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THE PRESENT TRUTH
An Introduction to the
Works of Robert B. Thompson
Copyright © 2006 Trumpet Ministries, Inc. All Rights Reserved
While in Bible school many years ago the author felt impressed that God was ready to take His people past Pentecost. The Present Truth includes the various concepts that have surfaced as the author has sought to explain the burden given to him in those early years. Included is a list of books and booklets with a brief summary under each title.
There are seven feasts of the Lord. The Church has been as far as the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Pentecost, the fourth feast. Now it is time for the Church to press forward to the fullness of God, to the spiritual experiences portrayed by the feast of Tabernacles—the last great convocation of Israel. This is the present truth.
Table of Contents
The Facts of the Kingdom
Belief in the Facts of the Kingdom as Distinguished From Salvation
Two Problems That Have Resulted From Incorrect Belief
Forcing Morality on the Secular Society
The Definition of Salvation
Divine Grace
Conclusion
Born of God
The Bride of the Lamb
Brothers of Christ
Christ, Head and Body
The Coming of the Lord
The Continuity of the Covenants
The Day of Atonement
The Day of the Lord
The Disciple
Eagles’ Wings.
The End-time
Eternal Life
Faith
The Feast of Tabernacles
The Feasts of the Lord
The First Resurrection
The Firstfruits of the Bride
The Four Aspects of the Divine Decree
The Four Great Types
The Goal of Redemption
Grace and Faith Versus the Law of Moses
The Great Tribulation
Image and Union
Israel
The Judges of Men and Angels
The Judgment Seat of Christ
The Kingdom of God
The Love of Money.
The Manifestation of the Sons of God
The Nations of the Saved
The New Covenant
The Overcomer
Responding to the Vision of God
The Rest of God
Restoration
The Resurrection
The Royal Priesthood
The Second Death
Shattering the Power of the Saints
Suffering and Glory
Survival and Security, Worship, and Achievement
The Temple of God
The Thousand-year Kingdom Age
The Three Stages of Redemption
The Throne of God
The Two Beginnings
Two Kinds of Righteousness
The Two Witnesses
The Wall
War
The Witness of God
Working Out Our Salvation
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. (II Peter 1:12)
After we received the baptism with the Holy Spirit in 1948 the Lord saw fit to impress us that the next Divine move after Pentecost would have to do with the Church receiving a greater measure of Christ in us, and that before we receive a greater portion of Christ the Lord must bring us through the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:27). The thought came that the Levitical Day of Atonement portrays God’s judgment upon sin, beginning with His household.
At that time we knew very little about the seven feasts of the Lord or the Tabernacle of the Congregation, but soon both of these types became important to us. We began to see in them a pattern that applies in four areas:
The Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The growth of the believer from chaos of personality to the image of God and complete union with God.
The growth of the Church from a disorganized group of people to the unblemished Bride of the Lamb.
The construction of the Kingdom of God from the laying of the chief Cornerstone, Christ, to the glorious new Jerusalem, the supreme government of the world.
The Gospel of the Kingdom we are announcing has to do with the Lord forgiving all who repent and making them rulers and citizens of the new world of righteousness that is to come. This is God’s response to the rebellion of the angels and of the first world. The atoning blood of Christ has made possible this new creation, the new heaven and earth reign of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? (James 2:19,20)
The Facts of the Kingdom. Knowledge plays a very important role in the Divine salvation. There is a need for people to be aware of the existence of the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and of the righteous and holy Nature of God. There are aspects of the rebellion of the angels, and of the entrance of sin into the world, that when we know of them help us understand the presence and results of sin in the human personality and the need for forgiveness and deliverance.
Another realm of knowledge concerns the attitude God has toward sin, and the covenants God has made with people because of their sin. Of special importance is the knowledge of God’s will for the individual as revealed in the Scriptures and also in personal revelation. God’s will for His elect includes their transformation into the moral image of Christ, their union with God through Christ, their readiness to build up the members of the Body of Christ, and their readiness to serve as the light of the world, beginning with their own neighborhood.
It is supremely important that people become aware of the future of mankind with respect to God, that is, the resurrection of the dead in which each person receives the consequences of his or her behavior, and the forceful installation of the Kingdom of God on the earth.
The areas of knowledge associated with the Kingdom of God are as follows:
Knowledge of the existence of the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and of the righteous and holy Nature of God.
Knowledge of the aspects of the rebellion of the angels and of the entrance of sin into the world, that when we know of them help us understand the presence and results of sin in the human personality and the need for forgiveness and deliverance.
Knowledge of God’s attitude toward sin and the covenants God has made with people because of their sin.
The knowledge of God’s will for the individual as revealed in the Scriptures and also in personal revelation.
God’s will for people includes their transformation into the moral image of Christ, their union with God through Christ, their readiness to build up the members of the Body of Christ, and their readiness to serve as the light of the world, beginning with their own neighborhood. In addition, the saints, the members of Christ, are being trained in spiritual warfare.
The Kingdom of God will be installed on the earth as Christ and His saints descend from Heaven and drive all sinners, spiritual and physical from the earth. Justice finally will come to the meek of the nations.
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. (Malachi 4:1)
Knowledge of the future of mankind with respect to God, that is, the resurrection of each person from the dead that he or she may receive the consequences of his or her behavior, and the forceful installation of the Kingdom of God on the earth.
Throughout the history of the Christian Church great emphasis has been placed on a correct understanding of the facts of the above areas of knowledge. Theologians have argued. Wars have been fought. Dissenters have been tortured and martyred. The attitude of the Christian leaders and organizations has been that people must agree with the positions and beliefs of the leaders and organizations. The individual who does not conform to the accepted statements concerning the areas of knowledge is cast from the group, organization, or movement, penalized in some manner, and sometimes tortured and slain.
The various Christian denominations exist because of the different understandings of the areas of knowledge associated with God and His Kingdom.
As we are approaching the coming of the Lord and His Kingdom to the earth we are growing aware that belief in what is true in the Kingdom of God is not of itself salvation.
The knowledge of the facts of the Kingdom of God serves as a basis and guide for the Divine salvation. Because the knowledge serves as a basis and guide it is important that it be accurate. But accurate knowledge, and a profession of belief in accurate knowledge, are not salvation. Salvation is not composed of what we know or believe.
The monumental error of current Christian thinking is that if one professes belief in correct doctrine he is saved. Added to this confusion is the unscriptural position that being saved means he will attain permanent residence in Heaven when he dies.
God’s purpose behind all of His covenants is that people practice righteousness, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. By viewing God’s salvation as a profession of belief in the true facts of redemption, with the goal of spending eternity in the spirit realm, we have effectively undermined God’s desire to have righteous people who perform His will in the earth and who are able to bring deliverance and eternal life to others.
Belief in the Facts of the Kingdom as Distinguished From Salvation. The following passage is often used to emphasize that salvation is knowledge and belief, and that to make a profession of belief that conforms to this statement is to insure one’s entrance into Heaven. It is important for the student to understand that the concept of residence in Heaven as the purpose of salvation is not mentioned in the tenth chapter of the Book of Romans, which is the context of the following passage, nor is entrance into Heaven mentioned one time in the entire Book of Romans.
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9,10)
If we were to remove this passage from the Book of Romans and make it the only statement in the Scriptures we could make a case for salvation as being belief in certain facts.
Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus. That Jesus is Lord and rightfully our personal Lord is a true fact. Confession of this true fact is essential to salvation.
Believe in your heart that God has raised the Lord Jesus from the dead. The physical resurrection of the Lord Jesus from the dead is the cornerstone of our faith. Apart from the physical resurrection of the Lord we have no hope for our own resurrection.
You shall be saved. What it means to be saved must be determined from the entire Scriptures. Being saved has little to do with going to the spirit Paradise.
With his heart man believes unto righteousness. God counts us as righteous when we believe God has raised the Lord Jesus from the dead.
With his mouth man confesses that Jesus is his Lord, and God saves him on the basis of this confession.
The above is an accurate statement concerning God’s plan of salvation. The statement serves as a basis and guide for the working out of our salvation. He who does not regard Jesus as his Lord and who does not believe God has raised Him from the dead is not likely to find the road to eternal life.
The problem today is that the above passage is lifted from its context and made to mean that if a person confesses Jesus is Lord and believes God has raised Him from the dead he is saved and on his way to Heaven; not that he shall be saved, as the Scripture states, but that he is saved.
If there were no other verses in the Bible we could defend the prevailing point of view. However, this would be to make salvation a mental position having little impact on life on the earth (which is exactly what Satan desires!).
Let us look at a passage also from the Book of Romans that reveals the folly of making the Divine salvation a mental position.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (Romans 6:16)
Speaking to Christian people (certainly not to the unsaved because they cannot choose to live righteously and thus receive eternal life on the basis of their behavior), Paul tells us that if we (Christians) choose to obey sin we will die spiritually.
Let us say the individual believes that Jesus is Lord and that God has raised Him from the dead. After this profession of belief he is baptized in water into Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection. Then he chooses to sin. What then? He dies spiritually, according to the Apostle Paul!
We could give numerous examples from the New Testament that portray clearly the association of righteous behavior with salvation. Salvation is a not a profession of belief. A correct profession of belief is the basis and guide to salvation but the profession of belief is not salvation. Neither is residence in Heaven the goal of salvation. True salvation always produces righteous, holy behavior. Righteous, holy behavior brings us the most valuable reward of all, which is fellowship with God.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (I John 3:7)
Evangelical theology is far off course. As a result sin is increasing rapidly throughout the Christian churches as well as the rest of the world. The work of demons is protected by law in the United States of America, for example. There is no standard, no plumb line. Why is there no plumb line? It is because God’s people view the Christian salvation as a doctrinal position rather than the re-creation of the individual.
Two Problems That Have Resulted From Incorrect Belief. Belief is redeeming when it serves as a base and guide for the actual Divine redemption, and when its facts are accurate.
We already have referred to the fact that the sin in the society of today is resulting from the position of the Christian churches that salvation is belief. If one holds to the correct beliefs he is on his way to Heaven, it is supposed. But since faith apart from works is dead, and righteous works are not considered necessary by Evangelicals, the churches are filled with dead faith.
It is stressed vigorously today that Christ performed a finished work of salvation and that any effort on our part to make righteous behavior a necessary aspect of salvation is an unrighteous attempt to add to the perfect work of Christ.
How Satan must rejoice over this concept! The effect of such an unscriptural concept has been to destroy nearly every bit of righteous, holy behavior from God’s people. The light of good works, which is the true testimony of the Church, has been extinguished by a faulty knowledge of the new covenant.
The irony here is that not only is belief stressed in place of behavior, but the belief itself is based on an inaccurate understanding because the true knowledge of the facts of the Kingdom reveals that belief itself is not salvation.
The result of dead faith in the Christian churches is, first of all, loss of the Presence of God from the churches. The Christians churches have much to say about God and about God’s plan of salvation through Christ. However, the churches are preaching about Christ rather than preaching Christ. To preach Christ is to bring the very Presence of God to people, not just a message about God and His Gospel. One can preach about God and Christ and still continue in unrighteous, unholy behavior. But one cannot bring the Presence of God and Christ apart from a righteous, holy, sternly obedient life.
The second problem resulting from the dead faith of the Christian churches is sin in the unchurched society. If the moral light goes out in the Christian churches, then the world has no moral light to live by.
Because the necessity for righteous behavior has been removed from the Divine salvation, the historic Christian nations, such as America, England, France, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, have become addicted to lust and pornography. Every vile lust flourishes in the nations that at one time carried the Gospel light. Their judgment is soon to come and will be devastating beyond comprehension. They have failed the Lord.
Christians are concerned as they see the effect of their doctrinal confusion on the moral condition of the United States and the other nations. They are upset at the abortion, the child molestation, the gangs, the drugs. What do Christians expect when they no longer are doing good works but counting on flying away from trouble in a "rapture"?
Forcing Morality on the Secular Society. In spite of the Scriptures that exhort us to bear witness by letting the light of good works shine, we intend to heap confusion on confusion. We are going to go forth in our self-will (not with the Lord you may be sure) and force the secular community to stop the aborting of infants, to stop the sexual perversions, to cease permitting gang membership, and to put an end to drugs.
We are going to use force—guns, if necessary—and compel the unsaved population to do what we think is proper.
To employ force to compel sinners to behave according to Christian standards is to seek to bring in the Kingdom before the Lord returns. The Kingdom of God indeed will be installed by dreadful authority and power when the Lord Jesus appears. His enemies will be consumed by the fire of His holy Presence. But our task before the Lord returns is not to begin to employ force but to bear witness of God’s righteousness, of the covenant of water baptism available to every individual who hopes to avoid God’s wrath, and of the soon coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth.
The result of Christian militancy will be a terrible backlash. The unsaved community, which includes the majority of people, will rise up in fury and the persecution of Christians will be severe and widespread. Why? Because the Lord is not with us.
From the beginning of the Church Age various institutions, particularly the Catholic Church, have attempted to force their will on the unsaved community. The Lord alone knows how many good people were imprisoned, tortured and killed because they refused to conform to the ecclesiastical notions. Only a few hundred years ago some of the Catholic monasteries were sending out "soldiers" to force the populace to be "Christians."
Have we learned nothing?
The humanistic people today outnumber us. They are not going to bow down to our attempts to force our values on them—especially when the Christian churches themselves are filled with every sin of the flesh as well as self-will and self-love.
The present government of the United States is an abomination to multitudes of politically conservative people. We yet may have an armed uprising by conservatives. The Christians are not to participate in an armed uprising. We may think that we have made a temporary gain by such action but the end will be bitter.
Evil cannot be overcome by evil, only by good. We are called to deliver and heal those for whom Christ died, not to kill them. It is only when our government commands us to sin that we are to resist the government, and then not by killing our opponents but by doing what good we can and by holding fast our testimony during imprisonment, torture, and death.
How many believers of today are true Christians? How many churchgoers have turned aside from their own life and are carrying their cross of self-denial behind the Lord?
And these fleshly, self-willed believers intend to force the unbelievers to live a moral life? The Scriptures command God’s people, not the unsaved community, to repent and turn from their wicked ways! What are we thinking of?
The Lord Jesus taught us that if His Kingdom were of this world His servants would fight but that His Kingdom is not of this world. We are told that we are not fighting against flesh and blood but against fallen lords in the heavenlies. We are informed that the weapons of our warfare are not of flesh and blood but mighty through the Holy Spirit to the pulling down of strongholds.
The Lord is not commanding the unsaved people to repent. He is commanding His own people to repent, for the Christian churches are filled with people who are sinning, who are leading spiritually lukewarm, worldly lives. They do not know the Lord’s will. They do not understand the new covenant. They believe in a silly "rapture" that will deliver them from suffering (as though suffering were not one of the characteristics of Christian discipleship throughout the centuries). They have heaped to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. They have not presented their bodies a living sacrifice. They are in love with themselves.
Now they are disobeying the Lord by running ahead of Him, attempting to set up the Kingdom of God by human means. Surely, God has sent a powerful delusion upon us because we do not love the truth. Truly, great suffering is ahead for the Lord’s people.
The Definition of Salvation. We have said that salvation is not composed of an accurate understanding and profession of belief in the truths of the several areas of knowledge of the Kingdom of God. "The righteous shall live by faith" has to do with how the righteous live, not with their profession of belief in the facts of redemption. The righteous live by trusting in God and not in themselves, by obeying the Lord in each decision of life.
Well then, if salvation is not a statement of "faith," just what is salvation?
Salvation is, first of all, deliverance from the wrath of God that will be poured out in the last days.
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. (I Thessalonians 1:10)
After that, salvation is our change from Satan to God. The purpose of delivering us from wrath is to authorize us to begin the transformation of personality that is salvation.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. (Acts 26:18)
Salvation includes:
Deliverance from the wrath of God.
The opening of the individual’s eyes.
The turning of the believer from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God.
The forgiveness of the believer’s sins.
An inheritance among those who are sanctified [set apart to God as holy] by faith that is in the Lord Jesus.
Salvation is the change from the bondage of Satan to the moral image of Christ and to untroubled union with the Father through Christ.
This is what salvation is. It is a change of what we are. It is a new creation. The first man, Adam, must be crucified. The new Man is Christ, who Himself is the Kingdom of God.
For in Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. (Galatians 6:15)
The mainspring of the Christian salvation is death and resurrection. If we would experience the new covenant we must enter the death of the Lord and enter the resurrection of the Lord. The degree of the Divine inheritance assigned to a son of God depends directly on his or her willingness to enter the death and resurrection of Christ.
Through the salvation that is in the Lord Jesus Christ we obtain:
Forgiveness.
Deliverance and healing.
Change into the image of the Lord.
Union with the Father through Christ.
A redeemed body.
Divine Grace. The grace of God is the Presence and power of Christ that produces the salvation we have mentioned.
Grace is the Divine enablement that creates salvation.
Image and union, and participation in the roles and functions of the Kingdom of God, which we shall mention in a moment, are made possible by the following elements of grace:
The body and blood of the Lord Jesus. The body and blood of the Lord Jesus provide:
Protection from Divine judgment.
The forgiveness of sin.
Deliverance from sin.
Nourishment for the new man.
The born-again experience. When we truly receive Christ as our Lord and Savior He is born in us. After that He must continue to be formed until He indeed is our Life.
The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives us:
Eternal Life.
Power and wisdom to overcome sin.
Power and wisdom to bear witness.
The written and personal Word of God. These include:
The Old and New Testaments.
The wisdom and knowledge of the Lord.
The gifts of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives ministries and gifts to every member of the Body of Christ.
The ordering of tribulation and offenses. We usually do not think of offenses and tribulation as being part of the grace of God under the new covenant. However, the various chastenings that come upon us are a very important tool that the Lord uses to purge us from sin and to bring forth in us the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; (I Peter 4:1)
Every element of grace is necessary if we are to save ourselves and those who hear us.
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. (I Timothy 4:16)
Conclusion. Current evangelical doctrine has no place for the concept of saving ourselves by the things we do. Therefore current evangelical doctrine is not taking into consideration the whole counsel of God. Today’s preaching is not a balanced presentation of God’s plan of salvation. We are to save ourselves by examining ourselves in terms of the doctrine taught by the Apostles of the Lamb to determine whether or not we actually are doing that which has been commanded by Christ through His apostles and prophets.
Saving ourselves and those who hear us means bringing us from the bondage of Satan all the way to the moral image of Christ and to untroubled union with the Father through Christ.
The following are roles and functions in the Kingdom of God that are possible to us only to the degree that we are in the image of Christ and in untroubled union with the Father through Christ. We are being prepared by the Spirit of God in order that we may serve in these roles:
A member of the Bride of the Lamb (Revelation 21:9).
A part of the Temple of God (Ephesians 2:22).
A member of the Body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:12).
A part of the vehicle for the end-time revival (Isaiah 60:1,2).
A restorer of Paradise on earth (Romans 8:21)
A member of the royal priesthood (I Peter 2:9).
A witness of God (Isaiah 43:10).
A son of God (Revelation 21:7).
A brother of Christ (Romans 8:29).
An overcomer of the accuser (Revelation 12:11).
A governor of the nations (Revelation 2:26,27).
A judge of men and angels (I Corinthians 6:2,3).
A wall of defense around the Glory of God (Revelation 21:14).
A part of the revelation of Himself—God in Christ in the saints (Revelation 3:12).
A thoughtful consideration of the above roles may help the student understand why the current emphasis on a flight to the spirit realm is so destructive of God’s plan for man. Instead of sons of God and brothers of Christ we have the vision of untransformed people lounging in mansions with their jewels and golden slippers.
The truth is, the purpose for bringing the members of the Body of Christ to maturity as measured by the standard that is the fullness of Christ, is that these members may return with Christ and bring justice to the meek peoples of the earth. The meek shall inherit the earth, but it will require Christ and His Body to make it possible for decent people to inherit the works of God’s hands. It appears that we do not as yet really understand the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, the coming of justice to the earth.
The concept that the Divine salvation consists of our believing and professing accurately the facts pertaining to the Kingdom of God, with the goal of going to live eternally in the spirit Paradise when we die, has prevented the Christian people from bearing witness and affecting society as they should. Satan has managed to put out the light of good works. The supreme goal of God under all covenants, which is to produce people who behave righteously, love mercy, and walk humbly with God, doing His will in the earth, has been successfully thwarted by today’s teaching and preaching.
We are in a time of reformation of Christian thinking. The coming of the Kingdom of God is at hand. God is ready to meet every person who seeks Him with a pure heart and to bless him or her with the wisdom and strength necessary to grow in Christ’s image and to serve his or her own generation according to the will of God.
The harvest field is white. Everywhere we go we find people who are depressed, whose sons or daughters are in jail or have run away from home, who are distraught because of sickness or their job, who have AIDS, who are confused about where they stand with God. Multitudes are perishing for lack of the Spirit of God. If we will seek the Lord and obey Him we most likely will soon find ourselves working in some corner of the Kingdom.
Let us turn from the false teachings, the evangelical fables of our day, and follow the Lord Jesus to the fullness of salvation and ministry.
Following are some of the concepts that have emerged as the burden of Christ in you and the removal of sin through the process of judgment began to unfold. A list of suggested titles of our books and shorter writings that include aspects of the concept appears after the discussion of each concept. The titles that are mentioned are not the only ones that apply to the concept.
The ideas we teach appear in many forms throughout the books and booklets. A complete list of our books and booklets, with a brief summary of each, begins after the presentation of the concepts.
Perhaps the main theme of our message is, "Christ in you, the hope of glory." The vision of the eternal Temple of God, the spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles, has always been at the forefront of our thinking.
Born of God. The first concept we shall present is that of being born of God. The necessity for being born of God is one of the major areas of our doctrine. If we have been born of God we truly are sons of God and brothers of Christ. The new life that has been born in us is from God and over the untold eons of eternity will bring forth the likeness of the Parent from whom it came.
The parables of the Kingdom that the Lord Jesus taught us, such as the parable of the sower, have to do with planting the Divine Seed in human beings. It is Christ who has been born in us who is the Kingdom of God.
One of the central misunderstandings of the Christian faith is the idea that salvation is the bringing of the adamic man to Heaven. We want to be "saved" as we are and brought up to Paradise. However, the destiny of the adamic nature is the cross, not Paradise.
It is our new inner nature that is saved and is the Kingdom of God. The new man who has been born in us finds his way at once to the right hand of the Father in Christ.
The concept that the old nature is not saved but assigned to the cross of Christ, while it is the new nature, Christ formed in us, that is salvation, that is the Kingdom of God, is one of the bases of all of our writings.
For in Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. (Galatians 6:15)
The following are some of our books and booklets that deal with the topic of being born of God.
Abiding in Christ
Becoming a Son of God
A Conduit Versus a Tree of Life
Change
The Chariots of God
Christ In You
The Christian Religion and the Kingdom of God
The Church; the Kingdom; Religion
The Creation of the Eternal Personality
The Cross and the New Creation
The Cross Is the Only Entrance
Dealing With Sin Under the New Covenant
Death and Resurrection—the Heart of the New Covenant
The Flesh Becomes the Law
From Adam to Christ
From Moses to Christ
Fruit Is Change
God Is Building Character
The Gospel of the Kingdom
Heaven, or the Kingdom of God?
How the New Covenant Operates
The Kingdom Is Within Us
Knowing the Father
Laying Hold on Eternal Life
Living by His Body and Blood
The Manual and the Garden
The Mystery of the Gospel
The New Creation and the Resurrection
The Negative and the Positive
Paradise and the Kingdom of God
The Power of His Resurrection
Prepare the Way of the Lord!
The Real You
The Resurrection and the Life
The Right Hand of God
The Righteousness of God
A Suitable Helper
There Is One God
The Three Natures of the Christian
The True Nature of the New Covenant
Truly Man and Truly God
Two Purposes of the Latter-rain Outpouring
The Two Shall Be One
You Must Be Born Again!
Waiting for Maturity
The Bride of the Lamb. The Bride of the Lamb is the eternal complement of Christ, being made one with Him by eating His flesh and drinking His blood, and living by Him as He lives by the Father. There is no more important event in the mind of God than the joining of the Bride to His Divine Son.
The Bride must be as the Lord Jesus is: born of Divinity and born of humanity. Like must be united with like in the economy of God.
The concept that there are two brides, a Gentile bride in Heaven and a Jewish bride on earth, is part of the set of Evangelical mythical beliefs.
The concept that the Bride of the Lamb is a wife but not a queen must become clear to the victorious saint as he or she climbs the "secret place of the stairs."
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: (Ephesians 5:29)
Abiding in Christ
Babylon
Being With the Lord
The Big Picture
Canaan
The Christian Religion and the Kingdom of God
The Church
The Church; the Kingdom; Religion
Church Members or Christ’s Members?
The Church Within the Churches
The Destruction of the Last Enemy
A Destructive Doctrine
Doing Away With Sin
Eight Appearances of the Victorious Saints
Escaping Through the Flames
The Firstfruits of the Bride
Four Aspects of Our Inheritance
From Imputed to Actual Righteousness
Get People Saved or Make Disciples?
Glorified in His Saints
God Is Building Character
The Image of Christ
Israel Is the Church
Jerusalem
Knowing the Father
The Light of the World
Living by His Body and Blood
The Lord Is There
The Marriage of the Lamb
The Mystery of the Gospel
The Necessity for Overcoming
The New Covenant
One With God
The Orchestra and the Audience
The Overcomer Is the True Christian
The Path to Glory
Perfecting the Church
Prepare the Way of the Lord!
Preparing To Appear With Christ
Preparing for War
The Real You
Removing the Things That Offend
Revelation: Chapters Twenty-one and Twenty-two
The Royal Priesthood
A Suitable Helper
The Tender Agony
There Is One God
True Unity
Truly Man and Truly God
Two Appearances of the Bride
Two Current Issues
Two Hopes; Two Armies; Two Resurrections
The Two Shall Be One
Where Are We?
White Clothes To Wear
The Wholesome Personality
A Wife but Not a Queen
Your Appearance
Brothers of Christ. The elect are destined to be brothers of Christ. We truly are brothers in that we have been born of the same Father. There are several such promises that have to do with the impartation of Divinity and glory to God’s family. We are not to stagger at these but to recognize fully, and certainly without any sense of grasping or self-glorifying, that the Lord Jesus—the Lord of Glory—is the Firstborn among many brothers, many sons of God.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate {to be} conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29)
An Army of Judges
The Authority and the Morning Star
Becoming a Son of God
Being With the Lord
The Big Picture
The Chariots of God
Christ and His Saints Go to Work
The Christian Religion and the Kingdom of God
Church Members or Christ’s Members?
Eight Appearances of the Victorious Saints
The Flesh Becomes the Law
Four Aspects of Our Inheritance
Four Aspects of Righteousness
Get People Saved or Make Disciples?
God Is Building Character
The Gospel of the Kingdom
Grace; Heaven; Change; the Kingdom
The Image of Christ
Imputation and Transformation
Israel Is the Church
Knowing the Father
The Light of the World
Making Disciples
One With God
The Orchestra and the Audience
The Path to Glory
Preparing To Appear With Christ
Preparing for War
The Purpose of Growth in Christ
The Real You
The Resurrection and the Life
The Revealing of the Sons of God
The Right Hand of God
The Righteousness of God
The Royal Priesthood
The Stature of the Fullness of Christ
A Study Guide for the Book of Romans
A Study Guide for the Book of Hebrews
There Is One God
Three Steps Toward Righteousness
The Time Is At Hand
Truly Man and Truly God
Twelve Results of Cross-carrying Obedience
The Two Lampstands
Waiting for Maturity
Where Are We?
The Wholesome Personality
You Must Be Born Again
Christ, Head and Body. Christ is the Servant of the Lord whose task it is to bring justice to the nations of the earth.
Most Jewish and Christian scholars understand that Christ is to come to the world. What is not as commonly realized is that Christ consists of the great Head, the Lord Jesus, and also a Body composed of the saints.
The Church, the Bride of the Lamb, the sons of God, are terms that speak of the several relationships that exist between God and His saints, His elect, His Israel.
The eternal Servant of the Lord, described in the Book of Isaiah, is Christ—Head and Body. To the Apostle Paul was given the revelation that Christ, the Anointed One of God, consists of the exalted Head, the Lord Jesus, and also of a Body made up of those who are called, chosen, and proven faithful. Christ is the perfect Deliverer who is being fashioned by the ministries given by the ascended Lord.
The churches are the raw material from which the members of the Body of Christ are drawn. Christian organizations often assign leaders to the churches who have been trained by the denomination and voted in by a majority of people. However, because of the Divine Nature and purposes of the Body of Christ, only the Holy Spirit of God can correctly assign and direct the gifts and ministries needed to build the Body to the perfection required if it is to serve the Head adequately.
For this reason the churches of today must begin to emphasize ministry by the Spirit of God rather than by organizational assignment. The Christian organizations must become very much more sensitive to the mind of the Spirit.
Bible schools and seminaries cannot create apostles, prophets, or gifts of healing. They can inform the mind and create an environment that is holy and set apart from the world. But the leaders of the churches must look to the Holy Spirit to establish the ministries of the Body. When they do they will discover the riches latent in the local assemblies.
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, {in whom} my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. (Isaiah 42:1)
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also {is} Christ. (I Corinthians 12:12)
The Administration of the Kingdom of God
The Anointed Deliverer
The Appearing of Christ
The Ark of His Covenant
An Army of Judges
The Army of the Lord
The Authority and the Morning Star
Babylon
A Basic Concept
Becoming a Son of God
Behold the Lamb!
Behold My Servant!
Being With Christ Where He Is
Being With the Lord
The Big Picture
Building the House of God
A Change of Emphasis
Christ
Christ and His Saints Go to Work
Christ In You
The Christian Religion and the Kingdom of God
The Church
The Church; the Kingdom; Religion
Church Members or Christ’s Members?
The Coming of the Kingdom
The Coming of the Lord
Coming to the Disciple and Coming to the Lord
A Conduit Versus a Tree of Life
The Day of the Lord
The Day of Christ
A Destructive Doctrine
Filled With the Fullness
The Flesh Becomes the Law
Four Aspects of Our Inheritance
Four Aspects of Righteousness
Get People Saved or Make Disciples?
Gifts and Ministries
Glorified in His Saints
The Goal of the Church
God Has Needs and Desires
God Is Building Character
The Gospel of the Kingdom
Grace; Heaven; Change; the Kingdom
He Will Never Die
The Image of Christ
The Importance of Fruit
Imputation and Transformation
In My Father’s House
Israel, God’s Conqueror
Israel Is the Church
Joel's Army
Justice for the Nations
Knowing the Father
Led by the Spirit
The Light of the World
Living in the Fullness of the Spirit
Living by His Body and Blood
The Lord Is There
Making Disciples
The Manifestation of Christ
The Manual and the Garden
Ministry by the Spirit
The Mystery of the Gospel
The New Creation
One With God
The Orchestra and the Audience
The Path to Glory
The Person and Work of Christ
Prepare the Way of the Lord!
Preparing for the Battle of Armageddon
Preparing To Appear With Christ
Preparing for War
Pressing Into God’s Rest
The Purpose of Growth in Christ
The Purpose of the Resurrection of the Priesthood
Pursuing the Heavenly
The Real You
Radium
The Resurrection and the Life
Revelation: Chapters Twenty-one and Twenty-two
The Revealing of the Sons of God
The Right Hand of God
The Righteousness of God
The Royal Priesthood
Shaking the Heavens and the Earth
Sharing in His Sufferings
Spiritual Survival in the Coming Days
The Stature of the Fullness of Christ
A Study Guide for the Book of Ephesians
A Suitable Helper
The Temple of God
The Temple of the Holy Spirit
That the World May Believe
There Is One God
The Time Is At Hand
True Unity
Truly Man and Truly God
Twelve Results of Cross-carrying Obedience
Two Current Issues
The Two Lampstands
The Two Shall Be One
The Unity of the Faith
Waiting for Maturity
Waters To Swim In
We Christians Do Not Understand the Gospel!
Where Are We?
The Whole House of Israel
The Wholesome Personality
A Wife but Not a Queen
The Coming of the Lord. The concept that there will be a secret pre-tribulation coming of the Lord to "catch away a Gentile bride" is an error. There is no "Gentile bride," only the one new Man, who consists of all Jews and Gentiles who are part of Christ. There will be no Jewish kingdom on earth. There is but one second coming.
Great confusion exists concerning the Lord’s coming. Satan has impressed the Church that the Lord’s coming means our going to Paradise to reside forever in a golden mansion. Satan may desire that we leave to go to Heaven, but such will not take place. The Lord’s coming is just that—His coming. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming with His saints as King of all kings and Lord of all lords. The kingdoms of this world are to become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ—Head and Body.
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (Matthew 24:30)
After the Tribulation of Those Days
The Anointed Deliverer
The Appearing of Christ
The Ark of His Covenant
An Army of Judges
The Army of the Lord
Aspects of the Resurrection of the Saints
Attaining to the First Resurrection
Attaining to the Out-resurrection
The Authority and the Morning Star
The Beema of Christ
Babylon
Behold My Servant!
Being With the Lord
The Big Picture
Bringing the Throne Into the Land of Promise
A Change of Emphasis
Christ
Christ and His Saints Go to Work
The Coming of the Kingdom
The Coming of the Lord
Coming to the Disciple and Coming to the Lord
The Day of the Lord
The Day of Christ
The Day of Redemption
The Destruction of the Last Enemy
A Destructive Concept of Divine Grace
The End of the Age
Enduring to the End
The Eternal Removal of Sin
An Examination of Current Teaching
First Thessalonians 4:13-18
The Firstfruits of the Bride
For What Are You Preparing Yourself?
From Imputed to Actual Righteousness
The Future Salvation
A Giant Step Forward
God’s King
The Gospel of the Kingdom
The House From Heaven
Joel's Army
Jude
Justice for the Nations
The Manifestation of Christ
My Reward Is With Me
A Neglected Clause
The New Creation
One With God
Paradise and the Kingdom of God
Participation in the Parousia
The Path to Glory
To Perish or To Live
The Person and Work of Christ
Prepare the Way of the Lord!
Preparing for the Battle of Armageddon
Preparing To Appear With Christ
Preparing for War
Proclaimed From the Housetops
The Prophetic Sense
The Purpose of the Resurrection of the Priesthood
The Real You
Reaping Destruction
Rescued From the Body of Death
Resurrection
The Resurrection and the Life
The Revealing of the Sons of God
The Right Hand of God
Righteousness and Wickedness
The Second Goat
Shaking the Heavens and the Earth
Six Unscriptural Traditions
Sound the Alarm in the Churches
Sowing and Reaping
Sowing What You Want To Reap
A Suitable Helper
The Stature of the Fullness of Christ
The Temple of the Holy Spirit
Three Unscriptural Interpretations
The Time Is At Hand
The True Hope
To Eat From the Tree of Life
Two Appearances of the Bride
Two Current Issues
Two Hopes; Two Armies; Two Resurrections
Two Israels? Two Kingdoms? Two Second Comings?
Two Parables
Waiting for Maturity
We Christians Do Not Understand the Gospel!
We Shall Not Precede . . .
What Is Wrong With the Teaching of the Pre-tribulation Rapture
Where Are We?
Where? When? How?
The Whole House of Israel
Your Appearance
Your Redemption Draws Near
The Continuity of the Covenants. God’s work from the beginning of time has been one progressive movement toward the new world of righteousness that is to come. The present heavens and earth are temporary.
Dispensational teaching, the concept that God keeps changing His method of dealing with man, including the teachings that accompany Dispensationalism such as the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church and the division between the Jewish elect and the Gentile elect, has made logical, clear, straightforward Bible interpretation impossible.
It is difficult to imagine a model of interpretation more destructive to the Kingdom of God than Dispensationalism. It has succeeded in destroying the moral strength of the believers and preventing the Christian people from understanding God’s purposes in the physical land and people of Israel.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner {stone}; (Ephesians 2:19,20)
Another Gospel
The Big Picture
The Blood—Covers or Cleanses?
The Christian and the Ten Commandments
Christians Shall Be Rewarded According to Their Works
Clearing the Conscience of the Worshiper
The Continuity of the Covenants
Deliberate Sin
A Destructive Doctrine
The Deeds and Doctrine of the Nicolaitans
Doing Good, and the Resurrection
Except Your Righteousness Shall Exceed . . .
The Eternal Purpose of God
An Examination of Current Teaching
Falling Back Into Sin
The False and the True
The Flesh Becomes the Law
The Four Aspects of the Kingdom of God
Full of His Glory
God’s Unfolding Plan
Grace, and the New Covenant
Grace—Replaces the Law or Replaces Righteous Behavior?
Grace—What Is It?
How the New Covenant Operates
I Never Knew You
If you love Me . . .
The Importance of Fruit
Israel Is the Church
It Is Time To Move Forward
The Judaic-Christian Salvation
The Lord Is There
The New Covenant
The Old Paths
One Salvation
Not Retreat but Restoration!
The Revealing of the Sons of God
There Is One God
A Time for Repentance
Twelve Results of Cross-carrying Obedience
The Two Shall Be One
We Christians Do Not Understand the Gospel!
What Sin Is
The Whole House of Israel
Why Have We Changed the New Covenant?
Your Role in Your Salvation
The Day of Atonement. The Levitical Day of Atonement (Leviticus, Chapter 16) portrays both forgiveness of sin and deliverance from sin. We are forgiven our sin through the blood of atonement shed on the cross of Calvary. We are delivered from sin as God judges the works of the enemy found in our personality.
The Church of the twentieth century has come as far as Pentecost. Before the Church can attain the rest of God it must pass through the work of reconciliation portrayed by the Day of Atonement.
The trumpet of the Jubilee was blown on the Day of Atonement revealing the relationship between restoration, and forgiveness and deliverance from sin.
The coming thousand-year Kingdom Age will be the kingdom-wide fulfillment of the Day of Atonement.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us {our} sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9)
The Age of Reconciliation
The Antichrist Spirit
The Beema of Christ
The Big Picture
The Blood—Covers or Cleanses?
Changing Our Strength
Christ and His Saints Go to Work
The Christian and the Day of Atonement
The Christian and Judgment
Christians Shall Be Rewarded According to Their Works
Clearing the Conscience of the Worshiper
Coming to the Disciple and Coming to the Lord
The Cross Is the Only Entrance
The Day of Atonement
The Day of Redemption
Dealing With Sin Under the New Covenant
Death or Life?
The Deeds and Doctrine of the Nicolaitans
Deliberate Sin
Deliverance From Sin
Deuteronomy 16:16
Doing Away With Sin
Eating the Scroll
Entering the Land of Promise
Escaping Through the Flames
Eternal Judgment
The Eternal Removal of Sin
Except Your Righteousness Shall Exceed . . .
Falling Back Into Sin
The Feasts of the Lord
Five Kinds of Righteousness
Food Sacrificed to Idols
Four Types of the Plan of Redemption
From Bethel to El-bethel
From Imputed to Actual Righteousness
From Life to Death to Life
Full of His Glory
The Future Salvation
Getting "There" Now!
A Giant Step Forward
God Has Needs and Desires
Grace; Heaven; Change; the Kingdom
The "Grace" Mystique
Holiness Unto the Lord
How We Are Set Free
If you love Me . . .
The Importance of Fruit
Imputation and Transformation
In the Fire With the Lord
It Is Time To Move Forward
Joel's Army
Jude
Judging the Living and the Dead
Judgment Begins With the House of God
The Judgment Seat of Christ
The Judgment Seat of Christ Is in Session
Kept From Temptation
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
The Law of the Spirit of Life
Listening to Jesus
Making the Glory Our Own
The Negative and the Positive
The New Creation
Nine Operations of Redemption
Obedience to God
Obedience to God
Old Thoughts for the New Day
One With God
Our Goal Is To Be Saved
The Path to Glory
Prepare the Way of the Lord!
Preparing for War
Pressing Into God’s Rest
Problems and Pain
Reconciliation by Fire
Removing the Presence of Sin
Removing the Things That Offend
Purifying the Church From Sin
Reconciliation by Fire
Removing the Tares From the Wheat
The Resurrection and Eternal Judgment
Righteousness and Wickedness
Salvation Is Deliverance From Sin
Salvation Through Judgment and Suffering
Saved—From Hell to Heaven or From Death to Life?
The Second Goat
Set Free From Slavery to Sin
Shaking the Heavens and the Earth
Sound the Alarm in the Churches
The Sovereignty of God in the Plan of Salvation
Tabernacles and the Testimony
The Temple of the Holy Spirit
There’s More Than Just Being "Saved"
There Is One God
The Third Kind of Righteousness
The Three Domains of Divine Judgment
Three Kinds of Divinely Appointed Suffering
The Three Natures of the Christian
The Three Separations of the Royal Priesthood
A Time for Repentance
To Eat From the Tree of Life
The Wall Against Sin
Waiting for Maturity
What Sin Is
Where Are We?
Where We Have Been, Where We Are, Where We Are Going
Where? When? How?
White Clothes To Wear
The Wholesome Personality
Without Sin Unto Salvation
You Don’t Have To Sin!
The Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord will be characterized by war: God against Satan; the Holy Spirit against the False Prophet; Christ against Antichrist. The wisdom and power of human beings is as nothing compared with these galactic spiritual forces.
The Day of the Lord will dawn in fire. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. The heavens and the earth will be shaken. Here is God’s answer to the great rebellion that took place before the world was created.
Only that which is established in Christ will stand the shaking of the Day of the Lord. Numerous so-called "believers" in the Lord Jesus will be terrified, being tossed about as straw in a hurricane. All their works and most of their personality will be burned away, if the Lord judges them worthy of salvation.
The churches are hoping for a "rapture" that will carry them into the Presence of the Lord in their worldliness, sin, and self-seeking. To be brought into the Presence of God in their condition would result in unbearable torment.
The Day of the Lord is characterized by a large, powerful army of holy people—the saints of all ages. The judgment of God will be administered through them, resulting in the cleansing of the heavens and the earth and the filling of the whole earth with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.
And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (II Thessalonians 1:7,8)
After the Tribulation of Those Days
The Age of Reconciliation
The Antichrist, the False Prophet, and the Image
The Appearing of Christ
The Ark of His Covenant
An Army of Judges
The Army of the Lord
The Authority and the Morning Star
Babylon
The Beema of Christ
Being With the Lord
The Big Picture
The Blowing of Trumpets
Bringing the Throne Into the Land of Promise
Cause and Effect
Christ and His Saints Go to Work
The Christian’s Response to Evil.
Clearing the Conscience of the Worshiper
The Coming of the Kingdom
The Coming of the Lord
The Coming of the Throne
Coming to the Disciple and Coming to the Lord
The Day of the Lord
The Day of Christ
The Day of Redemption
The Destruction of the Last Enemy
A Destructive Concept of Divine Grace
The End of the Age
The End-time Judgments
Enduring to the End
Escaping Through the Flames
Entering the Land of Promise
The Eternal Removal of Sin
An Examination of Current Teaching
Except Your Righteousness Shall Exceed . . .
The Firstfruits of the Bride
For What Are You Preparing Yourself?