The Restoration Times

Some time ago I thought about doing research along these lines, but someone has already done it for me, so here it is!
I might not agree with every detail, but this basic outline fits in really well with known facts and scripture.
I am not sure about their timeline, but that also fits in with my original projections.  It is possible events have speeded up, but it is also possible thay just appear to be, because the chnages are just too much for us to imagine.
John-------- Original Message --------Subject: [Captain_nibiru] THE END?From: "captain_nibiru2003" <dewerly@yahoo.com>Date: Wed, July 21, 2004 8:15 amTo: Captain_nibiru@yahoogroups.com
 
 
I DONT KNOW IF I BELEIVE ALL OF THISBUT IT IS WORTH THE READ.THANKS CAPTSolar cycle 23 was forecast to be about equal to orto exceed odd  cycle 19, and to well exceed evencycle 22. This was based on previous records of solar cycles and the maximumsunspot activity.  Solar Cycle 23 has not abated,which it was to do in 2000. While it  has abatedsomewhat, the activity of the Sun is still veryanomalous.  Cycle 23 will merge with Cycle 24 inthe upswing and form a MEGA CYCLE. The mega cycle may well be because of theincoming DESTROYER  AND ITS DUST CLOUD withattendant SPACE DEBRIS.
While we do not argue with the scientific communityand their predictions based upon scientific models, we doissue the following  warning, based upon theFACTUAL AND 100% COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF BIBLICAL PREDICTIONS - a fact that has to bereasoned with regardless  of beliefs or theologicalbias. The fact is that the Biblical prophecies have been and are now being fulfilledbefore our eyes with  exacting precision - and onthat basis, and that basis ALONE is the  followingwarning of a SOON TO COME SOLAR NOVA EXPLOSIONissued by  Best´s Intelligence Service. It might be
referred to as a SOLAR FLARE, but whatever name you wish to ascribe to it,it spells doom  for our global civilization. It isbased upon Biblical prophetic intelligence - and it has a background of 100%precision standing  behind it. It is not the intentof this article to prove the accuracy  of Bibleprophecy - but its accuracy cannot be disputed bythose who  understand it, and have taken the timeto search the matter out.
Although the Sun has been classified generally asin a steady-state  condition, scientist know fullwell that there are minor fluctuations  in Solarconditions which cause minor Solar weather changesand possible disruptions upon earth, and these arenormal. However, the  Sun is, in reality, avariable output star, and our knowledge of it rather limited. The warnings found in ancientsacred writings about  the Sun and other heavenlybodies need to be investigated by the scientific community. It appears that the ancientshad a far better  understanding of it that presentday science.
Ancient writings from around the world, whichscience has classified  as "myth" intheir arrogance and stupidity prove that theconcept of  earth changes taking place overmillions of years is totally and completely false, and that the real truth is thatthe Earth undergoes  periodic UPHEAVALS of suchproportions that it destroys the civilizations living at the time. Thesecatastrophes are so violent  that the human mindcannot comprehend them - and further, they are  theresult of COSMIC WAVES that ripple through out theUniverse from  time to time. These waves of violentchange involve what is called "THE DESTROYER", which iscontained within a COSMIC DUST  CLOUD, an OBJECTthat is embedded deep within it, which is either a brown dwarf or neutron star which has such apowerful gravitational  and electro-magnetic fieldsthat it begins to UPSET THE SOLAR SYSTEM  LONGBEFORE IT REACHES IT. The changes FIRST begin toshow up in the  Sun.
THE DESTROYER, with its COSMIC DUST CLOUD and SPACEDEBRIS has come  and gone in the ancient pastseveral times according to the ancients.  It isthis DESTROYER that ENDS WHAT IS CALLED AN"AGE". The times in  between the AGES arecalm with only minor activity in the cosmos and  onthe Earth. The DESTROYER causes PARTIAL OR COMPLETELITERAL POLAR  SHIFTS, and with that, totaldevastation of the Earth. It is now due  again,because we are the END OF THE AGE, and there is avast amount  of evidence that shows that that theestablishment knows all about  it, but has nointention of telling the masses of the people,because  there is nothing anyone can do about itanyway.
"We (the scientific community), know thatearth changes are coming.  But the consensus isthat we can do nothing without upsetting the current delicate balance of the global economy. Ifwe were to announce what we know publicly - and admit that wedon´t know what to  do - it would set off a worldwide panic that could be worse than  keeping quietand letting events unfold. And besides, there isalways  a chance that we - and you - are wrong.Maybe nothing will happen  after all." Research government scientist speaking to GordonMichael Scallion.
 
According to scientist James McCanney, writing inhis booklet "SURVIVING PLANET X PASSAGE",issued way back in 1981, the  government has nointention of telling anyone, and it confirms what Gordon Michael Scallion said in his EARTH CHANGESNEWSLETTER QUOTED  ABOVE.
"THE FACT IS THAT ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES,ESPECIALLY THOSE AT NASA,  ARE UNDER STRICT GAGORDERS NOT TO TELL THE PUBLIC OF IMPENDING DISASTER (to prevent public panic)." Page 10.
 
Caps are mine for emphasis. Thus quote confirmsmany other sources of  TOTAL SILENCE on the part ofthe authorities. Remember the movie DEEP  IMPACT?Remember how it was all a deep dark secret untilthe reporter  digs the information out and theyhave to go public?
Now then, if we connect the dots, and you readcarefully, and survey  the NEWS, you will find allsorts of UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY ALL OVER  THE WORLD,as the elite plan to go underground to escape whilethe  masses of the people are terminated aboveground. The Bible agrees  that they attempt to gounderground and hide in the caverns they have built in and under the mountains.Remember just afew days ago how the  media discovered theUNDERGROUNS SHELTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT? Here is another quote from McCanney that confirms whatthe Bible knew 2500  years ago!!
 
"We are now looking into the future (no dategiven) at the possibility that another large object will arrivein our solar system  and we already know that manyworld governments have already taken  major stepsto prepare complex cave cities to protect a fewelite  people. They have stocked these for aneventual stay of 50 to 100  years complete withfood, medical supplies and all other human requirements. They have kept this secret and areessentially leaving  the public to fend forthemselves. Most will die in these caves however." (Page 6)
 
Now lets look at the Bible, for what it saysconcerning THE DESTROYER, also called THE DAY OF THE LORD, or theDAY OF JESUS CHRIST:
Rev. 6:15-16 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, andthe rich men, and  the chief captains, and themighty men, and every bondman, and every  free man,hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains androcks, Fall on us, and  hide us from the face ofhim that sitteth on the throne, and from the  wrathof the Lamb:..."
 
You see, the Bible is ALWAYS WAY AHEAD OF THEELITE, ALWAYS AHEAD OF  THE SCIENTISTS, and ALWAYSAHEAD OF EVERYTHING, and knows exactly  what theydo, and they will NOT ESCAPE, no matter where theygo, no  matter what they attempt. It is unwise toattempt to OUTSMART THE  LORD. Satan tried it, andhe failed, and he is smarter than the collective wisdom of mankind. So much for theattempt to deceive your  creator!!
Astronomers have been very active in the Antarctic,tracking an object by infrared, as it can penetrate the thickdust cloud that  engulfs PLANET-X or THE DESTROYER.Governments do no spend millions  of dollarstracking none existent objects. This object, itappears,  is suppose to be coming in from DIRECTLYSOUTH. The closer it gets,  the more changes willbe seen in the Sun, then in the Moon, and finally in the STARS THEMSELVES as these objectsmove closer and closer to Earth. Of course the Earth changes willbe going on during  this entire time. Changes inclimate, weather, storm patterns will  become sogreat that forecasting will be all but impossible.
In brief, the ancient writings of the Hebrews claimthat the steady- state condition of our Sun willabruptly, and with little warning,  change. Thesechanges that are to come are SEVERE, and will cause absolute HAVOC upon earth. It will seem, accordingto these writings,  as though nature itself hasgone totally berserk. According to Jesus  Christ,thousands, if not millions of people will die ofheart attacks brought about by FEAR, as they look uponthese CATASTROPHIC  EARTH CHANGES, that begin withsome warning, but in general come upon  the worldsuddenly. Obviously something occurs that throwsour now  quiet Sun and Solar System into disarray,and these so called "anomalies" generate conditionsthat bring about A NEW HEAVEN  and a NEW EARTH.Further, the writings maintain, the very few survivors soon have no remembrance of the age thatwent before - much  as mankind has no knowledge ormemory of previous MEGA EARTH CHANGES.  We knowwhat it is - it is called THE DESTROYER in theKilbrin, and  THE DAY OF THE LORD in the Bible.
If our analysis of the TIME CODES found in both theOld and New Testaments are accurate, coupled with the warningsand forecasts from  the visionaries as alsoaccurate, the years between 1998-2012 should  proveto be when the Sun will NOVA OR FLARE, and when itdoes, mankind is headed for terrible and catastrophicconsequences. The  major areas to be concernedwith, in order of rank:
1. Solar Cycle 23 - 1996 - 2002 STILL CONTINUINGUNABATED
2. Solar Cycle 24 - 2008 - 2014
3. Solar Cycle 25 - 2017-2024
Solar Cycle 23 is the most suspect because of theinternal time codes  found in the Old and NewTestament, with Cycle 24 and 25 being the  nextmost suspect. Cycles beyond that are not consideredbecause of  time codes that would have long agoexpired. The most important of  these time codes,the one found hidden in Psalm 90 points directly to Cycle 23 AND CYCLE 24. If so, the world will beginto experience major anomalies in all geophysical andastrophysical areas during  1998-2007.
If these forecasts found in the Old and NewTestament are to be taken  in a literal manner, andthere is enough evidence and proven historical accuracy to prove them literal, then theSUN WILL NOVA TO  A STATE SEVEN TIMES BRIGHTER THANIT IS NOW, and the MOON WILL GIVE  OFF THE LIGHT OFTHE SUN AS IT IS TODAY.
CYCLE 23 & 24 AS PREDICTED BY OLD AND NEWTESTAMENT
1996-1997 Entry into Cycle 23
Normal conditions - no major anomalies
1998 - The upsurge in Solar Storm begins
Mostly normal - some anomalies develop
1999 - 2000 - Upsurge continues - intensityincreases in ejection and  storms.
SIGNS IN THE SUN - MAJOR ANOMALIES BEGIN TO DEVELOP- IT DOES NOT  ABATE. 2000 - 2004 Sun shows signs of increasinginstability - large CME  ejections, disruptions Earth Magnetic Pole shift signs develop (already starting and accelerating)
EARTH ENTERS INTO COSMIC DUST CLOUD - INCREASE INMETEOR STRIKES AND  SIGHTING WORLD WIDE. Scientists cannot figure out what is happening. Itis suggested we  are in some form of MEGA CYCLE.
Articles begin appear in scientific journalsconcerning solar changes  and earth changes asvolcanic and earthquake activity begin to increase so much that the people begin to realizethat something is  wrong. 2004 - 2007 HIGH INSTABILITY Earth Magnetic Pole shift signs greatly increase CME´s increase and light spectrum changes further Possible shifts in moon orbit Planets show increasing signs of changes Meteor sightings and impacts increase Strange lights begin to appear in the heavens POSSIBLE MAJOR IMPACT EVENT IN LATE 2007 CHANGESORBIT AND YEAR GOES  FROM 365.25 TO 360 DAY YEAR DAYS OF DARKNESS DUE TO DUST CLOUD BEGIN IN LATE2007 -2012 More and  more articles appear inscientific journals attempting to explain  what ishappening. Much debate in scientific circlesconcerning both  cosmic and Earth changes that areincreasingly obvious to everyone.
Earth changes now begin to occur with increasingregularity and severity. The time between events grows shorter and
shorter. Volcanic  activity begins to greatlyincrease first in the RING OF FIRE, then  longDORMANT volcanoes begin to come to life, and thenvolcanoes start to form where there none before. Earthquakeactivity increases  in both frequency and severity,with earthquake activity in places  that never hadthem before.
By 2007 there may have been some coastal landchanges as parts of the  West Coast sink into thePacific. 2007 - 2009 HIGH INSTABILITY MODERATE RISK FOR MININOVA OR SOLAR  FLARE 2009- 2012 - HIGH INSTABILITY NOVA ALMOST CERTAINBY END OF 2008 -  2012 7X POWER FLARE
POLAR SHIFT
 
CURRENT SUN IMAGES FROM NASA
It is obvious from the charts above that there hasbeen an overall  increase in SUNSPOT ACTIVITY sincethe 1900´s and that this increase  has acceleratedfrom 1900 to this date. If averaged out, this is a STEADY RISE and not an anomalous differential.Reports on the mainstream media that the Sun is getting hotter(although to a small  degree) also confirm thatsomething is going on with our Sun and more  andmore attention is being directed to it. Charts fromthe SOLAR  CYCLE 23 PROJECT PANEL show thefollowing:
The HIGH RISK FOR MAJOR SOLAR ANOMALIES lies in the2000-2005 area,  with very likely 2006 and slightlybeyond into 2010 as the area of  gravest concernand we approach Solar Cycle 24. We will now turn to the Old and New Testament ancient writings fortheir actual words and  forecast of SOLARINSTABILITY coming in the very near future.
 
Isaiah 30:25-27 And there shall be upon every high mountain, andupon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day ofthe great slaughter,  when the towers fall. [26] Moreover the light of the moon shall be as thelight of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as thelight of seven days,  in the day that the LORDbindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
[27] Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far,burning with his  anger, and the burden thereof isheavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:..."
Now these comments are very clear, and we have nooptions to their  literal interpretation. The Sunis to go into a NOVA CONDITION (although slight) so that the Sun gives off seventimes the light  that it gives off now. THEDESTORYER will be the instrument of the  LORD´SINDIGNATION:
Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, andshut thy doors  about thee: hide thyself as it werefor a little moment, until the  indignation beoverpast.
Isaiah 30:27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far,burning with his anger,  and the burden thereof isheavy: his lips are full of indignation,  and histongue as a devouring fire:
Isaiah 30:30 And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to beheard, and shall  shew the lighting down of hisarm, with the indignation of his anger,  and withthe flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, andtempest,  and hailstones.
Isaiah 34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon allnations, and his fury  upon all their armies: hehath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
Recent findings by a scientist confirm that the sunwill flare as it  interacts with a COSMIC DUSTCLOUD - so as the Earth enters into the  DUST CLOUDand the skies begin to darken, of course thetemperature  on Earth begins to drop - ratherrapidly. But as the dust cloud gets  thicker,
almost making the Sun vanish from Earth sight, itflares as  a result of the accumulated dust, andtherfore GREAT HEAT FOLLOWS THE  COLD. It soundsalmost impossible, but when you connect all of the dots, you find out just how serious this thing is -for it spells the  end of our global civilization.The information comes from both the  ancients andmodern cosmology. The Bible confirms that SAPCEDUST IS  INVOLVED IN THE DAY OF THE LORD. It is aday of DARKNESS, in which  the Sun does not giveits light, and the moon and stars do not shine. Then suddenly, the REVERSE becomes true, as the SunFLARES.
To verify that this is indeed a SOLAR FLARE, themoon also will increase its reflective luminosity by seven times.This condition is,  to say the very least, ACATASTROPHIC ANOMALY which has the gravest  ofconsequences for mankind on earth. The comment,"His tongue is a  devouring fire",indicates, along with a vast amount of other prophecy, that the earth temperature rises tounbearable levels. In  fact, such a NOVA CONDITIONwould kill every living thing upon earth.  unlessother conditions occurred that prevented it. JesusChrist makes several comments about it in the book ofRevelation. But let´s  lay the groundwork first:
Luke 21:25-26 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in themoon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, withperplexity; the  sea and the waves roaring; [26]Men´s hearts failing them for fear,  and forlooking after those things which are coming on theearth: for  the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
First, there SHALL BE SIGNS IN THE SUN. Thisimplies that scientists  see anomalies begin todevelop as we move between Cycles 23 and 24 -  andif fact Cycle 23 may not abate at all - we are notsure at this  time. The anomalies that appear aretotally unexpected, nor can they  be explained. Amagnetic pole shift, which the"visionaries" all see,  and which occurquite frequently, goes awry, and conditions go from stable to unstable quite rapidly. Hebrew scriptureclaims that a literal Polar Shift is in fact triggered by aNUCLEAR WAR, and the  taking of America by asurprise nuclear attack. This attack is the trigger event that unleashes a chain reaction thattotally destroys  the earth. That these SIGNS INTHE SUN are observed indicates the  SOLARCONDITIONS ARE OBSERVED OVER A PERIOD OF TIME. Theworld goes  on the alert, and media gives it fullcoverage. Secondly, we have  SIGNS IN THE MOON. Ifwe go to other ancient writings, such as the  Booksof Enoch, we find that the MOON DOES NOT KEEP HERCOURSE, or  SEASONS. Anomalies develop that includethe EARTH, MOON and SUN. Major anomalies, so catastrophic, in fact, that theSEA AND THE WAVES  ARE "ROARING", and thenations of the world are in GREAT DISTRESS.  Thecomment that the powers of heaven WILL BE SHAKEN isindeed revealing - for it is the POWERS OF HEAVEN thathave held the EARTH- MOON-SUN-SOLAR SYSTEM insteady-state balance for the this era - and  thatis about to change.
These signs will develop slowly AT FIRST, withminor comments appearing in the journals of science, and with eachoccasional anomaly, such as massive solar ejection´s beingreported in the papers and media, concern will SECRETLY GROW, as itis at this present time. As the signs grow, and theinstability increases, scientists will be no longer able to write it offas just normal "anomalies" and will begin to haveto recognize that INDEED  MAJOR SOLAR INSTABILITYIS DEVELOPING, although they will not know  why. Astime progresses, the conditions will suddenly go catastrophic, resulting in the conditions thatChrist projected.
Is there a confirming account given in the NewTestament? Yes, but is  is worded differently, andwhen they are merged, they form a perfect  portraitfor the survival of mankind - albeit he may wish hehad not  survived while going through thesePLANETARY CHANGES.
Rev. 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part ofthe sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and thethird part of the  stars; so as the third part ofthem was darkened, and the day shone  not for athird part of it, and the night likewise.
Now at first place, one would think that this"obscuration" is a  result of volcanicactivity, high winds, dust storms and other obscuring material that causes the Sun, Moon andStars to dim in the  heavens by 1/3 of theirluminosity. We do not believe this is the  case inthis particular verse, because of context and otherverses  that support it. The evidence is clear fromthe phrase, "AND THE DAY  SHONE NOT FOR ATHIRD PART OF IT, AND THE NIGHT LIKEWISE."This is  evidence of something very severe that hasoccurred: THE SPEED OF THE  EARTH´S ROTATION, THELENGTH OF OUR DAY AND OUR NIGHT, HAS BEEN SHORTENED. It has, in fact been shortened by 1/3which would be by 8  hours. If our day is 24 hours,one third of 24 hours is 8 hours. Thus  theROTATIONAL PERIOD FOR THE EARTH DURING THIS TIME ISREDUCED FROM  24 HOURS TO 16. That means that A DAYIS ONLY 8 HOURS LONG, AND THE  NIGHT ALSO. Can wefind verification of this fact? Yes, Jesus Christ points to it in his prophetic discourse:
Matthew 24:21-22 For then shall be great tribulation, such as wasnot since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor evershall be. [22] And  except those days should beshortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect´s sake those days shall beshortened.
The phrase "THOSE DAYS SHOULD BESHORTENED", and "THOSE DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED" tells us something very important.We know from other  research that that theso-called "LAST DAYS" are for a setperiod of  days 2520, or split to 1260 and 1260.The Scriptures make it clear  that this definitivenumber of days, once stated, and set, ARE SET.  TheNUMBER OF DAYS MUST REMAIN AS STATED. If the numberof days cannot be changed, then what does the phase"shortened" really mean?  The word meansto ABRIDGE, or TO SHORTEN. What is to be shortened? THE DAYS, the DAY ITSELF, the 24 HOUR PERIOD WECALL A DAY. It is to  be shortened. It will beSHORTENED BY 1/3 or from 24 hours to 16.  Why?Because the HEAT FROM THE SUN would KILL EVERYLIVING CREATURE  UPON EARTH IS THE DAYS WERE NOTSHORTENED. By shortening the days  down to 16hours, the earth will have A SUNLIGHT PORTION OFONLY 8  HOURS. This does not allow the Sun todestroy all life, simply make  it very, veryunpleasant.
The Bible claims there are THREE MAJOR IMPACTEVENTS, one as large as  a MOUNTAIN, which iseither a small comet, part of a comet or a large asteroid. One of these IMPACTS, or the DESTROYERITSELF, causes the  Earth to go totally OUT OF ITSORBIT, and to change its rotation to a  muichhigher speed. Of course, no one can imagine theconditions upon  earth at this point in time. TheSEA AND THE WAVES will indeed be  roaring, andMEN´S HEARTS will indeed be failing them for FEAR.They  should be afraid. They MOCKED THE LORD andHIS WORDS. They said it  was all OLD WIVES TALES,MYTHOLOGY, and there was no TRUTH in the  Bible.Now the Lord replies and says "So youthink?"
Coupled with the 8 hour day, comes severe planetaryactivity in the  form of earthquakes, volcanicactivity, storms of catastrophic magnitude and nuclear warfare. The are many versesthat speak of the  SUN BEING DARKENED. In otherplaces, and other context, it is referring to the fact of OBSCURATION. We willexplore these in later  issues of THE PLANETARYCHANGES REPORT, as well as give a full report  onthe TIME LINES CODING FOUND IN ANCIENT WRITINGS. Wewill close  this issue of The PLANETARY CHANGESReport with a comment that visionary GORDON MICHAEL SCALLION made in one ofhis more recent REPORTS:
"We (the scientific community), know thatearth changes are coming.  But the consensus isthat we can do nothing without upsetting the current delicate balance of the global economy. Ifwe were to announce what we know publicly - and admit that wedon´t know what to  do - it would set off a worldwide panic that could be worse than  keeping quietand letting events unfold. And besides, there isalways  a chance that we - and you - are wrong.Maybe nothing will happen  after all." Research government scientist speaking to GordonMichael Scallion.
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Many are under the mistaken impression that the
God of the Old Testament
and the God of the New Testament are very
different.

Such people ignore the fact that the God of the
Old Testament and the
God of the New are one and the same thing!
Jesus Christ WAS THE WORD
BECOME FLESH, He was "that rock which followed
Israel," He was the one
that emptied Himself of His divinity to become a
human. He was able to
pay for all of our sins because He was the One
the God Family used to do
the work of the Creation! He was the ONLY
member of the Godhead man had
ever seen. Moses saw God, yet Christ said "no
man has seen the Father,"
so therefore, the member of the God Family Moses
saw was The Word. The
Old Testament name for The Word was Yhvh [Yaweh].

You can read the first chapter of John, as well
as other New Testament
scriptures to understand this point.

So this destroys the notion of the Old Testament
being the "era of the
vengeful Father." That is garbage, a Satanic
lie. Christ and the "God
of the Old Testamanet," are, SURPRISE, one and
the same!

Many on these lists whowere once part of the WCG
should understand that
point, but, unfortunately, they have lost much
understanding in their
headlong rush to embrace this sinful world with
both arms.

It is also common in Protestant circles to look
at some incidents in the
Old Testament where God killed certain people
for what may seem to man
"minor infractions," such as gathering sticks on
the Sabbath, Uziah
being struck dead for putting forth his hand to
steady the Ark so that
it would not fall, etc.

The Protestant line of reasoning is that "a
merciful God would not do
such things. When Christ came, the faulty
reasoning goes, things became
totally different. The 'vengful God of the Old
Testament' and the Old
Covenant was put away, and replaced by a kind,
merciful, loving Christ."


As we shall soon see, this line of reasoning is
false, and not supported
by the facts of the Bible. It is a fantasy land
people live in,
deluding themselves.

The truth is that we must see God AS HE IS, NOT
AS WE WANT HIM TO BE!

Seeing God as He is is to worship Him in Spirit
and in Truth, as He
instructs. Worshipping a false image of God is
not any better than
bowing down to some idol of old. It is utter
idolatry.

It is just too bad if the God of the Bible
conflicts with how you feel
God should act and be like. What you want in
this are has no
consequence whatsoever. It is what IS that is
important. So, it's
about time you take the blinders off and accept
Him AS HE IS, NOT AS YOU
WANT HIM TO BE.

Someone recently made the totally ignorant and
unBiblical comment that
"God wouldn't spank or punish us. Certainly He
must be enlightened
enough to figure out better ways of punishment.
I have with my
children."

SORRY, you lose. The Bible not only accepts
spanking, it SAYS THAT WE
MUST USE IT IF OUR CHILDREN ARE TO GROW UP AS
GOD WANTS THEM TO! Now, I
understand that there are some governments in
this world that have
outlawed corporal punishment. My answer is SO
WHAT? ARE YOU GOING TO
OBEY GOD, OR MAN?

The Bible says that if you "spare the rod, you
spoil the child." The
Bible speaks of this kind of punishment as LOVE
FOR OUR CHILDREN, not
abuse.

Now of course, punishment should "fit the
crime," and children should
not be spanked in anger, revenge or malice. If
you find yourself very
angry at your child, it might be better to wait
a little while to spank
them until you have calmed down and can punish
them rationally.

But the Word of God is quite clear on these
matters, and the opinions
and laws of man are of no consequence, neither
are we to obey the edicts
of mere mortal men if they conflict with the
Word of God.

God also punishes His people and humans in
general "in measure." Now,
that "measure" may at times seem harsh to some
people, who are using
false human reasoning and the imaginations of
their own hearts to try
and say that God is somehow wrong in what He
does. That is bordering on
idolatry and rebellion.

Mr. Armstrong, when he first started observing
God's Holy Days, did not
then understand WHY they were to be observed, he
only understood that
they SHOULD be observed, so he started to obey
God's commandments in
this area.

Years later, the understanding finally came as
to what these wonderful
days symbolized. But God had instructed Mr.
Armstrong in a very
important principle we all need to follow. When
God tells us to do
something, it might be against everything we
have been taught, humanly.
But, if we will begin to obey God in ANY MATTER,
He will, in time, grant
us understanding through His Holy Spirit.

The scriptures below are read in almost no
church that I am aware of. In
fact, Ron Dart, in his supposed complete study
of the Book of Acts and
the Epistles of Paul, brushed past this area of
scripture, and, if I
remember correctly, these are the ONLY VERSES HE
LEFT OUT OF THE STUDY!
This is probably because this particular passage
presents "problems" for
almost everyone who reads them.

Well, friends, this is part of the New
Testament. The assertion was
made that "God acts differently in the New
Testament than in the Old."
These verses show that to be a total falsehood.

So, here below is PROOF that God acts the same
today, in the Church Age,
as He acted in Ancient Israel, exacting the
death penalty for violation
of His laws.

The violations in the Old Testament mainly
surrounded the Sabbath. To
the New Testament Church, they already
understood that the Sabbath was
to be observed, so they didn't need instruction
in that. But, there was
another sin creeping in that God was determined
to stop on the spot.

Here is the passage below. And, don't argue
with me. If you don't
agree with this, it is not my problem, IT IS
YOUR PROBLEM! Your
argument is with GOD, not me.

My comments below are in brackets [ ]:


Act 5:1 But a certain man named Ananias, with
Sapphira, his wife, sold
a possession,
Act 5:2 and kept back part of the price, his
wife also being aware of
it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at
the apostles' feet.

[it is not my purpose here to explain what was
going on here, except for
the incident itself. For a full explanation of
why this was so
important to God, you may find my full
explanation of this passage in my
book, The Restoration of Truth, available at the
Restoration Website in
the Basic Literature section]

Act 5:3 But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan
filled your heart to
lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of
the price of the land?
Act 5:4 While you kept it, didn't it remain
your own? After it was
sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that
you have conceived this
thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men,
but to God."
Act 5:5 Ananias, hearing these words, fell down
and died. Great fear
came on all who heard these things.

[Notice, the penalty for this sin was exactly
the same as several such
penalties meted out in the Old Testament: DEATH.
But this time, the sin
was LYING, not Sabbath breaking, idolatry, etc.,
as is so often the case
in the Old Testament. But to LIE is ALSO TO
BREAK THE LAW OF GOD, AND
THEREFORE SIN! And to a generation that thinks
that it is "ok to lie,"
which, in fact, LIES WITH EVERY BREATH IT
UTTERS, and thinks this sin is
NOT SERIOUS, GOD DIFFERS WITH YOUR OPINION! God
takes this sin very
seriously. You can lose your eternal life for
ANY HABITUAL SIN, even a
sin that MAN thinks is NO BIG DEAL, and so
engages in without even
thinking about it. BUT IT IS A BIG DEAL TO GOD!
But it gets worse for
people who think that God has somehow changed
the way He operates, just
read on!]

Act 5:6 The young men arose and wrapped him up,
and they carried him
out and buried him.
Act 5:7 About three hours later, his wife, not
knowing what had
happened, came in.
Act 5:8 Peter answered her, "Tell me whether
you sold the land for so
much." She said, "Yes, for so much."
Act 5:9 But Peter asked her, "How is it that
you have agreed together
to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the
feet of those who have
buried your husband are at the door, and they
will carry you out."
Act 5:10 She fell down immediately at his feet,
and died. The young men
came in and found her dead, and they carried her
out and buried her by
her husband.
Act 5:11 Great fear came on the whole assembly,
and on all who heard
these things.

[One of my detractors said that she thought that
we should not "fear
God." She thought that was abusive. Well, I
guess you disagree with
GOD then, not me! GOD DID THIS FOR THE SPECIFIC
PERSON OF MAKING PEOPLE
FEAR TO DISOBEY HIM, JUST AS HE DID IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT, WHICH SO MANY
DESPISE AND THINK IS DONE AWAY AND THAT "GOD
DOESN'T ACT THAT WAY
ANYMROE" -- BUT HE DOES, AND YOU HAVE JUST READ
ABOUT IT! Also, note
that Peter, in this case, ACTUALLY INCITED HER
TO LIE! He repeated the
lie of her husband to her, and all she did was
agree with what he said.

Now, if God was the kind of "loving God" that
most people think He is
today, MAYBE He would have killed her husband
for telling a lie, but
would a "loving God," as envisioned by MAN,
actually INCITE A PERSON TO
LIE, in fact BAIT THEM TO LIE, and then KILL
THEM FOR IT?

According to man's thinking, a loving God would
not do this. And if He
did do it ONCE, He most certainly wouldn't
"entrap" someone into sinning
like this and then KILL THEM FOR IT.

Well, you see, there is MAN'S PROBLEM! God says
"my thoughts are not
your thoughts." In other words, God's thinking
is totally different
from that of mortal man.

To mortal man, this life is "all there is," but,
God knows that is not
the case. IN fact, this life is "but a vapor
that passeth away." It is
as nothing, it is "like grass, that withereth."
Mr. Armstrong stated it
this way. He said that we now do NOT have life,
but only a "temporary
chemical existence." We are like a machine that
eventually breaks down
and stops working. We endure but a SHORT TIME
ON THIS EARTH in this
life.

We must also understand that God is not trying
to save the world today.
And we must also understand that GOD OWNS US,
lock stock and barrel. WE
ARE HIS POSESSION, we don't even belong to
ourselves. Therefore, it is
His DIVINE RIGHT TO DO WITH US WHATEVER HE
WISHES, and we have
absolutely NOTHING we can do about it.

So, from the above scriptures, we can see that
it is a good thing to
have the fear of God. In fact, the Bible says
that "the fear of God is
the beginning of knowledge." We need to FEAR TO
SIN.

Thus, the smug attitude of some that "I am under
grace, not that
horrible Old Law," is total rubbish. If this
were so, Peter would have
LECTURED Annanias and Sophira, NOT KILLED THEM!

Notice that man would call this murder, but God
says it was right, and
that HE has the right to do things like this,
and He does it so that we
might learn a lesson. What is that lesson? It
is in the scriputre
above: we are to learn to FEAR God, so that we
will OBEY HIS LAWS AND
WALK IN HIS PATHS!

THAT IS WHY HE KILLED TWO PEOPLE FOR LYING IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT!

This one incident alone shows that in this
respect, God indeed is the
"same yesterday, today, and forever."

IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS, YOU HAVE THE
PROBLEM WITH GOD, NOT ME.
I suggest if you don't like this, you fast and
pray, and ask for God to
give you understanding.

Ask for God to give you a SOUND MIND, not a mind
made up of the VAIN
IMAGINATIONS OF YOUR OWN HEART!

Some have accused me of being sick, and have
suggested that I seek
medical attention. That shows just how far THEY
are from the ultimate
reality of the universe! It is THEY WHO ARE
SICK, AND NEED, NOT THE
HELP OF A HUMAN DOCTOR, BUT THE HELP OF GOD
ALMIGHTY TO OPEN UP THEIR
MINDS TO HIS TRUTH, AND HIS WAY OF THINKING.

And why does God do this? Because God has a
great PURPOSE being worked
out here below among humans. That PURPOSE IS TO
BECOME GOD AS GOD IS
GOD! And, based on God's EXPERIENCE with
Lucifer and his demons, He
knows that THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY THAT IS RIGHT,
and that He absolutely
cannot allow someone to become a God being not
understanding His laws,
His mind, and His ways. There IS only one way
to become God as God is
God, and that is to get your thinking IN LINE
WITH HIS, and to root sin
out of your life, root and branch.

Today, man calls good evil and evil good. Who
are YOU going to listen
to? Many, who passes away like a vapor, and can
only kill the mortal
body, or GOD, WHO HAS THE POWER TO DESTROY BOTH
SOUL AND BODY?

How GREAT a potential God has given us! But, in
order to attain to this
GREATEST OF ALL GOALS, we must first learn HOW
TO LIVE the RIGHT WAY --
GOD'S WAY, which is, in the end, the ONLY TRUE
WAY OF LOVE!

So this and simillar incidents WERE acts of
LOVE, after all. God loved
us enough to make a profound example so that we
can understand better
what is the right way and the wrong way. And for
those poor souls who
have died as examples for us, God will resurrect
them again in the
second resurrection, they will have learned from
their past mistakes,
hopefully, and will be able to qualify to become
Gods in His family as
well. They will understand that what happened
in this life was indeed
an act of supreme mercy for everyone involved.
And they, too, will take
their places in the Kingdom and Family of God!]

Act 5:12 By the hands of the apostles many
signs and wonders were done
among the people. They were all with one accord
in Solomon's porch.
Act 5:13 None of the rest dared to join them,
however the people
honored them.

[As we approach the end of this Age, God will
again show great signs and
wonders. I have no doubt that at some time, He
will have to make
dramatic actions like this again, and even
worse, because man in our day
and age has strayed so far from Him. I can just
imagine the hue, cry,
and denounciations from man and his governments
when these things occur,
including calling down fire from heaven to
destroy those who would dare
to impede the work of God's end time Elijah and
His Two Witnesses. But
there will be nothing that mortal man can do to
God's servants during
their ministries. At least, now, you understand
some of the reasons for
these future events. God will speak very
sternly to mankind at the end
of this age, and it will not always be what some
would call "Christian."
For those of you who bristle at these things,
and breath out venom
against God's ways, you have been warned.]


Now that we have seen what the New Covenant is
NOT, let's now understand
better what it IS!


LESSON 19
(1961, 1965, 1967)

AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE COURSE

The Terms of Christ's SECOND
Marriage

About Our Cover ...

This 1000-year-old, hand-lettered Greek
manuscript (shown
open and closed) contains the four gospels of
the New Testament,
and is part of the Ambassador College rare book
collection.
Your Bible reveals that Jesus Christ came
to CORRECT the
"fault" with His FIRST marriage and to confirm a
NEW MARRIAGE
COVENANT! The "New Testament" part of your Bible
spells out the
terms or conditions of Christ's SECOND marriage
agreement. It
tells exactly WHO the bride will be and WHEN
Christ will marry
her!

AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

I FEEL I must immediately have a real
heart-to-heart talk
with my growing family of students, sharing with
you thoughts
that came to my mind -- while they are still
fresh and vivid.
It concerns the MOST IMPORTANT thing in
life and eternity
for you. But at the moment, I was thinking about
myself. Every
person -- yes, even you -- is his own worst
enemy. All my life I
have been impelled to fight my worst enemy --
that troublesome
inner SELF, which by nature is desperately
wicked. I was not born
with a mild, submissive, weak-willed inner SELF.
Had I been, I
probably never could have been used as God's
instrument in
bearing His message to you. My mother has often
mentioned I was a
very strong-willed boy; and while I was still
young enough to be
under parental discipline, I caused her and my
father no end of
trouble.
Since growing into the age of
self-discipline, this same
evil, determined inner self has caused ME no end
of trouble. And
I should add that since I gave that self over to
God, it surely
must have tried His patience!
That brings us to the point. The thought
that came to my
mind concerned this very troublesome inner self.
How, came the
question, can I myself ever become finally
SAVED, and inherit
eternal life in the Kingdom of God, with such a
powerful,
seemingly irresistible inner force of evil
constantly pulling the
other way? When God says "there shall in no wise
enter into it
[the Kingdom of God] anything that defileth,
neither whatsoever
worketh abomination, or maketh a lie" (Rev.
21:27), it surely
seemed impossible that I should be able to
"overcome," and
"endure unto the end."
But the same instant the answer flashed to
mind -- GOD will
save me! I can't save myself. When I look at
this troublesome,
naturally evil self, so human and full of faults
and weaknesses,
so beset by temptations of pride and the flesh,
with all its
limitations and shortcomings; knowing that to be
finally saved I
must GROW in grace and God's knowledge -- must
develop in
righteous holy character -- must overcome this
SELF and
temptations and weaknesses -- and must ENDURE
through trial and
test and opposition and discouragement unto the
end -- well, when
I look at it this way, it seems utterly HOPELESS
to expect ever
to be saved.
And I wondered, as this thought flashed
through my mind, how
many of my students are tempted to look at it
the same way -- to
feel a sense of futility and helplessness --
perhaps to become
discouraged and lose faith?
Ah, that's the key word -- FAITH!
Our plight isn't hopeless at all!
Of course, of ourselves it IS impossible to
be saved. But
with GOD IT IS CERTAIN -- if we yield to Him and
TRUST Him. We
shall be saved, NOT by our own power to overcome
and develop
perfect characters, but through FAITH IN GOD'S
POWER!
But right here is where 999 out of 1,000
become deceived by
the fables of this time. And when the blind lead
the blind, they
both fall into the ditch!
Because we CAN'T save ourselves -- we can't
master the evil
inner self -- we CAN'T always resist every
temptation -- we CAN'T
keep God's holy Law perfectly -- and, of
ourselves we would fail
to overcome, to grow in spiritual character, and
to endure to the
end; the false teaching is going out that JESUS
DID THESE THINGS
FOR us -- that we don't need to do them.
Millions today believe
that God imputes Jesus' righteousness to us,
counting us as
righteous when we are NOT!
There couldn't be a more soul-damning
delusion of the devil!
No, Jesus didn't live a good life for you,
in your stead!
You are not excused from keeping God's
commandments, living a
righteous holy life, overcoming, growing in
spiritual character,
and enduring in spite of all opposition,
persecution, trial and
test unto the end. You and I must actually DO
these things in
order to be saved!
Here is the great mystery! Since we MUST do
these things to
be saved, yet are utterly UNABLE to do them, it
is natural to
conclude either that God sent Jesus to do it for
us and excuse us
from accomplishing it, or else to become
discouraged and be
tempted to quit trying.
The true answer is the KEY to salvation!
We can't save ourselves. GOD will save us!
But how?
Not by saving us IN our sins -- not by
deceiving Himself
into counting us righteous by imputing Jesus'
righteousness to us
while we remain unrighteous -- BUT BY SAVING US
FROM OUR SINS, by
giving us His very own Spirit -- His POWER to
overcome these
cantankerous selves, His LOVE to actually
fulfill His law, HIS
PEACE to avoid strife with enemies and
resentment and bitterness
at their injustices, HIS PATIENCE to endure!
We can't save ourselves -- GOD must save
us! But He does it
by CHANGING us, through His indwelling divine
supernatural power,
from what we have been into the holy, righteous
characters He
wills to make of us! He does it by forgiving
past sins not only,
but CLEANSING US from sinning now and in the
future!
God does not look upon our hopeless plight
-- our evil
natures, our weaknesses and inabilities -- and
say, "Poor,
helpless humans! Since they are unable to master
and overcome
their evil natures, to keep my Law, to endure
trial and test and
temptation, and to grow into holy characters;
I'll be merciful
and have my Son do it for them, and save them
just as they are in
all their sins."
Instead, God who knows our every weakness,
and who Himself
is RESPONSIBLE for this human nature in every
one of us, sent His
Son into the world to proclaim HIS MESSAGE to us
that we must
yield to GOD'S government over our lives -- that
we must REPENT
and turn from our FILTH of the flesh and pride
of mind and heart.
He sent His Son into the world to be tempted in
all points as we
are -- human as we are -- to prove that a human
CAN, with the
help of the Spirit of God, live without sin --
TO SET AN EXAMPLE
FOR US THAT WE SHOULD FOLLOW HIS STEPS and live
also without
sinning! He sent His Son into the world to die
for us -- not
living a good life in our stead, but paying the
penalty of all
our past sins in our stead -- that we might be
reconciled to God,
so that we might receive His Spirit, begetting
us as His SONS, so
that God through the power of His Spirit may
CHANGE us from
mortal sinners into immortal holy sons of God!
Some hotels and restaurants, catering to
tourists who may be
in old clothes and dirty from traveling, post a
sign, "COME AS
YOU ARE!"
The favorite "invitation" or "altar-call"
hymn sung by the
popular denominations in revival or evangelistic
services is
"JUST AS I AM."
But BE NOT DECEIVED -- GOD WON'T RECEIVE
YOU JUST AS YOU
ARE! You can't sit down at His immaculate holy
table with your
wrinkled, soiled clothes and dirty hands, which
symbolically
represent the human sinning condition. No, you
must be first
WASHED in the blood of the lamb Jesus Christ --
and before Jesus
as your Saviour and Mediator with God can wash
you of the filth
of your sins, YOU MUST FIRST REPENT OF
TRANSGRESSING GOD'S HOLY
LAW, WHICH MEANS TO BE SO SORRY THAT YOU FORSAKE
YOUR WAY AND THE
WORLD'S WAY, AND TURN TO A LIFE OF OBEDIENCE TO
GOD'S LAWS AND
WAYS!
Of course, you'll have to come AS YOU ARE
to Christ for
CLEANSING from the filth of your past life --
but CONFESSING your
filthy, sinful condition, asking HIM to cleanse
you and to wash
you in His blood, because you can't cleanse
yourself -- so that
He may present you chaste and pure and
spiritually clean to His
Father, that you may then receive the indwelling
POWER of God
WHICH WILL ENABLE YOU TO OVERCOME, and keep
God's Law, and live
as His sons ought to live!
Jesus showed by His life that we CAN, if we
rely upon God in
faith for the power to do so, live the way of
God's will as
expressed in His Spiritual Law! Of Himself, even
Jesus said He
could not do it -- "the Father that dwelleth in
me," He said, "HE
doeth the works." And again: "The works that I
do shall ye do
also."
And so it was that, almost the same instant
the temptation
to doubt the final result came to my mind as I
thought of my own
weaknesses, faults, and limitations, the answer
flashed strong
and firm: "GOD WON'T LET ME FALL!" (Read Jude
24, and II Peter
1:10.)
"He may punish me more yet to chasten and
teach me and to
make me righteous, but He won't let me fail --
He will impute His
very own righteousness by IMPLANTING IT INTO MY
LIFE until,
through His power energizing me, I'm really
living it --
ETERNALLY! "
And that comforting and definite ASSURANCE
of the final
result, based on God's own unbreakable PROMISES,
just warmed my
heart and made me feel good clear through -- and
so I had to come
immediately to the typewriter to share this
glorious assurance
with all of YOU!
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THE NEW COVENANT AND TESTAMENT

MOST professing Christians have assumed
that God's law and
His COVENANTS have nothing whatever to do with
Jesus Christ and
New Testament Christianity!
No wonder so many can't understand why God
promised to make
a NEW Covenant; with whom the New Covenant will
be made; and what
terms and conditions will regulate it!
You need to know and ACT on the answers to
these vital
questions so God can make the NEW COVENANT with
YOU! Unless He
does, you won't be able to receive the PROMISES
contained in THE
NEW TESTAMENT -- the WILL of Jesus Christ!

We Desperately Need Help!

Remember that the Israelites were given
every incentive to
live by God's royal law of love for hundreds of
years. But they
failed miserably!
WE are human beings just as were the people
of Old Covenant
times. WE also will fail miserably if we place
our confidence in
OUR OWN human power to obey God's law. History
THUNDERS its
warning to us! There is a very good REASON why
we fail to obey
God.
Let's be sure we understand it!
God is fashioning and molding man by
allowing him to learn
by his own experiences, and the experiences of
others. God made
man a free moral agent in order that he may
choose whether or not
he will follow God's great royal law of love --
the law which can
make him supremely happy.
But man does not have the POWER, of
himself, to follow this
law even though he may finally choose to do so.
Here is where GOD comes into the picture.
Only one who has a GODLY nature and GODLY
power can live in
perfect obedience to the spiritual law God has
ordained! We do
not have a Godly nature now. But God promises to
give us, in this
life, the POWER to ultimately achieve all we
REALLY long for and
desire -- the things which come ONLY through
living in harmony
with His law. But ONLY IF we will realize our
OWN weakness -- OUR
OWN inability to obey the Royal Law of Love --
and surrender our
own wills to Him.
Then He will begin to complete His
SPIRITUAL creation of us
by begetting us with His Holy Spirit of power
and love so we can
begin obeying His laws.
When we surrender to God and receive His
power to enable us
to begin living in harmony with His great
spiritual law, all of
our unvoiced, scarcely recognized longings and
desires will
finally be abundantly fulfilled at the
RESURRECTION, and we will
then be supremely happy -- FOREVER!!
This glorious future CAN be yours!

Christ's Warning

Notice what Christ warns us about depending
upon OUR OWN
ability to obey Him.
Jesus Christ explained how we can have
eternal life. He
said: "If thou wilt enter into life, KEEP the
commandments" (Mat.
19:17).
But in the previous lesson we saw that for
over seven
hundred years of human history, man has PROVEN
HE CANNOT keep the
COMMANDMENTS. Did Christ, the living Son of God,
verify by His
next statement the fact that this is IMPOSSIBLE
for MAN, OF
HIMSELF, to do? Notice what He said:
"It is easier for a camel to go through the
eye of a needle,
than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of
God" (Mat.
19:24).
Even Christ's own disciples, when they
heard these words,
were "EXCEEDINGLY AMAZED," and asked, "Who then
CAN be saved?"
(Verse 25.)
Christ then revealed THE ONLY WAY by which
it CAN be done:
"With MEN this is IMPOSSIBLE; but with GOD all
things are
possible"! (Verse 26.) With God's SPIRIT --
God's love and power
placed within us -- it can be done!!
What mortal men -- you and I -- need for
salvation is A
MIRACULOUS CHANGE of our human nature -- which
must begin with
our SPIRITUAL begettal by the Spirit of God!

We Need Our Creator's Spirit

God is the Supreme Creator (Gen. 1:1; John
1:1-3). He
created all the animals, birds and fish. But He
made no COVENANT
with them by which they may become anything
higher. They ARE
lowly and will REMAIN lowly.

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PHOTO CAPTION: The creative genius of man's
God-given MIND is
amply demonstrated by the fantastically complex
devices he
designs and builds. Shown is the Ambassador
College IBM 360
Computer which serves the ever-growing needs of
God's Work.
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God has not given them marvelous hands or
creative brains by
which they can plan, design and build things as
God does. These
lowly creations of God resemble Him in no respect.
But God made MAN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT!
God said, in declaring His PLAN for molding
man into His
highest creation, "Let us make MAN in OUR image"
(Gen. 1:26). God
did NOT say He planned to do this with any other
of His vast
number of creations. God has planned to MOLD
ONLY MAN INTO HIS
SPIRITUAL CHARACTER "IMAGE"!! And of the dust of
the ground God
fashioned only MAN in the EXTERNAL form -- the
EXTERNAL
dimensions or "likeness" -- of God, as we
learned in previous
lessons.
But God did NOT, at that time, place WITHIN
man a DIVINE
NATURE whereby we would also resemble God
INWARDLY --
SPIRITUALLY. We do NOT YET possess God's DIVINE
nature.
Adam had a fleshly, CARNAL NATURE within
him -- and like
begets like. That's the kind of nature you and I
have today! For
ADAM is the father of fleshly mankind. So man
now resembles God
in EXTERNAL form and shape only -- NOT in
spiritual character,
nature and composition.
God has fashioned man, UNLIKE sticks and
stones, birds and
beasts, with INHERENT CAPABILITIES for MARVELOUS
achievements. He
has equipped man with marvelous HANDS that can
fashion things;
given to man a TONGUE AND LANGUAGE by which he
can communicate
the most intricate of ideas to his fellowman;
and, above all,
given to man a BRAIN capable of approaching, to
a degree at this
time, the very creative powers of God! And God
now offers man a
covenant by which he can be created in God's
very own character
"image" also!
Our POTENTIALITIES are so great that we can
even become
MEMBERS of the Family of God -- for we can
ultimately be BORN
into the ruling Kingdom of God! These are the
plain teachings of
YOUR Bible! How WONDERFUL IS God's PURPOSE for
mankind!
God inspired Isaiah to say, "O Lord, thou
art our FATHER
[the One who can BEGET US spiritually]; we are
the CLAY, and Thou
our POTTER; and we all are the work of thy hand"
(Isa. 64:8). We
are made of the EARTH and God is FASHIONING US
to be like Him.
"The first man Adam was made a living SOUL"
[PSUCHE or NEPHESH]
-- a breathing flesh and blood human being
subject to eternal
death. But "the LAST Adam [CHRIST -- who, like
the FIRST Adam,
was the FIRST of His kind -- the Father's NEW
kind of SPIRITUALLY
begotten and born creations] was made a
quickening SPIRIT,"
having received eternal life and the very nature
of God at His
resurrection.
You, too, can become one of these new
creations IF YOU
choose to allow God to create you in His
SPIRITUAL "image" (I
Cor. 15:45; Eph. 4:22-24) .
Having realized how utterly incapable we
are to achieve, of
ourselves, the supreme goal that God has set
before us, let us
now examine the true glories the New Covenant
holds out to us.
And let us examine the steps we must NOW take in
order to receive
help through the Holy Spirit of God so we will
be PREPARED to
enter into the New Covenant marriage with Jesus
Christ when He
returns.
Now we are ready for the lesson itself.

LESSON 19
Why a NEW Covenant Is Necessary

1. Did Christ, the God of the "Old
Testament," promise that
He would make a NEW covenant -- A NEW MARRIAGE
AGREEMENT -- with
Israel and Judah even before Old Covenant Israel
had gone into
captivity for disobeying His Law? Jer. 31:31.
Does Heb. 8:8 also
verify this?
COMMENT: Note that the New Covenant was
STILL FUTURE when
Paul wrote the book of Hebrews.
2. Does the reason that a New Covenant must
be made lie in
the fact that there was a FAULT involved with
the Old Covenant?
Heb. 8:7.
3. What was this fault -- was it in the
Law? Ps. 19:7 and
Rom. 7:12. Since the fault was NOT in the Law,
which is
"perfect," nor with God who was able to keep His
part of the
covenant, then must the fault have been with
"them" -- the
people? Heb. 8:8. Notice especially the first
five and last seven
words.
COMMENT: The law is PERFECT. But the PEOPLE
were WEAK --
SPIRITUALLY weak! Therefore, they did not KEEP
THEIR PART OF THE
OLD COVENANT MARRIAGE AGREEMENT.
4. But under the terms of the NEW Covenant,
what does God
propose to do? Heb. 8:10; Jer. 31:33 and II Cor.
3:3.
COMMENT: Under the old marriage covenant,
God wrote His laws
on two tables of STONE. The people could SEE the
law with their
EYES, but the LAW was NOT WITHIN THEIR HEARTS
AND MINDS. The law
was NOT A PART of them. But under the terms of
the New Covenant,
Christ promises that He will make a marriage
agreement only with
those who are NOW having the principles of His
Law written in
their hearts and minds by the Holy Spirit.
REMEMBER THIS, FOR IT IS EXTREMELY
IMPORTANT!! Christ will
marry His "bride" -- the collective members of
His Church -- only
when she has prepared herself by PRACTICING
OBEDIENCE to His law.
According to the terms of the new marriage
covenant, we must
first be tested and proved to see whether we
really want to obey
God. The Old Covenant, remember, was made with
Israel BEFORE she
was fully tried and tested. The new marriage
covenant will not be
made until AFTER we have been tried and tested
and are "born
again." Then we will be members of the SPIRITUAL
Kingdom of God
-- Israel according to the SPIRIT, no longer
possessing sinful
human nature.
The New Covenant is a far BETTER covenant
than the Old
Covenant was. The OLD Covenant was NATIONAL --
TO ONE NATION ONLY
-- to Israel. It promised ONLY TEMPORARY
MATERIAL EARTHLY
BLESSINGS. IT HAD NO PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
AND ETERNAL LIFE.
The Old Covenant Israelites had no promise of
receiving the Holy
Spirit which could have written God's law in
their hearts and
minds.
But the NEW Covenant marriage agreement
into which we can
enter will COMPLETELY CORRECT the fault of the
Old Covenant by
making it possible for us to obey God's law
PERFECTLY in its
spiritual intent! For at the resurrection,
Christ's Spirit-born
Church will be given a completely NEW nature --
the SPIRITUAL
nature of God -- which will enable born-again
Christians to obey
Him PERFECTLY forever! (I John 3:9.) It is then
that Christ will
marry His PERFECTLY OBEDIENT Church.

Terms of the New Covenant

1. Is the "Lord" the MESSENGER who came to
herald the terms
of the New Covenant? Mal. 3:1, last part. Was
this messenger
JESUS CHRIST? Mark 1:14.
2. Is the message of this New Covenant
obviously a part of
the GOSPEL MESSAGE -- the good news -- Christ
preached? Mark 1:1,
14, 15. Is repentance and belief in the Gospel a
part of what
modern Israelites must do in order to enter into
this New
Covenant with Christ? Verse 15. Does Mat. 15:24
verify the fact
that Christ was sent only to the "lost" -- the
SCATTERED --
"SHEEP" or people of ISRAEL to herald the Gospel
of the Kingdom?
But did Christ LATER instruct His DISCIPLES to
preach the Gospel
-- which contains the message of the NEW
Covenant -- to ALL THE
WORLD? Mat. 24:14 and 28:19-20.
3. Do Gentiles now have any hope of ever
being partakers of
the promises of the covenants -- the promises
contained in the
covenants made with Abraham and the promises of
the New Covenant?
Eph. 2:11, 12. In what way may a Gentile -- one
having no blood
relationship to Abraham -- come into the New
Covenant
relationship? Verse 13; Gal. 3:29 and Rom.
11:13, 17.
COMMENT: In past lessons we learned how a
Gentile may come
into the New Covenant relationship: "IF ye be
Christ's, then are
ye Abraham's seed, and HEIRS according to the
promise" (Gal.
3:29). The New Covenant is, in this way, open to
ALL peoples of
the world.
Notice that this New Covenant is
CONDITIONAL -- "if." Both
Israelites and Gentiles must SURRENDER
THEMSELVES to Christ and
begin learning to OBEY HIM (II Cor. 3:3).
But the New Covenant marriage, UNLIKE the
Old Covenant, is
actually PRECEDED by a WILL -- that is, a
TESTAMENT.
4. Did Jesus leave a "testament," or WILL,
at His death?
Heb. 9:15-17. What is the purpose of Christ's
will?
COMMENT: As we learned in Lesson 18, a
TESTAMENT IS a WILL
-- it declares a person's WILL as to the
disposal of his
POSSESSIONS after his DEATH.
Christ left, at His death, a will -- a
TESTAMENT -- in which
all people may become beneficiaries or heirs of
His possessions.
For it was to the ONE seed -- CHRIST -- to whom
this earth was
given as an eternal inheritance (Gen. 22:18; Gal
3:16-19).
Christ was the only One who ever obeyed
God's Law perfectly
and could claim the earth as an inheritance. So
it was He who
could, and did, leave a TESTAMENT or WILL at His
death so that
His "heirs" (Gal. 3:29) may also receive,
through Him, eternal
inheritance of the earth.
Bear in mind that the new TESTAMENT or WILL
of Jesus Christ
has been in force since His death. But His
testament or will has
CONDITIONS which we must meet BEFORE we can
inherit the promises.
The Greek word for "testament" also means
"covenant." Since
the new TESTAMENT involves our agreement to
fulfill these
conditions, it also becomes a COVENANT -- and
that new covenant
will not be confirmed or established with us --
we won't INHERIT
the promises of eternal inheritance of the earth
and sonship in
the ruling, spiritual Kingdom of God -- UNTIL we
are first made
IMMORTAL and have God's nature so we CAN'T SIN!
(II Peter 1:4; I
John 3:9.)
As we learned in Lesson 18, the first part
of the Bible
should NOT be titled "The Old TESTAMENT." For
the question of the
death of either party to that covenant did NOT
enter into the
agreement as it would had it been a WILL -- a
TESTAMENT. The Old
Covenant was simply an AGREEMENT -- "YOU do this
and I'll do
that."
The second part of the Bible would then
naturally bear the
title, "THE NEW COVENANT" -- the NEW AGREEMENT
-- for it reveals
fully the NEW COVENANT which God offers to the
present-day blood
descendants of old Israel, and to ALL people of
the earth through
Christ.
Also, this latter part of the Bible could
bear within its
title the word "TESTAMENT," FOR "if we are
Christ's, we are
[considered as] Abraham's seed and [by Christ's
DEATH] HEIRS of
the promises" to be ESTABLISHED by the New
Covenant.
SO -- PROPERLY the title of the second part
of the Bible
should be, "THE NEW COVENANT AND TESTAMENT." The
Greek, in which
this latter part of the Bible was originally
written, uses the
Greek title "Diatheke" which is translated
INTERCHANGEABLY as
"COVENANT" AND "TESTAMENT."

New Covenant Not Yet Completed

1. Is Jesus Christ the minister of the New
Covenant? Heb.
8:6. Was He to CONFIRM the covenant for one
"week"? Dan. 9:26-27.
But was His ministry to be cut in HALF? Verse
27. Will Christ
COMPLETE His work of confirming the New Covenant
in the future?
Same verse. Also Heb. 8:10 and Jer. 31:31-34
COMMENT: A "day" in the prophecy of Daniel
9:27 represents a
year in fulfillment (Num. 14:34; Ezek. 4:3-6).
Christ ministered
three-and-a-half years -- ONE HALF of this
prophetical "week."
For three-and-one-half years He CONFIRMED
-- spelled out the
TERMS of -- THE NEW COVENANT with His disciples
who recorded them
for us today. By dying for our sins in the MIDST
OF the "week,"
He put the final STAMP on the covenant and made
it binding with
His blood. Through Him, ALL PEOPLE can now enter
into the New
Covenant and become HEIRS "according to the
promise" which God
made to Abraham (Gal. 3:29).
But Daniel 9:26-27 reveals that there yet
REMAINS
three-and-one-half years of Christ's ministry to
be FULFILLED!
Let's understand.
When Jesus returns to this earth He will
FULFILL the
covenant He made with Abraham. Abraham and his
SPIRITUAL seed
through Christ will then inherit the world and
eternal life.
Jesus will also ESTABLISH the covenant He made
with His spiritual
Church BEFORE His return by MARRYING THE CHURCH!

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PHOTO CAPTION: It was upon this small hill, just
outside the
walls of Jerusalem, that Jesus Christ was
killed! Natural caves
strangely appear as the eye sockets of a human
skull -- hence the
Hebrew name Golgotha, which means "the place of
the skull."
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And it is at Christ's return that He will
make the NEW
COVENANT with His people Israel. For
THREE-AND-ONE-HALF YEARS,
Christ will complete His ministry to Israel by
teaching them His
ways and writing His Laws in their hearts and
upon their minds by
the Holy Spirit (Heb. 8:6-10).
2. Does Rev. 19:7-9 describe the glorious
MARRIAGE of
Christ, the "Lamb," to His purified, SINLESS
Church when He
returns? Read also II Cor. 11:2.
COMMENT: All who are born again as spirit
beings will, at
Christ's second coming, be OFFICIALLY invited to
enter into the
New Covenant marriage relationship with Him as
their husband.
This is the way Christ will ESTABLISH or
COMPLETE the New
Covenant with THEM.

Christ to REMARRY His "Wife"!

Some may ask, "How can Jesus Christ marry
the New Testament
Church since He was already married to ancient
Israel under the
Old Covenant?"
The fact is Jesus Christ is no longer bound
by marriage to
ancient Israel! That marriage contract has been
dissolved! He is
now free, according to the laws governing
marriage, to marry
AGAIN. Notice how.
1. After ancient Israel had disobeyed God's
law, followed
the customs of the heathen and served their
false gods, did the
Lord Christ plead with them to turn from their
ADULTEROUS ways?
Jer. 3:14. Did God "put away" -- DIVORCE --
Israel because of her
sins? Isa. 50:1; Jer. 3:6, 8 and Isa. 59:1-2.
COMMENT: When ancient Israel broke God's
marriage covenant,
they were actually committing SPIRITUAL
"adultery." They followed
the customs of heathen peoples and worshipped
their pagan idols
instead of the LORD Christ Who was their
"Husband."
Because God is HOLY, He does not "co-exist"
with sin!
Therefore He was forced to separate His "wife"
-- ancient Israel
-- from Himself. (Isa. 50:1.)
Even though God had given Israel a bill of
divorcement for
her sins, God was, however, not free to "marry"
again according
to the Law! Adultery is not a cause for the
dissolution of a
marriage. That's why the Eternal said, "I AM
[STILL] MARRIED UNTO
YOU" (Jer. 3:14).
The LORD -- the human Jesus Christ of the
New Testament --
was still bound by His part of the conditions of
the marriage
contract.
These conditions were, however, limited by
DEATH! Only the
death of one of the partners of a marriage
covenant can sever the
marriage relationship -- for marriage is binding
until death, as
we learned in the previous lesson.
Jesus Christ's death on the stake at
Golgotha freed Him from
His first marriage contract with ancient Israel.
The Lord Christ
of the Old Testament -- God in the FLESH -- had
died! Now He is
free to marry a repentant, forgiven, sin-free
"spiritual Israel"
-- the New Testament Church BORN AGAIN -- when
He returns!
2. Who will Jesus marry when He returns?
Rev. 19:7. Notice
the words "his wife."
COMMENT: Jesus promises to make a NEW
COVENANT -- A NEW
MARRIAGE AGREEMENT -- when He returns. That new
marriage contract
will be made with "spiritual" Israel --
converted Israelites and
Gentiles -- now born of the Spirit.
This time His wife will remain faithful.
Why? Because at the
resurrection she will have been born as a
perfect spiritual
nation into the Kingdom of God. Once born of
God, their new
SPIRITUAL nature and power will enable them to
keep His laws
PERFECTLY -- the same laws which are still the
terms and
conditions of the marriage agreement -- the New
Covenant --
Christ will make with His spiritual Church!

Christ Came So We Can KEEP the Law

Some believe Christ came to "do away with
the law." Just
what WAS the PURPOSE of Christ's coming, anyway?
Most people are totally ignorant of the
MOST VITAL KNOWLEDGE
they should know. Those who have set themselves
up as ministers
have not taught the people the truth, nor do
they themselves know
it.
HERE'S the truth from your Bible!
1. Did Christ come to "do away with the
law" -- to "nail the
law to the cross"? What did Christ, HIMSELF,
say? HE should know
WHY He came. What are HIS words? Mat. 5:17. Do
verses 18 and 19
also show He did NOT come to destroy the law? On
what two great
things does Christ say "hang ALL the law"? Mat.
22:40, 37-39.
COMMENT: God's great Royal Law of Love has
always existed.
It, with its ten points -- the Ten Commandments
-- was in effect
from the Garden of Eden. The law stands fast
FOREVER. Love of God
as revealed by His law will never become
obsolete (Ps. 111:7, 8).
It is the people who have been unable to bring
themselves into
harmony with this highest of all laws!!
Christ here REPEATS twice for EMPHASIS that
He did NOT come
to destroy -- to do away with -- the law.
2. On the other hand, what DID Christ say
He came to DO?
Mat. 5:17, last nine words. What did Christ MEAN
by the words, "I
AM COME ... TO FULFILL"? See comment.
COMMENT: CHRIST "FULFILLED THE LAW"
PERFECTLY BY OBEYING IT!
Obviously by Christ's "fulfilling" of the Law He
did NOT ANNUL
THE LAW! He DEMONSTRATED the POWER of the Holy
Spirit of God
which, if placed within man, enables him to
fulfill -- to keep --
the spiritual law. For with God ALL things are
possible (Mat.
19:26).
Christ was the first-begotten of many
brethren. He was a
mortal human being, just as you and I, but He
was BEGOTTEN of the
Holy Spirit of God at his PHYSICAL conception,
whereas with you
and me, begettal by the Holy Spirit comes LATER
in life -- after
we have repented of sin, accepted Christ's
sacrifice for our
sins, and been baptized (Acts 2:38).
Christ came to pay with His own life the
penalty of our
sins, which is ETERNAL death. He makes it
POSSIBLE for us to
receive the Holy Spirit of POWER whereby we can
FULFILL THE LAW
also, and thereby ultimately enter into the NEW
Covenant
relationship with Him!
With the advent of the NEW Covenant promise
of the Holy
Spirit WITH WHICH to keep the Law, God can NOW
MAGNIFY -- ENLARGE
-- His commandments from the keeping of the LAW
IN the letter, as
commanded under the OLD Covenant, to the
original intent that God
desired from the beginning in the Garden of Eden.
God can NOW require the keeping of the law
in the SPIRIT --
in its SPIRITUAL intent. This is utterly
IMPOSSIBLE for carnal
man WITHOUT God's Spirit!! But man can have the
SPIRITUAL POWER
of the Holy Spirit to accomplish this feat, IF
he will surrender
to God!
And so Christ also came to MAGNIFY the law.
This is WHY He
said, "Ye have heard that it was said by them in
old time [by
God's law-givers under the OLD Covenant], thou
shalt not COMMIT
adultery [PHYSICALLY]: but I say unto you, that
whosoever LOOKETH
on a woman to lust after her [MENTALLY] HATH
[ALREADY] COMMITTED
adultery with her in his heart" (Mat. 5:27, 28).
NOW it is
counted a sin if one lets the THOUGHT of
adultery enter the mind,
or lets it dwell on sinful acts of any other kind.
In these two ways, then, Christ came to
"fulfill the Law":
HE, Himself, fulfilled it by OBEYING it, and has
made it possible
for "whomsoever will" to fulfill or obey it in
the SPIRIT, as
well as the letter!

Preparation We Must Make as Prospective Bride

1. What PURPOSE has the Old Covenant period
served?
COMMENT: It has been necessary for God to
MAKE MAN REALIZE,
through centuries of experience, the ageless
fact that true
happiness comes only by living in accordance
with God's great
eternal law of love; and to make man realize
that he is utterly
incapable of doing so by his own power.
The OLD Covenant has done just that! Down
through the
centuries the Israelites have been known as the
nation of God.
Yet we know that Israel never did keep His law.
Thus Israel has
become an example to the people of the world
that all of CARNAL
mankind, of themselves, cannot keep God's law
either.
But now God has sent His Son to this
unhappy and sin-ridden
world with the joyful news -- the "Good News" --
of the arrival
of His spiritual power, and the announcement of
a NEW Covenant. A
covenant whereby we can be BEGOTTEN again, GROW
again and, at
Christ's coming, be BORN AGAIN -- this time
having a NEW and
TOTALLY DIFFERENT nature -- a SPIRITUAL NATURE!
2. Each of us must now receive the HOLY
SPIRIT which will
set in motion the CHANGES that must occur within
us before we can
be "born again" with the spirit body and HOLY
spiritual NATURE we
must have so Christ can ESTABLISH His new
marriage covenant with
us.
But what, in detail, are the conditions we
must fulfill in
order to RECEIVE the Holy Spirit necessary to
help bring about
these changes? What does Christ say you must do
now in order to
receive the Holy Spirit? Acts 2:38 and 5:32.
COMMENT: Here you have the very essence of
what you must do
now to become a member of the Church which
Christ will marry at
His coming. Three things are necessary for you
to do NOW IN ORDER
TO RECEIVE THE PROMISED HOLY SPIRIT which places
you in His
Church (I Cor. 12:13). You MUST REPENT, BELIEVE,
AND BE BAPTIZED!
But exactly what does all this mean? Let's
understand:
FIRST: You must "REPENT" -- be totally
broken up about and
SORRY for your old SINFUL WAY of life, and
COMPLETELY SURRENDER
YOURSELF to the LOVING RULE of God -- for God
will save NO ONE He
cannot rule.
Christ PURCHASES true Christians with His
blood which He
shed on the stake for the penalty of their sins
so that they need
not die eternal death. That is, CHRIST PURCHASES
THOSE WHO ARE
WILLING TO PREPARE NOW TO ENTER INTO THE NEW
COVENANT WITH HIM at
His coming, and He has promised now to place the
Holy Spirit
within them.
Those who agree to enter into the New
Covenant with Christ
thereby agree to become Christ's PURCHASED
SERVANTS -- they agree
to do His will. And, as "SERVANTS OF CHRIST,
doing the will of
God," you will be doing His will this time --
unlike those under
the Old Covenant -- "from the HEART" (Eph. 6:6).
For God will,
under the terms of the New Covenant, be
inscribing His law "in
the fleshly tables of your heart" (Jer. 31:33
and Ezek.
11:19-20), by His Holy Spirit within you! (II
Cor. 3:3.)
SECOND: You must BELIEVE that Christ is
your Savior, and
your present High Priest, and coming Ruler. And
you must BELIEVE
He will send the Holy Spirit of POWER to help
you CRUSH OUT your
old carnal nature and CHANGE YOU.
Christ, by paying with His life for the
sins of all mankind,
has made it possible for ALL to enter into
ETERNAL life. No
wonder when we look at the FAILURE of the
Israelites to keep the
law under the Old Covenant, we realize that we
need a Savior --
Christ -- to pay for our sins and send us His
power. We realize
the LESSONS of the Old Covenant have been OUR
"schoolmaster" to
bring us unto Christ (Gal. 3:24). And that it is
only right and
proper that we acknowledge Him as our Redeemer,
our coming Ruler
and King, and our HUSBAND!
THIRD: YOU must BE BAPTIZED.
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SO TO SUMMARIZE, YOU must: (1) repent, (2)
believe, (3) be
baptized.
AFTER YOU have done this, what does GOD
promise to do,
according to the terms of Christ's Will or
Testament? " ... and
you SHALL receive the gift of the Holy Spirit"!!
(Acts 2:38.)
This is what God PROMISES to do as His part.
There it is!
This is the spirit of POWER that came upon
the apostles just
after Christ's death (Acts 2:4). And THESE are
the prior
requirements for entering into the new covenant
relationship with
Christ at the resurrection -- at His soon
coming. It is then that
we will inherit all the other marvelous things
that the New
Covenant promises -- eternal life, sonship in
the Kingdom of God,
and the earth as an EVERLASTING possession.
The Holy Spirit imparts the POWER WE need
to PREPARE
OURSELVES NOW SO we can receive all of these
blessings!

The Decision Is Yours

If you intend to enter into the New
Covenant marriage with
Christ, you should begin PREPARATION NOW! Later
may be TOO LATE.
But the decision is YOURS to make. God will not
force you. He
leaves you free to CHOOSE. Notice:
1. When God offered the Old Covenant to
ancient Israel, did
He coerce them into entering this covenant with
Him, or did He
allow them to VOLUNTARILY DECIDE whether they
would enter into
it? Ex. 19:3, 5-8. Notice the word "IF" in verse
5.
COMMENT: The word "IF" shows that God did
NOT force the
people of ancient Israel to enter into the Old
Covenant with Him.
2. Did God coerce the NEXT generation of
Israelites, forty
years later, to enter this same Covenant with
Him, or did He
allow them to CHOOSE whether or not they would
do so? Deut.
30:19. Note the words, "CHOOSE life."
COMMENT: Christ will not force anyone into
entering a
covenant with Him. Nor will He force you into a
decision to START
PREPARING to enter the New Covenant with Him at
His coming. Why?
God created mankind with abilities like His
own -- beings
with MINDS like His own, though limited --
beings who can CHOOSE
-- beings who are FREE MORAL AGENTS, and who are
not mere
automatons like the rest of His creation.
Christ never did FORCE anyone to covenant
with Him, and He
never will! For He is in the process of forming
beings who are
LEARNING TO CHOOSE CORRECTLY! They are the ones
who will become
God's SUPREME SPIRITUAL CREATION!
God will ADVISE though -- He says, "choose
LIFE." YOU also
are a free moral agent just as were the former
generations to
which the other covenant -- the Old Covenant --
was offered. What
will be YOUR choice?
The NEW Covenant promises life -- ETERNAL
life -- and a
close relationship with Christ as His collective
bride. And all
the other blessings that will attend this high
calling.
What are you going to do NOW about the New
Covenant which is
to be offered when Christ comes? If you CHOOSE
NOT to prepare
yourself now for entry into this Covenant by
refusing to allow
God to place His SPIRIT of eternal life within
you, you will NOT
be changed into a spirit being at Christ's soon
coming.
God will not make the NEW marriage covenant
with you if you
remain a HUMAN being. In order to attend the
wedding supper of
the Lamb, you must be "born again" as a SPIRIT
being -- just as
God is!
Persistent refusal to submit to God and
begin preparation
can only lead to ETERNAL DEATH!
The time is NOW AT HAND for you to make a
decision. THINK
DEEPLY on this matter as you meditate on this
lesson and the
lessons just ahead. These will continue to give
God's revealed
instruction on HOW YOU can finally enter into
the New Covenant,
HUSBAND-WIFE relationship with the living Jesus
Christ, your
Redeemer.

God Works Through His Church

The evidence is now crystal clear that in
order to INHERIT
eternal life you must also stand ready to enter
into this New
Covenant relationship with Christ. That's the
only way to be born
again of the life-giving Holy Spirit of God, and
inherit all the
promises of God.
But to whom should you turn for guidance in
preparing
yourself now so you will be ready to enter into
the New Covenant
marriage with Christ at His now imminent return?
Does God have a
CHURCH on earth today from which you can receive
this special
guidance? Or do you suppose you can qualify to
enter into the New
Covenant relationship with Christ through
attending just ANY
church?
Does God leave you in the dark about this
vital knowledge?
Or does He clearly point out to you the fact
that He does have a
Church, and show you how you can IDENTIFY it
from over 450
DIFFERING sects and denominations in the world
today?
WHICH church? -- that is the question of
all-encompassing
importance! The Bible plainly gives the answer
to this question,
too. Let's understand what it says.
1. Long before Moses and Mount Sinai, did
God have a PRIEST
upon the earth who REPRESENTED HIM, and carried
out His work?
Gen. 14:18, 19. Also review in Lesson 7, on page
8, questions 5
through 133.
2. Later, did God call Moses to be His
SERVANT? Ex. 3:11,
12. Did God have MOSES deliver the terms of the
Old Covenant to
the Israelites at Mount Sinai? Ex. 19:3-8; 21:1
and 24:3.

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PHOTO CAPTION: Moses being called by God who
spoke to him from a
burning bush. God works through human beings
whom He specially
calls to serve Him and His people.
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3. Wasn't it ANOTHER MORTAL
FLESH-AND-BLOOD HUMAN BEING --
Jesus Christ (Heb. 2:9, 14) -- who came to
announce, for God, the
terms of the New Covenant to the people of His
time, and to the
world? Mal. 3:1 and Mark 1:14.
COMMENT: God uses HUMAN BEINGS to represent
Him in His
religious dealings with other human beings upon
the earth. After
God personally gave the Ten Commandments to the
people at Mount
Sinai, it was a HUMAN BEING, Moses who gave the
terms of the Old
Covenant to the people for God. Then God used
Christ, in His
HUMAN form, to announce the conditions of the
New Covenant. And
TODAY God uses certain human beings to represent
Him in his
dealings with man.
The Gospel is the message about the
soon-to-be established
KINGDOM of God on earth. The gospel message
THEREFORE includes
the NEW COVENANT MESSAGE whereby "born again"
people may covenant
with Christ to rule the world with Him in a
husband-wife
relationship in the future, spirit-governed
Kingdom of God.
4. Christ, Himself, was here on this earth
but a short time.
Is it true that CHRIST FOUNDED A CHURCH TO CARRY
THE MESSAGE OF
THIS NEW COVENANT ON DOWN TO PEOPLE THROUGH ALL
THE AGES SO they
could receive the Holy Spirit and thus prepare
to enter the
Kingdom at His soon coming? Mat. 16:18.
5. Was this Church to be composed of many
DIFFERENT
denominations? Or was it to be but ONE CHURCH?
Same verse. Was
this TRUE church to have the "keys" to the
Kingdom -- the
knowledge of HOW to ENTER the Kingdom of God?
Verse 19.
COMMENT: One of THE MOST IMPORTANT KEYS is
to know that
there IS TO BE a New Covenant and know HOW to
enter into it -- to
know how to KEEP YOUR PART of it so that God may
forever fulfill
His part. The church you need to be in is the
one that has this
vital "key"!
6. After the New Covenant was made known,
when did the
PROMISED Holy Spirit first enter into those who
knew how to
receive the gift of the Holy Spirit? Acts 1:4,
5; 2:1-4. By the
entrance of the Holy Spirit into these people --
by being
spiritually begotten of God -- were they thus
PUT WITHIN THE
"BODY" OF CHRIST -- the Church of God? I Cor.
12:12-13.
COMMENT: These people, by surrendering
their wills to God,
and by having God's Spirit placed within them,
became the MEMBERS
OF His spiritual body -- the Church of God. They
became the
members of His body just like the members of
your body -- your
eyes, arms, legs -- are members of your physical
body and subject
to your will. Here is the origin of the first
true SPIRITUAL
CHURCH OF GOD ON THE EARTH!
7. Don't the following references clearly
show that God's
TRUE Church should bear the name "CHURCH OF
GOD"? Read and write
out each of these vital PROOFS: Acts 20:28; I
Cor. 1:2, 10:32,
11:22 and 15:9; II Cor. 1:1; I Thes. 2:14; II
Thes. 1:4; I Tim.
3:5 and Gal. 1:13.
8. Down through the ages, since Christ's
time, has there
been a very small group which has continued as
the executors and
administrators of things concerning God's New
Covenant and will?
Rev. 1:20; 2:1, 8, 12, 18 and 3:1, 7, 8.
COMMENT: These seven actual Churches
mentioned here existed
in the time of the apostles. But they also
represent the seven
eras of the true Church of God in its successive
stages on down
from the time of the apostles into our day.
These Churches are
traceable through history! (Be sure to write for
your free copy
of the REVEALING booklet, A "True History of the
True Church".)
Today, God is working through the
"PHILADELPHIA" ERA of His
true church. Note that the Philadelphia Church
has not denied
God's name (Rev. 3:8).
The RADIO Church of God is the Philadelphia
Era of GOD'S
true Church today! It is called by HIS name,
"Church of GOD," and
has not DENIED His name!

The RADIO "Church of God"

1. Is the Headquarters of God's TRUE Church
today to be
found in India, Italy, Germany or Africa? OR is
it to be found in
an ISRAELITISH nation? Mat. 15:24.
COMMENT: Christ was sent to Israel. As the
Jews have
temporarily refused to receive Christ, God is
now working through
the wealthiest and strongest of the other
nations of Israel --
the United States of America and the British
Commonwealth. Only
our PROSPERITY can put God's final message out
with great POWER
via the media of RADIO, television and the
printing press.
For further proof that this Work is the ONE
AND ONLY WORK
that is obedient to God and that it is carrying
out His mission,
review quickly the following: In Lesson 7,
review sections
titled, "God's Commission to His Church",
"Christ Has Work to
Do", "Melchisedec Ministry Reappears!", and
"Tithe to Which
Church?"
Be SURE to REVIEW these. For SALVATION can
come ONLY through
God's Church -- the church HIS Spirit is in!!
As the terms of the New Covenant are a part
of our Savior's
Testament or WILL, the TRUE Church of God today
is the EXECUTOR
OR ADMINISTRATOR of this will by which we may
obtain the Holy
Spirit for entrance into God's Kingdom.
Christ founded His Church for this purpose!
The very fact that God's Church knows WHY
this Will was made
-- its TRUE intent and purpose -- together with
the proof that it
is the TRUE Church God established for executing
this Will, makes
His ministers its executors! Only the RADIO
"Church of God"
possesses the "keys" of God's Kingdom today!
God's true Church is not a shouting,
senseless
"pentecostal"-type of church. God's Spirit is
"the Spirit of a
sound mind" (I Cor. 14:33), in a sound church
which has the
"keys" of the Kingdom. (Write for the free
booklet, "The Tongues
Question".)
2. There is a SPECIAL Spirit in God's
Church -- the HOLY
Spirit of God. For by His Spirit we are baptized
into HIS Church.
But does Paul WARN YOU about receiving a
DIFFERENT "spirit"? II
Cor. 11:4.
COMMENT: This DIFFERENT spirit is the
spirit of
"anti-Christ" (I John 2:18; 4:3). It is AGAINST
Christ. It SPLITS
groups into DENOMINATIONS. It IS NOT the UNITING
Holy Spirit of
God.
Do NOT make the fatal mistake of attempting
to COVENANT with
God through the WRONG church. If you do, the
apostle John here
warns you will receive the WRONG SPIRIT. YOU
will be led into NOT
keeping the commands of God as revealed in His
Word, the Bible.
3. Are other warnings given against
attempting to covenant
with God through false churches? Mark 13:6.
COMMENT: MANY -- not the few, but MANY --
will come in
Christ's name, thus FALSELY classifying
themselves as CHRISTIANS,
and will thus DECEIVE the MANY!
Remember that after you are begotten by
God's Spirit, you
must GROW SPIRITUALLY. IF you choose the WRONG
church through
which to covenant with God, you will be fed the
WRONG spiritual
food. You can then DIE SPIRITUALLY if you are
fed this wrong
spiritual food -- for it is poisonous!
And you can ultimately LOSE OUT on being
born again at
Christ's soon coming.
Finally, always keep in mind that God's
final WARNING
MESSAGE TO ALL THE EARTH must be carried by
RADIO. That is the
only way it can be preached WORLDWIDE! That's
why this Work is
called the RADIO CHURCH OF GOD.
OTHER churches have WRONGLY APPROPRIATED
God's TRUE Church
name "Church of God," just as they have WRONGLY
APPROPRIATED
Christ's name -- Christian.
So -- God's Work on earth today is the
RADIO "CHURCH OF
GOD," WITH WORLD HEADQUARTERS ADDRESS: POST
OFFICE BOX 111,
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109.
There is NO other RADIO Church of God.
Consider these facts as you learn more, in
the lessons just
ahead, about entering into the New Covenant with
Jesus Christ at
His second coming!
Remember that the decision to enter into
God's Covenant IS
UP TO YOU!

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WORLDWIDE via hundreds of radio stations!
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