"Not as yet are you apprehending that everything that is going into the mouth is becoming the contents of the bowels, and is being evacuated into the latrine? Now, those things going out of the mouth, out of the heart are coming, and those things are contaminating a man. For out of the heart are coming wicked reasoning, murders, adulteries, prostitution, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies (blasphemies). These are those which are contaminating a man." Matthew 15:18-20 concordant
In our consideration of this passage, there is one all-important phrase that we carefully note. Jesus said, "for from within, out of the HEART OF MAN are coming wicked reasoning." The human heart with human mindsets are the common possession of all men. The conscious and subconscious mind are shared by all the inhabitants of the world. Man’s heart is expressed in the mind of every man: “as a man thinks, so is he.”
Mental thoughts with prodding, goading, tempting whisperings of the subconscious mind make suggestions to the conscious mind until men bow before that thought FROM WITHIN, out of the HEART OF MAN. From man’s heart proceeds a darkened process of really evil things such as false witness, blasphemies, and foul deeds for which men are famous.
Scripturally, Adam represents not just one man, he represents all of us men, the whole race of mankind. Christ is not just one person, but a many-membered body. The great harlot John beheld sitting on many waters is not a single woman, or a single church, but the CHARACTER OF THE SPIRIT operating in multitudes of people within man-dominated systems now representing Christianity. In the whole development of the apostate church in earth, we see “the man of sin is sitting in the temple of God where he ought not be.”
The antichrist is not just one man, but a vast number of believers in systems controlled by something other than Christ. It should be clear to every anointed mind that all who take part of, belong to, and fellowship what is "fallen" and “falling away” are also taking part of the lawless “son of perdition.” He murders (with words), commits adulteries (spiritual prostitution), and robs like a thief ON A RELIGIOUS LEVEL.
The apostle John stated two long centuries ago that in his day there were MANY ANTICHRISTS. Now it has taken over what is know as Christianity:
"Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as you hear that the antichrist is coming, now also there have come to be many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour. Out of us they come," I John 2:18 concordant
The reason for the falling away of the early church is because man has always exalted HIMSELF. The inner selfish mind of man always fights to take a preeminent, controlling seat within the Lord's own people. Men seek to rule as a great authority in the eyes of the people and love the preeminence among those gathering unto the Lord.
“Are you not aware that you are a temple of God and the spirit of God is making its home in you? If anyone is corrupting the temple of God, God will be corrupting him, for the temple of God is holy, which you are. Let no one be deluding himself.” I Corinthians 3:16-18 concordant
"Now he who joins the Lord is one spirit. Flee from [spiritual] prostitution. The penalty of every sin, whatsoever a man should be doing, is outside of the body, yet he who is committing prostitution [spiritually selling out] is sinning against his own body. Or are you not aware that your body is a temple of the holy spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price. By all means glorify God in your body." I Corinthians 6:17-20 concordant
The religious soul of man takes the high seat with educational knowledge to promote worthy ideas which supplant the spirit of truth working in the temple of each and every believer. Christian worship has become independent of the direct leadership of God’s Holy Spirit. Revelatory scripture calls it “worship in Babylon.” Leaders are trained to worship in certain accepted, established, and traditionally blessed standards with certain efforts and programs organized to worship God.
These streets are flooded with knowledgeable words, their lips speaking volumes about God, but their viewpoints stem from judgments of man’s reasoning straight from the religious hearts of men. False and fallen ideas deluded the church from long ago, as Paul noted. We discern a continual discovery of hidden motives of an antichrist spirit lurking behind all the religious facade of gathering to Christian worship.
Most gatherings are focused on religiously BUILDING after THEIR order of church, while competing among the Lord's people with SELFISH, NATURAL REASONING MINDS — the very thing the Lord states contaminates a man. It is truly antichrist to be involved in confused and deluded religious conditions, allowing them to dwell in our temples. Many programs and methods are today in good standing, having stated goals of seeing souls saved, the sick healed, lives blessed, etc. etc.
Yet now, within our hearts, much falsity is being burnt up by the appearing of the Lord. We discover what motivates most religious good intentions are efforts designed to gather people around the ideas that further THEIR CAUSE. So while some large Christian ministries appear to be serving God as they point to a world leader as antichrist, they themselves are servants of an apostate antichrist system under works of iniquity that amount to a great deception. The great apostasy of the Christian church surely resists what the Spirit says to the church! Thus it has been:
"Now we are asking you, brethren, for the sake of the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling onto Him, that you be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be alarmed, either through spirit, or through word, or through an epistle as through us, as that the day of the Lord is present.
No one should be deluding you by any method, for, should not the apostasy be coming first and the man of lawlessness be a unveiled, the son of destruction, who is opposing and lifting himself up over everyone termed a god or an object of veneration, so that he is seated in the temple of God, demonstrating that he himself is God? Do you not remember that, still being with you, I told you these things? II Thessalonians 2:1-5 concordant
Jesus testified:
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Me that bears not fruit He takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, He purges [prunes] it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” John 15:1-2
For two thousand years the church has been a peculiar vineyard of God. Surely this truth alone is sufficient to establish the fact that this church age must end in a harvest of many sons. Now sons are being conformed to an exact likeness of the firstborn Son. NOTHING SHALL PREVENT THE GREAT HUSBANDMAN FROM BRINGING HIS CROP TO MATURE FRUITION!
Be assured that the Lord does not require massive temples, religious ceremonies, beautiful and symbolic furnishings, nor self-adorned ministers in special decorative robes to speak His words or demonstrate His life and power. The Lord strips away these outward evidences from His followers. They are taken away, as God has yet a more excellent witness IN HIS PEOPLE who live righteously in PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP with Him.
It is in fact imperative for all who come to the Day of the Lord that these religious trappings of Christianity be completely stripped away to find HIM ALONE AS OUR LORD DWELLING WITHIN OUR INNER SPIRITUAL MAN. The Father burns up man's vain imaginations when writing on our heart by His Spirit as He instructs us. It is now evident that He intends yet to fully manifest HIS COMPLETE SPIRIT-LIFE openly in His called out, chosen, and faithful ones.
Adam began walking in perfection that reflected the glory of God within his spirit, the radiant light of God's glory exercising dominion over every beastly characteristic within Adam’s heart. Adam fell from that enlightened place because he loved and followed his wife who had eaten from the tree of good and evil. Adam could no longer be called the “shining one” for the light of God had departed from him, and he knew that he was naked' and bound to die. How great the tragedy we see in these words about man's fall:
“How you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!” Isaiah 14:12
“Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it brought a yearning to the eyes and that the tree was desirable for gaining insight. So she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both of them were unclosed, and they realized that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made girdle skirts for themselves.” Genesis 3:6-7 concordant
It is the fall of Adam (whom Isaiah called Lucifer ) who became darkened, no longer called enlightened, like the fall of the early church into apostasy. The evidence was of the contaminated heart of man expressing the “I WILL” NATURE OF MAN like the heart of the King of Babylon:
“I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ... I will ascend above the height of the clouds; I will be like the most high.” Isaiah 13:14
The serpent’s forecast to Eve was: “YOU shall be as gods!” We see Eve was not content to have God manifested THROUGH her. She desired to be god in her own right. Her heart was not content, she wanted to BE God (rule) in her temple. So it was that both woman and man fell, but not the serpent. The serpent was a liar and a murder FROM THE BEGINNING:
“Wherefore do you not know my speech? Seeing that you can not hear My word, you are of your father, the Adversary, and the desires of your father you are wanting to do. He was a man killer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, for truth is not in him. Whenever he may be speaking a lie, he is speaking of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8 47-48 Concordant
The spirit of the evil one operates in men to lie and kill, even to rule as subtle antichrists keeping the Lord’s people working in the fleshly efforts of Mystery Babylon. Satan uses the religious mind of man to clearly dominate man’s heart. Men offer merely lip service, the articulations of rehearsed outer understandings of the scripture, while not grasping the hidden inner teachings of His Spirit. Religious men in religious settings are always speaking: “I'll do it my way, I will ascend and I will be like the Most High.”
“How have you fallen from the heavens! Howl, son of the dawn! You have been hacked down to the earth, Defeater over all nations! Yet you, you said in your heart: ‘To the heavens shall I ascend; Above the stars of El shall I exalt my throne, And I shall sit on the mount of appointment, on the remote parts of the north! I shall ascend to the high-places of the thick clouds; I shall be like the Supreme!’ Nevertheless, to the unseen shall you be brought down, to the remote parts of the crypt! Those who see you shall peer at you; They shall examine you closely: Is this the man who was disturbing the earth making their kingdoms quake?” Isaiah 14:12-16 concordant
WHO IS THE MAN WHO DISTURBS THE EARTH? Adam, son of the dawn, you are brought down to hell — the whole dread realm of sorrow and death — to die within the sides of the pit, where is dark darkness and limitation.
Our Father is in control of all things and is directing events toward His objectives. He concluded none of us may come into the light of His Day without seeing properly the man of sin operating within His people. His judgments are observed working to bring a maturing process to sons raised in the understandings of spiritual Mount Zion.
All God’s people are predestined to be gathered into the glorious city, the New Jerusalem order that will continue to COME DOWN to fill the whole earth with His glory. It is only in spiritual Mount Zion where A PEOPLE ARE FULLY RULED BY CHRIST and delivered from the reasoning mind of man. Instead, they are written upon by the Father's mind, gathered out of every camp to make up the gathering of a universal convocation.
The beautiful people of the New Jerusalem order are shown as A DELIVERED PEOPLE filled with the Father’s mind. Through these LIVING WITNESSES, the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ is PERSONIFIED. His truth can subdue the selfish heart, ruling within men to fill our heavens and earth with something NEW of His true glory.
It is, at long last, the hour of exaltation for those humbled, meek ones who have followed the Lamb's teachings whithersoever it takes them. God leads us now to PUT ON CHRIST. Those who do so are granted authority to RULE AND REIGN over every earthly way and will witness the unbounded heavens being made new!
“And the kingdom and the jurisdiction and the majesty of the kingdom under the entire heavens, will be granted to the people of the saints of the supremacies. Their kingdom is an eonian kingdom, and all other authorities [dominions] shall serve and hearken to them.” Daniel 7:27 concordant
This is not the hour to be looking for Jesus to come to rapture His saints in a literal way. I do not look for a one-man antichrist to take over the western civilized world. The devil had influence over this world before that fateful day way back in Eden. The darkness of night has been very long and dark. But thank God, a NEW DAY is now painting the horizons of our inner spiritual man. Thank God, His light, the Day star, is shining in the hearts of chosen ones who have patiently waited for Him.
Many have now been clothed spiritually and are spiritually arisen to the city. They are enthroned in the New Jerusalem order by the glorious morning star arising in their hearts. As the host of sons are prepared for this dawning day, we do drink in the intoxicating freshness of the morn. The night is over for us! What we are now ready to enter is not the devil's day, but rather, the fullness of the DAY OF THE LORD.
Kingdom heavens are raised higher than candlestick church heavens, past the Pentecostal Holy Place to the inner tabernacle in the holiest heaven of all, where Jesus has entered. Christ Jesus in His fullness is the Alpha and the Omega, the Head of a vast body of sons. The Lord Jesus Christ is the family head of the most glorious manifestation of our Father's life. Our spirit soars for joy and sings, “Hallelujah”!
Jesus spoke of us when He declared,
“You are the light of the world!” Matthew 5:14
In light of His glorious revelation, He is revealing sonship within those of us who allow the Day Star to arise within to be Lord of us completely. John the beloved saw also the makeup of the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, especially noting that the people in the city:
“…having the glory of God and her light was like unto a stone most precious...and the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. And... there shall be no night there.” Revelation 21:11, 23-25
The day has dawned in our hearts. The light of God's glory is come. The Day Star is arising in our hearts to release us from our reasoning heart to shine forth HIS GLORIOUS REASON, full of truth. Look to see Him within His called-out people and be flooded with heavenly understanding WITHOUT BEING CORRUPTED again. TRUTH makes us FREE. It is to such a state of glory that God gives preeminence, a blessing for His called out ones.
Since the transgression in Eden long ago, men’s spirits have been fallen and darkened. However, from the beginning, the spirit in man was created for and intended to RECEIVE God's Spirit. Man’s spirit is to know God's mind by a TABERNACLING spirit within, GRANTING unity with God's Spirit. The reality of this is too wonderful, but we knock that Christ may open:
“…you were sometimes darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light…” Ephesians 5:8
Now, for the sight of the light of this unveiling glory, the whole creation unknowingly stands on tip-toe. It shall come to pass that all who look for the Spirit of the Son of God will be penetrated by fiery eyes that see WITH THE LIGHT OF LIFE, A LIGHT stronger than the noon day sun:
"…for the creation shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption." Romans 8:19-21
The apostasy has been revealed to us. The Day has risen in our hearts. We see His coming in the clouds of heaven with alive saints. We too are seated in heavenly places, being risen to the same city as the saints. In spirit, we plan to EVER BE with those dearly beloved ones, these beloved brethren who are accepting His judgments and His salvation. They are now made fit for heaven’s authority as predestined ADMINISTRATORS of the Kingdom of God.
Fallen and decayed is the supremacy of Babylon’s ideas and ways in these believers. These are REAPERS, prepared for authority over the antichrist apostasy among the Lord's people. Reapers make all those old heavens to pass away, destroying the man of sin’s dominion with judgment, using rods (measuring rods) granted to the saints of the Most High to bring in a LASTING ORDER where ALL shall share God equally:
"Declarations against the Supreme shall he [king of the earth] declare; to the saints of the supremacy shall he bring decay; he shall intend to alter stated times and edicts, and they shall be granted into his hand for a season and two seasons and half a season.
Then adjudication shall be seated, and they shall cause his authority to pass away, so as to exterminate and to destroy him until the terminus. And the kingdom and the jurisdiction and the majesty of the kingdom under the entire heavens will be granted to the people of the saints of the supremacy. Their kingdom is an eonian kingdom, and all other authorities shall serve and hearken to them." Daniel 7:25-27 concordant
"Yet now Christ has been roused from among the dead, the Firstfruit of those who are ‘reposing’. For since, in fact, through a man came death, through a Man, also, comes the resurrection of the dead. For even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also, in Christ, shall all be vivified.
Yet each in his own class: the Firstfruit, Christ; thereupon those who are Christ's in His presence, thereafter the consummation, whenever He may be giving up the kingdom to His God and Father, whenever He should be nullifying all sovereignty and all authority and power. For He must be reigning until He should be placing all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy is being abolished: death. For He subjects all under His feet.
Now whenever He may be saying that all is subject, it is evident that it is outside of Him Who subjects all to Him. Now, whenever all may be subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also shall be subjected to Him Who subjects all to Him, that God may be All in all." I Corinthians 15:20-28 concordant
He is actively subjecting all manner of things under the “feet members” of the body of Christ. They are like burning bronze in tests and trials of this present life, yet the feet members are made strong in order to move the body. Christians now need to spiritually connect to the Head to understand the wisdom of the third day, the third heaven, the third feast that completes our salvation in body, soul, and spirit. How long a time it takes to subject all things to Him is under the authority placed in His Son. His feet members are moving the Lord’s people to the tune of spiritual Mt. Zion.
The Lord is calling to all His people, “COME UP HITHER TO A HIGHER SPIRITUAL ORDER!” Here, another feast is prepared for your worship. The Feast of Tabernacles is designed to meet those in the air [spirit] who died in the Lord to repose. The unseen dead are come alive in Christ and we are also changed by His washing Word that lifts us into the life of God’s family. ALL NATIONS shall be blessed when all sovereignty is subjected under the feet members of the body of Jesus Christ. We have the right time, and the right calling. It is upon us!