The teachings of the church today can only be honestly called the doctrine of devils. In the Garden of Eden, Satan sought to deceive Eve in the hopes that she would break covenant with God. Satan was more successful that he even dreamed because not only did Eve break covenant with God, she dragged Adam along with her, and subsequently, the whole human race. As a result, all mankind is born in the kingdom of Satan, are citizens of Satan’s kingdom, and subjects of his wrath, which is why Jesus told Nicodemus, “You must be born again.” Jesus was amazed that Nicodemus, being a scholar of Israel, God’s chosen people, did not know such a fundamental truth. The truth though is: most Christian scholars today do not know what it means to be born again.
Jesus went on, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,” but again, most Christian scholars cannot correctly identify the kingdom of God. Satan’s major modus operandi is deception. He uses the method of deception to change mankind’s perception of God’s Word, thereby keeping mankind from living in covenant with God. When Jesus died on the cross, He fulfilled the covenant of His Father and established His own covenant. According to Jeremiah 31:31-34, the new covenant was to be drastically different from the old covenant but Christians today add Jesus’ death on the cross to the old covenant and go on practicing the principals of the old covenant. This is because of deception.
When the Father God made covenant with the Children of Israel that established a kingdom. This kingdom is called the kingdom of God. We know it was the Father God who established the old covenant because Isaiah 53:6 tells us: “The Lord has placed on Him the iniquity of us all.” The Lord of the old covenant was the Father. He was its author and ruled over it, making Him its king. It was the kingdom of God. The Father said, “The Lord thy God is one Lord,” and. “Thou shalt have no other God before me.” This is a direct reference to Jesus and the Holy Spirit, who are also God. This is how the Father established His kingdom.
Now Jesus and the Holy Spirit were in complete agreement with the Father and worked with the Father God to establish His kingdom. When Jesus was raised from the dead by the Father God, the Father God gave Jesus the name above every other name. That was the name, Lord. The Father also gave to Jesus all power and all authority, making Jesus Lord of Lords and King of Kings. This established the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of Heaven didn’t supplant the kingdom of God; the kingdom of God was absorbed into the kingdom of heaven.
When Jesus was asked about John the Baptist, He said, “There has not arisen a greater than John the Baptist but he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John.” This is because John lived under the kingdom of God. Again, going back to John 3, Jesus said, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” The reason Jesus said this is because all mankind is born into the kingdom of Satan and Satan blinds the heart of those in his kingdom, less they see and believe. Mankind must be born again in order to be able to see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus should have known this, being a scholar of Israel, but didn’t.
It was not until Jesus died on the cross that mankind could be born again but experience tells us even then, people see through a glass darkly. Satan has perfected his powers of deception. The old covenant had no provision to be born again. The Children of Israel were subjects of the kingdom of God but not citizens. 1John 2:2 informs us all mankind were made citizens of the kingdom of God through Jesus’ death on the cross. The verse reads: “And he is the propitiation of our sins, but not ours alone, He is the propitiation of the sins of the entire world.” Jesus set the whole world right with God through His death on the cross. This made all mankind citizens of the kingdom of God with all the rights of citizenship.
In Luke 15:11-32, Jesus tells a story about a man who had two sons. This story has become known as the Prodigal Son story but that interpretation is a deception by Satan. The prodigal son story is a great story but teaches principals that belie the truth. Jesus told Nicodemus, “You must be born again,” and, “If you are not born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God,” so the New Testament is about citizenship and the rights of citizenship. The scriptures say of the Jews that they were strangers and foreigners in the land, having no rights of citizenship and in Ephesians 2:11-12 that concept is expanded to include all Gentiles but verses 13-19 describe how we all are now citizens of the kingdom of God.
The story Jesus tells in Luke 15:11-32 describes two young men, one of which understands the rights of citizenship and one that does not. The older son dwells in the kingdom of his Father and has all the rights of citizenship but never advocates for those rights or enjoys the benefits of those rights. The younger son understands the rights of citizenship and advocates for those rights, somewhat brazenly, but even after he has squandered his inheritance, which was a right of citizenship, he knows his citizenship is not diminished and advocates for those rights again.
Now, does God love us? A thousand times yes! Is God gracious towards us? Again, the answer is the same, but is Jesus teaching love and grace or is love and grace bylines of the story? All mankind is born into the kingdom of Satan but thanks be to Jesus Christ, who through the new covenant, has caused all mankind to be born again into the kingdom of God, with all the rights of citizenship in the kingdom of God. Now, again, Satan tempted Eve to get her to leave the kingdom of the Garden of Eden so that he could have her live in his kingdom. In John 10:10, Jesus said, “The thief comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but I have come that they might have life and more abundant life.”
This is the point of the older son. He had all the rights of citizenship but never availed himself of those rights and never even thought to. Satan has blinded the Church today to the fact it has rights of citizenship in the kingdom of God. There is a second point to this story though that is equally important. The old covenant was an express covenant. The word, covenant, is a synonym of contract. The old covenant was a contract between the Father God and the Children of Israel. Its blessings and curses were clearly spelled out in the contract and if you kept its commandments, you enjoyed the fruit of your obedience, and if not, you suffered the fruit of disobedience. The story Jesus tells in Luke 15:11-32 illustrates a much different picture.
In this story, only the son who advocated for the rights of citizenship enjoyed the rights of citizenship. The older son had the same rights but never advocated for them and never enjoyed them. This illustrates an aleatory contract. The new covenant is not an express contract, it is an aleatory contract because Jesus made the contract with the whole human race; it is a whosoever will contract. A real estate contract is an aleatory contract. In the case of the real estate contract, a seller places a house on the market for sale. The sale of the house is under contract to whosoever will but the contract is only activated by someone making an offer to buy the house. The contract is activated by outside forces.
In Mark 11:23, Jesus says, “If any man say to this mountain, be removed and cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, he shall have whatsoever he says.” Our modern church tells us if we keep God’s commandments, good things will come our way and some good things do because God loves us, but they are intermixed with all sorts of bad things because if we do not advocate for the rights of citizenship in the kingdom of God, we will live in Satan’s kingdom and under his influence. Jesus says if you speak to the mountain in faith believing, it will move. In the story of the two sons, Jesus illustrates he that speaks up for what belongs to him, receives. Jesus said, “The kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force.” The younger sons advocating of his inheritance was a violent act but he had authority to perform it and received.
All mankind has been redeemed from the old covenant law and transferred into the kingdom of God’s dear Son, but only those who advocate for the blessings of citizenship receive. It’s just like the real estate contract. Only those who place an offer on the house, get the house. Mankind is born again in the kingdom of God, but in order to live in the blessings of the kingdom of God, blessings clearly spelled out by Deuteronomy 28, one must advocate for the rights of citizenship. In other words, they must speak to the mountain that is Satan’s kingdom and tell it to move. It will obey you if you truly believe Jesus took your sins in His own body on the tree, that you being dead to sin, should live into righteousness, 1Peter 2:24.
There are no curses of the kingdom of God because Jesus became a curse for us, that we might be the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Righteousness is the point. It is freedom from all sickness and disease. Now the righteousness Jesus provided for mankind on the cross is natural human righteousness. The Father God demanded mankind live perfect before Him and that’s what Jesus provided through His death on the cross. Jesus lived perfect before His Father, then died as one guilty of transgressing the whole of the law. This is how Jesus fulfilled the old covenant but it is also this perfect keeping that Jesus gives to all mankind.
Only those who accept this sacrifice by faith receive the benefit, which is why most people can tell you the exact hour and date they were “saved,” that is saved from their sin. The truth is they were saved right after Jesus died on the cross but because the new covenant is an aleatory covenant, they didn’t receive any benefits until they advocated for them by faith. However, being a citizen of the kingdom of God does not make you a citizen of the kingdom of heaven.
Remember, Jesus said, “Of those born of women, there has not arisen a greater than John the Baptist, howbeit, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John.” John lived under the kingdom of God. All mankind is born again in the kingdom of God because of the generosity of Jesus but the kingdom of heaven is a separate kingdom. In order to establish citizenship in the kingdom of heaven, you must keep Jesus’ commandments.
Now, regrettably, not long after Jesus’ resurrection, Satan came to church leaders and said, “Yea, hath God said you must keep all the commandments of Jesus? Hath not the apostles perfectly kept the first and hath therefore fulfilled it?” And church leaders agreed with Satan’s theology and began to teach disobedience of the first commandment of the Lord of Lords and King of Kings, all while holding the obedience performed by the apostles in the highest esteem. By honoring the commandment in this way, they dishonored it and caused the church down through the centuries to fail to gain citizenship in the kingdom of heaven.
Now in 1Peter 2:24, we are told Jesus took our sins in His own body on the tree, that we being dead to sin, should live into righteousness. The righteousness we should live unto is obedience of Jesus’ commandments. Righteousness has always been defined by obedience. Jesus kept His Father’s commandments perfectly and gives this perfect keeping to all mankind as a free gift of righteousness. This is called grace, or unmerited favor. None of us deserved such a kind and generous gift but Jesus didn’t give it to us because we deserved it; He gave it to us because the Father loved us and Jesus loved His Father. This gives all mankind citizenship in the kingdom of God and access to all the blessings of the old covenant but Jesus does not force anyone to receive these blessings, which makes the new covenant an aleatory covenant.
Jesus saw that once all mankind was made righteous, all mankind could be given citizenship in heaven. Because the new covenant is an aleatory covenant however, made with all mankind, Jesus needed a trip lever to execute citizenship in heaven. Jesus did not want to force citizenship in heaven on all mankind; He wanted to give mankind the option. This is why Jesus issued three commandments and requires obedience of these commandments in order to gain citizenship in heaven. Citizenship in heaven is completely voluntary. Those who keep the commandments of the King of heaven prove they are citizens of that kingdom.
Now just to put a finer point on it: Mankind was not given the option to opt out of the kingdom of God. All mankind was born again into the kingdom of God but must advocate for the rights of citizenship to enjoy those rights. Citizenship in the kingdom of heaven, however, is completely voluntary. It might be important to note when mankind was first created, mankind was created with citizenship in the kingdom of God. So Jesus corrected what was done in the Garden of Eden and then went beyond the Garden of Eden to give mankind citizenship in heaven if mankind desired it. The commandments of Jesus are so much easier to keep than those of His Father because Jesus has already given mankind the righteousness required by his Father. The commandments of the Father were lifestyle commandments but Jesus commandments require a deliberate act. Those who want to establish citizenship in heaven must be deliberate in obedience.
Because of the new birth, all mankind has a gift of the Holy Spirit resident in the heart. To become a resident of heaven all that is required is to allow that gift of the Spirit to flow out of the heart daily. As the Holy Spirit flows, He exits the body through the mouth and manifests Himself in languages not learned by the believer. This language is what the Bible calls the gift of tongues. This process saturates the believer with the Holy Spirit, which is what Jesus commanded those first believers to do in Acts 1:4-5. The word, baptize, means, to make wet, and anything made wet is saturated. It takes time to be saturated with the Holy Spirit, so every believer must wait for the saturation to occur. The Holy Spirit lifts up all kinds of prayer, supplication, praise, and worship, the believer is unaware of, or cannot express through normal means, while He is saturating the believer.
Besides this first commandment to wait for a baptism with the Spirit, Jesus goes on to command believers to publish this gospel of the new covenant and disciple new believers. By interpreting the first commandment as having been fulfilled, the whole of the new covenant was distorted so that the gospel preached today bears no resemblance to the actual new covenant. Most Christians have no idea how easy it is to allow the gift of the Spirit resident in their hearts to flow out and do not speak with tongues. The idea of speaking with tongues is abhorrent to many believers, who because of Satan’s deception, are expecting to make heaven their home. If residency is not established in this life, it cannot be established in the next.
So a believer is defined as one who believes. To believe in Jesus is a manifold experience. Jesus was God, who laid aside His Godhood to come to earth as a man, and as a man to keep His Father’s covenant perfectly, giving to mankind that perfect keeping. Jesus was also raised from the dead by His Father, who was so impressed by what Jesus had done, gave to Jesus the name above every name and enhanced that name by giving Him all authority in heaven and in earth, making Jesus the blessed only omnipotent, the only wise God. Jesus went on to establish a new covenant with new commandments, obedience of which grants citizenship in the kingdom of heaven.
Believers in Jesus’ death on the cross experience the new birth but if they do not command the kingdom of Satan to move, they are unbelievers and will experience a mish mash of life and death. Believers in Mark 11:23 speak to the mountain, commanding it to move and enjoy the blessings of the kingdom of God, but if they do not believe Jesus was given all power in heaven and earth, they will not keep Jesus’ commandments and are unbelievers. Believers on Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, imbuement of all power and authority, and establishing of the new covenant, are obedient believers and citizens of the kingdom of heaven.
So when Jesus called me to build His Church on 12-20-19, this is what He called me to do. He called me to study the scripture, learn the truth, and write it out as simply as I can, so that others can understand it and keep it. In Habukuk 2:2, the Lord commanded Habukuk to write the vision down and place it on tablets so that the herald may run with it. The herald is a person who carries the message forth.
There are tens of thousands of people on this earth who believe all they have to do to get to heaven is believe in Jesus but that belief is rarely defined. Jesus is a multifaceted person. Is it belief in the Jesus who died on the cross, or belief in the Jesus that arose from the dead? Is it belief in the Jesus who was given the name above every other name, the Jesus who instituted the new covenant, or the Jesus who rules over heaven with a rod of iron? Which Jesus must we believe in order to make heaven our home? Actually, it is the Jesus that issued the commandments of Acts 1:4-8. This is the Jesus that grants citizenship in heaven and those who believe in this Jesus make heaven their home. The fact that most Christians do not know this is the work of Satan, whose goal is to keep all mankind in his kingdom, where he can steal, kill and destroy.
In order to overcome Satan, all the believer has to do is believe, but faith comes by hearing and hearing by God’s Word. If Christians fail to hear the truth, Christians will fail to believe. Some will fail to believe anyway. I’m asking you to help me get this message out. The truth is: Anyone seeking to make heaven their eternal home must publish this gospel. Jesus was unequivocal in John 15:10, “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love,” which means if you do not keep Jesus’ commandments, you cannot abide in His love. If you cannot abide in His love without keeping His commandments, you cannot abide in heaven. If you do not believe Jesus commanded you to wait for a baptism with the Spirit you are an unbeliever and will fail to make heaven your home.
Notice John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” The modern Church defines belief in Jesus as belief in His death but it is the Jesus of Acts 1:4 that grants eternal life, therefore we must see ourselves standing with the disciples of Jesus being commanded to wait for a baptism with the Spirit, it is belief in the Jesus of Acts 1 that must be exercised.