Year: 2014

The Old Testament Hebrew Manuscripts foretold of the ‘first’ coming of Messiah Jesus Christ; His birth, His Mission, and how He would suffer on the cross. So why don’t the majority of Jews believe that Christ came and fulfilled that Mission as Savior, especially since those Jews are in possession of The Hebrew Manuscripts?

The reason many of the ‘house of Judah’ today, i.e. Jews, still haven’t accepted Jesus Christ as Messiah, believe it or not, was and is part of God’s Plan. Well why would God do that to His People? Consider what Peter says:

1 Pet 2:7-10
7    Unto you therefore which believe He is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the Stone Which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
8    And a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
9    But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light:
10    Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
(KJV)

     Peter is letting us know that the ‘nations’ who accepted Christ as Savior, at one time ‘were not a people’ of God. This has much to do with the ‘house of Israel’, i.e. the Ten Tribes (remember Loammi=not My People), being scattered among the Gentiles, and both accepting Christ Jesus as Savior when they heard Him preached by the Apostles of Christ.
     The ‘house of Judah’ stumbled at The Cornerstone (Christ) Which they rejected. In 1 Peter 2:7-8 he says the Jews were ‘appointed’ to this stumbling at Christ’s Word, but not the Jews only. Paul in Romans Chapters 9 through 11 tells us why – so that many of the Gentiles who believe, which “were not a people”, might be ‘grafted’ into the same ‘tree’ of God’s People. The Jews are blinded so that Salvation through Jesus Christ would be full and more complete. Paul also tells us in Romans 11 that any of the Jews who now accept Christ Jesus, are grafted in now; but the majority of Jews will not be joined with Christ until the ‘fullness of the Gentiles’ is whole (Rom.11:23-28). That means there is still yet hope for them.
     God is causing that ‘slumber’ of not having ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’. We Gentiles should not get too cocky about having accepted Jesus as Savior over those of the ‘house of Judah’ which haven’t. You know why?

Isa 8:13-15
13    Sanctify the LORD of hosts Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.
14    And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15    And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
(KJV)

     The Cornerstone (Jesus Christ) is “…a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel…”. That’s talking about those of the ‘house of Israel’ today also, the Western Christian Nations, who have received Jesus Christ as Messiah. It applies to both Judah and Israel (Ten Tribes). “How could they ‘stumble’ if they’ve already accepted Christ,” one might ask? By worshipping the wrong messiah of our near future, that’s how! Satan is coming first as a ‘false Messiah’, claiming to be Christ (Immanuel–‘God with us’), sitting in the Temple of God (II Thess.2; Ezek.28;31; Isa.14). Our True Savior Jesus Christ will return on the ‘last trump’ to defeat Satan, all in our near future.
     Which is worse; to seek Salvation through following God’s Law without faith in Christ, still waiting for His first coming, as the majority of the Jews do; or to accept and believe on Jesus Christ, yet mess up later when Satan comes, and worship him as a fake Messiah, thinking he’s Christ? That’s what Isaiah 8:15 means with being ‘snared’ and ‘taken’! The first one ‘taken’ in the field is by Antichrist (compare Luke 17:36-37 with Matthew 24:28). So the deception is not only ‘appointed’ to many of Judah, no…but to many who once believed on Christ also, who will become ‘apostate’, falling away by worshipping a false Messiah.
     So why can’t both the Jew and Gentile who stumble, just wake up, out of their spiritual slumber? Because God is allowing the deception by the ‘workers of iniquity’, i.e. the sons of Cain or Kenites, who are so…strong today, that many don’t even have a chance. Satan and his children are God’s ‘rod’ of correction to His People. Once the Christian starts to understand God’s Message through His Old Testament prophets, about Satan being controlled by God, then our Father’s greater Plan begins to unfold, and an understanding that He is in charge is revealed. Until that Truth is grasped, the elect may find it difficult to deal with the sorrow we feel for our lost brethren who stumble (from both ‘houses’). Those who remain ignorant of that Plan fight against each other. 
     So why is God allowing all this ‘deception’, even towards ‘both’ houses of Israel? Our Father is going to show His Power and Supreme Authority to us, while revealing how silly, ignorant, and uncaring about Him, His children can be. No other Glory anywhere, will compare with this future event of Christ’s coming. The ‘shock value’ will be enormous! But not for those who are watching, as our Savior commanded.
     But God has preserved a ‘remnant’ who shall know His Truth, and will not be swayed from Christ by accepting the false Messiah. Even His preservation of His elect is by ‘appointment’! Our Father is in control, guiding the ‘helm’ with utmost sureness. I have total confidence in God and His Son, and as to the directions of His Plan He has given us, all according to His Word. Give thanks and praise to Him through Christ if you know what I’m talking about, for we are as ‘filthy rags’.
     So what do we do in the meantime? Teach, teach, teach God’s Word. Drop a ‘seed’ of our Father’s Truth to those who stumble. Be bold when given the chance. Learn The Word using common sense, and teach It using common sense in ‘plain’ language. Good honest folk exist everywhere in the world, and they live plainly by common sense.

I know there is a Scripture that says something like women can’t be preachers? what does that actually mean?

Do you mean a Scripture which is used to teach that women are not to preach The Gospel? What about this:

The fact of the matter of our Lord’s anger against that Church of Thyatira was not that they suffered a ‘woman’ to teach. But that they suffered a false one to teach them abominations and idol worship, a woman who only “calleth herself a prophetess, to teach…”. She was a false prophetess. And this Message by our Lord is to those specific Churches of today who also do these abominations such as Thyatira.
     If that one of Thyatira had been a true prophetess called of God, what should she have been teaching instead? Just like Anna of Luke 2, The Gospel Message of Salvation through Christ Jesus. John 1 says Christ is The Word, so that means all of It is to be taught still today; not only the four Gospel Books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Paul’s Message of Rebuke:

The following verses are ‘mistaught’ by many against women teaching Christ’s Gospel Message.

The woman, or wife, is not to dominate over the husband, not in authority, not in teaching God’s Word. And that applies if her husband is ‘in Christ’. If the husband is ‘obviously’ not following The Lord, then don’t be foolish, use common sense in following The Word. Order is God’s way, not rebellion.
     Verse 13 is more specific that Paul is talking about the relationship between husband and wife, not woman prophesying vs. the Church elders. So this Message by Paul is about how God setup the flesh order of the wife being subject to her husband in Christ (Gen.3:16). So if God called a woman to teach His Gospel, then who are we to override what God has ordained?

In the Isaiah 19 study, how does the mentioned Capstone of the Great Pyramid represent our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? How does that Capstone, and other symbols on our U.S. One Dollar bill tie to all this? Some say the “eye” symbol on back of the U.S. One Dollar bill represents the eye of Osiris, the ancient Egyptian pagan god.

The in-depth Bible student should be able to understand the following, especially those who understand the role of ‘false messiah’:
     If you’ll remember, the word ‘Lucifer’ in Isaiah 14:12 means ‘morning star’. But Jesus Christ is The True Morning Star, per Rev.22. Lucifer is a ‘false rock’; GOD is our True ROCK; etc. I’ve covered many of the fake roles Lucifer tries to usurp Christ Jesus’ Authority with, which are given in The Word.
Now… take the idea of all those false titles Lucifer uses to make himself into a false Messiah, trying to be God, and then apply them to those One Dollar Bill symbols again. On the back of our U.S. One Dollar Bill, on the right, The Great Seal of The United States, notice all the Israel symbols, such as the Olive branches, the ‘arrows’ of Ephraim, the ‘Shield’, the 13 stars inside a billowy cloud border (Shekinah), and connect the dots with that star field and tell me what geometric shape it forms (Star of David).
You’ll notice the number 13 popping out in those symbols, including the number of steps on that Pyramid. But the ‘capstone’ symbolizes Jesus Christ The Cornerstone the builders rejected. And all this symbolic meaning has nothing to do with cults. Remember, Satan didn’t create anything, as he’s just a cherub which God created. Satan MUST operate and use GOD’s order of laws and such. Satan just ‘perverts’ everything, like the Midas ‘touch’.
Then in that Isaiah 19 study, I mentioned the ‘MYSTERY’, which is about the ancient ‘mystery school’ religions of pagandom, and of pagan systems today. That word ‘MYSTERY’, in the phrase ‘MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT…’, in the Greek, refers to Satan’s ‘mystery schools’ of occultism. And that means Satan’s false occult traditions steal the TRUE meaning of everything and anything of God, and then ‘pervert’ it. What I was allowed to reveal with this in that Isa.19 study is ‘very deep’, and the deeper student should be able to grasp it.
This MYSTERY applies to all the evil workings by Satan and his host during this flesh age. It even applies to the idea of ‘cloning’ humans, etc. If there was given us a ‘key’ for understanding ‘how’ Satan perverts God’s Perfect Order, stealing everything and anything of righteousness from our Father, and twisting it, then this ‘MYSTERY’ is the ‘key’. That’s why God put this in His Word in such a way, linking Babylon with it. So Osiris, Isis, etc. are Satan’s symbols to ‘mask’ God’s Order between The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Zorasterism with Aura Mazda, etc., has a trinity also. Many pagan religions do.
So no ‘mystery’ to us, that Satan has also tried to ‘usurp’ the TRUE meanings of those symbols, such as The Capstone of the Great Pyramid, which is a symbol for The Cornerstone Jesus Christ.

The Hebrew word for “winds” in The Old Testament is “ruwach”. It is a symbol for the ‘breath of life’, i.e. God’s Spirit. Strong’s definition has it as “wind; by resemblance breath…” (Strong’s no. 7307). It’s the same word translated as:

This “holding” is the cup of God’s wrath, the consuming fire event to end this flesh age. But before that time, God’s servants are to be ‘sealed’ with His Truth in their minds and hearts. I feel that ‘sealing’ is now in effect today at this time.
So although the ‘four winds’ analogy is given in different ways within God’s Word, its meaning is our Father’s Spirit. Naturally, His Spirit has many different ways to express His Power. Thus the example of ‘ruwach’ as the ‘breath of life’, the Spirit of God moving the waters of Noah’s flood, and God’s Spirit within those of His People who seek to serve and follow only Him; “in spirit and in truth”.

Who is the ‘son of perdition’ of 2 Thess. 2? And is there a mystery about Judas’ suicide which links to the meaning of the ‘son of perdition’?

There’s a very, very simple way of knowing that Judas was ‘not’ the ‘son of perdition’ of 2 Thess.2:3. As all Scripture truly is very simple to understand, we must use common sense first, shutting off any ‘outside’ influences which might bring in corruption.

1. Paul taught about the ‘son of perdition’ and the events of his coming in 2 Thess.2 WHEN? Was it before Judas’ betrayal and death of Christ, or afterwards?

     And what Paul was teaching there in 2 Thess.2 about the ‘son of perdition’; was Judas himself alive or dead at that time of Paul’s Message?

ANSWER: Clearly Judas Iscariot, though he was called ‘the son of perdition’ in John 17:12, was already dead when Paul preached the Message of 2 Thess.2 and the ‘son of perdition’. And this whether Judas died by his own hand as written, or ‘with a little help of his friends’ the Pharisees, whom he threw the blood money back at.

2. Paul was speaking of ‘future prophecy’ in 2 Thess.2:3 with the ‘son of perdition’, as it is tied with Christ’s second coming.

     The Apostle Judas who betrayed Christ, was already dead by then. So how could Paul be declaring prophecy in the future, if Judas only, was the ‘son of perdition’? Clearly then, Paul had to be speaking of someone else besides Judas.
(Bear with me; I’m going to show a little ‘anger’, not at you, but at the false teachers who intentionally or unintentionally mislead in this matter. I get a little tired of so-called teachers of God’s Word jumping around in Scripture like a bunch of kids on a trampoline, never following the flow of God’s Word through the Chapter. How they love to take ‘one verse’ from God’s Word and have a ‘party’ with It!)

3. The ‘VERY NEXT VERSE’ OF 2 THESS.2:4 ‘MUST’ be included with Paul’s verse on the ‘son of perdition’.

     Notice that a semi-colon (“;”) is at the end of verse 2 Thess.2:3 just after the word “perdition”? That means the subject of the ‘son of perdition’ continues into the NEXT verse also. What does that ‘next’ verse 4 say?

II Th 2:3-4
3   Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4   Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (KJV)

     Did Judas, the Apostle who betrayed Christ Jesus accomplish the events here in verse 4? Did Judas ‘ever’ “exalt himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God”? Did Judas ‘ever’ do ‘any’ of that before he committed suicide? What does your ‘common sense’ say to you?
This Message of one who exalts himself above God, sitting in God’s Temple in Jerusalem, SHOWING himself that he is God, is only about Satan. We were first given this idea of Satan wanting to play God in Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28 through 31. Paul is just reminding us of that event prophesied first in the Old Testament. (see my Isaiah Chapter 14 studies. I cover it in-depth there). And Ezekiel 28 reveals that Satan has already been judged to go into the ‘lake of fire’ (also see Rev.20). That is why he is specifically called the ‘son of perdition’, because he only, has been judged and sentenced to perish.
Even the fallen angels have not been ‘judged’ yet (their’s happens when Christ returns per Rev.11:13).

Jude 1:6
6   And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. (This event of their judgment happens in Rev.11:13.)

Doesn’t 1 Thess.4:17 mean that at Christ’s second coming, the flesh from the grave of those who are dead, is rejoined with the spirit?

On the difference between our flesh body, and that glorious body, and dimension of Heaven…

I John 3:2
2   Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. (KJV)

     The Apostle John states that though those who accept Christ as Savior, and are now known as ‘sons of God’, we STILL don’t know for sure ‘what we shall be’, but… we know ‘we shall be like Him’ (having a similar body as Christ’s Glorious resurrected Body). If John knew clearly that ‘spiritual body’ which Paul named in I Cor.15:44 was of the ‘flesh’ order, then wouldn’t he have said so? Well, then of what order was Christ’s Glorious Body after His resurrection?

John 20:19-20
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.

     What type of Body is talked about in these verses? Even though Christ’s Glorious Body has the marks of His crucifixion, can flesh walk through walls or doors? One who still chooses to believe that spiritual body is flesh, still must explain ‘how’ it can go through dimensions like Christ’s did here, appearing ‘midst’ His disciples without entering the room the way flesh must enter. One may call it flesh if they want, but clearly, it is not the same type of flesh body we all have right now living on this earth. Christ knew they would have a difficult time understanding these things also, so He even ate man’s food in His resurrected Body, to show them It is able to live and function on earth similar to flesh. Weren’t these examples from our Lord for us today also?:

Luke 24:40-43
40   And when He had thus spoken, He shewed them His hands and His feet.
41   And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, He said unto them, “Have ye here any meat?”
42   And they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
43   And He took it, and did eat before them.

     Christ’s Message here about the resurrection body is of ‘strong meat’ (Heb.5). His disciples are to understand it; thus He went to whatever length necessary by example, to make sure they understood. What did the Israelites in the wilderness eat for forty years? Heavenly manna, known as angel’s food. Wow! Man’s flesh can also eat angel’s food, angels can eat earthly food; the bodies must be similar, but of a different order. None have gone to Heaven in the flesh and lived without being transfigured (such as Elijah and Enoch). This is why Isaiah got so scared when he was given a vision. He thought he had died (Isa.6). God’s chosen may be given ‘visions’ of Heaven, as John was given, but to actually ‘be’ there, one must leave this flesh. Even the below example from Paul shows how the ‘spiritual body’ is what was ‘caught up into Paradise’, not the flesh:

2 Cor 12:2-5
2   I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth😉 such an one caught up to the third heaven.
3   And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4   How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
5   Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. (KJV)

     That ‘man’ was probably Paul, even as he was stoned once and left for dead (Acts 14:19-20). Might this event Paul is speaking about here have anything to do with a ‘near death experience’? Sure does, as he even stated he didn’t know whether he was in the body (flesh body), or out of the body. This has nothing to do with how the New Age groups teach how to have ‘out of body’ experiences. I personally know at least two Christians who were involved in accidents, and experienced this near death event, and have heard their testimony of angels speaking to them.
Did you notice the term ‘caught up’? Might this have something to do with ‘how’ those alive in the flesh when Christ returns are ‘changed’ to their ‘spiritual body’? Again, yes. Isn’t this phrase ‘caught up’ even used there in I Thess. 4:17? Both occurrences of ‘caught up’ is the Greek word ‘harpazo’, meaning ‘to carry off by force’. I Thess.4:17 is the same event which Paul experienced being ‘caught up’ to the ‘third heaven’ age, the Holy City which exists right now, in that spiritual dimension, where Heaven is. The DIFFERENCE being, Paul did not die, and thus his spiritual body returned back into his flesh body; the ‘silver cord’, which attaches our ‘spiritual body’ to the flesh, was not ‘loosed’ (Eccl. 12:6). At I Thess.4:17, when Christ returns, everyone alive in the flesh, will have their ‘silver cord’ loosed from the flesh body. The spiritual dimension will be fully revealed, and it will be most wonderful.
Note that Paul said he was ‘caught up’ into Paradise? The Greek Septuagint Bible, which is older than our KJV, renders the word ‘Eden’ as ‘Paradise’. Also, remember what Christ said to the malefactor crucified with our Lord, who believed on Him.

Luke 23:43
43   And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, “To day shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.”

     When would that malefactor be with Jesus in Paradise? “To day”, meaning as soon they got done with their old flesh bodies dying on the cross, giving up the spirit trapped in those flesh bodies (ghost; also see Eccl. 12). Those ‘in Christ’ who die TODAY, put off this flesh body also, the ‘silver cord’ being loosed from the flesh, and they go into Paradise, where Christ and our Father are, along with His saints. Those not ‘in Christ’ go to a different place, but still in Heaven, a place of separation.

Luke 16:22
22   And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

     Both, Lazarus, and the ‘rich man’ died, and their flesh bodies were buried. That’s the meaning of ‘also’ died, and was buried. The ‘angels’ carried Lazarus to one side in Heaven, where Abraham is, but the ‘rich man’ was carried to the ‘pit’, where Satan and his are. This is not a ‘parable’, or an analogy Christ is teaching within these verses. It is an ‘explanation’ for that Heavenly state, even now as I write this.

Luke 16:23-26
23   And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24   And he cried and said, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.”
25   But Abraham said, “Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
26   And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

1 Cor 15:50
50   Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

     Paul stated this about our ‘flesh and blood’ in a manner which is ‘solid’ Truth. He didn’t leave any maybes, or we don’t really know in-roads to add. It’s important as Christians, to realize who the ‘author’ is, of the doctrine of wanting to keep these old flesh bodies forever. That includes the false doctrine that the dead flesh body is somehow put back together with the spirit when Christ returns. (Christ’s miracles of raising the dead was for His Mission as Savior). Of what order are those who push the following false idea today, that through mapping genetics, man can cure ‘all’ flesh disease, and thus bring ‘immortality’ of the flesh? That type of flesh order thinking is from Satan, not our Father and His Son Christ Jesus. And Satan wishes to keep your thinking in the flesh, a ‘carnal mind’, and not in the spiritual Mind of Christ (1 Cor.2:16; 1 Pet.4:1; Rom.8).

Even though the man Adam in the Garden of Eden was not guilty of Eve’s particular method of sin, then just how did Adam transgress?

This question is a normal ‘wondering’ after having understood that Eve didn’t eat an apple in God’s Garden.
Any answer to this on Adam’s actual part in the sin, is just speculation. So with that, we might look at the word ‘touch’ which Eve added to God’s command, as given in Gen.3:3. That word ‘touch’ in the Hebrew is ‘naga’, meaning ‘to lay the hand upon; (euphemism, to lie with a woman)’ (Strong’s no.5060). That particular ‘euphemism’ is a nicer way to say, ‘they had sex’. This might show that Eve was given a ‘particular’ command by GOD concerning her relation to that ‘tree of knowledge of good and evil’, i.e. Satan. The word ‘touch’ (naga) is not associated with Adam’s part in the sin, but with Eve’s. Note also:

1 Tim 2:13-14
13   For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14   And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. (KJV)

     According to the Hebrew Manuscripts, Eve was in the ‘particular’ transgression, being of a sexual nature producing the offspring Cain. To say that Adam also had sex with the ‘nachash’ (the serpent, i.e. Satan) would be supposition, with no Scripture support. But we know that Adam did sin along with Eve, as he did eat of what she gave to him, as written in Gen.3:6, and is another euphemism.
I must refrain from Adam’s part as being likewise sexual, based on 1 Tim.2:14, even though they both wore fig leaves on their privates. As an opinion, I myself choose to believe that Adam’s part in the sin was ‘allowing’ Eve to partake, instead of rebuking her to follow God’s Commandment. That would be sin enough during his day.
In military bootcamp, the whole squad is punished at times when just one individual messes up. It is done to work cohesiveness within the group. Individualism doesn’t work too well on the battlefield. Thus, many times we are held responsible for allowing others to commit evils, such as the parent and their young offspring who commits a crime. That’s how I see Adam’s part in the sin, as 1 Tim.2:14 shows Adam was not ‘in the transgression’, meaning his sin was associated with Eve’s act, but different.
See also Rom. 5, as death reigned from Adam to Moses, even though others did not sin ‘after the similitude of Adam’s transgression’. That means ‘others’, such as the sixth day races, and even those born after Adam, have different sins. The main Message is that since flesh came into existence, sin has been, and will always be part of the ‘flesh nature’. The ‘flesh’ of man is not part of God’s original Plan, nor will it be in His Eternity (I Cor.15). Flesh=sin=Death. All three of those will go into the lake of fire, gone forever. So that God could show us that He Only is without sin, He brought His Son in the flesh to conquer Death for us (devil; see Heb.2:14). So if Adam and Eve didn’t begin the first sin and transgression of The Law, a state imparted to all mankind born flesh, then Christ’s Perfect Way He showed us while He was here in the flesh, would not have defeated Satan (devil). And sin is still with us today, and will be until flesh is done away with.
So we could say that God allowed the right conditions to be setup in His Garden, knowing the weakness of the flesh (sin), all in order to begin His Plan for this flesh age. That there was an evil seed spawned of Lucifer is important knowledge for understanding God’s Plan. If it hadn’t happened in such a way, I’m sure our Father would have allowed the sin in another manner. That first sin was necessary for His overall Plan, to show us that we need Him through His Son Jesus Christ.
The ‘fig leaves’ have other links throughout God’s Word, as they refer to the ‘parable of the fig tree’ our Lord gave in Matt.24 and Mark 13. The ‘bad figs’ or ‘evil figs’ of Jer.24, link back to Satan’s ‘thy seed’ of Gen.3:15.

How do those who still yet sin in this flesh, reconcile their faith in Christ for Salvation? Do we just quit sinning after receiving Christ, as some are taught?

Turn to Ephesians 2:13:

Eph 2:13-18
13   But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
14   For He is our peace, Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15   Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
16   And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
17   And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
18   For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. (KJV)

     If we ‘study’ each subject in the verses above, it says this:

1. Verse 13 – Both Jew and Gentile are offered Salvation through Christ’s Blood. The subject is sacrifice of Christ on the cross for us.
2. Verse 14 – the ‘middle wall of partition between us’ means the Holy of Holies (first veil which was ‘rent’). We no longer need a Levitical priest as mediator; each believer on Christ has ‘direct’ access to The Father through Christ Jesus. Those priest and animal sacrifices were ‘dogma’ ritual. This means we may pass through the ‘first veil’ to Christ Jesus, our Mediator to The Father. None but Christ may pass through the ‘second veil’. See Hebrews 9; 1 Timothy 2:5.
3. Verse 15 – Christ ‘abolished’ Death, that is, defeating the devil, and the flesh (also see Heb.2). That’s how He can offer us Salvation, as He Himself was born through woman’s womb as us, but He was Perfect without sin. The word ‘ordinances’ in the Greek is ‘dogma’. That was the ‘old way’ of atonement, and is ‘fulfilled’ on the cross. Notice I said ‘fulfilled’ and not done away with. There’s a difference. Christ Jesus became those ‘ordinances’, alleviating man of playing religion. The ‘ordinances’ included the Temple worship and animal sacrifices, and all ‘blood’ ordinances, such as circumcision, etc. God’s Commandments (Ten Commandments), Statutes, and Judgments still stand. Our U.S. Constitution and Justice system ‘was’ based upon God’s Law. I say ‘was’ because the Kenites have crept in so much and changed It. England, I believe, still holds execution by hanging, which came from God’s Law (Deut.21:22-23).
4. Verse 16 – Slain the ‘enmity’ means defeating Satan, and his ‘flesh order’. We are reconciled to God by The Spirit of Christ, not by the flesh.
5. Verse 17 – Salvation through Christ is to Jew and Gentile.
6. Verse 18 – Jesus Christ is our access to Jehovah. Ritual sacrifice is no longer needed. Christ became our Passover Lamb sacrificed for us (I Cor.5:7). Christ also is our Sabbath (Rest; Heb.4).

Col 2:12-17
12   Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God, Who hath raised Him from the dead.
13   And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
14   Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross;
15   And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16   Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17   Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. (KJV)

     There are some Christian denominations today who teach to hold to the original Sabbath day for going to Church. That’s an example of still trying to hold to ‘ordinances’ (religious dogma) for Salvation. Paul discusses fully in Romans and Galatians many differences of God’s Law, and how It still applies today. Romans is also the foundation of Christian Doctrine based on God’s Law. The Law cannot save anyone, only Christ can. But does that mean God’s Law is bad? No. For as written, if we didn’t have God’s Law, we wouldn’t know when we sin (Romans 7:7). And sin is the transgression of The Law:

I John 3:4
4   Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (KJV)

      Notice all these verses are New Testament? If one does not transgress God’s Law, then they have no sin, and are ‘dead’ to sin. Likewise, our ‘inner man’ in Christ, which is the ‘real’ person, being in Christ, is not guilty of sin. But the flesh will always sin (see all of Rom.7). If this was not so, then Christ would not be a Perfect Sacrifice for us.
Romans Chapter 1 given by Paul, should be an eye-opener that much of God’s Law ‘is not’ merely done away with. Paul even states those who do such things covered there are ‘worthy of death’. He’s basing it on God’s Law.
The reference to Acts 11, about God telling Peter what He hath cleansed, don’t call common, is spiritual, not literal. Some teach and think it means we can now just eat anything and stay healthy. If we live on buzzards and pork, what can we expect? We ain’t gonna be healthy. Isn’t it futile to think God will somehow physically ‘cleanse’ those unclean meats, which He put here as scavengers to clean the earth? God expects us to use common sense. The vision of those unclean animals to Peter was a ‘spiritual Message’ concerning the Gentiles receiving the gift of Salvation also. That’s what studying the whole Chapter of Acts 11 will show. We simply are not to be judged, nor judge others, if and when we do eat unclean meats. We really don’t have to judge, because our flesh body is the judge; we’ll get sick. God’s health Law which is setup in the flesh nature can’t be fooled. It’s as simple as that.
If our Salvation through Christ depended on not eating such things, where would we be? That’s the Heart of the Message Paul teaches concerning sin and The Law. None are justified in Christ by following God’s Law, as we cannot be perfect in It. We are justified by faith in Christ. But that doesn’t mean God just threw out His Law which governs everything He setup in creation? God forbid. Did Christ do away with His Commandments against murder and stealing, on the cross? Of course not.

Matt 5:18-20
18   For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19   Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
20   For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (KJV)

     Those in Christ who break God’s Law, and teach others to do so, will be ashamed, and visa versa. The false righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees was that they continually broke God’s Law, and sorely condemned the people for doing the same things they themselves were guilty of. That’s a holier than thou hypocrite. Is that happening in many Church systems of men today? How can those in Christ rebuke others in a sin they themselves are guilty of? Kind of humbling isn’t it?
Stay in Christ and His Word, and always try to improve on controlling the flesh thinking and its desires, even though we all fall short.

This is an important question, since too many take for granted that God’s Israel and Christ’s Church are somehow separate.
     Since Dr. Bullinger was mentioned in the last question, let’s cover another doctrine from his work How To Enjoy The Bible, about the difference between The Church and Israel.
     On pages 149-155 of that same work, Bullinger separated Christ’s believers into two subgroups, The Church as compared with Israel. He goes into an essay that Christ’s Body of members cannot be separated, with one group experiencing the tribulation, and another group of members being taken out. Yet, he does just that with contrasting Israel against Christ’s Body of The Church. He obviously didn’t understand how most of the ‘house of Israel’ migrated out from the Assyrian captivity to form the Western Christian Nations of today. Bullinger then goes on to do a type of ‘re-unite’ of The Church with Israel in Christ’s Kingdom later, under the Eternal Israel.² (see the Lost Tribes study to really understand all this).
     This doctrine of creating a separation between God’s True Israel vs. The Church, has caused many to believe they are apart, when it is the non-believing sons of Israel who have parted from True Spiritual Israel, i.e. God’s Israel, which is His Body, and not any particular geographical area. The Church, or Christ’s Body, represents those believers on Christ of both Jew and Gentile, per Romans 2. To receive Christ Jesus as Savior today, is to inherit the Salvation Promise God gave through Abraham, to Isaac, then to Jacob, who was named Israel by our Heavenly Father. All believers on Christ Jesus thus become children of Abraham through ‘faith’, from both Jew and Gentile, and become inheritors of that Salvation Promise in Christ Jesus (Gal.3; 4; Romans 9; Rom.4; Gen.12; 17).
     Moreover, that new Name God gave to Jacob, that Name ‘Israel‘, became the Name of The Salvation Promise through Christ Jesus as Savior. For that word ‘Israel‘, ‘Yisra’el’ in the Hebrew means “God prevails”, or “to prevail with God” (Strong’s nos. 8280; 410; 3478). That’s exactly what Jacob did; he ‘prevailed’ with God’s help (Gen.32). And that word ‘Israel’ represents the Salvation Promise, first given to Abraham by ‘faith’, believing on The Lord Jesus Christ as Savior (John 8:56). Thusly, True Israel IS The Body of Christ’s believers, of all nations, of all peoples. They cannot be separate, and are not.
     One view of the “secret rapture” doctrine by some, is that the endtime tribulation is upon ‘Israel’, but not ‘The Church’. Thus they believe, and teach, that Israel will be left behind, while The Church is raptured out. But in God’s Word, The Church (Body of Christ), is ‘Israel’. That word ‘church’ means ‘a congregation’, in the ‘gathering’ sense. The word ‘church’ (ekklesia in the Greek), merely means “a popular meeting, a religious assembly”. It’s just a word applied to the Body of Christ’s believers. But the word ‘Israel’ is applied to God’s Kingdom under Christ (Rev.21; 7; Hebrews 8; Gal.6:15-16; Rom.9:6-8; John 12:13; John 1:49; Luke 22:29-30; Luke 1:68; Matt.19:28).
     Many “secret rapture” folks truly think God’s ‘Israel’ of today, are all non-believing Jews. They haven’t understood who, or where, God’s True Israel is today. The Lost Tribes studies help reveal that wherever The Birthright blessings God gave to Abraham, then to Isaac, then to Jacob (named ‘Israel’), and then to Joseph, and finally to Joseph’s two sons of Ephraim and Manasseh, then that’s where God’s True Israel is today. What? Never heard that before? Then you haven’t been properly taught God’s Word, for It is all written.
     Those ignorant of God’s True Israel today, cause their deception to become greater, as they do not apply endtime prophecy upon today’s True Israel as Christ’s Body, but to non-believing Jews and the middleast nation ‘called’ Israel only. “Well, all that latter day stuff is meant to happen upon Jerusalem and Israel,” they might say. “Well, I’m not part of Israel; I’m part of The Church, so I’m not going to be here for Satan’s tribulation,” they would utter. The matter of importance from God’s Word is, that the Western Christian Nations of today are descended from the ‘house of Israel’, and are most definitely True Israel. The ‘house of Judah’ are mistook for being True Israel today, and most of those in the Holy Land nation called ‘Israel’ in name only, do not even accept Jesus of Nazareth as Christ Messiah, our Savior. They haven’t understood that ‘Israel’ is The NAME of The Salvation Promise of ‘faith’, which God gave through Abraham, and was fulfilled by Christ Jesus upon the cross. So to our Heavenly Father, ‘True Israel’ is where the majority are who accept His Promise of Salvation, being in Christ Jesus. So just ‘where’ would that majority be located today? Where are the “ten thousands” of Ephraim, and the “thousands” of Manasseh? (Deut.33:17).

Footnotes:

¹  How To Enjoy The Bible, by E. W. Bullinger. (Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI.), Reprint of 1916 4th ed., 1990, pp. 190-191.

²  Ibid., pp. 149-155.