No Other Name!

There is no other name whereby we can be saved than through the wonderful name of Jesus Christ our Lord. In Him is the fullness of God Jehovah,Elohim,Adonai,El-Shaddai and God the Father with all His names.

When we lift up the name of Jesus Christ his beloved Son, we have lifted up the name of our Father in Heaven. No man goes to the Father in heaven except through Jesus Christ his beloved Son.There is no point in disputing over which name we should use now to address God the Father in Heaven.When we address and lift up the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, we have lifted up the name of our Father in Heaven.

The Judaic religion has done much in the past to dispute over which name to use to address God the Father and it did not save them.Salvation is only through the name of Jesus Christ our Savior.

If you have failed to live as Christ as required you to, there is no point in fighting over which name to use to address God.Our lip-service will do us or God no good at all. He wants us to obey Christ whom He has sent and we must keep all His commandments. Just because you mention his name does not mean you will be saved. What you say and do must go together or else what you say will not have any meaning at all.You can fool men but you cannot fool God, His Christ or His Spirit.

Full Christformation In You

Full Christformation in You
(Christformation in you Ministries)

Introduction

Colossians 1:15-20 (New International Version)

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Full-Christformation is the fullness of God formed in us.
God the Father was pleased to have all the fullness of God to dwell in Christ our Lord and to reconcile all things to Himself through Christ. God is going to reconcile to Himself all those who are chosen, called and faithful through Christformation in them.

In order to reconcile all things lost in the Garden of Eden to God the Father, Christ became that ‘peace offering’. He redeemed us with this ‘peace offering’ through the atonement on the cross at Calvary. He had no sin in Him but took upon Himself our sins. He redeems us to reconcile us back to God.

As we have read in the verses above, why then did God the Father make the fullness of God dwell in Christ, His only begotten Son? Why was it necessary that the fullness of God dwell in Christ?

The answer to that is “He is the Image of the Invisible God, The Firstborn over all creation so that, all creation will be reconciled to The Heavenly Father through Christ. He is the exact representation of the Heavenly Father to whom we will be reconciled to”.

Hebrews 1:3 (New International Version)

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
In Christ‘s teachings He had said many times that “the Father is in me, and I am in my Father” He also said that “if you have seen me, you have seen my Father in Heaven” Fullness of God dwells in Christ our Lord.

Fullness of God in Christ

Ephesians 3:16-19 (New International Version)

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

The fullness of God is in Christ our Lord. When we are filled with Christ we are filled with God in all His fullness. The “love that surpasses knowledge” is the same love shared between the Father and His only begotten Son. The Lord Jesus Christ prayed for us in John chapter 17 that we may know the Father’s and Christ’s love for each other and be filled with the full width, length, height, and depth of that love. By this way, we will be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Why do we need power to be filled with this love of God?

We need the power of the Holy Spirit in us for full Christformation in us. This is how we know if we are filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. Christformation in us will show if we are filled with that power of God.

John 17:13 (New International Version)

"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.
We need the power of the Holy Spirit in us to bring about the full measure of the divine nature of Christ. True joy is His nature in us.

John 17:26 (New International Version)

I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."
It’s the love of God that brings the fullness of God into us. It does not come any other way. It’s a love relationship of union and communion.
This relationship is born out of the love of God and His Christ’s in us and will grow till this love is fully formed in us. I am not talking about the worldly kind of love which is a counterfeit of the love of God and His Christ’s.

John 14:23 (New International Version)

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

This love for God with all our hearts, minds, soul and physical strength will form Christ in us fully because Christ said that if you love me that much, you will keep my commandments fully.

The Holy Spirit will lead us to full-Christformation in us if we obey God’s commandments out of that love shared abroad in our hearts.

Ephesians 2:18-22 (New International Version)

For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

We have access to the Father in heaven by the Holy Spirit through Christ our Lord. With full Christformation in us we become the dwelling of God by His spirit. We see the complete Christformation in us in these verses above. From the Chief Cornerstone, through the joining together and the rising to become the holy temple in the Lord is the pre-vision of full-Christformation in us jointly.

Fullness of His Spirit in us

Fullness of His Spirit in us will lead to full-Christformation in us if we continue obeying the Holy Spirit in us.
When we are full of the Spirit of God we will be led by the Holy Spirit and not our sinful nature. There is a constant war between the divine nature of Christ and the sinful nature in us if you do not put to death the evil nature of Satan. Fullness of the Holy Spirit will cause you to put to death all the misdeeds of the sinful nature in you.

Ephesians 5:17-21 (New International Version)

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We will be sowing into Christformation when we obey the Holy Spirit in us. When we carelessly fill our sinful nature with the pleasures of wine we will be led into debauchery and other sins that will defile us more.

But, if you are filled with the Holy Spirit in you, you will be led by the Spirit into a life of pleasing God the Father and His Christ. Fullness of the Spirit will lead to fullness of Christ in us. When you are filled with Christ you are filled with the Heavenly Father in you too.

If you live half pleasing the Spirit of God and the other half pleasing the sinful nature in you, then how will Christ be formed in you fully?
Imagine yourselves half-exposed or half-dressed, how will your appearance be? You will be ashamed, right?

Galatians 6:7-8 (New International Version)

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

So let’s repent and turn away from a lifestyle of pleasing the sinful nature of Satan in us, instead, let’s please the Holy Spirit in us always. Remember, by sowing to the Spirit, we are sowing into full-Christformation in us. We will reap eternal life, for what we sow we will reap. If we say one thing and sow another thing then we will only reap what we have sown in the end.

John 14:15-21 (New International Version)

"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them; he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."

“On that day” meaning when Christformation is taking place in us.
Because of that love relationship that leads to full obedience to His word in us we will experience that same love the Father has for His only Son. Our obedience to the Holy Spirit in us will lead to Christ showing himself to us. Full revelation of Himself to us through the Holy Spirit will result in full-Christformation in us.

John 16:12-16 (New International Version)

"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you. All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you.
"In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me."

All these things above the Holy Spirit will do in order for full-Christformation in us to take place. While Christformation is happening in us, we will see Christ as He is. He will become clearer and much clearer as He is being formed in us.
So, let us sow into this full-Christformation with the indispensible help of the Holy Spirit in us. Let us not waste any more time while it is still called ‘today’. Let’s fully obey the Holy Spirit for Christ to be formed in us fully.

Fullness of Christ in us

When we are full of the Spirit, the fullness of Christ will grow in us. This Christformation will lead us to full-Christformation, which will bring the fullness of God into us.

Colossians 3:8-15 (New International Version)

But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
All those who belong to Christ have to actively get rid of the misdeeds of the sinful nature in us. We have to put them to death voluntarily, only then can we put on the new self, which is Christformation in us which will lead us to full renewal in us meaning , full-Christformation.

The new self which is Christformation in you will fill you with these characteristics of the divine nature of Christ in you, such as, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. All these make up the divine nature of Christ in you and me. Forbearance, forgiveness and the love of Christ will bring the perfect unity that will bind all those who have Christformation in them.
Christformation in them will make the difference with that perfect unity of Christ’s obedient love. Once this love of Christ has filled us, we will be obedient to the Holy Spirit’s leading in us for full Christformation.

Colossians 2:2-3 (New International Version)

My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

The peace of Christ will not rule our hearts until we obey the Holy Spirit fully. In Christ is hidden all the treasures of God and these treasures will fill you through Christformation in you. All wisdom and knowledge is hidden in Christ. The love of Christ that unites all those in whom Christ is being formed will understand the truth that all riches of God are hidden in Christ alone.

For all these riches and treasures in Christ to fill our born again spirit, we will go through ‘painful’ experiences, as in child-birth pains. Apostle Paul said this to the Galatians describing Christformation in us. Only a woman who had delivered a child through normal birth before can describe the actual pains of childbirth, no husband or male gynecologist can.

Galatians 4:19 (New International Version)

My dear children for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you.

Paul is writing about the full inheritance of Christ in us.
The fullness of Christ inherited in us should be our goal. It will be a painful and difficult process but this is our eternal reward.

But like a woman pregnant with child, the child could be aborted or even face death prematurely. We have to be obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit in us with our careful walk with the Lord. The promise of the Lord is that if we obey Him and persevere on we will gain Christ fully formed in us. We should throw away everything that hinders full Christformation in us, especially the sinful nature in us that leads us to sin. Do not sow to the sinful nature in you but rather put it to death.
We have to exercise obeying the Holy Spirit in us instead of the sinful nature. We have to train ourselves to listen to and obey the Holy Spirit in us.

Hebrews 5:13-14 (New International Version)

Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

God’s word is truth. God’s word is also food to us. God’s word when obeyed forms Christ in us because He is God’s word to us. He is that Word and that Word became flesh and now all flesh that is trained by it will become His Word- that means Christ in you. This is the mystery that the incorruptible Word became flesh and now all flesh that are trained by it, be clothed with the incorruptible Word through Christformation in them. This will please the Heavenly Father when all flesh that obey Him become like Him in all things.

Colossians 3:16 (New International Version)

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

The word of God will not only train us but will also train others around us with the testimony of that word in you. The testimony of the word is the testimony of Christ in you.

Conclusion

Full-Christformation will only happen in those you find the fullness of God the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. They will make their home in us only when we fully obey His word in us.

The Holy Spirit has been sent from the Heavenly Father through Christ our Lord for the purpose of full Christformation in us. We must obey Him fully on earth. He leads us to full Christformation in us for the glory of the Father in Heaven.

Written by Ronald K.Pillai









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You can fool men,but, you cannot fool God!

"You can fool men, but, you cannot fool God"! We could have learnt of this true statement in life, along life's way.

Everyone of us would have learnt this particular lesson,one way or another in life.
In fact, thats what there is to life. We are here on this earth to learn this lesson before we face Him for the final judgment, for whatever we have done while on earth.
We cannot escape from God.

He will allow you to sin to the maximum and wait to see if you will repent after some serious warnings from Him.When sin has reached to it's maximum, He will bring on you suddenly, when you least expect it, what you deserve will come shortly on you to put an end to sin.If you have been the cause for some misery, beware, before you know it, it will all be over for you. Just a matter of time with God for you.

‘Food that doesn’t spoil’ is Christformation in you.

Christformation In You Ministries


‘Food that doesn’t spoil’ is Christformation in you.

Introduction

John 6:26-29 (New International Version)

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, and you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval."
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"
Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

When we come to the Lord Jesus Christ believing that He is the Sent One for our redemption and salvation and are born of the Spirit of God, then, we will be made known by the Spirit that we are children born out of the promise God gave to Abraham. There is a clear difference between ordinary children and children of God’s promise in Christ. The promise God gave Abraham about Isaac, stands forever for those who would believe in Christ.

As we ‘eat and drink’ Christ daily as our ‘food’ that sustains us, Christ will be formed in us. Christformation in us is the ‘food that does not spoil’. This food will form eternal life, which is the life of Christ in us. Full-Christformation is the power of the indestructible life of Christ in us.

There is lots of food that does not endure and many of us are just eating these foods. We do not know that there is food that endures which brings about eternal life in us. We are blinded to this food by the Devil unless we have been predestined by God that way.

In the Garden of Eden, God locked out Adam and Eve from there so that they do not eat the ‘food that does not spoil’ from the Tree of Life too. That Tree of Life is Jesus Christ our Lord. Only those born again in the Spirit of God could eat ‘this food that doesn’t spoil’ from that Tree of Life. He will be revealed to those whom God had predestined for Christformation in them. As they feast on Him, Christ will be formed in them. Those who partake (the act of eating and drinking) of the divine nature of Christ will become more like Him.

‘Food that Endures’

‘Manna’ was angelic ‘food that did not spoil’. “Manna’ was symbolic of Christ coming to earth as the ‘Bread of Life’. We have to ‘eat’ Christ in order to live eternally. There is no other ‘Bread’ that doesn’t spoil. All other bread spoils. Christ will be formed in us when we ‘eat’ this ‘Bread of Life’. He is also the ‘Living Water’. We partake of the Lord’s Supper to signify ‘eating’ his body crucified for us on the cross at Calvary and ‘drinking’ his blood shed for our sins. It’s an act of eating and drinking that speaks of the ongoing Christformation in us, as we continually ‘feed’ on Him. In fact, we should feast ourselves on Christ as the ‘food that doesn’t spoil’.

If you were to recall, it was this message that turned many away from the Lord. The people who heard Christ preach about this ‘food that doesn’t spoil’ turned away from Him. The Lord then asked the disciples if they too wanted to leave Him.

6:53-59 (New International Version)

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood; you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food, my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

The act of feeding on Christ will cause you to have his eternal life in you. You must actively feed on Christ by seeking Him and His righteousness to fill you. Just like when we are physically hungry we seek earthly food, so, when we need the righteousness of Christ to fill our born again spirit, we must ‘eat and drink Him’ actively by seeking him. When you go to Him for this food that doesn’t spoil, He will give it to you. If you do not seek Him to fill your life, He will not force you to ‘eat and drink’ this food.

“The Son of Man will give you this Food”

This food will come directly from Christ to you. He will give you this ‘food that doesn’t spoil’. He is the Son of Man who lived on this earth. Sometimes, we do think what the Lord Jesus Christ is doing at the right–hand side of the Heavenly Father now. Is He only making intercession for us? What else is He doing? He is actually feeding us with the ‘food that doesn’t spoil’- Christformation in us.
The apostle Paul in his epistle to the Colossians said,

Colossians 3:1-4 (New International Version)

Since Christ is seated at the right hand of, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where God. Set your minds on things above not on earthly things. For you died, your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, and then you also will appear with him in glory.

“Set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set you minds on things above not on earthly things”.

What are the things above that we need to seek and set our minds and hearts on? It’s the Lord Jesus Christ we must seek. We must seek full-Christformation in us with all our hearts and minds, while we are on this earth.

When He said He is “going to prepare a place for us in Heaven” this is what He meant. Without full-Christformation in us, we cannot become the eternal dwelling of God. Therefore, He has to feed us with this ‘food that does not spoil’ first. We have to be filled with this ‘food’. It comes directly from Christ who is at the right hand of the Father. We are seated with Him there even though we are physically here on earth now.

Full-Christformation is God’s ‘Seal of Approval’ on us.

We should earnestly seek the approval of God over our lives. It’s this approval of God that will show the difference and not what we claim we are. You may claim ‘greatness’ but God knows your weaknesses. You may claim that you are powerful and influential in this world but He knows you are nothing in his sight but just ‘dust’. If Christ is being formed in you, you need not seek the approval of men. If you are seeking the approval of men, then, there is a high possibility of the absence of Christformation in you.

Full-Christformation in us is God’s seal of approval on us. What is ‘a seal of approval’? The seal is the print of Christ in our lives. The seal is the proof of Christ in us. The seal is also the power of Christ over our lives. This seal will openly show that God’s approval is on us.

But, God’s word says, that God the Father has placed the seal of approval on Christ our Lord. When Christ is fully formed in us, the seal of God’s approval will come on us too. God’s approval will be on our lives as much as Christ has filled us.
If our hearts and minds are on the temporary things of this earth only and not on Christ, then we will not seek Christ to be formed in us. Christformation will not happen in us. What do we treasure more? Christ or earthly things? If we choose Christ, then Christ will fill us. If we choose the earthly things then the earthly things will fill us.

We cannot expect God’s seal of approval to be on us when there is no Christformation in us. If our hearts and minds were on the things of this earth and not on Christ being formed in us, then how can God approve of us? The seal of God the Father’s approval is placed on Christ alone who is worthy of that seal. God is pleased with Christ His beloved Son. He will be pleased with us when we are filled with full- Christformation in us.

Philippians 2:9-10 (New International Version)

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

Conclusion

The seven feast of the Lord celebrated during Old Testament times foretold of Christformation in us by feasting on Christ. Each of the seven feasts of the Lord signified every part of Christformation in us for this present day. Christformation ends with full-Christformation in us when we become the eternal dwelling of God which the last Feast of the Tabernacle signified.

Food that was served in the Old Testament was all food that spoiled. Christformation in us that comes through our active ‘eating and drinking’ of Christ or feasting on Him does not spoil. Christ brings eternal life into us. Christ is our eternal ‘food that does not spoil’ but we must actively feed on Him. To feed on him we must seek Him with all our hearts and minds. He will give us that food, which is his ‘flesh and blood’ through the Holy Spirit in us.
The seal of God’s approval will be in us when full-Christformation happens within us. Only God the Father and His Christ will judge us if this seal is placed on us.

A Rebuke:"Satan,Get Behind Me"

The Lord Jesus Christ had to rebuke Peter who was one of His chosen disciples close to Him, with this firm rebuke; "Satan,get behind me!" Why did the Lord Jesus rebuke Peter so sharply? Peter was so close to the Lord Jesus Christ and yet he was filled with the things of men and not God in his mind. He was sharply rebuked by the Lord for that. This goes to show that no matter how close you claim to be to the Lord Jesus, you can still be deceived in your thinking if you are not filled with the mind of Christ. What was the mind of Christ there? The mind of Christ there was complete obedience to God the Father through suffering and death. Christ knew and prophesied that afterwards He will come alive again. That was God's will for Him. Peter did not see that and he only thought the way any natural man would think. He forgot that the will of God must be done, even if it means suffering.

Who is 'Jezebel'?

Introduction

Revelation 2:20-26 (New International Version)

Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you): Only hold on to what you have until I come. To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations.

Make a guess as to who is that woman 'Jezebel'? In the Old Testament,Jezebel was a woman , an influential woman. Let's see what the passage in the Old Testament has to say about her.

1 Kings 16:29-33 (New International Version)

In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria over Israel twenty-two years. Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the LORD than any of those before him. He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him. He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than did all the kings of Israel before him.

Now we know that the 'Jezebel' in Revelation was refered to Jezebel, the wife of an influential evil king of Israel called Ahab. Ahab provoked God our Lord with all his sins he committed and one of his greatest sin was when he married the 'idolatrous' Jezebel.He committed more sins after that.He became worse and provoked God even more.

Their actual sin was towards the prophet of God our Lord,Elijah.They stood against God's servant and influenced the people of Israel to commit idolatry provoking the Lord our God even more.

Serving God or Satan?

This is what Elijah,the prophet of God said:

1 Kings 18:21 (New International Version)

Elijah went before the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him."
But the people said nothing.

This situation came about because King Ahab and Jezebel had jointly went on a killing spree of God's prophets.

1 Kings 18:4 (New International Version)

While Jezebel was killing off the LORD's prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.)

1 Kings 18:9 (New International Version)

"What have I done wrong," asked Obadiah, "that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death?

There was to be a ''duel' for the test of each other's strength on Mount Carmel.
Elijah with God's strength and Ahab/Jezebel with the strength of their idols.

This is what Jezebel said after she was proven that her idols were nothing but stone by Elijah through God's strength.

1 Kings 19:1-2 (New International Version)

Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the false prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, "May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them."

Jezebel clearly had the final say to the throne.Ahab feared his wife more than he feared the Living God who created heaven and earth and has put him on the throne.
She was full of threats towards Elijah not knowing that her death will be a gruesome one later. Jezebel was a rebellious and revengeful person.

Have you ever wondered why Eve and her disobedience was never spoken about in the book of Revelation but Jezebel's evil influences were?

Jezebel was an unknown woman who turned to be the Queen through marriage to Ahab, and abused her position to influence others to sin and provoke our God to anger. She was evil.She came against the servant of the Lord and threatened him with death.

What has this got to do with us ,today?

We see a similar Jezebel.This Jezebel claims to be a 'prophetess'.This means she says,she has the help of God.But, which god? She will begin to influence others with what she believes.Her beliefs will be misleading others further into sin.Idolatry and sexual sins will be the main ones.She will use these sins to attract others to her.She will be 'teaching ' the secrets of satan' to those who will turn to her for what she knows.Just exactly what are all these 'teachings' about?

Colossians 2:20-23 (New International Version)

Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

Jezebel will use the basic principles of this world and deceive many, as though they were teachings from God,but they are not.Many will be deceived. The appearance of these teachings will be deceiving but the end result will show that this teachings "lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence".People will become worse off than they were before. Idolatry and sexual immorality will increase amongst us.

1 Corinthians 10:1-12 (New International Version)


Warnings From Israel's History

For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.
Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry." We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test the Lord, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes. And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.

These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!

The last days will be very tricky. Anyone could fall.Watch your steps. We believe that the sins relating to the "stubborn and rebellious woman" is the 'prophetess' Jezebel itself.It will relate to the evil woman's sins which are prostitution,adultery,debauchery,pornography,promiscuity,polygamy,homosexual sins and other related sins that are already causing much concern to many.These sins wlll influence the lives of many in these last days.

The influences of these sins are creating more damage to this world than anything else.People are just falling away from the Lord with this evil influence in society.
It's Satan's way of turning people away from God.

So, who is Jezebel actually?

The New Jerusalem is the Bride of Christ being prepared with full-Christformation in them.So,who is this Jezebel? Yes,it's the 'wife' of the False Prophet,meaning those who share same beliefs with the False Prophet.Remember Jezebel, is the 'false prophetess'.They are the children of the Devil who serve as 'wife' for the False Prophet. They share one 'bed'. Satan counterfeits all things of God and His Christ.Satan counterfeits the Person and the works of the Holy Spirit. It also counterfeits the wife of the Lamb, the Church, the Body of Christ. 'Jezebel' is the counterfeit 'wife' of the Lamb. Do not be cheated or deceived.It may appear just like it belongs to the Lamb but it's not. Is the sin of idolatry and sexual immorality increasing in that midst. These are some of the 'fruits'of the Devil.

God is calling unto those deceived to repent and return to Him before it's too late!

Fear of the LORD.

Romans 3:9-18 (New International Version)

No One is Righteous

What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. As it is written:
"There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands,
no one who seeks God.
All have turned away,
they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one."
"Their throats are open graves;
their tongues practice deceit."
"The poison of vipers is on their lips."
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
"Their feet are swift to shed blood;
ruin and misery mark their ways,
and the way of peace they do not know."
"There is no fear of God before their eyes."

These sins above are committed repeatedly without repentence and remorse towards God today. God is the highest and most reliable authority, but yet they show no fear of the Lord. People simply do not fear the Lord these days.

If they do not fear the highest authority on earth,in heaven and underneath the earth, how will they ever fear any authority.People do not respect any authority today. This is the current state of affairs everywhere. Submission to authority cannot be forced upon like what we see worlwide today. It must come out of love for God and fear of hurting Him. Why is the fear of the Lord necessary for mankind?

Job said, he found the answer to that question.

Job 28:28 (New International Version)

And he said to man,
'The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom,
and to shun evil is understanding.' "

Fear of the Lord is Wisdom

Job had found out that true Wisdom in man is fear of the Lord. When you fear the Lord you have true Wisdom in you. Men who do not fear God, do not have true Wisdom in them. That verse goes further to say that those who shun evil have true understanding.Understanding of what? It's understanding of God and mankind. You can't be of service to anyone if you do not have these in you. You will be responsible for bringing more damage to mankind in the end, if you tried to do service unto them without true wisdom and understanding.

You can fill your life with this fear of the Lord only when Christ is formed in you with the help of the Holy Spirit. You can pretend that you have it but it will not remain in you for long.The absence of true wisdom will show.

The Fear of the Lord leads to Life.

The fear of the Lord leads to life in Christ and not death. Today ,many of the sins listed above if committed brings eternal death to us.

Proverbs 19:23 (New International Version)

The fear of the LORD leads to life:
Then one rests content, untouched by trouble.

Troubles come because of the lack of the fear of the LORD.But, when there is that fear of the Lord, one can rest content, untouched by trouble.If fear of the LORD is wisdom and it brings life and not death with it,then, we now know where this fear of the Lord comes from. It comes from the Lord Jesus Christ himself.If He is filled in us by our willing obedience to the Holy Spirit, then the fear of the Lord will be in us.

Fear of the Lord in you will make you God's delight

Malachi 3:16 (New International Version)

Then those who feared the LORD talked with each other, and the LORD listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the LORD and honored his name.


When there is fear of the Lord in you ,God hears your prayer. ' A scroll of rememberence' was written meaning the names of those who truly had the fear of the Lord in them were remembered forever in the presence of the Lord.The fear of the Lord will make the difference. King David had this to say about the fear of the Lord:


2 Samuel 23:2-4 (New International Version)

2 "The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me;
his word was on my tongue.

3 The God of Israel spoke,
the Rock of Israel said to me:
'When one rules over men in righteousness,
when he rules in the fear of God,

4 he is like the light of morning at sunrise
on a cloudless morning,
like the brightness after rain
that brings the grass from the earth.'

Today, we see so-called leaders exercise overlording and ruling men through unrighteousness.They do not have this fear of the Lord.They cheat,lie,manipulate,
oppress the poor,steal,kill and destroy everything that God has created.They do not have the fear of the Lord.Deceiving and misleading people as though they 'feared' God are greater sins in the eyes of the Lord who is Holy and Righteous.

King David, with all the experience he had; walking with God, agreed with God, the Rock of Israel, that when one rule or lead men with the fear of the Lord there is the blessing of the Lord attached to it or else trouble will be found there.

Revelation 14:6-7 (New International Version)

The Three Angels

Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water."

This message from the angel seems to be the final warning for mankind, after which, will come the judgment of God upon all, if unheeded.

What the Bible says about 'Dogs'?

'Dogs'

Psalm 22:16-18 (New International Version)

16 Dogs have surrounded me;
a band of evil men has encircled me,
they have pierced my hands and my feet.

17 I can count all my bones;
people stare and gloat over me.

18 They divide my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothing.


"Dogs are men's best friends" dog-lovers say. The truth is,dogs love the company of these men and certain men love the company of these dogs for some purpose of their own.But dogs are animals. Animals always remain as animals for they cannot be changed into humans.

The word of God does say much about dogs as animals.But, what about man to be 'dogs'?

The Psalmist,King David prophesied about the cruelty of the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, which he would face in the hands of the Jews and the Roman soldiers. King David refered to this band of evil men as 'dogs'.Why 'dogs'?
Because, they were simply not human.If you look at verses 17 and 18, you will see they lived their lives as dogs would.They only cared for themselves for they can't feel for others.Just like a dog would eat it's own puppy if there was no food left for it.

Animals are animals and dogs will remain as dogs,even if you were to raise it up in the comfort of a 'palace'.The "dog will return to it's own vomit", even with all the training you could give it.

Proverbs 26:11 (New International Version)

11 As a dog returns to its vomit,
so a fool repeats his folly.

A fool is likened to a dog, in this Proverb of King Solomon. Only a fool will keep doing the same mistakes (folly) in his life over and over again. There will be no room for repentance in his mind. even if he does for a short while, he will return to it again.These are the characteristics of the dog and the fool who is likened to it. A dog is always a dog and they cannot be made into humans.

That's why the Lord Jesus Christ said:

Matthew 7:6 (New International Version)

"Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

The Lord Jesus was refering to the fool who would not turn away from his folly but returns to his 'own vomit'- his folly. The folly here refers to his sinful ways.He says to His servants don't 'throw' what I have given you. You can only 'give' to those who deserve it,but, if you have to 'throw', it will be to the dogs.The 'dogs' here refers to the 'fools' who will keep returning to their folly. What I have given you is valuable and holy and don't 'throw' it to people who do not know how to appreciate what is holy.For they are like the dog who will "turn and tear you to pieces" like they did to the Lord Jesus Christ on that cross at Calvary.He was prophesying about who would kill Him.Yes, the same 'dogs' King David prophesied about,1500 years earlier.

To the Syrophonecian woman, Christ our Lord said:

Mark 7:27 (New International Version)

"First let the children eat all they want," he told her, "for it is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs."

He made the difference between those who would come to him and 'eat' from Him and those who will 'eat Him'. Dogs will eat from Him but His children will 'eat Him' to be full of Him. Those who 'eat Him' wan't to be like Him. Christformation happens in them.Those who 'eat from Him' will come and 'eat' when they are 'hungry for food' that belongs to His children and go away back to their folly after that.They want all the goodness they could get from the Lord but would not turn away from their evil ways and their folly.

The apostle Paul advises us to 'watch out for these dogs' in his epistle to the Philippians.

Philippians 3:2 (New International Version)

"Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh".

He was reminding the Philippian Christians about these men who do evil by going back to their old practices that nullifies the works of Christ on the Cross. Men who pretended that they believed in God but who have their confidence in their own flesh and works and not on the Lord Jesus Christ. Men who would return to their old ways and folly, whenever they had the opportunity to.Beware of them!

Isaiah the Old Testament prophet,prophesied about these evil men who pretended to be 'defenders of the faith' but they were actually 'dogs with mighty appetites'.They would call themselves as 'Israel's watchmen' when they don't even qualify to be Israel's watch-dog.

Isaiah 56:10-12 (New International Version)

10 Israel's watchmen are blind,
they all lack knowledge;
they are all mute dogs,
they cannot bark;
they lie around and dream,
they love to sleep.

11 They are dogs with mighty appetites;
they never have enough.
They are shepherds who lack understanding;
they all turn to their own way,
each seeks his own gain.

12 "Come," each one cries, "let me get wine!
Let us drink our fill of beer!
And tomorrow will be like today,
or even far better."

From such men the Lord Jesus Christ cried out," Rescue me and my precious life from the power of the dogs" in Psalms.These 'dogs' may seem powerful now but when their day of judgment comes, there will be no mercy left for them.Let these 'dogs' enjoy themselves now but the day of reckoning is coming soon. What a fearful and and dreadful day will it be for them.

Psalm 22:20 (New International Version)

Deliver my life from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dogs.

The days of the 'dog' terrorizing may continue but not for long. When punishment finally comes they will know exactly where they stand: "Outside!". For they don't belong "inside". In this sinful world they claim that they are are "inside" but in the coming world they will be thrown "outside". They will know it when it's their time to face this judgment eternally.

Revelation 22:15 (New International Version)

Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Now we know who are the 'dogs' and why they are referd to as 'dogs'.For now, let them "howl out of greed for more", "bite and defile","trample truth underfoot","kill and threaten" or just do what a dog would do "return to it's own vomit" time and time again even when warned.They might claim that they are Israel's watchmen for they even killed the Lord Jesus Christ but He came alive.

The Lord Jesus Christ is returning to this earth soon and we are patiently waitng with all endurance for that day of vengeance on the 'dogs'.For He will bring justice and righteousness to this earth.He is our only Hope.He will come!