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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Another Coffee Break:
Going Beyond, Part 13

February 6, 2015

Before we finish our discussion on the Doctrine of Eternal Judgment, let me share with you a rather fascinating experience that happened not long ago.  We generally tend to have anywhere from one to three FedEx packages delivered to our door every week.  For the most part, the driver is the same one who comes each time and he has gotten to know and recognize me.

On this occasion he rang the doorbell as usual and I opened the door.  Suddenly the look on his face took on a startled appearance as his eyes glanced above my head.  Very quickly he said, "Good Morning, my lord."  No one has ever addressed me like that and it caught me completely off guard!  I responded almost automatically, "Good Morning," and took the signature machine he extended to me to sign my name.  He smiled but left without saying another thing.

When I closed the front door, Della called to me from the kitchen and said, "Honey, did you hear what he said to you?"  We both thought it was really odd and talked about it for a minute before I returned to my office.  Later in the day, in a conversation with the Lord I said, "Father, what was THAT all about?"  Immediately He gave me a vision of the event, but this time I stood back watching myself at the front door and saw a very tall angel standing right behind me.  That angel is what caught the FedEx driver's attention and provoked his address to me.

Other people are having unusual things like this taking place, and it is a sign of the time that we are in.  As we continue to press into the things of God, He manifests Himself with us, often showing others the hosts of Heaven that surround us.  You won't have any difficulty understanding when I say that this was really a WOW and Praise the Lord event!

Anyway, we need to get back to our discussion on eternal judgment.

Before we continue with the picture from Revelation 20 where we left off last week, it is important to note that for a thousand years of time up to this moment, Satan has had no ability to tempt, to deceive and to entice the thousands and millions of people who’ve been born during the thousand years.  Jesus, as we all know, is returning for an “overcoming Bride” — one who has overcome all of the flesh, the temptations of the world, and Satan!

From what I experienced when the Angel of the Lord took me forward into the future to see Satan loosed, and watch the battles against the people of God unfold, those folks who have grown up and had a knowledge of the Lord and a relationship would now see that relationship tested to the max!  Satan’s intention is to ply his enticements and deception against a whole new batch of professing believers and use them against those who choose the Lord Jesus Christ as their beloved.

The battle that ensues once Satan gathers his forces and those who stand in agreement with him is earth’s final battle.  The judgment of the Lord against him is now a dazzling display of the might and glory of God as fire (the Greek term used here is pur, which more literally translates as “lightning”) consumes Satan's hordes and armies from top to bottom.

[Here, again, we have a Greek word, katesthio, describing the action of the fire which means to “eat down” from the top.]

The eternal judgment that follows manifests as Satan, the Beast, and the False Prophet are cast into the lake of fire where they will be tormented throughout the eternity of the eternities.

(This is one of those places in the NT where you see the term, “forever,” (aion) doubled to read like this:  aiona tou aionos,”  which we render “forever into forever,” or “perpetuity upon perpetuity,” or — as we have been describing — “the eternity of the eternities.”)

In other words, there is no such thing as a terminus to this.  You can’t call it “an event” because the word, event, has time incorporated into it.  You can’t refer to it with any word or terminology which puts it within some specified framework incorporating a beginning and an end.  It is eternal — PERIOD!

Consider, now, the next recorded eternal judgment.

Revelation 20:11-15:  "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.  And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

"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.   And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.   And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."

There is a second part of this “Final Judgment” which appears in Revelation 22.

Revelation 22:5-8:  "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.   And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.

"I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

"But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

This “Great White Throne Judgment” has sometimes been referred to as the Bema,” but the Greek word, bema, actually describes a moveable judgment seat that moves from place to place with the Judge.

In any event, what we see is the result of a law of the universe being enacted.  When God created the Heavens and the Earth, He set in place certain immutable (absolutely unchangeable) laws which carry specific consequences when they are violated.  The laws and the consequences that follow are not a product of the wrath of God — and He DOES have wrath (the Hebrew word for wrath is: chemah, and the Greek word is, orge: both words mean: violent passion, hot displeasure, heat, anger) — they are the result of the arbitrary choices we make, and the callous disregard people have for God’s universal law.

Before we wrap up this very brief look at the doctrine of eternal judgment, there is an aspect of judgment that we must consider.

Revelation 1:5b-6:  "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,  And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."

Think about the role of the priest for a minute.  The priest takes the sins of the people upon himself, acting as an intercessor, and presents himself before the King of Kings seeking mercy and forgiveness.  In our role as priests unto God, we act within the person of Jesus Christ, Who — as Paul writes — makes intercession on our behalf.  Look at the way he describes this in writing to the Hebrews:

Hebrews 7:25-26:  "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens..."

THAT is one of our roles in Christ Jesus.

But that isn’t the only role.  We are also created to be kings.  We are supposed to be the kings that Jesus is King of.  Among the areas of responsibility and function that kings operate in is to execute judgment.  That judgment generally has a finality to it.

Take a look at some of the ways that kings’ judgment is described by Solomon in Proverbs:

Proverbs 8:12-21:  "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.   The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.   Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.   By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.   By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

"I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.   Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.   My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.   I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:   That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures."

Proverbs 16:12-15:  "It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.  Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.  The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.  In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain."

Proverbs 20:26, 28:  "A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.  Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy."

Proverbs 21:1:  "The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will."

I realize that this is a rather narrow selection from the Word, and we could probably do many pages of references, but these verses draw a pretty accurate picture of a king and the way in which God characterizes the role and boundaries of judgment placed in the hand of the king.

The judgment that the King of Kings renders is eternal.  It is based in God’s universal, immutable Law that NEVER varies one iota!  We, as those kings answerable to the King of Kings, MUST have that character of righteous judgment and justice operating in and through us!  This is a mandate from the Lord.

For the past thirteen weeks (OK, fourteen because of our break for Christmas) we have tried to cover the six basic fundamentals that MUST be laid in our lives as foundation stones if we are to move from being believers who are continually "under tutors and governors," to that place where Father can put His stamp of approval and sent us out as mature and seasoned "sons of God, heirs and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ."

Let's recap them as we wrap up this discussion.

The first, and most basic, foundational truth is that of repentance from dead works.  Without understanding and knowing absolutely that there is nothing we can do to "be good enough" to come to Jesus Christ; without the understanding that the once-and-for-all price He paid in the stripes He bore, the crown of thorns that was shoved into His skull, and the horrible death by crucifixion that He took on our behalf paid the complete and total price for our sins, our sicknesses and our death, we wind up doing repetitious repentance where faith gets lost in the traditions of men.

And that brings us to the second foundation stone -- faith towards God.  Faith isn't the screwing up of one's will power: it is the trust and confidence-filled obedience on our part to hearing God's direct Word in our spirits and acting on it.  The grace of God enables and empowers us to act in and by God's faith.  That faith becomes a transporter mechanism (to use a sci-fi term) to convey healing or restoration or various gifts of God into those desiring to receive.  [We often use this terminology to describe the transfer and conveyance of "body parts" or organs from the "body parts warehouse" in Heaven when a person receives a miraculous healing.

This is followed by baptism in water to demonstrate to both angelic and demonic beings that the old "us" that was subject to the Law of Sin and Death -- has hung on the Cross IN Christ -- has died, and no longer is living in slavery to Satan.  When we come up out of the water, we are still in Christ as completely new creations now living the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus.  Right behind water baptism is Holy Spirit baptism as demonstrated on the day of Pentecost by the surrender of our tongues to Holy Spirit so that He now speaks through us with the language of the Kingdom -- the Kingdom of God, of which we are now citizens.  Holy Spirit also has a baptism of fire in which we experience a step-by-step purification process necessary for our soul to be in proper alignment with our re-born spirit.

Then comes the next foundation stone: understanding and implementing the transfer of authority and power that comes with laying hands on individuals.  People receive various mantles of power and authority from the Lord when one who is operating by a direct rhema from the Lord lays their hands upon them.  Often this will come with an anointing with oil which is poured upon them or rubbed into their heads (or hands, or feet, or wherever directed by Holy Spirit).  One of the most common manifestations of this operation comes when some lays hands on a willing and responsive individual to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Fifth in the series of foundations is resurrection from the dead.  If ever there was a foundation needed in the body of Christ today, this is it!  With the world's culture of death and society's continual focus on death and dying, God's people absolutely need to understand that when Jesus rose from the dead, He didn't just grant eternal life to those who accept and walk with and in Him as something to take place "in the sweet bye and bye."  This isn't just resurrection from the dead following Judgment Day: this is resurrection from the dead NOW, being delivered from the mindset and culture of death, knowing that one does not need to ever die physically.  And that, folks, is a tough one for most folks!  But unless God's people get hold of this principle, raising the dead will continue to be the exception to the rule instead of being the rule NOW!

Lastly, we have the doctrine of eternal judgment -- the study we have just gone through.  As already stated, judgment is the purview of kings.  If we are to function within the Kingdom of God as kings subject to and ruling with the King of Kings, we absolutely MUST be able to judge according to God's standard of judgment -- not out of human emotion, and not out of some reactionary place.

Are we good?  Do you understand these foundations, now?  Then let's get them laid once and for all so that we don't have to come back and do this all over again!

I remind those of you in need of healing of our Healing Prayer Call on Mondays at 7:00 PM Eastern.  Once again, the number to call for healing is (805) 399-1000.  Then enter the access code: 124763#.  Also want to let you know that our Sunday worship gatherings are available by conference call – usually at about 10:45AM Pacific.  That conference number is (559) 726-1300, and the access code is 308640#.

Blessings on you!

Regner

Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944

Our book, A Tale of Two Brides, published by Destiny Image, is available on Amazon.com as an E-book: http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Two-Brides-Relationship-ebook/dp/B00BSV6HZC/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1363139096&sr=8-8&keywords=A+Tale+of+Two+Brides#_

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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Another Coffee Break:
Going Beyond, Part 12

January 30, 2015

Finally, we come to the sixth of the foundation stones that must be laid in our lives before the Lord will allow us to go forward into the next dimensions He has prepared.  It may become necessary for me to break our last discussion on the doctrine of eternal judgment into two separate Coffee Breaks because there is so much to cover, but we will play it by ear.  Once again we will begin with the expanded and amplified translation from Hebrews 6.

Hebrews 6:1-3, RAC Translation & Amplification:  Therefore, and as a consequence, it is critically important that we forsake [what Jesus has already eradicated from existence] the beginnings and commencement of the [initiating] Word of the Anointed One and His Anointing (Jesus Christ),

Let us move forward energetically to the place of completion and consummation; not laying down [or setting in front of you as a continual requirement] the legalistic requirement to repent, and re-do your thought processes concerning the old, dead works and requirements of the Law [as though it were necessary in order to attain redemption from past sins or iniquities], under the guise that this builds faith in and toward God, the line-upon-line, precept-upon-precept instruction in the purification processes in baptisms, the necessity of laying on of hands (for impartation or conveyance of power), [the foundational truth that Jesus provides] resurrection from the dead and cancelation of the curse of death, and — finally — the understanding and revelation of the judgment and decrees that exist throughout the eternity of the eternities.

And this is what we will be enabled to do conditional upon God’s transfer of authority, granting license and liberty to move past these foundations.

Now, let's take a look at some Scriptures that deal specifically with this judgment.

Hebrews 9:27-28, KJV:  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”

Isaiah 4:3-4, KJV:  And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:  When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.”

In order for us to properly understand the concept of judgment and see what Paul was making reference to in his letter to the Jewish Christians, we need to first define the words that are translated “judgment.”

Taking the Old Testament Hebrew first, we find the word, mishpat and its root word, shaphat.  The word, mishpat, refers specifically to a judicial verdict — a sentence or formal decree within divine law.

The root word — shaphat — adds more color to our definition, however and allows us to see the character of this sentence or formal decree within divine law.  It has the picture of litigating or reasoning between right and wrong and either vindicating someone or judging and executing punishment.  It also means to plead and/or defend.

Then we come to the Greek terms used in the New Testament.

Again we have a primary word, krima, and its root word, krino.

The two Greek words nearly parallel the Hebrew terms, but both also add to the overall picture of “eternal judgment.”

Krima is also defined as a judicial verdict — a sentence or formal decree within divine law, but to that we add the following: condemnation of wrong, a condemnatory sentence, the decision (whether severe or mild) which one passes on the faults of others.

Krino literally means: to separate, to choose, to determine between right and wrong, to set things right.  It also means: to rule and to govern, to preside over (as the prerogative of kings and rulers) with the power of giving judicial decisions, to determine, to resolve and decree.

Let’s consider for a minute the Biblical picture of judgment from statements that Jesus made.  In what is popularly referred to as “The Sermon on the Mount” Jesus draws some contrasts in judgment.

Matthew 7:1-6, NASB:  “Do not judge so that you will not be judged.  For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.  Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

"Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye?   You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.”

The “Sermon on the Mount” is literally a picture of the character and nature of the Lord Jesus Christ.  It is addressed to those who would follow the Lord and be transformed into Him and His image and nature.

When Jesus, therefore, first addresses the concept of judgment as a divine attribute (and we know this from Isaiah’s prophecy where he refers to the Spirit of Judgment and Burning), He applies this to the believer, warning against the misuse of this attribute.

We are warned not to use the power and authority of judgment [we ARE kings and priests unto God] casually and flippantly.  When we remember that the sum of the Seven Spirits of God is agape — love — it places a requirement on us to make our judgments in love and not from a reactionary place.

In His statement to not “give what is holy to dogs,” this remark is still made within the discussion on judgment, and he describes the rendering of judgment as “holy.”  Judgment, therefore, as a holy rendering of God’s decrees and “setting things right” takes on an entirely new dimension.

Because judgment is holy, this takes it entirely out of the realm of personal feeling, or emotional, reactionary responses to events which occur to us as individuals.  There is NOTHING about the rendering and/or speaking of judgment that is permissible as a byproduct of personal offenses

Within the framework of judgment and its judicial sentencing or decrees is the inherent ability to condemn.  For the believer who is not in tune with the heart of the Lord Jesus Christ, and is operating even slightly in the realm of the flesh (let’s insert emotional responses and reactions here), the ability to speak judgment from the aspect of condemning is almost a certainty.

All of a sudden our judgment becomes cursing, and the consequences to us for speaking or activating that judgment begin to multiply.

As a holy attribute of the character and nature of the Lord Jesus Christ, judgment has eternal consequences.  Consider some of the judgments we see throughout the New Testament:

Matthew 6:13:  "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."

Matthew 21:19:  "And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away."

John 6:51:  "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

John 6:58:  "This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever."

II Corinthians 9:9:  "(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever."

Each of the foregoing statements in the Word are judgments — eternal judgments.  Each has its own unique nature.  Jesus’ judgment against the fig tree caused the life to leave it such that it withered away.

The promises that Jesus makes concerning eating of His flesh are not just promises: they are judgments with an eternal character to them — and consequences that cause God’s people to sit up and take notice.  Now take a look at a different kind of judgment:

II Peter 2:1-2, 12-17:  "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

"But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;  And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time.

"Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;  Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:  Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;  But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

"These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever."

This is an eternal judgment which clearly states that the “mist of darkness” has been reserved “forever” for those who speak in the name of the Lord (but NOT His onoma!) whose mouths speak lies out of their own pride and ignorance.  I might liken this to the example we read about in Acts 19 where the seven sons of the High Priest, Sceva, saw what Paul was doing and attempted to expel some evil spirits "by Jesus whom Paul preaches."  They attempted to use the name of Jesus as a formula, but had no relationship with the Lord, and certainly were not operating in His onoma.

Peter's statements are both judgment and a prophetic picture when he describes them as {dried up] wells without water or [angry looking] clouds which promise a storm and move violently but produce no rain.

It foretells a judgment similar to that of which Jesus spoke when He referred on a couple of occasions to the invitation to the Great Wedding Feast, and again to those desiring to enter the realm of the Kingdom without being willing to meet the conditions necessary.  (See Matthew 7:21-27, and Matthew 22:1-14)

In Matthew 25 we have the parable of the talents, and the unprofitable servant who takes the talent entrusted to him and buries it instead of putting it to use so that it would profit the master.  Here, again, we have the judgment rendered in which the servant is cast into outer darkness.

J. H. Thayer tells us that this is a common Hebrew metaphor which depicts an individual “who is given over permanently to his willing and persistent ignorance of the things of God, and the accompanying ungodliness and immorality, together with their consequent misery in hell.”

Peter’s reference, therefore, to the “false teachers who bring in their damnable heresies” follows the same line of judgment that Jesus decrees when he writes “to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever (aion) [throughout the eternity of the eternities].”  These judgments, however, are not what we normally think of and refer to as “eternal judgment.”

Let’s shift now and talk about the first of several events recorded in Revelation 20 and 21.

Revelation 20:7-10:  "And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.   And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

"And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever."

In this prophecy we see the loosing of Satan from the pit where he has been imprisoned for a thousand years.  Satan again goes forth to deceive the nations of the world — and from the description given, he is able to deceive a huge number who gather together against the city of Jerusalem.

Judgment is released against Satan as the Lord sends the hosts of Heaven to fight with the people of God.  Guess I need to stop here for now.  We need to talk about this judgment more in depth.  We obviously have quite a ways to go and this is a good place to take a break in this discussion.  We'll continue from here next week.

I remind those of you in need of healing of our Healing Prayer Call on Mondays at 7:00 PM Eastern.  Once again, the number to call for healing is (805) 399-1000.  Then enter the access code: 124763#.  Also want to let you know that our Sunday worship gatherings are available by conference call – usually at about 10:45AM Pacific.  That conference number is (559) 726-1300, and the access code is 308640#.

Blessings on you!

Regner

Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944

Our book, A Tale of Two Brides, published by Destiny Image, is available on Amazon.com as an E-book: http://www.amazon.com/Tale-Two-Brides-Relationship-ebook/dp/B00BSV6HZC/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1363139096&sr=8-8&keywords=A+Tale+of+Two+Brides#_

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