Acts 19,1-7: And it came to pass, that while Apolis was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

Vs. 2. He said unto them, have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

Vs. 3, And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.

Vs. 4. Then said Paul; “John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance” saying unto the people, “that they should believe on him, which should come after him“. That is, on Christ Jesus.

Vs. 5. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Vs. 6, And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

The Apostle Paul declared to the Colossians; an insight...that revealed...“The revelation...that he had received from God.

He had heard things that were unlawful for him to utter. ...2 Corinthians 12:3-4 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

Why would the revelations that Paul had received

from God...be unlawful to utter?

Why would God want to conceal certain experiences, or words, that had been declared?

CONCEALING REVELATIONS

The withholding of certain revelations, such as that of Daniel...

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.    

was it for a reason?

God had made Jesus Christ his son a mystery that was hid from the foundations of the world.

Romans 16:25 (KJV)

The reason that Jesus was a mystery was that Satan would not know, rather the princes of the World, just how, and when...that Jesus would come to die for the sins of mankind.

Had God revealed too much information, then Satan would not have crucified the Lord.

1 Cor. 2:8 (KJV) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they were driven out of the Garden.

There were placed there flaming swords to keep the way of the tree of life.

Galatians 4:4 (KJV)

Genesis 2:17 (KJV) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Death was the sentence that was placed upon mankind and this sentence has reigned from the time of Adam’s fall.

Romans 5:14 (KJV) Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

We have in our body the sentence of death.

It is my opinion, that the only thing that holds that sentence from taking effect is the Grace of God, and God’s mercy that is shown,

Not only to the righteous, but to the sinner also.

Had Adam and Eve been able to take of the tree of life, after that when they sinned...

Satan would have been able to...not only stand in the presence of God...SATAN would have in essence...replaced God’s presence in...his created man...with his presence.

Satan then would have become like God.

Isaiah 14:14 (KJV) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

This was his ticket to the ascension to the most high.

Just as God has been Glorified in Christ Jesus... That Glory is that of the Saints of God being brought into the presence of God the Father.

It is evident that Satan could never be like God as a Angle.

Satan was not made in the Image of God.

Satan was not made from the clay

Satan never had the breath of God blown into his nostrils.

To be like God, Satan had to incarnate himself into one of God children, and, since Adam was the first son of God that was created...

INCARDINATED INTO THE FLESH

Satan knew that if he could get into the flesh that Adam had and then get Adam go to the tree of Life...eat of the fruit...

Satan then would have taken the image of God Jesus was the Express image of the Father...

Satan would have ascended up to the Throne...

Satan would have been able to sit down in the throne with God...Satan would have been like the most high.

Jesus asked the father to glorify him with the glory that he had with the father in the beginning.

John 17:5 (KJV) And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

GLORY OF THE FATHER

Jesus was the, and had the Glory of the father before the world was.

This proves that God and Jesus existed before the world was ever placed into existence.

When Adam became a living soul...The Lord took him and placed him into the Garden of Eden.

There...

God took from Adam a rib.

From that rib God made Adam a helpmeet.

This helpmeet is the Woman named Eve.

Eve was to be a companion to Adam.

Here again the Glory of the man was the woman... and...as this woman stood by side of Adam.

This was a similitude to the bride of Jesus Christ.

The Church is the bride and the righteousness of the Saints is the Glory of the Father.

THE PURPOSE OF GOD

We can say that this is the purpose of the first Adam and the helpmeet that he had created.

The bible says that God can see the end from the beginning.

Isaiah 46:10 (KJV)

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

We must realize that...when we are talking of the end from the beginning...that God through Jesus Christ...In Jesus Christ made...both the beginning... and the end...and...everything in between.

God declared the End from Jesus Christ...which is... the beginning.

The End of the Matter is Jesus Christ.

The law made those...that had not sinned...after the similitude of Adam...Which had death to rein over them...been made to know that...in that law there were the councils of God...

A promise of the hope that each and everyone that had a hope of being delivered from the death and the grave..

God through the Law revealed first, that sin was exceedingly sinful and that the man...had fallen from the Garden...and all...that followed...were to look to Jesus Christ.

If Man was to ever be lifted up and Glorified again, it would only come through the one that was mentioned in the law.

The law itself could not deliver mankind up to the father...to receive...the Glory that God the father wanted...through his son Jesus before the world was created.

Through the pain staking mercy and the councils that God the Father placed in Jesus Christ...there he was able to make...cause his councils...to come to pass.

You have to know that God wanted Adam and Eve to enjoy this from the very beginning...and...if they had not yielded to the Serpent...surely things would have been a lot different.

We can see how God at times became weary with those of time past...how he wanted to destroy them from the face of the earth.

God made an attempt to wipe sin out.

God wanted man to follow in the righteousness of that of his son.

Yet man just couldn’t get away from the presence of the Serpent.

The serpent was driven out of the Garden...through the flesh that Adam and Eve had...took up his rein in that habitation.

SATAN’S SEED

We can see Satan coming through the flesh through Cain.

At the same time we can see the councils of God coming through Able.

LEFT US A SEED

As it was said that had not God left us a seed.

Romans 9:29 (KJV)

And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.

SODOM AND GOMORRA

We certainly would be destroyed by fire. as the cities of Sodom and Gomorra.

By the way...isn’t that one of the Prophesies...that foretells the end of those who do not follow God and who follow after Satan?.

Luke 17:28 (KJV)

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

GLORIFIED IN HIS CREATION

As the Lord said that he then had been Glorified with the Glory of a son...even though he was a created living soul.

God the father became Glorified in that creation, and God has referred to the Saints as the place of his residence and that is what he wants more than his own majesty.

To prove this we only need to look at the verse in John 3. 16.

John 3:16 (KJV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

We just take what God has done for us as something that could or did happen because God had nothing else better to do.

The whole existence of God, is that of God himself existing in his saints.

It is a mistake for us to think that we have the ability to make ourselves righteous by our own doings.

JESUS CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUSNESS

Jesus Christ is our righteousness and in him along can we enter into the presence of God the Father.

Had not Jesus been prepared from the beginning as our redemption, we would have been all been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

MERCY EXTENDED

Thank God that as he looked upon Lot with his mercy.

The mercy had been extended to Lot, because of that which God had prepared in Christ.

The Lord reached down when the evil surrounding were to be burned up by fire.

He extended his mercy to Lot.

That is the same mercy, which he, showed when he died on the cross.

He delivered us from the curse that Malachi had pronounced upon mankind.

Lot was taken by the hand and commanded to leave the place and not to look back.

We today are commanded to come out from among the world and be separate.

2 Cor. 6:17 (KJV) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

As fire rained down upon those cities in those days, that fire was the judgment type that was there at the cross when Jesus came.

The Bible states that he came in the fullness of time.

Galatians 4:4 (KJV) But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

CHRIST THE REDEEMER

Daniel spoke of the time that Jesus would come to redeem those that were looking for him.

Jesus said that the Kingdom of Heaven suffered violence From John the Baptist until Christ...and... he also stated that the violent takes it by force.

Matthew 11:12 (KJV) And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

This is where we miss the revelation of what Jesus had done for all the saints of God on the cross.

As Job was given into the hand of Satan to try him and as Satan continually came in the presence of

God when the Old Testament Saints appeared, Satan appeared there also.

Job 1:6 (KJV) Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.

What Job was saying was, as Jesus said, That Satan stood in the presence of God along side of the Old testament saints...accused them continually.

You see There was no mediator there to represent those that come to God...unlike today...we have a mediator to represent us.

This mediator not only confesses us to the Father... he took our penalty of Death...the Curse that was placed upon mankind...took that...nailed it to the cross...then...he took that to Hell...put it where it belongs...then he came out of Hell...rose up and confronted those of his followers...displayed that he was not dead but was alive.

When Jesus did this he made an open show of Satan.

Jesus defeated him and took his right away from him...to stand in the presence of God...to accuse the brothers and sisters of the Lord.

Jesus then Cast him out of the presence of God into the world and when he came into the world he went to make war with the saints.

Yes the Old Testament Saints were given into his hand until a time, times and a dividing of time.

This is the three and half years of the first part of tribulation that was to come on mankind.

This is the penalty that Adam and Eve and the whole creation groaned and traveled with until the Adoption took place.

Romans 8:23 (KJV) And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

What Daniel had declared that was to take place was that of the Coming of Jesus.

Daniel was allowed to reveal only those things that would not give Satan a hint as to how this was to happen.

THAT WHICH WITHHOLD WILL LET

God had to withhold from mankind certain things, had he not done so, they would not have crucified the lord.

1 Cor. 2:8 (KJV) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

WEAR OUT THE SAINTS

To sum up the matter is this, The Old Testament Saints were given into the hands of Satan to accuse and to kill and to wear out the Saints until Jesus came and there at the river of Jordan when John the Baptist and Jesus was being baptized,

There Appeared The Holy Ghost.

This Holy Ghost was The voice of the Father and there was the Three that are in Heaven bearing witness to those who stood by.

Luke 3:22 (KJV) And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

This is the beginning of the taking and lifting of the curse that was upon mankind.

INFALLIBLE PROOFS

Jesus walked and did many infallible proof’s of the power of God among his believers.

For three and half years he did these great miracles and the came the final moment, after he had placed into the hearts of those who followed him.

He then walked into the place which was supposed to be that of a holy city.

He rode in not as with a king of man made credentials.

He rode on a lowly jack ass and to come up to the place where Satan had taken the Law which was given on Mt. Sinai and he thought to change that Law so that he could hold dominion over Gods people.

Satan thought to change things around to set himself up in the Seat Of God.

That seat was the heart of those priest’s that stood there.

These had made an agreement with Hell itself and took and placed between man and God a wall so high that no one could get over it with out their permission.

the time.

Matthew 8:29 (KJV) And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

THE BAPTISM OF JESUS

When Jesus came out of that water there in Jordan, then began he to teach and to deliver those who were diseased and oppressed of the Devil.

Here is where Satan knew that he was up against the one that was there in the Garden of Eden. that tree of Life that was there for the taking and by taking of that tree of life.

Adam and Eve could have lived forever in the presence of God’s Love.

GOD’S LOVE

Here again come the full force of Gods Love, once again here is the Love and presence of God again wanting more than anything that he was and is, to be Glorified in the Saints that he had the privilege to be able to walk with in the Garden of Eden, here once again the Lord was walking in the presence of his creation, and not only to walk with them on earth, he was getting ready to Adopt us back into the presence of the Glory of God and to be able to come down to us through the Holy Ghost and to take up his abode in our hearts.

Daniel 7:25 (KJV) And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

After that day when Jesus Hang on the Cross and gave his life for us and shed his sinless blood for us, we are no longer given into his hands.

We have Power over Satan to push him far away from us.

Praise God Almighty. This is enough to make one shout his way out of any thing that comes our way.

Too bad that those that can’t see what Daniel was saying and still like to hold onto the Law of commandants and traditions of the elders and still want to give Satan the opportunity to hold dominion over them. and in doing so they can have dominion over the lives of each other.

Jesus said that he has made us free and free indeed.

John 8:36 (KJV) If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

When they come to you and tell you that you have to do this and do that, you need to resist them and tell Satan to get behind you.

They that know and worship God, worship him in Spirit and Truth, That Truth is Jesus Christ, Jesus said that he was and is the truth.

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

If you think that you can get to the Father by any way except through Jesus, you are going to find yourself lost and except you go through Jesus, you will end up in Hell.

What a sad tragedy to think that just because we do this or that we have gained the approval of the Father.

God the father only looks at you through his Son Jesus Christ and Jesus came not to Judge

Jesus came to give life to those who will come and believe on his name and who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

God had in the beginning created everything through and by Jesus Christ.

IN THE BEGINNING

We must underscore the thought that, when we talk about the beginning.

The beginning was Jesus Christ, he was the beginning and all things that were created were created by him and for him.

Col. 1:16 (KJV) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

This brings up the point that I need to make, that when God and Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost put into the creation...all things that were created... they had a plan.

That plan had to do with creating an existence of individuals to be like and to exist the same as they were and had brought this into existence the very nature of the trinity that they were.

In this plan there had to be a choice made for the existence to exist by choice.

God made the Angels and they had two choices.

The Angles either served God or they were driven out of the presence of God.

The Angles could not find repentance for their failure to serve God.

As humans that was created in the Image of God, we have the choice to serve him or reject him. as do the Angles.

We humans can be redeemed through choice back to God.

When the plan was placed into effect, God had created both good and Evil.

Isaiah 45:7 (KJV) I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

God is saying that he created Satan, Satan was not evil when he was created, he too had a choice to make and he made the choice to oppose God and follow in his own desires to reject the love of God and go in the way that he desired to go.

SATAN WANTED TO ASCEND

His desires was to, not only ascend and overthrow God, but to bring into his authority as many of those Angles that would follow his ways.

Satan, when he did this, God had to have a plan in his creation to trap Satan and to rid him from the presence of God and the environment in which God wanted his creation to exist in.

God has wanted to abide with his creation.

He created into his plan, the means, where he could have each of his individuals, who he had created, to serve and abide with him through their choice.

In the plan, as I said, was a way to get rid of evil and separate evil from good.

Satan had been given great wisdom and talents and could be rightly thought of as one that was wiser than Daniel;

Ezekiel 28:3 (KJV) Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

Daniel, with his ability, had the means to know what was going to happen before it happened.

INTERPRET DREAMS

Daniel could and did interpret dreams and was said to have the wisdom of the Holy Gods.

Daniel was a gifted individual and God used him to reveal things to us that would take place in Gods plan before it ever took place.

God limited his revelations to his prophets for the reason that, if he revealed too much information, Satan would be wise to what would be taking place and he; Satan would not fall into the trap that God had set for him.

1 Cor. 2:8 (KJV) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

The cross was the most vivid plan that God had put into the creation.

God not only knew that the cross was necessary.

God knew from the beginning that this was going to be the ultimate decision that would rid Satan from the presence of God and his Creation.

Jesus was prepared from the foundations of the world.

Rev. 13:8 (KJV) 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.

This is why it was and is necessary to not reveal all of the revelations that God showed to certain of his followers.

Many of us today, God reveals his secrets to, we don’t know how to keep it to ourselves.

We need to ask God to let us know when he wants a matter revealed.

Paul wanted to reveal to those in his time, those revelations, and had he done so, it might have deterred Gods plan from taking place.

Today, when we go off on a blabbing spree, we too can hinder the Spirit from accomplishing the goal that is desired of God.

Paul said it was not lawful to utter the revelations that he had heard. He could not speak spiritual things to certain individuals.

Paul recognized that, to speak spiritual revelations to an individual, that individual needed to be spiritual himself.

You and I cannot speak spiritual things to carnal minded individuals.

The carnal mind cannot receive spiritual things from God.

Romans 8:7 (KJV) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Paul desired to reveal to the church some insights to the revelations of God.

The church at Corinth was carnal and could not receive those revelations.

1 Cor. 3:1-3 (KJV) And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

[2] I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

[3] For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

HIGH PLACES

Satan, when he encountered Eve there in the Garden of Eden, he must have shown Eve the same thing that he showed Jesus when he took Jesus up into a exceedingly high mountain.

Satan showed Jesus, who was the second Adam, The second Adam was before the first Adam, all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

This gives us the clue or evidence that Satan having the ability to reveal to anyone, who will be a worshiper of him, those things that could convince an individual to think that he is in control of the world and the kingdoms of the world.

Let’s stop and think for a moment and listen to what the Holy Ghost is saying about this.

Adam the Son of God had a wife who is the bride and Eve was tempted and succumbed to his ability to declare to her that he had and is in control of this world.

She saw his revelation of the kingdoms of the world that he had set in order.

Now think about it for a moment and compare to that of Jesus when Satan took him into an exceedingly high mountain where he showed Jesus all of the kingdoms in a moment of time.

Here is the second Adam, Satan had gotten the first Adam to fall and succumb to his devices, now once again here is the very son of God who had made him and given to him all of his wisdom and ability, that wisdom exceeded the wisdom of Daniel. Daniel had the wisdom to interpret and reveal dreams and revelations and here standing in the presence of the one who had created him, he thought that he would be able to, with his ability to draw Jesus the Second Adam away from his purpose.

He got to the bride of the first Adam and corrupted her and by doing so she gave birth to hatred and a murder.

CARNALITY REIGNED AS ENMITY

The carnality of flesh had ruled among those who he was able to draw away.

THE CHURCH

Now he thought that he had the church locked into his kingdom and he had took the kingdom by force.

Matthew 11:12 (KJV) And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.

Here Satan thought that he had the bride, the church, under his dominion.

It looked like he had gotten up into the highest seat.

The seat that he occupied there in Jerusalem, when Christ was born, was the heart of those priests.

Jesus had some hard words to say to those who had built a wall between Gods people and true worship.

John 8:44 (KJV) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Jesus is referring to Cain that was the first murder and the first liar.

You see Cain was the first seed that Satan had produced or planted into the world in the form of the flesh.

Satan had through Cain accomplished the object of setting himself in the seat of God.

Ezekiel 28:2 (KJV) Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Tyrus was an example of Satan in his crafty endeavors to accomplish the plan to take God out of the hearts of those who are deceived and place himself in that seat.

Satan was the most subtle beast of the Field in Eden and was there in Eden to temp Eve.

Ezekiel 28:13 (KJV) Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

Ezekiel 31:8-9 (KJV) The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

[9] I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

These trees in the Garden of Eden is the Angles that was deceived into believing his lies.

Tyrus was a nation or city that had in it everything that anyone would think to be the grandest.

The wisdom of those who made up the city of tyrus had through the wisdom of this world, and the wisdom that was gained through the institutions that had been established in those days drew people from every corner of the world to it.

The city was magnificent in every way.

Those who occupied it had no need of God.

They had given their power to Satan and he had set himself up to proclaim that he was God.

God had no choice except to completely destroy and bring this great place into ruins.

The place was so devastated by the wrath of God that it was said that it would be good for only one thing, that to place fish nets upon to dry them out.

Ezekiel 26:4 (KJV) And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

Ezekiel 27:2-3 (KJV) Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

[3] And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.

Satan had through the Old Testament been compared to the flesh in his ability to accomplish his desires.

Satan had gotten into the flesh and had forced his ways onto mankind every since Cain killed his brother Able.

Satan did not like to serve God and was not going to do so if he had any ability to defy God.

Satan has ever since the Garden took his murder and hatred to all of Gods creation and done the utmost to turn what God had created into a puppet for his own selfish desires.

He took Jesus into the exceeding high mountain and showed Jesus all of the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

This had to be the most persuasive attempt to destroy God.

Satan said that he would be like the most High.

Isaiah 14:14 (KJV) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

When we look back to the time of the Tower of Babel, we can see that God himself said that with the minds of those who wanted to build a tower, that nothing would be withheld from them.

Genesis 11:6 (KJV) And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

It was the intent of those in those days to do what we see done in this 21st century.

A tower was a way of identifying to the rest of the word that certain ones had accomplished all that they had imagined.

Man wants to excel to the highest seats, and to hold dominion over others, and today that is what is happening, using the Law to excel.

They take Occasion by the law, bring those into bondage around them.

Jesus said...” I set your Free and your are free indeed”