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Truth of God - Who Was Jesus? (Second Half) By: Fred R. Coulter - February 15, 2020

2/20/2020

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Who Was Jesus? - Second Half
IF you’re not searching for the Truth,
the veil of blindness is going to come over you again!
Fred R. Coulter—February 15, 2020
*(First Half Video)
*(Second Half Video)
*(First Half Transcript)
I want to mention one thing about taking down the Church: I know this from a first person conversation with the man who brought the lawsuit against the Worldwide Church of God and threw it into a receivership. His name was Timmons, and he told me that Robert Kuhn advised them how to bring the lawsuit.
 
There was a lot of treachery and a lot of evil that was going on. I suspect, since Herbert Armstrong was over in Tucson at that time with congestive heart failure, that they figured that this would be such a shock to Herbert Armstrong that he would die. Well, he didn’t!
 
So, Rader had to be the savior of the lawsuit. If he didn’t, he would have been convicted by his own actions. So, he politically worked it out and got a law passed in the legislature in California that churches are not charitable institutions as a charity, but a non-profit organization as a church to serve the congregants. Therefore, it could not come under the law that applies to charities. So, Rader was stuck, he had to do it.
 
Let’s go on and see about this with Jesus in the Old Testament.
 
Deuteronomy 18:15: “The LORD your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, One like me. To Him you shall hearken,”
 
“The LORD your God…” has to refer to the Father. But that was not to the people in general. Who was in charge of the coming of Jesus Christ? God the Father! So, this isn’t saying that He’s speaking to the people.
 
Verse 16: “According to all that you desired of the LORD your God… [the One Who became Christ] …in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, so that I do not die.’ And the LORD said to me, ‘They have spoken well what they have spoken’” (vs 16-17).
 
In other words, they were well-intentioned, but they were wrong!
 
Verse 18: “I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, One like you, and will put My words in His mouth. And He shall speak to them all that I shall command Him.”
 
That was God the Father, but He was not the Lord God of the Old Testament! This had to refer to the One Who would become Christ!
 
·         Are They both called the Lord God? Yes!
·         Are They both part of Elohim? Yes!
·         Are They both God? Yes!
 
Verse 19: “And it shall come to pass, whatever man will not hearken to My words, which He shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.” Peter understood that this applied to Christ!
 
Acts 3:22: “For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you from among your brethren, like me; Him shall you hear in all things that He shall say to you. And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people’” (vs 22-23).
 
There it is, they knew it applied to Christ! How did they know that it applied to Christ? Because right after they came to them on that Ascension Day He showed His hands in side and His feet and asked for something to eat and they gave Him honey and fish! Then what did He do? He opened their minds to the Scriptures concerning Himself in the Law, Prophets and Psalms!
 
Where would He start? Perfect place, Deut. 18! They understood it!
 
John 8:12: “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the Light of the world; the one who follows Me shall never walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.’ Therefore, the Pharisees said to Him, ‘You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not true.’ Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going….” (vs 12-14). No human being could say that statement!
 
“…But you do not know where I come from and where I go You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. Yet, if I do judge, My judgment is true, for I am not alone; but I and the Father Who sent Me” (vs 14-16).
 
Why? Because He had the Holy Spirit! The Father was with Him and everything. Isn’t it interesting that Jesus did all of the speaking? When there was the voice out of the heavens that said, ‘This is My Son in Whom I have great delight.’ It was a voice! It didn’t say the Father said, just a voice!
 
When the three of them were on the Mt. of Transfiguration—James, Peter and John—and the voice said, ‘This is My Son in Whom I delight, listen to Him,’ it was a voice!
 
Jesus said in Acts 5, ‘You have neither heard His voice, nor seen His shape at any time.’
 
Verse 19: “Then they said to Him, ‘Where is Your Father?’ Jesus answered, ‘You know neither Me nor My Father. If you had known Me, you would also have known My Father.’ Jesus spoke these words in the treasury while teaching in the temple; but no one arrested Him because His time had not yet come. Then Jesus said to them again, ‘I am going away; and you shall seek Me, but you shall die in your sin. Where I am going, you are not able to come’” (vs 19-21). It’s impossible for you to come!
 
How did Paul reaffirm that? Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God or see the Kingdom of God! It’s impossible for you to come.
 
Verse 22: “Therefore, the Jews said, ‘Will He kill Himself? Is that why He says, “Where I am going, you are not able to come”?’”
 
Listen carefully, because this tells you absolutely for sure that before Jesus was a human being He was in heaven!
 
Verse 23: “And He said to them, ‘You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world…. [couldn’t be clearer] …That is why I said to you that you shall die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I AM… [‘ego emi’] …you shall die in your sins’” (vs 23-24).
 
He was telling them Who He was. Remember when Moses asked the Lord, ‘When the children of Israel say who sent you tell them I AM that I AM has sent Me.’
 
Are there many other names of God? Yes! But I AM means that He exists as a Spirit being.’ How did He come to this earth?
 
If you think that you’ve had to do something that is humiliating, or humbling, think on this. We’ve read Philp. 2 many times, but let’s go over it and look at for what it’s really telling us. We know that:
 
·         God has form and shape
·         we’re made in His image
·         Jesus came from above
 
How did He come?
 
Philippians 2:5: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus; Who, although He existed in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God” (vs 5-6)--meaning He was God! If you exist as God, you’re in the form of God!
 
Verse 7: “But emptied Himself…” What does that mean? He had to give up nearly all of His Divinity and be reduced down to a pinpoint of life to be impregnated into the womb of the virgin Mary!
 
That’s what He had to do to become a human being, Who was the Creator of human beings. He was the only One Who could be the sacrifice for the sins of human beings, because:
 
·         He was the One Who created them
·         He was the One Who judged them
·         He was the One Who gave them human nature and the law of sin and death
 
So, He “…emptied Himself…”! Exactly how that was done, we don’t know!
 
John 10:14: “I am the good Shepherd, and I know those who are Mine, and am known of those who are Mine. Just as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep…. [willingly; think about what He had to give up to do that] …And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring those also, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. On account of this, the Father loves Me: because I lay down My life, that I may receive it back again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down and authority to receive it back again. This commandment I received from My Father” (vs 14-18).
 
This also implies that there was a covenant between the One Who became the Father and the One Who became the Son. In giving up His spirit when He died, and it going back to God, God the Father promised that He would be raised from the dead and not see corruption. That was the covenant between Them.
 
Hebrews 10:7: “Then said I, “Lo, I come (as it is written of Me in the Scroll of the Book)…” This was written down!
 
Remember the Scripture that talks about the Scripture of Truth that’s in heaven? Dan. 10:21! So, this was written down.
 
“…to do Your will, O God” (v 7). Jesus said, ‘All right, I will do it, I will do Your will, and I will die, give up My life and lay it down, and You will give it back to Me, IF I fulfill everything!’
 
Verse 9: “Then He said, ‘Lo, I come to do Your will, O God.’ He takes away the first covenant in order that He may establish the second covenant; by Whose will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (vs 9-10).
 
Philippians 2:6: “Who, although He existed in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but emptied Himself, and was made in the likeness of men, and took the form of a servant… [Greek: ‘doulous’--slave] …and being found in the manner of man…” (vs 6-8). Think about this!
 
God Who lives forever, didn’t give up living forever--still had life in Him—but reduced very, very small, way down to near nothing. He “…emptied Himself…” That means He divested Himself of His power as God, and willingly became a pinpoint of life! He was subject to receiving the genes of Mary into His physical flesh, which is where He got His human nature, from His mother.
 
His mother was the niece of Elizabeth, and Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron, and she was the mother of John the Baptist. That means that Mary’s father had to be of the line of David, and Mary’s mother was of the line of Aaron. So, in that bloodline you have king and priest! What is Christ going to be? King and Priest! Even in the flesh He had to those genes that related to that.
 
He “…emptied Himself, and was made in the likeness of men…”--everything that human beings do! He had to eat, sleep, elimination of the processes of the body, perfectly human in every way. But He had to have the Spirit of God and use the Spirit of God constantly. That’s why He was taught every morning by the Father (Isa. 50).
 
·         He wasn’t taught by the lying rabbis
·         He wasn’t taught the traditions of the Jews
·         He was taught by the Father
 
So intelligent was He that when He was 12-years-old and stayed back after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, He was in the temple with all of the high ‘mucky-mucks’—the chief priests and all of them—questioning them and answering questions. They were amazed at His understanding at the age of 12. Why? Because the Father was the One Who taught Him! The Father woke Him up every morning!
 
I don’t know how it worked, but the closest thing that I can think of is that you have this smart phone or tablet and you can see someone on it, that He saw the Father. But He had to have human nature from his mother. Otherwise:
 
·         Why come and be perfect and could not sin?
·         What good would that do?
·         How would He overcome sin? Condemn it in the flesh!
 
“…He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God has also highly exalted Him and bestowed upon Him a name, which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow took the form of a servant, of beings in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father” (vs 8-11).
 
Hebrews 5:5: “In this same manner also, Christ did not glorify Himself to become a High Priest…” He could not be a High Priest in the flesh; that was of the house of Aaron!
 
“…but He Who said to Him, ‘You are My Son; today I have begotten You.’ Even as He also says in another place, ‘You are a Priest forever according to the order of Melchisedec’” (vs 5-6).
 
But that’s not going to be re-instituted until Christ returns. In a sense, the New Testament ministry is under the Priesthood of Christ, but we’re not priests.
 
Verse 7: “Who, in the days of His flesh, offered up both prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was able to save Him from death…”
 
If He would have sinned, He would have died for His own sin. So, He had all of humanity on His person, being made in the flesh.
 
“…and was heard because He feared God. Although He was a Son, yet, He learned obedience from the things that He suffered; and having been perfected… [by never sinning, and overcoming] …He became the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him” (vs 7-9)
 
All of these things are necessary to understand precisely what God did. What a tremendous thing that it is. This is important in coming to the Passover.
 
Rom. 7 talks about that as long as you have the law of sin and death in you, you’re still going to sin and you’re going to expire and die in Adam. The only ones not subject to that will be the few who are still alive when Christ actually returns.
 
Romans 8:1: “Consequently, there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
 
How do you walk when you find that you sin when you have the spirit of God? The Spirit of God brings to your mind that sin, so you can repent! When you repent there’s no condemnation, because you’re walking in the Spirit! That means that you’re leading your life according the leading of the Holy Spirit of God!
 
Verse 2: “Because the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has delivered me from the law of sin and death.”
 
The King James says ‘freed me.’ That means it would have to have been cut out of your genes in order to be free from it. Delivered is from the point of view that with the Spirit of God you can overcome sin by the exercising of the Spirit of God, repenting, living God’s way and keeping His commandments! That’s why we have the commandments of God written in our heart and mind!
 
Why? Because why you have in your mind is how you think and live! This is what needs to be converted; this is the whole thing of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: get out the sin and put in the righteousness of Christ! This is what it’s talking about.
 
Verse 3: “For what was impossible for the Law to do…”
 
Remember that the Law… we have it written, abbreviated, and hanging on the wall. If someone walks in here and is thinking lustful thoughts, that plaque doesn’t come off the wall and knock them on the head and tell him he’s sinning. The Law has no power to make you do anything!
 
You look at society and how many criminals are there? How many laws are there against everything that they’re doing? But they still do it!
 
“…in that it was weak through the flesh, God having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh… [the same sinful flesh that we have; that’s how great it was for Christ] …and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh” (v 3).
 
That had to be! That had to be done! And that was done with His perfect sacrifice! Here’s the result of it once we receive the Holy Spirit:
 
Verse 4: “In order that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us… [I wonder how many Protestants read that] …who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.”
 
This is what Jesus had to do. It wasn’t just a simple, little operation that was easy to do. He had to pray, put down temptation. Satan was after Him and people were after Him. Even His disciples didn’t believe. He had to say, ‘O hard of heart, when will you believe?’ This is what He had to go through!
 
How anyone can say that Jesus was not the Lord God of the Old Testament before He came Jesus Christ of the New Testament, really doesn’t believe the Bible!
 
·         What happens when you have that?
·         When you begin making doctrine by not believing the Bible and claim that it comes from the Bible?
 
You’re bringing the veil back over your eyes! That’s exactly what it will do! We always have to be on guard against false doctrine! It’s something!
 
Acts 20—this is what we all need to do, and what all elders need to do especially. We have been given the responsibility to remain faithful:
 
·         to Christ
·         to God the Father
·         to the Word of God
 
and not have our own will! That doesn’t mean that we’re ‘namby-pamby’! We need to stay strong for the Lord!
 
Paul was going to Jerusalem and they knew that he was headed for trouble, so he called for the elders in Ephesus.
 
Acts 20:17: “Now, from Miletus, he sent to Ephesus and called for the elders of the Church…. [they had a huge church there] …And when they had come to him, he said to them, ‘You know how, from the first day I came to Asia, and all the time I was with you, I served the Lord with all humility and with many tears and temptations, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews; and how I did not keep back anything that was profitable, but preached to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house, earnestly testifying, both to the Jews and the Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ’” (vs 17-21)--just a summary of the Gospel!
 
After Paul was converted, he had to suffer a lot because of what he did to the Church before he was converted. That’s what God told him, and he did! He always remembered where he came from and what he needed to do.
 
Verse 22: “And now behold, I am bound in the spirit, and am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall happen to me there; except that the Holy Spirit fully testifies in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me…. [and that’s exactly what happened] …But I myself do not take any of these things into account, nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify the Gospel of the Grace of God” (vs 22-24). So, there are two aspects of the Gospel:

  1. the Gospel of the Grace of God
  2. the Gospel of the Kingdom of God
 
And Paul mentions both of them here!
 
Verse 25: “And now behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone about proclaiming the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more; wherefore, I testify to you on this day… [this was quite a day] …that I am pure from the blood of all, for I have not held back from preaching to you all the counsel of God” (vs 25-27).
 
Notice this warning, because we see how this happens. When people look to a man, follow a man and have good conduct—because they see the man has good conduct—when the man is removed, what happens? Look what happened to the Church, because they didn’t do:
 
Verse 28: “Take heed, therefore, to yourselves…” Everyone who is a teacher has got to:
 
·         take heed to himself
·         to the doctrine
·         to the Word of God
·         to the condition of the flock
·         to the things that he goes through
 
That he does not start establishing super-spiritual things that don’t come from the Bible! That don’t come from the Word of God!
 
“…and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers…” (v 28).
 
You’re overseeing the Truth of God for the flock of God! You’re not an overlord to rule them! If you don’t teach the brethren to rule their own lives, your rule can’t substitute for them! That’s what happened with too many ministers and elders. Then when there was no one there to supervise them, they didn’t let the Holy Spirit of God and the Word of God—through study and prayer—supervise them into doing the Truth!
 
So, you end up with all of this nonsense that goes on! No wonder Jesus said that when He comes ‘will the Son of man find true faith in the earth?’ even in the Churches of God! Paul warned them!
 
“…to feed the Church of God, which He purchased with His own blood” (v 28).
 
All the brethren belong to Christ, and we are only stewards to teach them the Word of God! That’s what it is.
 
·         we have no authority to rule over them
·         we have no authority to live their lives
 
We need to teach them to live their lives under Christ and before God independently with the Spirit of God. When we all come together, then we’re all brethren together! God will take care of it!
 
Verse 29: “For I know this: that after my departure grievous wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves… [looking them right in the eye] …men will rise up speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after themselves” (vs 29-30).
 
We have seen that happen! We’re again looking at the possibility that it’s going to happen.
 
Verse 31: “Watch, therefore, remembering… [we’re remembering] …that for three years I ceased not to admonish each one night and day with tears. And now I commit you, brethren, to God and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified” (vs 31-32).
 
That brings us full circle back to the ministers and what needs to be done. I hope that they don’t go down this course, but I suspect that it’s too late. I suspect that when they have elders who receive paychecks, that if they don’t go along with the hierarchy that they will lose their paychecks, and at their age they don’t know what to do or where to go.
 
When you stand for the Truth alone, it does get lonely! It’s gets desperate and you don’t know where anything is coming from, and you’re going to have to trust God!
Scriptural References From A New English Translation (A Faithful Version)
 
1)      John 1:1-3, 14
2)      Romans 5:12
3)      John 8:41-58
4)      2 Corinthians 3:5-17
5)      Proverbs 30:5-6
6)      Deuteronomy 18:15-19
7)      Acts 3:22-23
8)      John 8:12-16, 19-24
9)      Philippians 2:5-7
10)  John 10:14-18
11)  Hebrews 10:7, 9
12)  Philippians 2:6-11
13)  Hebrews 5:5-9
14)  Romans 8:1-4
15)  Acts 20:17-32
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
 
·         Genesis 1:1
·         Ezekiel 36
·         Romans 7
·         Genesis 3
·         Exodus 21-23
·         Ephesians 6
·         John 20
·         Acts 5
·         Daniel 10:21
·         Isaiah 50
 
Also referenced:
 
 
Transcript Books and CDs:
·         The Nature of God (study pkg. #6)
·         God the Father was Not the God of the Old Testament
·         Who Is Jesus?
 
Book: A Harmony of the Gospels by Fred R. Coulter
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Who Was Jesus? (First Half) By: Fred R. Coulter - February 15, 2020

2/19/2020

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​Who Was Jesus? - First Half
IF you’re not searching for the Truth,
the veil of blindness is going to come over you again!
Fred R. Coulter—February 15, 2020
*(First Half Video)
*(Second Half Video)
*(Second Half Transcript) 

Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Sabbath services!
 
Remember what Jesus said about when the Son of man comes? Shall the Son of man find the true faith on the earth!
 
It just came to my attention via the Internet that one of the larger Churches of God—United Church of God—is going to downgrade that Christ was the Lord God of the Old Testament.
 
That’s why it’s so important that we understand doctrines, which are teachings. Teachings are necessary so that we can understand the Word of God.
 
We’ve seen what has happened in the Churches of God whenever they want to change doctrine, they always go after the nature of God, both the Father and Christ. They always do! How can you say that Jesus was not the God of the Old Testament before He became Jesus Christ of the New Testament? When you read these first verses in John?
 
John 1:1: “In the beginning… [going clear back to Gen. 1:1] …was the Word… [‘ho Logos’] …and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
 
That’s a plain statement in Greek. It can’t be manipulated one way or the other. That is it! You can’t say that He was not God, you can’t say that He was entirely man.
 
Verse 2: “He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him” (vs 2-3).
 
You take all of the scientist trying to figure out how they can create life. What do they deal with? They deal with what has already been created! They can’t come to the knowledge of it—even if they do--without Christ!
 
You can’t get away from God! It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are or what you do, whether you believe or don’t believe, whatever!
 
Verse 14—another plain statement: “And the Word became flesh…”
 
The question is, have they already changed, or are they in the process of discussing it to change it? The latter! But it’s up to the Council of Elders to vote on it. How can you vote on what is a doctrine that’s contrary to what is Truth? How can you do that?
 
They’re probably going to say that He was exceptional and begotten by the Father and that’s when He came into being. We’ll have to wait and see, because there are probably many different ways that they will approach this.
 
Verse 14: “And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we ourselves beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten with the Father), full of grace and truth.”
 
There are many other Scriptures, so I want to do a little advertising; We have a lot of information for you:
 
These studies go verse by verse in the Bible to show you Who God is:
 
·         The Nature of God (Study Pkg. #6)

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·         God the Father was Not the God of the Old Testament—that is the God Who dealt with Israel and Who dealt with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
 
The One Who created man was the One Who had to be the sacrifice for man! Have to be! Why? When man and woman were created they were perfect physically, but not in knowledge! We don’t know how long that they had with God in the Garden of Eden, but God certainly gave them plenty of knowledge and information, because God does not bring on the adversary unless you know what the Truth is! We don’t know how long it was. But He made them, and when they sinned:
 
·         What did God do? He judged them!
·         What was the judgment? Their nature was changed! That’s what it was!
·         How did we get a sinful nature?
 
Read in Ezek. 36 that when He brings Israel back from captivity at the end, what is going to happen? He’s going to give them a heart of flesh! So, He’s the One Who pronounced the judgment against Adam and Eve. Both would have sorrow:
 
Women with children and child rearing. It says childbirth, but that means with your children through your whole life. That’s the way it is with women, because it doesn’t matter with women. It’s doesn’t matter if their children are grown, they still think of them as babies. That’s just natural.
 
Man would have sorrow working, because there would be thorns and thistles. So, apparently in the Garden of Eden there weren’t any weeds.
 
Romans 5:12: “Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world…”
 
Eve ate first! But Adam could have stopped her. And Eve knew that she shouldn’t touch it, because she says, ‘God has said we shall not touch it.’ That wasn’t her adding something extra, as some people say, that is additional teaching that they got from God.
 
“…by one man…” What was Adam’s sin? Not believing God, not obeying the voice of God, ‘because you listened to the voice of your wife’--or the woman. This tells us that when someone comes along to lead us in sin, we are responsible not to go along with it!
 
What was it that they had from God? Everything direct out of His mouth! He put them in the Garden of Eden and commanded Adam to dress it and to keep it, which also means to guard it!
 
So, they sinned! The judgment came upon them and the environment was changed, their nature was changed so that they had sin internal within them! A sinful nature! That’s called ‘the law of sin and death’ (Rom. 7).
 
“…and by means of sin came death… [as in Adam, we all die] …and in this way death passed into all mankind…” (v 12).
 
How does death pass into all mankind? Genetically! There us a death gene, and that can be activated whenever, if the circumstances work out. Even infants die if they get in a position that they can’t get off their belly and can’t breath--called crib death. They have done no sin, but the mother should have been watching so that wouldn’t have happened. Or you can live to be over a hundred; back then they could go hundreds of years.
 
But sin entered into the world “…and in this way death passed into all mankind and it is for this reason that all have sinned” (v 12).
 
The one who judged and gave the judgment that would be transmitted to all human beings from that time forward, which was the Lord God of the Old Testament. Only He, by the fact that He created human beings and gave that judgment to them, had to come as a human being, take within Him the law of sin and death that He gave to other human beings, and not sin so that His sacrifice by His death would cover every human being past, present and future.
 
All human beings come about by pro-creation, which began with Adam and Eve. Could you say that when He passed judgment on Adam and Eve, did He pass judgment on Himself? Yes, He did! What was given in Gen. 3 of the Messiah and His crucifixion? Right there in the Garden of Eden! So, it had to be.
 
The judgment on Satan was not finalized until Christ was sacrificed.
 
John 8 where the war of words between the religious authorities and Jesus.
 
John 8:41—Jesus said: “You are doing the works of your father.’ Then they said to Him, ‘We have not been born of fornication…. [the whole rumor of Jesus went everywhere] …We have one Father, and that is God.’”
 
Notice that not everyone who says that they have God as their Father really have God as their Father. It’s not what you profess, it’s what you believe that God has said, and that is what you profess.
 
Verse 42: “Therefore, Jesus said to them, ‘If God were your Father, you would love Me…’”
 
That also tells you that God the Father was not the God of the Old Testament, because they were working off the O.T.
 
“…because I proceeded forth and came from God. For I have not come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why don’t you understand My speech? Because you cannot bear to hear My words” (vs 42-43).
 
Why? Because their minds were blocked by Satan the devil because of their sins! Whenever people living in sin—and correction comes along, and they don’t want to give up their sin—they won’t believe the Truth even if it’s spoken to them.
 
Verse 44: “You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to practice. He was a murderer from the beginning… [he inspired the murder of Abel] …and has not stood in the Truth because there is no Truth in him….”
 
We can add here any Truth that he starts out with, he perverts and twists into something that is not true! That’s how a lot of false doctrine gets started.
 
“…Whenever he speaks a lie, he is speaking from his own self; for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I speak the Truth, you do not believe Me. Which one of you can convict Me of sin? But if I speak the Truth, why don’t you believe Me? The one who is of God hears the words of God. For this reason you do not hear, because you are not of God” (vs 44-47). They were the ones who thought they were of God!
 
What happens when you think you are of God and then you begin to entertain false doctrine? Sooner or later your mind is going to be closed!
 
Verse 48: “Then the Jews answered and said to Him, ‘Are we not right in saying that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?’” You accuse without knowledge!
 
Verse 49: “Jesus answered, ‘I do not have a demon. But I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. Yet, I do not seek My own glory; there is One Who seeks and judges. Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps My words, he shall not see death forever’” (vs 49-51).
 
That’s an interesting statement; it doesn’t days that He won’t die. “…shall not see death forever”--the resurrection! “…if anyone keeps My words…”
 
Do we have all the words of Jesus that God wants us to have? Yes, we do!
 
Verse 52: “Then the Jews said to Him, ‘Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham and the prophets died; yet, You say, “If anyone keeps My words, he shall not taste of death forever.”’”
 
What do they always do? They always misconstrue what is said!
 
Verse 53: “‘Are You greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets, who died? Who do You make Yourself to be?’ Jesus answered, ‘If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father Who glorifies Me, of Whom you say that He is your God. Yet, you have not known Him; but I know Him. And if I say that I do not know Him, I shall be a liar, like you. But I know Him, and I keep His Word. Abraham your father was overjoyed to see My day; and he saw it, and rejoiced’” (vs 53-56).
 
Verse 57: “Then the Jews said to Him, ‘You are not even fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM’” (vs 57-58)—Greek: ‘ego emi’! that’s the name of God! He told them plainly, ‘I was God’!
 
How are you going to get over that statement?
 
Note Transcript Book and CD: Who Is Jesus? All of these things that we’ve done through the years, because of all the false doctrines that come around, so you need to write for these things and get them so you’re not going to get caught into the trap that if something that is presented is logical, that it means that it’s truth. All logic sound logical, but all logic is not truth!
 
A question came up about the veil that covered the eyes. What’s going to happen is if people insist on accepting false doctrine—and that becomes official doctrine and teaching—could it be that it will undoubtedly will happen that the veil will come over again! It is a spiritual blindness! That’s what the veil actually is. Though you look at the facts directly, you don’t believe it.
 
2-Corinthians 3:5: “Not that we are competent of ourselves, or credit anything to our own abilities: rather, our competency is from God.”
 
This is what has to be with every minister and teacher. You don’t do what comes into your mind just because you think it is good. It must be from the Word of God and from God, and with His Spirit.
 
Verse 6: “Who also made us competent as ministers of the New Covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
 
Here’s the difference between the New Covenant and the covenant with Israel. Israel was a physical nation. God gave—at the time after the Flood—to Noah and all of his descendants when they formed the nations, that they had civil laws with the death penalty. So, different nations have civil laws, many of them similar and many different.
 
When God formed Israel and brought them to Mt. Sinai, they were a nation and they were going to have geographical territory in which they had to have what we call civil laws and that was the death penalty.
 
There are various different punishments and sacrifices for sin for a people who did not have the Holy Spirit. They were authorized to take a life for a life. They were authorized to have the judges make a person pay because of a certain offense.
 
For the thief he had repay sometimes four times, sometimes five times, in order to make restitution. You can read those in Exo. 21-23 and also in Deut. That’s the administration of death!
 
They did not have the Holy Spirit of God because Christ had not yet come. God only gave to the Holy Spirit to the patriarchs and a few of the kings and the prophets, that’s it!
 
This is what we’re talking about here. “…the Spirit gives life.” Why? Because rather than be executed, you can repent! That repentance has to be to God because you’ve transgressed His Laws. This is greater than the civil government, and it was necessary that the Church did not have the death penalty given to it to exercise against its members who transgressed, because the Church went into all nations of the world. All of these nations have their various civil laws!
 
You cannot have two sovereigns within one geographical territory. The sovereign government is the civil government.
 
Now, here comes Islam. They have the death penalty. What’s the problem they create when they are in another country when they take their death penalty and execute it in another country, which then is against the law of that country they are living in?
 
You can’t have two sovereigns! That’s why that was taken from the Church.
 
Verse 7: “Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in stones, came into being with glory, so that the children of Israel were not able to gaze upon Moses’ face because of the glory of his face, which glory is being set aside… [the glory of the Old Testament] …shall not the ministry of the Spirit be far more glorious? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, to a much greater degree the ministry of righteousness overflows with glory. And even the ministry of condemnation, which had glory, was not glorious in this respect, because of the surpassing glory of the ministry of life” (vs 7-10).
 
·         Who is a chief example of that? Paul!
·         What did he do before he was converted? He was carrying out the civil authority and religious authority of the Sanhedrin to take those who believed and imprison them, chain them and cause them to be put to death!
·         What did God do with him when he was converted? He said, ‘Saul, look what you’ve done, I’ve got a hangman’s noose out here for you and we’re going to kill you.’ NO!
 
God gave him repentance! And Paul never forgot that.
 
Repentance with forgiveness is greater than sentencing, and carrying out a sentence against people because of sin!
 
So, this civil penalty and civil laws that were in the Old Testament were set aside! In the Millennium they’ll be re-instituted because the Kingdom of God is going to be over the whole world. But that will be rarely used.
 
Verse 11: “For if that which is being set aside came into being through glory, to a much greater degree that which remains is glorious. Now then, because we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech; for we are not like Moses, who put a veil over his face, so that the children of Israel could not gaze to the end upon the glory that is now being set aside” (vs 11-13).
 
When Moses up there the second 40 days, he absorbed so much Spirit of God that his face shined! So, in order to not scare the children of Israel he put a veil on his face until that glory subsided.
 
Verse 14: “But their minds were blinded… [that’s the veil] …for to the present hour the same veil has not been removed, but remains at the reading of the Old Covenant; which veil is removed in Christ.”
 
·         How many people today still have the veil?
·         Do all the Protestants still have the veil? Yes! When they read the Old Testament and read the laws, they say that they’re all done away!
 
Watch some of the latest Church At Home segments {churchathome.org} and Randy has clips in there about those ministers who say that the Law is done away. They show the law, the tablets of stone, just disintegrating and there’s nothing left. That’s what the carnal mind wants:
 
Don’t tell me I’m sinning, I don’t want to know a thing about sin. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’ll be able to handle it.
 
Well, most of the time they can’t! But that’s how they think!
 
Verse 14: “But their minds were blinded; for to the present hour the same veil has not been removed, but remains at the reading of the Old Covenant; which veil is removed in Christ.”
 
You understand the laws and commandments of God! You’re not looking for a way around them. Jesus said, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word of God!’ Therefore, we understand the Ten Commandments and the spiritual ramifications of them. That’s what it’s all about.
 
The same thing applies doctrinally. IF we go back and start putting the veil over our eyes—because we have a doctrine our a belief that is contrary to what is revealed in the Word of God, and we insist that it comes from God--what happens? BOOM! The veil comes back again! It’s automatic!
 
Verse 15: “For to this day, when Moses is read, the veil lies upon their hearts. But when their hearts turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now, the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (vs 15-17).
 
When did the veil come upon them? When they heard the Ten Commandments and they said, ‘Moses, you speak to God and we’ll do what you tell us to do, but don’t let God talk to us!’ That’s when it came! That’s automatic with a carnal nature. How many people know that you:
 
·         shouldn’t lie?
·         shouldn’t steal?
·         shouldn’t commit adultery?
·         shouldn’t sell drugs?
·         shouldn’t take drugs?
·         shouldn’t prostitute
·         shouldn’t cheat your neighbor?
 
They all know, but with the veil they see only a benefit to themselves, that if they do it, they will gain an advantage! That’s why they do it!
 
When you have the Truth of God, know about it, we’ve seen this, and I want you think on this deeply:
 
From the days of Christ all the way down to this day, the Jews reject Jesus Christ, except a few of the Messianics and even they do not understand everything, just some things. But the Jew’s purpose is to take down any group that tries to keep the laws and commandments of God. They believe—especially with the Sabbath and Holy Days--are only for them!
 
Who are the two main individuals, with other accomplices, in WCG that took it down?
 
1.       Robert Kuhn! A Jew, from the Kuhn-Lowe Banking family! Why would he come to Ambassador College and be a flunky wiping oil off the floor of the printing press building? He came so that he could be recognized and lifted up! Who did that? Garner Ted Armstrong! Kuhn became Armstrong’s alter-ego and controlled him!
 
2.       Stanley Rader! He came in early and held his peace, kept his position until the death of Loma Armstrong. Then he moved to totally control Herbert Armstrong.
 
I know from first hand testimony that Kuhn and Rader talked on the phone nearly every night for extended periods of time.
 
·         Why would they do that?
·         What were they talking about?
 
The ultimate goal was to take down the Worldwide Church of God. You don’t do it all at once! You create confusion, and bring your lieutenants in and get them in positions of authority. Then you pull the master plug and what was that? In 1976, and I’ve got the paper right here:
 
Ministerial Conference, 1976: Passover and the Bible in the Church Today by Lester Grabbe and Robert Kuhn
 
Robert Kuhn wrote most of this! Lester Grabbe was a lieutenant of Robert Kuhn. What do you do? You attack the most fundamental doctrine in the Church and create doubt, suspicion and fear, and claim that the Jews 15th Passover is the correct date! This is the paper that they wrote.
 
This is what you need. Why is that important? I had published A Harmony of the Gospels 1st edition and the 2nd edition was on its way. I said in there that ‘if we come to any knowledge concerning the Passover I’ll be sure and let you know.’
 
They stirred up a great storm and to this day it still has its effects. That 40-page paper is filled with lies and contradiction! But when you dumb people down and have ‘good time Joe’ all the time, then when the crisis comes, no one is equipped to answer it!
 
So, I had a problem. We had just moved into our house and I had my office in a little bedroom on the backside of the house. I had to find out the truth. We had this conference, and you’d be surprised at all the ministers that fell for the 15th Passover.
 
How are you going to find the Truth? In the Bible! It all had to do with:
 
·         When was evening?
·         When was between the evenings?
·         When did a day start?
·         When did a day end?
·         What did they actually do in the Old Testament?
 
I said this proposition to myself: If you cannot find in the Bible the absolute proof of the 14th, the absolute proof of ‘ben ha arbayim’ and the 14th, then the Jews are right.
 
Of course, the Jews claim they’re right! In one sense they are. When they’re not in the land of Israel, they cannot keep the Passover. So, that’s how they ended up with eight days of Passover with the Seder meal, which should have been the Night to Be Much Observed.
 
So, it took a while to find it and research it. When these doctrinal differences come up, you have got to get into the Scriptures and you have got to prove these things from the Word of God!
 
You can’t take something because it sounds logical and people would like to do it—I’ll add in a new addition:
 
There’s the Rock Valley Church down in So. California, and they meet on Ascension Day on Sunday to celebrate the ascension of Christ into heaven. I dare you to show me any place in the New Testament that commands that! You can’t find it!
 
This has to be guide in everything that you do doctrinally; Proverbs 30:5: “Every Word of God is pure…”
 
·         What do we have? The Truth of God! Every word!
·         Who inspired to give it to us? God did!
 
“…He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him” (v 5). If you don’t put your trust in Him, you have no shield!
 
What does Eph. 6 say about the forces of evil against us, and Satan against us?
 
Verse 6: “Do not…” IF you have a veil over your face, you don’t understand that:
 
do not commit adultery do not steal do not murder  
“…add to His words, lest He correct you and you be found a liar” (v 6).
 
How is God going to correct you? Very simple, if you’re not searching for the Truth, the blindness is going to come over you again!
 
It’s a correction that they won’t even know, because they think that what they’re doing is good. Let’s apply this to the Ascension Day.
 
·         Where were the apostles? They were locked up in a room for fear of the Jews (John 20)!
·         Why were they afraid of the Jews? Because the soldiers were told to say that the disciples stole the body!
 
They were afraid of being arrested by the authorities!
 
·         What were the rest of the disciples doing? They were working!
 
The women were coming down with the Aramaics to anoint His body even more. There was no meeting. You find no meeting later in the New Testament.
 
Why? Because the Ascension Day was between God the Father and Jesus Christ! That’s Their day!
 
We need to preach and teach about it. But to say let’s all gather together and we’ll have an official meeting here on Ascension Day… Guess what day that is this year? Easter!
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Galatians Series #2 (Second Half) - By Works of Law Shall No Flesh Be Justified, by Fred Coulter.

2/11/2020

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Galatians Series  II (Second Half)
By Works of Law Shall No Flesh Be Justified
(Galatians 2)
Fred R. Coulter—February 8, 2020
*(Second Half of Video)
*(First Half of Video)
*(Transcript First Half)
​Rom. 10:4 is one that ‘Christians’ of this world use over and over again, because it says in the KJV that Christ is the end of the Law. That’s what it says!
 
However, the Greek translation says that Christ is the end of law. What does that mean?
 
Romans 10:4: “For Christ is the end of works of law…”
 
Romans 9:30: “What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not follow after righteousness, have attained righteousness, even the righteousness that is by faith.”
 
This righteousness is right standing with God through repentance and baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit.
 
Verse 31: “But Israel… [includes the Jews] …although they followed after a law of righteousness…” The KJV says “…the law of righteousness.” That’s incorrect! There’s no definite article in the Greek! This is where the King James Version messes people up all the time. They insert the definite article when it is not there.
 
If you insert any word that is not in the Greek, it must be in italic. That way the reader knows that it’s not in the original and we will see that that is also proper for clarification, which is the meaning of Rom. 10:4.
 
Verse 32: “Why?…. [did they not attain to a law of righteousness?] …Because they did not seek it by faith, but by works of law…”
 
The KJV says, “…the works of the law…” But that’s not true! The Greek is: “…by works of law…
 
That’s very important, because that means the traditional laws of Judaism!
 
“…for they stumbled at the Stone of Stumbling, exactly as it is written: ‘Behold, I place in Sion a Stone of Stumbling and a Rock of offense, but everyone who believes in Him shall not be ashamed’” (vs 32-33).
 
Romans 10:1: “Brethren, the earnest desire of my heart and my supplication to God for Israel is for salvation. For I testify of them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge” (vs 1-2).
 
That is not according to the knowledge of God, but according to their own traditions!
 
Verse 3: “For they, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness… [through their works; this is their oral law] …have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”
 
·         What happens with the oral law?
·         What did Jesus say?
 
Mark 7 will help us to understand what Paul is talking about with justification and so forth.
 
Mark 7:6: “And He answered and said to them…”--the scribes and Pharisees:
 
Verse 5: “For this reason, the Pharisees and the scribes questioned Him, saying, ‘Why don’t Your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?’”
 
Verse 6: “…‘Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, “This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from Me.”’”
 
So, if you have an oral tradition and claim that it’s as good as God’s, you’re trying to establish a righteousness that is equal to God and you can’t do that! Nothing that a man can do would be equal to what God has said that we are to do.
 
Verse 7: “‘But in vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men.’ For leaving the commandment of God, you hold fast the tradition of men…”
 
·         Isn’t that the way that it is?
·         What does that do for the Jews even to this day?
 
Listen carefully to how they explain everything. You can start with
 
·         the Holocaust
·         the destruction of the temple in 70A.D.
·         the Roman invasion leading up to that and later in 135A.D.
 
§  Why did all of these things come upon them?
§  Why did it come from God?
 
Remember the parable of the wedding feast! The word went out that everything is ready. They sent out the messengers to invite them and come. This one had this to do and another had that to do and they didn’t come. They sent out to get more to come to the wedding feast.
 
Those who were invited did not come. So, finally the result of it was that those who did not come, God was going to destroy their city. In that parable, it was a prophecy of the coming destruction of Jerusalem and the temple.
 
·         How often do you hear the Jews say, ‘We’ve been scattered abroad in the world because of our sins’? Never!  It’s always ‘the enemy coming to get us’!
·         Why is the enemy coming to get them? Because of their traditions!
 
What’s one of the worst sins that anybody can do, Jew or Gentile? Reject Christ! It’s the same way today. They’re going to fight off all of their enemies, they’re going to build their temple and it’s going to bring the world peace. NO! It’s going to bring the worst catastrophe in the world!
 
Verse 8: “For leaving the commandment of God, you hold fast the tradition of men…”--the righteousness of works that’s talked about in Rom. 9!
 
Verse 9: “Then He said to them, ‘Full well do you reject the commandment of God, so that you may observe your own tradition. For Moses said…’” (vs 9-10). So, they’re rejecting Moses while claiming Moses!
 
What’s a counterpart of that today? Catholicism and Christianity claiming Christ, but are rejecting Christ! Exactly the same thing! It begins with Sunday-keeping, which is a Roman institution. Cardinal Gibbon wrote about that in Rome’s Challenge to the Protestants, his diatribe against the Protestants.
 
Verse 10: “For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘If a man shall say to his father or mother, “Whatever benefit you might receive from me is corban”’…” (vs 10-11).
 
In other words, I’m not going to take care of you, but I’m going to dedicate it to the temple, because I’ll get a blessing for dedicating it to the temple. Yes, and all the rabbis will say, ‘Look, that was a wonderful gift that you gave.
 
“…(that is, set aside as a gift to God), ‘he is not obligated to help his parents’” (v 11). Isn’t that the way the traditions of the Jews are?
 
Have you ever read what the Jew is to do in the morning when he gets up? He is immediately to wash his hands! He is to take and hold the pitcher of water in his left hand and pour it on his right hand, and alternate it three times. He must do this before he even goes to where he needs to go when he gets up in the morning.
 
I’m going to have to get Code of Jewish Law and read some of those. {Note book: Judaism: Revelation of Moses, or Religion of Men? by Philip Neal} There are many of the Jewish laws written there. There are many such things. There are special prayers when you see something:
 
·         if you see a midget
·         if you see a giant
·         if you see a giraffe
 
Everything like that!
 
They also have two sets of plates, because they are not to mix meat and milk products together. So, they have a set of dishes that they eat things that have meat and a set for the things that have milk.
 
They also have a law that if you have a Gentile who is a servant, and he works in the kitchen, that if a Jew watches the Gentile make the bread—because Gentile hands are supposed to be so unclean—then it’s permissible to eat as ‘common’ food. But it cannot be used for making unleavened bread for ‘Pascha’ because it’s unclean. If a Jew is not there to supervise it, the bread is unclean.
 
Well, that’s not a Law of God! Christ said that they have many such things to do. That is a law of righteousness that’s contrary to the Laws of God!
 
Remember that every time that one of these laws was kept, that was a work of law. They have many works of law.
 
Romans 10:3: “For they… [the Jews] …being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of works of law for righteousness…” (vs 3-4). Not the end of all law forever! How do we know that that is not true?
 
Hebrews 10:16: “…I will give My Laws into their hearts, and I will inscribe them in their minds.”
 
Is that doing away with law? No! That’s making it permanently inscribed in your mind, so that’s how you automatically live your life! Not an exterior law of righteousness; Christ ends all of that! Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhism, Mohammadism, Hinduism; they all have their works of law. Christ is the end of that!
 
Romans 10:4: “For Christ is the end of works of law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses wrote concerning the righteousness that comes through the Law, ‘The man who has practiced those things shall live by them’” (vs 4-5)--that’s the letter of the Law! That’s what they should have done, but they weren’t following Moses.
 
Verse 6: “But the righteousness that comes through faith speaks after this manner: ‘Do not say in your heart, “Who shall ascend up to heaven?”’….” Then he brings out about believing and faith after that!
 
I mentioned last time about Peter going to Cornelius’ house. When he first met Cornelius he said, ‘You know that it’s an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to keep company with a Gentile.’ They could not even go in. ‘But God has shown to me that I should call no man common or unclean!’
 
Think about this: None of the Italians were circumcised. God sent Peter there because God wanted him to understand that He was calling Gentiles, and going to give the Holy Spirit to them without circumcision of the flesh. This was a revolutionary thing. So, Peter having done this, knew exactly what God wanted.
 
When we come to Acts 15 and the conference that they had there, Peter said, ‘You know that God, at first, had me go to the Gentiles.’ That was to Cornelius. Look what happens when different ones come, because Peter had a streak of politics in him.
 
Galatians 2:12: “For, before certain ones came from James…”--the brother of the Lord and was in charge of things in Jerusalem!
 
As long as the temple was standing, it was perfectly all right to pay a vow, or make a vow. But they were telling those in Jerusalem that Paul out with the Gentiles is saying ‘don’t circumcise your children, don’t do any of these things.’ But that’s not what was happening!
 
Verse 11: “But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to his face because he was to be condemned.”
 
How important is Truth and doctrine? Very important! I had a man tell me to take him off our mailing list because he didn’t ‘like the way I bash those other ministers of God with their different doctrines.’
 
·         What did Paul do to Peter and preserve it in the Bible?
·         How important is doctrine? Very important!
 
Verse 12: “For, before certain ones came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles. However, when they came, he drew back and separated himself from the Gentiles, being afraid of those of the circumcision party.” He didn’t want James to get a bad report!
 
Verse 13: “And the rest of the Jews joined him in this hypocritical act, insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy…. [publicly] …But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the Truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in the presence of them all, ‘If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles,,, [eating with the Gentiles, mingling among them without any traditional laws to separate themselves] …and not according to Judaism… [that’s what Judaism is] …why do you compel the Gentiles to Judaize?”
 
In other words, make them separate from the rest of the Jews.
 
Verse 15: “We who are Jews by nature—and not sinners of the Gentiles—knowing that a man is not justified by works of law…” (vs 15-16).
 
The King James has the works of the law, which is false! Is there a work of a Law of God that says that you shall not eat with a Gentile? NO! That’s a work of law of Judaism! They were seeking their own righteousness through it.
 
·         the separation was hard
·         the separation was difficult
 
Verse 14: “But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the Truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in the presence of them all, ‘If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not according to Judaism, why do you compel the Gentiles to Judaize? We who are Jews by nature—and not sinners of the Gentiles—knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, but through the faith of Jesus Christ…’” (vs 14-16).
 
Your standing is the standing with God in heaven above through Christ, not your standing among groups of people that you go by their traditions that are contrary to the Word of God and think you’re doing well in the name of Christ. Never work!
 
What are the biggest ones they have today? Not the Jews, but Christianity! Sunday and Christmas! They have great hymn and services! Same thing as this.
 
Verse 16: “Knowing that a man is not justified by works of law, we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order that we might be justified by the faith of Christ… [with God the Father in heaven above] …and not by works of law… [by men, to impress men] …because by works of law shall no flesh be justified”--to God! That’s the whole meaning of it here!
 
Verse 17: “Now then, if we are seeking to be justified in Christ, and we ourselves are found to be sinners… [which Peter was in doing what he did] …is Christ then the minister of sin? MAY IT NEVER BE!”--because Christ never recognized that! That’s the important thing to understand.
 
Verse 18: “For if I build again… [speaking of his experience in Judaism] …those things that I destroyed, I am making myself a transgressor.” Works of laws of men end up transgressing the Laws of God, and making you a sinner before God!
 
Verse 19: “For I, through law, died to works of law, in order that I may live to God.” How do you live to God?
 
·         by loving Him
·         by obeying Him
·         by keeping His commandments
·         by trusting in His mercy and forgiveness
·         by having your sins forgiven when you repent
 
Verse 20: “I have been crucified with Christ…” why does he say that? You are co-crucified with Christ (Rom. 6)!
 
He wasn’t on the same cross with Christ, not literally, but when you’re baptized you’re conjoined to His death! So, you are crucified with Christ!
 
“…yet, I live. Indeed, it is no longer I; but Christ lives in me….” (v 20). That’s what is to lead us and guide us!
 
“…For the life that I am now living in the flesh, I live by faith—that very faith of the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me” (v 20).
 
Notice what happens when it gets into human traditions vs God:
 
Verse 21: “I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness is through works of law, then Christ died in vain.”
 
If you do by works of law then you’re breaking loving your neighbor as yourself and loving the brethren as Christ has loved us. That’s actually happened in the Church of God.
 
There are ministers who would set themselves up and separate from the brethren. Tell the deacons at the potlucks to ‘bring us the best food.’ I was even invited to go up on the stage and I refuse. I was a ‘bad, bad boy’ and got a bad report for that. There were those who had their works of law.
 
What was one of the works of law? That the minister is above the people! NO! The minister is below the people, to serve the people! They would have the deacons go down and get the best of everything and bring it to the elder up on the stage. Parking also!
 
It’s the same way with some Churches of God that they say that if your family is not in the Church you cannot associate with them, you cannot talk to them or go see them. That’s exactly the condemnation of the works of law that Paul is talking about right here.
 
·         Of course you should see them!
·         Of course you should help them!
 
In that Church I know of three suicides because those who were so emotionally distraught that they couldn’t see their fathers and mothers, or grandfathers and grandmothers, that they killed themselves. That blood lies right at the feet of the minister. That church is called the Philadelphia Church of God. They are the exact opposite of brotherly love.
 
When we get into Gal. 3 we are going to find a very interesting translation that proves that they were writing the New Testament early.
​Scriptural References:
 
1)      Galatians 1:13-14
2)      Acts 7:51-60
3)      Acts 8:1-3
4)      Acts 9:1-9, 17-18, 20
5)      Acts 26:15-18
6)      Acts 13:38-44
7)      Romans 2:13-15, 17-29
8)      Romans 10:4
9)      Romans 9:30-33
10)  Romans 10:1-3
11)  Mark 7:6, 5, 6-11
12)  Romans 10:3-4
13)  Hebrews 10:16
14)  Romans 10:4-6
15)  Galatians 2:12, 11-16, 14-20
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
 
·         Galatians 1
·         Leviticus 23
·         Philippians 3
·         Acts 15
·         Romans 6
·         Galatians 3
 
Also referenced:
 
Books:
·         The Christian Passover by Fred R. Coulter
·         A Harmony of the Gospels by Fred R. Coulter
·         Judaism: Revelation of Moses, or Religion of Men? by Philip Neal
·          Code of Jewish Law by Ganzfried and Goldin
 
Church At Home (churchathome.org) series:
·         Was Peter Ever in Rome?
·         Was Peter the First Pope?
 
Booklet: Rome’s Challenge to the Protestants by Cardinal Gibbon
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Galatians Series #2 - By Works of Law Shall No Flesh Be Justified, by Fred Coulter (First Half)

2/11/2020

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Galatians Series  II
By Works of Law Shall No Flesh Be Justified
(Galatians 2)
Fred R. Coulter—February 8, 2020
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 ​Greetings, everyone! Welcome to Sabbath services!
 
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I got an e-mail from a man in Argentina who is a Seventh Day Adventist and he read the Passover book online. It blew him away, he was so impressed with it that he asked for a copy of it. So, I sent him two and A Harmony of the Gospels. I forwarded that onto Eduardo Elizondo who is going to try and contact him.
 
It’s interesting in little ole Hollister and we don’t know who is coming online. We know what they’re downloading, because we run monthly statistics on it, and in the Feb. letter we will have the yearly totals of everything. But wee have the time for visits between 12-15 minutes. That’s means they’re on the website for a good deal of time.
 
The average for websites is if you’re on for over a minute that’s pretty good. If you’re on it two minutes that’s really, really good. If you’re more than that, that’s counted as a great visit. Here we are consistently through the years with all of this.
 
So, what we do here in Hollister reaches out to many, many more people and we’re very thankful for that and that we have the means to do it today.
 
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We started a short series in the book of Galatians and we got through chapter one. Let’s just review a little bit, and I want to show you what a powerful thing that it actually was to call the Apostle Paul. With the dispute that we have in Gal. 2 between Peter and the Circumcision Party, and the Jews and Gentiles, we can see that God called Paul, and one of the of main reasons was to keep Judaism out of the Church!
 
The book we have concerning the Passover still comes around, because the Jews do not acknowledge the 14th. This explains, like no other book in the world, why the Jews believe that, and why—because they reject Christ—they are correct when they’re outside the area of the geography of what is called Israel in the Middle East. Jesus kept the 14th Passover. Why does the Church keep the 14th Passover in any land wherever we are in the world? Yet, the Jews understand that the command is that you cannot keep a 14th Passover if you’re in the Diaspora, which is true!
 
That has been such a longstanding tradition that they don’t believe in the 14th except if there’s going to be something at the temple when it’s built.
 
·         Why does the Church keep the 14th and rejects the Jews’ 15th? Because Christ kept the 14th!
·         What did He tell the disciples to do? ‘Go into all the world and teach them everything that I have taught you!’
·         What is the most important thing in the whole Gospel? Over one-third of the Gospels is related to the Passover Day and the whole meaning of the Passover Day vs the works of law!
 
The works of law includes the sacrifices, and of course, the temple is destroyed and you can’t offer those. We will see that those could never take away sin!
 
That’s one of the main things as far as it relates to us. But back in the time of the apostles, they had to go to the Jews first, and they were always confronted with the traditions of the Jews. It is true that the Passover is the foundation for all of the Holy Days after the Sabbath.
 
The structure of Lev. 23 starts out with the Sabbath and then the Passover. If you don’t have a proper Passover, then everything else is eschewed.
 
Galatians 1:13: “For you heard of my former conduct when I was in Judaism…” That’s what it means in the Greek. I think the King James translates ‘religion of the Jews.’ That is not wrong, but Judaism is far better.
 
“…how I was excessively persecuting the Church of God and was destroying it; and I was advancing in Judaism far beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers” (vs 13-14). So, Paul was explaining the basis for God’s calling him!
 
The Pharisees had a strict religion, absolutely strict! Paul said that he was ‘a Pharisee of a Pharisee’ (Philip. 3). Let’s see what Paul was doing, and let’s see how very important that this is, and why God called Paul and not somebody else!
 
We will see that if it had been left up to Peter, he would have politically caved into the Circumcision Party from Jerusalem.
 
Do we, today, still have encroaches of Judaism, Messianic Judaism? Yes! We’ve had people visit us who wear the prayer shawls, and some of them have the blue ribbons on the borders of their clothes, thinking that it makes them more righteous!
 
What the New Testament is concerned with is not the outward appearance or the physical things, but the inward mind and heart toward God.
 
After Stephen gave a tremendous witness, that was something! Before we get into it, I just want to rehearse a little bit. Remember that after receiving the Holy Spirit the apostles were preaching in Jerusalem. Peter, James and John were doing miracles. They were called before the Sanhedrin, and the last time they were called before the Sanhedrin was when they healed a man tremendously from being crippled from birth. Then they were teaching in the temple and were arrested and put in prison. Over night an angel came and let them out and told them to go into the temple and start teaching.
 
So, the Sanhedrin got together to render their judgment on them the next morning and said to bring them in. the officer went down to the jail and said, ‘I went there and the guards were standing outside, but nothing was inside! Then someone came running and said that they were in the temple teaching. So, they went and got them gingerly and brought them in.
 
What was the witness that Peter and the apostle said when the Sanhedrin said, ‘Didn’t we tell you to quit preaching in this name’? The apostles said, ‘You judge! Should we obey man? or God?
 
That was a tremendous witness to them! After that there were great miracles that were being done by Peter and the apostles: healings and things like this. So, when Stephen came, here is one of the last powerful witnesses to the Sanhedrin and the leader of the Jews before God permanently decided to destroy the temple.
 
Acts 7:51: “O stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears!…. [this is Stephen telling all the leaders: the chief priests, the scribes, the Pharisees] …You do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so also do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of Whom you have become the betrayers and murderers” (vs 51-52).
 
See what happens? This happens so many, many times. When the establishment religion gets its power, or the establishment government as we’ve seen here in America get their power, they will do anything to hold it, even kill and murder if they can get away with it!
 
Verse 53: “‘Who received the Law by the disposition of angels, but have not kept it.’ And when they heard these things, they were cut to their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth at him. But he, being filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God” (vs 53-55).
 
To them, this was in incredible! What an absolute blaspheme!
 
Verse 56: “And he said, ‘Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.’ Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord, and cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul” (vs 56-58). So, he was right there to kill the Christians!
 
Verse 59: “And they stoned Stephen, who called upon God, saying, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’ And he fell to his knees and cried with a loud voice, ‘Lord, do not lay this sin to their charge.’ And after he had said this, he died” (vs 59-60).
 
That’s quite a thing! You talk about a perfect example of loving your enemies, right when they’re killing you!
 
Acts 8:1: “Now, Saul had consented to killing him. And that day a great persecution arose against the Church that was in Jerusalem; and all the believers were scattered throughout the countries of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. And devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. But Saul was ravaging the Church, going from house to house… [talk about a Gestapo] …entering in and dragging out men and women, and delivering them up to prison” (vs 1-3). Then it gets into the thing concerning Simon Magus.
 
Now it gets into how God called Saul, and Paul refers to that in Gal. 1.
 
Acts 9:1: “Now Saul, still breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest.”
 
That tells you how high ranked that he was, that he went to high priest to get the legal orders to arrest the Christians and put them in jail! Not only in the area of Judea, but now he was going to Damascus, several hundred miles north of Judea.
 
Verse 2: “Asking him for letters to take to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who were of that way… [a way of life, not a religion] …he might bring them bound, both men and women, to Jerusalem.”
 
And God selected the right moment! Here Saul is going along. I don’t know if he was on a donkey, a horse, or walking, but he had his arrest party with him.
 
Verse 3: “But it came to pass while he was journeying, as he drew near to Damascus, that suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him. And after falling to the ground, he heard a voice say to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?’” (vs 3-4).
 
Anytime a true Christian is persecuted, they’re persecuting Christ!
 
Verse 5: “And he said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus, Whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the pricks.’ Then, trembling and astonished, he said, ‘Lord, what will You have me to do?’….” (vs 5-6).
 
Think about the instantaneous repentance! From persecuting to doing the will of Christ!
 
“…And the Lord said to him, ‘Get up and go into the city, and you shall be told what you must do.’ Now, the men who were traveling with him stood speechless; for they indeed heard the voice, but they saw no one. Then Saul arose from the ground; but when he opened his eyes, he saw no one. And they led him by the hand and brought him to Damascus. But for three days he was not able to see…” (vs 6-9).
 
Just kind of put yourself in Saul’s position: blind and persecuting the Church. Jesus Himself knocked Saul to the ground, spoke to him, corrected him and now he is completely humbled! Saul has no power, no authority and has completely lost everything. And he’s blind for three days!
 
Then the Lord, by vision, told Ananias to go to such and such a house and he would find Saul, and ‘he’s a chosen vessel for Me.’ Ananias said, ‘Lord, he’s persecuting all the Christians.’ Nevertheless, you do what I say! So, Ananias went and:
 
Verse 17: “Then Ananias went away and came into the house; and after laying his hands on him, he said, ‘Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, even Jesus, Who appeared to you on the road in which you came, so that you might receive sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.’ And it was as if scales immediately fell from his eyes, and he instantly received sight; and he arose and was baptized” (vs 17-18).
 
Verse 20: “And in the synagogues he immediately began to proclaim Christ, that He is the Son of God.” This was absolutely unbelievable!
 
Why did God choose Paul? Because he knew more about Judaism and the problems of the laws and traditions of Judaism than any other of the apostles! That’s why God called him!
 
Acts 26 shows the mission that Saul was to have, especially going to the Gentiles. We won’t go through all the things concerning his three years in Arabia where he was taught in dreams and visions; but he was taught of the Lord. That’s why he said that he was ‘taught of no man,’ because he was taught of God.
 
This had to be so that he could learn all of the spiritual things necessary for the New Covenant, and to understand that you can’t carry over into the Church the traditions of Judaism.
 
Acts 26:15: “And I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus, Whom you are persecuting. Now arise, and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you as a minister and a witness both of what you have seen and what I shall reveal to you. I am personally selecting you from among the people and the Gentiles, to whom I now send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified through faith in Me’” (vs 15-18).
 
Let’s see how that operated in Acts 13, right after he was ordained as an apostle, sent on a mission, which was to go to the Jews first, and then to the Gentiles.
 
In every synagogue there were proselytes. Those were the first believing Gentiles when they came out of the synagogue.
 
Acts 13:38: “Therefore, be it known to you, men and brethren, that through this Man [Christ] the remission of sins is preached to you.”
 
The remission of sins by repentance and baptism vs the works of law! There are two kinds of ‘works of law’:
 
1.       the sacrifices at the temple
2.       the works of Judaism
 
All of those laws could not forgive sin in heaven above! The key is:
 
·         repentance of heart
·         faith in Christ
·         belief in God
 
That’s entirely different than Judaism!
 
Verse 39: “And in Him [Christ] everyone who believes is justified from all things…”
 
Under the Old Covenant and under the works of law with Judaism, people were justified to the temple. Everything came to the temple and was left there. For those who were converted—repentant and received the Holy Spirit—you’re justified before God the Father in heaven above through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ by repentance and faith!
 
Those are the spiritual works that we are to do! The physical works are much like the Catholics have today. If they sin then the priest says to go do 200 ‘our fathers’ and 200 ‘hail Marys.’ The Jews would have: separate yourself, take so many hand-washings, burn so many candles and then you’re okay. Completely different!
 
“…from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses” (v 39). Remember, the Law of Moses included all of their traditions as well!
 
Verse 40: “Take heed, therefore, lest that which is spoken in the Prophets come upon you: ‘Behold, you despisers, and wonder and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work that you will in no way believe, even if one declares it to you.’” (vs 40-41).
 
Notice what happened. Almost every time that Paul went into a synagogue it split! When he came to Corinth there was a riot.
 
Verse 42: “And when the Jews had gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles entreated him that these words might be spoken to them on the next Sabbath.”
 
Notice this very carefully and use this with anyone who is a Sunday-keeper, who says that Paul changed the Law. What are we talking about here? Gentiles! If Paul changed the Law why didn’t he tell them not to wait for Sabbath, but come tomorrow, because the next day was Sunday. He didn’t!
 
Verse 43: “Now, after the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and the proselytes who worshiped there followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. And on the coming Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the Word of God” (vs 43-44). That’s astonishing!
 
Then the Jews were losing everything so they setup people to persecute Paul, and even stoned him.
 
Note our Church At Home (churchathome.org) series: Was Peter Ever in Rome? and Was Peter the First Pope? You will find, historically speaking, the Truth! Peter never went to Rome!
 
After James was beheaded, Peter was put in prison and an angel let him out. He came to Mark’s house. Mark was the nephew of Barnabas, who was a Levite before he became an apostle. So, when Peter was let out and Came to mark’s house, it says ‘he went to another place.’
 
·         Where would Peter go? His mission was to the circumcision!
·         Where was the greatest number of Jews at that time? In Babylon!
·         Where did Peter write his first epistle? From Babylon!
 
That tells that the other place he went to was Babylon, because there were the Jews there, the circumcision people.
 
Let’s see what Paul teaches in Rom. 2. This is important because lawlessness is not Christianity. Everyone who deals with God has laws and commandments to keep. Isn’t that what we find with Abraham? When the covenant was passed on to Isaac, it was because ‘Abraham kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My Law. and obeyed My voice!’
 
It’s not a matter of commandments or no commandments, it’s a matter of commandments and how you keep them! Under the covenant with Israel, the commandments of God were in the letter of the Law. Just stop and think, in this nation today look at the great divide that we have between those who want to have law and order and those who want no laws at all. Look at what it causes without laws. Look at all the crime and sin.
 
So, keeping the commandments in the letter of the Law for the general society is a good thing! But that does not mean they’re converted. Look at how many Christians in Sunday-keeping Christianity keep some of the commandments of God. Even our Constitution is based upon many of the principles that are in the Bible, which work good for the society as they keep them.
 
But that does not convert you! Even if you keep them in the letter of the Law, that does not convert the mind. But keeping the commandments of God and the laws of God are paramount to begin with when you come to God.
 
Romans 2:13: “Because the hearers of the Law are not just… [justified] …before God…” Justification in one short sentence is this: right standing with God:
 
·         because you have had you have had your sins forgiven
·         because you have believed in Jesus Christ as the ultimate sacrifice of His shed blood for the forgiveness of your sins
 
That’s not based on a temple in Jerusalem, but is based on the Holy of Holies in heaven above. It’s not just keeping it in the letter of Law. God wants the conversion of the mind; that’s the whole thing with Christianity!
 
I heard Sean Hannity saying ‘I believe in the Bible, I believe in God, I believe etc.’ But he is a ‘merry Christmas’ man and an Easter man gung-ho! So, even if they keep part of the things that are in the Law, they have a ‘certain amount’ of blessings and understanding, but that has nothing to do with true Christianity!
 
“…but the doers of the Law shall be justified” (v 13). What does this mean? You first have to be convicted of sin and you repent, and you start keeping the Laws of God because you repent! Then you have to follow-through with baptism!
 
Verse 14: “For when the Gentiles, which do not have the Law, practice by nature the things contained in the Law, these who do not have the Law are a law unto themselves”--but it’s not unto conversion!
 
Verse 15: “Who show the work of the Law written in their own hearts, their consciences bearing witness, and their reasonings also as they accuse or defend one another.”
 
Verse 17—Paul is talking to the Jews: “Behold, you are called a Jew, and you yourself rest in the law, and boast in God… [which they do, but do they keep it?] …and know His will, and approve of the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the Law; and are persuaded that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light for those in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the Truth contained in the Law” (vs 17-20). Typically true with the Jews today:
 
·         they claim the Law
·         they claim their traditions
·         they claim special status with God
 
But they have none as far as God in heaven above is concerned! They may have high positions in the world, they may have a lot of money in the world, they may be very smart and understanding and doing a lot of different things, that is true. But in talking to Michael Heiss, he was telling me that how his family business would make certain things for the Gentiles for Christmas, and they made a lot of money doing it.
 
I asked him, ‘Does this prove that the Jews like the Gentiles to have Christmas so they can make money.’ He said, ‘Yes, they even promote it for them!’
 
They don’t keep the Law. They keep some of the things of the Law in the synagogue, but how many go to synagogue or temple? Very few! Those who are the ultra, ultra orthodox are the most ridiculous of all.
 
Verse 20: “An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the Truth contained in the Law. You, then, who are teaching another, do you not teach yourself also?….” (vs 20-21). A great principle for anyone, but especially for elders and teachers!
 
·         How is that you teach yourself? By prayer and study, study the Word of God!
·         Will God give you understanding of His Word as you study it through His Spirit? Yes!
·         Will you learn things from the Word of God that you didn’t know before? Yes!
 
That’s happened time and time again down through history! But the important thing is that this is a main focus so that the teacher does not become a hypocrite. That’s what we’re dealing with in Gal. 2.
 
“…do you not teach yourself…”
 
·         If you read that you should have no other gods before you, do you examine your life to see if you have any?
·         If you read that you shall not make any graven image of any likeness, or bow down to it, do you have things that are idols before God?
·         If you read that you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, do you do it?
·         Do you say God says thus when He didn’t say it? If you do, that’s taking His name in vain!
·         Isn’t that what the preachers do on TBN, every program you watch?
 
They say the Lord says, they read some Scriptures.
 
Randy has put on one of our Church At Home segments a preacher speaking about the Law as been done away, and he has a picture of the Ten Commandments, the tablets, and it just disappears.
 
They preach love. But what did John write? This is the love of God that we just be nice! NO! John wrote, That we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome! This is a tremendous thing, teach yourself!
 
“…You who preach, ‘Do not steal,’ are you stealing? You who say, ‘Do not commit adultery,’ are you committing adultery? You who abhor idols, are you committing sacrilege? You who boast in law, are you dishonoring God through your transgression of the Law?” (vs 21-23).
 
Think about that! If you’re breaking the Laws of God while you’re professing to know God, you’re dishonoring God! Most people never look at that way.
 
Verse 24: “For through you the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, exactly as it is written. For on the one hand, circumcision profits if you are observing the Law; on the other hand, if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision” (vs 24-25).
 
There’s nothing more dastardly to tell the Jews than to say that! Think of how powerful that this is. But that’s exactly how God sees it.
 
Verse 26: “Therefore, if the uncircumcised is keeping the requirements of the Law, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned for circumcision?”
 
How can that be? In the New Testament the circumcision is still required! That’s the circumcision of the heart! That’s greater than the circumcision of the flesh! This means that the carnality of the mind has been changed through the receiving of the Spirit of God, that you’re no longer hostile against the laws and commandments of God, and against the ways of God. But you are eager to do them and want to do them. Entirely different! This is telling the Jews that they’re no better than all of those Gentiles that they denounce all the time.
 
Verse 27: “And shall not the uncircumcised, who by nature is fulfilling the Law, judge you, who, with the letter and circumcision, are a transgressor of the Law?” Paul knew this!
 
What was he doing before he was converted? He was high in Judaism, keeping the traditions of the fathers and more zealous for them than anything else! He was going out killing, arresting, and dragging into prison those who were Christians, thinking he was doing service to God.
 
When Paul writes this, he’s writing from his own experience that he learned after he was converted. Then he gives the summation of it:
 
Verse 28: “For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is external in the flesh; rather, he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God” (vs 28-29). A whole different approach!
 
I want you to see how important that it is and what happened when Peter kowtowed to the Circumcision Part from Jerusalem.       *(second half)*
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Truth of God - One True Gospel and Many False Ones, by Fred R. Coulter (Second Half) Galatians Series 1.

1/30/2020

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One True Gospel and Many False Ones
Paul knew the danger of the doctrines of Judaism
(Galatians 1 & 2)
Fred R. Coulter—January 25, 2020
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​Let’s look at a few Scriptures that goes right along with what we’re talking about here, especially when you look at government and you look at churches, and any organization. 
 
Proverbs 29:2: “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.” You can take that and apply that to many different things!
 
Verse 4: “The king establishes the land by justice, but he who takes bribes tears it down.” That is exactly what has happened here in America!
 
Verse 12: “If a ruler hearkens to lies, all his servants are wicked.” We can apply that to how a church is run, and directly to our lives and what we’re covering here: Truth and doctrine!
 
Verse 14: “A king who faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever.”
 
Now, here’s one for the world today. Remember that Jesus said that lawlessness will be multiplied!
 
Verse 16: “When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increases; but the righteous shall see their fall.”
 
Sooner or later it catches up with them, but the ultimate of that will be the return of Christ and the resurrection of the saints.
 
Proverbs 30:5—this applies to exactly what we are doing here: “Every Word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. Do not add to His words, lest He correct you and you be found a liar” (vs 5-6). That is exactly what has happened to the Church many times over!
 
2-Timothy 1:13: “Hold as the standard for doctrine the sound words that you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. Guard the good thing that was committed to you by the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us” (vs 13-14).
 
Notice how bad things were getting in the Church. We’ve experienced some of this in our lifetime, but back then it was everywhere.
 
Verse 15: “You know this, that all those who are in Asia have rejected me… [Why? Because they brought in the false doctrine and began to believe those!] …of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.”
 
2-Timothy 2:13: If we are unfaithful… [someone goes wrong] …He remains faithful…”--Christ always remains the same; Christ the same yesterday, today and forever, and ‘I, the Lord, change not.
 
Something that comes along that’s a difficulty, and contrary to the Word of God, then trust in God and it will be exposed for what it is.
 
“…—He cannot deny Himself. See that they remain mindful of these things, earnestly charging them in the sight of the Lord not to argue over words that are not profitable in any way, but which lead to the subverting of those who hear” (vs 13-14). So, it gets down to this:
 
·         How strong are we in the faith?
·         Do we really believe it?
 
Here’s how to make sure that you do it right; v 15: “Diligently study… [put forth a lot effort] …to show yourself approved unto God, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of the Truth.”
 
That’s how all false doctrines start--we’ve covered a lot of them--by wrongly dividing the Scriptures! One of the major ones was that the Father was the Lord God of the Old Testament. That was wrongly dividing the Word of God! Then believing the conclusion of it, and convincing others. How can you convince others? Maybe they’re not studying and proving things!
 
Verse 16: “But avoid profane and vain babblings because they will only give rise to more ungodliness.” That’s exactly what has happened!
 
Just before the Church fell, they had 120,000 attending the Feast of Tabernacles, and they had an income that year of $200-million!
 
·         it’s not how much you have
·         it’s not the number of people involved
 
It is, the way Christ looks at it, that you are converted and stay converted! That’s what God wants!
 
2-Timothy 3:16: “All Scripture is God-breathed…”
 
Notice how urgent Paul was in writing to Timothy, and how desperate that this apostasy was coming about.
 
2-Timothy 4:1: “I charge you, therefore, in the sight of God, even the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is ready to judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His Kingdom: Preach the Word!….” (vs 1-2). That’s what needs to be preached!
 
·         not the ideas of men
·         not the pet doctrines of men
 
Preach the Word, the Truth of God!
 
“…Be urgent in season and out of season… [showing that they were keeping the Holy Days, otherwise there wouldn’t be seasons] …convict… [that they will be convicted of their sins, there shortcoming and come to God] …rebuke… [when necessary] …encourage… [that’s what we need lots of, lots of encouragement] …with all patience and doctrine.”
 
So, a lot of the things that were happening were those who became ministers and elders who did not fully believe. Then Paul names four of them in these two epistles, that He turns them over to Satan because of the way that they were acting.
 
Here’s what happens, v 3: “For there shall come a time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine…” They won’t take line upon line, here a little, there a little, precept upon precept, and all of that they won’t do.
 
“…but according to their own lusts…” (v 3)--rather than submission to God!
 
That’s why it’s so important, and you’ve hear me say, in God we live, move and have our being! Especially in the Church with the Holy Spirit of God! Even the people in the world live, move and have their being by God! But we, with the Spirit of God, how much moreso!
 
“…they shall accumulate to themselves a great number of teachers…” (v 3). There’s always someone who’s going to come around and…
 
I saw this picture showing a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It showed the wolf with all the sheep’s fleece on it, and his nose up in the air and two little sheep right alongside of it.
 
I thought that was really a well-placed picture to show how these things work. There are those who infiltrate to try and establish themselves in positions of authority. If they get established in positions of high authority, what can they do? They bring in those Who they want and put them in charge! That’s what happened to Worldwide! That’s why it went down so fast.
 
“…having ears itching to hear what satisfies their cravings; and they shall turn away their own ears from the Truth; and they shall be turned aside unto myths” (vs 3-4). That’s what’s wrong with fake Christianity today! Everything they do is a myth except with properly reading the Scriptures.
 
·         Sunday is wrong
·         idols are wrong
·         their salvation is wrong
·         they’re doing away with the Law is wrong
 
but people like it! People like to be told that all you have to do is believe in Jesus. ‘Do you believe in Jesus?’ Oh yes, I believe in Jesus!’ You’re saved!’ How can there be a falling away if you’re saved once forever? It won’t be!
 
Let’s come to the book of Galatians and see how absolutely treacherous this was. We’ll cover certain things in the book of Galatians.
 
Galatians 1:1: “Paul, an apostle, not sent from men nor made by man…” After he was converted he went down into Arabia and was taught for three years by Christ through visions and directly!
 
“…but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, Who raised Him from the dead; and all the brethren who are with me, to the churches of Galatia” (vs 1-2).
 
Some people like to say that that means Gaul in Southern France, but that’s not true. This is in Asia Minor.
 
Verse 3: “Grace and peace be to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself for our sins, in order that He might deliver us from the present evil world…” (vs 3-4).
 
It was evil back then, and think about the multitude of evil that they have today. Watch all of these ads of all the hightech stuff, and they get these goggles and put them on and it’s a make believe reality. You get movies on Netflix and people watch so many things that are nothing by fables and stories and lies.
 
So, when you come along and say that that’s a sin, they’re not going to accept it as sin. So, there has to be something happen in their lives in order for them to come to the point that they see that they need God. But the way this world, it’s a terrible mess out there!
 
“…according to the will of our God and Father; to Whom be the glory into the ages of eternity. Amen” (vs 4-5).
 
I’ve been accosted by people who say that I slam other ministers. Well, I don’t slam them; I point out where they’re wrong when they have false doctrine. We will see what Paul did, and I’m very mild compared to Paul.
 
Verse 6: “I am astonished that you are so quickly being turned away from Him Who called you into the grace of Christ, to a different gospel.”
 
What did we just read? Don’t add anything or take away anything! That’s how you get a different gospel.
 
Verse 7: “Which in reality is not another Gospel…”--because there’s no such thing as another Gospel. There’s one Gospel! The Gospel of Jesus Christ through God the Father!
 
“…but there are some who are troubling you and are desiring to pervert the Gospel of Christ” (v 7). How dangerous is that? Look at what Paul wrote in the next few verses in the strongest possible terms!
 
Verse 8: “But if we… [including himself and all the other apostles] …or even an angel from heaven, should preach a gospel to you that is contrary to what we have preached, LET HIM BE ACCURSED!” That’s really slamming them pretty hard! He repeats it:
 
Verse 9: “As we have said before, I also now say again. If anyone is preaching a gospel contrary to what you have received, LET HIM BE ACCURSED!”
 
Who were the ones coming around? You had two factors:
 
1.       the Jewish factor; and a lot of those who came as Jews (2-Cor. 11) give themselves out as apostles of Christ, but are not
 
Who are they really following? Satan the devil!
 
2.       then you have the Greeks that come along and say that if you read ‘this Scripture’ this way, then it looks like everybody goes to heaven
 
Besides, the Jews have it wrong on the resurrection, but we go to heaven, and that the only resurrection was Christ.
 
Paul had to correct them strongly in 1-Cor. 15 that they didn’t believe in the resurrection of the dead. So, let them be accursed!
 
Notice how Paul describes what he’s doing; v 10: Now then, am I striving to please men, or God?…. [that takes away all politics; all favoritism] …Or am I motivated to please men? For if I am yet pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.” Though they may claim themselves to be servants of Christ!
 
Verse 11: “But I certify to you, brethren, that the Gospel that was preached by me is not according to man.”
 
Even though when he got done with his three years of being taught by Christ, he went up to Jerusalem and only stayed two weeks. He talks about that a little later. Those in Jerusalem didn’t want to receive him.
 
Verse 12: “Because neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it by man; rather, it was by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” That’s a special teaching!
 
Paul being a Pharisee, God called him so that would eliminate, as much as possible, Judaism coming into the Church.
 
Verse 13: “For you heard of my former conduct when I was in Judaism, how I was excessively persecuting the Church of God and was destroying it; and I was advancing in Judaism far beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers” (vs 13-14).
 
The traditions of men really are the key! That if the teachings of men come in and get codified as traditions to keep then you start really getting into trouble!
 
Verse 15: “But when it pleased God, Who selected me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His own Son in me, in order that I might preach Him as the Gospel among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus. Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days. But I did not see any of the other apostles, except James the brother of the Lord” (vs 15-19).
 
What happened was that Barnabas was on the ball. He said that with Paul being here, we’ve got to get him out of town, because there’s no way that he can be here in Jerusalem. People will hear that he is here and they will come and kill him.
 
So, Barnabas took Paul down to Caesarea and put him on a ship and sent him to where he came from up in Tarsus. He remained there a number of years until the first church of the Gentiles was raised up in Antioch of Syria. So, the apostles decided to send Barnabas down there to help out with all the new Gentile converts that they had in Syria. Then Barnabas went over to Tarsus and found Paul and brought him back to Antioch. Antioch became Paul’s quasi headquarters a little later.
 
Verse 20: (Now the things that I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.) Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. But I was unknown by face to the churches in Judea which are in Christ; they only heard, ‘The one who once persecuted us is now preaching the Gospel—the faith which he once destroyed.’ And they glorified God in me” (vs 20-24).
 
Let’s look at what happens here. Gal. 2 becomes very important. One of the big questions with the Jewish converts is that when a Gentile was converted he had to be circumcised, regardless of how old he was.
 
The Jews would take care of the circumcision on eighth day, so the question came with the Pharisees (Acts 15). They came saying that you cannot be saved unless you keep the Law of Moses.
 
That’s where a lot of Protestants get all discombobulated. To a Pharisee, what does the Law of Moses mean? All the traditions encircling the Truth of God! So, circumcision of adults became a great problem in the Church. There were those false Jewish ministers out there, and a lot of them would say, ‘I was in Judea’ or ‘I was in Galilee’ and ‘I saw Jesus, I heard Him preach and He said this or that, He said the other thing.’
 
Galatians 2:1: “Then after fourteen years I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me also. And I went up according to revelation, and laid before them the Gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those of repute, lest by any means I should be running, or had run in vain. (But indeed, Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised.)” (vs 1-3).
 
Why? Because conversion is the circumcision of the heart, which is a higher level of circumcision.
 
Verse 4: “Now, this meeting was private because of false brethren brought in secretly, who came in by stealth to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might bring us into bondage.”
 
So, it was all men must be circumcised regardless of the age, and follow the traditions of the Jews that encircled the Law of God.
 
Note sermon series: Scripturalism vs Judaism. You cannot understand the problems of Judaism and how bad it was unless you get that extended series. I read some amazing quotes that the Jews themselves have given, and how that it was such a furor in the Church.
 
Remember the first Gentile who was converted? Cornelius! Even before God let Peter know about the situation, Cornelius and his household were offering up prayers to God and alms to the local synagogue, the Romans! So, God sent an angle to tell Cornelius that you find Peter—he was at the house of another: Simon—and he’ll come down here and tell you what you need to do.
 
Peter had the vision of all these unclean things, and what did he say? Oh Lord, I’m so happy that we can no eat them. Today we could say that we can be just like the Chinese. NO! He said, ‘I’ve NEVER eaten anything common or unclean!’ then the three men came and he went with them and went to Cornelius’ house. What did Cornelius do? Peter walked in and Cornelius was bowing down to worship him! Peter said, ‘I’m a man like you, but the Jewish law is that a Jew shall not keep company with a Gentile.’
 
So, Peter went there, preached the Gospel and Cornelius’ whole household was converted, and God sent the Holy Spirit on them before they were baptized, to show that God was calling them! Protestants come along and say that you don’t need to be baptized. No! they were baptized afterward.
 
What other way could God show Peter that the ways of Judaism are not going to be in the Church? That was quite a thing!
 
Some of those who were with Peter when he went down there, went back to Jerusalem and told the elders there. Peter came back and they said, ‘What is this that you went into those who were uncircumcised?’
 
Peter told them all about the story, and they praised God and said that God has given them the Holy Spirit the same as us. But in Judaism, even though that was mentioned, Gentiles must be in a separate category than the Jews.
 
Also note our sermon series on Circumcision Wars, and that’s really in great detail.
 
Verse 4: “Now, this meeting was private because of false brethren brought in secretly, who came in by stealth to spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might bring us into bondage… [of the traditions of men] …to whom we did not yield in subjection, not even for one hour, so that the Truth of the Gospel might continue with you” (vs 4-5).
 
He didn’t say that they were well intentioned. No, they were not well intentioned.
 
Verse 6: “But the Gospel that I preach did not come from those reputed to be something. (Whatever they were does not make any difference to me…”
 
That’s something you always need to understand: When the Truth is violated by those who are in charge, you do not have to put up with it. If you go to them and bring out what is right, and they don’t change, then you do like Paul, you leave! That’s what happened to the whole Church!
 
“…God does not accept the person of a man.) For those who are of repute conferred nothing upon me. But on the contrary, after seeing that I had been entrusted with the Gospel of the uncircumcision, exactly as Peter had been entrusted with the Gospel of the circumcision; (for He Who wrought in Peter for the apostleship of the circumcision wrought in me also toward the Gentiles); and after recognizing the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, affirming that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision. Their only request was that we remember the poor, which very thing I was also diligent to do” (vs 6-10).
 
Now, here’s the problem: I want you to notice how Paul was absolutely uncompromising, because he knew the dangers of the encroachment of Judaism. Peter was at fault!
 
Verse 11: “But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to his face because he was to be condemned… [Paul did this publicly, not privately] …for, before certain ones came from James…” (vs 11-12)--politics! Those in Jerusalem are more important. No, they’re not more important, and they were not in charge!
 
“…he was eating with the Gentiles. However, when they came, he drew back and separated himself from the Gentiles, being afraid of those of the circumcision party” (v 12).
 
‘Oh, I don’t want to get a bad report back in Jerusalem.’ This was a tradition of the Jews that you don’t keep company with, eat with, or have anything to do with Gentiles. This was a tremendous problem! Let’s see what Paul did:
 
“…However, when they came, he drew back and separated himself from the Gentiles, being afraid of those of the circumcision party” (v 12).
 
All of those coming down from Jerusalem ate over here, Peter and Barnabas went over there with them, and over there were all the Gentiles.
 
Verse 13: “And the rest of the Jews joined him in this hypocritical act, insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
 
That was a very dangerous situation doctrinally speaking, and fellowship speaking.
 
Verse 14: “But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the Truth of the Gospel, I said to Peter in the presence of them all, ‘If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not according to Judaism, why do you compel the Gentiles to Judaize?’”
 
If you set them aside in a separate place, you are making them follow a tradition of Judaism. I was a meeting where the deacons and ministers were up on the stage having other deacons come down and take the best of the food from the pot luck and take it up there to give it to the ministry.
 
The minister in charge said to me, ‘Fred, come on up here.’ I said, ‘No, I’m down here…’ He told me three times, and I said, ‘No, I’ll just get my food here.’
 
He destroyed the church; he took over the church from me and I was visiting later, and he ended up committing adultery with one of the nicest women in the church. Terrible situation! You see the whole lesson of a little leaven leavens the whole lump applies in many, many different ways!
 
So, Paul called Peter out before all of them!
 
Verse 15: “We who are Jews by nature—and not sinners of the Gentiles—knowing that a man is not justified by works of law…” The King James says, ‘the works of the law’ and that is absolutely incorrect! Those two definite articles are not there in the Greek and should not be inserted. When they were inserted, they made no difference by making them italicized to show that they weren’t in the original. It’s “…works of law…”
 
Those of you who have The Holy Bible in Its Original Order, A Faithful Version, read:
 
·         Appendix Z: Understanding Paul’s Difficult Scriptures Concerning the Law and the Commandments of God\
·         Appendix R: What is Meant by “the Works of the Law”?
 
What were the works of law? The laws of Judaism and all the things that they did! As long as the temple stood, they could still have the sacrificial laws.
 
For those who are uneducated and they read the King James and almost all other translations--the works of the law—they say that you don’t need to keep the Law. That is a complete false interpretation, false translation and should never have been.
 
When I first understood that—BING!—that was like turning on a great floodlight!
 
“…but through the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Christ Jesus in order that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law…” (vs 15-16).
 
Works of law would justify you to the temple as long as the temple stood. Works of law of Judaism would justify you to the Pharisaic system of Judaism, not to God in heaven above. Our justification and forgiveness of sin comes through faith and repentance, and belief in Jesus Christ! That is to:
 
·         cleanse our mind
·         cleanse our heart
·         draw us to God
 
That’s far greater than all the works of law! Look at all the works of law that the Jews were doing, and what they were plotting against Christ. To kill Him, to destroy Him!
 
·         How many times were they out to get Him? So much for the love of God!
·         What did Jesus say of them in John 5? I know you, you do not have the Word of God dwelling in you!
 
He also said to them, ‘I know that you don’t have the love of God.’ Remember the Pharisee who was the doctor of the Law and ask them Him what was the greatest Law and commandment? Love God! That’s the start!
 
You can probably think of some areas in the Church where they had this to do, and this not do and so forth. They added to it and it shouldn’t have been there.
 
“…because by works of law shall no flesh be justified” (v 16)--before God in heaven above! That’s what that means!
 
We are justified by the sacrifice and shed blood of Jesus Christ through faith by the operation of God, and no work can substitute for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ!
 
So, if they have all of these works from Judaism, that would substitute what God wants us to do. He wants us to:
 
·         believe in Him and continue believing in Him and Jesus Christ
·         believe in His laws and commandments
·         believe in His Word
·         believe in His Truth
 
Verse 17: “Now then, if we are seeking to be justified in Christ, and we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? MAY IT NEVER BE!” That’s what Peter and Barnabas were doing separating with the other Jews.
 
The Jews came down from Jerusalem all high-falutin and political and wanting to do things that they did in Jerusalem. Don’t do it down there where the Gentiles are.
 
Remember what happened when Paul finally ended up back in Jerusalem? When they found him in the temple? They wanted to kill him!
 
Verse 18: “For if I build again those things that I destroyed…” Everything he did in Judaism was destroyed with the baptism in Christ, and faith and belief in Christ!
 
“…I am making myself a transgressor” (v 18). That’s what Peter and the other Jews were doing!
 
Verse 19: “For I, through law, died to works of law… [the law of the faith of Christ] …in order that I may live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, yet, I live. Indeed, it is no longer I; but Christ lives in me….” (vs 19-20)--by the power of the Holy Spirit!
 
·         that comes from heaven above
·         that comes from the Throne of God
·         that comes from the Temple of God in heaven above
 
All these other physical works and things in the exterior that they were doing were not of God! Paul was doing his utmost to make sure that it never got into the Church.
 
“…For the life that I am now living in the flesh, I live by faith--that very faith of the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me” (v 20).
 
That faith comes from God, not by doing a work of law. That has nothing to do with whether we keep the commandments of God. That is how we stay justified to God and having forgiveness of our sins.
 
Verse 21: “I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness is through works of law, then Christ died in vain.”
 
Paul lambasted those people directly! He didn’t care if they were from James. He didn’t care what Peter and Barnabas thought of him. They were going against God, and going against the Truth and following the works of men, which leads to destruction! They had to be corrected publicly and vociferously! 

Scriptural References: (free online bible) 
​Bible Hard Copy - The Original Bible Restored
 
1)      John 14:4-6
2)      1 Corinthians 1:19-28, 26-28
3)      Colossians 1:21-23
4)      1 John 2:15-21
5)      Revelation 14:12
6)      1 John 2:22-29
7)      2 John 10-12
8)      1 Timothy 1:2-11, 16-17, 19-20
9)      1 Timothy 3:14-16
10)  1 Timothy 4:1-5, 13-16
11)  1 Timothy 6:3-5
12)  Proverbs 29:2, 4, 12-16
13)  Proverbs 30:5-6
14)  2 Timothy 1:13-15
15)  2 Timothy 2:13-16
16)  2 Timothy 3:16
17)  2 Timothy 4:1-4
18)  Galatians 1:1-24
19)  Galatians 2:1-21
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
 
·         1 Corinthians 15
·         Leviticus 11
·         Deuteronomy 14
·         Romans 2
·         2 Corinthians 11
·         Acts 15
·         John 5
 
Also referenced:
Sermon Series (transcript book with CD):
·         Scripturalism vs Judaism
·         Circumcision Wars
 
From The Holy Bible in Its Original Order, A Faithful Version:
·         Appendix Z: Understanding Paul’s Difficult Scriptures Concerning the Law and the Commandments of God
·         Appendix R: What is Meant by “the Works of the Law”?
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Truth of God - One True Gospel and Many False Ones, by Fred R. Coulter (First Half) Galatians Series 1.

1/30/2020

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​One True Gospel and Many False Ones
Paul knew the danger of the doctrines of Judaism
(Galatians 1 & 2)
Fred R. Coulter—January 25, 2020
*(First Half of Video)
*(Second Half of Video)
*(Transcript Second Half) - Here you will find all the Scriptural References.
(free online bible)  Bible Hard Copy - The Original Bible Restored
​Greetings, brethren! Welcome to Sabbath services!
 
If you’ve been watching anything on the impeachment thing, you’ve seen the slickest lies in the world, and a great misinterpretation of the severity of what they claim is a crime. With that, I think it’s very interesting and made me stop and think: How did Lucifer convince a third of the angels to go with him?
(may be of interest: Creation/Re-Creation) 
There may be a lot of extra of that power in the Democrat Party today! Look at all the lies that have been spoken, and when you understand that Satan is the father of lies, you understand, I think, how he was able to maneuver.
 
Think on this: Belief is powerful! We are to have faith, and faith is the movement of belief! You believe in faith! They work together.
 
If you believe a lie and you really think it is true, you believe with the same intensity as you would believe the truth.
 
·         How does God get around that?
·         What was the first warning that Jesus gave to the disciples? Let no one deceive you! First warning!
·         How do we keep from succumbing to lies that sound blessedly true?
·         Can you think of a Scripture?
·         How do we do it? Prove all things, test the prophets whether they are of God or not!
 
The worst field of deceit is in the field of religion!
 
John 14 is a Scripture that we go over, and it’s a keynote of the Passover. Jesus told the disciples that He was going away:
 
John 14:4—Jesus said: “‘And where I am going you know, and the way you know.’ Thomas said to Him, ‘Lord, we do not know where You are going; how then can we know the way?’” (vs 4-5). They didn’t understand it because they didn’t have the Spirit of God, yet!
 
Verse 6: “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.’”
 
So, we take the Scriptures and we compare everything to the Word of God. That’s why God had the New Testament originally written in Greek. It’s a very precise language. When you get the Interlinear you will see that 80-90% of the words must be translated exactly as it is. You can’t change that. Now, some words have more than one meaning, but it is very accurate and very true. You have the phrase, ‘answered and said.’ There is no other way to translate it. You can’t translate it ‘he was answering and saying’ because of the way that the verb is constructed.
 
Where do problems come in with the Scriptures? The translators, and those who found deficient Greek manuscripts, which mostly come out of Alexandria and Vaticanus! That’s where the problems come, because modern critical thinking of the Greek goes toward those Greek manuscripts rather than the Received Text.
 
Here is the basic one that we always go to. What’s another one? What did Jesus say about the words that He spoke? They are Spirit and they are Life! They are spiritually discerned or understood!
 
The Church at Corinth was one of Paul’s greatest problems. In 1-Cor. 15 he says, ‘What is it that some of you are saying that there’s no resurrection?’ Why? Because they were coming out of the Greek religions where it was ‘go to heaven or hell.’
 
1-Corinthians 1:19: “For it is written, ‘I [Jesus Christ] will destroy the wisdom of the wise… [all the philosophy and wrong thinking] …and I will nullify the understanding of those who understand.’” Nullify is to make it as though it never existed!
 
Verse 20: “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its own wisdom did not know God…” (vs 20-21).
 
·         Why? You must come to Christ! That’s where we started
·         How do you do that? On God’s terms!
·         What’s the first thing that Jesus said when He came into to Galilee to preach the Gospel? Repent and believe the Gospel, for the Kingdom of God is at hand!
 
It was the Kingdom of God in the person of Christ! He was right there!
 
“…it pleased God to save those who believe through the foolishness of preaching. For the Jews require a sign…” (vs 21-22).
 
Read the first chapters of the book of Acts and you will find that God gave the Jews sign after sign after sign, plus all the healings that Jesus did before He was crucified. Of all of those things, what was the last great sign that Jesus did before He was arrested? He raised Lazarus from the dead, and He deliberately left him in the tomb four days to make sure that he was dead!
 
Remember when they were told to roll away the stone, Martha said to Him, ‘Lord, he stinks by now!’ That’s no problem to God! He said, ‘Lazarus, come forth!’ and those who saw it rejoiced, though some of them were angry and ran to the officials so that they might get rid of Jesus. They wanted a sign!
 
“…and the Greeks seek after wisdom… [Greek: ‘sophia’ and ‘philo sophia’ is lover of wisdom] …but we proclaim Christ crucified. To the Jews it is a cause of offense, and to the Greeks it is foolishness; but to those who are called—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom, because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For you see your calling, brethren…” (vs 22-26).
 
God is starting from the bottom up; He’s not working from the top down
 
“…that there are not many who are wise according to the flesh, not many who are powerful, not many who are highborn among you. Rather, God has chosen the foolish things of the world” (vs 26-27). So, why should we get all excited and uplifted in importance?
 
“…so that He might put to shame those who are wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things” (v 27)--because they’re going to be converted and resurrected, and become the sons and daughters of God! They can take care of any of the strong things of man--period! Hands down!
 
Verse 28: “And the lowborn of the world, and the despised has God chosen--even the things that are counted as nothing—in order that He might bring to nothing the things that are.”
 
Think about that! When you go on a trip and you see all of these people. Get on a plane and there are three seats on each side, and you’ve got to be thin to walk down the isle. When I get on a plane, I always tease the stewardess and say, ’You know, this isle is just too wide.’
 
What’s going on that everyone on planes and trains will be thinking about? Best laid plans of men? The great wisdom of men? The Coronavirus! They have shut down eleven cities in China. Have you watched the news on what they eat? They had last year swine flu where they had to kill 150-million swine!
 
This year they have the Coronavirus! How did that start? Well, it showed the picture of the food that they eat: alligators, snakes, rats, koalas, donkeys, horses, cats, dogs and salamanders!
 
What did God say? See what happens with all the ‘wisdom’ that they have? Everything that they’re doing over there, and they think that they’re so wise, but they’re so dishonest because they steal everything.
 
What is the basic command of God? These are the foods that you shall eat…! and These are the foods that you shall not eat…! Why? Because He loves us and He doesn’t want us to get sick with things like Coronavirus!
 
The city where the Coronavirus started is Wuhan, China, and that’s where the Chinese have the biological warfare. So, there is some thought that maybe some of the Coronavirus escaped from there. Then they also can have a tactic where they can send people who are infected to other countries to spread it to them. Just think how absolutely fragile the whole system is! Highly developed and everything dependant upon electricity, and the wisdom of men in peace and in war!
 
Let’s see what God wants us to do, because there’s only one Gospel and many false gospels.
 
Verse 26: “For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many who are wise according to the flesh, not many who are powerful, not many who are highborn among you. Rather, God has chosen…” (vs 26-27). That’s interesting! Not called, but chosen! Chosen comes from repentance and baptism!
 
“…God has chosen the foolish things of the world, so that He might put to shame those who are wise…” (v 27).
 
How does that work today? When we see all the foolishness of what men are doing, especially in this impeachment thing, we can see where they’re absolutely wrong!
 
“…and God has chosen the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things. And the lowborn of the world, and the despised has God chosen--even the things that are counted as nothing--in order that He might bring to nothing the things that are” (vs 27-28).
 
The Gospel of God is the same yesterday, today and forever, as the Bible says.
 
Colossians 1:21: “For you were once alienated… [from God] …and enemies in your minds by wicked works…”
 
That’s why conversion is in the mind, not outward actions alone. Some of the greatest con-artists can have such wonderful actions on the outside, but they do it to deceive! So, God wants it on the inside. That’s where the wickedness comes that God is looking to.
 
“…but now He has reconciled you in the body of His flesh through death, to present you Holy and unblamable and unimpeachable before Him; if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which you have heard, and which was proclaimed in all the creation that is under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant” (vs 21-23).
 
The Gospel has gone out and continues to go out! Where is the Gospel contained? In the whole Bible! That’s the Gospel! If we think about how many different ways that it’s out there now, it’s quite a thing! Let’s see something about the Gospel and the Truth!
 
1-John 2:15: “Do not love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, because everything that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pretentious pride of physical life—is not from the Father, but is from the world” (vs 15-16). Who is the ‘god of this world’? Satan the devil!
 
Verse 17: “And the world and its lust is passing away… [that is in our lives, down through the generations to the return of Christ] …but the one who does the will of God abides forever.”
 
This tells you what happened in the last part of the apostolic age. We will see how the Church was literally coming apart.
 
Verse 18: “Little children, it is the last time…” For the apostolic age it was the last time, but that doesn’t mean that it is the end of the world!
 
“…and just as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have risen up, by which we know that it is the last time. They went out from among us, but they were not of us because if they were of us, they would have remained with us; nevertheless, they left that they might be exposed to show that they all were not of us” (vs 18-19).’
 
·         How did that happen?
·         What did they do?
·         What did they change?
·         What were the Jews preaching? Christ is an imposter!
·         What were the Greeks preaching? You don’t need to keep the Law!
 
Both of those elements are here in this Epistle of John!
 
Verse 20: “But you have the anointing from the Holy One, and you have knowledge of all things pertaining to salvation.” Obviously, you don’t have knowledge of all things! This can only be of the things for salvation!
 
Verse 21: “I did not write to you because you do not know the Truth, but because you know it, and you understand that not one lie comes from the Truth.” That’s why you prove everything!
 
·         What’s the greatest sin of human beings in God’s Word? To change it! To add their own traditions!
·         What happens with that? It’s like it was during the days of Jesus:
ü  you make the void the Word of God
ü  you make void the commandments of God
 
because of traditions! Yet, when people do that, and they accept it as from God, they are convinced that they are right, and the whole thing is upside down. When they look at those who are in the Churches of God, who keep the commandments of God, Sabbath and the Holy Days.
 
Revelation 14:12: “…here are the ones who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” That tells us that it takes faith to keep the commandments, the faith that comes from God!
 
1-John 2:22: “Who is the liar if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ?…. [that’s what the Jews did] …He is the antichrist—the one who denies the Father and the Son.” Now it’s both!
 
The Jews want a sign and the Greeks want wisdom (1-Cor.).
 
Verse 23: “Anyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either.” Jesus said, ‘I know that the Word of God does not dwell in you’ (book of John)!
 
Verse 24: “Therefore, let what you have heard from the beginning dwell in you; if what you have heard from the beginning is dwelling in you, then you will be dwelling in the Son and in the Father.”
 
What have the Catholics done? There are three major things that they have done!
 
1.       Sunday-keeping, rejecting the Sabbath
2.       trinity, saying there are three Gods
3.       elevation of Mary to the Queen of Heaven and be the mediatrix for human beings replacing Christ
 
The Catholics who are devoted… and there are a lot of evil spirits that keep them in bondage to those things. Another one is:
 
4.       idols
 
Verse 25: “And this is the promise that He has promised us: eternal life. These things I have written to you concerning those who are leading you astray” (vs 25-26). Coming along with interesting sounding doctrines!
 
Verse 27: “But you yourselves have dwelling in you the anointing that you received from Him; and you do not have need of anyone to indoctrinate you… [in other teachings] …for the same anointing instructs you in all spiritual things… [plus we have the Word of God now] …and is true, and is not a lie; and if you do exactly as it has taught you, you will be dwelling in Him. And now, little children, dwell in Him, so that when He is manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame before Him at His coming. If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been begotten by Him” (vs 27-29). That’s the complete thing with that!
 
2-John is filled with love, Truth and commandment-keeping! Every verse there has that!
 
2-John 10: “If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine…”--the doctrine of Christ: His death and resurrection and ascension to heaven that He is the Son of God.
 
“…do not receive him into your house, and do not say to him, ‘Welcome!’ For anyone who says, ‘Welcome!’ to him is partaking in his evil works” (vs 10-11).
 
How bad was this insurrection within the Church?
 
Verse 12: “I have many things to write, but I do not wish to convey these things to you with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face in order that our joy may be completely full.” That’s how all of these different doctrines came about!
 
Let’s see what Paul writes concerning these things; 1-Timothy 1:2: “To Timothy, my true son in the faith: Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.” Paul has something like this in every one of his epistles, because he is writing what God wants him to write!
 
Verse 3: When I was going to Macedonia, I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, in order that you might solemnly charge some not to teach other doctrines… [teachings] …nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which lead to empty speculations rather than to edification from God, which is in faith” (vs 3-4).
 
People can speculate about a lot of things. Sometimes you can speculate, and you can guess the Truth, but unless you prove that it is Truth after you have speculated and you’ve determined it might be true, then it’s possible that it could not be true.
 
Verse 5: “Now, the purpose of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and genuine faith.” There can’t be anything greater than this one little verse to define conversion!
 
Ø  “…love out of a pure heart…” What does God want to do? Change our heart and mind, in good conscience; not devious and deceitful!
Ø  “…and genuine faith”--If you truly believe in God the Father and Jesus Christ! And you truly believe the Word of God!
 
Verse 6: “From which some, having missed the mark, have turned aside unto vain jangling.”
 
Do you remember the man who was a Greek scholar? Stavrinides! {of the former WCG}. That was the wisdom of this world and Satan the devil. That was the biggest test against the Church, because they had become so lackadaisical and bringing in too much of the world. That test came along and he, in his Greek philosophy, changed the nature of God! When you do that, you’re denying the Father and denying the Son!
 
Verse 7: “Desiring to be teachers of the Law, neither understanding what they are saying, nor what they are strongly affirming.”
 
Why? Because they believe a lie with the same conviction that they should believe the Truth!
 
Verse 8: “Now we know that the law is good, if anyone uses it lawfully”--meaning not living in transgression!
 
So, here comes along Sunday-keeping. That was very appealing to a lot of the Greeks. They did not want to be counted in with the Jews, because if you’re keeping the commandments of God, you’re counted with the Jews! The Jews profess to keep the commandments of God, but they don’t keep the commandments of God the way that God says.
 
So, when someone came along and said, ‘Look, why should you suffer this persecution. We can meet on Sunday and the Romans won’t come and get us.’ A lot of people said, ‘I don’t know about that.’ Come and try it and you’ll like it, and see if it’s spiritual or not. Guess what? They had enough of the Truth… Isn’t that the way it always starts out, with enough of the Truth? Gradually, it metamorphoses! Look where it’s grown to!
 
Verse 9: “Understanding this: that law is not enacted for a righteous man…” If you’re righteous, that tells you that you’re keeping the commandments of God!
 
·         righteous because you have the Spirit of God
·         righteous because you’ve had your sins forgiven
 
“…but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for slayers of fathers and slayers of mothers, for murderers” (v 9). Today we can add abortion ad infinitum!
 
Sidebar: Last year worldwide, guess how many abortions there were? 42-million! All of that is being stored up for God and Christ’s returning!
 
Verse 10: “For fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing that is opposed to sound doctrine.” Think about that! Sound doctrine and Law-keeping go hand-in-glove!
 
Verse 11: “According to the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.”
 
Verse 16: “But for this reason I was shown mercy in order that in me first Jesus Christ might demonstrate all long-suffering, for an example to those who would afterwards believe on Him unto eternal life. Now to the King of eternity, the incorruptible, invisible, and only wise God, be honor and glory into the ages of eternity. Amen” (vs 16-17).
 
Notice that Paul tells Timothy to hold the faith and remember his ordination:
 
Verse 19: “Holding to the faith and a good conscience. For some, having cast aside a good conscience...”
 
If you believe a lie, what happens? Sooner or later you have a corrupted conscience! That means that sin no longer affects you in the same way that it would if you had the Spirit of God and the Laws of God. You become inured to it.
 
“…have made shipwreck in regard to the faith; of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I turned over to Satan in order that they may learn not to blaspheme” (vs 19-20).
 
1-Timothy 3:14: “These things I am writing to you, hoping to come to you shortly; but if I should delay, you have these things in writing, so that you may know how one is obligated to conduct oneself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the Truth” (vs 14-15).
 
That’s what you should always find in the congregations of God, the Truth! The Truth of God; the truth of things.
 
Verse 16: “And undeniably, great is the mystery of Godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the Gentiles, was believed on in the world, was received up in glory.”
 
Look at the difference. Here comes the enemy, and remember that Satan the devil is always the enemy. Satan the devil is going to come after the Church with great ferocity in the future. All you have to do is look at the atheists, the agnostics and those who can’t tolerate any form of Christianity. They are going to be very dangerous in the future.
 
1-Timothy 4:1: “Now, the Spirit tells us explicitly that in the latter times some shall apostatize from the faith, and shall follow deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.”
 
There are teachings and doctrines of demons, and many of them will sound very good!
 
Verse 2: “Speaking lies in hypocrisy, their consciences having been cauterized with a hot iron; forbidding to marry…” (vs 2-3).
 
Look at all the problems that has caused the Catholic Church. That’s just one. The only time the Catholics are right is when they read the Scriptures correctly. Every other thing they are totally wrong!
 
“…and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful, even by those who know the Truth” (v 3). Tie in Lev. 11 and Deut. 14!
 
Verse 4: “For every creature of God designated for human consumption is good, and nothing to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving.”
 
Protestants read this and say, ‘Let’s have our barbeque pork, and our shrimp, lobster, clams and all of this sort of thing.’
 
Verse 5: “Because it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer.” So, what God says not to eat, don’t eat! What God says is good to eat, eat! And you’ll probably not come down with the Coronavirus!
 
Verse 13: “Until I come, devote yourself to reading, to encouragement, and to doctrine. Do not neglect the spiritual gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elderhood. Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them so that your growth in the faith may be apparent to all. Be diligent with yourself and with the doctrines; continue in them. For in doing this, you will save both yourself and those who hear you” (vs 13-16). Look at the responsibility that Paul lays upon the ministry!
 
That’s a very important things, because Paul wrote in Rom. 2, to the Jews, ‘You who preach the Law, why are you breaking the Law? You who think you can teach others, don’t you teach yourself?’ That’s why an elder is going to be held accountable for everything. So, he has got to stay:
 
·         true
·         faithful
·         yielded to God
·         doing the things that God wants him to do
 
1-Timothy 6:3: “If anyone teaches any different doctrine, and does not adhere to sound words, even those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine that is according to Godliness, he is proud and knows nothing. Rather, he has a morbid attraction to questions and disputes over words, from which come envy, arguments, blasphemy, wicked suspicions, vain reasonings of men who have been corrupted in their minds and are destitute of the Truth--men who believe that gain is Godliness. From such withdraw yourself” (vs 3-5).
 
That’s what God has been doing with the Church ever since the big blowup! How many will stick with the Truth? 
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News, The 144,000 and The Unpardonable Sin - Second Half - by Fred R. Coulter

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News, The 144,000 and The Unpardonable Sin (SECOND HALF)
Fred R. Coulter--
​December 7, 2019
There is something unique in Rev. 14. We will see that there’s a difference between the 144,000 in Rev. 14 and the 144,000 in Rev. 7. Rev. 7 clearly identifies the 12 tribes of Israel, and the                                               great innumerable multitude.
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There is something unique in Rev. 14. We will see that there’s a difference between the 144,000 in Rev. 14 and the 144,000 in Rev. 7. Rev. 7 clearly identifies the 12 tribes of Israel, and the great innumerable multitude.
 
Revelation 14:1: “And I looked, and I beheld the Lamb standing on Mount Sion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads.” You don’t have that in Rev. 7!
 
Verse 2: “Then I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of great thunder; and I heard the sound of lyre players playing their lyres. And they were singing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one was able to learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth” (vs 2-3).
 
That’s an interesting phrase! This doesn’t give us any time period; no time period. Whereas, Rev. 7 it’s right there right after two years of the Tribulation. They’re redeemed from the earth.
 
Verse 4: “These are the ones who were not defiled with women…” Who is the worst woman of all? Babylon the Great! This has to refer to churches.
 
“…for they are virgins…” (v 4). None in Rev. 7 are called virgins! What does this mean? That the 144,000 here never had a problem with apostasy at all! They always believe God and kept the commandments of God.
 
“…they are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They were purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb” (v 4). Not the firstfruits, but as firstfruits!
 
Verse 5: “And no guile was found in their mouths; for they are blameless before the throne of God.”
 
Can we determine something from this if we examine the seven churches in Rev. 2 & 3?
 
Church of Ephesus: Revelation 2:4: “Nevertheless, I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Therefore, remember from where you have fallen, and repent… [of sin] …and do the first works; for if you do not, I will come to you quickly; and I will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent” (vs 4-5).
 
You would have to say that those in this group of the Church could not be called virgins, because they left their first love.
 
·         What did they do?
·         Where did they go?
·         How did this come about?
 
We don’t know, but it’s probably adding things in. remember that one of the things that John wrote in 1-John 5, ‘Little children, flee idols.’ Why would he says that? Because some were bringing in idols! We could conclude that of the 144,000 in Rev. 14, perhaps very few came out of the Church of Ephesus.
 
Church of Smyrna: Verse 9: “‘I know your works and tribulation and poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who declare themselves to be Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. Do not fear any of the things that you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life” (vs 9-10). Not one bit of correction! He didn’t tell them to repent.
 
Church of Pergamos: Verse 14: “But I have a few things against you because you have there those who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication.” If you commit fornication, you’re not a virgin! So, they had those sins.
 
Verse 15: “Moreover, you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.”
 
So, they had quite a few problems here: idols, wrongly taking the Passover, because the Eucharist of the Catholic Church is called the Sacrifice of the Mass!
 
They literally, in what they do, are saying that Christ is crucified again, because you get His blood and flesh right through eating the bread and drinking the wine, if the priest allows you to do it! Some priests drink so much that they’re almost drunk when they’re done.
 
Verse 16: “Repent! For if you do not repent, I will come to you quickly, and will make war against them with the sword of My mouth.”
 
They were so bad that Christ had to fight against them! That’s quite a thing when you consider it. We can conclude that those at Pergamos could not be considered virgins.
 
Church of Thyatira: Verse 20: “But I have a few things against you, because you allow the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce My servants into committing fornication and eating things sacrificed to idols…. [sin] …And I gave her time to repent of her fornication, but she did not repent” (vs 20-21). This has to be talking about the Catholic Church!
 
It’s interesting that the Council of Trent was setup by the Catholics to try and combat the rising insurgency of the Protestants. They actually had some Catholics factions of that Council who said, ‘We ought to go by Scriptures only.’
 
There was the opportunity to repent, but what happened? Just like what is written in Rome’s Challenge to the Protestants: Cardinal Gibbon said that they concluded, ‘Since the Protestants kept Sunday, and Sunday was a Catholic institution or tradition, therefore, they were not keeping Scriptures only.’ They were following tradition and Scripture! ‘So, we will keep our traditions and follow Scripture.’
 
But the way they follow Scripture is very little! So, you can’t say that those in Thyatira were virgins.
 
Verse 21: “And I gave her time to repent of her fornication, but she did not repent. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their works” (vs 20-21).
 
What eventually happened to the Catholic Church? In Europe it was very powerful in getting into the 1000-1400s and began eroding in the 1500s by the Protestants!
 
How did God eventually take care of the Catholic Church? Garibaldi and the armies of Italy in the 1870s revolted against the Catholic Church, because all of the areas of Italy were broken down into provinces that were run by the Catholic Church. So, he took all of them away and made the Catholics and the popes stay in the Vatican.
 
From that time until Mussolini, the pope never left the Vatican. No repentance! That’s how God came against them. It was not until Mussolini where they had the Treaty of Lateran when Mussolini recognized the pope that the pope was able to travel outside the Vatican area.
 
Verse 23: “And I will kill her children with death…” That’s exactly what happened when Garibaldi took over all of the Catholic Church and all of their territories in Italy!
 
“…and all the churches shall know that I am He Who searches the reins and hearts; and I will give to each of you according to your works. But to you I say, and to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, and who have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak…” (vs 23-24).
 
So, Thyatira was one of the best and one of the worst. You can’t say that those of Thyatira were virgins.
 
Church of Sardis: Revelation 3:1: “…I know your works, and that you have a name as if you are alive, but are dead.” They don’t keep the doctrines the way that they should and are about to die.
 
Verse 5—if you keep the few things remaining, “…I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”
 
Church of Philadelphia: Verse 10: “Because you have kept the Word of My patience, I also will keep you from the time of temptation, which is about to come upon the whole world to try those who dwell on the earth.” They’re not told to repent here either.
 
Church of Laodicea: They’re told to repent!
 
So, out of the seven churches, only two were what you would call virgins!
 
Speculation: Do those who fall into that category the ones of the 144, 000 in Rev. 14? Will they actually be the Bride of Christ? Remember, when the Corinthians were sinning, Paul said, ‘Behold, I want to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ!
 
Well the Corinthians can’t because they’ve had all their sins.
 
·         Do you think that Christ would marry a non-virgin?
·         Will those of the 144,000 be the Bride of Christ and all the rest of us are the guests? Don’t know!
 
I tell you how I first thought of it: I performed a wedding in Fairfield and it went well. Then we had the wedding supper. It was very interesting and everybody was sitting around talking and having a good time. Then the band struck up the music and the bride and groom danced. I thought to myself, all the rest of us out here are guests. I wondered if that’s the way it’s going to be with Christ and the Bride? Don’t know!
 
That’s just speculation, but it may be true! It may be true in degree, but Who’s going to make that choice? God the Father and Jesus Christ!
 
Wouldn’t Abraham and David be part of the Bride of Christ? I don’t think so, I think they will be at a higher level! Much higher!
 
How would you separate the guests and the Bride from Christ’s time until today? God knows! He has to make the decision; it’s not up to us!
 
But we can that those of Rev. 14 are distinctly different from those of Rev. 7. In looking at that, since they’re called virgins… If they weren’t called that, you wouldn’t suspect that they would only be the Bride of Christ! But since it says that they are, and we read Rev. 2 & 3, and we only find two churches that we can classify as virgins, then there may be something to it. We don’t know!
 
It’s two-fold down through the centuries and at the end-time as well. We don’t know exactly how all of that is going to work. That’s the only distinction that we can make here with this.
 
The Unpardonable Sin:
 
A lot of people feel sometimes that they have committed the unpardonable sin and they’re really grievously upset and worrying about their salvation. Let’s see what Christ said about the unpardonable sin.
 
It’s very interesting with what Jesus says here; Matthew 12:30: “The one who is not with Me is against Me…” In another place He says that ‘the one who is for Me is not against Me.’
 
That’s those in the world who are carnal and not called, but are for God and not against Him, they’re just in the world.
 
“…and the one who does not gather with Me scatters. Because of this, I say to you, every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men except the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit; that shall not be forgiven to men” (vs 30-31). Why? Who sends the Spirit? God the Father and Jesus Christ!
 
We have the begettal to be the son or daughter of God, and we have the Holy Spirit to develop the mind of Christ! So, those are the two aspects of it.
 
·         What happens when someone commits the unpardonable sin?
·         Would they be grievous and repenting? No!
 
Verse 32: “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him…”
 
·         What did Jesus say when He was up on the cross? Father, forgiven them for they know not what they do!
·         How treacherous were they? As treacherous as could be!
 
“…but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming age” (v 32). There you find the second resurrection! There are two parts to the second resurrection:
 
1.       those who have not committed the unpardonable sin
2.       those who have
 
Those who have committed the unpardonable sin will go into the Lake of Fire. Those who have not will have an opportunity for salvation. What kind of attitude does someone have who commits the unpardonable sin? They will:
 
·         be hateful toward God
·         reject the Holy Spirit of God
·         reject the Word of God
·         be set in their ways and bitter in animosity toward God and will not repent
 
Remember the DVD message called The Delusion of Drugs. There’s a family trying to redeem a son, and the relatives were there, too. They pleaded with him, ‘Please, won’t you come back. Please!’ He said no! ‘Please, we’ll help you.’ No! No! No! and he got up and walked out.
 
If you haven’t watched that first segment, that is something! That shows you as close as you can get to the unpardonable sin. Absolutely no thought of repentance.
 
How bad can a person get into and still repent and receive forgiveness from God. What are two classic ones from the Old Testament? Manasseh! Look at what he did! He became king when he was very young, and things were already very corrupt.
 
2-Chronicles 33:1: “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.”
 
You can be thankful that we have Presidents that can only be in office eight years.
 
Verse 2: “But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel, for he built again the high places, which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, ‘In Jerusalem shall My name be forever’” (vs 2-4). Manasseh was really going at it!
 
Verse 5: “And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. And he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He also observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger. And he set a carved image, the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, ‘In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. Nor will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land, which I have set apart for your fathers—if only they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses’” (vs 5-8). That’s quite a thing that he was doing!
 
Verse 9: “But Manasseh led astray Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and caused them to do worse than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to His people, but they would not listen” (vs 9-10). He spoke through Jeremiah!
 
Verse 11: “Wherefore, the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon.” Because Assyria ruled Babylon at that time!
 
Verse 12: “And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. And he prayed to Him, and He was entreated of him and heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God” (vs 12-13).
 
So, here we have a situation where this deep repentance was forgiven. The rest of the story is that he cleaned up the area around the temple and got rid of all the sacrifices to the other gods and so forth.
 
How many times was he repenting during that time of his repentance? It couldn’t be just one prayer! It would have to be really abhorring himself!’
 
Look at what Job had to go through before he abhorred himself! In a way he did worse than Manasseh, because he did everything that God said, but he took the credit for it all! He was, in his rebellion against God and in iniquity Job was worshipping himself instead of God! He even thought that he was on par with God, because he wanted to have a judge come and declare Job’s righteousness to God and settle the matter.
 
In a way—though Manasseh was more evil in what he was doing—Job was worse because Job had all the Truth, and yet, took the credit to himself instead giving all credit to God.
 
I’m sure that it was quite a spell that he was repenting, confessing and everything like that. It wasn’t just a one time prayer, ‘O Lord, forgive me.’ You can’t just have one small prayer and everything is forgiven. Read Psa. 51; you abhor yourself, you abhor your sins. You see that you have sinned against God greatly. That the only thing in you is nothing but sin! Then there will be forgiveness!
 
A little correction: Jeremiah wasn’t calling Manasseh to repentance, that was before, because Jeremiah started in the 12th or 13th year of Josiah.
 
Matthew 12:32: “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming age. Either make the tree good…” (vs 32-33). What is that likened to? Repentance!
 
“…and the fruit good, or make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for a tree is known by its fruit” (v 33). If it’s corrupt and unredeemable, that’s the unpardonable sin. There’s no way out of that!
 
It’s just like in the segment on Delusion of Drugs, there was not talking to this man to get him to stop drugs, to quit doing what he was doing. He said no to his mother, father, his aunt and sister. Then he got up and walked out.
 
Another example of the unpardonable sin is Satan the devil. He has not and will not repent. His ultimate goal is always to be like God, the Most High. He won’t repent.
 
Those who have never been converted, it’s possible that some will refuse to repent. But the unpardonable sin in Heb. 6 talks about those who have repented, receive the Holy Spirit and then quit!
 
Hebrews 6:4: “For it is impossible… [Greek means there is no power possible] …for those who were once enlightened, and who personally obtained the heavenly gift, and became partakers of the Holy Spirit.” The heavenly gift is forgiveness, the gift of grace!
 
Verse 5: “And who have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they have fallen away… [to apostatize] …to renew them again unto repentance…” (vs 5-6)--nothing will get to them!
 
That depends on free choice. Will they repent? If they repent then they haven’t committed the unpardonable sin!
 
Manasseh probably came as close as anyone to committing the unpardonable sin, but he repented. But here it is that there’s no way “…to renew them again unto repentance…” Look at Cain; he did not repent! It showed he didn’t repent. He said, ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ He didn’t fall down on his knees and say, ‘O Lord, I killed him; I got angry.’ Esau didn’t repent of selling his birthright. But he wasn’t converted. Here we’re talking about converted people.
 
“…seeing that they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves, and are publicly holding Him in contempt” (v 6). The attitude is complete incalcitrant and contemptuous attitude toward God!
 
Verse 7: “For the ground that soaks up rain coming often upon it, and also produces useful plants for those for whom it is tilled, receives a blessing from God. But that which brings forth thorns and thistles is rejected and near to being cursed, the end of which is for burning” (vs 7-8)--which is the Lake of Fire! That’s the attitude of the unpardonable sin. There’s no way to bring them to repentance:
 
·         no remorse
·         no feeling
·         no nothing
 
Just hard-hearted, incalcitrant against God, against the Father, holding God in contempt, Christ in contempt and rejecting everything of God.
 
How many people will be that way? Don’t know! But I know of one man who may have come mighty, mighty close to it. But I have no idea. That’s why God judges the heart; He knows. There’s no way that we can even determine if someone has or not, because God alone knows!
 
Verse 9: “But, although we speak these things, beloved, we are persuaded of better things concerning you, even the fruits that accompany salvation. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labor of love by which you have showed honor to His name, in that you have served the saints and are continuing to serve them. But we earnestly desire that every one of you be demonstrating the same diligence, unto the full assurance of the hope until the end; so that you do not become lazy, but that you be imitators of those who through faith and steadfast endurance inherit the promises” (vs 9-12). Then Paul goes back talking about Abraham!
 
Those are the odds and ends that I wanted to cover today. I would like to, in January, do a series in Galatians, because Galatians is one of the most difficult books in the New Testament, especially the way it’s translated in the King James. It has led many people to believe that you don’t have to keep the Law and that it has been abolished. But it actually teaches the opposite! 
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(FIRST HALF OF THE MESSAGE)
Scriptural References:
1)      1-Corinthians 15:20-23
2)      Daniel 7:13-25, 27
3)      Revelation 15:2-5, 8
4)      Revelation 19:9
5)      Hosea 5:10-15
6)      Hosea 6:1-2
7)      Revelation 6:12-17
8)      Revelation 7:3
9)      Jeremiah 18:1-10
10)  Revelation 7:3
11)  Ephesians 1:13
12)  Revelation 7:3-4, 9, 13-15
13)  Revelation 14:1-5
14)  Revelation 2:4-5, 9-10, 14-16, 20-24
15)  Revelation 3:1, 5, 10
16)  Matthew 12:30-32
17)  2 Chronicles 33:1-13
18)  Matthew 12:32-33
19)  Hebrews 6:4-12
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
·         Ecclesiastes 1
·         Deuteronomy 16:1-8
·         Revelation 13; 17
·         Hebrews 2
·         Matthew 22
·         Romans 13
·         Isaiah 41; 44
·         Ezekiel 9
·         1 John 5
·         Psalm 51
 
Also referenced:
Articles:
·         World Leader of The Salvation Army General Brian Peddle Meets His Holiness Pope Francis {https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr081119}
·         Pope Francis Declares that Christian Fundamentalists Are “A Scourge” {https://grandmageri422.me/2019/12/04/pope-francis-declares-that-christian-fundamentalists-are-a-scourge/}
·         British Court in Transgender Case, Bible Belief is “Incompatible with Human Dignity” {https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-court-in-transgender-case-bible-belief-is-incompatible-with-human-dignity}
·         ACLU Sues to Make Sure that Unborn Babies Can be Dismembered piece by piece in Cruel Inhumane Abortions
{https://dcdirtylaundry.com/the-aclu-sues-to-make-sure-unborn-babies-can-be-dismembered-piece-by-piece-in-cruel-inhumane-abortions/}
 
§  Sermon: Daniel/Revelation Prophecies Being Fulfilled
§  Booklet: Rome’s Challenge to the Protestants by Cardinal Gibbon
§  DVD: Delusion of Drugs
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Overview of Prophecy #2 - Second Half - by Fred Coulter

12/9/2019

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Overview of Prophecy
#2 Daniel/Revelation
Part #1​
Transcript Second Half
By: Fred R. Coulter--
February 13, 2016
In the Bible we see this: the Bible tells us a summary first, then gives us the details; after the summary! The details might not necessarily come in sequence right after the other, because we know the Bible is put together 'here a little and there a little,' etc.
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  • How is every eye going to see Him?
  • That is those who are living when Jesus returns?
  • What does this do for the 'secret rapture'?
The 'secret rapture' is that we're all going to be taken out before the Tribulation begins, and 'all you dumb doe-dos who are not with us will go through the Tribulation, and we are so glad to escape.' No! It won't work!
Let's take the last week from Dan. 9—seven years—and he makes an agreement and in the middle of the seven-year period and the Tribulation begins. What starts the Tribulation that we've already covered? The abomination that makes desolate stands in the Holy place! That's when the Tribulation begins.
We have the seals that are opened; there was a white horse and this was not Christ; this was the false christ. 
Revelation 6:2 afaithfulversion.org/revelation-6/: "And I looked, and behold, there was a white horse; and the one who was sitting on it had a bow, and a crown was given to him; and he went out conquering, and to conquer." This has to be the false prophet bringing all the religions of the world together.
It's possible—speculation—that that seal has been opened with all the events that are taking place. How long that runs we don't know. This has to be before that 70th week.
Verse 3: "And when He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, 'Come and see.' And another horse went out that was red; and power was given to the one sitting on it to take peace from the earth…" (vs 3-4). That has to be the beginning the Great Tribulation, which then has to be in the middle of the 7-year period when the Great Tribulation begins. That has to be right there.
Let's come to the sixth seal, and we will discover some other prophecies that help us understand and put it together in the timeframe within that last three and half-year period. That why the sermon series: Daniel/Revelation. It's a big, thick series with 40 sermons[transcriber's correction]. This will include what is there, but we may have an improvement on what I had given at that time. Here's an event that takes place that we will see that is described also in Matt. 24:
Verse 12: "And when He opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as the hair of sackcloth, and the moon became as blood; and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its untimely figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the heaven departed like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the powerful men, and every bondman, and every free man hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains; and they said to the mountains and to the rocks, 'Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him Who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the great day of His wrath has come, and who has the power to stand?'" (vs 12-17).
Let's take this sequence backward: How long is a day in prophecy in fulfillment? One year! This is the last year that comes. That means that if you have three and a half years, and there's one year left, how many years have passed before v 12? Two!
What takes place in Rev. 7 right after the heavens roll back as a scroll? The sealing of the 144,000 and the great innumerable multitude! The sealing of the 144,000 are from the children of Israel, the physical children of Israel!
  • How do we know the events that take place?
  • What is going to happen to Israel when the Tribulation begins?
  • They are going to be under the domination of the beast power!
  • They are going to be in captivity; wherever they are!
The book of Hosea was written concerning the ten northern tribes and Ephraim. They are called the house of Israel. Zech. 12 talks about the Jews and those in Jerusalem. They are included in Rev. 7.
Hosea 5:13: "When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound… [it's going to get very bad for Britain and the Israelis in Jerusalem] …then Ephraim went to the Assyrian and sent to King Contentious…. [the beast power] …Yet, he could not heal you nor cure you of your wound… [they're taken into captivity instead] …for I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a strong lion to the house of Judah…." (vs 13-14).
Both are included in the 144,000, although Ephraim is not named directly, but comes under the name of Joseph.
"…I, even I, will tear and go away. I will take away, and none shall rescue him. I will go; I will return to My place until they confess their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will seek Me earnestly" (vs 14-15). There they are in captivity.
  • What do they do in captivity?
  • What does Israel always do when they get in trouble?
  • They call out to the Lord!
What you have to do is read the history of 1st and 2nd Samuel, Judges, Joshua and 1st and 2nd Kings, and so forth. Whenever they got in trouble they cried to the Lord, and the Lord saved them! What happened when 9/11 happened here in America. We all got 'religious' for three weeks!
They will repent, and this—Rev. 6—where the 144,000 are sealed and converted in the last year of the three and a half year Tribulation.
Hosea 6:1:1: "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…" (vs 1-2). A day is as a year in prophecy. We have two days, which is two years.
"…He will revive us…" (v 2). Would you not say that the sealing of the 144,000 is reviving them? Yes, indeed! So, the Tribulation against them is two years, and we will see that in Matt. 24.
"…in the third day… [the beginning of the third year] …He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight" (v 2). That's exactly where Rev. 7 starts; right there, right when this happens!
That's why I've said that after two years the Tribulation against Israel is released. There is still a year and a half left for the rest of the world! We will answer both questions there in Matt. 24:
  • How will every eye see Him?
  • The ending of the Tribulation after two years?
  • How it will take place?
Matt. 24:15—the beginning of the Tribulation. Verse 21 confirms that. Then we have those saying there are the Christ, false christs and everything right there; don't believe it.
Again, we have the pattern of the Bible, which follows all the way through the Bible: What is going to happen is described first; the details come afterward. That's the way God does everything. What did God say to Israel? If you obey My voice, then you'll be a nation of priests to Me. They said, 'Yeah, we'll do it.' Look at all the details that came after they said they would.
Likewise it describes what is going to happen first, and then the details concerning it come afterward.
Matthew 24:27: "For as the light of day, which comes forth from the east and shines as far as the west, so also shall the coming of the Son of man be."
You've heard me say about a second sun. If there is a second sun, will every eye see that? Yes! For how long? We'll answer that question in a little bit.
Verse 28: "For wherever the carcass may be, there will the eagles be gathered together." Is that describing the resurrection? I don't know! That verse has been an enigma to me all my life.
Verse 29: "But immediately after the tribulation of those days…" Against whom? The children of Israel (Hos. 5-6 and Rev. 7). That's just against Israel.
"…the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." That's what happened.
We read in Rev. 6 that the heavens roll back as a scroll. BAM! Right there at the end of the two-year period and the beginning of the third-year period. What did it say? The stars will fall, the heavens will darken and so forth!
Verse 30: "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven…" What is that sign? Verse 27 tells us what it is; the light of day! That's the sign of the Son of man that shall appear in heaven.
"…and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn…" (v 30). That's when they begin fighting God and Christ!
"…and they shall see the Son of man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory" (v 30)—so every eye shall see Him!
Then it comes down to the resurrection, v 31: "And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."
That is like looking down at the earth from heaven. There are going to be saints from everywhere in the whole world, and the angels are going to bring them.
When does that take place? Here's where we bring in the Calculated Hebrew Calendar. We'll answer some other questions and see the pattern: God gives us the summary first, then the details later. Or it is a prophecy from another part of the Bible that you put together with prophecies in another part of the Bible.
Imagine what the earth is going to be like when the heavens roll back as a scroll and the whole earth is shaken; earthquakes everywhere!
  • When did God make Israel His people? When He gave the Law at Mt. Sinai and that was on Pentecost!
  • When did the Church officially begin? On Pentecost!
based on the Pentecost thing:
  • When is the resurrection?
Since we're the firstfruits of God, remember this: The Hebrew calendar is calculated beginning with the seventh month!When you count the Holy Days, Pentecost 'the last day.'
What did Jesus say? I will raise you up the last day (John 6)! Pentecost is the last day of the 50-day count. Pentecost is the last Holy Day beginning with Trumpets:
  • Trumpets
  • Atonement
  • Tabernacles
  • Last Great Day
  • First day of Unleavened Bread
  • Last day of Unleavened Bread
  • Pentecost
You add the Passover in and that's eight, but it is the last Holy Day! Since--
  • we have the pattern at Sinai
  • we have the pattern of Acts 2
  • then when you have the sealing of the 144,000
—doesn't it make sense that this would occur on Pentecost?
Let's take this one step further. Rev. 2 & 3, how many churches do we have? Seven! How many weeks to the harvest? Seven! But there's the 50th day!
Rev. 7 represents the 50th day harvest by God at this point. So, this takes place on Pentecost. One year later we have the resurrection of the rest of the saints. Does that make sense? Yes, indeed, because we are firstfruits unto God! We are the Church of the Firstborn! All of those tie together. When you begin to understand things in the Bible you have to include everything. That's why keeping the Holy Days, beginning with the Sabbath, and you keep the Passover so that you're in right standing with God, and then keep the Holy Days, this will add understanding as God gives us understanding.
Right after the heavens roll back as a scroll here is this new sun every day for a year, every day for a year every eye will see it. What happens when people get used to something? They just take it for granted! 'Oh well, the heavens were shaken up and this is just a new body that's in orbit around the earth now.'
Here's what happens: there's great peace and calm after all those earthquakes. Before we get to Rev. 8, what is the rest of the world doing while God is dealing with the 144,000? What do people do after every earthquake? They clean things up! It's going to be so messed up they are going to need the time between Pentecost and Trumpets to get things cleaned up. That is three and a half months; from Pentecost to Trumpets!What happens in Rev. 8? Trumpet plagues! Would those not begin on the Feast of Trumpets? Yes, indeed!
Let's talk about the 144,000 and the great innumerable multitude. They held back the winds so they didn't blow and then God sealed them by an angel. There was nobody there to baptize them, nobody there to preach to them. How are they going to receive the Holy Spirit and be sealed? God is going to send it and an angel is going to administer it.
  • Can God do that? Yes, indeed!
  • Will there be those baptizing people at that time, too? Could very well be, we don't know!
Revelation 7:4 "And I heard the number of those who were sealed: one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel." The first one is Judah, and God says in Zech. 12 that He 'will save the tents of Judah first.' There it is right there.
Did God save the tents of Judah first with the Church when it began? Yes! They were all Jews! 'To the Jew first, then to the Greek, or Gentile.' So, the patterns of God fit all the way through.
There's Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulon, Joseph, Benjamin, and then the great innumerable multitude.
Here we need to answer a question, because it looks like that these people immediately go to the throne of God, but they don't! Why? All those who are Christ's are resurrected at His coming! This is part of His coming, but this is the start of it. He has to come right close to the earth for the resurrection to occur. That has not happened, yet, because that sun is still out there and the earth is turning on its axis.
Verse 9: "After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude… [v 10]: …and they were calling out with a loud voice to Him Who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, saying, 'The salvation of our God has come.' Then all the angels stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, 'Amen. Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power and strength be to our God into the ages of eternity. Amen'" (vs 9-12).
Verse 9 says that they were "…standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and holding palms in their hands." That's the statement that tells what's going to happen. It describes it, but it doesn't happen until the resurrection.
We'll see why in just a minute. There are two verses in Rev. 8 and 9 that tell us that the saints are praying. If you have the Holy Spirit of God you are a saint. So, they don't immediately go to heaven, though it appears that they do with this description, which tells where they will be at the resurrection.
Verse 13: "And one of the elders answered and said to me, 'These who are clothed with white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?' Then I said to him, 'Sir, you know.' And he said to me, 'They are the ones who have come out of the Great Tribulation; and they have washed their robes, and have made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One Who sits on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall not hunger any more, nor shall they thirst any more; neither shall the sun nor the heat fall upon them, because the Lamb Who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them, and will lead them to fountains of living waters; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes'" (vs 13-17).
Notice that the latter part has to do with the new heaven and new earth.
1-Corinthians 15:20: "But now Christ has been raised from the dead; He has become the Firstfruit of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the Firstfruit; then those who are Christ's at His coming" (vs 20-23).
What else has to happen? This also tells us why those in Rev. 7 do not go immediately to the throne of God. What has to happen to make that take place?
Verse 51: "Behold, I show you a mystery: we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed, in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (vs 51-52).
No one is going to the throne of God until the last trumpet, and the 144,000 and the great innumerable multitude are sealed before the first trumpet. They are alive when the last trumpet blows!
Revelation 8:1: "Now, when He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about a half hour. Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them" (vs 1-2). They blow in sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4; then 5 &6; then 7.
No one is going to be raised to come before God before the seventh trumpet. So, when you read Rev. 7 you need to get the time frame understood with other Scriptures, because it looks like—if you just read and end it there—that they immediately go before the throne of God, but they don't!
Verse 3: "And another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar; and much incense was given to him, so that he might offer it with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that was before the throne."
If they had gone to heaven immediately, they wouldn't be on the earth praying, and they wouldn't be just called the saints, they would be the sons of God at that point.
This shows that the 144,000 and the great innumerable multitude are not in heaven, but on the earth and are praying.
Now, there's one other group that is still left that is in a place of safety. They will be praying, as well.

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Daniel and Revelation Prophecies Being Fulfilled, by Fred Coulter (first half)

12/6/2019

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The main kingdoms of the world throughout the history of this age as shown in Scripture
Fred R. Coulter—November 30, 2019
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Greetings, brethren! Welcome to Sabbath services!
 
I have a couple of questions to answer: Someone is now claiming that God the Father will come to the earth at the beginning of the Millennium. Is that true? Whenever you hear something, what are we to do? What does Paul say? Search the Scriptures and prove all things, hold fast to that which is good!
 
So, when you hear a statement: Is it true? Does the Bible verify it? If it does, then it is true. If it is not, the Bible will not verify it, you will know that that’s a wrong interpretation or a false doctrine.
 
1-Corinthians 15:20: “But now Christ has been raised from the dead…” that is verified by:
 
Revelation 1:18[transcriber’s correction], Christ said, “…for I was dead, and behold, I am alive into the ages of eternity…”
 
1-Corinthians 15:20: “...He has become the Firstfruit of those who have fallen asleep.”
 
It’s very interesting, it’s either 1st or 2nd Tim., it says in the Greek that ‘He has annulled death.’ The King James says ‘destroy.’ But annul is a better word, because it means to take the past and make it as it never existed.
 
Verse 21: “For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die… [no one has escaped that, yet; not even Christ] …so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order… [What are the orders?]: …Christ the Firstfruit; then those who are Christ’s at His coming. Afterwards the end comes…” (vs 21-24).
 
What comes before the end? The Millennium and the Great White Throne Judgment!
 
“…when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom to Him Who is God and Father…” (v 24).
 
If God the Father were already on the earth it wouldn’t be necessary to deliver it up to the Father. He would be here running it!
 
When does Christ do this? “…when He shall have put an end to all rule… [and Satan and demons] …and all authority and power. For it is ordained that He reign until He has put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy to be destroyed… [in the Lake of Fire] …is death. For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when it is said that all things have been put in subjection, it is clearly evident that it does not include Him Who put all things in subjection under Him” (vs 24-27). That is the Father!
 
Where is the first place that we find the Father on the earth? Rev. 21! Not until the new heaven and the new earth and New Jerusalem!
 
There was another question to answer, which is this: You have heard it said that the reason that it got dark for three hours, from the sixth hour to the ninth hour, was because God the Father couldn’t look on sin. They turned to Hab. 1.
 
Habakkuk 1:12: “Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have ordained them for judgment; and my Rock, You have established them for correction. You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look upon iniquity….” (vs 12-13).
 
That’s a statement! It doesn’t mean that He doesn’t look upon it, because notice:
 
“…Why do You look upon those who deal treacherously?….” (v 13).
 
In other words, the first sentence in v 13 is meaning that you don’t look upon it approvingly; that could be the only meaning. Otherwise, it’s incomprehensible. He looks upon it for judgment.
 
“…Will You be silent when the wicked swallows the man that is more righteous than he?” (v 13). No! God sees it!
 
How many times have you read in the Scriptures that the eyes of God look upon man? We know from Rev. that there are the seven eyes of God that goes around the earth all the time. So, there are a lot of things going on we don’t know anything about.
 
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We’re going to pick up where we left off with message: The Consummation of the Age. Remember, at the instant that the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of Christ is when the seventh trump has been blown. That starts it. That also starts the first resurrection.
 
So, Christ is going to start reigning, but what is the first thing that He does? He resurrects all of those who are going to reign with Him! Doesn’t it say that we’re going to reign a thousand years with Christ as kings and priests? Yes! So, He’s not going to do it by Himself.
 
·         How sure is everything that God has said going to be?
·         What did Jesus say about the Word of God? Your Word is the Truth!
·         What did He say about Himself? I am the Way, the Truth and the Life!
 
Here’s something interesting that we’ve covered before, but it fits right in with the Scriptures concerning what’s going to be happening at the end-time.
 
Daniel 10:21—Gabriel speaking to Daniel: “But I will show you that which is written in the Scripture of Truth…. [everything is written in heaven above; that’s quite a statement] …(And there is none who holds strongly with me against them, except Michael your prince.”
 
Daniel was given more prophecies effecting the whole world than any of the other Prophets outside of Isaiah. Jeremiah didn’t have as many.
 
Refer to chart of the Prophecies of the Reign of Gentile Kingdoms in the Daniel/Revelation sermon series showing the prophecies of the reign of the Gentile Kingdoms. This is all based upon Daniel and then Revelation. This is also found in The Holy Bible in it’s Original Order, A Faithful Version, Appendix Y, pg. 1366.
 
As you look at the chart, come across and it says: Dan. 2, Dan. 7, Dan. 8, Rev. 17, the Explanation of symbols, The Events fulfilled in History
 
We don’t have anything like this going back in detail to Abraham, Isaac or Jacob. From the Scriptures, we can pretty well fill out a chronology of their lives and how that came together. But in Dan. 2 God gets very specific in detail showing what’s going to happen in the kingdoms of men. It’s interesting because from the them of Nebuchadnezzar on forward, the history pretty well collaborates itself all the way through.
 
Whereas, if you go back beyond that, it’s very difficult to make sure that it’s true, or that it is accurate. Especially when you look at the old, old Babylonian chronologies and things with Gilgamesh and Egyptian chronologies. They stretch them out many, many years—tens of thousands of years in some cases—which is not true. So, God started this at a time when we would have accurate history to verify all of these facts coming down to the end.
 
Dan. 2:20 starts out with a prayer from Daniel, after all of the wise men, the astrologers and soothsayers were threatened to be killed because they couldn’t answer what the king wanted with this dream that he had. He gathered them altogether and said:
 
I dreamed a dream. Now I want you to tell me the dream and tell me what the dream means. If you don’t, I’m going to kill you all.
 
Of course, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were in with the wise men. Then the three of them got together and prayed and asked God to reveal. Think about what a tremendous thing that this was. Notice how this came about.
 
Daniel at this point was a young man. Later when we get to Dan. 9 & 10, he was an old man.
 
Daniel 2:20: “Daniel answered and said… [after God revealed the secret to him] …‘Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.’”
 
One key to everything in the Bible, and in life, is that you have nothing you didn’t receive! God gave it to you and in Him we live, move and have our being! This is always good to remember so that you don’t get lifted up in vanity, pride and stupidity. That’s happened too many times over and over.
 
Verse 21: “And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him” (vs 21-22). That’s covering an awful lot of ground! In other words, God is almighty, all knowledge, everything!
 
Verse 23: “I thank You, and praise You, O God of my fathers, Who has given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of You, for You have made known to us the king’s matter.”
 
This was quite a thing that took place, because after this is over, we’ll see what happened to Daniel.
 
Verse 24: “Therefore, Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had chosen to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: ‘Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will declare the interpretation to the king.’ Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel in before the king, and said this to him, ‘I have found a man of the captives of Judah who will make the interpretation known to the king.’ The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, ‘Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?’” (vs 24-26). In other words, what does this mean?
 
Verse 27: “Daniel answered before the king and said, ‘The secret which the king has demanded cannot be shown to the king by the wise men, the enchanters, the astrologers or the magicians. But there is a God in heaven Who reveals secrets and makes known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days….’” (vs 27-28). Now, that’s an interesting statement!
 
·         As God looks at time, did the ‘latter days’ start at this point? Don’t know! Could be!
·         Can you think of any other Scriptures in the Old Testament about the latter days? Tremendous prophecies that were given to Jacob, and he gave to all 12 sons!
 
He gave to all of his 12 sons a prophecy, he said, ‘Gather together and I’ll tell you what you’ll be like in the latter days.’ What the key one in Gen. 49 & Deut. 33? The sons of Joseph! That’s very important, because down through history we’re going to cover the Gentile kingdoms.
 
Note our book: America and Britain in Prophecy: Their Biblical Origin & Prophetic Destiny by Philip Neal. A lot of Protestants think that the Church replaced all Israel, because they believed that all Israel is encapsulated with just the Jews, which is not true!
 
If there weren’t the sons of Joseph and the other ten tribes in Western Europe that we have today, the world would indeed be a terrible, terrible place! So, what happened was that down through the empires of the Gentiles, the children of Israel were running parallel. The Jews were running parallel and scattered in all nations.
 
The only thing they had at the last time was a place along the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean and Jerusalem and part of the land around there. That’s all that God gave them. All of these are working together at the same time. So, here we will focus on the Gentile kingdoms.
 
Verse 28: “But there is a God in heaven Who reveals secrets and makes known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed are these.” God had to reveal that to him! How did he know except that God revealed it!
 
Verse 29: “As for you, O king, while upon your bed your thoughts came to you of what should come to pass hereafter…. [from this time forward and ends up at the consummation] …And He Who reveals secrets makes known to you what shall come to pass. But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living man… [notice the humility that Daniel has] …but so that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart” (vs 29-30).
 
I imagine that the king was sitting there wondering what this guy was going to tell him. I don’t know how old Nebuchadnezzar was but here’s Daniel who is probably 20 or 21 at this point, and he said:
 
Verse 31: “You, O king, looked—and behold, a great image! That great image, whose brightness was surpassing, stood before you. And its form was awesome. This image’s head was of fine gold; his breast and his arms were of silver; his belly and his thighs were of bronze; His legs were of iron; his feet were part of iron and part of clay. You watched until a stone was cut out without hands…” (vs 31-34).
 
If you want an interesting study, look up without hands and see how many times that is used, and what God does. That means without human hands!
 
“…that struck the image upon its feet, which were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together. And they became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors. And the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth” (vs 34-35). That great mountain is Christ, the Kingdom of God!
 
Verse 36: “This is the dream. And we will tell the interpretation before the king. You, O king, are a king of kings, for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory” (vs 36-37).
 
There was a time, in Dan. 4, which is actually written by Nebuchadnezzar, which is quite a thing. King Nebuchadnezzar was so important that he’s got a letter in the Bible in the book of Daniel to tell about his experience and how God humbled him for all the leaders of the world to listen up and pay attention.
 
Verse 38: “And wherever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.”
 
When you look at the chart you can see that it starts right there. All of these prophecies in Daniel start at the same place and end at the same place.
 
Verse 39: “And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, forasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and beats down all things, and as the iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and crush. And whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided. But there shall be in it the strength of the iron, because you saw the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken” (vs 39-42)--or partly weak!
 
Now let’s look at the chart:
 
First column, Dan. 2:
 
Head of gold—Babylon
 
What happened to Babylon? The Medes and Persians conquered Babylon! When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon, he did a phenomenal thing. The River Euphrates ran right down the middle of the city of Babylon. They had big brass gates so that no one could come in through the river.
 
So, what Cyrus the Great did was to dig a channel and diverted the river so that it got low enough so the troops walked in under the brass protection and came to the doors that led to the river’s edge, which were open. They conquered the city without throwing a spear. Today you would say ‘without firing a shot.’
 
Belly and thighs of brass—Alexander the Great
 
The events go down the right hand column
 
Two legs of iron—the Roman Empire
 
Which goes and goes, and is explained in other chapters. Here Daniel was given this vision right to the end and at the bottom of the column on the left:
 
The ten toes of iron and clay (vs 36, 41-45) Fight against the Lamb and are destroyed without human hands.
 
This covers a lot of territory. Is there any other book in the world that can even come close to this, in telling this? No, there’s not!
 
Let’s see what takes place, v 44: “And in the days of these kings, the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed. And the Kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.” That’s the Kingdom of God!
 
That’s why we are here, to learn of these things, but also to know and understand exactly what it is that God is doing. We’ll talk about some contemporary things a little later on that is taking place today.
 
Verse 45: “Because you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands… [Who is the stone? Christ!] …and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter. And the dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.”
 
Remember where we started; the Scripture of Truth in heaven! Here’s the great King Nebuchadnezzar, ruler over all of this. He spent 20 years conquering Judah. Daniel and the other three were on the first wave that went out from the first invasion of Judah. Here he is and notice what he does:
 
Verse 46: “Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshiped Daniel…” Think about this!
 
Here’s the king on his throne, here are all the wise men standing alongside him, and there are probably others out there listening and hearing what’s going on. Daniel is standing right in front of the king telling him all of this, and then all of a sudden, the king gets off his throne and falls down on his face and worships Daniel.
 
Think about what an utter surprise that was! Now you know why the wise men wanted to get rid of Daniel a little later (Dan. 5).
 
“…and he commanded to offer an offering and sweet incense to him. The king answered Daniel and said, ‘It is true that your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret” (vs 46-47). Quite an astonishing thing!
 
I don’t know how many days this occurred, but think about that Daniel was there for 79 years, and there were certain times when certain things came along. It wasn’t all high-powered all at once all the time.
 
Verse 48: “Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over all the province of Babylon… [sounds a little like Joseph and Pharaoh in Egypt] …and chief of the prefects over all the wise men of Babylon.” Daniel was over all the wise men, all the philosophers; that was quite a thing!
 
I like what Daniel did in v 49: “And Daniel asked the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel sat within the gate of the king.”
 
From a near slave boy to a young man whom God used to give that dream an interpretation, and then made him rule over the province of Babylon. Now you can see why the Jews had favor in Babylon, with Daniel there, and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
 
We will bypass Dan. 3-6; chapter 5 talks about the destruction of Babylon. Here’s another thing to understand what God does. In Dan. 2 He gave the outline, and in Dan. 7 He gives more details, which fills in this outline and expands it a bit.
 
Daniel 7:1: “In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. Daniel spoke and said, ‘In my vision by night I was looking, and behold, the four winds of the heavens were stirring up the Great Sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, different from one another’” (vs 1-3).
 
What did we read in Rev. 13? I was standing on the seashore and up out of the sea rose the beast! Same thing!
 
Verse 4: “The first was like a lion and had eagle’s wings…. [that’s where we get the Babylonian cherubim; eagles wings with a lion’s head] …I watched until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on its feet like a man. And a man’s heart was given to it.”
 
That ties right back with Dan. 4, that after Nebuchadnezzar had his seven years of eating grass and living with cattle, and let his hair and nails grow… I wonder if he used his nails to cut the grass? Talk about a humiliation! If you’re crawling around on that all the time, what’s on the ground with there’s cattle? You know! All of that and the king—the great king—was lower than a beast, and when he came back he was given a man’s heart, is that’s Nebuchadnezzar.
 
Verse 5: “And behold another beast, a second, like a bear. And it raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth… [we will see three a little later; it’s a little different, not the same] …between its teeth. And this was said to it ‘Arise, eat up much flesh.’”
 
As we look at the interpretation, that’s the Persian Empire. Persia covered all the area. Isn’t it interesting that the area where the Holy Land was, was conquered by the Babylonians, was conquered by the Persians, was conquered by the Greeks, was conquered by the Romans. All four had some part in the Holy Land! That’s quite an amazing thing to understand!
 
Verse 6: “After this I saw, and lo, another beast, like a leopard, which had four wings of a bird on its back. The beast also had four heads and dominion was given to it.” This is Alexander’s Grecian Empire, which when he died was split into four divisions! We can see that interpreted on the chart.
 
Verse 7: “After this I looked in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, frightening and terrifying, and exceedingly strong. And it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts before it; and it had ten horns.” The first time we come to ten horns!
 
Verse 8: “As I was considering the horns, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before whom three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.” This has got to be the papacy! Notice where this ends:
 
Verse 9: “I watched until thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days sat, Whose raiment was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was like flames of fire, and its wheels like burning fire.” Looking at God’s cherubim there!
 
Verse 10: “A stream of fire issued and came out from before Him. A thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. The court sat and the books were opened.” Compare that with Rev. 4 & 5! In Rev. 5 it says that there thousands and thousands singing and praising God.
 
Verse 11: “Then I was looking because of the voice of the boastful words, which the horn spoke. I watched until the beast was slain, and his body was destroyed and given to the burning flame. And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away. Yet, their lives were prolonged for a season and time” (vs 11-12).
 
·         Do we still have Persia today? Yes, it’s Iran!
·         Do we still have Greece today? Yes, it’s a small nation!
·         Do we still have part of the Roman Empire today? Originating in Italy, but also parts of it in various aspects of the governments of Europe!
 
So, we have all of those things together!
 
Then we come to the same place, to the end; v 13: I saw visions in the night and, behold, One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. And dominion and glory was given to Him…” (vs 13-14). Tie in with 1-Cor. 15!
 
All of these things as you go along and study the Bible and put it together, you see how the old agrees with the new, because the old has the substance and the lock because it’s hidden, and the new has the key because it opens.
 
“…and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed” (v 14). Tie that together with many of the Scriptures we covered during the Feast of Tabernacles; we go into details about it.
 
Lots of times it’s given in the Bible in one place, and then in another place there are details of it. When you tie it together with the Holy Days, then you get a greater and greater picture of it all. 

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Cleanse the inside by replacing inner sins with Truth (The Truth of God). VIDEO Sermon-(first and second half of the video no YouTube) - (Full Sermon Video is on Truth of God Website).

​Fred R. Coulter—November 9, 2019
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I want you to see the parallel between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Here’s what Israel does over and over again, every generation.
 
Isaiah 43: 21—God says: “This people that I formed for Myself; they shall declare My praise. Yet, you have not called upon Me, O Jacob… [no, they’re always interested in what they can do, how smart they are and how great they are] …much less have you troubled yourself about Me, O Israel. You have not brought Me the lamb of your burnt offerings; nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not caused you to serve with a grain offering, nor wearied you with incense. You have bought Me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have made Me serve with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities” (vs 21-24).
 
This sounds just like TBN! What happens when people do that? The people of Israel have always known about God, always turned to God, even flattery in their troubles and difficulties. What happens when you flatter God and you don’t come with real repentance and confession?
 
Mark 4:11: “And He [Christ] said to them [the disciples]…”
 
Now, here’s something that a lot of the Protestants always bring up to us:
 
What gives you the right to be right? We’re good people and we’re out here doing this, why don’t you come to our Christmas party and see what a good time we have.
 
Here’s what Jesus says to us; “…‘To you it has been given… [whatever knowledge we have comes from God] …to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God…” (v 11).
 
How does God do that to His Church, but not to the world?
 
“…but to those who are without, all things are done in parables; so that in seeing they may see, and not perceive; and in hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them” (vs 11-12). That’s quite a statement!
 
Without the knowledge of the second resurrection, you would think that is really a terrible, terrible thing that Jesus is doing. But it’s actually a good thing that they become blinded. It is a spiritual blindness! They can look at the words, read the words, and they always jump over it.
 
Let’s see how it is with Bible knowledge. It’s not given to them to understand. God does not want half-heartedness in anything, so He blinds them so they can be converted later.
 
Isaiah 29:9: “Be stunned and amazed! Blind your eyes and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink, for the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep…” (vs 9-10).
 
In other words, it doesn’t matter who you are, if you never turn to God you are spiritually blinded! You may see, but you don’t see the Truth! You may hear, but it doesn’t make any sense to you!
 
“…and has closed your eyes…[that’s an amazing thing] …He has covered the prophets and your rulers, and the seers. And the vision of all has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one who is learned saying, ‘Please read this,’ and he says, ‘I cannot, for it is sealed.’ And the book is delivered to him who is not learned…” (vs 10-12).
 
Of course those who are learned! There was a man who wrote me an e-mail that he had three theology degrees. I wrote back and said that that ‘may be part of your problem.’ What do you do? You get the interpretation from the blind! It’s like leading a man to an elephant and he doesn’t know it’s an elephant because he’s blind.
 
Take one blind man and put him at the head, take another blind man an put him on the side, and take another one and put him by the rear legs, and have them feel and touch and say, ‘What is this?’ The guy in front will say, ‘This feels kind of like a funny snake.’ The guy on the side says, ‘I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s a whale.’ The guy on the backside feels it and says, ‘I don’t know what this is, but those are sure some legs.’ It’s an elephant!
 
“…which they give to one who is learned saying, ‘Please read this,’ and he says, ‘I cannot, for it is sealed.’ And the book is delivered to him who is not learned… [like the preachers out back] …saying, ‘Please read this,’ and he says, ‘I am not learned’” (vs 11-12)--but I sure know how to handle rattlesnakes! Have you ever seen the special on handling rattlesnakes?
 
Verse 13: “And the LORD said, ‘Because this people draws near Me with their mouth… [say all the right things] …and with their lips honor Me, but their worship of Me is made up of the traditions of men learned by rote…’”
 
They do real good in between the holidays. I got a magazine, a religious magazine, and it’s advertising things for Christmas. They’re advertising a nice little shopping bag, which says, Christmas begins with Christ.  They think that’s a wonderful thing!
 
Someone will say, Maybe it’s pagan, but at least the name of Christ is getting out there.’ Because they want to it their way!
 
“‘…and their fear toward Me is taught by the commandments of men; therefore, behold, I will proceed to do again a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder, for the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish, and the wisdom of their intelligent ones shall vanish.’ Woe to those who go deep to hide their purpose from the LORD!…. [sounds like the ‘deep state’] …And their works are in the dark, and they say, ‘Who sees us? And who knows us?’ Surely, you have turned things upside down!….” (vs 13-16).
 
In other words, if God is God, and He’s all powerful, Almighty all knowing, all forgiving, all understanding, why then do people come to tell God what they’re going to do for Him! How much can a person do for God? Compare that to what God can do for you! That’s what God wants us to learn.
 
“…Shall the potter be regarded as the potter’s clay…” (v 16). When they choose Sunday, isn’t that what they’re doing? We know better! When they choose Christmas, Easter and all the holidays over the Holy Days of God, they know better. They put Christ’s name in it and then Christ serves with their sins, and they think they’re doing wonderful things.
 
·         there’s no repentance
·         there’s no confession
·         there’s absolutely no forgiveness
“…for shall the work say of him who made it, ‘He did not make me?’….” (v 16). ‘We evolved, I’m my own person; I’m going to do what I want.’ That’s the whole thing with abortion. ‘I’m my own person, I’m my own body, I will choose what I want to do.’ Now we have all of these murderers killing the next generation.
 
“…Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, ‘He had no understanding?’ Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field…” (vs 16-17). Then Isaiah goes on showing the coming of the Kingdom of God!
 
1-John 1—let’s see how this compares with the prayer that Solomon made. IF you confess your sins! Same thing with how Daniel confessed the sins. That’s quite a prayer. You can hardly read that prayer and not have tears come out of your eyes when you understand the depth of that prayer, and after 70 years of captivity. Here Daniel was there in Babylon as one of the leading men for probably over 70 years. He came as a young man; he must have been 16-18-years-old. Yet, God was with him and gave him all these prophecies.
 
Here he is in his old age and he’s wondering, ‘O Lord, what’s going to happen. Look at how sinful we have been.’ So, here we have this:
 
1-John 1:6: “If we proclaim that we have fellowship with Him…” This is what it is today:
 
A lot of people say ‘know the Lord, go to church’ and everything. The difference between Protestantism and the Truth of God is that Protestantism wants you churched. God wants you converted! A vast difference!
 
“…but we are walking in the darkness, we are lying to ourselves…” (v 6). It’s one thing to believe a lie because someone has told you a lie; it’s another thing to believe your own lies! That’s the worst kind, because those are the hardest to get rid of.
 
“…and… [when you do that] …we are not practicing the Truth” (v 6). What is the Truth?
 
·         Your Word is the Truth
·         Your commandments are the Truth
·         Your statutes are the Truth
·         Your Word is the Truth from the beginning
 
Verse 7: “However, if we walk in the Light… [the Light of Christ, which is His Word, His Spirit, His Truth] …as He is in the Light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His own Son, cleanses us from all sin.”
 
Notice how that parallels with what Solomon had in his prayer.
 
Verse 8: “If we say that we do not have sin…” I’ve come across a few of those. ‘I’ve been born again, I cannot sin.’ If you’ve been born again, as Jesus said, ‘You’re like the wind and you can go wherever you want to go.’ So, why don’t you see if you can walk through a door like Jesus did when He met with the disciples? If you can’t do it, you’re not born again.
 
Born again goes back to what Christ is: the Firstborn from the dead!
 
Verse 7: “However, if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His own Son, cleanses us from all sin.”
 
That means every single one. But the greatest sins we need to get rid of are not exterior behaviors, but are interior thoughts! You’ll see what we need to do with that.
 
Verse 8: “If we say that we do not have sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the Truth is not in us.” So, you have v 6 with v 8; you’re not practicing the Truth an:
 
“…we are deceiving ourselves, and the Truth is not in us. If we confess our own sins… [repentance, confession and forgiveness] …He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (v 8-9). How important that is!
 
Remember where we read what Solomon wrote, ‘For every many knows the plague of his heart.’ That’s talking about all the inner sins within our mind, and how many of those are there.
 
Psalm 86:1—Let’s see how this ties in, in parallel, with the New Testament: “Bow down Your ear, O LORD, answer me, for I am poor and needy.”
 
Quite a difference! Remember what the young rich man said when he came to Christ? ‘Lord, what do I need to do to inherit eternal life?’ Don’t call me ‘good master,’ there’s only one good, and that’s God. But if you will enter into life, keep the commandments! The rich man said, ‘Which ones?’ He named off: don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t like don’t cheat, honor your father and mother, etc.! He said, ‘I’ve done that all my life. What else do I need.’ Jesus took him up on it and said, ‘If you want to enter into life, sell all that you have and give to the poor.’ That’s was his idol, and he didn’t know it! Here was a different attitude from the rich man.
 
Verse 2: “Preserve my soul, for I am Holy; O You my God, save Your servant who trusts in You. Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I cry unto You all day long. Rejoice the soul of Your servant, for to You, O LORD, do I lift up my soul, for You, LORD, are good and ready to forgive…” (vs 2-5).
 
Remember that. God is always read to forgive when there’s a humble, yielded giving attitude.
 
“…and rich in mercy to all those who call upon You. Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me” (vs 5-7).
 
If you don’t call upon God in the day of your trouble, God is not going to answer you, and you’ll continue in the trouble. What does this do? What kind of attitude does this do? It gives us a teachable, learnable attitude, because the Word of God is Spirit and in Truth, and there’s so much to it!
 
Verse 11: “Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your Truth; unite my heart to fear Your name. I will praise You, O LORD my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore, for great is Your mercy toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the depths of the grave” (vs 11-13). That’s something!
 
An interesting study: go through all the Psalms and pick out all the verses—some are just a one shot verse—that refer to Christ, His life, crucifixion and resurrection.
 
If you do that, send it to me. I’m still working on the Interlinear. We’re making progress but we’re still quite a ways from it.
 
Let’s see what real deep repentance is. Psa. 51 is the Psalm of David after the affair with Bathsheba and had Uriah the Hittite—her husband—killed in battle. That was a grievous sin! You need to think about that. Bathsheba was in on it, because she took her bath out on the roof of her house, which was right next to where the king would walk. So, the king was in on it, because he sent one of the servants over there to get her. She could have said no, I’m indisposed at this time, but she didn’t. So, the servant brought her and one thing led to another, and then she sent a message that she was pregnant.
 
So, rather than repent, he turned to his own devices and figure out a scheme. Joab knew all the sins of the royal household! David told Joab to take Uriah the Hittite and put him in the forefront of battle and when it’s going heavy, back the rest of the troops off. Joab knew what that was. Think of all the intrigue that went on. Then after that took place, and after a period of time, David took Bathsheba to be one of his wives.
 
This went on for so long that God had to send Nathan the prophet to David and he told David that this rich man came and took the little ewe lamb from this poor little man, and the rich man had plenty of his own. David said, ‘What should I do to this man? I’ll take care of him.’ Nathan said, ‘You are the man!’ And Nathan told him what he did with Bathsheba and the whole thing.
 
David repented! Some people who would have someone who came with a message like that killed. Notice David’s prayer, and what all of this involved. Repentance has to do something inside!
 
Psalm 51:1: “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Your loving kindness; according to the greatness of Your compassion, blot out my transgressions”--because there was sin after sin all wrapped up in one big package!
 
Verse 2: “Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.” That has to be from the inside out, all the scheming, all the plotting! After Uriah the Hittite was killed, he thought after a while ‘I’ll take Bathsheba and she’ll be my wife and everything will be fine.’
 
·         What does God know? He knows the secrets of all men!
·         Are we ever going to fool God? No!
 
We have to be cleansed inside! That’s what it is!
 
Verse 3: “For I acknowledge… [confess] …my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.” There are some things that come along that you have flashbacks all the time, and that’s what this was.
 
Verse 4: “Against You, You only, have I sinned…” Even though it was against Bathsheba, against Uriah the Hittite, and Joab knew the whole thing!
 
“…and done evil in Your sight, that You might be justified when You speak and be in the right when You judge” (v 4). God is always right!
 
The biggest problem that people have with God is that somehow they come along and they think that something with God is not right, whatever that may be. Then they devise their own belief and start cutting themselves off from God.
 
Verse 5: “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
 
I think that’s talking about not that his mother committed adultery, but the very fact of human nature is that it’s sinful from conception! Why? Because it has the law of sin and death as the New Testament brings out! It’s in children just as well.
 
Verse 6: “Behold, You desire Truth in the inward parts…” That’s the only thing that’s going to wash it away; replace the inner sin with Truth!
 
What are we promised with the New Covenant in Heb. 10:16? Write the commandments in our mind and inscribe them upon our heart! That’s how you get rid of the sin within. All sin starts within!
 
“…and in the hidden part You shall make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop…” (vs 6-7). That’s like a good ole scrub pad; some things you have to get out are very difficult to do.
 
“…and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones, which You have broken, may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities” (vs 7-9). Complete absolute confession!
 
Even though he repented, even though he turned to God with this deep repentance and everything, he still had punishment to bear for quite a while, and that was his whole household rebelled against him, beginning with Absalom and Tamar. Then the rebellion to try and unseat him by Absalom! Then Joab, a little later before David died, tried to take over being king when he heard that Solomon was going to be made king. He probably thought, ‘Why did God have Solomon to be the king, when his mother was Bathsheba?’
 
You can use human reasoning and say that that’s not right. Well, God made the choice. That also shows God’s mercy and forgiveness, as well.
 
Verse 10: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me” (vs 10-11).
 
How close was he to losing it? Probably pretty close! So, this shows the kind of repentance. Not just do a deed and say, ‘O Lord, forgive me.’
 
·         What do you have in your mind that’s still there?
·         That’s still sin?
·         How much sin comes into our mind today through the boob-tube (television) through all of those ads?
 
Every single ad, if you look at it carefully, has some sexual overtone to it, one way or the other: by dress, action, word or implication. All of those things come into our mind!
 
Let’s see the solution. Matt. 6 is the model of the daily prayer, and what we need every day. Our mind needs to be cleansed, and there is sin that pops into our mind all the time.
 
Matthew 6:5: “And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.” They were seen!
 
Verse 6: “But you… [every single one] …when… [doesn’t say if] …you pray… [because this is a model of a daily prayer] …enter into a private room…” It says in the KJV ‘closet’!
 
The first time I started to pray, I had a closet. In there were my shoes and socks, and all of the perfumy things that are the result of living. So, I scattered them to the side and started praying. I about choked! So, I figure that I would get right alongside the bed and leave the closet alone. It’s a private room, a private place!
 
“…and after shutting the door, pray to your Father Who is in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret shall reward you openly” (v 6). Many different ways!
 
Some things will come along that you don’t know what a fantastic blessing it is, and everything comes from God. This is great!
 
Verse 7: “And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions…”
 
If there something that you need to pray about continuously until there is a answer, then you repeat that every day. That is not a vain repetition, which is like the prophets of Baal with Elijah. ‘O Baal, O Baal…’ I don’t like to listen to that one on the Messiah by Handel, because it sticks in my head, it’s such a catchy tune. They jumped up and down on the sacrifice and cut themselves, shed the blood, all to make Baal hear.
 
But if you’re sincere you will be just like Elijah. You know that God hears! You know that God answers! So, Elijah wanted to demonstrate how powerful that God actually was so that the people of Israel was the God of Israel.
 
He took the sacrifice and poured water on it. This is after three and a half years of drought and water was precious. So, they poured water on it three times until it was running in the little trough where they had the rocks setup for the sacrifice. Then he prayed for 21 seconds—we timed it—and said:
 
We know that You are God of Israel, O God. Show to these people that You are God and Baal is not!
 
Then fire came down and consumed everything! Then the people accepted God for a short time! Amazing!
 
“…as the heathen do; for they think that by multiplying their words they shall be heard. Now then, do not be like them; for your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask Him” (vs 7-8).
 
One person said, ‘If He knows before you ask Him, why ask?’ Because if you don’t ask, He might take it away! Think on that!
 
Verse 9: “Therefore, you are to pray after this manner: ‘Our Father, Who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name.’” Always the Father first! His greatness; what He has done; Christ at His right hand!
 
Verse 10: “Your Kingdom come… [Your rule in my life as well as the Kingdom coming back to the earth] …Your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors” (vs 10-12).
 
We need to repent of sin every day! Sin is within! Can any of us say that our heart is absolutely clean? Our mind is free of any evils? Hatred? Unforgiveness? Whatever!
 
Verse 13: “And lead us not into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one….” Who comes around when your guard is down? Satan, always!
 
“…For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen” (v 13). Notice that you start out with the Kingdom of God and you end up with the Kingdom of God!
 
You’re not to take this prayer and recite it just because you know the words of it. But use this as an outline and put all of the things you need to pray about in whatever order you desire. God will hear and answer. There is a catch! There is an IF that is important!
 
Verse 14: “For, if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you…. [this is conditional] …But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (vs 14-15). Quite a thing!
 
In the sermon series on Healing one of things that is important is that you hold nothing against anyone and you forgiven them. Someone asked, ‘What if they’re already dead? My dad/father did this or that to me, or brother, whatever, and I’ll never forgive them.’ Well, forgive them even if they don’t know that you have forgiven them before God! You can’t have that in your mind. Get rid of it in your mind by confessing to God!
 
I had one person that I said that to, and they did that and they said that I ‘lifted a big load off my mind.’ You can’t have righteousness in one cubbyhole and hatred in another cubbyhole. You have to have God cleanse it!
 
This is what we’re seeing. There are many other things that we can add to it, but this covers the whole thing. There must be repentance, confession and forgiveness!
Scriptural References: Link to A Faithful Version Bible.
 
1)      1 Kings 8:31-39, 46-50, 52-61
2)      Psalm 74:1-5, 7-9, 11-23
3)      Psalm 78:34-39
4)      Daniel 9:2-4
5)      John 14:15
6)      Daniel 9:4-9, 12-19
7)      Isaiah 43:21-24
8)      Mark 4:11-12
9)      Isaiah 29:9-17
10)  1 John 1:6-8, 7-9
11)  Psalm 86:1-7, 11-13
12)  Psalm 51:1-11
13)  Matthew 6:5-15
 
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
 
·         Hebrews 13
·         Deuteronomy 28
·         Leviticus 26
·         Daniel 9:1
·         Hebrews 10:16
 
Also referenced:
 
·         Church at Home {churchathome.org} The Delusion of Drugs
·         Sermon Series: Healing
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