Now listen closely, I am sending what my Father promised you for this present time, so wait where you are until you yourselves are given the power of the Holy Spirit from on high. Wait for the promise of the Father, for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are a long way off, even as many as the Lord our God has called to Himself. And I am saying to you now in an emphatic and solemn manner this good news, how the promise which was made to Abraham, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham or to his progeny through the ancestral law of heredity, but instead through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the ancestral law are the actual heirs of the promise, then faith is nothing, and the promise God made through the Spirit becomes powerless and unfulfilled, holding no authority, because God is taken out of it.
Therefore it is through trusting faith that the promise comes to us by the grace of God only, so that in the end, the promise might be sure to all of the descendants; not to the descendants of the ancestral law only, but to those also who are heirs of Abraham according to the law of faith in God’s word to him, since Abraham is the spiritual father of everyone.
For what do the scriptures say? Abraham believed God, and that faith, which was the faith of God within him, was considered equivalent to righteousness, that he might be the father of all those who also keep to the way of that divine faith which our father Abraham had.
Abraham's divine faith was then increased in strength so that he no longer went back and forth staggering between believing God with the divine faith within him, and then unbelieving God with his own human faith, which had been focused on the inability of his worn-out body. The divine faith within Abraham was strengthened so much so that he no longer even took into consideration his own body, now impotent that he was about a hundred years old, nor yet Sara’s lifelong barren body; he didn't even think about them anymore, not at all, not ever.
Abraham's divine reliance on God became so miraculously strengthened in its focus on God’s word alone, that he at last became fully persuaded that God was able to bring to pass His impossible promise to them. His human faith was no longer fixated on negative appearances and the feelings of his failing body. Human faith had been fully persuaded that it was impossible to bring about God's promise but God’s faith believed and was persuasive.
So, since God gave the promise to Abraham, and it does not come by the inheritance of the ancestral law, what then is the purpose of following the law, or worldly and religious institutions? They were only added to keep us out of trouble, because of our fleshly inclinations to do wrong and our natural rebellious nature, until the Life of God should come into us to whom the promise was made; and tidings of it were appointed to be brought by messengers of God, and it was managed by the hand of a messiah who was chosen and anointed for the task.
The conclusion is, those who are the children of the flesh (such as Israelites, Jews and professed Christians, along with any other group or cult that has formed), are not the children of God: but the children of the promised anointing of the Holy Spirit and those resting in that, are counted as children.
The scriptures have concluded that all people are sinners (stupid asses) and condemned to death by the law, that the promise of the anointing of God by the faith that the anointed Yeshua had, might be given only to them that believe God, and not given to a bunch of lawyers, religious or otherwise, or to other hirelings in the worldly pulpits of influence today. And if the Anointing lives in you, then you are Abraham's spiritual progeny, and heirs according to the promise given to him.
And so, after Abraham had patiently endured the testing of his faith, he obtained the promise. And in this present cause, the anointing is the messiah of the new testament, that by means of the sacrifice of Yeshua, for the transgressions that were under the first era of the testimony, those who are called may receive the fulfillment of the promise, that is, the eternal and internal inheritance. For we had need of patience, that after we had done the will of God through His leading and in His times of unfolding, we then received this promise at His spoken word to us. And this is the promise that He promised us, even this eternal Life from God which is His Own most Holy Spirit and this Spirit contains every gift.
Now comes the end and completion of everything, for the messiah has delivered up the kingdom to God. He has put down all rule and all earthly authority and power of this natural world that came against him. He has put all prideful desires and self-love and the natural desires of the world under his feet. Now the last enemy he put down is death.
And now that all things are overcome by the Son of man, he also himself is subject to God who had put all things under him, that at last God alone may be everything that there is to everyone, even the Son of man who put everything down, including death.
But some will say, How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come? There are heavenly bodies, and bodies that are earthly, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory.
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a natural person; the last Adam was made a life-giving Spirit. However, the first was not spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is Yeshua who possessed the Anointed Spirit from heaven. As is the earthy person, such are all those also that are earthy; and such as is the heavenly person, such are they all also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, following after our natural desires, we also now bear the image of the heavenly, the selfless image of God in continual, unending obedience to His Spirit.
Now this I say to the believing family, that flesh and blood of the natural man cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption. These two things cannot co-exist.
Now look, I am showing you a mystery. We shall not all die and be laid in the grave, but we who are alive now at the end of everything will surely be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet sound within our soul; for the message shall sound in the believing soul and be understood, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, since they hear it also.
For this corruptible will now put on incorruption, and this mortal will now put on immortality. So as this corruptible puts on incorruption, and this mortal puts on immortality, then is brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the lawful form. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through the Spirit of our Lord Yeshua messiah, whose Spirit is not a form or a law but is his own Life.
For the Spirit of the Lord Himself is descending from heaven with a shout of awareness, with the voice of God’s authority in the soul, and with the clear message of God, and the dead who died in the promise arise first. Then we which are alive and remain here at this time are caught up together with them in the obscure clouds in which God dwells, to meet the Lord in His Spirit where He is, invisible to the world, and so will we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words, for Faithful is he who called you, who also will do it.
Because of this, let us hold a deep reverence for the promise that was made to us of entering into His quiet restfulness in believing His word to us, and be very afraid that any of us should come short of it. For to us was this good news given, as well as to those before us: but the word told to them did not do them any good, for it was not mixed with faith in them that heard it. They didn’t believe what they heard. It remains that some must still enter, and those to whom it was first told the news did not enter in because they hardened their hearts in unbelief, doubts and self-interests.
There still remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has entered into God’s rest, has ceased from his own works, imaginations and desires. Let us therefore direct our efforts and attentions to enter into God’s quiet restfulness continually, or else fall after the same example of unbelief as those who went before.
Again, he sets out a certain day, Today, right now, after so long a time, as it is said, Today, right now, if you hear God’s voice to you, if you hear that inner trumpet sound, don’t disbelieve it, but enter into the calm repose that comes from not hardening your heart when you hear the voice of God to your soul. Settle into it and remain resting in it. So, when one hears the last trumpet of ascension and the change, then rest in that trumpet sound with quiet acceptance and thereby keep the Sabbath rest. Michael