“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me” (John 17:20-21).
Contents
The Seven Trumpets of Revelation 8
Anyone who keeps God’s commandments and has received the holy spirit through the one baptism (Ephesians 4:5) of Jesus Christ, abides in God (1 John 3:24). But while our obedience may save ourselves, if we do not preach the whole truth, including the truth of the relationship between Christ and God, we cannot save others.
The Trinity doctrine is a great blasphemy that prevents its followers, and others, from receiving salvation. It not only divides Christians, but it was also the primary catalyst behind the creation of the Muslim religion, which now has 1.6 billion followers. The understanding of a one-person God, among the Arab people, goes back to Abraham.
Our explanation of Christ and God must agree with the teachings of Christ and the Apostles, to bring God’s message of salvation to the world.
The “image of the beast” and the “mark of the beast” are the two great blasphemies that survived the Reformation.
But the Book of Revelation prophesied that these two great blasphemies would be overcome by the preaching of the Sanctified Church in the end days.
Isaiah said the Lord will “prepare a mighty agent, to speak to the drunkards of Ephraim” … “Line upon line, precept upon precept…He will speak to this people, through stammering lips and tongue” (Isaiah 28:1-2, 10 -11). This mighty agent is the end time Sanctified Church.
In Revelation Chapters 8 and 16, we read about seven trumpets, and bowls of wrath to precede Christ’s return. These began with “fire poured out from the altar” (Revelation 8:5); the fire of the holy spirit, that was poured out in the early 20th Century.
The first of the seven trumpets and bowls of wrath is “sores on those who worship the image of the beast (the Trinity) and receive his mark (Sunday rest).” Today, the true Apostolic theology is evident to all. This significant obstacle of the Trinity has been removed, as a barrier to preaching the truth of Christ.
In Ezekiel 47:8, we learn that when the spirit of God completes the eastern region, it will enter the sea, and its waters will be healed (it will be able to bring salvation to all mankind). The sea represents the salvation of man in the Book of Ezekiel and Revelation, and the eastern region refers to the outpouring of the spirit of God in Asia, where the true Church has been nourished.
In the second trumpet, the great mountain of Christ, burning with fire (of the holy spirit) is thrown into the sea. Meaning that it brings salvation to all mankind and causes a third of the ships (false churches), to sink (Revelation 8:8-9). In the second bowl of wrath, this is the spiritual death of those baptized in the kingdom of the beast. The sea became as blood.
The third and fourth trumpets complete the cleansing of the sanctuary. When other Churches envy the holy spirit received by the True Church, they will pray for the holy spirit, but will receive the Spirit of a Demon named “Wormwood,” this is the third trumpet, and bowl of wrath, the death of the rivers and springs. In the fourth trumpet, the final third of the kingdom of heaven is darkened, and all the lawless are removed from the kingdom of heaven. The fourth bowl of wrath explains this as the Day when the “righteous shine forth like the sun” (Matthew 13:43). The sun burns the kingdom of the beast with a great heat. The fifth bowl of wrath tells us that the kingdom of the beast has been completely darkened.
Regardless, of the position anyone holds today, this is the future of God’s Church. It has been prophesied in the Bible and it will come to pass, regardless of whether we resist it, or embrace it.
We have no doubt that the spirit of God will allow His Church to understand the things we have written in this Book. These are the timeless truths of the Bible. God has planted the truth in His Word, so that all mankind will be saved in these last days. This is the truth that will persuade both Christian and Muslim, Gentile and Jew. This truth will unite all believers within one true Church and fulfill Jesus’ prayer.
The Three Angels of Revelation 14
In Matthew 13:41, Jesus said that He would send forth His Angels to gather out of His kingdom, all of the stumbling blocks.
These stumbling blocks are the corruptions to His kingdom, which were created when the Church departed from the truth of the Apostles.
In Revelation 14, we can see that three Angels are sent out to announce the hour of God’s judgment.
The First Angel has the everlasting gospel to preach, the gospel that is accompanied by the holy spirit. This is the meaning of “springs of water” in Revelation 14:7 (compare to Rev 10:6, which excludes the springs of water).
The Angel cries out, “Fear God and give Him glory” – King Nebuchadnezzar, after recognizing the true God, gave God glory. (After he set up his image, the image of the beast). King Darius, in Daniel 6:25-27, told all men to “tremble and fear before the God of Daniel,” after Daniel broke the law that cannot be changed (Daniel 6:15), (the mark of the beast).
The Second Angel brings the revelation that Babylon is fallen. Babylon has been judged. When men understand the meaning of Mystery Babylon, and who the beast is, Babylon will be judged.
The Third Angel announces that men are without excuse, who worship the beast, his image, and receive his mark. Even though men understand the truth, they continue to observe these great blasphemies, and so they drink of the cup of the wine of God’s wrath. Meaning they no longer remember the cup of the Lord’s death in a worthy manner, and are made guilty of the body and blood of Christ.
The third Angel announces the judgment of God, saying,
If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
Revelation 14:9-11
While this may seem severe to some, this is not the only passage that tells us those who do not really “know God” will not inherit eternal life.
Jesus, praying to the Father, said, “Father . . . this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent” (John 17:3).
The Apostle Paul said that when the Lord returns, flaming fire would be poured out on those who do not know God: “in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thessalonians 1:7-8).
There are two conditions to receiving God’s salvation: we have to know God, and we must obey the salvation teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Some might find this strict warning difficult to accept. But, in fact, it is false Christian teachings that prevent the unity of believers that Christ prayed for. This unity is necessary so that the world will believe, as Christ said.
False doctrines keep people from receiving salvation; they cannot follow a false god, which was created by human imagination. The Trinity doctrine caused the Arab people to reject Christ as their Lord, because they could not believe in a man-made three-person god. As a result, there are now 1.6 billion Muslims today, who choose to follow Muhamad, rather than Christ.
The Rider on the White Horse
We know that Jesus’ prayer for the unity will be fulfilled, because in the preceding passage, Jesus told us “if you ask the Father anything in My Name, He will give it to you” ( John 16:23).
The Apostle Paul said, “we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body” (1 Corinthians 12:13), and so the Rider on the White Horse in Revelation 19 represents the unity of all the saints in “one body.” It represents the fulfillment of Jesus’ prayer that we would all be one.
In the final verses of Revelation 14, we arrive at the “hour to reap … the harvest” (Revelation 14:15), when “the fulness of the Gentiles has come in” (Romans 11:25), Here, many Angels all reveal themselves to be manifestations of the Spirit of Christ, just as we have all become “one body.”
An Angel with a sickle gathers up the clusters of the vine of the earth and throws them into the great winepress of the wrath of God. In verse 20, the Rider on a White Horse treads the winepress outside the City, “and blood came out from the winepress, up to the horses’ bridles.” This completes the cleansing of the Sanctuary after 2,300 days as prophesied by Daniel, which according to his number will be completed by the year 2493.
Beginning with the year 1917, we can see the progression of the first four trumpets, and bowls of wrath, and the four Angels of Revelation 14, counting the Angel(s) who holds a sickle as the “fourth Angel.”
| Trumpet | Bowl of Wrath | Revelation 14 | |
| 1 | hail and fire | sores on those who worship the image and receive the mark of the beast | fear God and give Him glory |
| 2 | sea | sea (baptisms/salvation of death in false churches) | Babylon is fallen |
| 3 | rivers and springs | rivers and springs (the lawless drink the spirit of a demon called Wormwood) | if anyone worships the beast and his image, he will drink of the wine of the wrath of God |
| 4 | sun, moon, and stars are darkened | scorched by the sun; “then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun”; the kingdom of the beast is darkened (5th bowl) | the Rider on the White horse treads the great winepress of God’s wrath |
Let Us be fully convinced
We need to preach the truth of the Bible in order to bring God’s salvation to mankind. So let us be fully convinced of the Bible’s explanation of Christ and God.
| The Firstborn of creation | Christ was the firstborn of creation. He is not self-existing. There is only one true God, the Father.The Bible uses the expression “firstborn” about 130 times, and it always bears the meaning of “first to be born,” in either a physical or spiritual sense. Trinitarians cite Psalms 89:27 as an exception, but this is explained in Revelation 1:5; and they cite Jeremiah 31:9, but here Ephraim is a representational expression for Israel (cf. Hosea 6:4,10; 7:1,8 etc.). Israel is God’s first born (Exodus 4:22).
Those who established the Trinity did not dispute the Bible’s assertion that Christ (the Spirit of Christ) was born of the Father. They only tried to argue that no time could be established when Christ was born, since the stars and seasons that measure time had not yet been created. They agreed with the Bible to say that Christ was “begotten before all ages” of human history, or “begotten before all worlds.” The issue of “when” Christ (the Spirit of Christ) was born is irrelevant in establishing whether Christ is self-existing. No can be born of their own will. The existence of a Spirit begins at birth. Jesus said, “I came out of the Father,” meaning that He was not always in existence. God is the one true God and “Father of all” who created all of us in the womb, as both the Psalmist and Isaiah said. So, John called Christ “the Beginning of the Creation of God.” |
| The image of the invisible God | The oneness of Christ and God is emphasized through the Bible’s explanation of the Spirit of Christ as the “image of the invisible God,” and as “the Word.”This oneness was communicated so strongly through the statement “Yihvah our ELOHIM (I), Yihvah (and the Father), ECHAD (are one).”
It is really the confusion about this concept that led to the creation of Tertullian’s homoiousia theory, the earliest form of the Trinity doctrine. The Spirit of Christ was God’s “face” to Cain, Adam, Moses, and Abraham. This oneness of Christ with God surpasses our oneness with God, expressed by Jesus’ statement, “may they be one in Us.” It was this unique relationship that led to the idea that Christ was “coessential with the Father.” But, while we stand in awe of the relationship between Christ and God, we always need to remember that the invisible God is the Almighty God; He did not really need Christ’s help to carry out His plan of salvation, any more than He needs our help. Christ shares in God’s glory because of His submission, just as we will also share in His glory. But in fact, it is only God who has allowed us to share in His glory. He is the true creator and architect of all things. The identification of Christ as the Spirit of ELOHIM can be confusing, but in Zechariah we learned that there are many Spirits of God, which include the seven Spirits of God before His throne. |
| The Only Begotten God | Jesus Christ told us that the word ELOHIM, or god, could even be used for the sons of God. Through this, He signified that He was not equal to the one true God.Christ was born as a separate spiritual being. Christ and God do not form one God. Jesus Christ Himself said, “I came out of the Father.” He was the ELOHIM in the Old Testament who appeared in Genesis 1: in the beginning God was the Word. The phrase “only begotten God” explains this very clearly.
Through our study, we found several instances where God called Christ ELOHIM in the Old Testament. ELOHIM was not a multi-person God, as proved through the use of singular verbs and adjectives. Christ and God are two separate beings. But Christ acts as the image of the invisible God. As the only begotten God, He was not the one true God. The Bible clearly tells us that God counsels with no one. The Spirit of Christ simply spoke the words of God, as “the Word.”
|
| Who was manifest in the flesh | It is important to understand the difference between the Biblical concept of “manifest in the flesh” and the pagan idea of incarnation. Incarnation imagines that a spirit being becomes a person. However, the Bible teaches us that the Spirit of Christ was only revealed or “found in appearance” as a man. The Book of Revelation demonstrated how the Spirit of Christ was able to appear as the Son of man and the image of the invisible God and the Angel of God, all at the same time. |
| The only Begotten Son | The writer of Hebrews told us that Angels are only ministering spirits, sent for the purpose of our salvation. However, the Spirit of Christ became as much greater than the Angels, when Christ resurrected and became the first Son of God. |
| The Lord | Because of Christ’s obedience, God highly exalted Him and made Him our Lord. Today, we worship Him as our Lord.However, on the LORD’s Day, Christ will submit to God that God will be all in all. This was dramatically illustrated for us in Revelation 19 and 22 when the Spirit of Christ, as the Angel of God, told John not to worship Him. He called Himself John’s brother, being the first “of the brethren” as the Male Child. |
The Six Communications of God to His Image
In Chapter 3, “Let Us make man in Our image,” we mentioned that God communicated His salvation plan to Christ through six statements. Knowing that God’s plan would be completed on the cross, Jesus prayed, “May they be one in Us.”
|
The Six Statements of God to Christ |
|
| “Let Us make man in Our image.”Genesis 1:26 | God declared His purpose to make man into His spiritual image. |
| “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”Genesis 3:22 |
God revealed man’s sinful nature through His commandment. And separated man from the hope of eternal life. |
| “Come let Us to go down and their confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”Genesis 11:7 |
God separated world into tribes and nations, and created the chosen nation of Israel. |
| “Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?”Isaiah 6:8 |
God spoke of the coming Messiah, and commissioned Isaiah as the Messianic prophet. |
| “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”Luke 3:22 | The first Son of God was born of water and spirit (John 3:5). |
| “I have both glorified it and will glorify it again.”John 12:28 | The name of the Father was glorified; and would be glorified again when Jesus was made the Lord (Philippians 2:9-11). |
| “May they be one in Us.” John 17:20–21 | Jesus prayed for the unity of all believers that the world would believe. |
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God,
be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.1 Timothy 1:17