Miracle confirm of today's sermon: After I refreshed the page to see today's content, the first new meme that I saw today on MeWe said “How bad do things have to get before YOU do something.” That's confirmation because I had already planned to preach about making a stand against evil.

Exodus 32:25-29 Moses said let those who will stand with me, stand here.

:5 When they claimed that the golden calf was part of their holiday celebration for the true God. Just like people claim that the Christmas tree, Christmas parties, Christmas gifts and Lent, Ash Wednesday, Easter sunrise service and Easter eggs are for Christ.

Numbers 13:27 - 14:24 God told Israel to enter into the promised land within the first 2 months after leaving Egypt, but they were afraid to enter because of the inhabitants of the land. Only Joshua & Caleb wanted to enter in that early and they were rewarded for it, but the rest of the people punished for their cowardice and rebellion.

1 Corinthians 10:21 Shouldn't partake devil's table and God's table both.

Ephesians 5:11 Do not partake with them, and even rebuke them. = We should be passionate about righteousness & wickedness and taking a stand.

Ephesians 6 Amour of God. What good is a soldier of The Lord who fights only defensively, but never on the offense?

James 4:17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Halal: Money from your purchase of halal marked products/services funds terrorism and Islamic mosques.
You are not just buying something. You are supporting a company which sends money to mosques which funds the terrorists.

Google products (search, Gmail, Google Chrome, etc) also funds Islam, homosexual groups, abortion and communism (the Democrat party).
There are good alternatives to every google product.

Disney, Apple and IBM are also demonic companies to boycott as much as possible.

We must take a stand against evil. When we don't, we allow the evil to rule freely without resistance.

Of course, these demonic corporations aren't going to go out of business because of our boycott. We realize that. But at least our personal money won't be funding it. And every click to their websites provides them funding to them via their advertisers. So even if we are not sending money to them, our use of their email service, search service, website browser, etc does absolutely help fund them and encourages them.

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Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/feb-25-2023-take-a-stand-against-evil

February 21, 2023
12-14 days until Purim (March 6-7)

Colossians 2:16-18 holy days point to (fore-shadow) the future.
2 weeks to Purim. Purim pictures/foreshadows the coming Abomination of Desolation and the opening of the 5th seal and the manifestation of “the antichrist” publicly claiming himself to be God.
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Matthew 24 Wars, etc but the end is not yet.
Those are foreshadowings which increase in intensity over the years until the actual main events occur.

Foreshadowings are trumpet calls to prepare.

Ezekiel 33 I am held responsible to blow the trumpet if I see the sword coming.

East Palestine, Ohio trail derailment and explosion.
Water poisoned throughout the south of that town.
The air: There was a major explosion that looked similar to a nuclear blast, so it is possible that the toxins were immediately spread for thousands of miles in the air, not just carried by wind to the east.
“East Palestine” = Nazi code word for Israel.

“White Noise” movie. 2022 Netflix.
“White noise” is sound that people embrace, like and get accustomed to. It drowns out something else, especially stress.
“Distracting commotion/disturbance or sound/chatter/talk”.
Something that is used to distract people from something less welcomed.

Train derailments and explosions occur all of the time, truly daily. But the amount of such is increased by the NWO. It's extremely difficult to be able to tell which ones have been caused by the NWO, and which ones are just normal, or by copycat criminals that want media/news attention.
But social chaos including multiple attacks on infrastructure nationwide has always been part of the Russian/Syrian/Iranian/Chinese/NWO/666 plan as one of the final events to occur before the actual invasion.

Other recent serious developments:
-Marjorie Green calling for national divorce (civil war).
-Russia sent nuclear capable ships into the Black Sea for the first time.
-Both Russia & China claiming that Biden ordered the explosion of the Russian Nord Stream oil pipeline.
-The Chinese spy balloon, or was it really weather balloons, or did it happen at all? Was it only propaganda, or white noise?
-The truth about the fake/toxic “vaccines”, becoming too much truth that the NWO could freak out and dramatically accelerate their plans for WW3, etc.
-Biden preparing to surrender American civil liberties to the Chinese WHO.

Although, I don't really believe that the Abomination of Desolation and the fulfillment of Purim will occur this year, it could, but I don't think so. But rather, I believe that it is more likely to occur at Purim in 2024 or 2025.
But nevertheless, life will become much more difficult in 2023.

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Short notes.
It's important to listen to the sermon audio to get the full context of everything listed here.

John 13:34-35 Compare to the following:

1 John 2:3-15
7-8 Verse 7 says it's not a new commandment. Verse 8 says that it is. These are not contradictions. It's not a new commandment and it says so. But it's new in the sense that Jesus commanded the New Covenant church to take the love deeper.
(Leviticus 19:18 Love was always God's commandment.)
All of God's commandments are based upon love. Love toward Him and love toward people.

Explained in 1 John 3:10-18
Comparison of children of God and children of the devil. We are not all brothers.
All of these verses are specific to deep love and commitment to true brothers and sisters within the true church.
Verse 16 declares that even as Jesus laid down his own life for us, we should also do for each other if it became necessary.

John 15:12-14 No greater love than to die for another person.

Matthew 12:46-50 Who is my true brother and mother?
22:33-40 Love your neighbor as yourself.
On these 2 commandments hang the entire law = means not done away, but rather supported and upheld.

But “brother” in John 13 and 1 John 3 are more intimate words/connection/relationship. Even deeper love than neighbor.

Luke 14:26 Must be willing to forsake anyone/anything for Jesus and our true spiritual family. The church is the body of Christ. We must recognize that when we join into Jesus, we join into his true church. You can't have one without the other.

John 13:34, 14-17 Passover foot washing shows deep, intimate commitment.

Conclusion: Loving each other is not a new commandment. But Jesus was telling us that we must love our true spiritual family much deeper than what the people of the world love their physical families. We must be willing to die for other true church members (the brotherhood), even as a gang member would.

Although some people would find these words upsetting or too radical, any of us, even lost people, should be willing to protect and serve their fellow human brothers/sisters and give their life if necessary. I would for a complete stranger as long as they weren't obviously a son of Satan, wearing 666, etc.
But when we are talking about true Christians, true brothers/sisters, so much more so!

In the Great Tribulation, some Christians will be tortured for information about each other. We must not give information that would cause harm to our brothers/sisters.

Reminder: Worship services February 21 Tuesday for the 1st day of the 12th biblical month.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/feb-18-2023-love-is-not-a-new-commandment

February 11, 2023 (21st day of 11th biblical month)

Deuteronomy 12:29-32 God's command to not have religious holidays except only those that He ordains. He never ordained any of the following.

-St. Valentine's Day = February 14
-Collop Monday and Shrove Tuesday = Feb. 20-21
-Mardi Gras = February 21
-Ash Wednesday = February 22

Valentine's Day: Lupercalia was an ancient pagan festival held each year in Rome from February 13-15.
No one knows the exact origin of Lupercalia, but it has been traced back as far as the 6th century B.C. which celebrates the Roman fertility goddess Lupercus. Roman priests would perform animal sacrifices. Afterwards, they would make use the sacrificed goat's hide/skin to make whips called "februa", which they used to hit naked women.
Young women would line up for the men to hit them, thinking that this would make them fertile.
During the festival, men would pull a woman's name from a jar, to be matched with possibly only for the duration of the festival, or but sometimes for a year, until the next year's festival.

Around 498 AD, Pope Gelasius renamed Lupercalia as St. Valentine's Day to honor a Roman Catholic priest named Saint Valentinus.
No matter what he had done to be honored, true Christians shouldn't celebrate any Catholic priest who has sold his soul to Satan.

The skull of St. Valentine is on display in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Rome. Parts of Valentine's skeleton are on display in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Scotland, England and France.
It's extremely clear that the Catholic Church is a cult of death.

Cupid was known to the Greeks as Eros, the handsome god of love.
Cupid is a false god. Lupercus is also a false god.
Observing Valentine's Day is breaking the 1st Commandment to not have any other gods.

Ash Wednesday: Marks 40 days to Easter (the 40 days of Lent), which we know is named after the Assyrian pagan goddess Astarte/Ishtar, therefore violates the 1st Commandment.
The word Lent means "Spring", therefore it's very clear that it's a pagan celebration of Spring.

The ash is supposed to symbolize mourning for 40 days and fasting/abstaining from something, whatever the person chooses to fast from such as chewing gum or smoking.

Matthew 6:16-18 Jesus condemned publicly disfiguring your face to indicate you were fasting.

Matthew 15:8-9 Jesus said that people worship him with their mouth/words but not with their heart. Their heart is set on traditions of mankind, not God's law.

1 Timothy 4:1-3 Many false Christians fast from meat on Lent, or during the entire Lent and/or on Fridays. Paul warned about cults forbidding meats.

In pagan Nordic religion, putting ashes above the eye brow was believed to ensure the protection of the Norse god, Odin. This practice spread to Europe during the Vikings' conquests. This was done on a Wednesday, on Odin's Day.

In one version of the Babylonian celebration of Easter and Lent, Tammuz was the husband of Easter/Astarte who was slain while hunting a wild boar. They mourned for him through weeping ceremonies for forty days. During the days of Ezekiel this pagan ritual of Lent was found among the Hebrew people.

Ezekiel 8:13-18 Women weeping for Tammuz (40 days of Lent) leading up to the Easter sunrise service.

None of the apostles ever put ashes on their forehead!
African and Indian pagan rituals include ashes on the forehead.

Mardi Gras: It is French for Fat Tuesday. It is the day before Ash Wednesday, when Catholics gorge and carouse before fasting for Lent.
Collop Monday and Shrove Tuesday (from the old English word "shrive," which means to confess all sins) are the 2 days before Lent when Catholics purposely eat very much before fasting. From the name "Shrove" it's clear that these days of gluttony are religious holidays.

Mardi Gras and Carnival are the same celebrations.
Though Mardi Gras technically refers only to Fat Tuesday, the Mardi Gras season actually begins on Epiphany, a pagan holiday celebrated on January 6 that is otherwise known as the 12th Day of Christmas. In Brazil and many other countries, this period between Epiphany and Fat Tuesday is known as Carnival. It's also celebrated in England, Mexico, Spain, Trinidad, France and Germany, and anywhere else that Catholics are found. Not just New Orleans.
The word Carnival means "farewell to the flesh," and comes from the Latin words carnis ("flesh") and vale ("farewell").

In other words, the pagans had the 12 days of pagan Christmas, then the days of Mardi Gras gluttony of sex and food, then the 40 days of fasting for Tammuz, and then the resurrection of Tammuz on Easter. It's all connected and it's all pagan. Easter is not the resurrection of Jesus but of Tammuz, the sex partner of Easter.

Mardi Gras is something Jesus and His apostles would totally reject! It's filled with witchcraft, sexual orgies and homosexuality.

Non religious holidays of February:

Abraham Lincoln's birthday on February 12.

President's Day February 20
(President Washington was born Feb. 22, 1732.
Lincoln was born February 12, 1809.
In some states, President's day celebrates all presidents. Other states celebrate only President Washington on the day. Other states celebrate both Lincoln and Washington on President's Day.
Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, the holiday became popularly known as Presidents' Day after it was moved as part of 1971's Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the nation's workers. While several states still have individual holidays honoring the birthdays of Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other figures, Presidents' Day is now popularly viewed as a day to celebrate all US presidents, past and present.)

Abraham Lincoln is celebrated as a hero for freeing black slaves in the American Civil War. But the reality is that the Civil War was not fought primarily over slavery, but rather over authority and communism.
Socialist/Communist revolutions had spread over Europe in the 1800s. Abraham Lincoln and his administration embraced communist people and communist behavior. For most of Lincoln's life, he did not believe in God, a behavior of many communists. He didn't believe that white people and black people are equal. He did not believe that black slaves should be freed. But he embraced the political game of freeing black people for political purposes. We will soon release a new article which will give many facts that have been hidden from people. History has been rewritten by the communists so that people will believe what they want them to believe. Not the truth. Please wait for that article to be released soon, so that you can examine these historical facts.

True Holidays: Feb. 21 = 1st day of 12th month
Purim March 6-7 Monday and Tuesday.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/feb-11-2023-pagan-ash-wednesday-valentines-day

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Please listen to the entire sermon to receive better understanding of the message.

Ezekiel 38 The Gog Magog War
Timing cannot be after the 100 years that comes after the 1000 years.
Ezekiel 39 says that it will take 7 years to burn weapons and 7 months to find all of the body fragments. Such activity would not occur during Paradise which occurs after the 1100 years.
Ezekiel 39:11 Gog will be buried. So Putin can't be the main Son of Perdition (called “antichrist”).

Testimony of the sign I was carrying in 2008.

Daniel 11:41 Antichrist invades Israel and Egypt.

Revelation 11:2 Invasion of Israel by gentile nations.

Matthew 24 Time worse than ever before, including worse than WW1/2. So that would require WW3 and massive invasions of populated areas and much death.

Much of Jeremiah, Ezekiel foreshadows end time events.

COVID created as biological weapon (4th seal: Revelation 6:7-8) for the purpose of future invasion of USA. BLM, Antifa, Biden, all these also plans of Syria, Iran, Russia & China to weaken America for future invasion.

Chinese spy balloons.

South China Sea. Taiwan, Ukraine, Syria, Iran. Many battlefields capable of sparking WW3, so it's very ignorant and arrogant to think that WW3, including invasion, is a long time away or won't happen.

Dream of Ehud about Ukraine.

Dream reports of Chinese/Russian invasion, many people reported these to me.

Why the UK, USA, Australia and others deserve what's coming to them.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/feb-04-2023-invasion-by-china-russia-against-usa-allies

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Death, Heaven and Hell, The Real Hidden Truth
January 28, 2023
Short notes.
It's important to listen to the actual sermon, as many other important things were also said.

Psalm 146:4 in that very day his thoughts perish.

Psalm 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD.

Isaiah 38:18 The grave cannot praise God.

Ecclesiastes 9:5-10 Dead know nothing and have no reward yet.
12:7 dust to dust. Spirit to God. But God is everywhere, not just in Heaven.

John 3:13 And no man has gone to Heaven.

Acts 2:29 David, that he is both dead and buried = Not walking around eating grapes in Heaven!

Acts 2:34 David didn't go to Heaven.

Acts 7:59 Stephen went to sleep.

1 Cor. 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
1 Cor. 15:51 We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

1 Thes. 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

The 1st Resurrection is the Resurrection of the Saints (those that have been called in this life, heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ and accepted that calling and stayed faithful until the death or until the Coming of The LORD). 1 Cor. 15.

Rev 20 Two resurrections and the second death, which demands a second life.

Matthew 19:28 "And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the NEXT LIFE when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
30 but many that are first shall be last and the last shall be first."

20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen."

1 Cor. 5:5 "To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus".
Proves people get saved in the 100 years after the Second Resurrection.

Proof of Short Season being 100 years
Isa. 65:17-20
Isa. 65:20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed (cut off/destroyed).

The Rewards of the Righteous and of the Wicked
Malachi 4:1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

Matt. 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Rev. 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev. 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

What about the man on the cross in Luke 23:43 and Jesus said to him, Today you will be with me in Paradise?
Read that again my friend. In the original writings, there was not a comma. So if the comma was inserted in the wrong place, it would make all the difference in the world. Instead, we should read it like this: "Verily I say unto you today (right now), You shall be (will be, future tense) with me in Paradise."

Bullinger's Companion Bible notes says; "I Say unto thee today". "Today. Connect this with "I Say", to emphasize the solemnity of the occasion; not with "shalt thou be". See the Hebraism in note on Deut. 4:26. .....Punctuation also as we have it to-day is entirely absent... The text reads on without any divisions between letters or words until MSS. of the ninth century...when there is seen for the first time a single point which separates each word. None of our modern marks of punctuation are found until the ninth century and then only in the Latin versions and some cursives. ...From this it will be seen that the punctuation of all modern editions of the Greek text and of all versions made from it, rests entirely on human authority and has not weight whatever in determining or even influencing the interpretation of a single passage. ..."

Is there another verse in the bible that tells us whether or not that man did go to Heaven that day? Yes! He did not go that day and neither did Jesus that day! Notice: John 20:17 "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God."

Paradise is not Heaven. Paradise was the Garden of Eden, and will be the entire new universe after the 1,100 years.

Matthew 10:28 Destroy soul in The Lake of Fire.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Two opposites! Unrepentant sinners can't have eternal life because eternal life is the gift of God for the saints. Eternal death is the reward of the wicked.
Eternal Fire & death. The punishment is eternal in the sense that it is eternal death, the 2nd death, but not eternal punishing.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/jan-28-2023-death-heaven-hell-the-hidden-truth

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Brief Sermon Notes: Sabbath Legalism
Jan. 22, 2023 (1st day of 11th biblical month)
Brief Notes only.
It's important to listen to the entire sermon audio because there's a lot of very important things said that are not in the notes.

Luke 5:27-39
Luke 6:1-11
-Jesus picked wheat on the Sabbath, which the Pharisees, the expert of law, considered as breaking the Sabbath.
-David ate of the sacred bread reserved for only the priests.
-Lord of The Sabbath.
ALL 3 points that I remembered, are in the same passage! I didn't know that it would be until I searched for the scripture and found all 3 in the same passage!

Luke 14:1-6 Pulling person, car or ox out of the ditch/well/hole on the Sabbath day.
Pulling an ox out of a bad situation would be a lot of work!

Yesterday, on the 7th day, I was speaking to brother Jared about a plan to eventually sometime in the future, make a path way of rocks in the side of our yard where grass refuses to grow and is always extremely muddy. I said that we would need to get some wood to put on the side of the path to prevent the rocks from being washed away down the hill.
Immediately after this conversation, we walked from the yard onto the front porch and sat down and I looked over and saw across the street a stack of nice wood! I couldn't believe my eyes! I knew immediately that we had to go grab this wood before someone else gets it. It was being thrown away and it is probably over $200 worth of wood. We went across the street and checked with the property owner to ensure that the wood is being thrown away and they confirmed that we could have it. We immediately grabbed the wood and brought it back with us to the house. With both brother Jared and myself and the help of our car, we were able to get all of the wood very easily and very quickly. It didn't take much energy, time or effort. It wasn't work for money. It wasn't work for another person. It wasn't an attempt at eventually receiving any money or employment. It wasn't interfering with sabbath worship or a day of rest.
Instead, it was seizing the blessings and provisions being granted to us by Jesus.
If we had delayed, it would had been taken by other neighbors or other men driving by. This is an absolute fact that I am 100% sure of. It would not had been there tomorrow. We had to get it right there and then as an emergency seizure of blessings.
Manna was promised to be there every day. I didn't have any promises of this expensive wood being there tomorrow. I had to exercise wisdom and quick judgment, which is the responsibility of a leader. Leaders can't sit and think about every decision for hours or days. There's a time when a decision must be made immediately and I am confident that I have God's approval on this decision to grab the wood before anyone else grabs it.

Galatians 3:17
Many Old Covenant laws, including limits on picking up sticks and starting fires were extra laws added onto the people because of their disobedience to keeping the Sabbath and other laws. God never meant for the Sabbath to be a burden, or troublesome, or difficult, or a restriction against hot food, or warmth on a cold day. Such troubles resulted because of extra rules that were added because the people needed extra rules to get them under control. Even in the same way that prisoners and children need extra rules after a violation.

(But the law of the Sabbath and all other 10 Commandments, Holy Day and tithes all existed before Moses was even born. We see those laws in effect in Genesis 26:5 Abraham kept God's laws and commandments. Sabbaths, tithes, commandments, holy days, were all part of the original law taught to Adam and Eve.)

1 Timothy 1:1-10 The Law is not for the righteous, but for the sinner.
This doesn't mean that law doesn't exist.
And it's not license for the righteous to sin, or else they wouldn't be righteous.

Romans 6:1-2 Shall we continue in sin so grace may abound? No!

Miracle Confirmation:
“There are exceptions to the law” and the explanation of running the red light or stop sign when necessary, Is what I heard when I checked the audio of our 24/7 broadcast tonight, when I came downstairs to the office to begin working on the sermon. It was part of the recorded sermon about the Maccabees, who also decided to fight on the Sabbath when necessary.

Orthodox Jews and some Hebrew Roots Torah cults don't even turn on electrical lights or drive a car on the 7th day. This is extreme legalism.

Warning: Shouldn't be used as an excuse to work every Sabbath day. The Sabbath is the Sabbath. It's the commanded and appointed day to rest and worship and gather. The type of exceptions to the Sabbath that I am talking about is just a few minutes. Not 4 hours or 8 hours.

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Ephesians 4:17-24 Casting off the old self and futility of mind.
5:6-17 Rise from your spiritual sleep.

Change is part of maturing, which is something that adults must do, not just children, especially in this modern world.
Growing in Christ and as a person is extremely important.

James 1:22-24 Don't be like a person who looked in the mirror but forgot what he saw and didn't make any change. (Or changed worse rather than better.)

James 2:14-26 Be a doer of the word and not a hearer only.
This requires change. It's different from most Christians who only hear but do nothing.
To them, church is only entertainment, something to do.

Matthew 12:46-50 Who is my mother or brother, but he that does the will of my Father.
This requires a change of lifestyle of following our own will, to follow his will instead. But putting God first in all things. All things. All things!

Acts 2:37-38 Repent and be baptized.
Repentance is real change. Not just being sorry for what you did. Not just confessing. But changing.

John 4:21-24 The Father is seeking/searching for people who will worship Him in both Spirit and Truth. Not just one or the other, but both!
In spirit requires zeal/passion. Not complacency. Not as the lukewarm Laodiceans of Rev. 3.

Revelation 3:14-22 Lukewarm water is stationary, stagnant. Such water breeds bacteria.
Hot water in ancient times was moving water from a hot spring, or moving from being boiled or simmered. Hot water is usually clean.
People need to change from being lukewarm to being passionate about truth.
Not just about believing that they are saved. But about truth.

After reading Hebrews 4:9 "keeping of the Sabbath Day remains for the people of God", how can any traditional Sunday person continue to believe in Sunday churches and Sunday pastors?
There's no biblical change in the Sabbath. Therefore that makes all of those churches and those pastors and those congregations either ignorant of the bible, or else blatantly rebellious sinners. Either way, that's not acceptable.
Must also be willing to change to rest and worship on the true Sabbath day, in addition to stop going to the false sabbath and "no sabbath" churches.
Tithes: Same thing, must have faith to trust God to provide if we don't work on the Sabbath, and if we have God what He wants, the first in all things, even as Abraham did before and apart from Moses.

Halal Mark: After learning about it, a true Christian is not only willing, to actually passionate about boycotting marked products. Because a true Christian won't do anything to support Islam in any way, shape or form. No compromise!

A couple of months ago, I determined that I had clogged arteries. I made sufficient changes to improve this. I started walking very fast for a full mile on the tread mill every day to burn off excess calories and thin my blood and clear the arteries. Although in recent days, I have been slacking in using the tread mill, I have still remained very active while maintaining the changes that I had made in my diet.
I had stopped drinking as much sweet tea, and I had stopped eating as much processed meats.
And I plan on returning to the tread mill very soon, as well as getting outside more when possible, weather permitting. I had also increased intake of certain herbs and vitamins.
I was willing to make enough significant changes to completely reverse all of my symptoms.

The same is true about our spiritual health. What we allow in our ear gates and eye gates. Television evangelists and local traditional denominational preachers who are twist the word of God.
The blind leading the blind.
Shouldn't we want to see the truth?
Shouldn't we want to hear the truth?
Shouldn't we want teachers that know the truth and who accept it and teach it?

2 Timothy 4:1-5 People gather themselves to preachers who tickle their ears. Preachers who teach easy living. No sacrifice. No suffering. No offense. No disfellowshipping anyone.
No taking up the cross of death. No denying self. No forsaking anyone. The easy way. That's the broad way to destruction.

Revelation 18:4 says "Come out of her my people". That's not talking about leaving a city.
It's spiritual. It's talking about leaving false religion.
God requires change. Big change.
When the true God is introduced to you, you can't stay the same, if you truly care about salvation and what's true.

There's a phrase "anything worth having is worth fighting for".
Another phrase is "no pain, no gain".
Another phrase is "when things get tough, the tough get going".

Miracle Confirmation: This morning when I checked the audio of our 24/7 online broadcasting, the first thing I heard was "the changed person".

Full Sermon Audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/jan-21-2023-change-required

Reminder: Tomorrow, Sunday Jan. 22 is 11th New Moon.
Services at 11 a.m. Eastern Time.

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Most “Christians” think that God has already appointed/predestinated the date and time of their death. Is that really true?
It’s a very popular/common expression “If I die today/tomorrow, it was God’s will”. But is that really true?
Is the death, and time, and manner of death, already decided by God?
And is every death the will of God?
Especially the death of every Christian?
What does the bible really say about this?

Verses commonly used:
Psalm 139:16 in NIV: “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
“all the days ordained”: could also be “the days (the life) that were formed for me”.

KJV: “Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”

Darby: Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all my members were written; during many days were they fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

NASB95: Your eyes have seen my unformed substance;
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.

Point is: It’s a very difficult verse to translate and it could very easily be saying only that God has appointed life for him. Not necessarily an exact number of days. Other verses must be used to ensure correct understanding.

Job 14:1-5 Only means that we are not immoral. That all mankind dies unless we are alive when Jesus returns. Even if it sounds like it is teaching that God has determined a specific length of time, we must consider the entire bible before making our final conclusion. All verses must be considered to get the correct result of true understanding.

Ecclesiastes 3 “A time to be born, and a time to die” only means that these events occur. “A time” does not refer to a specific date. In no way can this verse be used to teach appointed time. It’s twisting of scripture.

Now let’s examine some other scriptures:

1 Kings 17:17-24 Elijah raised the dead.
If the boy had died on the date that God had determined, then Elijah’s rising of the boy would had been reversing God’s decision.

2 Kings 20:1-7 King Hezekiah. There’s no mention of judgment being related to his sickness and death. It seems that it was just normal deadly sickness.
But God granted him 15 more years because of his request.
His date of death had not been predetermined.
God was able to make his death early or later dependent upon the actions and the requests of Hezekiah and not upon predestination.

When David commanded the murder of Bathsheba’s husband, that wasn’t the plan of God. David was punished for it. This shows that the manner of death and the date of date of the man wasn’t predetermined or decided by God.

Leviticus 10:1-2 When the 2 sons of Aaron the Priest, when God killed them because of them offering unclean fire on the altar, it wasn’t predetermined before the foundation of the world that they would sin and then be killed for it. They could had lived much longer except for their own foolish actions.

Deuteronomy 30:14-18 Obedience to God's law increases length of years. Therefore God has not already predetermined the length of our years and the date and cause of our death unless we are allotted special appointment destiny.

Bible says “do not murder”, yet people are murdered every day. Is it God’s will, and God’s plan in predestination for the manner of death of murder and the date of murder, every day for thousands of murderers to break that commandment? Of course not!

Acts 4:32 to 5:10 The woman and man killed by God for lying about withholding the money from the sale of their house, their date and method of death had not been predetermined by God. They could had lived much longer except for their own foolish actions.

Vitamins, diet, eating healthy, exercise choices, free will to live longer.
Bad choices of poor diet and no exercise is your own choice and results in an earlier death because of your own fault. You can’t rightfully claim that it was God’s will, or that it was your time to die.
Lung cancer from smoking wasn’t planned by God and the date of such death is not God’s plan or his will.

Of course, God can and does sometimes protect people from death, thereby delaying their death, as in my situation the other day in the tornado.
And He also does sometimes kill people as punishment or end their life out of mercy. All 3 of these situations occur in the bible. He does sometimes determine if a person will live or die that day, or that year, or that decade. But we can’t truly and accurately prove that God has an appointed predetermined date & manner of death for every person or every Christian.

Of course, He knows when and how it will happen because He saw the end from the beginning, and that might be written in one of his books/scrolls. But that’s not the same as having been chosen by God, or the will of God for the person to have died that day, in that way.
So Job 14 and Psalm 139 could actually be referring only to what was written because of what God knew, having seen the end from the beginning, but not necessarily his will or his absolute plan.

The phrase “Only God can judge me” can be translated “leave me alone and let me sin in peace.”

“If I die today or tomorrow, it’s God’s will” is a very carnal, worldly, sinful phrase used by people in the same context/purpose as people who say “Only God can judge me”. It means that they don’t want to be told what to do. It means that they are going to do it their way, not God’s way and they don’t care what logic or truth that you have shared with them. It shows the spirit of rebellion, lawlessness and stubbornness.

Masks and gloves for the coming new extremely dangerous epidemic:
It’s childish and foolish to live freely without any restrictions or precautions in the midst of a pandemic. Other people’s blood will be on your own hands because of foolish lack of responsibility, wisdom, caution, care and love.
People who are already currently infected with a very serious disease and walking around inside public buildings without a mask, are irresponsible and should be arrested and thrown in prison for murder.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/jan-14-2023-appointed-date-of-death-if-i-die-tomorrow-gods-will

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2 Timothy 4:1-4 People heap to themselves false teachers who tickle their ears, give them a “feel good” message.

Most Christians typically/generally have a false ideal of what Jesus was like, because the false churches and false preachers are actually very ignorant of the bible.
Today, I am going to share several bible verses that most Christians don’t realize are in the bible, and which contradicts the traditional “image” of Jesus that they have in their minds.

Matthew 5:17-19 The 10 Commandments not removed or changed, contrary to “tickle the ear” doctrines.
They are trying to “baby” the people, teach them that there is no responsibility or requirements or law or commandments. Lawless. Just “do as you want” which is Buddhism and atheism.

7:5-6, 1 “Do not judge” is always taken out of context. The context shows very clearly that Jesus was talking about not judging hypocritically before we clean up our own lives. But after you do clean up your own life, then you can judge and help others. But don’t cast your pearls of great truth to worthless people who treat the truth as trash.

Jesus called people pigs, hypocrites, snakes, dogs and fools. Direct opposite of the traditional false image of Jesus that doesn’t point out sin, never condemns, doesn’t insult, doesn’t offend.

Some people think that my image/idea of Jesus is only wrath/anger. No way! I fully understand and cherish God’s mercy, love and grace. But it’s wrong to ignore his anger, and his commandments and many of his words. We must consider all of the scriptures, all of it! Not just only the “baby feel good” verses.
Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom!

Matthew 7:21-23 False traditional Christians and their leaders do not know the true Jesus. They work at breaking the law, and teach others to do so also.
There is truly a time of judgment coming, and this verses reveals that the judgment is coming to people who firmly believe that they are saved! Not just people who never believed.

10:11-15 Remove blessing/peace from people who don’t accept the truth.
:34-39 Jesus did not come to bring peace, but a sword, and to cause division within families.
For true salvation, we are required to crucify our former/previous self and surrender much to Christ. Following Christ in the truth requires very much, not just one prayer.

Luke 14:16-26 Must be willing to forsake anyone/anything for Christ if necessary. This would include wives, husband, children, parents, homes, land, jobs, etc.

Matthew 15:6-9 Jesus does not accept all worship. The sacrifice of worship must be acceptable. Not all worship is acceptable.

Deuteronomy 12:29-32 Don’t add pagan worship to what God has commanded. Christmas, Easter and Sunday was never commanded by God, nor observed by the disciples and apostles. Plain and simple. This is very simple and easy to understand, but people use every excuse that they can think of to add unclean pagan worship to our Holy GOD!
We absolutely can’t take unclean Christmas, Easter and Sunday and worship our Holy God with these unclean, pagan things.

Matthew 19:16-24 Jesus told the rich man to sell everything and give it away. Although this isn’t a requirement for every person, this verse and other verses does show that in general, for most people, it is God’s will for people to be minimalists.
It’s better to spend more money on the gospel and helping other people, rather than enriching ourselves in material/physical possessions.

21:12 Jesus threw and over turned tables in a great fit of rage/anger.

Revelation 19:7-18 righteousness according to the law.
Jesus will return in a great fit of rage/anger.
:8 “righteousness according to the law” not according to grace.
:11 He judges and wages war.
:13 His robe soaked in the blood of his enemies. (Isaiah 63:1-6)
:15 wrath = anger. He’s not coming back washing feet or shaking hands. But rather in intense anger.

Hebrews 4:8-9 Requirement of 7th day Sabbath still remains.

All of these verses paint a completely different image of Jesus in our minds/heads than what is traditionally taught. Yes He is merciful and has much grace and love. But let us see the complete picture of God, not just a very narrow inaccurate picture. We love God for all of his characteristics including the fact that He punishes those people who deserve it. The world is full of wickedness. We can take comfort that He will will destroy the wicked and the lawless.
We can take comfort in the fact that there are many requirements to true salvation and not just one prayer and faith alone. Because not everyone is worthy of The Kingdom. If God allowed all traditional Christians into The Kingdom, then The Kingdom would be greatly corrupted and unclean.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/jan-07-2023-real-jesus-vs-false-jesus-characteristics

Copyright 2023 I Saw The Light Ministries
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Dec. 31, 2022 (8th day of 10th biblical month)

Proverbs 14:15 The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
:15 “simple” = innocent/blameless as in a little baby child. “Simple” change to “Simple minded”.
“prudent man” = clever person
“betakes himself to after-thought” = reconsiders = “rethinks (every claim)”.

Michelle Obama as a man, flat Earth, Nibiru, Sunday Sabbath, No Sabbath, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Trinity, living forever in Heaven or Hell, not judging, pre-tribulation rapture, YHWH and many other silly doctrines/teachings, can all be very easily proven wrong with just a little bit of logic and critical thinking.

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Acts 17:10-11 Bereans examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

2 Corinthians 10:5 Destroying speculations and every lofty/high/elevated thing raised up against the knowledge of Theos

Colossians 2:8 Wrong philosophy and empty deception

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things

2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.

2 Timothy 2:15-18 Present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth, and avoid worldly and empty chatter

1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world!

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/dec-31-2022-critical-thinking-importance-of

Copyright 2022 I Saw The Light Ministries
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Millions of Chinese have been infected. Many people are dying.
The events of Jan. - March 2020 are being repeated.
The government of China has released another bioweapon.
This is because the Republicans are soon to take over the House of Representatives in the USA, weakening the power of Biden and the communist Democrat party.
This biological bioweapon will kill many Americans and other people worldwide, especially white men and also people with already weak immune systems such as those vaccinated.
For people that don't already know it, the fact is, we have documentation that C0VID-19 was engineered in a Chinese lab and released on purpose as a genocide weapon, in preparation of a Chinese/Russian/Iranian/Syrian invasion of America, Australia and Europe (the Israelite tribe nations.) www.isawthelightministries.com/manasseh.html
The Chinese military declared (and we have proof of it) that they want the land of America for only the "yellow race" of people. They also declared that they would use bi0logical warfare to help accomplish their goals. All of this is documented.
For you people who don't believe that the virus is real, why did such a huge number of elderly people die in the nursing homes across Europe and America in 2020?
C0VID is not a normal flu. It contains parts of the HIV virus and other viruses. Even some young healthy people died from it before the very dangerous toxic v a c c i n e was released as another genocide b i 0 w e a p o n.
Everything that I have said is documented and undeniable for people who really, sincerely want the truth. www.isawthelightministries.com/chinese.html

Soon, factories will close and many supplies will be impossible to find, just like it was in 2020.
Therefore, it is time to stock up on supplies now!
Mask mandates and quarantines and restrictions will return soon as it was in 2020, and perhaps worst this time.
Many more people will die from this new epidemic than in 2020 because many people took the toxic v a c c i n e.

I encourage you to immediately start eating dandelion leaf and taking vitamin D supplements.
Use disposable plastic gloves in public.
Wash your hands often.
Try your best to avoid public toilets.

And yes, wear masks in crowded public places, because it's possible that China made this new virus more infectious.
I understand that masks do not work to prevent 100% spread. But they do work to limit spread to some amount, even if it is a very small amount.
Something is better than nothing.
I have not worn a mask in a very long time. But this new epidemic is very dangerous and unknown.
We don't yet know what they have released. Using extra caution is wise.

Expect Biden to go to extraordinary means/measures to maintain his dictatorship.
Our near brother, Apostle Ehud, had previously seen a dream of Biden using n u c l e a r in the Ukraine.
We don't know when.

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I send this newsletter because I love you and care for you.

Stay safe in Jesus Name,
Apostle Zimmerman
I Saw The Light Ministries

December 24, 2022
(6th day of Hanukkah and 1st day of 10th biblical month)

Proverbs 1:1-7 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
:4 subtlety = cleverness/craftiness
:7 piety = devotion

:29-33 The unwise do not accept the corrections from God.
And they don't follow God's will, but rather their own will.

In these modern times, everyone thinks that they are wise. LOL!
They don't know what wisdom is! Not everyone is wise. It's not automatic.
In earlier generations, they understood that wisdom was for select groups of people. The old people are the most likely to be wise because they have lived much longer and hopefully have learned many lessons. But they are not automatically wise just because of their age.
Some people are gifted with wisdom. Some people are not. Some people are gifted with more wisdom than others.
People who haven't suffered much are not able to be as wise as someone who really suffered.
Wisdom comes from age, experience and suffering, and/or as a spiritual gift. Wisdom is greater than common sense. If a person is wise, they can figure things out for themselves. They don't need to ask other people. Yes they will listen and learn. They have perfected listening and learning. But they then progress to being able to teach themselves or learn directly from God without needing humans to teach them if they have much great wisdom.
Spiritual wisdom about the bible, God, angels etc is a special heavenly gift and is not common.
A person can be intelligent, but not wise.

There are degrees of wisdom. If no person has ever told you that you are wise, then you are not "very wise" because wisdom shows; people will recognize it and tell you. If at any time, anyone tells you that you are not wise or that you are lacking in wisdom, it's probably true, because people see that too. (This is different from the phrase "I don't think that's wise", when people disagree with a decision or action. But rather, I am talking about the phrase "you are wise" versus "you lack wisdom".)

If at any time of your life, you believed in flat earth or planet Nibiru, you lacked wisdom.

Knowledge is what you know, what you have heard/read.
It doesn't automatically mean that you are smart or intelligent.

Intelligence isn't a measure of how much we know. It's a measure of how much we understand. “Knowledgeable people know things. Intelligent people know how to interpret, analyze, and apply things.”
Intelligence is "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills."

You can know a lot of things and still not be very intelligent because you have heard things, but not fully understood them, or not able to teach them to other people.

Wisdom is the ability to naturally understand things.
A person can be wise without having much intelligence.
Wisdom is "the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment."
To be wise is to have deep insight and understanding.
Wisdom is “the ability to discern or judge what is true or right.”
Knowledge is knowing how to use a gun. Wisdom is knowing when to use it and when to keep it in the holster.
Many people have the knowledge that Christmas is pagan but most of them don't have the wisdom to understand that it doesn't honor Jesus. But it is also the lack of willingness to obey God.
However, the understanding that Christmas does not truly honor Jesus doesn't automatically prove wisdom. That could just only be a better willingness to obey God, not necessarily wisdom itself.

Intelligence requires a basic level of understanding.
Wisdom requires an upper level of understanding.
Wisdom needs the accumulation of knowledge and understanding over a longer period of time than intelligence, or else be gifted with it.
There might be a person of age 14 who is highly intelligent. But the same person would not normally be wise unless gifted from God.
Wisdom is something that you would hope to find in the oldest people and in leaders.

Proverbs 6:6-9 Consider the ant and prepare harvest for bad times for the future.

Matthew 25 The wise prepare supplies for the Great Tribulation, but the foolish do not. (But preparing doesn't automatically make you wise. You might be doing it only out of fear or just copying other people.) But the wise will definitely prepare for the future.
Pre-tribulation rapture doctrine is not a doctrine of the wise.

Matthew 25 Only the wise will be in the 1st Resurrection.

A baby in Christ is saved, but not yet mature, strong or wise. That baby in Christ won't enter the 1st Resurrection until he/she becomes wise, strong and mature and holy and without sin.

Wisdom = more of Christ.
Different measures of Christ (The Holy Ghost) in each saved person.

If a person is truly called by God to be a leader or teacher or preacher, then, He will absolutely be given the gift of wisdom.

James 1:5 “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”

But that would require first admitting/confessing a lack of wisdom, which means humbling self which is very difficult for most people.
And must not be because of prideful “self will” of desiring positions of offices/administration/leadership that are not ordained for themselves.
Too many people seeking the office of teacher, elder, leader, evangelist without the calling of God.
Pride and humidity.
Not everyone is extremely intelligent, smart or wise. Yet most people will claim to be all 3. It's refreshing when I meet people who confess that they are not very smart, because that shows that they are humble. It's better to be a person who isn't very smart but humble, than to be a very intelligent prideful person.

It's okay to be less smart than some other people.
Not everyone is a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist.

1 Corinthians 1:17-31 Jesus is Wisdom. God called the people in this world that are not well educated, people who are poor, people who are not in great positions of power. We are the underdogs, the outcasts. It's okay to admit that we are not the most well educated; or that we are not the most intelligent.
:17 Paul wasn't against baptism, or against wisdom. He was just saying that he was so busy preaching/teaching that he had other servants of the church, deacons, to baptize the people while he focused on preaching and evangelism.
2 Corinthians 2:1 Paul recognized that the false wisdom of the world and fancy long words wasn't needed.

A younger person who hasn't been saved but just only a few months or a couple of years, would be lacking in wisdom in comparison to an elder/older person who has been truly saved for many years and has suffered much in life with many experiences.

1 Kings 3:6-11 Solomon asked for wisdom and God gave it to him. But first, Solomon humbled himself and basically said that he was stupid “I don't even know my coming and going”. Also, he asked for wisdom the purpose of being able to lead the people because God had already told him to lead the people. It wasn't out of pride or his own plans and own desires. We must be able to crucify our pride and our own will. We must not seek an office that we are not called for. If GOD or his church administration puts you there, so be it. But we shouldn't seek power (the chief seats) of our own accord/will.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/dec-24-2022-difference-between-wisdom-knowledge-and-intelligence

Copyright 2022 I Saw The Light Ministries
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2022 Hanukkah Message
Dec. 19, 2022 (25th day of 9th biblical month)

1 Maccabees 1:1 to 2:44
2:64 to 3:12
4:52-61

Rev. 12:9 declares that the entire world is deceived.
Everything is upside down.
History has been rewritten.
They have made the criminals heroes, and the heroes criminals.

Jesse James read his bible often. He respected people and treated people good. He lived in a time when it was necessary to take things into their own hands, and when every man needed a gun to protect himself, his family and his neighbors.
Armed gangs from the north and from Kansas was murdering and robbing the people in the south and in Missouri where Jesse lived. Those criminals worked in cooperation with the northern and Kansas union soldiers and government, and with the banks and railroad people.
The banksters and railroad people were murdering people, robbing people, stealing their land, their farms, their cattle and their homes. To bring the new railroads into more territory, they would forcefully take the land and give the people only $1 per acre, which was not a fair market value. If they refused to accept the money, many of them were murdered or else forcefully removed from their land.
Jesse James killed criminals, thieves, murderers. He was greatly honored and respected by the citizens.
When he robbed banks and trains, he was only taking back what was already stolen from the people.
He gave much of the money back to the people and helped people in need. He was a good man. He didn't have any evil intent.
He was the Maccabee of his time.

The Maccabee family was in the same situation of fighting guerrilla warfare tactics against evil people who sought to change the way of life of the local citizens. The father of the Maccabee father told his sons to avenge the suffering of the people and to fight back.
Although the bible repeatedly says to not take your own revenge, the reality is that there are exceptions depending upon the context of each event.
When we honor Hanukkah, we are honoring men that took revenge against wickedness and God honors these men also.
These people lived in a different time, a different world than today. They did what they had to do. They weren't evil.

https://isawthelightministries.com/hanukkah.html

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/dec-19-2022-jesse-james-the-maccabee-of-the-confederacy-hanukkah-2022

Dec. 17, 2022 (23rd day of 9th biblical month)

Jude verse 5 (Page 258 of The AOB) replacing "The Lord" with "JESUS".
The name Jesus in this verse is in the Codex Vaticanus, which the AOB is based mostly on, and is the oldest most complete ancient bible. Also in the Latin Vulgate.

1 Corinthians 10:1-5
:4 "the rock was Christ". Paul understood that "The Logos/Word" Jesus is the same God of the Exodus.

John 8:12-19 (Page 111) 'He who follows me does not walk in darkness. I am the light of the world'.
Jesus was the pillar/column of fire leading the people across the Red Sea all night long during "The Night to Be Much Observed".

Philo (who wrote the book of Hebrews), in his other writings outside of the bible, said that The Logos was the pillar/column of fire at the Red Sea and in the wilderness.

:19 Jesus is saying that He is The Father.

This revelation of Jude 5 is a confirmation of last week's sermon that God is not 2 or 3 persons/beings, but rather only one and the same being/person with more than one part, just like humans also have more than one part.

(Divine confirmation: Brother Jared brought up Daniel 3:24-25, Jesus (the Son of God) was present in the fire furnace. Earlier this same morning, I emptied ashes from our fireplace, and those ashes were still a little hot. Eventually those ashes got much hotter and I had to put water on them. When I was pouring the water, the hot ashes spewed upwards in a pillar/column of fire and ash cloud and smoke, representing the pillar of fire and cloud in the wilderness, but I didn't realize it yet. The fireplace represents the fire furnace in Daniel 3. Until Jared brought up Daniel 3, I had not yet told him about how hot the ashes had become after emptying them from the fireplace. I had told him that it was smoking just a little. But at that time, they had not yet become extremely hot and I had not yet poured the water. He also didn't know the sermon topic.
Also, I used this fireplace all last winter, and thus far this cold season, without this ever happening before.)

Don't forget that Hanukkah begins Monday December 19.
It is not a commanded rest day. So if you need to work, you can listen to the sermon recording after work or the next day.
But if you can listen live, that would be the best.

I encourage people to eat a special meal if possible.
Light candles or a menorah each evening/night for any desired length of time. All of this is already on the website page about Hanukkah.
I encourage people to watch (during Hanukkah) the Hanukkah movie on the website if you haven't yet.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/dec-17-2022-jesus-at-the-red-sea

Copyright 2022 I Saw The Light Ministries
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People who don't believe that Jesus is The Father, or believe that God is 2 or 3 beings/persons, point to the verses in the bible where Jesus and The Father interacted.

Revelation 4:8 to 5:10 The Father giving Jesus the seals, etc.

Genesis 1:26-27 Let us make man in our image/character.
Notice that verse 27 says "He", not "they". This shows that the "us" and "our" in verse 26 is not referring to 2 persons/beings. But rather, refers to 2 manifestations of God. The Father and The Word/Logos.

Genesis 11:7-8 Let us go down and confuse the languages.
Notice in verse 8, The Lord does it. Not "they". Not "the Lords".
Again this shows one God that is only one being/person.

Here are additional verses to prove that God is One: (Not 2, not 3.)
Psalms 16:10 "Holy One"

Psalms 71:22 "Holy One"

Psalms 89:18 "Holy One"

Isaiah 10:20 "Holy One"
43:11 I am Theos and beside me there is no Saviour.
45:23 To me shall every knee bow, every tongue confess! (Philippians 2:10-11)

Acts 2:27 "Holy One"
4:12 No salvation by anyone else.
13:34-35 "Holy One"

Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord.

Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD.

It never says that God is two.

The only place where it talks about 3:
Matthew 28:19 which was quoted much differently in the early centuries, thereby proving that the trinity was added.
And 1 John 5:6-8 where the trinity did not originally appear in the early bible manuscripts, but was added later.

Luke 10:18 "And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven".
John 1:1-14
John 10:30-33
John 14:6-9 Show us The Father! Here I am!
Philippians 2:5-11 Jesus considered himself to be equal to God The Father. Every tongue, knee from Isa. 45:23
1 Tim. 3:16 God in the flesh. Not a god in the flesh.

Revelation 1:8
19:13-16
21:6-7
22:13

Isaiah 44:6
Zechariah 14:3-5 "The Lord my God" coming.

Here's the reason for the confusion and the answer to their questions/concerns:
Before the creation of mankind, God divided himself into 2 manifestations. One of those, is called The Logos (The Word). It's the part of God that came to Earth and died and rose again. But The Word always existed and was The Father.
But realized that He needed a vessel/robe to be able to relate with humans, to speak to them, appear to them without killing them with his tremendous power. And such vessel was also needed to eventually save them having perfectly planned it all.
1 Corinthians 15 says that after death is totally defeated (when paradise comes after the Great White Throne Judgment), then God shall be "all in all", which would more correctly be translated as "become whole again."
After we enter paradise (new heavens new earth), we'll no longer see 2 manifestations. Only one. Because there will no longer need to be a intercession between man and God, because there will no longer be human flesh/vessels.

The key is 1 Corinthians 15:22-28
shall become whole.
This shows that He divided himself into 2 manifestations. But He is still one being.

Miracle confirmations:
Last night, after I had already finished the sermon notes, and after having already determined that 1 Corinthians 15 is the key verse of revelation, I saw on Facebook, that someone had posted “The gospel that saves… in 2 parts”! And also in the same post, the first and main/key verse in the post was in 1 Corinthians 15. (Not exactly the same verse. But I could not see the verse number in the post until this morning after clicking on it. But the fact that I saw “1 Corinthians 15” last night in the same post as “2 parts” and not “2 beings”, is a huge, amazing confirmation!) I also saw Isaiah 45:23 last night after I had finished the sermon notes, and had to get up out of bed to add it to the notes. This is Jesus giving me the verses for the sermon.

www.isawthelightministries.com/jesusislord.html

Revelation 18:3-5 Come out/away from Babylon churches/pastors/preachers. So that you don't partake/share in their sins, and in their punishment.

People need to stop following preachers who reject the 7th Day Sabbath, and preachers who reject the biblical holy days, and those that reject tithing, and those that reject the modern existence of apostles and prophets.

Although you might think that they are your brothers/sisters, the bible says that they are not.

1 John 2:4 John 14:15 Even if you think that they love God and have much truth, if they don't keep the "big 10" Commandments including the 7th day, and the biblical holy days of Jesus Zechariah 14 and tithes Hebrews 7, they don't really know God, nor love God enough to be fully obedient to him.

2 John 10-11 We are told not to welcome them, bless them or allow them in our house.

Matthew 10:13-14 Matthew 7:6 If they reject the truth that we share with them, and they tell us that we are brainwashed, lost, deceived, or following a cult, then we must ban/block that person, and disfellowship from that person.

People who reject the 7th day Sabbath or biblical holy days, or Jesus name, after we share the truth with them, they have rejected the truth, they have treated God's word like trash. The bible calls them dogs and swine/pigs. They are not worthy of your friendship, of the truth, of salvation, of anything except damnation.

I have eyewitnessed sickness and disease among people who have heard the truth and had opportunity to serve Jesus in this ministry, who continued to listen to or follow the Babylonian preachers.

Following the false teaches brings sickness, illness, disease and death.

1 Corinthians 10:21-22 We shouldn't partake in both the Lord's table (blessings/provisions) and Satan's table, at the same time.

We shouldn't be double minded. Nor compromise with the truth.

1 Cor. 11:28-31 Some people are sick or dead because they took Communion with false brothers/sisters.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 What fellowship do we have with darkness?

Recently, I saw a false preacher on Facebook by the name of David Reed. Although he spoke much truth, he rejected the Sabbath day and taught people that the Sabbath day is not required. That makes him a false teacher, and not saved, and not a true man of God.

The Sabbath is one of the 10 Commandments, the big ten!

To deny the Sabbath is equal to murder in God's eyes.

To teach that the Sabbath is canceled, is to murder the souls of people who follow his teachings. And it is the same as not having Jesus as your God. It breaks the first Commandment. Because David Reed's god is the god of disobedience.

This is true of all Sunday preachers, and other types of preachers who deny the commandment of the 7th day Sabbath and/or biblical holy days.

The saints of God should not follow, listen to, or honour such false teachers. We don't need Babylonian teachers when we have a true ministry to get our encouragement and edification from.

David Reed is now suffering "stage 4 kidney disease", which is the last stage before complete kidney failure. Some men his age can live with this for 2.5 to 4 years, but I believe that his time is much shorter because of how extremely pale/white he is, and because of the timing at which that Jesus revealed David's transgression to me, and because of his repeated disobedience to Jesus. David had repeatedly been told by multiple people about the Sabbath, and yet he still rebels against Jesus. God's patience only lasts so long.

I've repeatedly seen the destruction of the wicked. This won't be the last time that I eyewitness such. No surprise.

I don't rejoice in the man's punishment. In fact, it's sad to see someone who rebellious. But I am not required to keep my mouth shut when I see such things. They are lessons for everyone and this must be said and shared, as a warning to others, so that they don't suffer the same consequences.

Deuteronomy 11:26-28 The Commandments of God bring blessings to us if we obey them, but curses if we disobey.

Deuteronomy 27:9 to 28:68

Many false Christians reject these scriptures because they hate the Old Testament. But we can verify in the New Testament that blessings still remain on the people who keep God's commandments, while curses still remain on people who reject God's law.

(Of course, we recognize that Jesus did remove the laws of circumcision, unclean meats, animal sacrifices, etc. This is very clear in scripture. But equally clear is the fact that the Sabbath, biblical holy days and tithes still remain.)

Matthew 5 Entire chapter.

Notice in verses 3-11 that blessings are mentioned.

In verses 17-48, the commandments are mentioned.

In verses 19-20, people are cursed.

This confirms that Deuteronomy chapters 11, 27 and 28 are still true for New Covenant Christians.

Announcement: The Alpha & Omega Bible will very soon be released with the improvement of having all of the words of God in the Old Testament in red in the full color edition, and in bold in the black and white edition. Praise Jesus for this major accomplishment.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/dec-03-2022-curses-upon-people-who-dont-reject-false-preachers

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G4151 Spirit = pneuma pronounced new-ma, the p is silent. Breath of life, air, wind. Measurable plasma.
The existence of God throughout the entire universe. God breathed into Adam and he became a living soul.

G5590 Soul = psychē = personality, character, mind, your free will, your thinking and understanding, who you are as a person. Translated sometimes as “life”.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul G5590 and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul G5590 and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Matthew 10:28 Destroy both soul and body in Gehenna, Lake of Fire. Destroy mind/character/personality/understanding.
No thoughts, no knowledge when destroyed by Lake of Fire.
No eternal life when suffer the 2nd death.

10:39 Synonymous with life

Matthew 11:29 rest for your mind.

12:18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul G5590 is well pleased: I will put my spirit G4151 upon him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.

1 Corinthians 15:40-45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; G5590 the last Adam was made a quickening spirit G4151.

Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit G4151, with one mind G5590 striving together for the faith of the gospel;

1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls G5590 in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Ecclesiastes 12:7 Spirit 4151 pneuma/breath returns to God. But has no memory or thoughts.
Psyche goes to the grave or place of death. Upon death, it sleeps until the resurrection.
9:5 The living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. The psyche is asleep. The breath/wind also doesn't know anything. Totally opposite of traditional religious dogma.

“Grave” or “sheol” + spirit (in the same verse)= 0 times in bible.
But “Grave” or “sheol” + soul = 8 times in NASB, 5 in KJV.

Psyche as thinking:
John 10:24 KJV Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? G5590 (think) If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
NASB95 “How long will You keep us in suspense?”

Gen.1:20,21,24,30 = G5590 psyche = soul. Yes, animals have souls (life giving spiritual minds). Without a soul/mind, a creature could not move on its own. Without a soul, dogs & cats & monkeys could not love their owners and one another. But they do love.)
Gen.1:2; 6:3,7 = G4151 pneuma = spirit (The spiritual/plasma body which resides inside and around the flesh.)

The Holy Ghost is the soul of Jesus who died but is alive. We have the mind of Christ. His soul lives inside of only the truly saved people. But The Holy Spirit of God is present in all living things, animals, trees, wicked people, etc.

The bible didn't use G5590 for the phrase, “The Holy Ghost”, but nevertheless, that is what The Holy Ghost is, (can be defined as.)

The flesh needs both, soul and spirit, in order to have life.
All animals and insects also have both.
But plants/trees have probably only the spirit.

Healing Stones and Chakras:
At the Feast of Tabernacles in 2019, I had been feeling extremely unwell. During the fiesta, we went to a local store where they were selling a mineral stone called “Shungite” which comes from Russia. I had never heard of it before. They told me that people had experienced healing from using such stones. I purchased a necklace of the stone and slept better that night than I had in a long time and felt better the next day and ever since!
I thought “if this stone can bring healing, there must be other stones also”. Then researched and discovered the healing abilities of quartz, amethyst, bloodstone, etc. I purchased some of these and found tremulous and immediate relief from pain by using the bloodstone.
Many “Christians” are taught that to use such stones is witchcraft, paganism, demonic and Hinduism. But the same people are willing to go to the store and buy a copper bracelet to help with arthritis. It's the exact same thing. It's not witchcraft or New Age, or any such evil. It's just minerals that God created for our health.
The Shungite is well accepted in Russia by the medical establishment and government, because it works.
God has many different precious stones around his throne, and such stones will be present in New Jerusalem and Paradise. God commanded the priests in the temple to wear them. God himself doesn't consider such stones to be witchcraft, neither should we.
When Jesus laid it on my mind to do a sermon about the difference between the soul and spirit, I didn't yet make the connection to the topic of chakras and stones. But when I went to begin preparing this sermon about the soul and spirit, I noticed that it's listed at the very top of the page of the chakra article from the Feast of Tabernacles of 2019!
Therefore, this all comes full circle. When working with my clogged arteries this week, I had been using bloodstones on my leg which gave me some relief from the pain, and hopefully also helped some to move oxygen and blood through the area.
Last night, I also started using shungite again, and felt additional relief.
Chakras, energy points, the soul and our spirit are all connected in how we must treat ourselves with natural remedies. The physical and spiritual are connected. When one is sick, the other is sick. Even established medical science recognizes this. So when we are treating physical ailments, we should remember to also treat our chakras with God's healing stones. Many times, the solution to a health problem is multi-fold. Not just one thing, but several herbs, proper diet, exercise, water, mental health, spiritual health, the health of our body's electrical systems, etc. The stones work in part by electrical frequencies, even as copper for arthritis does also.

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Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/nov-26-2022-soul-and-spirit-2-different-things

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Nov. 25, 2022 (1st day of 9th biblical month.)

Recently, I developed symptoms of clogged arteries.
Although my symptoms were serious, I refused to go to the doctor or hospital, but instead chose to use natural remedies mixed with faith and prayer.

As of Wednesday evening, I have had great improvement, after a very troublesome night on Tuesday.

I greatly appreciate everyone's love and concern for me.
But I am extremely glad that I didn't listen to any of the people who were urging me to see a doctor. And here's why:

I am extremely glad that I didn't seek emergency attention Tuesday night, as that would had resulted in even less sleep, and most likely a surgery (no matter how small, still a surgical procedure), and an artificial stent.
I refuse such!
And I also refuse those “statins” (drug/medicine) that I have read so much about.
I'm not ignorant of these drugs and treatments. I've been around enough people with heart problems, and I have read much on these topics.
Plus, of course, when I am sick, I get online and educate myself even more. I read a multitude of articles. Not just one or two.
I don't make my decisions without information and facts.

More reasons: (Lessons learned by the pastor's trial with clogged arteries.)

1 Chronicles 16:10-11
Look to Jesus and seek his face and his strength.
Don't reply on medical establishment first. Try natural remedies first, mixed with faith.

(Confirmation: As I was typing the word “strength” in these sermon notes, I heard the word “strength” aloud on the bible app that Brittnei has! At the exact moment, as I was typing it!)

I'm not against going to the doctor when truly needed, after we have tried the natural remedies and given them enough time to work. Especially for diagnosis and tests.
And I'm not against taking doctor prescribed medicines when truly necessary after we have given the natural remedies enough time to work, but was unsuccessful.

But we must learn to use natural remedies mixed with faith first, not last.

Romans 5:1-5 Perseverance and endurance.
James 1:1-6
Not give up easily.
Natural health remedies take time!

What are we going to do in the Great Tribulation, when we can no longer go to the doctor?
We must learn how to use natural remedies now, and how to endure and persevere until we receive our healing. We must not give up easily.

-If other people outside of the true church can rely on natural remedies, surely the true church can also.

-Be thankful for trials and tribulations. I had already been wanting to lose some weight in my belly. Now, this most recent development motivates me to lose the weight. (I'm not over weight. But my belly is too big.)

-Rev. 12:10-11 I'm thankful for the new, additional testimony, which I would not have if I had given up too easily, too soon!

-I have to set the example.

Another lesson learned, for all of us:
-Must take action when told that we have high triglycerides.
Change of diet, more exercise. Don't wait for clogged arteries to develop.

Announcement/reminder: Hanukkah Dec. 19-26.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/nov-25-2022-lessons-learned-by-pastors-trial-with-clogged-arteries

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How we know whether an Old Testament law is still in effect:

1. What was the reason for the law, especially what was the spiritual reason for the law?
2. Any New Testament rejection or requirement of that law?
3. Did any New Testament person continue to observe it after the crucifixion?
4. When did the law first begin?
5. Any Old Testament or New Testament prophecy of it still being observed after Jesus returns?
6. How did the blood/crucifixion of Jesus change it?
7. Any divine word from Jesus during these end times?

Lev. 11

1. Reason for the law? Torah people claim that it's because of health. But there's nothing in the bible to prove this.
   Yes we can rightfully say that it makes sense that some Old Testament laws were for health. But we can't rightfully make that claim with unclean meats -because there are many unhealthy foods that are not listed as forbidden.

-And because it never says that those meats are unhealthy.
-And because eating too much beef or chicken is just as unhealthy as eating too much pork.
-Chicken and beef also contain parasites just like pork. All meat must be cooked completely.

Therefore the health excuse isn't legitimate.

Gen. 9:1-4 We know that all animal meats were declared as acceptable to eat when Noah came off of the Ark.
The unclean meat laws were in effect when the animals entered the Ark, but the laws were done away when they departed the Ark. Therefore, that disproves the health reason.

My grandmother ate a lot of pork, all of her life, and lived to be 96 years old, and she never had a stroke or heart attack. She was generally in good health with the exception of Alzheimer's or Dementia in her oldest years, but can be expected for people in their 90's, so that can't really be pinpointed to pork.

There are plenty of people who observe the unclean meat laws who still have high blood pressure and other health problems.

We know that in the bible, certain animals such as dogs and pigs represent wicked people and wicked nations, even gentile nations until they repent and accept the God of Israel.
Therefore this is the reason that during some specific time eras in the bible, unclean meat laws were in effect, to teach that the followers of Jesus must not have anything to do with lost people.
When Noah's family departed from the Ark, there were no gentiles yet. Only Noah's family. Everyone else had been killed in the great flood.
Noah's grandsons became the parents/grandparents/ancestors of new gentile races after the tower of Babel/Babylon. But at the time of the Ark, Noah's sons were considered as part of the congregation of God. Therefore, there was no need for unclean meat laws.
This teaches us that the reason for the unclean meat laws was only symbolic/ceremonial.

2, 3. Paul never taught the law of unclean meats. Neither did any of the New Testament apostles, or even Jesus.

2, 3. Acts 10
We find only Peter abstaining from certain specific meats in the New Testament, and God tells him to stop calling them unclean!
Acts 10 is absolute 100% undeniable proof that Jesus cleansed the meats and declared them as edible again just like in Noah's time.
Mark 7:18-19 Jesus himself said “Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, because https://biblehub.com/greek/3756.htm it does not enter https://biblehub.com/greek/1519.htm his https://biblehub.com/greek/3588.htm heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” https://biblehub.com/greek/1519.htm https://biblehub.com/greek/3588.htm https://biblehub.com/greek/856.htm
Thus all https://biblehub.com/greek/3588.htm foods are clean.

4. We have no reason to believe that the unclean meat laws existed in the time of Adam and Eve, or part of creation itself.
Whereas the Sabbath was part of creation.

5. No OT or NT prophecy of unclean meat laws being applied after Jesus returns except only Ezek. 40-48 which also speaks of animal sacrifices for sin, and a Levitical priesthood, therefore is impossible to be a real scripture reference to the future after Jesus returns.
(Perhaps they are referring to the time era of the 2nd temple.)
However, we know that those last 9 chapters of Ezekiel do not match the style of writing of the first 39 chapters, therefore are most probably fake.
If we believe that they are real scriptures that truly refer to the time after Jesus returns, as is traditionally taught, then we must reject the entire New Testament and be Jewish instead of Christian, but that would be a horrible mistake and we would be antichrist.

6. The blood/crucifixion of Jesus absolutely cleansed meats, because his death and resurrection removed the barrier of gentile nations from having a close relationship with Jesus. Although a good relationship with Jesus was always available and possible with any gentile, it was more difficult in Old Testament times because of gentile culture. But Jesus' death and resurrection opened up a greater doorway/opportunity to the gentiles.
This is part of the lesson of Acts 10.
Both the gentiles and the meats were cleansed.
It doesn't make any sense/logic to say that one was cleansed, but not both.
The Crucifixion removed separation of nations in relation to salvation, and removed animal sacrifices and circumcision and other symbolic laws.

7. Yes. Oct. 2, 2009. Jesus did two things to prove to me that He had cleansed the meats.
-He showed me a turtle and a snail in the sky!
-When a "Torah" friend came to visit me, there was another friend visiting me as well. The non-Torah friend said to the Torah person, that some day in the future we might have to kill squirrels for survival.
The non-Torah person didn't know that my Torah friend and I had discussed & disagreed about meats. This statement came "out of the blue" or "out of the sky" as it were. It was definitely Jesus speaking and I knew it immediately.

Review:

1. What was the reason for the law, especially what was the spiritual reason for the law? Ceremonial/symbolic of separation between Israel and Gentiles, which no longer exists.
2. Any New Testament rejection or requirement of that law? Yes, both Acts 10 and Mark 7 reject the unclean meat laws.
3. Did any New Testament person continue to observe it after the crucifixion? Only Peter but was rebuked by God for it.
4. When did the law first begin? Unknown, but was removed during Noah's time, and then reinstated by Moses, and then removed again by Jesus. Therefore is only in effect during some specific time eras.
5. Any Old Testament or New Testament prophecy of it still being observed after Jesus returns? Only in a false scripture, or scripture that is about the 2nd temple and not after Jesus returns. Therefore, no.
6. How did the blood/crucifixion of Jesus changed it? The Crucifixion removed separation of nations in relation to salvation, and removed animal sacrifices and circumcision and other symbolic laws. Therefore, this automatically removes the unclean meat laws. If not, then we shouldn't be Christians. When we deny that Jesus cleansed the meats, we deny the power of the blood of Jesus, therefore rejection salvation.
7. Any divine word from Jesus during these end times? Yes. The Apostle Zimmerman received at least 2 divine confirmations, and one of those were amazingly powerful with the appearance of the animals in the sky!

The ministry that publishes the most accurate Bible of the past 1700+ years would automatically also be the ministry that is the most accurate in doctrine.
Ask yourself why would God give the divine revelation and inspiration and calling of the most accurate Bible in 1700 years to a false teacher?
The Alpha and Omega Bible is very easily and definitely and absolutely proven as being the most accurate. A very simple study proves it beyond any reasonable doubt. https://most-accurate-bible.com

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Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/nov-19-2022-unclean-meat-laws-still-intact

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There are a lot of Christians and pastors and websites and videos that declare that Jesus has already defeated the enemy, all enemies, eternally, it is finished. Therefore they claim that in every battle and in every situation all you have to do is to claim the victory that Jesus has already accomplished. The claim is that you don't need to fight. Just only claim the victory that Jesus accomplished. That's all.
The claim is that Satan has absolutely no power, because he is already defeated! The claim is that Jesus also removed our sinful nature!
Is this true? Here are the verses they use.

1 John 3:8 Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.
Problem: The devil is still actively working. We see the works of the devil all around us. We are told in the bible that it's only going to get worse.
The coming of Jesus was one step out of many steps that God is taking to ultimately defeat Satan. But it's not 100% accomplished yet. The war between good and evil continues!

Col 2:15 When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

Context verses 14-16, He removed our penalty/punishment for sins (the 2nd death) thereby removing the punishment announced by human judges, therefore we shouldn't allow people to wrongfully judge us for keeping the true holidays, drinking and feasting.

This doesn't say that we won't have battles. Nor does it say that we don't need to fight back against wickedness. It doesn't say that life will be easy. Yes we claim the victory of Jesus in this verse, but we also actively fight our own battle against legalism and those that judge us. It wasn't all accomplished by Jesus; we still continue this fight.

1 Cor. 9:26 Even Paul said that he had to fight in a way that isn't fighting air (in vain.)
(Think about all of the struggles and imprisonment that he had to endure.)

People also claim that if anyone claims the verse "by His stripes we are healed" Isaiah 53:5, that we absolutely will be healed, but we also see in 2 Cor. 12:7-10 that Paul repeatedly asked Christ for healing, and Jesus refused to heal him, so that Paul could be humbled and wouldn't be overly prideful.

1 Corinthians 15:54 Claim: Jesus defeated death.
:57 Claim: Jesus gives us the victory.

Context = 1st resurrection, and then ultimately at the timing of Paradise after the 1,100 years. Yes Jesus defeated death in his own body at his resurrection. And yes his death and resurrection gives us life, victory and rescue from the 2nd death after the 1,100 years.
But until the 1st resurrection comes, true Christians will continue to die just like unsaved people. And all death won't be completely defeated until Paradise.

We are not yet in Paradise therefore it is extremely clear that he has not yet put all things under his feet and therefore all things are not yet eternally defeated. Our battle continues. The battle between good and evil continues. The two witnesses will have to battle. We are told to beware of deception in the end times before deception has not been defeated. The Antichrist is not yet been defeated. There are many victories every day now they demonic forces therefore they have not been defeated. Any defeat that we read about of where Jesus accomplished it was individual specific battles won, not the war.

It's a "tickle the ears", "feel good" false doctrine.

It's true that we have power in claiming the blood of Christ and his Holy Ghost, and his name. But it's also true that Satan still has much power on this Earth and can definitely cause true believers to fall away. It's also true that sometimes true saints are martyred or greatly persecuted and we have both battles won and battles lost. We're not guaranteed an easy life just because of the victories of Jesus. We're not told that we will never have to flee for our lives, or that the enemy has no power.

The evidence and proof is all around you, everywhere you look, and throughout the entire bible. We are promised that we will suffer.
Yes we are given power, and God's help, and sometimes great miracles of deliverance. But there's also times that our fight must be much more difficult, and that is necessary for our own good & purification & building of our character.

1 Peter 1:1-9 The events of the crucifixion and resurrection will not fix all of our problems every time that we claim those verses.
Trials and tribulations and some battles lost are absolutely necessary.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/nov-12-2022-all-our-enemies-already-defeated

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I definitely support and encourage fasting, when it's for the correct reasons, the correct way and without hypocrisy.
However, there's several issues of concern:

-Some people fast too often because they falsely believe that much fasting automatically makes them holy.
-Fasting too often, with the false belief that God wants us to fast extremely often. (Wrong reasons.)
-Fasting too much when they need the nutrients for physical or mental health problems.

Mark 2:18-20 The disciples of Jesus didn't fast as often as the disciples of John the baptizer, because the disciples of Jesus was with Jesus.
After we attain a very close relationship with Jesus and are secure/strong in that relationship, we don't need to fast as often as we previously fasted when we were seeking Jesus!

Luke 18:9-14 The man of pride who fasted twice a week, was not as righteous as the humble man.
Fasting often doesn't automatically make you acceptable to God, or more righteous than other people who don't fast as often as you.

Matthew 5:20 Unless our righteousness far exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees, we will not enter the fullness of The Kingdom!
It doesn't say that our faith or belief must be as strong as the Pharisees, but rather our righteousness!
He said this immediately after saying that none of the law of the 10 Commandments would ever be done away with until we reach Paradise (the end of this current world, and the beginning of the next world of eternity.)

Yet, the Pharisees fasted very often. Therefore I was told by a very legalistic person a long time ago, that he fasted extremely often so that his righteousness would exceed the Pharisees. Ridiculous! The righteousness of the Pharisees was never how often they fasted, but rather only their belief in the law. Their much fasting wasn't accepted/loved by God. And their legalistic approach to the law also wasn't accepted/loved by God. And their lack of faith and their lack of understanding of spiritual things and lack of obedience (their hypocrisy) wasn't accepted by God.

Matthew 6:16-18 We shouldn't brag about how much we fast, or let others know.

Isaiah 1:10-17 What God wants from us more than anything else isn't more fasting, but rather that we would not be hypocrites, and that we take care of the poor and needy, and that we stand against evil, and not be evil ourselves.

Although Jesus, Moses and Elijah fasted 40 days, we don't read of such long periods of fasting from Jeremiah, Noah, Paul, Matthew, Peter, or Daniel or many others. Even Esther's (and the Jews') fast was only 3 days, yet God spared them. Nineveh's fast was also only 3 days. Yet God spared Nineveh.
The 40 day fasts are very exceptional and not required for the majority of true followers of Jesus.

Again, I promote fasting! Some people should fast more often than other people, especially if they are struggling with sin.
And especially when people first begin studying to determine what is the truth.

But continued fasting, too often, even after attaining a strong relationship with Jesus, can possibly sometimes become nothing more than a ritual. Just like praying with your eyes closed before eating.

And fasting too often can be dangerous to your physical and mental health. God designed our bodies to need the nutrients from food.

We should fast when we need to fast.
But not just because you are trying to meet a quota.

Reminder: Most of the USA changes their clocks back one hour tonight.
Tuesday is election day in the USA. I encourage all Americans to vote.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/nov-05-2022-fasting-too-often

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Matthew 7:12 The Golden Rule: Do unto others, as you would want them to do to you.
This would also mean that we would not want bad things to happen to others.
I also don't think that we would want to be laughed at when we crash or fall down.

A television show called "America's Funniest Videos", and many YouTube videos display people laughing when people fall off of a ladder, have a swimming pool accident or some other type of fall/crash. They also show people laughing when cats fall off of furniture, etc. In many of these videos, it's obvious that real injury is possible.
I have never been able to laugh as such dangerous events. Injury isn't funny. Accidents are not funny.
My wife feels the same way. It's not funny.
I never understood why people like to see people get hurt.
Today we will examine this.

Schadenfreude is a German word that originates from the two words "joy" and "harm". It's the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another person.

Schadenfreude has been detected in children as well as adults.

Matthew 24:12 Love Wax (Increase) Cold

Romans 12 (Entire chapter)
:15 Mourn with those those mourn, and rejoice when they rejoice.

Proverbs 24:17–18 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles: Perhaps the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

Ezekiel 33:11 God doesn't really want to punish people. He would prefer that people repent.

If we are visiting someone at their home, and they have to punish their rebellious child, we are glad that the parents correctly discipline their children, but we don't laugh at the children for being punished. We don't laugh or rejoice at the punishment.
We should apply this same principal toward wicked people who bring death or destruction upon themselves, or when God punishes them.
The bible speaks about how that in the last 41.5 days of Wrath, that the wicked will suffer horribly from their sins of worshipping stones and demons, etc. We are glad that God punishes the wicked children. But we don't laugh or rejoice at the punishing. God would rather see them repent and we also would rather see them repent. We would rejoice over the repentance, not the punishment.

What I am talking about today is actually laughing at innocent people when they fall or crash, as if it's funny. I am not talking about being glad that the enemy failed in their pursuit of evil, or got fired, or got what was due/deserving to them.
We are not happy that Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked with a hammer. Even as many conservative leaders are condemning the attack. We are not like the Democrats who rejoice when Republicans are attacked or injured.

We also don't rejoice when someone sins.

However, we do rejoice in the fact that most Twitter employees are being fired and losing their jobs, as this helps to restore our freedom of speech and the distribution of truth. They can get new jobs at McDonald's, Taco Bell, Facebook, Pinterest, PayPal, etc. They won't suffer by being fired from Twitter.

It's acceptable to be glad when an evil nation/president loses a war. Or when an evil person loses an election. I will rejoice greatly when/if the Democrats loose their jobs by losing their control of congress on Nov. 8, if they don't cheat to keep control. But they are all millionaires and won't suffer by losing their seats in congress. No person will be injured or harmed by these millionaires losing their jobs. It would be a great victory for America. Although, only a symbolic victory, because Biden won't sign into law any legislation passed by the new Republican congress.

But I did not rejoice when a local man died, who had previously been my friend. He was a Democrat who absolutely refused to believe that Obama was evil or that the Democrat party is evil. He would not listen to reason. I had to dis-fellowship from him and told him to never return to me until he repents. I don't regret saying that. I made the right decision.
But it saddened me when he died in sin. I'm sure that he was probably vaccinated since he was so gullible to the Democrats.
I'm sure that he was probably a victim of his parents' brainwashing.

I believe that there are several things that are causes of people laughing at people when they fall/crash:

1. Adults trying to make children laugh by acting like they are injured or hurt. We need to not do that! It's teaching them to laugh at people getting injured.

It is childish behavior to laugh when someone else falls.

2. "Slap-stick" comedy of people hitting people and people tripping and falling. Such as “The 3 Stooges”. Programmed by Hollywood. It's a childish type of comedy.

If it's yourself and you laugh at yourself, it's because you're embarrassed, or you though that it was silly that you wasn't being careful. That's different and is acceptable to laugh at yourself.

It could be a subconscious mechanism for reducing the perceived seriousness (and hence long term mental reaction) of an accident. Nevertheless, we need to control our reactions.

Also possible: In school, it was the "cool" thing to laugh at other people's unfortunate accidents. A little kid falls and a group of "tough" kids laugh, so some other kids, wanting to distance themselves from the person being laughed at, join in.
As we mature, we no longer do that. So it's also a matter of maturity in this situation.

I never understood the mentality of people who at school would cheer on a fight. They wouldn't know who started the fight, who was the victim or the aggressor. They would just automatically cheer on the fighting. It's demonic!

People would fill the Roman coliseums and cheer the killing of the victim by the gladiator or lion. Why would anyone cheer that? It's demonic!

People shouldn't make fun of people with Down Syndrome. They shouldn't call them “retarded”, etc. People should treat people the way that they themselves would want to be treated.

We shouldn't laugh at other people's misfortune.

Full sermon audio: https://soundcloud.com/isawthelightministries/oct-29-2022-why-laugh-when-people-fall

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