The Philadelphia ChurchSeptember 1, 2005 Article By: Tom Demeter My Assistantís Email Address; Dear Friend, I have shown in the previous article, that God has given us SIGNS like He gave in the time of Noah and since then before every big change affecting humanity. Christ, our Creator, Eph.3:9 is warning us again of the "End of the World's" Mat.24:3 coming as He promised Amos 3:7. One of these signs is the establishment of God's Philadelphia Church Rev.3:7 now, at the End of the World by His First Witness of His "Two Witnesses" Rev.11:3. This Church must be established that God's "work" which He promised to do Acts.13:41 at the End of the World could be done. This Church must be established because God has pre-ordained that some people must be in the "resurrection" ICor.15:52 without dying IThes.4:17. Christians in the world can't be in the resurrection without dying because they have God's partial salvation. Even God's other Churches in heaven, named in the book of Revelation, can't be in it without dying because they do not have God's full "knowledge of salvation" Lk.1:77. Only to the Philadelphia Church is given the "KEY of David" Rev.3:7 or the "key of knowledge" Lk.11:52 of salvation. This is why being in the "resurrection" that leads to eternal life can be gained only through death or martyrdom by these other Churches. God's six other Churches in Revelation 2 and 3, had no access to God's full salvation. God's full knowledge of salvation was given, and "hidden" in the "revelation" given to Apostle Paul which he called the "mystery" Eph.3:3. These "revelations" were "hidden" again after the Apostles' death until the very End of this World when the "voice of the seventh angel of revelation when, he shall begin to sound, the MYSTERY of God should be FINISHED" or revealed as He has declared to His servants the Prophets" Rev.10:7. The original twelve Apostles of Jesus received God's "mystery" from Apostle Paul Eph.3:5 because it was only given, to Apostle Paul. After the Apostles death the "mystery" was "hidden" again to our time until God's First Witness was sent to the Christians to "restore" it as it was promised Mat.17:11. The establishment of God's Philadelphia Church is a SIGN to Christians and to those who come in contact with it of the coming "great tribulation" Mat.24:21. This is the "sign" that God's First Witness is here doing God's "work" promised in Acts.13:41. This defines the time of the "sixth seal" of Rev.6:12, when the "judgement" of God begins on the world. This is the time of the "First WOE" Rev.9:12 when one third of the population of the world is killed Rev.9:15b. The Work of the Philadelphia ChurchThe "WORK" of the Philadelphia Church is to WARN the world or to sound the "MIDNIGHT CRY" of the Biblical Beast's coming first, and after it, Christ's second coming. To aid Christians to "come out" of this world Rev.18:4 and to "enter into" God's Kingdom of Heaven Embassy. Without the "work" of the Philadelphia Church restoring Christ's "faith" or religion, Jesus would not find "faith (His religion, the mystery) in the world," when He comes Lk.18:8. The world and its religions and Churches are ALL "deceived" as they were in Noah's day Mat.24:37. Apostle John confirmed it saying to us to remember this Rev.12:9 that we could "come out" of our deception Rev.18:4, when we hear the "MIDNIGHT CRY" Mat.25:6 sounded. The Midnight Cry is N-O-T a simple WARNING of the Beast's coming Rev.11:7, but a complex work of "restoring" Mat.17:11 God's laws, the "laws of flesh" Rom.7:25 and its religion of the Old Testament by the Second Witness of God to Israel and the Gentiles. The First Witness must "restore" the "laws of faith" Rom.3:27 of the New Testament religion based on faith, where "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" Rom.14:33! The First Witness "restored" the "laws of the spirit" Rom.8:2 and its religion the "Mystery of God" Rom.16:25 or Paul's gospel Rom.2:16, or God's NEWEST COMMANDMENTS ICor.14:37! This "work" gets even more complex, or difficult, by demanding the Christians to "come out" of this world Rev.18:4, not to receive its "plagues," which will kill one third of the world's population! To do this God's "Elect" Mat.24:22 must "come out" of this world Religiously, Legally and Financially and also "enter into" God's Place of Safety Rev.12:6 or God's Kingdom of Heaven Mat.6:10,33, and its Embassy, established Legally Religiously and Financially! Why We Need To Do This? We do this because Christians CAN'T worship to masters Mat.6:24, Christ our "Creator who IS THE TRUTH" Jn.14:6, and the "god of this world" 2Cor.4:4, who rules the world, Satan the Anti-god, has "NO TRUTH IN HIM" Jn.8:44. Christ defines truth with laws, so the Anti-god can't use laws. This is why he must use "lawlessness" to rule or Codes, Instructions and Commands, which transforms governments into a tyranny! If we "come out" of this world, we must choose which Government of God are we willing to "enter into"? Do we want to be in the "Kingdom of Flesh" where there is no salvation, only "blessings and curses" Deut.28. OR do we want to enter into the "Kingdom of God" of the spirit, based on the New Testament, where there is salvation through death, because they don't have God's mystery. The best choice is, if you have access to it, to enter the "Kingdom of Heaven" Mat.4:17 of the God Family or the "Godhead" Col.2:9, where you can be in the resurrection that leads to eternal life without death IThes.4:17. To be in any of God's Kingdoms, we must fulfill requirements. This is why John the Baptist demanded that we "bring forth fruits meant for repentance" Mat.3:8 to be baptized. The requirement is more and more demanding as you want to be in God's "higher" and "higher" governments. The ultimate "requirement" to be in the resurrection that leads to eternal life is that you must become "perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" Mat.5:48. As humans, we can only become perfect in "God's love" which is defined as sacrificial Jn.15:13. We must be willing to give up, sacrifice our life, to find it Mat.16:25. We must therefore be willing to overcome all of our fears, for "he that fears is not made perfect in love" IJn.4:18. For we all know that the "FEARFUL, and unbelieving, and ... murderers, and whoremongers and sorcerers, and IDOLATERS, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the SECOND DEATH" or eternal death Rev.21:8, not the resurrection. Who are the Members of the Philadelphia Church?We read that only the Philadelphia Church, of God's seven Churches are promised to be protected from the trials of the world Rev.3:10. So these are the people who will be in the resurrection without dying 1Cor.15:52 and 1 Thes.4:17. These are God's Elect Mat.24:22, a small part of God's "Firstfruits" Rev.14:4. These are the "sheaf of the wave offering" of the Old Testament Lev.23:15, of the small early harvest, representing Pentecost in the New Testament. This group obeys God's "highest" and most spiritual "laws of the spirit" Rom.8:2 and its religion of God's "Mystery" Eph.3:3, and are the government officials of God's "highest" Kingdom of Heaven the "Godhead" Rom.1:20 or the God family. Since this group is the most "spiritual," Christ gave them "little strength" in this world Rev.3:8, but they are mighty in the spiritual realm. This group "came out" of this world, having the Mystery of God and "entered into" God's Kingdom of Heaven Embassy Religiously, Legally and Financially, as the love of God is "perfected" in them IJn.2:5, that they may qualify to be resurrected into eternal life by "working out their salvation" Phil.2:12. They "purify their souls" IPet.1:22, from the "filthiness of the flesh and their SPIRIT" 2Cor.7:1! The next bigger group, the "Firstfuits" of God Rev.14:4, will not have access to God's mystery nor have time to fulfill the SPIRITUAL "requirements" of this Church Jn.3:8. This is why they can be protected physically and by it will be in the physical millennial kingdom of God on earth. The next big group, the "Great Multitude" Rev.7:9 are in the "Laodicean Church" Rev.3:14, who did not have oil in their lamp, (the holy spirit) and because of this they were not "ready" Mat.25:10 by the time the Beast came and the "door was SHUT" Mat.25:10 to God's Place of Safety Rev.12:6. They can't be saved into God's physical kingdom. These will be the followers of God's Second Witness, without the knowledge of God's spiritual salvation Lk.1:77. This is why they must all be martyrs, to be in the resurrection. They must be willing to die to fulfill the "requirements" of being "perfect in love" Mat.5:48, by overcoming the "fear of death" Heb.2:15. The GOOD NEWS IS THAT GOD IS LOVE IJn.4:8. God, to show His "Goodness" to these Rom.2:4, tell us that all humans will be "saved," if they "accept" God's gift of eternal life, because it was "pre-ordained" before creation took place 2Tim.1:9 in God's "operation of salvation". Col.2:12 We A-L-L humans (good and evil) and angels (good and evil) will be saved into the Godhead Eph.1:10 and Phil.2:10. Since it was our Father/Christ who "pre- ordained" our "alienation" Col.1:21; Eph.4:18, that we may, through the "sacrifice" of Jesus, be "reconciliated" to the Father in heaven 2Cor.5:18. This will take place in God's future "dispensations" or ages Eph.1:10. The Philadelphia Church will Flee and be ResurrectedThe Philadelphia Church Rev.3:7, was "restored" on earth Mat.17:11 by the First Witness of God. His followers have the "Key of David" Rev.3:7 or the "key of knowledge" Lk. 11:52, the "mystery of God" Eph.1:9 or God's true salvation. This is why they can see the SIGNS of Christ's second coming, and prepare as the five wise virgins in Mat.25. In Revelation chapter one, we see Christ "the son of man" Rev.1:13 in all his glory, holding the "keys of hell and death" V.18 and the mystery of God's seven Churches v.20, and its seven spirits. As Christ "opens the book" and its seven seals Rev.5:5, He "reveals" its message to the First Witness, the head of the Philadelphia Church. This is why the Philadelphia Church is given power, the "KEY of David" to "open" the truth of Rev.3:7, God's mystery Eph.3:3, and "no man can shut it" Rev.3:7, and what this Church shuts no man can open. As I said, Christ gives "little strength" to this Church Rev.3:8; Dan.11:34 because it is the most spiritual Church. The members of this Church had to "endure" the humiliation, the rejection, of the other Churches of God and the world. They have to have "patience," being a "living sacrifice" to God Gal.2:20. For being "faithful" with the truth, not giving in to the pressures and deception of the world, Christ will "KEEP them from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth" Rev.3:10. "Trial" here means death and destruction, as it was in the days of Noah Mat.24:37. This is why, like Noah, this VERY small Church will be "fleeing" to God's Place of Safety Rev.12:6, because it has God's "key of knowledge" to believe God's signs and servant (First Witness). The other Churches not having the KEY, can't recognize the SIGNS and will be punished. Christ is telling us through SIGNS in the heaven, and on the earth W-H-E-N we will F-L-E-E to God's Place of safety. The National ID Card and its implementation is the date given to us. This is scheduled to be done by M-A-Y 2008. For you to be "ready" to F-L-E-E, first you must "come out" of this world Rev.18:4. You don't see this yet, but Christ can, and now some of us can also. This is why I ask you, to read my articles on my web site, on the literature section. You must also offer a sacrifice to even approach our Creator, as righteous Abel, and all the holy man after him did. This sacrifice is fasting and giving offerings to God, and His "work" He is doing among us Acts.13:41. You must "draw close to God" that "He may draw close to you" Jams.4:8. Don't wait, delay and procrastinate, because we are now in an URGENT and a CRITICAL time period, as the five foolish virgins were. It would be a shame if you would miss the time of MAY 2008 to F-L-E-E, a requirement and a prelude to be in the resurrection to eternal life. Christ has opened the "sixth seal" of the book of Revelation. The Philadelphia Church is now functioning, the signs in the heaven are also testifying that we have but a "short time" Rev.12:12. Our political and world events, and the now cataclysmic natural and un-natural weather changes, seismic activities all WARN us that the End of the World is here. If you are wise, you will prepare Spiritually, Mentally and Physically, for the killing and the utter and total destruction of the population of the world and YOU in it, as it was in Noah's day Mat.24:37. No one, can save the world, you can only protect and save yourself, by being willing to sacrifice yourself for God and doing it without FEAR Mat.16:25. To be in the RESURRECTION that leads to eternal life, it is required that you face your greatest FEAR. that you are not eternal and that you can and will DIE, unless you prepare and are ready to F-L-E-E. You must be in God's "WORK" and love others by showing it to others that your love may be "perfected," so that you may be in the in the resurrection. God will show our work, and people will want to follow us, and His Elect will receive protection. At the present people are not ready to accept God's "call" to be an Elect of God. This is why God first will need to make humanity be aware of its NEED. This is why God must bring Satan the Anti-god and use slavery, financial poverty, health, and physical needs to make people see that they need to "come out" of this system. We only have a very "SHORT TIME" till MAY 2008 to do our WORK here. Are you ready? Will you be "ready?" I hate to be so tough, but there are requirements to be in the resurrection. Remember that Christ is our Creator. He does not need to compromise but you need to be like Jesus was, "God in the flesh." This gives dignity to you and to your hearers. I pray that you receive this message as encouraging, and not as a let down. I know that disappointments cause people to "fall away." So "be strong in the Lord and the power of His might." In the life and time we have left, we must "endure" Mat.24:13, Disappointments, Trials, Humiliations and for some like the Apostles death! We must endure to the very end to win! We are glorified by our patient endurance of our trials in this world. Our glory is coming, as sure as the world rotates around the sun. Our reward is so great that the "spirit of man" can't even imagine it ICor.2:9. Keep your eyes on the positive, and on the goodness of God. 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