HE HAS THE KEYS!
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Key word: Keys
Jesus has the keys to death and hades (grave)
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Jesus said he holds the keys to death and the grave. This is a significant saying that Jesus tells John, because if you understand the book of Revelation, and its true purpose, it is written to encourage the church, it is written to inform the church of the things that are happening now.
Watch this:
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
Saints of God, some people have misinterpeted Revelation so much that they interpreted the book as being so prophetic that some of the stuff hasn’t happened yet.
Yet Jesus on words says “write down, what you have seen, both the things that are NOW HAPPENING. Someone say “Now Happening”, in 2024 you need to know and understand that somethings that are written in this book during John’s time had already came to PAST!!!
And Jesus also says “and the things that WILL happen.”
The book of Revelation isn’t just a book that covers future events, it reaches in the past, it covers the present, and it covers the future, and some of us are waiting for things to transpire but some of it has already come to past.
Important Note:
Myself, Elder Williams, and Elder Basham had a conversation after service Friday night, and I dropped some deep knowledge on them that kind of blew their mind.
I told them, that we have always thought that we would not go through the tribulation that the LORD would come back and rapture the church before the tribulation. I told them there is a book by Clarence Larkin called “The Greatest Book on Dispensational Truth in the World.”
In this book it talks about how the church is a millennial rapture church, which means that the Lord will rapture the church and take the church out of the world before the tribulation.
BUT WHAT IF….that isn’t the case. What if we the church are destined to go through a portion of the tribulation and then be caught up.
People have been caught up on 2 Thess 2:1-4
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Now watch this. 2 Thessalonians was written around 51-52 AD. Paul says that there would come a falling away first….the question a falling away of what? This scriptures declare that a great rebellion against God must first happen.
If we consider the early church and all of the persecution and suffering that they endured. If we consider how the Jews rejected Jesus, their rejection of him would ultimately lead to their destruction, a great falling away, the temple being destroyed, many going into captivity, and others being driven away from the city into hiding.
70 AD (17-18 years later), a Roman general by the name of Titus Vespasian who was declared emperor on 1 July 69 led and army to Jerusalem to destroy the city, to capture and or kill any who resist, and to destroy the temple in Jerusalem.
Watch this, Titus and the Roman army destroy the city, they destroy the temple and history (IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW YOUR HISTORY) tells us that Titus who is a Roman Emperor marches into the temple, goes to the holiest of all, sits down and declares himself to be god, BECAUSE IF YOU KNOW ROMAN HISTORY, THE EMPERORS WERE WORSHIPPED AS gods IN ROMAN!!!
He was the one who opposed and exalted himself above every so-called god or object of worship….we are talking about the gods of the romans and even the God of the Jews, and he displayed himself to be God. He was the man of lawlessness, he was the son of destruction. But watch this, the Bible never mentions that he is the Anti-Christ…..because John writes about the Anti-Christ:
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
When was 1 John written? 1 John was written between 95-110AD while John who was the last living Apostle was still alive.
Now John is talking about something else, because the man of sin, the son of perdition has already came and has gone, he already set in the holiest of all and defiled the temple of God. This happened 30 years ago and John was alive to see it.
But now John is talking about something totally different. He’s talking about the antichrist and how the antichrist shall come.
Next Point:
It is assumed that the book of Revelation chapter 13 verses 1-10 the beast is the Anti-Christ. There are three characters, in what theologians call the unholy trinity, The Beast, the False Prophet, and the Dragon.
Now here is the kicker, people are sitting around for the third temple to be build so that the son of perdition the man of sin can be revealed BUT IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURE AND OPEN UP YOUR MIND TO WHAT THE SCRIPTURE IS SAYING…..IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED IT HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO!!!
So now people are deceived thinking that oh we have time……NO!!! We are much further along than you realize it! Jesus is soon to come, I’m not here to say whether Jesus is going to rapture the church before the tribulation or during the tribulation, or even after. But the scripture says:
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
And here it is, we are reading these books by people who don’t have the Holy Ghost. They have education, they know scriptures, but they really don’t know Jesus because the Bible says no man can say that Jesus is Lord save by the Holy Ghost!!!
The only thing that you can depend on, is not the books that are produced by educated, unholy, unfilled men, the only thing you can depend on is not what you watched on Youtube, or what you have pulled up on Facebook, or what you asked ChatGPT.
Saints of God the only thing we can depend on is the Jesus and Jesus is the Word of God!!!!
I’m sorry this isn’t a resurrection message…..but I’ll get to that in a minute.
Tell your neighbor “we are much closer than you realize we are.” You better repent and turn from your ways while you have time. You better come into the ship before God sends his judgement.
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
It’s time to come into the ship, it’s time to get your house in order, because judgement is coming and if you stay in this world you’re going to be judged with the world. If you live like the world, then you will suffer the judgement and condemnation that will come upon the world.
IT’S TIME…..TO COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE YE SEPERATE SAYS THE LORD AND TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THING!!!
IT’S TIME TO MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHO YOU GOING TO SERVE!!!
IT’S TIME TO DIE TO THE WORLD, IT’S TIME TO DIE TO SIN, IT’S TIME TO DIE TO SELF!!!
BECAUSE WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN TO GAIN THE WORLD AND LOSE HIS SOUL. YOU CAN HAVE A GOOD TIME NOW, YOU LIVE IN SIN NOW, BUT IF YOU DON’T REPENT AND TURN FROM YOUR EVIL WAYS YOU’RE GOING TO PAY FOR IT.
And just like the Bible says that before it rained, GOD SEALED UP THE DOOR OF THE ARK AND THEN THE RAIN CAME…..IT WAS FIGURATIVE FOR THE TIME THAT WE LIVE IN TODAY…..SOON ITS GOING TO BE TOO LATE AND YOU’RE GOING TO SAY I WISHED I HAD LISTENED, I WISHED I HAD LIVED FOR THE LORD, I WISHED I WAS BAPTIZED, I WISHED I’D RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, I WISHED I GOT OUT THE RELATIONSHIP…..BUT IT’S GOING TO BE TOO LATE!!!!
Let’s close:
Jesus tells John “I am he that liveth” The Bible says that John was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, he was marooned on the Island of Patmos for preaching the gospel, but when you got this thing for real, if you can’t get to the church, you don’t need to be in the church to feel his presence! You can feel it, when you really got it, on your job, you can feel it in your home, you can feel it in your car, you can feel it in good times, John was in a bad situation….but that’s alright you can feel it in the bad and hard times.
John heard a voice that said (verse 11) “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”
John turns to see who it is that is talking to him, and he saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man.
And he saw the Son of man clothed with a garment down to his foot, and girded about his chest with a golden sash.
His head and His hair were white like wool, like snow, his eyes were like a flame of fire, His feet were like burnished bronze, when it has been made to glow in a furnace, and His voice was like the sound of many waters.
And this why you need to throw away that anglo-saxon fake Jesus that you have in your house…..that false idol that really isn’t Jesus but a man that is posing to be Jesus who really isn’t Him and doesn’t look like Him.
Verse 16 says in his right hand he held seven stars……I’m going to repeat that, in his right hand he held seven stars, and out of His mouth came a sharp two-edged sword (which represents the word of God); and His face was like the sun shining in its strength.
JOHN SAID that when He saw Him…he fell at His feet like a dead man. BECAUSE WHEN YOU KNOW WHO JESUS IS, WHEN YOU KNOW THE POWER THAT HE HAS YOU WILL BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP HIM, YOU WILL ABASE YOURSELF AND GIVE HIM GLORY, NOBODY TOLD HIM TO WORSHIP THE LORD, IT WAS AN AUTOMATIC REFLEX!!!
Jesus then placed his hand on him, YOU OUGHT TO LIFT YOUR HANDS A SAY LORD LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME! Because when the Lord laid his hands on Him it was to let John know that everything was going to be alright, it was to let John know “Do not be afraid, I am the first and the last, and the living One;
JESUS SAID I WAS DEAD!!! John should have instantly known who it was. It had been over 67+ years since he had physically seen Jesus before he was caught back up to heaven. He didn’t recognize Jesus, but I believe that when Jesus said “I WAS DEAD, AND BEHOLD I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE.” JOHN INSTANTLY KNEW WHO HE WAS TALKING TO, BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE PERSON THAT HAS EVER DIED, CAME BACK TO LIFE, AND IS STILL LIVING TODAY AND THAT IS JESUS CHRIST, FOR THE POLITICAL CORRECT FOLK YAHUSUHA MASIHIACH.
AND JESUS TOLD JOHN I SAID I HAVE THE KEYS OF HELL AND DEATH. THE WORD HELL IS TRANSLATED HADES WHICH IS THE GRAVE, THE BIBLE DECLARES THAT IS THE PLACE OF DEPARTED SOULS. HE ISN’T TALKING ABOUT GEHENNA BECAUSE THAT IS TRANSLATED HELL TOO, BUT GEHENNA IS TALKING ABOUT THE LAKE OF FIRE, A PLACE OF TORMENT.
JESUS SAID I HAVE THE KEYS TO DEATH AND THE GRAVE. BECAUSE WHEN JESUS DIED AND WHEN HE ROSE AGAIN FROM THE GRAVE….HERE IS YOUR RESURRECTION MESSAGE HE DECLARED:
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Let me correct you on something that even I have preached before. Satan never had the keys to death and the grave. You know why? Because when he tried to kill Job, God didn’t allow him to do it. If you reason in your mind, if Satan had the keys in the first place, he could have killed Job because he had the power and the authority to do so.
This is part of growing and continuing to learn, saints of God I’m still learning. God told Satan you can afflict his body but spare his life. So NO, according to scripture, there is no such scripture that declares that Satan had the keys…..God had the keys all along.
But watch this.
God had the keys, even since the Old Testament because to come back from the dead you got to be released and only God has those keys. You think Satan would let some of the old saints go after they died? NO….No….No…No. But the Shunamite woman’s son died, and Elisha prayed to God and God unlocked the door of death to allow him to come back to life.
Jesus stopped a funeral procession in Nain of a man that died and touched his casket and the man came back to life…..they keys was used.
Lazarus was dead for 4 days, Jesus came and said 3 words “Lazarus Come Forth” and the keys were used because Lazarus came forth.
I’m closing with this right here.
HERE IT IS JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED DIED ON THE CROSS WAS BURIED IN A GRAVE FOR 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS……WHO WAS GOING TO USE THE KEYS FOR HIM? THE LORD…..TOSSED JESUS THE KEYS…..AND SAID HERE…..SON…..YOU GOING TO NEED THESE.
GOD USED THE KEYS ON OTHER PEOPLE, JESUS USED THE KEYS IN HIS EARTHLY MINISTRY, BUT NOW JESUS WAS GOING TO USE THE KEYS HIMSELF BECAUSE IN ORDER TO GET OUT OF THE GRAVE, HE NEEDED TO USE THE KEYS. IN ORDER TO CONQUER DEATH……HE NEEDED TO USE THE KEYS.
AND WHEN JESUS USED THE KEYS……DEATH HAD TO LET GO OF HIM…….WHEN HE USED THE KEYS THE GRAVE HAD TO GIVE HIM UP!!!
I COME TO TELL SOMEBODY THIS MORNING THAT JESUS GOT THE KEYS, AND SOON HE’S GOING TO USE THOSE KEYS TO UNLOCK DEATH AND UNLOCK THE GRAVE AND THOSE WHO ARE SLEEPING IN JESUS THEY COMING UP OUT OF THE GRAVE WHY? BECAUSE JESUS DEFEAT DEATH, HE DEFEATED THE GRAVE, AND IF WE ARE HIS CHILDREN…..WE HAVE VICTORY TOO AND IF I SHOULD DIE IT’S OKAY ONE DAY JESUS IS GOING TO USE HIS KEYS…..AND HIS GOING TO LOOSE US, HE’S GOING TO LOSE YOU, HE’S GOING TO LOSE YOUR SAVED LOVE ONES, AND THE GRAVE WON’T BE ABLE TO HOLD YOU DOWN!!!!
TELL YOUR NEIGHBOR JESUS GOT THE KEYS…..COME ON AND GIVE GOD GLORY!!! SHOUT…..BECAUSE THE LORD HAS THE KEYS, SHOUT, BECAUSE HE OVER CAME DEATH AND THE GRAVE!!!
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.