THE ANTICHRIST = SON OF PERDITION REVEALED

2 Thess 2:3, Let no man deceive you by any means: for THAT DAY shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. WHAT DAY? 2Thess 2:1 says, "now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him." Verse 2 says, "That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by a letter from us, as the day of Christ (Anointing) is at hand". (WHAT THIS IS TELLING US; IS, NOT TO BE DECEIVED)! Everybody is preaching about the return of Christ, but they are not telling us about what must take place first, and that is the son of perdition being revealed, this must take place FIRST, as stated above in 2 Thess 2:3. Read it again!

First, lets look at what the Word of God revealed about a Doubled minded man. James 1:8,

WHEN JESUS WAS TEMPTED BY SATAN Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Verse 4 says, but He answered and said, "IT IS WRITTEN; man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Verse 5,6 says, "then the devil took Him up on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto Him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down: for it is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning you: and in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone." Verse 7 says, "Jesus said to him, IT IS WRITTEN again, you shall not tempt the Lord your God." Verse 8 says, "again, the devil takes Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them." Verse 9, "and said to Him all these things will I give you, if you will fall down and worship me." Verse 10, "then Jesus said to him, get away from me Satan, for it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve." Verse 11, "then the Devil left Him, and behold; angels came and ministered to Him."

CAN WE SEE ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD FROM SOME MOUNTAIN? Or, do you suppose the devil showed Him these things in His mind. Do not think that the devil was some man that took Jesus to these places! Remember, Jesus whipped the moneychangers and ran them out of the Jewish Temple. NO MAN TOOK HIM ANYWHERE AT THAT TIME! All these things took place in His flesh mind that He took on when He was born in the flesh from Mary. John 1:14, "and The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." Heb 4:15 "For we have an High Priest which can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted AS WE ARE." James 1:14, "BUT EVERY MAN IS TEMPTED WHEN HE IS DRAWN AWAY OF HIS OWN LUST" (ADAMIC NATURE, FLESH MIND). Jesus said, He was tempted, so, He must have been led away by His own flesh (Carnal mind) to look at what the world had to offer. Remember Jesus became man, but was the first to overcome the flesh, the world and the Devil. We are also told to overcome the world, flesh and the devil. Remember in the scriptures about the rich young ruler? Mark 10:17,18, says, "Good Master, what shall I do that I might inherit eternal life?" Jesus said to him, "why do you call me good? There is none good but one, that is God!" (I believe Jesus answered him this way to show him, and us, a mystery. The man like most of us did not understand the anointing that was in Him. All that the man saw was the natural man and not the Spiritual man). Remember this verse, 1John 5:6, It is the Spirit that bears witness, because THE SPIRIT IS THE TRUTH, or, said another way, THE TRUTH IS THE SPIRIT. You can always tell the Truth by the fruit of what our words produce. Jesus said that Satan is a liar and the Truth is not in him. DO WE REALLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT SATAN AND HOW HE OPERATES? If we look in the mirror of Gods word to test the fruits of our doing by Gods word, then we cannot be deceived. We cannot win over the enemy of our souls if we neglect to listen to the truth about where Satan operates from. WE MUST NOT BE DECEIVED!!! Lets reveal where Satan dwells, by Gods word. Romans 3:4 it says, "Let God be true, but every man (carnal) a liar!"

Matthew 16:13, Jesus asked His disciples, saying, "who do men say that I the son of man am?" and they said, "some say that you are John the Baptist, some, Elias, and others say Jeremias, or one of the Prophets." Jesus asked them, "but who do you say I am?" and Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Then Jesus answered him, "BLESSED are you Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but my Father which is in Heaven." Luke 17:21, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU! Matthew 16:18, "and I also say to you, THAT YOU ARE PETER, and upon this rock (truth) I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. And, I will give to you the keys of (or, about) the Kingdom of Heaven." Mathew 16:21-23, Then Jesus began to show His disciples how He must suffer and be killed and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took Him, and began to rebuke Him, saying, "Be it far from you Lord; this shall not be done to you." Then Jesus said to Peter, "GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN: you are an offense to me: for you do not savor the things that be of God, but those that be of men." (Also read Isa 65:2) (Now read a few sentences back) Matthew 16:17, Jesus said to Simon Barjona (Peter): " BLESSED are you," then in verse 23, Jesus called Peter Satan! (How would we feel if we were walking with Jesus and in one instance He called us BLESSED, then in the next moment He called us SATAN?) Remember Peter was to be given the keys of (or, about) the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus was showing Peter and also for an example to us, about how DOUBLE MINDED Peter was by what he spoke. We are the same way; we must become SINGLE MINDED! Putting on the mind of Christ Anointing) Phil. 2:5, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Eph 4:23,24 "and be renewed in the Spirit of your mind; and that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." Col 3:9,10 "Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him." It is time to quit serving two masters. We have that carnal nature which is sinful; the son of perdition! Our carnal, or flesh nature is the antichrist. We must quit looking somewhere else for the answer. We must look into the mirror of Gods word and see what manner of man that we really are! Romans 8:7, "The carnal mind is enmity (hostility) against God!" 1 Peter 1:13, "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to you at the REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST" (Revealing of Truth). Col 1:27, Great Mystery of Christ in you! We are both good and evil and we must overcome evil with Truth. We need to understand where our enemy really is? Satan is a liar! He is the father of lies, and the Truth is not in him. 2Thess 2:12 says, "That they, or we might be damned who believe not the Truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness." Romans 3:4, "Let God be true, BUT EVERY MAN A LIAR." We must lay aside our ego and pride and take another look at what the Bible says about carnal man. WE MUST take what the Bible says very personal! WE MUST come to the realization that the war that is going on in Heaven, is going on in each of us. Paul said in Romans 7:23, "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." Ephesians 6:12, "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Matthew 6:24, "No man can serve two masters! For either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other." (We cannot serve God and mammon! Mammon fulfills the lust of the flesh!)

Matthew 26:36, "Then came Jesus with them into a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, sit here, while I go and pray yonder. He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy." Then He said to them, "My soul (flesh mind) is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: stay here and watch with me, and He went a little farther, and fell on His face, and prayed, saying O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, NOT AS I WILL, but YOUR WILL BE DONE." Also in Luke 22:42, it says, "Father if you are willing, remove this task from me; nevertheless, NOT MY WILL, but Your Will be done." We can see that Jesus was having a war in himself. He was double minded, as we are. Yes! The son of man, and He was tempted in all points as we are. Verse 43 says, "." And there appeared an angel to Him from Heaven, strengthening Him. If Jesus the son of man had a war with the will of the flesh, then we had better take another look at ourselves. We need to choose whom we are going to serve, Truth or lies, Spirit or flesh. Lies always provides provision for the flesh mind to be glorified, and always defends self. O' God, send us an angel to strengthen us!

1 John 2:18,22 "Little children it is the last time: and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrist; whereby we know it is the last time. Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ (Anointed), He is an antichrist, that denies the Father and the Son!" 1 John 4:2,3 "Hereby know you the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that confesses NOT that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God; and this is that spirit of antichrist. You have heard that it should come; even already it is in the world." So this says that the ones that did not recognize Jesus as the Christ (Anointed) in that day and also in our day were, and are, anti Christ. (The word Christ means anointed, and antichrist means not anointed. So you see my friends, we do not have to look to Jerusalem for the temple to be built for the antichrist to sit in, because we are that temple where either the Christ (Anointed) sits, or where the antichrist (anti anointing) sits. We must we come to the knowledge of the Truth. The word of God says that, we are that temple and the King sits in that temple! Yes in us! Jesus said there were anti- christ in the world when he walked the earth 2000 years ago and there are anti-christ here today. (Christ is not Jesus last name; Christ means Anointed, and anti-christ means opposed to the Anointing). Jesus was Anointed!

Col 1:26 says, "Even the Mystery which has been hid from ages and generations, but now made manifest to His Saints; to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this MYSTERY among the Gentiles; WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU the hope of Glory" (the noun for Glory, is Victory or triumph). Col 2:2 "That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in Love, and unto all riches of the assurance of understanding to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE MYSTERY OF GOD, and the Father, and Christ." John 18:36, "Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this world" (Of, means About). John 4:24, "God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth." Luke 22:31,32 "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for you, that your faith will not fail: and when you are converted strengthen the brethren." (Converted means Changed) Converted from what? Peter had to be changed by the renewing of his mind, changed from his self will to the will of God. This happened at Pentecost when they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. (This scripture is an important key). 2 Thess 3, "Let no man deceive you by any means: For That Day SHALL NOT COME, except there come a falling away first (From the Truth), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition (antichrist), who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God showing himself that he is God." 2Cor 6:16,17, "And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD, as God has said, I will dwell IN THEM, and walk IN THEM, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." 2 Thess 2:5,13, "Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now you know what withholds that he might be revealed in his time, for the MYSTERY of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets will let (God is the one who lets), until he (The deceiver) be taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the, Spirit of His mouth (Truth) and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming, even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie; that they all might be damned WHO BELEIVED NOT THE TRUTH, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of THE TRUTH." 2Cor 7:1, "Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." HOW DO WE DO THAT? Phil 2:5 says, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."

To renew our mind means to restore to a former state, change from untruth to truth. Remember in 1John 5:6 "the Spirit is the truth!" The meaning of repent is; re: means to do again or start over, such as return. Pent is a word like penthouse meaning the highest, so repenting would mean to return to the place we had in God before the fall of Adam. Adam walked and talked with God one on one. We must return to the TRUTH to be led by Gods Spirit. Romans 3:4 says, "God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar. As it is written, that you might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged." 1Cor 11:31, "If we judge ourselves, we shall NOT be judged."

Rom 7:18,25 says, "For I know that in me (that is in my flesh mind) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not, for the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do, now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man (God's Spirit): but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the LAW OF SIN which is in my members. O' wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God (mind of Christ), but with the flesh the law of sin (flesh mind or self will)." (Paul was telling us that he was also double minded, good and evil). Rom 8:1,6, "There is therefore now no condemnation (Because of Gods Grace) to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death, for what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own son in the likeness, (Or Image) of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh (When He died on cross for us) so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit (Spirit is truth). For they, that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit mind the things of the Spirit. To be carnally minded is death; but to be Spiritually minded is life and peace." (Carnally minded in Greek means, minding of the flesh, flesh mind). We must put off our carnal mind and seek the mind of the Spirit. That's what it means to be renewed in the Spirit of our mind; putting on the mind of Christ. Remember, we are double minded, we must choose Christ. Jesus said, "He is the truth!" The Spirit of Christ is the anointed word of God. Jesus said we must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. (We cannot separate these two words Spirit and Truth, as they are the same). We must come out of this darkness of untruth that is covering the earth today. We must come into the light of God's word! We are living in THAT DAY that the Angels and Prophets desired to look into: THE DAY THAT OUR ENEMY IS REVEALED, AND THE REVEALING OF CHRIST IN HIS MANY MEMBERED BODY. THE MYSTERY OF ALL AGES WILL BE REVEALED. Christ in us, The Anointed overcomers.

THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. A revelation is the revealing of something not before seen by our carnal mind, as the Bible states; our mind is enmity against God, as stated in Romans 8:7. The revelation of Jesus Christ is the revealing of the truth. Jesus Himself said "that He was the Truth." Col 1:12,13 "Giving thanks to the Father, which has made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light: who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son. (Translated means: to change the form, nature, or condition of) Come out of the darkness and into the light! Satan's realm is darkness (lies, or untruth), and Jesus realm is light (Truth) 2Cor 6:17, and Revelations 18:4, and 2Tim 2:15, "Study (study is a verb: means to investigate or learn) to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (or, separating) the word of Truth." 2Tim 2:24, "and the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; If God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. (When Jesus rebuked Peter and called him Satan; He was showing Peter that his carnal thinking produced the words from Satan. (His own flesh mind).

Matthew 16:6,12 "Then Jesus said to them, take heed, and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees". Verse 12, "Then they understood how that He bade them not to beware of the leaven of bread, but to be aware of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." 1 Cor 5:6, "Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?" 1Cor 5:7, "Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." Verse 8, "Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." The doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees is the doctrine of corruptness and perversion, and that leaven permeates the world today, this means missing the mark, or, as it is Truth mixed with untruth. The Bible explains it as leaven. Mark 2:22 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles. Remember! The knowledge of the Truth sets you free from untruth and as you grow in His Truth, then are you becoming a new creature, and then able to begin receiving new wine, or more Truth. The end of our seeking equals fullness of Truth. Philippians 3:8,9 "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things (lust of the flesh), and do count them but dung, that I may win (or, gain) Christ (Truth), and be found in Him NOT HAVING MINE OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS (righteousness means justification), which is not of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith."

1 Corinthians 9:24 "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain." Verse 25, "And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate (moderate) in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible." Verse 26, "I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air," Verse 27, "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." Here is the key again. 2Thess 2:3, Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there be a falling away first (from truth), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. Mark 13:21 "And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not." 1John 4:1, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God! (Remember God is Love!) Many false prophets are gone out into the world. They are deceived and are deceiving. Read also, 1John 4: 4,5,6 "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world." Verse5, "They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them." Verse 6, "We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the Spirit of Truth, and the spirit of error." (We must crucify the flesh!) Any teacher or preacher that makes provision for the flesh is in error, such as, escape theories! The only way we are going to escape the evil, or untruth of this day is found in God's Word and not in the mind of men). Ephesians 6:13, "Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand!" Rom 13:14, "put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provisions for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof." We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against Spiritual wickedness in high places. The margin in my study Bible says, wicked spirits in heavenly places. If Jesus is at the right hand of God and we are instructed to put on the Lord Jesus Christ; then the Kingdom of God is within us). (Remember earlier in this writing about The Mystery of Christ in you the hope of glory, or, victory). (Satan was before the throne making war in heaven. Praise God! Satan the liar is being defeated IN US by Truth. Remember when Peter rebuked Jesus with his mouth, then Jesus called him Satan. Proverbs 18:21 says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." Mat 12:34, "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Mat 15:11, "Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man." (We need to guard our words!) James 3:6,"and the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell. James 3: verse 8, "but the tongue can no man tame, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." verse 9, "Therewith bless we God, even the Father, and therewith curse we men, which are made after the Image of God. Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing (double mind), my brethren these things should not be." (Remember page two of this writing when Peter rebuked Jesus. First Jesus Called him blessed, and then he called him Satan). DOUBLE MIND!

Matthew 6:9, "after this manner we are to pray, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done IN earth as it is heaven." Lets see what earth this prayer is talking about. Luke 17:21, "neither shall they say Lo Here! Or, Lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is withIN you." 1Cor 15:49, "as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." (This means that we have two different images in our being. It is called a double mind). Remember James 1:8, "a double minded man is unstable in all his ways." 2Cor 4:7, "but we have this treasure in earthen vessels." Col 2:2,3 "that their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in Love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the MYSTERY OF GOD, and the father, and Christ, in whom are hid all the treasure of wisdom and knowledge." Mat 7:7 says, "seek and you shall find!" FIND WHAT? You will discover the Mystery of God that is in earthen vessels! Luke 12:51, Jesus said, "He is not bringing peace, but division, dividing between soul (carnal, self will) and Spirit." (IN US!)

2Cor 6:17, "Wherefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you! and will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty." Rev 18:1-4, "and after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven having great power: and the earth was lightened with His Glory, and He cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every unclean spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird, for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornications (Fornication is adultery, but spiritually speaking it is apostasy, or a falling away from the Truth), and the kings of the earth have committed fornications with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies, and I heard another voice from heaven, saying, come out of her, my people (whose people?), that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues." Revelations 17:5, "and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY BABYLON the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth." Rev 17:5 refers to 2Thess 2:7, "for the MYSTERY OF INIQUITY does already work: only he who now lets will let, until he be taken out of the way." This refers over to 1John 2:18, "little children, it is the last time, and as you have heard that antichrist shall come, EVEN NOW are there many antichrist; whereby we know it is the last time." Again this refers to the key again, 2Thess 2:3, "let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first (from the Truth), and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition." This refers to John 17:12, "while I (Jesus) was with them in the world, I kept them (Apostles) in thy name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition (Judas); that the scripture might be fulfilled." This refers to John 6:70, "Jesus answered them, have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil." (Verse 71 refers to Judas)

Genesis 10:10, "the beginning of his kingdom (Nimrod) was Babel. Gen 11:9, "therefore is the name of it called Babel." (In my Bible margin, Babel also means confusion; SO WE ARE TOLD TO COME OUT OF HER, THEN HER IS CONFUSION, or double minded). Webster says, confusion is the state of being confused. Remember Jesus called Peter Satan, because of the words he spoke, by his carnal mind. 1Cor 2:14, "but the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Proverbs 12:10, "a righteous man regards the life of his beast! Jude 10, "but these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves." Ephesians 2:2, "The spirit that now works in the children of disobedience." (This is Satan, he is the destroyer!) (How does he destroy? HE KEEPS YOU IN CONFUSION). Romans 8:7, "because the carnal mind is enmity (hatred) against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." 1Cor 14:33, "for God is not the author of confusion!" It is our own self will or carnal mind that keeps us confused, that's why we must put on the mind of Christ (single mind). How do we do this? When we make Jesus Christ the Lord over our life and receive Him into our hearts and ask Him to change us from our old nature to a nature that reflects Him, then we, by faith, rest from our own works trying to please God and then give the job over to the Spirit of Christ, as He has said in the scriptures that He is the author and finisher of our faith. WE MUST SURRENDER! We must ask!) James 4:2, "you receive not because you ask not." Also, James 4:3 "You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts." 2Thess 2:7,8, "for the mystery of iniquity does already work, and then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of His coming;" ( This happens when Christ reveals His Truth to us, and Truth sets us free from error). As Christ reveals Himself IN YOU, Satan's lies are brought to light, and that is what happened when Jesus rebuked Peter). 2Thess 2:1,8, "now we beseech you brethren by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto Him (Truth), and then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth (Word of Truth), and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming" (Truth destroys error, in us!). 1Peter 4:17, " for the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God" (We are that house). Acts 7:48, "The most High dwells in temples made not with hands, says the Prophet." SO DON'T BE CONFUSED! Start seeing what this war against Spirit and flesh is really about. Don't worry about others, first get the beam, or, great faults out of our own eye, then it will be possible to see clearly to help our brother). Matthew 6:22, "The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." (The eye noun, also means the mind in scripture) CHOOSE this day who you will serve TRUTH OR UNTRUTH. Satan would take your mind off the real battleground, and would have you look at some geographic location on earth Like Israel, where the antichrist is supposed to deceive the nations, but this IS NOT TRUTH. Satan(the liar, or, deceiver) wants to keep our eyes off the real battle ground where the antichrist was sitting in Jesus day and he is still sitting in the same place today, in us, PRAISE GOD, HE IS BEING EVICTED! As this happens we will become single minded). 2Cor 10:4, "for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations (reasoning), and every high thing that exalts itself against THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, and bringing into captivity every THOUGHT (MIND) to the obedience of Christ (Truth)." Gal 5:16, "this I say then, walk in the Spirit (the Spirit is Truth), and you shall not fulfill the lust (desire) of the flesh." Luke 11:13 says, "if you being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit (Spirit of truth) to them that ask Him." Luke 17:33, "whosoever shall seek to save his life (carnal) shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life (carnal) shall preserve it." Compare with Mark 8:35. (The life of our beast is our own self will! We must choose the mind of Christ, which is not double minded). Col 3:3,4, "for you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God" (there is only Life in Christ), when Christ WHO IS OUR LIFE shall appear (or be revealed), then shall you appear with Him in Glory (victory)." 1Thess 5:2,20, "the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night, not with observation or with outward show" (because it is inward, IN US).

My Grandmother speaking by the Spirit at family prayer meetings would repeatedly say, TURN, OR LOOK INWARD!

Luke 17:34, "I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; one will be taken, and the one shall be left." (Dear friend, I am sure that you do not believe that these are two individuals of the same sex in the one bed. This is talking about ONE MAN WITH A DOUBLE MIND!) Matthew 24:37-40 "but as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the son of man be, for as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be, then shall two be in the field, the one shall be taken and one shall be left." In Noah's day, ONLY THE UNGODLY WERE TAKEN!!! These were the ones that were raptured? We dont want to be raptured like these. Lets get in the Ark. (Look for a different kind of rapture in your Bible, if you can find it, let me know). 2 Peter 2:5 "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly." (So, in our day when the Lord from heaven appears, or, comes to you by His Spirit, the evil part, or the carnal thinking of our beast is consumed by the words (TRUTH) of His mouth. Truth sets us free from error. This is a continual process until we are suddenly filled by His Spirit). Genesis 9:11 "And I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more, by the waters of a flood." Genesis 9:15 "And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh." We have a New Covenant, or contract with God through Jesus Christ His Son by the Spirit. In this age God cleanses by fire, or, the Word of His mouth. Hebrews 12:29, "For our God is a consuming fire." Deuteronomy 4:24, "For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God." (He knows what it takes for each of us to surrender to Him, as he said in The New Covenant that He shall take away our sins. Remember, God is Love; He is building a habitation in His many membered body, (overcomers) to dwell in for eternity. Jesus is the overcomer, so when we are filled totally by the Holy Spirit; then it is Christ as our life, and not our carnal life).

Genesis 9:15 "And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh." Romans 11:27 "For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins." Hebrews 8:6 "But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." Hebrews 8:9 "Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord." Hebrews 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their MIND, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people." Hebrews 8:13 "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away." Hebrews 8:7, "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second." Hebrews 8:8, "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah." Matthew 13:24, "another parable He told them, saying, the Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field." Ezekiel 36:9, "for behold, I am for you and I will turn unto you, and you shall be tilled and sown." (Remember, the tares grow up with the wheat, but when the wheat matures they are both pulled up together and then separated, the wheat saved and the tares burned). Romans 8:13,14,19 "for if you live after the flesh you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live, for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God, for the earnest expectation of the creature (mankind) waits for the manifestation of the sons of God."

THERE ARE RIGHTEOUS CLOUDS AND UNRIGHTEOUS CLOUDS. (CLOUDS ARE PEOPLE IN THESE VERSES! WOE TO ALL OF US WHO SPEAK FROM OUR FLESH (CARNAL) MIND. 2 Peter 2:17, "These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever." (This is talking about people!) Jude 1:12, "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withers, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots." 2 Peter 3:17, "Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also are led away with the error of the wicked, and fall from your own stedfastness." *** Hebrews 12:1 "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." (Read the rest of Hebrews Chapter 12. Also read all of Romans Chapter 8).

May this word of truth be a blessing to you, as it was to me when the Lord revealed it through His Word. 

John E. Welcher 

1986