CONVITION OR CONVERSION? – By Lakshman Navaratne
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CONVITION OR CONVERSION?
HE FOWLER’S SNARE (Psalm 91) Tree of Knowledge of good and Evil.
No one is Christian until one is baptized through the Spirit of Pentecost!
The differences between the colonial faith [B] and the Apostolic Faith [A] is a Mystery to those who have not received the Baptism of Pentecost.
Revealed to us, through scripture, Apostolic faith coming to us from the day of Pentecost, is the pure and simple faith originated from the Tree of life documented in Genesis.
This is the Baptism; Jesus received from the Father in eternity at the age of 30.
Apostles of Christ and 3000 human souls received this on the day of Pentecost.
Today their flesh and bones are dust on earth, dead or alive, they shall be raised to a new life, finally to inherit the new earth as documented in the last book Revelation to the Apostle John.
Apostolic Faith; for a Christian, this new life begins on earth, on the day we accept Christ into our heart!
Apostle Paul writes: Romans 10;9,” that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Christians who have not received this baptism will say in their hearts; “. “Why is the Lord taking so long to return?”
The seal of Apostolic faith is Baptism of Pentecost!
Apostle Paul received it on the way to Damascus. 1 Corinthians 2:9
We shall be re-born in Christ, when we hear that call of the Shepherd.
The Baptism of the Spirit is not from laying of hands from a Pastor or any other human doctrine fabricated through Theologians.
You shall receive your Baptism, when you immerse yourself in the River of Life, the written Word flowing from Revelation to Genesis.
When you hear his voice; do not Harden your heart. [A]
The Colonial Faith originated from the Roman Empire in the 3rd century after Pentecost
300 years before the day of Pentecost; the Greek Empire of Alexander the great; Humanized and Hellenized the Hebrew nation, worshiping their God who believed in a Deliverer, the Messiah prophesized throughout life of Israel (Jacob).
The third century after Christ, Roman Empire, headed by Constantine, heading the world civilization, hijacked the way of the Apostles of Christ, merging and mixing with Greek mythological beliefs of great philosophers. This was the beginning of colonial Christianity.
The Snare was the Live-Bait, sign of the Cross, shown to the emperor, whose mother Helena was a follower of Christ. [A]
Christianity became full of Theology and Dogmas dating back to Greek Mystical Philosophies, leading humanity backwards, to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Genesis 2:3, “The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.”
The “Snare”, Eve our first mother, misunderstood was the wording used by the enemy of our soul. The tree of Knowledge was both good and evil. Eve did not realize the word “Good” is the worst of the “Best”.
So, if humans believe that Riches and talents of this world, we “Dream on” are from God, they are definitely the good coming from the Tree of Knowledge that still ends at the Grave.
The Best of Life for humanity that last forever beyond the grave is our salvation coming from the Tree of Life. (Jesus) [A]
This is the Apostolic Christianity that began on the day of Pentecost, went missing after the 3rd Century, re-surfaced in the15th Century, and Shall depart from this earth, as Prophesized in Scripture, on the day of Rapture of the Faithful Church.
The treasure in the scripture was hidden for 1200 years from the year 325 AD. To 1500 AD. Matthew 13:46,” When he found one of great value; he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.”
Since the day of Pentecost, this is the only opportunity we have to RETURN to our Father! [B]
Psalm 91: “Surely, he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.”
Both snare and deadly pestilence; originating from the Tree of Knowledge that leads humanity to the grave.
Our escape: “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.”.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.
“Our first Mother Eve was trapped in this Snare set by the enemy of our Soul, and our release came through Christ”, after 4000 years of human life on earth.
This is our life (journey) on planet earth!
Dreams and Prophesy;
We humans dream, dream and keep on dreaming all our life on earth, till we have no ability to recall what we dream.
Only the first experience we have with the one who set humanity free from the trap set by the Darkness, separated at creation, shall be the moment we are delivered from the Fowler’s Snare.
Conversion of Saul to Apostle Paul is the beginning for all nations, price paid by Rabbi Jesus at Calvary.
The Lord of the Pentecost converting your heart, gradually removing the gods of conviction harbored in humanity, since the day of Eve, our first mother.
Darkness has fallen on all humanity, yet some people have the Light. The Plague of the Darkness Exodus 10:21, “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or move about for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.”
For the faithful today: This Light was the “Lord” (Jesus), Egypt represents the World without “Faith”, and the three days represents the “Period of Grace”. This is the ONLY time available for the Jews and the Gentiles to receive their inheritance.
This is when our mortal mind (our free will) is surrendered to the Will of our Maker.
Scientist and Health experts call it “Loss of Memory”, average human call it “Madness or Foolishness” and the Apostles of Christ (Scripture) calls it the “will of the Maker.”
Scripture records; There is a time for everything, Ecclesiastes 3:1, “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens”
3:11, “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”
There are hundreds of writers of Philosophy, metaphysics, religion and theologians on the internet explaining our existence on this earth, serving no purpose to the human mind reaching the aging and the tipping point of Dementia. (Old age)
Apostle Paul documents Romans 8:28,” And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose”
Simply said “the plan of the irreversible dying process” and the final Decay.
1 John 4:1, “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world”
Only the Gift “Baptism” of Pentecost, operating in you has the ability to Discern!
So, Dreams and Visions are the communication mechanisms of the Spiritual world with the Mortal world!
A Vision; is a real image appearing in the heart, and no other around this person is able to witness.
A vision originating from the “Darkness” is documented in Scripture as the “Fowlers Snare”.
Examples are: Apparitions, Dreams, sightings of supernatural elements, described “only by the recipient.” [Apparition of the Cross to Constantine]
In the Old Testament, Moses before Pharaohs, are great example of how the Enemy of our soul, also had the power to duplicate some of the supernatural deeds.
The Light (Images) we see with our human eye is very limited; the Dim light of Darkness is more Luminous to our hearts than the light of the sun. [B]
The presence or absence of Sun-light has no bearing to the Light of Men documented in Scripture.
The light that shines in the darkness is the Light of Redemption. John 1:4, “In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” [B]
A vision from the Redeemer of mankind to Ananias regarding Apostle Paul (Saul), before his conversion to Christianity:
Acts 9:10 “in Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called to him in a vision, “Ananias!”
“Yes, Lord,” he answered.
11 The Lord told him, “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying. 12 In a vision he has seen a man named Ananias come and place his hands on him to restore his sight.”
Ananias was a recipient of the Baptism of Pentecost. A true born-again Christian of the Apostolic Faith.
A Dream is also a real episode happening in a person’s Heart while he or she is sleeping, dead to the world.
The God of Abraham Communicated with his chosen Servants throughout the History of the nation of Hebrews until the year 400 BC, God of Hebrews went Silent for 400 years, till the birth of their Promised Messiah.
This is the only reason why the Bible is only made of the 66 books, revealing the Redeemer of mankind. The Old Testament from the beginning (Genesis) till the years 400 BC and the New Testament ending with the Book of Revelation at 100 AD.
{Deuterocanonical books are excluded from Apostolic Christianity. They were historical books written by Hebrew servants between the 400BC to coming of Christ. The Hebrew nation paid a hefty price for their unfaithfulness to their Sovereign God, the prophet Jeremiah was used by the God of Hebrews to pin point the milestones for Israel}.
This is the Greek period, when “Hellenism”, He was a follower of the Greek polytheistic religion called Hellenism which they worshiped gods like Zeus, Apollo, and others.
Alexander the Great, conquered lands extending to India. This was the era, Greek civilization with great theologians and Academia became a Strong hold on Humanity. This strength continued with the Romans for 600 years after Christ, still the core beliefs of Colonial Christianity.
The prophesy continued for the Jewish nation. This is the reason why Abrahamic-Judaism was suppressed by the prince of the world (Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) and today, the Global count of Abrahamic-Judaism is only at 0.22% while Abramic-Faith (Islam) is at 22%. Abrahamic New Judaism at 33%.
The Jewish nation knows in their hearts; New-Judaism (Christianity), has blossomed to new heights, with their God adopting many nations (Gentiles), comprising the “Generation recruited by their deliverer.
This is the full Army of souls for the final battle for Israel. The root of this generation today, is the purest 5% of the Jews, who have embraced the gift of Pentecost, forming the root, hidden from the “SNARE” of the prince of the world controlling all the 145 geographically separated nations of mankind. [B]
Christianity based on Abrahamic-faith is still the highest on earth today, at 33%, trending downwards, as Prophesized in Scripture. Luke 18:6, “And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you; he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
This is our hope for the faithful church with the Apostolic Christianity.
Until 400 BC, God of Abraham Manifested in “Temples”, using Human beings as “priests” to offer sacrifice and guide His chosen nation according to the will of their Maker.
Christ became the Final Sacrifice and the only High-Priest for all Mankind.
Today, there is no need for Priests, as Born-again Christians, through the Baptism of Pentecost; Christ reigns in the heart of the Faithful!
Salvation for all mankind, as promised to His Faithful Servant Abraham was fulfilled in Christ. John 1:29, “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
“Christianity” is the basic and standardized “Operating System” of our Redeemer of mankind, operating in the Human Heart as his only dwelling place. According to the Apostles of Christ; the human heart is the “The Temple of the Holy Spirit”.
There is no requirement of man-made structures or Theological explanations to our Redemption.
The Baptism of Pentecost makes us unique partner in the Living Body of Christ on earth, you a just a single cell in the Whole Body of Christ.
Christ became the sole operator in the heart of humans.
60% of humans alive today on earth believe that Abraham was called out from rest of humanity by the Maker of the Universe; this calling was done through Dreams and visions.
So, dreams and visions are the only method, the Spiritual world communicate with the Mortal world.
From the beginning of Creation, the Spiritual world was separated as Light from Darkness. [B]
The Human kind inherited Death due to the fall of Adam on the 7th day. Today is the last hour of this Seventh day in Scripture. [B]
The heart of Eve was deceived through Visions and Dreams manifested by the Spirit of Darkness.
Even to this day; humanity is vulnerable to this Spirit of Darkness who is still the prince of this world.
Humanity was given the power to discern the Spirit of Darkness on the day of Pentecost. This power is limited to those who embrace the Scripture as the only Absolute Truth. This is the living Body of Christ on earth today (The Faithful Church).
Prophet Joel prophesized this day 800 years BC, Joel 2:28, “And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.”
So, today only the faithful Church with the Apostolic Doctrine can discern the Dreams and Visions of Humanity.
Apostolic Christianity truly believes; scripture is the only written letter that documents the dreams of human world from beginning to end for humanity. The 40 Jewish writers of scripture (Genesis to Revelation), never stepped into a college or university to get their Doctorates. There was nothing called Theology for the fishermen recruited by Jesus to proclaim the good news of Redemption.
Today, 60% of humanity believes that humans have one father (Adam) and one mother (Eve) who came from a Maker that procreated the whole human race.
This same 60% of the population of humans believe in a Creator and the rest of humanity link their origin to the closest resembling creature, the “Ape”.
It is a part of the snare, that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution published in 1859 AD have no reference to the human mind and soul which is the key to his missing link.
So, scripture is our only reference to the Beginning and the End for Humanity.
For simplicity of this article, I shall put a time line to the history of mankind parallel to the life of the Hebrew nation documented in scripture, from the days of Adam to the present day 2024 AD.
4000 years before our time on earth, Abraham had a son at his old age (miracle of virgin birth) named Isaac and his son Jacob (renamed Israel) also, in his old age had a son named Joseph. All these humans had visions and dreams that led to the promise of our Redemption.
Scripture says when Joseph was 17 years of age; he had dreams that became the reality for the Hebrew nation to bring forth the Kingdom of David.
3000 years before our time, the kingdom of David was not only a victory of deliverance for the Hebrew nation; it was the preparation for the magnificent Temple to be built by his son Solomon for the Maker of humanity to manifest on this earth.
Just as David prepared all the materials needed for the Temple for God to dwell, with a lot of Bloodshed in David’s battles, during the reign of Solomon, the Hebrew nation was at peace, until the temple was built in full magnificence.
Scripture says, Jesus the descendent of David who shall reign on earth forever and ever. The beginning of his reign on earth began on the day of Pentecost, just 2000 years from our time on earth.
1000 years before Christ, the Hebrew nation was a small component of the human race. Kings of Aram, Damascus and Syria ruled the European continent, while the rest of the world had humans scattered all over the globe after the Tower of Babel, just after the great flood at the time of Noah. [B]
900 years before Christ, the 1st temple was built by King Solomon for the Deliverer of the Hebrew nation.
All through the years of Abraham to Joseph, Hebrews lived in slavery to the kings of Egypt until Moses was commanded to deliver them to a promised land.
Only after they reached the Promised Land, the kingdom of Israel became a reality.
586 BC, The Hebrew nation was not faithful to their deliverer, to be plundered by nations around them and the magnificent temple was destroyed by the kings of Babylon.
538 BC Babylon was defeated by Kings of Medes and Persia who allowed the Hebrews to rebuild the Temple to worship the God of Abraham.
430 BC the Hebrews rebuilt the Temple and were free to worship their God.
400 BC the Deliverer of the Hebrew nation stopped communicating with the Hebrew Nation, Yet the promise for the Hebrew nation, the covenant he made with Abraham to be accomplished through a new and sanctified Generation of human souls began at Pentecost. (33AD).
330 BC, Alexander the Great, the Greek nation controlled the empire and the Hebrew was Hellenized with the Greek culture, the new generation of Hebrews lost their language and their true identity until till 1948 AD. A new nation of Israel was established.
70BC began the Roman period. The Romans were in control throughout the birth, ministry and crucifixion of Jesus in 33 AD.
The roots of the Roman Empire coming from the Greek philosophy and pagan gods controlled the full academia, civilization and the military powers until 500AD, when the Moslem revolt overcame the control of nations until the British Empire in the 19th century of human history.
From the time of Christ;
The Roman period lasted until 300AD. The end of True Apostolic Christianity. [A]
Visible Religious Christianity was the government of the Roman Empire.
The emperor Constantine decreed, Christianity as the official Religion of the Empire. Edict of Milan 313 AD.
The Point of no return:
This is the repercussion, through the un-discerned Vision of the cross to Emperor Constantine who was not a part of the Living Body of Christ.
This is the deviation of the Apostolic Christianity to the new breed of Colonial Christianity. [A] [B]
The Byzantine period 300- 600AD, the beginning of Colonial Christianity (Holy SEE) Major power of the European continent.
600- 1100AD, the early Moslem Period, when the whole of Asia Minor (Present day Turkey), where colonial Christianity lost 98% of the believers to Islam. Yet the missionaries of Colonial Christianity, gained millions of followers through colonizing the rest of the Globe. A Mosque was built on the Temple mount of the God of Abraham.
1100- 1500AD, the Mamluk period (Egypt) Crusaders (Colonial Christians) massacred both Jews and Moslems and built churches all over the continent, colonizing the rest of the Globe.
1500- 1900AD; in 1517: Armies of the Ottoman Turks defeat the Mamluks becoming the governors of minor Asia till their defeat in 1917 by the birth of the British Empire.
The end of the 1st and the 2nd world wars, the British in 1948, resulted in awarding the Jewish nation the original land (Israel) where David acquired 3000 years ago, where Solomon Built the 1st Temple for the God of the Jews and the present-day Christians.
Christianity began with the Apostles of Christ on the day of Pentecost with only 120 faithful servants to Christ.
The Apostolic Christianity thrived till 300AD, and then became invisible to the naked eye to this day.
No matter who you are, as soon the human head hit the pillow, your mind is taken over by the Spirit you harbor in your heart.
The faithful of the Creator God, who has heard the voice of Pentecost (Scripture), are the only recipients living today who shall discern the dreams and visions according to the Prophesy of the God of Abraham, through the gift of faith, returned to mankind on the day of Pentecost.
1 Corinthians 12:8, “To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.”
So, the history of the Hebrew nation is the snap-shot of what our Maker was going to accomplish for all nations of the Globe.
Today year 2024AD, “we are living the Church of Laodicea (Human Rights) as prophesized through Revelation 3:14, “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.”
Conclusion:
psalm 45:1-2, “My heart is stirred by a noble them as I recite my verses for the king my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
2 You are the most excellent of men and your l have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.
This is Jesus, the Jewish Rabbi, the gate to eternity for all mankind, rejected as a blasphemer and an enemy of the Hebrew nation. Today he is the Prince of Peace, prophesized throughout all generation of mankind.
Servants of Christ; Baptized through Pentecost, a born-again in Christ, the written letter of the four gospels are the life and words of the anointed King of the Universe.
Dreams and Visions are the medium of communication of the Spiritual world with the Mortal world, yet the true discernment of the Spirit of Christ is only limited to the living Body of Christ, the Apostolic Doctrine of the Apostles documented as the 66 books of the Bible. The invisible faithful Church shall see the face of the Maker of Humanity. This shall be the moment documented in scripture as the “Rapture of the Faithful”.
My Dearest Friends: The first chapter of the Gospel according to John is the only requirement to know who you are on this planet Earth!
John is the only human Apostle of Christ, who received the Revelation of a Creator, Redeemer and wrote the last book of the Bible “Revelation”.
No one is a Child of this Omnipotent Creator unless you receive the Baptism of Pentecost.
This shall be the moment you hear the Voice of your Redeemer.
No human has to lay hands or pray for you, if you recognize his Voice in the “Word”
This is the first Verse recorded in the Gospel according to John; Please read this verse with a sincere heart and a penitent Spirit. The first chapter of the Gospel according to John is the only requirement to know who you are on this planet Earth!
This is the first Verse in the Gospels I want you to READ with a sincere heart.
The first chapter of the Gospel according to John is the only requirement to know who you are on this planet Earth!
This is only when you hear the Voice of your Redeemer.
John 1; “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
Conviction or Conversion
No one had a choice to choose their parents.
According to scripture, Adam is the first Human to arrive on earth. Eve was made from Adam.
Neither Adam or Eve had Parents to call as Father and Mother.
Scripture says; God is Spirit and Life began on this earth through Spirit. [B]
So, the whole humanity is one single union between Adam and Eve!
The Creator of the universe chose a nation to bring forth a Redeemer for the human kind to escape the imprisonment. The snare was set by the enemy of our soul. The 66 books of the Bible are the written affidavit for the chosen generation who shall see the deliverance, to inherit the “Will” of our maker.
Scripture documents this as the story of Cain and Abel. [B]
Cain was the recipient of Faith by conviction, while the Faith of Abel was obedience to revelation (Conversion).
Reveals to a Christian re-born of Christ, the way of all religious faith is the way of Cain, while the only way of redemption is the way of Abel. [B]
Reference [A] 66 Bones That Saw No Decay- LuckyN Xulon Press 2018.
Reference [B] Lucky’s Blog christianityisme.com
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