Day 89 of Reading the Bible in 90 Days

Good morning; today we should finish the bible and leave the last day to reflect on this great task and journey. It is really exciting and liberating as well as educationally edifying to do this because we learn something new each day we read, even when you redo this bible reading you'll find new things you didn't see previously. So let us finish today's reading.

Revelation 19

Now the Lord has taken down the great whore, the beast or Babylon the great and the heavens are rejoicing now and are praising God. The marriage of the Lamb has finally come, the whore pretending to be married to Jesus has been removed and the real wife, Israel, has cleaned herself up in fine white linen. Blessed are all who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. John bowed down after seeing all this to worship the angel speaking to him; but was told to get up because the angel is a fellowservant and is a brother that has the testimony Jesus and told John to worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The Holy Spirit or Comforter is not to be worship and does not go into the trinity God head.
The Final Battle with Jesus
¹⁶And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
John saw heaven open with Jesus sitting on a white horse judging and making war. Jesus had eyes of fire and wore many crowns, not just one like the false prophet attempted to emulate. His clothing looked like they were dipped in blood, remember in Isaiah 63 when He said He treaded His enemies like a wine press. Here it is again.
His name is the Word of God; in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God. There it is. Jesus had armies with Him; at this point He has all the angels and the resurrected saints who met Him in the air as Paul spoke in Thessalonioans. When one is coming with armies; it is going to be a get down and lay down scenario and no more conversations at this point..
²⁰And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
An angel then told all the wild beast of the earth to come to this battle so they can supper, a great supper of the great God where they will eat on kings, and captains, and mighty men, and men. Vultures will be able to swim in blood in this supper. The kings of the earth are going to initially be warring with each other getting closer and closer to pulling the nuclear bomb trigger, when all of the sudden the Lord will show up and intervene. This will cause the nations to temporarily settle their differences and fight against the Lord. It's a horrible move to fight against immortals. Obviously the armies do not believe that the Lord and His armies are immortal. The Lord will summon the beast, the military leader of the western Gentile nations and the false prophet (the abomination that causes desolations), and put them into the lake of fire burning with fire and brimstone into the lake of fire prior to judgement day. Everyone else will be killed by the Lord Jesus and their dead bodies will be fed to the beast of the earth.

Revelation 20

⁴And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
After the head of the Gentile beast and the false prophet are put away into a lake of fire created for their boss, Satan, then Satan is locked away in a bottomless pit for one day, a thousand years. He is put away to stop deceiving the nations during this Sabbath day of peace, the thousand year millennium period, Satan will be locked out until the end to try some who have never been tempted; because all need to be tempted.
Then John saw thrones (plural), and the people sitting on these thrones were given judgment. We see the rigorous process Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is going through to be the top judge in America. By keeping the commandments we are going that process as we go through life and will be given a seat of judgment and reign with Jesus Christ for the entire Sabbath day (thousand years). Those who are judging have made the first resurrection.
⁵But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
If you did not make the first resurrection then you will remain asleep (dead) until after the thousand years are complete. It says you are blessed if you make the first resurrection because the second death has no power over you and you will be kings and priest and will reign with Jesus a thousand years (v5-6).
After the thousands years are expired, Satan will be release to do what he does best, deceive, and even after a thousand years with Jesus on the earth teaching the truth, Satan will still be able to deceive and influence billions of people to come up against Jerusalem to war. The only thing is they will not succeed.
¹³And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Finally the devil is thrown into the lake of fire where the head of the Gentile military or political party is and where the false prophet have been for the last 1000 years being tormented. It is taught that when one goes into the lake of fire they are simply burned up. Burning a dead body cannot be torment. You have to be alive to be tormented. After this there is the great white throne judgment we read about in Daniels and the Lord spoke of in many parables in the New Testament gospels, all will stand before the Lord and other judges and be judged out of the bible to see if their names are written in the book of life. I see people fall and crumble when the judge says not guilty in a court of law for a murder charge or robbery; or they cry in fear and anger when they are found guilty. When people are being judged on shows like American Idol; the contestants cry bitterly or get angry. Can you imagine how it will be when you are being judged on your life and how you lived it according the bible we've just read over the past 89 days. We all have major cleaning up to do; and I may be the one at the top of the list for need of cleaning up. Every man will be judged according to their works.
Why your works when Paul all along said faith in Jesus Christ? Because your faith will show your works. An exercise will show how this works. Get a glass of water and set it on the table and pray to the Lord to bring the water to your lips to drink. Watch how long this takes to complete. Beg the water to come to your lips, positive think the water to your lips, demand the water to your lips, claim the water to your lips. Have you kept track of the time? Now pick the cut of water up and drink it.
It takes works the glass and the water has been provided by the Lord all you have to do is drink it. Your works will always show what you believe or have faith in. If you believe and have faith that you will be ticketed or arrested for driving without a license, then you will not drive a car.
¹⁴And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. ¹⁵And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Death and hellish situations were also thrown in the lake of fire and John let's us know this is the second death, this is the death you under no circumstances want to have to go into because there is no coming out of it for the simple fact that the Lord has spoken that it is forever. He cannot lie.

Revelation Chapter 21

²And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
⁵And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
Every one has been judged those to eternal shame are in their place and those in the Lord's kingdom in their place and here comes the new heaven and earth. One with no waters, it was coming down out from heaven; and one announced that the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them. The Lord will wipe all tears away because there will be no more dying, sorrow, crying, pain, and all the things we have put ourselves through by disobeying the Lord.
If we over come we will inherit all things but look who won't inherit anything but death itself:
⁸But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Now the Lord's bride is seen coming down out of heaven from God, clear as crystal with twelve gates with twelve angels standing at each gate and the twelve tribes of the children of Israel names on the gate. You may be surprised that Peter is not sitting in front of a two door gate, since he had the keys to the kingdom. You have to become Israel to go through these gates. That does not mean we become physically changed to become Jews, we have to adopt the ways of the children of Israel who keep the covenant of the Lord. In other words, we have to become spiritually Israelites to become children of God.
During that thousand years of peace, the Lord will be adopting nations as He adopted Jacob. When He adopted Jacob He gave him His name, Israel. Thus the entire earth will wear the name Israel, which is the Lord's name.
¹³On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
¹⁴And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
¹⁸And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
²⁷And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
There was no temple in the city; only the Lord God Almighty & the Lamb were the temple. We still only have God the Father and God the Son, Paul perhaps didn't greet the Holy Ghost as God because the Holy Ghost is a ministering spirit. So this is certainly the Father's kingdom because Christ kingdom had a temple in it. All Spirit beings shine so the city had no need for the sun or moon. A key point in verse 24 to remember is that nations and kings still exist even in the Father's kingdom. You'll still have Germany; but they will be a righteous and immortal Germany because nothing that defiles or works abominable things will come into the city.

Revelation 22

¹And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
²In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
³And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
⁴And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
⁵And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
⁶And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
⁷Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
¹¹He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
¹²And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
¹³I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
¹⁴Blessed 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.
¹⁵For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
¹⁶I Jesus have sent mine 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.
¹⁷And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
¹⁸For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
¹⁹And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
²⁰He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
²¹The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
Amen and AMEN
We have finished the bible from front to back. All stories have happy endings, even the trues story of them all that we live called life. We have the choice to make it a very happy ending for ourselves. We will reflect tomorrow on all we have learned and read.
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Day 86 of Reading the Bible in 90 Days

Good morning. We have here the 86th day; I feel like an old man with 86 candles on my birthday cake. At any rate; let us eat today the sweet word of God. We are in the book of James.

James 4

James has a straightforward way of communicating; his tone is share and direct. Fights and wars are started because of lust to be powerful; lust to be ruler; but if people would simply ask God for power in a way that was not lustful they would receive it. Like many people ask God for money; and they pray for a million dollars. I did that once in my youth, I must have been in college and prayed for a million dollars, and I'm sure the Lord just chuckled it off or maybe He got a good laugh at it thinking; "what would this idiot do with a million dollars?"

The prayer probably didn't even make the Lord's desk; the angel that watches over me probably just threw the request out because I was asking for money so I can drive a nice car and have someone jealous of me take the wheels while I'm sleeping at night. We all like to think we'd give money to charity; but at the end of the day the first desire is to look good and impress people. That is what James says about be adulterers and adulteresses, who would rather be friends with the world rather than with God. Friends with the world is an enemy with God; do you think the scripture says that in vain?

⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. The Lord humbled Himself, even to death, in the face of mocking and more; and now He is waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool. He has been lifted up. Jesus is our example to be humble and not boastful and proud.

James 5

¹Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

²Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Now if you are pretty wealthy and you're reading this; do not go dump your riches into the nearest lake or ocean. If you are rich and that is all you care about, you steal from the poor to get rich, you stab people in the back to make a dollar; then weep and howl as James says because miseries will come on you. For instance, if you are a prominent drug dealer; you are like a minister to a degree; you have littered the landscape with junkies, destroyed families and all for your own nice living; do you think this will be over looked? James speaks to you to clean up with riches that are corrupted because the future is not good for men like that.

⁶Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you

We are not just talking about street pharmacist; we are talking about FDA approved rich drug dealers; the kind that helped people like Michael Jackson overdose on pain medication. I do not know Michael's case; but I know other people who really needed pain relief and came innocently for help; so they didn't resist but were killed by the medication.

Yes or No Is Good Enough

¹²But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

Prayer of the Righteous Works Well

¹⁶Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

¹⁷Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

¹⁸And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit

Elijah was a man just like us; and if he was like me; he liked women, he enjoyed hanging with his buddies, and playing chess or shooting some hoops once in a while. But he prayed earnestly; and God answered his prayer and stopped rain for an entire nation for 3 and a half years. If God would answer Elijah's earnest prayer; He will answer yours; it just depends on why you are asking for something. Do not go pray for the Lord to stop money from coming into your friends house until they apologize to you. Elijah was a good man; I'm not to sure about the quality of man today.

²⁰Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

This is one of my main ways of hiding many of my sins; I share God's word with someone who wants it. I know we all need it; but very few in need want it. And when I can get someone to stop their current lifestyle and turn to God; I have done well. I first try to hide my sins by confessing them and asking for forgiveness and mercy; then I tell people about my God and really cover the edges.

We are going into the books of Peter

1 Peter chapter 1

¹Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

²Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Peter wrote these to Israelites, scattered about.

Brief words to keep faith in the Lord, keep our vessels holy for the Lord is Holy, and to put all our trust in the Lord and not man.

²⁴For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

²⁵But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Flesh is here one day and gone the next; if I were a greedy man I'd get into the funeral business because it is one business that cares nothing about a recession. As long as Adam sinned, there will be people dying on a daily business and countries like the United States make it big business for tax purposes. In my native country; you bury your dead in your compound, which is equivalent to burying them in your backyard. This can be done because there is no property tax; you don't have to live in fear of your property being taken because your son used the money to buy an entertainment room.

Man's time is short; but the word of the Lord endures forever. What we are reading is what people read in the 1800s, in the 1500s, in the 600s, in 70s (AD that is), Christ read it in His days, and as Paul said, it is what Moses and the children of Israel received in the wilderness. The Lord is in every generation, we are not.

1 Peter 2

²As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

We are to consume this word like newborn babies desire sincere milk from their mothers breast; that is how we are to take this in, so we can grow by it.

⁶Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

⁷Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

⁸And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

Peter and Paul and other New Testament writers all quoted the scripture because their writing was based on the scripture. Just as these blogs are all based on the New and Old Testaments, it is because this is what is written. Jesus is the corner stone that has become a stumbling block and rock of offense to many, especially those who do not like the word of God and those who are disobedient.

Priest Hood & Royal Nation

⁹But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

¹⁰Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

The children of Israel, both spiritually and physically are a chosen generation of royal priest. They are a holy nation and a peculiar people that were suppose to show the praises of God who called them out of Egypt's darkness into His marvelous light. If you ask a Jewish person what were they chosen to do; they probably could not tell you; but if you are a child of God, if you are of the children of Israel; then it would behoove you to know why you are chosen and do what you were chosen to do. That is to bring others in darkness (to the scripture) into light (of God's love), which are His commandments.

¹³Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

¹⁴Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

There are certain liberties that God has given to the children of Israel; some of which they have badly abused and that the Gentiles view as bad. Do not do things that appear bad although they are not bad. For instance, drinking is not a bad thing; but many people have a problem with children of God drinking alcohol. The easy solution is to avoid drinking in front of those people until they gain understanding that it is not forbidden by God to consume a small drink.

We are to study Christ and thrive to be as He. When I was growing up there were three men I looked up to besides my dad; and I can say I am like those men to this day. Just as I did as a youth to be as them; I thrive to be like the Lord and walk as He did because He was an example to all. If we follow His ways, the most anger we will show is interrupting a dice game going on inside the church on the Sabbath day.

1 Peter 3

¹Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

²While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

³Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

Women are primarily dress themselves between the ears; wear the jewels that keep your mind looking tight; not your pants and top. There is nothing wrong with looking nice; wearing the choicest clothing; but make sure you are dressed up in the mind as well with the word of God. Because the reality is that one day we'll all look like Bob Barker and Mother Theresa. If you don't know; those people do not walk down runways at flashing photography, nor are they in ads unless the feature product is about arthritis. So keep your mind dressed up so you can be renewed like the eagles.

⁷Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Husbands are to treat their wives good; using knowledge and giving honor, so your prayers are not hindered. As we read in Malachi chapter three, the Lord does not hear the prayer of a man who treats his wife bad, because as Paul said one like that is worse than an infidel. You are to have knowledge when dealing with your wife; that means know how to deal with your wife.

¹⁹By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

²⁰Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

This is referring to the fallen angels that had succeeded in making the earth so wicked the Lord had to drown everyone except for Noah and his family who found grace. The fallen angels, spirits in prison waiting on the day of Judgment; were eager to get on the other side of the Lord's creation beginning with Noah; and the Lord had to deal with them. This is not when He died on the cross and went into hell and preached to the spirits. He spoke against the fallen angels to slow down on jumping men after the flood.

²²Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him. Every thing is subject to Jesus. Praise the Most High God.

1 Peter chapter 4

¹Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

²That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Suffering is not a bad thing; especially if you suffer for the Lord. ⁷But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. A constant theme from Paul and from Jesus; to be ready, watching and praying.

¹⁷For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

¹⁸And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Judgement begins at the house of God. The first people in line for judgment are church goers. Remember when the Lord sent the angel through Jerusalem with the ink pen the mark the ones who are to be spared; then sent another angel with the sword and told him to kill everyone without the mark; have no mercy on the baby or the old man. He told that same angel to begin his killing spree at the church. So if the righteous are going to barely be saved; what about the ungodly; how is it going to be for them?

1 Peter 5

¹The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

²Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

Elders and leaders of the church are to feed the flock. Remember when Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved Him, Jesus kept telling Peter to feed His flock. The people will keep the ways of the Lord if you tell them to do it and that it is the Lord's will. Don't just want money for being a pastor; but feed the flock and money will never be an issue for you.

⁴And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. We have all these ministers today that want to get paid; that is fine; but why not get your big pay when the chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ, returns and you receive a crown that won't fade away. This is what true faith is; when Jesus told that rich man to sell his goods and follow Him; the man walked away dejected. That is the belief that there is no after life so I better live good now. If you could get into the kingdom and live forever guaranteed, all that was required was to live off of a $25k a year income today, could you do that?

⁸Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

I watched a movie about four guys who went to Vegas and couldn't remember a thing that happened there because of being drunk; while they were drunk do you think that the devil had his pleasure with them? Of course! Spiritually if you are drunk and can't distinguish what is sound doctrine do you think you can resist the devil? I don't think so.

2 Peter 1

¹Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

²Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, Oh no; Peter has joined the band wagon of only greeting the Father and the Son; leaving out the holy spirit. Looks like a trend is starting; I can see Trinity churches going out of business if God the Holy Ghost does not show up.

¹⁶For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Peter adamantly let's us know that he and the other Apostles did not follow nice stories and fables made up; but made known the power of the Lord Jesus that they were eyewitnesses of His power and majesty. These were the real authentic Jehovah witnesses because they walked with Jesus who was God (as Jehovah or Yahweh), became man (in the name of Jesus), and has risen from the dead to become all powerful God again. Peter says that he is a witness to this; they heard the voice from heaven when Jesus was transfigured on the mount. Many people died not letting this go; they were thrown in lions dens, beheaded, and tortured all for just trying to serve and keep the name of Jesus in their mouth. I don't know about you; but if someone was about to throw me into a lion den and I was just making something up about God so that I can get people to follow me; that would be the end of my ministry.

All my blog postings would be down and if you saw me in the street; I'd have a New Orleans mardi gras hat on with beads in my hand trying to get flashed (if you know what I mean). But look at what Peter said was even better than his own eye witness to Jesus Christ.

¹⁹We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

²⁰Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

²¹For 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.

Peter said if you do not believe that I was with Jesus as I was; then I got something that is even more sound than my eyewitness; I have the book of the prophets, the word of prophecy. This is sure! No words of the prophets in the scripture is of any private interpretation. One cannot say this is what it means; and another disagree; we can all read that in Isaiah when the Lord said people who pollute the Sabbath day and eat swine's flesh all while praying to God is like smoke in His nose; have to understand that the scripture is saying God is annoyed by this and hates it and thus will deal with the perpetrators of this. There is no private interpretation with that; it is exactly what it is.

The scripture came to holy men of God who spake and had writers write what they spoke as they received it from the Holy Spirit, which received it from Christ, who received it from the Father!

2 Peter 2

¹But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

²And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

All through the bible we hear of false prophets among people. Jeremiah and Ezekiel pressed so hard on the issue, and Jesus too that it was hard to write on those chapters because every preacher will be looked at with scrutiny or with more suspect by their congregation, which was not my intention. My intention is just to read through the bible in 90 days with understanding. But with so much false prophet talk; it puts pressure on preachers if they are telling the truth or not. This is good because it will keep people on their toes; but I am not sowing discord among brothers; we are reading the bible in 90 days with understanding.

It's like all cemeteries are under fire because of what Burr Oaks did in the south suburbs of Chicago. When a man get's busted for adultery like Ted Haggerty, Jimmy Swaggart, the governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford, and football great Steve McNair, all of the sudden wives are going through their husbands phones at record speed while they are sleep and gathering every woman's name their husband is acquainted with. Nevertheless, false prophets bring false teaching period. They will tell damnable heresies. These are fables or lies that if you take them you will be damned at judgment. These are things that are not found in the bible or when you read the bible they do not add up; like the good Friday and Sunday resurrection. There are not three days and three nights between Friday and Sunday. This started out probably as an honest mistake; but when it has been brought to light and it continues this takes it into the realm of false prophets daubing the wall of lies to keep it going for whatever reason they have in their heart.

And the truth will be evil spoken of. The truth: Jesus is coming to reign on the earth. Evil spoken of: we are all going to heaven to be with the Lord. The truth: the dead are in their graves waiting on the return of the Lord Jesus. Evil spoken of: the righteous dead are in heaven smiling down and have been judged already. These are things we've read already.

God Does Not Change

If He did not spare angels that sinned but cast them to the earth and put them in chains of darkness waiting for judgment, He did not spare the old world except for Noah, He did not spare Sodom and Gomorrah, do we think He will spare us for doing the same things?

This is What False Prophets Are

¹⁴Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

¹⁷These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

¹⁹While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

They have sinful eyes always and reach out to unstable people that is why they have congregations full of women and sissy soft men; not to say women and soft men are unstable; but if you are going to deceive someone; you have to do it like your father the devil did it; by deceiving the women; and once the women are in your flock; you can get men by the seduction of women. Isn't that what Satan did through Eve? Pimps and crooked pastors have picked this up greatly. Pimps influx the mind of their women who go out and seduce even professional men to pay them up to $5000 a night and the pimp gets the man's money through the woman. The false prophet get's the unstable woman (because he can't get the stable women), and she recruits unstable men who are filled with lust. It is the same principle Satan used to begin with.

These false prophets are wells without water, clouds that carry no rain; they are good for nothing. They promise freedom by telling you the law is no more; but they are servants of corruption and are in bondage to sin and drag their flock into it as well.

²¹For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

²²But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

It is better that they nor anyone else come into the knowledge of truth and turn from it because the end of that person is worse than what they were at the beginning.

2 Peter chapter 3

²That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

³Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

⁴And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Peter says to be mindful of the words spoken by the holy prophets and their commandment by the apostles of the Lord Jesus. They could not be contradictory messages if he tells to be mindful of them both. In the last days many will come mocking saying, where is the Lord saying things are as they are, time keeps going and things evolve as the ape evolved into man. These men are ignorant of the scriptures and you aren't to pay any attention to them.

⁸But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Six days shall you labor and on the seventh day you shall rest from all your work. One day to God is a thousand years; so on the seventh day He returns and brings peace and rest to the earth. Our weekly six days and seventh or Sabbath is a foreshadowing of the Lord's day of rest, the thousand year millennium period and is to remind us of what He is doing. If you do not keep the Sabbath day; you are openly not acknowledging the thousand years of peace when the Lord returns.

¹⁰But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

¹²Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

Paul Can Be Confusing

¹⁵And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

¹⁶As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Just like men and brothers who have taught me and studied with me on what I know about the scriptures will read this book and others to see that it is a good work unto God. They will correct errors or warn people that it is confusing to understand and it could be since I wake up at 4:30am to do this so I am ready for work by 8:30 (I don't always finish on time). Peter read Paul's letters and let's us know that Paul gave good wisdom in all his letters; but some things were hard to understand that Paul wrote. Either because the language he was writing it in or that Paul was such an educated man his writing was very sophisticated; but to the unlearned in the scripture or the unstable, they can get confused and twisted and that lead to their own destruction.

Hopefully, as I have pointed out through Paul's writing is that he cosigned and taught all that the apostle's taught and all the prophets wrote. He confused a lot of people about the law because if you aren't paying attention you will think that the law is no more or nailed to the cross; and it is; but which law. The law of animal sacrifice. You would think that grace and faith is suffient. Paul assumed that if you have faith in Jesus Christ, faith meaning belief, you will do what Christ wanted you to do since you believe; and that is to keep His commandments. You can notice how James and Peter's writings are very direct and coherent with the Jesus teachings and the prophets. To get from point A to B, the prophets, Jesus, James, and Peter make a straight line. Paul makes an "S". He get's you there but he took a bit of a twisty road to do it. Peter tells us to be ready to see this; in essence it would have been better to read Peter's book then Paul's.

1 John chapter 1

¹That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

²(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

John begins by telling the reader about the word of life; which is the word of God.

⁷But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

⁸If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Jesus Christ blood is clean enough to cleanse even the worse kind of sin if the confession is made with sincerity and not revisited willingly. If we say we have no sin; we are simply lying to ourselves and there is absolutely no truth in us. Now this book is written by John the son of Zebedee. Peter, James, and John (here) are the three guys Jesus took with Him to do the toughest miracles, and to show the choicest visions. These men know a thing or two about how to get salvation.

1 John 2

³And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

⁴He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

⁵But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

John writes that we should avoid sin; but if we accidentally do something we have an advocate with the Father who is Jesus Christ. He is the conciliation for our sins and the entire worlds and we know we know Jesus if we keep His commandments. People that say they know Jesus then turn around and say we do not have to keep the commandments know Jesus; but they know the other Jesus Paul warned us about. They do not know the Jesus of this bible, according to John a close disciple of God for over 3 years.

If one says they know Jesus and do not keep His commandments, they are a liar and have no truth in them.

Loving the World

¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

¹⁶For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Like I said before; I have come to hate this life and this world we live in because it is full of death, oppression, hatred for one another, killing, sadness, jealousy, and pride. Who can love this? You can enjoy your life, be happy God shows you mercy and granted you understanding but how can you love this world?

1 John 3

¹Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

²Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

If the majority of people do not recognize the truth that you or I speak; it is nothing to be amazed about; they did not recognize Jesus either. But we are to hold fast because we are sons of God and it is not like we are physically yet; but we will be like Him when He returns and we see Him as He is.

⁴Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

This is the official definition of sin. Sin is when you break the laws and commandments of God. The law says do not steal; if you steal you transgress or break the law and have sinned. If the law said thou shall not drink alcohol; then many in this world would be sober, very sober. It does not say that; so if you want to know if you're a sinner; go read all the commandments of God and put it together what you have to work on.

⁸He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

⁹Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Born of God is what Jesus was telling Nicodemus; that you are like the wind that passes and one cannot see where you came from or where you went. When you are born of the God family you cannot sin anymore.

¹⁵Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

We are to love; love is keeping of the commandments. That was the purpose of the commandments given on Mount Sinai by Moses, to teach the children of Israel how to love God and how to love their fellow brother. It only was mean and nasty with stoning and death because people would not show love and broke God's commandments in which He turned and executed punishments on those who disobeyed. If Adam would have never disobeyed; everyone would be alive and at peace, and if the children of Israel had kept the commandments, everyone would greet each other with a holy kiss and be joyful; rich in the word of God, and living in harmony with other nations because all would be keeping the commandments, which work no ill to their brother or sister.

1 John 4

¹Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

More warnings against false prophets and evil spirits. We are to try to spirits to see if they are from God. And although verse two says if they confess Jesus Christ has come in the world; we know there is more to this because the devils will confess that. We need to hear the doctrine they speak to truly discern.

¹⁵Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. Those that confess this will be doing what Jesus taught, from Genesis to Revelation.

²⁰If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

²¹And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1 John chapter 5

¹Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

This is how we know we love God; by keeping His commandments. They truly are not that hard if you are a righteous person. If you are evil then they can be hard as heck. NBA player Chris Paul led the league in steals. In the real world; that is a thief and one that loves to steal it will be hard for Chris Paul to not take his hands to something in your house. But for someone who couldn't steal if they wanted; the commandment is not grievous.

It is not hard to give respect to our parents, avoid stealing and killing, not to lie on someone, to back away from a woman or man that is married, and to not be covetous of our friends and others belongings. If you can't refrain from these then maybe you need to lock yourself in a room and not leave it under any circumstances.

⁷For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

⁸And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

Finally we found God the Holy Ghost; so all the trinity people can stick around for a moment. There are three that bear record that are in heaven, and the record they bore is in verse 11; that God has given us access to eternal life through His Son Jesus Christ. So three in Heaven bare this record. We see that it is the Father, the Word (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Ghost and they are all in one accord. The Holy Ghost is the Comforter, we'll find out about them tomorrow in Revelation.

There are also three that bear witness of the the record in heaven that are in the earth now; they are the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree in one accord. We will answer this later.

If you do not have the Son; you do not have life.

²⁰And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

2 John 1

⁶And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Nothing different here. Is it me or does John appear to be writing as if he had a dead line to turn his writing in on? Just seems like he is rushing. Nevertheless, love is to walk after the Lord's commandments. It is the same all over the bible.

⁹Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. He has all the Father and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost was intentionally left out like Michael Jackson intentionally left Deborah his ex wife out of the will (I hear).

¹²Having many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink: but I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. Okay; I see, John was tired of writing and would rather speak to the people.

3rd John 1 is a book on greetings and kind encouraging words.

¹¹Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

This concludes our reading today; we will begin in Jude tomorrow and Revelations.

Grace and peace in the name of Jesus Christ

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