UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 6

THE TENSES OF SALVATION

Throughout the entire bible especially in the epistles, there are three different ways by which salvation is communicated. A proper understanding of these three tenses is vital in understanding the whole essence of salvation and living without any more doubts about the finished works of the cross.
Jesus had defeated SIN, DEATH and SATAN

SIN is DEAD!
DEATH has been ABOLISHED!
SATAN has been DEFEATED!

There should be no doubts!

Every doubt you may have about the work of salvation must be in the proper understanding of the tenses of salvation.

Poor understanding is the basis for the erroneous preaching of many things attached to salvation.

What are the tenses of salvation?
1. That we WERE saved
2. We ARE BEING saved
3. And that we SHALL BE saved

Three ways the scriptures have addressed salvation all through from Matthew to Revelation. Failure to understand that we were saved more than two thousand years ago, we are being saved everyday and that we shall be saved one day is what has produced denominations today all around the world. People have as a result failed to agree on critical issues like ETERNAL SALVATION, SIN, RIGHTEOUSNESS, and HOLY LIFE among others

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This has caused a lot of controversy which we shall make simple before the end of this teaching series.
Now, recall that our Man is spirit, soul and body.

The Spirit was what received salvation upon BELIEVING on the FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS
The soul is what is getting saved day by day
The body is what will be saved

The salvation of man was paid for in full no doubt. But the reception will come in stages. This is because the damaged done by the transgression of the first man was in stages.

The spirit man is the post important part of man, we have established this many times since the beginning of this teaching. The spirit man is what received the eternal life of God and the righteousness of God. The spirit man has been saved and sealed with the Holy Spirit the day you believe the gospel. 

The spirit man has been made exactly like God (born of God) and it is the spirit of man that God is interesting mostly in. Therefore, it does not mean that if our soul and body is not saved, we are still separated from God. No! it only means that we cannot fully function like him.

The soul is the intermediary between the spirit and body, but the major steering of man since the fall. 

Every sinful thought is from the heart/mind of man, which is located in the soul. In fact, the mind of man is the central part of the soul, everything you do thus comes from the directives of the soul. So the soul needs to be saved i.e aligned with the saved spirit. That is why every believer is not expected to go and sleep after they receive salvation. The salvation they receive is fully present in their spirit and they have been born of God no doubt but the fullness of God they have is needed to manifest through their soul outwards. This is what Paul called the renewal of the mind in Romans 12. The Holy Spirit will help the believer to do that. That is the basic work of the Holy Spirit; to open the eyes of the believer to see who they are in the spirit and to release what has been deposited in their spirit to their body through the soul. Nothing can be seen outwards except it passes through the soul. The soul of man is the problem of man. 

Remember we established that it was when man became a living soul that he disobeyed God. The soul of man is what produces the thoughts that are contrary to the way of God.

The body of man on the other hand will be changed. This is the evolution of the immortality of the spirit man within. This is the last thing that will happen after the spirit salvation, and the soul salvation. This is the end of our faith as Peter puts it. The immortal body will be made available for us all and we shall finally put off this body of death.

We have been saved!

We are been saved inwardly everyday as we behold the word of God and yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit. This is not to be confused for works. There is no works needed for salvation on our part. This is called the outworking of the Holy Spirit.
One day, we shall put on the immortal body, which is the end of our salvation.

So verses like “Work out your salvation with trembling and fear” which has caused more headache for some believers is not about being born again but about the saving of the soul by the outworking power of the Holy Ghost. Go, read the book of Philippians well to see what Paul meant with carefulness not deviating from the context, you will understand that this is not about you struggling to make heaven.

A proper study of the context of any passage that has the word “salvation” or “saved” will help us to understand what kind of salvation the author is referring to.

Context is very important

Don’t just conclude anyhow

These three tenses are all scattered all over the entire bible.
Save yourself from Ignorance, rightly divide them!

God Bless!

UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 5

THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION

The gospel means the good news. That is the literal meaning of the word “gospel”. We use it for salvation because salvation is the good news humanity has been waiting for. Since the world have been waiting for the messiah, to redeem them back to God and to save them from the kingdom of Satan. There must necessarily be an awareness to inform the world about what has happened. Hence the proclamation of the gospel.

So if the gospel is the good news that humanity has been waiting for, then it would be a good news that concerns all humanity. That is why the preaching of any other gospel is not the gospel of salvation.

The preaching of hell and every other preaching cannot save the sinner.

So what is the good news all about…and why is it common to humanity?

We are trying to say is that, the good news that is for the whole world must be general good news about a general problem. Definitely it is the good news about FORGIVENESS OF SINS. The need that was met is that mankind has been bought back, and reconciled back to the family of God. This is what everyone longed to hear at that time. The Jews would love this, since they've been stumbling as a result of the laws given, to them and the gentiles would also love this because they were sinners by nature and regarded as the enemies of God. So the good news of redemption is the news that the world needed.

So the gospel is simply about the FORGIVENESS OF SINS

That Jesus Christ was made our sin,  that we might become the righteousness of God

It is not a BAD NEWS, so it shouldn't scare anyone

The gospel message is a good news of peace, not of fear.

So HELL is not involved at all. Those who teach or preach Hell as good news need to know this.

Checking through the scriptures, we see how that the apostles never preach anything except the finished works of Christ. To the Jews, Peter and the other apostles always remind the Israelite of how the promise of the messiah had been fulfilled in Jesus Christ and that he was crucified according to the scriptures for the acceptance into the kingdom of God. For the gentiles, Paul expounded much more on the righteousness which is by faith in Christ Jesus. His preaching have always been about the resurrection of Christ and its implications on us.

That the death and resurrection of Christ is the gospel

And that whosoever BELIEVES these, is saved

Not just saved alone, but has received ETERNAL LIFE and the IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD

Salvation is RECEIVED not ACHIEVED

You receive it by FAITH in what Jesus Christ has done for you

Everyone who BELIEVES the gospel of Salvation becomes born again into the family of God.

The gospel is not a threat

The gospel is not about hell

The gospel is not about rapture

The gospel is not about prosperity

The gospel is not about converting your religion

The gospel is about the REDEMPTION OF HUMANITY and the RECEPTION OF ETERNAL LIFE.

Believe!!!

UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 4

RECEIVING SALVATION

There are two major things we need to receive which was made ready at redemption. The sacrifice of the lamb was enough to bestow these assets of God unto men. The deposition was made at the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was made SIN. This is the SIN of the world. He was the only being to walk the earth without being ruled by SIN. Remember that sin had been ruling humanity and had enslaved them to perform its will. Jesus Christ was the only one who did not sinned. He was completely righteous.

Now you see why it is not what you do that is sin, Jesus Christ never sinned means he was not related with the nature of sin. There was no link between him and Adam. He was born of the Spirit. He said to Nicodemus “he that is born of the spirit is spirit…” he was born not of the seed that is sinful. This made him to be out of bound to Sin. Sin could not dominate him. He was holy, and perfectly righteous. It is a thing of the spirit, not the physical. Paul said “he knew no sin”…that is he has not partaken in the knowledge of good and evil. His source was not Adam, he was born by the Holy Spirit. This is vital because, what must redeem us all must not be like us. He must be someone different and worthy of the sacrifice. It would make no sense if someone who is sold under sin was offered to redeem mankind, which would just be a foolish thing. God’s plan was perfect; he destroyed sin with a lamb without blemish and spot.

When man fell from his position in Genesis, he lost two things.

1.       Life

2.       Righteousness

By life, we mean the life of God. Recall how we have comprehensively explained in the first lesson that man was connected to the Godhead and was living with the same life of God. That the spirit of man evolved from God. You see what happen to the Virgin Mary? That was exactly what happened to man at the garden of Creation. The spirit man proceed from God became human. John says “the word was made flesh”. That was the name of the Spirit that was entered into Mary, he is called the Word. He became Jesus the Christ. What man lost in the garden which Paul calls the “glory of God” is the very life of God and his righteousness. Recall who took dominion from man? Satan…he gave it to Sin…who took away our righteousness and Sin gave it to Death…who took away our life.

It is only when we get back this LIFE OF GOD and this RIGHTEOUSNESS that we become born again into the family of God. We become linked back to the Godhead. We become the just like God made us in the beginning. Since this is a spiritual affair, it is important that we understand this and that it will not immediately show on our body what we have received. The body has been sold to sin for long, it will take some time before what was deposited in the Spirit man begins to show forth in the body, but must first overcome the soul – who has been the steering since the fall.

Remember how we said the spirit of died means in-activeness, therefore the life of God that was received at salvation resurrected the Spirit man and was raised up into the heavens at the right hand of God.

The life made ready at redemption is called THE ETERNAL LIFE

The righteousness made ready at redemption is called THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD

Both can ONLY be received by FAITH!

By just believing in the works of redemption, you receive the gifts: ETERNAL LIFE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS

These two gifts are made available in your spirit

They are not visible

That is why it cannot be acquired by visible works

ETERNAL LIFE is a free gift you receive upon salvation by just believing in the FINISHED WORKS of Jesus Christ

RIGHTEOUSNESS by the law cannot save; you can only be saved by the righteousness of god. The same righteousness that saved Jesus Christ was given to you at the day he died as SIN. You can only receive it by believing.

It is important to note that the whole world is entitled to these two GIFTS

But WHOSOEVER BELIEVES will not perish but have ETERNAL LIFE

WHOSOEVER BELIEVES NOT is condemned already!

UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 3

THE WORK OF REDEMPTION

Bravo! Jesus Christ has saved the world from Sin, Death and Satan.

You see how we call it? The FINISHED WORK OF REDEMPTION or we say THE FINISHED WORK OF THE CROSS.

Note that it is a work. Jesus Christ has done the work than man was supposed to do. He has not just done the work; he has also finished all the work necessary for the salvation of man.

The work of redemption is what Jesus Christ did thousands of years ago, to save humanity from damnation and from the power of Satan.

Remember how that humanity was under the dominion of Sin. Humanity could not help themselves.  Sin reigned from the first man Adam to Moses. Then God decided to introduce the law to his people in order for them to know how wretched they were and how important it is for them to be saved. 

Before the time of Moses, there was no law. Everyone was doing what was right in their sight. God also did not impute sin, that is, God did not hold anyone guilty at that time. This is because where there is no law, there is no sin. There was nothing God could use to judge them. There was no standard for righteousness. Everyone that sinned during that period sinned and went away with it. Although the wages of sin had always been death. Even though God did not judge them, they received the consequences for their sins. Their minds also judged them. This is because they had eaten from the tree of good and evil. So man knows what was good and what was evil. God needs not to inform man again of whatever they do, whether it was good or evil. The faculty of man which is the soul man had become the ruler of man after the fall. The spirit man died. By “death” we do not mean extinction, we mean dormancy. The spirit of a man became useless; it could not perform its function anymore. Note that the spirit of man is the faculty of man that was connect to the Godhead, it is the real man made by God. So, after the fall, the Soul man became the steering of man. And since the mind is the central part of the soul, man could only reason according to his senses and do the good they can. However, the goodness of man was foolishness to God. Since Sin was reigning in the body of the man through the soul. Man was helpless.

So Israelites were given the law. Remember how we have established that God chose Israel to become the channel into achieving a family of his. So God saw how humanity had been too sinful and captive under the chains of sin and death. God came to the rescue of humanity, but he had to start with his people – Israel. God gave the Israelites the law through an Angel.

The law was good, it helped the people chosen by God to live right at least better off than before. However, the law became a stumbling block for them again. The law made them to become more enslaved by sin. The more they try to attain the righteousness that was by the law, the more they fall under the whip of sin. Law could not save them as they thought it would. But God knew what he was doing. God is the smartest being, he introduced the law so that his people can know what is good and pleasing in the sight of God and what is not. He introduced the law so that his people can see their shortcomings and admit their sinful nature. He introduced the law so that his people can appreciate the savior when he introduces him. God had to wait for the right time, before he introduced the savior to them. He had the plan of redemption in mind before the world began. It is part his immutable counsel that mankind who will rebel should be saved by the lamb. He didn’t just think of it when Adam fell, or when the law could not save his people from sin. He purposely allow the law to expose their sins the more, so that he could use that opportunity to introduce his plan to the world and to his people and that his plan may expressly display his dimension of love. This plan is the plan of redemption!

Jesus Christ redeemed mankind from sin, death and Satan. By the word redeemed. It shows how we became possessed by this trio after the fall. We became lost. We became slaves to sin. Then he offered himself as the lamb sacrifice to redeem us all. We then became the desired children that God wanted. The work of redemption was done from the time Jesus was arrested, flogged, spatted upon, to the cross….

And then after everything, he said…

IT IS FINISHED!

The works of redemption is finished. Humanity has been redeemed. Humanity has been saved. Humanity has been reconciled back to God. We returned to our original position with the Godhead. 

We became saved by his WORK. Not our works, not our righteousness.

Jesus did not save only the Jews who were God’s chosen people, he saved the world… not just Christians, and Muslims, Hindus Shinto, and the rest have been redeemed back to God.

We now have a problem…

This is the problem of humanity hearing, understanding and believing everything about redemption. 

Humanity is still wallowing shamefully under the chains of religion that cannot save, and have failed to believe that they have been totally saved by the works of one man, Jesus Christ. Jesus paid it all, he redeemed you and me. You have been bought back into the family of God!

UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 2

THE TWO EXPERIMENTS OF GOD’S NATURE

So when we say man fell, we mean man was demoted from his original position in the Godhead. It does not mean that man fall in love in with or fall for love and ate the forbidden fruit. We mean man’s place in the heavenlies was vacant. This is exactly the reason why believers are said to be sitted in the heavenlies upon salvation.

Now see the hierarchy before the fall of man in Genesis

1.      God

2.      Man

3.      Angels

4.      Satan

5.      Demons

After the fall…

1.      God

2.      Angels

3.      Satan

4.      Demons

5.      Man

So you see that the fall of man is a hierarchy thing.

In Genesis 1, God was in control of the world

In Genesis 2, Man was given the control by God

In Genesis 3, Satan took the control through beguiling Eve

In Genesis 4, Sin got the control through Adam to Cain who killed his brother

In Genesis 5, Death started reigning. Adam first to die, then others.

Now, God’s desire to have a family was only altered, it was not cancelled. God already knew that Man would fall; he demonstrated this by two things:

1.    He slaughtered a lamb to cover the nakedness of the fallen Man in replacement of leaves. This demonstrates prophetically the Salvation through the death of the lamb (JESUS) replacing religion (LEAVES). Religion is good. Just that it is a temporary means of covering the shame of man which the work of the cross has permanently taken away.

2.    He guided the way to the tree of life, in order for man not to permanently remain with the nature of sin.  Man need not to complicate the issue of the fallen glory, so God chased man away. Man would have sealed the sinful nature forever by eating the fruit of the tree of life.

So God retained his plan…You remember the prophecy of the crushing of the serpent’s head? This was about the defeat of Satan. Now God chose a people of his own, through which he will establish his family. He chose Israel through Abraham. Through Israel he chose, Jesus of Nazareth. When he was anointed by the Holy Spirit, he became Jesus Christ. Christ means the anointed one. That was exactly what Peter meant in Acts 10:38. So Jesus Christ died to save the world from the consequences of Sin, Death and Satan. His primary mission was to return Man back to his original position in the hierarchy of the Godhead but he needed to first take away the obstacles, which he has done successfully. The death of Jesus was not because of Heaven, neither was it because people are going to hell. Abraham, Elijah, Moses…and others, even Rah-ab a prostitute who were not perfect were already favorites and accepted by God and never went to hell. So salvation was not an escape from hell. It is a reversal of the dominion of the earth from Death, to Sin, to Satan and then returning it to man. These have all been done beginning with Death. Jesus Christ has restored the Kingdom of God-Man.

That’s why he preached during his time… that the kingdom of heaven is at hand. This we shall deeply examine later. However, some people are still waiting for that kingdom of heaven he spoke about. No! The kingdom was established at his resurrection. He conquered the former rulers of this world, sin, death and Satan and established the kingdom with the newly created Spirit man.

The experiment of Holiness was what he performed with the angels, during their time. When their head, Lucifer THOUGHT TO SIN against God and was destroyed. That is, God wanted his creation to know how holy he is and that he is no respecter of persons. As close as Lucifer was, he was destroyed. That’s why angels worship him every time shouting Holy, Holy; holy…they know that dimension of God more than we do.

The experiment of Love was what God performed with Man. Despite the fact that man handed dominion to the enemy of God (Satan), God still saved man all by himself. Man was not involved the salvation work at all. God did it all by himself. This is love! Similarly, we know this dimension more than the angels do.

So Man was returned back to his position after Jesus’ victory of redemption…

1.      God

2.      Man

3.      Angels

4.      Satan

5.      Demons

We have been raised far above powers and principalities, sitted in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

UNDERSTANDING SALVATION - PART 1

This is a teaching I did on SALVATION between Feb 1 - Feb 3, 2019 on Facebook.

GOD WANTED A FAMILY

The sovereign Lord of the universe at a time at his own pleasure and will wanted a family whom he could relate with. In the school, we teach that a family is a group of people who are related by blood or by marriage. At one time or the other we start longing to have a family of our own. This is true for the kind of family that God wanted except that God is not a human, so he doesn’t have blood neither does he marry. God is a spirit. The word “spirit’ does not mean God is a wind or some kind of ghost. The nature of God cannot be fully captured by man, so one of the words we have deemed fit for Him, is Spirit. Since we know that a spirit is invisible to the human eyes, and God is invisible, so we could best describe him that way. So there is no way he could have a blood.

So God who is a spirit craves for a family of spirits whom he could call his offspring. That they might all become one in the Godhead.

Hebrews 2:10 puts it this way…

…it was fitting that God, FOR WHOM and through whom everything exists…

God created the angels first, we know how that the angels were created as spirits, but God seem to have another formula and picture in mind aside a spirit whose image and likeness is different from His. So God brought the idea of creating man. Man was made in the Image and Likeness of God. Man was made to be like God himself. Man was God’s offspring created to relate with him and that they may be one. So man came out of God. Man was produced by evolving out of the Godhead.

Now watch this…

Man was first in God’s mind before he created him. Before time began, man was in the mind and plan of God. By “mind” don’t assume that man was just a THOUGHT in the mind of God. The mind of God is indescribable. You remember he told Jeremiah that he knew him and has ordained him before he was formed in his mother’s womb. This is exactly how God’s mind looks like. It looks like a summary plane of life. God is alpha and omega. He is Omnipotent – all knowing, so his mind is not our own kind of mind. You get it?

Now back to Genesis..

So God said “Let us make man….” When he was creating other things, he didn’t say ‘let us’ and this verse looks like they have been talking about man before. “And God said, let us make man…” so if I would report the situation, I would say “And God said, the man we talked about, let us make him in our own Image and Likeness”…

That was how man was created immediately and God created man in his very image.  Note how the bible clearly state that God created man in Genesis 1 and later another man was formed in Genesis 2. The man in Genesis 1 was created; the man in Genesis 2 was formed! What happened was that the created man in Genesis 1 was a Spirit just like God wanted. You would see how that God had already blessed them (not him) and told them to multiply and replenish the earth. The account in genesis clearly says he created them: Male and female. So the created man was male and female, not male. Adam was first male and female. That’s why in Genesis 2, after God had formed man, he breathed into his nostrils…

You see, Moses does not have the Holy Spirit and also does not have the Mind of Christ as we believers do today, so the only way he could capture what was released from God was to call it the BREATH OF LIFE. Actually it was the Spirit man that was created in Genesis 1 and already existed in God that was released into a body. You see how he also called the body, he called it DUST. But if you check, you will agree that your body is not dust neither is it clay. Those were the best words suitable at that time. So God released the CREATED SPIRIT of man into the FORMED BODY of man and the bible says there was a reaction….

Spirit Man + Body Man = Soul Man …..

That’s where the problem began…Although God had to do this because the spirit man needed to interact with the World he just created (however, there is a greater reason according to his eternal counsel). So now see what God did after that…remember that the spirit man was male and female? So God took the part that was female from the spirit man (again there was nothing to capture that, so it was called a rib) actually it wasn’t a rib, as in the bone in your body right now. It was much more than that. It was the female section of Adam that God took to make a woman. Notice how that God didn’t breathe into the nostrils of the woman again, before she came alive. God need not to that because the rib was the spirit woman and now we have a man and a woman.

God’s desire with his family is to share a common kingdom over his entire creature. God had created already angels. Now God created the world, full of different kind of creatures and wanted man to rule over them. That’s exactly how he puts it in Genesis 1:28 when he created them…

“And God blessed them, and God said to them. Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth”

Finally, God successfully made something that will function just like him. God took charge of the heavens as God and asked man to take charge of the earth as God. Man was made God on earth. That was why God brought every creature later to man to name them. Only a creator has the power to give a name to a creature. So God demonstrates how that he has given the earth to Man. He finally had a family and was in constant communion with Adam and Eve until the fall…

The same ring that Pilate used to sentence Jesus Christ has been found.

Researchers have deciphered an ancient inscription on a bronze ring first found 50 years ago pointing to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who ordered Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.
Haaretz reported that the ring in question was first discovered at the site of Herodion near the West Bank’s Bethlehem by professor Gideon Forster from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, shortly after the Six-Day War in 1968-69.
The owner of the ring had remained a mystery for some 50 years, however, but a recent cleansing and special camera work at the Israel Antiquities Authority labs found Greek writing on the ring, which translates to “Pilatus.”
“Pilatus” is a rare name, and linked to that of Roman governor Pontius Pilate, believed to have ruled Judah between the years 26 to 36. The ring was apparently used as a stamping ring in day to day work, with the governor or one of his officials using it to sign his name.
Previous discoveries surrounding the infamous governor included another find in the 1960s, this time with a stone bearing the name of Pilatus.
In the New Testament of the Bible, a reluctant Pilate is pressured by the demands of the Jewish crowd to order Jesus’ crucifixion.
His agency and role in Jesus' death has been the subject of much theological analysis. Famous North Carolina evangelist Billy Graham, who passed away in February, said back in 2016 that Pilate gave into cultural pressure when he decided to have Christ crucified, despite believing He was innocent.
"Pilate will forever stand as a warning against giving in to the pressure of the crowd and turning our backs on Jesus. And that can happen far more easily than most of us realize," Graham said.

WELL THINK, EVOLUTION THEORY HAS NO REAL PROOF!

Recently, a thought captivated my mind that proves that the theory of evolution is a big hoax. The thought is simple and yet profound ... why is there no recorded history before approximately 4,000 B.C.? The answer is obvious ... there was no history! Think about it! Evolutionists claim that man evolved over billions of years (that's billions with a "B"). If there were any truth to these false claims by unscrupulous scientists, then man's historical record should span back at least hundreds-of-thousands of years, if not millions. 


 There is no record of a cataclysmic event that destroyed mankind prior to 4,000 B.C. And if there were, surely some of the survivors would have passed this information down to generations to follow. The Bible dates creation, as we know it today, at approximately 4,000 B.C. Thus, it was approximately 6,000 years ago that God, Jesus Christ, created the heavens and the earth in 6-days. It was 6,000 years ago that Jesus Christ spoke the stars into existence. It was 6,000 years ago that Jesus spoke animals, fish, plants, and land into existence. And it was 6,000 years ago that God formed man out of the dust of the earth. 
Such Biblical claims seem absurd to modern evolutionists, who have convinced themselves that the earth is billions of years old. Ironically, they have absolutely NO EVIDENCE of such longevity. Evolutionists have sought out dishonest scientists, who distort the facts, use faulty testing methods, and make erroneous assumptions (unethically stating such assumptions as if they were facts). Evolution is at best still a THEORY. Yet, children are brainwashed in godless public schools all across the world, with evolution, which is taught as if it were a fact. This is evil. It is evil to deny students the Biblical account of creationism. The Word of God makes infinite more sense than the fairytale of evolution. 
One of the simplest and best proofs that evolution is a joke, is the FACT that there is NO recorded history prior to 4,000 B.C. The world's history is CLEARY defined by SIX world powers since time began: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. Since Rome's fall in 476 A.D., there have been no world-powers (many super-powers; but, no world-powers). At the time of Moses, Egypt ruled the world. The Israelites were used as slave labor by Pharaoh to build the pyramids. Before Egypt, there is absolutely nothing recorded in history about a world-power.
It is NO coincidence that Revelation 17:10 speaks of these world-powers, "...five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space." At the writing of Revelation, Rome was still a world-power. The Apostle John, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, tells us that Rome is the 6th world-power, and there is one more to come. The 7th world-power will be the beast system, the kingdom of the antichrist. This diabolical New World Order is quickly forming now (i.e., a universal religious view, global centralized government, a one-world economic system, a cashless society, etc.).
Do you think it's a mere coincidence that the Word of God is so concise on world history? The Bible records the beginning of mankind at about 4,000 B.C., and secular history is eerily silent before 4,000 B.C. for those who claim to believe in evolution. If I were an evolutionist, I would be extremely disturbed by this FACT. Prove me wrong! I dare you. I triple-dog dare you to show me any recorded civilization before 4,000 B.C. And I don't mean some pottery jug or item that you claim is 14,000 years old--Show me any evidence of civilization prior to 4,000 B.C. You cannot.  In fact, it is difficult to find much recorded history before 2,500 B.C., because the flood of Noah's day destroyed most of it.
How can evolutionists be so naive and foolish as to totally ignore this incredibly obvious fact? There is NO recorded history prior to 4,000 B.C., no writings, no carved stones, no battles, no wars, no countries, no nothing! It's as if mankind just suddenly began (which is exactly what the Bible teaches happened). God created man out of the dirt, the elements, of the earth.
There were no humans before approximately 4,000 B.C. Hard to imagine? Why should it be? There is no history to indicate that humans existed prior to 4,000 B.C. The history of mankind should be traceable far beyond 4,000 B.C., going back million of years IF the evolution of mankind were true. Some scholars believe that the earth itself evolved, but not mankind. This is distinctly different than Theistic Evolution, where it is believed that God created everything and then let it evolve. There are many theories, but all are mere speculation.
What we DO know, if you believe the Bible, is that the universe as we know it today was created in 6 days 6,000 years ago. If it is true that the earth existed prior to that time (and I personally believe that it did), then everything was destroyed prior to Genesis. There was no dry ground anymore. There was no form of light anymore. All of these things were created in Genesis Chapter one. There is nothing in Genesis that says God created the earth itself 6,000 years ago. I'm not saying He didn't; but there is the possibility of a Gap Theory between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.

Those who attempt to make this issue a matter of saving faith are foolish and belligerent. Regardless of your beliefs on Creation, it has absolutely nothing to do with your salvation, which is completely dependent upon one's faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Who came into the world to save men from their sins (John 20:31). Eternal life is a free gift (Romans 6:23), paid for in full by Jesus' precious blood (1st Peter 1:18-19).

SHAKING THE TABLES - PART TWO

Religion is simply a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny. Tracing all religions backwards, we found a common source - ancient babylon. Since man has lost his relationship with his creator, he was left with no choice than to try all he can to reach him through diverse means. Aside that, the fear of an impending evil became another impetus. Therefore man definitely needs and hence seeks protection from a supernatural being.

Every religious leader meant well though, but not in line with the counsel of God. Man requested for religion, they never thought their cordial relationship with God can be restored. Imagine the story of Israelites making a golden calf god despite the fact that just days back, they saw how the Egyptian gods were publicly disgraced, and that Moses had just been summoned by God on their behalf, "wanting to make them his people". They wanted power, they wanted to dominate the universe. They wanted the same key of God's Kingdom that was misplaced by the first man. Every religious person in this world still long for these things - protection, success, power, wealth and the rest. This endless list of man's pursuit has been solved in one mystery. That God came down to reconcile man back to himself. This though was a mystery, was made manifest thousands of years back, yet majority of those who wanted such could not see it.

The man, Christ Jesus was not a religious leader. He didn't start Christianity. He never had a congregation, neither did he have a place of worship. He was God walking on earth in human form and man did not recognize it. The plan was set before time began, before the foundations of the world he penned down this counsel. He came and became the bridge between heaven and earth. Heaven is no more far for those who believe him. Religion has failed and will continue to fail. Except you break yourself from the chains of religion, you will live a miserable life. The Kingdom of God has come to replace religion, open your understanding!