THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (PART THREE)

                                        THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (PART THREE)

                                                     BIBLICAL HISTORY

The people of Dan were explorers and settled in new places. Centuries before the captivities they founded colonies in Greece, which attracted immigrants from the other tribes. The Bible speaks of Zebulun and Naphtali as being great warriors. The Dorian Greeks (Greece had four tribes ; the Dorians were Israelites) were noted for strong, healthy bodies. It was only long afterward, when Greece brought slaves and intermarried with them. Early Troy was founded by Hebrews that came from Egypt before the Exodus (1453 B.C.). From Troy came the Romans who settled in Italy.

A study of the dates when the various tribes were taken into captivity will show that they were not all taken captive at one time. In fact, many years difference was recorded between their captivities. Thus, the punishment period of 2.520 years would start and end at different times depending on the tribe of Israel.

The tribe of Benjamin was the last tribe to go into captivity. The great Scottish Pyramidologist and Bible Chronologist, Dr. Adam Rutherford, F.R.G.S. , told the Icelandic nation many years ago that on a certain day and certain year, they would become an Independent nation. At that time they were under the control of Denmark. Exactly 2.520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation. The Icelandic Parliament acknowledge they are of the tribe of Benjamin.

It is difficult to determine with certainty which Anglo-Saxons (Saxon = son of Isaac) Scandinavian-Lombard-Germanic-Celtic nation of today is basically from which particular tribe.

There has been intermingling among the tribes in their westward migrations. In God's plan of the ages they progressively became "many nations" in Europe and a "company of nations" (the Commonwealth of Great Britain) with colonies and daughter nations.

Today, certain European and Scandinavian nations appear to process certain characteristics of the individual tribes of Israel which may well indicate the people of those nations are predominately of that particular tribe (i.e., Denmark-Dan, Holland-Zebulun , Germany-in part Judah. Great Britain although it has been identified with Ephraim, has a large infusion of Judah as well as other tribes.

America, processing the "birthright marks" of Joseph, can only be identified as modern Manasseh (the 13th tribe). Please read II Samuel 7:10, Jer. 3:18, Ezekiel 37:19-22. The United States originally had 13 states.

Josephus (Jewish Historian) records that the portion of the nation of Judah carried into Babylonian captivity by king Nebuchadnezzar was a million and a half (Neh. 7). Seventy years later, when Judah was allowed to return to their homeland, only 42.000 (Neh. 7:66) went back to Jerusalem, rebuilt the temple and set up the nation, later to be called the nation of the Jews. While in Babylon, many of the 42.000 intermarried with Babylonians, adopted the Babylonian financial, political and ecclesiastical systems.

Josephus further reports that many non-Israelites joined themselves to the returning Judahites. Later, Christ identified these people, also called a Jew (A Jew in the Greek means, of the tribe of Judah, or an inhabitant of Judea), as not of Galilee, (John 7:1-13) not of Abraham or of God, (John 8:39-47) and not of His sheep (John 10:26-30).

It was this mixed remnant of Judah, upon returning from the Babylonian captivity in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, that became known as the nation of the Jews ; a name not applied to Judah prior to the Babylonian Captivity. Nethinims (Kenites = Sons of Cain = Satan's offspring) were mixed among these people returning to Jerusalem. Please read John 8:42-47, Matt. 13:24-30, 13:37-43.

By the time of Christ, continued mixing with Amorites, Philistines, Canaanites, Babylonians, and Hittites.

Modern Jewry includes a further in-mixing with Mongol-Turkish people (Khazar kingdom of Russia) who adopted Judaism during the 8th and 9th centuries A.D.

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TEACH THE WORD OF GOD IN DEPTH...

Most churches today teach their own doctrines and traditions that may void the word of God.

Faith increases by knowledge...the only way to get to know God and what He expects from you is to study His word. He didn't write it for Him but for us.

How many times you visited a church and you couldn't wait to leave ? People are hungry for the word not of your personal life.

Some only teach the message of salvation and baptism to a congregation that is already saved.

LET'S GO TO THE WORD.

Hebrews 5:12   For when for the time you ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God ; 

IN OTHER WORDS, YOU SUPPOSE TO BE TEACHERS OF GOD'S WORD BUT YOU ARE THE ONES WHO NEED A TEACHER.

5:13    For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness : for he is a babe.

IN OTHER WORDS, A TEACHER, PASTOR, MINISTER, WHO ONLY TEACHES THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION AND BAPTISM (MILK) IS UNSKILLFUL IN THE WORD OF GOD : HE IS A BABE (NOT EDUCATED ENOUGH IN THE WORD).

YOU  ARE CONVERTED FOR A LONG TIME BUT YOU REMAIN A BABE IN GOD'S WORD.

5:14    But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

ONLY A MATURE CHRISTIAN WHO GETS INTO THE MEAT OF THE WORD IS ABLE TO DISCERN TRUTH FROM FICTION.

IF YOU ARE WELL GROUNDED IN THE WORD, YOU WILL NOT ONLY BUILD A STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, BUT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO OVERCOME SATAN'S DESCEPTION. GOD WILL BE ABLE TO USE YOU TO DO HIS WORK.

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THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (PART TWO)

                                             THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (PART TWO)

                                                        BIBLICAL HISTORY

                       CONTINUING OUR STUDY OF WHERE THE TRIBES ARE TODAY.

THE MIGRATION OF THE TRIBES :

732-700 B.C.   Israel taken into exile by the Assyrians who called them Khumri, later corrupted to Gimira.

710-590 B.C.   Israelites called Gimira by the Assyrians and Cimmerians by the Greeks established a reign of terror in Asia Minor.  They finally migrated to Europe to a place which they called Arsareth (Apocrypha II Esdras 13:40-44).

650-600 B.C.   Israelites in Media became as Scythians.

600-500 B.C.   Following the collapse of their Assyrian allies, the Scythians were driven north through the Caucuses mountains by the Medes, and they settled in southern Russia.

During the 5th century B.C. the Scythian Israelites began moving across the rivers Don and Dnieper, thus coming into collision with the Cimmerian Israelites who had earlier migrated round the west of the Black Sea.

Knowledge of their kinship having been lost during the centuries of separation, battles ensued, forcing the Cimmerians west. Some moved away to the northwest into the sparsely inhabited regions of the Baltic, where they later became known, to the Romans, as Cimbri.  The larger body of Cimmerians migrated, as scattered bands, up the Danube River arriving near its source in south Germany about 600-500 B.C.  There they became known as "Celts" and "Gauls".  They gave  the lower Danube the Celtic name "Ister", meaning lowness.

650-500 B.C.  Cimmerians in Europe moved up the Danube and became known as Celts.

525-300 B.C.  Others driven out of south Russia by the Scythians moved northwest between the rivers Oder and Vistula to the Baltic, where they later became known as Cimbri.

About 390 B.C. some of the Cimmerian Israelites invaded Italy and sacked Rome. About 280 B.C. others invaded Greece and as they migrated back into Asia Minor they were called "Galatians" by the Greeks. However, most of them spread west and north across France and began to cross the English Channel into the British Isles.

400-100 B.C.  The Celtic expansion from central Europe : some attacked Rome in 390 B.C. and settled for 200 years in northern Italy ; others known as Galatians, after invading Greece in 279 B.C., migrated to Asia Minor. Most of them moved west into France and later to Britain.

The Celts continued to pour into Great Britain to form the "bed-rock" of the British race. One group in Spain, known as "Iberes" (the Celtic name for Hebrews) moved into Ireland as "Scots", naming the island "Hibernia" ; a name that still exists. Some Celts remaining in Spain, became known as "Basques" ; others, in France, became as "Bretons".

250-100 B.C.  South Russia was invaded from the east by the Samartian tribes, who drove the Scythians northwest through Poland into Germany.

450-1100 A.D.  The Romans re-named the Scythians Germans. Some of these came to Britain as Anglo-Saxons, 450-600 A.D. ; others, after moving north became known as Danes and Vikings.

Some of these came direct to England, but others settled for a short time in France and were called Normans.

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THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (PART ONE)

                                                  THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (PART ONE)

                                              THE LION AND THE UNICORN (WILD OX)

                                                            BIBLICAL HISTORY

The Lion and the Wild Ox, were given to Israel (Numbers 24:8-9) with a blessing by God and are in the coat-of-arms of Great Britain. This insignia, or natural seal, is, in part, the "Harp of David", which was brought to the isles of Dan and Simeon, with the Unicorn (wild ox) reared on one side and the Great Lion on the other.

The Lion is both Judah's and Israel's, so also is the Unicorn not only Israel's, but Joseph's and yet in a special sense it belongs to Ephraim, because he had the precedence in birthright.  Thus Moses, on the day God took him, while he was reiterating and enlarging upon the prophecies and promises made by Jacob to each of the tribal heads, said, concerning the blessings of Joseph : "His glory is like the firstling of his Bullock, and his horns are like the horns of Unicorns (wild ox) ; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth ; and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim (the thousands of each of the ten tribes) and the thousands (of the one tribe) of Manasseh (America)."

The English have not only the Lion and the Unicorn (wild ox), but they have also that which to them may mean only a circle divided into four quarters.  Still it is really a reproduction of Ephraim's cake, for the four quarterings are made by a cross. In one of these quarterings in David's harp, and in each of the other three young lions.

The Anglo-Saxons (Saxons = Isaac's sons) are part of the tribes of Israel.

The fact that we find Judah's Lion with the Wild Ox of Ephraim-Israel in the national seal of the British, or covenant people is another evidence that the royal remnant of the Judo-Davidic house found their way to Ephraim-Israel at the time of the uprooting of the Pharez line, who was then, as now, living in the isles of the northwest.  And it is also another evidence that the Saxon nations are the nations of Israel upon whom "lighted" the Divine word, who is also :  The Lion of the tribe of Judah."

Make a note of Ezekiel 1, Isaiah 18, Jeremiah 48:40 (Manasseh).

SOURCE : JUDAH'S SEPTRE AND JOSEPH'S BIRTHRIGHT BY J.H. ALLEN.

NOTE : THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND IS FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.  THE ROYALS KNOW THEY ARE ISRAELITES.

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THE TWO WITNESSES

                            THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION

                            Moses and Elijah are coming back to witness against Satan.

Zechariah 4:1    And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,

4:2    And said unto me, "What seest thou ?" And I said, "I have looked, and behold, a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof :"

THIS CHAPTER OF ZECHARIAH ADDRESSES THE TWO WITNESSES.

SEVEN PIPES = THIS LOOKS FORWARD TO THE FUTURE, AS DESCRIPED IN 

REV. 11:3-12.

4:3   And the two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

TWO OLIVE TREES = THE TWO WITNESSES.

4:4    So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

4:5    Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, "Knowest thou not what these be ? And I said, "No, my lord."

4:6    Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, "This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

ZERUBBABEL = BORN IN BABEL (CONFUSION). HOWEVER, HE DID COME OUT OF IT.

GOD'S SPIRIT WOULD PUT THAT TRUTH ON HIS ELECT. IT WON'T BE DONE BY MEN BUT BY GOD.

4:7    Who art thou, O great mountain ? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain : and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, 'Grace grace unto it. ' "

O GREAT MOUNTAIN = ONE WORLD ORDER.

HEADSTONE = CHRIST IS THE CHIEF HEADSTONE.

4:8    Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

4:9    "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house ; his hands shall also finish it ; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.

4:10    For who hath despised the day of small things ? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven ; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth."

PLUMMET = CARPENTERS TOOL.

4:11    Then answered I, and said unto him, "What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof ?

TWO OLIVE TREES = TWO WITNESSES.

MAKE A NOTE OF REV. 11.

4:12    And I answered again, and said unto him, "What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves ?"

4:13    And he answered me and said, "Knowest thou not what these be ?" And I said, "No, my lord."

4:14    Then said he, "These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth."

THE TWO ANOINTED ONES = THE TWO SONS OF OIL IN THE HEBREW ; LOOKING FORWARD AGAIN TO THE FUTURE, TO THE "TWO WITNESSES" OF REV. 11:3-13.

THE LORD OF THE WHOLE EARTH = ADON IN THE HEBREW, IS HERE SPECIALLY ASSOCIATED WITH MESSIAH'S DOMINION IN THE EARTH.

LET'S GO TO REVELATION 11.

Revelation 11:3    And I will give power unto My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."

IT'S TEN DAYS LONGER THAN 42 MONTHS*.

IN OTHER WORDS, THEY WILL BE HERE TEN DAYS LONGER THAN SATAN (THEY ARE COMING TEN DAYS BEFORE THE BAD ONE ARRIVES).

SACKCLOTH = SYMBOLIC OF MOURNING.

11:4    These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the God of the earth.

GOD ALWAYS FORWARNS.

11:5    And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies ; and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

11:6    These have power to shut heaven, that it rained not in the days of their prophecy : and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

THEY WILL HAVE SUPERNATURAL POWERS.

WATERS = PEOPLE, NATIONS (REV. 17:15).

11:7    And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

THE BEAST IS ONE OF THE OFFICES OF SATAN.

MAKE A NOTE OF REV. 17:8.

THIS HAPPENS IN THE SIX SEAL, SIX VIAL, SIX TRUMP.

SATAN WILL KILL THEM. 

11:8    And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

STREET = PLATEIA IN THE GREEK = SQUARE.

OUR LORD WAS CRUCIFIED IN GOLGOTHA.

11:9     And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

WHY THEY WEREN'T BURRIED ?

BECAUSE THE KENITES (SATAN'S OFFSPRING) DID NOT WANT THE SAME THING HAPPENING WITH THEM LIKE IT DID WITH JESUS.  THEY THOUGHT THE PEOPLE WOULD SAY THEY WERE RESURRECTED. 

11:10    And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another ; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

THE WHOLE WORLD WILL REJOICE FROM THE DEATH OF THESE TWO PROPHETS.

11:11    And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet ; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

A PARALYZING FEAR IN THE GREEK, FELL UPON THE PEOPLE WHEN THEY SAW THE TWO PROPHETS STANDING UP.

11:12    And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, "Come up hither." And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud ; and their enemies beheld them.

CLOUD = GOD'S VEHICLE (NOT A REAL CLOUD).

11:13    And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand : and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

MEN SEVEN THOUSAND = SATAN'S ANGELS, THE FALLEN ONES (JUDE).

11:14     The second woe is past ; and behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

11:15    And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms of our LORD, and of His Christ ; and He shall reign forever and ever."

CHRIST HAS RETURNED, ON THE SEVEN SEAL, SEVEN VILE, SEVEN TRUMP.

LET'S FINISH OUR STUDY WITH MALACHI 4.

Malachi 4:5    Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD :

GOD IS TELLING US HERE THAT HE IS SENDING ELIJAH BEFORE CHRIST'S RETURN.

4:6    And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS ELIJAH.  BUT HE CAME IN THE SPIRIT OF ELIJAH AND THEY DID NOT RECEIVE HIM (MATT. 11:7-15, LUKE 1:17).

FOR THE ONES WHO HAVE THE TRUTH WON'T BE A CURSE.

THEIR FATHERS = THE REAL TRUTH WILL DRIVE HIM TO THE FATHER, AND TO THE FALSE ONE (BECAUSE THEY WON'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH).

How do I think Moses will be the other prophet that will come with Elijah ?

Moses is the law giver, and he appeared in the mount of transfiguration with Elijah (Matt. 17).

Elijah did not die a physical death...he was taken to heaven by God.

  The devil disputed with the archangel Michael about the body of Moses (Jude 9). The devil claimed Moses for the death-state, but God raised him as representative of those hereafter to be raised, as Elijah was to be caught up without dying.

NOTE :  THE FORTY TWO MONTHS OF REV. 11:3 WAS SHORTENED BY JESUS TO FIVE MONTHS (REV. 9:10-11).  WHY ? FOR THE ELECT'S SAKE HE SHORTENED THE TIME (MATT. 24:21-22, MARK 13:19-20).

SATAN IS SUPERNATURAL, AND HE COULD DECEIVE EVEN THE ELECT IF HE WAS HERE FOR A LONG TIME.

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IT'S NOT MEANT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE...

 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED HOW COME IT'S SO HARD TO PLANT SEEDS ON CERTAIN PEOPLE ?  THE ANSWER IS IN GOD'S WORD.

HAVE YOU READ IT ?  IT IS WRITTEN.

LET'S GO TO THE WORD.

Mark 4:1    And He began again to teach by the seaside : and there was gathered unto Him a great multitude, so that He entered into a ship, and sat in the sea ; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.

4:2    And He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in His doctrine, 

4:3    "Hearken ; Behold, there went out a sower to sow :

4:4    And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side (a path), and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

4:5    And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth ; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth :

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION ! CHRIST WILL EXPLAIN TO THE ONES WHO HAVE EYES TO SEE.

4:6    But when the sun was up, it was scorched ; and because it had no root, it withered away.

4:7    And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yield no fruit.

THORNS = SYMBOLIC OF THE KENITES (SATAN'S OFFSPRING).

THE KENITES WILL ALWAYS TRY TO TWIST AND CHANGE GOD'S WORD. IF YOU, OR YOUR CHURCH IS NOT WELL GROUNDED IN THE WORD THEY WILL DECEIVE YOU.

4:8    And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased ; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

IF YOUR CHURCH IS WELL GROUNDED IN THE WORD, IT WILL PRODUCE FRUIT.

4:9    And He said unto them, "He that hath ears to hear let him hear."

NOT EVERYONE HAS EARS TO HEAR.

4:10    And when He was alone, they that were about Him with the twelve asked of Him the parable.

4:11    And He said unto them, "Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God : but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables :

HE IS TELLING YOU THAT IT'S NOT MEANT FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW THE TRUTH AT THIS TIME.

4:12    That seeing they may see, and not perceive ; and hearing they may hear, and not understand ; lest at anytime they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."

IT'S NOT MEANT FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW THE TRUTH.

4:13   And He said unto them, "Know ye not this parable ? and how then will ye know all parables?

4:14    The sower soweth the word.

4:15    And these are they by the wayside, where the word is sown ; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taken away the word that was sown in their hearts.

CHRISTIANS AFTER THEY ARE SAVED THEY MUST LEARN THE WORD IN DEPTH. OTHERWISE SATAN WILL DECEIVE THEM AND THEY CAN LOSE THEIR FAITH.

HOWEVER, IT IS DIFFICULT TO SOW THE WORD IN SOME PEOPLE'S MINDS.

WHY ? BECAUSE THEY ARE WEAK AND GOD DOES NOT WANT THEM TO PERISH.  HE IS THE ONE WHO PUT THE BLINDERS ON (ROMANS 11:7-10).

THEY WILL LEARN IN THE MILLENNIUM (CHRIST'S THOUSAND YEAR REIGN ; EZEKIEL 44).

4:16    And these are likewise which are sown on stony ground ; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness ;

4:17    And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time : afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.

SOME CATCH ON QUICKLY AFTER THEY ARE SAVED.  THEY ARE EXCITED AT FIRST, BUT THE EXCITEMENT WILL NOT LAST BECAUSE, THEY NEVER STUDY THE WORD, AND WILL TRUST ANYONE THAT SAYS IS A MAN OTHE CLOTH, OR ANOTHER CHRISTIAN WITHOUT CHECKING THEM OUT IN THE WORD.

GOD CANNOT USE THESE TYPE OF PEOPLE TO DO HIS WORK.

4:18    And these are they which are sown among thorns ; such as hear the word,

4:19    And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

THESE TYPES OF INDIVIDUALS DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR GOD. OTHER THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT (EVEN IF THEY GO TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY).

A SEED TO GROW IN A HARD BUSY BODY IS IMPOSSIBLE.

4:20    And these are they which are sown on good ground ; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred."

THESE ARE THE ONES WHO COME OUT OF CONFUSION.  THE SEED GROWS BECAUSE GOD KNOWS HE CAN COUNT ON THAT PERSON TO DO HIS WORK (ONLY GOD CAN MAKE A SEED GROW).

4:21    And He said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed ? and not to be set on a candlestick ?

A CANDLE IS BROUGHT FOR A MAN TO SEE. 

IN OTHER WORDS, HE WANT YOU TO SOW A SEED (DON'T BE A CLOSET CHRISTIAN). HOWEVER, IT'S UP TO GOD TO MAKE IT GROW.

4:22    For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested ; neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

I'M NOT GOING TO HIDE IT FOR ANYONE.

4:23    If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."

NOTE :  All Christians should plan seeds but...only God can make it grow.

Don't be a religious fanatic or judgmental.

People that never had the chance to learn about Christ will learn in the millennium (Christ's thousand year reign).

God is a just God and will never judge anyone to death that had never have the opportunity to learn about Him.  Do not listen to men's doctrines and traditions.

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HELL...

 THE MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT HELL IS BRIMSTONE AND FIRE.

 THIS IS NOT BIBLICAL  AND CAN CREATE A LOT OF CONFUSION.

IN TODAY'S STUDY WE WILL LEARN THE CORRECT MEANING OF THE WORD "HELL".

LET'S GO TO THE WORD.

Revelations 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet (the two offices of Satan) are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever.

SATAN'S SENTENCE IS TO TURN INTO ASHES FROM WITHIN (EZEKIEL 28:18-19).

ASHES = A HEBRAISM, AND IT MEANS FOREVER AND EVER.

WHEN SOMETHING TURNS INTO ASHES IT IS FOREVER.

CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE = A FIGURE OF SPEECH.

HE WILL BE BLOTTED OUT.

LET'S SKIP TO VERSES 14-15.

20:14   And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

GOD IS TELLING US HERE THAT THE LAKE OF FIRE IS THE SECOND DEATH.

WHAT IS THE SECOND DEATH ? THE DEATH OF THE SOUL.

20:15    And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

IN OTHER WORDS, THE ONES THAT WERE NOT IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WERE BLOTTED OUT ; THEY CEASED TO EXIST.

LET'S GO TO REVELATION 21:8.

21:8    But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers (worshipped other gods), 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.

AND AGAIN, HE EXPLAINS WHAT FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IS.

LET'S FINISH OUR STUDY WITH MATTHEW 10:28.

Matthew 10:28    And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul : but rather fear Him Which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

ABLE TO DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY IN HELL = CAN CAUSE BOTH SOUL AND BODY TO PERISH (TURN INTO ASHES FROM WITHIN = BLOTTED OUT), IN THE GREEK.

"Hell" is the English rendering of two different Greek words in the New Testament.

1. Gehenna.  Geena in the Greek. This is the transliteration of the Hebrew Gai Hinnom, i.e. the valley of Hinnom, where were the fires through which children were passed in the worship of Moloch.

Gehenna was the garbage pit for the sacrificial remains outside Jerusalem.

2.  Hades.  It is used by the Greeks for the unseen world.

The Greek Hades is is human in its origin and comes down to us laden with centuries of development, in which it has acquired new senses, meanings, and usages.

NOTE:  We are serving a loving God...Heaven would not be pleasurable and happy, if we watch the ones that didn't make it in eternity suffer day in and out in a burning lake.

Besides, we are all going to be in our spiritual body (I Cor. 15:35-52), and it does not burn, feel sick, or age.

Always check things out before you believe anything you hear.  God always makes sense.

GOD BLESS

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