O DRAGÃO E A BESTA REVELAÇÃO: WHO IS JESUS CHRIST?

WHO IS JESUS CHRIST?

Jesus Christ is our savior. Atos 4:12; Romanos 8:38,39.

And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation. Atos 4:12.

For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers, Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romanos 8:38,39.

The apostle Paul was a religious man. But to receive the grace of salvation from Jesus Christ he had to abandon his religion.

So we conclude this: What religion does not save anyone. Who saves is Jesus Christ.

But to know Jesus Christ and receive from his salvation it is necessary to know the testimony of Jesus Christ, lived. And once we know the testimony of Jesus Christ, we need to live according to his model of life. Mark Marcos 8:34-38.

And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.
Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it. What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? And what would a man give in exchange for his life? Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. Marcos 8:34-38.

And the model of life of Jesus Christ is announced to us in the Holy Scriptures.

But the sacred scriptures only serve our salvation by the faith in Christ Jesus. 2 Timóteo 3:14-17. As the apostle Paul guides us. Look:

But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher; And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work. 2 Timóteo 3:14-17.

Therefore, all Holy Scripture is fundamental, as long as it is read and understood, by faith in Christ Jesus. 2 Timóteo 3:15.

And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 2 Timóteo 3:15.

Therefore, the scriptures without the faith that is in Christ Jesus, does not save us, on the contrary, it leads us to the second death, or hell.

This is what the apostle Paul discovered the day he fell from his horse, and he renounced all the knowledge of the scriptures that he had, in favor of the faith that is in Christ Jesus. Acts Atos 26:13-18.

In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me. And when we had all gone down on the earth, a voice came to me, saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? It is hard for you to go against the impulse which is driving you. And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking. But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me; And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me. Atos 26:13-18.

You see, the apostle was a faithful follower of the Holy Scriptures, however, Jesus Christ appears to him and says that he needed to come out of the power of darkness, into light. From the power of Satan to God. Acts Atos 26:18.

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me. Atos 26:18.

Therefore, see that the Holy Scriptures, without the faith that is in Jesus Christ, do not save us. On the contrary, it keeps us in the darkness and power of Satan; As was the case with the apostle Paul, before he acquired his faith in Jesus Christ. Galatians Gálatas 1:11-14. As the blessed apostle declares:

Because I say to you, my brothers, that the good news of which I was the preacher is not man's. For I did not get it from man, and I was not given teaching in it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ. For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it: And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers. Gálatas 1:11-14.

Thus, as soon as the Apostle Paul acquires his faith in Jesus Christ, he abandons the knowledge and practices he received from the Holy Scriptures of Judaism, to live the faith that is in Jesus Christ. Philippians Filipenses 3:2-9. As the apostle Paul explains:

Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision: For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh: Even though I myself might have faith in the flesh: if any other man has reason to have faith in the flesh, I have more: Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee: In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail. But those things which were profit to me, I gave up for Christ. Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward, And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: Filipenses 3:2-9.

Therefore, it is by faith in Jesus Christ, that using the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments we will answer the question: Who is Jesus Christ?

As we said at the beginning, Jesus Christ is our Savior. But Jesus Christ Saves us from whom? Jesus Christ saves us from the hand of the great dragon.

So when the great dragon took a third of the angels out of heaven; Two-thirds stayed in the heavenly house.

Thus, if one-third of the angels in heaven are with the dragon in darkness; therefore two-thirds remained with God the Father in light 1 John 1 João 1:5; Tiago 1:17 in the heavenly house. Revelation Apocalipse 12:3,4.

This is the word which came to us from him (Jesus Christ) and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.1 João 1:5.

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. Tiago 1:17.

And there was seen another sign in heaven; a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. And his tail was pulling a third part of the stars of heaven down to the earth Apocalipse 12:3,4. Stars are the angels Apocalipse 1:20.

This heavenly father, who stayed in heaven with two-thirds of the heavenly angels, was the one who sent Jesus Christ to save us from the great dragon; which is also called: Satan, primitive serpent, Devil deceiver of the whole world. Apocalipse 12:9.

And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him. Apocalipse 12:9.

Therefore, human beings are part of the angels that were bound to earth with the great dragon.

Therefore, the mission of Jesus Christ is to save us from the great dragon, through a process called redemption.

Redemption, therefore, is the ransom of mankind by Jesus Christ. Romanos 8:19-23.

For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God. For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory. For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now. And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies. Romanos 8:19-23.

In this way, to be redeemed by Jesus Christ, we need to accept, through faith, the witness of the love of God the Heavenly Father, which Jesus passed on to us with his life. Mark Marcos 8:34-38.

For, as by faith, we have departed from the house of our Heavenly Father, and have come into darkness with the dragon; So, by faith in the testimony of Heavenly Father's love, as Jesus Christ, we must return. 1 Corinthians 1 Coríntios 15:45-58.

And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit. But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit. The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven. Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven. And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven. Now I say this, my brothers, that it is not possible for flesh and blood to have a part in the kingdom of God; and death may not have a part in life. See, I am giving you the revelation of a secret: we will not all come to the sleep of death, but we will all be changed. In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed. For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life. But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life. O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains? The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ. For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord. 1 Coríntios 15:45-58.

Therefore, the first human being to have in him the seed of our redemption was Adam.

From Adam, the seed of our salvation, was present in the patriarchs, until it reached Noah.

Noah, as we know, through the Holy Scriptures was kept alive, along with his wife, sons and daughters-in-law, when the flood with water. Gênesis 6:6-8. As it is written:

And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart. And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them. But Noah had grace in the eyes of God. Gênesis 6:6-8.

However, the reason Noah found grace and survived was not because Noah was a better human being than those of his generation, but because in Noah was the seed of our salvation. And mankind could not be destroyed, until they received the knowledge of the testimony of the love of God the Heavenly Father; who offers us redemption, provided that we renounce the dragon and return to the heavenly house, following the exemplary testimony of Jesus Christ. Matthew Mateus 24:7-14. As the scriptures say:

For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places; But all these things are the first of the troubles. Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name. And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another. And a number of false prophets will come, causing error. And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold. But he who goes through to the end will get salvation. And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come. Mateus 24:7-14.

And so it was that from Noah, there was always a patriarch bearing the seed of our salvation. And, one of those patriarchs was Abram.

With Abram, the great Dragon made an alliance. As reported in Gênesis 15:1-21. Look:

After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward. And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me. And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage. Then said the Lord, This man will not get the heritage, but a son of your body will have your property after you. And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be. And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness. And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine? And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon. All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two. And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away. Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear. And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years; But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth. As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place. And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full. Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies. In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite. Gênesis 15:1-21.

As we see from Gênesis 15:1-21 in this covenant, the great dragon promised to hand over to the descendants of Abram the lands of various peoples in that region.

And four hundred years was the time prophesied by the Godhead, that he appeared in darkness to Abram, that the promise of Gênesis 15:1-21might be fulfilled.

So after Abram, who came to be called Abraham, Gênesis 17:5; for being the father of many nations. As seen:

No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations. Gênesis 17:5.

However, even though Abraham was the father of many nations, the deity who appeared in the darkness to Abraham chose only the Israelites as a holy nation, since they were the bearers of the seed of our salvation, Jesus Christ.

So from Abraham the seed passed to Isaac; and from Isaac to Jacob.

This Jacob had his name changed to Israel. Gênesis 32:28,. As seen:

And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome. Gênesis 32:28.

And it will, therefore, be from the people of Israel that our Savior and Redeemer will be born.

In the days of Abram the deity said:

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years; But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth. Gênesis 15:13,14.

Therefore, when the four hundred years prophesied in Gênesis 15:13,14 were completed, the divinity appeared to a descendant of Abraham, named Moses, in order to fulfill what was prophesied in Gênesis 15:1-21.

Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up. And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why the tree is not burned up, And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Do not come near: take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God. And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows; And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them. Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. And Moses said to God, Who am I to go to Pharaoh and take the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Truly I will be with you; and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you have taken the children of Israel out of Egypt, you will give worship to God on this mountain. And Moses said to God, When I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you: and they say to me, What is his name? what am I to say to them? And God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you. And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations. Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt; And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey. And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God. And I am certain that the king of Egypt will not let you go without being forced. But I will put out my hand and overcome Egypt with all the wonders which I will do among them: and after that he will let you go. And I will give this people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go out you will go out with your hands full. For every woman will get from her neighbour and from the woman living in her house, ornaments of silver and gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and your daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the Egyptians. Êxodo 3:1-22.

Therefore, it fell to this Moses, an Israelite descendant of Abram, to fulfill the covenant made with Abraham. For this, the deity recorded on two tables of stone, how the covenant made with Abraham would be fulfilled. Êxodo 34:1-27.

And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you. And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain. No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot. So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand. And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord. And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation. Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship. And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage. And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared. Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you. But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down: For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another. So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts, Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them. Make for yourselves no gods of metal. Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt. Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep. A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering. Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest. And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields. Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel. For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year. No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning. Take the first-fruits of your land as an offering to the house of the Lord your God. Let not the young goat be cooked in its mother's Milk And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you. Êxodo 34:1-27.

Exodus Êxodo 34:1-27, requires a supplement that was deliberately removed from the text and set aside. This complement is found in Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 20:10-17:

When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace. And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants. If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides: And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy. But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food. So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations. But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death: Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders: Deuteronômio 20:10-17.

We know that these were the true words written by Divinity, in the stone tablets of Moses, because it was these determinations that Joshua, the most faithful of human beings the divinity, fulfilled at the time. Joshua Josué 1:1-3; Joshua Josué 10:40; Joshua Josué 12:7-24.

Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying, Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel. Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses. Josué 1:1-3.

So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders. Josué 10:40.

And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel overcame on the west side of Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave the land to the tribes of Israel for a heritage, in keeping with their divisions; In the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and on the mountain slopes, and in the waste land, and in the South; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Beth-el, one; The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one; The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one; The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; The king of Dor on the hill of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one; The king of Tirzah, one; all the kings together were thirty-one. Josué 12:7-24.

From this the following becomes clear: First, that there were not ten commandments recorded on Moses' stone tablets for mankind, as appears in Exodus Êxodo 20:1-17;Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 5:1-21, where it says: Thou shalt not kill. On the contrary, there were only stipulations exclusively for the Israelites; and the main determination recorded was for the Israelites to exterminate all the peoples of the promised land: Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 20:16,17. As can be seen from the following determination:

But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death: Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders: Deuteronômio 20:16,17.

The other distant peoples were to be enslaved, and, in case of resistance, they would be exterminated. Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 20:10-16. As stated in the following text:

And yet, it is also clear that the promised land was wherever the Israelites, in the person of Joshua, set foot. Joshua Josué 1:3.

Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses. Josué 1:3.

Therefore, we are indebted to the Israelis, who with the death of Joshua, did not carry out what was determined in the registered covenant, in the tables of stone of Moses. Otherwise, most human beings would all have been either enslaved or exterminated. Judges Juízes 2:7-12.

And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel. And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old. And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash. And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel. And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals; And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath. Juízes 2:7-12.

And the divinity, since the Israelite people, a people considered holy, because from them the savior of humanity would be born; Seeing that the Israelites refused to continue the course of Joshua, regarding what was determined in Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 20:10-17, he proceeded to punish them, with all the curses foreseen in: Leviticus Levítico 26:15-39; Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 28:15-68. Among these curses, the Israelites had to eat the flesh of their own sons and daughters.

Therefore, the reason why the Israelites suffer persecution until today, was also one of the reasons why Jesus Christ was crucified, namely: The Israelites refused to exterminate all the peoples of the promised land Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 20:16,17. As well as, they refused to enslave and, in case of resistance, to exterminate, all peoples other than pure ethnic Israelis. Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 20:10-16.

Even if religion does not divulge it to humanity, however, what is recorded here was exhaustively declared and proven by Ezra. Ezra Esdras 9:1-7. Look:

Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil. And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled. Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering. And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God, I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven. From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day. Esdras 9:1-7.

Therefore, Jesus Christ came to rescue us from the power of the great dragon, and to bring us back to the house of God the Heavenly Father.

Then the great dragon said to Moses and the Israelite people: Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 32:39.

See now, I myself am he; there is no other god but me: giver of death and life, wounding and making well: and no one has power to make you free from my hand. Deuteronômio 32:39.

From the statement in Deuteronomy Deuteronômio 32:39, the great dragon makes it clear, that he is the only emperor of death. And the emperor of death, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, by the ministry of the apostle Paul declared him to be the devil. Hebrews 2:14.

And because the children are flesh and blood, He (Jesus Christ) took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One; Hebreus 2:14.

And the devil, the apocalypse declares that he is the great dragon: Revelation Apocalipse 12:9.

Therefore, the great dragon, Revelation Apocalipse 12:9, is the deity that appeared to all the patriarchs, who brought with them the seed of Jesus Christ.

And the great dragon is the creator of the flesh that is useless, according to Jesus Christ. John João 6:63.

The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life. João 6:63.

For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do. But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law. And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires. If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided. Gálatas 5:17-25.

Therefore, God Heavenly Father created us in spirit and truth, but the dragon condemned us to carnality. John João 1:1-5; 1 John 1 João 4:4-21; Romans Romanos 5:5-18.

From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God. This Word was from the first in relation with God. All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was. What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark. João 1:1-5.

You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them. We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error. My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God. He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love. And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins. My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another. No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us: And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us. And we have seen and give witness that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God. And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him. In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love. We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us. If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen? And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother. 1 João 4:4-21.

And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us. For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers. Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life. But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us. Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him. For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life; And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God. For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil: Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken. But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come. But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men. And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number. For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ. So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men. Romanos 5:5-18.

And if you are not of Jesus Christ, it is because religion is holding you prisoner to the great dragon, which says: Isaiah Isaías 45:5-9.

I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me: So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other. I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things. Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about. Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped? Isaías 45:5-9.

Reading Isaiah Isaías 45:5-9 remember what the Holy Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ told us: Hebrews Hebreus 2:14,15.

For thus says the devil, the great dragon, who is also called Satan and deceives the whole world Revelation Apocalipse 12:9:

The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands? I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places. Isaías 45:11,12.

I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure. And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use. Jeremias 27:5,6.

And how he delivered up the Israelites to the murderer Nebuchadnezzar Jeremiah Jeremias 27:5,6; the great dragon wanted to hand over the glory of this world to Jesus Christ. Lucas 4:5-8. But Jesus Christ disowned him. Luke Lucas 4:5-8; Matthew Mateus 4:8-10.

And he took him up and let him see all the kingdoms of the earth in a minute of time. And the Evil One said, I will give you authority over all these, and the glory of them, for it has been given to me, and I give it to anyone at my pleasure. If then you will give worship to me, it will all be yours. And Jesus in answer said to him, It has been said in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God, and be his servant only. Lucas 4:5-8.

So who is Jesus Christ?

Jesus Christ is the image of Heavenly Father, who takes us out of the power of darkness, that is, from the power of the great dragon, and transports us into the kingdom of Heavenly Father's love, through redemption. Colossians Colossenses 1:12-20.

Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light; Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love; In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things; For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him; He is before all things, and in him all things have being. And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place. For God in full measure was pleased to be in him; Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven. Colossenses 1:12-20.

Regrettably the religion, for whom Jesus declared: John João 8:43-45.

Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching. You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false. But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me. João 8:43-45.

Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them. 2 Coríntios 4:4.

Religion is blind and deaf, seen the beautiful words of the great dragon, who deceives everyone.

But though he had done such a number of signs before them, they still had no belief in him: So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled? For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again, He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well. (Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.) João 12:37-41.

Who blinded the eyes of the Israelites and for them religion in general?

Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree. Mateus 12:33.

But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One. Mateus 5:37.

To blind, to confuse, to prevent the salvation of human beings, what kind of fruit is it? Sure! Evil fruit. Therefore, Isaiah saw the glory of the great dragon and spoke of him.

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well. Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste, And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land. Isaías 6:10-12.

That is why Jesus declares: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. John João 8:32.

And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free. João 8:32.

Jesus is the truth that frees us from the great dragon, the god of religion.

Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me. João 14:6.

Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;
Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it. Colossenses 2:14,15.

All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them. I am the door: if any man goes in through me he will have salvation, and will go in and go out, and will get food. The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure. I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep. João 10:8-11.

Who came before Jesus Christ? John João 10:8-11. The one who came before Jesus Christ and presented himself to all the patriarchs who carried the seed of Jesus Christ was the great dragon. And if you read the Holy Scriptures, with eyes open by faith in Jesus Christ, you will see that from the Genesis of Adam, until the apocalypse; all the dragon did was steal, kill and destroy. Therefore, while the apostle Paul did not convert to Jesus Christ, even though he was one of the greatest religious of his time, nevertheless, his function, as a follower of the Holy Scriptures of the Old Testament, according to the determinations of the great dragon, was: to kill and destroy.

For news has come to you of my way of life in the past in the Jews' religion, how I was cruel without measure to the church of God, and did great damage to it: And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers. Gálatas 1:13,14.

From this it follows: That if religion does not depart from the great dragon and cling to the love of God the Heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, lived and witnessed, all humanity will self-destruct, as the dragon declares in Isaiah: Isaiah Isaías 6:10-12; Zephaniah Sofonias 1:1-3; Amos Amós 5:18,19; Zephaniah Sofonias 3:8.

The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. I will take away everything from the face of the earth, says the Lord. I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord. Sofonias 1:1-3.

Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light. As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake. Amós 5:18,19.

For this reason, go on waiting for me, says the Lord, till the day when I come up as a witness: for my purpose is to send for the nations and to get the kingdoms together, so that I may let loose on them my passion, even all my burning wrath: for all the earth will be burned up in the fire of my bitter passion. Sofonias 3:8.

Therefore, from now on, know: If you do not accept and live the witness of the love of God the Father, according to the life of Jesus Christ; it's because you don't have your name written in the Lamb's book of Life. If so, you are still under the dragon's power, in these terms: John João 3:36; Revelation Apocalipse 13:4-10.

He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him. João 3:36.

And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshipping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to war with him? And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months. And his mouth was open to say evil against God, and against his name and his Tent, even against those who are in heaven. And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation. And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death. If any man has ears, let him give ear. If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints. Apocalipse 13:4-10.

So what is needed for us to be saved with Jesus Christ from the power of the great dragon and return to our Heavenly Father? Acts Atos 16:31.

And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation. Atos 16:31.

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death. Apocalipse 12:11.

And they (true Christians) overcame him (overcame the great dragon) by the blood of the Lamb (by the blood of Jesus Christ) and by the word of their testimony; and they did not love their lives to the death. (And they preferred to die rather than kill their fellow men) Revelation Apocalipse 12:11.

You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned. And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him. And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you: But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you; So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven Mateus 5:38-45.

And if you want to know everything that the Holy Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ has revealed to us, and what our redemption will be like, read the revelations:

THE REVENGE OF THE LIVING GOD - PART ONE.

https://martins211.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-revenge-of-living-god-part-one.html

https://livrodoespiritosanto.webnode.com.br/chapter-7/

https://martins211.blogspot.com/2021/09/an-horrible-thing-is-falling-into-hands.html

https://avisosdoceu.webnode.com.br/

THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE REVELATIONS THE VENGEANCE OF THE LIVING GOD. THEY ARE TRUTH HOLY SPIRIT REVELATIONS.

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