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

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