Soldiers of the Cross

Soldiers of the Cross

There is a black spiritual song called, “We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder”. In the song it speaks of those who are a “soldier of the cross”. The song goes further and asks, “Do you think I'll make a soldier”? As the property and heritage of the Son of God, all humanity was “bought with a price”. Father had “set before men on earth two ways” previously for all of God's children and He suggested that we “chose life”. It is the same old Garden of Eden challenge faced by Adam and Eve. We have to face-off against imprisoned evil spirits confined to the pit of hell! But devils have perverted man's decision making so that men have always made the wrong choices.

Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

To FIX THAT PROBLEM Father sent a Champion, Jesus Christ, to make the correct choice for us. This is the same kind of deal that David and Goliath made when the Philistines challenged Israel. The winner saves his people! Jesus CHOSE LIFE for all men who come after him. He was VERY SUCCESSFUL in his face-off with the powers of darkness. Father paid him by giving him the entire planet earth as a heritage and possession including all the humans dwelling on it.

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. :28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one.

Psalm 110:1 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Psalm 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. :9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

We were SOLD out

Sold into sin by Father

We now know that Creator -God is a great SCIENTIST. He made a Family and chose to PERFECT His new family in a TWO-STEP process. Negative “tools” were created to provide EVIL contrast for exercising the children on the planet Earth. It was created in the midst of hell, the bottomless pit. Adam and Eve chose the tree of knowledge of good and evil ensuring that all those coming after them must face evil spirits in a similar way. This occurs in STEP ONE on the planet earth.

Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

2 Timothy 2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Romans 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Jeremiah 18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. 4 And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.

The experiences of evil each that child receives is pre-PLANNED by Creator-God.

Secrets of Enoch 49:2 And I swear to you, yea, yea, that there has been no man in his mother's womb, but that already before, even to each one there is a place prepared for the repose of that soul, and a measure fixed how much it is intended that a man be tried in this world. Yea, children, deceive not yourselves, for there has been previously prepared a place for every soul of man.

Psalm of Solomon V: 6 (4) For man and his portion (lie) before Thee in the balance; He cannot add to, so as to enlarge, what has been prescribed by Thee. O God,

Ode of Solomon 7:10 He who created wisdom is wiser than His works: 11 And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being: 12 Wherefore He pitied me in His abundant grace:

Psalm 139:1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

So the amount of evil a man experiences in his earthly role of flesh and blood (STEP ONE) is fixed by Potter-God, who undergoes the same experiences simultaneously.

Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

Isaiah 26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

God dwells in us and walks in us and without Him we can do nothing, John 15:5.

Sold into slavery by brothers (Joseph)

In role-play for Jesus, we get a birds-eye view of what would happen to Jesus by Joseph's plight. His envious brethren sold him to Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt where he was sold as a slave.

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Sold in captivity by by Joseph

When Joseph became king of Egypt under Pharaoh during the famine, he bought the entire people of Egypt and they became servants of Pharaoh. The famine in the land was so great that the Egyptian people ran out of money for food. Joseph gave them food for barter of their own persons, and this is how that whole nation came to be owned by Pharaoh. This is similar to what God did to Jesus. He said if you go down there and become my Atonement Lamb, I will give you the whole planet and all the children born in it as your possession and heritage. You know what happened.

Sold for thirty pieces of silver

Just as it happened to Joseph, Jesus was sold out to the chief priests by one of his disciples. This was part of Father's PLAN.

Zechariah11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

Matthew 26:14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

Sold to Jesus by the cost of his blood

In Father's Atonement process, a lamb without blemish is slain and its blood sprinkled about the altar.

Leviticus 16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. 19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

By his blood Jesus purchased all men to be born on earth in all succeeding generations. He has removed their sins and gives them eternal life.

1 Corinthians 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Hebrews 9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Symbol of death is a cross for a headstone

When men die and their bodies are buried, the grave site is marked by a headstone. The symbol of Jesus is the cross and it now extends as a headstone from Calvary covering the planet up to the right hand of God at the Throne. Jesus is called the headstone of the corner in God's Headquarters.

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Matthew 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

There is an invisible cross extending like a “worm-hole” (for Star “Trekkies”) from earth to Heaven and at its apex stands Jesus. The “WAY WE GO” is super-fast. The spirit said through Paul, “in a moment and a twinkling of an eye, we shall all be CHANGED”, I Corinthians 15:52. Therefore all who take their last breath will lose their flesh and their spirits will be drawn up to stand before the Throne..VERY FAST.

Jesus owns the earth and all that is in it. He chose life for all his brethren who became his heritage and possession. This is what it means to be purchased by Champion Jesus. This deal is strictly between the Father and the Son. Action on the part of men has no influence on the outcome!

Romans 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Jesus is the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE. There is an invisible CROSS that covers the whole planet at its base. It extends all the WAY to the Throne where Jesus STANDS as the DOOR. This WAY is a super-highway for entry into Heaven. You cannot enter in except through the Door. The Door of Heaven has a name. His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. All those who are sold in sin wear flesh and blood. All of these become DIERS because of the upward journey they must make. Before entering the “promise land” they must be “circumcised” to remove the flesh. This occurs when Father gives Jesus a name to call. When Jesus calls that name, someone on earth takes his last breath and that spirit son or daughter makes that upward journey through that path blazed by Jesus. Since Jesus became King over the planet earth, this path has been called the King's Highway. All subjects purchased by Jesus blood return as redeemed spirit-children. They pass through the Door where they meet the Father and the Son as well as mother Zion at God's Throne.

Death has no sting! It is just the circumcision method required to remove the clay soil into which the children are planted. This facilitate their flight and entry into the light. Only DIERS can do this. They follow their Savior in the WAY PLANNED by our Father, Hebrews 2:6-7, 14-15. Our Savior-Team (Father/Son) reveal to them the immortality with which they were created. They were simply unaware of it while on earth. “Glorified with the same glory Father gave to Jesus”, they discover their stunning beauty and their radiant light shining as the brightness of the sun. No one has to explain to them “the way we go”. They way they know. It is the way of the cross. All human beings are required to take up their cross (evil experiences planned by Father, Ecclesiastes 1:13, Romans 8:18-23), and follow the same WAY Jesus took. All human beings have this destiny PLANNED by Creator-God. This is the WAY that the Lord has made. There is no “other destiny” for mankind.

Glorify God!

God did it!