited. (This must be understood.) I am going to break this down the way we studied animal husbandry. God, (which is the Holy Spirit) the Spirit which is God, in a creative act, created in that virgin womb the very nucleus of what the medical world calls the embryo. As this embryo is formed, in a short order of time it bonds itself by the laws that God set up in that female womb, and the nucleus is bound to the wall of that womb. I am going to prove to you tonight, that not one ounce of female blood or the father’s blood, even in the natural conception, is in the child today. You have to realize how this comes about. Once that embryo is bonded to the wall of that womb, something sets up in the mother’s body. This is the law of reproduction. In this embryo, it is just a little nucleus of stuff, but on the inside of that thing, something begins to take place and separate. One major thing is, around this on the outside, there is that part which we call the birth sac. That is the part that becomes attached to the wall of the womb. There is no blood veins from the woman flowing through that. How many understand me now? It is bonded there by a process that nature sets up. This birth sac also grows, but within that is where the fetus begins to form. From the little fetus is the umbilical cord. You have heard this before, but I have helped horses give birth, cows give birth, and sheep give birth. I have had to help pull them from the womb of the mother. When the maturity has arrived, this umbilical cord is fastened to the wall inside this sac. Do you follow me? There is no where it is connected through the bonding process between this, it is a substance, I just want to say it is like a tissue of substance. But from the mother’s side, every bit of the food she eats, her digestive system breaks it down into protein, carbohydrates and other food nutrients. Her bloodstream absorbs this. Immediately her body begins to project this to that certain spot. That spot is growing, but this nucleus that has formed on the wall, there is no bloodline going through that. How many understand? Even in the natural conception, a child can be conceived and it will not have its mother’s blood type or its father’s blood type. All that type lays within the embryo to start with. In the natural conception process, the egg has a certain number of chromosomes. The gene of man has a certain number of chromosomes, they are equal. When nature provides that the two come together in the process, there is an equal number of chromosomes which carries the laws of heredity. In those chromosomes lays the different qualities, blue eyes, brown eyes, black eyes, red hair, brown hair. The chromosomes are what rules the law of heredity. The blood type is not in the picture at all. Getting back to this divine act of causing Mary’s conception, the baby’s blood was God’s own blood, because the baby was from an embryo that God created and put there. As it bonded to the wall of that womb, the natural process of the mother does feed the nutrients and the umbilical cord draws from this process. Not through vessels, but it is a substance, and that umbilical cord draws it in. Once it comes into the umbilical cord, then the food nutrients are transmitted back into blood. How many realize that? It is the blood of the infant. That is why the little fetus grows and grows. Now they are able to make an x-ray of the young, pregnant mother and see the little fellow in there. He, or she is inside this birth sac. Through the years of time as I have helped cows, horses and sheep give birth, I have helped pull the young, I have seen that umbilical cord come out, but just a few hours later, nature has a way of causing the body of the mother to cleanse the womb by expelling the afterbirth. How many realize that? That is as simple as I can say it. When God created that embryo, I hope you understand, there was no way the blood of any human being is going to be in there, but when Mary ate her food, the protein and carbohydrates, all of that was broken down into the blood stream. It goes to show that certain spot, then on the inside of that spot is the umbilical cord. It is fastened right here, and that is God’s creative way. It draws life’s nutrients. It passes that into the bloodstream of this fetus. Now it is becoming blood for this little infant. I just have to say, That is the way God brought His only begotten Son into the world. He did not have any hereditary traits of the human side, but that body He lived in was perfect and human, a fleshly body, just like you and me, but it had no trace of sin in it. How many realize that? I hope I have explained it in a way that people around the world can understand. I am actually ashamed sometimes, of young farmers that have seen mother cows give birth, yet they still have not studied enough to understand the whole process. I took my education under the GI bill of rights for three years. I studied animal husbandry, including the natural gestation process. That is why I thank God every day for allowing me to be able to look at this in a total picture. I waited a long time before I got courage enough to try and explain it before a mixed audience. I realize of course, that in this world of perversion we live in, people hear just about everything else. Therefore for whatever good it may be, those who are interested just as well hear something that is right, because this is how God brought His only begotten Son into this world. He became my Savior and your Savior. He became the firstfruits of them that are going to be part of God’s finished family that will enter into eternity with Him. I am thankful to be a part of that new creation that He is in the process of producing. May God grant favor to all who will receive it in the right way. Amen