Ephesians Lesson 34 of 39 part 4

Luke 6:48

“He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.” 

Paul is and was teaching Christ and His victory over the anti-Christ. We are the ones who build upon this Gospel of revealed revelation of the workings of God both in Christ and through Christ. We in concord with the Spirit hold back or impede the progression of the anti-Christ's revealing, until the appointed time and not before.

2Thessalonians 2:8a

"And then shall that Wicked (one) be revealed,..."

After we are taken out of the way in the departure, then the anti-Christ (this can be made plural because there are many anti-Christ's and wicked ones in this evil world as illustrated in Revelation 2:20 and chapters 17-19) will be revealed, and when that happens it will be just like a dam being taken out of a river. Down stream there will be a flood like you can’t imagine, and it will be a flood of iniquity, with great wickedness. And even though the first 3 1/2 years of that period are centered on the household of God, old Israel. With the last 3 1/2 years being global, yet rest assured it is going to be a great upheaval. Because of what God's timetable in Psalm 2 tells us in verse 9 and what Daniel chapter 7 and Revelation speak on these events....I do not disclose where in Revelation because this whole book is prophecy from beginning to end. And reveals the tribulation of man and Christ's restored kingdom within mans soul. Revelation like Acts is a progressive revealing of the Spirits working to restore God's rule, heavenly kingdom within man, as it was, as found in Genesis 2:7. This is what God promised Adam and woman as recorded in Genesis 3:15, the plan of Salvation of all things lost. And mans Redemption is but the gate which allows us to progress through the door of death to enter His kingdom. This death is not the physical death of our flesh but is the death of self, the sin, into which Adam willingly fell to be with his wife.

2Thessalonians 2:8

"And then* shall that Wicked (one's) be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming."

*when that dam in the river, the Body of Christ, indwelt by the Holy Spirit and the ontological essence of Christ, when He is taken out of the way.

This is why Paul tells us as did Jesus to reprove all blaspheme of scripture. We are not correcting people but only their error of scripture as did the Lord Himself to the Jewish leadership. Why, because they were begets, men of a holier than thou attitude full of self pride, haughty and all hidden behind a veil of secrecy. 

The Body of Christ, are His present day disciples, and are the son's of God who have the understanding and knowledge of all the mysteries or secret things hidden within scripture. These are the people who have acquired Salvation and have gone through the door of the Last Supper's secret of betrothal in type and metaphor with Christ. They are the answer (the heirs of Psalm 2:6-8) of John chapter 17's prayer.

Ephesians 5:11

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them."

A dam in the river, we are to hold it back, and that is the best way I can explain it. Now that does not mean that we have to go out and demonstrate, and do all those things that cause all kinds of problems in society. But we are to be that constant power of the Holy Spirit (as a peculiar people set apart) to admonish people, to refrain from those things, by reproving of these unfruitful works of darkness.

Ephesians 5:12

"For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret."

Up until a few years ago most of this abject wickedness was kept secret, and we called it being in the closet. But anymore it is coming out in the open, there is no shame, there is no holding back and they have absolutely no consciousness of what is right and wrong, they are lawlessness. Its welcomed and in braced into the main line churches because of the secular humanism in the guise of evangelism and is socially and politically correct. Which simply means all embrace the common spirit of death, the self will of doomed mankind. Paul here is telling us that this is NOT to be so. The true Body of Christ stands in the gap and resists evil, and has NO fellowship with Darkness and will remain out side the tombs of religions church walls of hypocrisy and blasphemy.