Friday, August 17, 2012

Matter is Spirit Slowed Down

Matter is Spirit Slowed Down

Bible Believers' Newsletter 749

"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. God bless you.

Again we have a comprehensive line-up of news items, most of which feature truths not published by the mainstream media. We bring these matters to your attention because they declare Bible prophecies coming to pass in real time, or because they are matters of interest, and encourage you to follow the links to the "full story".

In our main article we look at the order of the first resurrection and translation of Christ's end-time Bride, and how we must live above the reproach of the Word, applying the Word of faith according to our commission in Revelation 10:8-11 with regard to Titus 3:10-11, bearing in mind that since the last saint predestinated to the Laodicean part of the Body was born-again in 1963, redemption is over and Christ is no longer a Mediator for the ignorance of PART-Word. Therefore recognizing this present truth let us not be unfruitful but apply the Word of the hour to ourselves in our circumstances and the situations in one-on-one communion with our Lord.

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott


Olympics' Blatant Occult Symbolism & Message

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August 13, 2012 — The Olympics started as a religious ritual for Zeus the god worshipped in Laodicea, [father of gods and men, incarnation of Jupiter Olympium (Ju=Zeus + piter=father), "the dispenser of war to men," Wotan, Odin, Osiris, Ammon, Vishnu, the Babylonian Adon, God the Father, Vatican II's "one God, father-of-us-all" religious premise that sets forth the brotherhood of man, and is even now bringing together the Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Hindus, etc., with the intent that a mutual form of worship will increase our understanding, love, and care of each other as the Jew and former Jesuit Malachi Martin told Uri Dowbenko concerning John Paul II (Uri Dowbenko, Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy, p. 213)]. The Olympic pyre must be lit by the rays from the Sun (Lucifer) and paraded to the stadium with all reverence. . . However, no Olympics has been as blatant about its Luciferian message as the London Olympics 2012.

City of London crest

The Opening Ceremony in the London Games was aptly described as a "pandemonium" [or assembly of demons] . . . it seemed the organizers wanted to present Britain as a land of witchcraft . . . If we consider the blasphemous opening song Jerusalem which states that England is the new throne of God, we see that they wanted to portray Britain as the center of the new world occult order, the "Zion" that is displayed as the Olympic logo. . . [The City of London rules the world under the Black Nobility], the Closing Ceremony foreshadowed what their New World Order will be and who will rule over it.

The message of the ceremony is that we should expect some major war, probably involving America (the dying eagle), from whose ashes the Phoenix, the Illuminati leader, will be born Papal Keys[Brother Branham prophesied, "I believe, one of these glorious days, when this united confederation of church goes together [as described above], and the new pope is brought out of the United States and put over there according to prophecy, then they'll form an image like unto the beast] . . . the Illuminati have the power to perform a blatant satanic ritual in the face of millions of viewers all around the world. It seems they are bragging about a coming war and the rise of their anti-Messiah. Full story: henrymakow.com

obverse US SealComment: Manly P. Hall stated that the designer of the Seal of the United States originally submitted had the mythical Phoenix bird on its nest of flames as the central motif. Only one such bird was said to live at a time, it lives for 500 years, and at its death its body opens and a new Phoenix emerges. The Phoenix is one sign of the secret orders of the ancient world and of an initiate of those orders. reverse US SealIt is also an emblem of royalty, power, superiority, immortality, resurrection and of human aspiration to universal good or "new worldly order." The pyramid on the reverse is more obviously related to the old Mysteries. It represents human society itself, imperfect and incomplete. Above it floats the symbol of esoteric orders, the divine part of nature completing the works of men. It is claimed that in old Atlantis there was a university in the form of an immense pyramid and that this temple to the sciences shadowed forth the seal of the new Atlantis, whose monogram reveals the continent of the New World as set apart for the accomplishment of the great work—here to arise the pyramid of human aspiration, the school of secret sciences.


Outline on Collapse End Game

June 27, 2012 — When the paper mache artisans start talking about a total of $10 to $12 trillion for Western Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States combined, then they will be seriously planning a banking system recapitalization... The hilarious factor is that even $10 trillion would not work, but it would indeed buy . . . maybe three years. . . WHEN THEY START TALKING ABOUT BIG BANK LIQUIDATION AND A NEW GOLD-BACKED MONETARY SYSTEM, THEN EXPECT SOME TRACTION. But such a plan would involve plowing the system under and removing the bankers from power. Until then, plan for a bigger killing field. The great tragedy is that the killing field is the entire Western monetary system, attached at the hip to the Western Economic system. Witness the gradual collapse.

If the Basel castle dwellers decide to make Gold a Tier-1 asset, banking capital adequacy ratios would be adjusted by a dictated order. . . The ultimate central bank is on the verge of declaring Gold to be a Tier-1 asset for commercial banks with 100% weighting. Curiously, it is currently a Tier-3 category with just a 50% risk weighting. Like gold is only half money . . . A category upgrade in Gold would effectively drive up its value relative to other competitive qualifying assets. By elevating Gold to a bank reserve asset, stability would enter the equation, since the yellow stable metal moves inversely to the risky paper assets that have crumbled. . .

As they lose that asset during the process by which Eastern entities strip gold via forced demands during margin calls in off-exchange transactions with extreme pressure applied . . . A string of bank failures could be nearby. . . Continued television advertisements, sports sponsorship, and billboard lights do not demonstrate solvency, only zombie activity . . .

China is well along an ambitious plan to recast large gold bars into smaller 1-kg bars on a massive scale. . . Swiss foundries might be involved . . . recasting in London is confirmed by my best source. It seems patently clear that the Chinese are preparing for a new system for trade settlement system, to coincide with a new banking reserve system. They might make a sizeable portion of the new 1-kg bars available for retail investors and wealthy individuals in China. They will discard the toxic USTreasury Bond basis for banking. . . The Western monetary system is built upon debt. That debt is crumbling, the process having begun with mortgage bonds, and extended to sovereign bonds. . . Debt is not wealth. The wealth of Western nations is evaporating. . . The advanced nations carry between three and ten times as much total debt as they have economic activity, as measured by Gross Domestic Product. . .

Not until the Western banking and bond system is fully wrecked will the new Eastern Coalition system of trade settlement be put into place with trumpets blasting to herald arrival. The Eastern architects do not want the blame of ruining the Western fiat paper system. Until that day, the Gold price will be subjected to openly criminal activity . . . When the new day dawns, the Gold price will be multiples higher, as will the Silver price. Full story: HatTrickLetter

Comment: The Prophet was right, the Vatican and Rothschild must refinance the US dollar with gold backing, or forsake any hope of global hegemony: "To believe the devil's lie is to serve Satan, even though you may want to call him Jehovah (YHWH). But the elect will not be deceived . . . ["The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the Potter! . . . Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth [come OUT of Babylon and be filled with the Spirit]" (Lamentations 4:2; Acts 3:6)]!

Furthermore, the elect will not only be kept, but as this move becomes the "Image erected to the Beast," the saints will be gone in the rapture. . . the church system of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant in coming together will control the whole wealth of the world system and force the whole earth into its religious trap, or will kill them, by refusing them the privilege of buying and selling whereby they would make a living. This will be accomplished simply, for the harlot's daughters are all but gone back to her. In the meantime, Rome has acquired nearly all the supplies of gold. The Jews have the bonds and all the paper. At the right time, the harlot will destroy the present day money system by calling in all the paper [bonds], and demanding gold. With no gold, the system falls. The Jews will be trapped and come into the alliance, and the harlot church will take over the whole world" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 314).


Amnesty International: an Instrument of War Propaganda?

August 8, 2012 — Amnesty International has released satellite pictures of "craters" in Syria, citing: "an increased use of heavy weaponry, including near residential areas". . .

Amnesty's record on impartiality suffered a fatal blow when they stated in 1991 that Iraqi soldiers had torn babies from their incubators in Kuwait and left them to die on the floor of the hospital's neo-natal unit. Arguably this sealed the 1991 onslaught on Iraq. The story that the Kuwaiti government rewarded Amnesty with $500,000 for endorsing this pack of lies has not gone away—and as far as I am aware, to date, has not been denied.

Amnesty's record suffered a further blow when it organised a demonstration last year outside the London Syrian Embassy, with CAABU (Council for Arab British Understanding), calling for the overthrow of the sovereign Syrian government. A plan which was outlined by the US Embassy in Damascus in December 2005. This action arguably falls under the definition of incitement to terrorism, set out by the UN Security Council on 4th May 2012 (SC/10636).

The Syrian government is doing what any nation would do to defend its country when attacked by terrorists, many from outside and many also with British accents, according to recently escaped, kidnapped British and Dutch journalists. . . Further, I do not seem to remember Amnesty blasting the British and Americans soldiers for killing, raping, murdering whole families of Iraqis and Afghans, also illegally invaded, who simply wanted their countries back, or were totally innocent victims. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca


Al-Qaeda is America's MEK in Syria and Everywhere Else

February 21, 2012 — Al-Qaeda: The best enemy, and friend the petrodollar can buy.

What the Mossad and terrorist group MEK are doing together inside Iran is the same thing that the CIA and terrorist group Al-Qaeda are doing together inside Syria: blowing stuff up and causing problems.

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Al-Qaeda was allowed to penetrate Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria by the CIA-MI6-Mossad axis of evil to create the necessary chaos that would make regime change the only desirable outcome in these countries. It worked in Afghanistan and Libya, and it will probably work in Syria, too. Let's face it: Syria is every conqueror's dream. It is a weak and disunited society with bad leadership. And this is true for the entire Middle East with the exception of Iran. After Syria the Great Satan will turn his sights on Iran. The war propagandists in Washington are desperately trying to tie Al-Qaeda to Iran in order to create a justification to change the regime there. . . Full story: The Excavator


Anglo-American 1957 Secret Plan to Assassinate Syrian President. Déjà Vu?

August 7, 2012 — At a time when the British press was still "reporting the truth," London's Guardian (27 September 2003) published a detailed report of a 1957 Anglo-American assassination plot directed against the Syrian president, with a view to implementing "regime change." The similarity to today's war on Syria is striking.

What is revealing is that the political assassination of the Syrian president has been on the Anglo-American drawing board for over half a century. The article, which reviews the text of the leaked 'Secret Document,' confirms that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had ordered the assassination of the Syrian Head of State.

"Macmillan backed Syria assassination plot Documents show White House and No 10 conspired over oil-fuelled invasion plan." Consult the complete article by Ben Fenton, The Guardian, 27 September 2003. . .

An all out invasion plan had also been envisaged. What was lacking from the 1957 plan, formulated at the height of the Cold War, was the "humanitarian" R2P envelope. . . Full story: globalresearch.ca


Syria Real News – August 10, 14 Roundup

August 10, 2010 — Detailed reportage from numerous agencies in film and print on British and US-funded and armed foreign invaders that comprise the opportunistic al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood of the CIA and MI6 cowardly murdering Syrians and destroying their homes and infrastructure. Full story: August 10

Former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Hijab made his first public appearance on Tuesday after he was bribed into 'defecting' to the rebel terrorists who seek to violently overthrow the Syrian government. . . Even rebel sources refuted Hijab's words by saying . . . the Syrian Arab Army has not been defeated in any battle so far. Last week a Syrian ambassador was offered an advance payment of US$1 million and a monthly salary of $20,000 over 20 years by Qatar to also 'defect' and to state similar falsities to the corporate media, but he refused by saying that his heart is not for sale. . .
Full story: August 14

Comment: Morally and economically bankrupt Britain and America impose austerity measures at home yet provide hundreds of millions chiefly to Wahhabi al-Qaeda's otherwise unemployed mercenaries of different nationalities including Afghans, Iraqis, Turkish, Yemenis, Jordanians, Pakistanis, and Saudis. for invasion and slaughter; British and French navies are now sailing to blockade Syria.

Without the Jewnited States' taxpayer-funded al Qaeda and aggression from the Jewish House of Saud, Donmeh Jew-dominated Turkey and MOSSAD, there would have been no invasion of Syria. In fact, a British photographer, John Cantile, recently released from rebel kidnappers, said out of the 30 rebels there was "Not a Syrian in sight." He added "Two of them were so Anglicised they couldn't speak Arabic".

The world is being told that the conflict in Syria is a "civil war" or, as the media labels it, "the war within". Yet if the overwhelming majority of rebels are "international jihadist" mercenaries, is it even appropriate to label it as such?

According to McClatchy News (via Miami Herald), Jeroen Oerlemans, a Dutch freelance photographer who was captured with Cantile, described the rebels as "foreign jihadists."

"One of the black jihadists freaked out and shouted: These are journalists and now they will see we are preparing an international jihad in this place," Oerlemans told the paper. In the days they were held, Oerlemans said, they met other foreign combatants. "We met many combatants who spoke good English, some with Birmingham accents," he said, referring to the British city that has a large immigrant population. "They see Syria as the last battlefield. But first Assad must be toppled. So they fight against the same opponent as the Free Syrian Army, only with a different purpose. As soon as Assad has fallen, these fighters want to introduce Islamic law, Sharia, in Syria."

Despite gruesome reports of mass murder by some of these jihadists, the US is currently giving $100 million taxpayer dollars from its bankrupt coffers over to their efforts—$74 million now known as "humanitarian aid" and $25 million in "non-lethal" communications assistance. This policy of supporting terrorists is also firmly in place with US co-conspirator, the United Kingdom, where Tony Cartalucci has reported . . . Full story: activistpost.com


Are Israeli-American Mobsters buying America's Government?

August 6, 2012 — Yesterday a window opened, quickly closing. Major newspapers and news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters and others announced and the billionaire gambling "magnate," some call him "mob boss" who runs gambling from Las Vegas to China where he is fighting bribery charges, is facing a major criminal investigation.

[Jewish] Billionaire Sheldon Adelson's goal is to buy an American attack on Iran by using money now tied to a criminal investigation to buy extremist candidate Mitt Romney the presidency. Yesterday, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal made the following announcement about Sheldon Adelson's organization:"

"The investigation involves Zhenli Ye Gon (who has been indicted on counts of trafficking methamphetamine ingredients) and Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, (a former executive of Fry's Electronics who went to jail on bribe charges) who wired tens of millions of dollars to the Sands Venetian casino in Las Vegas during the mid-2000s. . .

Murdoch was careful to let his close friend, Adelson, "off the hook" by announcing that Adelson was NOT subject to an investigation that is, in fact, highly classified. The WSJ story is a "white wash" as Murdoch, an Israeli citizen as are the Koch Brothers, make up, with Adelson, the "triumvirate of sleaze" that buys and sells, using cash, wiretapping, Mossad agents, blackmail, many of the world's governments.

>As Adelson's staff is facing prison for laundering cash for, not just drug dealers but suspected terrorists, Murdoch has been under a year of investigation for blackmail and wiretapping in Britain and may well face the same in the US. His top staff members face decades in prison while he and his son are still free.

The other third of the triumvirate are the Israeli Koch brothers who control the world's gasoline futures and wholesale market. On a whim last week, they raised gasoline prices by nearly .80 cents a gallon, taxing the American people hundreds of billions of dollars.

Why? An attack on the American economy prior to the election or simply more monopoly profiteering is a standard ploy used by the Israeli and "bankster" lobby to create fear and panic. Murdoch's stranglehold on the world's news organizations sets the stage while Adelson, with the Koch brothers, literally own most of America's government.

The cabal, with its control of the US House of Representatives, America's courts, police agencies, and financial regulators, combined with their partnership with worldwide arms and oil interests, has made the idea of free elections in America an impossibility.

What changed yesterday is that, here in the US, Adelson, who has given hundreds of millions of dollars to pro-Israel candidates and personally financed groups pushing for war with Iran has now had his "organization" tied directly to organized crime.

Sodom and Gomorrah in America.

Adelson owns much of Las Vegas, the inheritor of the early crime families of the 1920s and 30s, Bugsy Siegel, Arnold Rothstein and their "Murder Incorporated" organization seen in films such as The Godfather II, Once Upon A Time in America and the HBO TV series by director Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk.

Decades have been spent trying to put an Italian face on American organized crime whose roots trace back to criminal groups, fellow Jews, that preyed on Jewish immigrants that came into the US at the end of the 19th century. The "Italian Mafia" was, at most, a minor sub note to the groups that later emerged as "Zionist" organizations, Jewish "defense" groups and the Israel lobby, whose activities, gambling, prostitution, money laundering, espionage and "murder for hire" established the basis for America's current relationship with Israel, a very "one sided" one at that. . .

Stopping a War by stopping Organized Crime

Russia Today, aided by sources from Reuters, who censored their own story, broke the following news today about Israel's actual "war plans" on Iran: "Israel's threats that it could attack Iran at any time appear to be a tactical ploy, after a government insider revealed that no military plans against Tehran have been discussed by Israel's top ministers for "months."

The insider also confirmed rumors that the octet had factionalized, with hawkish Netanyahu held back by top military and security officials who are "entirely against" an Israel-led attack on Tehran's nuclear program, believing the country does not have the necessary resources for a war with its much bigger rival. . .

Thus the flow of money from financial crimes, gambling, prostitution and economic blackmail continues to flow into America's "pro-Israeli" right. However, a closer examination of the "right" shows them to be oil companies, the arms industry and a series of financial institutions seeking relief from controls and investigations that threaten their further attacks on America and the world's currencies.

The election, funded as though it was about Iran or imaginary nuclear weapons is, as have been so many others, over the right to steal with impunity, for the powerful to remain immune from laws and regulation and for the working people and small businessmen and women of the world to see their future destroyed behind a façade of war.

Today, news organizations around the world are "cleansing" their publications of reports of Adelson's criminal associates. The reason?

Hundreds of millions of dollars already donated over the years would have to be returned, all deemed "illegal campaign contributions," and subjecting everyone from Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin to the entire GOP including Mitt Romney to criminal prosecution for violation of election laws.

Even money spent long ago would have to be returned, bribes that financed wars long lost, bribes that financed the downfall of the western economies and American freedoms and paid for the murder of thousands of innocents throughout the Middle East and Central Asia are now deemed "illegal campaign contributions." Full story: presstv.ir


False Flag Terror and Conspiracies of Silence

August 10, 2012 — Gladio's successful concealment for so many years demonstrates how mass atrocities can be carried out by a shadow network with complete impunity. Most incidents from the Gladio period remain unsolved by authorities. In the US, however, a plausible narrative appears to be required for public consumption. For example, just a few hours after the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials swept in and wrested the case from Oak Creek authorities by classifying it as an act of "domestic terrorism." Less than twenty four hours later one of the federal government's foremost de facto propaganda and intelligence-gathering arms—the [Jewish] Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)—developed a storyline that was unquestioningly lapped up by major news media.

In an August 6 Democracy Now interview with SPLC spokesman Mark Potok and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Don Walker, Potok explained in unusual detail how the alleged killer was involved in "white supremacist groups," "Nazi skinhead rock bands," and that the SPLC had been "tracking" the groups he was in since 2000. Potok's remarks, which dominate the exchange and steer clear of the suspect's experience in psychological operations, contrasted sharply with Walker's, who more cautiously pointed out that the suspect's "work in [US Army] PsyOps is still a bit of a mystery to all of us . . . We talked to a psychiatrist who said that [being promoted to PsyOps is] like going from the lobby to the 20th floor very quickly."

Like the Aurora Colorado storyline of a crazed shooter who expertly booby-trapped his apartment with exotic explosives, such appealingly sensationalistic narratives serve to sideline the countervailing testimonies of eyewitnesses and are difficult to contest or dislodge once they are driven home by would-be experts through almost every major news outlet.

A similar scenario played out in the wake of the Oklahoma City federal building bombing when the ATF, FBI and SPLC together constructed the dominant frame of Timothy McVeigh as the lone bomber, an account that likewise diverged with the local authorities' initial findings, early news reports of unexploded ordinance and a mysterious accomplice of McVeigh, and the overall conclusions of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation Committee's Final Report. The narrative nevertheless served to maintain the political status quo while securing the Clinton administration's second term in office. To this day most Americans believe McVeigh was solely responsible for the bombing despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Full story: globalresearch.ca


Drone on the Range

August 13, 2012 — Those very same pilotless, remote-controlled, undetectable planes the CIA has been secretly using to spy on and bomb people in Pakistan and elsewhere are headed to our local police departments, FBI offices, and. . . well, who knows who else will have these toys?

All we know is that Congress—under pressure from Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and other big drone peddlers—directed the Federal Aviation Agency earlier this year to open up civilian air space to thousands of them by 2015. And, in their wisdom, our loosey-goosey lawmakers provided no regulation of who can have drones, how many, or for what purposes.

So prepare to be pestered and monitored, for police agencies and corporate interests are said to be abuzz about getting their own. The first ones are expected to be used for high-altitude surveillance, which is worrisome enough. But consider this: A Texas sheriff's office that has already bought a "ShadowHawk" drone says it might outfit the little buzzer to fire tear gas and rubber bullets.

No worries, though. The drone industry's lobbying group has drafted a two-page code of conduct urging purchasers to "respect the privacy of individuals." How nice. Only, it's a voluntary code—and totally unenforceable. For more information about this invasive swarm, contact the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Full story: otherwords.org


American Police now "Israeli-DHS trained," Precursor to Dictatorship

August 10, 2012 — Slowly, every police department in the United States, at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security, is being trained by Israeli groups. As part of this training, there is an increased move to use of military uniforms, armored vehicles, heavy weapons, illegal surveillance, lying to the people, press and courts and systematic interference in the electoral system. They are becoming "Israeli."

The door to this foreign influence in America was thrown open by the Department of Homeland Security and, in particular, Michael Chertoff, an Israeli citizen who was, in particular, most instrumental as former Director of DHS in implementing policies challenged as unconstitutional, policies the new "Israeli trained" American police are tasked with stopping opposition to.

"Israelization" of American police is a simple process:

- Total militarization of police, military tactics, utter disrespect for civil law, the constitution, civil liberties, freedom of speech and the unbridled growth of centralized power under unlimited corruption; government by money and organized crime.

- Systematic suppression of dissent.

- Systematic use of intimidation to control the electoral process at every level of government.

- Seamless coordination with military and "internationalist" groups to prepare for mass internment of sectors of the population, numbering in the millions.

- Coordinated use of full military power including but not limited to bombing, strafing, heavy artillery and summary executions, the same methods Israel uses on a daily basis.

- Even more control of the press, based on the Israeli model, with two "controlled" views, on pro-government and the second, "controlled opposition."

Infiltration

It is absolutely necessary to differentiate between Israeli companies and those working tied to quasi-governmental organized crime in America. It is also necessary that citizenry, in particular Americans of Jewish background, recognize that a systematic campaign of controlled and revised history and, more seriously, orchestrated "incidents" are coordinated with groups misrepresenting themselves as defending the Jewish people.

These groups, several come to mind, are, in actuality, Israeli "psyops" groups that work on an active basis with terrorists. What are we saying?

90% of terrorism, worldwide, including many of the mass killing incidents, all show a pattern of involvement by intelligence organizations. Almost all "terror threats" and "staged announcements" are traced to groups tied directly to the same people who show up at our door with the "cure" to a disease they themselves create.

"While in Abuja, Nigeria, 3 weeks before the attack on the national police station, I met with Chief of Security Gordon Obua, a close friend and told him this:

"We have identified the Headquarters of the National Police as a potential target. It has an unguarded gate and parking facility and is close to the presidential palace. We predict that a car bomb will be exploded there, followed by one other bombing attack.

At these attacks, you will be approached by a security company that will offer you, not only protection by a massive bribe."

The meeting was in the presidential suite of the Transcon Hilton in Abuja, witnessed by my legal team. The attack as described happened exactly 3 weeks later and the company that came with a suitcase of cash and a promise to turn Abuja, a beautiful city into "Fortress Abuja" is among those now training American police.

The same group is also suspected in the bombing of a Christian Church in Alexandria, Egypt, on January 1, 2011, another car bomb. Similarly, recent bombings in Cameroon, Kenya and Tanzania have the same "fingerprints."

The same group "ran" the Detroit "Crotch Bomber."

The Israeli handlers who worked with Abdullah Mohamed in Yemen and walking him onto a plane to the US with a bomb, no ticket, no passport and no visa, as witnessed by two Detroit area lawyers, Kurt and Lori Haskell, also train American police.

We see this over and over, police, government and terrorists, all the same thing.

Of course, few Americans are aware that the "spokesman" for the group called "al Qaeda" is actually an American named Adam Perlman whose grandfather helped found the ADL (Anti-Defamation League). To some, terrorism is a business, and like a tire store that leaves nails in the road nearby, some "counter-terrorism" companies have more experience in building car bombs than finding them.

Why America?

Israeli security companies, primarily made up of active Mossad and former Israeli military members, began working across Africa. Israeli expertise in wiretapping on behalf of ruling parties was what opened the door. Their expertise, as shown in Britain by the Murdoch/News of the World scandals, is excellent.

They were even able to wiretap the 3 prime ministers, members of the royal family, heads of police and national security agencies, key members of legislative bodies and a handful of celebrities. The equipment for this costs millions, can only be brought into the country by diplomatic pouch and its use is considered espionage as it foments broad unregulated and unauthorized wiretapping, totally unaccountable.

Hundreds of such units are with America police departments, as advised by the Department of Homeland Security, to keep track of groups they feel require observation, despite recent court rulings that have overturned FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) as unconstitutional. Full story: presstv.ir confirmation and 9/11


Russia to revive Army Bases in Three Oceans

August 1, 2012 — The Russian government intends to restore the military-technical support of their ships at the former military base in Cam Ranh (Vietnam), Lourdes (Cuba) and the Seychelles. . . "In 2001 I, as the President of the Russian Federation and the supreme commander, deemed it advantageous to withdraw the radio-electronic center Lourdes from Cuba. In exchange for this, George Bush, the then US president, has assured me that this decision would become the final confirmation that the Cold War was over and both of our states, getting rid of the relics of the Cold War, will start building a new relationship based on cooperation and transparency. In particular, Bush has convinced me that the US missile defense system will never be deployed in Eastern Europe.

The Russian Federation has fulfilled all terms of the agreement. And even more. I shut down not only the Cuban Lourdes but also Kamran in Vietnam. I shut them down because I gave my word of honor. I, like a man, have kept my word. What have the Americans done? The Americans are not responsible for their own words. It is no secret that in recent years, the US created a buffer zone around Russia, involving in this process not only the countries of Central Europe, but also the Baltic states, Ukraine and the Caucasus. The only response to this could be an asymmetric expansion of the Russian military presence abroad, particularly in Cuba. In Cuba, there are convenient bays for our reconnaissance and warships, a network of the so-called "jump airfields." With the full consent of the Cuban leadership, on May 11 of this year, our country has not only resumed work in the electronic center of Lourdes, but also placed the latest mobile strategic nuclear missiles "Oak" on the island. They did not want to do it the amicable way, now let them deal with this," Putin said. . .
Full story: pravda.ru. Nuclear-powered Russian submarine undetected in Gulf of Mexico for weeks.


Israeli MK calls for Third Temple in Jerusalem

August 1, 2012 — As Jewish people around the world commemorate the double anniversary of the destructions of the First and Second Temples at the hands of God's servants Nebuchadnezzar and Titus, preparations are being made for the construction of a Third Temple in Jerusalem. Last weekend, orthodox Jews belonging to the Temple Institute gathered to construct a miniature model of the Temple. This follows a similar exercise earlier in the year in which a live goat was slaughtered to show how a Passover sacrifice would be offered once the sacrificial system recommences. Now an Israeli MK has called for new laws that would pave the way for the construction of the Third Temple.

Zevulun Orlev of the Jewish Home party recently published an article in a Jewish periodical urging political reforms that would ensure there was enough manpower and money to complete the project. He also said a new Basic Law would be required to protect the Third Temple from public prosecution, so as to prevent human or animal rights cases being brought against it, whenever Temple worship and sacrifices are restored. Orlev added that he believed the removal of the Dome of the Rock could trigger a regional war with the Islamic world, but remarked that as has been seen with the 'Arab Spring' uprisings, there is no ironclad guarantee of peace and stability with the Muslim nations anyway. Full story: timesofisrael


Criminal State

Criminal State is a Jewish website founded to help restore healthy and sustainable communities and to recover the informed consent essential to self-governance.

The criminality most perilous to democracy succeeds by displacing facts with what others can be induced to believe. Those complicit manipulate thought and behavior by preying on beliefs, on faith and on the good faith of others. Here is where the undisclosed bias of mainstream media comes into play.

Today's wars are catalyzed with false beliefs, manipulated impressions and half-truths. On that battlefield (the shared field of consciousness), the power of association is often deployed as a weapon—either to accredit or to discredit. In either case, the goal is the same: to influence behavior inconsistent with the real facts. Full story: criminalstate.com

Comment: Good Saturday reading.


Matter is Spirit Slowed Down


A Brother from California who has been followed our ministry since the days of Bible Believers' BBS writes: "I think it's time we manifest God in our vessels as never before in the most liberating way with as much interest in "the church" as Elijah had at the end of his ministry. Our words will calmly go to the throat of the matter; a spade is a spade".

Our Brother is correct. When Brother Branham was translated beyond the curtain of time he said, "If I'm gone on, if this is paradise, where I'm waiting in glory, I want to see the Lord Jesus."

And that Voice said, "But you can't see Him now. He's higher. Someday He will come back."

And then ministers, and people all standing around, I begin to recognize them then. After I seen they were my converts of people I'd knowed in life. They were young. I didn't know them then. You see, they went back to young men and women. "Oh," I said, "there's brother and sister. . ." I was just so happy. I never was so happy in my life. And I said, "If I'd only knowed this beforehand." And I looked around, and I said, "Do you mean that He will come to me?"

"He will come to you, and He will question you on the Gospel that you preached, because you were borned a leader."

And then I said, "Well, will Paul have to stand the same judgment by it?"

"Sure."

I said, "Then if Paul makes it, I will too, because I preached the same thing he did, without compromising on one word."

And all them people screamed out, "We are resting assure on that." Said, "Then we'll go back to earth and receive a glorified body, and live together through forever in this condition" (Jehovah Jireh, Part III #60-0803).

As the fourth Elijah, Brother Branham was commissioned to "restore the heart of God's children back to the faith of their apostolic fathers before the great and dreadful day of the Lord" (Malachi 4:5-6; Matthew 17:11). Turning them back to the revelation delivered by Paul who said, "I am amazed that you are so readily turning away from God who called you by the grace of Christ to another gospel, which is really not another; but there are some who trouble you, and would pervert the good news concerning Christ. But though we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if any man preaches to you a gospel contrary to that which you have received, let him be accursed. Am I now trying to win man's favour, or God's? Or do I seek to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a slave of Christ. For I would have you know, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached by me is no human affair. For I neither received it of man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ" (Galatians 1:6-12).

Brother Branham said, "I'm so sick and tired of human philosophy. I want to see the real power of God demonstrate and moving among His people, where that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, proving Himself. And that's what the world is a hungering for.

When I stood there by them, I said, "Gentlemen."

They said, "Brother Branham, you just returned from a missionary trip." Said, "It was very alarming when we read in the papers where you had thirty thousand converts."

I said, "Gentlemen, for the past fifty years, you've been sending missionaries down in Africa. I met many who have been there for a long time. Some of them little old girls down there said they were missionaries, and boys." And I said, "Where you from?" They told me what college they were from. I said, "How many souls you won to Christ?" "Not none yet." Riding around in a nice car, live in the best hotels, and I said. "None yet?" "No." When the natives have a war dance, after they come up out of the mines and things, they passed out a few tracts."

What does a native know about a tract? He wants. . . Paul learned a long time ago, and Jesus Christ always knowed that it takes power to convert the heathen. That's right. And they walking around there, and all them little old pamphlets in their hands. And as soon as their back's turned, throw it away like that.

And I said, "You sent missionaries in there for fifty years; you spent millions of dollars." And I said, "What you call fanaticism won more people to Christ in five minutes time than all the missionaries you sent in for fifty years."

Hallelujah, our God lives and reigns. He's a God of power. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's the God that closed the heavens in the days of Elijah. He's the God that stilled the waters on the mighty sea that night. He's the One that woke up His Son from the dead, after being in the grave for three days. He's omnipotent. He lives and reigns forever. And He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. He will always be God. He will always have somebody who'll believe Him in that way too. God has never been without a testimony" (Experiences, #52-0726).

Paul wrote, "Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions [such as British Israel/Christian Identity theology], and strivings over the Law; for they are futile and purposeless. Reject and have nothing to do with a factious person after the first and second warning; knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful, being condemned of himself"  (Titus 3:9-11).

You must die to old habits and humanist denominational error. Our commission is NOT: "Teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost [which is LORD JESUS CHRIST]" (Matthew 28:19). That was the Message of the PART-Word saints calling men out from heathen darkness from Pentecost to Laodicea.

We are commissioned to separate from the world church system and unite with the fullness of the revealed Word. "Take the little Book which is open in the hand of the Angel [Jesus Christ] who stands [in judgment] upon [Rome, the beast from] the sea and upon [the (once) Protestant United States, her image from] the earth. And I went to the Angel, and said to Him: Give me the little Book [the unsealed Bible]. And He said, Take it, and eat it up; and it will make your belly bitter [because your flesh and mortal spirit must be brought under submission to the revelation], but it will be in your mouth sweet as honey [because nothing can withstand revelation (Matthew 10:19-20)]. And I took the little Book out of the Angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And He said to me, You must prophesy again concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings"  (Revelation 10:8-11).

Our Message is to "proclaim the day of vengeance of our God" (Isaiah 61:2b). We are to be the Voice of the seventh angel "riding the trail once more" echoing the revelation, NOT reciting the "letter" of the "midnight cry" (Matthew 25:6) that is the "shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16 confirmed by the Voice of Revelation 18:4 calling the wise and foolish virgin OUT from the darkness of Judaeo-Romanism and her (once) Protestant daughter churches into the "evening time Light" of the fullness of the Word revealed in the Seven Seals (Zechariah 14:7).

ALL individuals and churches outside this revelation are apostate "and know it not" (Revelation 3:17-20); even within the circle of this Message very few possess the revelation. Few understand that Brother Branham stood with this priceless revelation in the gap between the Church Ages and the Seals so that the wise virgin to cross the chasm into the Capstone that completes the Body since Christ's Mediation for the ignorance of PART-Word ceased before He opened the Seals (John 5:27; I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 4-5).

The comfortable words of denominational philosophy turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to sin without rebuke! They proclaim "salvation," ignorant of the fact every soul in Adam's race was written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world and is born "saved" from his mother's womb; the Gospel is sent to wake them to this reality via justification by grace through faith and sanctification bringing their spirit and flesh subject to the Word, unto regeneration by revelation of the Word for their day and hour making them written epistles.

The focus of ministry through the Church Ages was on justification. But as the first three chapters of Revelation are finished redemption is being revealed—how He redeemed the saints in the dispensations of PART-Word. In every Age the Message of the hour was sent give new birth to the wise virgin, and our Message is only for Christ's end-time Bride. Paul taught: "If after two admonitions a person cannot receive the revelation of the true Oneness of the godhead, Scriptural water baptism and the original sin, you know the election is off. Just walk away from them—for His sheep receive His Word" (Titus 3:10-11; John 10:4). Otherwise you waste God's time and resources like the missionaries Brother Branham reproached and as I have witnessed in Hong Kong and other mission fields.

Whereas denominational people should be God's Seed by the new birth they are sons of Satan spiritually by hybrid religion as Cain was natural Serpent's seed by hybreeding. Jesus told denominational believers in His day, "You are of your father the Devil . . . you hypocrites can discern the weather, but you cannot recognize your day and it's Message" (John 8:44; Matthew 23:33-36; 16:3). By finding Jesus without fault Pilate forced the church to make a decision; it chose to save the life of Barabbas, a murderer guilty of robbery and insurrection and to sacrifice the life of Jesus Messiah, proving they were of their father the Devil who was a murderer from the beginning. By favouring freedom of religion our politicians forced Cain's denominational sons to make a decision, and having rejected Christ's second or 'parousia' Coming in W_O_R_D form by the revelation of the Seven Seals they chose to "crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh" (Hebrews 6:6).

The Jewish denominations sealed Messiah in a tomb, but on the third day He rose again and after cleansing the heavenly sanctuary of the sins of the Old Testament saints He descended to paradise, sealed the saints into eternal Life and raised them in glorified bodies (John 2:19; Matthew 27:52-53). The Judaeo-Christian denominations believe they have Him sealed in a tomb of theology. We are well into the third day prophesied to Israel in Hosea 6:1-3, "Come, and let us return to the Lord: for He has torn, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His Presence [by recognizing His second or 'parousia' Coming (Zechariah 14:4; Isaiah 29:6; Micah 1:3-4)]. Then we will know, if we follow on to know the Lord: His going forth is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth" that is the harvest rain for Christ's end-time Bride to manifest that we are the Sons of God, and the teaching rain of the ministry of their two prophets reconfirming the New Covenant preached by Jesus Messiah (Daniel 9:24-27; Revelation 11:1-7). Both rains will fall in the Spring time (Joel 2:23).

The churches have been apostate since the revelation of the Seven Seals in 1963, and "know it not." After the close of the Gentile dispensation we are instructed to "let the evildoer continue doing evil, and let him who is filthy still be filthy: and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy." Grace will end, the denominations will enter the tribulation still teaching a false salvation message and eventually kill all who refuse their trinity of gods, which is the mark of the beast (Revelation 13:15-18). If Revelation 22:11 is commanded then, how much more is Titus 3:10-11 commanded right now?

"The time of the end" commenced in March, 1963 when Christ opened the Seven Seals at the conclusion of His mediation in the office of Son of God. John and Daniel were told to seal the Book until the time of the end, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel [William Branham], when he shall begin to sound [his end-time Message, revealing the Seven Seals], the mystery of God should be finished, as He has declared to His servants the prophets".

Daniel 12:4-10, "You, Daniel, are to keep this Message a secret: shut up the Words, and seal the Book, to the time of the end, when travel, knowledge and understanding will grow." Then Daniel entered a vision similar to that seen by Peter, James and John on Mount Transfiguration (Matthew 17:1-8) wherein they saw the glorified Jesus preceded by Israel's two witnesses (of Zechariah 4 and Revelation 11) enquiring as to the duration of their miraculous ministry, to which he replied, three and a half years. Daniel does not understand and is once again told "the words are secret and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked will do wickedly: and none of the wicked will understand; but the wise will understand".

On the third day the seal on Jesus' tomb was broken and He arose from the dead witnessed only by believers in Jerusalem (John 20:11-18; 19-25; 26-31; 21:1-14; I Corinthians 15:5-8). In the third day since Hosea's prophecy the Seven Seals were broken, bringing Christ back to earth in W_O_R_D form, witnessed only by believers—Christ's end-time Bride. Once again many know intellectually that the Word has resurrected, but only His end-time Bride arose from Her denominational tomb into the evening Light and entered into the resurrection of His Word (Matthew 25:6; Revelation 18:4). The Word has resurrected and the 'rapture' has commenced.

Zechariah 14:6-7 prophesied the Laodicean atmosphere in the time of the end, "It will come to pass in that day, that the Light [of Spiritual understanding] will be uncertain, neither clear, nor dark: it will be a unique day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it will come to pass, that at evening time it will be Light [through the revelation of the Seven Seals followed by the Seven Trumpet revelations to Israel]." We live in the "evening time" of the second Coming of the fullness of the Word that has broken the seal of our unbelief, again enabling John 14:12-14, "He who believes on Me, the works that I do will he do also; and more than these shall he do; because I go to My Father. And whatsoever you ask in My Name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My Name, I will do it".

This is God extending His Tent (Genesis 9:27).

We must live holy lives above the reproach of the Word and ask with the mind of Christ. Then Jesus will manifest these verses at our request because we are expressing His thoughts. Brother Branham said, "God poured Himself into Christ. Correct. Christ poured Himself into the church; therefore. . . Now, watch. "At that day you will know that I am in the Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you." At that day [when you are born-again] you'll know it, for the whole thing is one plan of redemption coming down, that God coming back to live in, and dwell with, and commune to His people as He did at the beginning. Now, then as soon as He gets His church in speaking conditions, gets His church to a place that He can flow Himself through, and love, and persuade, and fellowship, then there'll come a Eden. He'll take His church back to where it left Him at back to an Eden again, there where it fell" (What the Holy Ghost was given for, p. 42:32).

This will be the completion of God's Tent or Tabernacle.

Before the Fall our first parents spoke with God as a matter of course in theophany as the Tree of Life. Thereafter communication was broken, becoming as it were 'long distance,' and God set cherubim east of the Garden of Eden to keep us from the Shekinah glory. Cherubim were embroidered on the veil of the Holy of Holies that separated Israel from the Shekinah of God's Presence, but when Tree of Life was crucified the veil or seal of death that kept us from the Shekinah, the Presence or 'parousia,' was rent from the top to the bottom. The Tree of Life went to the place of the departed, led captivity captive, and from the day of Pentecost God restored his communion with men and we affirm our oneness with His Word and Spirit when we observe the Lord's Supper.

Job 14:1-2, "Man born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble [because he is conceived by Satan's wisdom and born with the nature of the god of this evil age]. He blossoms briefly like a flower and withers: like the shadow of a passing cloud he quickly disappears." The Tree of Death is your mother: you must be born-again by the Man Christ Jesus, who seals the elect into Himself, His Body; faith in Him is the antidote to sin and death (John 3:3).

Romans 8:15-17, "You have received no spirit that would enslave you again to fear; but the Spirit of sonship whereby we cry, "Abba! Father!" This Spirit bears witness with our spirits that we are God's children: and if children, then heirs too; God's heirs together with Christ, presuming that we suffer together, that we may also be glorified with Him".

According to Revelation 3:17-20, the denominational churches claim they are materially rich and in need of nothing; Jesus says they know not that they are spiritually wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, and by denying the "present Truth" are fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, having sealed themselves OUTSIDE with Cain and his religious cults, whereas Christ's true Bride—always in the minority—is sealed IN with Christ.

Romans 8:28-30, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. And whom He did predestinate He also called: and whom He called them He also justified: and whom He justified them He also glorified".

Ephesians 2:4-6, "God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and made us sit together in the heavenly places [our place in the Word and our position in the Body] of Christ Jesus".

Ephesians 4:30, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed to the day of your [physical] redemption".

Matter is Spirit slowed down as Brother Branham explained: "They're going to find out someday that they're not seeing a hundred and fifty million years of light space either; they're going right around in a circle. That's exactly. You're going to find out one of these days that when you go to heaven, you don't fly off somewhere else; you're still right here too, just in another dimension faster than this. Right through this room's coming color. Every color shirt, dress, whatever you got on is eternal, laying right on records, going around and around the world. Every time you bat your eyes, it's right on record. Watch, television will prove that. . ."

"If Einstein had only had the spiritual application, as he had the physical application, as he studied the laws of light and so forth, he could've told us something. When I heard his message on that great center somewhere into the skies, that ever contacted with that center, you could create earths, do anything that—the power would be unlimited. See? He had seen that."

". . . Hear how these people come up missing? you say. Don't hear from them; they're standing there, and they're not there. That's the way the rapture's going to be. One of them would drop right down, and this terrestrial body will take on a celestial body. And they'll be hide, hair, or bones left. It'll be transformed in a moment of time, dropping right out of space and taking home . . . (Christ is Revealed in His Own Word, p. 14:63, 67-68).

"Now, Einstein proved by scientific, that if two objects was coming to each other, like two cars coming down across the road, and if they were coming fast enough (now they'd really have to be going fast, like a billion miles per second) but they could pass right through one another and never disturb a thing. The speed would do it. Pass them right through one another without disturbing anything."

"Now, now, if you'll notice. . . I was standing here not long ago at Mount Palomar, California, and I was noticing there that telescope that can see a hundred and twenty million years of light space. Now think, a hundred and twenty million years of light space, how many miles that would be to be broke down. See?

"But yet heaven is so many billions and billions and billions of light years beyond that, till it's not even thought of. How would we get there? It's the travel; it'll be with like the mind; it's so fast. It'll be faster. . . If you could think of heaven, that's how quick you'd be there. Jesus, after He was resurrected, came right through the walls, right through the doors, and stood, and eat boiled fish and honeycomb. Hallelujah. Speed. No sooner than life has gone out of this body we're in the Presence of God yonder. We only know as feet and inches, and yards and miles, and so forth; we're in this earthbound system. But when we leave here, brother, oh, my, what a time" (The True Easter Seal, p. 22:135-137).

When Peter, John and Mary Magdalene came to Jesus' tomb they saw the linen clothes laying where His body had been, he had resurrected through the cloth, and the napkin that had been about His head was wrapped together in a place by itself (John 20:7). Speed!

"Those who are sleeping in the dust will be awakened first, and these corruptible bodies will put on incorruption in the rapturing grace of the Lord. And then we'll all get together. And when they begin to get together, then we which are alive and remain shall be changed. These mortal bodies will not see death, but just of a sudden, there'll be like a sweep go over us, and you're changed. You're turned back like Abraham was, from an old man to a young man, from an old woman to a young woman. What's this sudden change? And after while you're traveling like a thought, and you can see those then who are already resurrected. Oh, what a hour. Then we'll gather with them and then be caught up with them to meet the Lord in the air" (C.O.D., p. 934:58).

"He that was last will be first, and he that was first will be last." How can it be that way? That's the order of the resurrection. I won't know nobody in the generation before me or the generation after me. I'll know those in the generation of this. And every generation will come successfully, right as it went down. "They which were last will be first." Sure, it has to be. See? I'll know my people. The next fellow, my dad will know his people; his grandfather, his people, on down like that. Wave after wave, after wave, after wave, and the saints arising from everywhere, won't that be wonderful? Amen" (The Seven Church Ages, p. 13:98-99).

"Jesus said, "Say to this mountain. . ." And you've heard about what's been taken place; that's the ministry that we're entering into [the 'third pull']. We're way up the road now. Soon the ['parousia'] Coming of the Lord Jesus. And we've got to have rapturing faith in a church that can be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye to go out, or we'll not go. But don't worry, it'll be there. It'll be there. And when the power of this church rises, it'll bring its brethren; the power of that church rises will bring its brethren; the power of that church will bring the other brethren; then there'll be a general resurrection. We're looking forward to it" (C.O.D., p. 411:21).

Our flesh is the veil that keeps us out of the Presence and prevents us from seeing our theophanies and the departed saints in their theophanies, yet as Sons of God our glorified form is in His Presence in theophany. He does not see these sin-cursed dying bodies of corruption; He sees us already glorified. Brother Branham reported how, on his death bed, Brother Bosworth saw beyond the veil of flesh and recognized and greeted his departed converts in their theophany bodies. Just before our change we too will see beyond the veil of this flesh and recognize one of the saints already resurrected and glorified: the power of this encounter vindicating and catalyzing faith will move the mountain of this corruptible to put on incorruption, and our theophany will replace our mortal spirit. This is the 'third pull,' not me that lives but Christ in me, His Power, His Word manifesting what He has promised "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye".

In the case of the Church Age saints, when the Life leaves this dying body it goes into that body pending the resurrection. II Corinthians 5:1, "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." This is why your name was enrolled in the Lamb's Book of Life, and "All that the Father gives Me will come to Me; and he who comes to Me I will not cast out" (John 6:37).

"Therefore the theophany, if you have died and entered into that theophany, what happens? The theophany comes to the earth to pick up the redeemed body. And if you're here in the air, you take the body to meet the theophany (there you are), and caught up and go to meet the Lord in the air" (Who is This Melchisedec, p. 20:110).

Jesus said, "I and My Father are One. My Father dwells in Me." For God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself by revelation of the Word. Jesus was the Body, the Tabernacle or Tent in whom the Spirit was pleased to dwell in. You were created in Christ before the foundation of the world, an Attribute of God subsequently expressed in the Logos. As an Attribute of God you were in Christ on Calvary, you paid for your sins in Him on Calvary, were buried, justified and raised; and right now you are seated in heavenly places in Christ. You are without sin, a continuation of God's Tent as Eve was created in Adam than taken from his side and fashioned as a continuation of Adam. Unlike Eve you must obey the last Adam your Husband in all things.

Our Brother wrote, "I think it's time we manifest God in our vessels as never before in the most liberating way with as much interest in "the church" as Elijah had at the end of his ministry. Our words will calmly go to the throat of the matter; a spade is a spade".

The implication is that the Lord deals with His elect as individuals. Our communion is two-way and intimate, with no third party.The invisible marriage union is between He and you alone, not with the whole church assembly. Jesus warned that as it was in the days of Noah, "There will be two in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." So rest in the Lord, ask according to His will, expect His response, and boldly speak the truth quietly and in love. nl749.htm


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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Jesus Answers Job

Jesus Answers Job

Bible Believers' Newsletter 748

"We focus on the present Truth – what Jesus is doing now. . ."
ISSN 1442-8660

Christian greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. An especial welcome to our new subscribers; we are so pleased you could join us in fellowship around God's unchanging Word.

Visitors to our Church Website have the option of viewing "The Second Coming of Christ" online. It is not the physical return of the glorified Man from Galilee but His second or 'parousia' Coming; His precious feet will not touch this earth before the millennium. To view the presentation just click this image, and if you wish to receive a free PowerPoint production on CD which you can study and copy for Christian friends and loved ones we will send it in the mail if you advise your postal address.

All the tragedy of human failure results from the fact man has come to think of himself meanly, instead of magnificently. A man's worth is such that "God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son" for the redemption of Adam's children who will receive and crown Jesus Messiah Lord of their life. We are created in God's image for fellowship, being the only creature to whom He can reveal His secrets. When Christ's Bride recognizes her position and authority under preeminence to the Word, the Seventh Trumpet will signal the end of the Gentile dispensation.

I Peter 4:18, "If the righteous are scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as to a faithful Creator".

Our main Article will be a special blessing to you as it is based upon "The Ash Heap (Jesus answers Job)" by our Brother Morris Ungren who went to his reward last November aged 92—still pastoring Grace Church in Southaven, Mississippi, after 43 years. To be greatly encouraged, take time to meditate and absorb the Spirit of Christ distilled in the mature ministry of this true elder and saint of God.

Hebrews 12:11-13, "For the moment all chastening seems painful rather than pleasant: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated but rather be healed".

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani's trial is coming up on September 8, 2012 at 9:00am Iranian time. We know no more than the wording in the court document which states, "regarding the charges against you. . ." Please uphold him in prayer and also Pastor Behnam Irani who is expected to undergo a surgical procedure in the prison.

This Newsletter serves those of like precious faith. Whoever will receive the truth is welcome to feed their soul from the waters of the River of Life. Everything here presented should be confirmed personally in your own Bible.

Your brother-in-Christ, Anthony Grigor-Scott


Massacres in Aleppo by Western-armed 'Free Syrian Army'

August 4, 2012 — For the people of Aleppo, their only hope is Syria's security forces restoring order. In the pockets of Syria's largest city the so-called "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) has dug into, a campaign of systematic detention, torture, and mass murder has been carried out against "enemies of the revolution." Demonized as either "Shabiha" or "government supporters," men have been rounded up, lined up against walls, and gunned down en mass. Others await barbaric "drumhead trials" where FSA warlords deal out arbitrary justice under the guise of "Sharia law."

The Western media is covering—or more accurately, "spinning"—an unfolding sectarian genocide in Syria's largest city Aleppo. In the alleys of seized streets, FSA terrorists are detaining, torturing, and killing anyone suspected of supporting the government. Such suspicions coincidentally run along sectarian divisions. By using the label "Shabiha" for all of FSA's victims, the Western press has given a carte blanche to genocidal sectarian extremists and by doing so, has become complicit in war crimes themselves.

Worst of all, all of this is being reported by the Western media, but carefully downplayed, excused, spun, and otherwise sneaked through news cycles and headlines. . . Full story: landdestroyer.blogspot.com.au


The Neoconservative War Criminals in Our Midst

August 1, 2012 — The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into next century when any surviving German prison guards will be 200 years old [like 'witnesses' and 'victims' of the phony Batman shooting in Aurora, Colorado] . . . What the State Department needs is an office that rounds up American war criminals.

They are in abundance and not hard to find. Indeed, recently 56 made themselves public by signing a letter to President Obama demanding he send in the US Army to complete the destruction of Syria and its people begun by Washington.

At the Nuremberg Trials of the defeated Germans after World War II, the US government established the principle that naked aggression—the American way in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen—is war crime. Therefore, there is a very strong precedent for the State Department to round up those neoconservatives who are fomenting more war crimes. . . Today, war criminals run the State Department and the entire US Government. They are elected to the presidency, the House, and the Senate, and appointed to the federal courts as judges. . . Not a single sentence in the letter is correct. Listen to this one for example: "The Assad regime poses a grave threat to national security interests of the United States." What utter total absurdity, and the morons who signed the letter pretend to be "security experts."

This same neocon architects of Armageddon are also working against Iran, Russia, the former Soviet central Asian countries, Ukraine, Belarus, and China. It seems that they can't wait to start a nuclear war. Full story: paulcraigroberts (formerly Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy); pragmaticwitness.com.


Police Radio Communications CONFIRM Batman Shooting STAGED, PHONY, A DRILL

July 24, 2012 — This MP3 has the Police communications in the left speaker, overlapped with the Fire Department communications in the right speaker. It's OBVIOUS what is going on here. Keep in mind, that because this is a drill, bodies and injured WILL be mentioned and played as real, but it's ALL FAKE as confirmed by recording 1, and the overall attitude in this MP3, where they are talking about WHERE TO PUT THE PRESS AND FAMILIES AND AMBULANCES FOR PHOTOS!

My original suspicions were confirmed by these tapes. The Batman shooting NEVER HAPPENED AT ALL! . . . Besides many 'witnesses' and 'victims' were born in the nineteenth century. Full story: archive.org   ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com

The Sikh temple shooting really was done as punishment to the producer of an upcoming movie which will speak about cover ups and black ops. This topic actually made it to broadcast in the first hour after the shooting, but is now buried.


Rex 84: US Silently Positions for Martial Law as Financial Collapse Arrives

August 2, 2012 — The Readiness Exercise 1984 (Rex 84) outlines continuity of government wherein the US Constitution is suspended, martial law is declared and the US military command take over state and local governments in order to ensure stabilization of our nation at any cost. Any American who is deemed a "national security threat" would be detained in an interment or FEMA camp. . .

Twice before, Rex 84 was implemented . . . Back in 1986 . . . an unmarked refrigerated trailer driven by a civilian driver was used to transport chemical or conventional weapons to various strategic bases both above and underground. . . the use of foreign troops on US soil, as described in Rex 84 and other subsequent manuals, would have a two-fold purpose. Firstly, to provide extra security in designated areas, cities or highways; and secondly, as scapegoats were violent action used against American citizens should the US military be directed to attack civilians. . .

A source in the Deutsche Bank claims that in 2008 our financial and monetary system completely collapsed and since that time the banking cartels have been "propping up the system" to make it appear as if everything was fine. In reality our stock market and monetary systems are fake; meaning that there is nothing holding them in place except the illusion that they have stabilized since the Stock Market Crash nearly 5 years ago.

Since this time, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in conjunction with FEMA and other federal agencies have been quickly working to set in place their directives of control under a silent martial law. The Deutsche Bank informant says that the cause for the bailout of the banks was a large sum of cash needed quickly to repay China who had purchased large quantities of mortgage-backed securities that went belly-up when the global scam was realized . . . To further avert financial catastrophe, as well as more debt or property seizure threats by the Chinese, the Euro was imploded there by plunging most of the European countries into an insurmountable free-fall for which they were never intended to recover. . .

The war with Iran has to do with gold, its use as currency and its exposure of the central banking cartel's lack of gold which defines a fiat currency's worth. And right now, the US dollar is absolutely worthless. . . The Deutsche Bank informant says that the financial collapse that happened in 2008 will be realized here in America very soon. Once that happens, there must be full implementation of marital law to control the potential riots and control over citizens that will be desperate to feed their families.

The attacks of recent on the 2nd Amendment play a significant role in attempting “amicably” to remove the possibility of civilian retaliation against the US military’s presence throughout the nation. However, if they cannot remove the guns from our hands in time, they will continue on with the guidelines set out in Rex 84 with directives to kill any dissenters that refuse to obey. Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: American Brethren, you are NOT party to the constitution, and you have NO "rights." The following incident took place in South Carolina:

The government was sending a shipment of highly toxic nuclear waste to the local nuclear depository in my county. As the shipment came into an adjoining county, the local law enforcement took upon itself the "duty for its citizens" to stop the truck, demand information and verification, and made plans to hold the truck until the feds produced the information. When the truck pulled over for the "blue light special," and the law enforcement officer made his demands clear . . .the security team (in front of and behind the truck) . . . handcuffed the officer to his vehicle . . . and drove on to their destination.

So, if you live in America, when government forces arrive in your town, and have orders . . . you will not have "rights" . . . your life will depend on your understanding of REALITY.


Billy Graham: 'My Heart Aches for America'

July 24, 2012 — A few weeks ago in a prominent city in the South, Christian chaplains who serve the police department were ordered to no longer mention the Name of Jesus in prayer. It was reported that during a recent police-sponsored event, the only person allowed to pray was someone who addressed "the being in the room." Similar scenarios are now commonplace in towns across America. Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone—except God.
Full story: billygraham.org

Comment: The misplaced optimism of forty days to save America is a call for Barabbas! Brother Branham said, "It's a million miles from being a Christian country. I don't even pray for it. How can I pray for it, and it won't repent under the mighty powers of God demonstrated before it, and denying, and closing the doors to it, and walking away? I commit it to God. And she's going further away, and now she's going to sink. Just watch what happens" (Trying to do God a Service without His Will, p. 23:136).


By the Treacherous Sea

National Geographic, February, 2012 — "Never turn your back to the sea," my mother used to tell me over the roar of the surf. She'd read about rogue waves coming in and sweeping children away, but I loved the magic I felt at the edge of the ocean and never gave her warning much thought as I ran up and down the beach exploring tide pools. That changed on Good Friday in 1964, when I was 12 years old. Just 25 miles south of my grandparents' beach cottage in Harbor, Oregon, a tsunami created by the largest recorded earthquake in North America swept down the Pacific Northwest coast with the speed of a jet and slammed into Crescent City, California. The photos of the carnage, so close to home, were staggering. Ten people from the community of 3,000 perished. "It was like a violent explosion," one witness reported. "The whole beach-front moved, changing before our very eyes."

Comment: Brother Branham "spoke" this earthquake three days beforehand.


The Truth about Imperial Russia

August 8, 2012 — In early 1815, Nathan Rothschild approached Czar Alexander I (1801-25) at the Congress of Vienna with a proposal that he set up a central bank in Russia. Whether it was because he distrusted this shady banker or was aware of the perils of central banking is not known, but he prudently declined. . . Not unexpectedly Russia had the smallest national debt in the world. . . Agricultural production soared so that by 1913, Russia had become the world’s bread basket . . . Russian agricultural production of cereals exceeded the combined production of Argentina, Canada and the United States by 25%. . . Mining and industrial output also expanded by huge margins. . .

With the Russian State bank creating the people’s money out of nothing at almost zero interest; as opposed to the rest of the world where central banks allowed parasitic private banks to create their nations’ money supply at usurious rates of interest, it comes as no surprise that in 1912 Russia had the lowest levels of taxation in the world. Furthermore there was hardly any inflation. . .

On November 7, 1917, the Rothschilds, fearful that replication of this extraordinary example of freedom and prosperity would destroy their evil banking empire, instigated a Judeo-Bolshevik revolution in Russia, which wrecked and ruined a wonderful country and resulted in the deaths by murder and starvation, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, of 66 million innocent people. Full story: rense.com


Jesus answers Job
By Morris R. Ungren


In the story of Job we witness the patience of God and the endurance of man. When these act in unity and fellowship the issue is a certain coming forth of character as gold tried in the fire proven worthy to receive the crown of Life.


The Cry for a Daysman

Man's nature requires God for the realization of His purpose. He is the God in Whom "We live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28). In the dark and disastrous night when Belshazzar and his lords were given over to drunkenness and obscenity, Daniel, before giving him an interpretation of the handwriting on the wall, said, "You have not honoured the God in whose hand is your breath, and to whom belong all your ways" (Daniel 5:23). This fact of contact with God, is not enough for the realization of life. The fact that God makes His sun to shine so as to heal and to bless, without reference to character, does not in itself ensure the full realization of life. Life only becomes complete when man has dealings with God directly and consciously. That is the true dignity of life. All the tragedy of human failure results from the fact that he has come to think of himself meanly, instead of magnificently. We also have to face a universal sense of distance, or of some discrepancy between God and man, so that men are not able to have conscious communion with Him. Prayer seems to be an utterance to the void, with no answering voice. Therefore, when by reason of strain or stress of any kind, man becomes conscious of his need for communion with God, at the same moment he is conscious of his need for some intermediary. This was the deepest meaning of the cry of Job:

"There is no daysman between us, that might lay his hand upon us both" (Job 9:33).

In leaving the cry of Job in the Old Testament, we consider the New Testament Word concerning Jesus. . .

"There is . . . One Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (I Timothy 2:5). That is the Gospel in short form. That is fundamental, evangelical, solid Christianity. Paul said, "There is . . . one Mediator". Elemental humanity, that is aroused to a sense of the necessity for God, a consciousness that God cannot be reached, cried out for someone to stand between them. At last, in the clearest words, the answer is found in the statement "the Man Christ Jesus". [He is, however, NOT now in the Office of Son of God as He was throughout the Church Ages, interceding for ignorance of the fullness of the Word, but for our needs, mistakes and the infirmity of our mortal life (Hebrews 2:17-18; 4:15)].

The word "mediator" conveys the exact meaning of "daysman." It is the same idea. Arbitrator, a middleman, someone standing between man and God. Someone who can put his hand on God with authority. William Branham, the Elijah of Malachi 4 and of Matthew 17:11, and the Messenger of Revelation 10:7, certainly had that authority. It was witnessed by multitudes of people over the earth [when in his ministry the Lord discerned the thoughts and intents of the heart, cast out demons and disease, gave sight to the blind, speech and hearing to deaf mutes, foretold things that are to come, and stood in the breach after the close of the Church Ages and revealed the Seven Seals that have enabled Christ's end-time Bride to enter the Capstone as shown on the accompanying diagram].

A true believer, who is an intercessor in prayer, has a believers' authority with God. It is the Christ in them. In a special way the Man Christ Jesus lays His Hand on God and man.

Of this one Mediator, "who gave Himself a ransom" (I Timothy 2:6), we are told that by Him something has been done which makes the way of approach to God possible. The implication of the statement becomes a revelation. What is it that separates man and God?

A Hebrew prophet once addressing the people of his own nationality, gave these significant words, "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear." This is saying, "If it be that man is unable to reach God, God can reach man, and hear him." Then the prophet gave the reason for man's inability. "But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear" (Isaiah 59:1-2). That is the reason of man's failure to get to God, and to have dealings with Him.

A sinless man needed no arbitrator. That was true when, in the beginning, man walked with God and talked with God, according to the Biblical revelation. When we leap over the centuries, even the millenniums, we find a second Man. He needed no mediator between Himself and the Creator. He walked with God and talked with Him. Everywhere, He heard the beauty of God's Message in the song of birds and the Divine glory flaming in the flowers. But something has intervened, and man is conscious of his inability to commune with God. There has been a rupture. Their conversation has been lost. Man was made to walk and talk with God. In Eden God came down in the cool of the evening to talk with Adam. Adam could think the thoughts of God after Him. All human success along the lines of science comes from the fact that man is struggling after this very thing, yet there is a definite hiatus, a gap, between man and God.

Man fell from the spiritual to the psychical. This is not to say that psychical or mental is wrong, but it always fails when it is divorced from the spiritual. The powers of the mind have never been able to find Him. We hear Zophar speaking in the Book of Job when he said to Job (Job 11:7-8):

"Can you fathom God's secrets? Will long searching make them known to you, and are you qualified to discover the limits of the Almighty's Being? It is higher than the heights of heaven; what can you do? Deeper than sheol; what can you know?"

The struggle of man to make contact with the Supernatural God through searching by his mental abilities has always ended in failure and even disaster. It is at that point that Jesus comes in with His answer. "There is . . . One Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave Himself a ransom" (I Timothy 2:5-6). The Greek 'antilutron,' here is translated "ransom," and occurs only here in the New Testament. A study of this word shows that it refers to an activity wherein and whereby the sin that has shut us out from God is taken away; and is thus an activity wherein and whereby we are brought back, out of the realm of the merely mental into that of the Spiritual.

Thus the way to God is open. Therefore He is a Daysman. By that mediation He restores direct and immediate fellowship with God. As Paul says in another of his letters, "we have access" through Him to the Father (Ephesians 2:18). Such access means not merely knowing much about God, but knowing God Himself.


The Question as to Life

"If a man die, shall he live . . . " (Job 14:14).

"He who believes on Me, though he die, yet shall he live" (John 11:15).

In I Timothy 6:16 Paul declared that "God alone has immortality," the Greek word is 'athanasia,' which means eternal deathlessness. In II Timothy 1:10, "Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who abolished death, has brought Life and immortality [Gk. 'aphtharsia'] to Light through the Gospel" . . . Here Paul declared that Jesus brought Life and 'aphtharsia' to Light, which refers to quality of life which lacks any element tending to decay or corruption. Paul does not say, "The Lord created life and incorruption through the Gospel," but that He brought them to Light, He brought into clear visibility these things that were in existence. He brought the final answer to Job's question, "If a man die, shall he live" (Job 14:14).

Jesus said, "Yes, he who believes in Me, though he die, yet shall he live" (John 11:25).


The Witness in Heaven

"Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and He who vouches for me is on high" (Job 16:19).

"For Christ entered . . . into heaven itself, now to appear before . . . God for us" (Hebrews 9:25).

Another great cry of Job is heard in these scriptures, and the answer is found in Jesus. . . By "Witness" he meant a Watcher, Who knows. In the midst of his suffering his friends thought they knew his problem, but failed because they did not know all. But Job declared his conviction that there was One in heaven watching, understanding, knowing all. Then Job repeated the same truth in a slightly different form, "and He who vouches for me is on high." The King James version is entirely misleading when it says, "My record is on high." The Hebrew word does not mean a record. It could be rendered "my Recorder." That is One Who sees all and knows all. One Who can bear witness to the truth about him.

We see a man in the dust, a man in agony, surrounded by the clamor of friends who meant well, but did not understand him. Job's soul leapt suddenly beyond the bounds of time and space and the talk of ignorance. He said, "There is a Watcher Who knows. There is a 'Recorder' Whose findings are according to perfect knowledge." Job was aware of the final tribunal, "heaven," above the earth, "on high," beyond which there is no appeal. He spoke of his sorrow and anguish, and the sense that he could not reach this Watcher and One Who could vouch for him.

There are senses in which this cry revealed human consciousness of need at its deepest; which is that of an ultimate court of appeal and judgment, not influenced by incomplete knowledge and the deceits of appearance. Such a court is not found on the earthly level.

The cry of Job revealed a conviction that there is a court where knowledge is not incomplete, and where the appearances of the passing hour cannot deceive. His conviction was that the only hope of justice is that the Judge Himself should be the Advocate; and to this the deepest in human consciousness ever responds. There are times where we find ourselves in circumstances where we desire to escape from human judgments, based upon imperfect knowledge.

The background of Paul's letter to the Hebrews has to do with the Israelite system of nationality and religion, which was a theocracy. . . and in this all its religious ceremony was intended to bear a continued witness. The place of the tabernacle was at the center of its national life, and around it the various tribes encamped underneath their banners. At the center of the courts of worship was the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies. The truth illustrated was that at the center of all life is God; and that human life itself and human conditions of life can only realize their meaning as they move around this center, under that government.

Paul was changing Law to grace, explaining that the symbolism had ceased and passed away, having had its fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Paul declared that "Christ is not entered into holy places made with hands" (Hebrews 9:24). The old economy has passed away, and the reason for its passing is that He has entered "into heaven itself, now to appear in the Presence of God for us".

The argument and thesis of Paul is that there is now One Who is God in His Own nature and yet He is actually a Man. He stands before God, vindicating the sinner. He has become the "Witness" by the mystery of His personality in human history and the work accomplished in that mystery. Jesus came supernaturally into human history, and lived on our earthly level. He triumphed over sin and earthly limitations. Then He passed beyond the sight of earth-bound vision. All that Job felt the need of, had come into visibility. Now we may say Christ has entered in, and there is our Witness, our Recorder. He is the One Who perfectly knows and prevails to mediate. He came there by the way of the cross. "By His own blood He entered" (Hebrews 9:12). He Who stands there in the Presence of God as my Witness, bears the scars that tell of suffering unto death, and testify that He is my Redeemer. To Him we may go at any time for judgment.


The Living Redeemer

"I know that my Redeemer lives" (Job 19:25).

"He ever lives to make intercession" (Hebrews 7:25).

Bildad, under different figures of speech, had described the sufferings of Job, and by describing them had added to them. . . Bildad had declared that such sufferings were found only in the dwellings of wickedness, meaning that this was somewhere in the life of Job. Angry and scornful, Job replied that he knew his afflictions were from God and that these men had no right to add to them. In the midst of that reply, and out of the deep darkness Job was in, there broke this cry. The shining of a gleam of light, but it was only for a moment.

Previously he had declared that his Witness was in heaven, and his Recorder was on high. But now he goes further and gives his Witness the name of "Redeemer." However, Job could not have realized the full value of these appellations because they were not brought to full light until the incarnation. But for a fleeting moment he caught the music of eternal things.

"I know that my Redeemer lives, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin is thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God: whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another"  (Job 19:25-27).

The words "my Redeemer" have their meaning in the appearing of the Son of God. The Hebrew word is "Goel." To Israel it was the nearest and next of kin, whose duty was to undertake the cause of another in time of need.

It is in the Book of Ruth that we have the story of the "Goel" illustrated, where one stood for another to defend his cause and avenge the wrongs done to him. It is in that sense Job said, "I know that my Redeemer lives" This did not mean that his Redeemer merely existed. It is as though Job had said, "Even though I die, He lives." What he said proved that in the midst of his agony, for a moment at least, he was convinced that while there was no one to stand for him in life, all his friends having misunderstood him and left him, yet he had a Kinsman who was his Advocate, the One Who would acquit him. That his Redeemer would stand upon the earth, his dust; his "Goel" would stand as a witness to his integrity.

This is emphasized when he said. . . "yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another" (Job 19:26-27). He will see God for himself. Job was conscious of the continuing of his life beyond what is called death.

The incarnation gave the complete revelation. When God became flesh in Jesus He did not come nearer to human nature than He had ever been; but He came into visibility. By that coming, the fact of what Job said was true. "He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them [for us]"  (Hebrews 7:25). He is the "Goel," pleading our cause, and helping us in every way.

This statement in Hebrews is found in close connection with Paul's reference to the Person of Melchisedec, Who is mentioned twice in Old Testament history. Once in the history of Abraham and in the great Hebrew song.

In the Book of Hebrews Paul declares that Jesus is a Priest after that order, and that He "ever lives to make intercession." This One who ever lives came into our earthly life, stood upon the dust for us, and vouched for our case on the earth level. By that unveiling we are brought to an understanding of how He, Melchisedec, forever represents our case in the High Court of heaven. Was Job right? Or was that which he saw a mirage of the desert, having no substance whatever? The answer was in Jesus.

When Job said that he had a "Goel," he was expressing a profound and glorious truth: the truth that in God, man has his Redeemer in the fullest sense of that word.


The Quest for God

"Oh that I knew where I might find Him!" (Job 23:3).

"He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9).

Job and comfortersThese words of Job are found in the third and final cycle of his controversy with his friends. Eliphaz had given his last speech. Eliphaz was blunt and even brutal in his accusation, maintaining his position that Job's suffering was the result of Job's sins. He even described the kind of sins which would produce such sufferings; and by implication attributed them to Job, even though he had no evidence. It was all an assumption and entirely false. Eliphaz' speech ended with advice to Job in a passage of wonderment. . . "Acquaint now yourself with Him" (Job 22:21).

In Job's reply, he ignored the charges against him, and replied to the advice given him. He admitted to the excellence of the advice, but his words revealed the difficulty of which he was conscious. Bluntly, Eliphaz had told him, "Get to know God and you will be at peace." In effect, Job replied, "That is the problem, the difficulty. How am I going to acquaint myself with God?" "Oh that I knew where I might find Him!"

It is one thing to tell a man to acquaint himself with God, but quite another to show him how he is going to do it. "Oh that I knew where I might find Him!"

This was the language of a man who had convictions about God. The context shows how conscious Job was of the fact and Presence of God. He knew that God was at work, but that He was hiding Himself. Job was convinced that if he could find Him, "He would give heed" unto him: and that "the Upright might reason with him" (Job 23:6-7).

Job's difficulty was that he could not reach Him. In language of strange poetical beauty, Job says, "I go forward, but He is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive Him. I am conscious that He is at work, and I turn to the left, but cannot behold Him. He is on the right hand; I know that He is there, but He is in hiding and I cannot see Him" (Job 23:8-9). On the earthly level Job turned in every direction, forward and backward, to the left and to the right, to no avail.

When men seek God on an earthly level, they may be sincere in their search; as it was with Job it could be the result of pressure and tribulation and suffering, or it could be the search of the intellect for the solution of the cosmos, the universe. God is not denied. There is a conviction that He is, but He cannot be found. Man cannot make contact with God by any action on his own that is earthly. There are those who tell us that they find God in nature, and have no need for the ritual of worship. They may see evidences of God in nature, for all creation is the clothing of Deity, expressing beauty with glory, but God is never found in nature in such a way that satisfies the deeper needs of human life.

The cry, "Oh that I knew where I might find Him!" is a revelation of the need for a special revealing of God to satisfy the spiritual nature of man. Zophar had earlier asked Job. . . "Can you by searching find out God" (Job 11:7). Now when his friend Eliphaz advises Job to acquaint himself with God, Job in his answer is but confirming the difficulty as expressed in the question of Zophar. From this revelation of human need as expressed in the cry of Job, we find the answer in Jesus.

Many centuries have passed by and run their course, and we find ourselves in an upper room with men like ourselves. They also know this desire for this Spiritual Life for God. In their midst was One, a Man like them, looking with human eyes at them, as they were looking at Him. He is the One in Whom all the treasures and wisdom of the Eternal exists, Who came into visibility. This is the meaning of the Incarnation. In the midst of this company of men, there sat one with a Greek name, "Philip", and he says what Job said in other words . . . "Show us the Father, and we will be satisfied".

Was Philip asking for some such out-shining of the Pillar of Fire as it was with Moses? Was he requesting a Supernatural manifestation? One thing for sure, Philip was seeking some vision that would show God to his soul. To that desire the answer of Jesus was given as a direct and clear declaration. . . "he who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9).

When Jesus said to Philip. . . "Have I been so long time with you, and yet have you not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). Jesus was asking Philip to look back over the time in which he had been with Him. Philip was one of Jesus' first disciples and he had been with Him through the whole period of His public ministry.

On an earlier occasion He had said, "All things have been delivered to Me by My Father: and no man knows the Son except the Father, and no man knows the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him"  (Matthew 11:27). In connection with that word Jesus gave His Gospel call, "Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). It was on this same occasion He said, "No man comes to the Father, but by Me" (John 14:6).

Some souls may ask, "How shall we know that what Jesus has said is true?" Earlier in His ministry He had said these revealing words, "If any man wills do His will, he will understand the teaching, whether it is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority" (John 7:17). The man who wants to do the Will of God is the one whose moral intention is what it ought to be, for the Will of God is always that of Holiness. Mere intellectual interest will never find God. Job and Philip were seeking God because they were convinced of His Government and His Justice. Revelation did not come fully to Job, but to Philip it was given in all of its fullness in the Person of our Lord.

The way in which a human soul can find the answer to his search for God is revealed. When spiritual intentions harmonize with the law of righteousness, spiritual intelligence will discover that God was in Christ. "He who has seen Me has seen the Father".


The Challenge to God

"Oh that I had one to hear me . . . and that I had the indictment which my adversary had written" (Job 31:35)!

"You have come . . . to God the Judge of all . . . and to Jesus the mediator" (Hebrews 12:22-24).

We have Job's last appeal in these words, which is in the nature of a challenge to God. Eliphaz and Bildad continued to hold their contention that Job's suffering was the evidence of sin. Job again replied, maintaining his innocence, and in these words spoke this challenge. Through it all he had been misunderstood by these men. He felt that he could not make contact with his God. There is neither rhyme nor reason when in experience the soul is overwhelmed with sorrow.

The position of Job, as revealed in this exclamation, was that he had never had the case against him stated by his Adversary, but that he had prepared his defence. God had made no charge against him. Job felt that there must be such a charge against him to account for his experiences, and therefore his last challenge was against God.

All of this reveals Job's consciousness that God was acting as an Adversary or Prosecutor, but that he did not know the charge against. Job had been listening to the talk of his friends, and there was more, for Elihu has something to say.

Job realized that these men were really not his judges and had no right to bring any charge against him. He knew that the only One Who had such a right was God Himself. We have an example of it in the fifty-first Psalm, the penitential Psalm of David, in which he said. . . "Against You, You only have I sinned" (Psalm 51:4). Job knew there was the ultimate Tribunal, a Court to which every man has a right to make an appeal. At that moment it seemed to Job that he was not getting a hearing in that Court.

In the affairs of the human soul it is so that final judgment must be found by one whose knowledge is perfect, and whose decisions will be impartial and just. There is no court that fulfills this until he stands face-to-face with God. This is what Job is asking for in his appeal. The cry of Job was the language of a man who believed in a moral universe over which God reigns, and in which He governs. Job, conscious of his innocence, appeals to God. David, conscious of his guilt, said. . . "Against You, You only have I sinned." Whether in the sense of innocence or guilt, the man, believing in a moral universe, makes his final appeal to this ultimate Court, wanting to be judged there, and to accept the verdict given there.

Listening to Job, the question is whether we can have access to this Court and stand and have a hearing before this Judge. In Job's words we hear the cry, the sigh, the sob, the revelation of necessity. Was there an answer to that cry? God did reveal Himself to Job, but we see the answer that came after centuries had run their course. There came into human history the Son of Man, and through Him we find the complete answer to Job. That answer vindicates the cry he made and says, in effect, that it is possible to find a way to reach God and have dealings with Him.

Out of the Book of Hebrews we read. "You have come . . . to God the Judge of all" and then other words, revealing what we find in our coming: "and to Jesus the mediator of the New Covenant" (Hebrews 12:22-24).

To appreciate and understand the value of these statements, the whole paragraph must be observed.

"But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly and Church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that tells of better things than that of Abel" (Hebrews 12:22-24).

This passage is an epitome of the new economy created by Jesus Christ. The word "economy" is used here because it refers to the whole system of government, for in the beginning of Paul's letter to the Hebrews we read: "When He introduces the firstbegotten into the world" (Hebrews 1:6).

The word translated "world" is the Greek word 'oikoumene,' from which the word 'economy' is derived. It was the word that was used at the time in reference to the whole Roman Empire. The Book of Hebrews is concerned with the new economy resulting from the speech of the Son. It is fully described in this paragraph, which stands as a description in contrast to the description of the world economy under Moses. That economy was represented by "a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that no Word more should be spoken to them: for they could not endure that which was enjoined. If even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned; and so fearful was the appearance, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake" (Hebrews 12:22-24).

That was the old economy, a Divine economy of God. The writer now says. "[We] have NOT come" to that. That is not where we stand today. "[We] have come to Mount Zion," the [new] economy he has just described.

The language used of the economy takes up the symbol of the old in some ways. The new economy is that of Mount Zion. Looking back on Hebrew poetry there are interpretations of Mount Zion.

Psalm 2 states that Mount Zion is the place of the King.

Psalm 48 declares that Mount Zion is the joy of the whole earth.

Psalm 78 announces that Mount Zion is loved by Jehovah.

Psalm 125 declares Mount Zion to be immovable, abiding forever.

Now the writer speaks of mount Zion as being "The city of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem" (Hebrews 12:22-24). This means that through the Son we are brought into Divine order and government where every line of description is full of light and beauty. The central truth is the declaration that "[We] have come . . . to God the Judge of all . . . and in that Presence, Jesus the mediator" (Hebrews 12:22-24).

In the dispensation of the mount that burned with fire, God was the Judge of all. With that principle in mind the writer goes back to Abel, the shedding of whose blood was due to rebellion against God, which called for vengeance. In the new dispensation there is no shedding of blood, nor calling for vengeance, but rather for mercy and pardon. In the new we come to the Judgment Seat of God. We do so through the mediation of His Son, in and through the shedding of His Blood. the Sign of Christ's parousiaIn this way the cry of the soul for access to God as the ultimate Judge is answered. To that Throne we may now come for immediate Judgment. Revelation has revealed that there will be a great White Throne Day of Judgment. But we do not have to wait for that Day, for the prophet of Revelation 10:7 has told us that the White Throne is now. It is because Jesus Christ has descended with His white wig of jurisprudence upon His Head on Mount Sunset in March of 1963. This is the full and final answer to the challenge of the human soul, as confessed by Job in his agony. It reaches out to the Only One Who knows perfectly, and Who will give the true verdict, and pronounce the sentence which is one of strict justice. The soul has found that Jesus is the Mediator of a New Covenant, Whose Blood made possible His Mercy upon the basis of the strictest justice through His Mediation. Justice and mercy meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.


The Discovery of Self

"Behold, I am of small account" (Job 40:4).

"What shall a man give in exchange for his life" (Matthew 16:26)?

"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" (John 3:16).

At this point in the Book of Job we find ourselves beyond the controversy between himself and his friends. Their voices are silent. The voice of Elihu, the last speaker, is silent, even though his address was more profound and understanding than the other three. His speech was cut short as the Voice of God was heard speaking out of the whirlwind. "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge" (Job 38:2)?

This was what Job had been waiting for, the Voice out of the whirlwind. It silenced Elihu and addressed Itself directly to Job. "Gird up now your loins like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me" (Job 38:3).

God addressed Job as an intelligent human being and in so doing ignored all of his circumstances. We see Job sitting on the ash heap in his agony, stripped of everything. His health gone, rubbing the sores on his body with shards of broken clay pots. His wealth is gone; his children swept away; the partnership of his wife in faith gone; his acquaintances absent and his group of friends have misunderstood him. He possesses nothing. But the first Words of God to him remind him that he still had his own personality. . . "Gird up yourself like a man".

Having gotten the attention of Job, God continued His talk; and in it there is no reference to his sufferings. God gave him no reason to account for his position. What He did was to bring Job face-to-face with the universe in which he lived, and ask him if he found himself able to govern that universe. Facing the cosmos, the universe, Job was brought to thinking and consideration of animate and inanimate life and to the observation of the movement of seasons, currents of wind, snow and storm. Then he was asked if he was equal to the creation of what he saw, or its government. Job could not do these things; how could he be equal to perfect understanding of God?

In the light of that unveiling there came to Job a discovery of himself by comparison, causing him to say. . . "Behold, I am of small account" (Job 40:4). In other words, "I am nothing." By comparison Job had a true vision of himself. The King James version says. . . "Behold, I am vile." The Hebrew word has no suggestion of moral failure. It means "of no weight."

David in one of his great songs, expressed the same sense of littleness. . .

"When I consider Your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the son of man, that You visited him" (Psalm 8:3-4)?

In this Psalm David revealed, in the question he asked, his sense of the dignity of man; that he was one of whom God was mindful, and one whom God has visited. What glorious thing for us today! We can truly say with David, "We are ones whom God has visited!"

God had called Job to gird up his loins as a man, which he did. His blessing is seen in the fact that he was able to grasp in thought the greatness of God, and make his comparison. When we say that we are unable to grasp the universe, the infinite, we are really showing we have already done it. We cannot interpret all that lies within it, but man's greatness lies in the fact that he can conceive the universe. The man that can say, "I am of small account" is proving that intellectually he grasps the idea of a universe. . . and of the Divine relation to it. It was the astronomer Keplar, who said that all scientific investigation was proof of man's ability to think the thoughts of God after Him. No animal can grasp the idea of a universe.

Jesus has something to say to the consciousness in man. He never, by any Word He said, agreed that this word of Job is the final truth about man. Jesus met men as He found them, with degraded conceptions of themselves. He required that they deny, not the essential fact of their personality, but the sum-total of their thinking about themselves, resulting from their sin and rebellion against God. He did this that they might discover the true dignity of life according to the Divine purpose.

From Jesus' teaching there are two statements, separated by the time of their being said. . . "What shall a man give in exchange for his life" (Matthew 16:26)? The other from the Gospel, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" (John 3:16). In that Word there is a revelation of the value of a man in the Thought of God.


"What shall a man give in exchange for his life?" That question followed another, "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?" (Matthew 16:26). In this question Jesus employed the terms of the market-place. Put it on the balance-scales; place the world on one side with its riches and glamour, then set a man on the other side. In the Thought of our Lord, the weight of the man is far more than that of the world.

"Behold, I am of small account" Job said. The answer of Jesus is that taking a man and placing him on the balances, he is worth more, and is weightier than the whole world. The next question of our Lord, in this connection, emphasizes the truth. . . "What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" The question presumes that a man has sold himself, and so has lost his personality, his life, his identification, and eventually his very existence. He is no more.

The Lord did not answer this question. He left it as an inquiry. It is interesting to note and remind ourselves that, before the controversy between Job and his friends, Satan gave his opinion of a man. "All that a man has he will give for his life" (Job 2:4). What will he give? "I am of small account" said the man in the long ago, as he gazed on the Majesty and the Glory of God. Now the Voice of God, speaking through His Son, says in effect, it is not all the truth.

God's value of the worth of a man is "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." That is God's value that He places on the worth of a man. Standing in the Presence of the Son of God and listening to His teaching, I find that I am of more value than the whole world; that in order for my recovery, my redemption, He gave His only begotten Son.

We stand in the beauty of a world and the glory of the heavens and the majesty of the universe, and realize that by comparison, we are of small account. But David saw that God is mindful of us, and visits us, and when He came, He came to reveal the fact to us that each one of us is worth more than the whole world, that for our deliverance He gave His Only begotten Son.


The Discovery of God

"I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees You. therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:5-6).

"From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17).

Job now has a fuller discovery of God. In our last meditation his discovery of himself was revealed, after Job had come to a consciousness of himself, by comparison with the universe and then comparison with the God of this universe, and that he was of small account. Jehovah continued; He had more to say to His servant. In this speech God told Job the same thing He said at the first: "Gird up now your loins like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me" (Job 40:7).

God was reminding Job that he was a man, and asking him to behave like a man. Every man is driven to say, "I am of small account" (Job 40:4), when he stands in the Presence of God and His universe. It is then that God would remind him of the truth given in the story of creation: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness" (Genesis 1:26).

God would or could say to him: "There is no other of the earthly order to whom I can talk with and reveal My secrets." We are looking at a stripped being who, in God's estimate, is greater than all the creation. The argument and appeal of this second address of God dealt with the one thing in which Job had been foolish. This emerges in God's Word: "Will You even disannul My judgment? will you condemn Me, that you may be justified" (Job 40:8)?

It is true that Job had done no wrong and said no wrong. He had not charged God foolishly, but he had questioned the justice and government of God, the wisdom of God. These questions came time after time, in the magnificent honesty in the things he had said in his agony.

In the stately beauty of the following address, God is heard calling upon Job to assume the government. He did this with a satire as gentile as the kiss of a mother, when she laughs at a child. It is impossible to read this without that kind of tender laughter with which fathers and mothers often laugh at their children. With all the vision of the rhythmic order of the universe before Job, he was asked if he was prepared to assume the government of the universe. . . and the government of the moral realm.

"Deck Yourself now with majesty and excellency; and array yourself with glory and beauty. Pour forth the overflowings of your anger: and look upon everyone that is proud, and abase him. Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked where they stand. Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in the secret place. Then I will also confess of you that your own right hand can save you" (Job 40:10-14).

The reading of this is sufficient to reveal the fact that God was calling Job to face the moral problem which had bothered him, and to consider whether he would be able to deal with such a problem.

No solution was offered. In effect God was saying to His servant that there are things which must be allowed to work themselves out. Still these matters are under Divine control, moving towards the fulfillment of purpose, in a process meeting the necessities of the case.

When Job exclaimed, "Now my eye sees You" (Job 42:5), it seems he has seen a vision, in the light of this moral problem, of God as a God of Might and Holiness. The speech of God moved out of the moral issue into the non-moral, to that of the beasts and the animals. He called upon Job to look at two unusual beasts, one was the "behemoth" (Job 40:15-24), some believe this to be the hippopotamus, and the other was the "leviathan" (Job 40:15-24), possibly the crocodile or alligator. These beasts could be pictorial or parabolic references to Satan and the underworld.

God then asks Job if he is able to capture them, and to bring them under control. Of "leviathan" God says. . . "Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more" (Job 41:8). Job was compelled to face his incompetence in the moral realm and is asked to face the fact also in the realm of non-moral force. After this word of God to Job, he uttered the great cry. . . "I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:5,6).

A new consciousness of God had come to Job, revealing to him his own impotence. All the knowledge he had of God, which had been revealed in his arguments with his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, fell short of true understanding. But now he had seen Him. The vision of God had brought Job to two conclusions, expressed in the words. . . "You can do all things," and "no purpose of Yours can be restrained" (Job 42:2).

There came to Job in the midst of his desolation, when all the props upon which he had leaned were gone and when the voices of his friends were silenced, a vision of God, which brought a conviction of power, that at length no purpose of God could be negated.

This new vision of God brought a new vision of himself. This is expressed in the statement which the translators have rendered, "I abhor myself" (Job 42:6). The revisers have in the margin substituted, "I loathe my words." Actually the word "myself" is not in the Hebrew text, neither is the expression "my words." The Hebrew word does not signify a state of mind which can be described by the word "abhor" or "loathe." From the standpoint of etymology the Hebrew word literally means to disappear, to retract, to repudiate.

Then restoring the sense of personality, he responded: "[I] repent in dust and ashes" (Job 42:6). The word "repent" does not suggest a change of mind, but one that indicates sorrow. The language of Job was that of full submission to God. In that submission Job's greatness is revealed.

In going back we recall Eliphaz' advice to him. . . "Acquaint now yourself with Him, and be at peace" (Job 22:21). The reply of Job to that revealed his difficulty at that moment. . . "Oh that I knew where I might find Him!" (Job 23:3). Eliphaz, continuing to emphasize his advice, had urged him. . . "Lay your treasure in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks" (Job 22:24).

Job said, not as a result of the appeal of Eliphaz, but as a result of the unveiling of God, "I cancel myself, I am filled with sorrow. I lay all my treasure in the dust." In that moment Job rose to the ultimate dignity of his manhood. Man rises to the ultimate dignity and splendor of his own life when he recognizes that, and yields himself in complete submission to that Will.

Turning to ask what Jesus has to say to the cry of Job, we find the answer in the Gospel, in the keynote of His ministry, as declared in the words that He "began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 4:17).

Mark's Gospel uses slightly different language, saying that "Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel" (Mark 1:14-15). The "time is fulfilled" is a reference to Daniel's Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9:24-27. By this prophecy Israel could have known to the very day when Messiah would stand in their midst, but they miserably failed.

There are two phrases in these two accounts. Matthew using "the kingdom of heaven, and Mark, "the kingdom of God." Matthew's words suggest an order of life, while Mark's indicate the authority producing the order. The basic fact of the Message of Jesus was the recognition of Divine Authority, and the order resulting from submission to It.

The way of entrance to experience the Kingdom of Heaven is that of repentance, which includes all Job said and the canceling of self. But there is more today, for the dispensation of the Church Ages has ended in which the true Kingdom was not entered. It was introduced again, by the ministry of the prophet William Branham in a John the Baptist ministry, with the appearing of Jesus Christ in the Cloud on Sunset Mountain in Arizona.

In our entering the Kingdom, God lifts us from the dust to the place of fullness of life and experience, filling the soul with Himself, the very Presence of God in Logos form. We are brought by God into the understanding of ourselves.


The Sense of Solution

"He knows the way that I take: when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold" (Job 23:10).

"Blessed is the man who endures temptation: for when he has been approved, he shall receive the crown of Life" (James 1:12).

When Eliphaz had given his word of advice. . . "Acquaint now yourself with Him, and be at peace" (Job 22:21), Job had replied. . . "Oh that I knew where I might find Him" (Job 23:3). The supreme thing in his anguish was his inability to make contact with God. The thing Job said was an exclamation welling up from the depth of his being.

"He knows the way that I take: when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold" (Job 23:10). This cry revolves around two beings, God and Job, two distinct personalities referred to by the pronouns and "He" and "me".

Malachi 3:3, "He shall sit as a refiner . . . of silver" by the hot furnace, tempering its fires in the interest of the refining process. Job, in the passing moment, saw the experience he was passing through as flames of fire testing gold. He saw God sitting as the Refiner presiding over the processes which would finally bring him forth as fine gold. The fires do not destroy the metal, only the impurities and the alloy.

All the teaching of Jesus and the apostles, as found in the New Testament, confirms the convictions of Job. "Blessed is the man who endures temptation: for when he has been approved, he shall receive the crown of Life" (James 1:12). These words find their full interpretation in his book. It presents God presiding over all the strange and often baffling experiences of suffering and testing, even as by fire. This was all with a purpose; that purpose being as James says, that all who pass through the testing for Jesus' sake shall receive the crown of life. nl748.htm


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Brother Grigor-Scott is a non-denominational minister who has ministered full-time since 1981, primarily to other ministers and their congregations in other countries. He pastors Bible Believers' tiny congregation, and is available to teach in your church.

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