UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 4 Equip listeners to understand Revelation 6–7 as the convergence point of God’s “physical” and “spiritual” timelines—clarifying the roles of the seals, the rapture, Israel’s sealing (144,000), and Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 24—so they can watch, persevere, and minister with confidence as end-time signs intensify. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 4 Pastor Marcos Marrero May 24, 2009 Objective: Equip listeners to understand Revelation 6–7 as the convergence point of God’s “physical” and “spiritual” timelines—clarifying the roles of the seals, the rapture, Israel’s sealing (144,000), and Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 24—so they can watch, persevere, and minister with confidence as end-time signs intensify. Synopsis: Opening prayer & posture: A call to lay aside tradition and flesh, receive “rivers of living water,” and be strengthened for spiritual battle. Twofold structure of Revelation: Chapters 1–3 present the physical, linear church age (seven churches); chapters 4–6 unveil the spiritual dynamics behind that history (throne, Lamb, seals). Four horsemen as four forces: Antichrist deception, war, economic upheaval, and death operate to bring Israel (law) and the Church (grace) back into the same prophetic moment, culminating in Revelation 6. Fifth & sixth seals: The fifth seal highlights sacrificial witnesses (“under the altar”); the sixth seal pulls back the sky—heaven and earth meet, signaling imminent divine wrath and triggering end-time transitions. Transfer of anointing & the 144,000 (Rev 7:1–8): Before wrath falls, an angel “from the east” halts judgment; the Church is removed (Philadelphia kept from the hour of trial) and Israel is sealed (12,000 from each tribe) to carry the covenant witness. Great multitude (Rev 7:9–17): An innumerable company from every nation, tribe, people, and language appears before the throne—identified as those coming out of many tribulations who washed their robes in the Lamb’s blood (the raptured Church across the ages). Clocks and convergences: Physical clock: Six thousand years (six “days”) leading to the millennial Sabbath; 144 generations picture completion. Spiritual clock: 120 Jubilees (Noah motif) also converge near the end; both clocks meet at the sixth seal. Tribulation vs. wrath: Tribulation = persecution by men throughout the church age; wrath = God’s seven-year judgment. Confusing these leads to timing errors about the rapture. “No one knows the day or hour” (Mt 24): Read in context of the midpoint events (abomination of desolation). As in Noah’s day, God revealed the year and even a seven-day window; Zechariah 14 suggests a unique day when normal time is suspended to allow Israel’s flight on a Sabbath/winter. Midpoint details & flight: After the two witnesses’ 1,260 days, their death/resurrection coincides with Israel’s flight to refuge (Azal/“scapegoat” imagery from the Day of Atonement). God preserves a remnant for 1,290 days while others seal their testimony in martyrdom. Pastoral charge: Do not neglect Revelation or end-time preaching. Watch the signs (globalism, Israel, wars, upheavals), stay sober and ready, and lead others to Christ with boldness when the world is shaken—rejoicing at His appearing. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Indeed, Father in heaven, we ask that you grant us now ears to hear and a heart to understand, Father God. And I uh submit myself now, Father God, to the leading of the Holy Spirit. And I pray that I myself may have ears to hear, a heart to understand, and a mouth to speak the revelation that the Holy Spirit will want to bring to us tonight. Father uh in heaven in Jesus name. I agree with Fred as we bind the enemy right now. Father God as we declare the anointing of God in this place from above, beneath all around us, within us and through us, Father God, that the rivers of living waters that are attached to us through the Holy Spirit that is within us may be loose open today, Father God. Let all of the hindrances, all of the resistance, all of the failures, all of the garbage of the past, let it be washed away by the rivers of living waters, Father God. We don't want religion. We don't want no dead men's tradition. We don't want nothing, Father God, that has to do with the flesh of the world. We pant, Father God, for the rivers of living waters that flow from the heaven above, the door that Jesus has opened for us by writing our names in heaven. We come, Father God, and we thirst. And like Zechariah says that in the day of the latter rains, ask the Lord for rain. We ask for the rain now, Father God. In this day of the latter rain that we may be fed, nourished, and Father God, strengthened for the battle that lies ahead in Jesus name, we thank you, Lord. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Hallelujah. I'm ready to fight. I'm ready to fight. Praise God. Hallelujah. We um uh concluded uh last week and that um um the sixth seal and of course as we have been studying I said that the the first three chapters of the book of revelation chapter 1 2 and three gives us the physical timeline of the church age from the time that it was born to the time that it will be taken away. the Philadelphia church will be taken away, but the uh Leodysa church will have to go through the time of testing that's coming to test the entire world. And so that is a lineal and you can follow it from the letter to the the first church all the way to to the letters of the seven churches. And then I made the point that chapters four, five, and six are now the spiritual revelation of the same events that were given to us during the church age. And then I show by using this paper how the spiritual timelines work. And we see here that um in the whole seven years that God created uh I mean 7,000 years from Adam until the this present physical realm that we know of is done away with when the new Jerusalem comes down from heaven and God comes to dwell with us. uh that there are seven dispensation and we saw that innocent, conscience, human government and promise are the four forces that drive the whole of humanity. So when God enter into the covenant which was the promise that he gave to Abraham out of Abraham came two uh dispensations. One was the law or Israel came through Moses and it was given to Israel and grace the church which God made it through the known through the apostles and especially through Paul as he brought it to us. Now out of the Israel and the church when they two come together out of that time we're going to go into the kingdom age or entering into the rest seventh always means completion or rest. So we also notice that the first part of it deals with the whole 7-year period, the the condition of man, how God had to intervene by giving him a promise and then God introduced the law, his grace and from there to those who respond, we go to the kingdom age. Now the church age was given to us as a seven because God in in God's uh timing seven means a completion of something. God divides things into seven like the week. We have Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then Sabbath the the seventh, that's when it rests, and then there's a new cycle. It begins again. So, we saw that we were given a message to seven churches. In chapters two and three, we have a physical revelation of the church age. So, since it's physical, it follows one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven because that's how we understand. But in the spiritual realm, following the the way that God does the seven, we can see that when we got to Revelation chapter 6, that God introduced four horses, a white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a pale horse. And that symbolized the four spirits or the four winds or the four forces that are at work. And what are these forces working for in the spiritual realm? They are working to number one bring Israel which is represented by the law back as a nation and to bring the church which is the grace of God back into the same time to bring them together once again. See the church was born out of Israel. It were all all the apostles were uh Jews who were preaching the gospel. Jesus elected all 12 of them. And so then there was a separation to where the the Jews and were scattered. And so all of these forces have been working together to bring the church back. When John wrote the book of Revelation, Israel had already been out of the land for at least 30 or 40 years because it was in 60 AD that Titus invaded Jerusalem and destroyed the temple, destroyed everything. uh John wrote it probably 90 to 95 AD. So that was 35 years later when John is given this revelation. And so these four horsemen which is the antichrist wars one world economy and then one war that is going to involve oneth of the earth right around where Israel is at. Out of that is going to come two things. Number one, the souls that are under the altar. And we said that the uh under the altar is the blood and the ashes. When you brought a sacrifice, they had an altar. They had a a a a grill on the altar. They brought the sacrifice alive. They slaughter it. The blood ran down and then they burned it. If it was a burnt offering, the whole carcass of the animal was burned. So the ashes went down. So the term under the altar means something that was sacrificed to God completely and it was burned to ashes. Now we know that the Jews what they went through in in in in Europe was called a holocaust. Holocaust means burnt offering. Read the Spanish Bible and you see it. The word that they use for for burnt offering right here is holocaust. Holocaust mean to be burnt. And the reason why they call it the Holocaust is because Hitler burned most of the Jews. Their bodies had to be burned. How do you dispose of six million people? I mean that is that is hard to do. So they bury they had huge masses of of grave but it's too many. So they would burn them. So we see that out of these four horses the antichrist war this came out. And and so we see that because of at the end of World War II, Israel was born as a nation. So Israel was brought into the scene. And then we we saw that in Revelation chap uh I mean on Revelation chapter 6 when the uh fifth seal was open. Then when the sixth seal is open, which has not happened yet, we see that all of a sudden the skies roll back and now we have the spiritual and the physical in the same realm. There's no more wall or sky as where it says the sky receded as a scroll and everybody on the earth now we know that the earth is round and if we're here you go all the way to the other side of the earth there's people there when the sky rolls back it rolls back as much here as it does in China why because this is spiritual that's the spiritual realm so everybody wherever you happen to be on the earth you get to see that the lamb of god the wrath of god and the and the and the wrath of the lamb as it says when the sixth seal is open is ready to take place. And so we, this is what we see here. The wrath of the lamb happens on the sixth seal. And when we get to the uh uh first half of the wrath of God, which is uh uh 1,240, you see the same example. You see that one/ird of the earth, one-third of the sea, one-third of the rivers, one-third of the sun, moon, and stars. And then you see that the result of that is for the first five months tormenting demons are released. God allows all of the demons that are in hell to coexist with the humans here on the earth. And you say, "Well, why would God do that?" Because you tell people about hell, they don't believe it. And people died right now went up to hell and they want to come back and at least warn their families. That's what Jesus told us about Lazarus. Said, "Let me go warn my brothers and sisters." Well, see these people have refused to believe the gospel that has been preached to the whole world. So what God does is for five months he does not allow anybody to die. Nobody can die for five month. Imagine that. You can have somebody that gets beheaded. And I can imagine the the the head can actually still see and guide the body to pick crap and maybe hold it back up in there or something. You can't die. It says that it says and I'm I believe literal as much as I can on the word of God. It says that for five months nobody can die. And what happens is during those five months the demons, all of the demons of hell are released and torment everybody in the earth for five months. It says they tells you what they look like. They got long hair like woman, teeth like lion. And it says they have tails like scorpion. And when they sting you, it's like when a scorpion stings person. This is going to take place for five months. Then at the end of five months which is the uh uh uh uh the sixth trumpet or world two then four destroying angels are released and then everybody now that has repented and that says okay Lord I I know the hell is real I I believe I repent then their death will allow them to enter now into the rest of God. So these angels will come in and kill onethird of all of the humans are on the earth. This is how many people are going to believe. So we see the same principle whether you see it in the 7,000 year period of human history or whether you see it in the 2,000 year of the church you see the seven whether you see it on the 1260 days of the first week of re uh first half of the wrath of God you see it. So this is a spiritual principle which if we understand will help us to understand how things work. So here we have the first three chapters give us the literal or the physical revelation of the church age. We can go through history and we can see it. We can see that in the spirit realm. Chapter 4 showed us heaven before Jesus became flesh. Chapter 5 showed us the word of God coming flesh becoming a man then being worshiped and a and a claimed by everybody in heaven. Then he has now authority to open the seven seals. And as he unleashes the seven seals, we see that he's working on the church age. Now when the sixth seal was open, all of a sudden the sky was removed and now you have the spiritual world that we cannot see now and the physical world that we're in collide at one time. It all becomes one. So this is where we're going to start. If you have the book, we're going to start at page u um was it 29? I said 28. Page 28. This is uh the rapture of the church. And we're going to go to Revelation 7. And we're going to read verses 1-4. If you have your Bible, Revelation is the last book. And it says, beginning on verse one of Revelation chapter 7, after these things, I saw four angels. Now after these things meaning after the six seal was open and everybody saw that the throne of God and everybody saw the lamb and everybody was hiding in the bomb shelters and and told the rocks fall on us and hide us from the wrath of of God and of the lamb which is about to take place. So all of a sudden in Revelation 5:1 it says that four angels were standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth. Now what are the fourth wind? what I just show you in the paper, the the first seal, the second seal, the third seal, the fourth seal, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are like four winds or four influence or four forces that are at work to bring what this time when heaven and earth meet. Now, heaven and earth just met the skies were re uh receded. The judgment of God is about to happen. And then all of a sudden, an angel comes in from the east. He says uh uh after these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth on the sea or on any three. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living God. And he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, saying, "Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees until we have what? seal the servants of our God on their foreheads. And I heard the number of those who were sealed. 144,000 of all of the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed. Now, what is taking place over here is simply this. The church is about to be removed. Why? Because in in in in the message to the church of Philadelphia, uh uh Jesus told John to write, "Because you have kept my word and because you have not deny my name, I'm going to keep you from the hour that's coming to test everybody who lives on the earth." So we keep faith. We believe the word of God. We do not deny the the deity of Jesus Christ. That is our ticket out of here when it comes. So what happens is as the uh uh because we saw that when Peter is quoting Joel that uh the mountains were removed that there was uh billows of smoke and earthquake there was all kinds of things taking place and as this thing frightful things were taking place which are natural events that are taking place and everybody knows that the wrath of God is about to come this angel that comes from the east he said wait a minute we can't begin the judgment yet? Well, why? Well, because we were not appointed unto wrath. Paul says in the letter to the Thessalonians, you have not been appointed unto wrath. So, if the wrath of the land is coming, we have to be taken out. That's what the angel from the east does. Remember, Jesus says that in in his coming, he's going to be like lightning that flashes from the east to the west. He's talking about the rapture. But see, the church cannot be raptured because the church is the anointed entity of God here on the earth. We have been anointed to rule and to reign. That we are the only spiritual authority. Just like Israel was the only authority before that. That doesn't mean that you have to be Jew to be saved. We're not talking about salvation. We're talking about an entity that is in charge of as an ambassador to to bring God's gospel or or whatever the the law for the dispensation is to the world. And so before the church gets taken out, that anointing which is the seal of the living God, when did the seal of the living God come? In the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came and empowered the church, gave it the authority to carry out the work of God. Now that church is going to be removed, Israel has to be sealed. And so Israel responds by offering to God 12,000 young men who have never been with a woman. They're virgin. They're young. They're pure. 12,000 from each tribe. 144,000 are going to be offered to God and they're all will die by the time of the of the 1260 day and the two witnesses will die. So as they are offered to God, the anointing seal, God accepts their offering and their seal on their foreheads. And so here's what's happening. The sixth seal is open. The sky is removed. The world is screaming and crying because the earth is shaking. There's smoke. There's there's all kinds of things going on. The angel that come from the east, that's the rapture. The angel of the rapture says, "Hold everything. We have to transfer the authority from the church before we take it." Because when the church is gone, it's gone. And and the Leo, they say church don't have no authority. They deny Jesus is not it. Revelation 3:20, Jesus said, "Behold, I stand on the door and knock. If you open the door, I'll come in." Obviously, they never open the door. If they would open the door, they go up in the rapture. So, they're left. So, then the authorities transferred to the Jews. Now, who does this transferring? And of course, these are the two witnesses. The two witnesses while this guy is receding and it's back, not not just the angels coming in. The two witnesses come in. They will know what Jewish from what tribe and they will know exactly them to seal. But now here I'm going to give you a key and the key is that there are two clocks. There is a physical clock and there is a spiritual clock and the physical clock is governed by the times and the seasons. For example, uh uh uh uh the the earth takes 365 days to go around the sun. So that's a year. The earth takes 24 hours to go around on itself and within a circle. And that's called a day. And that is the what governs us. Our clock is governed by the position of the earth in relation to the sun. But when God introduced his spiritual clock, his spiritual clock was never dependent upon any physical thing. God just created everything on six days. And he says, "Okay, the seventh day is holy. We're going to rest on it. The seventh day can happen in winter. The seventh day can happen in summer. The seventh day can happen in spring. The seventh day represents God's spiritual clock." So now listen to this. Moses in Psalm 90 and and second Peter tells us that a day is like a year unto the Lord. And now I mean it's like a thousand years. A day is like a thousand years unto the Lord. Of course we have six dispensation. The seventh is when we enter into the day of rest. Revelation six different time says that Christ will reign on the earth for a thousand years. So, we do know that the last day is a Sabbath and it lasts a thousand years. So, that means that the first six days lasted 6,000 years. Okay? That's why when you add the the the calendar from the Bible, you come up that we're about the year 6,000 because we're about to enter into the day of rest. Now, look at this. The day symbolizes a thousand years. Now, if a day symbolizes a thousand years, what does the hour symbolize? Because we know that an a day has 24 hours. Well, guess what? The hour represents a generation. So, you see, out of every thousand years, God counts 24 generations. So, six working days is 144 hours. So when you come to the day of rest, the last hour, the 144th has to be the last one because that then you enter into the day of rest. So that tells us that this event is happening right at the end of 6,000 years because God except from Israel who's going to be now sealed 144,000. What that means is the 100th and 144th generation is the generation that will end time and then we'll go into the transition period of where we go a thousand years and it's physical. Moses says a day is like a thousand years and and and then by implication I know that an hour represents a generation. So there's 104. Adam was the first generation. Jesus says about the generation that will witness the signs on the sky when all of these things begin to happen. Jesus says this generation shall not pass away until all of these words are fulfilled. So the first generation was Adam and Eve. The last generation is the one that gets taken up. But there's more. There's the other time. The other time is the Sabbath time. God comes in through the law, through Moses, says, "Now, I want you to do this." He says, "When you go into the land, I want you to work the land for six years." In other words, you're going to plow the ground. You're going to put the seeds. You're going to take the weeds out. You're going to harvest. You're going to do this for six years. But the seventh year is holy. The land needs to rest. Nobody works on the seventh year. God told him, "Well, that's a problem. If you don't get paid for a whole year, you were in trouble, right?" So God says, "In the sixth year, I will bless you and your crops will produce double and then you put it in your barn." Man, I wish I had that deal today. I like to have every seventh year off without having to work. I have all my needs met, right? So this was idea. Then he says, "You do that is called a sbatical. You do that for a a cycle of seven. In other words, you do it the the first seven, the fourth thing, the 21, and then when you get to the 49th year, this is seven cycles of seven, seven weeks of seven. Then the 50th year is the year of jubilee. Now remember Jesus came, he said, I came to proclaim the year of jubilee, the year, the acceptable day of the Lord. That mean that's the year that you enter into rest. Now if you were an Israelite and you were in the 30th year of the cycle and you fell into death, in other words, you borrow money and you couldn't pay it, you will become a slave, but you have to be released on the 50th year because the 50th meant all of the debts were cancelled, ended. No more death. So if you had a land because all of the Jews inherited a a plot of land, you had a land. It always belongs to you and to your children to your children. After this, you could sell it, but whoever bought it had to figure out, okay, this is the 30th year. We got 20 years until Jubilee. Uh and they'll pay you for those 20 years because on the 50th year, they had to give you the land back. It's a jubilee. You enter into the rest. All of the maps are cancelled. See that is God sabatical clock. Now God comes in during the days of of Noah and he says I am going to bring judgment upon the earth and everything is going to be destroyed and I'm going to do it in 120 years. Now why would God select 120 years? Well, see the 120 years is spiritual and it applies to the church because there were 120 people on the upper room when the Holy Spirit fell upon them. So the 144 represents Israel physical the physical clock the spiritual clock is uh 120. Why 120? Well, God said I'm going to destroy the earth in 120 years. And 120 years exactly the judgment came. the you know in the 120th year the the the gates of the heaven were open the springs were open the water came in everybody was killed now Jesus comes in and says like it was in the days of Noah is going to be at the end time what does it mean well 120 time 50 which is a jubilee leads us exactly to 6,000 so you see what's happening over here like I've been teaching There's a spiritual clock. There's a physical clock. And boom, they're converging 144 generations later from Adam and 120 Jubilees from the day that Adam was created into to go into the garden and go into the rest are all converging at the end of chapter 6. And so here in chapter 7, now we're going to see the result. And the result is first 144,000 are sealed for for Israel. And then uh uh Revelation 7 9 and 10 says after these things I look and behold a great multitude which no one could number of all of the nations, the tribes, peoples and tongues that were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed with white robe with palm branches in their hands. And they were crying out with a lou voice saying, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and unto the lamb." This is the rapture. Notice that it is people from all nations. Now, notice that this it's not just all nations today because since this is the resurrection, this is all nations that ever existed. out of all tribes, wherever people were, out of all people and all tongues. That means that God is in the business of saving people and he saves people not just through Israel. Because if Israel uh uh failed to proclaim the gospel of God, then nobody got saved on the 1500 years that Israel was a nation. If the church has failed to proclaim the gospel like so so many places have pro uh failed to proclaim, then there will be people from tribes that were lost. But you see, Paul tells us in Romans chapter 1 that God has put within the creation and within the heart of man eternity to where men are convicted by the very creation itself. So out of every tribe, out of every tongue, out of every revelation, even when there was no gospel and and there's plenty of of of uh uh things has been said about that, Buddhist people that were praying to whatever and and had Jesus appear to them. All kinds of things that happened through the ages. And so what happens is this is when all of those people who die believing the word of God, the gospel, whether it was preached through a preacher, whether it was preached through the law or whether it was preached by nature or whether it's preached by your heart. Paul says this and as a matter of fact, let me go there. I want to make sure that I get this point. It's Romans chapter 1, the end of Romans chapter 1. Because I want to make sure that that we understand this is still Jesus, the one who does it is in Romans chapter 1 and uh and verses um let's begin with 17. He says, "For in it," talking about the gospel, he says, "I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation." Verse 16 and 17 says, "For in this gospel that is a righteousness, the righteousness of God is revealed that goes from faith to faith. And as it is written, the just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth and unrighteousness." And look at verse 19. Because what may be known of God is manifest in them. For God has shown it to them. Meaning that the gospel has been preached to every creature. Look at the next one. For since the creation of the world, see remember from every nation, from every tribe, from every tongue, since the creation of the world, God's invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and godhead, so that they are without excuse. And then he goes on to say that all of this is done through the sacrifice that Jesus gave. So that means that if you live somewhere way out there 3,000 years ago and never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, yet the gospel was preached to you by the things that were great. God speaks to you. God can speak to you through a song. God can speak to you. I remember when I was young, the first time I got drunk, I walk home, our house was on top of the water and I couldn't go into the house because man, I was moving and I sit there on the edge of on the dock on the water and my head was just going around and then all of a sudden this bright meteorite, whatever it was, just went by. It was 2 3:00 in the morning. Our town hardly had any lights. So, was you could see every star in the Milky Way and the thing just flushed so big in the sky. And I I was just felt so little seeing that. And of course, I was drunk. So this voice spoke to me and it was Satan. He says, "This is what your life is going to be like. Nothing. Nobody's going to see it. Everybody's going to miss whatever it is. Why don't you just end it? It is not worth it." I was saying to myself, "I don't know who you're talking to. I listen to you. I ain't that drunk. I know that for sure." I said, "I I went in and got in the bed and puke all over the place, but man, I wasn't going to jump in the water. you know, I don't care what you say. So, there is a a spiritual battle that takes place even before you're saved. You know, even in the middle of sin, how many people have told you that in the middle of their worst sin, God comes in and speaks to them. So, this is what I say. So, we see then in in Revelation 7 that out of every uh uh tongue all of the nations uh uh are there. Now, look at Revelation 11. 7:11 and uh let me go there real quick and to show you the the same principle. Revelation chapter 7 11 it says and all of the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures they all fell to their faces before the throne of God worshiping God saying amen. Amen means this is the end of of of this this concludes the church age. Amen. blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might. Sevenfold worship of God is given. Then in verse 13, one of the elders comes and asked John, who are this who are clothed with his white robes, and where did they come from? And he said, and I said to him, sir, you know, so he said to me, these are the one who come out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. See this is the church age because they have made their they have washed it in the blood of the lamb. Now the word there and this is where so many people get confused. The word uh that came out of great tribulation for some reason uh uh uh Bible teachers of the end time. They're telling you that the great tribulation is seven years. And if you were here in lessons past, I explained to you the difference between tribulation and wrath. Tribulation is when God, I mean when people persecute you for your faith in God. The church, if you look at the letter to the churches, they all undergo great tribulation. And one of them says, "You will have tribulation from 10 days." That was the it is historical fact. 10 different emperors persecuted the church that was a span of 200 and some years. So the church have gone through tribulation and has always been going through tribulation. Jesus said in this world you will have tribulation but be of good cheer because I have overcome the world. Wrath is when God judges the earth for persecuting those who trust in his word. See that's the difference. The wrath of God is seven years. The tribulation endures a whole church age. And if you want to look it up, look at the word where it says these are they that came out of great tribulation. The word great is mega. The the word that we use is a Greek word to mean big, but it's plural meaning megas, many. These are they that came out of many tribulation, not one tribulation. And so this will help you to understand that the these are the church because they want to tell you that this happened in the middle of the tribulation. And to explain that they tell you that the 144,000 are evangelists that go out and evangelize the whole world. Nowhere in the Bible is that you see you have to make that up to explain why the rapture takes place in chapter 7 when you're thinking that chapter 4 is when he said come up here. That's that's when the rapture happened. That's if you don't understand the full twofold meaning of it. If you know that the first three chapters are physical and you know that the the that the next three chapters four, five and six are spiritual. They converge and when they converge that's when the rapture happens and then you don't have no problem explain it. That's why he says the these are they that came out of many mega tribulation. Now this possesses a problem. Go with me to Matthew 24 and let's look at verse 36 and 37. In Matthew 24:36 and 37, Jesus says, "But of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my father only." Let me stop there. We're going to deal with with that scripture, some more of that scripture there. But did you know that that is what has made me cele where in the word of God have you ever read God telling you don't read my word you don't need it have you ever read that anywhere is nowhere the opposite right God's always want us to study study to show yourself approved here men have taken the scriptures and they say no one knows the day nor the hour so because of that this Sunday when preachers preach all over the United States probably less than one half of 1% of the messages will be on the book of revelation. Now what is the most important event in the Bible? The Bible is about Jesus and the two most important events is his first coming and his second coming. That's it. The first and the second coming of Jesus. That's the most important of all of the events. The first event already took place 2,000 years ago. The next big event is when he comes back. How many preachers are going to be preaching on the book of Revelation telling you to get ready because Jesus is about to come this Sunday? I bet not too many. And you know why? Oh, no one knows the day nor the hour. So, let's not bother. No one knows. No one knows the day nor the hour. So, let's not bother. So because of this, so many Christians and their teachers and their pastor ignore the book of Revelation and the greatest event that we need to get ready for, which is when Jesus comes back. They don't want to bother with it. But you see what I've been teaching is that the sky is going to recede. It's going to open. There's going to be fire and smoke and all kinds of things before the great day of the Lord. That's what the church was birthed in. Remember Peter quoted Joel Previous Next

GOD IS GOOD To reaffirm the biblical truth that God alone is the source of all goodness, mercy, and forgiveness, while the devil is the source of all evil, deception, and destruction. This teaching seeks to strengthen believers’ discernment so they can distinguish between God’s loving discipline and the enemy’s attacks, stand firm in God’s promises, and respond in faith and trust when trials or end-time events unfold. GOD IS GOOD Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To reaffirm the biblical truth that God alone is the source of all goodness, mercy, and forgiveness, while the devil is the source of all evil, deception, and destruction. This teaching seeks to strengthen believers’ discernment so they can distinguish between God’s loving discipline and the enemy’s attacks, stand firm in God’s promises, and respond in faith and trust when trials or end-time events unfold. Synopsis: The lesson emphasizes the foundational truth that God is good and the devil is bad. Using Psalm 86:5 and John 10:10 as central texts, it explains that one of Satan’s greatest deceptions is convincing people to blame God for evil. Jesus clarified that abundant life flows only from God, while destruction originates from the enemy. The teaching highlights that simplicity is key: God, our Father, is the originator of all good, while Satan is the father of lies and evil. By discerning the “resources” from which works originate, believers can distinguish between the fruit of God and the works of the enemy. Trusting God’s goodness is essential, especially as end-time events approach, when fear and chaos will test hearts. Believers are urged to unite their hearts in faith, allowing the Spirit to perfect God’s love in them, which casts out fear. Salvation unites soul and spirit so that even when the soul feels fear, it can rest in the Spirit’s assurance of God’s promises. The teaching underscores that God’s will for His people is peace, hope, and a future, and that He is abundant in mercy toward all who call on Him. Ultimately, the response to God’s return—whether fear or joyful expectation—depends on whether we truly believe in His goodness. The call is to trust Him wholeheartedly, reject the deception of the world’s system, and anchor our lives in the unshakable truth that God is good, all the time. Inspired Teaching: Psalm 86:5 “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.” The greatest accomplishment perpetrated against humanity by the devil, is getting people to blame God for the evil that the devil does. John 10:10 “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” Jesus makes it abundantly clear: God is good and the devil is bad. It sounds like a very simple preposition, but there is not a single one of us who have not thought at least once, that God was punishing us when something bad happened to us. We are living in a day when the line between good and evil is so blurry, that we need to return to the basics in order to understand what is going on all around us. Matthew 6:9 “In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven…” Simplicity is the key that keeps us from getting confused: I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. The word father means originator. God is our Father in heaven from whom all good things originate. John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” Jesus uses the word resources to identify that which flows out of, and originates from the word father. That is why it's so critical that we understand that only God is good, and that He is the source of all good. And that the devil is the father of all lies, and the source of all evil. Mark 10:18 “So Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is God.’” The Jews of Jesus’ day knew the basic principle that only God is good, so when a man came and knelt before Jesus and called Him a good teacher, Jesus responded by saying to him, Are you calling Me God? Of course, the man witnesses the good works that Jesus was doing, so he called Him good. But Jesus wanted to make sure that His disciples understood this principle: that only God is the source of all good. We know that Jesus is the Son of God, so He is good also. It is only when we are able to identify who the sender is from the resources he is bringing, that we will be able to discern the difference between the work of God and the work of the devil. Matthew 7:15-16 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits…” So far everything sounds very simple but is critical that we get the basics of this spiritual principal, that is, if we want to be able to discern the truth and keep ourselves from being trapped by the end-time deception that we are warned about—is coming— in the Word of God. Here is what I am talking about! Psalm 86:7 “In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me.” How can we know that God will deliver us when we call on Him, if deep within our heart we blame Him for our troubles? Although there is a personal application here, our focus in this lesson is about the soon return of Jesus to take us home. In our opening text we are told: Abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You. This is a reference to those who will call upon the Lord during the shaking of the heavens and the earth, as our Lord returns. Acts 2:20-21 “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” I often ask this question of my readers, In the midst of the sun turning into darkness and the moon turning red as blood, would you see Jesus coming to save you or to judge you? The answer depends on whether we see God as good and the only good, or whether we have doubts about His love and commitment toward us. In a time of crises our initial response is a reactive one. And it will reflect that which we firmly believe deep within our hearts. Do we run from or towards? If deep within our hearts we believe that Jesus is coming to rescue us, no matter how great the chaos all around us is, the more diligence we will employ in calling to Him, for we know that He is: Abundant in mercy to all those who call upon Him. But if we are not sure, our instincts will betray us, since His love and His goodness has not been perfected in us yet. 1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” How do we get to the place where His perfect love casts out all my fears? For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive. In order to personally know that God is good, we need to know deep within our hearts that He has completely forgiven us all of our sins. No sin, no judgment, no torment, right? Jesus came to give us life, and abundant life! The devil does not come, except, to steal, to kill, and to destroy. If no evil resource can come from our Father who is in heaven, and if no goodness can come from the father of lies and murder, is there a way to know the difference between when I am being disciplined by God and when I am being attacked by the enemy? Psalm 86:11 “Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; unite (singleness of heart) my heart to fear Your name.” Salvation gives us access to our Father in Heaven, who gives us His Holy Spirit, in order for us to learn how to walk in His ways. His ways are simple, God is good and He wants to do good to us. Jeremiah 29:11-12 “For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.” Calling upon God and knowing that He will hear us, is based on our belief of this fact, that God wants to do us good and not harm. 1 John 5:14 “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” What is His will for us? Thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. All that is left is for us to unite our hearts to fear His name. How do we do that? We make a conscious choice to receive the things of God’s kingdom, and to reject the things of this world system. 2 Corinthians 4:4 “Whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” Since we all got saved out of this world system, we were all once blinded by the god of this age and mired in its corruption. Both our souls and our spirits make up the heart that needs to be united. Our spirit man was reborn the day that we got saved, and bears witness from the Spirit of God, that we have been delivered from fear of the torment of God’s final judgment. Our souls are still in the process of salvation, and will continue on that process until we die or the Lord returns to take us home. 1 Peter 1:9 “Receiving the end (goal) of your faith—the salvation (unification of soul and spirit) of your souls.” The idea is that our souls—which are still connected to our human senses—are so interwoven with our spirit-man, that when it perceives fear from the world around it, instead of fret, they turn to the rest in which our spirit-man resides, which is in the Holy Spirit who continuously reminds it of God’s faithfulness to His promises. Psalm 86:2 “Preserve my life, for I am holy; You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You!” Notice how the spirit-man intercedes for the soul to which is firmly united: Preserve my life (soul), for I am (the spirit-man is) holy. What is it that connects the two? Save Your servant who trusts in You! Trust in the Word of God, in the goodness of God, and in the good promises of God to us. If the Lord returns this year, and according to Scripture before He appears, the sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, how will you react to the coming cataclysm? How you react will depend on whether you have a united or divided heart when He returns. As long as it is called today, you can still do something about it. I hope this lesson helps you make the right choice. Hebrews 4:7 “Again He designates a certain day, saying in David, ‘Today,’ after such a long time, as it has been said: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.’” Previous Next

COMPROMISE The objective of this teaching is to expose the destructive impact of compromise in the believer’s walk with God. Pastor Marcos aims to reveal how false teachers, through covetousness and deceptive doctrines, pervert the Word of Truth in order to weaken the faith of the church. The goal is to strengthen believers with the knowledge of God’s uncompromised Word so they may walk in spiritual authority, persevere against deception, and live as faithful priests and kings under Christ. COMPROMISE Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to expose the destructive impact of compromise in the believer’s walk with God. Pastor Marcos aims to reveal how false teachers, through covetousness and deceptive doctrines, pervert the Word of Truth in order to weaken the faith of the church. The goal is to strengthen believers with the knowledge of God’s uncompromised Word so they may walk in spiritual authority, persevere against deception, and live as faithful priests and kings under Christ. Synopsis: In Compromise, Pastor Marcos confronts the danger of false teachers who infiltrate the church with deceptive doctrines that weaken the faith of God’s people. Drawing from 2 Peter, he explains how Satan seeks to undermine the dual authority Christ has given His church—authority over both the spiritual and physical realms—by corrupting the Word of God and luring believers into selfish desires and covetousness. The lesson emphasizes that faith comes only through hearing the uncompromised Word of God, and when believers compromise that truth, their spiritual authority is disarmed. Pastor Marcos outlines Peter’s instructions for fortifying faith: adding virtue (valor), knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love. By standing on truth with courage and rejecting self-serving ambitions, believers strengthen their shield of faith, overcome deception, and shine as lights in a darkened world. Ultimately, Pastor Marcos reminds us that we are called to reign as kings by first serving faithfully as priests. Living in uncompromised obedience to God’s Word ensures that our authority remains intact, enabling us to trample serpents and scorpions, expose the works of darkness, and minister the saving light of Christ to others. Inspired Teaching: 2 Peter 2:1 “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.” In our last deliverance lesson, Kings and Priests, I taught about the separation of powers that God ordained for mankind after the flood, and how Jesus has restored to us—His church—the ability to exercise His authority in both the spiritual and the physical realms. Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions (demonic spiritual entities), and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Matthew 21:21 “So Jesus answered and said to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain (which is in the physical realm), “Be removed and be cast into the sea,” it will be done.’” The key to this power is the faith which comes by hearing, and the hearing of the uncompromised Word of God. Romans 10:17 “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Now you can see how important our opening text is, in relation to the power that has been given to the church. There will be false teachers among you. Peter is telling us that false teachers will come and pervert the Word of Truth that has empowered us, so that our faith is disarmed to the point that it becomes ineffective. 2 Peter 2:2 “And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed (or perverted).” We can see a mechanism here that begins to emerge. The devil knows that our Lord has given to us authority over him and over his demonic hordes. He can also see that our Lord has given to us authority over the physical realm as well; so how does he stop us from deploying our faith for the purpose of destroying his kingdom? Since the key is, that our faith comes through us hearing the Word of God, the devil’s aim is, to disarm our faith by perverting the Word of Truth that we have been taught to believe in; which are the great and precious promises that have been given to us. 2 Peter 1:3 “As (or according to) His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness (physical and spiritual), through the knowledge of Him (we know Him through the hearing of His uncompromised Word) who called us by glory and virtue.” False teachers among you who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, for the purpose of separating us from the promises in the Word of God that pertain to the dual power that has been given to us in God’s Word. 2 Peter 1:4 “By which has been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature (which allows us to exercise authority over both, the physical and the spiritual realms), having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” What is the key element that the enemy uses in order to detach us from the great and precious promises that empower us? Compromising the Word of Truth for the sake of selfish ambitions! 2 Peter 2:3 “By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.” Our power is exploited through deceptive words that appeal to our physical nature and its natural desires, thereby separating us from the spiritual mind set—which is the mind of Christ—to where we become physically minded and forego our spiritual responsibilities, which are to trample on serpents and scorpions by exercising our dual authority over all the power of the enemy. Romans 8:5-7 “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death (no power), but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (power in both the physical and the spiritual realms). Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.” How do we get delivered from the negative effects on our faith, that all the deceptive words that we have been exposed to through the doctrines of false teachers that are in the ministry for self-gain, have caused us? 2 Peter 1:5 “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge.” Peter, well aware of the tactics of the devil, begins to instruct us as to how we can prevent, and also how to be delivered, from the damage that false doctrines can bring to our faith in the Word of Truth. Giving all diligence means this is a top priority, we must not take this lightly. A weak or compromised faith not only weakens our authority over the enemy, but it also lowers our covering shield that protects us. It may surprise you to know that the word virtue used by Peter as something that we need to add to our faith, means manliness, (valor). How do we add manliness, or valor, or courage to our faith? Knowledge is what adds virtue or manliness to our faith! What type of knowledge adds virtue or manliness to our faith? John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Is this not obvious to all? If belief in the perverted or compromised Word of God weakens our faith, wouldn't belief in the true and uncompromised Word of God add to our faith the strength and manliness that it needs? 2 Peter 1:6 “To knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness.” We cannot exercise control over something that we do not know or understand. Knowledge is what motivates us into exercising control over that which we know to be wrong and that we know is weakening us. Once we know the factual truth that our faith is purposely weaken by false teachers who teach perverted doctrines, we can add virtue or manliness to our faith, by courageously turning away from their demonic doctrines that we know are hurting us, thereby acting in self-control. False teachers are not going to vanish just because we find out about their false doctrines. False demonic doctrines permeate all facets of life, these false doctrines will continue with their allure for us to compromise our faith, especially in the face of the resistance and opposition that this corrupt world system continuously hurdles against our stand for the Truth of the Word of God. That is why perseverance is required of us, and what motivates us into maintaining our perseverance, is our desire for a godly life that pleases God, as we continuously walk in the self-control that is guided by the knowledge that strengthens and adds virtue/manliness to our faith. 2 Peter 1:7 “To godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.” We fulfill the Law of God, when we love God with all our hearts, souls, minds, and strength, and when we love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Now, think about it? Since selfish desires or covetousness, are the allure that the devil uses against us; if we operate under the law of love and brotherly kindness—by putting the needs of others first—we insulate ourselves from the need to compromise that will lead us into accepting the perverted doctrines that weaken our faith in the Word of God. Philippians 2:3-4 “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better that himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.” This is the mind of Christ—and as long as we operate within the mind of Christ, we do not compromise the power and authority that our Lord has given to us to use on behalf of others, for their benefit, as well as ours. 2 Peter 1:8 “For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” There is a proper flow to this authority that has been given to us in our call as kings and priests to Christ—a flow that we do well to heed if we want to be effective in administering this dual power that has been vested in us. 2 Peter 1:19 “And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.” Since Jesus is our example, let us look at the ministry of Jesus and how He handled the physical and spiritual authority that was given to Him, as King of kings over all physical matter, and as our High Priest over all spiritual hierarchies. John 3:17 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” The simplest way to put it is this, before we can rule as kings on this earth, we need to serve as priests of the Most High God. We are not to call for the destruction of our human enemies, but for their salvation. And the weapon that we are to implement on their behalf, for their deliverance from the forces of darkness that keeps them blind, is the uncompromised Word of God that shines as a light in a dark place. The Word of God is like a double edge sword, as we wield it without compromise; it shines as a light that not only delivers us personally from the allures of this world system, but it shines through us into the world, and convicts and exposes the darkness that has befallen all who have fallen for the worldly desires that binds them. And through our uncompromising stand for the Word of God it gives them hope. Psalm 18:28 “For You will light my lamp; the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.” Isaiah 9:2 “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.” We are the light of the world; and the light that we are to radiate can only come through the uncompromised Word of God that we live daily for all to see. Here is a true saying: If we live as priests we will reign as kings. Previous Next

UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 6 Equip listeners to see how the entire Bible converges in Revelation, strengthening faith amid cultural pushback; explain God’s redemptive timeline (from the dispensations through Daniel’s 70 weeks to the Tribulation); and urge believers to trust God’s daily mercy, live with the mind of Christ, and proclaim the gospel while there is time. UNDERSTANDING THE BOOK OF REVELATION PART 6 Pastor Marcos Marrero June 7, 2009 Objective: Equip listeners to see how the entire Bible converges in Revelation, strengthening faith amid cultural pushback; explain God’s redemptive timeline (from the dispensations through Daniel’s 70 weeks to the Tribulation); and urge believers to trust God’s daily mercy, live with the mind of Christ, and proclaim the gospel while there is time. Synopsis: The message opens in praise and prayer, anchoring hope in Lamentations 3:22–23—God’s mercies are new every morning. We thank God for adoption, sealing by the Spirit, and the commission to take the gospel to all nations. The speaker frames Revelation as the capstone where the preceding 65 books find fulfillment, arguing its coherence across 1,500 years of inspiration and encouraging confidence in Scripture despite modern skepticism. A sweeping overview of dispensations follows: Innocence (Adam and Eve) → Conscience (post-Fall self-awareness and the battle between God’s word and the serpent’s lies) → widespread corruption leading to the Flood at year 1,656 from Adam. Human Government begins at ~1,657 (Noahic covenant), continues to today, and will be judged when the “kingdoms of this world” become Christ’s. Promise (Abraham ~year 2000) establishes an eternal, twofold covenant (physical and spiritual seed). Law (Moses ~year 2500) given at Sinai; still awaiting judgment. Grace/Church Age (Christ at ~year 4000; Pentecost) fulfills Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, and inaugurates global gospel mission. The sermon contrasts the fallen human mind—at enmity with God—with the mind of Christ given to believers, illustrated by a dream showing supernatural peace in the face of death. Babel and Nimrod exemplify rebellion; today’s global systems (language/technology) foreshadow end-time centralization. Daniel 9’s “70 weeks” is unpacked: 490 years are decreed for Israel and Jerusalem. After 483 years “Messiah is cut off,” creating a pause in which grace goes to the nations. The final 7 years resume when Antichrist confirms a covenant: First half (1,260 days): Two Witnesses minister with miraculous authority; trumpet judgments include a five-month demonic torment and a massive mortality event; this period culminates in their martyrdom and the abomination of desolation. A brief midpoint pause is noted (their bodies lie unburied ~3.5 days), aligning time markers. Second half (1,290 days + 45 days): Great Tribulation against Israel escalates; days are “shortened for the elect.” Post-Tribulation, a 45-day window completes judgments of the nations. Satan is bound for the Millennium, ending open transgression and inaugurating righteousness. The message ties prophetic timing to Sabbaths and Jubilees (Israel’s failure to give the land rest; the Church at the 120th Jubilee), to the fall festivals (trumpets/Rosh Hashanah as the day of gathering), and to the covenant with David (explaining a period of “desolation” with no earthly representative after the Two Witnesses, during which an angel proclaims the everlasting gospel from the sky; Rev 14). Revelation 10’s seven thunders are sealed, underscoring that God withholds some details so people won’t postpone repentance. Throughout, believers are urged to reject the accuser’s voice and believe God’s verdict of righteousness in Christ, to rest in His mercy each morning, and to be doers of the Word. The sermon closes with prayer, inviting hearers to belong to Jesus now—sealed for the day of redemption and spared from the coming wrath. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Praise God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. How many are glad you know Jesus? Amen. You know, one thing about Jesus, he's so full of mercy. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. It says uh I think in Lamentation 3:23 or 22 that his mercies are new every morning. [Music] Sometimes I go to sleep and say, "Oh man, I'm glad this day is over. Then I wake up in the morning and praise God, it's a new beginning." I tell you, so glad to have a a God that has put the past behind his back as far as the east is from the west and we can come to him every morning, brand new day. I got a brand new opportunity to start every morning when I wake up. Every single one of us does. No matter how bad it got yesterday or how bad it got today, we're as close to heaven as our knees are to the floor. Hallelujah. Our knees hit the floor and immediately he's there. Father in heaven, in Jesus name, we thank you for this opportunity to come together as a family tonight and to worship you, Father God. For you are King of Kings and Lord of Lords. You have given Jesus a name that is above every name. That at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow. Of things in heaven above, on the earth beneath or in the waters below. We thank you that we have the spirit of uh adoption, that we have been sealed with the spirit of promise, Father God, and that we're waiting for the redemption of our bodies to take place. But meanwhile, we have been commissioned to proclaim the gospel to every creature. Wherever the there's breath, wherever there's air, let us proclaim that precious gospel, Father God, from all the ways to Thailand, all the way to South America, all the way to the north and to the south and to the east and to the west. Let this gospel of the kingdom be proclaimed, Father God. and let the anointing of the Holy Spirit back it up, Father God, so that people will know that Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lords, that he loves them and that they will repent and come to him. Bless uh tonight, Fred and Tony Harour and Vision for Women Ministries and the family that worships and fellowships here, Father God. And as we get together now to partake of your bread, the word of life, we ask, Father God, like Fred said, that you would bind any hindrances, any spirit that will somehow keep us from hearing. We pray that you bind it. And we ask by the spirit of grace that you grant us ears to hear that you open our hearts to understand and that you anoint now the words by the god that the spirit that the holy spirit will bring forth that we may be able to learn from them and be fed and nourished and transformed that we may be doers of the word and not just hearers only in Jesus name we love you lord. Amen. Praise God. But as you notice, I got you a couple of uh pages that are note and always when I start, I start try to give a rundown to keep things into context because you have to understand that the book of Revelation is where everything is completed. So here you have 65 books of the Bible. Okay? and everything that's been written on those 65 books of the Bible has to find a fulfillment in that 22 chapters that we have in in the book of revelation. So uh my faith when I began to understand the book of revelation was just so tremendously uplifted because I know that the Bible was written in the span of 1500 years from the first time that Moses wrote uh uh and Job was written like 1500 years before Christ to the gospels and that big span of time and so many different writers and to have all of uh come together so precisely in in the book that proclaims to be the end of God. My faith just shut up because you know we face our our our um what we believe is being challenged every day. You listen to music, your faith is being challenged. You watch TV, your faith is being challenged. You know, uh you speak in tongues, they think you're crazy. You know, you believe the word of God. We believe that actually the earth was created 6,000 years ago. A man, you're stupid. You're radical. You're all these things. So, we are being challenged. And you know, all I simply do is when I see some uh dumb dumb uh talking head on TV saying, "How could you know this be like that?" I said, "Well, you know what? I'm I'm old. I'm I was born in 47. I challenge any of those guys to take their books that they had in school in the 1950s and get the theories that they were teaching over there and look at the books that they have now and they totally change. Everything they said back then was proven wrong. They have some new theories now. And I can take my Bible and tell them, guess what? It hasn't changed. It hasn't changed. And the more and the more that they study and dig into it, the more they're finding out. You know, God said that when he made man, he took dirt out of the ground. Lo and behold, they come to find out that we're dirt. All of the chemicals that form our body are found in the dirt. You know, you just mix it with 80% 90% water and guess what? You have a body. So, this is what's so exciting about the book of Revelation. So I I try I'm trying to get you to to so that at least you can see it coming together if for anything more than to establish your faith. Because if I can believe that everything that Moses wrote is coming, you know, 2500 years ago is coming to pass right now. I know that Moses saw ahead of time what was coming, was able to write about it. Then I can trust what he says. You know, they make a big thing about this Nostradamus guy, some guy that lived 500 years ago because he makes certain prophecies and riddles and stuff like that. John in Revelation says that a mark of the beast that every single person in the world will have to receive a mark and that without that mark you can buy or sell. This would never ever make sense until the computer age came into being. And yet you never hear them talking about that. Why? Because if if that is right, then Jesus coming soon is right as well. They don't want to hear that part. So they will tell you right talking about Nostradamus, some uh uh uh uh I don't know what he was into, but it had to do a lot with divination. Let's put it this way. Some guy that pe into the darkness and saw a few things. I'd rather get the guy that went up to heaven and saw the one that was sitting in heaven and saw the lamb of God and got it directly from the God and said, "Write this." And told him, "Don't write this." So that's why I'm trying to to kind of give you a sense of what is going. Now the two pages are like a review because last week we got into the first half of what is called the tribulation period or the wrath of God. And I want to show you how that comes about because a lot of times we that teach in in in things of revelation take it for granted that everybody else knows. So when we say the 70th week of Daniel or the seven last years, a lot of people that are new to Christianity or have never studied uh prophecy may not know it. So in your dispensational charge, innocence, and I know I put paradise on there, I corrected on mine, but innocence was where the first dispensation. Adam and Eve were innocent and they were in paradise. And that was the beginning of time. There was no evolution. Men didn't come from a soupy thing or whatever. God just simply made an earth and then he took the dirt of the earth. He blew his breath into it. The spirit of God enter into a a a physical thing and the body became a human soul. Conscience is when Adam became self-aware. It's very important that we understand this because when Adam became self-aware, their faith was challenged. Their faith was challenged because a third party, in this case the snake or the serpent or the devil comes in and say, "Don't you guys know that you're naked? You know, here you think you're looking real cool and then somebody comes in all of a sudden tells you, you know, hey, you know, your hair or you're messed up or whatever, then all of a sudden you man, all your confidence just crumble." So they were told that they were naked. And of course, what God intended was that men would say, "Yeah, I am naked." But God says I am good. And as long as God says I'm good, I'm good. I don't care what you say. God says the standard, not the devil. And believe it or not, that's the circumstance we're in now. God says we're the righteousness of God of Christ Jesus. And yet I can guarantee that every single day the devil talks to each every one of us and say you're nothing but a lousy loser or this or that or the other. And we have to make a choice. And that choice is do I believe God or do I believe the devil? Thank God for a man like Joshua who said as for me in my house we will serve the Lord. We want to believe what the word of God says. And because of that I can stand up every morning. I don't care how messed up I messed up. I can get up every morning and said God says I'm good and as long as I hear you say otherwise Jesus I'm going to believe you and not going to believe the rest of it. So he became self-aware. And so because of that, now this period of time, innocent, nobody knows how long innocent lasted. When Adam and Eve were created and were in the garden and name all of the animals and everything, there's no time reference on that because this is a time that they spent with God. So time really began when uh men became self-aware. As men became self-aware, their conscience, the Bible says by the time we get to Noah in in Revelation, I mean in Genesis chapter 6, that men's conscience were so polluted that men's thoughts were constantly evil all the time. In other words, the consciences of men were seared up so bad that h God had to destroy everything that had the breath of life in it. this happened. And and this is important that you see this this calendar because I'm not counting by our years that we count here. I want you to see it from God's calendar from the beginning of time from from the time that Adam was created. And you can add it up. I added it up and a bunch of people added it up. We all come up with the same thing. 1,656 years. 1,656 years after Adam was created, God destroyed the world. He brought a worldwide flood that covered the entire earth and everything that had the breath of life was destroyed except for Adam, his wife, I mean Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Eight people were on the ark. This happened on the year 1,656 from the time that Adam was created. Now, we know that it'll only rain for a day, for 40 days and 49. They were actually on the ark about a year. So the from the time that they were drifting until they landed and all of that, they were in the ark a year. So they came out of the ark in the year 1,657. At that time, God had to reestablish the covenant. Remember, God is the God of covenant. Every dispensation that God makes has laws. For Adam and Eve in conscience, their law was you can eat of anything you want to. You can do whatever you want to. You can do cartwheels. live, serve, whatever you want to do, you do it. Just stay away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That was the only law that applied to them and it only applied to those two people. Uh over here in the in in in conscience, what applied was uh the word of God versus the word of Satan because that's the heritage that Adam and Eve gave to their children. They partake of the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil. So they um passed to us this conscience that we're battling all the time, good and evil, having to go with good and evil. We know that Enoch, who was the seventh from Adam, was a preacher of righteousness. We know that Noah also was a preacher of righteousness. So they had the word of God preached in those days but it got so bad that the people's consciences were seared and so God judge conscience. He says men's conscience from now on cannot be trusted. This is why the Bible says that your mind is at war with God. For us believer Paul makes this point in Romans chapter uh through many of the chapters chapter 7 chapter 8 he says our mind is enmity with God. It's at war with God. So you say, "How can we be saved?" The mind of Christ. When you get born again, the spirit of God comes into you. And now you have the mind of Christ. You're able to reason by virtue of the word of God. I can say, "I am what God says." And I can tell Satan, "Shut up." When he tells me I'm not. They may still be a battle, but I have peace. And I have peace with God. As a matter of fact, I had a dream last night. It was so weird. I'm not going to tell you the the four dreams that, but in one, I was in a plane. And it was weird. There was like one of those old planes where you're sitting with your back to the uh the side and there were people sitting on the front and uh there was a group of of men in the plane I think and I don't know we're going to a mission or whatever but it was had to do with church and as I'm going the plane is banking to land and we're just having a good time and then all of a sudden something happened the plane something went wrong with the plane and it flipped and as it flipped started going head first into the ground. I mean, this is a such a vivid dream. I mean, it's just so incredible. And as I'm going, I know this is it. And I just raise up my hands and began to worship the Lord and thank him. And I'm saying, man, I'm going to see you in just like I I know the plane was just about to crash, but I was just getting excited. I'm going to see Jesus. Then all of a sudden, he was able to level the plane and they landed. I said, "Man, I can't believe that." And I said to myself, uh, how could I even dream that being so sure that I was going to die? But even in my dream, I was so sure I was about to see Jesus. Why? Because that's the mind of Christ. See, the old mind, the doubting mind, that mind has been superimposed by the word of God and by me trusting and believing what the word of God said. So it has become part of me. Hallelujah. That even and and I believe that if that were to happen, that's exactly how we react. Why? because that's that's what is in my spirit. So then conscience was judged. Innocence was judged. Men can never go back to innocent. Conscience was judged at the end of 1,656 years. And then the human government started on the year 1,657. Noah came out. He took two of every paris except for the clean animals. The clean animals that could be offered a sacrifice. He took seven. So what does Noah does? He brings a clean animal is offer he offers a sacrifice to God. God smells the sweet offering of the sacrifice and he enter into a covenant with Noah. So now we have what is called the dispensation of human government. Human government started in the year 1,657 from the time that Adam was created and has never ended yet. This is why we have government because the the government of man is still here. If you remember, God said to Noah, have your children spread all over the earth and cover the whole earth. A guy rises up whose name is Nimrod, who was the son of Kush. Kush. Kush means confusion. He's pretty confused guy. He raises up his own. He goes into rebellion and they say, "We don't want to be scattered and nobody will know who we are. We want to make a name for ourselves. So he builds up a tower. This tower has the physical and spiritual meaning. The spiritual meaning is they're opening the the gates to self which is what the tree of knowledge of good and evil is. Self made self manmade knowledge it to worship that and he allows a whole bunch of demons in. Now God did not judge them. Horses with chariots of fire didn't come from heaven and judge these people that rebelled. No, God confused their language and forced them to scatter because you go to a group and they don't understand, you don't understand them. You get frustrated. So, you go to another. Finally, you find somebody you can talk to and that's who you go with. And this is where the people that went to Africa and the people that went to Asia and Europe and the people that came to America, they all scatter because that's what God has told them to do with. But God has not deal with that yet. So here we have a dispensation of manmade governments that Jesus is going to judge. Why is he going to judge? Because he's king of king and lord of lord. All government has to answer to him. Okay. Why is this important? Because the judgment of what the bible calls in revelation the kingdoms of this world are now the kingdoms of our lord is going to happen during this seven-year period. So I want you to see this. Now Jesus said one of the spiritual principles that Jesus taught is that the first shall be last and the last shall be first. Meaning this is the first dispensation that hasn't been judged yet will be judged last. When is the kingdoms of this world going to be judged? They are going to be judged in the second half of the wrath of God. The first half is 1,260 days. You have five days in between. And the second half is 1,290 days, which by the way is 7 years. 2555 days. At the end of 2555 days, the seven years exactly, God is going to begin the judgment of the kingdoms of this world. At that time, the head of the kingdoms of the world is going to be the antichrist. And he's going to mount an army with huge amounts of men to try to fight the Lord when he's coming. The Bible tells us, and when we get to this part of it, we'll see it, that this judgment of God is going to take place in 42 days. Daniel 12:11 tells you this, for uh 1,290 days. And they said, "Blessed is he who waits for and makes it to the 1,335 days." That means after the 2,290 days, God has 45 days. 42 days, that's seven time six. That means seven Sabbaths or seven weeks with beginning of a Sabbath and the end of the Sabbath, God is going to judge the kingdoms of this world. So before God can judge the kingdoms of this world, he has to bring the kingdoms of this world together. That's what we're experiencing today in our generation. For the first time since the days of Nimro when everybody spoke the same language, men from every nation on the world, I think there's 180 some nations in the world now. they can go into the United Nations and whoever the head of state is or whoever the representative is can go ahead and speak and every other member that's over there with their earphones on can hear everything that person is saying because the United Nations has an army of interpreters of every language that there is more than that we're living in a time to where you can have a body on the internet in China he doesn't know a thing of English and you don't don't know anything or Chinese, your computer can translate for you and you can type whatever you want to. It's translated to Chinese. He can send it back to you. And that is going on today. We're living in the day to when God is bringing the the kingdoms of this world into a time. That's why it's so important to see that. Then since man could not save himself in innocence and in conscience and in government, God introduced the promise. God took uh this guy named Abraham. Abraham was born and I have added the numbers and everything is locked up in in my garage so I couldn't have access so I'm going by memory which thank God is still pretty good. Abraham was born somewhere in 1990 1995. So I round it off to the year 2000. Abraham was born and and you'll see it at the bottom. I put it for you so you can have a graphic in your mind of the uh Bible timeline. Abraham was born around the year 2000 when he was about 70 years old. That's why I put there 2007 and these are approximate time except for the 1656. That was a set time. You can actually count the years from Adam to the time that the flood took place. But God calls his men named Abraham out of where Iraq is today. He calls him out into where Israel is today. And God enters into a covenant with this man. the covenant with of promise. Now the promise of God are eternal. The Bible says that the word of God is forever settled in heaven. I think Psalm 119 uh the word of God is forever settle in heaven. So when God gives you a promise is eternal because God is not bound by time. He's saying yesterday, today and forever. So if he promised you something today, it's just as good forever. So when God introduced the promise to Abraham, it was a two-fold promise. He says, "Out of your seed, I'm going to bring sand of the seashore." That's a physical promise. And as numerous as the stars in the sky, that is a key for a spiritual promise. So out of Abraham comes law and grace. Now the promise of God in the covenant was given about the year 2017. Now you read Paul in Romans and he says that we are joint hes with Abraham. We're part when he's discussing Israel and I think it's Romans 9:101 11 that area there he's discussing Israel and the church he says we're part of it because the promise was given to the man of faith Abraham. See when the woman that wasn't a Jew had a child that was demonp possessed and brings it to Jesus. Jesus says I can't heal him. God call me to the house of Israel first. So the woman says, "Yeah, but even the dogs get to eat the crumbs that fall out of the the table that the children the the bread the children's bread that falls out of the table." See, what she did is she bypassed Moses the law and she reached all the way to Abraham. Abraham is a man of faith. So when she says, "Yeah, I know that that you're coming to fulfill the law and that you're giving the bread to the children of Israel, but according to Abraham, I'm an heir, too, and I can partake of that bread." And Jesus said, "Your faith got you what you wanted." See, faith elevates above law or grace. Why? Because faith comes through Abraham, the man of faith, the friend of God. That's the covenant. That's the covenant that God honors. Even Noah, I mean, even Noah and Adam, when they went into paradise, they were under Abraham. Abraham is the one that was in charge of paradise. Why? Because paradise was a holding place until the true blood was shed. And who's the one that believe that? Abraham. And how did he believe that? He took three animals. He took two birds. He cut them on half. And he kept the verse of pray. And when evening came, God came like a torch and it passed through it. Back in the days of of of of Bible days, you enter into a covenant with a person. You took an animal. You cut the animal in half. You split the parts. It was a bloody mess in the middle. You would hold the hand of the person you were entering into a covenant with. And you walk through the blood and you say, "May the same thing happened to me if I don't keep my word." And your shoes got all bloody. That was a testimony. You have entered into a covenant. Well, Abraham didn't walk in there. This covenant was God who made it. He's the one that walked between the pieces. And he says, and and you know, did you know that the the the animals each represent a dispensation of time? There were three animals, uh, a goat, uh, a bull, and a ram. And they were cut in half. One, two, three, four, five, six. Each one of them represented the six years. Then you have a bird on each side, a fleshling bird and a dog. And the bird, remember, the kingdom is represented as an eagle. So that tells you the the first bird indicated the beginning of man in the spirit and the ending of man after the rapture he goes into the kingdom. So God was making a covenant for the whole 7,000 years when he enter into that. So we're part of the covenant that God made with Abraham. Now out of Abraham came the law. The law came first. And so the law came through Moses about 430 years after Abraham the year 2070. You add 430 years to 2070 and you come to about the year 2500. Like I said these are are all approximate numbers about 2500. This is 1500 years before Jesus Christ because remember now they count the time backwards. That's why it's easier for me to count it forward. From the time that Adam was created to the time that God entered into a covenant with Moses or revealed the law to Moses was two 2500 years. Now in the law God said to Moses tell the Israelites to purify themselves because in three days I'm going to come and show myself to them. They all purify themselves. God actually descends. This is not in physical body in his glory. He comes God covered himself in darkness like a huge dark cloud. This cloud came in and rested on Mount Si. Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia and to this burn up. The whole top is burned up. The Saudi Arabians know what happened there. So they have a big fence. There's many Christians try to sneak in there. They go to jail and everything because that's that is the place where God descended. See when they cross the Red Sea, they cross it from that big channel where where um Saudi Arabia is the Gulf of Aquabad. I I don't remember what they call that part there, but I mean this is no junky little thing. This thing is a huge place and they have a video to where their share wheels and everything down there. They came up with with a more they went back and and redid it again and got more pictures. I just got advertisement on it. So anyway, God comes into the mountain is thundering and shaking so bad. Moses says, "My knees are trembling." And the people say to Moses, "You know what? We can't handle this, God. We're going to go away. You talk to God and whatever God tells you, we'll do." And so that's how the covenant of the law came. Now, the covenant of law started in the year 2500. And the covenant law has not been judged yet. So the jud the law will be judged in the middle of the tribulation or in the day of of atonement. We'll get to that in a minute. So here remember we're talking about the last seven years. The last seven years 2555 days. That's seven years. At the end of the 200 2555 days, the kingdoms of this world are going to be judged. Then Jesus Christ is going to come and set up this kingdom of a thousand years. In the middle of it, after the 1,260 days, the first half, the law is going to be judged. We talked about this last week when we said that first for the first five months, the first war, which is the sixth trumpet, uh God releases all of the demons that are in hell into the earth. And people are tormented for five months. Five whole month they cannot die. Nobody can die at that time. But so that humans will know that hell is real. God does that. Then at the end of the five months, God releases the four angels that are bound to the river Euphrates. And they will kill onethird of all of the humans that are at that time. And this is fulfilled at the end of the 1,260th day. That's when the two witnesses are killed. That is a day of atonement for the Jews. So that means that law is going to be judged in the middle of this dispensation. Now the other thing that got introduced was grace. Grace begins with the word of God. The promise when the promise the word of God became flesh in the wood of in the womb of the woman. He was born. He lived fulfilled the law. He died our sacrificial death which is the Passover as the lamb of God. Remember when John saw him, John says, "Behold the lamb of God that takes the sin of the world." The sin of the world was represented by the feast of unleaven bread. And uh the Jews follow a lunar calendar and their year begins in March uh or April depending on their calendar. This is why Passover is different all the time. the 14th day of the first Jewish month which is a full moon because the 28 day cycle the full is moon the moon is full at the 14th day on the 14th day you're to celebrate the Passover in the evening it says as evening begins on the 15th day you are to celebrate the feast of unleaven bread and then on the Sunday after the next the first day of the week after the Sabbath you are supposed to celebrate the feast of first fruit. This is in Leviticus 23 if you want reference. So here we see that in grace, the dispensation of grace, the sixth dispensation, God fulfills all of this. Jesus is the word that became flesh in the seat of the woman, fulfilled the law, died the sacrificial death on the day of Passover as the lamb of God. That evening when they put his body before the sunset, remember the the the rich guy, Joseph, the rich guy came in and said, "We don't want to leave the bodies there." Pilate gave him permission. They took the body of Jesus, stopped it in the tomb before the sun said. That is when uh the feast of unleaven bread began. Jesus is the broken the body the bread that was broken for us to take away sin. This is what communion mean. The broken body when you take it takes away your sin away. He took away the sin of the world at that time by becoming our leaven bread. Then on the third day which will be uh Saturday night as Sunday begins in the evening. He rose up. He's the first born from the dead, the first fruit, the first human that is complete like God intended. He is totally physical yet totally spiritual because the spirit of God lives in him. That means he can walk through walls. He can take this physical body and disassemble every atom and walk through there because if you know air fills most of everything. You know they discover now you can magnify to the tiniest tiniest tin. Everything no matter how hard it is has air in between. Things are just hold together. Atoms are held together by some kind of a glue or whatever. And so Jesus can actually deotize his body and walk through walls. He can think I'm going I want to be in the moon and he can be there. You in the spirit you travel at the speed of thought. So this is what Jesus did. He rose up and and became our first fruit. Then he comes up shows himself to his disciples after appearing in the room where everything locked and says here fill me. A a ghost doesn't have a body like I have. You can feel it. And then he says, "Now you go preach the gospel to of the kingdom to the whole world, but first go to Jerusalem and wait until you're do endued with power." So 50 days later, 50 is 7* 7 which is 49. And then the 50th is the jubilee. The Holy Spirit comes and it falls upon the church. Now, we taught that when the sixth seal takes place, there's earthquakes and there's all kinds of things. That is the fulfillment of the second part of the promise that Peter read on the day of Pentecost when the church was filled with power because he said, "Your men and your sons and your daughters, they will prophesy. They will see vision. They will dream dreams." And all of that was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. But he keeps quoting Joel and he says, "And there will be h a clouds and billows of smoke and there will be signs on the earth on the heaven above and on the earth beneath and all of the things going to happen when before the great day of the Lord and everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." So we can see now that Pentecost is the key pin that ties the first fruits or the first lot the the former reign as the Bible calls the first coming of Jesus to the latter reign the second coming of Jesus. So when the trumpet blows after the sixth seal is open and we can see in in in in Revelation chapter 7, people from every tribe and from every kindred and from every in there that is the fulfillment of the promise of God on when on the day of the blowing of trumpets or in the new year. See, because the Jews don't celebrate New Year's on the first day of their year, which is March or April. God says you work for six months, the seventh month, the first day of the seventh month. That is your new year. Why? Because that's when you enter into your rest. That is when you enter into your rest. So the Jews blow the trumpet, the chauffeur, on the first day of the seventh month. Guess what? The sixth chapter, the sixth seal, the 6,000 year, six, six, everything is six there. So, it takes you to the day of rest. So, the church then is rapture first. That's why Jesus says, "The first shall be last and the last shall be first." So, when the church is taken away, the seven years begin in the middle of the seven years, God is in and the age of and the age of grace concludes at the time. By the way, the age of grace will last 2,000 years because, as you can see, grace came in uh about 4,000 years after the creation of Adam. It it began Jesus was born on the on the on the beginning or on the end of the 4,000 years, the beginning of the fifth. And if you look at Genesis, that's when the physical sun was created. If you look at it in the creation, it says that there was light. Before the sun was created, there was light on the first day. There was light on the second day. There was light on the third day and the sun was created on the fourth day. This is why many people say, "Oh, the Bible, t Previous Next

Say this prayer out loud: Mighty Heavenly Father, I lift up the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world to Your throne room and I forgive them of their iniquities, the sins they have committed, the curses against them, the curses spoken from them, and the sins of the land they walk on; and I ask You heavenly Father to forgive as them well per Matthew 6:14 KJV “14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:” Demons, loose the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world; the Lord rebuke you per Jude 1:9 “9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” I bind you with fetters of iron to the iron below my feet here on earth preventing you from interfering in the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world, ever again per Matthew 16:19 KJV “19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And per Psalm 149:6-9 KJV “6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.” Father God, I bless the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world, with open ears, eyes, hearts, and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living Word of God because you state in Mark 4:12 KJV “12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” I pray in hope that they see and perceive, hear and understand so they would believe in Jesus the Son of the living God! And Heavenly Father, I bless the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world with softened hearts to be able to perceive and live by Your Word because even you showed the disciples how hard their hearts were when they didn’t believe when You rose from the dead: Mark 16:14 KJV “14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” I also bless the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world with a spirit of reconciliation because that is the ministry You have given us. Let the spirit of God move forth in the hearts of the people in the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists to forgive and reconcile the nation back to Jesus, the Son of God as Paul states in 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 KJV “18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” I pray that the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world are restored into the joy of salvation, and to the paths of righteousness as the following scriptures state: Psalm 23:3 KJV “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.” Psalm 51:12 KJV “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” I also pray that past generations deceived by lies would be restored to the truth going forward. I pray that the fruit of the spirit stated in Galatians 5:22-23 KJV “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” manifests within the hearts of the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world. I pray that those who work in mainstream media, media outlets, and/or as a journalist that they will share truth and fact from the Bible. Declaring the Bible as truth and they are led by the Holy Spirit. I pray that the gifts of the Holy Hpirit stated in 1 Corinthians 12:7-12 KJV “7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” would unite the body of Christ under one leadership, the Holy Spirit and that the Spirit of God moves through each of us so that we know what to pray, how to pray, when to pray, and praise the living God in all that we do. And gracious Heavenly Father, we praise You as Psalm 150:1-6 KJV says “150 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” You are praised because You are. We now walk forward in peace knowing that You and Your angels are moving behind the scenes doing what You need to do to accomplish Your will as Psalm 103:20 KJV says “20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.” In the Name of Jesus, the Son of the living God we pray in unity, Amen!PRAY FOR MEDIA & JOURNALISM PRAY FOR MEDIA & JOURNALISM PRAY FOR MEDIA & JOURNALISM Say this prayer out loud: Mighty Heavenly Father, I lift up the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world to Your throne room and I forgive them of their iniquities, the sins they have committed, the curses against them, the curses spoken from them, and the sins of the land they walk on; and I ask You heavenly Father to forgive as them well per Matthew 6:14 KJV “14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:” Demons, loose the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world; the Lord rebuke you per Jude 1:9 “9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.” I bind you with fetters of iron to the iron below my feet here on earth preventing you from interfering in the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world, ever again per Matthew 16:19 KJV “19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And per Psalm 149:6-9 KJV “6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.” Father God, I bless the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world, with open ears, eyes, hearts, and minds to see, hear, receive, and believe the living Word of God because you state in Mark 4:12 KJV “12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” I pray in hope that they see and perceive, hear and understand so they would believe in Jesus the Son of the living God! And Heavenly Father, I bless the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world with softened hearts to be able to perceive and live by Your Word because even you showed the disciples how hard their hearts were when they didn’t believe when You rose from the dead: Mark 16:14 KJV “14 Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.” I also bless the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world with a spirit of reconciliation because that is the ministry You have given us. Let the spirit of God move forth in the hearts of the people in the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists to forgive and reconcile the nation back to Jesus, the Son of God as Paul states in 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 KJV “18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” I pray that the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world are restored into the joy of salvation, and to the paths of righteousness as the following scriptures state: Psalm 23:3 KJV “He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.” Psalm 51:12 KJV “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” I also pray that past generations deceived by lies would be restored to the truth going forward. I pray that the fruit of the spirit stated in Galatians 5:22-23 KJV “22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” manifests within the hearts of the mainstream media, media outlets, and journalists around the world. I pray that those who work in mainstream media, media outlets, and/or as a journalist that they will share truth and fact from the Bible. Declaring the Bible as truth and they are led by the Holy Spirit. I pray that the gifts of the Holy Hpirit stated in 1 Corinthians 12:7-12 KJV “7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.” would unite the body of Christ under one leadership, the Holy Spirit and that the Spirit of God moves through each of us so that we know what to pray, how to pray, when to pray, and praise the living God in all that we do. And gracious Heavenly Father, we praise You as Psalm 150:1-6 KJV says “150 Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.” You are praised because You are. We now walk forward in peace knowing that You and Your angels are moving behind the scenes doing what You need to do to accomplish Your will as Psalm 103:20 KJV says “20 Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.” In the Name of Jesus, the Son of the living God we pray in unity, Amen! Previous Next

WHY DOES SATAN WANT YOU SO MUCH? The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the true reason why Satan desires to attack and deceive humanity. By examining the creation story, the fall of man, and God’s redemptive plan through Christ, the lesson reveals that Satan’s hatred is not directed at us personally, but rather at God’s love for us. It encourages believers to stay rooted in relationship with God, knowing that through Jesus Christ they have victory over sin, death, and the enemy’s schemes. WHY DOES SATAN WANT YOU SO MUCH? Minister Lisa Kane Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers understand the true reason why Satan desires to attack and deceive humanity. By examining the creation story, the fall of man, and God’s redemptive plan through Christ, the lesson reveals that Satan’s hatred is not directed at us personally, but rather at God’s love for us. It encourages believers to stay rooted in relationship with God, knowing that through Jesus Christ they have victory over sin, death, and the enemy’s schemes. Synopsis: Why Does Satan Want You So Much? explores the deep spiritual battle that began in the Garden of Eden. Adam, created in God’s image, enjoyed intimate fellowship with his Creator—a relationship Satan envied. As Ezekiel 28 reveals, Satan was present in Eden, watching with jealousy as God spent time with man instead of with him, a being clothed in beauty and splendor. Out of hatred for God and envy of His love toward mankind, Satan set out to prove humanity unworthy, deceiving Eve and drawing Adam into sin. Yet, the message shows that Satan’s true motive is not love or concern for us, but hatred for God. Every time he succeeds in hurting people, he believes he is wounding God’s heart. Still, God’s plan of salvation through Jesus Christ triumphs over Satan’s schemes. By sending His Son to die and rise again, God provided eternal life for all who believe (John 3:16, Romans 10:9–10). The teaching closes with a call to relationship: just as God walked with Adam, He desires to walk with us today. By confessing Jesus as Lord, studying His Word, and remaining in fellowship with Him, believers can stand strong against the enemy, assured that where God’s presence dwells, Satan has no place. Inspired Teaching: Have you ever asked yourself why does Satan want me? It’s an interesting question and opens up the Bible by bringing a more complete understanding of the entire picture, and it goes back to the very beginning in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 2:8 New King James Version (NJKV) 8 The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. Genesis 2:15-20 (NJVK) 15 Then the Lord God took [d]the man and put him in the garden of Eden to [e]tend and keep it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you[f] shall surely die.” 18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him.” 19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to [g]Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. The above scriptures show us that Adam was in the Garden of Eden without Eve for some amount of time. We don’t know how much time because the Bible doesn't tell us, but we can guess that at least several months to maybe a handful of years went by where there was no Eve. How do I know this? How many animals, beasts, and birds did God create that Adam named and how long do you think it took Adam to name them all? Imagine this, let’s say God brought in a male and female animal that were gray, big, and heavy with trunks on them and Adam says I will call these elephants. What-if God asked Adam why? And what-if Adam asked God why a skinny tail versus a bigger tail to match its girth? You see God and Adam were talking or having a relationship. They were spending time with one another. God interacted with the image He made of Himself. Genesis 1:26a (NKJV) 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; We were made extremely different then any other creature God had already made. We don’t look like the angels and to top it all off, God was spending time with Adam, not the other angels. Which begs the question, who was in the Garden of Eden watching? Ezekiel 28:13 (NKJV) 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created. Satan was in the garden of Eden and he was watching everything going on. He was perplexed and confused to say the least. He couldn’t figure out how could God spend so much time with such an inferior creature? When comparing man against his beauty, there was no comparison. He was made with every precious stone and was so beautiful, yet God wasn’t spending time with him…no he was spending time with Adam. When Satan saw that God placed a female in the Garden and left to give Adam and Eve a ‘honeymoon’, Satan wanted to show God how inferior this creature was. In fact, he wanted to make it such a point to rub it in His face…and was probably thinking that he could do a better job in creating creatures. And that is why Satan wanted us. And he continues to want us to this day because every time he wins, he's hurting God. Satan doesn't care about who you are or what you do but he does care that God loves you so much that he'll do everything in his power to hurt you because he knows it will hurt God. To put it simply, Satan hates God and everything God loves, Satan hates. God showed His love by spending time with Adam. Love is action and God is action. I bet Satan thought he was right when he deceived Eve and Adam. Genesis 3:1-6 (NKJV) 3 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ” 4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was [a]pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves [b]coverings. But God. He had a bigger plan all along. John 3:16-17 (NKJV) 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. We’re made in His image and He loves us. He paid a large price, the death of His Son on the cross, to get us back from the curse of sin when Adam and Eve disobeyed God because of Satan's hatred toward Him. Romans 6:23 (NKJV) 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the [a]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. After Adam and Eve sinned, they began aging and eventually died. But Jesus broke death by rising from the dead. Matthew 28:6a (NKJV) 6 He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Hallelujah! Now you and I can rise from certain death by believing and Satan may want to hurt us to hurt God but he can't hurt us anymore. God made a way for us to be saved! Romans 10:9-10 (NKJV) 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. And all it takes is talking to God. It began as a relationship with God and Adam, and it will end in a relationship with God and me (you). Say this out loud: Dear Jesus, thank You for dying on the cross. Forgive me of my sins and come into my life. Be my Lord and Savior. In Jesus’ Name Amen! Praise the Lord! You are now saved through Jesus Christ and don’t let anyone or anything tell you otherwise. Protect yourself by staying in that relationship with God because where God is, Satan isn’t. How do you stay in a relationship with God? Read His Word! It will be your foundation and get you through life. You can find free access to the Bible at: https://www.biblegateway.com/ Previous Next

THE POWER OF GOD The objective of this teaching is to reveal how the true power of God operates through the message of the cross, under the influence of divine wisdom and meekness. It aims to help believers understand that God’s power is not given for destruction or domination, but for liberation, deliverance, and the salvation of humankind. By filtering power through the cross, Christians can exercise authority rightly—against spiritual forces of darkness and not against flesh and blood—so that God’s mercy and truth are revealed to the world. THE POWER OF GOD Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to reveal how the true power of God operates through the message of the cross, under the influence of divine wisdom and meekness. It aims to help believers understand that God’s power is not given for destruction or domination, but for liberation, deliverance, and the salvation of humankind. By filtering power through the cross, Christians can exercise authority rightly—against spiritual forces of darkness and not against flesh and blood—so that God’s mercy and truth are revealed to the world. Synopsis: In The Power of God, Pastor Marcos contrasts the world’s understanding of wisdom and power with God’s. While human rulers often wield authority selfishly and foolishly, God demonstrates that true power is always controlled by wisdom and guided by mercy. Jesus’ rebuke of the disciples when they wished to call down fire on their enemies illustrates that divine power is never for destruction but for salvation. The teaching highlights that worldly wisdom is unstable and dangerous because it lacks the safeguard of meekness. In contrast, heavenly wisdom operates with humility, ensuring that God’s power is never abused. The cross is revealed as the mechanism that activates and governs God’s power within believers—what appears to the carnal mind as weakness is, in reality, the source of divine strength and deliverance. Pastor Marcos explains that Psalm 149, when viewed through the cross, calls Christians not to wage war against people, but against spiritual rulers of darkness. The true enemy is not humanity, but the kingdom of darkness that manipulates people into conflict and destruction. Thus, the church’s mission is to liberate, not oppress, by exercising spiritual authority through prayer, the Word of God, and Christlike mercy. The believer’s call is to let every motive pass through the cross, where selfish desires die and God resurrects only what aligns with His purpose. This inward deliverance produces maturity, which in turn empowers communal intercession and revival. As Christians live in the reality of “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27), the power of God is revealed—not as worldly domination, but as the liberating force of truth, mercy, and resurrection life that transforms communities and defeats the kingdom of darkness. Inspired Teaching: 1 Corinthians 1:18 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” There are two things in life that affect all humans: Wisdom and Power. If we define Power as ruling authority, we are all under the power of authorities that rule over us, no matter what nation we live in. If you are alive somewhere in this world, you are living under somebody’s law/rule. And if we define Wisdom as the ability of those who have power to rule over us, to do it wisely and for the betterment of those over whom they govern, then, there are a lot of foolish people in power. It has been my experience for most of my adult life that those who have power to rule over my actions are always more interested in meeting their own needs instead of mine. Since God is the Almighty, and all wisdom and power originate from Him, it behooves us to understand how the power of an Almighty God is always under the control of His wisdom. How many times do we as humans have wished that God would do something to some fool out there that is out and about doing harm to others through the power that they posses over them? Luke 9:54 “And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, ‘Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?’” If we ever wished that, I guess we were not the first. But we can learn a lot about God’s wisdom from the answer that Jesus gave His disciples. Luke 9:55 “But He turned and rebuked them, and said, ‘You do not know what manner of spirit (influence) you are of (or under). For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.’ And they went to another village.” Here we learn that wisdom is a spirit or an influence, and that foolishness is a spiritual influence as well that can bring much harm. We also learn that the wisdom of God saves men’s life from destruction, and that power in the wrong hands can bring about the destruction of men through the spirit of foolishness working through them. James 3:13 “Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works (actions) are done in the meekness of wisdom.” So that the wisdom that comes from above, the wisdom that controls the power that has been given to those of us who believe, has a safety that overrides the trigger, this safety is called meekness, and it assures us that the power given to us will not be abused. James 3:15 “This wisdom (foolishness, also known as earthly wisdom) does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.” The so call wisdom of this world, has no safety on its trigger, for it is activated by the human senses, and it goes off when you least expect it. 1 Corinthians 1:20 “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? Now we understand why deliverance plays such a big role in the ability of Christians to exercise God’s power here on the earth. Worldly Christians whose nature is governed by the sentiments of their flesh, can cause a lot of harm to those whom God is trying to save. Were not the same Samaritans that rejected Jesus at first, that had some disciples wanting to destroy them, that later received the Gospel with joy when Phillip preached to them about the resurrected Christ? Which brings us back to the mechanism that controls the trigger of the power of God that has been vested on those of us who believe: 1 Corinthians 1:18 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” So that the power of God that has been vested on those of us who believe, has to be activated through the cross, something that seems foolish to our carnal mind, for in the cross we see nothing but weakness and death. Let us ask one very basic question first: What kind of power from God has been vested on those of us who believe? Psalm 149:6-9 “Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute on them the written judgment—this honor have all His saints. Praise the Lord!” Now if we look at Psalm 149 from the earthly wisdom that God calls foolishness, the church would be an aggressive entity declaring war on the unbelieving nations and warring against them in order to overcome them and to enforce our rule over them. To achieve that we would have to kill the people who oppose our rule, and destroy the nations that do not comply with our Christian doctrine, if that was the church’s doctrine. But if we look at Psalm 149 through the filter of the cross, we find what Jesus taught us, and which is the real doctrine of the church: For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them. How do we rightly judge the power of God that has been vested on us through the filter of the cross? Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts (armies) of wickedness in the heavenly places.” The cross opens our eyes to the spiritual reality that our power from God is not to be used against humankind, but rather, against the spiritual wickedness that oppresses humankind. We are to be liberators, not oppressors like them. How does the church implement the power of God that it has been endowed with, for the liberation of humankind? First we identify the enemy; who are the nations, who are the peoples, and who are their kings and who are their nobles, that we are to subdue in accordance with Psalm 149? The kingdom of darkness has a structure, just like the world has a structure wherein the nations fit together. The nations in the world have armies and police units to enforce the rules that empower their rulers over the peoples they govern, it is the same in the kingdom of darkness. It is against the kingdom of darkness that all Christians are called to enforce mastery over, to defeat their nations, and to inflict punishment in their demonic populace, and to do so by capturing their leaders and their nobles and binding them with fetters of iron: that is, to execute on them the written judgment, God’s Word! In summary, we have been empowered by God to fight against a spiritual army of wickedness that resides in the heavenly places, an invisible realm that requires of us to have spiritual discernment. The rulers of this demonic army hide in the darkness of man’s ignorance of their existence, and continuously promote hatred and discord between the human race, so that we are always fighting and blaming one another for the wrong that is all around us, unawares that all the chaos and mayhem is always the result of demonic instigations. John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the and the truth shall make you free.” Truth is enlightenment, if I know that my human adversaries are not my real enemies, then the power of God is activated within me in order for me to defeat the real enemy, which is the spiritual stronghold that rules over my human enemies and causes them to contend against me. So that now I am not just waging war against spiritual forces for the sake of overcoming them, by I see a loftier goal, the liberation of my human comrades who unknowingly have become a weapon of our real enemy, the devil, who manipulates them from the kingdom of darkness. How do I do that? By following and executing God’s written judgments. Luke 6:27-28 “But I say to you who hear: Love your (human) enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.” And here is where the cross comes in: Luke 6:36 “Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.” When the mercy that God revealed on the cross towards us humans is our motive, the safety is removed from the trigger of God’s power, for He knows that our aim now is to liberate humanity and not to conquer them. 1 Corinthians 1:23 “But we preach Christ crucified…” The two-edge sword of God’s Word is to be applied both ways, first personally, and then within the Christian community of saints, the local church, that aims to bring deliverance into their areas of influence. Nothing that we ever do as believers, spiritually or in everyday life, can ever be accepted by God except that it dies first on the cross, for its death on the cross of Christ will reveal the true motive behind it; and if the motive for our actions is God’s motive, then it will be resurrected by God and used as a lethal weapon that utterly annihilates the enemy. Colossians 2:15 “Having disarmed principalities and powers, He (Jesus) made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it (the cross).” So that true deliverance begins within the motives and intents of our hearts, and as we open our hearts to the introspection of God’s Word, Jesus faithfully takes to the cross all our selfishness and foolish desires, and He nails them there for all to see. But it is there, as our earthly desires languish on the painful and slow death of the cross, that our spiritual eyes are opened to the reality of life, and our priorities begin to change. All of the sudden this world begins to lose its luster and those things that seemed so real to us at one time in life, now look more like refuse and we wonder what in the world it was that ever attracted us to them. It is when a community of saints reach that point of maturity in their personal lives that communal intercession begins to take shape. As our Lord begins to move in them and through them as a single body of believers that begins to shed light upon the darkness that engulfs their community there revival begins to take place and the scales fall from the eyes of those who were walking in darkness as they are exposed to the enlightenment of the power of God, fulfilling our last Scripture. Colossians 1:27 “To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Previous Next

DISCERNING SPIRITS Equip believers to understand and practice the gift of discerning of spirits (1 Corinthians 12:10) by identifying hate as the “strongman” behind many manifestations of evil, recognizing how these spirits operate, and learning to replace them with the indwelling Holy Spirit and the love of God. DISCERNING SPIRITS Pastor Marcos Marrero February 23, 2007 Objective: Equip believers to understand and practice the gift of discerning of spirits (1 Corinthians 12:10) by identifying hate as the “strongman” behind many manifestations of evil, recognizing how these spirits operate, and learning to replace them with the indwelling Holy Spirit and the love of God. Synopsis: The teaching frames spiritual discernment as essential because our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual powers. Using Matthew 12:43–45, it explains how an unclean spirit, once expelled, seeks reentry; if the “house” (the inner life) is left empty, it returns with seven worse spirits, leaving the person in a worse condition. Therefore, deliverance must be followed by filling—with the Holy Spirit and love. The message traces today’s “wicked generation” to idolatry and resulting iniquity (Exodus 20:4–5; Psalm 7:14). Idolatry equals hatred toward God; where hatred resides, it breeds further corruption. Proverbs 26:24–26 is presented as the key: a hating heart hides behind smooth words yet holds seven abominations that will manifest publicly. These seven abominations (rooted in hate and often aligning with lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) are outlined from Proverbs: Pride in heart—the mask that partners with hate (Prov 16:5). Sacrifice of the wicked—religious activity from wrong motives (Prov 15:8; cf. Luke 18:11–13). Thoughts of the wicked—a mindset that produces slander, gossip, and put-downs (Prov 15:26). Perverse heart—malice that delights in others’ harm (Prov 11:20). Lying lips—deceit used to get ahead; envy and self-seeking (Prov 12:22; cf. Jas 3:14). Dishonest scales—systemic dishonesty in life and work (Prov 11:1). Perverse person—a counterfeit self formed by sustained deceit and sin (Prov 3:32). Practical ministry application: discern the spirit behind behaviors (e.g., anger, slander), respond with prayer and blessing rather than retaliation, and aim at the root of hate (including self-hate), not merely the symptoms. The antidote is God’s love poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit (Rom 5:5, 8). When love fills the “house,” returning spirits find no vacancy. Believers are assured that nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ (Rom 8:37–39). The call is to maintain a Spirit-filled life so the fruits of love (Gal 5:22–23) displace the fruits of hate, securing lasting freedom. Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above: Amen. Praise God. I didn't make copies for this uh but I posted them on the House of Faith Ministries um uh web page. Um and in 1 Corinthians 12:10 is I got three pages, so I don't know how how far I'm going to go with this, but I definitely want to lay out the um um the framework. But in 1 Corinthians 12:10, uh Paul lists nine different spirits. And uh I just broke in there into the middle of it where it says uh to another prophecy and to another discerning of spirits. Fred asked me to teach in um in the spiritual discernment. This is a gift. If you reading in 1 Corinthians 12 says that the gift are given for the profit of all for all of the believer to profit. So in 1 Corinthians towards the end after Romans, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts and then Romans and then 1 Corinthians. In 1 Corinthians 12, it lists nine of this spirit. And I want to speak tonight specifically on the one having to do with discerning of spirits. Um now why is it important for us to have spiritual discernment? Well the Bible says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and power. So our battle with spirit. If you have a a problem with anger or if you have a spouse or a child or or a parent that u has a problem with anger and it affects your life. Anger is a spirit. And uh if you try to deal with a situation with anger in the natural, guess what? There's going to be a fight, an argument. Usually how we do the same way with you name, you name any of those areas and it will happen like that. It has to do with with spirit. So understanding, spiritual discernment is the gift that God has given to us. It's a spiritual gift. the Holy Spirit has put it in us. As we develop this ability to understand spirits, it will make it so much easier for us to understand ourselves, why we do the things that we do and uh understanding others that we relate with. in Matthew uh 12:es 43, 44, and 45. Matthew, the first of the gospels in the New Testament, um Jesus gives us an insight into how spirits operate. And so beginning in in verse 43 of Matthew uh 12, it says, "When an unclean spirit goes out of a man," Matthew, the first book in the in the New Testament, "When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places seeking rest and finds none." Then he says,"I will return to my house from which I came." And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and take with him seven other spirits, more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation. Now Jesus is giving us an insight into spiritual discernment. He says when you are able by your own strength to deal with a spirit that is within you and you're able to say you know what this is it I'm not going to do this no more and you're powerful enough to drive that quality in your life that that bother you says this spirit goes out leaves he sees us the body as a house that's what he calls it and but when he's kicked out of the house. He looks for another place. Can't find it. That's what Jesus says. He's looking for He's wandering through dry places and he finds no rest anywhere. So he says, "I'm going to come back to the house, see if there's a way that I can back in." Then he comes back to the house. He finds it clean, swept, and everything in order. Because many you decided, I'm going to get my life right. I'm going to do the things that I need to do. And then you get rid of some of the things. But here it's talking about a person that evidently is doing it on their own strength. The spirit, the unclean spirit comes back, finds a house nice and clean, and it finds that uh is empty as far as another spirit operating in there, which is why we need the Holy Spirit to dwell in every area of our soul. And so he knows that this person is going to be able to kick him out again. So what does he does before he goes back into the house? Jesus says that he finds seven other spirits more wicked than himself and then they come back into the man or the person and now this person is in worse shape than it was when it began. Now, how many of us have been there where we said, you know what, I'm going to get my life right, man. I'm not I'm going to stop doing this. I'm And we make oursel that commitment that we're not going to do certain things anymore. And we do pretty good for a while and then all of a sudden things begin to fall apart and before you know it we wish, man, I wish I would have never tried to mess with this thing because we wind up being in worse shape than we were the first time. Why? Because we were able to clean the house. We were able to get rid of those things that that that that we didn't want no part of. But these things somehow knew how to get back in. And this time came a lot stronger. And then we wind up being in a worse mess. You know, it's the truth that for us human, every time we try to do the right thing, we wind up sometimes we wind up in a lot worse shape. So this is the setting here that I want to use for understanding how spiritual uh understanding can help us in this. First of all, in Psalm 7:14, we need to identify who this spirit is. who the spirit that dwells in the house that is able to summon these other seven spirits. Uh uh so uh the first key is at the end of Matthew in verse 45 where Jesus says so shall it also be with this wicked generation. Jesus is saying that when there is a generation that is wicked people are open to this demonic infestation. So in Psalm 7:14, this is what Psalm 7:14 says, "Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity." Psalm 7:14, "Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity." Now, what is iniquity? Iniquity is inherited sin. Meaning that we're living in a generation that is paying the price for the sins of our fathers and our forefathers. You see, if the church would have been operating in the power of the spirit and anointing instead of being caught up in idolatry, this generation wouldn't be wicked. This because that's what the church job is. The job of the church is to convict the world of ungodliness. the church by the power and the anointing that he has is able to to to preach to a generation and convict the the ungodliness that's going around. You know, back there was a time to where in radio or in television there were words that you wouldn't dare mention. The the people will have such an uproar if certain things were said in the movies that they made. Now, Europe wasn't like that. In Europe, they were showing all kinds of bad things and the directors here kept saying, "How can we get this in America? How can we get this in America? How come in Europe, they have all of the well only five or 10% of the people in Europe go to church while over 50% of the people in America go to church?" That was a difference. But you see, Satan had to find a way to get that wickedness into here. And and the the way to do it was to corrupt or contaminate the church because anytime a church gets involved with idolatry, that church loses his spiritual power because the spiritual power comes from God and God is pure and God is holy and God does not h mix us with sin. So once a church the message that a church proclaimed is contaminated with idolatry or sin loses its power, loses the Holy Spirit moves out of it. And so you see it that you can go now to your TV and watch a movie from the 40s and watch a movie from the 50s and then watch something that is on MTV right now and you can see the difference. I mean I'm old enough. I was born in 47 where I can see the difference. They speak on regular TV. You can be watching regular normal TV and they speak words that that would make you blush. I remember 30, 40 years ago, you would hear that and you make you blush. They speak of of of of things like why? Because this generation that we're living on because of the lack of the spiritual authority that the church fails to enforce is a generation of wickedness. And Jesus says that to that wicked generation, the people in that wicked generation are exposed to the demon that the spirit that is in all of us resident that when we kick him out because that's what you want to do. You want to live your life without being bound to anything is able to summon up seven other spirits worse than themselves to where they come in and make the people worse. Now, you hear things in the news today, like, for example, that u a a a guy just goes up and gets a gun and shoots 20 or 30 totally and completely innocent people that he never saw, that he never met, that he couldn't care. He kills him and then kills himself. They speak to these mass murderers that that were caught. Well, there's a spirit, there's a force, there's something that got into them that's driving them. Their lives were not their lives anymore. They hear voices. They they heard the voices say, "Go and kill such and such person." We're living in that generation. And thank God, I think that this is the last generation. I think Jesus is coming back in this generation. You know, I believe that that we have a big door opening in a couple of years for the return of the Lord. And I'm looking for the signs and and and uh there's troops massing right now in Syria and in Israel. And there's um uh uh things happening in nature. There was a meteorite or something that fell either in Chile or Argentina someplace. 200 people were sick from this thing. Uh there was a big flash, a bright light that went over New Mexico. They don't know what it was. There's things happening in the spirit. Why? Because in this end time generation, there's going to be a confrontation or a battle between spirits. the spirit of righteous, the spirit of God is going to confront the spirit of Satan. It is it is going to happen before the Lord returns. Okay? And and the idea is for us not to be contaminated so that when this battle takes place, we have the authority of God. Because you see, one of the things is that when the authority of God is upon you, Satan can't touch you. And so spiritual discernment is the key for us to know what spirit we're operating on, what spirit the people around us are operating on so that we can understand. So this is vital to for understanding what's going on. We're on a wicked generation. Now in Exodus 24 and 5 when God gave the ten commandments, he said that commandment was number one was do not make any images. You know the Lord your God is one. Worship him alone. No idolatry. Idolatry was forbidden. And then in in verse four of Exodus 20, it says, "Because I am a yellow God. And the sins of the father is passed on to the children to the third and to the fourth generation." That's what iniquity is. So it says in Psalm uh uh 7:14, "Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity." So wicked, the word wicked has to do with idolatry. When you worship idols, immediately there's an iniquity that flows and it goes to three or four generations. So we as a church had to look back and said, where was the church three or four generations ago? Because if the church is powerless, then the church got into idolatry. And that's why wickedness is going into the church today. You say, "Well, how can you prove that it's in the church today?" Well, look at the statistics. Here in the United States, we have enough people that go to church faithfully that they do a statistic all over. Divorce in in the national rate and in the Christians, the people that go to church and claim to be Christian, it's the same the same. There there's no disparity. There's not less Christians and and more unbelievers. Uh uh look at cancer. How many Christians dies of cancer versus how many people in the world die of cancer? Look at it's the same. We're no different. The Christian going to church today has the same chances to having these things happen to him that it does in the world. Now why is that? Well, because the church is definitely has allowed this iniquity to come in. Has allowed it because of idolatry, because of compromise, because of whichever way it came is affecting us. So, we as Christians need spiritual discernment to understand what spirits are behind what's going on if we're going to uh uh to prosper in this. Now, the root of wickedness is idolatry. And the root of idolatry is hatred towards God. Because God says in in in Exodus 25, he says, "I the Lord your God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me." God says, "Those who commit idolatry hate me." As a matter of fact, first John, I think John in first or second John says, "Love of the world is hatred towards God." You cannot get any more plain than that. Love of the world is hatred towards God. Doesn't it say that? Okay. So, hate or hatred is at the root of wickedness and and and u iniquity is all there. Why? Because when you are saying to God, I don't want to worship you God. I'd rather worship this other thing myself whatever you're hating God. You see, in in in in in the Hebrew sense of the word, when Jesus says, "If you don't hate your mother or hate your your father uh uh and love me, you have no part of me." We cannot understand that thinking. But in the Hebrew word, there's no in the Hebrew language, there's no word for in between. You either love or you hate. There's no middle ground to where, oh yeah, I love God, but I also love this. No, no. You love God, you hate everything else. I mean, God gives us everything else. But but that is the mentality of it. And God is saying, if you have any hint of idolatry and anything that you do, you hate me. That's what he says. Because idolatry is hatred towards God. And idolatry is the root of all wickedness and and the root of all contamination. So God sees any part of idolatry as hate, hatred towards him. And that opens the door for this inherited sin. A wicked generation is the generation that hates God. Now tell me if you can can reason, does this generation that we live today, does it hate God? Ask yourself the question in school. You cannot carry the Bible. Did you know here in California, they can teach the Quran? They have a the Muslim months that just started Ramadan. They teach the kids how to use the the veil and how to pray. They're they can teach all of that. They say, "Well, that's not religion. That's culture." They'll call it that. They use whatever. California, you can do that. But you walk with that Bible right there right now and you're gone. Uh this guy Madina, the president of Iran, he's going to speak in Colombia University. People are now say, "Well, we believe in freedom of speech. We believe that that that that different ideas have to be given a forum." Did you know that there was a guy that was going to speak there that believes that homosexuality is is is an abomination to the Lord? He will not be allowed to speak. Why? Because he's speaking the word of God. They have freedom of speech for everybody else, but not for God, the Bible. They have freedom of religion for everybody else, culture, but not God. And so, we living in a generation that hates God. As a matter of fact, this what marks this this year right here right now, I have never seen in in the 42 years that I've been in this country, I have never seen so much hatred as I have seen today. I mean, our president, if you don't agree with him, it's not like it used to be you didn't like this president, you don't like this president, you just don't support. No, there's pure nothing but pure hatred right now towards different polit and it's in both sides. This is why so-called Christians go and bomb abortion clinics and shoot people. We are in a generation that is infested with hate. And that hate now is what opens the door for the seven worst spirits to come in. And so this is the revelation that the Lord has given given me for tonight that a wicked generation is a generation that is into idolatry. And that idolatry, God sees a hatred towards him. And that hatred opens the door now, like Jesus said, for this spirit, for the person that is trying to live a right life because you don't have to be a conservative or liberal or or this or that or the other, black or white or yellow or blue. Everybody wants to be the best they can. Nobody wakes up in the morning and said, "Man, I want to be an able person today." Everybody gets up and wants to be the best they can. and you get your house in order and you try to get your house in order, but because we're in this wicked generation, this spirits have clean access. They have like a freeway built right into us with no toll booth or nothing. They just go right in there. And so, so now according to Jesus, these seven different kinds of spirits emanate or come from hate. Now this is interesting because in uh Galatians 5:22-23 where the fruit of the spirits are lifted. You read there it says the fruit now fruits plural the fruit singular the fruit of the spirit is love. And then out of love come joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, gentleness, meekness, self-control, faithfulness. out of love. See, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. The love that God demonstrated for us where he shed his love abroad in our hearts opens the door for us to receive fruit. Let me define fruit as the manifestation of the love of God. See, when I love somebody, when I'm good to somebody, when I'm faithful to my word, when I walk in righteousness, when when when I'm meek and humble, when I do all of the things, they're all a manifestation of love. Love is a fruit. When the my bornagain spirit, when I received the Lord and I was born again, my spirit was shed or flooded with the love of God, which were demonstrated by his sacrifice on the cross. That love now begins to express itself through me through different ways. Through faithfulness, I was faithful now. I was a faithful person. I was this. I was that. I was the other. Meek humbleness. All of these are manifestations of the love of God in me. Well, in the same way, hate being the root of Satan, hate manifests itself in different ways. And that's what I want to deal with today. Let's find out what the fruit of hate or dumb manifestations of hate are because this is the things we need to deal with. And the scripture I want you to see is Proverbs 26 verses 24, 25, and 26. And if you can look it up is critical that we read this. Proverbs chapter 26. This is a revelation. And what I'm teaching here tonight is a revelation that the Lord's given me this week. I never taught this before. Proverbs is after the book of Psalms. Psalms is in the middle of your Bible. Proverbs 26 24 25 and 26. Look what it says. He who hates disguises it with his lips and lays up deceit within himself. When he speaks kindly, do not believe him. For there are seven abominations in his heart. Though his hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness will be revealed before the assembly. Now notice what the scripture says. This is a revelation. That scripture says that a person who has hate instead of love. Remember love is if if is the fruit of of of the spirit of God. You cannot be saved unless you're baptized into the spirit. Paul says that by faith we're baptized into one body. That's the body of Jesus Christ. And it's the Holy Spirit that does that. So once love comes in, there are now eight manifestations of the love of God, which is joy and peace and and and and u uh uh longsuffering and goodness and gentleness and meekness and self-control and and faithfulness. All of those are manifestation of love. Now it says there a person who hate. A person who has hate rested within him has seven abominations within him or within her. And these things will be manifested as wickedness. And I show you the wickedness is having to do with idolatry and iniquity which is uh uh inherit sin. So hate then and this is the revelation. Hate is the key spirit. Hate is the spirit that is resident in all of us. Because you see before we accepted the Lord Jesus Christ, we had no capacity to love. The love in the sense that the Bible speaks of love. Now fileo love which is brotherly love or it's talking about the love of God. The unconditional love of God. Agapeo agape love. Agapeo love is the unconditional love of God. The Bible says I love Jesus because he first loved me without the love of Jesus first in us. We have no capacity to love agape. Agape love without the spirit of God. So if we did not have the capacity to agape or agape that love then what did we have selfishness which at the center of it is you will see is hate. Why? Because the last fruit of the spirit is self-control in in in the works of the flesh. Selfishness is the center of them. So but how does this spirit notice that it says that it hides? This is why we haven't found it all this time. He says the person who has hate hides it. Disguise it. This is why Fred in the ministry so many time that we minister to people, we were missing the key. And I believe we're missing the key because the strong man in the person was hate. Selfhate is one of the biggest problems when you're dealing with people because Satan has has has put them down and has made him to experience hate for so long that it is in there. But look how we cover it up. He says there, "He who hates this guy says it with his lips and lays up deceit with himself." Meaning it's like putting a band-aid. You have this problem. You have this hurt. You have this selfhate. So you try to cover it up and then you try to speak kindly. He said, "Don't believe him. When somebody putting all these moves on you and all these nice, they're disguising." Hey, why? Because hate will betray you. Hate will be see true love, unconditional love will always be there for you. You know, you can tell all of those people that uh that used to follow Britney's peers, she did something and bummed out real bad. Now everybody hates her. Two years ago, everybody loves her. Now everybody hates her. But you see, that's because this is the type of world that we're living in. True love will stick with a person when you're doing good or when you're doing bad. But it says here that they disguise it. If I would had this revelation when we're doing those uh uh ministry, this would be tremendous because the root is hate. He says there so clearly hates his guys. And then he says don't believe him. Why why don't you believe a person that that that hates and that is his because there are seven abominations in his or her heart. And it says, "Though that hatred is covered by deceit, the wickedness will be revealed before the assembly." That's when you're ministering. You know, a lot of times, uh, I remember ministering to this guy. We're ministering to him. Very strong Aztec spirit that we were dealing with. Remember upstairs over there. And man, we're fighting and fighting and fighting until he got set free. And we kept pushing every button, everything we could to get this guy set free. When he's set free, we asked him said, What was the trouble? What's the problem? He says the only thing that that thing responded to was love. You remember, I can't remember his name, but he says every time you guys spoke about love, that thing hated it. He told us the strong man, this it was a a Leviathan type of kind of snake spirit that this guy was was really wrestling with and and he wanted to be a friend. He couldn't. And we battle and we cast that thing and we did everything we could. And by the time we finally got to him, we asked him, we were there what, four or five hours with him. And that was the second time, I think. Huh? Yeah. He had the Mexican flag in his pocket. Remember, he's half Mexican, half black. Had tremendous hatred towards black people. Remember, because his father was black and had a something like that. But anyway, this and and that's true. Hate was a root cause in there. But when Huh? Yeah. Yeah. It was a root cause. And when we finally spoke to him, he he said, "Every time you guys spoke about love, I think hated it. How God loved me, how Jesus had died for my sin, how you were how I was important to God, how God had a purpose in my all of the things that the the spirit couldn't take it." And now it makes sense. Why? Because hate is at the root of the thing. Hate is at the root of the thing. And so when you show love, that spirit couldn't handle it. Now, what I want to do tonight is deal with what are these seven abominations. And these seven abominations, uh, I'm just going to barely touch on them because I can I got three pages of them. So, this is for Fred, by the way. Fred is the one that asked for this. So, uh, we'll have to he'll have to work out the things in there. But I want to show you how hate has different spirit. And by the way, Fred is already the Lord had given a revelation on this. He was showing me some of the work that he's doing and how it connects uh with it over here. Okay. What are these seven abominations and and how do they manifest? Look at Proverbs chapter 16 verse 5. And we're going to be in the book of Proverbs. So just stay there. All of these abominations are in the book of Proverbs. Abomination number one. Now remember, hatred is a strong man. Hatred is is a spirit because hatred is the absence of love. Before we were born again, before we experience the love of God, the spirit of hate is in there. Hatred is a strong man. And out of him, seven abominations come. That's what we just read in in in Proverbs. Now look at the first one. Proverbs 16:5. Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Now remember, he who hates disguises it with his lips uh and lays up deceit within himself. When he speaks, do not believe him. For there are seven abominations in his heart. So the first abomination is revealed to us in Proverbs 16:5. Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Though they join forces, none will go unpunished. I want you to see that key there. Join forces. That's the key because it requires the inbred natural hate that is on every one of us. You know, God has put in in in in all of us a measure of faith. In the same way when we to Adam Adam and Eve took part of of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil I believe that there was a measure of faith I mean a measure of hate that it was important to every soul. So we all have this inherited ability to hate others to hate ourselves. Okay. A a lot of sane rational people that have been in situations where life dependency says you don't know what humans are capable of doing under certain circumstances. You find this in wars. Normal person that would never do anything all of a sudden will do horrible horrendous things. You know it happened in Vietnam. It happens in Iraq. this ability. Well, that's that resident hate that is in all of us. And it says that he joins forces with who? With pride. He says the the the pride the the the person who has pride in his heart is an abomination to God and he joins forces. So that if hate is the root, pride is definitely the tree. They go together like a hand and glove. Pride and hate cannot be separated. Why? Because pride is what we use to mask the hate. Remember how it says that he who has hate covers it up. You see, that's what pride does. You see, if you have a low self-esteem, you either wind up in the gutter or you either wind up very successful. Why? Because that you cannot accept that condition. And so this parish, you will see they are all moved to cover up for that lack there. And it begins with pride. You will find pride in people who are on the street, homeless people. When when Fred and I were dealing with some of that, some of the most proud people are people that have nothing. They have pride. They say, "I have my pride. I'm not going to do this or I'm not going to do that." So these spirits go very, very close together. Pride and hate. and they're the ones that open the door for the rest of the guys to come in. Now, we'll need to and I'm I'm I'm hoping to write I'm going to write uh quite a bit on this. I'm going to do research on each one of these spirits category. I'm going to put it on on the web page how be because pride has more than one manifestation just like love has more than one manifestation. Joy has more than one manifestation just like the fruit of the spirit have many ways of manifesting themsel but these are the root spirits and that's what I want you to see. These are the root spirits and then there's different variations of it and that's what we need to work on so that when we minister to people we're able to identify them quickly and deal with them according to the scriptures that God has given us on how to handle them. But the prouding heart is an abomination to the Lord. Pride comes into the heart, joins with the self-hatred, low self-esteem, and now they join forces to allow these other abominations to come in. Number two, Proverbs 15:8. And this one might surprise you a little bit. Maybe religious spirits will fall under this category. He says, "The sacrifice," is Proverbs 15:8, "The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight." Now, notice that it's called the sacrifice, the sacrifice of the wicked. Now, what is wicked? We just told you wicked has to do with idolatry. wickedness which those wickedness is is is a byproduct of idolatry which is hatred towards God. That means that a person who has not resolved the hate issue deep within us. Cover it up with pride. The pride of life which is what both of these spirits fall under. By the way, there are each uh there are two two of each spirits fall in the category pride of life, loss of the flesh and loss of the eye. The first one, the one with pride has to do obviously with the pride of life. And this one, the sacrifice of the wicked also have to do with the pride of life. I believe that you will find ministers, people who minister and people who serve who have never resolved the problem with hate, okay, are serving God for selfish motives and and it is an abomination to the Lord. You are in the ministry. You're doing work, but the real reason why you're doing it is because you have other motives. Notice that it says there the prayer of the righteous. So it compares prayer and sacrifice meaning that their service. Did you know that there are people and believe me I had contact with many people through the years and people would come in and tell me what they're praying for and sometimes they ask you to join with them. There's actually people that pray for other people to die. There's people that actually praying for other people to lose their job. There are people that are actually praying. We just went and prayed for for a girl tonight that is struggling with with cancer. Uh uh next door the husband came in and told her that that his wife was praying for her to die. This is real. Why would somebody want and pray actually believing that God will answer their their their prayer bad for somebody else? Hate. Hate is the only reason. Why would else would you do it? hate or pride because you're, oh well, they don't deserve this. I don't get it. I pray for my mom. She never recover. She died of cancer. So, why are you any better than my mom? You should die just like my mom died. See, this is one of the manifestations of the spirit. It's called the pride of life. And it says that that is an abomination to the Lord. But yet, the root cause of it is, hey, that mask itself and pride. Oh, I'm so religious. I pray. As a matter of fact, I think I got a scripture here. Don't don't miss your your place here in Proverbs. We're coming back. But in Luke 18 verse 11, 12, and 13, Jesus gives us a a a description of a person who is praying or sacrificing to God in this spirit. Luke 18 112 and 13 says, "The Pharisee stood and he prayed thus with himself." He stood up and he began to pray to himself. He's not saying it out loud. He's hiding it, but he said, "God, I thank you that I'm not like all of these other guys here. I'm not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even that tax collector over there in the back. Oh man, he's really bad. These guys are bad, but he's three times more bad than that. I thank you, Lord. I fast twice a week and I give tithe of everything that I possess. Sound like a pretty faithful guy. He'll be work welcome in every church today, man. He fast and he ties. Everybody wants people like that in their church, right? But guess what? They're praying. My pastor is a crook. That's what they're praying. and this is an extortion and that other guy is on an adulterer and this guy is a tax collector. That's the prayer that they're off Previous Next

MAHER-SHAL’AL-HASH-BAZ To explain the prophetic significance of Isaiah’s son Maher-Shal’al-Hash-Baz (“Speed the Spoil, Hasten the Booty”) in its historical context and to connect its meaning with end-time prophecies, particularly regarding modern Israel, Damascus, and the Russian-led invasion described in Ezekiel 38–39. The objective is to demonstrate how God’s dealings with Israel in Isaiah’s day serve as examples and warnings for the present generation, affirming the certainty of God’s Word and His ultimate plan for the nations. MAHER-SHAL’AL-HASH-BAZ Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To explain the prophetic significance of Isaiah’s son Maher-Shal’al-Hash-Baz (“Speed the Spoil, Hasten the Booty”) in its historical context and to connect its meaning with end-time prophecies, particularly regarding modern Israel, Damascus, and the Russian-led invasion described in Ezekiel 38–39. The objective is to demonstrate how God’s dealings with Israel in Isaiah’s day serve as examples and warnings for the present generation, affirming the certainty of God’s Word and His ultimate plan for the nations. Synopsis: In Isaiah 8, God commands the prophet to write publicly about His oath of judgment, witnessed by Uriah and Zechariah, and confirmed through the birth of Isaiah’s son whose name, Maher-Shal’al-Hash-Baz, signifies “Speed the Spoil, Hasten the Booty.” This name symbolized the imminent plundering of Samaria and Damascus by the Assyrian king. God’s message was clear: His prophetic word would quickly be fulfilled, and judgment was certain for those who rejected His covenant. The account not only addressed Israel’s immediate disobedience but also foreshadowed future prophetic fulfillment. Just as Assyria invaded Israel for spoil, Ezekiel 38–39 predicts that Russia will lead a coalition of nations against Israel in the end times with the same motive: plunder and gain. This invasion will involve Syria (Damascus) and Islamic nations aligned against Israel. However, God will intervene miraculously to deliver His people, proving His holiness before all nations. Isaiah’s prophecy serves as a warning: God’s Word is reliable, and what He has spoken will come to pass. The example reminds believers today not to be caught off guard by complacency or world politics, but to live in readiness for the fulfillment of end-time events. Ultimately, God will vindicate His name, protect His people, and establish His law through His appointed witnesses and through Christ’s return. Inspired Teaching: Isaiah 8:3 “Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, ‘Call his name Maher-Shal’al-Hash-Baz.’” I bet you are wandering what that name means, don’t worry is on the margin of my Bible, here what the meaning of this name is: Speed the Spoil, Hasten the Booty! There is a tremendous insight into what is going on today and what went on in the days of Isaiah concerning Israel’s disobedience to the Word of God. The key to look for here is found in the two opening verses. Isaiah 8:1-2 “Moreover the Lord said to me, ‘Take a large scroll, and write on it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-Shal’al-Hash-Baz. And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechi’ah.” What the Lord is doing here is taking a solemn oath, in regards to something that He is going to do here on the earth, and He commands Isaiah to get a large scroll and to write on it with a man’s pen, that is in clearly understood human language, and God even summons to Himself two witnesses that will testify, that this is what the Lord said that he was going to do, after it has come to pass just as the Lord said it would. Within the context of Isaiah’s day, it had to do with the invasion of Samaria by Assyria, now Samaria was the capital of Israel at that time when Israel was divided into two nations, Israel and Judah. Now this prophecy does not concern Judah for God will protect them at this time from the king of Assyria, but it is interesting that God includes in His prophecy the city of Damascus as well. Now why is this so important to us in our present day? 1 Corinthians 10:11 “Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.” So that God is clearly teaching us through the past examples of the saints of old, the unfolding of what we see going on today in regards to God’s prophetic words, and the surety of their fulfillment. Let us first begin with the name by which God calls the son of the prophetess on verse three: Speed the Spoil, Hasten the Booty. What prophecy has God uttered that has not yet been fulfilled, that deals with a foreign nation being drawn speedily, or suddenly, against the nation of Israel for the sake of gaining spoil and booty? Ezekiel 38:13 “Sheba, Dedan, the merchants of Tarshish, and all their young lions will say to you, ‘Have you come to take plunder? Have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great plunder?’” This yet to be fulfilled end time prophecy refers to the Russian nation of our present day, which will lead a confederacy of nations against the nation of Israel at the end of days, and the reason why they are doing it, is very clearly laid out in our preceding verse of Scripture. In the oath that God took on Isaiah 8: He also includes the city of Damascus, today’s Syrian capital, as spoil to be gained by them as well. Isaiah 8:4 “For before the child shall have knowledge to cry ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be taken away before the king of Assyria.” Let’s see if we can put together how this ancient prophecy relates to our current geo-political situation. Here is what we know: From Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39, we know with certainty that it will be our present day Russia the nation that will lead this invasion of Israel. Just let me give you a couple of verses for those of you who may not be aware of this declaration that God fore-ordained for our end of time. Ezekiel 38:2-4 “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.’” Just like in the days of Isaiah the prophet, when God brought the king of Assyria against the nation of Israel to fulfill His fore-ordained plan, He will do so as well during the end to days, when He will bring this Russian confederacy against the nation of Israel to fulfill His desire to reveal Himself to the nations of the world, as He delivers Israel from the hands of their many enemies as in days of old. Ezekiel 39:7-8 “So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. Surely it is coming, and it shall be done, says the Lord God. This is the day of which I have spoken.” Now in Isaiah’s prophecy God took for Himself two faithful witnesses that would declare to the nation of Israel as well as to the nations of the world, what verse eight clearly spells out: This is the day of which I have spoken! And the reason why the nation of Israel will not profane the Lord’s name anymore at that time, is because after the Lord destroys the Russian confederacy that comes against them, He will send them the Two Witnesses who will not only place the nation of Israel under God’s law, but the rest of the nations of the world as well. Imagine that! The high courts of the nations of the world which declare that it is legal to kill innocent unborn babies through the practice of abortion will be told by the Two Witnesses that it is not! For such a hideous practice violates the law of God: Psalm 127:3 “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward.” KJV And if these nations decide to live by their own laws and willfully disobey God’s commandments, then they will be punished severally for their disobedience by the Two Witnesses, for it will be their job to enforce God’s law upon all the peoples of the earth. Revelation 11:5-6, 10 “And if anyone wants to harm them (the Two Witnesses), fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. These (Two Witnesses) have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire...And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them (when they are killed after their prophetic reign ends after 1,260 days), make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.” So, what have we learned so far? Let me see if we can put all these things into their proper perspective utilizing our opening text on Isaiah 8: We have Israel and Damascus as the bait that will draw the Russian bear into God’s end of days trap. It is not a coincidence that Russia is heavily invested in today’s Syria, for even after the nations of the world demanded that the Syrian president resign after he used chemical weapons on his own people, Russia did not back off in their full support for Assad’s regime, instead they increased their armaments delivery and found a way to legitimize this cruel dictator so that he can stay in power. Now why Israel? What is the spoil and where is the booty that they can gain from an invasion of Israel? There is a lot more at stake here than gold and silver and oil, there is a great amount of political capital to be had if they play their cards right. It is painfully clear to many that the present strategy of the United States government is to lead from behind, which is a misnomer, for it really means not to lead at all, for all that this strategy creates is a vacuum of leadership that the likes of Putin would not mind filling up right away. In Isaiah’s prophetic context we are told that before the child of the prophetess is able to have knowledge of who his mother and father are, that the spoils will be gone. To me that means that before people even realize what is going on prophetically, it will be too late, for the vacuum would have already been filled. If the lesser nations of the world come to the conclusion that a power shift is taking place, as many of them are already realizing, then it is to their advantage to align themselves within the orb of this new emerging power, if it is to their own advantage of course. If Russia wanted to endear themselves to a majority of the nations of the world, the destruction and removal of the nation of Israel would play right into the hands of not only many of the Islamic nations, but some of the western nations as well, who privately hate Israel with a passion. As a matter of fact, the nations that join this Russian confederacy against Israel according to Ezekiel’s list in Ezekiel 38, many are Islamic nations today, Persia tops the list of these followers which is today’s Iran, they are continuously calling for the nation of Israel to be driven into the sea. We can honestly say that the might of the Unites States and what we might have done, is what kept Russia from even thinking of invading the nation of Israel in the past, but all of that is now changing rapidly. For even is the midst of the present power grab by Russia in the Ukraine, the United States government is warning Israel to reach an agreement with their enemies or else. I can say with confidence that the child of the prophetess has been born, and his name is Maher-Shal’al-Hash-Baz, Speed the Spoil, Hasten the Booty. I can also say with confidence that the bear of the north woods got his scent, and though he might try to resist the temptation of going after this child, if This is the day of which I (God) have spoken, this hungry bear will not be able to resist the bait that is in the hook of God Almighty. Isaiah 8:6-7 “Inasmuch as these people refused the waters of Shiloah that flow softly...Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them the waters of the River, strong and mighty…” Has any nation ever that was called by God to do His purpose here on earth gotten away with their sin of rebelling against doing His will? I am utterly amazed how anywhere that I look in Scripture, how I see the present unfolding just as it was told by the prophets of old it would be. Although we may not have much of a say about what our nation does or about what it fails to do, we do know that our God is a personal God, and that is why He sent His Word personally to save us from our sins, Jesus, His only begotten Son. Isaiah 8:11 “For the Lord spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people…” This is our walk, looking for that blessed hope, that when He appears we will be with Him forevermore, no matter what! Previous Next

THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR WORD IS TRUTH The objective of this teaching is to affirm the believer’s confidence in the absolute, unchanging truth of God’s Word. It emphasizes that truth is not relative nor subject to human circumstances, but is embodied in Christ Himself and confirmed in every one of God’s righteous judgments, which endure forever. By understanding the immutability of God’s Word and covenant, Christians are encouraged to remain steadfast in their faith, resist the enemy’s attempts to sow doubt, and live in the peace and security that comes from loving and trusting the entirety of Scripture. THE ENTIRETY OF YOUR WORD IS TRUTH Pastor Marcos Marrero March 17, 2019 Objective: The objective of this teaching is to affirm the believer’s confidence in the absolute, unchanging truth of God’s Word. It emphasizes that truth is not relative nor subject to human circumstances, but is embodied in Christ Himself and confirmed in every one of God’s righteous judgments, which endure forever. By understanding the immutability of God’s Word and covenant, Christians are encouraged to remain steadfast in their faith, resist the enemy’s attempts to sow doubt, and live in the peace and security that comes from loving and trusting the entirety of Scripture. Synopsis: In The Entirety of Your Word is Truth, Pastor Marcos explores Psalm 119:160 and John 18–19 to reveal the eternal nature of God’s Word and its embodiment in Christ. The message begins with Pilate’s question to Jesus, “What is truth?”, showing the tragic irony of looking Truth in the face yet failing to accept Him. Pilate recognized Jesus’ innocence but still surrendered to lies and political pressure, a vivid illustration of humanity’s tendency to suppress absolute truth. Pastor Marcos explains that God’s Word is not fragmented or situational; it is whole and unchanging. The challenge for believers lies in resisting the natural human inclination to treat truth as variable, shaped by circumstances or feelings. This tendency originates from Adam and Eve, who chose to believe the lie instead of God’s eternal Word. Likewise, Christians today face constant assaults on the truth of Scripture, where even doubting a single righteous judgment weakens their stance in faith. The message highlights God’s covenant oath through Jesus Christ, the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, sealed by two immutable realities: God cannot lie, and He will not change His mind. This unshakable foundation assures believers of His steadfast love and the eternal validity of His promises. Loving God’s law—inseparable from loving Christ—produces peace and prevents stumbling. Finally, Pastor Marcos exhorts believers to respond to attacks on God’s truth not with doubt, but with holy disgust toward lies and slander. By holding firmly to His testimonies, loving His law, and becoming doers of the Word, Christians can stand secure in God’s unchanging covenant love. Jesus, the very embodiment of God’s Word, guarantees that His truth endures forever—demanding our eternal trust and devotion. Inspired Teaching: Psalm 119:160 “The entirety of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.” If there is a kink in the armor of the faithful it has to be in their failure to comprehend the entirety of truth presented to us in God’s Word. It was Pilate who beholding into the face of Truth, stupidly asked what has to be the dumbest question ever asked: What is truth? John 18:38 “Pilate said to Him, ‘What is truth?’...I find no fault in Him at all.” I do not fault people for not knowing what truth is if they have not met Truth, but Pilate met Truth in person and recognized Him to be Truth, for he also said that he found no fault in Him; if there is no fault in Him then He is the real thing, the entirety of truth. Is there something going on here that can help us to understand what the entirety of God’s Truth is? Let’s take a look at what Jesus said to Pilate first, who by the way, was not a stupid man, for Pilate’s position required him to be astute in both, politics and governance, which requires great insight into matters of understanding people’s behavior in regards to the application of laws. John 18:37 “Pilate therefore said to Him, ‘Are you a king then?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.’” Pilate knew that the charges that they were brought against Jesus were politically motivated, for the ministry of Jesus was a threat to the Jewish leadership of that time. Pilate saw this as a struggle for power between the Jews, and he saw himself as the kingmaker. So that in essence what Pilate asked Jesus was this, Tell me, why should I make You a king, what’s in it for me? To which Jesus responded, You know that I am a King for you have seen My authority (I’m paraphrasing). Then Jesus reveals to Pilate what His ministry, or kingship, was really all about, For this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. It was at that point that Pilate crossed the line, in what is a normal human response when confronted with undeniable truth, he turned and mocked Truth! After that Pilate tried unsuccessfully to extricate himself from the matter. He tried to release Jesus indirectly, by putting Him side by side with the worse criminal, but they chose the criminal over Jesus. He had Jesus tortured and punished by having Him scourged, mocked, and ridiculed, then he brought Jesus before His accusers and said: John 19:5 “Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, ‘Behold the Man!’” But it was not enough to satisfy the lie, for the lie can never exist while in the presence of Truth, no matter how much the truth is ridiculed. John 19:6 “Therefore, when the chief priest and officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, ‘Crucify Him, crucify Him!’ Pilate said to them, ‘You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in Him.’” The reality is that once a person is confronted with Truth there is no going back, they can try to suppress the truth all they want, but like in the case of Pilate’s actions, to no avail. What is the message here for us who believe that Jesus is the Truth? Is He the entirety of Truth, or like Pilate, are we struggling to come to terms with the reality of it? Let me explain what I mean. Here is what the second part of our opening text reveals to us. Every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. Our normal human response to truth is to recognize it at first, but we are also influenced to believe that truth can change in response to the changing circumstances. In other words, we inheritably take issue with absolute truth that endures forever. We inherited that predisposition from Adam and Eve who believed the lie of the devil at the cost of partaking of the tree of life, which is: Every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever. So that as Christians we are confronted with a constant assault against the truth of the Word of God in which we first believed. All the devil has to do is to get us to doubt just one of His righteous judgments, and just like that, we will find ourselves outside of the absolute truth that endures forever. And like Pilate we try hard to make up for our deficiencies and we just end up making it worse. Here is the key that keeps us from falling away from the Word of Truth: Psalm 119:157 “Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I do not turn from Your testimonies.” I do not turn from Your testimonies, plural, that means I keep every one of them, and I know that His testimonies, or covenant, endure forever. In order to keep all His testimonies, all the time, we need to understand the covenant that God has secured to His testimonies. For we cannot keep any of His testimonies outside of the covenant of salvation. Hebrews 6:17-18 “Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel (His testimonies), confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.” The context is the priesthood of Jesus as the mediator of the new covenant, and it is within this context that God takes an oath which is based on two immutable, or unchangeable things: First is the fact that it is impossible for God to lie. The second is that God swore to the priest from Melchizedek’s line that He would not change His mind. Hebrews 7:21 “...The Lord has sworn and will not relent (change His mind), ‘You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.’” Can you see how God deals with the tendency of our fallen human nature to see truth from the context of changing? He removes any grounds to doubt that we may entertain, by basing the New Covenant on two unchangeable facts: The God who cannot lie, swore that He would not change His mind! In the natural we see some things that are very dear to us today, fall out of our favor tomorrow. Persons that we love and have sworn to love in the past, can give us reason today that causes us to change our minds and our feelings towards them. And that is how we tend to see ourselves in the sight of God. When we are trusting in His testimonies we feel good and secured. When we struggle to comprehend the truth of His promises to us, we wonder if we’ve done something that caused Him to change His mind about us. Without love there is no way to resolve this. Psalm 119:165 “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.” I love His law because I love Jesus; God’s law, God’s Word, God’s promises, God’s statutes, are one and the same with Jesus! The law of the Lord is perfect because Jesus is perfect! The law of the Lord is perfected in us when we put our trust in the entirety of God’s Word! Jesus is perfect in every way, therefore we love and trust Jesus in every way, there is no reason then why we should not put our trust in the entirety of God’s Word at all times, all the time, for ever and forever. Jesus loves us and has saved us; He swore on an oath, and He cannot lie, that He would not change His mind about His love for us. He loves us eternally and unconditionally, is there any reason why we should not love Him and His Word eternally and unconditionally as well? I see none! How do we handle then, the daily barrage that continuously confronts our trust and confidence in the Word and promises of God to us? Psalm 119:158 “I see the treacherous, and am disgusted, because they do not keep Your word.” Here is something new, instead of distrust, when doubts are raised about the veracity of God’s Word, it is disgust toward the slanderers that raises up from within us. Is it not so that when something treasured that is beautiful and lovely is slandered, that contempt towards the slanderers is what rises? Why should we doubt the immutable and unchangeable Word of God that promises us God’s unending, fervent, and perfect love? Is not Jesus the manifestation of God’s perfect love towards us? John 3:17 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” What part of Jesus do we not love or agree with? If we love and agree with all that Jesus is and did for us, then we also must believe that the entirety of God’s Word is truth. Since it is God’s Word who testifies of Him and of His love and of His covenant that He made on our behalf. We cannot and should not have one outside of the other! Psalm 119:166 “Lord, I hope for Your salvation, and I do Your commandments.” James 1:22 “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” Previous Next

SPIRITUALITY VERSUS CARNALITY The objective of this teaching is to help believers discern the difference between living as spiritual Christians and living as carnal Christians. Pastor Marcos Marrero emphasizes that true spiritual maturity is marked not by worldly wisdom or religious appearances, but by the fruit of the Spirit and the revelation of God’s wisdom through the Holy Spirit. This lesson seeks to guide believers into choosing daily to walk in the Spirit, rather than yielding to the works of the flesh, so that they may mature into victorious, Christ-centered lives. SPIRITUALITY VERSUS CARNALITY Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: The objective of this teaching is to help believers discern the difference between living as spiritual Christians and living as carnal Christians. Pastor Marcos Marrero emphasizes that true spiritual maturity is marked not by worldly wisdom or religious appearances, but by the fruit of the Spirit and the revelation of God’s wisdom through the Holy Spirit. This lesson seeks to guide believers into choosing daily to walk in the Spirit, rather than yielding to the works of the flesh, so that they may mature into victorious, Christ-centered lives. Synopsis: In Spirituality Versus Carnality, Pastor Marcos Marrero examines Paul’s admonition to the Corinthian church, highlighting the tension between spiritual maturity and carnal living. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 3:1–4, he explains that spiritual Christians are mature in faith, while carnal Christians remain as infants in Christ, unable to receive deeper revelations because they are hindered by envy, strife, and division. Pastor Marcos contrasts the world’s wisdom with God’s hidden wisdom, reminding readers that spiritual truths cannot be grasped through human reasoning but only through the revelation of the Holy Spirit. He points to Paul’s ministry as an example, where the demonstration of God’s Spirit and power, rather than persuasive words, confirmed the truth of the gospel. The lesson also clarifies that the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and self-control—are marks of a spiritual life. On the other hand, works of the flesh such as selfish ambition, resentment, and divisions mark a carnal life and prevent believers from growing in spiritual understanding. Through biblical examples, such as Rahab’s decision to act spiritually rather than merely “do the right thing,” Pastor Marcos shows that spiritual maturity often requires choices that defy worldly logic. He urges believers to submit to Christ’s teachings, even when they do not make sense to the natural mind, trusting that the Holy Spirit will apply God’s wisdom and peace to their lives. Ultimately, the message underscores that the Christian life involves a daily choice between spirituality and carnality. By yielding to the Spirit and rejecting the flesh, believers grow in freedom, wisdom, and maturity—living as those who are no longer slaves to sin but made free in Christ. Inspired Teaching: 1 Corinthians 3:1 “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.” A spiritual Christian is a mature Christian, and a carnal Christian is one who does not have a clue as to what spirituality is really all about. It is odd that in some church settings, spiritual Christians are frowned upon as being way out there, out of the main stream, they are almost ashamed to acknowledge them, while their carnal counterparts or more worldly minded Christians are held with high regard for being more in touch with the reality of life, in their more balanced relationship with the world system. Let’s face it, spiritual truths are always at odds with the physical realities. I see programs on TV all the time trying to explain biblical events, not just secular programs, some Christian shows as well, that try to make carnal sense of events that can only be interpreted through the eyes of faith in the word of God. Paul’s complaint to the Corinthians is that he cannot address them with the meat of spiritual truth because they are like infants holding on to their baby bottles. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like to know the mechanics of how things work more than anybody else, but I am humbled enough to know that while I am in this body of flesh, I am limited in my ability to fully understand spiritual mysteries. If I do not fully understand something, I am comfortable enough in my belief that it happened the way that God said it happened, and my faith does not require any further explanation. 1 Corinthians 3:2-3 “I fed you with milk and not solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal…” Paul, while under his apostolic ministry and anointing, was privy to the revelation of the mysteries that had been hidden from the sages of old and was extremely eager to share those revelations that he had received with all his converts. But imagine his frustration with the inability of many of his converts to receive the revelation of those spiritual mysteries that he treasured. 2 Peter 3:15-16 “And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable (carnal) people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.” Peter himself acknowledges the gift that God had invested in the apostle Paul, and recognizes the fact that it takes spiritual maturity to receive the understanding of many of the mysteries that Paul was revealing in his teachings to the churches. How does a carnal babe in Christ become a spiritually mature servant? 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 “And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.” The majority of Paul’s converts got saved by the demonstration of God’s Spirit and power moving in their midst as Paul preached to them, so that it was the supernatural manifestation of God’s power among them that confirmed the truth of what Paul was preaching to them, not human logic. Now Paul is teaching them that in order for them to become spiritual they have to follow the same pattern, spirituality does not come through persuasive words of human wisdom, but rather through the manifestation of God’s Spirit and power, that in many instances defy human logic. 1 Corinthians 2:6-7 “However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in an mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory.” The wisdom that makes us spiritual is like an encoded mystery that was deposited into our newly recreated born-again spirit-man when we got saved, which only the Holy Spirit can reveal or decode in those who through the agency of faith and trust in the word of God, will be able to receive and understand. 1 Corinthians 2:10-11 “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the sprit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except (unless) the Spirit of God (reveals them to us).” The spiritual mystery or quality that enables a believer to become spiritual or mature, has already been deposited into our recreated spirit-man, but the revelation or unlocking of those mysteries are left to the Spirit of God who searches the human spirit that dwells within our heart, to see if spiritual fruit it's been produced by our spirit. 1 Corinthians 3:3 “For you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you (works of the flesh), are you not carnal and behaving like mere (natural instead of spiritual) men?” I am responsible before God for the kind of fruit that my spirit produces: Love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, meekness, faithfulness and self-control are all spiritual fruit, the more of that kind of fruit that my spirit produces, the greater the revelation of God’s wisdom that I will receive as it is unveiled through my heart by the Spirit of God. Envy, strife, divisions, selfish ambitions, and the like, are all spiritual manifestations of the works of the flesh, the carnality that will hinder my heart from receiving the revelation that will allow me to become a mature, and victorious spiritual Christian. So that I have a choice to make each and every day between peace and distress, love and hate, forgiveness and resentment. Am I going to be at peace in the face of distress? Am I going to love those who hate me? Am I going to forgive those whom I resent? If I follow my natural inclinations that compel me to demand an eye for an eye, then the spiritual revelation that makes me wise in Christ is withheld from me, for my actions prevent the Holy Spirit from revealing them to me as He desires. But if I summit myself to the words that our Lord taught us, His spiritual words that are my life, even when it absolutely makes no sense to me to do what He says, then the Holy Spirit is not hindered, and though I may not be ready to receive the understanding as to why I need to do what the Scriptures require, nevertheless, His healing balm will be applied to my soul and I will walk in His peace no matter what! John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” There is a disconnect for many Christians between doing the right thing and doing the spiritual thing. Understanding the difference between doing that which is right and doing that which is spiritual can be an important factor that will help to lead us into maturity. That is because our natural understanding of what the right thing to do is, has been tainted by our worldly perception. We sometimes confuse human goodness with God inspired spirituality. So that when we think we are doing the right thing that should make us more spiritual, instead we are being carnal and do not even know it. Therein lies a trap that has diverted many well intended Christians from what had been a promising road to maturity, into the folly that Paul calls the wisdom of this age, by comparing or trying to understand spiritual things through the prism of human wisdom. 1 Corinthians 2:13-14 “These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural (carnal) man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” The more spiritual that a believer becomes, the more at odds that he will be with the wisdom of this world, and the difference between what the spiritual thing to do is, verses that which is the right thing to do, will become more obvious to the believer that matures spiritually. A spiritually mature man will never be bound by the spirit of religion. 1 Corinthians 3:4 “For when one says, ‘I am of Paul,’ and another, ‘I am of Apollos,’ are you not carnal?” When Rahab the prostitute was faced with the choice of doing the right thing and not lie to the soldiers that asked about the whereabouts of the spies that visited her, she chose to do the spiritual thing instead, and protected those who belonged to God by misleading the soldiers away from them. By her actions she did not only save their lives, but she also saved her own life and the lives of her family and became part of Jesus ancestry. To become a spiritually mature Christian is the same as that of being a slave that has been made free. 1 Corinthians 2:15 “But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.” After all it is for freedom's sake that Christ has made us free! Previous Next

THE CONFORMED DOES NOT TRANSFORM To reveal the dangers of conforming to the present world system, expose how the manipulation of information undermines moral reasoning, and call believers to renew their minds through God’s Word so they may live transformed lives in alignment with His perfect will. THE CONFORMED DOES NOT TRANSFORM Pastor Marcos Marrero Objective: To reveal the dangers of conforming to the present world system, expose how the manipulation of information undermines moral reasoning, and call believers to renew their minds through God’s Word so they may live transformed lives in alignment with His perfect will. Synopsis: This teaching begins with Paul’s admonition in Romans 12:2, contrasting conformity to the world with transformation through the renewing of the mind. The author observes that modern society, particularly in America, suffers from contradictions and irrational behavior—not due to a lack of knowledge, but because of a deep spiritual problem. While past generations developed moral values through family, faith, and community experience, today’s culture is artificially manufactured through centralized control of information and media. The rise of global information systems and ideologies such as socialism has eroded individuality and encouraged a herd mentality. This manufactured culture disconnects people from heritage, reason, and truth, conditioning them to accept shifting standards of morality and knowledge as absolute. Yet, unlike the fleeting and unreliable wisdom of man, the Word of God remains unchanged and trustworthy across all generations. The message emphasizes that transformation requires rejecting the false narratives of this age and choosing the eternal truth of Scripture. By renewing the mind in God’s Word, believers can escape the deception of conformity, discern rightly, and prove what is good, acceptable, and perfect in God’s will. Ultimately, the teaching warns against the peril of blind conformity and exhorts believers to hold fast to the unshakable truth of God’s Word in preparation for the return of Christ. Inspired Teaching: Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” If you ask any reasonable person today to explain the disconnect that so many have with reality, they would be hard pressed to explain it, for truly everything that is going on today in all levels of society does not make any sense whatsoever. Here in the US for example, polls tell us that a majority of Americans want to get rid of their elected officials at any given time, yet every two years we have elections, and by a margin of over ninety percent the same incumbents get reelected, how do you explain that? A majority here complain that the government is too big, and that its spending is out of control, and that for the money they get from us we are not well served by our government. Yet a majority always complains when efforts are made to reduce the government and the power that it now has to control every aspect of our lives. How do we explain such contradictions? The world at large and the United States in particular, do not have a physical problem, and by that I mean that we do not lack the ability to receive information and the knowledge that allows us to make sense of what is going on all around us if we are rational, but we are not. In reality what we are facing is a spiritual problem! Some will say that we have lost our moral compass, and we have, but that is not the root of it, for there has always been immoral behavior in every nation that ever existed, including the US. In our opening text, the relationship is made between our ability to reason, the renewing of our minds, and our conforming to this world system. The more that we become one with our present world system, the less capable that we are in making sound judgments that are based in simple human reasoning; that is the point of our opening text. What is the difference then, between our present day generation and past generations that knew exactly what it was that was required of them? The dissemination of information! In the past, our world was a limited world, the rules that governed the areas where people lived back then, had been developed through generations of families that through trial and error had developed the moral concepts that they handed down to their children, good or bad, but that only applied to the very specific areas where they lived. So that there was back then a diversity of thought and many different applications of faith, that allowed reasonable people to make a determination as to whether what they believed was right or wrong based on the behavior of others when compared to their own, and with it the ability to improve their belief system where it was needed. So that there was not a worldwide uniform code that compelled others to conform to a narrow standard of moral thinking. Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” The dawn of the twentieth century was a pivotal point for all mankind, for with the industrial revolution came the reality that, knowledge shall increase, and those early visionaries did not want the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be the standard by which the world became one. For in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, individuals are free to choose for themselves and their families the kind of world, or community, they wanted to be a part of, for they were given individual rights to life and liberty and for the pursuit of happiness from their Creator Himself. Socialism, however, offered a better system for those whose aim was always to rule the world, for socialism debases the individual for the sake of empowering the state. The culture of today is not our grandfather’s culture. It did not evolve out of individual societies that through trial and error had chosen to pass to their children in what they thought would be the best for them, what they commonly called, the moral values of their faith. The culture of today has been manufactured by those illuminated ones who think of us humans as a commodity that they must somehow manage through force and coercion. But we humans present a different problem for their methods of how they manage the world through the herd mentality, for we have the ability to reason and the capacity for sound understanding. In the information age, he who controls the output of information, also controls the behavior of the herd. If what our children learn in school about culture today is the same thing that they learn at home through nationwide television shows that sometimes reach the entire world, before long, they lose the connection to their heritage that is not being portrayed on these shows, especially if they are able to relate more to the belief system of a fictional family on television than to their own heritage. And as we see these things played out in television shows that deal with relationships and morality, as well as in the news and in social media, as to what is good and who is bad being reinforced daily in every facet of our society, eventually our capacity to compare and to choose between the present system and something else that disappeared or has been disparaged, is lost. That is why society is where it is today, unable to make decisions that are based on sound judgment. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind! How can you choose if you have no choice? Information is presented today by this world wide information conglomerate, as if what they believe is right and what everybody else believes, or believed, is wrong, for they see themselves as the gate keepers of information. They ridicule anything and everything that does not conform to what they present as knowledge; knowledge that is biased and based on laughable theories. But we do have a choice. Next time when some know it all tells you what happened one billion years ago, ask him to show you the video, lol. Let me show you what is more real than any empirical evidence that you have ever witnessed: The end time prophecies found in the Word of God! For they are the pages of history written in advance for all to see. Isaiah 46:9-10 “Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.’” It is not until you say no to the nonsense of this world, for this world is passing away along with the knowledge it professes, and say yes to the eternal Word of God, that you will be able to renew your mind and finally find a real choice that is evidently clear. That you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Every time I see a contest between human knowledge and the wisdom of God, I cannot help but laugh. I picture in my mind natives aiming their primitive bows and shooting their arrows at a 747 airliner at 40,000 feet, trying hard to bring it down and I can almost hear them saying, Oh, shoot another arrow, you almost got it with the last one! I know that for some who might be reading this, because you have been fed so much bull that passed for knowledge all your life that it might be difficult for you to see it from my perspective. So let me run a little scenario pass you that might help you understand the preeminence of the Word of God in all things. I was born in 1947 and let’s say that someone gets all the curriculum that was used that year to graduate students from the highest places of learning back then. Let them study those books and pass all the tests. Will they get a diploma from those prestigious universities today? Of course not! What they learned back then is old knowledge today. Okay, let me ask you this, will the knowledge that all the graduates learned this year be up to date for future graduates, let’s say sixty six years from now? Of course not; new year, new books, new knowledge. Let me see if I get this right, they want me to put my trust in knowledge that by their own reasoning will not be trustworthy tomorrow? Now go and get a Bible that was printed in 1947, open it to Genesis 1:1 and read it. I do not know if out of the many Bibles that I own, if any of them was printed in 1947, but I can tell you this, Genesis 1:1 in those Bibles that were printed in 1947 read like this: In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Get a Bible that was just printed and I guarantee you that it says the same thing, just as it will sixty six years from now in the Bibles that are yet to be printed, just like it read when Moses first wrote it 3500 years ago. Do you want to put your trust on fallible knowledge that is here today and gone tomorrow? Is this what you want your epithet to read: He trusted a fallacy, and what he knew came to naught? Life is a learning experience that has many twists and turns, but if we are not careful, the devil in his cunningness is able to rob humans of their God giving ability to reason properly and to make the right choices for their lives and their families lives, as we can see many today that simply do not have a clue. Don’t get caught up with this world that you end up conforming to it. For if you do, your mind will not be able to receive the transformation that allows you to think and reason as an individual. Matthew 24:38-39 “For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” Do not be hoodwinked by the present deception that is taking place all around us. Wise up! We are living in perilous times and the only thing that we can ever fully trust is the Word of God. Previous Next