Going on!!!!

Hup, two, three, four.... And there we go again. Wounded and in hospital a soldier often forgets his destiny. But back in the field, missiles flying, the goal stands out like a landmine warning. Solomon can be listened to. God says he was the wisest man who ever lived. DO YA BELIEVE THAT? Well you should! God said so. AND he, Solomon says, it’s all a chase after a breeze. Its vanity, its rubbish.

Solomon said three things however that are not considered rubbish.

1. Love your job - If you hate your job you are in it for the wrong reasons and you will be anxious and depressed. If you're young TAKE note. Do what you would like to do for the rest of your life. Study that. Go there. Live that.

2. Love your Spouse - If you wanna get married and you can’t positively say you are willing to worship this person, kiss the feet, fall in love every day all over again, then the person is probably your best friend and not your LOVER EXTRAORDINAIRE! Wait or search or go look for the absolute right person and you will love life.

3. Love your God - Not worship, Him. Not "do what He would do". LOVE Him. Go gagga about Him. Search for His affection. Search for His children. Search for more time with Him. Bunk work for Him. AWOL for Him. He should consume your day. Don’t live a balanced Christian live. It should be an unbalanced live. All "Him" and if you have some time extra spend it on spouse or yourself and if some time extra on top of that then do what you love in the form of a job.

Hey don’t take my word for it!!!!

Go read Ecclesiastes. (Prediker)

Cheers, and remember you've got some loving to do!
MWAH.

Ps. Werner Horné.

REPENT :

This word is another word often used in the Kingdom way out of context. We often hear that we should repent and usually we see this picture of someone on his knees saying “I am sorry’. We are advised to repent by Jesus mainly because as he put it “the Kingdom is at hand”. Mat 3:2, Mar 1 :15 In Luke 16:30 Jesus states that even if someone would to come back from the dead it would not be enough to get some to repent.

So Peter and his friends are accused of having had too much wine. He then started to tell them that it’s not wine but an overflow of the Holy Spirit in their life that produced this miracle of languages. He slowly started from the beginning, telling them how Jesus was with them and how they missed him. How they even succeeded in killing him. So in response to this sermon the bystanders were deeply touched and asked Him the following question:

Acts 2:37-39
Now when they heard this they were stung (cut) to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles (special messengers), Brethren, what shall we do? And Peter answered them, REPENT (change your views and purpose to accept the will of God in your inner selves instead of rejecting it) and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of and release from your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is to and for you and your children, and to and for all that are far away, [even] to and for as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself.

I purposely quoted from the Amplified as it’s the only Bible that expounds on this word REPENT.

Let’s look at the Greek Dictionary
REPENT G3340 Metanoeo
To exercise the mind, to reason, understand
To change one’s mind - your method of thinking & what you think about
To change one’s mind for better, heartily to amend

Reason this anew for yourself
That is what Peter is telling them. “You okes killed your only hope. You did not understand the scriptures. You could have walked with Him, instead you asked for Him to be killed. The Messiah is not to come, He came and you missed Him. So now please, RE-THINK this whole affair and come to the truth so you can also have this joy that we have”

Times of refreshing is not that far away
So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], [that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean)], that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord;
(Act 3:19)

I can hear Peter say; “Do it so times of refreshing can be yours as well as it is ours” This happens to be Paul’s plea in Romans 12; “Be renewed in your thinking so that you might know what God wants”

Think then act
After thinking new start to act on the things that you understand new in a NEW way.
Acts 26:20 Repent and do things that belongs to the repentance

That’s Gods biggest problem with the Revelation congregations. He continuously asks them to repent (Think about these things anew)
Rev 2:16, 21, 22. Rev 3:3, 19

Thinking clearly and according to scripture one tends to see the picture in a different light. An old song said something like this; Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full into his wonderful face. And the things of this earth will grow strangely dim. In the light of his glory and grace.

Re-think Jesus. Who He is. What He is. What He said. What it means to you.

Stay blessed,

Ps. Werner Horné.

CONFESS :

A while ago a sudden spur of confession ripped through the Christian Church an left it bleeding. Marriages were wrecked and friendships damaged beyond repair. The spur was called CONFESSION.

What people understood from it was that they should come forward with all the baggage whether already forgiven by God (or not in your mind); and lay it all at each other’s feet. The result was devastating.

I believe a secret between you and God stays that way. So what does James 5:16 say and to whom?
Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]. (Jas 5:16) Amp.

Let’s allow the dictionary to have a word.
Confess G3670 homologeo:
1) to say the same thing as another, i.e. to agree with, assent
2) to concede
3) to profess

Now two words stand out here in the original word. The one word is HOMO indicating “likeness” or “the same as”.
The other word is LOGEO” which comes fro the word Logos, which we all know is Jesus (John 1:1 to 14)

So the word implies to say the same thing as Jesus. What does he say about your shortcomings? What does he say about your sins? Nailed to the cross, As far as East is from West, cleansed by Him.

Now if we read James again it we see that he admonishes us to speak concerning our sins the way Jesus does, then pray for one another; then understand that there is great power in our righteous prayer.

Go read Rom 10:9-10 with this understanding as well as Rom 14:11.
Yes there will come a day when all will speak the same as Jesus. Because we will all have his mind in full function. Remember Paul said “But you have the mind of Christ’ 1 Cor. 2:16

And every tongue [frankly and openly] confess and acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(Php 2:11)

If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins (Speak about it like Jesus would), He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].
(1Jn 1:9)

Anyone who confesses (acknowledges, owns) that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides (lives, makes His home) in him and he [abides, lives, makes his home] in God.
(1Jn 4:15)

Say it! Say the truth. Say it like Jesus would.
“My sins are forgiven, I am a new creation, I am the salt of the earth, I am a light in this dark world, I have the mind of Christ, death has nothing on me, I am a blood bought, Spirit filled son of God Almighty!”

Stay Blessed,
Ps. Werner Horné.

Abiding In Him (John 15:4)

We are "dead indeed", but nowhere does scripture say that we are dead in ourselves.
We are dead not in ourselves but in Christ. We were crucified with Him because we were in Him.

"Abide in me, and I in you" (John 15:4).

Principle 1:
Do not to struggle to get into Christ. We were not told to get there, but to STAY there where we have been placed. It was God's own act that put us in Christ, and we are to abide in Him.

2nd Principle;
God has done the work in Christ and not in us as individuals.

The all-inclusive death and the all-inclusive resurrection of God's Son were accomplished fully and finally apart from us in the first place.

We were crucified "with Him"
We were quickened “with Him”
We were raised “with Him”
We were set by God in the heavenlies "in Him"
We are complete "in Him" (Rom. 6:6; Eph. 2:5,6; Col. 2:10).

· It is not just something that is still to be effected in us
· It is not something to work towards

In the Scriptures we find that no Christian experience exists as such, “Christian Experience”
What God has done in His gracious purpose is to include us in Christ.
In dealing with Christ God has dealt with the Christian per se
In dealing with the Head He has dealt with all the members (Body).

All the spiritual experience of the Christian is already true in Christ.
Christ has already experienced it.
What we call “our” experience is only our entering into, His history and His experience.

Jesus healing the man at the pool is entering into the history of “already seeing Father do it”. He said that he does nothing unless he first sees or hears Father do it.

The history and experience of Christ becomes our experience and our spiritual history; we do not have a separate history from His. Whatever good we will still do has already been done by Him.

The entire work regarding us is not done in us here but in Christ.
Eternal life is not given to us as individuals: the life is in the Son, and "he that hath the Son hath the life".
God has done all in His Son, and He has included us in Him; we are incorporated into Christ.
I love the Amplified translation teaching us to look away first. Away from our own effort, our past our future. To fix our gaze upon Jesus and in Him, our past, in Him, our present and in Him our future.

Heb 12:2 Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. [Ps. 110:1.] Amp

Love from Thaba.

Destiny is calling and it says…SON arise....

What is my destiny?
A question so many might ask. It’s the easiest of answers because its already answered for us. We might try more difficult questions to pass the time. We are destined to be sons. In fact it is already a done deal. We have to come into the realization of this.
Eph 1:5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

Look at the meaning of this wonderful word.

Predestined = pro-orizo = to limit, to mark out or bound (“horizon”), that is, (figuratively) to appoint, decree, specify: - declare, determine, limit, ordain. in advance

Limted in advance to be sons. This is what I call diesel machine mode.
Some might be familier with diesel machines that are often limited so it does not perform outside of a set parameter. We are limited in like fashion. You must perform within this parameter called “son’ Anything outside is underachievement.

And all this was done before the world was formed. Phew! Heavy stuff hey?

Rom 8:28-30
And we know that all things work together for good to those who:
1. love God,
2. who are the called according to His purpose.
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

See that’s His purpose for creating you and I. That’s why we are here.
Wanna see what the extend to this limitation is. You want to know what your operating ceiling is? Then read this and shout for joy! Ok if your not the shouting type just “smile and wave”

Eph 4:13 [That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.

30 Moreover whom He predestined, these…
He also called; whom He called, these…
He also justified; and whom He justified, these…
He also glorified.

Pretty neat hey. Not only were you destined for this, but you were called. And in case you think of yourself too little He justified you. And in case you think you carry too little weight… He glorified you. The word glory is translated as weightiness, authority, dignity, splendor, magnificence, honor and wealth, to mention but a few.

This is IN Him
You don’t feel that cool hey? See its not in you its in Him. You have to trust that you are in Him and this becomes your part.

Col 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection
You can be like Him for you are “In” Him and like Him

1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
These words from Eph. 4 keeps coming back; “nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection”

This part may now make a lot of sense to you
2 Cor 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” There is that sentence coming back; “nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection”

Is it you? Heck NOOO its Him!

Col 3:3 - “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”

WHY IS THIS NOT TANGIBLE?

Blindness

2 Cor 4:3-4 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,
4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

Who caused this blindness? The god of this age. Who or what is this god? The god of this age is referenced in Rom 12

Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
The god of this age is the carnal worldly mind. This reference is qualified in Col 1


Col 1:
21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled
22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight.

Alienated in my mind! Yep in YOUR mind.

Eph 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
See! Alianated in my mind

Prov 23:7 For as he thinks within himself, so he is.

Receive?

If you can take this, yo will have it. If you can receive this it will become yours. Its already ingrafted in you. Note the past tense.
1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Jas 1:21 receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

If we receive and take this. If we cast our eyes unto this we will slowly see the change happen inside of this. Slowly we will begin to take the predestinated form. Realising Christ is already inside of us.
2 Co 3:18 But we all, with open (unveiled) face beholding as in a glass(see reflected) the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from (Our) glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. –
Col 1:27 To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory.
Now set your mind. The original meaning of this word is to train your mind. Tell yourself it is so and do it regularly

Col 3:1-4 IF THEN you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. [Ps 110:1.]
2 And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.
3 For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory. AMP

Now the invitation. Arise and shine little miss sunshine for your light has come a long time ago already. You have only come to believe it now.

Isa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and the glory shall be seen upon thee.
3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Stay Blessed,
Ps. Werner

First you need to understand what Jesus went through for every
single person on this earth.

See Heb.10:10
And in accordance with this will [of God], we have been made holy
(consecrated and sanctified) through the offering made once for all
(which is the whipping, battering, and all else that Jesus went
through ending in the crucifixion) of the body of Jesus Christ (the
Anointed One).

This means:
Since He went through all of the beating, humiliation,  severe whipping to near death, and His crucifixion; all who lived and is still going to be born is under grace and NOT under the Old Testament Law any longer.

PLEASE, go read the previous 2 part teaching on "Healing & Salvation" below in this Kingdom Teaching Blog.  

It’s only when YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT CHRIST WENT THROUGH, that you can get an inkling of understanding how MUCH GOD LOVES YOU and WANTS YOU to CHOOSE LIFE – getting saved.

Joh 3:15: “In order that everyone who believes in Him [who cleaves to Him, trusts Him, and relies on Him] may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever!”

Joh 3:16: “For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.”  
THIS IS A PROMISE & DONE DEAL!

Joh 3:17: “For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.”

Joh 3:18: “He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation--he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.] “

Joh 3:19: “The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil.”

HE CHOSE YOU!

If you are serious in becoming saved – in KNOWING Jesus Christ.
If you’re not born again yet…  If you haven’t asked Jesus to come
into your heart and be your own personal Lord & Saviour, please do so.  YOU KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING PULLING YOU TOWARDS HIM!  That's the gentle tug of the Holy Spirit, man.  You can't loose anything. 
YOU CAN ONLY GAIN.

No one can enter the Kingdom of God except through Christ Jesus, therefore you have to accept Him as your Lord and Saviour in this easy prayer below.

The only requirements are that you

1. say the words out loud,
2. mean what you say, and
3. grab hold of Him and you’re saved. 

"Lord Jesus, I ask You to come into my life and forgive me of all my sins.
I confess my sins before You this day.
I denounce Satan and all his evil works.
I confess Jesus as the Lord of my life. 
I receive my forgiveness.
I receive the new birth, cleansed and washed in the Word and in the precious blood of Jesus. 
I confess that I submit to You my Lord and Saviour, and live for You and not according to human ways and wills any longer. 
I believe with my heart and I confess with my mouth that You became sin for me. 
You were beaten, battered, and severely whipped and crucified, then rose from the dead, so I don’t have to die but have abundant life in You.
I am saved.  Thank You for saving me. Thank You for loving me FIRST.
Fill me with Your Spirit, in Jesus' name.  Teach me Holy Spirit, even as I sleep.
Christ now stays in me, and I in Him.  Your Spirit is now one with mine. I am whole in You, my Jesus.  I am a new creation in Christ Jesus.Today my new life in my Lord Jesus starts! 
I pray this In the name of Jesus Christ, the name above all names. Amen."

If you need anything, we’re just an e-mail away and will give you guidance and answer all your questions as they come up. 

Now that you’ve said the prayer of salvation, remember that it
is important is to read the Bible and pray everyday. 
Educate yourself with what God says about you and how He thinks of YOU! It’s awesome. 
When you pray (just chatting to God) and you believe the words you speak out loud (confessing that Jesus Christ is now your Lord & Saviour), you are a child of God and have eternal life. 
                             You ARE SAVED & FORGIVEN.

Find and join a congregation so you can be taught in the ways of
the Kingdom of God.  Be selective, and don’t let anyone influence
your decision to obey God, and be a light to the rest of the world.

Saving faith is trusting in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and healing. It means resting upon Christ alone and what He has done rather than in what you or I have done (or not done) to get us this free gift.
". . . Believe (trust) on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved . . .” (Acts 16:31).

  Speak out loud POSITIVE GODLY Truths from the Bible:
     We call these positive confessions - there's power in your words. 
                                       USE your words WISELY!

Comfort - I am:

• The body of Christ and no one has any power over me
• Complete in Jesus who is the head of all
• Delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of His son
• Born of God with world overcoming faith in me
• Far from oppression and fear does not come near me
• Delivered from the evils of this present world
• Healed
• Blessed in all my deeds
• An over-comer and I overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of my testimony
• Submitted to God and the enemy flees from me
• I overcome evil with good

• I fear no evil for you are with me
• I forbid any malfunction in my body in the name of Jesus
• I resist the enemy in the name of Jesus & submit to God!
• I take the shield of faith and quench every fiery dart that the enemy brings against me
• I forbid any sickness or disease to comes against this body
• I live and will not die
• I cast my care on God because He cares for me
• Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world
• No weapon formed against me shall prosper for my righteousness is from the Lord
• Whatsoever I do shall prosper

• No evil will befall me neither shall any plague come near my dwelling
  
• The Lord has given His angels charge over me
• In my pathway is life and there is no death
• Christ has redeemed me from poverty, sickness, spiritual death
• Every disease, germ, virus that touches my body, dies instantly
• Every organ and tissue of my body functions perfectly as ordained by God
• Great is the peace of my children, for they are taught of the Lord
• They are protected, healthy, wealthy and anointed. Nothing missing, nothing broken
• No man shall take me, my spouse or children out of Your hands for we have eternal abundant life now
• Your Word, it is life to me; it is healing to all my flesh
• God is on my side, He is in me, who can be against me?
• Cares go in Jesus name now

• Lord your Word and Spirit comfort me

Spirit - I am:

• Happy in what I do for I am a doer of the Word of God
• Not my own
• Bought with a price
• The redeemed of the Lord
• The righteousness of God in Jesus
• Filled with the knowledge of the Lords will in all wisdom and Spiritual understanding
• A new creation in Christ
• His workmanship created for good works
• Pre-ordained by Jesus
• Not conformed to this world

• Transformed by the renewal of my mind
• Strengthened with all might according to His glorious power

• A believer and these signs do follow: In the name of Jesus

1. I lay hands on the sick and they DO recover
2. I raise the dead
3. I cast out all demons,
4. I cleanse the leper
5. speak with new tongues

• I let the Word of Christ dwell in me richly in all wisdom
• I set my affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
• I follow the good Shepherd and I know His voice
• I let no corrupt communication proceed from my mouth but that which is good to edifying ministering grace to the hearer
• I greave not the Holy Spirit whereby I am sealed
• I speak the truth of the Word of God in love and I grow up into the Lord Jesus in all things
• I have put off the old man and have put on the new, renewed in the knowledge after the image of God who created me

• I have received the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him
• I have received abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness
• I reign as a king in life by Jesus the anointed One and His anointing
• I confess I have perfect knowledge of every situation in every circumstance that I come up against
• I trust the Lord with all my heart and I lean not on my own understanding
• I let the peace of God rule in my heart and I refuse to worry about anything
• I will not let the Word of God depart from me
• I walk in the favor of God and in the covering of the Holy Ghost

• I will do all things through the anointed One and His anointing
• I have the mind of Christ and the wisdom of God is formed within me
• I pray for the world to be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and Spiritual understanding
• I pray for God to open doors for us to give utterance to the good news
• The Word of God is forever settled in heaven and established on earth
• Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law
• My body is a temple of the Holy Ghost who lives within me
• He has given me eternal life
• He came that I might have life and have it more abundantly

• The Spirit of truth is in me and teaches me all things and guides me in all truth
• In all my ways I acknowledge Him and He directs my path
• The Lord perfects that which concerns me
• Jesus is made unto me wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption
• The eyes of my understanding is enlightened

• My mind is renewed by the Word of God
• The joy of the Lord is my strength the Lord is the strength in my life
• The peace of God, passing understanding, keeps my heart and mind
• All things good, pure, perfect, lovely and of good report, I think on these things
• He gave all that pertains to life and Godliness to me
• Jesus gave me authority over all!  So, whatever I bind, is bound in heaven; and whatever I loose, is loosed in heaven!

Prosperity - I am:

• A money magnet, prosperous, rich, out of debt, needs are met and I have plenty more to put in store
• having all sufficiency for all things to abound to all good works through me
• I sow and give bountifully and cheerfully
• I loose angels to go and bring forth my harvest
• I have the inheritance of Abraham
• I will experience the miracle of debt cancellation
• I command supply from all directions in Jesus name
• It is given unto me, good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over.

• He gives me the desires of my heart
• All grace abound towards me in love
• There is no lack for my God supply in all my needs according to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus
• The Lord is my shepherd and I do not want, the voice of a stranger I will not follow
• The Lord has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant
• I am the redeemed of the Lord and we have what we say
• All budgets are met
• I have favour, I am prosperous. I have abundant life! 

                                                   Amen

What’s YOUR purpose on earth?

His Intent for you is this:                                                              

1. To present every man perfect in Christ Jesus (Reproduce Christ into all men) Col 1:28 
2. His wisdom made known to the Rulers & Authorities by the Church Eph. 3:10
3. To fill the whole universe with the knowledge of God Eph. 4:10
4. To subdue the earth Gen. 1:28
5. And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto himself Col 1:20 
6. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Expectancy of realizing that Glory, from my minute glory to His all-encompassing Glory) Col 1:27
   

So what does this all mean?

Reconciling men to Christ and presenting them perfect in Him.
So that every man can have the wisdom; and make it known to the Authorities.  Thus, filling the WHOLE Universe with His knowledge, and subduing it.  Christ in us IS the hope of realizing this GLORY!

Faith in Christ and obedience pleases God, our Father.

Again, if you have questions, please e-mail us on our website and
we will guide and help you on your way to mature Christianity
which is being a true son of God.

Who wouldn’t want all the blessings God has ALREADY bestowed
upon us by His awesome grace through His Son, Jesus Christ?

Okay, so you don’t know all the promises yet?
Ahhh, but you do.  Read the list above again and again until it becomes so part of you that you cannot help but believe it.

Until you know it off by heart is having Jesus as your Lord and Saviour not a good place to start? Having taken all your SIN upon Himself and NEVER to think of it again, so YOU may have life and not just LIFE, but everlasting joyful, prosperous living forever? 

Jesus wants to be your:

1. Brother and have a close, intimate relationship with you,
2. Protector,
3. Provider,
4. Defender,
5. Shelter,
6. Strength,
7. Teacher,
   
8. Advocate,
9. Lord  & Saviour. 

He wants you to sit at His right hand and enjoy what He severely suffered for on our behalf; so we don’t ever have to. 

He (God) gave you free will, choose LIFE, and you’ll enjoy abundant life!

This verse is so awesomely beautiful!
Eph 1:5 :
“For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]..”   Now in the original Greek His GOOD PLEASURE means: God delights in us, it is His kind wish, and one of the  purposes He created us: - For His desire, and  good pleasure.

Paul speaking about Salvation:
(Amplified)

Heb 2:1:
“SINCE ALL this is true, we ought to pay much closer attention than ever to the truths that we have heard, lest in any way we drift past [them] and slip away”.
Heb 2:3:
“How shall we escape [appropriate retribution] if we neglect and refuse to pay attention to such a great salvation [as is now offered to us, letting it drift past us forever]? For it was declared at first by the Lord [Himself], and it was confirmed to us and proved to be real and genuine by those who personally heard [Him speak]”.
Heb 2:4:
“[Besides this evidence] it was also established and plainly endorsed by God, Who showed His approval of it by signs and wonders and various miraculous manifestations of [His] power and by imparting the gifts of the Holy Spirit [to the believers] according to His own will”.
Heb 2:10:
“For it was an act worthy [of God] and fitting [to the divine nature] that He, for Whose sake and by Whom all things have their existence, in bringing many sons into glory, should make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect [should bring to maturity the human experience necessary to be perfectly equipped for His office as High Priest] through suffering”.
Heb 2:11:
“For both He Who sanctifies [making men holy] and those who are sanctified all have one [Father]. For this reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren;”

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Gina Horné.
The bridge Ministries International.

So, what’s the big deal about getting saved and born again?

To find out, would you agree that we should first investigate what the word “salvation” means in the original Greek text?

KJV: Rom 1:16 

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek”.

AMP: Rom 1:16 

“For I am not ashamed of the Gospel (good news) of Christ, for it is God's power working unto salvation [for deliverance from eternal death] to everyone who believes with a personal trust and a confident surrender and firm reliance, to the Jew first and also to the Greek,”
 
Salvation in Greek is the word (G4982} sode'-zo

From a primary word σῶς sōs̄ (contraction for the obsolete σάος saos, “safe”); and it means to save, that is, deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (to make) whole.

So, just how much does He love you to go through the following?  Think of that while you read what your Saviour went through for YOU.

Crucifixion of Jesus:

After the scourging (see teaching Healing and Salvation which is part 1 of this two part series) and the mocking, at about 9 AM, the Roman soldiers put Jesus' clothes back on him and then led him and two thieves to be crucified.1 Jesus apparently was so weakened by the severe flogging that he could not carry the patibulum from the Praetorium to the site of crucifixion one third of a mile (600 to 650 m) away.

Simon of Cyrene was summoned to carry Christ's cross, and the processional then made its way to Golgotha (or Calvary), an established crucifixion site.

Here, Jesus' clothes, except for a linen loincloth, again were removed, thereby probably reopening the scourging wounds. He then was offered a drink of wine mixed with myrrh (gall) but, after tasting it, refused the drink.

Finally, Jesus and the two thieves were crucified. Although scriptural references are made to nails in the hands, these are not at odds with the archaeological evidence of wrist wounds, since the ancients customarily considered the wrist to be a part of the hand. The titulus (Name board) was attached above Jesus' head. It is unclear whether Jesus was crucified on the Tau cross or the Latin cross.  The fact that Jesus later was offered a drink of wine vinegar from a sponge placed on the stalk of the hyssop plant (approximately 20 in, or 50 em, long) strongly supports the belief that Jesus was crucified on the short cross.

The soldiers and the civilian crowd taunted Jesus throughout the crucifixion ordeal, and the soldiers cast lots for his clothing. Christ spoke seven times from the cross. Since speech occurs during exhalation, these short, terse utterances must have been particularly difficult and painful. At about 3 PM that Friday, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, bowed his head, and died. The Roman soldiers and onlookers recognized his moment of death.

Since the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the crosses after sunset, the beginning of the Sabbath, they asked Pontius Pilate to order soldiers to hasten the deaths of the three crucified men. The soldiers broke the legs of the two thieves, but when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Rather, one of the soldiers pierced his side, probably with an infantry spear, and produced a sudden flow of blood and water. Later that day, Jesus' body was taken down from the cross and placed in a brand new tomb no one has ever used before – FIT FOR A KING.  To really understand what Jesus went through for our salvation on the cross, it is imperative that you understand the crucifixion practices and what happens to the human body:

What Jesus went through on the Cross during His actual crucifixion:

Crucifixion Practices:

Although the Romans did not invent crucifixions they perfected it as a form of torture and capital punishment that was designed to produce a slow death with maximum pain and suffering. It was one of the most disgraceful and cruel methods of execution and usually was reserved only for slaves, foreigners, revolutionaries, and the vilest of criminals. Roman law usually protected Roman citizens from crucifixion, except perhaps in the ease of desertion by soldiers.

[See Cross Figure: Cross and titulus.

In its earliest form in Persia, the victim was either tied to a tree or was tied to or impaled on an upright post, usually to keep the guilty victim's feet from touching holy ground. Only later was a true cross used; it was characterized by an upright post (stipes) and a horizontal crossbar (patibulum), and it had several variations which we won’t go into here. Although archaeological and historical evidence strongly indicates that the low Tau cross was preferred by the Romans in Palestine at the time of Christ (See figure of Cross), crucifixion practices often varied in a given geographic region and in accordance with the imagination of the executioners.

It was customary for the condemned man to carry his own cross from the flogging post to the site of crucifixion outside the city walls. He was usually naked, unless this was prohibited by local customs. Since the weight of the entire cross was probably well over 300 lb. (136 kg), only the crossbar was carried (See Cross Figure). The patibulum, weighing 75 to 125 lb. (34 to 57 kg), and was placed across the nape of the victim's neck and balanced along both shoulders. Usually, the outstretched arms were tied to the crossbar.

The Procession:

The procession to the site of crucifixion was led by a complete Roman military guard, headed by a centurion. One of the soldiers carried a sign (titulus) on which the condemned man's name and crime were displayed (See picture). Later, the titulus would be attached to the top of the cross. The Roman guard would not leave the victim until they were sure of his death.

The heavy upright wooden stipes, were permanently located outside the city walls; on which the patibulum would be secured. In the case of the Tau cross, this was accomplished by means of a mortise and tenon joint, with or without reinforcement by ropes. To prolong the crucifixion process, a horizontal wooden block or plank, serving as a crude seat (sedile or sedulum), often was attached midway down the stipes. Only very rarely, and probably later than the time of Christ, was an additional block (suppedaneum) employed for transfixion of the feet (not shown in Nailing of the feet picture).

At the site of execution, by law, the victim was given a bitter drink of wine mixed
With myrrh (gall) as a mild analgesic. We know Jesus refused this from the
soldier.

Mar 15:23  And they [attempted to] give Him wine mingled with myrrh, but He would not take it.

Act of Nailing hands:

The criminal was then thrown to the ground on his back, with his arms outstretched along the patibulum. The hands could be nailed or tied to the crossbar, but nailing apparently was preferred by the Romans.

Mar 15:24  And they crucified Him; and they divided His garments and distributed them among themselves, throwing lots for them to decide who should take what. [Ps. 22:18.]

Nailing of hands/wrists.

The archaeological remains of a crucified body, found in an ossuary near Jerusalem and dating from the time of Christ, indicate that the nails were  tapered iron spikes approximately 5 to 7 in (13 to 18 cm) long with a square shaft 3/8 in (1 cm) across.  THAT’S A HUGE NAIL! 

From Scripture we know that Jesus’ hands and feet were pierced by nails:

Ps. 22:16  For [like a pack of] dogs they have encompassed me; a company of evildoers has encircled me, they pierced my hands and my feet. [Ref. Isa. 53:7; John 19:37.]

After both arms were fixed to the crossbar, the patibulum and the victim, together, were lifted onto the stipes. On the low cross, four soldiers could accomplish this relatively easily. However, on the tall cross, the soldiers used either wooden forks or ladders.

Next, Jesus’ feet were nailed to the cross which was the preferred Roman practice. Although the feet could be fixed to the sides of the stipes or to a wooden footrest (suppedaneum), they usually were nailed directly to the front of the stipes (See figure of feet nailed). To accomplish this, flexion of the knees may have been quite prominent, and the bent legs may have been rotated laterally (See figure of Rotation of legs and Respiration).

Most commonly, the feet were fixed to the front of the stipes by means of an iron spike driven through the first or second inter metatarsal space, just distal to the tarsometatarsal joint. It is likely that the deep peroneal nerve and branches of the medial and lateral plantar nerves would have been injured by the nails (See figure of feet). Although scourging may have resulted in considerable blood loss, crucifixion per se was a relatively bloodless procedure, since no major arteries, other than perhaps the deep plantar arch, pass through the favored anatomic sites of transfixion

Breathing while crucified:

Inhaling:
Beyond the excruciating pain, was a marked interference with normal respiration, particularly exhaling. The weight of the body, pulling down on the outstretched arms and shoulders, would tend to fix the muscles between the ribs in an inhalation state, and thereby hamper passive exhaling. Accordingly, breathing was shallow. It is likely that this form of respiration would be inadequate and that hyper-carbia (the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood) would soon result. The onset of muscle cramps, due to fatigue and the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the blood, would inhibit respiration even further.

Exhaling:
Adequate exhalation required lifting the body by pushing up on the feet and by flexing the elbows and adducting the shoulders (See Rotation of legs and Respiration Figure). However, this action would place the entire weight of the body on the foot bones and would produce searing pain.


Flexing of the elbows:
Furthermore, flexion of the elbows would cause rotation of the wrists around the iron nails and cause fiery pain along the damaged median nerves. Lifting of the body would also painfully scrape the scourged back against the rough wooden stipes. Muscle cramps and an abnormal sensation, such as burning / prickling, of the outstretched and uplifted arms would add to the discomfort. As a result, each respiratory effort would become agonizing and tiring and lead eventually to slow strangulation.

The actual cause of death:

Crucifixion was multi-factorial and varied somewhat with each ease, but the two most prominent causes probably were hypovolemic shock due to extreme blood loss (during the FLOGGING), and exhaustion asphyxia (is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body due to extreme fatigue).

Other possible contributing factors included dehydration, stress-induced irregular heartbeat and congestive heart failure with the rapid accumulation of fluid around the heart and lungs, making it impossible to sustain life.

Death by crucifixion was, in every sense of the word, excruciating (Latin, excruciatus, or "out of the cross").

So what is it that every mature Christian must do?

Mar 16:15 – 18: (Amplified says it so awe-strikingly beautiful)

15  And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the good news (the Gospel) to every creature [of the whole human race].

16  He who believes [who adheres to and trusts in and relies on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] and is baptized will be saved [from the penalty of eternal death]; but he who does not believe [who does not adhere to and trust in and rely on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] will be condemned.

17  And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;

18  They will pick up serpents; and [even] if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well.

Stay Blessed,
Gina Horné.
The Bridge Ministries International.

Healing (and Salvation):

John 3:16
“For God so loved the WORLD (that means all man and what’s in it); that He gave His one and only Son (Jesus), that WHOEVER (again any and all person) believes in Him (Jesus) shall NOT PERISH, but HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.”    

In other words God says: If you repent from your old ways and ask me to be your Lord and Saviour, I will Save YOU!  So that takes care of our salvation which we will go into more detail with the next teaching. 

But what about our HEALING?  Isn’t it sadly interesting that so many people are afflicted, bound, sick, stricken with whatever the world throws at us?

When was our healing bought by Jesus?

Well, first you need to understand that Jesus wasn’t WHIPPED according to Hebrew Law, BUT ACCORDING TO ROMAN LAW.  What’s the difference? Romans were brutal beyond measure. 

KJV uses the Greek word: G5417 – φραγελλόω (pronounced = frag-el-lo'-o)

What does this mean – According to the Strongs Concordance phragelloō means:

From a presumed equivalent of the Latin flagellum; to whip, that is, lash as a public punishment: - also known as scourging.  fla•gel•lum (fləˈdʒɛl əm) = means a (Roman) LATIN WHIP.  So what did a Latin (Roman) whipping look like?

Let me first explain the actual act of Scourging (Whipping):

Flogging was a legal preliminary to every Roman execution, and only women and Roman senators or soldiers (except in cases of desertion) were exempt.

The usual instrument was a short whip (flagellum) with several single or braided leather thongs of variable lengths, in which small iron balls and/or sharp pieces of sheep bones were tied at intervals (See picture). Occasionally, staves also were used.

For scourging, the man was stripped of his clothing, and his hands were tied to an upright post (See picture). The back, buttocks, and legs were flogged either by two soldiers (Lictors – see explanation below) or by one soldier who alternated positions.

The severity of the scourging depended on the disposition of the Lictors and was intended to weaken the victim to a state just short of collapse or death. After the scourging, the soldiers often taunted their victim.

The Roman soldiers, amused that this weakened man (Jesus) had claimed to be a King, began to mock Him by placing a robe on His shoulders, a crown of thorns on His head, and a wooden staff as a scepter in His right hand.

Next, they spat on Jesus and struck Him on the head with the wooden staff.

Then, when the soldiers tore the robe from Jesus' back, they most assuredly reopened the scourging wounds.

The severe scourging, with its intense pain and appreciable blood loss, most probably left Jesus in a pre-shock state. In addition, hematidrosis (see explanation below) had rendered Jesus’ skin particularly tender.

The physical and mental abuse meted out (give a punishment to someone) by the Jews and the Romans, as well as the lack of food, water, and sleep, also contributed to his generally weakened state.

Therefore, even before the actual crucifixion, Jesus' physical condition was at least serious and possibly critical.

This is how Jesus was whipped for our healing!

Medical Aspects of Scourging:

As the Roman soldiers repeatedly struck the victim's back with full force, the iron balls would cause deep contusions, and the leather thongs and sheep bones would cut into the skin and Subcutaneous (underlying) tissues. Then, as the flogging continued, the lacerations (deep cuts) would tear into the underlying skeletal muscles (deep muscle tissue) and produce quivering ribbons of bleeding flesh. Pain and blood loss generally set the stage for circulatory shock. The extent of blood loss may well have determined how long the victim would survive on the cross.

Hematidrosis [means: Hematidrosis (also called hematohidrosis) is a very rare condition in which a human sweats blood. It may occur when a person is suffering extreme levels of stress, for example, facing his or her own death. Several historical references have been described; notably by Leonardo da Vinci: describing a soldier who sweated blood before battle, men unexpectedly given a death sentence, as well as descriptions in the Bible, that Jesus experienced hematidrosis when he was praying in the garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:43-44).]

Lictors are people appointed who act as specialist scouts and vanguards, to seek out and locate the person to be punished.

Isaiah prophesied what would happen to Jesus and what each suffering was for:

Isa 53:5 (KJV)
"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

Mat 8:17 (AMP)
" And thus He fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, He Himself took [in order to carry away] our weaknesses and infirmities and bore away our diseases." [Isa. 53:4.]

So let me explain about HEALING.  Do you see that HEALING is NOT a “then” thing that only happened in Bible times?  It’s a NOW thing, and something which mature Christians all over the world is supposed to practice – FAITH IN ACTION.  Our HEALING, just as our SALVATION was bought with the precious blood of Jesus even before the crucifixion.

WHY was HEALING before the CRUCIFIXION? 

Jesus healed even those who did NOT believe in Him.  You have got to get your head around this.  It’s about standing on the Word of God and that SETTLES it in YOUR MIND!  It’s not about “sin” in the life of the person you pray for; nor is it about “sin” in the person who is doing the praying.  Yes, we are all under construction and for that God gave us GRACE, and He is working with each of His people at His pace.  HOWEVER, health is something He wants for every single person in this world, regardless of faith, religion or creed (For God so loved the WORLD…).  God is so NOT happy about any one person dying in any way, shape or form.  You are His Body on the earth – START MOVING!

Salvation is a choice – once you give yourself to God, and believe Him to be YOUR Lord (to stand under HIS WILL) and Saviour; you need to hear the Word of God.  By hearing comes FAITH.  Obedience is a large part of this – GO DO.  Don’t worry about what people think when you stop and pray for someone.  It’s not a spectacle, and it doesn’t have to be a long prayer either.  Many times Jesus just had so much compassion in Him that when he SPOKE the word or touched the afflicted person’s hand/body, they were healed and set free. 

Instead, consider what GOD thinks of YOU.  And He just simply adores you.  He loves YOU!  You’re the apple of His eye.  He wants to be your All-in-All. 

Get the milk and move on to the MEAT which is FAITH IN ACTION: 

Lay hands and heal the sick - even the so called TERMINAL/FATAL ILLNESSES & DISEASES, go set the oppressed free, drive out demons, raise the dead. Even if you have to pray x10 times but stand FIRM in the Word of God.  The enemy is COUNTING on YOU GIVING UP…making you think or say THIS ISN’T WORKING!!!  Remember: GOD = GOOD, DEVIL (whatever you want to call the father of LIES!) = BAD!  If it’s NOT in The Bible – IT’S NOT OF GOD. 

SIGNS, WONDERS & MIRACLES shall follow, says the Bible.  Theses signs are for those who aren’t saved yet – for the unbeliever to show them God’s power and might.  You don’t need to see it because you KNOW and have a relationship with Christ; but it does strengthen your faith as you go forth. 

Mar 16:17 – 18:

17) And these attesting signs (in other words it testifies to God’s power and grace) will accompany those who believe: in My name (in the name of Jesus Christ) they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;

18) They will pick up serpents; and [even] if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well.

Once they have been healed, delivered, raised from the dead or whatever it is you had to do, then you disciple them – Pray with them to get saved, explain what to do next – I will tell you more on this on the next teaching when we talk about Salvation and the Crucifixion.

Listen, to live a GODLY life is NOT hard.  Not your will, but His will (that’s only possible by renewing your thinking according to the Word of God!). The Bible says we are a PECULIAR PEOPLE.  Let people think what they want, what have they got to loose except their illness (from flue to cancer and worse i.e. AIDS & HIV) – your faith is enough for them.  It’s all about COMPASSION & having FAITH in the FINISHED works Jesus Christ HAS ALREADY DONE.

Next time I will share with you what Jesus went through on the Cross during His actual crucifixion to purchase our salvation.

If you have questions or prayer requests, please don’t hesitate to contact us.  Go to our Contact Us tab for details or book us online.

There is NO separation in the Spirit.  We prefer to lay hands as Jesus instructed, but people can get healed wherever they are, regardless of how far we are from them on the earth. 

We would love to come to minister to you The Truth and Healing.  If you’re interested in inviting us to come to your home go to our website and contact us.  Invite a few friends and or people who you know needs healing and let’s walk the walk.

Stay Blessed,
Gina Horné.
The Bridge Ministries International.

Rapture  (Rapiemur; Latin Vulgate)

The word “rapture” is not in the Original Greek text but taken from the Latin translation of I Thessalonians 4:17.

This is not a foundational doctrine or an issue that exposes heretics but it has been an excuse for schisms in the church that divides us and leads us to exalt ourselves in pride and over-emphasize the differences. We do not need for this to create contentions amongst us.  We need love and a lot of it.  So why am I poking my nose into this “touchy” issue?  Experience concerning this doctrine has proven over and over how it has a tendency to break apart the family of God.

I want to make it clear that I am merely voicing my own opinion but in the same addressing a wish that I have for the Bride of Christ.  My wish is that the Bride will once and for all grow out of this doctrine of “flying away” to some glorious place. And here are my reasons why:

In overview let us consider the character of God to ascertain some understanding as to how, through history, He operates.

God creates humans in Genesis, human beings just lower than Himself (Psalms 8) but obviously higher than Satan (Eph 12:20-21; 2:6) and gave them all of Himself (Eph 1:3). The choice between the fruit on the trees are theirs, but the fruit of the forbidden tree is outside of play.  Man’s volition is a characteristic of God (In Our image). So man chose “wills” to sin and because of it, death came.   The verdict is: it shall all be restored as a final blow to the heel is crushed by a final blow to the head.

What shall be restored?  God living with man in union.  Where did they live?  On earth.  That is why a new earth is needed and we see the fulfillment of that in Revelation 21 to 22.  The problem now is that this new earth is where we are, and not in some other place.  God’s habitation is now with man (Eph. 2:22; Rev 3:12; Rev 5:10; Rev 21:2-3, 10, Rev22:3, 5 ;) hence one of His names “Emmanuel” roughly translated God with us (Not us with God).  The fallen nature of sin needs to be corrected.  You see all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God (Rom 3:23) and where sin reigns, death will reign.  So the moment one is born death starts its attack.  We are born just to start dying, as sick as it may sound.  For the wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23).  Now sin is always the Greek word with a distinct meaning “Missing the mark” and is not to be confused with the fruits of sin. (The physical stuff we do wrong because we miss the mark)

You will do well to take Genesis 1 and 2 and continue to read Revelation 21-22.  That is the plan and the fulfillment in a nutshell.  Everything in between is the “how to“.

Allow me a take on another facet of the nature of God.  When and wherever a problem exists He will send His man or woman to fix it.  It has never changed.  See God wants the whole earth to be saved. (None to be lost) A careful study of “none” will prove insightful.  He loved the world.  Gave Himself to all the earth.  He paid for all the sheep and shall not be satisfied with only 99% of what He paid for.

So He will see a “Nineveh problem” and send an agent.  He sees a stiff-necked nation and sends agents.  He sees obstinate kings and sends bearers of good news.  God has a habit of coming to His people or at least sending a man or woman or a group or a nation to the Aid of another.  He even calls Himself Emmanuel.  So as earth becomes increasingly bad He has a final plan in motion.  It is called “Sons”.  They will once again go but this time in the power and might of the Christ to set creation free (If the “Rapturers” don't kill them all before this is accomplished as Jerusalem killed all her prophets) 

What I want to emphasize is that it really should not matter how or what will happen, but a false sense of security leads to wrong actions and incorrect witness in the world.  It puts The Bride in a passive position of thinking that they will not be a part of the end-time harvest and separation because they will already be taken away.

A mighty outpouring of the Spirit (Joel2:2/Acts 1:8) is on the horizon but some wants to be taken away. 

All of creation is about to be set free (Rom 8) but some want to be "raptured".

The trees along the river flowing from the middle of Jerusalem is about to bring healing to the nations (Rev 22:2), but we want to be "raptured".

God is about to move His throne into the open amongst the children of God (God has made His habitation) but some want…

It is like the days of Noah (Jesus says the coming is like it) as all the sons enter the finished work of the ark, our ark, our rock, our Saviour and the floods cover the earth (like His Glory covers the earth) Numbers 14:21... but some rather wants to be raptured.

The church will once again crucify the Lord in her ignorance of Him visiting her, in her hour of need.  And you know what?  They will honestly rejoice 'cause they have done God a favour in their eyes (John 16:2).

So reluctantly I will go unto a topic that was already proven wrong by Spirit filled Scholars way back in 1954.  Not to mention that this first became a theory only through the workings of a certain young lady in the 1800’s.  A girl that never ever attended any sort of Bible training and that was already proven wrong by her peers to the likes of Smith Wigglesworth and other much anointed preachers much more my superiors.

Let me also add that none of the current renewed churches and groups upon the earth supports this theory and many great men of God has spoken out against it in public as to be a theory of religion that will cripple the bride across the earth.  Allow me to name but a few.

Dr. Andre Pelser – International Speaker and author

Dr. Noel Woodroffe – International Speaker and author

Anderson Williams – International Speaker and author

Renaldo Texidor – International Speaker and author

Dr. Kelly Varner – International Speaker and author

Ruth Hefflin – International Speaker and author

Dr.  Robert Munian – International Speaker and author

Dr. Thamo Naidoo – International Speaker and author

Gene Edwards – International Speaker and author

Dr Jack Deere – International Speaker and author

Madmar Sundar Singh – Indian International Speaker and author

Kobus Van Rensburg – International Speaker and author

TB Joshua – International Speaker and author

John Kelly – International Speaker and author

Andre Rabe, Andre Du Preez etc, etc. 

Let me stop there and allow me to state that, most renewal churches that hold to the teaching of the manifestation of the sons of God and the Kingdom of God, will tell you that the rapture theory is just that; a Theory ( And a pretty dangerous one at that.)

Why is this theory dangerous?

1.     It keeps the church busy with teachings that they have no command from God about.

2.     It pacifies people because they sit back and wait for the “sweet buy and buy” instead
        of helping save those that are lost.

3.     There is no agreement amongst followers of this teaching on some issues like the
         millennium so it brings further dissension even amongst them.

4.     It calcifies the hearts of the church as they pray for rapture whilst most of their 
        family and friends are not saved yet.  They subconsciously agree to some people 
        going “to hell” by praying for the time to be expedited?

5.     It feeds on fear of various things like being left behind to the cruelty of anti-Christ
        and other horror-like concepts.

6.     It removes God to a place where He is waiting instead of promoting a people with
        God in them.

7.     It dangerously promotes a fleshly desire to be taken up and away and to often walk
        on streets of gold (Worth nothing in the Spirit)

8.     It centers attention on the flesh more than on the indwelling Christ

9.     It portrays God to be somewhat merciless to abandon three quarters of the earth and
        whisk a chosen few to safety.

In short it preaches a non Biblical concept of God somewhere else and promotes an escapist mentality.

Let us look at some scriptures:

If by now you are at least a bit curious please just read on even if only to see what “others” believe.  Let us allow the Word to teach and enlighten our understandings.

Helpful Dictionary

You will need this self-compiled dictionary to assist you in this journey.  Some concepts will be “old” to you some may be new.  It is taken from reputable Bible Dictionaries, namely The Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament words and The Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries.  I am also quoting from the King James, New King James and Amplified Bibles.  Where bold or emphasis or underlining words in Bible quotations are used, it is mine for clarification purposes.

House of God:     Where Is God and where does he live?

Old Testament times: [A shadow of things to come, see Function of OT]

Gen 28:17            Where Jacob met with God in a dream

Judges 18:31        Meeting place where the Ark of covenant were put for extended periods

1 Chronicles         Wherever the tent of meeting was pitched

2 Chronicles         Where Solomon build a temple

Ezra 2                   Place where the temple was revamped several times up to time of Jesus

New Testament times: [Fulfillment of Old Testament]                     

1 Tim. 3:15          The chosen (sought out ones) - Us

                             Pillar of His truth (Sought out ones) – Us

1 Cor. 3:16            We are the temple so His house/meeting place is in us

2 Cor. 6:16/6:19    Where God dwells in us and walks among us

1 Tim. 3:16 - And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.

Rev. 21:3 - And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

Mystery of God   [Also mystery of God or mystery of ages]

Rom. 11:25 - Salvation to all not just Jews

1 Cor. 15:51 - We shall not all see death

Eph. 1:9 - All things captured in Christ

Eph. 3:6 - Salvation to all and partakers of body of Christ

Eph. 5:32 - Christ and church to become one

Col. 1:27 (Amp) - Christ within and among you, the hope of realizing the glory.

1 Tim. 3:16 - God was manifested in the flesh

Rev. 10:7 - This comes to completeness during the seventh angel blowing trumpet

Glory

3519  kabowd (kaw-bode'); Strongs

kabod (kaw-bode'); from 3513; properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendour or copiousness: -glorious (-ly), glory, honour (-able).

1391  doxa (dox'-ah); Strongs

from the base of 1380; glory (as very apparent), in a wide application (literal or figurative, objective or subjective):

KJV - dignity, glory (-ious), honour, praise, worship.

My Summary: weight, splendour, honour, dignity, glory, honour, praise, worship.


Function of Old Testament   Shadow or symbol

Col. 2:17             Shadow of things to come (Festivals and traditions)

                            The substance is of Christ.

Heb. 8:5               Copy and shadow of heavenly things (Tabernacle)

Heb. 10:1             Shadow of good things to come (Law)

Heb. 9:9               Symbolic of present time (Duties in tabernacle)


Fallen asleep in Him/Dead in Christ
Note the use of the word “IN”

• Mark 8:24
• Rom 6:4/6/8
• Rom 8:36/2
• Cor 4:11/6:9
• Gal 2:20/6:14
• Phil 3:10
• Col 2:20/3:3/2
• Tim 2:11

Isa. 26:19 - Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Dew    Psalms 133:3 - Anointing/Glory/Supply

Zion    (The transfigured Sons of God)

Jerusalem (Bride (Body of Christ) comprising of many sons of which Jesus was the firstborn)

Deut. 4:48             Hermon is Zion (Mountain upon which Jesus was Transfigured)

Isaiah 52:7-10      8 When the LORD returns to Zion, (Transfigured with the glory of                                 Christ) they will see it with their own eyes. See “Mystery”

Psalm 87:1-7        He has set his foundation on the holy mountain

The strength of the purposes of God in the earth is advanced and given momentum by THE BRIDE elevated in commitment, purpose, accuracy and determination to remain consistent in the things of God.

Isaiah 49:8-12      Zion a (Child) son of God

Isaiah 2:2-4          The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Ps 102:13-22        The LORD will rebuild Zion and appear in his glory. (Transfigured) 
                              See“Mystery”

Isaiah 52:1-2        Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your
                             garments of splendour, O Jerusalem, the holy city. See “Mystery”

Jeremiah 50:4-5   They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it.

Isaiah 51:11         The ransomed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing;
                             everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake
                             them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. 

Rev 21:9-11         The bride, the wife of the Lamb.

Carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high – Please study prophetic use of Lords mountain.

Showed Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. Coming down is in present continuous form indicating continuously given down from God.

It shone with the glory of God.  See “Mystery”

Rev. 21: 22            No temple - because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its
                             temple.  See “Mystery”

Rev. 21:23             No sun or the moon to shine

Glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

                             Pleas study Prophetic meaning of sun and moon
                             See my Dictionary for “glory of God”

Rev. 22:1-5, 17    The river of the water of life. 

                             Please study river of water of life

                             On each side of the river stood the tree of life

                             Please study Tree of life

Leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. – Nations in need of healing are on earth and not in Heaven

Last trumpet call

Rev 10:7              …but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about
                             to sound, the mystery (See Mystery elsewhere) of God would be
                             finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets. (NKJ)

Matt 24:31          And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they  
                            will gather together His elect (Church/Sons) from the four winds, from
                            one end of heaven to the other. – Note they are in heaven
                            Seated with Him in heavenly places

Revelation 11:15
The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: 
"The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,

Eternal life

Everlasting (aidos) ever and always

Eternal (aionos) endless in nature, divine nature, and supernatural attributes.  Never dying.

Eternal life is the life of Jesus. 1 John 1:2 “ the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness and declare to you that eternal life which was with the father and was manifested to us”

You will receive everlasting life when you repent and confess Jesus as your Saviour.  John 6:47 “most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in me has everlasting life. 

This means that you will live forever and always with Jesus in the age to come. (Even though your body may die)

Judges 7:16    Note Prophetic Meaning

300:                Figure of completion
                       Dimensions of Ark (Signifying Lords presence)
                       Benjamin (Last Son) portion
                       Number of people God used to destroy Midian (Mistery)
                       The Cost of the Oil with which Christ was anointed

Anointing of Body:
Vessels:       2 Cor 4:7/ 2Tim 2:21

Torches:      Fire/anointing/Messengers (Ps. 104:4)        

Trumpets:   Announcing activity (Amos 3:6)
      
Rev 10:7     but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.

                   Please Study “Seven” and “mystery”

 
Heaven

Here we need to distinguish between the Heavens mentioned in scripture.

     Heaven – The big blue above (we will not go into that) Gen 1:8
     Heaven – Where Jesus now resides
     The Third Heaven – Where the mind of God is known and mysteries are revealed        
                                       (Spiritual).


God dwells in Us

Rev 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God.

1 Cor 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

1 Cor 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

2 Cor 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people."

2 Cor 5:1-5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. (Gen 3:10, 11)

4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.


Rev. 21:3
3  And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. (NKJ)


Rev 21:10
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending (according to the Greek tense it implies a continuous action) out of heaven from God, (NKJ)

Christ Appears / Jesus comes

2 Cor 5:1              Will be clothed not going to be clothed

Phil 3:11, 20         Paul writing whilst in body. 

John 17:15           Jesus praying for us not to be taken away

Zephania 1:2        Days of Noah

Prov 2:2-20 & Ps 37 - The Godless are “raptured”


What is the coming of Christ like?

Mat 24:37-39  As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For just as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, [men] marrying and [women] being given in marriage, until the [very] day when Noah went into the ark, And they did not know or understand until the flood came and swept them all away--so will be the coming of the Son of Man. [Gen. 6:5-8; 7:6-24.]

• Was Noah swept away or the mockers? 

• The saints or the sinners?

Who will be TAKEN away, Raptured?

Prov. 10:30 The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not inhabit the earth.

Prov. 2:21 For the upright will dwell in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

Ps 37:1-2 Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.

2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Ps 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

Ps 37:10-11 For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; indeed, you will look carefully for his place, but it shall be no more.

11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Ps 37:18-20 The LORD knows the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever.

19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

20 But the wicked shall perish; and the enemies of the LORD, like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish. Into smoke they shall vanish away.

Ps 37:22 For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

Ps 37:28 For the LORD loves justice, and does not forsake His saints; they are preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

Ps 37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it forever.

Ps 37:38-39 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

39 But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their strength in the time of trouble.

John 17:15 "I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one".


“Famous” rapture versus

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13 Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

15 According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.


Amplified
1Th 4:17  Then we, the living ones who remain [on the earth], shall simultaneously be caught up along with [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with the Lord!


CEV
Next, all of us who are still alive will be taken up into the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the sky. From that time on we will all be with the Lord forever.


Youngs
..then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

Cloud here is cloudiness (nephele) and not cloud (nephos)

God brings with Jesus those who are asleep (already died) IN HIM. 
Where are we currently?  In HIM and in Heavenly places. (Ephesians 2:6).
Will we that are alive only then be with God or are we already with God?
(Ephesians 2:6) (Hosea 6:2) (1 Thess. 5:10)

He comes from heaven. Where are we?

Air is (aer) Unconscious breathing and not (ouranos) which means the elevated abode where birds fly.

Col 3:4  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

What trumpet call? See last trumpet call elsewhere

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

11 Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

“Awake or asleep, we may live together with Him“.
A current reality If they are asleep, awaiting resurrection, how can God bring them with Him when Jesus comes to raise them up? They must somehow already be raised up and be wherever God is.

John 14:1-11

1. “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.
2. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.

 The preparation is done and in the resurrection it is manifested

Col 1:21-22   And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:       

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

Where is my life now?

Col. 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

Col. 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”

5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”

9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.

1 Corinthians 15:51-54

51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but

52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. (See last trumpet) For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” (A victory attained at the cross of Jesus)

Luke 21:28-35

30 When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know that summer is near.

31 Even so, when you see these things happening, you know that the kingdom of God is near.

 35 For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth.

Revelation 3:11-13

11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

12 Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name.

13 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. 

Malachi 3:1-4

1 “See, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; (We are the temple) the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty.

2 But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears?  Ps. 24:3-4 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart…)

For he will be like a refiner’s fire or a launderer’s soap.

3 He will sit as a

4 refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness,

Again I need to emphasize that if even this little study leads to dissension, rather leave it at that and go make disciples of all nations.  You are the Bride and you are God’s master plan for this planet.

The Bride
I will show you the bride, Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

Revelation 21:21-27

21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.

22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.

24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendour into it.

25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.

26 The glory and honour of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Revelation 22:1-5

1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. (Nations in need of healing are still around)

3 No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him.

4 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

5 There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.


Ezekiel 47:12
12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”

Soli Deo Glori
(to God all the glory)

Stay Blessed.
Pst. Werner & Gina Horné.