AN ADMONITION FROM JUDE......PASTOR STEPHEN BENTON

AN ADMONITION FROM JUDE

The book of Jude consists of one chapter and addresses the issue of “earnestly contending for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.”  Below is the entire passage:
“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for faith that was once delivered unto the saints.”  Jude verse 3

The following verse gives the reason for his exhortation:

“For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God unto lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ,”  Jude verse 4

In this article, I wish to focus on the expression “the faith that was once delivered”.  I believe Jude had a specific aspect of the message of faith when he penned those words.  I believe the writing of the apostle Paul targets the heart of the issue in his letter to the Corinthians in the fifteenth chapter of his first epistle.

“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  I Cor. 15:1 & 2.

The next two verses, three and four, pinpoint the faith that was once delivered to the saints. 
“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures:
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”  I Cor. 15: 3 & 4.

The faith once delivered to the saints focuses on the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Evidently, this doctrine was under attack when Jude wrote about it.  That same truth is in greater jeopardy today than it was at the time of Jude’s writing.  Let us examine this basic, foundation aspect of the “once delivered faith.” 

The apostle is careful to point out that the death of Jesus was not a happenstance event but an event determined according to the scriptures.  Paul calls Jesus our Passover, meaning that He himself fulfilled the type of the Passover lamb set forth in the writings of Moses.  The prophet John called Jesus “the lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.”  When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, according to the scriptures, he was not born in just any manger.  When the shepherds received the news of his birth from the angel, they did not wander about the city of David aimlessly looking for the baby Jesus, they knew exactly where to go.  Their destination was the breeding farm where Passover lambs are bred.  Where else would the Lamb of God make his entry into the world?


The sign of the newborn Messiah was a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.  It would not be a difficult stretch to assume that the Christ’s birth occurred sometime near the first day of the New Year or the Feast of Trumpets.  More so, the year of His birth, 2 B.C, was a Jubile Year.  The Feast of Trumpets was the beginning of a ten-day celebration culminating with the Day of Atonement.  That fact would explain why there were no rooms available in Bethlehem.  The Feast of Trumpets was heralded with the blowing of a ram’s horn.  That horn produced a sad, mournful sound meant to remind the nation of its sins, which would motivate them to repent.  The prophets identified Jesus as “a man of sorrows acquainted with grief.”  One thing is certain, Jesus was not born on December 25th or anytime near that date.  At best, he was born no later than October 15, the latest date that shepherds would be in the field during the night because the climate would be too cold.  Jesus’ birth date is not the focal point of the scriptures.  The “swaddling” clothes marked the true purpose of his birth: he was born to die.  His clothing was a burial wrapping. 

Regarding Jesus’ death and resurrection, Jesus said he would be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.  Using the sign of Jonah, Jesus verified both the book of Jonah and the fact that Jonah died and was in a tomb, the belly of the fish, for three days and three nights.  With those facts, how is it that Christianity continues to celebrate the death of Christ on Friday and celebrate his resurrection on Easter Sunday?  That period falls woefully short of Jesus’ stated three days and three nights, the truth Jude was warning the Church to defend. 

The Word of God says, “let God be true and every man a liar.”  Jesus said we make void the word of God by adhering to our traditions.  Is it a big deal if we do not stand on the statement of Jesus and accept the lie?  Of course it is.  There are those who believe that just knowing Jesus died for our sins and rose again is sufficient.  But undocumented faith is no faith at all!  If the disciples of Christ can be hoodwinked on the most basic truth, how many more lies will the deceiver, Satan, cause the Church to believe? 

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PROPHETS DO NOT PREDICT... by Pastor Stephen Benton

PROPHETS DO NOT PREDICT, THEY PROCLAIM THE LORD'S PROMISES

Prophets prophesy.  Making predictions are not in the prophet’s repertoire.  The fact that they do not predict has nothing to do with the prophet’s ability to refrain from doing so.  God has programmed them to speak only the words given to him from God and the idea of making any kind of prediction regarding any of God’s affairs among men cannot even be entertained by the prophet of God.

 Making predictions is, at best, a risky affair.

God’s prophet cannot coexist with any religious denomination or organization.  All organized religion essentially structures its program based on their present knowledge of the scriptures.  The Pentecostals certainly did so.  At their birth in California around the turn of the 20th century, they discovered a line of truth in the book of Acts showing water baptism in Jesus’ name and speaking in other tongues as the sign of having received the gift of the Holy Ghost.  The base text for their doctrine is Acts 2:38.  By following that formula, souls officially become members of the Church.  Their knowledge no doubt came about as a revelation from the Holy Ghost.  Such is a worthy beginning.  The only problem is that they closed their ears from hearing any additional revelation from the same Spirit.  They did not realize that the word of God is a progressive message.  The very structure of God’s word does not stop at level one.  You can be sure that at some point in time, God will either exceed the current perception of man or contradict it altogether and He will do so through the mouth of one of His prophets.  The prophet associated with any religious organization will eventually contradict their organized structure because of a later revelation and he will be silenced or evicted.  The test of a true prophet lies in his commitment to speak the message given to him from God and suffer isolation or hold back the message and continue with the denomination.  The true prophet will speak God’s words as given and let the chips fall where they may.  There are no adherent risks associated with predictions.

 Satan’s communication system has always included prognosticators, fortunetellers, soothsayers, wizards and diviners.  At best, the dark side presents a broad way in issues concerning the future; their only limitation is their inability to prophesy.  The reason for such limitation is their leader, Satan.  He abode not in the truth and there is no truth in him.  His messengers reflect the shortcomings of their leader. 

A prediction is a glorified guess.  Any guess by man regarding God’s future agenda has a 100% chance of failure.  There are countless preachers declaring the Lord is coming soon, there are very few prophets declaring how soon or when.  That is a message given only by God and He is giving it to a Church who will not hear His voice.  The prophets prophesying His message are making no predictions.  Their only handicap is telling the Church ‘when’ things will happen while the Church responds with “no man knoweth.”

 The prophet of God does not estimate the time for the coming of the Lord Jesus, he knows because his information is from a very reliable source.  His source, God, claims the ability to declare the end of an event or series of events even before they begin.  By the way, his prophetic record of accomplishment is flawless.  Adding greater to great, He cannot lie.  His word is accurate and precise and the prophet declaring His message has no use of expressions such as 'I believe,' 'feel' or 'think.'  Prophets of God do not predict, they prophesy.  Their message comes from the highest source of truth; therefore, believing their message is not an option.

 The greatest of prophets, Jesus, that prophet spoken of by another prophet, Moses, in Deuteronomy 18:5, referred to Jesus as “that Prophet.”  The only time the title “prophet” is capitalized is when the title refers to Jesus.  When he spoke, the greatest injustice his audience could do to itself was not to believe him.  Jesus came with a double impact: a message and miracles.  His confidence allowed him to offer salvation to people who did not believe his message of admittance into the kingdom of heaven by merely believing his works. 

 He never made a single prediction:

Jesus made promises. His final promise to his body, his church is that he will return to receive them to himself in the air before the wrath of God is poured out on this world. He promised to raise those who have died in Christ first and change their corruptible bodies to incorruptible; and ten days later, he will change those who are alive and remain faithful to his word from mortal to immortality." (1 Corinthians 15: 51 -54)
As the fulfillment of the Old Testament Law, Jesus, himself, will appear in the air as he did on the day of his ascension into heaven. He will raise the dead on the "last day" of the month of Elul on the Jewish calendar which will be on the same day that he died, a Wednesday, and ten days later, on the Sabbath (Saturday) on Yom Kippur, to finally fulfill the Day of Atonement, he will rapture or "catch away" those who remain of his Church to meet him and his resurrected saints in the air.  The next year that those two significant Jewish events fall on those two significant days is 2017.

 Written by,

A prophet named Benton

(ADDENDUM:  The prophesied event did not happen on that day did it?  Why not? For the same reason the Children of Israel did not go into Canaan: Unbelief! The exact same reason the Kingdom did not come when the King went riding into Jerusalem on "palm Sunday" Unbelief!! This Church is now in the position to be vomited out of God's mouth as promised by Jesus in Revelation 3: 16)

To read more current revelations from Pastor Steve, check out his book published September of 2017 on Amazon.com.  It gives crucial revelations about the rapture, strong delusion and the Lie.

 https://smile.amazon.com/Gods-Final-Secret-Stephen-Benton/dp/1976338476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509271792&sr=1-1&keywords=god%27s+final+secret+by+stephen+benton

HOW TO FORGIVE and FORGET

I just have one short addendum to the messages that we have been getting on forgiving (and forgetting.)  I was reminded (again) by a member, of a message that we received about a year ago about the Lord sending the scapegoat away with the burden of sins on him to a place where he could never again be seen.  God, Himself has to send our transgressions to a “sea of forgetfulness” so that He will never again remember them or hold us accountable for them.  In that same way, when we are willing to let go, we can ask God to take away that memory from us and that is how we are able to forget. 

It is almost impossible to do it on your own. But, as pastor is always telling us, we must first have a willing mind.  You may find that you can’t forget and then blame God because you are still miserable.  If that is the case, then you have not yet bent your will to let the situation go and God cannot take that memory as long as you are unwilling, not unable, to send it away, like the scapegoat. That applies to wrongs that we won’t forgive as well as our sin that we want to keep.

“For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”

Judged of what?  Of not loving Him with a love comparable to His forgiveness.

 

 

submitted by  Shelley Benton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTERVIEW WITH GOD

…   Interview with God

 I dreamed I had an interview with God.  God asked,

 “So you would like to interview me?”   “If you have the time,” I said.

God smiled.   “My time is eternity…what questions do you have in mind for me?

 

 “What surprises you most about humankind?”

God answered… “That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money…and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present,   such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

 “That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mine, and we were silent for a while.

And then I asked,  “As a parent, what are some of life’s

lessons you want your children to learn?”

  “To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved.” 

 “To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”

 “To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.”

 

 “To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.”

 “To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most,

but is one who needs the least.”   “To learn that there are people who love them dearly,  but simply do not yet know how to express or show their feelings.”

 

“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”    “To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

 

 “Thank you for your time,” I said humbly,  “is there anything else you’d like your children to know?”

God smiled and said… “Just know that I am here.”  “Always.”

 

Submitted by Rose White

GOOD ADVICE! by Pastor Stephen Benton

“Good Advice”   Pastor Stephen Benton                 

            The scriptures report that Solomon spoke over 3,000 proverbs.  Every so often I like reading the book of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon, just for the rich nuggets on the issues of life, itself.  With all of Solomon’s wisdom, he himself says that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”  That puts things in their proper perspective.  My mother used to entertain us sometimes by singing a song called, Good Advice.  It was usually followed by a song called, Route 66, usually followed by another song having something to do with Marconi being a phony.”  (I don’t know where all that came from.)  Although I don’t recall all the words of the song called Good Advice, I do remember the overall message of the song as it gave its views on good and bad advice.

            Because the bible contains so much information on wisdom and knowledge; doing and not doing, you might ask yourself what issue actually leads the list of wisdom and knowledge, right and wrong.  That’s easy!  In the Book of Psalms, which is written in an ascending order from 1 to 150. Naturally then, Psalms #1 is first on the list of things to know and do, or not do, what ever the case may be. 

The first verse says, “blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.”  That’s good advice, no that’s great advice. There is nothing at all that the ungodly can offer that will equal or exceed the word of God.  One of Satan’s chief deceptions is “slipping” advice to the children of God.  We are further aided in good advice with the words of Jesus in John 8:31 “ If ye continue in God’s word, then are you my disciples, indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”  In the last few messages when the Holy Ghost referred to that verse that the expression, “about everything.”  That means that whatever we face in our daily life, the truth spoken by the Holy Spirit exceeds anything the world can offer.  I received some information from a wordly, so-called saint and was excited to get it.  Three months later, after the expenditure of much work, time and money, I had to scrap every piece of that “good advice.”  

            The scriptures say, “in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.”  Sometimes because of the repetition of certain acts, we think we automatically know the best way to go about performing. I urge you today, not to lean to your own understanding, nor walk in the counsel or the advice of the ungodly.  Seek the Lord first!

To read more current revelations from Pastor Steve, check out his book published September of 2017 on Amazon.com.  It gives crucial revelations about the rapture, strong delusion and the Lie.

 https://smile.amazon.com/Gods-Final-Secret-Stephen-Benton/dp/1976338476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509271792&sr=1-1&keywords=god%27s+final+secret+by+stephen+benton

STRINGING THE MESSAGES TOGETHER

STRINGING ALL THE MESSAGES TOGETHER...'from THE HOUSE OF GOOD NEWS DAILY WORD..

 

In the message God gave us on wed April 6, 2011, God stated His desire for us:

That is fruit.

Luke 8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear. Matt.13:12. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. The word hath is interpreted in Matt. 13:9 who hath ears to hear let him hear.  God said His word is most effective in our ears if we hear it first. Our prophet’s job is to make sure we understand the Word.  If we hear Gods word and understand we will bear fruit. We will do what God has called us to in spite of ourselves.  What is fruit?

March 27^th of this year God took us to Luke 6:27 "But I say unto you which hear, love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. 28: Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you " etc. God also took us through the beginning of Ephesians with chapter 4 showing Gods direct commandment towards us.
Verse 23 says, "and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."  Ephesians 5:1 "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. But fornication and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints." Verse 5, "for this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

The natural response to the quoted scriptures above for a non hearer or selective hearer is: this is a hard saying who can hear it or who can do it? Those who have His Spirit will perform His will. Jesus said: "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest."  It’s

impossible to hear God’s word, know it came from God and not recognize that we being men, fall short. We were given a message a while back where the Lord said to present ourselves.  We, through the death of Jesus Christ have been given the right to come to Him boldly.  God said just present yourself to me and I will make you holy.  Every time God’s Word goes forth and we hear it, is the opportunity to let His word find us.  When it hits us say, it’s me oh Lord and allow Him to do what He will to change us.

"Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."  When we allow His word to find and change us we’ve just expressed the easiest form of faith there is.  Faith is meant for things regarding God, particularly His Word. God’s grace is given for the sole purpose of learning how to allow God’s word to have its complete work over us. 

Unfortunately, Satan has deceived most of us into believing God’s grace was given to excuse what we as sinners “can’t help,” hence the response to our sin is “God knows my heart,” “I’m only human,” or “He made me this way” this comes from a doctrine currently being preached and it is not okay with God.

God will not tell us to do something that He has not already given us the power to do. An example God gave was when He called Moses in the Mount to deliver Israel from bondage in Egypt. Moses' complaint or excuse to God was that he was slow of speech.  God knew this already when he called Moses yet He sent Aaron anyway because of Moses’ lack of faith or unbelief.  All scripture is written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the age have come. We then should look at God’s call to Moses as an example of our walk with the Lord. When we are first encountered by God there is a response that we cannot do what He has called us to.  When God sent Aaron to meet Moses in the mount Aaron became a help or a crutch for Moses to feel better or gain confidence in the job of speaking to Israel about their delivery on behalf of God.  Through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ we have been given the Holy Ghost as a ‘help’ to lead and encourage growth in us that we may eventually get an understanding of how to hear God’s word and walk according to it. Moses grew from being dependent upon Aaron to make up for his shortcomings with God, to speaking on behalf of God himself during the showdown with Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.  This is one of many examples that Moses went through. But the point is we will all grow to the state of staggering not, as the Lord said regarding Abraham.

We should reach a level of not being concerned with what we can’t do but what God will do with us if we trust only Him to do it.  Faith requires action. The river Jordan at flood stage would not have moved if the priests didn’t put their feet in first. When you trust God you automatically take on the mindset of what He has said or promised as being accomplished and act accordingly.  It’s time we put on the whole armor of God; be concerned with His agenda and do it; and stop making excuses for ourselves and our behavior. Maybe then we can push the odds of how many of us will remain true to our testimony.

"BECAUSE THOU HAST LEFT THY FIRST LOVE..."

“Then he(Jesus)  says, the whole thing is focused on keeping his Word, that’s what makes the relationship.  No word, and you  leave “your first love”  ( Rev 2:4) …of the word,  then the relationship breaks down and you’re set up for “another Jesus.”   “Those who love me, will keep my word and they cannot be deceived!” ..not by “another Jesus, another gospel, or another spirit.” (see Galatians 1:8) 
“But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them…”  John 16:4

“We haven’t seen the worst of it yet, but we’re going to live to see the defection of the so-called Church and it’s going to make you a little nervous.   You’re gonna wonder am I in the truth? Can that many people be wrong?  Can that many people have not heard his voice?  It’s going to be a little frightening. And  he’s telling you in advance so you’ll know what you are working with and whom you are working with and what the environment of the Church is gonna be.  He said, “I’m gonna spit it out!” Why?  They haven’t heard my voice...period!  How about the ones who have?  That’s the great truth here, is that he doesn’t dump the whole thing because of those who are flawed, this time he dumps the flawed and keeps the good.  Those who’s got his good seed, he’s gonna keep you and everything else will go—Good News!  That’s why he said in Habakkuk (2:3), “though it tarry, wait for it, he that shall come will come….”  He’s coming for something, There’s gotta be a Church here when he comes.  “Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it…”  although it’s gonna seem to in the years coming up.  So I tell you these things in advance so you’ll believe.   As the day gets more deteriorated you’ll know you’re in the truth and be confirmed in what you believe. “

Pastor  Stephen Benton 

February 4, 2015 

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“Jesus Tells Us Why  John Ch 16”

To read more current revelations from Pastor Steve, check out his book published September of 2017 on Amazon.com.  It gives crucial revelations about the rapture, strong delusion and the Lie.

 https://smile.amazon.com/Gods-Final-Secret-Stephen-Benton/dp/1976338476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509271792&sr=1-1&keywords=god%27s+final+secret+by+stephen+benton

"Another Jesus, Another Gospel..."

Anybody preaching “another Jesus or another gospel” (Gal.1:9)  He (Paul) lets us know with this statement that the gospel of blessing and prosperity would overshadow the message of Jesus when he said, “let a man deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.”  (Matt.16:24)

 My prayer for the Church this year is for the Church to realize that God’s issues are SPIRITUAL.  He provides houses for you to live in; I believe that God provides automobiles when we need them.   But he refers to these things as simply…”things.”  He says “seek  ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these “things” that we sometimes become preoccupied with and worried about, he said, I’ll just throw them in.“

Pastor Stephen Benton

February 8, 2015  

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“Qualified to Prophesy: The Tares”

GOD'S REST

GOD’S REST

“That Prophet” speaks from heaven to a prophet that speaks to Jesus’ Church.

He is given secrets and revelations to a church that can’t hear because they don’t believe prophets exist today.

So instead of listening to The High Priest/That Prophet speaking through his prophet they continue to be engrossed in the law and the religious experience. (No WORD mind you)

Now law keeping is a job at best

Religion is a duty

But salvation is free

The message from That Prophet in 2014 was REST.

How do we rest?

Rest in His grace and His mercy.

Mix the word with faith.

Don’t complicate Gods rest by looking at the problem

The cares of this world interrupt our rest.

Mix the word with faith

Your works produce no rest

God’s ways and word produce rest.

The Word is designed to take you from rest to rest.

Laboring to rest equals belief in God’s Word

Worry itself is unbelief

God’s ways reflect the ultimate simplicity

God’s solution is not like anything I would have thought of.

God is concerned about present and eternal rest.

Just because you haven’t heard it before doesn’t mean it’s not true

It’s too bad that the church is going to miss so many messages.

If you kill the messenger you can’t hear the message.

But I rest in the fact that God speaks live through HIS Prophet.

January 19, 2015

To read current revelations from Pastor Stephen Benton, check out his book published September of 2017 on Amazon.com

                 https://smile.amazon.com/Gods-Final-Secret-Stephen-Benton/dp/1976338476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509271792&sr=1-1&keywords=god%27s+final+secret+by+stephen+benton