Fleeing From Idolatry

               

  2 Cor 10: 3   For though we walk in the flesh [as mortal men], we are not carrying on our [spiritual] warfare according to the flesh and using the weapons of man. 4 The weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood]. Our weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. 5 We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought and purpose captive to the obedience of Christ, 6 being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete.
1Jo 2:18 ASV - Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.  Gods time is not our time .   2Pe 3:8 ASV - But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2Jo 1:7 ASV - For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.  There are religions today that profess that God has no son he never had a son ,   you must understand every knee is going to bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord of all . Rev 6:15 ASV - And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;Rev 6:16 ASV - and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:Rev 6:17 ASV - for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?
The church of God has the power to cast out devils today ,  men talk of the great commission of Jesus and his word to the church Peter described as the the son of God .       Mar 16:20 ASV - And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the Signs that followed. Amen.   The organized church of men say that all of these signs and gifts died with the last Apostle . No they hindered the church with their other gospel . Mar 16:15 ASV - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.   The debate is over my friend time is short and its coming down to the last part of this verse  preach the gospel to the whole creation.   Whole Greek  pas      All: In the plural it signifies "the totality of the persons or things referred to  Used without a noun it virtually becomes a pronoun, meaning "everyone" or "anyone." In the plural with a noun it means "all."      The bible says that man shall not take away or add to this book .
Mar 16:16 ASV - He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
Mar 16:17 ASV - And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;
Mar 16:18 ASV - they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.  .    The serpents here is the devil himself the demons that came to kill steal and destroy .  Jesus said I give YOU power to tread upon serpents and scorpions .   Luk 10:19 ASV - Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any wise hurt you.   The gates of hell shall not prevail against the church of Jesus his chosen people ,  The bible says that we cannot not war against the devil in our flesh , we need the power of the blood of Christ and his word .     Heb 2:1 ASV - Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them.
Heb 2:2 ASV - For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
Heb 2:3 ASV - how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;
Heb 2:4 ASV - God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will .                  Luk 18:7 ASV - And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and yet he is longsuffering over them?        Luk 18:8 ASV - I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
Eph 1:3 ASV - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:    To be a Christian as people say with out thinking that word was use in scorn by the vulgar people to slander against any one that believed in Christ .  It is more than a name it is the power of that name. Do you realize that today many people are named Jesus in in the day of Christ . There is only one Lord and one faith and one baptism  .
The earth has been judged and the exact time Jesus said no man knowth the time exactly . Mat 16:3 ASV - And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the heaven is red and lowering. Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot discern the signs of the times.   Read Matt 24   it is to you and all Gods children ,   tribulation is coming and no amount of preparation in your own strength will be enough .    Faith in the fathers protection and what ever comes will be his will .  The flesh does not want to die it will devise every form of  survival to stay alive , that is spiritually and physically .  What does the word say about the church and his Love for us.  Only one of the original twelve disciples lived and died a natural death John the Apostle , the others were all martyred according to biblical history .  Many believers have gave their life's for the sake of the gospel .    Martyred for their faith
Look at the condition of this world not just the nation ,  evil of every form is working for this end time judgement .  satan is manipulating his children , rushing them towards their final judgement .  Jesus said you are of your father the devil ,  people born of God will look and act like their father.  People that give their soul to satan will act and look like their father.   Jesus has already conquered the beast Jesus said it is finished and he died and rose again the third day  .    
Mar 1:12 ASV - And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness.
Mar 1:13 ASV - And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted of Satan; And he was with the wild beasts; And the angels ministered unto him.   This word beast is very important to understand .      Beast      Greek: therion    Beast:     metaph. a brutal, bestial man, savage, ferocious to be distinguished from zoon, almost invariably denotes "a wild beast." In Act 28:4, "venomous beast" is used of the viper which fastened on Paul's hand. Zoon stresses the vital element, therion the bestial. The idea of a "beast" of prey is not always resent. Once, in Hbr 12:20, it is used of the animals in the camp of Israel, such, e.g., as were appointed for sacrifice: But in the Sept. therion is never used of sacrificial animals; the word ktenos (see below) is reserved for these.
Therion, in the sense of "wild beast", is used in the Apocalypse for the two Antichristian potentates who are destined to control the affairs of the nations with Satanic power in the closing period of the present era, Rev 11:7; 13:1-18; 14:9, 11; 15:2; 16:2, 10, 13; 17:3-17; 19:19, 20; 20:4, 10.
In the last days to those that are alive living in the judgement of tribulation , now remember Jesus said this not me in Matt 24   .   The evil world is the beast and satan has given his power over to the brutal, bestial man, savage,  men and women who have sold their souls to the devil.   I believe this to be a spiritually and a physical truth .   Satan owns the kingdoms of the earth

   This is where the church becomes  triumphant  this is where the gates of hell shall not prevail against Gods people.   God states in his word Rom 12:1-2 that that we be not conformed into the world But that we be transformed By the Renewing of our minds , this is where I tell you that the battle of the kingdom is for our minds satan is deluding Gods people every day , signs a wonders of evil lies a deceit .  The beast is at work now to destroy every soul he can, it has already began .   Look at the news and see the blatant lies spewed out upon the world.  Evil is good and good is evil this is not about politics it is about the end of all things and the weak church and the souls that are at stake .  Jesus said like no other time on the earth will this be displayed and men will faint (die) with weak hearts .    This is the church that Peter spoke of when he said you are the Son of God ,      And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven   And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.   The chief corner stone the true foundation of God the gospel of God.  The spirit of God reveled this to Peter .

Rev 16:2 ASV - And the first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth; and it became a noisome and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, and that worshipped his image. 
This mark is a spiritual mark and that mark is in their mind to do the works of the devil their father.    Rev 13:16 ASV - And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead;  The Hand    Greek: cheir     Hand:
"the hand" (cp. Eng., "chiropody"), is used, besides its ordinary significance,
(a) in the idiomatic phrases, "by the hand of," "at the hand of," etc., to signify "by the agency of  . The works of the devil the mark here is the spiritual mark of the beast .  There are people today reprobate in mind and their works to serve satan .   They have the mark already .
Eph 6:11 ASV - Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 
 Rom 12:2 ASV - And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.    Fashioned        Greek: suschematizo       Conformed, Conformable:
"to fashion or shape one thing like another," is translated "conformed" in Rom 12:2, AV; RV, "fashioned;" "fashioning" in 1Pe 1:14. This verb has more especial reference to that which is transitory, changeable, unstable; summorphizo, to that which is essential in character and thus complete or durable, not merely a form or outline. Suschematizo could not be used of inward transformation.

The transformation of your mind is through the word of God, and the fathers image is his very being we see God in Christ Jesus . Jesus said I and the father are one man was created in this very image your flesh is a vehicle to move you .  God had no body Jesus said God is a spirit and we must worship him in spirit and in truth.  
But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.   Heb 4:12 ASV - For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.  
 The heart of man is his mind , will and his emotions ,  the flesh is an enemy to Gods spirit . So we must see as we obey this gospel and submit to God in it and deny our carnal flesh   Putting it on our cross and offer it as a sacrifice unto God holy and except able which is our reasonable service.  We renew our minds unto his holiness and his will . The word says the mind of the flesh is death      Rom 8:6 ASV - For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
Rom 8:7 ASV - because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
1Co 6:18 ASV - Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1Co 6:19 ASV - Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;
1Co 6:20 ASV - for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
Willful sin is the catalyst for the mark of the beast      Heb 10:26 ASV - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,  Moses struck the rock twice when God told him to speak to the rock, and he did not enter in the promised land with the children he and Aaron
  The rock was Jesus that follow them through the desert .  1Co 10:4 ASV - and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.  The washing water of the word

Jhn 4:14 ASV - but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.
Jhn 6:35 ASV - Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Mat 6:24 ASV - No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.