However remember the Lord Jesus said "ALL POWER IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH IS GIVEN UNTO ME!" Therefore even all those spiritual powers used by men of the occult are still subject to Jesus. God has not gotten men to move close enough to him in order to share of his supernatural powers as much as to be able to appear and disappear and travel in God-ordained supernatural chariots. Only one prophet in a thousand had ever been previledged to get high enough to enjoy some of God's supernatural power. One such prophet was Elijah the prophet. It was rumoured about Elijah that he was disappearing when King Ahab wanted to arrest him.
The spiritual height that can tap into such spiritual power demands that the men move close to the spirit source and/or the spirit-source move close to the men. But God is very holy! Therefore few men had been pleasing unto him. It was recorded that Enoch walked with God and pleased God, and He disappeared without seeing physical death. However God has promised to bring up sons of God to this spiritual height where he can endow them with such supernatural power (Rev.12:5). By condescension, God put upon himself a flesh in Christ and dwelt among us, and desires that we also grow up to that level of Christ to receive the fulness of himself for our benefit. "..TILL WE ALL COME IN THE UNITY OF THE FAITH AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD UNTO A PERFECT MAN, UNTO THE MEASURE OF THE STATURE OF THE FULNESS OF CHRIST" (Ephe.4:11-14).
After Christianity was founded, the devil thought he could stop the purpose of God by making lukewarm-religion out of churches. The question is: "how will God ever get men spiritual enough to receive the power required in order to overthrow satan from the heavens?"
The men that had been able to get spiritual power from the devil such as can appear and disappear had been men of the occult. Such decking of power can only be attained` in a cult-like setting, not free for all. Therefore for God to bring up a bunch of people, not just one prophet, to this spiritual elevation, God must come closer and setup a mystery-group of believers from among the bands of believers though their conversation will become "cult-like" to the average believer. This was portrayed by the vision in Rev.12:5 where the "manchild" was separated from the woman-clothed-with-the-sun. From the church history, every such separation indicates revival, or dispensational change.
Every devilish cult had been setup by one satanic Cherub or a group of them. When God indicated he will setup his own mystery-group, he prophesied through Daniel that "AT THAT TIME SHALL MICHAEL STAND UP, THE GREAT PRINCE WHICH STANDETH FOR THE CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE, AND THERE SHALL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE, SUCH AS NEVER WAS SINCE THERE WAS A NATION EVEN TO THAT SAME TIME.."(Dan.12:1). Knowing that Michael is the captain of the host of God and the chief in the rank and file of the Cherubs, He will setup his own group; and as written in Rev.12:7 "AND THERE WAS WAR IN HEAVEN; MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT AGAINST THE DRAGON; AND THE DRAGON FOUGHT AND HIS ANGELS", "and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil, and Satan,which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him" (Rev.12:9).
As I was discussing, it was the satanic cherubs that form those evil cults of sinful men that research into supernatural evil-powers. What God is gathering is a group of saints that can come closer to him to obtain supernatural holy-power for delivering souls from the power of darkness, by healing the sick, raising the dead back to life, and setting sinners free from the bondage of sin. But the ministry of this mystery group is going to be more than just the outward manifestation of the working of miracles. The main job is to take over the spiritual earth from the forces of satan. That is the warfare in Rev.12. The forces of darkness in high places currently rule the nations from the spirit in many ways and also hinder prayers. But "THE PEOPLE OF THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL TAKE OVER THE KINGDOM AND POSSESS IT FOR EVER" (Dan.7:18,27).
Some folks have spoken of a doctrine called "dominion" theology, expecting the world governments to be dominated by christians. However what they did not realize is that the physical government cannot righteously be implemented until the spiritual world on this planet has been taken over by God's army as I have described. And the timetable of events has already been written in the book of Revelations (Rev.12; 20). Until now, God had not gotten men into great spiritual heights as required to influence much on the earth. He has reserved the best for the endtime. Legendary men that went into the depths of satan were said to have tapped into translative power in the underworld; they may have gotten the power from the devil. For our admonition the bible also recorded two men that were able to get translative power from God - Enoch and Elijah, and they are still alive. So we can get to the great heights through holiness in Christ Jesus and God will give the power to mankind.
This faith was revealed to the line of Seth, among the children of Adam, that we can reclaim immortality by coming back to God. We are at the end of the age when God will bring up the manchild to this spiritual height in the Holy Ghost. But how will he do this? That is part of the secrets kept in the seven thunders which John was commanded not to write in the book of revelation chapter 10. Yea, that God has got to come down and camp on earth and wrought among spirits of just men made perfect like unto known Cherubs that form clubs for men; Yea,"THY WAY IS IN THE SEA AND THY PATH IN THE GREAT WATERS, AND THY FOOTSTEPS ARE NOT KNOWN" (Psa.77:19 ). "FOR THE LORD SHALL RISE UP AS IN MOUNT PERAZIM; HE SHALL BE WROTH AS IN THE VALLEY OF GIBEON, THAT HE MAY DO HIS WORK, HIS STRANGE WORK; AND BRING TO PASS HIS ACT, HIS STRANGE ACT" (Isa. 28:21). Fear before him, all the earth! He is camping with each one of his soldiers, and yet will also have a base. He shall minister to the spirits in paradise who are awaiting ressurrection. He shall deck his army with supernatural power beyond any power that satan may have, because "all power in heaven and upon earth belongs to Jesus".
Men and women that are in satanic camp, such as the witchcraft cult, use their spiritism to do evil; They hurt and harm people by casting demons. They may even exit their body in following the devil to possess animals or birds and fly in the air to do evil. But the presence of the army of God in the world is to stop their evil works, reverse their evil influences and bring judgement, sometimes instantly, upon their souls. You can now realize that when this mystery group of God are caught up into the spirit realm and when they take over the spirit world from the devils, then their work just begin. "THEY SHALL RULE THE NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON!" Their job is to control the physical from the spirit - the reign of the kingdom of God! The Lord Jesus paid for it all! In describing this move of God, I have said that like those spirits that had initiated clubs on earth, God also will come down and camp with his army. No wonder the Lord said "We will come and make our abode with him" (Jn.14:23). In camping with his army he will take each soldier through the spiritual conditioning, and the endowment with power. He will give them spiritual outing from the body and as Christ said "they shall go in and out and find pasture". The more reason He needs to camp with them.
The spirit that came forward to say he will go to lie was a "lying spirit" and not part of the host of God. God allowed the topic to echo to the proper quarters for the spirit that can get the job done to come forward, because angels of God cannot lie. Similarly, many plans of God are echoed in the spirit world for the enemy to hear and run helter skelter ahead, but to his confusion and can never twart the move of God. One may say the Lord uses the devil; indirectly, yes!
A second example is in the trial of Job. The bible said "there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them" (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-6). You might ask how did Satan get to be in their conference? Just like the council meeting concerning Ahab, God will not leave his throne whereas his thoughts will echo into the ears of whoever he wants to present himself before the throne among the spirits, for good or for judgement.
The reason for pointing these out is to say that many mythologies that came before Christianity, and that had similarities to the Christian stories were "echoes" of what God would do in his plan of the ages. But critics thought Christianity borrowed the stories from the mythologies. The devil is a liar! Critics have also said that the Genesis account of creation which was written by Moses could also be simply what Moses learnt from his scholastic years in Egypt in Pharaoh's palace where some of the mythologies were attributed to egyptian gods, or learnt when Moses later stayed with his father-in-law, a priest of Midian since priests of that caliber definitely have researched into all such mythologies. My answer to these critics is that, of course Moses should have had knowledge of those mythologies from Egypt or Midian, however when the true God calls his servants He usually straightens them up in their knowledge by revealing the truth to them. "SURELY THE LORD GOD WILL DO NOTHING, BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET UNTO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS" (Amos 3:7). Therefore you can rest on the fact that after Moses fasted forty days and nights seeking God, the Lord had separated the lies from the truth for him and had revealed to Moses what he wrote down.
In sumary we can say before God manifests his deed he must have declared some of it in the spirit which the spirit-medium have attached to some named gods. One such story is the virgin birth of Jesus through Mary. The mythology of another Babylonian god or Roman sun-god described a mother-son relationship that turned the roman catholicism into hybridized false religion in their worship of Mary when they elevated Mary to be the goddess of heaven. But the truth is still the truth. God allowed such pollutions so that the true seed of God can be separated from the false. The devils ran ahead to localities and erect idols with stories patterned after the echoes of God's plan which they have heard, to discredit the true story when it shall arrive at the locality. Now I am going to talk about the mystery of the Phoenix bird, said to be an Egyptian myth. "The bird that lives for five hundred years and ressurrected into another bird, carrying the corpse of his parent from the parts of Arabia unto egypt, the land of the pyramids, unto a city called "the city of the sun"; placing the corpse at the altar of the sun, set to return; and the priests considering the register of times, knew he arrived when the five hundred years had elapsed". I said God couched his plans at times in mysterious myths. But it was prophesied in the book of revelation (Rev.10:7) that "in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets", therefore it is time for some plans to be revealed. "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost" (2 Pet.1:20-21). "HERE IS THE MIND WHICH HAS WISDOM". Who was there when the story originated? Who was there when the early apostolic fathers refered to the phoenix bird in their sermons? Who was there when a city in Arizona, USA was named Phoenix? Neither was I present when the Lord led a prophet of the Lord to go erect a pyramidic cathedral in that same Phoenix Arizona! Neither did we know who made them call the city of Phoenix "the valley of the sun"! Yet the legendary bird is called "phoenix", the mystery city is called "the city of the sun", and it was said to be located in the land of the pyramids! Yea, the crossing signs! WATCH! The Lord hid mystery in legendary myths, a pointer to his spiritual base of his mystery group and the house of the manchild. No wonder it was written of him "WHOSE GOINGS FORTH HAVE BEEN FROM OF OLD, FROM EVERLASTING" (Micah 5:2). Yea, "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days" (Rev.12:6); again, "And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent" (Rev.12:14).
But what about the coming of the bird from Arabia? Yea, "thy way O, Lord is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known". Who could understand it when God said "I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession?" or when he said "I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession?" yet the Moabites worship Chemosh their god, and the Ammonites worship Molech! (Deut.2:5,9). The Hebrews migrated from Egypt to possess the land of Cannan; the children of Esau migrated to possess mount Seir and the children of Lot possessed Ar! Yea, nothing moves on such scale, then nor now, without our Father's knowledge. Not even a sparrow will fall to the ground without our Father. (Mat.10:29). The Pilgrims migrated from all over western europe to settle in north America after the new world was found. It was not without our Father! He moved upon men then and shall do it again while the sun remains: "AND UPON THIS ROCK (OF REVELATION) I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH; AND THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT!" (Mat.16:18). Consider! The Holy Ghost has said "whom will I teach knowledge? whom will I cause to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and removed from the breast!" Let the baby christians put this literature down and go get some milk! "For everyone that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil" (Heb.5:13-14). According to history, the Yorubas descended from a band of people that migrated from Mecca - in the parts of Arabia, and set in West Africa. According to the revival of times in the seventies, a band of believers from among the Yorubas are catapulted by the unction of the Lord into the valley of the sun, from where we speak. But what is the message of this legendary phoenix bird? It is that Christ has revealed immortality to mankind and will soon call forth for the ressurrection of the dead! No wonder the legendary bird portrayed both longevity and ressurrection! The time is nearer than many think! Mortality will soon be a thing of the past as the Son of God appears in the sky with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God" (1Thes.4:16). Prepare! Behold He cometh quickly!
The door will soon be shut! the point of no return! BE FOREWARNED!
In the last few years a lot of brethren (even ministers) have fallen prey to the devil in the sin of fornication and adultery! Some have forgotten that Satan will use all weapons at his disposal to pull many down to hell with him, knowing that his time is short! It is not a time for anyone hoping for the rapture to mess with sin at all! The verse above stated that there will be a lock-in shortly into your filthiness or your holiness! Be not locked out of the Kingdom! Yea, HE THAT IS HOLY LET HIM BE HOLY STILL...". The Lord is coming soon! Many were caught having affairs with other people's spouse, yea putting themselves back under the curse of sin for which Christ suffered! Others, trying to comfort themselves preaches "once saved forever saved"; yet Christ said "REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW THOU HAST RECEIVED AND HEARD, AND HOLD FAST, AND REPENT". "HE THAT OVERCOMETH, THE SAME SHALL BE CLOTHED IN WHITE RAIMENT; AND I WILL NOT BLOT OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE, BUT I WILL CONFESS HIS NAME BEFORE MY FATHER, AND BEFORE HIS ANGELS". (Rev.3:3,5). Yea, the writer of the book, saith he has also an eraser TO BLOT OUT NAMES OUT OF THE BOOK! Be forewarned! IT IS A WARFARE! you do well to take heed and put on the whole armour of God, lest you be swept by the wayside by the satanic patrolers, who walks up and down the road seeking who to drag down into the mud with them. "Flee fornication". Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body -- THE TEMPLE OF GOD. Yet it is written "whosoever defileth the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple are ye" (1Cor.6:15-20). KEEP YOURSELF PURE!
"AND WHEREWITHAL SHALL A YOUNGMAN CLEANSE HIS WAYS? BY TAKING HEED THERETO, ACCORDING TO THY WORD" (Psa.119:9).
"For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings" (Prov.5:21).
The sin of Sodom has entered into some churches, yet our God is the same yesterday, today and forever! What was abomination in his eyes then, is still abomination today! "THE SOUL THAT SINNETH SHALL DIE!" (Rom.1:24,32). "Except ye repent, ye shall in likewise perish!" ( ). When God said "the woman shall not put on that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all they that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God" (Deut.22:5), the churches today expect God to have been civilized now. SOME ADULTRESSES JUST LOVE TO DO THEIR THING WITH THEIR DRESSES ON! How? "Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath commited adultery with her already in his heart!" (Mat.5:28). Even some holy-roler sisters now role in men's trousers, yet our God is the same yesterday, and today, and forever!
"REMEMBER THEREFORE HOW THOU HAST RECEIVED AND HEARD, AND HOLD FAST, AND REPENT". "EXCEPT YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL EXCEED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, YE SHALL IN NO CASE ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN" (Mat.5:20).
Some people thought they can do something because they saw a minister or a minister's wife do the same, especially on television; yet they never realized that the devil has infiltrated even many pulpits. Yea, there are tares in the field! Envy not the sinner! "FOR THERE SHALL BE NO REWARD TO THE EVIL MAN; THE CANDLE OF THE WICKED SHALL BE PUT OUT" (Prov.24:20). When Sodomites are ordained as ministers in some churches, and homosexuals are joined in unholy-matrimony at some altars, you must know that the end is near!
We are telling you to repent! Do you hope to go in the rapture? "AND EVERYMAN THAT HAS THIS HOPE IN HIM, PURIFIETH HIMSELF, AS HE IS PURE" (1 Jn. 3:3). When you are left behind in the rapture, your heart will strongly witness against you that you have fornicated, or played game with your christianity, or you have not prayed enough nor fasted, "AND THOU MOURN AT THE LAST WHEN THY FLESH AND THY BODY ARE CONSUMED, AND SAY HOW HAVE I HATED INSTRUCTION, AND MY HEART DESPISED REPROOF; AND HAVE NOT OBEYED THE VOICE OF MY TEACHERS, NOR INCLINED MINE EAR TO THEM THAT INSTRUCTED ME": so that the Lord "mayest be justified when he speaketh, and be clear when he judgeth" (Prov.5:11-23; Psa.51:4).
"BEHOLD I COME QUICKLY AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME TO GIVE TO EVERYONE ACCORDING AS HIS WORKS SHALL BE. I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINING AND THE END, THE FIRST AND THE LAST. BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MAY HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER IN THROUGH THE GATES INTO THE CITY. FOR WITHOUT ARE DOGS, AND SORCERERS, AND WHOREMONGERS, AND MURDERERS, AND IDOLATERS, AND WHOSOEVER LOVETH AND MAKETH A LIE. I JESUS HAVE SENT MY ANGEL TO TESTIFY UNTO YOU THESE THINGS IN THE CHURCHES. I AM THE ROOT AND THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID, AND THE BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR", saith the Lord Jesus Christ. (Rev.22:12-15).