Truth or Consequences
Written by Elinor Montgomery – emontgomery@cogeco.ca
January 24, 2003
Righteousness is rightness with God. Righteousness means faith and obedience to God. Righteousness means separation from sin. We were created in a righteous state, in separation from the darkness of the seawater, and nurtured only by food watered by the water from above. We were commanded by God not to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God established His Word clearly, pointing out the consequences of disobedience. He set up His government order in the garden, making Himself supreme ruler with man having dominion over his world and over the beast. He said faith in and obedience to His word meant life or a blessing, while rebellion or disobedience meant death or the curse. Man believed the lie when he would not believe the Word, as Satan lured him into the net. That was part of the lure, that God’s Word is not truth. This was the lie men believed that separated them from God in disobedience.
If God’s commandments in our lives can be taken away, along with the Bible, His Word, Satan will have free rein in the world to establish his One World Order of government. How is liberalism working today? Our liberal governments are not protecting us from the influx and increased numbers of cultic Muslim and Hindu religious populations in the West, while at the same time are endorsing laws that attack the Ten Commandments and the Bible. In so called tolerance for these religions, they are using rights laws, concocted by liberal judges, to remove the name of Jesus in this land, all of which is our rock-solid heritage that gave us liberty in the first place. It was for this heritage that our ancestors died while establishing this nation so that we would have liberty in God’s Law.
When Israel, the nation, rejected liberty in God’s Law and obedience to His Word, she, finally after 2,000 years of grace, was driven from the land, and through Jesus, the blessing crossed over to the church. Liberty and God’s new covenant moved on to the West and there, liberty was again established to show the world it only comes with His Law and the truth of His Word, under His supreme rulership. A righteous nation is a result of obedience to both the Law and faith in only God’s Word. America became the destination of the oppressed people under liberal empire building governments from every country in the world, who could only dream of liberty. They were welcomed to come, but it was to a land that upheld and taught these principles, and if Muslims or Hindus arrived in this country, it meant their children were required to attend our schools that taught and upheld God’s Law. If they didn’t like the rules that gave liberty, they had the option to not come, or to leave and go back. New citizens were given Bibles, which clearly stated to all immigrants coming into this country that they could accept our hard earned heritage or they could go elsewhere.
We did not welcome traitors who would seek to destroy our liberty in the nation. A traitor was a dishonorable person seeking our benefits, while destroying from within our country’s heritage. He was one who would not stand up for our liberty when outside forces threatened our government. A traitor was subject to prosecution by the law on the basis of treason. Now, the traitor spits in our faces, and we call it endorsing multiculturalism. “Let us not have a Canadian identity,” they say. “Let us have a cultic identity.” And liberalism rides over liberty, as it prepares the way for Satan’s One World Order.
When sin entered the garden, the order was changed. Man now ruled over man. God had been rejected, and Satan took control, offering death in place of life. God had made the world our home in which man lived in a family or brotherhood as co-rulers over the home under God’s supervision. But, in sin, the first son killed the second, and asked the question, “Am I really my brother’s keeper? Am I not free to do as I please? Why can’t I kill if I want to kill?” This is the bad fruit that can only come from eating of the tree that produces bad fruit.
There is a tree between you and God. It is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Once man chose to eat of this tree, there no longer was access to the tree of life. It was closed off on the east side of the garden, and by such an act of God the way back to eternal life was closed to man. It was the only way to life guarded by the cherubim. It was the way of righteousness. The world filled up with sin, as light departed, and day gave way to night. Man had chosen darkness over light, for there had been no darkness in the garden when the sea was separated from the dry land. There was only day, the period from evening to morning. Now, a day changed to go from morning to night. Man had exchanged the light for darkness, and the living water for seawater. The way closed off was the way back to light, and the living water. Man could only return to righteousness by removing the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that stood between him and God and replacing it with the tree of life again. How could such a thing be done? Most certainly, he could not do it alone. God would have to intervene supernaturally in the affairs of man.
First, He allowed the world to fill up with sin before destroying it, but not without making a covenant with the righteous, those deemed to be so by faith and obedience to God. There was found only one man in all the world population, which, in all probability, was less than a million people, but we can only guess at the numbers. One thing for sure, the ratio of the righteous to the ungodly at the time of judgment was very small indeed. The righteous were taken out of the judgment, and with them was the covenant given to never destroy the earth by covering it over with a flood again. God’s promise was that His judgment would never cover over sin and allow it to remain after His judgment. It was the promise that sin would be removed in judgment. Only He, Who had the mantle of the rainbow, the mantle of light, could do it. This was the covenant of Jesus. This was the covenant of Israel. This was the covenant of a double camp that would be separated from the world, but would not be able to remain separate from sin.
Both nation and institutional church would fail, but Jesus at the center of it would not fail. He would call His own out, to go into all the nations of the world and all the religions of the world, and introduce the truth of the Word. The truth would be the only offence against the lie. Satan and the lie would try to control the world by the sword, and Jesus and His army would fight back with the truth and the sword of the Word. It would be as a double-edged sword against which Satan has no defense. Always, Jesus called His own to separation from the world – they were not taken out of it, but sent into it as warriors to challenge the Philistine Goliath of their day.
In the final battle, it would be the church, the apostolic church, the bride birthing of the Spirit, versus the harlot, the mother of religion, Babylon the great. It all boils down to the children of Eve versus the sisters of Mary, for which reason the prophet Jeremiah said that the woman would encompass the man. It would be a spiritual battle with Satan and his Jezebel spirit leading his forces versus Jesus and His bride, the Spirit-filled church birthing true sons in righteousness – rightness with God. It will be required of all men to align themselves with the ruler of their choice in their lives. When Moses came down from the mountain with God’s Law for Israel, he found her dancing around the golden calf and worshipping it. That day, God called His people to make a spiritual decision as to who would follow the messenger and God, and who wanted to worship and follow Satan back into Egypt. Then the separation took place, and God said as much as, “Kill them, your brothers, for the time is coming when the brothers of Israel, the nation, will be separated and some will live and some will die. Some will enter the Kingdom and some won’t.” It will all depend on which side we choose to align ourselves.
Just as Moses returned to the camp with the tablets of the law in his hand, Jesus will return bearing the government on His shoulder, and He will reveal Himself, whom they thought dead, to be very much alive, as did Moses, when he returned to the camp from the mountaintop. Some will still choose the idols or the golden calf, and some will choose the Lord. All of those in darkness in the world will see the Light as it enters the world, but just as they did the first time He came, the religious will miss His coming again, this time, and will hate and curse Him for being who He is, One with the I Am – the Son of God.
Only the righteous, the faithful and obedient bride, the apostolic true church, will escape the judgment like Noah, for she is the fulfillment of the promise of the rainbow. She is the reason God sent His Son into the world. He came to choose a bride, a bride who would love, honor and obey, a bride faithful to the end against great persecution. Unlike the harlot Eve, she will choose the tree of life and separate herself from darkness. She will drink only the living water to produce sons for God, and a sister and spouse for her Beloved. For such a woman was the Song of Solomon written. She is the bride, commanded by the Beloved to let the daughters of Jerusalem hear her voice. She calls with the Spirit to those who have ears to hear. Will you be able to hear and discern the call of the bride? Her voice is already being heard in your hearing this day. Do not stone her, as you tried to stone Jesus before her.