Hear another Parable: Thus says the Holy Spirit in this Parable, Titus, drive this Message that I have been developing in your Spirit for so long a time, into the brains of all the men of this generation, in order for them to understand the Religious Dimension of the ongoing “Last Hour” – The Final Battle between the Forces of Light and the forces of darkness. And the LORD continued:
Titus, I was not persecuted, suffered and crucified by bandits, kidnappers, armed robbers, etc, but by the Jewish chief priests/priests, elders, scribes and Pharisees/teachers of the law, in conjunction with the rulers of the Jews. This does not in any way suggest that bandits, kidnappers, armed robbers, etc, are good people. Be that as it may, My first adversaries in the Land of Creation (Israel) were religious men who claimed to be the servants of God, of which Saul of Tarsus was the chief. “Then the CHIEF PRIESTS, THE SCRIBES, AND THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE assembled at the palace of the HIGH PRIEST, who was called Caiaphas, and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him” (Matthew 26:3-4). “Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that Jesus had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” And they said, “What is that to us? You see to it!” – Matthew 27:3-4. Now hear this, says “The Overcomer”:
One may be tempted to ask, why was the Bible silent about the atrocities of Saul against the LORD during His earthly Ministry? The reason is this: God reserved the details of the atrocities of Saul against Jesus Christ during His earthly Ministry and beyond, for “The Overcomer” to reveal to humanity at this ongoing “Last Hour”. Through the Ministry of the reincarnated Biblical … Noah/Abraham/David …, humanity will realize that the self-acclaimed “apostle” Paul was an unbeliever; and a minister to only unbelievers (the “gentiles”). Who are the “gentiles” (Saul-like beings) of this generation? They are the chief priests/priests, bishops, pastors, rabbis, scribes, deacons, elders, scholars, theologians, Bible teachers, etc, of this generation, who subscribed to the “Yeasts of Saul” that: THE LAW OF GOD IS DEAD …! and who are also boldly teaching their gullible pupils of the End Time, the same LIES that Saul taught the unbelievers many years ago.
The Glorified Jesus ordered “The Overcomer” to reecho again and again, these rebellious words that Satan spoke through Saul of Tarsus: “This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by THE WORKS OF THE LAW, or by the hearing of faith? ARE YOU SO FOOLISH? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?” – Galatians 3:2-3. “KNOWING THAT A MAN IS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ AND NOT BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW; FOR BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW NO FLESH SHALL BE JUSTIFIED. I do not set aside the grace of God; FOR IF RIGHTEOUSNESS COMES THROUGH THE LAW, THEN CHRIST DIED IN VAIN” (Galatians 2:16, 21).
Let me highlight to you the identity of the so-called “apostle” Paul. “Saul of Tarsus” – The confirmed name of the greatest rebel of all time, was a Jewish Pharisee and a “scholar-cum-lawyer”, who majored in the traditions of the Jews. “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today” (Acts 22:3). “For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the Church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers” (Galatians 1:13-14). “But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee ….” Acts 23:6. What was the behaviour of Saul and his cohorts (the teachers of the law) before the first advent of Jesus Christ?
They (the teachers of the law) made themselves fathers/lords before the children of Israel, while they were busy walking against THE LAW/COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. To be exact, they stuck to the traditions of the Jews, invented diabolical laws for the children of Israel to keep, while they totally rejected the LAW OF GOD. Hence, when the LORD Jesus Christ appeared in Israel 2000+ years ago, the Jewish “teachers of the law” took His Holy Teachings and Judgemental Pronouncements, as threats to their authority. For that reason, they sought every opportunity to kill Jesus. Let’s familiarize ourselves with some Bible Verses in order for us to realize the height of wickedness of Saul of Tarsus and his type, against the LORD Jesus Christ during His earthly Ministry:
“Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “Jesus is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them. He (the man who was born blind that Jesus healed) answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.” Then they said to him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?” He answered them, “I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?” Then they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spoke to Moses; AS FOR THIS FELLOW, WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE HE IS FROM.” And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.” Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?” Jesus said to them, “IF YOU WERE BLIND, YOU WOULD HAVE NO SIN; BUT NOW YOU SAY, ‘WE SEE.’ THEREFORE YOUR SIN REMAINS” (John 9:16, 25-29, 39-41). Jesus Christ declared to the Jewish rebels: “I and My Father are one.” Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?” The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, BUT FOR BLASPHEMY, AND BECAUSE YOU, BEING A MAN, MAKE YOURSELF GOD” (John 10:30-33). There are several Bible Passages in the 4 Gospels of Jesus Christ, which abundantly revealed the atrocities of the Jewish Pharisees against the LORD. Now hear how Jesus Christ lambasted and cursed the rebels 2000+ years ago:
“Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’ But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your Teacher, the Christ, and you are all brethren. Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ. “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? SERPENTS, BROOD OF VIPERS! HOW CAN YOU ESCAPE THE CONDEMNATION OF HELL?” – Matthew 23:1-2, 6-10, 13, 16-17, 33. Please, meticulously study the entire Chapter of Matthew 23. Hear another:
Jesus said to the rebels: “Why do you also transgress the COMMANDMENT OF GOD because of your TRADITION? For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the COMMANDMENT OF GOD OF NO EFFECT BY YOUR TRADITION. Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. AND IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN” (Matthew 15:3-9).
My brothers and sisters in the LORD, when a wicked man receives power to raise the dead and to perform other miracles, it becomes an opportunity for him to multiply wickedness! That was exactly the case of Saul of Tarsus! Wickedness preceded his anointing by a man named Ananias (Study Acts 9:1-19); and when he got power, it became an opportunity for him to vent his anger against THE LAW/COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, which he (as a “teacher of the law” – the traditions of the Jews) had been encouraging the children of Israel never to keep.
To Saul of Tarsus, THE LAW/COMMANDMENTS which God handed over to humanity through Prophet Moses, FOR ALL HUMANS TO OBEY, “were useless Ordinances from the Creator! meant to punish man”. He boldly declared that: HE CANNOT KEEP THE LAW OF GOD! BECAUSE OF THE SIN THAT DWELT IN HIS FLESH – “For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I WILL NOT TO DO, I AGREE WITH THE LAW THAT IT IS GOOD. But now, it is no longer I who do it, BUT SIN THAT DWELLS IN ME. Now if I DO WHAT I WILL NOT TO DO, IT IS NO LONGER I WHO DO IT, BUT SIN THAT DWELLS IN ME” (Romans 7:15-17, 20). Saul made those twisted, ambiguous and highly questionable utterances when the LORD Jesus Christ had taken away the imputed sin of all human beings; and had already activated the Holy Spirit Era (The no-nonsense Dispensation of Creation). An Era when men are supposed to be copying the Perfect Character/Virtues of the Glorified Jesus or the Holy Spirit, and not a period to cast blame on the original sin of humankind, which the LORD Jesus Christ had already nailed to the cross!
My dear brethren, what the LORD demanded from the Righteous right from the very Beginning to the close of this Age, and at Eternity, is for us TO KEEP THE LAW/COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. Anybody who declared in this generation that, THE LAW OF GOD IS DEAD! as the rebel who wants to escape with his fatal injuries from the Battlefield of “Ededjo” arrogantly did, is one of the ancient and modern pupils of Saul of Tarsus. That kind of rebel is a notorious LIAR, who has no relationship with God the Father or the Son, not to talk of the Holy Spirit! Thus, he is a confirmed outcast in the coming City of God!
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MEDITATE: “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.” BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER THROUGH THE GATES INTO THE CITY. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, AND WHOEVER LOVES AND PRACTICES A LIE” (Revelation 22:12-15). “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS MAN’S ALL. FOR GOD WILL BRING EVERY WORK INTO JUDGEMENT, including every secret thing, whether good or evil” (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14). The LORD Jesus Christ declared: “DO NOT THINK THAT I CAME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS. I DID NOT COME TO DESTROY BUT TO FULFILL. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE WILL BY NO MEANS PASS FROM THE LAW TILL ALL IS FULFILLED” (Matthew 5:17-18).
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