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Why should we care if one more innocent man died some 2000 years ago?

— This question seems to make sense if you are not aware of exactly who Jesus is, and was when He walked this earth.

— In answer to this, I present an undeniable fact… I am writing of a SPIRITUAL TRUTH that there are three levels of the rule of Jesus Christ, and though these may be denied by some, their denial cannot change the FACTS.

I will try to explain here, THE THREE LEVELS OF THE RULE OF JESUS CHRIST…

This idea may come as a shock to Christians and Atheists as well, but God’s word tells us of the three levels of Christ’s rule over ALL humanity.

LEVEL 1 LORDSHIP / The first one is the easiest to understand, for it is the Lordship of Jesus over a life that has been yielded to His control as an act of a person’s own free will. This must happen BEFORE THE CHURCH HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE EARTH. (We believers call this removal of the church ‘The Rapture of the church’.)

SEE 1^st Thessalonians 4:13-18 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. (14) For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. (15) For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. (16) For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. (17) Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. (18) Therefore encourage one another with these words.

— This is the Lordship my life testifies to, as I found at the point of committing suicide, I chose instead to yield the rest of my life to Jesus (if He wanted the mess I had made of it), and He whispered to me, “That is all I was waiting to hear.”

— He then stepped into my life and showed me the road He wished for me to follow, and like the GOOD SHEPHERD that Jesus is, His “rod and staff” have been my guide, protection, and comfort ever since.

— Jesus then, according to my own free will, became the Lord, Master, and Saviour of my life, and I will continue to bow before His throne until He takes me home. (I still have my free will to choose each day whether to continue to follow Him or not.) However I know that I never want to return to that cliffside of failure, so I am absolutely happy and content to let Jesus lead me to victory after victory.

— Therefore to all who are my ‘brothers and sisters’ in this level of Christ’s Lordship, I want to “encourage YOU with these words”. (SEE also Revelations 7:9-17)

LEVEL 2 LORDSHIP / I refer here to a time when those who refuse Jesus as Lord and miss the taking away of His church from the time of the tribulation of this world. Those left behind can still choose to make Jesus Lord.

SEE: Revelations 14:9-13 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, (10) he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. (11) And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.” (12) Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. (13) And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”

— The underlined portion describes those who miss the ‘RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH’, because they did not make Jesus their Lord, and yet they become convinced of His truth and Lordship AFTER the ‘time of His grace’. This speaks of the fact that they gain eternal life with the Lord Jesus after-the-fact (so to speak), by refusing to make the anti-christ their Lord.

— It seems that most of them die persecuted by the worldwide hordes of the followers of the antichrist, and so they become martyrs for their faith. However, there is a chance that some will flee and remain alive until the final return of Jesus to judge the earth.

SEE: Matthew 24:29-31 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. (30) Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (31) And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

— THE SAD PART ABOUT THOSE FROM THIS LEVEL is that they have missed the protection offered to the believers in LEVEL1. For Jesus as the protecting shepherd rescues those for those who believe and become participants in the rapture of His church.

— These LEVEL 2 SAINTS, however, must prove their faith and bear the persecution of the anti-christ without yielding, even unto death.

LEVEL 3 LORDSHIP / This is the saddest truth contained in scripture. For it talks of how the eyes of all who chose to be blind to the grace, mercy, and absolute Lordship of a Creator God, see the terrible folly of their ways and finally bow the knee to the truth of God’s sovereignty.

SEE: Isaiah 45:23-24 By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’ (24) “Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.

ALSO SEE: Matthew 13:36-43 Then He (Jesus) left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.” (37) He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. (38) The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, (39) and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. (40) Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. (41) The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, (42) and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (43) Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

The fact that Jesus is UNDENIABLY LORD OF ALL is this sad 3^rd Lordship that I am writing of here. This Lordship is a matter of the natural law that anything created is the property of its creator.

— And that is why Jesus has unquestionable right to send His angels out as found in Matthew 13:41-42… The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, (42) and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Are you of those who have ‘ears to hear’? – I hope and pray that you are.

— If you wonder what this is all about drop me a message. I would love to share further with you.

— And before I leave today… always remember that as I write this down (November 6^th 2021), we are still in the time of God’s GRACE, we still have John 3:16-17 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (17) For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

— May your faith in God bring you into all His blessings… Amen.

And if you seek that faith, drop me a note so I can counsel and pray with you. – KK