The Spirit is, Pt. 7

True, Matthew 28:19 requires baptism by water under the Holy Spirit’s full authority and involvement. That is because It is the earthly representative of Christ, the earthly manifestation, the divine presence and power from the hallowed Father through His Son to change the sinful heart. (It is the divine counterpart of the apostle’s spirit in 1 Corinthians 5:3, 4; but Paul’s spirit present was not a second person in the Corinthian meeting. It was a sense of Paul and his guidance there.) As the conceivable fruit of the inconceivable Godhead, Their Spirit must be reverenced along with Them, and Its control of the fallen human nature required; or else we have no part with Them, and we are not saved. Mentally assenting to a third Being of the Godhead cannot give us the required divine nature and supernatural control by the heavenly agencies. A mental assent only squanders the lifetime of the world’s masses and leaves their souls unprepared for eternity.

But, Satan has remade the Holy Spirit to appear to be a third being so that the evil one has a place to insinuate himself into Christianity’s conception of the Godhead. Thus, the spirit of darkness can give the mark of the Beast to all who never receive from the Creator the biblical Holy Spirit state of being, the holy spirit of the Godhead that comes through patiently enduring all of the condemnation of God and then receiving the mercy and comfort of His Son. The Spirit is the faith of Jesus born in everyone who finishes the metamorphosis to the new creature in Christ.

Having remade the Holy Spirit into a third being, Satan can eclipse the Father and Son and leave his own vicar as his earthly representative. Then, when the son of perdition is revealed from the sky imitating Christ, he will exalt his Vicar’s empire as the eighth and final king of Revelation 17:11. He will completely blot Jehovah from human thought by exalting the Holy Spirit/Queen of heaven/Mother Nature. Images of Mary, the Mother of God, will be resigned to ancient archives, as the Holy Spirit/Queen of heaven/Mother Nature worship will supersede Mary worship, and give birth to the visible manifestation of “Jesus” when he has arrived from Her cosmic womb. The most ancient occultic animism will make perfect sense to the world, as everyone will see it blended with the visible reality of Ecumenical “Jesus”. The whole world will be happy; everyone will find temporary relief from the overwhelming, supernatural chastisement of peace and the distressing natural calamities that have ravaged the earth.

Holy Spirit worship, within which Satan hides, is an accomplice with Spiritual Formation in the counterfeit revival that we currently see spreading its abominations over Christianity’s desolate landscape. Its gift is empty of tangible, helpful instruction in righteousness and redemption from sin, and is full of flattering, imaginary, emotion-laden counterfeit redemption under a lawless guise of “Grace, grace, God’s grace”. By mysterious popular vote from a carnal Christendom, the Holy Spirit’s graduation into the worshiped Godhead is the omega of apostasy of which we’ve been warned. “An host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered” (Dan. 8:12). “Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice” (Dan. 9:11, cf 2 Ki. 17:16-20). By a strange worship and a mysterious proxy practiced upon minds and hearts, Satan substitutes the worshiped Holy Spirit for himself, and the whole world worships “the god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4). They worship “God” (John 16:2) under the delusions of the ancient Dragon. They eventually sacrifice the children of the one true God to that abominable ogre (see Jeremiah 19:5; 32:35; Deuteronomy 32:17, 19). They do this without regard to the severest condemnation of Christ,

Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea (Matt. 18:6).

So, by their flattering and lawless praise to God, people worship the Dragon through celebrating the Baal religion. In the place of the imprint of Jehovah’s Spirit upon their spirit (see Romans 8:16), they are receiving the stamp of the Dragon’s trampling footprint. Therefore, Jehovah abhors their worship.

They did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant (Ps. 78:36, 37).

In their lawless, flattering praise to Jehovah through the lawless “grace” from a mediatrix, full-of-grace “Holy Spirit”, the worshipers have much light and power, but no sweet love, joy, and peace from Jehovah. Instead of being justified and at peace with God, they receive Satan’s exacerbated chastisement of peace through the Beast power (see Isaiah 14:6) and later are swept into Satan’s arms when he arrives from the sky with his empty peace. Until that day their separation from God constantly harasses their consciences. “The smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name” (Rev. 14:11). They blame His tormenting condemnation of sin on Satan, and thus seek a comforter in the ancient familiar spirit, called the Devil and Satan. By worshiping Beelzebub in the name of Jehovah they blaspheme God, essentially calling Him Beelzebub (see Revelation 16:9). Their insulting prayers to Satan in God’s name do not go unnoticed by Him, and He finally stirs up His wrath against a world following Baal and Ashtoreth (see Revelation 16:2; 13:4, 15; Isaiah 1:6; Proverbs 28:9).

While worshiping the pagan Queen of heaven in the name of God, in the name of God the Queen of heaven blesses their soul with Her unholy influence. She lays claim to their heart by means of Her lawless blessing, and this way the entire person comes under Her control through their unguarded and wide-open, most sensitive avenue of the soul, their conscience. By peace She destroys humanity (see Daniel 8:25; Jeremiah 6:14; Deuteronomy 29:18-20). By this means Satan led Israel to give Jehovah the faked, flattering worship that Satan savors, he knowing that it would be a slap in God’s face and the total loss of His children. The devil continues the same today through making the Holy Spirit a being within the Godhead whose role is only comfort and grace, a very nice person to be worshiped compared to God and the Lamb.

They worship the Dragon who gives power to this insinuator into the Godhead, the third person of a Trinity. If Lucifer cannot actually sit on the Father’s throne relishing the praises of Israel, he has ingeniously thought to change church doctrine, and to lead the generous human creation to believe that they must give him worship. Thus, through gushing, sentimental love to God, being forced out of a hopeless, pained heart (see Malachi 2:13; Revelation 16:2) Satan’s conglomerate Baal and Ashtoreth molds their conscience and puts his mark in their forehead. His Baal aspect takes God’s condemnation to the extreme, thrashing the conscience by justice without mercy (see Isaiah 14:6). Then, his Ashtoreth mask takes Christ’s grace to the extreme, enabling the conscience by grace without Law. Thus, he destroys the mighty and holy people, turning them into powerless, groveling and prostrating ascetics before Ashtoreth, and into careless, angry militants before Baal and toward each other.

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions (Ecc. 7:27-29).

Ashtoreth is the abomination in the holy place (see 1 Kings 11:7-9; Ezekiel 8:3, 9-18; Leviticus 10:1, 2), “the image of jealousy” (Ezek. 8:3) spreading her wings within men’s soul temple that makes Jesus a jealous she-bear. “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation…stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)…” (Matt. 24:15). “Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God” (2 Thess. 2:4). This aberration of Christ’s true religion that desolates His people repeats just before He returns in power, when “all the tribes of the earth mourn” and wail to the rocks and mountains, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb” (Matt. 24:30; Rev. 6:16). All around us today we see this new celebration of lawless grace, and it is a sign of the shaking and the approaching Latter Rain. 

True, biblical worship is of only the Father and Son Creators of truth and grace. The biblical command is to “Worship God” (Rev. 19:10) and “Christ…, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen” (Rom. 9:5). “Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God [theos], and him only shalt thou serve” (Matt. 4:10, cf 19:17).

The Father and the Son descended upon Mount Sinai, and there the precepts of His law were spoken in awful grandeur in the hearing of all Israel.― Manuscript 3, 1885 Christ Triumphant, p. 109.

 From the top of Mount Sinai the Father and Son, and only those Two, defining the Godhead, proclaimed,  

Thou shalt have no other gods before me… I the LORD [Jehovah] thy God am a jealous God (Ex. 20:3, 5).

“And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever” (Rev. 5:13). From the context of Revelation 5 we see that the seven Spirits which come from the Lamb (see verse 6) never receive the adoration of heaven. The praise of the angelic hosts focuses only on Him who has ever sat upon His throne and on the Lamb.

Many, both of ministers and people, will gladly accept those great truths which God has caused to be proclaimed at this time to prepare a people for the Lord’s second coming. The enemy of souls desires to hinder this work; and before the time for such a movement shall come, he will endeavor to prevent it by introducing a counterfeit…. Multitudes will exult that God is working marvelously for them, when the work is that of another spirit [emphasis mine]. Under a religious guise, Satan will seek to extend his influence over the Christian world The Great Controversy, p. 464.

Therefore, because the denominations “know not me, saith the LORD” (Jer. 9:3, cf Rev. 8:7-13), the “Spirit” being given them for unauthorized worship so commonly seen today is the same abomination of desolation from the most ancient worship. It is the conqueror of Baal, Ashtoreth the Queen of heaven, who purports to fill heaven and earth. He is the third person of the ancient Trinity who conquered the second Person; he is the unholy “spirit” who has eclipsed the Lord Jesus. The unholy spirit has “magnified himself even to the prince of the host” (Dan. 8:11). This “another spirit”, quoted above, laid his plans early, warring against Jesus while the apostles were still alive, and craftily moving into Christianity with the insurgence of Nicene dogmas. He silently laid wait within those manipulated creeds of human philosophy until, by papal bulls and doctrine, he could bring in the Dark Ages and later the New Age.

In his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant (Dan. 11:21, 22).

He shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence [H2194 zâ῾am, “be cunning”] with them that forsake the holy covenant. And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries (Dan. 11:30-32).

In Spiritual Formation, this imposter to the Godhead has already made his bold move to abrogate the holy, just, and good Law of God, and the self-sacrificing cross of Christ. The apostasy away from true righteousness by faith, with Jesus at its center, has prepared for another period of darkness and ignorance of the Bible. Today, there is no longer a need to search out the ever-unfolding revelation of Jesus in the Old and New Testaments when all one needs is to walk into a church where the sounds and lights call forth a mantra, and the voice of “God” fills the mind and conscience.

Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down (Dan. 8:11).

The power of darkness has substituted the smooth and lustrous idols of humanism that cannot allow for the condemnation of God’s Law, and therefore never can their smooth religion offer the deliverance from God’s condemnation through His only Intercessor, His beloved Lamb. “There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim. 2:5). “This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3). God needs no other intercessor than Jesus, working before His majesty bodily and working in human hearts by His Spirit (see Revelation 5:6). We desperately need the Father and Son, and Their gracious Spirit to provide our access to Them. But, we need no third being. “We would see Jesus” (John 12:21). The Spirit is empty without Jesus because It does not exist apart from Him. And we must see Jesus in His Law; we must have the Spirit and life of the Law in Christ Jesus.

The “eternal Spirit” is the sealing that God gave Jesus, that Jesus gave His apostles, and that He will give to His final church. Our sins will be “blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ” (Acts 3:19, 20). The eternal Spirit in the soul is the constant, perfect emancipation from the curse of God’s Law. That liberation comes by means of giving up our rebellion against the Law’s righteous condemnation of our sin (see Galatians 2:19). The refreshing from the presence of the Lord is the Lord’s merciful sprinkling of the eternal Spirit that He causes to fall upon and wash away the evil conscience from every soul who thus submitted to the righteousness of God (see Matthew 9:2-6). Each soul humbled and surrendered to the Law of God and then to the cross of His Son have certainty of salvation “as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil” (Heb. 6:19). Standing guilty under the Law and under the Spirit of Prophecy counsels, and yet seeking a grace from Jesus, justifies them before God. He declares them righteous, and “out of the throne [proceed] lightnings and thunderings and voices” (Rev. 4:5). His kingdom is restored in them, and He sends to their hearts the Spirit of His Son in a packet of glory that sets them free from their past. They are His little ones, and their spirit receives the witness of His Spirit that they are the children of God. Having labored under the Schoolmaster and submitted to His Law, they are forever settled and at home under the Law’s jurisdiction. They sucked honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock. They have “no more conscience” “of sins that are past” (Heb. 10:2; Rom. 3:25). The Law of God is written in their hearts and their hope is worthy to enter in within the veil of the Most Holy. They have obtained the victory, and it calls forth from them the deepest gratitude and holy, sacred joy.

“Labour…for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed” (John 6:27). Row for your life with the disciples in the pitch black storm. Labor together with the Mother of all living in your own Gethsemane under the scourging Law and Spirit of Prophecy writings. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? “Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?” (Jer. 30:6).

Under heat of God’s anger strive to succumb to His will and to obtain His acceptance until He has resurrected you with Jesus into the liberty of the sons of God (see Romans 8:11). Only those who labor and surrender to the Law and to the Testimony can need a big Saviour; and only they genuinely receive Jesus and a sound conversion (see Luke 7:29, 30). They have an altar, and the right to eat from it. They have partaken of the Mother’s multiplied sorrowful rite of passage, they are virgins; therefore, only they are worthy to see the Son on His cross. And as many as receive Him receive the packet of joy and acceptance from His Father’s eternal Spirit (see John 14:23). They labored for the gift of God (see Hebrews 4:11); they accepted to be kept under the Law by God until He finished their purification. Dead to the curse of the Law, now their exceeding great reward is to “live unto God” (Gal. 2:19), and they keep His commandments naturally. They have feared before God and His Law, so He pities them (see Psalm 103:13). Therefore they “are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:26). They are “Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder” (Mark 3:17). These overcomers are powerful sons of God, unstoppable men and women, boys and girls.

“The blood of sprinkling” (Heb. 12:24) is the eternal Spirit of Christ, “as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38, cf John 19:34). The sprinkling of the eternal Spirit that the apostolic church had was the Early Rain of the Holy Spirit. And that sprinkling will come again in the Latter Rains of the last days. It comes to all who “waited on the Lord” (see Psalm 27:14), whose mediation saved them from their Father’s condemnation (see Hebrews 12:24; Romans 7:24). They rested in the LORD, and waited patiently for him (see Psalm 37:7). They “through the Spirit” waited “for the hope of righteousness by faith” (Gal. 5:5), while they worked out their “own salvation with fear and trembling” (Phil. 2:12). They trusted in Jesus and He brought their obedience to pass. The Father’s mighty Spirit of truth condemned them, called them, and chose them. Then as Comforter, He justified them before Him and sanctified them. “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied” (1 Pet. 1:2). “Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand” (John 10:28). Here are they who keep all the commandments of God and all the faith of Jesus (see 1 John 4:3, 4; Revelation 14:12). Only those who submitted to the mighty hand of God had the patience and got the victory over sin.  No one else qualifies. And only their minds are fortified with the words of truth, and can stand through the last great crisis.

The eternal Spirit is the never ending love and approbation between the holy, divine Pair that They bequeath to everyone striving to share in Their holy, gracious fellowship. “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed…. The servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:31, 35, 36). Jesus was sealed in communion and perfect obedience. His holy Father and His angelic influences were sealed within His heart; Satan and his world of sin were sealed out and could find no access to Him. So will everyone be who stands in the day when Jesus returns to receive them to Himself. “Satan could find nothing in the Son of God that would enable him to gain the victory. He had kept His Father’s commandments, and there was no sin in Him that Satan could use to his advantage. This is the condition in which those must be found who shall stand in the time of trouble” The Great Controversy, p. 623:1. They will have His perfect acceptance, unmixed with His rightful indignation of their sin. They will abide in the Son’s house free, no longer under the wrath of God, and never again slaves to sin. They will have Christ’s testimony (see John 8:29). Jesus will call each of them what He called Abraham: “My friend” (Isa. 41:8, cf John 15:15; Rom. 5:8-10).

After enduring all the agony in order to give us the second birth, the Lord is very jealous toward any other spirit being (see Ezekiel 8:3; Exodus 20:4, 5) which attempts to gain even a toe-hold into His place as man’s Saviour and Lord. The “mother of all living” (Gen. 3:20), who “made the earth and the heavens” and “all the host of them” (Gen. 2:4, 1, cf John 1:1-3), protects His own as ferociously as does a she-bear her cubs (see Exodus 19:4; 15:1, 4, 5, 8-10; Matthew 23:37). Devil, beware of the She-bear.

“For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty” (Rev. 16:14).