GOD'S MINISTRY
THROUGH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH
BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Revs. Mr. and Mrs. H. Dean Daniels

E-mail: gods-ministry@hdd-gods-ministry.com

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BREATH OF LIFE – PART I

 

Spirit of Life

 

John 20:22  And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

 

Ezekiel 36:37  Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock. [38] As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

 

[I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them]

 

Israel will yet pray for full restoration before God brings it to pass.  The great tribulation of the future will bring them to full repentance and dependence upon God (Isaiah 64; Zech. 12:10-13:1; Matthew 23:37-39; Romans 11:25-29).

 

Valley which was full of dry bones

 

Ezekiel 37:1  The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

 

[The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones ...]

 

Fourteen Predictions—Unfulfilled:

 

1.   I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live (Ezekiel 37:5).

2.   I will lay sinews upon you (Ezekiel 37:6).

3.   I will bring flesh upon you.

4.   I will cover you with skin.

5.   I will put breath in you.

6.   You will live (Ezekiel 37:6,14).

7.   You will know that I am Jehovah.

8.   Prophesy to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain that they may live (Ezekiel 37:9).

9.   I will open your graves (Ezekiel 37:12).

10. I will cause you to come out of your graves.

11. I will bring you into the land of Israel.

12. You will know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and brought you out of them (Ezekiel 37:13).

13. I will put My Spirit in you (Ezekiel 37:14).

14. I will place you in your own land:  then you will know that I Jehovah have spoken it, and performed it.

 

[hand of the LORD was upon me]

 

Ezekiel 3:14  So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

 

[in the spirit of the LORD]

 

By the Spirit (Ezekiel 37:1; Ezekiel 1:1,3; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 11:24-25; Ezekiel 40:2-3; cp. Rev. 1:10).

 

[valley]

 

Plain, as in Ezekiel 3:22-23; Ezekiel 8:4.

Ezekiel 37:2  And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

 

[can these bones live?]

 

Ezekiel 37:3  And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. [4]  Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

 

[ye dry bones]

 

Israel is here symbolized under the figure of a valley of dry bones being brought back to life in the bodies of a great army of men.  It pictures scattered Israel being brought back from the nations and living again as a nation themselves, in their own land, as explained in Ezekiel 37:11-28

 

Ezekiel 37:5  Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: [6]  And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

 

[And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live]

 

Note the order of making a body here:

 

1.   The bones or frame (Ezekiel 37:5-6)

2.   The sinews

3.   The flesh upon the bones and sinews

4.   The skin or outer covering of flesh

5.   The breath of life

 

Ezekiel 37:7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. [8]  And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. [9]  Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

 

[these slain]

 

These slain—suggesting violent deaths of people who had once lived.  Now they were being made to live again.  Of course, the whole picture is symbolic of the nations of Israel who, once alive and in the grace and favor of God, had become dead because of sin, and now were being brought back into proper relationship with God to live again (Ezekiel 37:11-14)

 

Ezekiel 37:10  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. [11]  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

 

[Then he said unto me, Son of man ...]

 

Then—when the vision is completed, the interpretation was given so there would be no misunderstanding of the true meaning.

 

[these bones are the whole house of Israel]

 

The vision concerns Israel, not dead churches or Gentiles, as often taught.  These bones are the whole house of Israel, not dried up churches.

 

[they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost:  we are cut off for our parts]

 

Three things Israel said:

 

1.   Our bones are dried.

2.   Our hope is lost.

3.   We are cut off.

 

Ezekiel 37:12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

 

[them]

 

The whole house of Israel, not a part of it; hence, there will be no division of the kingdom when this is fulfilled.

 

[my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel]

 

The whole house of Israel are My people, and I will open their graves and cause them to come out of them, and I will bring them into the land of Israel again.

 

[graves]

 

 The nations where the Jews are scattered are the symbolic graves of Israel (Ezekiel 37:12-14).  It is from these that all the tribes of Jacob will be gathered.  At that time, God will save them and put The Holy Spirit in them, and they will live in His presence eternally (Ezekiel 37:14).

 

Future Regathering of Israel

 

The prediction here is that the Lord will gather Israel again a second time. This indicates a previous gathering. When? At the time of the gathering of all members of the thirteen tribes who wanted to return to their own land after the Babylonian captivity. This was the first gathering of Israel from among the nations as pictured in Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. They kept coming back in great numbers until they were a great nation again in the days of Christ. He then predicted their defeat by the Romans and the complete destruction of their city and temple again as in the days of Nebuchadnezzar over 600 years before. Furthermore, He predicted the captivity of Israel, or the Jews, among all nations again (Luke 21:20-24), declaring their house would be left desolate until the latter days (Matthew 23:37-39). The statement "again the second time" could not have been fulfilled until the first gathering from Babylon and other nations had been accomplished and their second dispersion had come to pass, which was in A.D. 70 when the Romans took them captive among all nations, fulfilling Luke 21:20-24. God has never regathered them since this dispersion; It is yet to be in the future as of the date of this writing 4/10/07. According to the prediction by Isaiah, the gathering will take place "again the second time" and then the Messiah will rule over the nation forever (Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 11:1-12:5; Isaiah 39:20-21).

 

Thirty-five Proofs Both Houses of Israel will be Gathered again from All Nations:

 

1.   The Lord will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth (Isaiah 11:11-12).

2.   The Lord will yet choose Israel and Jacob, and will set them in their own land (not in a new land never promised, Isaiah 14:1).

3.   The people (Gentiles) shall bring them to their own place, and the house of Israel shall possess their oppressors (Isaiah 14:2).

4.   You shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel ... and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem (Isaiah 27:12-13).

5.   I will bring your seed (Israel—Jacob) from the east, west, north, and south ... from the ends of the earth; even every one that is called by My name (Isaiah 43:5-7).

6.   Bring My sons from afar (Isaiah 60:9-22).

7.   They shall bring all your brethren ... to My holy mountain Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:20).

8.   At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord ... In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they (both houses of Israel) shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance to your fathers (Jeremiah 3:17-18).

9.   The days come that it shall be said ... the Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel ... from all lands whither He had driven them: and I will bring them again into their own land that I gave to their fathers (Jeremiah 16:14-16; Jeremiah 23:5-8).

10. I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds ... and they shall fear no more (Jeremiah 23:3-8).

11. I will bring them (Judah) again to this land and I will build them (Jeremiah 24:5-7).

12. I will bring again the captivity of My people Israel and Judah . . . I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it ... These are the words the Lord spake concerning Israel and Judah: ... in the latter days you shall consider it ... At that time I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people ... I will gather them from the coasts of the earth ... He that scattered Israel shall gather him . . . they shall come to Zion ... I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah ... they shall be My people (Jeremiah 30:3-31:40; Jeremiah 32:37-44).

13. I will cause the captivity of Judah and Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first (one nation, no more divided) ... In those days ... I will cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David ... In those days Judah shall be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely ... David will never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel (Jeremiah 33:7-26; Jeremiah 46:27-28).

14. I will bring Israel again to his habitation ... In those days . . . the iniquity of Israel will be sought for ... and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found (Jeremiah 50:19-20; Zech. 12:10-12; Romans 11:25-29).

15. I will gather you out of all countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel ... I will give them a new heart and spirit ... and they shall be My people, and I will be their God (Ezekiel 11:17-20; Ezekiel 16:60-63).

16. I will bring you out of all countries ... I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. And I will purge out from among you the rebels ... For in My holy mountain ... there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve Me ... I will bring you out of the countries wherein you have been scattered ... You shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for which I lifted up My hand to give it to your fathers (Ezekiel 20:33-44).

17. When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their own land that I have given to Jacob ... they shall dwell safely ... with confidence (Ezekiel 28:25-26).

18. I will search out My sheep ... As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day they are scattered ... I will bring them out from all countries and bring them into their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel ... I will set up one shepherd over them ... even My servant David (Ezekiel 34:11-31).

19. Concerning the land of Israel ... I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it (not leaving Judah out) ... I will take you from the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land ... I will give you a new heart . . . you shall dwell in the land that I gave your fathers ... In the day I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities ...This land shall become like the garden of Eden (Ezekiel 36:6-38)

20. These bones are the whole house of Israel (not Judah only) ... I will open your graves ... and bring you into your own land ... I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen ... I will make them one nation upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all ... they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob ... My servant David will be their prince forever (Ezekiel 37).

21. In the latter years ... In the latter days I will bring you (Antichrist) against My land (of Israel) ... I will set My glory among the heathen ... So the house of Israel shall know that I am Jehovah from that day and forever (Ezekiel 38-39).

22. The children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head (Hosea 1:10-11).

23. The children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, prince, sacrifice, image, ephod, or teraphim. Afterward shall the children of Israel return (to their land), and seek the Lord, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter days (Hosea 3:4-5).

24. In those days, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem ... the Lord will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel ... Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation ... for the Lord dwells in Zion (Joel 3).

25. I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like corn is sifted in a sieve ... In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David which is fallen ... I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old ... And I will bring again the captivity of My people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them ... And I will plant them in their own land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them (Amos 9:9-15). The apostle James, the half-brother of Jesus Christ, said that this prophecy of Amos would be fulfilled after the church age and said that all the prophets agreed with this (Acts 15:13-18).

26. Upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness: and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions (possess the promised land) ... the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canannites ... the captivity of Jerusalem (Judah) shall possess the cities of the south. And saviors shall come up on Mount Zion to judge ... and the kingdom shall be the Lord's (Obadiah 17-21). Paul, the apostle, said that this deliverance on Mount Zion would be at the return of Christ and when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, and that at that time all Israel should be saved (Romans 11:25-29).

27. I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as sheep ... the Lord at the head of them ... the Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion from henceforth, even forever ... the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem (Micah 2:12-13; Micah 4:1-8).

28. Therefore will He (the Messiah of Isaiah 11:1-2) give them (Israel) up until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth (the woman has brought forth manchild, Isaiah 66:7-8; Daniel 12:1; Rev. 12): then the remnant of His (the Messiah's) brethren shall return unto the children of Israel ... the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people ... And I will execute vengeance upon the heathen (Micah 5:3-15).

29. The remnant of the house of Judah shall feed thereupon ... the Lord their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity ... for My determination is to gather all nations, assemble all kingdoms, to pour upon them all My fierce anger ... the remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies ... the King of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of you: you shall not see evil any more. In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, fear not ... The Lord thy God in the midst of you is mighty ... At that time I will bring you again, even in the time that I gather you ... when I turn back your captivity (Zeph. 2:7-3:20).

30. Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day ... the Lord shall inherit Judah His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again (Zech. 2:8-13).

31. I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain ... old men and women and boys and girls shall dwell there ... I will save My people ... I will bring them and they shall dwell in Jerusalem: and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness (Zech. 8:1-8).

32. I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them (both houses of Israel) again to place them ... they shall walk in My name (Zech. 10:6-12).

33. In that day the governors of Judah shall be like a hearth among burning wood (remain after the wood is devoured) ... Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem. The Lord shall save the tents of Judah first ... In that day the Lord shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them shall be as David; and the house of David shall be like God ... in that day I will seek to destroy all nations that come against Jerusalem. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications ... In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and uncleanness ... one shall say unto Him, What are these wounds in Thine hands? Then He shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of My friends (Judah and Israel) ... two parts shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire (future great tribulation) and will refine them as silver ... Behold the day of the Lord cometh ... For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle ... Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations ... His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives ... the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with Thee . . . the Lord shall be king over all the earth in that day ... Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited ... Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem ... everyone that is left of all these nations shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles ... In that day ... every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord (Zech. 12:1-14:21).

34. Who may abide the day of His coming? Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old . . . I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse (Malachi 3:2-5; Malachi 4:1-6).

35. He shall send forth His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other (Matthew 24:31).

 

When God gave the law of Moses He saw that Israel would not obey it in the future. He made many predictions then that they would be scattered among the nations and be gathered again in the last days to serve their Messiah in the land. These predictions were made when Israel was one nation, and they must be fulfilled with both houses of Israel, not with Judah only. There is not the slightest reference to Judah being cut off and the ten tribes being blessed and led to a new promised land, as is sometimes erroneously taught.

 

Ten Predictions in the Law of Moses:

 

1.   I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation ... I will bring your land into desolation: and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you (all thirteen tribes, not just Judah) among the heathen . . . ye shall perish among the heathen ... yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break My covenant with them (Leviticus 26:16-45).

 

2.   When you shall beget children, and children's children, and shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord your God, to provoke Him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land ... you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed. And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be few in number among the heathen ... When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you, even in the latter days, if you will turn to the Lord, and be obedient unto His voice ... He will not forsake you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers (Deut. 4:25-31).

 

3.   The Lord shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, unto a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known ... you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead you ... you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars in number ... you shall be plucked from off the land ... the Lord shall scatter you among all people, from one end of the earth even unto the other ... among these nations ... you shall have no assurance of life (Deut. 28:36-68).

 

4.   Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus to this land (promised land) ... Then men will say, Because they (all Israel, not Judah only) have forsaken the covenant of the Lord ... For they went and served other gods, and worshiped them ... And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book. And the Lord rooted them out of their land in His anger, and in wrath ... and cast them into another land, as it is this day (Deut. 29:24-28).

 

5.   When all these things are come upon you ... you call them to mind among all nations whither the Lord has driven you. And you shall return unto the Lord, and obey His voice ... that then the Lord will turn your captivity ... and will return and gather you from all nations, whither the Lord has scattered you ... from there will the Lord gather you ... bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it, and He will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers ... and the Lord will put all these curses upon your enemies ... you shall return and obey the Lord ... if you turn to the Lord with all your heart (Deut. 30:1-10).

 

6.   But if your heart turn away from God to serve other gods ... you shall surely perish, and you shall not prolong your days upon the land . . . choose life that both you and your seed may live ... that you may dwell in the land the Lord sware to give your fathers (Deut. 30:17-20).

 

7.   You (Moses) shall sleep with your fathers; and this people shall go a whoring after the gods of strangers ... and break My covenant. Then My anger shall be kindled against them ... many evils shall befall them ... write this song as a witness against them (Deut. 31:16-21).

 

8.   I know that after my (Moses') death you shall utterly corrupt yourselves ... and evil shall befall you in the latter days (Deut. 31:29)

 

9.   I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men ... the Lord will repent Himself ... and will be merciful unto His land and to His people (Deut. 32:26-44).

 

10. He shall thrust out the enemy before you ... Israel shall then dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be ... saved by the Lord (Deut. 33:27-29).

 

Ezekiel 37:13-14  And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, [14] And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

 

[your own land]

 

Your own land—the promised land of Palestine.

 

[then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it]

 

Then—when all this is fulfilled you (all Israel) will know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it.  All this remains to be completely fulfilled.  Of course it is now beginning to be fulfilled and a sufficient number of Jews have already gone back to their land to make a nation; they have had a nation since A.D. 1948.  The prophecy will continue in fulfillment until the whole house of Israel is gathered back at the second coming of Christ to the earth.  It is said that about 10,000 Jews or Israelites a month are returning to their own land.  Israel is becoming a greater nation every year, but the complete fulfillment of these predictions will not be until the Millennium.  The predictions of Ezekiel 34:11-31; Ezekiel 36:1-38; Ezekiel 37:1-28 and many other chapters remain to be fulfilled in the future.

 

Another fulfilling of prophecy!

 

Ezekiel 37:12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

 

A Prophecy was also fulfilled By

Jesus Christ at His resurrection!

 

Matthew 27:45  Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. 46  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [47]  Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.[48]  And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.[49]  The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.

 

[50]  Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.[51]  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;[52]  And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,[53]  And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.[54]  Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.[55]  And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:[56]  Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children.

 

The Breath of God includes (John 4:24)

The Breath of life

That we might have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10)!

 

The Prophet Joel Prophesied

 

Joel 2:28   And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: [29] And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

 

[30] And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. [31] The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come. [32] And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

 

Jesus Said!

“I am the way, The Truth and The life”

 

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Also, after the Crucifixion of Christ

 

John 20:10   Then the disciples went away again unto their own home. [11] But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, [12] And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. [13] And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him. [14] And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. [15] Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. [16] Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. [17] Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. [18] Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. [19] Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

 

[20]  And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord. [21] Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. [22] And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

 

Jesus Christ came:

That He might destroy the works of the devil!

 

1 John 3:8   He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. [9] Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. [10] In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

 

[destroy] Greek: luo (GSN-3089), to undo; loosen; release; set free; do away with (notice 2 Peter 3:10).

 

[works of the devil]

 

Twenty-five Works of the Devil

 

1. Sin—rebellion (Genesis 3:2 Cor. 11:3)

2. Works of darkness, including moral sedition and sex perversion (Ephes. 5:11; Ephes. 6:12; Acts 16:18; Romans 1)

3. Works of wickedness (Col. 1:21)

4. Spiritual blindness (2 Cor. 4:4)

5. Stealing the Word of God (Matthew 13:19)

6. Deceptions and false religions (2 Cor. 11:14; 1 Tim. 4; Rev. 12:9)

7. To kill and destroy (John 10:10)

8. Sowing tares, tempting, and sifting saints (Matthew 4:3; Matthew 13:25; Luke 22:31)

9. Promoting counterfeit worship and miracles (2 Thes. 2:8-12; 1 Cor. 10:20)

10. Causing storms (Job 1:18-19; Ephes. 2:2)

11. Ruling nations (Matthew 4:8-9; Daniel 10)

12. Executing death (Hebrews 2:14-15)

13. Accusing the brethren (Rev. 12:10)

14. Hindering prayers (Daniel 10:12-21)

15. Opposing the gospel (Ephes. 6:1-18)

16. Supervising demons (John 12:31), fallen angels (Rev. 12:7-12), and fallen man (Ephes. 2:2; 1 John 3:8; John 8:44)

17. Causing sickness and disease (Matthew 4:23-24; Matthew 9:32-33; Matthew 15:22; Acts 10:38)

18. Causing infirmities (Matthew 8:17; Luke 13:16; John 10:10; Acts 10:38)

19. Causing lunacy and mania (Matthew 4:23-24; Matthew 17:14-21; Mark 5:1-18)

20. Urging suicides (Matthew 17:15; John 10:10)

21. Agitating lusts (John 8:44; Ephes. 2:1-3)

22. Lying and false prophecy (1 Kings 22; Matthew 24:11,24; 2 Cor. 11:13-15)

23. Propagating false doctrines (1 Tim. 4; 2 Tim. 4; 2 Thes. 2; Rev. 13)

24. Oppressing men (Acts 10:38)

25. Persecuting Christians and warring on saints (Ephes. 6:10-18; 1 Peter 5:8-9).

 

Christ died and arose again to destroy the works of the devil (Rev. 1:18) and for those who repent of their sins and transgressions against God which confess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour thereby giving the new convert complete mastery over Satan (Col. 2:14-17; 1 Peter 2:24; Luke 10:19; John 14:12; Mark 16:17-18). The only works listed above that will not be put down in this age are:  all sin and rebellion among men; Satan's rule of the nations; the reign of death; and continued opposition of Satan to saints. These will be done away in the Millennium (Ephes. 1:10; 1 Cor. 15:24-28; Rev. 21:1-8; Rev. 22:3).

 

An inserted comment with scriptural proof

 

1 John 3:9  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

 

[born of God]

 

Facts of new birth, notice Galatians 4:19.

 

[commit]

 

Greek: poieo (GSN-4160), to do; commit; practice; perform (1 John 3:4,8,9; Luke 12:48; John 8:34).

 

[for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God]

 

This explains how a man born of God does not commit sin.

 

Seven Fallacies Based on 1 John 3:9

 

1. That a born-again person cannot sin.

2. That his sins are not real ones.

3. That God automatically forgives his sins without confession.

4. That God does not see his sins; instead He sees the blood of Christ which he is trusting in.