“WHEREFORE HE SAITH, AWAKE THOU THAT SLEEPEST AND ARISE FROM THE DEAD, AND CHRIST SHALL GIVE THEE LIGHT’! Ephesians 5:14.
The First Resurrection in The Scriptures, The Revelation 20:5, is the “awakening” of “the elect” to appreciate, and understand the Adamic Mandate to replenish the Earth! Genesis 1:28. Fully traversed from The Word, the full truth embraces The Church receiving the Jews after the judgment, which will be, “life from the dead”, Romans 11:15, as ALL ISRAEL is saved, and now rules and reigns on Earth with Jesus, Yeshua Hamashiach, AS KING over all the Earth! Zecharia 14:9. The Revelation explains this as being the Millenial Reign of saints on Earth, The Revelation 5:10, and declares the one thousand year reign of Christ on Earth, to be The First Resurrection. The Revelation 20:5.
To see the proper context, and get true perspective, we must note “This gospel of The Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and THEN shall the end come”, Matthew 24:14, that this verse clearly reveals the “Everlasting Gospel”, The Revelation 14:6 and 7, is an end time message! We must also keep in the forefront of our thinking that “the end” this verse refers to, is “the end” of the age of Antichrist! Daniel 11:45, and Galatians 1:4.
To see the main elements of the prophetic message, we must understand that the religious leaders among the Jews, rejected our LORD Jesus Christ! They perpetuated the belief among the Jews that Messiah had yet to come, and spread the lie that the disciples had come in the night to steal His body, for our LORD, had risen from the dead! Matthew 28:11-15.
Essentially, the business of religion had been crushed, smashed, exactly as portrayed in the vision of the Great Stone not cut out with human hands that struck the feet of iron and clay in Daniel’s vision he received to interpret Nebuchadnezzar’s dream! Daniel 2:34 and 35. Most importantly, we must grasp The Stone that smashed into the feet of the great image, and grew into a great mountain, is The Cornerstone that was rejected not so much The Jews, but by their religious leaders, that this Stone, (Christ), was the setting up of The Kingdom of God that is destined to fill the whole Earth. Daniel 2:35.
Because The Early “Gentile”, (as regarded by The Jews), Church, (indeed the Early Church that grew out of Peter’s confession that Lord Jesus was The Promised Christ in Christ’s building of His Church), was persecuted until all but completely destroyed, Daniel 7:19 and 21, and replaced with a false “church”, Roman Catholicism, or “Babylon the Great”, The Revelation 17:5, “this gospel of The Kingdom” has NOT been preached as having come to fill the entire Earth! As 2025 commenced, most church going “Christians”, (please note the inverted commas), believe The Kingdom of God will be established with The Lord’s second coming, and this false doctrine is a result of NOT knowing The Word due to having been deceived by “Babylon the Great, The Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth! The Revelation 17:5, and The Revelation 18:23 and 24.
The notable difference in doctrine taught by The Early Church as compared with the doctrine of modern “churches” is that The Kingdom of God was set up on Earth, and was here for the taking with the first advent of Christ our Lord, and that The Marriage of Christ with true spiritual Israel, will be consummated at the end of the age! Daniel 9:26 and 27. This doctrine is perfectly supported in the parable of the 10 virgins who all slept until the cry was heard, “Behold the Bridgroom cometh”! Mathew 25:1-46.
The critical obesrvation here, in comparison of the doctrines of The Early Church and the modern “Churches”, is that the world, (the wedding guests), does not know who the BRIDE, or who the REAL church is, until The Marriage has been consummated! This is vividly portrayed in Jewish marriage lore and ceremony tradition!
So, we have very many well populated “churches” all around the world, not making disciples out of every nation, to observe The Sabbath Day to keep it holy, and obey God’s Torah as having entered into The Kingdom, nor even believing that we have the Kingdom of God for the taking, but that The Kingdom will be established with the second coming of Christ! This is not what the Scriptures teach!
Scripture teaches “this gospel” message of The Kingdom goes out into all the world in the last moments of this present evil age, Galatians 1:4, and then shall the end come! Matthew 24:14.
It is the zeal of the Lord of Hosts that accomplishes the preaching of this gospel of The Kingdom of God as having come, to all the world in the ministry of the symbolic 144,000! THIS discovery, that Christendom has been misled and deceived, revolves around the “revealing of that man of sin“, which brings about the falling away of 2 Thessalonians 2 verses 3 and 4! Those who seek God’s truth, will leave the apostate “churches”, the “harlots” Roman Catholicism has given birth to, to be gathered into one universal church that serves God in the keeping of God’s holy law, Torah! Isaiah 66:24, Zecharia 14:9, and Malachi 4:2 to 4.
To fully understand this “falling away”, a truly vital aspect of The True Christian Faith, we need to realize Christianity has been warred against by The Antichrist for almost two thousand years! Christ’s immeasurable popularity, Luke 12:1, had brought organized religion to its economic knees! Our Lord crushed the business of religion, setting a world imprisoned in darkness, free to worship God in His Light, Christ, in spirit, and in truth!
Messiah had come as promised to free the world from corruption! His followers were relentlessly hunted, and destroyed. Atrocity after atrocity, culminated in the destruction and massacre of the Waldensians in 1655, and a false “Christianity”, departed from Sabbath observance, and the first precepts of the faith, that The Gospel of Christ is to be obeyed, and that we are at war, was offered to the world to again collect, and make money!
Christianity, as this is seen by the world is hopelessly divided, has no consensus in doctrine, and is indeed departed from the first precepts as given to man in The Scriptures, that men ought to obey The Gospel of Christ, and earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints! 2 Thessalonians 1:8, and Jude verse 3.
The “Dead in Christ”, are those “worshipping” in the visible “churches”, as though nothing was wrong! They are paying vast sums of money that is not taxed, but invested in property! This is the inescapable truth! Offered a placebo experience by the enemy, they are completely unaware of what awaits them there! Unless they learn to love the truth and study The Word, they will perish having been deceived!
Though presently in a deep sleep, The Bride of Christ is beginning to awake! We must note all ten virgins slept, until the cry was heard, behold the Bridegroom cometh! Messiah had come as promised from the beginning of the Scriptures, to raise fallen man from the dead! Those that reached out to take hold of the Righteous Branch, indeed The Tree of Life, were at the first advent of our Lord, and still today, spiritually raised to spiritual life again! Such as have reached out to Jesus to receive Him as The Son of God and King of Israel, are resurrected, born again to rule and reign with Christ in the age to come, for He has said, I Am The Resurrection and The Life, and it is written, He is with us forever!
Hallelu Jah!