Carry out Great Exploits (CW41)

   Coming WW3 - 4th Seal

Dan 11:32  "Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits."

    Christians who know their God is strong in their faith.

    They believe that He is the Almighty God who is the Creator of heaven and earth. Nothing is impossible to Him.

1.  He can provide us with food,  light, water, electricity and gas to our home during World War 3 when the towns and cities are in complete darkness.

2.  He can protect us in WW3

Psalm 91:9-11 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; for He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

3. He can anoint us to do great exploits

John 14:12  "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father."

    Our Lord Jesus promised us that if we have faith in Him, He will help us to do greater works than what He had done.

a) Jesus Walk on Water

    Our Lord defiled nature by walking on water. During WW3 though there will be no water and electricity in the whole area, I can believe that for our premises God will miraculously provide water, gas and electricity so that food can be cooked to feed the needy and hungry.

b) Feeding the Thousands

    Brethren, I believe that our Lord will keep filling up our empty food containers/fridges with food to feed and nourish all those coming to us for help.

c) Jesus Healing the Sick

   I believe that the sick and those wounded in the war, will find healing after prayers in Jesus' Name.

d) Jesus had Compassion

    When we see God's mercy and love for those pitiful souls, the joy of the Lord within us will encourage us to give our last ounce of strength to serve and care for them with love.

Brethren, within days, majority of those, who have witnessed the miracles of God in preserving them through WW3 and our love and concern for their welfare, will believe and accept our Lord Jesus. Thereafter, we must disciple them to abide in His word and prepare them to disciple new converts so that all of them will be able to overcome the deceptions of the Antichrist during the Great Tribulations before Rapture.

Before World War 3, brethren, our Lord has given us the free choice, of either

1. to serve Him as His faithful servants in carrying out great exploits by our repentance of our covetousness, carnality, idolatry, homosexuality, destructive heresies, and the untransformed old man, or

2. to be killed in World War 3 as hypocrites, heretics, wolves in sheepskin, agents of the devil, false christs and enemies of God.

Those Who Know their God (CW40)

   World War 3 is at Hand

Great sufferings during fourth Seal

Rev 6:8  So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

   WW3 will see the destruction of powerplants, factories, transportation, farmlands, warehouses. Without power, fuel and transportations, everything will grind to a halt. Food will be left to rot in farmlands, warehouses and places of storage. Along with the natural calamities of great earthquakes, huge tsunamis, pestilences, plagues, famines, everyone will starve and this will be worse than the starvation during the siege of Jerusalem where parents ate their babies and little children. Plagues from camels, pigs, dogs, cats and rats, (beasts) will be responsible for the death of many.

The people who know their God

Dan 11:32  "Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits."

    These are Christians, who love the Lord by keeping His words. They will be led by the Spirit of truth to know the truth about God, His words, will, plans, time and seasons and endtime prophecies and events since they are living in the last days.

   They know that WW3 is around the corner and mankind will suffer greatly from insecurities, pains, sicknesses, wounds, sufferings and fear of theft, robberies and death, starvation, loss of loved ones, and this is the ripe time and ready for harvest. Christians are entrusted with the responsibility of comforting, caring, feeding, evangelizing and discipling them. So they have to prepare themselves, for faith without works is dead.

Preparing for WW3

1. Comfort and Care – learn by volunteering your services in charitable homes for children, aged, handicap. Be sheep in Mat 25:33-46.

2. Feeding – Stock up with a variety of foodstuff so that our Lord can multiply them to feed the hungry. (five loaves and the two fish in Mat 14:19–21)

   Those starving will come daily for food and when they see the empty containers being filled up by prayers, and also many other miracles, they will glorify God by accepting Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

3. Word of God – Stock up bibles and hymn books in appropriate languages for your area so that His pure words are taught.

4. Discipling – Brethren, in order to disciple these new converts, we must first be His disciples by abiding in His words.

5. Understanding endtime prophecies is important for the new converts' faith will increase when they rejoice seeing the prophecies of our Lord being fulfilled one by one in chronological order (Follow Mat 24).

Those Killed in WW3 (CW39)

   World War 3 is at Hand

Rev 6:7-8  When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see." So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

    The coming fourth Seal, will see a quarter of all mankind killed by

Sword - warfare (WW3)

hunger - starvation

death - can be caused by earthquakes, tsunamis, poison, diseases, wounds, and murder.

beasts of the earth scientists have found out that the bubonic plague (black death) was spread from rats, mice, squirrel, wild dogs, etc.,  HIV (1981) from chimpanzee, Ebola (2013) from apes, monkeys, bats, etc. and there are many more new plagues caused by animals.

Note the COVID 19 has an average of only 0.2 % mortality rate, whereas the Bubonic plagues, HIV and Ebola can have an average of 10-50% mortality rate.

Harvest of Tares

the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him

    All those killed in the 4th Seal will be cast into Hades.

Mat 13:41-42  The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

    God will use the 4th Seal (World War 3) to remove the tares (heretic, wicked and untransformed Christians) from His church before new converts during World War 3 will be properly discipled by godly Christians.

1 Cor 6:9-10  Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 John 5:21  Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Note an idolator worships idols or images of God, Jesus, gods, saints or any other creatures.

Exo 20:4-5  "You shall not make for yourself a carved image— any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Disciples of Jesus

John 8:31-32  Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

    Ensure that you are the disciple of Jesus by keeping His words then He will keep, protect and anoint you in the coming World War 3.

Destructive Heresies (CW38)

  World War 3 is at Hand

1 John 3:1  Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

    To be a child of God, who is the most loving, most caring and most powerful Father is beyond one's dream. Immediately, the Father will give him the Holy Spirit to teach and guide him into all truth, comfort and convict him of sin, help him keep His words and transform him into God's image. God also send His angels to protect and safeguard him and in the Name of Jesus he can even cast out the devil and his demons.

Most Common Heresy

    Yet we hear Pastors, leaders and Christians saying "the devil is making a mess of my life" or "the devil is attacking me".  

   These blasphemous remarks reduce our Almighty God to be a useless, powerless and loveless Father, who can't even protect His own children. This has led many weak Christians to doubt His words, promises and abilities. Because they glorify the devil more than God, they have become fearful and superstitious. They are fearful that God would not be able to receive their honour and worship during those so-called demonic days or festivals.

   Repent brethren for our Lord Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath and He will be delighted to receive the worship of His beloved children anytime and anywhere.

Note  The devil is nothing but a defeated foe.

The Lies and Deceptions of the Priesthood

Jer 5:31  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?

    The distorted teachings and heresies of the priesthood were loved by the people. Similarly, unlearned and carnal Christians love distorted doctrines and they will be easily misled by these false teachers to become superstitious and fearful of honouring Him in

1. His birth by not celebrating Christmas, which was set by our fathers to remember the Word was made flesh.

Mat 26:26  And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."

    This rejection of the Word was made flesh makes God a liar.

Celebrations of the First Christmas

Luke 2:13-14  And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"

    The First Christmas was celebrated by the multitudes of angels and the good shepherds, who loved their sheep by feeding them the fresh dewy grass of winter.

Note  Bethlehem enjoys the Mediterranean climate of the hot and dry summers and the mild and wet winters. Snow is a rarity. Winter enjoys an average temperature of 5°C - 12°C (41°F - 54°F)

The world has accepted Christmas as the celebration of Christians so we have the whole of December to celebrate His birth and also to evangelize.

2. His death on the cross by not celebrating Good Friday, which was set by our fathers to remember Jesus' blood poured out on the cross for the cleansing of our sins.

Mat 26:27-28  Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

3. His resurrection from the death by not celebrating Easter, which was set by our fathers to remember Jesus giving His disciples the Holy Spirit after His resurrection so that every Christian is born again with the Spirit of God

John 20:21-22  So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit."

4. that Jesus had fulfilled the Mosaic Law and Prophets so they continue to keep the Jewish law and feasts which were obsoleted by God.

Mat 5:17  "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill."

False Pen of Scribes (CW37)

  World War 3 is at Hand

When God created Adam and Eve in His image, men only have to obey His words to have eternal life and stay in fellowship with Him.

Prov 7:1-2  My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye.

    It is the will of God from the very beginning that men believe and keep His words to be saved.

    To prevent men from being saved, Satan started to corrupt the word of God making the truth in His words ineffective starting from within the garden of Eden itself.

Falsehood of Scribes

Jer 8:8  "How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us'? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood."

    Later, the Devil used false prophets and scribes to corrupt His words. So possibly for every inspired writing or book, there may be a few demonic writings with distorted or wrong doctrine to mislead God's people.

   

Prophets sent by God

Jer 7:25  Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

    But God sent His true prophets to admonish, judge and rectify these corruptions. So there were many rejects (false and erred scriptures) which were to be burned or destroyed. Unfortunately, these rejected erred scriptures are kept as religious relics.

Canon Books of the OT

   It seems that as far back as Erza and Nehemiah, the OT were being canonised until about the 3rd Century BC.

    These canon OT books were translated into Greek (Septuagint) and it is the most accurate version of the Old Testament text.

New Covenant of His Blood

    The death of Jesus on the cross ended the Mosaic law to start His new Covenant of His blood.

    The Greek Bible consisting the 39 books of the Septuagint and the 27 canon books of the New Testaments were used in the Roman Empire.

After the conversation of the Roman Emperor Constantine, he legalised Christianity. He set up councils of bishops to prepare the Christian (Apostles) Creed and canonise the New Testament books.

   In 380AD, all the Greek scriptures were translated into Latin for the sake of the Romans and the Latin speaking world.

    The Eastern Roman Empire retained the Greek Bible but the Western Roman Empire who were Latin speaking used the Latin Vulgate Bible.

    God ensures that His words were preserved in both Greek and Latin for these 1700 years. God had also prepared them to be translated into other languages. So, all translations taken directly from the Greek or Latin Vulgate are canon books.

False and Demonic Writings

    Before the 27 NT canon books were identified, there were hundreds or even thousands of writings of the false scribes to corrupt God's words. These rejected writings or parchments should have been burnt or destroyed but instead they were kept as relics.

Trinity Missing

1 John 5:7  For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.

    Since US President Kennedy threw out God and the Bible in 1960s, the people have lost the fear of God. Many new bible translations were not based on the canon books but from rejected and corrupted writings of the first two Centuries. These corrupt doctrines with missing scriptures produce similar depraved, carnal, covetous, wicked and sodomite Christian leaders, pastors, bishops and televangelists as the false prophets of old.

Jer 23:14  Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; they also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, and her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Brethren, forget the modern translations with missing scriptures. Stick to your KJV, NKJV and all translations taken directly from the canon books. Keep the commandments of Jesus and obey the epistles and the coming World War 3 will not hurt you.

Faithful Constantine (CW36)

  World War 3 is at Hand

Then in a dream Christ visited Constantine and gave him a battle strategy that would help him win.

    Christ must have taught Constantine to be the light of the world in order to win the hearts of the Romans.

    For Christianity, he must trust the council of bishops (just like the Council of Jerusalem) to collect together the Holy Spirit inspired Scriptures, to formulate the Christian Creed of faith, acumen and doctrines.

A Saint more than Emperor

    The Orthodox Church regards Constantine as Saint Constantine the Great. His  Edict of Milan in 313 declared that Christians and all other religions would be tolerated throughout the empire, bringing an end to religious persecution. Constantine built the Church of the Holy Sepulcher at the purported site of Jesus' tomb, which became the holiest site in Christendom. During his reign, he built many basilicas, repaired churches throughout the empire, relieved clergy of some taxes, and supported the Christian church financially.

Celebration of Christmas

    With the advice of the early fathers, Constantine set aside December 25 for the Christians to celebrate Christmas in remembrance of God's greatest love when the Word was made flesh at the birth of Jesus.

Sabbath on Sunday

   Some Jewish converts still continued with Saturday as the Sabbath (day of rest), but most Gentiles kept Sunday (the Lord's Day in Rev 1:8, the Day of the resurrection of Jesus) as their Sabbath.

    Again, from the early fathers, Constantine declared Sunday as the Sabbath for Christians to worship the Almighty God in unity worldwide.

Light of the World

  The Pagan Roman Senate saw the light of Jesus in Constantine and it was just a matter of time that they would embrace Christianity. At the death of Constantine in 337AD, there was already a high percentage of Christians in the Roman Empire.

Christianity the Official Religion

    In 380AD, Theodosius I made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. By then the councils of bishops had produced

1. the Apostles Creed to unite the faith of Christians,

2. the Septuagint, the Greek version of the 39 canon books of the OT,

Note All the OT books were written in Hebrew with the exception of the books of Daniel and Ezra, which were partially written in Aramaic. The seven Apocrypha books were written in Greek, so they were not canonised.

   According to tradition, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Greek Pharaoh of Egypt (285-246BC) sent seventy-two Hebrew translators—six from each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel—from Jerusalem to Alexandria to translate the Tanakh from Biblical Hebrew into Koine Greek for the sake of the majority of Jews, who could no longer speak nor understand Hebrew.

    All Jewish historians such as Josephus recorded their writings in Greek for by the 3rd Century BC, Hebrew was almost a dead language and its use was only limited for religious ceremonies.

3. Identifying the 27 canon books of the New Testament in original Greek, took a long time for many more demonic and unscriptural writings (non-canon) were added to the fold.

Translation into Latin

The Bishop Damascus ordered Jerome to translate the 39 canon books of the OT (Septuagint) from Greek or OT in Hebrew to the Latin Vulgate, and also the 27 NT books originally written in Greek to the Latin Vulgate.

   Later, the churches in the Western Roman Empire used the Latin Vulgate with the Eastern Orthodox Empire keeping to the Greek translation.

Councils of Bishops

   All these councils of bishops were set up by God Himself to ensure the removal of wrong doctrines and heresies from His church, the Body of Christ. All those who reject the Apostles Creed, the canonical books as scriptures and the decisions of these councils of bishops have erred and may even be heretic.

In This Sign, Conquer (CW35)

  World War 3 is at Hand

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God prepared Saul a Pharisee of Pharisees to be the apostle of the Gentiles to protect the Gentiles from being coerced into the heretic Judaizers.

    Similarly, before God hands over the Roman Empire and the rest of the world to Christianity, He ensures that His truth and the genuine inspired gospels and apostles' epistles were available to all bishops and Christians.

Vision of the Cross

    Constantine was heavily outnumbered and he was advised to withdraw but there was no doubt in his mind that he would be victorious for on the eve of the battle he'd had a vision. The historian Eusebius described what happened: "He saw with his own eyes in the heavens the Cross arising from the light of the sun, carrying the message _In Hoc Signo Vincesa_ - In This Sign Conquer.

    On October 28 in 312 A.D. Constantine defeated the superior forces of his rival Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge. Immediately, he attributed the victory to the God of the Christians.

the Cross arising from the light of the sun

Mat 5:16  "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven."

   Constantine, having the understanding of the light and love of Christ at the Cross, was commissioned by God to evangelize the whole Roman Empire.

   With great humility he made peace with Emperor Licinius of the Eastern Roman Empire and later with the love and patience of Christ he convinced the powerful Pagan Senate to legalise the Christian religion. So in February 313 AD the Roman emperors Constantine (Western Roman Empire) and Licinius (Eastern Roman Empire), signed the edict of Milan proclaiming religious toleration in the Roman Empire and removed the persecution of Christians.

Mission of Constantine

    The Church generally regarded the definition of doctrine as the responsibility of the bishops; the emperor's role was to enforce doctrine, root out heresy, and uphold ecclesiastical unity.

The Nicene Creed

    In 325 he summoned the First Council of Nicaea, effectively the first Ecumenical Council (unless the Council of Jerusalem is so classified). The Council of Nicaea is the first major attempt by Christians to define orthodoxy for the whole Church.

    Constantine brought together 1,800 faithful, godly and persecuted bishops from around the empire to work out the official doctrine and provide the basis for a unified Church.

   The bishops with the guidance of the Holy Spirit produced the Nicene creed, which summarizes the apostles' preachings and teachings concerning the triune Godhead (Trinity) and the gospel of Jesus Christ. This creed protects the church from early heresies and deviations from orthodox Christian doctrine.

Note.  From the Apostles' Creed:-

1. Arianism, which rejects the triune Godhead, and

2. Judaizers, which adds the works of the Law to the Grace of Jesus, are heretic.

Canon Books of the Bible

   At that time, there were about 50 Gospels (Gospels of Thomas, Marcion, Mary Magdalene, Barnabas, etc.)  and many Epistles which claimed to be holy scriptures. The Council of Laodicea (AD 363) was tasked to canonise this large amount of writings.

    The principles used by the councils to determine whether a New Testament book was truly inspired by the Holy Spirit were fourfold.

First, the author must be an apostle or have a close connection with an apostle.

Second, the book must have been accepted by the body of Christ at large.

Third, the book had to contain consistency of doctrine and orthodox teaching.

Finally, the book had to bear evidence of high moral and spiritual values that would reflect the work of the Holy Spirit as the divine Author.  

   The Council of Laodicea concluded that only the Old Testament (along with the Apocrypha) and the twenty-seven books of the New Testament were to be read in the churches.

With the Apostles Creed, the canon books of the Bible and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit of truth, Christians are well equipped to the knowledge of the truth in His word.