There are so many promises of God that we as His people have not had the privilege of experiencing. No-one has totally experienced all God has promised in the past, so it only makes sense that we are not understanding all there is to understand, and that there are keys that we just do not have as yet. However, if God reveals these keys line upon line, and precept upon precept so to speak, and we will not listen or change, what good is it? Why should God bother? Why should His revealers spend the time in research (after God tells them something) that it takes to prove the revelation is scriptural, before releasing what God has said to the body, if no-one is going to accept it anyway? What are some of these promises that we have not received as yet because we will not change?

We have been promised a kingdom where we will have dominion! It is to be an everlasting kingdom that the Lord's rules will apply, and all nations will obey Him.

Jesus was of the offspring of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob. He was of the tribe of Judah and His lineage was that of David. So all that are born again through Jesus receive His name and therefore, His lineage. The promises made to what are now our forefathers are still in effect for us today, as our God is a covenant keeping God.

To David He promises that in (God's name), the horn or authority that David would have would be exalted. In other words there would be power in the name of God that David and his seed would have access to.

There are many names of God. Which name did He mean?

So for salvation and dominion, what name do we use?

So, after reading this, can we see the importance of using the name God chooses for salvation and baptism?

For healing we know God as Jehovah Rophe. For miracles we call on Jehovah Nissi. For provision we know Him as Jehovah Jireh, and on and on. Rohe is our Shepherd, Jehovah Shammah is always with us, etc. All these names and many more, including Jesus, are names of God, and it is His prerogative as to which we should use and with what result. I do not make up the "spiritual laws" - God does! The one name of Jesus, or Yeshua, can do all things. This simplifies things for us. Since Jesus is the name above all others, in His name we have authority over sickness and evil spirits etc. "All authority" He gives to us through this name that is above all names. Why not be baptized in that name if that is what He wants?

Here is how the early church baptized. This was before false doctrine entered.

If you can show me where anyone "ever" baptizes in the titles of Father, or Son, or Holy Spirit, I will stand corrected, but I do not find it anywhere. An example: My son's name is William, or Bill, but his position in my life is my son, or I title him as my son, but again, his name is William. As we saw in Isaiah 9. Jesus is the Son and He is the Father, etc. but His name is Jesus. Why do we fight so? Just get it right and do not be afraid to change. Change is all God asks of us.

Another example: There are so many different ideas about the Godhead. How does man, who is as clay in the hand of the potter, think he can understand his creator? He is bigger than the largest volcano! A hurricane is but a blast of His nostril! He not only made the universe, but named every star and planet in every galaxy. But God is a Spirit.

A spirit needs a body to be visible to man.

Why will we do greater works? Because there are more of us that God is dwelling in.

What I am trying to say here is that I do not have to understand the Godhead. His thoughts and His ways are so far from my comprehension that why even try? But He does express His desire to dwell in us and use our vessels to accomplish His works on earth. So what we need to do is find out how we can be the best vessels we can be for Him and let Him be who He is in us. I am not a "trinitarian", I am not "oneness", I am a child of God trying to please my Father by allowing Him to use me in whatever fashion He chooses and even that becomes a problem because here again, man has determined who should be used and who should not!

So we do not have the Kingdom established, partly because we do not take His name in baptism, and we do not understand it is Christ in us that is the hope of this glory. Also, we as mankind want to choose our leadership (just like the people in Saul's time), and dictate to God who He should live through and what He can do through them. Why can we not change?

It will not be the unholy church God calls Babylon. She is the dwelling place of demons, not God!

Many will not want to give her up because their pensions and salaries are dependent on her. But the faithful will be obedient to the call of God at verse four.

We must separate from those that will not come out of the world's religion and the system of man if we are to receive the promise God has made to us.

Yieldedness, holiness, submissiveness, willingness and obedience are the things God looks for in a vessel. Not our talent, intellect or sex. God is who He is in us, and we are only vessels. If you put an object in a little box and an object (exactly the same as the first) in a big box, does that make the boxes one better than the other? Does God pick one box or vessel over the other because they are male or female, or educated or talented? The scriptures say no!

Those that meet with His requirements are His vessels.

Is God the same yesterday as today?

He said what He could work with was those with a broken heart and a contrite spirit.

He also did not say He could only use men or only use women, different nationalities, nor does He put an emphasis on anything but holiness, brokenness and yieldedness. As to the women issue, Deborah judged Israel for 40 years as Israel's judge. Surely in 40 years, some male priest could have informed her she was out of order! Also, you would think God would have the wisdom to not allow her to be an example of leadership. She operated in not one, but two offices. She was a prophetess as well as functioning as a commander in chief (the apostolic).

She had the respect of the men of Israel.

In the New Testament, much of what was said to women that is misused by the religious church to keep them from the offices, was to correct those caught up in idol worship or other adverse circumstances. The women that were walking properly did not need to be addressed. They knew their place in God and were accepted by the early church.

The most misunderstood is the description of the physical relationship in a marriage, however. The account was used to portray the physical relationship of Christ and His Bride. He provides, protects and lovingly covers the church. The church (made up of both men and women) should look to Him (through the offices) as the covering, and for provision. If she (the church) depends on herself for provision and covering, she is quite likely to bring the curse of Jeremiah 17:5 on herself.

Likewise, if women trust in themselves for covering (in the home), they are not allowing the Jesus in their husbands to be who He is on their behalf. Likewise, if the church does not allow her Husband (Christ in us) to cover her through the vessels He chooses to use on her behalf, she is cursed! It is not about domination and control of man, but about the love and protection of Christ through mankind. A married woman can never be who she is as a vessel if she does not have this submissive nature to God's arrangement of things. The church will never be who she is promised to be (the church triumphant) till she is submissive to God's ways either.

Again, through the husband He covers the home. Through the offices He covers the church. If men do not pray and spiritually allow the Christ within to cover their family, they are the un-submissive ones. If those chosen for office in the church do not pray and cover the flock, they are the un-submissive ones.

There is so much to be said here, but the bottom line is seen in verse 32.

None of this concerning gender roles in a physical marriage, has anything to do with the gender of the vessels Christ will use to guide His church, however. He (a male) is who He is through both men and women. They are just vessels. He is not interested in their gender, just their obedience. If He chooses to use a vessel (man or woman) to be a teacher, pastor, evangelist, prophet or apostle through them, He demands respect from the His wife (the church) for Himself. He is the head of the church (as a husband) through the vessels He chooses to govern the body through.

When we begin to see that it is (Christ in us), then we will stop putting each other down and the Kingdom of God can really be established in love. If Christ wants to use a vessel of the female gender and we will not allow it because of our doctrine, then we are stopping the body of Christ from coming together in its full stature. Offices will go unfulfilled that He meant to work through, and the church will be as useless to her husband as a wife in the natural home is of no use if she cannot see the Jesus in her husband!

Why can we not change?

Here is another subject that stirs so much controversy. God said in 1 Peter 2:9 that we are a chosen generation. As government, "a royal priesthood", or as the flock, "a holy nation". It goes on to say we are a special people called out of darkness. Well, if God calls the luke-warm, Adamic, dead church, with her lies and false doctrines, Babylon, and He asks us to get out of her, how can we say we are separate if we do not follow His orders? Many times people will say we must remain among them to help them grow to where they will hear truth one day. That is not God, though, because He says: "Come out of her, My people, lest you share in her sin." Preach truth to her to bring out the sheep but do not socialize with her.

At Psalm 102:18 it prophesies of this separate generation.

These ones are different from the Adamic race they were originally born into. They are separate, born again ones. Ones born of God. Adam and Eve were born of God as eternal beings, but they listened to the devil's lies and so were born again into Satan. Their offspring, therefore, were cursed and died from then on also!

Jesus died (gave His life for ours) and was resurrected to pay the penalty of death that was spoken over Adam's race. (The ministry of reconciliation is God in Christ providing atonement for our sins).

He took our sin on the cross and endured the penalty that we deserved and gave us the opportunity to be born again through Him. If we are born again, should we turn back to the ways of Adam? Should we uphold false doctrine and the lies of Satan just because that is the way we have been taught? The word of God says to not be unequally yoked with people that do not believe truth (an unbeliever is not just a person that does not know God. It is also those that do not develop a love of truth).

So we are, if we want the promises God made to His people. We must be born again (in His name and be separate from Adam) and see Him in all vessels.

We will die if we do not receive the revelation as God opens the seals and reveals His desires to mankind. When we turn our back on truth (He is truth), we turn our back on God. Satan caused man's rebirth into himself through lies, now God offers rebirth into Himself through truth. If we do not develop a love of this truth, (learn to enjoy Lamb) God will give us up to a spirit of delusion and we will believe Satan's lies as did Adam, and give up our new birthright. We will become the home of Satan, the lawless ones, the ones anti the anointing: Antichrist!

In closing, let us read these scriptures:

Here is the good news for those that can receive it.

Christ's at His coming! It is Christ in us, the hope of glory. He is coming through us! If we can just see the Jesus in each other, we will come together as His head through His offices (Zion) and His body (New Jerusalem, His Bride). We will begin to come to the full stature of Christ that the lawless one can be defeated and the Kingdom be restored. We will not be cursed as a man of dust, but blessed and in the image of Jesus.

Here is what it is all about now: