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October 1, 2011 · 8:34 pm

Prove All Things with an Open Mind and Pure Heart, and the Spirit Will Lead Us into All Truth

Chapter 18 from the book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality

We have come to a mysterious place on the road to immortality. Each step henceforth is veiled in secrecy and shrouded in mystery. God has purposely made the truth of His purpose difficult to see. In so doing He is weeding out the pretenders from the contenders. His eternal purpose and plan of reproducing Himself is only given to a chosen few. “Few there be to find this way of truth.” From here on out the truth will be given only to those who are of an open mind and pure heart.

In fact, it is better to not come to this rarified knowledge if one is not prepared to go all the way. “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” II Peter 2:21.

It is only the openness to new truth that allows the Spirit to lead us into all truth. In John 16:12 the Master said, “When the Spirit of truth is come He will lead us into all truth.” If we had not been open a few short months ago to new truth—new to us, anyway—then we would not have been able to receive the present truth we now have. We would have been ossified, stratified, and hardened up like a rock in our hearts to receive something new.

There is a tendency for human beings to reject something that is new. There is a temptation when change is brought upon us to hold back and not get into it.

If new truth is not being revealed to us, then usually one of two things is happening. Either that person believes they have all the truth and therefore have no need of truth, or the Spirit of truth is not leading them into all truth at that particular juncture in their life. So the exhortation is to us all: remain open.

He said to prove all things. Not just the things we think are the truth. We also need to prove things out that we may not at first think is truth. He said to prove all things that come into our seeking. Because praying to Him and asking Him for guidance to discern if something is the truth or not will enable us to not miss some truth that comes our way. We need to ask Him to reveal this new thing, His plan to reproduce Himself, to us. He did say, “I will do a new thing in the earth.”

For instance, the sacred name of Yahweh is an old thing, but it is new to us. By staying open and trusting Him for discernment, we can prove all things that come our way, whether they be truth or falsehood.

In order to begin to take in the great and precious promises that Yahweh gave to our fathers the patriarchs, we first must realize that Yahweh wants to reproduce Himself. Reproduction cannot take place without a seed. We only have to look at the earth to understand this. John 1:1 could have read: “In the beginning was the Seed.” He is the Word, the Seed. The Master said, “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone.” He would have been alone had He not fallen into the tomb three days and three nights. And now by doing that, He brings forth much fruit. He lays it all out in a very simple situation with “first the blade, then the ear, and after that the full corn in the ear.” Mark 4:28. KWH

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September 25, 2011 · 9:17 pm

“Heavenly Offspring from God’s Earthly Creation: How God Multiplies Himself”–Chapter 17 of the book YAH IS SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY

Chapter 17 Heavenly Offspring from His Earthly Creation

You believe that God created man and woman. You would not be reading this if you did not. But have you ever wondered why He created us in the first place? Why did He make us the way we are, making decisions, as it were, on matters of life and death, with the power to accept or reject our Maker and His plan for us. You have heard it said, “Why didn’t God just make us robots and spare us all the pain and misery brought on by our own doing?”

The key to unlock the answers to some of these questions comes in Yahshua’s reply to the Sadducees in Matthew 22:30. They did not believe in the resurrection and were trying to stump Him with a hypothetical story about seven brothers who had died in succession, each passing on the first brother’s barren wife to the next brother as each did in turn. They had all had her as a wife, but in the resurrection, whose wife would she be? It was a trick question, so the Master told them that it proved that they did not know the scriptures nor the power of the Creator.

The Sadducees presumed through their earthly thinking that if there were a resurrection, that humans would be mating and having children just like here on earth, for they said, “Whose wife would she be?” But he said in verse 30, “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” After man and woman are made immortal, they will be like the angels who do not marry nor mate. No reproduction will take place by the immortal ones. This takes place after “this mortal shall have put on immortality” (I Cor. 15). When this earthly body is “swallowed up of life,” when this earthly corruptible body of dust is changed into an incorruptible spiritual body, then at that time there will be no more reproducing.

“Marrying and giving in marriage” is synonymous with having children or reproducing. “Be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth,” is the command to the first earthy Adam. But the “last Adam is the Lord from heaven,” or the sons of God with their resurrected spiritual bodies. And they will not be reproducing or multiplying; they will be like the angels of heaven that way.

Reproducing heavenly offspring from His earthly creation

After the resurrection, some will be changed from mortal to immortal. We will not be of this earth anymore. This earthly body is a temporary housing for the faithful who will receive a spiritual body at that time. God, then, will have reproduced Himself !

We human beings are the only scriptural way that God can reproduce His spiritual body, and have heavenly offspring. He has to do it here on earth. How ironic! How it seems to be one way and it is really another. How it seems that we have our own little earthly life and we reproduce and take much satisfaction and joy in our children, and eventually we return to dust, and our children do the same, and theirs also, and very few human beings are remembered in history. And that is that. How it seems to be that way. But in reality, God is with great patience actually in the process of reproducing heavenly offspring out of His earthly creation!

How God Multiplies Himself

“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone. But if it die, it brings forth much fruit.” John 12:24. Yahshua the Savior was the seed, the corn of wheat, that came to earth and died, that through His death much fruit will come forth; many spiritual sons and daughters will become like Him and achieve immortality.

Yahshua said that He was the first and the last, the beginning and the end. He created all things while He was in His original form, the pattern in whose image man was created. But just like the literal seed grain must die and thereby lose its identity and its initial life in order to bring forth much fruit, so did the Word, the Seed. The First, the Original Form, Yahshua, divested Himself of His celestial, spiritual body and poured His Essence into a word, into a sentence (“In the beginning was the Word”) that was to be carried and pronounced by one of His messengers into the ear of a maiden name Miriam (Mary) of Bethlehem. Because He was a Spirit Being and not material, the pre-existent Yahshua could pour Himself into a word (“The words I speak, they are spirit and they are life”). And that word, carried by the archangel Gabriel entered her ear and it took root in her heart and in her womb by faith, and she became with child of the Spirit. And He would grow up and eventually give His life for us that we might be His offspring—immortal heavenly children, made right here on earth by His resurrection.

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August 13, 2011 · 6:07 pm

“The Father’s Heart” Chapter 15 of the Book YAH-IS-SAVIOR: THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY

Step Four—Knowledge of the Father’s Heart—His Plan and Purpose

“I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill my will.” Acts 13: 22.

“The counsel of Yahweh standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” Psalms 33:11-12.

Chapter 15 The Father’s Heart

We are learning that the Savior’s Hebrew name is Yahshua, which means Yah-Is-Savior. And we are learning that He is the Road to Immortality. And we have learned that the steps along that Road are degrees of Wisdom and Knowledge about Him. We learned in “Step One” that Wisdom is to be in awe of the Creator—to have a reverential respect and trust for Him. In “Step Two” we learned the Knowledge of His true name and what it means to us on this way. “Step Three” gave us the Knowledge of God’s nature, His eternal Godhead—just who He is. We are now ready to take Step Four: Knowledge of His Eternal Plan and Purpose.

“Step Four” is perhaps the biggest step, for it stretches our small hearts and minds and enlarges them so that they can be able to see through God’s eyes. “My thoughts are not your thoughts, saith Yahweh.” We must realize that God has His own agenda. We humans have our own agenda, too. We are like Him in that we have a purpose for our own life. But very few of us have the same purpose for our lives as does our Heavenly Father. And herein lies the problem—for us. He has a Master design and purpose in making us and everything else in this universe, yet He is willing to use much patience in waiting for us, His crowning creation, to come into line with His purpose.

His purpose is clear and straightforward: He is reproducing Himself through a select group of human beings. Yes, He loves us and wants to save us from our selves and our selfish desires and actions. But that is only a very small part of His eternal purpose and plan—a tiny piece of the cosmic puzzle that is His heart.

What is in the Father’s heart? What desires lie there waiting to be manifested? The answer lies in the word “Father.” “Father” implies engendering, procreating, reproducing, for there cannot be a father except there be offspring. Or to state it in another way, one must have offspring in order to be a Father.

Now many claim that God is their Father. Almost all of the untold thousands of denominations of Christendom assent to that. They want to claim Him as their Father and yet deny the law of harvest He spoke into existence: “Each seed bears its own kind.” If they were His children, then they would be like Him; they would have His mind. They would share the secret desires of His heart by having the same plan and purpose that He has. The Father’s heart contains His plan and purpose: to reproduce Himself until He fills the whole universe with Himself. And He has created mankind to be the instruments that He will use to do this. He will use only His crowning creation Man to manifest Himself through.

The Elect of God–The Seekers of Truth

It is like we, the elect of God, are down here on earth where God has placed within our hearts a thirst and hunger for the truth. We have to know the truth. This search for truth is what keeps us going. It is the only thing seemingly that matters to us. Everything else is just cosmetics and window dressing.

“Great is the mystery of godliness,” the scriptures say, God being the greatest mystery of all. And so the seekers search Him out. And throughout the expanse of the earthly years that He has given us, we discover little bits of truth like pieces to the puzzle. We are like children adding a crystal to our tin box that it might lay with a seashell or a discarded brass key. We know these bits of truth are a special treasure and we hold them dear.

And these little bits of truth, if we endure, begin to add up and, like a jigsaw puzzle, begin to take shape. A picture of the landscape of spiritual reality emerges as we put things together.

We begin to see this panorama of God’s purpose and plan to reproduce Himself inside His sons and daughters. And then we begin to walk in it, thereby exercising His Spirit in us. And then He smiles, pleased with our belief, and says to those around Him, “See there. They are getting it! They are believing my word, and so I will answer their cries and grant their requests.”

And so our faith grows as we see that God really is real and personal. It is no longer just book learning intellectualism. No. He is real, and no one can take that away from us.

And so our appetite for the truth about who God is and why we are here is whetted, and our hunger is unabated. We need more of Him, who is the Truth. That is it. That is the truth. I am the way, the truth, the life…Thy word is truth…God is truth…

God has placed within us this unquenchable need to know the truth, which is Him and His plan, which entails the heavens and earth and all that is therein. This need for truth within us was placed there by God. It is His doing. And someone will say, What about the others who are not desperately seeking the truth? To that we must say that we are not to judge another man’s servant. They were created by God for His pleasure, and although our eyes are dim as to all mysteries, we will continue to trust Him that He knows what He is doing. He is our Father, and we are His children. We will submit our finite thinking to His mind, which is magnificent.

For it is all His doing. “His ways are past finding out.” Just knowing that it is all summed up in His name, which is holy and is to be reverenced. For the secrets of His universe are expounded in His name–His original Hebrew name–Yahshua, “for there is no other name given whereby man must be saved.” Find out what it means and you’ll have the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. KWHancock

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January 7, 2011 · 7:39 am

Parable of the Tares in the Field–Exposing the “Rulers of the Darkness of This World” Part I (Conversations With the Seer)

I came to the seer with a question that was really bothering me. I see now that it is an age old question that countless people have asked down through the centuries. “What’s really going on in the world? Why do the evil ones prosper and the innocent suffer?”

To which the Seer replied, “In order to answer that, we must realize that the great God of heaven has secrets. Oh, yes, He keeps secrets–secrets that He will only reveal to certain individuals that He can trust. “Now this is not just some made up assumption on my part. The Holy Scriptures declare this to be true. ‘Surely the Lord GOD (Yahweh) will do nothing, but he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets’ (Amos 3: 7). And, ‘I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world’” (Mt. 13: 35).

“So God definitely has secrets?”

“Yes, and they are contained in the parables. But He is revealing those mysteries to people right now. He’s revealing them to those who have a sincere, seeking heart. For, you see, these secrets go way back–back to the very foundation of the world. And Christ came and taught these secrets to those whom He had chosen. For He did say, You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen You and have ordained you to bear fruit, spiritual fruit. He shows mercy on whomsoever He will, for He is sovereign.”

“What are the secrets about?” I asked.

“God’s secrets have to do with His plan and purpose for all of us down here on earth. It’s all about Him establishing His government down here on earth. He calls it His kingdom, for He is the King. And He uses parables to reveal mysteries to us. Man’s wisdom teaches that the parables of Christ are nice little stories to make it a bit easier for us to perceive the things of God. Not so. It’s just the opposite. He teaches in parables to deliberately cloud the meaning for the masses so that only those who He wants to reveal the secrets to will understand!”

“These secrets are not given to everybody?” I asked.

“Would you tell everybody your own secrets? Of course, they are not given to everyone. The disciples even asked the Savior why He spoke to the masses using parables. He related to them that through parables they would understand “the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them [the masses, the multitude] it is not given” (Mt. 13: 11). The parable is double-edged. It reveals the secrets and mysteries of what God is doing to those He gives it to, and the parable prevents just any-old-body from interloping into His precious things that He reserves for His elect, His chosen ones. The masses can literally hear the words of His parables and not understand them. They can “see and not perceive” their meaning (Mark 4: 12).

“But how does this all tie in with my original question as to why the innocent suffer while the evil ones look like they are winning?”

“The answer to your important question is found in one of His parables. It is a secret and a great mystery that only a few will understand. And you are going to say when I finish explaining this, Why didn’t someone tell me before? It is the Parable of the Tares in the Field (Matthew 13: 24-30, 37-43). Before we get started, though, I want you to realize that this is a sacred secret and not to be taken lightly, for this knowledge is crucial in order to understand the forces at work on the earth, which, in turn, helps us comprehend not only what is happening, but why it is happening.”

Then the Seer began to read the parable. “The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn” (Matthew 13: 24-30).

“I don’t get it,” I said.

“Neither did the disciples. Christ had to explain it to them. Right after He spoke the parable to them they asked Him, Declare unto us the parable. He goes on to explain to them that the field is the world in which we live. The man is the Son of man, Christ Himself. And he sows the good seed, which are the children of the kingdom, or His followers, the children of God. The enemy who sowed bad seed into the field is the devil. The bad seed are his children, the ‘children of the wicked one.’ Both the children of God and the children of the devil are growing up together in this earth. And they will continue on growing until the time of the harvest, which is the end of the world age as we know it. At that time, the children of the devil will be gathered up and disposed of, and the children of God will shine forth in the kingdom of their Father” (Mt. 13: 36-43).

“Wow.”

“We have to realize that He ‘sent the multitude away’ and then explained this parable only to His disciples (v. 36). This information is heavy and was only for a chosen few–only to those that He had personally chosen out from among all the people. And so it is today. He is revealing these things to His elect.” [For more you can read my two books which you can find at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”] Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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December 25, 2010 · 6:01 am

Knowing God as He Really Is–The Definition of Immortality

We are well down the road to immortality now. We have learned that wisdom is being in awe of God. It is the first step; it is the main thing, for it is the first key that begins to unlock the treasure house of God’s knowledge. Without this awe of Him we won’t get anywhere. Then we took step two, knowing His name. Moses got some wisdom, some awe of God, at the burning bush, and then he had to know His name. It was a crucial step, to know God’s true name Yahweh.

And now we have come to our third step: Knowledge of Who He Really Is. The farther we go down this road that leads to immortality, the more is at stake. We cannot turn back now; our own hopes of transcending a certain death hangs on our stead-fastness and perseverance at this time. Immortality, the elixir that our mortal mouths must drink, is the knowledge of who God really is. This knowledge is the key to unlock the secrets of eternal life. We have arrived at nothing less than the information that will catapult us over this valley of the shadow of death. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Yahshua the Messiah, whom you have sent. John 17:3. NIV.

Our hopes for arriving at immortality hinge on how well we really know Him—how well we really know His nature, His essence, His Deity, His Godhead. For us, eternal life depends on whether we really know Him as He really is. We must straighten out misconceptions of who He is and how He is.

Those of us on this road to immortality must realize that only He can grant us true knowledge of Himself. It will not come through man’s conception of who and how He is. We must believe upon Him in true knowledge “as the scripture has said,” the way the scriptures really portray Him.

But that, of course, is the problem. We all have our own conception of Him. We think that we have just “come up with it,” but we have received our personal conception of God through what we have been taught by other human beings that we have come in contact with. It really gets tricky when people have studied out minutely different denominational doctrines, and even though they have “come out” of that organization, they cling tenaciously to its teachings—teachings about who He is.

The Savior, 2000 years ago, standing before them in a human flesh body, told them that they were searching the scriptures. They thought that eternal life was contained in those scriptures of truth. But, as the Master was pointing out, the very writings that they thought would yield immortality for them were the very writings that spoke of Him—the One that they were rejecting! You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. John 5:39-40, NIV…You study the scriptures diligently, supposing that in having them you have eternal life: yet, although their testimony points to me, you refuse to come to me for that life. NEB.

They were studying the scriptures diligently, thinking that immortality would be derived through them. What writings were they studying that spoke about the Messiah, the Savior? What scriptures existed then? They were the books commonly referred to as the Old Testament. Now Yahshua, the Savior, said that those old books written by the prophets of ancient Israel, those old books spoke about HIM!

The prophets spoke and wrote about the Savior by His very Spirit within them

Let’s go, then, to the prophets where they speak about the Messiah, specifically using the word “Savior.” He just said in John 5 that the scriptures do testify of Him, so let us go there and see for ourselves what they are saying. Now Peter tells us that the spirit that was in those prophets was the Spirit of the Savior, Yahshua the Anointed One. And they spoke and wrote down with the Spirit of Yahshua about this immortality, this salvation from a certain death. This salvation was the theme which the prophets pondered and explored, those who prophesied about the grace of God awaiting you. They tried to find out what was the time, and what the circumstances, to which the spirit of Christ in them pointed. I Peter 1:10-11, NEB.

The Spirit of Messiah, which was in Isaiah the prophet said this: But now thus saith Yahweh (the LORD) that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel…For I am Yahweh thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. Isa. 43:1,3.

Several important points emerge from this passage that are vital for our understanding of His essence, which in turn is vital for our obtaining immortality. First, the Spirit of Christ that was in Isaiah said that He was Yahweh! Thus saith Yahweh…I am Yahweh. When the prophets wrote down the words, “Thus saith Yahweh,” they were saying that Yahweh is speaking through me the following words. Yahweh is speaking thusly. Yahweh, the Father, the Creator, the Supreme Being is using me by speaking through me! Oh, to be used that way, the way He used the prophets!

Second, the Spirit of Christ is saying that He created and formed Jacob/ Israel. John confirms this. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:3. Paul confirms this as well. For by him were all things created, that are in the heaven, and that are in the earth, visible or invisible…Col. 1:16.

Third, I am Yahweh thy God, the Holy One of Israel…The Spirit of the Messiah speaking through Isaiah now says that He is Yahweh, that He is one God and that He is Israel’s Holy One (the whole House of Israel or the 12 tribes of Jacob/Israel).

Fourth, the Spirit of the Messiah, God’s Spirit, Yahweh, breathing and speaking through Isaiah says, I am thy Savior…I, even I, am Yahweh; and beside me there is no saviour. Isa.43: 3, 11. Here Yahweh, which is the Spirit that was in the Messiah, says clearly that He is the Savior and that there is no other savior! Yahweh, then, was inside the man Yahshua who was called the Savior, for Yahweh says that there is no other savior except Him. We trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those who believe. I Tim. 4:10. God was in Christ (the Anointed One) reconciling the world unto Himself. II Cor. 5:19. It was Yahweh in the man who was the Savior. Or, in other words, Yahweh-in-human-form is the Savior.

Bottom line: the same Spirit that spoke through the prophets, that created Jacob/Israel and everything else, this Great Spirit God dwelt bodily in the man Yahshua the Messiah. His name Yahshua means “Yah-Is-Savior.” It was Yahweh of old, the Yahweh of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel, the Yahweh of Moses, David, and all the prophets— that same Yahweh came down, leaving His spirit-body dimension. And He came to earth in a flesh and blood human body, walked in our midst doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. And in due time, He laid down that human body, yielded it up to a sacrificial death, and raised that body in three days to life again, so that we could be restored to His original plan of reproducing Himself. [This is Chapter 11 from my book, Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality. You can find the whole book at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”] Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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December 18, 2010 · 8:19 pm

Finding the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel”–Why It Matters, Part II

In part one of this article, we saw that finding the “lost sheep of the House of Israel” does matter to God because of Christ’s very words: “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel” (Matt. 15: 24 NIV). That is who Christ is sent to, to the twelve tribes of Israel. If they are not in the earth today, then Christ cannot fulfill His own calling! For being sent to them is part of His calling.

Furthermore, the Spirit of God in Jeremiah promises to bring them back to Jerusalem (32: 37-40). He is pouring out His heart to “the children of Israel and the children of Judah,” (v. 30) telling them that their sins have provoked His anger, that He should remove them from the Promised Land. Only because of “all the evil” that they have done did God exile them to the four corners of the earth. But, He says that He will bring back a remnant of them and “will gather them out of all countries…and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.” He goes on to say that He will plant them back into the promised land.

The Lost Sheep Are Not the Israelis

To the untrained eye, it looks like that the Israelis have fulfilled the above prophecy. But this cannot be because the Jews were never lost! They have always called themselves Jews. It is the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel that were lost in history. Where did they go? Where are they today? That is one of God’s mysteries that He is revealing today.

God’s servants knew in their day. The apostle James wrote to them 700 years after their captivities: “To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting” (James 1: 1). Many Christians today believe that they are Gentiles and not Israelites. If they are
Gentiles, then the book of James is not written unto them. Why then do they persist in reading someone else’s mail? James wrote a letter to the twelve tribes. James would not have written to them had he not known of their existence and their location.

Huge Proof that Lost Sheep Are in the Earth Today

But some will persist in saying, Oh that is all ancient history. What difference does it really make whether the lost sheep of Israel exist or not? The answer is that the destiny of a remnant of all 12 tribes of Israel is literally spelled out in the Book of Revelation–twice!

Thousands of Israelites are sealed by God and are given a special calling in Revelation. If it really doesn’t matter about the literal offspring of Israel being around today, then why does Christ make reference to them by name twice in the book of The Revelation?

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto Him, to shew unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass” (Rev. 1: 1). And a part of these eminent things to happen is the appearance of thousands of descendants of fleshly Israel being called out to do a special spiritual work in these last days.

Where in Revelation Are They?

We find them mentioned in the 7th and 14th chapter. These cannot be the modern-day Jews, for the Jews only came from the House of Judah, which only had two of the 12 tribes, and they were never lost; they along with everyone else knew they were Jews.

During the tribulation period, the four angels on the corners of the earth are admonished to “hurt not the earth…till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads…an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of Israel” (Rev. 7: 4). Then they are all cited by their specific names: 12,000 from each tribe. “Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand,” and so on for the rest: Reuben, Gad, Aser, Nepthalim, Mannaseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zabulon, Joseph, and Benjamin. Twelve thousand from each tribe with a very special calling for the latter days.

They appear again in Revelation 14 where we see these 144,000 with the Lamb of God Himself! They are about to do a great work in the earth. They meet Christ on Mt. Sion, “which is Mt. Hermon,” 125 miles north of Jerusalem. Again: These are not the Jews because they come out of all twelve tribes!

Now the Big Question

If it doesn’t matter whether the Lost Tribes are still in the earth, then why are they the very ones whom God will seal ? How will they be called? How will God’s prophecy concerning them be fulfilled if it doesn’t matter?

Bottom line: It does matter to the Creator. We are told to “let this same mind be in you that was in Christ.” As we get more of His thoughts and mind and Spirit, then we will begin to grasp the significance of finding and alerting the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel as to their destiny. [To read more on this go here: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/finding-the-lost-sheep-of-the-house-of-israel-why-it-matters/ and here: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/abraham-father-of-many-nations-but-which-nations-are-they/ They are just two of several articles on this subject. For more go to “Categories” and scroll down and click “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.”] Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 21, 2010 · 4:21 pm

Life Out of Death–The Ultimate Paradox

A paradox is “a statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually valid or true.” Life coming out of death is a paradox. Yet any seed must lose its identity before it will spring back to life in another more glorious fruitful form. The seed rots and dies in the moist earth and then, through a miraculous Lifeforce, it multiplies itself at the harvest. One grain of corn yields two or more ears of golden corn.

God is wanting this to play out in our mortal lives here on earth. The death of self is the only sacrifice that God will accept from us. He wants us to be a part of Christ’s body, but the only way to get that Life that lasts forever is through a spiritual death.

This death is the baptism that the apostle Paul talked about–being baptized into His death, so that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we to can be raised to walk in a newness of life [ 1 ]. It is His resurrection in us that is our only hope of transcending the grave. For the only pay that we will receive in our old selfish life is a certain physical death. “The wages of sin is death” [ 2]. So we need to die now and avoid the rush.

Let’s get it done. Many are teaching that you can never get rid of sin in your life. Where does it say that? I thought that “all things are possible with God.” If it is “no longer I that lives, but Christ that lives in me,” then “Is Christ the minister of sin? God forbid!” [ 3]. Let’s “present our bodies a living sacrifice,” for this is the reasonable thing to do in gratitude for all He has done for us [4 ].

Let’s identify our old self with the sin sacrifice of the Lamb of God. He took on our sins on Himself on the tree, providing a way for us to be made free from the old sinful cravings and dark selfish actions that we were a slave to all our lifetime [ 5]. We are going to pay for our sinful selfish actions sooner or later. He said we would. The upside is that He has provided a way for us to take on His Life after we let our own selfish nature die on the cross.

Most have not heard this true message of what the cross is all about. They are told that Christ is our substitute. No, He is our example, and we are to follow His steps [6 ]. This “preaching of the cross” is just a bunch of foolishness to those who are dying in their sins, whether they know they are or not [ 7]. But to us who He is calling and choosing, it is an absolute lifeline, and it is the power of God to change lives. It is the only way for us to complete what we have been put here on earth for.

What we are doing here

And what is that, you ask? He is using an elect chosen few of His redeemed ones from all of humanity to reproduce Himself through [8]. He is going to take only those who have submitted themselves to the death of the cross; He is taking them into His heart to reveal His very essence to them. They will be in awe of Him and revere His name and will bow to His magnificence as He overshadows their earthly physical plight to do His immortal work on them and then through them. Those who submit to Him will be changed into His glorious image as His own sons and daughters when He returns to this earth to set it all in order [9 ]. They will rule with Him and be in His inner circle while the rest outside wait for their word on the day’s business of the King’s Government.

Now that is the Life that He’s talking about. To be His son or daughter, to be a prince or princess by His side as He trains us up to be rulers with Him in His kingdom soon to fill the whole earth. That is the great destination, the wonderful reaping of our initial humble planting of ourselves into death with Him on the cross. For “if we have been planted together with Him” into His death, we shall also be raised together with Him in His resurrection [ 10].

Dying with Him does not make sense to the world

Yes, dying with Christ is utter foolishness to the worldly mind. But to us who He is calling and choosing, it is our ticket to the big show. And we will be on the stage of this earth, together with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Noah and Job and Isaiah and Jeremiah and Peter and Paul and all of His sons and daughters who have followed Him in this death of self [11]. If He was good enough to literally and physically die for us, why then should we not spiritually die for Him and, better yet, allow Him to live out His life in us?

In so doing we are then made free from sin. And as we take in His Spirit into our new hearts through belief in His resurrection, sin shall not have dominion over us, for we are made free from it and its power over us [ 12].

But how?

It is just too simple and yet, too wonderful to just believe. Our small, weak, finite minds fail to grasp just how to do this. How do we get our old self to die and then receive a new life in Christ? We have to just reckon it so. We have to count it as a done deal. He has. He said that it was already done; the “works were finished” [ 13]. All we need to do is agree with Him and walk in this truth. He said that our old man “is crucified with Christ” [ 14]. Notice that is with an –ed, meaning that it is already done and over with in the past. That’s how God looks at things; that is how his faith and belief works. Now we need to believe what He believes about us. It is His faith in His own power in our lives that is the key. We just need to believe what and how He believes, and we will be changed into His image. We are now alive unto Him who said that He has raised up all who believe Him [ 15].

Life out of death is the ultimate paradox. The Savior said that very thing. “He who seeks to save his life shall lose it. He who loses his life for my sake shall save it” [ 16]. You will not hear this message in the vast majority of churches; they are trying to increase numbers–not lose membership. For “few there be to find this way of truth” [17 ]. Yet, those to whom He is granting His grace and favor to at this time will hear this and they will respond and take their old self to the cross, thereby enabling the new man to grow into His likeness. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Romans 6: 6
Rom. 6: 23
Galatians 17-20
Rom. 12: 1
II Corinthians 5: 21
I Peter 2: 21
I Cor. 1: 18
https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/the-law-of-har…oduces-himself/
II Cor. 3: 18
Rom. 6: 5
Matthew 8: 11; Luke 13: 2
Rom. 6: 18, 22; 8: 2
Hebrews 4: 3
Gal. 2: 20
Rom. 6: 11-13
Mark 8: 35; Matt. 10: 39
Matt. 7: 14

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August 7, 2010 · 5:26 pm

God’s Eternal Purpose: “Bringing Many Sons unto Glory”

The thoughts and intents of the Father’s heart are without beginning and end. His purpose has existed through all time and has never wavered, has never changed. His intention toward His creation is everlasting.

It is forever the same and will always be true and valid. His purpose will always go on; it will never stop. It will come to pass; nothing can prevent His eternal purpose from finding full fruition in this earth and in the heavens. His purpose is, of course, the perfect example of the definition of “eternal” (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, 2^nd College Edition).

God not only has, but is the definitive word on what will transpire here on earth and in the entire universe. “In the beginning was the Word…and the Word was God” John 1:1. “Word” is translated from the Greek word Logos, meaning “(1) a thought or concept; (2) the expression or utterance of that thought” (note, Scofield Reference Bible, p. 1114). Therefore, in the beginning was the thought or concept, and that thought or concept was the Supreme Being. And that thought, that Word, became an utterance of that thinking. And that Word, that Thought, would unfold into a living reality throughout the universe.

Those thoughts, expressed in words, comprise the purpose of God. His purpose is the road His creation will travel. His thoughts are His counsel, and they shall stand forever and will come to pass. The counsel of Yahweh standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Psalms 33:11.

Both “purpose” and “thoughts” are words in English translated from the same Hebrew word machashabah, #4284 in Strong’s Concordance. His thoughts are His purpose. They express His intentions, His plan, His purpose. And these thoughts, this purpose, are an intention directed personally and deliberately by God toward His people. It is a plan that involves people right here on earth. David knew this intimate truth that God hovers in thought abundantly over his people. Many, O Yahweh, my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward; they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Psalms 40:5. David was well aware of God’s purpose, which definitely concerned him and all of Israel.

And the Word, the Purpose, the Thoughts of God “became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth” John 1:14. The Word/Purpose/Thoughts of God was made flesh; He is called the Son of God, and He is full of grace and truth. If we can tap into the truth of God’s purpose, if we can conceive of His plan, then we will know the thoughts and intents of His heart. And when we think those thoughts, and have the same intention and purpose that He is and has, then we are well on the way of pleasing the Father.

Knowing of God’s eternal purpose, which is the grace and truth that the Word-made-flesh was full of, will bring light to us. For the Word-made-flesh is Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. John 1:9-11.

The Purpose Incarnate was walking around on the earth He created with the people He had chosen to reveal Himself through, and the majority rejected Him. But some will receive Him, and they will receive power to become like Him. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. John 1:12.

Received Him? Who is He? He is the Word, the Thought, the Purpose of God from the beginning put into earthen vessels. Receive His thoughts and intention and purpose and you are receiving Him. And you will then receive power to become His sons. And the sons will have believed on His name. The sons will not only know His real Hebrew name Yahshua, but they will believe what His name means. More on that later.

His Purpose Is Sharing Himself with His Offsprin

Yes, Yahweh has a purpose. He has thoughts toward certain chosen vessels, His sons and daughters to be. To get them into His camp, He deliberately contacts them or calls them. He lets them know He is real in some way. He puts a desire and a hunger in their hearts to know the truth as to why they are here. He feeds their hunger with small portions of the truth, and they grow. And soon they begin to realize that everything seems to work out for them. Even through the bad times, the times of suffering, both of their making and through no fault of their own, God seems to bring some good out of it. They realize that they are maturing and becoming less selfish. They begin to love this invisible God who has provided a plan to deliver them from their sinful selves. Where once they were destroying themselves and their families, they now are enjoying more peace and harmony in their lives. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28.

At first, his offspring may not realize that they are a special creation descended from Adam, who was created some 6,000 years ago in God’s image. Other men had been created by God earlier. We know this because Cain was cast out to the east of Eden after murdering his brother Abel, and there he took a wife from those people. But the descendants of Adam had a special destiny in God’s heart. God had His eye on a few of these Adamites before they ever were born on earth. Unknown to them at first, He would call and choose out a few whom He knew beforehand. And He gave them a destiny before their entry into a mortal earthly fleshly existence. He predestinated them to be made into the exact image of the Son of God, the Word-Thought-Purpose of God. They are to be His siblings, his brothers. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be con-formed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 8:29. For God knew his own before ever they were, and also ordained that they should be shaped to the likeness of his Son. 8:29. NEB.

And those that He predestinated to be exactly like Himself, those are the ones that He first contacts or calls. And, as far as He is concerned, it is a done deal. It is His Thought toward them that they should be like Himself. What He has purposed, who can prevent it from coming to pass? To those that He called, He gave them a new heart that does not sin against Him. He justified them. They are in His sight justified from all of their despicable past actions. They, of course, must witness this on earth by believing the word of God about His Son, who is the sacrifice for our sins, whose shed blood slays the sin within us. It is already done and over with in God’s mind before it ever happens here on earth to His children! And to those called ones who He has justified, He in His thinking, in His heart, has already glorified! More-over, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 8:30. He chose them long ago; when the time came he called them, he made them righteous in his sight, and then lifted them to the splendour of life as his own sons. 8:30. Phillips.

This is God’s Doing and Not Ours

God the Word has thought it all out and has purposed it and planned it to happen according to His predetermined counsel. Nothing accidentally happens. He is calling, justifying, and glorifying His elect, the chosen few. They will be “conformed to the image of His Son.” They will shortly be glorified and have their mortality swallowed up by His miraculous eternal life! God is for them! He helps them to do His plan, and this personally pleases Him. He gives them what they need and when they need it to become what He has pre-determined for them to become. In the face of all this, what is there left to say? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not grudge his own Son but gave him up for us all—can we not trust such a God to give us, with him, everything else that we can need? Romans 8:31, Phillips.

Not According to Us, But to His Own Purpose

We cannot do anything to become a part of His purpose and plan. God is saving some and calling some with a holy calling, but it is not because of anything “good” or “evil” that they have done. You cannot work at it in order to be accepted as a son or daughter. You work at it because you realize you are chosen by God. You cannot give enough offerings or go to church tirelessly and endlessly and expect to be one of the chosen ones by your efforts. To be called to be like Him, to be chosen as one of his sons is not according to our own works. It has nothing to do with what we have done, do, or ever will do. He calls us to be His immortal sons and daughters in accordance with His own purpose that was given to us in Yahshua His Son before the world began. Who has saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Yahshua the Messiah before the world began. II Timothy 1:9.

Our perfection and sonship in Him was given to us before the creation of the world. Therefore, we were in existence before the world began! We had to have spiritually been with Him in the beginning in order to have received the holy calling of sonship from Him. It is he who brought us salvation and called us to a dedicated life, not for any merit of ours but of his own purpose and his own grace, which was granted to us in Yahshua from all eternity. 1:9. NEB.

The Inheritance

The sons and daughters of God have obtained an inheritance. Our destiny is to inherit all things and to reign with the King of the Universe. Now this inheritance that some are to receive is a destiny that He has pre-arranged for that elect few. He has predestined them for greatness. He has selected these chosen few before the world ever was, to be like Him. And their lives—their destiny as His sons and daughters—have been predestinated in accordance with His own purpose. He thought it through before the world ever was, and He purposed and planned it all out to the finest detail. He then began to work all things after the counsel of His own will and purpose. For God has allowed us to know the secret of his plan, and it is this: He purposes in his sovereign will that all human history shall be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in Heaven or earth shall find its perfection and fulfillment in him. And here is the staggering thing—that in all which will one day belong to him, we have been promised a share (since we were long ago destined for this by the one who achieves his purposes by his sovereign will), so that we, as the first to put our confidence in Christ, may bring praise to his glory! Ephesians 1:9-12, Phillips.

Summary

The great Creator, the Giver of life, has a definite plan and purpose in creating all things. He has revealed His purpose over the last 6,000 years to only a few human beings. We call them apostles and prophets, and they by inspiration of the Spirit of God have left us some writings that tell of His purpose.

They tell of His promise to humankind of a life everlasting—an eternal life where our frail, flimsy earthen bodies will be replaced by a glorious spiritual body in which those blessed ones will live with the Heavenly Father as His spiritual sons and daughters, His heirs of His kingdom.

The apostles and prophets speak of the following concepts that are a part of the perfecting of His sons and daughters:

Purpose—No accidents. He has an eternal purpose in reproducing Himself in His children.
Predestination—He has given a royal destiny to a few human beings before they were ever born here on earth.
Foreknowledge—He knew who they would be before they were born into this earth.
Election—Same word as “chosen.” He chooses or elects certain human beings to fulfill His will.
Grace or Favor—He favors the ones He has chosen. They are predisposed to respond to Him, and He showers great grace on them, or He favors them with a depth of knowledge about His purpose and how He is going to perform his plan.
Kings and Priests—The elect or the chosen ones will acquire immortality according to His will and become like Him. They will do the “greater works” as His ruling royal family. They will be His immortal offspring, able to mediate the glorious blessings of His Spirit to the rest of creation. They will be His inner circle, His cadre, His round table of rulers in His exact image, able to love mankind in the same powerful way that He did.
Sovereignty—He is sovereign and can do whatever He desires to do and whenever He decides to do it, in order to accomplish His purpose, plan, intention and thoughts.

[This is Chapter 2 of my book The Unveiling of the Sons of God. If you would like to read more, I have it online at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…” ] Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 20, 2010 · 2:10 pm

“Greater Works” Comes by Believing Yahweh Dwelt Bodily in Christ

The time was growing short. The Savior knew that He had but a short time to be with the disciples that He had chosen to reveal Himself to. He began to comfort them with words that would reassure them that His imminent death was not the end.

He told them to not be troubled. Just believe in God and in Me, He was saying. Trust Me. It is going to get rough, but stay in the ship. After the crucifixion, I will rise again after three days and three nights. I’m going to prepare a place for you, and I will come back for you so that you can be where I am. Anyway, you already know the way to that place where I’m going.

Then Thomas spoke up and said, “We don’t even know where you are going, much less the way to get there.” Thomas was evidently thinking of a literal geographical location.

“Thomas, I am the way to get there. I am the truth, and I am the life. I am not only the way to get there, but I am the destination, as well. If you realized just who and what I am, then you would know who the Father is and where He is.”

“We will be satisfied if you just show us the Father.”

“After all you have witnessed me do, don’t you realize that the Father is the only one who has done these miracles through these hands? Look at me. Look past the flesh, and when you see the invisible Me inside, that spiritual force that lives in my body–when you have really seen Me, you have seen the Father. For the Father is living inside of Me, and it is He who is doing all the mighty works that you see me do” (John 14: 1-10).

He was reaffirming that the Father is Spirit, or how else can the Father be dwelling in the Son? You cannot stuff the body of the Father into the body of the Son. The Father, then, has to be a Spirit who dwells in His Son, which is the Spirit in a human form.

Christ’s New Commandment

Then He gives us a command in v. 11. “Believe Me.” Believe what? “Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.” Believe the truth of my words that the Life is living in me, and that I am the way for you to get this Life, who is the Father.

Then He makes a promise in v. 12. “Whoever believes me when I say that the Father is in me–that person will do what I have been doing. He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do because I am going to my Father.” He who believes the Savior’s words that it was Yahweh Himself, the great Eternal Spirit Creator, who was dwelling in Him–that believer will do the same things that the Savior did! What an astounding promise!

This promise has to be to those people who know and the believe the truth about the Father being an ivisible Spirit residing in His body–us. “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, I will do it that glory will come to the Father (v. 13).

What Are We to Ask?

Two questions arise that need clarification. What exactly are we to ask? And what does it mean to ask it in His name? What are we to ask? We are to ask Him to do the same things through us that He did in human form! We are to ask for the greater works to be done by His Spirit in us–that the Father may be glorified.

The believers in Yahweh-is-the-Savior [“I, even I am the LORD (Yahweh in the original Hebrew); and beside Me there is no savior.”]–believers will do greater works than what He did 2,000 years ago in His incarnation as the Son of God. The Father, who is that great invisible Spirit, who dwelt in the Son and did the works, the miracles, the wonderful gifts to men of healing and deliverance from demons, wants to do the same works–only on a much greater scale through a body of many sons. And so we will do the same works by the Father, the Spirit, dwelling within us. It is not by our might, nor by our strength, by “by my Spirit saith Yahweh” that the works will be done.

The Main Pre-requisite

So it boils down to receiving more of the Spirit, more of the Father within us. And the main pre-requisite in receiving the Spirit is obeying the Son of God, for He gives the Spirit to those who obey Him (Acts 5: 32). He continues speaking in v. 15, “If you love Me, you will keep my commandments.”

What had He just commanded the disciples? He had just told them to believe Him when He said that the Father is in Him. “Believe also in Me,” He said. He told them to believe Him and His word as to just Who was in Him. “Believe Me!” That was the commandment.

He was telling them: You believe in God and you know that He is the Father/Spirit. This is good. Now believe that the Father is in Me! Believe Me! For it is the Father speaking to you right now through my very lips!

This is the commandment that He wanted us to obey–believe that it was Yahweh clothed behind His special veil of flesh.

After Believing This, What Comes Next?

Immediately after this order to believe that the Father is in him, He says that He will arrange for the Holy Spirit to come down to us, to “be with us forever.” Forever. This signifies that once a person really receives the Spirit of truth, who is the Comforter, that He will never depart from us. He will abide with us forever!

Bottom line: We must believe that “God was manifested in the flesh”–that Immanuel was God with us, walking on this planet in a human flesh body. The Creator is Yahweh, who is an invisible Spirit that hides Himself behind a veil of flesh. This is exactly what He did in the man Yahshua of Nazareth. Now He is asking us to see past the His fleshly body [which has been changed into His spiritual body anyway] and believe that the Father was in Him, residing a brief time in that mortal flesh. He walked among the special people of His creation. Yahweh is the Word, and He was made flesh and dwelt among us. And He has promised that all those who believe this word about Himself will do the same things that the Savior did. And thousands of sons doing the same works that the Savior did will the “the greater works.”