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TIME FOR SAVING THE WORLD!
What Actually Happened
To fully understand WHY most have been deceived -- and WHY
God has put YOU in His Church now, in this very END TIME just
before the coming of Christ in POWER and GLORY, we need to realize
what actually happened to the Gospel after the first century.
Malachi prophesied Jesus would come as a MESSENGER, with
a MESSAGE from God, which He was to announce (Mal. 3:1). He
was to come as "the Messenger of the COVENANT." Jesus came as
the Messenger of the NEW Covenant.
The "Old Covenant" was made at Mt. Sinai between God and
ancient Israel. It was a MARRIAGE covenant, and it made Israel
God's wife. It also established Israel as a KINGDOM -- one of
earth's nations.
Likewise, the NEW Covenant, with Christ as Mediator (as
Moses was of the Old), will be a MARRIAGE covenant, establishing
Spirit-begotten Israel as Christ's Spirit-BORN wife. And it
also will establish the "WIFE" as the KINGDOM OF GOD upon earth.
That MARRIAGE will produce Spirit-born children. That is WHEN,
and by what process, God will set out to SAVE the whole world.
Satan will be GONE! Christ, WITH THE CHURCH, then will compose
the KINGDOM OF GOD and will be ruling all nations! And SAVING
THEM! (See Matthew 25:31-34.)
They HATED the Gospel
The MESSAGE God sent by Christ was the GOSPEL -- and that
Gospel was the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. It was the Message
of the Covenant, which Covenant, as I said, shall establish the
KINGDOM OF GOD on earth. The KINGDOM OF GOD is the GOVERNMENT
of God which shall rule all nations. But also it is the FAMILY
OF GOD into which we may be BORN -- the DIVINE FAMILY which
becomes a SPIRIT-NATION, ruling all nations on earth -- a WORLD-
RULING GOVERNMENT!
Jesus was sent to ANNOUNCE that message -- not to force men
to accept it, believe it, and act on it. NEVER DID JESUS PLEAD
WITH A SINGLE ONE TO BE CONVERTED. He merely announced the GOOD
NEWS of the Kingdom of God, and He left it to people to decide
whether to believe it and whether to act on it. He did not come
THEN to CONVERT the world! He did not start a "soul-saving"
crusade -- the Protestants did! He came to ANNOUNCE the GOSPEL
-- the GOOD NEWS of His coming KINGDOM!
But people hated His message. Many BELIEVED on Him --
realized and BELIEVED He was the Messiah. But they did not
believe His message -- His Gospel!
Notice, in the eighth chapter of John: