Faithful Witness ~ Speaking Against the Spirit

 What have I learned?

1 Corinthians 14:2 RSV -

For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God;

for no one understands him,

but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

One thing I learned is that no one will ever understand my connection to God. He is my Father, in the truest sense of the word. Our stories are all different, just as our connection to God will be different. No one can tell me who I am, no one... but the Father has. (1 Cor 14:1, 2) I'm still learning and trying to understand why things have to be done the way they are, and why it's taking so long. One thing I do know for sure is that we ALL need to trust in God's timing.

• [2Pe 3:9 RSV] The Lord is not slow about his promise as some count slowness, but is forbearing toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

I've learned to "Just Be" and wait. 

Regardless of what many may think of me and how they've made me feel... I have forgiven them for how they've treated me. 

I've accepted that I wasn't, and won't be liked by many, especially the many who call themselves "believers". I've realized that their dislike of me is usually out of fear of the unknown or because they can't accept that they could be wrong about what they believe, many having their belief for most of their life, if not all of it. For whatever reason...be it pride or ignorance, they chose to stop knocking and accepted the spirit of error as their truth.

I've learned to love them anyway... love the sinner, not the sin. 

One reason many believers get upset with me is because I teach that not all are chosen...well, I don't think they realize that NOT ALL ARE CALLED either.

• [Mat 22:14 ASV] For 👉 many are called, but few chosen.

There are many who claim to have a calling from God, I'm sure many of you do, but that does not mean you are chosen. God is the one to decide who is chosen.

• [1Co 4:5 ASV] Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and 👉then shall each man have his praise from God.

• Is there a remnant that gets saved?

• [Joe 2:32 ASV] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah hath said, 👉and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.

• [Zec 8:13 ASV] And it shall come to pass that, as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing. Fear not, [but] let your hands be strong.

• Is that who Jesus came to save?

• [Mat 15:24 ASV] But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

• What do we know about the lost sheep from the house of Israel?

• [Eze 9:4 ASV] And Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.

• [John 10:7, 11, 14-15 ASV] Jesus therefore said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. ... I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep. ... I am the good shepherd; and I know mine own, and mine own know me, even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

• [Rev 7:3 ASV] saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.

• [Rev 7:4 ASV] And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

• [Rev 14:1 ASV] And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

• Does that mean no one else gets saved?

• [Dan 12:10 ASV] Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand.

• [Rev 7:14 ASV] And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

• [John 10:16 ASV] And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.

• [John 12:47 ASV] And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

For those who claim they have a true calling from God...

• Did you test the spirits to be sure it was from God?

• [1Jo 4:1 ASV] 1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

• Where does the antichrist sit?

• [2Th 2:3-4 RSV] 👉Let NO ONE deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

• Where is God's temple?

• [1Co 3:16 RSV] Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

• How many of you follow doctrines (precepts) of men, then say it's from God?

• [Mat 15:3 RSV] He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

• What is the commandment... is it part of the ten commandments?

• [Exo 20:12 ASV] Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

• [Mat 15:4 RSV] For God commanded, 👉'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'

• What is the ONLY SIN that's not forgiven?

• [Mat 12:32 RSV] And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

• What does this tell you?

If one speaks against the father and mother, it's the same as speaking against the Holy Spirit... they will die.

• Is it an earthly father and mother?

The one sin to incur death is to speak against the Holy Spirit...father and mother. 

• So, is it fair to say the father and mother are both heavenly and earthly?
• What does it mean to be anointed? 

We know Jesus Christ is the firstborn of the new creation, therefore he is the Father of the new creation. He was a man with the Holy Spirit. It is through him that one is born again. He is the firstborn who represents the Father... it was Jesus that revealed the Father. 

• [Act 10:38 RSV] how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

• [Col 1:15-18 RSV] He is the image of the invisible God, the👉 first-born of all creation; for 👉in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent.

So, if God made him the father of the new Covenant...

• Who is the mother?

• [Pro 8:4, 12, 22-23, 31 ASV] Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.  ... I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion.  ... Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.  I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.  ... Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men. 

• [John 1:2 ASV] The same was in the beginning with God.

• [Gal 4:26 RSV] But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

• [Rev 22:16-17 ASV] I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star. And the Spirit and the bride 👉say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: he that will, let him take the water of life freely.

She is the woman in Revelation 12. She is one of the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11: one is in Spirit {heaven/father}, the other 👉in the flesh {earth/mother}. (2 Cor 12:1-4) That is how heaven and earth testify and pass away... then there will be a New Heaven and New Earth.

• [Deu 30:19 ASV] I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

• [Mat 24:29, 33, 35 RSV] "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; ... So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. ... Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

• [Rev 21:1 RSV] Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

• Who is anyone to question God and who HE has, or has not, anointed? 

• [Mat 20:23 RSV] He said to them, "You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

• Isn't it written... the image of God is both male and female?

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

• [Zec 4:14 ASV] Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

• [Rom 9:14-16 RSV] What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." 👉So it depends not upon man's will or exertion, 👉but upon God's mercy.

• [Rom 9:25 RSV] As indeed he says in Hose'a, "Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'my beloved.'"

• [Rev 21:2 ASV] And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

It started with Jesus Christ (A) in the flesh who was raised in the spirit and sat at the right hand of the Most High God... [Heb 1:3 RSV] He reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature, upholding the universe by his word of power. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

...and it ends with Jesus Christ and his bride (Z). 

• [1Ti 2:15 ASV] but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

• [Gal 6:17 ASV] Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus.
• Birthmark: Two Witnesses

• [Rev 1:17-18 RSV] When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand upon me, saying, "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one; I died, and behold I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.

• [Rev 22:16 RSV] "I Jesus have sent my angel to you with this testimony for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star."

• [Jhn 14:26 ASV] But the Comforter, [even] the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.
• [Jhn 15:26 ASV] But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:
• [Jhn 16:7 ASV] Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.

She is in the flesh and anointed by the Spirit. She is a witness and gives testimony, she represents the Mother, just as Jesus represents the Father.

Revelation 22:20-21 RSV - 

He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. 

Come, Lord Jesus! 

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen.

The following verse says it all... only those truly awakened in the Spirit will understand and can sin against the Spirit. It is a SPRIRITUAL WAR, not against mankind. There is an elect among mankind (in the flesh) that will be fighting in this spiritual war. 

In the end, it is to save mankind.

• [Eph 6:12 RSV] For we are not contending against 👉flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Armageddon

• [Rev 16:13-14 ASV] And I saw [coming] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs: for they are spirits of demons, working signs; which go forth unto the kings of the whole world, to gather them together unto the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.

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

• [Rev 20:7-8, 15 ASV] And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. ... And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

So, for those of you who love to claim from the pulpit that your ALL are anointed and chosen by God, you clearly do not understand the scriptures and are deceiving millions. 

• [Mat 7:14 ASV] For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.

For those who teach ALL to partake... you know not the scriptures. 

• [1Co 11:27 RSV] Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner 👉will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.

For the many of you who boast about how you are anointed and chosen... you know not the scriptures.

• [Pro 27:1-2 ASV] Boast not thyself of tomorrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.  Let another man praise thee, and 👉not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips. 

The truly anointed ones will understand. 

Be ready...

• [Psa 45:14 ASV] She shall be led unto the king in broidered work: 👉The virgins her companions that follow her Shall be brought unto thee. 

Always test the spirits...

• [Mat 24:24 RSV] For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, 👉if possible, even the elect.

Stay alert, don't be foolish, at the time of the end only half make it in...

• [Mat 25:1-2 ASV] Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

For the foolish who have truly been called... forever losing the free gift of the Holy Spirit. Being exalted...making it about self, instead of God. (Many called... FEW CHOSEN.)

• [Heb 6:4-6 RSV] For it is 👉impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and 👉have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they 👉then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.

• [2Co 11:2-4 ASV] For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you [as] a pure virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, 👉whom we did not preach, or [if] ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with [him].

• [2Co 11:13 ASV] For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

To all others... 

Please be a part of the great multitude. Let go of your pride, humble yourself. Rid yourself of worldly things...focus on what's natural, nature, etc., and not on technology, artificial intelligence. Most importantly, help those in need. It will get worse, much worse, before it gets better. 

Rise above it all and do EVERYTHING in LOVE.

• [Eze 37:10 ASV] So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

• [Dan 12:10 ASV] Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand.

• [Rev 7:9-10 ASV] After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of [all] tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands; and they cry with a great voice, saying, Salvation unto our God who sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb.

If you are getting paid to teach the Word of God, you're not doing it for God, you're doing it for yourself. Donations are to help those in need and NOT to USE the ones in need to support you. (Mark 12:43, 44; James 1:27)

Heed the warning...

• [Mat 6:24 NIV] "No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. 👉You cannot serve both God and money.

• [Act 8:20 RSV] But Peter said to him, "Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

• [Jas 3:1 ASV] Be not many [of you] teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. 👈

May you be truly blessed with understanding...

~ Peace, Love and Joy ~