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2) to call and prepare a chosen people to be born as IMmortal Spirit
Persons in the GOD
FAMILY, to RULE, with and under Christ, all nations of the earth--and to JUDGE
all who
ever lived in the JUDGMENT DAY when they shall be resurrected--after the coming
thousand-
year reign of God's Kingdom over all nations on earth. Those people now being
called and
prepared will constitute the spiritual TEMPLE to which Christ shall come the
second time
in POWER and GREAT GLORY!
The churches of this world know nothing of this two-fold PURPOSE! They
have not
proclaimed His Gospel Message. They know nothing of His Government, based on His
spiritual
LAW, and in no way have prepared people to rule in God's Government with THE LAW
OF
GOD.
The true Church started out in the POWER of the Holy Spirit of God. But by
A.D. 53,
when the apostle Paul wrote the letter to the Galatians, that Gospel Message was
being
SUPPRESSED (Gal. 1:6-7). By A.D. 70 the true Church went underground, a
PERSECUTED Church
described in Revelation 12. The great false church had risen described in
Revelation 17.
By 1927, when God first challenged me into the most intensive, in-depth
night-and-day
Bible study, the Church had become virtually dead spiritually (Rev. 3:1).
Now HOW HAS GOD WORKED THROUGH HUMANS? He has always worked through
one man at a time as a leader. He gave the promises on which all salvation
depends to ONE
MAN, Abraham. He repromised them to ONE man, Isaac, and again to Jacob. Four
hundred
thirty years after Abraham, God raised up ONE MAN as leader--Moses. Moses was
specially
trained from childhood. He didn't let Moses die until his commission of leading
the chosen
people to the promised land was COMPLETED, when Moses was 120 years old.
God used ONE MAN to lead the Israelites across the Jordan river into that
promised
land. After Joshua, at first there was no leader. Every man did what was right
in his own
eyes. The Israelites disobeyed God and soon became a conquered vassal nation.
God raised
up ONE MAN--a "judge"--to deliver them into freedom again. Again and again the
nation
sinned and became a vassal nation. Again each time God raised up ONE MAN to
deliver them --
see book of Judges.