Feast of Tabernacles 2006: Day 3-Part 2

Now let’s continue on here in John the eighth chapter, …the Gospel of John and let’s read again here verses 31 and 32, “…Jesus said, If you continue in My word…” notice that’s conditional, and what I like to try and do in my Bible whenever I can, when I come to an “if”, I circle it, because this means this is a condition for me to understand. God has given us something here conditioned upon what we do. Now you need to think about this in relationship to being a disciple of Christ or a true Christian. And all of those who do not keep the Sabbath or do not keep the holy days, you need to ask the question: why don’t you do it? Because you see, the “if” means that if you are not doing what Jesus said, you’re not His disciple. So He says, “If you continue in My word,” that’s it, and remember as Lord God of the Old Testament that includes that, where Jesus said, “If you love Me keep My commandments”, that includes Old and New Testaments as Jesus gave it to us in the New Testament to do. Now you can read that in the New Testament or in the Harmony, How Did Jesus Fulfill the Law and the Prophets?

Then He says, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. And you shall know the truth,” the Word of God is truth, the commandments are truth, the statues are true, every precept of God is true, and everything that God does is truth from the beginning. God is a God of truth. God cannot lie. His Word is true. All of that all ties together to know the truth, “… and the truth shall set you free.” (John 8: 31-32). And Jesus said that He was the way, the truth and the life, so Jesus is the one Who sets you free, gives you the truth.

Now verse 33, now notice how they answered. They were looking to their physical descent. They were claiming the righteousness of Abraham. Now notice. “They answered Him, We are Abraham’s seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone.” Yet at that very time, they were slaves to Rome, weren’t they? Yes, indeed. Very few people realize it, but at the temple area, and if you’ve ever seen a picture of the temple, there are the colonnades that come down with a pavement at the top of the colonnades which come from the north from Fort Antonia. And Fort Antonia is where the Mosque of Omar is. And what is called the Wailing Wall is part of the foundation of Fort Antonia – Roman property was never part to the temple area. Well anyway, the colonnades come down and guess what, on top of those colonnades and the pavement, there always stood Roman troops on guard against rioting. And they said, “…We’ve never been enslaved to anyone…” and where was He? He was right at the temple! And they could look up and see the Roman guards watching them. So you see they were out of touch with reality. So they said, “What do You mean by saying, You shall become free? Jesus said to them, Truly, truly I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a servant of sin” (John 8:33-34).

Now let’s come back to the Epistle of 1 John chapter 3. And let’s understand if you are a servant of sin, enslaved to your sins – who is your master? Whose child are you? 1 John 3, now let’s pick it up here in verse 4: “Everyone who practices sin is also practicing lawlessness,” or transgressing the law. That’s what Jesus was talking about back there. “And you know that He appeared in order that He might take away our sins; and in Him is no sin. Everyone who dwells in Him does not practice sin;” see Jesus wants you to practice the truth, practice the commandments, “Anyone who practices sin has not seen Him, nor has known Him.” Now verse 7, 1 John 3: “Little children, do not allow anyone to deceive you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil…” (1 John 3:4-8).

Now I want you to see how closely this ties in with the rest of John the eighth chapter. Whose child are you? You are either a child of God, or you are a child of the devil. Now you are either enslaved to him through sin, and there are people who worship him openly who are enslaved to him in a dedicated way to fight and hate all forms of Christianity and to destroy the name of Jesus Christ from under the sun. Now they’ll never get away with it, they will think that they will, but the question is: whose child are you? Whose disciple are you?

Now notice. “The one who practices sin is of the devil because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God appeared that He might destroy the works of the devil.” So that’s going to be accomplished – when Christ returns, He is going to destroy all of it isn’t He? Yes, indeed. Now notice this, verse 9, “Everyone who has been begotten by God does not practice sin because His seed of begettal (which comes from the Father) is dwelling within him and he is not able to practice sin because he has been begotten by God.” And therefore, the Spirit of God will prick your conscience and lead you to repentance to put away the sin so that you will obey God and keep His commandments, and love Him.

Verse 10: “By this standard are manifest…” that is made evident “…the children of God and the children of the devil.” Now we’re going to see the confrontation between the children of the devil who profess belief in Christ, but weren’t willing to give up practicing sin and were not willing to practice the truth. So this is quite a battle that’s going to go on there. “Everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God,” so if you don’t keep His commandments, you’re not of God. If you don’t dwell in the grace of God and have the Spirit of God, you’re not of God. And if you dwell in Christ and have the grace of God, by the grace of God, you will keep the commandments of God and He will blot out and forgive all your sins. “…Neither is the one who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning—that we should love one another” (1 John 3:9-11).

Now let’s come back here to John the eighth chapter, the Gospel of John, and let’s see how this develops, you see. The one who practices sin, is the slave of sin. Are you a slave of God and Jesus Christ or are you a slave of sin? What is your life? Now if you’re a slave of sin, you can repent. If you’re a slave of God, you can grow in grace and knowledge and love God and serve Him even more. Now He says in verse 35: “And the servant (or slave) does not live in the house forever; but the Son lives forever.” Again He is telegraphing Who He is. “Therefore, if the Son shall set you free,” free from sin, free from the devil, “…you shall truly be free. I know you are Abraham’s seed; but you are seeking to kill Me, because My words do not enter into your minds.” (John 8:35-37). Now you think about that. Do you let all the words of God enter into your mind? Or is your mind there fighting, saying, “Oh, I wonder what commandments we can get rid of?” And the first test of any teacher is this, if he gets up in the pulpit or preaches to you and says, “God has done away with His laws through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ” [he] is a liar and the truth is not in him!

Now let’s see how this battle develops here, see because if you truly love God the Father and Jesus Christ, every word of Christ will enter into your mind won’t it? Yes, and He is going to write those words in your heart and in your mind with His laws and commandments and everything. Verse 38: “I speak the things that I have seen from My Father, and you do the things that you have seen from your father. They answered and said to Him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. But now you seek to kill Me, a man who has spoken the truth to you…” you see and sooner or later as we come down the line speaking the truth and speaking the Word of God, people are going to seek to kill us. Jesus guaranteed that didn’t He? Yes He did. “…Spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God; Abraham did not do this. You are doing the works of your father” (John 8:38-41).

Now it starts really getting hot and heavy here. “Then they said to Him, We have not been born of fornication.” So they believed all the lies about Jesus, right? They didn’t believe that He was divinely impregnated in Mary His mother by God the Father, which was not fornication. And this tells us what? They knew, and even though Joseph tried to keep it quiet, the word got out that Mary was pregnant when they got married, so therefore, you’re born of fornication. “We have one Father, and this is God.” So Jesus responded this way. “He said to them, If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I proceeded forth and came from God. For I have not come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why can’t you understand My speech? Because you cannot hear My words.” (John 8:41-43). Why? Because – we read it before – their hearts are hardened and their minds and their eyes were blinded. Notice what He says. The reason they can’t bear His words is because, verse 44. Now this gets right to the heart and core of it. Now let’s understand something, these were those who professed to be disciples that believed in Him, but they weren’t willing to practice the truth. They weren’t willing to repent of their sins. So if you believe in Jesus and are not willing to repent and are not willing to quit practicing your sins, you’re still of your father the devil! See because the demons believe in one God and they tremble… because they know their fate. So it’s no big thing to say, “I believe in Jesus, I believe in the Father.” No, if you don’t have any works to back it up, if you don’t have repentance to prove it, if you don’t have the Holy Spirit of God to lead you, whatever your profession is doesn’t mean anything and you’re still a child of the devil.

Let’s read on here and see what He says. Verse 44: “You are of your father the devil,” that ties right in with 1 John 3 doesn’t it? “…and the lusts of your father you desire to practice. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he is speaking from his own self; for he is a liar, and the father of it.” And what does Satan like to do more than anything else? He likes to go into the Bible and take out some verses here and some verses there and arrange them in a lying presentation rather than properly divide the Word of God, and [then] present false doctrines which appear to come from the Bible. The master liar, the master deceiver, the master counterfeiter knows how to do that doesn’t he? “…He is a liar and the father of it. And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.” Now they wanted to be His disciples, but they didn’t want to listen to the truth, and they didn’t want to believe that Jesus was I AM. “Which one of you can convict Me of sin? But if I speak the truth, why don’t you believe Me?” (John 8:44-46). Now you think about that. Why do people have such a hard time in believing God, believing His Word, keeping His commandments, repenting and being able to have their sins forgiven, to receive the Holy Spirit of God and practice the truth? They want to keep their own ways, all of the lusts, all of the desire, all of the power, all the things that they have, all the great things that they think they have or are they want to retain. Well you cannot crossbreed sin and righteousness; it won’t work, and that’s what Jesus is saying. You cannot crossbreed and intermingle truth and lies because every time you do, you come up with a lie. And even though the truth of some scriptures is quoted, it is turned into a lie by a devious turning and twisting of scriptures which Satan loves to do.

Now notice the dividing line. As I said before, there are no “tweeners” you either “is” or you “ain’t”. Verse 47: “The one who is of God hears the words of God…” and wants more of the words of God, loves the words of God, desires to live by the words of God, right? Yes. “For this reason you do not hear, because you are not of God…” (John 8:47). Bottom-line: anyone who does not come to Christ, the way Christ says to come, is not of God. Anyone who hears what Jesus said, and hears what is written in the New Testament, and in the Old Testament, and does not adhere to the words of God, is not of God. They may be like Israel who loved to profess God, who loved to say “we’re God’s people” just like here, and oh, they claim to be His disciples, and they claim to really know the truth of God – Abraham’s children, yes indeed. But Jesus said, “You didn’t do the works of Abraham who believed Me, who loved Me, who kept My commandments and statues and judgments and obeyed My voice.”

Now the Jews responded to this. Verse 48: “Then the Jews answered and said to Him, Are we not right in saying that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?” Remember, they even called Him Beelzebub. And then what did Jesus say? “If they call the Master of the house Beelzebub, what do you think they will call the servants of the house?” So you see what’s going to happen to us. So, “Jesus answered, I do not have a demon. But I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. Yet I do not seek My own glory; there is one Who seeks and judges” which is God the Father. Verse 51: “Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps My words, he shall not see death forever.” (John 8: 48-51). Now that’s quite a statement isn’t it? Yes. Now it doesn’t mean that he won’t die. That’s why in the Faithful Version here it’s translated properly, “…shall not see death forever”. This means that they can die, but if they die in the faith, they are going to be resurrected and they won’t see death forever. Only the incorrigible wicked will be dead forever, burned up, no longer exist.

Verse 52: “Then the Jews said to Him, Now we know you have a demon. Abraham and prophets are dead, yet You say, If anyone keeps My words, he shall not taste of death forever. Are you greater than our father Abraham who died? And the prophets, who died? Whom do You make Yourself to be?” Now any minister who is going to teach the Word of God the right way, the way it should be; that accusation is going to be hurled back to him also, if he preaches the truth of God. Verse 54: “Jesus answered, If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing. It is My Father Who glorifies Me, of Whom you say that He is your God. Yet you have not known Him; but I know Him. And if I say that I do not know Him, I shall be a liar, like you. But I know Him, and have kept His Word.”

Now He really unloaded on them, verse 56, so this is quite a crescendo that this comes into. Notice the dividing line that is there, and setting the stage for when it came down to the final Passover of Jesus. They hated Him; they reviled Him; they couldn’t stand Him; they could stand His words, His teaching, His preaching. And you know, how many Protestants and Catholics do the same thing in a little different way by saying, “We don’t need to keep the Sabbath. Well, it’s all right if we keep Sunday. We don’t worship idols, we only venerate them. Oh, we don’t need to keep the holy days of God. Let’s keep these things because the church has sanctified them. Oh, Halloween is a wonderful time. Christmas and Easter are wonderful times and Lent and Valentine’s Day and all of these are wonderful and they’ve been blessed!” See people have everything up side down, cockeyed, and screwy because they want to crossbreed the name of God with all of their sins and have God put His stamp of approval on their abominations, and God won’t do it!

Now notice what He says here, verse 56: “Abraham your father was overjoyed to see My day” and that means that God probably gave it to him in vision “…and he saw it, and rejoiced. Then the Jews said to Him, You are not even fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?” Now verse 58: “Jesus said to them, Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was born, I AM” He told them Who He was, the Lord God of the Old Testament, right? I AM THAT I AM “…before Abraham was I AM.” And so they all fell to their knees and repented and wept and asked for forgiveness. No! Verse 59: “Then they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus concealed Himself…” it doesn’t say how He did it, but He did “…and went out of the temple, passing through the midst of them, and in this manner departed” (John 8:52-59). That’s quite a confrontation isn’t it? Yes. And this a prelude to what the Last Great Day then pictures, getting rid of Satan the devil who starts and foments all of these things that lead the world into sin – deceiving the whole world. So here, this is quite a thing! Now there is probably a whole lot more we can get out of this, but this is the basic fundamentals that we can get out of this chapter.

Now let’s come to John the ninth chapter because this is still on the Last Great Day. And here is one of the best chapters, one of my favorites, and [it] has quite a bit of humor in it for its religious stupidity on the part of the Pharisees. And there is such intense hatred for Jesus that they wouldn’t believe!

Now here is the situation. The last verse says, “…in this manner departed.” Now John 9:1: “Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Now how could a child in the womb possibly sin to be born blind? So you know, this is kind of a stupid question on the part of the disciples, but nevertheless you have to ask the question. So, “Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents” now this is going to tell us something about why God does certain things. “…Rather, this blindness came so that the works of God might be manifested in him.” He was born blind by the will of God for the specific act of healing that Jesus was now going to do on him, and for the very purpose that this would be written in scripture for our learning. Now think about that for a minute. And we are going to understand how this man born blind could also apply to the Israelites who were blind, or also apply to the Gentiles who were also blinded because of their sins – born blind, born into a community without God, born into a nation without God, born into a satanic, pagan religion without God. At least Israel and the Jews had available to them the knowledge of God, but the Gentiles didn’t. So they were born blind, and God is going to have mercy on them and that the works of God can be manifest for them all down during the Millennium and in the Last Great Day.

Now let’s continue, verse 4: “I must work the works of Him Who sent Me while it is still day. When the night comes, no one is able to work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world” (John 9:1-5). Now let’s understand something, brethren, about the days that we are living – the night is coming, troubles are coming, difficulties are coming, and they are mounting, it’s coming, coming, coming, coming, and it’s not going to stop. And we need to, as individuals work in our lives the work of love, the work of grace, the work of submission, the work of keeping the commandments of God in our own individual lives, and we must work the work that God has given us to do, to get out the things that need to get out for the generation which comes after us. And they are going to enter into a time that is going to slam them right up against the wall and down to the ground, and be enslaved! And so we’ve got to provide the things for them now. That’s why we are doing the things that we do. And I see the night coming just like Jesus said, and we need to work while it is still day.

I think of that everyday; I think about it when I go to bed at night. I think about those poor Jews who were herded into cattle cars and run off to the slaughter camps and the crematoriums to be burned up. And I think about lying there in my warm bed after having a nice meal, living in my comfortable house, no one disturbing me. And I think about what must it have been for them in those cattle cars herded all together, just crowded together, no place to go to the bathroom, no place to lay down, no place to rest and sleep, freezing to death while you’re going along in these cattle cars, and people getting sick with dysentery, and everybody getting sick and vomiting and defecating in the corners, urinating in the corners, crying out for help, and no one was there for help. So when the night comes and it falls, it’s going to be just like that. And I think about that and I think about what we need to do, and I think about what God has set before us, and I think about the inadequacies that we all have and how we need the Spirit of God, and the love of God, and the hope of God, and to work, and to accomplish what God wants us to because this is true.

And after saying that, verse 6, “After saying these things, He spat on the ground…” now how is this for an anointing, spit and mud, you know, today we anoint with oil see but Jesus did this for a special purpose “He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to the eyes of the blind man. And He said to him, Go and wash in the pool of Siloam (which is, by interpretation, “Sent”). Then he went and washed, and came from there seeing. Therefore,” now notice how people react, some rejoiced, some were skeptical, some didn’t even believe. “Therefore, the neighbors and those who had seen him before, and knew that he was blind, said, Isn’t he the one who was sitting and begging? Some said, It is he. But others said, He is like him. He said, I am the one.” You see, some people can’t even believe with the evidence right before their eyes. “Then they said to him, How were your eyes opened? He answered and said, A man called Jesus made clay, and applied it to my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam and wash; and after I went and washed, I received sight. Then they said to him, Where is He?” Well how could he know? “He said, I do not know.” (John 9:6-12).

[Verse 13:] So “They brought him who was once blind to the Pharisees.” Now the inquisition begins. You see the Catholics weren’t the only ones to have inquisitions, the Jews had inquisitions, don’t Arabs have inquisitions today, Catholics are going to have them again. Didn’t even some of the Protestants have inquisitions? Oh yes! The Calvinists who follow John Calvin – John Calvin burned at the stake, Cervantes because he didn’t believe in the trinity. And so all of you who think you are Calvinist Christians, you’ve got another thought coming because Calvin was never a Christian. Anyone who keeps Sunday and the holidays of this world is not a Christian in deed or in truth, but is a false Christian, period. That’s what the Word of God tells us. Now if you don’t like that statement, then you go disprove me.

Let’s continue on here. “… Brought him to the Pharisees.” Verse 14: “Now it was the Sabbath…” Oh, oh, the last holy day a Sabbath, right? “…when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Therefore, the Pharisees in turn also asked him how he had received sight. And he said to them, He put clay on my eyes, and I washed; and now I see. Then some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God because He does not keep the Sabbath.” Well now, yes, Jesus did keep the Sabbath, but He didn’t follow the rules of the Pharisees and scribes and the traditions of the elders in their Sabbath rejecting commandments, you see. “Others said, How can a man who is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. Then they said to the blind man again, What do you say about Him since He opened your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.” What else are you going to conclude? And wasn’t he called, as we saw earlier, The Prophet? Yes!

Verse 18: “However, the Jews did not believe this about him, that he was blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the one who had received sight.” So the inquisition goes on to the family. So “They asked them, saying, Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. But how he sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.” See, quite a thing, and “His parents said those things because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if anyone confessed Him to be the Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.” How is that for fair, true, righteous judgment – already have your mind made up ahead of time, right? Okay, we’ll find out about that when we get to Judge Righteous Judgment. “For this reason, his parents said, He is of age; ask him” (John 9:13-23).

Verse 24: “Therefore, they called a second time…” now here is the second round of inquisition see “… for the man who had been born blind, and said to him, Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” See they have already judged Jesus, right? “Then he answered and said, Whether He is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know, that I was blind, and now I see. And they said to him again, What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?” This sounds like the interrogation at the local police department – trying to wring out a confession. And “He answered them, I have already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you desire to become His disciples too?” Oh man, can you see the reaction of those hateful, judging Jews in this situation? “Then they railed at him and said, You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples.” (John 9:24-28). Remember what we read earlier, that …”if you don’t believe Moses, you won’t believe Me. And Moses accuses you…” because his word is still valid today.

Verse 29: “We know that God spoke to Moses. As for this man, we do not know where He has come from. The man answered and said to them, This is truly an amazing thing, that you do not know where He has come from, yet He has opened my eyes. Now we know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is God-fearing and is doing His will, He hears him. From the beginning…” now this is quite an eloquent speech from this man undoubtedly inspired by God you see? “From the beginning of the world it has never been heard that anyone has opened the eyes of one who has born blind. If this man were not from God, He could do nothing.” Notice their reaction – they all repented and got on their knees and asked forgiveness – no, no way! See when you take a position and a religious position and you take one built on hatred, and murder, and lies, you never want the truth. You cannot stand the truth. You do not want the truth. And the truth cuts to the quick and cuts to the heart, just like the Word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword, and cuts to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, right? Yes! So how did they react? Verse 34: They answered and said to him, You were born wholly in sin, and you are teaching us? And they cast him out”(John 9:29-34).

Now notice verse 35: “Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He found him, He said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him? And Jesus said to him, You have see Him, and He is the one Who is even now speaking to you. Then he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped Him.” Again showing that He was God manifested in the flesh. Verse 39: “And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world…” now that’s something – before He said He didn’t come to judge the world, but because of what He has said and what He has done and in giving His life as a sacrifice for the sin of the world, judgment has come upon the world. Now we’ll learn this about judgment when we get into Judge Righteous Judgment. “…So that those who do not see might see, and those who see might become blind.” Now the Pharisees weren’t all dumb and stupid altogether. “And those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things; and they said to Him, Are we also blind? Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now you say, We see. Therefore, your sin remains” (John 9:35-41).

Now let’s look and see some things concerning about the coming of the Holy Spirit to reinforce this. So this is quite a lesson. Now let’s look at it this way, all the Gentiles who have been blinded, God is going to open their eyes – started with Cornelius and those who believed when Peter came to them at Caesarea, then all the preaching of Paul, all the preaching of all the other apostles going into all the world. Now then, when Christ returns and Satan is bound, all the Gentiles are going to have the scales removed from their eyes, just as miraculous as it was with this man. This taking place on the Last Great Day symbolized all the nations of the world, beginning with Israel who are going to have their sins forgiven.

Now let’s see what else Jesus said concerning the coming of the Holy Spirit and concerning what these things would do. Now let’s come here to John 15, and let’s begin here in verse 22. [This is a] very important thing, now this is what He said the night of the Passover before He was crucified, before He was arrested and crucified. He says, “If I had not come and spoken to them…” and also the instance back here of the man born blind and the healing of him “…they would not have had sin; but now they have nothing to cover their sin.” See unless you repent to Jesus Christ, accept His sacrifice for full payment of your sins, and unless you repent and give yourself to God the Father and Jesus Christ, and unless you start walking in the truth, your sin remains.

Now notice, verse 23: “The one who hates Me hates My Father also.” And if you don’t keep the commandments of God, you hate Him. “If I had not done among them the works that no other man has done, they would not have had sin; but now they have both seen and hated both Me and My Father. But this has happened so that the saying might be fulfilled which is written in their law, They hated Me without a cause” (John 15:22-25). Now that’s quite an important thing to understand isn’t it? How many people have the Bible, but they hate Christ because they don’t read it, because they don’t repent, because they don’t believe it. You see? Amazing isn’t it? Yes it is.

Now let’s come over here to Chapter 16. And He says; let’s begin here in verse 7: “But I am telling you the truth. It is profitable for you that I go away because if I do not go away, the Comforter…” which then is the Holy Spirit “…will not come to you. However, if I go, I will send it to you. And when that one has come, it will convict the world concerning sin…” and that’s what parts of this sermon is intended to do – to convict those who hear concerning their sins, that they may repent and have them forgiven. “…And righteousness…” to show the truth and righteousness of God “…and judgment” proper judgment of God. Verse 9: “Concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; Concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you no longer will see Me;” because then when He went to the Father, forgave their sins, blotted out their transgressions, sent the Holy Spirit to them, then they received the imputation of the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Verse 11: “Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged” (John 16: 7-11). He hasn’t been removed yet, but he is going to be removed when Christ returns.

And so this tells us the meaning of John 7, 8 and 9 referring to the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Last Great Day in the meaning of what it was when Jesus spoke these words, and the prophetic meaning of what it was even down to our time.

Feast of Tabernacles 2006 – Day Three

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