You Are Either a Saint or an Aint

The Theme of thetwochoices.com is that you only have two choices. Either trust in God, the creator, and believe in the salvation of The Son, Jesus, through His blood sacrifice and resurrection or, by default, you are assigned to the losing team led by Satan. You don’t have to join Satan’s team as you are assigned to it by birth. It matters not whether you sin constantly or rarely. We have all sinned and can only be saved through belief in our Lord Jesus Christ. If you think your good behavior will save you, think again.

1 Corninthians 1:2 …”to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our’s:” When you become a believer, you are justified (become saved; are born again; called to be a saint) and receive God’s Holy Spirit, the helper, on your road to sanctification. You are no longer an aint. The lifelong process of sanctification prepares you for eternal life with God.

WW3 looms but Zuckerberg gets the eyeballs

The World watches Zuckerberg while a US aircraft carrier battalion streams towards Syria to join the missile armed destroyer already within range.  Trump has promised action.  Putin, who predicted a false flag chemical attack, promised over a week ago to target the missile launch sites, meaning the ships or jets that launches them.  Next move, Trump.  God help us!

On The Threshold Of War - Paul Craig Roberts

Geometry in the Bible

If

“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. ” Rev 12:17

And

“…the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Rev 19:10

Then

…the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the spirit of prophecy.

So the remnant of the woman’s seed will be at war with the dragon and will need the spirit of prophecy to know her enemy according to the testimony of Jesus given in this book of revelation.

Romanism

Recommended reading for Catholics and Protestants alike.

 “Let us next inquire, What is this Romanism, or Latin Christianity, as distinguished from Greek, or Protestant, or any other form of the faith of Christ? As to its doctrines and practices, we will answer this question later on in our course of lectures, quoting from its own acknowledged standards. For the present we must confine ourselves to a consideration of its history.

 

But before I give you a brief outline of this, I may state that there are three distinct sets of prophecies of the rise, character, deeds, and doom of Romanism. The first is found in the book of Daniel, the second in the epistles of Paul, and the third in the letters and Apocalypse of John; and no one of these three is complete in itself. It is only by combining their separate features that we obtain the perfect portrait. Just as we cannot derive from one gospel a complete life of Christ, but in order to obtain this must take into account the records in the other three: so we cannot from one prophecy gather a correct account of antichrist; we must add to the particulars given in one those supplied by the other two. Some features are given in all three prophecies, just as the death and resurrection of Christ are given in all four gospels. Others are given in only two, and others are peculiar to one.

As might be expected from the position and training of the prophet who was a statesman and a governor in Babylon, Daniel’s foreview presents the POLITICAL character and relations of Romanism. The Apostle Paul’s foreview, on the other hand, gives ECCLESIASTICAL character and relations of this power; and John’s prophecies, both in Revelation thirteen and seventeen, present the COMBINATION OF BOTH, the mutual relations of the Latin Church and the Roman State. He uses composite figures, one part of which represents the political aspect of Romanism as a temporal government, and the other its religious aspect as an ecclesiastical system.”

Romanism and the Reformation – H. Grattan Guinness 1887

 

The Looming Shemitah Financial Disaster of 2015

I find it somewhat amusing that the term “Shemitah” (Sabbath year) has become the buzzword in the (secular) financial world as we approach what is said to be the end of the Shemitah year (to be followed by the Jubilee year which is described in the old testament as the year following 7 successive “Shemitah” years  since the previous Jubilee year.) Apparently financial crashes are thought to be associated with the Shemitah years.  The funny part is that they have been misinformed and all those “Shemitah” years were nothing of the kind, despite the teachings of the Rabbis.  While the Jews have been very good at keeping track of the weekly Sabbaths they have lost track of God’s calendar along the way with respect to Shemitahs and most certainly with the Jubilees.   

The last biblically documented Jubilee occurred in 700 BC during the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah.   “And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.” 2 kings 19:29  

This sign, given by the prophet, Isaiah was a promise to King Hezekiah that the impending attack of Jerusalem by Sennacherib, king of Assyria would fail and the Jews would remain in Jersusalem during the Sabbath year (of 701 BC) and the Jubilee year (of 700 BC.)  The only time Israel was prohibited from sowing, reaping, and planting were during the Sabbath (Shemitah) years and the Jubilee years.  When there were two years without planting, sowing, etc. in succession it was due to a Sabbath year followed by a Jubilee year.  

On the 14th of Abib (passover) the angel of God passed over the encampment of the Assyrian army  just outside of Jerusalem and 185,000 soldiers were killed.  This shocking event was documented by the Assyrians on the Rassam Cylinder and has been dated to have occurred in 701 BC (from The Sabbath and Jubilee Cycle – Volume 1 on the Series of Ancient World Chronology, A Historical Study by Qadesh La Yahweh Press, 2nd Edition, 1995.)

Counting forward by 49’s (the Jubilee year begins the first year of the next Sabbath year cycle) we find that the most recent Jubilee year was 1996 which was preceded by a Sabbath year in 1995.  Subsequent Sabbath years, then, were 2002 and 2009 with the next to begin in the Spring of 2016.  The next Jubilee to occur will be in 2045.  Some say that 2045 marks the 120th Jubilee year since the creation of Adam and, thus, will be the last Jubilee year before the 1000 year Millennial reign of Jesus Christ on Earth.  (Remembering the Sabbatical Years of 2016: Breaking the Curses by Obedience, Feb 2013, Joseph Dumond).

If there is a 7 year cycle of September financial crashes, I submit it is because the Powers that Be have engineered them that way and not because of God’s Sabbatical cycle in any way.

If you’re reading this then this could be you some day soon

 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. Rev 15, 2

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus Rev 14, 12.  The patience is rewarded as above.

Message to an Eternal Security Doctrine Christian

Only Jesus could keep the commandments perfectly. It is not possible for you or I to do that. But that does not remove the obligation for us to obey God and do our best to keep them. If we say we believe in Jesus yet ignore his instruction then we are not acting in faith. We, then, are practicing sin. With this new covenant, God wrote His laws on our hearts so that we would keep them, not ignore them.

You say “That is why Christ came into the world – to save sinners.” But Jesus said “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” To me, that means he came to save those who sin but repent. We all sin but we don’t all repent. Those who continue to practice sin but fool themselves into believing that they don’t need to repent are treading a dangerous path.

“He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”

You, with most of the Christian world have listened to one of Satan’s greatest lies by believing that you are under grace even when you ignore the commandments. Why did Jesus, our Lord and Savior, instruct us to keep the commandments if He didn’t expect us to obey Him? You tell me to read the teachings of Paul (of whom Peter said are “hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.”) but why do you not focus on the clear instructions that came straight from the mouth of God? Paul, by the way, did not teach lawlessness and he kept the commandments to the best of his ability even after he became an apostle of Jesus. What did he mean when he said “Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God.”? Did he not keep the weekly and annual sabbaths and, thereby, provide the example to his disciples?

The fact that we are not justified by works does not mean we can ignore the commandments. James told us that faith without works is dead. And that is the key. If you truly have faith, you will have works. If you say you believe but have no works then where does that get you?

“You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!”

Just as God required an act of faith from Abraham who already believed, so, too, does He require us to act in faith by keeping His commandments. Sinning without repentance is not the way to the kingdom.

What good is knowing you’ve broken a commandment and that you are sinning, if you don’t repent of your sins? When you truly turn to God and (attempt to) keep His commandments, His Spirit will reside in you and will help you in your goal to become more like Him. When you fail, you know it, and you repent. When you stop repenting you have entered the broad road that leads to destruction. This is the road that all unrepentant sinners walk.

“If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.”

When asked “which is the greatest commandment in the law?” Jesus answered “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

But how do you love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind? YOU KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS! (“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”)

This Friday night at sundown begins the weekly Sabbath. At that time, I’d suggest you ask yourself why am I not observing God’s holy day instead of “fill in the blank”?   Just as the Sabbath was a test for Israel in the wilderness it is a test for God’s people today. Unfortunately 99.99+% of the world is failing that test on a weekly basis.

 

The Law Was Nailed to the Cross, Wasn’t It?

Jesus brought a new covenant.  Here the law is written on our hearts.  It is the same law uttered by God to the Israelites at Sinai and later written by His own finger in stone.  The stone tablets, The Testimony, were placed in the Arc of the Covenant because they were The Covenant.  The laws of Moses, by contrast, remained outside the Arc of the Covenant. But guess what?  The Commandments are still The Testimony, still The Covenant of those who place their faith in our savior, Jesus Christ.  Here is the patience of the saints who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.  

Satan has convinced the world that the commandments no longer apply in direct opposition to the words of Jesus.  Why does nearly every Christian denomination today ignore the fourth commandment?  Do they trust the Catholic hierarchy more than the Word of God?  Ask your pastor why your church ignores the Sabbath.

Search the Bible and look for the passage where God has said that the Sabbath is no longer holy.  He never did and neither did His apostle, Paul.  Peter wrote of Paul that “in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.”  Don’t let this happen to you!  Satan has deceived the whole world!