Jesus told Nicodemus, “I say to you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above” (NAB, John 3:3). Other versions use the phrase, “Unless one is born again…” a phrase that is stated again in verse 7. God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit made this possible.

Before Jesus

Before Jesus the Christ, God in the flesh, the Word of God (John 1:1,14), there was but one man and one woman on the earth: Adam the first (Genesis 1:26-27). We know the story, the sad story of the fall from grace (Genesis 3).

Genesis 5:1-2 shows that God called them both “Adam” – the male/man and female/woman. The New King James version reads, he created “them” male and female (no transgenders!). And He blessed them and called them “mankind.” Other versions have “humankind.”

The first human beings on Earth, by their disobedience, forfeited paradise and became what we know as “LOST.” Hence, we have fallen Adam, lost humanity. Until Jesus came to Earth, humanity remained in a lost state, unregenerate, sinful. Romans 5:6 says of Jesus, “For when we were still without strength, in due time (literally, at the right, appointed time by the Father) Christ died for the ungodly.” Not only this: “For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life” (v. 10).

Now we come to what Adam the first did to the whole human race: “Therefore, just as through one man, sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men (humanity) because all sinned” (v. 12). The Apostle Paul reflects on the sin of Adam (Genesis 3:1-13) in the light of the redemptive mystery of Christ.

Sin, used in the singular, refers to the demonic power that has plagued mankind. This power still rages today. It is like a military force, destroying, terrorizing.

Under the Old Testament dispensation, God created the Mosaic Covenant by and through the Old Testament Law. The sinfulness of humanity that operated in and out of Adam was now officially checked. Before this, men and women were judged by what they did and did not do according to conscience, not a written law.

According to what Romans 5:15-21 says, God’s act in Christ Jesus is in total contrast to the disastrous effects of the sin plague/virus that infected humanity via Adam’s sin/crime!

Some stumble over “all sinned” (5: 12). Yet the Bible teaches that because of Adam’s sin, ALL were born into sin, that is, ALLhave a sin nature (inbred sin). “For by the one man’s offense (lit. trespass), death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. Therefore, as through one man’s offense, judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so, through one man’s righteous act, the free gift (eternal salvation) came to all men (it was made available) resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so as by one man’s obedience, many will be made righteous . . . so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord” (Romans 5:17-21).

Two Men

Adam the first and Adam the second: there are now two men in Earth, not one: we have the fallen one and the Righteous One.

Sin made its entrance by and through “Adam,” aka, Adam and Eve (5:12). But the Law also entered eventually (v. 20). The Law became a force against lawlessness; hence, WAR! (See 1:18-32.)

Paul’s main point is that the wrath of God does not await the end of time, but goes into action at each moment in world history, as God ordains it, “when misdirected piety serves as a facade for self-interest.”

While what I just said is true, grace, mercy, and love counter sin and death and the enemies of humanity. Where sin increases, grace overflows all the more. Romans 5 declares that grace outmatches and outfights the productivity of sin.

Jesus conquered sin, death, the grave, and hell!

Because Jesus did conquer the enemies of humanity and made the way for the sinner to be redeemed, justified in His mercy, we can confess our sins, repent of the same, invite the Holy Spirit and Christ Jesus into our hearts. See Ephesians 2:1-9, 3:16-17. We can become born-again believers! The Holy Spirit’s power gives us power over the enemies – the Big Four. See Ephesians 6:12 also.

Paul declares in Romans 8:37,“We are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”

Paul explains all this transformation in his Epistles to the ecclesia at Corinth: “For this corruptible (that is, sinful body of death) must put on incorruption … Death is swallowed up in victory” (1 Corinthians 15:53-54). Until this happens, the believer must FIGHT the good fight of faith, and wage the good warfare. See 1 Timothy 1:18; 6:12.

So, to be born again equals to be born for war, because “the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another” (Galatians 5:17).

New Man

As said above, the Bible speaks of the old man, aka, Adam the first; and of the New Man, aka, the Christian man or woman (Ephesians 4:24). The Bible makes the distinction between the Jew, Israelite, and the pagan, Gentile. The old man, literally the old self (Ephesians 4:22) is fallen; the new self is our human spirit that has been born again, that is, “made alive” (Ephesians 2:1), becoming citizens of the household of God (2:19).

Endless Fighting!

As long as we live in a fallen body, prone to sin, death, and decay, we are going to have an enemy, notwithstanding the Big Four mentioned in Ephesians 6:12.

First Corinthians 15:45-50 tells us that the first man Adam became a living being, aka, a soul or human. The last man, Jesus, became a life-giving spirit. The first is of the earth, the second is from Heaven (v. 47).

WAR

James asked, “Where do wars and fights come from among you (believers)? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members (eyes, ears, mouth, etc.)?” Yes, believers still have carnality, which fights against the born-again human spirit; but more than this, the same old serpent, the devil, who tempted Adam in the very beginning, is the same serpent and devil that entices, tempts and provokes us today. James says, “Submit to God, resist the devil” (James 4:7).

James is writing to the 12 tribes (James 1:1), not to unbelievers. His whole theme was about the value of trials and temptations, and warnings against sin, the causes of divisions, etc.

Conflicts in the Christian community can be caused by outside demon and human forces, as well as inside conflicts (in the inner man, like the “love of the world”).

New World Order; The CommieRegime

Yes, the big picture is a global takeover by the enemies of Christ and anyone who is opposed to truth. We have the “comrades” in charge right now, even the “Commander in Thief” of the United Snakes of America. And then we have his SWAMP, the Soggy Bottom Boys, mounting an offensive to take America into ruin with the help of his drag queens, who prey on little children!!! And let’s not forget his U.S./Mexico/China cartels who are literally poisoning hundreds of thousands with fentanyl.

Oh, what a wonderful nation we live in: Abomination Nation. Give your prez a big hand-clap, folks. What a man of God!

Weapons of Our Warfare

Second Corinthians 10:3-6 tells us that we do not war according to the flesh, “for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (that is, physical) but mighty (Greek, dunatos, powerful, capable, literally or figuratively, possible, strong, from dunami/dunamis = miraculous power, violent power) through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.”

I’ve been criticized for years by both Christians and non-Christians on this warfare issue. The church peaceniks believe in “love, love, love,” and any thought or deed outside their narrow-minded belief system must be of the devil!! What I find so ironic is that these peaceniks get somewhat violent in speech, even physically violent, when their pet doctrines are challenged.

And those of the world who are also peaceniks, scream and rant and rave like madmen and madwomen, calling US “murderers, hate mongers,” and worse – ironically, they fire against us in WRATH while protesting what we teach about God’s wrath, fury and indignation against those who are targeted for correction and punishment. Talk about blind! While they protest against God’s sword and fire teachings (the sword that cuts and the fire that burns!) they are mostly pro-abortion, which is the murder of the unborn! They teach and preach and practice the right to terminate and exterminate the helpless and innocent lives of the unborn, living in the safety of their mother’s womb, only to be murdered before being safely born. While these MAGNIFICENT HYPOCRITES recoil at the judgments and punishments dealt to the guilty by God, they think it a blessing to murder the innocent, helpless babies!!!

The Bible demolishes our carnal arguments, our selfish, even murderous self-interest and pretensions. The Bible’s military language is used to make points. It speaks about God’s Divine power, His declarations of war, both physical and spiritual war.

Paul nor Jesus nor any other disciple was guilty of taking lives. yet they warned and corrected, even harshly if needed. There’s one occasion where Paul turned a certain person over to satan for punishment, because of sexual immorality (see 1 Corinthians 5:1-5). I believe this person was exposed and expelled from the Corinthian Ecclesia, where Jesus and the Holy Spirit was his covering. They were cast out from the place where victory over sin is possible; expelled from the safety against satan; put outside the Body where one has no covering. Paul did “deliver this man to satan” for the destruction of his flesh (i.e., his sexual misconduct) so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord. That act, dear ones, is an act of mercy, not hatred. Yes, hate the sin, but love the sinner.

This may not always work, though. Some who sin will not be redeemed, but will persist and insist in their sins. I’ve dealt with some of these!

The penalty for this one’s sin was “medicinal.” And the man had two choices:

1. Repent and be brought back to the safety of the church.

2. Do not repent and face Hell in the end.

The way to repentance or ruination was laid open.

Paul did not stop at his instructions to deliver such one to satan. He warned the whole ecclesia not to keep company with sexually immoral people (1 Corinthians 5:9). He had written an epistle to them about “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers” in his second epistle to the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 6:14-18).

Why has the Church missed these vital warnings and instructions today? Now we have whole Church denominations and organizations that have adapted the LGBTQ+ agenda! We have churches where adulteries and fornications are so common that one would think God has put his stamp of approval on them!! These are high things that exalt themselves against God. These are arguments which we must argue AGAINST.

Adam’s Fall

When they (Adam and Eve) fell from Grace, they fell into a life of perpetual sin and were banished from Paradise. This can and does happen to one-time believers.

Some believe in “Once saved, always saved.” But just where do we find such a doctrine IN SCRIPTURE?

Nowhere.

The Bible is replete with admonitions and warnings that instruct us not to play around with disobedience and rebellion – SIN! In Christ, we have been delivered from the power of sin and we MUST NOT play around with it!

All have been born into sin because of Adam’s sin. All “first Adam men, women and children” are ones without Christ in their lives and are still relegated to wandering, being separated from intimacy with their Creator, under sin. Do I like this thought, this reality? No! But it is not my doctrine. It is Scriptural fact. But since it is true, we know the ONLY means of escape is repentance, being born again of incorruptible seed, that is, Christ. Then, once we have turned to Christ, we must REMAIN in Christ, lest we fall back under the power of sin.

The Bible gives explicit instructions on why we need salvation, how to get it, and on life after being born again: we will be taught spiritual warfare!! Centuries before there was a New Testament, David wrote this: “Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trained my hands for war, and my fingers for battle” (Psalm 144:1). So it is, even today – the Holy Spirit will teach us spiritual warfare. We will use the sword of the Spirit (Ephesian 6:17), which is the Word of God, both the written and spoken Word.

Jesus said, “Do not think that I come to bring peace on Earth … but a sword” (Matthew 10:34). This sword, the Word of God, “will set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother … and a man’s enemies will be those of his (or her) own household” (10:35-36).

There are natural enemies, and spiritual enemies (Ephesians 6:12). Look these spiritual powers up in a Greek dictionary or commentary: principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual hosts of wickedness. These evil forces are behind all natural wars. Taking human life does not, will not, destroy spirit beings, that is, demon spirits … so WAR works in their favor.

Jesus’ Encounter

Jesus’ encounter with satan himself is recorded in Matthew 4:1-11. Now, please note that it was the Holy Spirit that led Jesus into the wilderness encounter (Luke 4:1). Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, was led by the Spirit into the wilderness; and after His 40 days and the devil’s attempt to tempt Him, Jesus returned in the power of the spirit (v. 14).

Jesus went into battle with satan himself and came out in the power of the Spirit, in victory, not defeat. I can’t tell you how many believers have gone into battle with a demon spirit or spirits, only to be whipped and defeated, losing to the enemy or enemies … never to rise up again. Some I’ve known have been beaten and have stayed defeated for a length of time, and eventually (after REPENTANCE) have risen up again. But it doesn’t need to be this way!

We may (WILL) get battered, but we must fight on. We may (WILL) become worn and torn in this war, but DO NOT GIVE UP!!!

~ Gen. Jim, POW

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WOS 3-20-23 BORN FOR WAR!

Spoken by Prophet General Deborah Green

I speak unto you this day and I say be thankful that you have been born for My intentions and those are intense and important. I do not ordain My people to be born for their own desires, I intend them to be born for My purpose which is the War for Souls. I sent My Son Jesus into the world and He walked among the people, declaring My Kingdom. Where ever He went there were those who were warring against Him and the message that He came to deliver to those who encountered Him.

The multitudes often times responded favorably to His call to repentance. He performed miracles by the power of the Holy Spirit in their midst demonstrating the Higher Kingdom wherein I abide. He said of His own words that He did not come to bring peace. He declared there would be those even of the same families who would be at war one with another because of His presence in the lives of those who chose to believe in Him.

Through out the history of those who chose to follow Jesus as their Savior and Lord, multitudes have realized when they became born again, they were born for war. This proved and still proves to be true for most new believers are opposed by their families, friends, and acquaintances of their former lives. The “old” associates wonder why these ones do not want to be in the same relationships they formerly were in with them.

By such trying of their faith, the new believers are in war as they have been born into the same. It is the intention of the old associates to drag them out of the New Life and take them back into the old lifestyles they were in before being born again. These old associates are manifestations of how closely the carnal nature works with the devil and his demons to win the war against the new believers who want to stay true to their commitment to My Son, Jesus.

Keep in mind that to be born again is to come into the fierce battle that is daily be waged by the spirits of darkness sent to destroy the new believers who are starting out in their journey with the Master. How little do these babes in Christ understand how much the devil and his forces of wickedness will war against them as they continue steadfast in the Way that the Spirit will lead them.

Consider, Jesus when He was tempted by the devil in the wilderness, refused to listen to the devil’s enticements and invitations to Him. Instead, He kept up His guard and refused to accept any of the devil’s words to Him to get Him to betray Me and My purpose for Him on earth. Instead, Jesus kept His heart right with Me and continued in the battle to see souls repent and come back to right standing with Me by turning from wickedness and returning unto Me as their Father.

It has never been intended by Me that people would go after the stupidity of the devil’s overtures to them. Just as Jesus refused the wicked one, so must those who are true to Me do the same. It is stupidity to imagine that any one who truly loves Me is free from the battle, for the war is constant for their own souls and the souls of others.

It is definitely not My intention that many would turn back, because of persecution, prosecution, and imprisonment. My desire is that those who are

United Believers would stay in the war even unto death if needs be. This is because My true ones are not to love themselves first, they are to love My Son, Myself, and the Holy Spirit.

Be totally aware that through Me you are being directed, guided, and given the strength to continue in the battle. Even if you experience battle fatigue, remember it is Me the Living God, who will send My Spirit to refresh and replenish you. Be thankful that you can know that I am the Omnipresent and that when you cry out to Me, you will definitely be heard. You are not alone for you have My Spirit constantly with you to guide you forth in the Way of My strategies where by you can keep going onward in the intensity of war without turning back from the same.

There are multitudes who are in hell because they chose to run from the battle, and in so choosing they ran into the arms of the devil and his demons. Those forces of wickedness led them into defeat, discouragement, disappointment, despair, and death. They did not repent and because of the same, they ended in hell and there they remain under the torments of the damned because they were deserters in the war for souls.

Thank Me that you do not have to be deserters, rather you can continue for the very reason you were born, to be warriors in the war for souls and to please Me by continuing. The more that you will continue, the more that you will see, understand, and realize that it is imperative that the battle be won rather than lost. If you knew the number of souls who are daily being taken into hell, you would know that to go in any other way than the Way that I intend is spiritual sloth. I do not find pleasure in the ones who are slothful, I find joy in the diligent. The more that you keep your focus upon the leading of My Spirit, the more on target you will be in the battle at hand. When you hear the braggarts who are lazy and unwilling to remain steadfast, you see how really foolish they are. For while they boast of their own greatness, they are refusing to enter into the war they were born for. The battle is not carnal, it is with the forces of darkness seeking to devour.