GOD’S TEST OF LOYALTY. 

  Do I mean to say that God has a test of loyalty?  Well let me answer that with this statement, and you decide!

Any, and even a casual study of Revelation MUST. . .must come to this overall conclusion: HUMANITY WILL BE DIVIVED. . . . into two distinctly different groups.

Group 1. Will be those who due to love for Christ, and a working knowledge of His Word, will live life within the Ten Commandments thus obeying GOD! This group…. chose life!

Group 2. May or may not love Christ, but are willing to obey men only! This group chooses to die with their sins. As you can see, both involve us making a choice, right?   If we do not,have a choice, then please tell me why God had this written…>

Revelation 18:2”And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”

Now comes a choice.

Revelation 18:4. “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”

Now, some may ask, about the why, the people should come out of Babylon, right? His answer.

Revelation 18:3. “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”

1; Her fornication, Greek Porneau Prn-yoo’ –o  can you guess what we call it today? Greeks knew it meant unlawful sex and the practice of idolatry.

 1 : now let’s look closer at idolatry, First GOD created the very material men have shaped into a god figure. The some bow down before that which GOD made, and worship it! I mean is that not spitting in a face, plus  a hard kick in the stomach for good measure?

2: Then induce or entice others to do the very same things? All in the name of a Christian Worship?  Give me break!

                                                                                                                       

Is this a controversial topic? In many circles today Christ is a controversy, no matter how He’s spoken of, in many circles.  But in your sharing Jesus with others, and they tell you Not interested, or worse, please know they Rejected Christ, not YOU!

As controversial as it may be, it is NOT complicated, nor will GOD spring this on people, as a surprise, for God has laid this out, in black and white, centuries ago, and even within the 1850’s onwards, there were many Holy Bibles, around. In fact, then as now. . .there were More Bibles, than there are Bible readers! Those of my   ahhh… vintage… may remember a T.V. ad that ended with “Let George do it!” . Today’s Christians must all have Pastors named George, for few know their Bibles well enough to quote more than one or two verses. They take the words of men for the Word of GOD. Most are therefore, . . . mislead!

If any having Pastors, who use God’s Word for most of their sermon contents,, be sure to give him . . . .and GOD, in Christ’ s name. . . . . your thanks!

Daniel we know was taken to Babylon in 605 BC in his early teens, so from 13 to 19 years old was he taken captive.  He WAS TO WRITE THIS.

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

We know from History, that God’s word was “Shut Up”  and kept locked, that’s why we call this time frame the dark ages up to 1798.  By the Power of Rome, it was not legal to have, possess even one verse of Scripture, or be called a heretic, and be put to death! Under Rome’s Policy  of believe as I say, or die!

From the Council Tolosanum  toe-low-sanum.. Pope Gregory 1X in 1229 A.D. Had this to say:

We forbid laymen possessing copies of the Old and the New Testament… We forbid them most severely to be above books in the popular vernacular {popular language],” The Lords of the districts shall carefully seek out the heretics in dwellings, hovels and forests, and even their underground retreat shall be entirely wiped out”.

Now the way this simple man reads this message as “If you or I have a Bible in our possession, why..,.. that makes us a heretic, which means a “NON-BELIEVER”, in the eyes of Rome!

By the way, she has not to this date, repudiated nor changed her laws one iota, thus all this even thought kept in the backgrounds, she claims this “We decide what is heresy, and we claim the right to kill all heretics,” and this my friends, is still on her books

                                                                                                                                                

After, 1798 date, The Holy Bibles began to be printed in vast numbers, and people gathered them up as forbidden fruit!. But as the human conditions improved, and the average health and wealth increased, people as in Old Israel, began the terminal drift away from God! Today, this very same drift is continuing at an ever increasing pace!

We, being believers, and, that puts us in the group 1 right? The ones who believe and follow the Word of God!

So what about those of Group 2 that obey man?

Revelation 13:5-9. “And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.  And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear.”

So all who listen and are deceived by this power shall not have their names written in the Books of Life, by the Lamb slain. So what is the opposite of the Book of Life?

Revelation 20:12. “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.”

Can you begin to see, just how seriously God views our loyalty? Can you not help but see, that God thinks of this as serious as life or death? Then I must ask each of you, is this question of your loyalty not a serious to you as the matter of life or death? If not, then I ask you WHY NOT?

What is it you know not, about terms life or death, both being eternal, that one may have trouble to understand?

Yes, some have said, to others, on this subject, “But . . .you just don’t understand, the vast majority of people reject your so-called “truth”! The majority just can’t be wrong!  Sorry they are, because many truths are not popular, because they go against the carnal mind of men.

Was Noah and his family a total of eight people, the majority at His time, NO the majority were on the wet side of the Ark and died, right?

                                                                                                                       

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Hebrews 4:12. “ For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, …”

So how sharp must it be?

 “….piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the hearts. ‘                                                                                            

   Can you agree, that the Word of GOD, can cut through the outer coverings, get to the heart of the matter, to thought and intent, to expose the fake from the original, to determine who is Playing Church and who really lives  for, Him and thus yearns to obey all of God’ s Laws, and not just those men say we should? In truth most have trouble with only the 2^nd and the 4^th do they not?

SOMETIMES GOD’S  BIBLE TRUTH WILL:

1.  Surprise, and even anger the Catholic.

2. Sometimes it surprises the Protestants

3. Sometimes surprises and even angers the Jew

4 Many times does both to the Atheist.

However, weather it surprises, or angers, or does both, the questions remains, “What will your attitude be when finally God brings us to the greatest of depths, His truth from HIS WORD via the workings of the Holy Spirit”?

John 7:17-18. “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.”

Most have heard this: You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink it, right?  Ok, ok put salt in the oats, but what kind of salt,…. if you will,…. does GOD use? I mean being a Christian, in this day and age, is getting hard, but its never been easy, at least they are not dipping us alive in tar, and using us for candles today, as at one time they did! The Lucky one’s?? they got tossed to hungry lions? Is that really lucky?? Yet it is easier just to go with the flow of the majority, but that means missing out a great deal!

                                                                                                                                   

Isaiah 35:10.”And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” . . . . .Who would not want that?

Isaiah 51:11 . “Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.”

God said the essentially the same thing twice, not for His benefit but for ours!

1 Corinthians 2:9. “But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”

Now I’d say that’s a good reason, beyond the Love we have for Christ, to have us all become obedient, to God’ s Law …. AMEN?  Yet there’s more…

Revelation 21:27. “And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.”

Can you close your eyes, right now and try to picture life, with nothing defiled, no abominations, nor any lies, no not even a little white one, as no matter the size or the color, a lie is lie! AMEN?

Revelation 21:4. “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”

If life with all that plus Jesus and the Father, for company, being able to speak to all the great men and women of the Bible, and all those who fought for it, is not enough for you, then how about having no more Lawyers, nor psychobabble MD’s, nor cops, jails and prisons, more money! You know the stuff, of all evils, money and the ways and means to get it?

So may I say personally, that I am glad to have found a Church where it is expected, that each bring their personal Bible? AHEM?

Please allow me to pose a question: “If YOU knew what is right in God’s eyes, would YOU. . .do it? However the ONLY sure way to know that which is right in God’ s sight, is to study His Word,

Isaiah 28:9-10. “Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.  For precept must

                                                                                                                                  

be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:”

That brings us back to

Revelation 13:1-3. “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.  And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as

the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.”

Please Know, that John was shown this from His day back to the time of Daniel, thus the animal symbols were in reverse order, from the order which Daniel was shown, towards the future.

Revelation 13:13-14. “And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.”

Several things we should be aware of, within Revelation, 1: It is NOT in a chronological order.

2. The he, in small letters denotes, in Rev 13:13-14 none other than Satan, as the one who “….doeth great wonders in the sight of men”. Surely neither the Father nor Christ Jesus, is going to bother to make stone and wood idols, appear to cry real blood or olive oil, or have “Apparitions” of Mary appear sometimes for many days, in many places, especially when the Bible has not one word about her death, nor her resurrection, and all we have for that is the words of men and their traditions!

Jude 1:4. “ For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The power that fought and lost, to keep the Word of God, under lock and key for centuries, created an organization, that sought to kill the Holy Bibles printed in to common tongues of the common people, but God’s is always the winning side, Amen!

                                                                                                                                   

But does this mean that the forces in opposition to God and Christ, are fallen asleep? NO Just read Jude 4 again, and you can update this to today’s date and every date until the Second Advent, can I have an Amen?

Under The Title: GOD’ S TEST OF LOYALTY, does that not include our worship? Worship regarding not only the HOW, but most assuredly also the WHOM, as well as the WHEN, AMEN?

Would it come as surprise, to learn that all of this can be found, within one single source, His 66 Love Letters to you and me, His children, the Holy Bible!

Genesis 2: 1-3 tells us of the WHEN… as Does Exodus 20:8-11 and other locations. The How,

Acts 1:14. “These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.”

BY THE WAY, this is the last mention for Mary the Mother of Jesus, in the Word.

Acts 4:24. “And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:”

That tells of the WHOM, and in part the HOW, but there’s still a missing part is there not?

John 14:6. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

Remove Jesus, from God’s Word, you have a pencil without any lead,  or a book with many pages, all blank, so life without Jesus I ask “What’s the point”?

Now if any think, that we have covered all the bases, of worship, you’d be wrong!

Matthew 2:2. “Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.”

“Are come to worship Him.”  They came from a long way, just to worship, who but Jesus?

Ephesians 2:10. “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, unto good works, which God hath before, ordained that we should walk in them.”

So we humans are the workmanship and created in Christ Jesus, should we then not pray, sing or worship in His name, and live, life focused on Jesus?

                                                                                                                       

Ephesians 3:9. “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 by Jesus Christ:”

What does Jesus say to us?

John 14:15. “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”

Please friends can you repeat this with me? IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.”

Now, who has heard, and said, with me, keep only those we want too? Or did anyone hear, It’s OK to pick or chose, after all they are only my suggestions?  If any did, Forgive me but, your  hearing, needs a check-up!

1 Timothy 4:1. “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;”

Can we really say that the reason we have most Christians, worshiping on the venerable day of the SUN, and be found in that 1 Timothy 4:1 verse?

Of course, because if any human is not doing God’s will, then Pray tell,  whose will is left but Satan’ ?

Who wants to follow this  loser, into the Lake of Fire, when God creates it, in Revelation20:9? 

ONE of my prayers: LORD, if I am chosen to stand in that terrible, strengthen and guide me to bring Honor unto THY name, and teach others to do the same. In Jesus name and for His sake, AMEN!

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