The Power of God and You

Article By: Tom Demeter
http://www.repenttolive.com 

How  is  God's  Power  Manifest   

Dear Friend,

Our Creator, Jesus our Christ Eph.3:9 is teaching us like He did Noah and all His saints, step by step.  We learn to  "walk with God" as Noah did.  This is why you need to read the article on God's three works,   http://www.repenttolive.com/midnight_cry/34_Gds3Works.html   You see, we can't  know God and His power, because we are limited by the kingdom we are in, and the religion and laws of God we obey.  We can only have a  "perspective"  of God, as we are advancing in our creation process, the "operation of God" Col.2:12.  We can't see God as He is because  "nobody can see God and live,"  for He is a consuming fire Deut.9:3. This is why we will see our Father face to face, at the End of His spiritual process of creating us, when we are going to be in His family.

We learn from Daniel in the Old Testament that to humanity, and we might add the angel kind are "belong confusion" Dan.9:7,8. This is why we need to "divide the word of God rightly."  We need to recognize the difference between the   Godkind,  angelkind  and  humankind.    If we don't do it, we will be like the people of the Old Testament and natural humans, who will accept angels as Gods, because they have more knowledge and power than humanity, living in the fourth dimension, while humanity is in the third dimension.  The first thing we need to know about God is how we are different from Him and from His other creations the angels. 

Our Creator has a system how He is drawing us, His physical and carnal angels to Him, in a step by step process which  Apostle Paul called  "the operation of God"  Col.2:12. This was not revealed in the Old Testament, neither to Jesus'  twelve Apostles.  This was revealed by Christ after His resurrection and given to Paul in the   "revelations of God's mystery"   Eph.3:3.  God starts us out as carnal beings, and this includes the angels as it was revealed to Paul.  Then God gives us the  "earnest"  2Cor.1:22 of His "holy spirit." Only after this can  we understand Him.  Before this time God's ways are  "foolishness"  to us ICor.2:14 and we  can't think as God  Isa.55:8.  We are  "cut off"  or   "alienated"   from God Eph.4:17.

It was revealed to Apostle Paul that the difference between God our Creator, and His creations is His "holy spirit."  Until the  angels  let them be   "good"   or   "evil,"   or  humans  receive God's  "holy spirit,"  we can't understand God or approach Him.  God is using the  Old Testament  to introduce a few to have His holy spirit  "on"  them and His elementary principles.  A   "few"  from the Old Testament were advanced  to the  New Testament,  where His holy spirit is given to be   "in us,"   and from there we are lifted into   Paul's Mystery Gospel  Rom.2:16, where we are given the full "knowledge of salvation" Lk.1:77 to see God's process, "operation" of salvation Col.2:12.

After we discover God's operation of salvation, then can we compare it with His  Anti-god's,  and "come out"  of our deception and  "confusion."  Until God calls us Jn.6:44, we are cut off from God, and  alienated  from Him and can't come to Him, being in the  "snare"  and  trap  of the Devil, the Anti-god 2Tim.1:26. This is when we realize that in this "age" or   "dispensation" Eph.1:10 Christianity is like the people were in Noah's day Mat.24:37  "deceived"  Rev.12:9 to worship the Anti-god.  We are finally able to see that God calls only a "few" in this age, to find the way to eternal life Mat.7:14.  

God's Power in the Old Testament 

God's  identity  and  power  is  His   "holy spirit,"   which He sent us on the day of Pentecost Acts.2:1-4. The timing is vital to recognize because it tells us that God's spirit  was not available in the Old Testament, and was not available in the New Testament or during the  "work"  of Jesus, which He finished on the cross Jn.10:30.  This is why even Jesus' twelve Apostles did not have it, until Pentecost. This is why they had to all forsahake Him at His trial, like Judas, and Peter denied Him three times. The holy spirit was sent later by Jesus now our resurrected Christ Jn.16:7. 

The holy spirit represents the very essence of God and His power. This also tells us that after Pentecost a  NEW  ADMINISTRATION  of God began, advancing part of humanity from the Old Testament to the New Testament.  In the Old Testament God's power, the holy spirit was given to a "few,"  the Prophets, and some of the kings, and leaders that they could fulfill their function.  The holy spirit was not  "IN"  them only   "ON"  them.

Israel's function was to show the world of the Anti-god, the difference between  God's "higher" kingdom, compared to the Anti-god's "lower" kingdom. The world was governed by kings, where the king was the law.  In contrast Israel was  self governed,  all  being  free and sovereigns, like kings. The conflicts between sovereigns were eliminated to maintain PEACE  by God's Judges, using not man's but God's laws. This allowed the people of Israel to be free and to be extremely prosperous, if they kept God's laws, for  prosperity comes by the blessings of God.  It is unfortunate that because they were carnal, they gave up their sovereignty and by it their freedom, when they fell from God during the Satanic attack on them in the days of Samuel, when they wanted a king.

In the Old Testament people knew that God's spirit was NOT a person because if  "fell on people" more then one at a time and when it did, they did  miracles, like prophesying, healing, raising the dead, giving directions for decisions, being kind, sacrificial and at times very powerful physically, like Samson. The holy man of old performed mighty   physical   miracles like Moses, the Judges, the Prophets like Elijah and Elisha, and others.  God gave to physical  "carnal"  people, "physical" miracles.  If people obeyed God, they received  physical  blessings.  In general the holy spirit was not given to the  "many"  in the Old Testament, only to the  "few."   Spiritual Salvation was not available

This is why in the   Old  Testament   the "test" of the Prophet was that his prediction had to be fulfilled for the "many" Jer.28:9.  The prophecy had to be fulfilled   without faith   for the many, because the holy spirit was not available and therefore "faith" was not available.  In the  New Testament  to receive miracles  "faith" is needed Mat.9:29 because this administration was built on  "faith"  Rom.14: 23. This is why now the New Testament Prophets prophecy would be fulfilled only to the  "few,"  who had "faith."  This is why even Jesus was a   "false prophet"   to the   "many"   because He did not come down from the cross without dying.  This is why the Jews still wait for their Messiah, when the Christians have received Him more than two thousand years ago.

This applies today to those who "obey" the Old Testament contract, or covenant, or laws  of God. They can be blessed physically, but  not  spiritually.  These can only see God and His power from this administration and its limited  perspective.  They have  no access  to  salvation,  because that is a   "spiritual"  blessing.  These will lack the ability to know God more intimately. These only know their God as YHVH a just and hard   "eye for an eye"  God, where  "mercy"  is applied after a physical sacrifice, not as in the New Testament.  People in this religion are proud, and difficult to deal with, because their  "heart"  is like stone Ezek.36:26.  They argue about physical things, they only see and know God as YHVH, they are not able to realize, that there is a better, or "higher" perspective of God,  where we can know Him as Jesus and Christ and as "Abba our Father" our daddy Rom.8:15.

We see that in the Old Testament religion we can't see God, directly only in a very limited way.  Even the High Priest was allowed to approach God in the Holy of Holies in the Temple, for  ONE  DAY  only in a year, on the   Day   "At-One-ment,"   or   "Atonement"   Lev.23:27 during the Feast of Tabernacles Lev.16.  This day symbolized the "reconciliation"  2Cor.5:18 of all creations of God into the Godkind. We see that God established the Old Testament covenant as a physical, ceremonial, temporary,  or transitory religion. The function of this religion is to start God's redemption process of God's people, by transferring them from the world's religions into God's.

God's Power in the New Testament

God sent His power, His  "holy spirit"  by  the resurrected Jesus our Christ Jn.16:7 on Pentecost day Acts.2:1-4. The very first manifestation of the  "holy spirit"  shows  that it was  NOT  a  "person," or a spirit being but an essence, described as a  "mighty wind,"  and  "cloven tongues of fire"  Acts.2:3. The holy spirit is like the  "spirit  of  man"  ICor.2:11, which puts us into the humankind, separating us from the animal kinds, and gives us our human nature and intellect. God's holy spirit  is much higher in "kind,"  than human or angelkinds. We are shown by Paul that God's  "first begotten Son," Jesus of the Godkind Heb.1:6 was made  "much better than the angels"  in kind V.4. Humanity was created a "little lower than the angels" V.7 in kind. This is important to know, because we are at the End of the World and we will be invaded by a huge army of fallen angels coming with the Biblical Beast Rev.9:16.  I am talking about the UFOs, and other beings living in our earth.

You must know that these beings are not  "gods,"  they are not our creators, nor are these benevolent aliens.  These are fallen angels our   "enemies"  who want to  "kill"  and  "destroy"  us, because that is their created function Jn.10:10. You will need God's omnipotent power to resist them, for if you don't, you will be their   VICTIM.  You must be a   VICTOR   or you will be a  VICTIM!   To win your battle you need to know  who  they are, and how  you can have power over them. If you accept them as benevolent, as most of the world will,  it will be   DEADLY.  The "many" Christians will mistake the Anti-christ's or Beast's coming as Christ's, to their detriment.

If you are a wise person, you know that it is better to have   FRIENDS   instead of enemies. If you can't have friends, it is best to be   NEUTRAL   when others are in a conflict.  If you are forced to fight, you better have superior power over your enemy, to have a   STALEMATE.  Your last and the most painful and sacrificial option is   FIGHTING,   which you should avoid like the plague. 

As a child of God IJn.3:10  you have different options, depending on how  much of God's power you have. This is  determined by which  administration, or   Kingdom  of  God   you are in. Depending which   "work"   of God you are in Acts.13:41.  Are you in God's Old Testament, New Testament or the Mystery of Paul administration.  You can inventory your strength. If you are in the   Old  Testament,   you have no or a very limited access to God's power, His holy spirit.  You can have God's protection by His angels but not God's power. You might have a short  time period to be   Neutral   to the Anti-god's government, or to have a Stalemate. When God's people will   "flee"   Rev. 12:6 to God's   Place of Safety  Rev.12:6,   you will become an  "enemy"  of the Anti-god, and you will sacrifice your life to be in the resurrection.  If you "flee"  with God's children to God's    Place of Safety,    you can  be in the kingdom of God on earth, saving your physical life like Noah did, but can't gain eternal life!

If you are a Christian, in the   New  Testament   administration, you can have God's  holy spirit  His power.  Here your options are to use God's  holy spirit  and  "obey"  God by   "coming out"  of this world, to be Neutral to the Anti-god's government.  God's power will give you strength to go against Satan's system, by you willing to  "give up"  your life and by it you will   "save it"   Mat.16:25, if you willing to  "flee"  to God's  Place of Safety.  If you  have God's power, you might have a  Stalemate with the system, until God's children will  flee.  If you will not  flee,  your power will be taken from you, that you could qualify to be in the resurrection at Christ's coming through death.  If you will  flee  to God's Place of Safety you can be in the resurrection or in the physical kingdom of Christ.  If you are an Elect of God Mat.24:22 and are in Apostle Paul's gospel the "mystery"  Eph.3:3,  you can be in the  "resurrection without dying"  IThes.4:17, if you are willing to  "flee"  to God's Place of Safety. You must fulfill God's requirements given to us in Lk.14:26,27,33. 

God's  power give you the strength that you may be   "willing"   to give up,  "sacrifice"  your life to find eternal life. Without God's power it is very difficult to give up your life.  While in the Old Testament you received physical blessings, and power, in the New Testament you must use your  faith,  to receive spiritual blessings. The greatest blessing is salvation. In this administration because you receive  spiritual blessings "It is the   SPIRIT   that quickens; the    FLESH  profits nothing"  Jn.6:63. Most ministers are not preaching this, because they are in  "confusion" and can't  "rightly divide the word of truth" in the Bible 2Tim.2:15.  This is the reason why healings and miracles stopped at  the end of the New Testament, when Paul's Gospel was introduced.  The ministers in the churches are mixing the Mystery Administration of Christ given to Paul, with the New Testament Administration Jesus gave to His twelve Apostles. 

This is why God's   "highest"   Gospel  of  Paul,   is so important Rom.2:16. Here Christians are advanced from   "living by faith"  Rom.1:17, like the lilies of the field, and the fowls of the air as Jesus gave to the Twelve Apostles Mat.6: 26-28, into the   "reality"   of God's eternal kingdom.   In this new Kingdom of God and its religion, the Elect is given to benefit not only where the    SPIRIT   quickens,  but also the   FLESH!   Here the Elect can receive  "healings"  and physical miracles, directly   using   faith.  They can do this because these have the knowledge of God's physical laws and also God's spiritual  "knowledge of salvation"  Lk.1:77, to establish God's   "Kingdom of Heaven" physically  on earth.  The gospel  given to the twelve Apostles was based on  "faith"  Rom.14:23 to accept the coming kingdom of Christ in the   "future,"   when He comes as our King of kings, at His second coming ICor.15:52. This is why Jesus said to Pilot   "My kingdom is not from hence"  or of this world Jn.18:36.  

Paul's gospel is  NOT  based on  "faith,"  but on the  "reality"  Christ's gospel and of God's physical and spiritual kingdom, as the Old Testament was based on God's physical laws of the earth, not on   faith.  This is why only the   "Elects of God"  obey God's  "highest,"  most difficult   "laws of the spirit" Rom.8:2 on the earth, as the Old Testament did.  This is why only the Elects can set up their  "Kingdom of Heaven"  Mat.13:24 on earth and its Embassies to be God's Ambassadors 2Cor.5:20 with its laws.  This is in preparation for Christ's second coming,  indicating that Christ's kingdom is coming and it is opposite to the Anti-god's kingdom and its laws and principles.  We see that the Anti-god's kingdoms are based on  "lawlessness"  the Bible calls  "iniquity"  Mat.7:23 the world calls  "codes,"  and   "credit"  without money, making its members all thieves and idolaters,   SINNERS,   to cause their    DEATH   Rom.6:23.  This is why the Anti-god must kill the world's population now!

How to Progress Using God's Power

God's holy spirit is God's omnipotent power.  There are no weapons can be formed against it.  The God family or kind is much   "higher"   than humanity or the angel kind.  You qualify to use God's omnipotent  power, if  you are in God's family, the   "Godhead"   Rom.1:20.  It was revealed to Apostle Paul that humans  and the angels are the  "children of God"  IJn.3:10.  Now, if we are God's children then we are  "HEIRS;  heirs of God,  and   JOINT-HEIRS   with Christ" Rom.8:17, to use His assume power.  We are not in God's family now,  we are only  "begotten"  into it.  We will   "born"  into it at the resurrection. This is why we are told that to be in the   resurrection   to eternal life, we must have God's  "perfected love"  IJn.4:12  until  we are  "perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven" Mat.5:48! Yes, we need to be  "perfect  in love"  God's love IJn.4:18!

We need to be like Jesus, who was and is our Creator Eph.3:9, by whom   "all things were made (created) by Him"  Jn.1:3,  physical and spiritual, yet He did not desire to be   "equal  with  God"   Phil.2:6, like Lucifer, who rebelled against God, wanting to be   "like the most High"   Isa.14:14, our Father in heaven. Jesus was humble, willing to   "give up"  who He was, our Creator and come down not to the   "low"  level of the angel kind, but the   "lower"   level of humankind.  Not only that but Jesus was willing to   die   on the   cross,   tortured, the most painful way, and stoned to death, humiliated front of humanity, the angelkind and our Father in heaven! 

This is why Christianity is based on the scripture where we must be willing to   LOOSE,   sacrifice our life, to   FIND   eternal life Mat.16:25.  We need to be willing not only to love humankind, but the angelkind also, because their   "reconciliation"   will depend on us 2Cor.5:18. The first step to use God's power here, while we are not yet   "perfect" and not   "born into"  the Godhead, is by using it like Jesus did while He was on the earth.  Jesus was willing to be diminished until He was killed. Our aim in this life is not to   SAVE   and expand it financially, but to   SACRIFICE    it.  If we do, Christ will help, protect and advance us, like He did Israel among the nations. 

It is the law of life that when we use an indirect approach, we reach our goal much sooner then with a direct approach.   This is  why  if you want to  love God,  you have to love your fellow man  IJn.4:20. To  use  God's  power,  as  Christ's  disciple,  you   MUST   help  others.  Why? God's love is sacrificial Jn.15:13, so God's love is outgoing, aiding   others   not us.  We are told:  "we LUST, and have not:, we  KILL  and   DESIRE   to have, and   cannot   obtain ... We  ask , and receive not, BECAUSE  we ask   AMISS,   that we  may consume it upon   OUR   LUSTS',   to benefit us  James 4:3,4.  You must love others, and through them God will love you.  See  Job's story.

God's power is available, as it was in the past.  Peter walked on water, his shadow healed all the sick, without exception, he raised the dead!  Peter was chained in the inner prison between two guards, yet God's angel came and brought him out of prison and freed him. Peter was not alone. St. Steven did mighty miracles also.  Philip was "transported" from one place to the other in God's service. People need help.  The world is coming to an   END.   We will be invaded with unseen spiritual forces, which will make life pure hell on earth, like never before or ever shall be Mat.24:21. God, our Creator is waiting on   YOU   to rise to the occasion, to   USE   His omnipotent power.  You can use it you should use it, Christ is expecting it for you to do it. 

The  process  is  given  to  us.  The first step is God's  "revelation"  of the truth to you. You must study God's revelation that  it would become a working  "knowledge"  to you.  This will give you  FAITH  to "believe"  it.  Once you  believe  it, which is the greatest  ' work of God'  Jn.6:29,  you can use your FAITH   to step out and   ACT   on it.  If you do, you will experience the  REALITY  of God's eternal world, and miracles will be the result.  Jesus walked in the third and the fifth dimension, command- ing angels. Jesus taught us saying: "YOU   shall   S-A-Y   unto this mountain,   Remove   hence  (your problem or  challenge)  to  yonder  place;  and   it    SHALL   REMOVE;   and  nothing  shall  be  impossible  unto  you"   Mat.17:20b.  Do you need more proof than the very word of your Creator?  Listen, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away" Mat.24:35.  Jesus by His words re-created the world Gen.1:1. You must be strong in the Lord and the power of His might! 

WORD  of  CAUTION!  -  If you are not using God's power, you need to recognize God's servants and the Anti-god's.  The Anti-god is going to do great miracles also, and his False Prophet. These miracles will be so great that it will  "deceive"  the people of the earth, to "worship the Beast" Rev.13: 11, 12.  These miracles will be great, it will bring   "fire down form heaven on the earth"   V.13,  like Elijah did in the Old Testament   IKings.18:38.  We will see the conflict between God's Second Witness of His "Two Witnesses" Rev.11:3 and the  False Prophet Rev.13:11,  as it was between Moses and the Priests of Baal.  This time to allow the  "many"  to be deceived, Christ will allow His Prophet to be killed by the False Prophet Rev.11:7, that the   "few"   might recognize him as God's Prophet. The rolls are reversed in the New Testament from the Old Testament. 

CAUTION  TWO!  -  If your are baptized into God's Philadelphia church Rev.3:7 and received God's omnipotent power,  that Christ may    "MAKE   YOU   PERFECT"   Heb.13:21 and you,   "SIN    willfully after that you have received the  'knowledge of the truth,'   there remains  NO MORE  sacrifice for sins"  Heb.10:26!  If you  "deny Christ, He also will  DENY  you" 2Tim.2:12.

The End of the World is here. Christ is   ASKING  YOU   to learn to use His omnipotent power, now in this life in this world.  Is this sound exiting to you?  It should.  I pray that you respond to His invitation and not deny His request.

May Christ   bless,  Protect  and   SAVE  you into one of His coming Kingdoms, according to your willingness to respond to our Creator's invitation.

In the reality of Christ's eternal love, 

your friend and brother, 
Tom Demeter