It’s not the nicest place to be–
A non-loyalist when the king returns
To assume his regal duties on his throne.
It’s better to believe his promise to us all,
Though now we see him not.
Those few who do will reap a great reward
Although they did not seek fame for themselves.
With pure heart fervent sought they to serve their king
And help him usher in a thousand years
Of peace and joy in kingdom bliss.
Filed under end time prophecy, kingdom of God, poetry, sons of God
The origin of the sons of God transcends any location on earth. They are strangers to earth. Earth is not their home. They are sojourners and pilgrims during their earthbound travels. Their roots go back to the beginning, locked deep down in their Father’s heart. They are not earthlings. They are not of this earth.
For God’s true offspring, life on earth is not really about earthly things. Invisible heavenly things, spiritual things, are driving what is happening for the sons of God while here on earth. But most of God’s sons and daughters do not know their destiny as of now. Their main problem is that they do not know how to walk in the heavenly calling that they are called to. Their problem is that they are thinking from a fleshly, earthly, natural point of view.
Man sees everything this way. He sees it all through the eyes of his own carnal senses. If it cannot be seen with the eyes or heard with the ears, or touched with the fingertips, or tasted with the tongue, or smelled with the nose, then it must not exist! That is natural man’s thinking. But, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for those who love Him.”
Natural minded man does not realize that this earth is not just about earthly things! The truth is that the things that are happening here on earth have been put in motion by things that cannot be seen from earth, nor seen by earthlings. This earth is about heavenly things! This earth is not really about earthly things. This earth is about spiritual things. This earth is about invisible things.
This earth is not about things that can be seen right now by the naked eye, nor with telescopes, for that matter. All earthly things, including man, are only temporary things. There is nothing lasting or enduring about them. Nothing of this earth lasts. Everything based on earthly vistas—what can be experienced by the senses—not only will not last, but cannot endure!
Of course, man proves this everyday, for men, women, boys, girls, and infants die daily. They do not endure. Their bodies daily return to dust from whence they came. And their spirits return to Him that passed them out at the first.
Earthly Things Cannot Fulfill a Spiritual Being
This is the reason that the Preacher said in Ecclesiastes, “Vanity of vanities. All is vanity and vexation of spirit.” Everything here on earth vexes a spiritual entity’s being. Earthly things cannot fulfil a spiritual being. Man, a spiritual being, created by God to house Him fully, in vain tries to live a fulfilling life by the acquisition of earthly things, when earthly things cannot suffice a human being, a being designed to be the glory of God, who is an invisible Spirit.
Yet, unregenerate man slugs on in the slop of misguided desires and lusts. These passions are for things that will not satisfy nor endure.
The sons and daughters of God realize that they were put here by a Being that is not of this earth. They see that reality is not earth-based. They realize that they cannot see true reality by looking through earthly eyes. Man can only endure by seeing things other than earthly things.
It is a heavenly vision, a heavenly faith, a heavenly destiny, a heavenly plan, a heavenly purpose, a heavenly blueprint, a heavenly design, a heavenly way, a heavenly thought of a heavenly Father, who is above all this on earth and is in us whom He has called.
To think earthly is to be in darkness. He has called us out of darkness into the heavenly light. To be earthly-minded is sure death in the darkness, for what seems to be our earthly life is really only a walking death. Remember when the Savior told them to let the dead bury their dead?
To continue to think in an earthly way is a recipe for death. “Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires. But those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires” (Romans 8:5, NIV).
As long as our earthly bodies dictate what we do or say, we walk in death. That hold on our minds by the fleshly desires of our earthly bodies only will pass when we believe that our old carnal heart at its core is crucified with the Savior. When He died, we died. When He rose, we rose. But that is very difficult to believe because we cannot sense it with our five senses. It takes a spiritual sixth sense to see from whence the miracle is derived. It is something that must be believed without seeing the evidence before hand.
To even get out of the old and to get into the new life, we must believe in a spiritual being who does the saving. We have to believe in a Being we cannot see with our earthly eyes. We must believe in someone who is invisible, who is not of this earth, someone who calls us somehow with a calling that is not of this earth, calls us with a heavenly calling, and urges us in mysterious ways to appear to choose His heavenly way against the better judgement of our earthly unbelieving senses—a someone who brings us into a place where we will repudiate all that we see here on earth and count it all as dung that we may win an invisible race for an invisible heavenly spiritual Supreme Being.
An enlightened man takes in this light—light that nothing earthly is as it seems. Everything is tricky here, slippery, treacherous, hypocritical, deceiving. Man is crooked, undependable, self-centered and prideful.
There is a group of human beings who are beginning to realize that this walk here is a spiritual thing and not an earthly thing. They realize that they are in the world but their spirit is not of the earth. They realize that they are really strangers here on earth, that they are not really from the earth, that they are heavenly and spiritual, that they have become blind to the earthly desires and temptations.
They realize that they are looking for their home which is a four square city full of light that has 12 foundations where it never gets dark. That city, the New Jerusalem, is their home, which one day will literally come down out of heaven and set down right here on earth. And they believe this having never seen it with their earthly eyes.
[This is Chapter 8 of my book The Unveiling of the Sons of God. The original trade paperback version was published in 2001, but now I have published it as an e-book. If you would like to read more, go to the very top of the home page and just click it. Please share this with anyone who you believe is called with this calling–to be a manifested son of God. Kenneth Wayne Hancock]
The “manifestation of the sons of God” is what the whole creation is waiting for–whether they know it or not (1). And with these powerful Christians striding the earth like the pattern Son Christ, great miracles will be performed as a magnificent witness to the errant inhabitants of the earth*.
These 100 fold followers of Christ will do the “greater works” that He promised some of His followers would do (2). “He that believes on Me, the works I do, shall he do also; and greater works shall he do,” He said.
Greater Works than Christ?
Greater works? What works did Christ do? He performed mighty miracles that are legendary now–raising the dead; healing those with palsy; curing severe cases of insanity and leprocy–you name it. And his early apostles did the same, for they had His same Spirit and growth.
But how can anyone do any greater things than what Christ and a handful of His early apostles did? The answer to this question lies in the harvest time of this world age. What they did was fruit borne after the “early rain” or “former rain” of the Spirit just after the Resurrection. The fruit after the “latter rain” of God’s Spirit poured out of the mouth of His sons during the time of the end of our age will be abundant (3).
For tens of thousands of sons of God will do the miracles. That is how His followers will do “greater works” than Christ did. The sheer number of miracle workers will be how those greater works will get done. There will be 144,000, to be exact. There will be 12,000 from each of the lost tribes of Israel (4). They will be the first humans to receive immortality and have God’s glory revealed through them. They will be immortal, striding the globe healing the hurts of suffering mortals (5).
Harvest Time Is When the Manifested Sons Will Come
They will come onto the scene in our age, right on time–the time of the end. It will be harvest time. The present world system, the evil “vine of the earth,” will be uprooted, squeezed, and burned (6).
Great calamities will bring this world system to an end, and many people in many lands will be hurt thereby. This time is called in many books of the prophets “the day of the LORD,” or more correctly put, “the day of Yahweh” (7). It is mentioned 31 times in the O.T. and speaks of a day of God’s vengeance and the utter darkness at the heighth of man’s government on earth. God will reign down heavenly missiles onto the earth, and the rich men’s futile attempt to rule the world will come crashing down (8).
God Taking Vengeance
But this day of vengeance wreaked upon mankind by Yahweh is so heart wrenching, so utterly unspeakable that few talk about it; it is that depressing. In fact, Christians in most denominational churches have gladly received the false doctrine of a rapture that they believe will preserve them and prevent them from going through the Tribulation Period, which is that seven year “day of the LORD.”
We are talking about the demolishing of mankind’s godless socio-economic-political system. It will be coming down, not as much through man destroying man, but through the trumpets and vials of wrath that pummel the earth in that day. Movies and television have served as a kind of herald of the coming disasters, as we see on screen the asteroids hitting earth. It is coming. And Christians will have to go through it (9).
God will be wreaking vengeance on the ungodly of this world system called “Babylon the Great” (10). It will fall by God’s own hand though mankind will try to thwart its destruction. But man never could prevent “acts of God.”
Right now, things are changing rapidly. Few can keep up with the technology which will usher in the counterfeit new world order. As Thomas Friedman wrote in his The World Is Flat, the technology of the last 10 years ios shrinking the planet. And as it gets smaller, it gets easier to rule from a centralized government.
One World Government and Ruler Must Come First
Make no mistake. The new world order, the one world government, must come first to this earth before Christ comes back to set up His government, the Kingdom of God. It must come first, as the counterfeit in His plan always comes first. And the Anti-Christ, the false Messiah must come first, as well, before the true King Jesus Christ, Yahshua Messiah, returns.
100, 50, even 20 years ago the satanic kingdom could not stretch around the globe, but now it can. The Information Age will usher in satan’s rise to total centralized dominance. Power will be given to one man to rule the entire world system. He has man names other than the Anti-Christ: the devil incarnate, Satan incarnate, “the man of sin,” the “king of the north,” the Assyrian. He will be the apex of satan’s power in the earth’s history. Many types have foreshadowed his rise to power: Nebuchadnezzar, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, and Hitler, to name just a few. But it was not the time. They all had that same spirit of satan; they were kith and kin of him, but the time of their rise prevented them from worldwide dominion.
That time is now. And because satan’s kingdom is divided, many want-to-be’s are vying for world dominion. Western Europe/U.S.A./Zionist Israelis are at war with the Islamic fascists, and much more in-fighting will take place before the Anti-Christ steps out of the smoke and ash and takes center stage for seven years. It is at this time, when God is raining down hailstones and asteroids, that satan will make his play at being very God. Good news is he won’t succeed. God will bring Him down.
The Sons of God Come on the Scene
All the countries of the world will be going up in smoke, “men’s hearts failing them for fear.” It is during this seven year tribulation period that God will bring forth His manifested sons. They will be that glorious witness to all human beings from God. They will be nothing less than the saviors of mankind. God in His infinite mercy will do this for us all. The world and everyone in it will literally be brought to their knees, humbled to their core. It is then that God can reach them, and He will do it through His manifested sons at that day–the “day of Yahweh.”
These immortal sons are God’s firstfruits of the great harvest of God’s offspring. There is always a firstfruits in God’s plan. These sons are the first to receive their new immortal bodies; the first to “not taste of death,” the first to dwell in a heavenly spiritual body, where “no weapon formed against them can prosper” (11). God’s very nature is formed in them.
They will go out all over the planet bringing forth glad tidings of God’s government coming. They will “preaching good tidings to the meek. They will bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim libery to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound” (12). And they will give those suffering “beauty for ashes, and the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.”
But this beauty will come out of the ashes of a destroyed man’s world system. This is God in human form times 144,000. It will be a powerful dose of love, joy, and peace for the earth and its lowly inhabitants.
And why does all this destruction come to the earth? God says that He will take vengeance on the evildoers. In so doing, His children will be broken hearted when they see the world wide destruction, and in their brokeness, they will turn to the Rock of their salvation, and they will be healed. It has always been that way. Moses warned the children of Jacob/Israel about getting too fat and sassy and turn from God’s laws and ways to serve other gods. Then when they got conquered and lost everything, they would “cry unto the LORD,” and what? He would raise up men of God to lead them out of the misery.
This is what the Bible stories from Exodus through Kings and Chronicles is about–examples for us to learn from.
And so now we find ourselves, like our Israelite forefathers, being brought low by the rich international banking cartel, who have devalued our money, taking our silver and gold circulating coins and our silver certificates and giving us an ever shrinking fiat currency, that is not worth much more that the paper it is printed on. And we will be squeezed and squeezed until we either bleed to death or cry out unto our Maker and Savior. Same song, different verse. Except we are fast approaching the end of the song. Kenneth Wayne Hancock
* [see my book The Unveiling ot the Sons of God found at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”]
2. John 14: 12
3. James 5: 7; Joel 2: 23; Zec. 10: 1
4. Rev. 7: 3-8; 14: 1-5
5. Rom. 8: 18; II Cor. 5: 1-4; I Cor. 15: 51-55
6. Rev. 14: 18-19
7. Isa. 13: 6; Jer. 46: 10; Ezk. 30: 3; Joel 1: 15
8. Rev. 8; Rev. 16; Rev. 17
9. See https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/no-rapture-further-proof/
10. Rev. 16: 19; 18: 21
11. Isa. 54: 17; Matt. 16: 28
12. Isa. 61: 1-5
True Christianity is not about a person striving to attain a collection of good deeds and contributions like regularly praying, attending church, paying tithes and offerings, or volunteering time. The true walk with Christ is not an accumulation of good deeds in hopes of having a better relationship with God. It is rather a remembering what we already had with Him before our time on earth began.
Our salvation and deliverance from sin and the evil in our old life was given us by God before we were ever born here on earth!
We were called by God to walk with Him on this earth in our earthly bodies before we were ever born here on earth!
Sounds crazy, I know, and you are probably thinking, Wayne, you are going too far now. Come back to us. You are drifting up too far into the stratosphere.
But bear with me a minute. God has called us with a holy calling in accordance with His own plan and purpose, and we were in His plan and purpose and grace before our mothers gave birth to us here on earth!
Some may be asking, Where did you get this idea from? It’s right there in the Bible–the same one grandma and momma had. And this is what it says: “God 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 Christ Jesus before the world began” (II Tim. 1: 9) [Compare this to my paraphrasing of it in the above paragraphs].
This “holy calling” to be God’s son or daughter does not come down to us “according to our works.” We do not attain it because of anything we have done or could do, but because we were already included in His purpose–His plan to favor us that way. It is called grace, and this grace was given to us in Christ before time began on earth. Remember what Christ said: “You have been with me from the beginning” (John 15: 27). The word “beginning” in the Greek is the same one used in John 1: 1: “In the beginning was the Word…” denoting the timelessness of the origin of all things.
We must remember how the LORD (YAHWEH) questioned Job intensely about the creation: “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?…Who laid the cornerstone thereof when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” (Job 38: 4-7).
The “sons of God” rejoicing at the creation of the earth? Yes. Isn’t that kind of like before the world came into being? Yes. And who are these sons of God? The word of God says that we are the sons of God! “Beloved, now are we the sons of God…and when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (I John 3: 2).
Also, we know that “as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” (Rom. 8: 14). That’s us, brethren! Things are going to work out great for us that love God. If God is for us, who can be against us? For “we are the called according to His purpose.” He knew us before! He gave us this destiny before! This destiny “to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8: 28-29). Hey, I know I’m not the only one getting this right now because it says “many brethren” are going to be just like Him!
And let’s just say it out loud: We who He has “predestinated” to be like Christ–He has called us, “and whom He called, them He also justified, and whom He justified, them He also glorified”! (v. 30).
Glorified us! Notice this is in the past tense. Already done in God’s way of reckoning and doing things.
Wow! It is truly difficult sometimes for us to wrap our sometimes doubting little minds around these astounding promises, but there it is. His words, not mine. The “exceeding great and precious promises that Peter spoke of. That we “might be partakers of the divine nature” (II Pet. 1: 4).
And this is all in Christ. When we believe and trust in Him, then our inheritance manifests itself. Let us walk on in faith and assurance of these promises, not letting worldly man-thoughts hinder us from achieving what God already has spoken into existence for us. Kenneth Wayne Hancock
I have come to the point where I have stopped asking God questions like, God, where are your elect in the earth? And, when and how will they get on the same spiritual page so that they grow to a point to be able to do the 100 fold exploits that You said they would do in these latter days?
I am talking, of course, about His elect, His chosen few, His firstfruits, His princes and princesses, His “little flock,” His 100-fold fruitbearers in this final age before Christ comes back to earth to rule and reign for 1,000 years.
The Latter Rain
They go by many names in the scriptures, but few, sadly, in churchianity, speak about them. Few know of these who are spoken of in Revelation 7 and 14, and in many books of the Bible. Few believe that a group could “follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes” and “be strong and do exploits in the land.” But many in churchianity will tell you that you cannot be like Christ. Such negativity! To them we must say, Well, if you won’t let me be like Christ, will you let me be like Peter, James, John, and Paul? They started out just like us, and when infused and filled with the Holy Spirit, they were used mightily to heal the sick, raise the dead, and teach the kingdom of God and His righteousness. To be like the early apostles–that will be close enough.
Yet Christ’s apostles were a type and a foreshadowing of the “glory that shall be revealed in us” (Rom. 18: 8). Remember when Christ sent His twelve disciples out and gave them power to heal and cast out devils? That was a miniature glimpse of His elect going out all over the earth preaching the kingdom of God just before Christ’s return. All the healings and miracles done by them were a miniature snapshot of the magnitude that will transpire in our day. Later, that outpouring of His Spirit at Pentecost was the early rain of His Spirit, which came down moderately. It came down on just a few 2,000 years ago. The latter spiritual rain in our day will fall abundantly in order to cover the now seven billion people on our aging planet. For all will see God’s Spirit moving through His manifested sons and daughters.
So I’ve stopped wondering when and where and how they will come forth.
Awaking Out of the Deep Sleep
The point is that they will come forth, for God will awaken them out of the worldly slumber that has anesthetized them with the drug of forgetfulness. They at present don’t remember what they already were with Him in ages past (Eph. 1: 4). But they are now stirring out of their comas, and they are waking up hungry for spiritual milk. And they will suck the spiritual milk of His doctrine until they “are no longer children, tossed to and fro, and carried by every wind of doctrine” (Eph. 4: 14). And they will desire the “stong meat” of the word of God. And then they will fully realize and believe that God has chosen us “in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love.”
God is leading His elect into greener pastures of heavenly truth.
And they will long to know and do the truths that they have been called to do. And in doing so, they will be. They will become His fully manifested sons and daughters, “prepared unto every good work.”
They are out there. I know that these words flowing out the tips of my fingers will be read by some of them, for I do believe that His word will not return unto Him void, but will accomplish what He sent it to do (Isa. 55: 11).
His elect are out there, scattered all over the earth. Some are perhaps reading about themselves right now, their hearts being stirred by the movement of the waters of the Spirit of life, hearing about their destiny and becoming “established in the present truth.”
How do I know that they are growing and developing? His word says that they are. For He “opens a door that no man can shut” (Rev. 3: 8). And no one can enter into that door of sonship except God open it. It is all Him and His doing; it is His choosing and His favor that He showers on the blessed “few.” That’s right–a few. As Christ said, “Narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matt. 7: 14). It is the Father that chooses us. He’s the Great Fisherman, and when He sets the hook in our jaw, we shall be reeled in.
So knowing all this, it gives me peace to know that God is in charge of getting His body together and imbuing them with power to get done what He wants done.
So, I’ve stopped agonizing about it all. Patience is one of the fruits of His Spirit inside us. It’s going to take patience to wait for His harvest to come. My job is to write His plan with clarity the best I can and share it with those who are interested, and to rest, knowing that He will bring it all to pass in His own sweet time. Kenneth Wayne Hancock
[For much more, visit my other website that contains my two books online which you can find at the top of this page. Just click “Ebook…”] Also, read “We Were with Him in the Beginning” found here: https://immortalityroad.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/we-were-with-him-in-the-beginning/ ]
God is searching for His people in these latter days. Granted, He loves the whole world and everyone in it, but there is only one people on the face of this big wide earth that He is actually searching for. It is the people He chose way back in Abraham’s day, who would be called by Abraham’s grandson’s name—Israel, meaning “Prince with God.” Yes, salvation is open to all of His creation, but He has “not cast away His people which He foreknew.” He is searching for them now. To understand His heart and the importance that His people have in His plan for our day, we must rehearse their trail through Bible history.
You know the story about His chosen people—how Yahweh the Creator chose out a people to reveal Himself to and through—a people who came out of the loins of Adam and Eve about 6,000 years ago, a special creation with a special purpose in the mind of God. How Abraham and Sarah were promised a miracle son in the book of Genesis—how he would be called Isaac, and he would have Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel. And Jacob/Israel had 12 sons, and they multiplied and remained the chosen people of God.
And then for most people it gets fuzzy. Most remember a few “Bible stories.” Few study the Bible in depth to see where the thread of prophecy leads. The 12 sons married and multiplied into small clans or tribes. Jacob/Israel’s favorite son Joseph was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Famine gripped the land and Jacob/Israel and his 11 sons and their families had to go down to Egypt to buy food. In the mean time, Joseph had by the miraculous hand of God become the governor of Egypt, Pharaoh’s right hand man.
Joseph, a type of the Messiah, has mercy on his brothers and their families, forgiving them and setting them up. The Hebrews then stay in Egypt and have it good there and grow over the next 400 years to 3 million, a country within a country. In the course of time, these 12 tribes of people, all the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel, are enslaved by the Egyptians. Moses, a Hebrew child reared as an Egyptian prince by Pharaoh’s sister, is called by Yahweh to deliver the children of Israel (all 12 tribes). Through many miracles like the parting of the Red Sea, Moses leads God’s people into the Promised Land, into the land of Canaan.
After much adventure and misadventure, Joshua, Moses’ protégé, leads them on in, and they conquer the land. Each of the 12 tribes gets an inheritance of actual real estate and they take up residence.
Their form of government is a theocracy—God ruling them through His representatives, the prophets and the judges. They are, however, extremely unruly, and seek after other gods and provoke Yahweh to anger and jealousy. When things go bad for them, they cry out to Yahweh and He comes to their rescue. When things are good, food and prosperity plentiful, then they forget Him and, what He calls, “whore after other gods.” He likens them to His wife.
This goes on for about 500 years, from about 1500 B.C. to 1,000 B.C. At this time they want to be like the other nations around them; they want a king like they have. And so, against Samuel the prophet’s warning, God gives them King Saul, who is later deposed for His sins, and then has Samuel anoint “a man after God’s own heart,” the illustrious David, the son of Jesse, the ancestor of Jesus/Yahshua.
Later, David’s son Solomon is crowned King of Israel, meaning he is the king of all twelve tribes of Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel. Solomon was a great man, but his kingdom would be torn in two because of His idolatry. For he “loved many strange women…of the nations concerning which Yahweh said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go into them…” (I Kings 11: 1-2). So God told Solomon that because you have done this, “I will surely rend the kingdom from thee” (v. 11). For David’s sake, Yahweh waited until after Solomon’s death to divide the 12 tribed kingdom.
In about 975 B. C., a civil war broke out and it split into two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Israel with ten of the twelve tribes, and the Kingdom of Judah with the other two tribes. The Kingdom of Israel (10 tribes) lay to the north with its capital Samaria. The Kingdom of Judah lay to the south with its capital Jerusalem. They both had their own kings, with their own religious and political systems. In fact, one can read about them at war with each other in many parts of the Bible.
Yahweh warned them that He would punish them for their evil ways going back hundreds of years. And really nothing changed after the split. Both Houses, both the House of Israel (10 tribes) and the House of Judah (2 tribes), kept doing evil in God’s sight over the next 300+ years. They kept breaking His 10 commandment law. Yet He was faithful, sending prophets to both kingdoms, admonishing them to turn from their evil ways.
Until, finally, Yahweh had had enough. For His chosen people’s own good, He would do the unthinkable. He would scatter them to the four winds. He would raise up terrible nations to sweep down upon their little kingdoms, and to gobble them up and slay some of them and to lead them into captivity. He had warned them through His prophets of this very detestable thing, yet they would not hearken. Prophets like Elijah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, among many others cried unto them, reminding them of the great heritage, and warning them to repent and turn their hearts back to God, but they would not hear of it. They were smug in their assurance that their new way of worship was proper. But they had other gods before the true Creator God, and had forgotten the Rock “from which they were hewn.”
And so, in 721 B. C., the fierce Assyrian Empire swooped down upon the northern Kingdom of Israel (ten tribes) and led them back east to their capital city of Nineveh. And these enslaved offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel became lost. They lost their identity as part of God’s chosen people. They disappeared into the mists of time, and modern scholars are hard pressed to shed light on just where they went or what happened to them. But “God has not cast away His people which He foreknew” (Rom. 11: 2).
They are mentioned in the “New Testament,” however. Christ said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel” (Matt. 15: 24, NIV, ESV, RSV). He spoke no idle words. The lost tribes of Israel are extremely important to Christ, and consequently, to the Father. And the apostle James addresses his book “to the twelve tribes scattered abroad, greeting” (1:1). That has to be the descendants of the Kingdom of Israel (ten tribes) or to the whole House of Israel (12 tribes). James, who had the same mind of Christ, cleared that up by writing to the 12 tribes that were already scattered all over the world. Also, the apostle Paul said that as of A.D. 62, the twelve tribes were not only in the earth, but were “instantly serving God day and night” in hope of the promise of the resurrection of Christ (Acts 26: 6-7).
Kingdom of Judah Carried Away
That same fate that happened unto the northern Kingdom of Israel (10 Tribes) happened to the southern Kingdom of Judah around 603 B. C. by the Babylonians. Citizens of this two-tribed kingdom, by now called “Jews,” were carried away captive, but they did not lose their identity. The original Hebrew religion instituted by Moses had by now changed into the beginning of the modern religion of Judaism, which, according to the Savior Yahshua, was hypocritical, evil, and was not pleasing to God (John 8:44). By 29 A.D. many Edomites (Idumaens) had converted to the Mosaic religion and had changed it into something altogether repulsive to Christ. In fact, He told them, “You are of your father the devil.” Judaism had become now the religion of the “serpents” and “vipers,” the Pharisees and Sadducees, who are the progenitors of the modern Jewish religion today. This is the “synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie,” spoken of by Jesus/Yahshua Himself (Rev. 3: 9). 85% of modern Jewry are not from the loins of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe).
Because the Israelites (10 tribes) were lost to history, people now think that the only Israelites left are Jews. But the true Jews made up only two tribes out of the original twelve. That leaves the vast majority of the “lost sheep of the House of Israel” out here in the world, their identity lost, waiting for God to reveal it to them. For these of the lost ten tribes do figure prominently in prophecy for these latter days. 144,000 of them are detailed specifically in Revelation 7 and 14. 12, 000 from each tribe are mentioned by name. “Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad…” and on through Benjamin “were sealed twelve thousand,” to a total of 144,000. So a remnant of the lost tribes will be revealed in these latter days in order to fulfill these scriptures.
The 144,000 from the Lost Tribes of Israel
These have a very precious and wonderful calling, for they will be sealed by God as His servants before His throne (7: 3, 15). They will have “their Father’s name [Yahweh] written in their foreheads” (14: 1). They were “redeemed from among men,” meaning that they are not super heavenly entities, but came from the loins of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They were washed in the Lamb’s blood like every other Christian, but they have grown to full spiritual maturity and are the “firstfruits unto God” (v. 4). They are “without fault before the throne of God” (v. 5). Without fault! Perfectly mature manifested sons of the living God!
And they come out of the twelve tribes of Israel. That may not be politically correct to say, but that is what Revelation 7 says. This is the reason that it is extremely important for us to study the prophecies concerning the “lost sheep of the House of Israel” out. Christ said that He was sent to them! It was important to Him. Is it important to us?
Some doubters will say that the 12 tribes are lost, and “What difference does it really make anyway?” Well, it would not make any difference if the future of His chosen people did not matter to Him. God says that His manifested sons will come out of these twelve tribes, and it does matter to Him. He said, “My ways are not your ways; my thoughts are not your thoughts.”
We are told to seek the mind of God. Know His thoughts. What is He thinking about? Is He still thinking about His people, the lost sheep of the House of Israel? Yes. “Has God cast away His people? God forbid…The gifts and calling of God are without repentance” (Romans 11:1, 29). Yahweh called them and a remnant of them will come back to Him in these latter days. The question for us is this: Are we one of them? Will we be one of the “firstfruits of God” who are very close to the Lamb and do the greater works that He promised some would do?
Kenneth Wayne Hancock {Please make a comment. I would love to hear from you and where you reside in the earth.}
Chapter 28 to the book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality
We may not realize it yet, but we are blessed, for we have seen that our old self needs to go. Many try to redirect or re-channel its activities. Sometimes we try to clean it up, but He wants it to die.
He said to repent and be baptized in water. Yes, water baptism is a symbol of something else, yet we should still do it. But few know what the real baptism is. Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Messiah Yahshua were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. Rom. 6:3-4. NIV.
Going down into the water is a symbol of the mortal life we now live in this flesh. Coming up out of the water is a symbol of the new spirit-being life we shall live, which is the immortal life that we are called to.
Water is a symbol of our mortality. Our first physical birth is an immersion in a bag of water. We are born of water. We mortals are about 75% water. We begin in our mother’s womb in water. During water baptism we are baptized into His death. To live in this mortal body is to die. This watery entombment we call a body is really a deathtrap. It by its very nature has to die. The Messiah’s earthly body was composed of the same watery stuff that our bodies are. And He died. He had to die by reason of the nature of his shell during His earthly tenure. This watery, flesh and blood body cannot inherit immortality and go into the kingdom of the Eternal One. To be made of water is to be mortal, to be awaiting death, for water is extremely unstable, subject to every whim of nature’s forces.
To sin is to die. Mortality is to be able to die. Therefore, our mortality is to sin. Sinning insures a human of not receiving a new spiritual heavenly body. But now He has enabled us to live a life where we do not have to sin, if we receive His Spirit. “Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust (desires) of the flesh (this old mortal body)” Gal. 5:16 NKJV.
He was made to be sin for us
We, then, when we go under in water, are symbolically being immersed into this watery mortal state of sin with Him. We “are buried with him by baptism into death.” Rom.6:4. God calls those things that are not, as though they were. We are dead already (Yahshua told the disciples, “Let the dead bury their dead”). He calls it before its actual physical death when we consent to and experience it (in revelation). The water is the symbol of our earthly mortal bodily state. This spiritual death of our old self comes now in this revelation before the fruit of death comes to our earthly bodies.
In conjunction with this, few know that the Messiah, the day of His death, actually became sin for us—he who had never sinned. He was the sacrificial Lamb who was set to be sacrificed before the world ever came into existence. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. II Cor. 5:21. NIV. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Rev. 13: 8.
The levitical priest, in types and shadows, laid his hands on the sacrificial goat, thereby transferring Israel’s sins upon it. So did the Father place all of mankind’s sins upon the body of Messiah. When He died, the body of sin died; our sin died that day. To whom is the arm of Yahweh revealed?…Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all…It pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see His seed. Isa. 53:1,6,10.
We make the Lamb’s soul an offering for our own sins by realizing that it was us in our sinful state hanging on the tree that day. We must be immersed in this knowledge. We must believe that our old self—that old monkey on our back, that old demon that we were, that selfish, egotistical, self-absorbed, sorry excuse for a human being—that old thing that we were is now, in God’s eyes dead. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Rom. 6: 6. [I invite you to read my whole book and make comments. God is calling out His elect (chosen) sons to be manifested in our time. Kenneth Wayne Hancock]
Filed under baptism, crucified with Christ, death of self, elect, sons of God
“What have you been studying?” the Seer asked me when I came into the meeting room.
“I’ve been reading in John 14 and 15.”
“Are you understanding what you’re reading?” he asked.
“Some parts I do. But there is so much to it.”
“Yes. Chapters fourteen through seventeen are the Master’s last instruction to His disciples, and they, of course, are extremely important. You noticed that He withheld this teaching until Satan in Judas Iscariot left them after the Last Supper in chapter thirteen.”
“Yes, that is right.”
“What Christ had to say was to those faithful ones; He would not cast His pearls before swine. Although there are things in His words for all of His followers, this last discourse is not for babes in Christ. It is actually a putting together of all the puzzle pieces that, once completed, shows us a picture of how the sons of God will be manifested.”
“I’ve heard you speak many times of the manifested sons of God coming on the scene,” I said.
“Christians must begin to realize that God’s plan and purpose entails a much grander vision of what will take place on this earth than what is being taught in most every church in the world.”
“What is the grander vision?”
“The whole creation doesn’t realize it, but it is “groaning and travailing,” waiting for the “manifestation of the sons of God.” [Rom. 8: 22]. This is when upon Christ’s return He changes us. It is when we receive our new bodies. These old decaying earthly shells will be swallowed up by our new spiritual bodies, bodies that will live on eternally. This is what mankind has dreamed about, what every culture’s philosophers have written about. This is the fountain of youth that will quench every person’s inate thirst to live forever. This is it! Christ is expounding the key points on the way to this grand event.”
“You are talking about immortality.”
“Yes. It is the deep longing of mankind. And there is a way, and that way has been mapped out in Christ. He not only has the answers, but He is the answer, for He in His glorified form now contains the Eternal Spirit that we call God–the Creator.”
“So what prevents everyone from seeing this vision of how to obtain eternal life or immortality?” I asked.
“This vision of immortality for mankind is like a jigsaw puzzle. Many pieces to this true picture of God’s plan lay scattered about the table of man’s knowledge. But there are many other pieces to other puzzles scattered in among God’s pieces. Other visions of what is the truth, false visions, false puzzle pieces, litter the landscape. They sometimes have the same color and appear to be like the true pieces to God’s puzzle, and they deceive the people. “For many false prophets and teachers” have run to and fro on the earth deceiving themselves and others with their half baked false conceptions of Christ’s plan and purpose.”
“I know. They sound so convincing.”
“Yes, because they take a snippet of scripture and build whole doctrines out of passages taken out of context. But the fact is that the truth is out here to be found, but we must seek diligently for it. He said, Seek and ye shall find. Find what? Find the truth. We must winnow the wheat from the chaff of false teachings.”
“How does this fit in with the manifested sons?” I asked.
“The concept of the manifested sons of God can’t be clearly seen until one’s eyes are open to the Parable of the Sower. This parable shows us God’s great secret in how His Spirit grows in us His children. Especially how His Spirit will yield in us a certain amount of spiritual fruit.”
“What do you mean? We are all Christians, children of God–those of us who have been born again,” I said.
“Of course. But there are spiritual differences in the body of Christ. It’s just like in a literal field of corn there will be some of the seeds yield more ears and grains on those ears than another for whatever reason–more water or fertilizer or just richer soil. Or maybe the weeds choke some plants and not others. The fact remains that like corn in the natural world, we, too, in the spiritual world bear the fruit of the Spirit at different levels. As He said in the parable, some will bring forth ‘some thirty fold, some sixty fold, and some one hundred fold.”
“What does that mean in a practical everyday sense?” I asked.
“It means that there will be some Christians who will be more Christ-like than others after their growth here on earth is completed. There were many Christians in the New Testament days, but after the resurrection, there were not many like Peter, James, John, and Paul. These one hundred fold followers of Christ did great works, just like Christ! And so can we, if we are to be one of those one hundred folders.”
“I can hear them saying now, ‘Nobody can be like Christ!”
The Seer smiled knowingly. “Yes, they will say that–their doubt-filled minds gushing forth their negative thoughts. But to them I will say, If you won’t let me be like Christ, is it all right if I be like Peter and Paul? They raised the dead and healed the sick–just like Christ! That’s close enough.”
“Hold it. I can see that what prevents some from being hundred folders is doubt and unbelief.”
“Precisely. And why do you think that they have such doubt and unbelief?”
I thought a moment. “Because it disagrees with what they have been taught?”
“Exactly. Those who will not and cannot grow up into the fullness of Christ as a hundred fold fruit bearing Christian are those who have been fed lies and misconceptions, which have stunted their growth. So much so that they cannot come to a place where agape love helps them to ‘believe all things.’ In other words, it takes truth nurturing them to a point to where they can believe the vision God has for us–to be just like His Son.”
“What can be done to help them believe more?”
“All we can do is walk on in this truth, sow the seed, the word of God, and let God be God. He is the great Architect. He is building His spiritual house, which is us. Those whose destiny is to become a manifested son of God, He will bring into His fold. He is faithful and true and quite capable of bringing His sons unto glory.”
“Some people will say that God is not fair–to have some followers remain children and some be like Peter and Paul.”
“What can I say to the gainsayers? They did not create the world according to a specific plan and purpose. ‘Let God be true and every man a liar’ who does not agree with Him. No. God is right. It is a grave responsibility to be a manifestd son during these end times. A lot will be required of them, and not everyone has the physical and spiritual strength to make ‘this calling and election sure.’”
“I want to be one of them. That is why I moved out here.”
“It is a worthwhile goal in this life–to aspire to the ‘high calling of God in Christ.’ But it is a paradox, for although we must study and pray to make ‘our calling and election sure,’ God chooses whomsoever He will for this honor. No man takes this honor unto himself. It is only by His grace that we can run this race.”
“I see what you mean,” I said.
“So, knowing about the manifested sons is the first of the puzzle pieces that we need in order to become one of them. We have to have knowledge about something first before we can ever hope to obtain it. Christ in John 14-17 elucidates several more puzzle pieces that we need. He lines them out as a kind of stepping stone path to glorification.”
“What’s the next piece to the puzzle?” I asked eagerly.
“I’ll share more with you a bit later,” the Seer said turning to greet the others coming in the door.
The next morning I came early to the morning men’s meeting. We would all meet every morning at the small hall we had built with the salvaged lumber we had taken from old buildings and houses. The Seer was sitting next to the old box wood heater. I could not wait. I sat down and asked, “What is the next piece to the puzzle?”
“Once a person learns and then believes that there is growth in God that matures into the same level of spirituality as Peter, James, John, and Paul–and yes,like the Savior Himself–then they are ready to actually begin to walk on unto perfection, or complete spiritual maturity. As Paul exhorts us all, ‘Let us go on unto perfection’” (Heb. 6: 1).
“But what does spiritual maturity mean?”
“A few are destined to reach this maturity, this perfection in Christ. Actually it has to do with Christ being “formed in you” (Gal. 4: 19). His Spirit comes down into us by faith in His resurrection in us. We receive a new heart from Him. Then by receiving pure seed and watering it with His word, we grow from children into the fully matured sons and daughters of God.”
“But, perfection?”
“Yes. Have you not read where Christ commands his followers, Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect? Anyway, if someone has enough faith to get this far, then they may begin to receive the next big teaching found in John 14-17.”
“What is it?” I asked.
“It is to believe in the oneness of God.”
“Everybody believes that there is one God.”
“They may say they do, but when pressed to the wall they believe there are two or three of them sitting up there in heaven on different thrones. Even staunch trinitarians, although they say “three in one,” when pinned down, they ‘see’ a Father figure and a ‘Son’ figure up there in heaven sitting on their respective thrones.”
“In order to be one of His elect manifested sons of God, to be just like Christ in these latter days, one must get the correct concept of the Godhead. It is here in John 14, that Christ sets the record straight. He flat out commands all manifested sons-to-be, saying this: “<em>Believe Me. </em>Believe Me that the Father is in Me (John 14: 10).”
“Is that it? Just believe Him?” I asked.
“Yes, it is really very simple, and yet, man’s inate unbelief hardens his heart where His word, like a tiny seed, cannot get down into it and grow. We all start out in early childhood with soft and tender hearts, eager to believe what we are told. We are vulnerable and trusting and are able to believe the truths about God readily. This is why Christ told us to ‘become as little children’ or we will not be able to “enter the kingdom of heaven’ (Matt. 18: 3). Unfortunately, this world system is cruel and the little children become disappointed and disillusioned with life and soon their hearts grow cynical, for they become convinced that no one is sincere.”
“But God gives us another chance, doesn’t He?”
“Yes, He does. Through His mercy, we can become His spiritual children, and we can soften our hearts and receive his truth and grow in Him. And so we are told by Christ, ‘Believe Me that the Father is in Me.'”
“We just need to trust Him, don’t we?” I asked.
“We need to trust His word when He says that the Father is in Him. How can that be? It is because the Father is an invisible Spirit (I Tim. 1: 17). And Christ is the ‘image of the invisible God.’ In other words, the invisible Spirit, who is the Father, dwelt in the Son, who is visible, who always said that the works that He did were really done by the Father inside of Him (John 14: 10). Christ said that the miracles He performed were proof that the Father dwelt inside of Him.”
“But I haven’t seen any of those kind of miracles,” I said.
“When was the last time you looked into the mirror? You are one of the miracles the Father has performed through His Son. You came here hopelessly addicted to drugs, and now the mouth that cursed every other breath speaks sweet words. He has made a most miraculous change in your life. You are your own greatest witness that the Father raised up Christ from the dead, and in so doing through faith, you, too, are raised up to walk in a newness of life'” (Romans 6: 4).
“I cannot deny it. I have a new life! That is a miracle!”
“Yes. Your new life in Him is proof that the Father lives in Christ and did perform the miracle on you. Indeed. The oneness of God is extremely important. Without our belief in this concept, we cannot grow into full maturity, which is His desire for us. Christ commands us, ‘Believe Me that the Father is in Me.’ When we do this then we realize that the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in Christ (Col. 2: 9).,
“Why is believing that the invisible Father was inside the Son of God so important?” I asked.
“This is a very good question that leads us to the very next statement Christ made in John 14. In verse 11, He said, ‘Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the very works’ sake.’ In other words, These miracles that I am performing prove that the Father God is in Me, for only He can raise the dead and heal the sick. Then after we believe Him that the Father is in Him, He says in v. 12: ‘He that believes on me, the works that I do shall he do also.'”
“You mean the miracles He did we can do, too?”
“Yes. Those who really believe that the Father is in Christ–the ones who really get it–they are the ones who can go on unto perfection, or full spiritual maturity, which entails raising the dead and healing the sick–the very things He did. Christ goes on to say that they will do ‘greater works’ than what He did. These will be the 100 fold fruit bearing manifested sons of God.”
“Wait a minute,” I said. “How can they do anything greater than raising the dead?”
“Because they will number in the thousands, doing miracles all over the earth in His name” [Revelation 14].
“How can this be?” I asked.
“You see, Christ was the Seed-Son, who fell into the ground and died, and during the time of the end, He will reap the harvest from that one Seed. A harvest of many thousands of manifested sons of God will grow up to be just like Him” [John 12: 24].
“Wow. That is some calling. I doesn’t seem possible.”
“With men it is impossible, but with God’s direction and grace, it is possible” [Mark 10: 27]. That is what He said. We again just need to believe it. That is what the walk of faith is all about. Believing having not yet seen. We believe His word first, then the works, the miracles, will come. Starting first with the miracle of our own new life in Him.”
That evening after work, I went to the Seer’s cabin. He invited me in and made some hot tea for us. We sat down around the fire, and with little small talk, I asked, “Could you go over some of the things we were talking about yesterday concerning the manifested sons?”
“Sure,” the Seer said, the question obviously energizing him. “The Savior lines out the path to sonship in His last major teaching in John 14-17. First, a future manifested son must know and believe that there is such a thing in God’s plan as sonship. And to fully comprehend this, one has to know and believe the secret of the growth of the Spirit in us as lined out in the Parable of the Sower, the parable that actually opens up our understanding of all the parables. They will then realize that there must be a harvest of the firstfruits before the big harvest can take place. Many preachers will speak of a ‘harvest of souls,’ but they rarely mention the manifested sons of God being the first into perfection in our day. The ‘last shall be first,’ Christ said. The last of G0d’s sons will be the first harvested in this end time generation.” The Seer stopped a moment, and then looked at me and asked, “Are you seeing all this?”
“Yes, I am getting it.”
“You see, the parables, after all, are the ‘dark sayings’ that God has hidden His secrets in for millenia and that they are spoken deliberately to prevent some from knowing His secrets. This Parable of the Sower shows us that there are different levels of spiritual growth–the ultimate, of course, being the manifested sons of God.
“Second, because the Son of God is the Seed, we cannot have His likeness harvested in us without believing in Him and His words to us. He reassures us that He is preparing a place for us and that He through His Spirit will come to us and help us to get through the long, lonely days of our spiritual sojourn here on earth [John 14: 1-3]. He tells us that He, Christ, is the way, the truth, and the life. And He is the only way to come to the Father’ [v. 6].
I asked, “Why do so many people say that there are many ways to get to God? You’ll hear them say that Allah and Vishnu and others are all just different names of the same Supreme Being and that there are many ways to get there.”
“No. Don’t believe them. They do not know God at all. Christ is the way to the Father for one very simple reason. The Father is in Him. The Father was in Him then some 2,000 years ago, and the Father is still in Him, for He lives forever and is alive now making intercession for us to God, who dwells within Christ.”
“The Father is in Him,” I repeated, for my mind was straining to grasp these concepts.
The Seer looked at me and smiled. “Pretty intense, huh?
“Yes,” I said.
“And that brings us to the third major point of Christ’s teaching in John 14-17. He told them that they had already known and seen the Father. And they questioned that and said, Show us the Father. And Christ said to them, He that has seen Me has seen the Father. It is the Father in Me that does all these miracles. And then He commands them: Believe Me that the Father is in Me” [v. 9-11].
“This is where the oneness doctrine takes shape,” I said.
“Yes. He gives us a new commandment here to believe that the invisible Father Spirit is inside Him. And then, in His very next breath, He gives us the fourth major point that builds upon the previous three that I have just outlined. ‘He that believes on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works that these shall he do.’ In other words, those that believe that the Father was in the Son doing the miracles will someday do those same miracles and even greater miracles than Christ did!” [v. 12].
“That’s exciting, but how do we get from here to there?”
The Seer rephrased my question. “How do we begin to get the power to work miracles and thus do the ‘greater works’? Excellent question. And I will give you a profoundly simple answer. We have to ask Him for the power.”
“Just like that? Just ask Him for it?”
“Of course there is a bit more to it than that. In the very next breath after He promises that we will do the greater works, He says, ‘Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son'” [v. 12-13].
“I’ve heard that verse quoted in Sunday School and sermons many times.”
“Yes, people run with it, taking it out of context. But let’s look at it closely. In verse twelve He promises that we will do greater miracles than what He had done. And in the very next verse, He says that He will do whatever we ask in His name. ‘Do’ is the very same word. The point is that He will do the greater works in and through us. It won’t be us doing the miracles; He will be doing them. His Spirit in us will be doing them. Our part is to surrender our hearts, souls and minds to God so that He may come down into us and perform the miracles by His Spirit in us. Us asking in His name, first, humbles us, for we acknowledge thereby that we of our own power cannot do the miracles. We will realize when we are in this growth that we are a part of the body of Christ, part of the Son, which fulfills the last part of John 14: 13: ‘That the Father may be glorified in the Son.’ But the point is, we have to ask Him to do the greater works through us. And this won’t happen if we just ask Him any old way. Father, can I do a miracle today? No. We must ask in His name.”
“People do that all the time. ‘And we ask all this in Jesus’ name, Amen.’ Millions of prayers go up like this every day. People are doing this already,” I said.
“Wait a minute. Not so fast. People are saying these words as a formula without the deeper knowledge.”
“What deeper knowledge are you talking about?” I asked.
“Consider these two points. What is being asked for and what name is being asked in. And this brings us to the fifth piece to the puzzle–asking in the Savior’s name for the greater works to be done through us,” said the Seer.
Asking in the Savior’s Name–His Hebrew Name: The Fifth Piece to the Puzzle of Being a Manifested Son of God
I have this impetuous habit of blurting out what pops into my brain, and so I asked,”The Savior’s name. Why is it so important? I know that sounds terrible, but ‘a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.'” How did Shakespeare ooze out of me at this moment? I could not escape my past; I was an English literature major through and through.
But instead of biting off my head, the Seer discerned that I was maintaining some semblance of sincerity, and so he replied, “In man’s way of thinking, names hold little revelance to one’s destiny. This is because the word ‘rose’ does not hold any profound meaning in and of itself. But this is not the case with the Savior’s name. His very name means something very important.”
“What does it mean?”
“Christ’s Hebrew name Yahshua means ‘Yah is the Savior,’ or ‘Yah is Salvation.’ It’s meaning actually explains to us just who He is and what His nature is. His name declares His purpose and speaks volumes as to the nature of the Godhead.”
“I still don’t get it.”
“It is a fact that the Hebrew names of biblical characters have meaning. ‘Daniel’ means ‘judge of God.’ ‘Sarah’ means ‘princess,’ and so on. So now it is time for the future manifested sons of God to know the Hebrew name of the Savior, and that name is Yahshua. Very much like the English name ‘Joshua.’ In fact, the Savior’s name and the patriarch’s name who carried on for Moses is the same name in Hebrew–Yahshua. It is not just a tag. His name is something to be believed. It states the truth that we are commanded to believe what it means.”
“What does it mean?”
“The first part of His name is ‘Yah.’ It is the shortened form of the very name of the Creator Himself–Yahweh. It means ‘the self-existent One.’ ‘Shua’ is Hebrew for ‘Savior’ or ‘Salvation.’ Together, both parts of the Savior’s name means ‘The Self-Existent One is the Savior.” The apostle Paul says that ‘the fullness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in Christ.’ And ‘God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.'”
“Can you simplify that for me?” I asked.
“In other words, the message in His name to be believed is that the very Creator Himself resided in the man Christ and was the One doing the saving. Through Isaiah Yahweh says, ‘Beside Me there is no savior.’ Yahweh saves through His Son. That is what the Son’s name means. That is the message we are to believe. And when we do this, then great things begin to happen.
The Great Things that God Makes Happen When We Believe the Message in His Name
“What are these great things?” I asked the Seer.
“If we believe on the name, then God will answer our prayers, and even more shall He do for us. The biggest thing is that God Himself through His Spirit will come and take up residence in us. After all, we are the temple of God, are we not?
“That is what the Bible says,” I said.
“This is what He means when He promises that if we ask anything in His name that He will do it. And the first thing is that He will come down into us and abide and stay in us. He calls the Spirit our Comforter Advocate. The Spirit of truth will come down and reside in us to help us through the ‘dark night of the soul’–to help us on down the treacherous path of earthly existence. This is a cruel and deceiving world system that we have been brought up in. This earthly walk is hard on the future sons and daughters of God. So God in His infinite wisdom knew that we needed a Helper.”
“What all does the Comforter do” I asked.
“The most important thing that the Holy Spirit does for us is encourages us that we are not alone in this universe. The Spirit also leads and guides us into all truth. Be aware that the Comforter is the exact same Spirit that was in Christ.” The Seer turned back over to John 14: 16. “Christ will interceed to the Father for us that God would send us another Comforter.”
“What does He mean ‘another?’
“The Spirit, the Comforter, dwelt bodily in the Son of God. He was their helper and comforter as long as He was with them in the flesh. That’s the reason He said that He had to go away so that He could send the Spirit down to us to abide in us. He promises to send the Spirit to live inside us if we keep His commandment about believing that the Father, Yahweh Himself, was inside Him” [v. 16].
“It keeps coming back to believing God,” I said.
“Yes, without faith and belief in what God says, there is no way to please the Creator. The concept of believing God is easy; it is our hearts that are hard. Anyway, some will achieve His abiding presence through faith or belief in His word about these things and about keeping Christ’s commands about believing that the Father dwells in Him. He said, ‘If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him’ [v. 23]. He does this by the Holy Spirit of Love coming down and staying within us in our hearts. This Spirit of God will be sent to us in Christ’s name” [v. 26].
“What does that mean?” I asked.
“We must go back to the meaning of Christ’s Hebrew name, Yahshua. Knowing the meaning of it and believing it–that is the key to understanding how the Spirit is sent to us in Christ’s name, which is ‘Yahweh is the Savior.'”
“It goes back to believing that the Father lived inside the Son.”
“That’s it,” the Seer said. “You are getting it. He will send His Spirit–and this is a promise from God Himself and He cannot lie–He will send His Spirit down to take up residence when we know and believe what His name means. That is when the Father sends the Holy Spirit in Christ’s name. And Christ promises that the Spirit will ‘teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. This is the abiding of the Spirit of God within us. Those that continue on in this full abiding presence will grow to full maturity into the manifested sons of God.'”
I composed the music to this song almost 40 years ago now. The lyrics are taken from “the last words of David,” the great Psalmist and King of Israel, found in II Samuel 23: 1-4.
As a young man, I was struck by the simple beauty of the words. It was many years later that I received a portion of their profound meaning. God said to David, “He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.” And that ruler of men “shall be as the light of the morning.”
In other words, projecting on into the soon-coming Kingdom of Heaven age after Christ’s return to earth, His rulers will have His Spirit within them, as their guiding principle; they will be impartial, for God “rains on the just and the unjust.” They will not be respectors of persons, for they will be His children, made in His image.
And because they are the “children of light,” they will “let their light so shine on all men.” They will love all men, as the morning sun shines its rays on everyone on earth.
It’s on youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiJlJgd9x1s
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Chapter 24 of the book Yah Is Savior: The Road to Immortality
Yahweh has a special calling for His people. “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Those that “make their calling and election sure” become the elect. But what is this calling exactly?
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” When they don’t have the vision for themselves that Yahweh has for them, then they will perish and wither on the vine. What is this vision that Yahweh has for this special people in the earth?
He said that He wants to make His people a kingdom of priests and kings. For He is the “King of kings.” He also is the High Priest of many priests. He says that He is making us a “peculiar nation, a royal priesthood, a chosen generation” (The word “priest” in your center column reference is rendered “teachers,” teachers of Him and His precepts and His government).
If we as Israel the people of God don’t know where we have come from and where we are going in His plan, then we are still part of the Lost Tribes of Israel. We are not found yet. We have not discovered our identity yet. But when we awaken, when His vision is quickened in our hearts, and we really see what He wants us to be as His chosen people, then it changes everything. We begin to get on fire. We begin to say, Wait a minute. I can do this. I can be what He wants me to be. But that brings us back around to the question that we must ask: What is it exactly that He wants His chosen people to be?
Paul talks about a “high calling” for the people of God. In Phillipians 3:7-15, “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge.” His people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge of who they are, who He is, and what His plan is. The knowledge of what now? Paul is saying that he is counting everything that this world has to offer as a loss for this one thing–“the excellency of the knowledge of Yahshua Messiah my Master, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Him,” that I may be part of His company of many sons.
Many times when we say the words “Savior, Messiah, the Son of God,” we think of one historical personage, but there are many members of His one body where many will walk as He walked. That is what He is wanting.
But someone will question this and say, “What do you think you are, a bunch of little Jesus Christs?” No. It is His Spirit; He wants to multiply Himself. He wants us all to manifest His Spirit of love, joy, peace, just like Paul and Peter and the other early followers.
And then someone will gainsay, “You can’t be like Him! You can’t be like Him!” And I don’t claim to be. But if you won’t let me be like Jesus, is it okay if I be like Peter? Is it okay if I be like Paul? That would be good enough.
So in the above passage Paul is going to win Yahshua and be “found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is of the law.” That means when one tries to keep the ten commandments on their own strength and not with the Spirit’s help. “But that which is through the faith (belief) of the Messiah, the righteousness which is of God by faith” (v. 8-9).
“That I may know Him” (talking about this knowledge without which we as His people are destroyed) “and the power of His resurrection…” Many times in the past I thought that knowing the power of His resurrection meant that I know what it is to have raised somebody from the dead. But that thought is all centered on ME and how great and powerful I have become! I was musing on this mighty resurrection power of the Creator and how it would surge through me to raise up a dead body. No. That is not it. Knowing the power of His resurrection means experiencing HIM changing me from a mortal to an immortal being! It is Him granting this vessel of mine immortality! Praise Yah! When this mortal puts on immortality! That is really knowing the “power of His resurrection!”
In verse 11: “If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.” These are fine phrases; these are wonderful words, but what exactly is this knowledge that He is talking about, this resurrection of the dead? “Not that I had already attained…” I am still mortal, Paul is saying. “Either were already perfect…” When that which is perfect is come—being changed from mortal to immortal—all the other temporary things like our earthly bodies will be done away with—“but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of the Master.” The Master says that you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you to bring this glorification upon.
Pretty heady stuff. It just sounds so prideful when you are talking about getting glorified. The Master said in John 17:22, “And the glory which you gave me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one.” That was His prayer! That all of us would be glorified and be one with Him! But it is difficult to fully be one with Him if we are still living in a fleshly, earthly body, for He now dwells in a glorified, spiritual body. But some will say that He was just talking about the original 12 disciples 2000 years ago, but in 17:20 He states that it is not just the 12 that He’s praying for but for “all those who shall believe through their word.” That is us!
Immortality: The High Calling
Paul continues in Phil. 3:13: “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended…” He is saying, I’m going after this thing; I want to be one of those who He is going to change into an immortal. And He knows there are many of us that it is going to happen to. “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God” (I John 3:1). But Paul now is going to forget “those things that are behind and reach forth unto those things which are before.”
What is the greatest thing in our life that we have in front of us, before us? It has got to be immortality, everlasting life, life eternal. Paul says that he is forgetting all the things in his life that have gone on before. He is forgetting the old conversation, the old worldly things that he used to talk about, forgetting the old ways of thinking, the old habits, the old way we used to be. Counting all those things that we were and that we did as dung—that old pride and arrogance—and start walking in this newness of life. Paul is saying that he will forget all the old things of his past and reach forth for this immortality that is coming. He says that he is pressing on for “the mark of the prize of the high calling” of Yah-in-human-form.
“Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded.” He didn’t say as many as “are” perfect. “Be” is the infinitive which speaks infinity, a place where there is no time or tense. He is saying, in other words, those of you that lay hold of this message of your soon coming immortality, you need to think on these things that I am telling you.
Yahweh’s high calling is for Him to be fully formed in you. Paul talks more about this in Roman 8:18. “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” In us? For the creation is waiting for the making known of the sons of God, Paul says in the next phrase. God subjected the whole creation to vanity, to no profit, to futility. “Because the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption…” (the physical corruption of our mortal bodies) “…into the glorious liberty of the children of God” (His immortal ones, just like Him).
Paul is talking immortality here, as he did in I Cor. 15, the resurrection chapter. At His coming, this earthly body, that may die and turn to dust, will be changed like unto His immortal body. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things God has prepared for those that wait upon Him and that love Him.” Immortality!
The whole creation is groaning. The people of this earth need to be delivered from the deception of worldly governments and economic systems. Look at the evil in high places. And we are groaning under the high taxes that we have to pay to the private banking corporations, the Federal Reserve System and the other Central Banks all over the world that are squeezing the people dry. These private banks, that sound so governmental, print the paper money, loan it to our government so that they can throw it away on $500 toilet seats, and we, the taxpayers, have to pay the interest on this national debt with our income taxes! This nation and all the nations of the world are in bondage, for the borrower is servant to the lender.
America is in trouble. “The creation is groaning and travailing in pain until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit.” Even us who have a bit of truth, a small portion of His Spirit, we are groaning right along with the rest of creation waiting for one thing; we are waiting for this great event to happen: the adoption, the redemption of our bodies, the putting on of immortality!
This is the high calling: to be one of the immortal ones, one of the manifested sons of God. He knew beforehand all those that He places this high calling on. And He also gave them this destiny—to be one of His immortal offspring. To be just like Himself in human form. These are the elect, the ones He has chosen before the world ever was. “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. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified…Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?” (Romans 8:28-30,33).
Destroyed for lack of knowledge
But, His people are being destroyed because they do not know who He really is. They do not know who they are nor the wonderful, pre-destined promises that He has made especially for them.
We Israelites need to realize that in not knowing this, we don’t know where we have come from. We don’t know our history nor the prophecy given over us. We don’t know where we are going. The word of Yahweh spoken over our ancestors, the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel through His prophets, all this is there to be quickened within us by belief. For His word will not return unto Him void, but will accomplish the purpose for which He spoke it. He spoke it over our ancestors, and He is speaking it over us today. And if we will take it to heart and walk in it, this world will turn around.
His purpose for His elect is immortal sonship! In Revelation 7 and 14 there are 144,000 “redeemed from among men and are the firstfruits unto God.” They are with Him in Spirit and truth, and they are standing as an army, immortal as He, for each seed bears its own kind. And where does Rev. 7 say He gets these immortal ones from? He will select them from the 12 tribes of Israel. Not from just Judah, but from the 12 tribes!
To be like Him—that is the high calling. And we need to make this calling and election sure by studying and proving all things. We must read, dig deep and put our house upon the rock where these truths will be solid. And after we have finished, we will be able to stand with Him and walk with Him. Kenneth Wayne Hancock
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Immortality Road 