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Re. 3:17 You say, `I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
Re. 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so that you can cover your shameful unclothedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so that you can see.
Re. 3:19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.
Re. 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.
Re. 3:21 To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Re. 3:22 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”

Today's generation of Christians are represented by the church in Laodicea. They are proud of their spiritual knowledge and material prosperity. But Jesus says that they do not realize that they are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. Yet you hear them saying that if rapture occurs this moment, they are qualified to go. They forget the Parable of the Wedding Banquet.

Mt. 22:11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
Mt. 22:12 `Friend,’ he asked, `how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.
Mt. 22:13 “Then the king told the attendants, `Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Mt. 22:14 “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

The king got a person wearing improper dress thrown out; how much more a naked person. As a remedy for this situation, Jesus counsels today's Christians, who are about to witness the rapture, to buy from him gold refined in the fire (divine power), white clothes (holiness) and salve (spiritual knowledge). What is the price we must pay to get these things? Re. 3:20 gives us a clue on the price. He is at the door knocking. If anyone hears his voice and opens the door, he will come in and eat with the person, and the person with him. This immediately connects with Jn. 14:23.

Jn. 14:23 Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

The price to pay for gold refined in the fire (divine power), white clothes (holiness) and salve (spiritual knowledge) in Re. 3:18 is obedience of the teachings of Jesus. Jesus used the rich young ruler to teach us the price to pay for resurrection.

How long?

How long does the cleansing from impurity and idols have to last? Jesus spent forty days in the desert before God anointed him with power. I think that should be the minimum time the cleansing could last before resurrection can take place. However, notice that Jesus fasted throughout those forty days. Hence, cleansing for just 40 days is very intense.

Re. 12:1 A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Re. 12:2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

It has been scientifically established that the sign of Re. 12:1-2 will appear in the sky on September 23 2017. The sign of Re. 12:1-2 is a sign for the adoption or resurrection of the sons of God. Re. 12:2 implies that by September 23 the resurrection of the sons of God is very near.

Computer simulation (Stellarium) shows that Jupiter (the fetus in the sign of Re. 12:1-2) will exit star constellation Virgo (the woman in the sign of Re. 12:1-2) on November 13. It also shows that the star of Bethlehem will appear on November 13, as Jupiter is exiting Virgo. Re. 12:5 says that shortly after the resurrection of the sons of God, they are snatched up to God and to his throne—the rapture. The coincidence of the star of Bethlehem with Jupiter’s exit of Virgo on November 13 seems to suggest that it is a very important day. Is it the resurrection of the sons of God that will place on that day or is it the rapture? If it is the resurrection, then the latest time to begin cleansing of all impurity and idols should be forty days before November 13, which is October 5—beginning of the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. However, if November 13 is the day of rapture, then forty days to resurrection will be well before October 5. Apart from the fact that not many people can fast for forty days, and so will need much more than forty days for cleansing, there is also this indication that just as Jesus stayed on earth for forty days after his resurrection before his ascension, the resurrected sons of God will also stay on earth for forty days before the rapture. If we take this factor into account, it means that cleansing from all impurity and idols must begin more than eighty days before November 13. This implies that cleansing must begin well before August 26. Cleansing with forty days of fasting can begin on August 26.

Mt. 25:6 “At midnight the cry rang out: `Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
Mt. 25:7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.
Mt. 25:8 The foolish ones said to the wise, `Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
Mt. 25:9 “`No,’ they replied, `there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
Mt. 25:10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

The wise virgins will cleanse themselves of all ignoble (2Tim. 2:21) and God will fill them with oil (Ez. 36:27) well in time. The foolish virgins will wait until the nick of time (may be the last forty days) before they realize the need to get the oil of God. By the time the foolish virgin finish the cleansing and get the oil, the adoption of the sons of God has completed.

Be wise!

Getting a new heart

Mt. 12:43 When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.
Mt. 12:44 Then it says, `I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.

As the son of God is cleansed from all impurity and idols, impurity should be replaced with purity and idols should be replaced with service of God. Attempting to cleanse impurity and idols and then create a vacuum will lead to disastrous result. Boredom and discouragement will set in and push the son of God out of the faith.

The rich young ruler expected Jesus to give him the formula of resurrection, so that he could be applying the formula while he continues to live in affluence. The formula Jesus gave him involved the rich young ruler giving up his wealth. Life after giving up wealth would have been too horrible for the rich young ruler; but Jesus included in the formula the rich young ruler joining him in his ministry. Can you imagine what would have become of Elisha if after destroying his agricultural business he had remained in his village? Elisha escaped the disastrous consequences by joining Elijah in his ministry. Therefore, a son of God that is being cleansed from all impurity and idol should busy himself with evangelism.

Cleansing from all idols

1Kg. 19:19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.
1Kg. 19:20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother good-bye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.” “Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?”
1Kg. 19:21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the ploughing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his attendant.

The number two requirement for the resurrection of the sons of God is that they must be cleansed from all idols. “Idols” here refer to fleshly and worldly obsessions. In order to rise to become Elijah’s replacement, Elisha completely destroyed his agricultural business by killing all his oxen and burning the ploughing equipment to cook the meat; he gave the meat to his village people and they ate.

Lk. 18:18 A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Lk. 18:19 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No-one is good — except God alone.
Lk. 18:20 You know the commandments: `Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honour your father and mother.’“
Lk. 18:21 “All these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said.
Lk. 18:22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
Lk. 18:23 When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth.
Lk. 18:24 Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!
Lk. 18:25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Jesus told the rich young ruler to do something similar to what Elisha did, in order for him to become great in the kingdom of God, but the rich young ruler valued his wealth more than the kingdom. Notice that the first thing Jesus told the rich young ruler to do is to keep the commandments of God, which is cleansing from all impurities. The rich young ruler said that he had been keeping the commandments since he was a boy; Jesus loved him for the fact that he made effort to be holy. Jesus then told the rich young ruler that one thing remained, and that one thing is cleansing from all idols. It is there that the rich young ruler failed.

In order for a son of God to resurrect and rise into the heavens, he must give up this world. Remember Lots’ wife! (Lk. 17:32) The son of God must deemphasize worldly possessions and worldly achievements; he should emphasize spiritual progress.

Col. 3:2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Mt. 6:24 “No-one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Mt. 6:25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

1Ti. 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1Ti. 6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
1Ti. 6:8 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1Ti. 6:9 People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

Vision Nine: A former lawyer and televangelist will give up all wealth. He will live a life of poverty. He will preach redemption to the American nation and to the world. He will be compared to John the Baptist and will be called the Great Evangelizer. He will lead the greatest evangelical movement in American and world history!
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This is one of the thirteen prophecies by Mark Alan Sunderman. In this prophecy, a man who apparently made a lot of money while also serving as a televangelist gives up wealth and begins to live a life of poverty. It is only from this poverty that he will lead the greatest evangelical movement in American and world history.

Cleansing from all impurities

Ep. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ep. 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ep. 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

The number one requirement for the resurrection of the sons of God is that they must be cleansed from all impurities (sins). This cleansing is done by washing with living water (Holy Spirit of God) through the word. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that the word is the water that cleanses. The Holy Spirit is the water. The word serves as the mirror that enables a son of God to know whether he needs cleansing and the kind of uncleanness he has.

Ja. 1:23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
Ja. 1:24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

2Ti. 2:20 In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble.
2Ti. 2:21 If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.

2Ti. 2:21 makes it clear that a man has to cleanse himself from all ignoble. Today’s doctrine of grace assigns a passive role to the Christian, with the belief that Jesus has done all the work already. A man cleanses himself from all impurities and idols by washing with water (Holy Spirit) through the word. How? It is by invoking the Holy Spirit through word of faith (Ro. 8:8 ). Invoking the Spirit through word of faith is well explained in the thread: www.nairaland.com/3940590. Let me illustrate with an example.

God’s word: Mt. 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Word of faith: In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I shall always be holy as my Father in heaven is holy, through the Holy Spirit of God that is in me.
Holy Spirit of God in me, move me to always obey God’s commandments and keep all His laws, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Ps. 82:6 “I said, `You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High.’
Ps. 82:7 But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler.”

Up till now, sons of God have been dying like mere human beings. The time has come for the sons of God to no longer fall into death, but rather grow in divine life (resurrection) and rise up into the heavens.

Is. 60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Is. 60:2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.

Is. 60:1 talks about the resurrection of the sons of God. How will this come about?

Ez. 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
Ez. 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ez. 36:27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

In Ez. 36:25-27, I can see three activities that must precede the resurrection of the sons of God: cleansing from all impurities, cleansing from all idols and getting a new heart.

Lk. 18:8 "However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Here, Jesus makes it clear that the rapture is for people who practice faith; but not our usual understanding of faith. Jesus is coming for people who practice the kind of faith that enabled Joshua to cross the Israelites into the Promised Land. The rapture is for people who know and live the ways of God.

Ep. 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word

Holiness is achieved by continually washing with living water (Holy Spirit) through the word. It is the Holy Spirit that makes a man holy, but the Holy Spirit works through the word of faith.

How to achieve perfection through Faith

Ez. 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
Ez. 37:4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
Ez. 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.
Ez. 37:8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
Ez. 37:9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’”
Ez. 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet — a vast army.

In the valley of dry bones of Ez. 37:1-10, the process that led to resurrection began with the prophet prophesying the word to the dry bones; this made the dry bones to put on flesh, but there was no life in the new bodies. This is then followed by the prophet prophesying to the breath (the Spirit) to enter the bones that had put on flesh; this led to resurrection. Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world only creates a people that have a form of godliness, but without power of resurrection (2Ti. 3:5). It takes the word of faith for the Holy Spirit to bring the power of resurrection into the people of God.

In order to enter the Promised Land, the Rock of God (the Holy Spirit) must be present. A person who doesn’t have the Spirit of God cannot enter the Promised Land. It is only when the Holy Spirit is present that speaking the word of faith could cause resurrection.

2Pe. 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
2Pe. 1:4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

God’s divine power has given us everything we need (not want!) for life and godliness. Everything we need to rise up to perfection is available through the divine power. How do we access the divine power in order to obtain what we need? It is through God’s great and precious promises. How?

Hk. 2:2 Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
Hk. 2:3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.”

Mt. 4:4 Jesus answered, “It is written: `Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’“ [Deut. 8:3]

Whatever promise God has made in His word is sure. Base your life on the promises of God and the fact that the divine power at work within you is able to fulfil the promises of God through the Holy Spirit. As you confess the promises of God with your mouth, you are invoking the Holy Spirit. Let me give an example.

Ph. 2:12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed — not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence — continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,
Ph. 2:13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

“In the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ, let the Holy Spirit of God continually work in me and make me to always be doing the will of God.”

“Praise be to God! The Holy Spirit of God shall continue to work in me and make me to consistently do the will of God, in the name of Jesus Christ.”

How ancient Israelites entered their Promised Land

Nu. 20:2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.
Nu. 20:6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell face down, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
Nu. 20:7 The LORD said to Moses,
Nu. 20:8 “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so that they and their livestock can drink.”

God wanted to teach the people of Israel a very important aspect of faith, which is speaking to the Spirit of God, but Moses bungled the whole lesson. God promptly declared the end of Moses’ ministry. The word of God comes through His Holy Spirit. When we confess the promises of God through word of faith, we are invoking the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Rock that Moses was supposed to speak to.

Jo. 1:1 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:
Jo. 1:2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them — to the Israelites.
Jo. 1:3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.
Jo. 1:5 No-one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Jo. 1:10 So Joshua ordered the officers of the people:
Jo. 1:11 “Go through the camp and tell the people, `Get your supplies ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.’“

Shortly after God made some great promises to Joshua, Joshua ordered the officers of the people to go through the camp and make proclamations that are in line with the promises God had given him. Obviously, the people would tell one another those same proclamations. All those proclamations spoke to the Spirit of God (the Rock). That was the secret of Joshua’s success in crossing the Israelites into the Promised Land. The key to the Promised Land is word of faith.

The Promised Land for today’s people of God

The Promised Land for today’s people of God is heaven, and the only way to enter heaven is through the rapture of the saints of God. What is the requirement for those that will participate in the rapture?

Ep. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ep. 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ep. 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

1Jn. 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
1Jn. 3:3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

The requirement for anyone that will participate in the rapture is that the person must be holy and blameless (perfect). The person must become like Jesus, in righteousness and holiness. Generally, when the people of God hear this, they say that it is impossible.

Ps. 95:10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.”

Mt. 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Ps. 95:10 shows us why the people of God have been seeing perfection as impossibility. The hearts of the people of God are always going astray; they have not known the ways of God. What is this saying? Well, you see, Jesus said, “With God all things are possible.” This means that when the hearts of God’s people are with God in His ways, everything becomes possible for them. But when the hearts of God’s people go astray from the ways of God, many things become impossible for them.

Ro. 4:17 As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” [Gen. 17:5] He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed — the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
Ro. 4:18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” [Gen. 15:5]

In order for a person’s heart to consistently be with God, the person must have a clear understanding of the ways of God. In fact, a person’s heart can be consistently with God only if the person is always following the ways of God. What are the ways of God? We can see them in Ro. 4:17. God gives life to the dead and He calls the things that are not as though they were. A person’s heart being with God means that the person is copying God’s ways as his own ways; he believes that through the Holy Spirit, God can give life to the dead and God can cause things that are nonexistent to come into existence. In Ro. 4:18, Abraham’s and Sarah’s bodies were dead, as far as procreation was concerned, but Abraham chose to follow the ways of God.

The Promised Land of the ancient Israelites was a type of the Promised Land of today’s people of God. In order to understand how to enter the Promised Land of today’s people of God, we need to study how the ancient Israelites entered their Promised Land.

Ex. 13:17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, “If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt.”

Why didn’t God lead the Israelites through the short route that leads straight to Gaza, but instead led them through a long way that involved long period in the desert?

Ac. 14:22 “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.

Ja. 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
Ja. 1:3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
Ja. 1:4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

People generally hate tribulations, but tribulations happen to be avenues for a human being to increase his faith. It is advanced faith in God that pushes a human being into the Promised Land. Therefore, God led the Israelites through hard tribulation in order for them to develop advanced faith in God. In a similar manner, the people of God of today must pass through hard end-time tribulation before the rapture.

Nu. 13:1 The LORD said to Moses,
Nu. 13:2 “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”
Nu. 13:3 So at the LORD’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites.
Nu. 13:27 They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
Nu. 13:28 But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.”
Nu. 13:30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”
Nu. 13:31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
Nu. 14:1 That night all the people of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.
Nu. 14:2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert!
Nu. 14:3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

Nu. 14:26 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
Nu. 14:27 “How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites.
Nu. 14:28 So tell them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say:
Nu. 14:29 In this desert your bodies will fall — every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me.
Nu. 14:30 Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Nu. 14:31 As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.”

About one year after the Israelites left Egypt, they were close to entering the Promised Land. But God had to test their faith to see if they were qualified to take the land. The Israelites failed the faith test and God decreed that all the Israelites from 20 years and above, with the exception of Caleb and Joshua, would not enter the Promised Land.

Total Blackout,Nigeria In Tears,The Cloud Is Dark As Aisha Buhari In Serious Shock As She Receives The Sad News From London That Her Husband Muhammadu Buhari Is Dead.

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LONDON : Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari has been confirmed dead in london where was receiving medical treatment.

the news getting to his wife (Aisha ) hearing this morning states that buhari who left the country few weeks ago and handed everything to the present acting president Osinbanjo has been...…

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RESPECTnoble:
Story.

Who presidency epp?

It's just 1 man for himself.

And to the northerners and westerners, why carry the matter for head like this?

Let us be, bikonu.
no be by force to go Dubai

Exactly!

Did Obasanjo's Yoruba presidency change the condition of Yorubaland? Did Goodluck Jonathan's presidency forever prevent Fulani herdsmen from killing Niger Deltans? Igbo presidency will not bring any permanent change to Igboland. it will only deceive some people into thinking that all has become well.

The mechanism of Perfection

Ep. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ep. 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ep. 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

In order to make perfection possible, Jesus Christ gave himself up as sacrifice of atonement for our sins. Those who put their faith in Jesus are then cleansed by the washing with living water (Holy Spirit) through the word. The end result of this process is that the people who successfully go through the process become perfect and ascend to heaven—the rapture.

In Ez.36:25-27, quoted previously, the perfection process begins with sprinkling of clean water (baptism of the Holy Spirit). This is then followed by the Spirit moving the person going through the process to follow God’s commandments and to be careful to keep the laws of God.

In the valley of dry bones of Ez. 37:1-10, the process that led to resurrection began with the prophet prophesying the word to the dry bones. This is then followed by the prophet prophesying to the breath (the Spirit) to enter the bones that had put on flesh.

I can therefore say that the process of perfection begins with identifying with the death of Jesus Christ for our sins. This identification is carried out through baptism in water. Water baptism into Jesus Christ unites a person with the death of Jesus Christ; the person dies with Christ. The water baptism being talked about here is not the one a person did when s/he knew nothing about Jesus dying for our sins, but the one done when a person decides to identify with Jesus death for our sins. Jesus himself says, “Whoever believes and is baptized.”—Mk 16:16.

Ro. 6:3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death?

Ga. 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

The next stage in the process of perfection is to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. All it takes is praying for it. The prayer can be done either by an anointed minister of the gospel or by the person that wants to receive the Holy Spirit.

Lk. 11:13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!

Ac. 19:5 On hearing this, they were baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus.
Ac. 19:6 When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.

Now that the Spirit of God dwells within, the final stage in the process of perfection is for the Spirit to cleanse the person through the word.

Ja. 1:21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
Ja. 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Ja. 1:23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
Ja. 1:24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

The Christian must get the word of Christ planted in her/him. The word can save the Christian from all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent in the world through the Holy Spirit. The Christian must often use the word as a mirror to look at her/his self and notice how filthy or evil that s/he is and then go to the Holy Spirit in prayer.

Nu. 20:2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.
Nu. 20:6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell face down, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
Nu. 20:7 The LORD said to Moses,
Nu. 20:8 “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so that they and their livestock can drink.”

The Holy Spirit in you is the Rock. Speak to the Rock. The Rock in you is Christ (Anointing) in you. Speaking to the Rock is what real faith in Christ is all about.

Holy Spirit of the Most High that is in me, put to death in me the sin of . . . Make me dead to this sin. Transform me by renewing my mind, so that the thought process that leads to this sin will not go through in my mind again. Great Spirit, make me to become like Jesus Christ in holiness, meekness and humility. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.

This last stage of the process of perfection must continue until the adoption of the sons of God.

2Co. 13:11 Finally, brothers, good-bye. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

The beginning of end-time perfection

Da. 12:9 He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

God sealed the secret of perfection until the time of the end. When Jesus begins to open the seals of Revelation 6, the secret of perfection will be released. The reason why this topic is being presented here is because the time has come.

Ez. 36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.
Ez. 36:23 I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes.
Ez. 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
Ez. 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
Ez. 36:27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Ez. 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones.
Ez. 37:4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
Ez. 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.
Ez. 37:8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
Ez. 37:9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’”
Ez. 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet — a vast army.

Ro. 11:15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Ro. 11:16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
Ro. 11:17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,
Ro. 11:18 do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Perfection will start with Israelites in diaspora. The rejection of Jesus as the messiah by the remnant Jews in Israel, descendants of Jews that were exiled to Babylon, led to their rejection by God. Other groups of Israelites had been previously rejected by God due to idolatry; the Samaritan Israelites were the first group to be rejected by God (2Kings 17 and 18), followed by the Israelites that went down to Africa (Jeremiah 44).

Israel is the root of the Church. The rejection of the last group of Israelites opened the door for gentiles to be included among God’s people. When God accepts the Israelites back, it will lead to the resurrection of God’s people. In fact, the first set of people to attain perfection and then resurrection will be Israelites (the firstfruits—the 144,000, Re. 14:1-4). It is only after the elect of Israel has been made perfect that the rest of the Church will have the opportunity to become perfect—through the ministry of the firstfruits.

Zep. 3:9 “Then will I purify the lips of the peoples, that all of them may call on the name of the LORD and serve him shoulder to shoulder.
Zep. 3:10 From beyond the rivers of Cush [That is, the upper Nile region] my worshippers, my scattered people, will bring me offerings.
Zep. 3:11 On that day you will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from this city those who rejoice in their pride. Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill.
Zep. 3:12 But I will leave within you the meek and humble, who trust in the name of the LORD.
Zep. 3:13 The remnant of Israel will do no wrong; they will speak no lies, nor will deceit be found in their mouths. They will eat and lie down and no-one will make them afraid.”

Zep. 3:9 is about the perfection of the saints. Zep. 3:10 shows where this perfection will begin. Perfection will start with the Jews in Africa. In the mid-1990s, some white evangelists were holding Christian conferences towards the end of December every year, in the city of Port-Harcourt, Nigeria. They said, “Nigerians, the whole world is waiting for you!” they said that they saw the map of Africa positioned like a gun in the hand of God. Nigeria is the trigger of the gun and South Africa is the barrel. They explained that a great revival will commence in Nigeria. Through South Africa, the revival will go worldwide. By early 2002, I wondered why Nigerians that are ridiculed by the whole world will become the chosen ones, God made me to understand that it is the Israelites in Nigeria that are being referred to. Incidentally, the Israelites in Nigeria have bad reputation in Africa (Ez. 36:22-23). The Israelites in Nigeria are the ones being referred to in Zep. 3:10. Perfection of the people of God will begin with them.

Zep. 3:11-13 talks about Jews worldwide, who will ultimately be gathered to the land of Israel. The Jews to be seen in Israel by the time Jesus returns to rule the world from Jerusalem will definitely be meek and humble, like Jesus. I pity Jews who reject Jesus Christ; they will not be among the remnant Jews, by the time Jesus returns.

Lk. 19:27 But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be a king over them — bring them here and kill them in front of me.

Is it possible to become perfect?

If Jesus says, “Be perfect!”, then it is possible. God will not give us an impossible command. Of course, one would wonder why no follower of Jesus today is perfect and why not even Christians of old were known to have been perfect. Is Jesus’ command to be perfect really achievable?

He. 11:39 These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised.
He. 11:40 God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.

He. 11:39-40 is saying that people of old that were faithful to God could not receive the promise of adoption as sons of God. The reason is that it is only together with the end-time Christians that they could be made perfect—in the land of the dead. This means that until the end-time people of God attain perfection in the land of the living, faithful people of God of old cannot be adopted as sons of God.

What does it mean to be perfect?

Being perfect simply means to become like Jesus—in holiness and in power.

1Jn. 3:2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
1Jn. 3:3 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.

When Jesus comes to rapture the adopted sons of God to heaven, these adopted sons of God will be exactly like Jesus. Anyone who hopes to be included in the sons of God must be moving towards perfection, by purifying her/his self.

Mt. 5:48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

If God is your father, then you must become perfect like your father.

Ro. 8:23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

A day appointed by God is coming when God will adopt all humans who are perfect as His eternal sons. Anyone who wants God to include her/him in the adoption of the sons of God must become perfect.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president of Brazil, during a news conference last year in São Paulo. He has planned to run for president in next year’s election.


The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was found guilty of corruption and money laundering on Wednesday and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison, a stunning setback for a politician who has wielded enormous influence across Latin America for decades.

The case against Mr. da Silva, who raised Brazil’s profile on the world stage as president from 2003 to 2010, stemmed from charges that he and his wife illegally received about $1.1 million in improvements and expenses from a construction company for a beachfront apartment.

In exchange, prosecutors said, the company was able to obtain lucrative contracts from Petrobras, the state-controlled oil giant.

His conviction tarnishes the legacy of one of Brazil’s most commanding political figures, a charismatic leader who grew up poor, challenged the military dictatorship and nurtured global ambitions for his nation, helping to land the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

“This goes far beyond himself and his political career, which is seriously damaged. It’s Brazil’s reputation,” said Christopher Sabatini, executive director of Global Americans, a research group in New York. “He was a brand. Brand Brazil.”

But Brazil’s economic fortunes eventually turned and, plagued by scandals, Mr. da Silva’s leftist Workers’ Party lost the presidency last year when the Senate impeached his handpicked successor, Dilma Rousseff, in a power struggle that consumed the nation.

Mr. da Silva, 71, who has called the charges against him a “farce,” has been planning a political comeback. Despite multiple corruption allegations against him, he has announced his intention to run for president in next year’s election and has been widely considered a leading contender.

The ruling could be a crippling blow to his aspirations.

Judge Sergio Moro, who issued Wednesday’s verdict, said that under Brazilian law, Mr. da Silva would be ineligible to run for office for twice as long as his sentence, or 19 years.

Legal scholars interpreted the ruling to mean that Mr. da Silva could still run for president while the case is being appealed. But if he fails on appeal, they said, it could either leave the Workers’ Party without an obvious candidate in next year’s vote or prevent him from taking office.

The conviction is the latest salvo by Brazil’s judicial branch, which has declared war on the country’s entrenched culture of corruption. Brazil’s current president, Michel Temer, was charged last month with corruption, part of a near constant stream of allegations and charges that have ripped through the nation’s political establishment in recent years.

Judge Moro, who oversees cases stemming from a broad graft scandal surrounding the state-controlled oil company, said Mr. da Silva’s actions were part of a “scheme of systemic corruption” at Petrobras.

“The president of the republic has enormous responsibilities,” Judge Moro wrote. “As such, his culpability is also” enormous when he commits crimes, he added.

Mr. da Silva presided over a period of robust economic growth in Brazil and remains a widely popular figure, credited with leading a social transformation that lifted millions from poverty in a nation with one of the world’s biggest disparities between rich and poor.

Despite the corruption allegations against him and his party, Mr. da Silva has been leading in recent public opinion polls on the election. Judge Moro, the judge who convicted him, is often cited as Mr. da Silva’s closest rival in hypothetical matchups in the presidential race, though Judge Moro has ruled out running for office.

“We view this as an attempt to push Lula out of the electoral process,” said Senator Gleisi Hoffmann, who recently took the helm of the Workers’ Party. “A presidential election without the participation of Lula is fraudulent and undemocratic. If you want to take him out of the running, then put up a candidate and run against him in the electoral booth.”

Mr. da Silva’s lawyers said in a statement issued Wednesday night that the former president is innocent. They called him the victim of a politicized prosecution, “a famous strategy that has been used to brutal effect by various dictatorships throughout history.”

In the verdict, the judge said that the former president had sought to intimidate the court, which the judge argued could be grounds for ordering his immediate arrest. Yet Judge Moro deemed it “prudent” to allow Mr. da Silva to remain free pending an appeal.

Sending a former president to jail would be a “traumatic” event, he wrote.

While Mr. da Silva’s conviction involves relatively modest sums, especially compared with the staggering scale of some corruption cases in Brazil, prosecutors have described him as the mastermind of an enormous kickback scheme that enabled his party to buy support in Congress.

The case against him began with an investigation into money laundering at a gas station. But as prosecutors continued digging, they said they discovered billions of dollars’ worth of bribes involving Petrobras and powerful contractors like Odebrecht, a large construction company with deep ties across the hemisphere. The case — which became known as the Lava Jato, or Car Wash, scandal — has ensnared other powerful politicians and put dozens of lawmakers under a cloud of suspicion.

Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of the House, was sentenced in March to 15 years in jail for money laundering and corruption uncovered during the Petrobras investigation. And Mr. Temer, the current president, is working furiously to avoid being put on trial, hoping to persuade lawmakers not to send the charges against him to the Supreme Court, the only venue where senior sitting politicians can be prosecuted.

The investigations have left Brazilians with few prominent politicians untainted by allegations of corruption. Wary politicians, meanwhile, have been considering passing an amnesty law to shield themselves, arguing that such protection is warranted to avert a collapse of the political system.

Mauricio Santoro, a political scientist at the Rio de Janeiro State University, called the sentence against Mr. da Silva a momentous turning point in a deeply polarized nation.

“We have almost half of the country wanting Lula to be president and the other half wanting him jailed,” Mr. Santoro said. “This puts a huge responsibility in the hands of the judges” ruling on the appeal.

Even if Mr. da Silva wins the appeal, he said, the case adds to the sense that Brazil’s crusading judiciary has changed the rules of the game for politicians. Past presidents widely suspected of corruption managed to keep prosecutors at bay.

“We are living in a very different Brazil,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/world/americas/brazil-lula-da-silva-corruption.html

What about those who died in Christ?

These people died without reaching perfection; how do they qualify for rapture?

He. 12:23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect.

He. 12:23 seems to be saying that there is some perfecting work that happens on the spirit of dead saints. The early Jewish Christians apparently had clear understanding of this perfecting work. When the Romans took over leadership of the Church, they apparently didn’t clearly understand some of the teachings of former Jewish leaders. They therefore muddled up some of the teachings. One of such muddled up teaching is the Roman Catholic doctrine of Purgatory.

Doing the will of God

Zec. 4:6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.
Zec. 4:7 “What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of ‘God bless it! God bless it!’”

Only perfect people will make the rapture. This requirement sends a chill down the spine of every Christian, because we all know that it is impossible for a normal human being to become perfect. Actually, perfection is not meant for normal human beings. Therefore, in order to be perfect, one must become extra-normal; and it is as simple as that. It is only by the Spirit of God that a person can become perfect; and it is only people like Jesus that can do it. Jesus was a human being, but an extra-normal one. How can a normal Christian that has the Holy Spirit in her/him become extra-normal?

Ro. 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Jn. 17:14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
Jn. 17:15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
Jn. 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.

During my days as a university undergraduate in Nigeria, I was taught by a number of Poles that escaped the communism in Poland. Even though these Poles were in Nigeria teaching me and my mates, they definitely were never Nigerian in any of their conducts. They associated very sparingly with Nigerians. While in class one day, as our Polish professor fired us with mathematics of electromagnetic waves, one of my mates said in Igbo, “Master it is enough,” and the professor replied, “I am about to conclude.” We were so surprised that he understood the Igbo language. Even though he had lived in Igboland for many years, we never thought that he could learn any aspect of Igbo language, because of the way he lived. The way those poles lived in Nigeria is the way an extra-normal spirit-filled Christian should live in the world. Of course, the world would hate anyone who lives like that like hell; but that is the only way to attain perfection.

Ep. 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Ep. 5:26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
Ep. 5:27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.

In order to rapture to himself a perfect church, Jesus died for the redemption of the church, so as to make the church perfect by washing her with living water (Holy Spirit) through the word. It is through the Holy Spirit that a person could become perfect.

Ja. 1:21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
Ja. 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Ja. 1:23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror
Ja. 1:24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

The starting point is the word of Christ. The Christian must get the word planted in her/him. The word can save the her/him from all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent in the world through the Holy Spirit. How? The Christian must desire to do what the word says. S/he must often use the word as a mirror to look at her/his self and notice how filthy or evil that s/he is and then go to the Holy Spirit in prayer.

Nu. 20:2 Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron.
Nu. 20:6 Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell face down, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
Nu. 20:7 The LORD said to Moses,
Nu. 20:8 “Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so that they and their livestock can drink.”

The holy Spirit in you is the Rock. Speak to the Rock. The Rock in you is Christ (Anointing) in you. Speaking to the rock is what real faith in Christ is all about.

Holy Spirit of the Most High that is in me, put to death in me the sin of . . . Make me dead to this sin. Transform me by renewing my mind, so that the thought process that leads to this sin will not go through in my mind again. Great Spirit, make me to become like Jesus Christ in holiness, meekness and humility. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.

Da. 12:3 Those who are wise [Or who impart wisdom] will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

Help others to become holy; there is great eternal reward for doing that. Pass this message you are reading to many, for by so doing you are helping many to become holy.

The making of a son of God

Becoming a son of God takes a process. God put Adam and Eve in the process, but something went wrong and they were discarded. Jesus went through the process and went through successfully. Today you hear people saying that Jesus was God come down to the world as a human being, because they see him after the process; they didn’t see him before the process. The truth is that Jesus began as a new man—an Adam. The process or mill converted him into a son of God and hence God.

Ge. 2:7 The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ge. 2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Ge. 2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground — trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

God created Adam as an earthly being. Then God put His Spirit in Adam, so that Adam became a living soul. “Living soul” means that the soul or inner being of mankind can grow in stature. In order for anything to grow, it must feed on something that will enable it to grow. Hence, as soon as God put His Spirit in man, He put man in the garden He had planted. All kinds of trees were in this garden. Most of the trees provided food for the flesh or natural man. But at the centre of the garden were two spiritual trees that were meant for the spiritual man or the soul. God commanded man to never eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If man kept God’s command, he would be allowed to eat the fruit of the tree of life, which makes the soul to grow and become like God.

He. 2:7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honour.
He. 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honour because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

Mt. 3:16 As soon as Jesus was baptised, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him.
Mt. 3:17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

Mt. 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.

God made Adam a little lower than angels and crowned him with glory and honour. God also made Jesus a little lower than angels, exactly like Adam. God formed Jesus as an earthly man in the womb of Virgin Mary. By the time Jesus was about thirty years old, God put His Spirit in him and declared him to be His Son. At this point, Jesus was exactly as Adam was in Ge. 2:7.

Shortly after God put His Spirit in Jesus, He moved Jesus into the desert. Just as Satan tempted Adam in the Garden of God, Satan also tempted Jesus the desert. Satan severally threw his word at Jesus and Jesus consistently rejected them. Jesus held on to the word of God and never disobeyed God.

Mt. 4:11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.

Lk. 4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole countryside.

In the end, angels attended to Jesus and fed him with the bread of life and living water. He came out of the desert a mixture of earthly and heavenly being. Adam could not reach that level due to disobedience. Jesus and Adam are patterns for every human being on earth.

A human being of today has the fruit of Satan operational in her/him. That fruit alienates a person from God. This simply means that a typical human being of today is not fit to host the Holy Spirit of God. A person needs to go through some ceremonial cleansing—water baptism—and prayer, in order to receive the Holy Spirit. Some people do receive the Holy Spirit after the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ followed by prayer. However, I can tell you from experience that in order to remain in the Spirit for a long time, a person needs water baptism after receiving the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is not really receiving the Holy Spirit that matters, but remaining in the Spirit till the end. That is the difference between Jesus and Adam.

Once a person receives the Holy Spirit, s/he is a living soul. The inner being can grow in divinity, but the spiritual food that the inner being needs to grow is not free. The person must work to earn the spiritual food. What work must the person do? It is simply to live by the word of God and never live by the word of Satan. As a person continues to fulfill the word of God in every aspect of living, God sends His angels to feed her/him with spiritual food and spiritual drink of the soul. That is how to grow up into a son that God can adopt as His.

Jn. 4:34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.

Mt. 4:4 Jesus answered, “It is written: `Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’“ [Deut. 8:3]

Re. 3:18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so that you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so that you can cover your shameful unclothedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so that you can see.

Who will partake in the rapture?

Only sons of God can partake in the rapture. Jesus ascending to heaven is a pattern for sons of God. Who is a son of God?

Ro. 8:13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,
Ro. 8:14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Ga. 3:26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,

Ga. 3:27 for all of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

A son of God is a person who lives every aspect of his/her life by the power of the Holy Spirit of God. The person has clothed his/her self with Christ (the Holy Spirit) so much that when you interact with her/him, it will be clear to you that s/he does not belong to this world. Those are the ones who will partake in the rapture.

1Th. 4:16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th. 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord for ever.
1Th. 4:18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.

The rapture is clearly in the Bible, even if the word “rapture” is not used in the English Bible to describe the event. Modern day English language speakers have chosen to use the word “rapture” to depict the event.

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A Grand Blanc-area garage was reduced to a pile of ashes this evening after a homeowner attempted to use fireworks to remove a bees' nest from the building, fire officials said.

Fireworks shot into the sky from the burning garage on Monday, July 3, as crews from Grand Blanc, Burton and Mundy Township arrived at the scene on the 6000 block of Grove Avenue in Grand Blanc Township.

"The homeowner was doing something with a smoke bomb trying to get a bees nest out of the garage," said Grand Blanc Fire Chief, Bob Burdette.

No one was injured and the fire was contained to the garage and a neighboring fence, sparing the home on the property, officials at the scene said.

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2017/07/man_tries_to_use_fireworks_to.html