In this book of John, our studies will allow us to see Jesus as God. It is the only one of the gospels that makes a point of presenting Jesus identity as God. Though John presents Jesus as the Savior of mankind, the main stress in this Gospel is Jesus deity. If you have had trouble understanding God's overall plan, John reveals that plan in a simple form of understanding. When you take the entire book of John, and understand the overall picture given in it, it will strengthen your overall faith and walk in Christ.

The word "John" in the Hebrew tongue means "God's gift", and this book is truly a gift to each of us. In the first three Gospels; Matthew presented Jesus as the King; Mark has shown Jesus as YHVH's servant; and in Luke, Jesus was the ideal man. As the descriptions of the events in Jesus Life are given in each of the Gospels, many critics call attention to the difference in presentation of the facts, when in fact there is a perfect overlay. It is therefore four different men (by the direction of the Holy Spirit of God) telling you and I the events of what they say, in the light as they were present our Lord Jesus Christ.

The first three Gospels presented the Humanity of Christ, and this is important in that it shows Christ as our kinsman redeemer, for He laid down His life for all mankind that would repent and come to Him by faith. This book of John will give us an insight into the things that were, as well as the things that will be, and it is given in a manner that even the uneducated could read with understanding.

There is not much translation required from the Hebrew tongue in this Gospel of John, for John presented his teaching in the Greek tongue, and therefore when it came from the Greek to the English, the translation remained. It was translated in such a fashion where the lay person could understand.

Where John writes, "When ye have seen the Son, ye have seen the Father." This book will help you understand the other Books, and see the three offices of the Godhead in them. There is only one God, but He does have the three offices, and the book of John presents the office of Jesus, the Son of the Living God, while at the same time presenting Him as God.

John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Jesus Christ is the Living Word. This earth age of flesh man, just like the earth age that was before this, shall pass away, but God Word shall never change. Jesus is the same today as He was in that first earth age, and tomorrow and into the eternity He will remain the same.

Though most all of man's theories continually change, that plan that God sets forth in His Word never changes. Men like to present God's Word in confusing ways, changing just as words of their languages take on new meanings. However this is the reason we must learn to use the tools for studying of the Scriptures for the Word of God is absolute, it never changes. The new forms of teaching systems try to take away a person's value system, and in the process it leaves it's students in mental confusion, with nothing absolute; however in Christ, and His Word we have something that has never changed, nor will it ever. That is why we must place all of our faith in that Word.

A prime example of this are the events that are taking place on the entire earth today. Things that were prophesied many thousand years ago are taking place right on schedule. The tiny Nation of Israel has been reestablished, the world is moving to world peace, and the first beast (One World Political system) has formed and now controls the nations on the entire earth. The authority for governing the world is under its ten horns of power of the agencies of the United Nations.

My friend, God does have control of All events, as well as mankind. He sets kings up, and takes them down, and the world continues exactly according to God's prophetic clock. Today the young people are told that it is the worse time that it ever has been, when in fact, it is the exact opposite. Though the future looks like it is a loss, according to the press, the actual position that we are in is quite the opposite. In a worldly sense, the future is very bright, however in a spiritual sense, we are approaching the time of the Antichrist. That time when Satan comes onto this earth with policies of peace and prosperity, as spoken of in Daniel 8:23-25.

In the phrase, "In the beginning was..." is a very deep thought, and just incomprehensible by most people. So the question should be; When was the beginning? Most Christians are taught in their church houses that that was some six thousand years ago. Friend, that shows a lack of knowledge of the Scriptures; for II Peter 3, gives us information into that first earth age, the age that Satan was overthrown, and brought one third of the sons of God, the angels down with him. Many of the remains of creatures that are non-existing today roamed the earth in the earth age that was (that first earth age). This earth is truly millions of years old, however Adamic man (from Adam) is but about six thousand years old.

So, when was the beginning? Countless millions of years ago; and if that is hard to comprehend then you are starting to get a grasp on this verse, for it was even then that this Word existed, and the Word has not changed one bit since then. We are not talking about creation here, only the existence of the Word, Jesus Christ, and the Father God and the office of the personage of the Spirit of the Living God. God and all three offices in the God head pre-existed before any point of time that the human mind can imagine.

Friend, the Word even existed prior to the existence of the creation of this earth, the sun, the planets, and the stars in the heavens. Don't ask me to explain it, for there is no person in human form living today that has the answer, it is one of those thing you must accept as fact and by our faith in God's holy Scriptures. By our faith we accept Jesus Christ Who is the Word, and it is necessary and part of becoming a Christian. It is time for us to take the blinders off, and acknowledge the things of creation that are around us, and give us the physical evidence that the first earth age did exist, that this earth age is millions of years old. Then get into the Bible and learn all we can about what happened in that period of time.

Ephesians 1:4 addresses the time before this flesh earth age, that started when "the earth became without form, and void [ruin]", as spoken of in Genesis 1:2 of the Massoretic text. In that first earth age, all souls did existed in their spiritual bodies as the angels have. Paul talked about this other body in I Corinthians 15, and this is why there are no human flesh carcasses predating ten to twelve thousand years ago. When they dig up a link that appears to be man in an early form of development and run the tests on it, They find that it was a monkey, ape or what ever. In that first earth age, however all souls did exist in their spiritual, or angelic bodies, but there was one soul that was created more beautiful, and wiser then all other created souls, and his name Satan.

There was a spiritual warfare when Satan rebelled and tried to take control, and many stood up, and fought against Satan. Ephesians 1:4 addresses that first earth age when the battle took place, and those specific souls that stood against Satan, and they were judged then, and addressed in a certain manner in this earth age. This is not saying that man has existed in the flesh a second time, for that is talking about spirits of divination, or familiar spirits, and that is an entirely different matter.

Ephesians 1:4; "According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:"

Those that were chosen in that earth age, are called the "elect" of this flesh age.

Ephesians 1:5; "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,"

"Jesus Christ" is "the Word" of John 1:1, and we are adopted through the blood of Jesus Christ to the Father. The Elect were predestined because of what each of them did in taking the stand against Satan's uprising, and not because any specific act in this earth age. However, all souls must come to the Father in this earth age through repentance, and under the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 1:6; "To the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved:"

This Word always has been, and it does not need you to apologize for it. In most cases, the one that is disputing the fact simply does not the mental ability to understand it in the first place. The Spirit of God has blinded that persons spiritual eyes. The only thing man can apologize for is his own ignorance. When one seeks an apology for what is the Word, and in the Word, it shows their lack of teaching and understanding. A set of rules simply can not instruct you of the events of the first earth age, for in many cases, church doctrines assumes the beginning of earth, the angelic beings, and all living to be only 6,000 years old.

To them, science is rejected, and stones and bones have no meanings to them, but what is important to them is their church systems. We don't have to close our eyes to the past and to the things around us, but we learn from those things. Our understanding of that first earth age; the fall of Satan when the third of the angels followed him; and all the rest will be exactly as it was then, at the end of this second earth age. All of mankind will again be deceived by Satan when he arrives on earth in his role as the Antichrist with his locust army of fallen angels. Then all except those that have the seal of God in their foreheads will follow the false Christ again, as recorded in Revelation 9:4; "And it was commanded them [the locust army of fallen angels] that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men [ and women] which have not the seal of God in their foreheads."

That "seal" are all the truths recorded in God's Word of the events of the end times, and stored away in your heart and mind so that you will not be deceived by the Antichrist. We need to grow in the Word whereby we can understand and become strengthened, and know how powerful our heavenly Father is.

So, In the beginning "was" the Word. The word "was" in the Greek is "aions", and it means simply that there is no number, because it is so far back in time. It was then that the Word, and all three offices of God still existed. It means that God and His Word preexisted before anything that your mind can place an image to.

Simply don't struggle with man's systems and designed notions of God's creation. Book knowledge is great, but when it comes time for reality, the evidence that exists is strewn all over this earth. Open your mind to the greatness of our God. Use common sense in your studying of God's Word. Don't throw out the fossils and geological data that is obvious for the sake of your defending God, for both He, and His Word simply don't need your defending. God's Word will support itself.

John 1:2 "The same was in the beginning with God."

"The same", is better translated, "The Word" was in the beginning with God." In the Hebrew text it is implied " "He" was in the beginning with God." This also implies both singularly, the Spirit, or the Word, Jesus Christ, were in the beginning with the Father.

John 1:3 "All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made."

The subject to this point has been "the Word" itself. Now the subject changes to the creation of all things. God spoke and nothing became everything. To the human mind, it is incomprehensible. As you consider this verse, try to see the three offices of God that are in this; the Son, the Spirit, and the Father. All these three combined have brought into focus "the Word". Jesus Christ is the Word, and because these three are one, then we have one God.

When that Word spoke our very souls were brought into existence, and that is why we address Him as Father. Our authority of being able to approach Him in our sinning condition of these flesh bodies is solely because of what the office of His Son, Jesus Christ did on the cross of Calvary. Our souls existed in the spiritual body, and upon conception each soul entered into human body form of that embryo. Our closeness and Love for our Heavenly Father existed even prior to the entering into human body form.

John 1:4 "In Him was life; and the life was the light of men.

God was the tree of life, so we see that this Word was where all life came from. Symbolically the "tree of Life" that was in the Garden of Eden was the symbol of the Word. The "Tree of Life" was Jesus Christ in the very beginning of this earth age. We read of this in Genesis 2:9; "And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil."

This "tree of Life" that was in the beginning of this age in the Garden, and He will also be in the eternity. Revelation 22:1, 2; "And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Land." [1] "In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." [2] Jesus Christ is life, and it is from Him that we get our healing, both now as it will be then.

God breathed the breath of life ["Nephesh", in the Hebrew] into man, and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7; "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." This is another way of saying, "He took the soul that He had created, and placed it into the embryo upon conception, within the mothers womb. And you, the flesh body, became a living soul, abiding in the mothers womb." This goes against the concept of those that hold that somehow the soul enters at birth, which is part of the doctrine of demons.

The entry of the souls into the embryo is addressed in Luke 1:41; "And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in the womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit:" The Holy Spirit entered into the soul of John the Baptist that was the babe in the womb of Elisabeth. John the Baptist, in the womb at the six month leaped with joy at the presence of Mary in the room. Mary had just conceived Jesus by the Holy Spirit, and one soul rejoiced at the presence of the other. That is life, and God created that life. God created that embryo. When life enters the embryo, you have a living soul.

The Word is a light to every soul that will allow Him to shine upon them, that light will change you, if you will allow it, and that light of Christ's Spirit shines over the entire earth. His Word enlightens you in all things and will give you knowledge and wisdom to change your life to make you a far better person.

John 1:5 "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

This even goes back into the first earth age (from the beginning), when the darkness was Satan. Just as the "tree of Life" is Christ, and the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" is Satan. So also is Light and day referred to Christ, and darkness and things of the night in reference to Satan. In the first earth age the darkness [Satan] tried to overcome the Light, and Satan tried to put that light of Christ out, but he could not, nor shall he ever. When God spoke, that created cherub called Satan came into being. A cherub is a created being, and God created Satan for a purpose, as He tells us through Ezekiel 28:14.

Ezekiel 28:14 "Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire."

Satan was created for a purpose, and that purpose was to cover, or protect the mercy seat of God. Satan was created to guard and protect the holy things of the Almighty, and as such he was even in the Garden of Eden. Satan was the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil", also know by another role as the "serpent". No creature can ever overcome it's Creator.

Ezekiel 28:15; "Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee."

Satan was perfect in created structure, until his pride and vanity destroyed him.

Ezekiel 28:16; "By the multitude of thy merchandise thy have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profaned out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, form the midst of the stones of fire."

The word "merchandise" in the Hebrew text is "rekullah", and it is in reference to trafficing, and it applies in a moral sense. It is the going about and making profane and slandering the things of God.

Ezekiel 28:17: "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee."

Satan's sin was his vanity and pride in his heart, and it came because of his own created beauty. This time that Satan will be cast to the ground will be at the end of this earth age, when he is cast out of heaven to the earth, and comes as the Antichrist. At the end of his five months reign is when the kings of the earth will see Satan for what he really is. He was the king of Tyre, the false rock.

Satan has already been judged and sentence to the lake of fire, and the very person that spoke Satan into existence, will turn him to ashes. This also applies to each of us, for just as God spoke each of us into existence, can also speak each soul out of existence, and blot it out, for ever. Following judgment day there will be no fence straddlers, you will either have your immortal soul and have everlasting life, or even the memory of you to your loved ones will be as if you never existed. The only thing that determines which way it shall be, is by the light that shineth in the darkness of your soul, and turns your soul into a light that shineth for God.

In Matthew 10:28, Jesus warned us; "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him Which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

John 1:6 "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John."

This "John" spoken of here is not the Saint John, the writer of this book, but John the Baptist, the person that was the forerunner to Christ. John the Baptist was in fact the cousin of Jesus, as recorded in Luke 1:36; "And, behold thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren."

By stating that John the Baptist was sent from God, it shows us that God is in control. It shows us that the soul and of the two being, John and Christ existed in those embryos.

John 1:7 "The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe."

John the Baptist came to be a witness, and witness to the Light, who was Jesus Christ. Christ is the Word of God, and John's purpose for being sent as he was, is to identify Christ as the very Lamb of God. The qualifier to this verse is "that men might believe." John's message is given in Matthew 3:2; "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." The kingdom of heaven is where ever Christ is. When men believe on that message that Jesus Christ brought to the world, they will be changed. That message is the light that lighteth the whole world.

John the Baptist was not only sent by God, but he also was named by God. The word "John" means "God's gift", and John was a gift of God, sent to man, to bear witness of the Light which is the Word Jesus Christ. When Jesus came to earth, mankind rejected that message, and has allowed the very Word to become clouded in the minds of people. The very Word of God [our Bibles] is treated so common, that it is becoming totally disregarded, and has become nothing more then a storage for family records.

John 1:8 "He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

John was not the Savior, but John was the one that made the announcement of who Jesus Christ was. Jesus Christ was and is that Light, and when that Light shines into ones soul and heart (mind) then He will change that life to give that soul eternal values. Christ will pick that person up and give direction and purpose to him [her].

The witness that John bear was to repent, for the kingdom of heaven (of God) is coming.

John 1:9 "That was the true Light, Which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."

Every person born into the embryo of their flesh body, in this earth age, was no accident. God created your soul, and He is allowing you the freewill choice that each person has in the flesh body to choose the Light, or darkness. Before any created soul is judged, that soul will have had the right to see and understand, and then to chose the Light or darkness.

For those that do not receive this opportunity in the flesh body, will be given the opportunity be taught in the Millennium age, for God is a just and loving God that created His children, and wishes none to perish. Every living being that has life through the womb is given their life from God.

John 1:10 "He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not."

The Word, and Jesus Christ was not only in this earth age, but also the earth age that was. The world, or earth age that is now, with all it's beauty and animal life was made by Him, the "ruach" which in the Hebrew is the Spirit; God Holy Spirit. So John the Baptist was announcing the coming of the Word, the One that created the whole world, and John was announcing Jesus Christ as God.

The world and it's religious leaders refused to accept Him as God, for their minds were blinded. In these final days of this earth age, that Word is being withheld from our schools, and the One who is the Word, Jesus Christ is being rejected in favor of the creation that was made by Him. We are in the final days of preparation, when the entire world is being made ready to receive the false Christ, the Antichrist who is Satan. On that day of the arrival of Satan, you will either be sealed in your minds with and by the Word, or you will accept the Antichrist and be taken by the false Christ.

There is no middle ground, for Revelation 9:4 tells us that if you are not sealed, God Himself will turn you over to Satan, and his locust army of fallen angels. "But it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads." Friend, it is time to study that Word, and get to know what is written in it. That "seal" or "knowledge of God's Word in your mind" is your only protection against Satan in the end times.

Even in the strongest Christian nation in the world, the influences of Satan, through his offspring the Kenites have so changed our laws that the truth of God Word, cannot be taught. In it's place they proudly teach the winds of satanic doctrine, such as evolution, and other forms of spiritual satanic divination. Our nation is a Christian nation, it was founded for that purpose and it always will be. Our children cannot be taught the fact of creation, but in its place there is a mixture of ideas that are made to appear as truths, only when analyzed it becomes obvious for the lie that it is.

The scientific world today exists in a state of stupor. They have thrown out the very principles that they have made in order to come to scientific conclusions, for the sake of believing their lies. They stand there with their bags of genetic lengths to their chain, where there is no connection between the lengths, and because there is no proof to what they say, they expect you to believe their trash of satanic lies, simply because they have said it. It is no different today, then it was in Jesus day, when the Kenite religious leaders stood and declared Jesus a blasphemer, simply because their altered traditions did not go along with what Jesus declared.

The world did not believe Jesus was the Christ then, and today they don't believe that you are a created being, but a life coming into existence and happening by chance. Is it any wonder that the common things of the world have become so distorted, and the youth have nothing to hold dear.

If evolution were to be a fact, then it would need to be an unending process, continuing even to this day. It could not be a little change here, and much later by chance another change, it must be an unending process of growth from the simple one cell life forms, all the way to the completed man. And friend, that just doesn't exist. When they state that man came from monkeys or apes, the problem is that every time they present a specimen of ancient ape forms, that is what that life was, an ape.

Science itself documents the fact that evolution is an impossibility. Science documents the fact that an ape genetically of ages past, is exactly as the ape of today. The snail of of millions of years ago is genetically just as that snail of today. The difference of course is in the fact that many of the creatures of the first earth age, are extinct today, but their remains are being dug up all over the world. The Word records that there was a prior age, and because of Satan's downfall, and the downfall of one third of God's children that followed Satan, God destroyed the earth age that was. The evidence of that destruction is found all over the earth.

The age of the earth is countless millions of years old, only Adamic man as presented in the Word is about 6,000 years old. Because of the twisting of the Word, Christians seem that they have to defend the Word, however their lack of knowledge of that Word and the traditions that they have come to except, their traditions add fuel to the fire of the lies of Satan, and his demonic doctrines, such as evolution.

Friend, when a snail grows up, it becomes an adult snail, and not another animal, when any small creature grows to maturity it stays that same kind, and species, with forming into another creature form. That is exactly as God has created each being. This process is recorded in Genesis 1:20-21. To this date, there has been not one example of one kind producing another kind, and that is why evolution is a lie. When you believe evolution, then you believe a lie, and the product of that lie is to miss the understanding of the Word of instruction that God has given to us. God's Word has never changed, nor will it ever.

Genesis 1:20-21; "And God said, "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." [20] "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the water brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind and God saw that it was good."

Maybe the simplicity of this verse is just to confusing to the educated mind. Friend, you will believe the Word, or you will believe a lie, you cannot do both.

John 1:11 "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not."

Jesus came to His own kin folks, and those that were suppose to receive Him, and know who He was, did not believe Him. God had foretold of Jesus coming through the prophets, yet by the time Jesus came in the flesh, their traditions did not allow Israel to accept Him.

The ten tribes of the House of Israel had been scattered by 722 B.C. by the Assyrians, and when the Babylonians carried the House of Judah to Babylon, most of the house of Judah kept right on going, and also scattered. By the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, and the return of what remained of the House of Judah to Jerusalem, the Levitical priests were not with them, and the Nethinim had taken over the duties of the Levitical priests, and scribes. These Nethinims were the Kenites, the offspring of "Cain", who was the son of Satan through his sexual union with Eve in the Garden of Eden.

These offspring of Cain [the Kenites] were the religious leaders, the scribes and chief priests of Jesus day, and they ruled over the Temple. They were the ones that lied and plotted to have Jesus killed. They were evil and wicked men. They led the elders of the people and set the traditions that the people of Judaea followed, and it is because of them that Jesus was taken and crucified. Jesus showed the people the error in those traditions, and for doing this, the Kenite leaders wanted Jesus dead. That is the negative part of the plan of God, for without Christ's death on the cross, there would be no salvation to mankind. The tribe of Judah allowed these Nethinim Kenite people to infiltrate into their ranks and take over, and they blended in with the people of Judah, and gave brother Judah their bad reputation.

Was Jesus accepted by His own? Of course not, and in these end times the Kenites are doing the same as they did in I Chronicles 2:55; they took over the duties of writing the law and history, as the scribes, and their half truths and customs caused Jesus Christ's own people to reject him. "And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez [Jerusalem]; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab." The false doctrines of the rapture theory will also teach many of the Christians of today to accept Satan, the false Christ who is the Antichrist as their Messiah.

John 1:12 "But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name:"

Notice the qualification given to those that became the "sons of God". "As many as received Him", and to them alone the Father gave each of those men and women the power to become one of God's own people. However there was another stipulation to this verse, "even to them that believe on His name." That name is Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. That is your access to the throne of the heavenly Father, and the only credentials that you can be heard by the Father. The reason for this is because the only sacrifice that God will accept is blood of the Lamb, Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Messiah the anointed one, and He died on the cross, and was raised from the dead, and that is what you must believe. To pray in the Name of Jesus Christ is to believe that He is the very Son of the God.

That is what sets Christianity apart from all other religions, and makes Christianity a reality, a fact. The "power" that we have to become the Son of God, is the "authority" we carry in being God's child, with all the rights and privileges that come with this authority. That power is spelled out in His Word, and that power with all the rights and privileges are the promises that all Christians hold dear. In the expression "sons of God" there is no gender, but should be "child of God". They are the ones the see the Word with eyes of understanding and believe in Jesus Christ. This gospel of John presents Jesus Christ as God, for we have only one God.

If you claim the name of God then it is time to get into His Word and find out what power you do have, and where your authority comes from. Then prepare yourself to use that authority. Prepare yourself to make a difference as a citizen in this earth age for our heavenly Father. Not as a know-it-all, but firm in all your convictions as a believer in Christ.

John 1:13 "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

The subject here is being "born again". It is the person that has received the Son, Jesus Christ that has the authority of God. That Christian believes on Jesus' Name and obedient to the Lord, and he is the one that is "born again". If you receive this power, or authority given in God's will, then that power becomes part of you and you are changed.

The nature of flesh man is to rule and take over the world, and flesh always seeks to satisfy itself and put aside the problems that it has created upon itself. The flesh side of you demands all of your attention, so that which is left is man's spirit. So lets look at this again, in proper context.

Our heavenly Father has given to only those that have received His Son, Jesus Christ who was born of woman, the authority and the right to become and be called the children of God. When you become a child of God, you become an heir to the Living God, the owner of all things.

In this flesh life, a father passes the farm, or what ever wealth he has on to his children, when he passes from this life. The child then takes possession just as the father had during his life of all his wealth. This is what separates the Christian life from the communistic thought, and all forms of the satanic social realm. To take what belongs to one and share it with those not entitled to it is of Satan. The whole idea is Kenite, and of Satan. God blesses those whom He will, and that entitles that person to more then the masses.

Remember in Ephesians 1:5; "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will," This "adoption" that draws us to the Father, is "by the will and good pleasure" of the one doing the adopting. A flesh father is the one that makes the commitment to the child, to protect and love, and to assign his inheritance to his child. The child receives this commitment by and through the law. It is between the legal entity being adopted, and the one doing the adoption, whether the rights and authority will take place.

Friend, that is exactly how you will become "born again", or better stated "born from above". You can only see and believe in Christ because the Spirit of the Living God has opened your spiritual eyes, and then you have the ability to see the condition of sin that is in your life. Only then do you understand that you need to be saved from that condition of sin, and that the only way is under the blood of Christ that was shed on the cross. Once you confess in repentance and believe on Jesus Christ, then God's adoption of you into His family has taken place. When you are adopted into a family, you become part of that family with all the rights that the family holds. Then just as the human child receives the right to inheritance from his human father, so also you become joint-heirs with Christ in God's heavenly kingdom. This is recorded in Romans 8:16-17.

Romans 8:16, 17; "The Spirit Itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" [16] "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together." [17]

To believe that Jesus is God's Savior for mankind, is what is meant by "believing on His name". When you can receive that into your heart (mind), then you believe on His name. When you receive Christ, then the Spirit, the power and the authority of all of God's Word is reborn into you. That is what "born again" means, it is to be born again into the family of God, as a child of God, with all the rights and privileges that this family membership gives. We will deal more with this subject of "born again" in John 3.

What is the duty of that membership? It is not to meet all your pleasures and desires, but for you to meet God's will and pleasures. Many today think that being a Christian in this family means that they can run around and claim what ever pleases themselves, and God must provide it for them. The purpose of being born again, into the family of God, is to fulfill the will of God, and that will is the promotion of His Son, Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God always elevates Jesus Christ, and promotes Him, and any spirit that does not do this, is not a spirit of God.

Today there is a prosperity doctrine that states that if you state your wishes, "in the name of Jesus", then what ever you can claim, it must come to pass. Friend, this elevates you over God, and you have placed your will over the will of the Father, and this is not of God. When man's will gets in the way of God's Will and takes priority, it is time to watch out. When you get in the way of God's Will and Plan then God has a way of straightening things out. When you take God out of the planning for your life, and substitute your fleshly desires, you are getting into the heathen oriental mind of thought.

This is directed to only those that "believe on His name", and are born of the Spirit of God, and that are under the Will of God, as joint heirs with Christ. Out side of that, there is only play acting and this doesn't apply to you. Those that this is directed to, do not get puffed up, and they will act as part of the royalty of God's family. The prince of any kingdom knows that the King has the final authority, and all commitments by the prince will be with the full agreement of the king, because those commitments are within the will of the king.

These people are taught with regards to praying in the "will of God", that if you pray in the "will of God", then you are a weakling if you are not also claiming, therefore you do not have the faith. This is stupidity, so lets give an analogy here. If one of your children came to you, and said to you, "Daddy, I want a new red wagon, and I'm not taking no for an answer, and there it is, now go and get it." The kid saw it, he believes it is there and this kid thinks he can order daddy to get it. My friend, daddy is about to get the switch, and straighten the spoiled brat out a little. This is the same non-sense that is used in the prosperity doctrine teaching. It has become common in television teaching, and it is not of God.

If you are a child of God, our heavenly Father is in control and He knows what you need and He will provide it when you should have it. He is our Father, and you had better pray in His will. In the reverse of the analogy of above, if the child tries only to satisfy the father's will, and please his father, you know that the father will try to get what pleases his son, because of his love for that son.

John 1:14 "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

Here we see the Living Word, the Word that became flesh and lived and walked on earth in the flesh body. The Living Word that became flesh is Jesus Christ who shed the blood of His flesh that became our covering for sin. and it was through this Living Word that we can find repentance and approach our heavenly Father in prayer. Christ is the Word, and as we saw in verse one, this Word that became flesh was in the beginning with God, He also was God. There is only one God, and that one God has three offices, His three characters. I can't explain how this can be, but I accept it as fact, for God said it, and that settles it.

When God gave the law to mankind, it is the standard of perfection that no man can keep, and by the law all men [women] are under the sentence of death for sin. The covering, or atonement for sin prior to Jesus death on the cross was through the animal sacrifices, but they did not offer forgiveness for sin, but only a temporary covering. Upon the death of Jesus Christ, and His resurrection the price had been paid once and for all, and this is the sole purpose that it was necessary for a just and completely innocent God to come to earth, and be born of a women (The Virgin Mary), and to pay the ultimate sacrifice for sin.

This is what Paul addressed in Hebrews 9:20-22; "Saying, "This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you." [20] "Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry." [21] "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." [22]

Through Christ's shed blood, He brought Life, for He is the "tree of Life". In Christ and the Word we can have full life and grace that only God the Father can give, and that is why it is important to study His Word.

John 1:15 "John bare witness of Him, and cried, saying, "This was He of Whom I spake, He That cometh after me is preferred before me: for He was before me."

This is John the Baptist that is speaking here. Though John was born six month before Jesus, John is telling us that Jesus existed all the way back before the beginning of time.

John 1:16 "And of His fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.

In the Greek it is saying, that in the fullness of Christ, you have the fullness of God. Through Jesus we have a continued flowing of that grace upon grace that only God can give. In God's unlimited patience, He never grows tired of giving His unmerited favors that He extends to His own. Understand that this is addressed to God's children. His fullness is overflowing in love and understanding, along with it comes His correction that He gives those that He loves.

"Grace" is "God's unmerited favor" given to those who repent in Jesus' name. It is God riches that are given to you, at Christ expense. You don't deserve it, but those riches of eternal life are given because you have asked for them, and have turned to the one that has paid the price for you. Remember it this way (G) God's (R) riches (A) at (C) Christ's (E) expense, "Grace".

John 1:17 "For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."

Grace and truth came by "God's savior, His anointed one"; that is what "Jesus Christ" means. The law is given to show us how things should be, but Christ brought truth. The law was a shadow of things to come, but Christ wasn't the shadow of things to come, He was the truth, because He was the Living Word.

John 1:18 "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, Which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him."

Jesus is in the bosom of the Father, because they are one. Lets take this verse back to the Greek to better understand what is being said here. "No man has seen God at any time"; This is a statement that can be disputed by Moses and Ezekiel, so what does it mean. This word for "hath seen" in the Greek manuscripts, is "horao". It means "with both the eye and the mind." It means to see and comprehend, or understand. So what the verse is saying is that no man except the Son of God, that is in the bosom of God, can totally and completely comprehend the mind of God the Father.

We know that in Acts 7:55, 56, after Stephen had preached one of the most stirring messages of the gospel of Christ, we read; "But he, being full of the Holy Ghost [Spirit], looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God," [55] "And said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the son of man standing on the right hand of God." [56] Stephen saw God.

Many people have seen God and have lived, but no man [horao] can see with the eye and mind and can comprehend the mind of the Father. It is impossible for flesh man to understand God, but Christ can, Why? Because He is God.

This also falls back to praying in God's will. God comprehends all things, and we don't. We must submit to God, or you are making a god out of yourself.

John 1:19 "And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who art thou?"

This is the record of John the Baptist when the religious leaders in Jerusalem sent out their certain priests to inquire just who John was. John was baptizing people and converting them, and this was hurting the money bags at the Temple. If there is one way to hurt a Kenite or false prophet, it is to attack his money bag.

John 1:20 "And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, "I am not the Christ."

John had such a crowd following him, they thought he could be the Christ. However John faced that charge right off the bat with his answer, "I am not the Christ."

John 1:21 "And they asked him, "What then?' Art thou Elias?" And he saith, "I am not." "Art thou a prophet?" And he answered, "No."

These questions are in reference to Malachi 4:5, 6; "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:" [5] "And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to their children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." [6] "Elias" is the Greek word for "Elijah". John told them that He was not Elijah. Then these priests asked John again if he was a prophet, and John answered them No.

When Jesus addressed this in Matthew 17:10-12, when He told them, if you would have received Me, He would have been Elias [Elijah], but you received Me not; and that is the whole point. Matthew 17:12 "But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them."

They didn't receive Jesus and they did not receive John. John could not have been Elijah, for John was a child born to the Levitical priest Zachariah and his wife Elisabeth, who was the cousin to Mary. John came in the spirit and power of Elijah.

Luke 1:16, 17; "And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God." [16] "And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." [17]

Everyone that teaches others, and prepares the way for them to receive Christ, comes in the Spirit and power of Elijah, for that Spirit is the Holy Spirit, and the power is the power of God that is given to all that receive Jesus. That is the power which allows them to become the sons [children] of the Living God. This power is the gift of understanding and wisdom of the whole Word of God, and the tools to apply it to your life.

John 1:22 "Then said they unto him, "Who art thou? that we may give answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thy self?"

If you are doing the work of God and telling others of Jesus, and one of these religious types demands to know by what authority [of man] you are spreading the Word, it is your right to tell him to push off. More then likely they would not understand your answer anyhow; but if they would, they would not have asked the question in the first place. When the words you speak comes to the enemy, the Kenite religious realm will use the words you speak to be will be twisted and used against you. These Kenites paraded as brother Judah, and Levite priest in Jesus day, and today they parade also as fellow Christians to cause confusion in the church and Scriptural doctrine.

When it comes to doing work for our Lord, we do not need to give any answer. John's answer was a quote straight from the Old Testament, Isaiah 40:3; "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God." "

John 1:23 "He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as said the Prophet Esaias."

As we saw from the prior verse, the Prophet "Esaias" is the Greek form for the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah. The verse John is quoting is Isaiah 40:3. The Old testament prophesied of each event of the coming of Christ in the first advent, including the events surrounding John the Baptist. The New Testament is the completion of the Old Testament, and is a part thereof, and most of the prophesies of the Old Testament are yet to be fulfilled.

The only authority we should be following is God's Word, and His Will. When you are doing the work of our Heavenly Father, that is the source of any answer we give. It should be straight to the point, and without debate. When it is done as such, they still will not understand, so don't waste your time arguing.

John 1:24 "And they which were sent were of the Pharisees."

Pharisees, meaning the separated ones.

John 1:25 "And they asked him, and said unto him, "Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?"

These Pharisees were asking John, "Why are you baptizing for?" Baptism to this point had been a ritual of sprinkling of the hands, and washing of the hands in a certain manner. The Word "baptize" means to "put under". This is why there is much discussion of Baptism, for many religious orders still sprinkle, while others totally submerge. Christ showed us how it was to be done and went to the river Jordan and was submerged in baptism by John the Baptist.

John 1:26 "John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water: but there standeth One among you, Whom I know not;"

Jesus had not been baptized yet, but John knew that Jesus was alive and walking on the earth, from his birth. John the Baptist and Jesus were cousins through Mary and Elisabeth. This is why I feel that the "Traditions of Glastonbury" have merit, for John did not even know his own cousin, when the church world presents that they lived so close.

John 1:27 "He it is, Who coming after me is preferred before me, Whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose."

There will be some strange things happening here, for John the Baptist had baptized in water, and with water before the baptism of Christ. When the Messiah was Baptized, He set the path that we are to follow, and thus this should be an act of obedience to Christ.

John 1:28 "These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing."

"Bethabara" in most manuscripts is "Bethany". This is the place where John did his baptizing. This then as another prophecy being fulfilled from the Old Testament.

John 1:29 "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, "Behold the Lamb of God, Which taketh away the sin of the world."

John is making the announcement that the promised sacrificial Lamb of God, that was promised from the beginning, and before the foundations of this earth age was standing there before John. That sacrificial Lamb of God is Jesus Christ. John is announcing that through Jesus Christ's sacrifice, His blood will be shed, and the sins of the world would be taken away, for those that repented and believed upon Him. When John spoke these words he knew that there would be both a first and second advent.

This is foretold in Isaiah 53:7; "He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, ye He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth."

The Lamb of God is brought into focus in this verse, as it was spoken over seven hundred years before John said the words to this band of Pharisees. God spoke it through the Prophet Isaiah, and then standing before John the Baptist and these Pharisees is Jesus, and John presents Jesus to them as the Christ, the Messiah, the very "Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world."

Isaiah 53:8; "He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of My people was He stricken."

The ones that shall declare His generation are the elect of God, as well as Christ Himself. You declare it by preaching and teaching that proclamation to those with eyes to see, and ears to hear God's holy Word.

Christ was "cut off from the land of the living" when He was crucified on the cross at Calvary hill. Christ went to the cross for the transgressions, which is the sins of the entire world, of all times, for those that will repent and be baptized in Jesus name. Jesus Christ is the only perfect sacrifice that would ever be acceptable to God. Jesus was the sacrificial Lamb.

Isaiah 53:9; "And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth."

Jesus hung on the cross between two malefactors, or robbers, and He was placed in the tomb of His rich uncle, Joseph of Arimathaea. Jesus always spoke the truth.

So we see that the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. The entire Word of God is important to all believers, for it takes the entire Word to complete the instruction necessary that we face, and to give us understanding of the events of this the final generation. When John addressed Jesus, it was always as "the Lamb of God" that would be sacrificed, not as the King of kings that would return in the second advent to rule the world with a rod of iron, but as the loving Savior to become the slaughtered Lamb.

The time when all sins will be taken from the world is at Jesus Christ's second advent, and that is when all forms of idolatry, and things that offend will be taken from the earth. It is the start of the Millennium age when the kingdom of heaven will be on the earth.

John 1:30 "This is He of Whom I said, After me cometh a Man Which is preferred before me: for He was before me."

This is in reference to what has been stated in the first three verses of John 1.

John 1:31 "And I knew Him not: but that He should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water."

John is stating that the reason that he is baptizing with water, is that Jesus came to be taught to all the tribes, not to just the house of Judah, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. John is making his announcement to all the tribes.

John states that he did not know his own cousin, and the reason for this comes from secular writings, such as the "Traditions of Glastonbury", in England. This is secular history that Jesus did go to Glastonbury in England with His Uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, who was wealthy in tin and lead mines in the Mendip Hills, as well as his ownership of many ships. History records many travels of Jesus as a youth, even to the point of Biblical records of people in Jesus' family's synagogue not knowing who He was.

In Luke 4:16-22; "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up....and the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him....And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?"

Two things strike us here. First, the usage of the expression, "where he had been brought up," implies that while Jesus had spent His childhood in Nazareth He had not continued it live there. This expression is strengthened out by the fact that His hearers asked the question, "Is this Joseph's son?" almost as though they doubted Jesus identity.

This helps us understand why John did not recognize Jesus when he first saw Jesus.

John 1:32 "And John bare record, saying, "I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon Him."

When Jesus Christ walked up to the river Jordan, the dove from heaven came down, and God's Spirit spoke and identified Jesus. Luke 3:22; "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."

John 1:33 "And I knew Him not: but He That sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, 'Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is He Which baptizeth with the Holy Spirit."

This is important; "Spirit descending, and remaining on Him," for once the Holy Spirit came upon Christ, God's Spirit stayed with Christ, and upon Him. Many people say that the Spirit left Christ as He hung on the cross, as He quoted from Psalm 22, but that is not so. God's promise here in John is that His Spirit would never depart from Christ.

That same Spirit of God will also remain with you, as you stay in His Word, and follow in Christ's path. However there are conditions that every child of God must meet, regardless of what level of understanding, and service you are in. God places the conditions so that His servants will serve Him well.

The Spirit of God is eternal from infinity past, to the eternity in the future. The Spirit has always been with God, and where ever the Father and the Son are, there the Spirit is also.

John 1:34 "And I saw, and bare record that This is the Son of God."

John is stating a fact, based on his personal knowledge. The book of John is the gospel that declares Christ as God.

John 1:35 "Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;"

This is John the writer of this great book the Gospel of John, and the other man that stood and watched as the Spirit of God descended was the disciple Andrew.

John 1:36 "And looking upon Jesus as He walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!"

"The Lamb of God" is the "Passover Lamb", that is what the Lamb of God is. It will be in three more Passovers that Jesus would indeed become the Passover Lamb slain.

John 1:37 "And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus."

When Andrew and John the disciple heard Jesus speak, they followed Him.

John 1:38 "Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, "What seek ye?" They said unto Him, "Rabbi," (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) "where dwellest Thou?"

The word "Rabbi" in today's English meaning is better expressed, "teacher". It was Jesus' Words and teachings that caused Andrew to follow Him. When the true word of God is being taught, people will always follow that teacher. God's Word should only be taught from His Word, Chapter by chapter, and line upon line, and not through traditions and fairy-tale story telling.

John 1:39 "He saith unto them, "Come and see." They came and saw where He dwelt, and abode with Him that day: for it was about the tenth hour."

When the two disciples asked where Jesus lived, Jesus invited them to come and see, for it was late in the day, about 4:P. M. When Christ taught, they were drawn to the Word. As far as God election is concerned, altar calls are not necessary for when the Spirit of God moves on one of God elect, conviction by the Spirit of God draws the action, and not man's emotions.

John 1:40 "One of the two which heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother."

So we see that Peter was the brother of Andrew, the one that heard John the Baptist preach before they ever heard Jesus teach.

John 1:41 "He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, "We have found the Messias," (which is, being interpreted, the Christ.)"

Once Andrew heard Jesus in person, he was convinced Jesus was the Messiah, the Christ. In excitement Andrew ran to his brother Simon Peter to tell Peter that he had found the Christ.

John 1:42 "And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, He said, "Thou art Simon the son of Jona:" thou shall be called cephas," (which is by interpretation, A stone.)"

Before Peter could say a word, Jesus identified Peter, and named him. What is interesting about this verse, is "Jona" means "dove", which is the symbol for the Holy Spirit, and it is Peter that Jesus Christ used to establish His church on Pentecost day, with the first one hundred and twenty souls.

However, Peter is not the Rock that the church was built upon, Christ is the Rock, and in the Greek, this Stone is an immovable stone. Why then would Christ call Peter "cephas" which is not Hebrew, but Aramaic? Christ is showing that His church is going to be going out to not only the people of Israel, but to all peoples of the world. So Jesus gave Peter a name that would be understood by the world language.

John 1:43 "The day following Jesus would go forth into Galilee, and findeth Philip, and saith unto him, "Follow Me."

There was no volunteering in Jesus command to Philip, simply "follow Me". Jesus knew the heart of Philip, and when the command came, Philip followed. This form of calling is what is called, "election". By this we can understand Ephesians 1:4; where God stipulates; "According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without before Him in love:" Which in the Greek is to say, "I chose you before the overthrow of Satan." Jesus knew this soul before it had been placed in the womb of his mother. Philip had a destiny, just as many of you do. You have known since you were a child that there was more to God's Word then what is being taught, it is time to get into that Word.

John 1:44 "(Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.)"

John 1:45 "Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, "We have found Him, of Whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

The word "Nathanael", means "the gift of God". Moses wrote of Christ in the Law in Genesis 49:10; "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." The law is of God, and "from between his feet" is in reference to the "posterity" of Judah. "Shiloh" is the Hebrew word of "tranquil", and is the name given to Messiah.

Both the advents are covered here, for "the coming of Shiloh" is at the first advent, and "the gathering of the people" will be at Christ second coming. Moses also wrote of Christ coming in Genesis 3:15; "And I [God] will put enmity between thee [Satan] and the woman [Eve], and between thy seed [the Kenites] and her seed [Jesus Christ]; It [Christ] shall bruise thy [Satan's] head, and thou [Satan, through the Kenites] shalt bruise His [Christ's] heel."

When Christ went to the cross, Jesus Christ's heel was bruised, but at that same time the sentence was placed on the head of Satan. This sentence will be carried out following the great white throne judgment, as written of in Revelation 20:13-15; "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works." [13] "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." [14] "And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." [15] That is the time Satan's head will be finished forever.

John 1:46 "And Nathanael said unto him, "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip saith unto him, "Come and see."

Nazareth was a small and back woods type of town, but the town's reputation was not that which would cause you to expect the Messiah to come from. But Jesus was not born in Nazareth, but Bethlehem. Because of Herod's killing of the babies under two years of age in Bethlehem at Jesus birth, Joseph, Mary and Jesus fled to Egypt. Then from Luke 2:4, on the return from Egypt, they went to Nazareth, Galilee, which was not under the control of Herod.

John 1:47 "Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and saith of him, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!"

Jesus recognized Nathanael, and knew of his honesty. Nathanael was of the house of Judah, but remember that all tribes of both houses are Israelites.

John 1:48 "Nathanael saith unto Him, "Whence knowest Thou me?" Jesus answered and said unto him, "Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee."

Nathanael was wondering how Jesus knew who he was. When Jesus told Nathanael when He saw him first, Nathanael knew that there was no way that Jesus could know that except He be the Christ. In a sense Christ called him out from under the fig tree.

Take this to another level of teaching in "the parable of the fig tree". It was the leaves of the fig tree that covered over Eve after she had conceived Cain, from the relations with Satan. It would also be the bad figs [the Kenites] that were controlling the Temple worship at the time of Nathanael, and when Christ called Nathanael, He called him out from under those bad figs, or Kenites.

We are living in another time when both baskets of good and bad figs have returned to Jerusalem to reestablish the Jews back into this promised land, and this marked the start of the last generation as Jesus said in Matthew 24:34; "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." Friend, the start of this last generation started March 15, 1948, and many of the events of the final generation are history to us today.

The fig leaf is the symbol for something that is hidden or deceiving, and that is the evil that shall cover the entire earth very shortly. Satan's deception and that of his children, the Kenites, will package Satan the Antichrist so that the whole world will accept him as the Christ, and only the elect of God will know the truth. Today Christians are relying on the doctrines of tradition, and rejecting God's Word, and by doing so they will be deceived.

John 1:49 "Nathanael answered and saith unto Him, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel."

The Spirit of God revealed Jesus Christ's identity to Nathanael, and Nathanael understood that only the Son of God could have told him what Jesus said to him.

John 1:50 "Jesus answered and said unto him, "Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? thou shalt see greater things than these."

Jesus is telling Nathanael that if you thought what I said to you something, stick around and see the miracles that I shall perform.

John 1:51 "And He saith unto him, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man."

Remember back in Genesis 28 where Jacob had a vision, and there was a ladder, and this ladder reached into heaven. The angels of God were ascending and descending on that ladder, and from this vision Jacob was shown that he was in the seed line that would bring forth the Messiah, and the twelve.

The twelve are the children of "Jacob" whose name was changed to "Israel", and the offspring of those twelve sons of Jacob became known as "Israelites". The sons of Israel multiplied their families into twelve tribes, and into a nation that came out of Egypt calling themselves Israelites, the children of God.

Following the death of King Solomon, the nation of Israel was split into two nations, or "houses"; the one house to the north was called the "house of Israel", and the nation to the south, the "house of Judah". The house of Israel was scattered by the Assyrians by the year 722 B. C., and migrated through the Caucasus mountains, and became known as the "Caucasians".

Over a century later the house of Judah, was taken into captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and held for 70 years. Friend, all of the tribes of both houses are Israelites, even though the name "Israel" was given to Joseph sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, in Genesis 48. Though the Christian world today prefers to lose the ten tribes of the "house of Israel". The prophet Hosea identifies them, as they would be know in the last days, in Hosea 1:10.

Hosea 1:10 "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, "Ye are not My People," there it shall be said unto them, "Ye are the sons of the living God."

My friend, the Living God is Jesus Christ, and those that say they are not of Israel, in their home places around the world, still claim the name of Jesus Christ, and call themselves "Christians". The Christian nations around the world are the house of Israel, prophesied by the prophet Hosea, and their numbers are great. They were "the lost sheep of Israel" that Jesus sent his disciples to preach to, and even to this day, though they call themselves "Caucasians". They call themselves after even of their migrations through the Caucasus mountains, they still think of it as a race. They have lost their identity marking the event of the migration, and scattering of the old "house of Israel.

Back in John 1:51, Jesus was telling Nathanael that it is through this ladder, Jesus Christ that heaven's gates shall open, and you will see the many works and miracles being preformed by the Son of man. Jesus ministry is about to start, and Jesus is telling him to wake up and pay attention to all parts of Jesus ministry.

Each of these things that come to pass are part of the foundation of our faith in Jesus Christ. The things that gave Jesus pleasure, are the same things that give our heavenly Father pleasure, and that is why we must know and do the will go God.