CHILD OF THE LAMB OR CHILD OF THE GOAT? : PART 2
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Guilt Of The Jews, Passing The Buck, Crafty Perversion Of
Christian Doctrine, Willingness Of Christ, Ignorance And
Accountability, False Ministers Of Light, Persecution Of
Children Of The Lamb, Apostasy And Mark Of The Beast, The
Lord's Hands Of Blessing And Healing, The Apostles Lay On
Hands To Heal, Laying On Of Hands To Receive The Holy Ghost
God's Wrath And Second Harvest, Great White Throne Judgment
And Lake Of Fire, Laying Hands Suddenly, In Jesus' Hands
As I point out in other articles such as 'Is God A Racist?',
and 'Revelation's Babylon The Great Whore', try as they may,
the unbelieving Jews cannot possibly conceal their bloodied
hands, or rid themselves of their guilt, except by one means
alone. Through their own pride and evil hearts, they brought
this guilt upon themselves, when they foolishly cried out:
"...His blood be on us, and on our children."
(Matthew 27:25b)
The only way that these stubborn Children of the Goat will
ever be able to cleanse their bloodied hands, is by drawing
close to God, and to His Holy Throne of Grace, through their
humble acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ. Only in this way
will their hands finally be cleansed, and their hearts
purified; for as James wrote:
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw
nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your
hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep:
let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to
heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and
he shall lift you up." (James 4:7-10)
Sadly, the vast majority of Jews, particularly those in the
state of Israel, are not yet prepared to do this. Not only
that, but they are still trying to convince the world that
their hands are clean; by trying to transfer their guilt to
a second party; that is, to the Romans. What is so sad about
this fact, is that through their crafty placement of false
preachers and teachers in certain Christian churches, these
wicked workers of darkness have even begun to convince some
naive Christians of this very same thing. It wasn't really
the Jews' fault that Christ was crucified, they claim; it
was the fault of the Romans. This is a blatant lie, which I
will prove in a moment.
It has also come to my attention, that some misguided
Christians even go so far as to now claim that we are all
responsible for Christ's death. Whether we are Jewish, or a
Gentile, or a Roman who lived during the time of Christ, we
all carry equal guilt, they say. We all have bloodied hands.
They would have us to believe that there is no difference.
While it is indeed true that we are all sinners, again, this
belief is a blatant distortion of the truth, and it is not
supported by the Holy Scriptures. On the other end of the
spectrum, we find those who claim that no one carries any
guilt for Christ's Crucifixion, because Jesus laid down His
life of His own accord. Some of the verses they twist in
order to support this false belief are the following:
"No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I
have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
again. This commandment have I received of my Father."
(John 10:18)
"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not
his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as
a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his
mouth." (Isaiah 53:7)
While it is indeed true that Jesus gave His life willingly
for the sins of the world, it is also true that God still
had to use a human vehicle in order to accomplish His Divine
Purposes. Jesus willingly went to the slaughter in order to
atone for the sins of the world, but there still had to be a
butcher; and as we saw in part one, that executioner was the
weak Roman procurator Pontius Pilate; who was pressured into
performing his evil deed, by the Jewish Elders, through mob
rule and political correctness; that is, by proving that he,
Pilate, was still a friend of Caesar's. While the Jews, and
even some misguided Christians, try to now say that we all
carry equal guilt for the Crucifixion, please notice very
carefully in the following verses, to whom Jesus attributes
the greater sin:
"Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest thou not unto me?
knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have
power to release thee? Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no
power at all against me, except it were given thee from
above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the
greater sin. And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release
him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man
go, thou art not Caesar's friend: whosoever maketh himself a
king speaketh against Caesar." (John 19:10-12)
"If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had
sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin. He that
hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among
them the works which none other man did, they had not had
sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my
Father." (John 15:22-24)
"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth
the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
should be reproved." (John 3:19-20)
So as you can plainly see, yes, Jesus did in fact give His
life freely, but the jealous Jews chose to forcefully take
it from Him, when they first laid their bloodied hands upon
Him in the Garden. Later, they delivered Him into the hands
of Pilate, in order that He might be crucified; even against
Pilate's wishes; and this is why Jesus very clearly states
that it is upon the unbelieving Jews, that the greater sin,
and the greater guilt, falls. Jesus said 'he that delivered
me unto thee hath the greater sin'. Do you know why Jesus
said this? Do you know why Jesus said that the Jews had no
cloak for their sin? Obviously, it is because they had a
greater knowledge of the Truth. Not only did they have the
Scriptures; not only did they have Moses and the Prophets;
but they had seen Him work many miracles before their very
eyes; and still they did not believe.
The Children of Darkness, the Children of the Goat, knew
exactly what they were doing; yet they did it anyway. God
can only hold people accountable for how much Truth they
possess. This is why the Apostle Paul also stated regarding
his former persecution of the Saints:
"And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for
that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and
injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly
in unbelief." (1 Timothy 1:12-13)
While Peter tried to excuse the unbelieving Jews in order to
win them to Christ in Acts chapter three, when he preached
to the Athenians on Mars' Hill, the Apostle Paul boldly
asserted that the time of ignorance was past; and that it
was now time for all men everywhere to repent, and to accept
Christ. Later, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul also
said that now is the day of Salvation:
"And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it,
as did also your rulers. But those things, which God before
had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ
should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. Repent ye therefore,
and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when
the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the
Lord;" (Acts 3:17-19)
"And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now
commandeth all men every where to repent:" (Acts 17:30)
"(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in
the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is
the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)"
(2 Corinthians 6:2)
Returning for a moment to the Lord's trial, when Pilate
tried to do what was right, even being warned by his very
own wife, who was it who cried out in protest? John writes
'but the Jews cried out'. That is Scriptural fact which no
one can change. Jesus said that the greater sin is upon the
Jews, and we should believe it; no matter what any of these
modern false prophets and teachers might try to say. Those
who say and teach such things are in great error; and they
are false ministers of light; of whom the Apostle Paul told
us to be warned;
"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no
marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also
be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end
shall be according to their works."
(2 Corinthians 11:13-15)
Not content with having murdered the Prophets of old, with
having laid their hands upon the head of John the Baptist,
and then with laying their already-bloodied hands on the
very High Priest of God, Jesus Christ Himself, the wicked
Children of the Goat continued their evil persecution of the
innocent Children of the Lamb in the Book of Acts. Time and
time again they threatened the Disciples. In some cases, as
with James, who was beheaded by Herod, and Stephen, who was
stoned to death by the Jewish Elders, they were killed;
while at other times, they were dragged before the Jewish
Elders, and threatened and beatened, and sometimes thrown
into prison; sometimes to be miraculously rescued by the
Lord's Angels. Consider the following verses:
"But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you,
and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and
into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my
name's sake." (Luke 21:12)
"And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the
next day: for it was now eventide." (Acts 4:3)
"And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the
common prison." (Acts 5:18)
"Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his
hands to vex certain of the church." (Acts 12:1)
"And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and
bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy
Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that
owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of
the Gentiles...And when the seven days were almost ended,
the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the
temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,"
(Acts 21:11, 27)
"And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the
chief of the Jews together: and when they were come
together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have
committed nothing against the people, or customs of our
fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into
the hands of the Romans." (Acts 28:17)
"And through a window in a basket was I let down by the
wall, and escaped his hands." (2 Corinthians 11:33)
Moving up to what may be the very near future, we discover
that even after the Lord has severely punished the wicked
spiritual children of Azazel the scapegoat, for having dared
to put their filthy hands upon His children and persecuted
them lo these many centuries, they still will not repent of
their evil deeds. Notice that the murder of God's lambs is
counted among the works of their hands:
"And the rest of the men which were not killed by these
plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that
they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and
silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can
see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their
murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication,
nor of their thefts." (Revelation 9:20-21)
What I also find quite significant, is that this is directly
related to the Mark of the Beast. Because they have already
yielded themselves to Satan in their minds, and through the
evil works of their hands, could this be why they will also
so willingly accept the Mark of the Beast, which many, like
myself, believe may be an actual biochip implant which will
connect everyone into the worldwide electronic credit system
of the Beast? Remember the verse I shared in part one about
revolting more and more into total apostasy:
"Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint."
(Isaiah 1:5)
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor,
free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in
their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number
of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a
man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."
(Revelation 13:16-18)
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were
beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God,
and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in
their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a
thousand years." (Revelation 20:4)
While I have thus far shown how the forces of darkness have
totally reversed the ancient rites of the high priest, so
that now the Children of the Goat lay their hands upon the
heads of the Children of the Lamb, in order to blame them
for the woes of the world, there is another brighter side to
this story as well. In the New Testament, we discover that
Jesus laid His hands upon different people in order to bless
them; such as in the example of the small children. At other
times, it was in order to heal a certain person of a bodily
and/or a spiritual affliction. Consider the following
verses:
"Then were there brought unto him little children, that he
should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples
rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and
forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom
of heaven. And he laid his hands on them, and departed
thence." (Matthew 19:13-15)
"And they brought young children to him, that he should
touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought
them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and
said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me,
and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the
kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter
therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon
them, and blessed them." (Mark 10:13-16)
"And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up
his hands, and blessed them." (Luke 24:50)
And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth
at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands
on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live."
(Mark 5:23)
"And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the
synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying,
From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is
this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works
are wrought by his hands?...And he could there do no mighty
work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and
healed them." (Mark 6:2, 5)
"And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto
him, and besought him to touch him. And he took the blind
man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he
had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked
him if he saw ought. And he looked up, and said, I see men
as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon
his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw
every man clearly." (Mark 8:22-25)
"Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick
with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his
hands on every one of them, and healed them." (Luke 4:40)
"And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God." (Luke 13:13)
As the Lord Himself had promised, His followers performed
even greater works than Himself, for as Jesus had said, He
had to return to the Father. This is also covered in the
article 'Are The Gifts Of The Spirit For Today?'. Consider
the following verses where we see that, contrary to the
Children of the Goat who lay their hands on people in order
to commit evil, the Children of the Lamb lay their hands on
people in order to do good:
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than
these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."
(John 14:12)
"They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly
thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover." (Mark 16:18)
"And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and
wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with
one accord in Solomon's porch." (Acts 5:12)
"Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord,
which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted
signs and wonders to be done by their hands." (Acts 14:3)
"And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:"
(Acts 19:11)
"And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of
a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and
prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him."
(Acts 28:8)
"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the
church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil
in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save
the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your
faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may
be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
availeth much." (James 5:14-16)
In the Book of Acts, after the Holy Spirit had been imparted
to the Disciples on the Day of Pentecost, this very same
Gift of the Spirit was transferred to others through the act
of laying one's hands upon another. When I received the
Baptism of the Holy Ghost many years ago, this is precisely
how it was done with me. While the following verses show how
the Holy Ghost was received through the laying on of the
Apostles' hands, please note that this particular request
was actually made by evil Simon the Sorcerer; who was soon
found out. We never hear of him again after Peter exposes
his wicked heart:
"Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had
prayed, they laid their hands on them." (Acts 6:6)
"Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the
Holy Ghost. And when Simon saw that through laying on of the
apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them
money, Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I
lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said
unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast
thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money."
(Acts 8:17-20)
"As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost
said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I
have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and
laid their hands on them, they sent them away. So they,
being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia;
and from thence they sailed to Cyprus." (Acts 13:2-4)
"And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost
came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied."
(Acts 19:6)
"Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee
by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the
presbytery." (1 Timothy 4:14)
"Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the
gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my
hands." (2 Timothy 1:6)
"Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and
of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment."
(Hebrews 6:2)
So while God's children are commanded to lay hands upon a
person in order to heal and to impart the Holy Ghost, the
disobedient and unbelieving children of the world do it in
order to hurt and to do wrong. What these foolish Children
of the Goat do not realize, is that when they lay their
filthy hands upon the Children of the Lamb, they are
committing a very grave error, because the Scriptures
plainly tell us:
"Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no
harm." (Psalms 105:15)
While these foolish people may not realize it now, once
their cup of iniquity is full, they are going to fall into
the Hands of a wrathful God, and they are not going to like
it! As the Apostle Paul wrote in his Epistle to the Hebrews:
"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God...For our God is a consuming fire."
(Hebrews 10:31, 12:29)
In the Book of Revelation, after the Harvest of Souls takes
place at the end of this current system of man, when Christ
returns for His beloved children, we are told that a second
harvest will take place. We might refer to this harvest as
the Harvest of Wrath. In the fourteenth chapter we find the
following verses which describe it:
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud
voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and
receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same
shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: ...And
another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he
also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from
the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud
cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy
sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the
earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust
in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the
earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of
God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and
blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse
bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred
furlongs." (Revelation 14:9-10, 17-20)
Of course, when it comes to this act of laying one's hands
on somebody, we also know that the final Person to do this
will be the Lord Himself; for in the distant future, after
the one thousand year Millennium, when the Great White Throne
Judgment occurs, we are told that the Lord will do His final
house cleaning. He will lay hold on that old serpent called
the Devil and Satan, and cast him into the Lake of Fire;
along with Azazel and his cohorts, and all of the other
incorrigible and unrepentant Children of the Goat:
"And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of
fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from
whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was
found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and
great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and
another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the
dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the
dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them: and they were judged every man
according to their works. And death and hell were cast into
the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever
was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire." (Revelation 20:10-15)
Before concluding this article, let us take a look at one
more verse which deals with the laying on of hands. In his
first Epistle to his beloved son in the faith, Timothy, the
Apostle Paul wrote the following:
"Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other
men's sins: keep thyself pure." (1 Timothy 5:22)
It seems that some Christians have erroneously interpreted
this verse as a warning from Paul regarding the laying on of
hands. They suggest that Paul is saying that just as we can
impart spiritual and physical blessings to others, if one is
not careful regarding upon whom he lays his hands, this same
process can also work in reverse; so that a person may pick
up a curse or something evil from that person. I tend to
believe that Paul wasn't referring to the spiritual gift of
the laying on of hands, but rather to laying our hands upon
someone in a moment of anger, as we see occurring with the
Children of the Goat. When Paul talks about not partaking of
other men's sins, he is not talking about having their sins
transferred to us through a laying on of hands, but rather
to things like the following from his Epistle to the
Ephesians:
"Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with
his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye
angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no
more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the
thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that
needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that
it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the
holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all
malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath
forgiven you." (Ephesians 4:25-32)
"I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy
hands, without wrath and doubting." (1 Timothy 2:8)
Notice that Paul talks a lot about wrath and evil speaking
in the previous verses. He talks about using our hands in a
good way, to be a blessing; and not in an evil way, as do
the Children of the Goat. When a person lays their hands
suddenly on another person, doesn't it involve wrath, anger
and evil speaking, exactly as Paul states? So again, I think
this may be what Paul really meant by not laying one's hands
suddenly upon any man; because that is precisely what the
enemies of Christ and His Disciples actually did, and which
they continue to do to this very day. They grab the Children
of the Lamb, His dear foreign missionaries, in anger, and
speak evil of them. They cast them into prison and torture
them, and sometimes even kill them. The reports we hear of
Christian persecution in some of the communist and Muslim
countries are absolutely alarming. As we draw closer to the
end, Satan is becoming more and more furious, because he
knows that his time is short:
"Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.
Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the
devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time."
(Revelation 12:12)
To conclude this article on a positive note, consider the
fact that at the end of this life, just like Jesus, our
eternal High Priest, who committed His Spirit into the Hands
of His Heavenly Father, because He knew that He came from
God, and would return to God, we too, the Children of the
Lamb, shall commit our spirits into the Hands of the Lord
Jesus Christ, because we are His sheep; we are not goats;
and He has paid for us with His own Blood on the Cross.
Consider the following verses:
"And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said,
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said
thus, he gave up the ghost." (Luke 23:46)
"Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would
love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither
came I of myself, but he sent me." (John 8:42)
"Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his
hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;"
(John 13:3)
"And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never
perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."
(John 10:28)
"All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him
that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." (John 6:37)
"Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having
this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let
every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from
iniquity." (2 Timothy 2:19)
In conclusion, which are you? Are you a Child of the Lamb,
or are you a stubborn and rebellious Child of the Goat? If
you are not sure, please accept Jesus Christ as your Lord
and Saviour today. It's not too late. He stands waiting with
outstretched arms. Don't delay; please do it today! You'll
be glad you did! I pray that this article has been a
blessing in your life.