Separating
yourself as completely as is humanly possible from the "world," the
"flesh," and the "devil," and
"Our Ultimate Destiny in Christ."
All the intellectual-elitist, self-glorified ones, limited as they are to three-dimensional thinking, are not able to accept that God is able to transcend the natural order of things, and in fact has done so via what are called "miracles," and via the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
Adam and Eve, prior to “The Fall,” were placed in the Garden of Eden as "glorified physical beings" which means that even though they were physical beings they (1) were made in God's own image and (2) they were in a family relationship with God the Father, and just like God they radiated glory, they shown like the stars of heaven because they were a harmonious blend of five and seven-dimensional realities, and as such they reflected their son/daughter relationship with God, and they were given dominion over the creation of God.
The "physical creation" of God itself is on a lower order of God's creation, i. e., it is not in a "glorified" state. To be glorified means that a created physical being becomes a harmonious blend of five-dimensional reality, i. e., physical, natural-world reality, and seven-dimensional reality, i. e., Spiritual, Kingdom of Heaven reality.
The "Fall of Man" in one fell swoop removed man from his "glorified" status and brought him down to the level of the "natural," five-dimensional creation, in which the light of God's glory went out for him, and lo and behold, he saw that he was naked.
This placed man in a position (via God's plan of redemption conceived before the foundation of the earth) of having to work his way back to his former glorified state via the shed blood of Jesus the Redeemer King.
To understand this, one studies three revelations of the Holy Scriptures: (1) Jesus' return visit with his disciples after his resurrection from the dead, appearing and disappearing at will, and proving to his disciples that he was not a ghost as they had at first thought, but indeed was a "physical" being by eating a piece of dried fish in their presence. And (2) the promise of the Holy Scriptures that "death shall be swallowed up in victory" when we obtain for ourselves a glorified body at the last trumpet when the dead in Christ shall rise first and we which remain shall be caught up together to meet Jesus in the air, "and so shall we ever be with the Lord." The Holy Scriptures tell us we shall be transformed "in the twinkling of an eye" into our glorified bodies, for when we see him "we shall be like him." And (3) after the millennial reign of Jesus' government on the earth, which is then followed by the "great white throne judgment" and the subsequent separating of the sheep from the goats, THE ENTIRE EARTH IS GOING TO BE GLORIFIED! Yes, you heard right, the entire earth is going to be transformed into a harmonious blend of the five-dimensional, natural-world reality, and the seven-dimensional, Spiritual reality.
John the Revelator gives his testimony of the culmination of God's Master Plan in Revelation 21:1-8:
"And I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea.
And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, 'Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God.' (Not possible if the earth was still in its natural state because God's glory presently is more than the natural, five-dimensional world can accommodate. However, when the earth is transformed, i. e., recreated into a harmonious blend of five and seven-dimensional realities, then God and man will walk together just as they did in the Garden of Eden.)
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. And there shall be no death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.
And he that sat upon the throne said, 'BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW.' And he said to me, 'Wright, for these words are faithful and true.'
And he said to me, 'I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of life freely.
He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
But the fearful, the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their place in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.'"
This is the culmination of the journey that God has chosen for mankind to take via “working his way back from ‘The Fall’ to God’s restoration of man’s former glory that he had in the beginning with God in the Garden of Eden.” "The Kingdom of God" (being a harmonious blend of "natural world" and "Spiritual World" realities), is man's destination per God's Master Plan for our ultimate fulfillment as human beings, the sons and daughters of God. Beyond that, only God knows, for it is written, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." (I Corinthians 2:9)
However, Isaiah 35: 8-10 gives us a small hint: “And a highway will be there. It will be called The Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it. It will be for those who walk in the Way (of Holiness). Wicked fools will not go about on it. No lion will be there, nor will any ferocious beast. They will not be found there. Only the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord will return: They will enter Zion with singing. Everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
But man was granted a sovereign will to either choose to follow God's plan, or to follow the plan of the prince of this present, five-dimensional world, which leads mankind into self-destruction via the prevailing mentality of this world. The prevailing mentality of this world is to deny that there is any reality that transcends the present "five-dimensional" reality. "There are no miracles." "There is no God." "If there is a God, all the problems of the world are his fault, so we should hate him anyway." These lies, along with the tendency to capitulate to craven lusts, and the tendency to believe the innumerable "doctrines of devils" that intellectual elitists preach, these lies are the “bible” and the "way of life" for those who follow the "flesh," the "world," and the "devil," battling it out with God for supremacy.
The Holy Word of God says, "The highway of the upright avoids evil; he who guards his way guards his soul." (Proverbs 16:17)
Man's unregenerate flesh, i. e., his unglorified flesh, is the "fallen nature" and hence, is susceptible to the god of this present world, Satan the Devil, if nothing Spiritual via Christ is done to prevent it. If nothing Spiritual via Christ is done to prevent it, the natural order of things, i. e., the "default mode," is for man to sin without ceasing, thus separating himself from God on an ongoing basis.
If, for example, "that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world (Revelation 12:9)," were to become a college professor, his course would be called "The Flesh of Fallen Man" 101. Or "The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Flesh of Man and How to Take Advantage of Both" 101. Satan is the leading expert and professor emeritus extraordinaire in the field of flesh exploitation.
It is axiomatic that the "Kingdom of Heaven World" that the Holiness Christian experiences on a daily basis, can be fully experienced only to the extent that the natural, "five-dimensional world" is rejected.
The natural world (that we are to overcome via Christ) is fueled (as Sigmund Freud and the sorcery community correctly point out) by sexual energy, which competes directly with Spiritual Unction that is the vehicle one must use to extricate oneself from the natural world's sexual vortexes. These vortexes relentlessly pull and tug at the Holiness pilgrim day by day, but the pilgrim who is steadfastly Spiritual is not affected. It is like he or she has turned the dial on a TV set. You tune out of one raucous, destructive channel, and tune into another that is full of harmony in Christ.
We know via the Holy Scriptures, that the glorified body we will inherit via Christ has no sexual orientation, i. e., it is neither male nor female, but complete and whole unto itself.
This doesn't mean that Holiness pilgrims are necessarily celibate. However, there is an interesting difference with the Holiness person's mating experience. There is no evidence of the "law of the jungle," "just crude breading," that takes place in nature in which the males fight it out for dominance over other males to control the female population, where it is just a matter of carnal lust gratification in response to nature's urgings. "When I am hungry I eat." "When I am thwarted I kill."
In contrast, the Spiritual man, operating through Christ, is not the prime mover. Gratification is not a matter of how powerful, gifted or talented the pilgrim happens to be, but rather it is a matter of God's provision. The wife is a gift of God, not a hard won piece of meat that snarling animals have killed each other over.
Some of the "rules of thumb" identifying and "red-tagging" erroneous information and godless behavior by which the Holiness pilgrim may be tripped up, are as follows:
Rule number one: People are not "basically good" as the "politically correct" world teaches you to believe, but rather, all people since Adam and Eve are "born in sin." The purpose of life is to overcome the "fallen nature" that we all inherited from The Fall via Christ.
Therefore, persons you encounter who are controlling, manipulative, threatening, unnecessarily belligerent, coercive and disrespectful of others, are persons who are not only inherently evil, but persons who enthusiastically embrace that evil. They are not misunderstood darlings who have had an unfortunate upbringing. Such persons behave exactly as their father, "that old serpent called Satan and the Devil" behaves, because they, like their father, desire to have as much dominion as possible over the earth and its people, or they desire to follow a leader who seeks to have such dominion and control over the earth and its people.
Rule number two: Jesus of Nazareth said via Matthew 10:16: "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents (be ye therefore 'street wise'), and harmless as doves." A Holiness pilgrim (most of whom are far too trusting, i. e., they aren't 'street wise'), a Holiness pilgrim shouldn't be fooled by the clever use of 666 quality advantages that "evil ones" use to advance their agendas, i. e., charm, sex appeal, charisma, and razor-sharp intellect, because evil persons will use all the talents they possess to advance a selfish, self-deification agenda, advancing the interests of themselves and/or the interests of their "Big Brother will save us" political leaders.
The spirit of antichrist which "evil ones" are allied with seeks a New World Order dictatorship, which will be sold as "utopia" and "peace on earth" for a world wearied by terrorism, strife and uncertainty. Political left-wingers are on the cutting edge of the "Big Brother will save us" mentality that is even now ushering in not only an unconstitutional federal government dictatorship via lawless judges, but eventually a worldwide dictatorship that will lead the world into its final, self-destructive holocaust.
Rule number three: It is in the nature of those who compete with God for dominion over the earth and its people to lie: They cannot help themselves. They must lie because it is the nature of their spiritual father, "that old serpent called Satan and the Devil who deceiveth the whole world" to lie.
Rule number four: Don't be surprised when the wicked prosper, because "The Lord works out everything for his own ends, even the wicked for a day of disaster (Proverbs 16:4)." Money, power, influence and control are some of the gods that "evil ones" worship. They aren't insightful enough to realize that they "can't take it with them when they go," so they build their houses on the "shifting sands" of this world's values, as if the present order of things were going to go on forever. The wicked revel in their pseudo prosperity and in their pseudo happiness for a little while, and then, suddenly, they are gone. They are swallowed up in a moment of time to a place they did not believe in, where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Dante envisioned the sign over the door to their eternal abode to read, "Give up all hope, ye who enter here." A sad end for what were supposed to be the "sophisticated" and the "successful" people of the world.
Rule number five: Beware of cult leaders and potential cult leaders within the Christian church and in the world at large.
There is a simple rule of thumb for evaluating potential or actual cult-leader-mentality people: Cult leaders get their fulfillment from controlling the behavior of other people.
The Holiness pilgrim is led by the Spirit of God, not by men, therefore, true, godly church leaders teach and preach, they do NOT control. Simply stated, the teacher or preacher's job is to lead the parishioner into a walk with God. The parishioner is not a puppet for a sick puppeteer to play with for his or her own personal power-kick which can, and often does, lead to a David Koresh or a Jim Jones type of ministry in which the congregation is led into a death experience, instead of a life experience with God. A life experience with God is the true purpose of the church's teaching and preaching ministry.
A recent incident of a Christian airline pilot with a cult, control-freak mentality was reported in the news February 9, 2004, as follows:
"An American Airlines pilot has some explaining to do after he reportedly asked Christian passengers on his fight to identify themselves and then to talk about their beliefs with other (non-Christian) passengers on the flight. American Airlines is investigating that incident which occurred on a flight from Los Angeles to New York."
If the pilot had any sense, as a true Christian, he would have realized that true Christians are led by the Spirit of God, and it is the job of the Spirit of God to lead Christians in their ministry of witnessing to others, NOT the job a the cult-mentality pilot. The pilot, in effect, was trying to kick God off his place of authority over his fellow Christians, and put himself in God's place.
It cannot be stated emphatically enough, "Cult-mentality people are NOT good at all vis-a-vis the advancement of the Kingdom of Heaven, and therefore, they should be taught the error of their ways, and if they fail to listen, they should be shunned by their fellow Christians."
Rule number six: When one falls to the level of either Playboy Mansion paganism or worshiping at the feet of antichrist power and glory mongers, one becomes an enemy of God because the commandment of God is strict: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me (Exodus 20:3)." And "Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me (of them that serve the gods of the 'world,' the 'flesh,' and the 'devil.') (Exodus 20:5)." Why? Because to love the world is to hate God and vice versa.
The Hugh Hefner case in point was demonstrated vividly on the History Channel on 07-03-03: The program was called "Inside The Playboy Mansion:"
Watching this demonstration of the Hugh Hefner variety of paganism in contemporary America, one comes to understand (if one doesn't understand it already) just how flaky unregenerate women and unregenerate men can be when you see, first, the women coveting above all else on the planet an invitation to get inside the Playboy Mansion, and once inside, they dream of achieving their ultimate accomplishment, that of scoring with Hugh Hefner himself from out of the herd of clamoring females within the mansion, all jockeying to be "it" for the evening, and second, there are the unregenerate male invitees who, understandably (since they have no Spiritual viability), simply cannot resist the allure of brazenly flaunted female sexuality.
To appreciate the significance of the Playboy phenomenon, it is important to understand what is axiomatic here: If a male (in this case Hugh Hefner) has either money, power, influence, glamour, or charm, (and especially money or power), or any combination of these qualities, the impact of such a man's presence in a room renders unregenerate women helpless. They, figuratively speaking, simply fall on their backs and invite the dominant male to have his way with them, competing unashamedly with the other unregenerate females for the privilege of being the preeminent submissive sycophant vis-a-vis the dominant male. Will we ever be able to forget the morality-shattering Monica Lewinsky example?
Hugh, posing as an avant-garde, graciously breaking the stodgy Judeo-Christian traditions of the past (as a favor to all of us), is an expert at exploiting the weaknesses of unregenerate females while at the same time he draws into his web those unregenerate males, who, as they say, "have all their brains in their genitalia."
Both genders caught up in Hefner's web have been reduced by Hef to the level of sophomoric "lust slaves" masquerading as the really "in" people of modern society. They seem to think they've reached the pinnacle of human achievement, when all they have succeeded in doing is deceiving themselves into thinking they can wallow like pigs in a mud hole and make it look glamorous. They don't look glamorous. They look like idiots, fools and clowns. One is compelled to ask of them, "When are any of you ever going to grow up?" "Wake up and smell the coffee" or perish along with "that old serpent called Satan and the Devil who (along with Hef) deceiveth the whole world (Revelation 12:9)."
Little understood by the general population, including the vast majority of professing Christians, is this reality: Two opposite-flowing rivers (the five-dimensional, i. e., sexual-reality stream and the seven-dimensional, i. e., Spiritual-reality stream), are mutually exclusive of each other during this present dispensation (except in the case of "sanctified sexuality" in which the Spirit of Christ is in total charge of the mating experience), and indeed are antagonistic to each other. They are competing streams of awareness, both having multidimensional "intelligence," and they compete with each other like jealous suitors for man's fidelity. The sex drive, of course, may be sanctified, and thus made holy, but this is only realized by those who are joined together under the auspices of God in "holy" matrimony. God is in control of all the aspects of their lives and the resulting sanctification of their sex life is the prime manifestation of the biblical principle of "overcoming the world" via Christ.
The bottom line: When Christ is in charge, ALL THINGS BECOME HOLY per the truth of Titus 1:15: "To the pure (to the holy) all things are pure (all things are holy), but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure (nothing is holy.)" For the saint walking in Holiness, not only the sexual experience, but every experience of the pilgrim and every object of the creation that the pilgrim sets his eyes on, takes on a holy aura, a sanctity, a brilliance not experienced by worldly-minded people, because the Holiness pilgrim is "born again" of the Spirit of Christ.
Sex to the worldly-minded (even when there is a high level of compatibility and harmony between the participants), is on the same level as animals breeding, whereas in contrast, the Christian who is "born again" of the Spirit of Christ is transported above the level of the beast.
The dramatic contrast between "Love" and "Lust" may be demonstrated by contrasting "I Corinthians chapter 13" and the "spirit of lust, coercion and control" that characterizes the "world," the "flesh," and the "devil," as follows:
Those who desire to control the object of their lust, or to exploit the object of their lust, are uncaring animals and slave drivers, whereas those who are sensitive to other's Spiritual needs are illustrative of the Love principle described in I Corinthians chapter 13:
I Corinthians 13 is God's message to us on the proper love relationship between a man and his woman, a husband and his wife, a pastor and his congregation, and Jesus the Living Christ and his church:
"Love suffereth long and is kind. Love envieth not. Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil. Love rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the Truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never faileth. But whether there be prophecies, they shall fail. Whether there be tongues, they shall cease. Whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away."
Understanding the clear distinction between Love and Lust puts the pilgrim in a position to prosper Spiritually via choosing wisely and thereby receiving God and God's blessing into his life.
Once you have successfully extricated yourself from the "Trinity of Evil" that surrounds us in this present world, you are among the most fortunate of human beings: You then experience happiness unequalled by anything the world has to offer. You become an alien and a stranger on the earth, despised by men, but loved of God.
Therefore, the highest calling of man prior to the rapture is to walk hand in hand with Jesus the King and to look forward to our future transformation into the likeness of Christ, having "glorified bodies" and living in God's recreated "glorified world" in fellowship with God, our Heavenly Father, forever (per Revelation chapter 21).
Proverbs 16:17: "The highway of the upright avoids evil; he who guards his way guards his soul."
William A. Gabel, Jr., P. O. Box 184 Wabash, IN 46992
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