THE FATE OF THE SEA

The SEA throughout the scriptures, is a type of the raging restless, surging masses of unregenerate humanity, tossed about by the inner storms of the turbulent character of the carnal mind. Isaiah 57:20-21'' The wicked are like the TROUBLED SEA, which cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace saith my God, for the wicked", Jude 13 " These are RAGING WAVES OF THE SEA foaming out their own shame". In Rev 20:13, we read that the SEA gave up its dead (the wicked) along with DEATH and HELL(HADES) who also released their dead,all these entities are symbols used to describe the fallen state of humanity; Ephesians 2:1 says that God made us alive, who were once DEAD in trespasses and sins, but as we have seen in Revelation, this state of affairs will not go on forever since the last enemy of Christ to be defeated is DEATH and HELL IS THE ABODE OF THE DEAD therefore the SEA is the realm of DEATH and HELL; Gen 1: The earth was without form, and void; and DARKNESS was on the face of the DEEP. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the WATERS", The DEEP and WATERS mean the same thing. In Revelation 17:15 it says that the WATERS where the harlot sits are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues, the people in whom the god of this age has blinded so that they cannot see the glorious light of the gospel. The end of the SEA will come in Rev 21:1 where we see the advent of the NEW EARTH and the NEW HEAVEN for the former had passed away, and also there was no more SEA, for the SEA had been consumed in the LAKE OF FIRE which is the SECOND DEATH, THE DEATH OF THE FIRST DEATH, In 2 Peter 3:6 and 7 it states that the the world that then was perished with water as through the flood, but the heavens and the earth which NOW are; are kept in store by the same word, reserved for FIRE until the day of judgement and perdition of UNGODLY men. normally we see that it is water which puts out the fire, but with God it is the opposite for our God is a CONSUMING FIRE just as He consumed the water of Elijah's sacrifice in 1 Kings 18:38, He will consume the WATERS through the power of His resurrected life for this is the gospel promised of old to Abraham" You shall be the Father of MANY NATIONS where God will be ALL IN ALL.

THE WATERS AND THE SEA

Scripture has a lot to say about water and the sea in accordance to the works of the Lord and also regarding the affairs of man in his long history on this planet, in Genesis 1:2 we see the earth being formless and void and the darkness was on the face of the deep (an abyss) and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the WATERS. In Revelation 17:15 we read that the WATERS represent nations, peoples, multitudes and tongues symbolizing the collective world system that is devoid of God's wisdom and knowledge, a world which is ruled in darkness, the spiritual darkness that has clouded the minds of men who are under the power of the Evil One; see 2cor 4:4. In Genesis 1:3' God said "let there be light and there was light and the light was DIVIDED from the darkness. God called the light DAY and the darkness He called NIGHT' Please let it be understood that no one can understand the full depth of the gospel unless one has recognized the enormity of God's work in these opening verses of Genesis for a lack of understanding of the book of genesis will render it impossible to understand the book of revelation which has a lot of symbolic language to describe the whole workings of God right from the book of Genesis to the unveiling of the City of God where the TREE OF LIFE dwells. in 2cor 4:6, it is written that it is God who commanded the light to shine out of the darkness, who has shone shone in our hearts to give the LIGHT of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord in the face of Jesus Christ", and again in John 1: we read of the Light who is the Life of ALL people see ACTS 17:28. The Light in the book of Genesis 1:3-5 is not the physical as is erroneously believed but it speaks of the SPIRITUAL LIGHT that brings forth those who were predestined before the foundation of the world to walk before Him in the light of Son see Colossians 1:13. The realm of Light is the domain of the living while the realm of Darkness is the domain of the dead, in Ephesians 2:1, it says that He made us ALIVE who were DEAD in our trespasses and sins. this is the true meaning of the light shining out of the darkness, the DAY separating from the NIGHT. The DAY in the scriptures is always representative of Christ who is the Light and the life of righteousness within us while NIGHT is the darkness, realm of every foul thing where the dead are (HELL). Now we come to the earth in Gen 1:2 of which we read was formless and void, in several verses in the scriptures, we see the earth is the place where the devil has his carnal worldly system at work whereby it rules over the affairs of men; religion, politics, entertainment, economics e.t.c. the world has experimented with different systems of governance and economy: capitalism, communism, democracy, dictatorship but none of these seem to work and will not work since the scriptures in Jeremiah 17:9 have declared that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? Is it any wonder then that we have many starving children in the world ,yet many wealthy individuals the world over collectively own close to a quarter of the world's GDP, Institutions like the United Nations have failed to bring about world peace and solve the world's problems yet they keep spending several billions of dollars a year trying to quell suffering and turmoil that they were supposed to prevent in the first place, think of the Rwandan genocide and the wars that have taken place in the last 50 years, the heart of man is evil indeed and the only deeds he does are evil. the earth therefore is the realm where the masses ruled over are subjected to a carnal, religious, worldly system which on the surface appear good even having a form of wisdom, I often wonder why christian leaders are so eager to share platforms with "successful" people whether they be bankers, entrepreneurs, presidents e.t.c to educate young believers on how to grow and supposedly "conquer the world for Christ" using steps, strategies and methods learnt in these forums and meetings, even men who are teaching the kingdom message claim that a believer can use steps and strategies to conquer sin and lust in their lives and many are utterly convinced that they can indeed follow these steps and strategies to overcome the world, yet our Lord emphatically declared that His kingdom is not of THIS WORLD and so if we are going to teach the kingdom message using THIS WORLD'S ways of thinking and strategy, then we are doomed to failure for what relationship does righteousness have with unrighteousness, what communion has LIGHT have with DARKNESS, why do we the separated ones want to go back to that from which we were delivered from, for the wisdom of THIS WORLD IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD, If we want to be wise, then lets hear what the SPIRIT OF GOD IS SAYING TO THE CHURCH, only then can we walk in wisdom, the wisdom that is from ABOVE, the wisdom that is heavenly and not earthly for we are supposed to seek the things which are heavenly and not earthly, we are not of this world so let us stop using the wisdom of this world to teach the kingdom of God. What then will be the outcome of the "waters" that Rev 17:15 says are the peoples and multitudes, nations and tongues? we see the answer in Rev 20:13 where the SEA gave up the dead who were in it and DEATH and HELL/HADES delivered up the DEAD who were in them, we see Three entities being forced to give up their dead, the SEA, DEATH and HELL; If we look at Rev 13:1, we read of the BEAST rising up out of the SEA, this sea is the waters mentioned in Rev 17:15. The SEA,DEATH and HELL are all related as they are all the realm of the dead, the world of darkness where the prince of the power of the air has blinded the hearts of men to the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, note He says that in Rev 1:18 that He has the keys of Death and Hell and He will release the prisoners there and cast them into the lake of fire, now contrary to popular Christendom opinion, the lake of fire is not a huge physical lake of fire that will roast alive or annihilate its inhabitants, but it will be a purification process, this topic deserves a more detailed explanation in a future blog, but to sum it up the lake of fire will be the DEATH OF THE FIRST DEATH, that's why it is called the SECOND DEATH, the final blow to everything that is opposed to God this is the reason why in Rev 21:1 we read of a new heaven and a new earth where there is NO MORE SEA which gave rise to the BEAST who was given power by the dragon to rule the world, in the new Jerusalem, only the Lamb rules and it is important to point out the fact that it will be the LAMB and not the DRAGON that will be in charge for the present world is under bondage to the dragon's beastly system of oppression and greed but the Lamb will have mercy on the downtrodden and will provide and care for the hungry and the dejected, will be posting updates on similar topics soon.

THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

The scriptures in John 4:4-42 speaks of an encounter that our Lord had with a certain unnamed woman from Samaria, this was a woman who clearly had issues with keeping a husband since by the time she met Jesus at the well, she had had five of them clearly something was amiss in this woman's life that Jesus needed to go through Samaria for the specific purpose of meeting an "immoral woman". Keep in mind that Jesus was a Jew and Jews had no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus met the Samaritan woman at Mount Gerizim which the Samaritans believed was the original holy place of Israel while the Jews believed Jerusalem was the only place to worship God. Cuthah was the original place of the Samaritans and they were initially called Cutheans referring to the ancient city of Kutha, geographically located in what is today Iraq. The King of Assyria brought people back from Babylon, Cuthah and other regions to settle in Samaria. Samaria was in the region of the northern kingdom of Israel which had been conquered by the Assyrians and its people; the ten northern tribes of Israel driven out of their lands. the people who came to inhabit the Samaritan region were largely Gentiles who came with pagan customs and got punished for it see 2 Kings 17:24-41 for the Samaritans worshiped God and other gods. Both the Jewish and Samaritans religious leaders taught that it was wrong to have any contact with the opposite group and neither was to enter each others territory but Jesus went against the Jewish teaching and went to Samaria which is in line with the parable in Luke 15 where the good shepherd goes to the wilderness to find the lost sheep and bring it home which is what Jesus did in the case of the Samaritan woman and her fellow Samaritans for they did not know God and didn't know how to worship Him in spirit and truth. After the Christ had ministered to the lost Samaritans, they concluded that Jesus was indeed the savior of the whole world for the scriptures so declare in John 4:32 that His food is to bring salvation to all both Jew and Samaritan, that is the food of Jesus and just like we humans eat to our fill, even so the Savior of the world will not rest until he has saved everyone He came to die for because that is the food He came to eat. Some have believed that Christ will not save everyone but will fry sinners in hell forever and this is indeed what is taught in most churches today, but this is not so, just like the Samaritan woman and her fellow Samaritans were lost in their hell and darkness, the light of God's only begotten Son came and illuminated them and this is what is going to happen to all of creation including those whom we think are nonredeemable. this is the hope of the world for without this hope, then everything we do is in vain for what is the point of spending eternity in the fundamentalist's heaven if billions upon billions of people will be fried forever in hell? this is not the food that the Body of Christ should eat but rather our food is to seek out the lost and save them because this is the will of our Master and let us not be timid to break boundaries and cultural as well as religious prejudices in seeking out the lost for Jesus Himself did not care about Jewish and Samaritan cultural and religious sentiments against one another but went in and talked to a woman who most men both in those days and even today would not want to be seen with in public. God loves everyone and that's why He commanded us to love our neighbors including our enemies for there is no way we can save people we don't love and when we love, then we show the face of Jesus to this lost and dying world for Love never fails. stay blessed.