Post by Jo Smith on Dec 6, 2008 15:02:03 GMT -5
From: joie (Original Message) Sent: 2/3/2004 4:11 PM
~~ There Must Be War ~~
Isaiah 58:1. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
20. But the wicked are like the troubled sea; when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
God has commissioned his people, his mighty men of war, to lift up their voice like a ‘trumpet’ and show his people their sins. Now those ‘ministers’ and ‘church people’ who do not believe one should expose sin and false doctrine are not the ones who can do this work. They cannot cry aloud, they desire to spare the sinners and liars for this makes them popular with the people and gives them an advantage over them.
They cannot use the trumpet of God. They are afraid to show the people their sins. Is there any peace to the wicked? No. God said there is no peace to them.
Those who believe lies or false doctrine are under a heavy bondage. They desire peace but have none. What can set them free? Only one thing. Jesus said you shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall set you free. So only the truth can set anyone free. But when a true minister of God comes into the midst and lifts up their voice like the trumpet of God and begin to reveal TRUTH and show the people their sins, then they begin to cry PEACE where there is no PEACE.
There can be no peace so long as one is in sin. There can be no peace so long as lies prevail. The gates of hell are the false shepherds who teach lies. They cry peace when there is no peace. They smooth the people over with their slick tongues. And the people love to have it so. You can tell them by the fact of their love for having the ‘chief seats’ in the synagogues. Jesus himself told us this is one of their traits. They set a big fancy chair, a throne, up in front of the Babylon Churches so they can be gazed upon and admired. They set themselves up above the other members of the same church.
Psm. 55: 8. I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind and tempest.
9. Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
(This goes back to the time of Nimrod. There was violence and strife in the world. So God divided their tongue and scattered them. Even today there is always a division between the workers of iniquity and the true ministers or saints of God. They are divided. They speak a ‘different’ language.)
10. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. (This speaks of the Babylon church, the harlot against God. In her midst are always wickedness and oppression and guile.)
12. For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13. But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.
14. We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.
15. Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into hell; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
This is Jesus speaking in prophecy about Judas, the betrayer. They went into the temple together. He pretended to be of Jesus and his friend. But war was in his heart.
20. He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.
21. His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
This is still speaking of the Judases. Their mouth is smoother than butter and softer than oil. Yet they are drawn swords. This is the false teachers and preachers of today. They speak with the smooth, soft voices to soothe the people to sleep and will not show them their sins. This is the enemy of their souls, for it will send them to destruction.
Pro. 5: 3. For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Now see that this strange woman is the same as these false ministers. So this is the false church. Her gates lead to hell. Her gates are the false teachers who cry peace and lies come out of their mouths. Her mouth is smoother than oil; same as the betrayer of Jesus. So these smooth speaking ministers, who will not lift up their voices like a trumpet and show the people their sins are the betrayers of Jesus. They are the enemies of your soul. But their mouth is smooth, for they seek to please men and not God.
Jer. 6:13. For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14. They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, peace, peace; when there is no peace.
[These false prophets and priests (our modern day preachers) were given to COVETOUSNESS. See they loved money. The love of money is the root of all evil. This is one of the easiest ways to know the wolves in sheep clothing. They take pay for doing the work of God. They are hirelings. They all deal falsely against the Word of God. But notice they cry peace, peace when there is no peace. There can be no peace as long as you believe lies and falsehoods.]
15. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
16. Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.
[Now he asked if these false teachers are ashamed of their ways. No, he said they are not at all ashamed. They love the wages of iniquity. But how did He tell them they could find the rest for their souls? By returning to the old paths wherein is the good way and walk in this way. So what is the old paths he is saying to get back to? The teaching of the Apostles. They were the first ones to have this peace and good way. They were the very first ones to have the rest to your soul. And what is the rest to your soul? Isa. 28 teaches that it is the speaking in tongues which is the evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost which came on the Day of Pentecost. So then going back to Pentecost, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, is the only rest for your souls. This is the only way of peace. This is the old way God is telling you to get back to. There is no other way to rest and peace.]
17. And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.
18. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
Here God told them he had set watchmen over them saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. This trumpet is the same we started with = the true ministers lifting up their voice and showing you your sins. This is the true watchmen, the ones who show you your sins so you can find the right path. This path is the old way of the Apostolic Fathers. It is the rest to your souls Isaiah spoke of in chapter 28. He said with stammering lips and another tongue will you find this rest. But see the people said we will not hearken to the sound of this trumpet. And because of this God will bring evil upon this people because they will not hearken to his words.
So now I have shown you that there is no peace to the wicked and those who refuse His true Rest to the soul. So if one comes in with a smooth tongue and soft speech and tells you there is peace to you, know that this is an enemy to your soul. If there is no peace, then there must be war.
But the people want no war. Why? Because they are afraid and cannot fight. They have no truth to fight with. They have no strength to fight with. They are fearful and cannot stand on the front lines of the battle. Is there battle? Yes, indeed. There will be battle and war until the very end of time when Jesus will send his angels and separate the wheat and the tares; the sheep and the goats. He will draw the net in and divide the fish and cast away the bad. Then there will be peace for the true people of God. But not before. We have peace in our own souls, but out in the field there will be war until the end.
Read Judges six. It tells that God appeared to Gideon and told him to tear down the altar of Baal. So Gideon did this. Then the people of Baal came against Gideon and contended for Baal. Gideon told them if Baal be a god let him contend for himself. Then God told Gideon to go and deliver the people from those who held them in bondage, the Midianites.
Judges 7:1. Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2. And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
3. Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
Here we see that God did not want a large crowd of people in this battle. This would be no glory to God. So he told Gideon to send those who were fearful back home. So if you are ‘fearful’ of the battle, you cannot do any good in the army of the Lord. Only those who have been given the spirit of the ‘lion’ will be able to go to this battle. And there must be war.
4. And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
5. So he brought down the people unto the water: and Jehovah said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
6. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Here God gives the men the ‘water’ test. Unto what then were ye baptized? [Paul, in Acts 19].
See the men who bowed down to drink showed that they would not be watchful of the approaching enemy. They were not careful and would not be safe in the battle. But the men who lifted water up in their hands, keeping a watch for the enemy, and drank from their own hands like a dog, these were the ones who could go to the battle and bring deliverance. This left 300 men with Gideon. By these few God gave deliverance from the enemy.
7. And Jehovah said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the people go every man unto his place.
8. So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man unto his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9. And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Arise, get thee down into the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand.
12. And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.
Just look at the huge host of people who were gathered against the people of God! Without number. So the enemy always has the huge crowd. God has only a few, for strait and narrow is the way which leads to eternal life and few there be that find it. Look around you. See the huge multitudes in the Babylon Churches. No matter what their denominations, they all believe essentially the same things. [They all pay their one preacher to rule over them; they all say God came to earth in flesh; they all say you must ‘go to church’ to be saved; they all say you must tithe; almost all of them say all there is to being saved is just believing. See? All lies.]
They will all band together against Gods true people, as these Midianites and Amalekites and the children of the east did here against Israel.
16. And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
Here Gideon divided them into three groups-- 100 to each group. They were given trumpets (see this is the trumpet we started with in Isaiah. This trumpet is the message sounding out to show the people their sins.). And they had empty pitchers and torches within the pitchers. This shows the people of God emptied of themselves and the light of God inside us. These are the ones who can go to the battle against Satan and the walls of Babylon.)
17. And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. (Doing as Gideon did is listening to their leader and all being in the same mind; agreement and equality.)
18. When I blow the trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Jehovah and for Gideon.
19. So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
20. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of the LORD and of Gideon.
21. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
22. And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled.
Here these men all blew their trumpets at the same time and broke their pitchers and gave a loud shout. This caused the enemy's army to flee away. This blowing the trumpets is the sounding of those seven trumpets in Revelation. This is the message of the witnesses of God who will be anointed with power from on high by the baptism of fire to bring the judgment. This will be the second true Church. The first one was with the Apostles. After them it went into seven church ages of darkness and loss of power. But at the end of this age, God will again anoint another true Church with power from on high.
We will then blow our trumpets and show the people their sins and brake down the walls of the whore Babylon. All her walls were daubed with untempered mortar. Her idols will fall down and we will burn them with fire.
What happened here with Gideon is a type and showing what will happen at the end of this age as the true messengers of God lift up their voices like a trumpet to show the people their sins. It will cause the enemy to rise up against us and try to destroy us. But they cannot stand in the battle. And there must be war.
Jesus said the two grow together until the end of the world. This is the wheat and the tares. The sheep and the goats. The good and bad fish caught in the net. But at the end they will be separated. Until then there must be war. The two cannot agree. How can two walk together except they be agreed? The wheat can never agree with the tares. The true church can never agree with the Babylon whore church. So there will be wars until the end; so said Jesus. There must be war.
Jesus said there will always be kingdom against kingdom. This is the kingdom of Satan or Babylon against the kingdom of Jesus or the true Holy Ghost filled Christians, the true Jews.
Rev. 12:7. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels;
8. And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Now see that as long as the devil was allowed to dwell in heaven there was war? There must be war so long as Satan and his angels dwell among God’s people. We can never agree with them. There is no agreement between Satan’s temple and God’s temple. If you agree, then you will fall and become one of them. What fellowship hath light with darkness?
As soon as Satan was cast unto the earth he persecuted the true Church. Until he is destroyed from among the church, there must be war. If you cease to battle Satan and his ministers transforming themselves into ministers of light, then you will fall with them.
You must war with them until they are destroyed and cast out of the Church.
Truth is your only weapon. You absolutely must have the truth of God’s word to do battle with Satan. Jesus himself only used “ it is written”. Unless you can say it is written in what you say and teach then you teach lies and become a member of Satan’s army. You are thus warring with Jesus and his true Church. If you teach something, which is not written in the pure Word of God, then you teach, lies and are become an enemy of God and His true people.
So those of us who teach truth are the ones with the trumpet in our mouth. We are the ones who come to save you. We come to bring you the true peace. There is no peace to the wicked. Those who teach and believe lies are the wicked, for you call God a lie. When you teach contrary to His Word, you call Him a lie. Thus you joined the army of Satan.
If you go back to law or preach for money you become an enemy of God and joined the army of Satan. You think God does not battle? The Word is full of the battles of the Lord. The battle is not ours but the Lords.
Cont.
~~ There Must Be War ~~
Isaiah 58:1. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
20. But the wicked are like the troubled sea; when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
God has commissioned his people, his mighty men of war, to lift up their voice like a ‘trumpet’ and show his people their sins. Now those ‘ministers’ and ‘church people’ who do not believe one should expose sin and false doctrine are not the ones who can do this work. They cannot cry aloud, they desire to spare the sinners and liars for this makes them popular with the people and gives them an advantage over them.
They cannot use the trumpet of God. They are afraid to show the people their sins. Is there any peace to the wicked? No. God said there is no peace to them.
Those who believe lies or false doctrine are under a heavy bondage. They desire peace but have none. What can set them free? Only one thing. Jesus said you shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH shall set you free. So only the truth can set anyone free. But when a true minister of God comes into the midst and lifts up their voice like the trumpet of God and begin to reveal TRUTH and show the people their sins, then they begin to cry PEACE where there is no PEACE.
There can be no peace so long as one is in sin. There can be no peace so long as lies prevail. The gates of hell are the false shepherds who teach lies. They cry peace when there is no peace. They smooth the people over with their slick tongues. And the people love to have it so. You can tell them by the fact of their love for having the ‘chief seats’ in the synagogues. Jesus himself told us this is one of their traits. They set a big fancy chair, a throne, up in front of the Babylon Churches so they can be gazed upon and admired. They set themselves up above the other members of the same church.
Psm. 55: 8. I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind and tempest.
9. Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
(This goes back to the time of Nimrod. There was violence and strife in the world. So God divided their tongue and scattered them. Even today there is always a division between the workers of iniquity and the true ministers or saints of God. They are divided. They speak a ‘different’ language.)
10. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.
11. Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets. (This speaks of the Babylon church, the harlot against God. In her midst are always wickedness and oppression and guile.)
12. For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
13. But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend.
14. We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.
15. Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into hell; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
This is Jesus speaking in prophecy about Judas, the betrayer. They went into the temple together. He pretended to be of Jesus and his friend. But war was in his heart.
20. He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.
21. His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
This is still speaking of the Judases. Their mouth is smoother than butter and softer than oil. Yet they are drawn swords. This is the false teachers and preachers of today. They speak with the smooth, soft voices to soothe the people to sleep and will not show them their sins. This is the enemy of their souls, for it will send them to destruction.
Pro. 5: 3. For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Now see that this strange woman is the same as these false ministers. So this is the false church. Her gates lead to hell. Her gates are the false teachers who cry peace and lies come out of their mouths. Her mouth is smoother than oil; same as the betrayer of Jesus. So these smooth speaking ministers, who will not lift up their voices like a trumpet and show the people their sins are the betrayers of Jesus. They are the enemies of your soul. But their mouth is smooth, for they seek to please men and not God.
Jer. 6:13. For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14. They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, peace, peace; when there is no peace.
[These false prophets and priests (our modern day preachers) were given to COVETOUSNESS. See they loved money. The love of money is the root of all evil. This is one of the easiest ways to know the wolves in sheep clothing. They take pay for doing the work of God. They are hirelings. They all deal falsely against the Word of God. But notice they cry peace, peace when there is no peace. There can be no peace as long as you believe lies and falsehoods.]
15. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
16. Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.
[Now he asked if these false teachers are ashamed of their ways. No, he said they are not at all ashamed. They love the wages of iniquity. But how did He tell them they could find the rest for their souls? By returning to the old paths wherein is the good way and walk in this way. So what is the old paths he is saying to get back to? The teaching of the Apostles. They were the first ones to have this peace and good way. They were the very first ones to have the rest to your soul. And what is the rest to your soul? Isa. 28 teaches that it is the speaking in tongues which is the evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost which came on the Day of Pentecost. So then going back to Pentecost, the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, is the only rest for your souls. This is the only way of peace. This is the old way God is telling you to get back to. There is no other way to rest and peace.]
17. And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.
18. Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
19. Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
Here God told them he had set watchmen over them saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. This trumpet is the same we started with = the true ministers lifting up their voice and showing you your sins. This is the true watchmen, the ones who show you your sins so you can find the right path. This path is the old way of the Apostolic Fathers. It is the rest to your souls Isaiah spoke of in chapter 28. He said with stammering lips and another tongue will you find this rest. But see the people said we will not hearken to the sound of this trumpet. And because of this God will bring evil upon this people because they will not hearken to his words.
So now I have shown you that there is no peace to the wicked and those who refuse His true Rest to the soul. So if one comes in with a smooth tongue and soft speech and tells you there is peace to you, know that this is an enemy to your soul. If there is no peace, then there must be war.
But the people want no war. Why? Because they are afraid and cannot fight. They have no truth to fight with. They have no strength to fight with. They are fearful and cannot stand on the front lines of the battle. Is there battle? Yes, indeed. There will be battle and war until the very end of time when Jesus will send his angels and separate the wheat and the tares; the sheep and the goats. He will draw the net in and divide the fish and cast away the bad. Then there will be peace for the true people of God. But not before. We have peace in our own souls, but out in the field there will be war until the end.
Read Judges six. It tells that God appeared to Gideon and told him to tear down the altar of Baal. So Gideon did this. Then the people of Baal came against Gideon and contended for Baal. Gideon told them if Baal be a god let him contend for himself. Then God told Gideon to go and deliver the people from those who held them in bondage, the Midianites.
Judges 7:1. Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2. And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
3. Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
Here we see that God did not want a large crowd of people in this battle. This would be no glory to God. So he told Gideon to send those who were fearful back home. So if you are ‘fearful’ of the battle, you cannot do any good in the army of the Lord. Only those who have been given the spirit of the ‘lion’ will be able to go to this battle. And there must be war.
4. And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
5. So he brought down the people unto the water: and Jehovah said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
6. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
Here God gives the men the ‘water’ test. Unto what then were ye baptized? [Paul, in Acts 19].
See the men who bowed down to drink showed that they would not be watchful of the approaching enemy. They were not careful and would not be safe in the battle. But the men who lifted water up in their hands, keeping a watch for the enemy, and drank from their own hands like a dog, these were the ones who could go to the battle and bring deliverance. This left 300 men with Gideon. By these few God gave deliverance from the enemy.
7. And Jehovah said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the people go every man unto his place.
8. So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man unto his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9. And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Arise, get thee down into the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand.
12. And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.
Just look at the huge host of people who were gathered against the people of God! Without number. So the enemy always has the huge crowd. God has only a few, for strait and narrow is the way which leads to eternal life and few there be that find it. Look around you. See the huge multitudes in the Babylon Churches. No matter what their denominations, they all believe essentially the same things. [They all pay their one preacher to rule over them; they all say God came to earth in flesh; they all say you must ‘go to church’ to be saved; they all say you must tithe; almost all of them say all there is to being saved is just believing. See? All lies.]
They will all band together against Gods true people, as these Midianites and Amalekites and the children of the east did here against Israel.
16. And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
Here Gideon divided them into three groups-- 100 to each group. They were given trumpets (see this is the trumpet we started with in Isaiah. This trumpet is the message sounding out to show the people their sins.). And they had empty pitchers and torches within the pitchers. This shows the people of God emptied of themselves and the light of God inside us. These are the ones who can go to the battle against Satan and the walls of Babylon.)
17. And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. (Doing as Gideon did is listening to their leader and all being in the same mind; agreement and equality.)
18. When I blow the trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Jehovah and for Gideon.
19. So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
20. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of the LORD and of Gideon.
21. And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
22. And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled.
Here these men all blew their trumpets at the same time and broke their pitchers and gave a loud shout. This caused the enemy's army to flee away. This blowing the trumpets is the sounding of those seven trumpets in Revelation. This is the message of the witnesses of God who will be anointed with power from on high by the baptism of fire to bring the judgment. This will be the second true Church. The first one was with the Apostles. After them it went into seven church ages of darkness and loss of power. But at the end of this age, God will again anoint another true Church with power from on high.
We will then blow our trumpets and show the people their sins and brake down the walls of the whore Babylon. All her walls were daubed with untempered mortar. Her idols will fall down and we will burn them with fire.
What happened here with Gideon is a type and showing what will happen at the end of this age as the true messengers of God lift up their voices like a trumpet to show the people their sins. It will cause the enemy to rise up against us and try to destroy us. But they cannot stand in the battle. And there must be war.
Jesus said the two grow together until the end of the world. This is the wheat and the tares. The sheep and the goats. The good and bad fish caught in the net. But at the end they will be separated. Until then there must be war. The two cannot agree. How can two walk together except they be agreed? The wheat can never agree with the tares. The true church can never agree with the Babylon whore church. So there will be wars until the end; so said Jesus. There must be war.
Jesus said there will always be kingdom against kingdom. This is the kingdom of Satan or Babylon against the kingdom of Jesus or the true Holy Ghost filled Christians, the true Jews.
Rev. 12:7. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels;
8. And they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven.
9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Now see that as long as the devil was allowed to dwell in heaven there was war? There must be war so long as Satan and his angels dwell among God’s people. We can never agree with them. There is no agreement between Satan’s temple and God’s temple. If you agree, then you will fall and become one of them. What fellowship hath light with darkness?
As soon as Satan was cast unto the earth he persecuted the true Church. Until he is destroyed from among the church, there must be war. If you cease to battle Satan and his ministers transforming themselves into ministers of light, then you will fall with them.
You must war with them until they are destroyed and cast out of the Church.
Truth is your only weapon. You absolutely must have the truth of God’s word to do battle with Satan. Jesus himself only used “ it is written”. Unless you can say it is written in what you say and teach then you teach lies and become a member of Satan’s army. You are thus warring with Jesus and his true Church. If you teach something, which is not written in the pure Word of God, then you teach, lies and are become an enemy of God and His true people.
So those of us who teach truth are the ones with the trumpet in our mouth. We are the ones who come to save you. We come to bring you the true peace. There is no peace to the wicked. Those who teach and believe lies are the wicked, for you call God a lie. When you teach contrary to His Word, you call Him a lie. Thus you joined the army of Satan.
If you go back to law or preach for money you become an enemy of God and joined the army of Satan. You think God does not battle? The Word is full of the battles of the Lord. The battle is not ours but the Lords.
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