The Love of the Truth*

When I attended the U.S Air Force Academy, we had an honor code that meant so much to me that it became a part of my life to this day. The honor code was the following: "We do not lie, steal, or cheat, and we do not tolerate those that do." The Air Force was looking for officers of character, and placed an emphasis on character by incorporating "a whole man" approach with their cadets. Today, we are seeing the relativism of truth, depending upon whom we are listening to. Truth is now being defined according to politics, ethnicity, culture, personal agendas and other passing influences. This relativism of truth is even rampant in the Church, as they compromise God's Word in order to reflect trends and demands of society. However, God's Word stands forever as the truth. God's prophet wrote: "And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying, 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts; the fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace." (Zech. 8:18-19). The LORD's feasts, even with fasting, were meant to be observed with joy, rather than what might have been traditionally taught as being a heavy religious obligation. The truth of God's Word, and the peace that resulted from it, proved to be much different than traditional understanding. The Word of the LORD of hosts was to love the truth. Psalm 119 is all about the Word of God, so much so that it is broken down into sections based upon each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Verses 25-32 are written under the letter Daleth, meaning "door, way of life". This section begins: "My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word." The power of the truth of God's Word will raise a soul up from the dust. Because of this, the Psalmist continues to express the importance of God's Word to his life. He writes: "teach me thy statutes"; "Make me understand the way of thy precepts". As the writer felt his soul melting from heaviness, he asked the LORD: "...strengthen thou me according unto thy word". He asked the LORD: "Remove from me the way of lying...I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies...I will run the way of thy commandments...thou shalt enlarge my heart." Truth is a facet of real character. Who is speaking "truth" to you? This country is on the verge of destruction, because the truth of God's Word has been rejected. Isaiah 61 will be forever associated with Jesus, as He read it in the synagogue, and declared the first verse and a half fulfilled, which proclaimed "...the acceptable year of the LORD." In this same chapter, Isaiah again wrote the Word of the LORD: "For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them." (v. 8). The everlasting covenant that the LORD promises to make with men does not end, and it is based upon truth, the truth of God. It is a truth that does not change. Paul wrote prophesying that men would fall away from the truth of God: "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (referring to the day of Christ's return) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped...And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thess. 2:1-12, excerpt). They choose to believe a lie instead of the truth, and that wicked figure, the antichrist will establish himself based upon that lie, until the return of Christ destroys him. It is not "a" lie that is chosen, according to the Greek used in this verse. It is THE lie in Greek. THE lie, is the lie of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, which was: "Hath God said...?" Paul wrote that God had chosen us for salvation from the beginning, "through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth" for the purpose of our obtaining the glory of our Lord, Jesus Christ (v. 13-14). Not loving the truth leads to destruction and damnation. The truth, however, led us to salvation, sanctification and the glory of Jesus Christ. Paul wrote that we were to "stand fast" to this Word of truth, as the Father and the Son, Jesus, establishes us in every good word and work. (v. 15-17). Jesus told His disciples to "believe" in God and in Himself. Jesus said that He was going to prepare a place for them in His Father's house. Not only would He prepare that assured place, but He would "come again" to receive them and bring them to where He was, so they would be with Him: "And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know." (Jn. 14:1-4). His disciple Thomas did not understand where Jesus was going, or how they could know the way there. Jesus answered him: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (v. 5-6). The life that Jesus promised to His disciples and to us is, in Greek, zoe, which means "the God-kind of life", or as Jesus said in another place, "abundant life". We must acknowledge, accept and love the truth, which is Jesus. Jesus prayed to His Father, not only on behalf of His disciples then, but for those who would come to Him later, which includes us. He prayed: "I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." (Jn. 17:14). Romans 12:1-3 tells us not to be conformed to this world, but to be transformed (by the Word of God), by the renewing of our minds. We are not to be held by the cares and lusts of this world, which choke out the truth, but be separated from them. Jesus prayed that the Father not take His disciples out of the world, but to keep them from the evil: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." (v. 15-17). The truth, which is the Word of God, sanctifies or separates us from the world. John wrote in his epistles to the believers in Christ about how important it was to him for the believers to keep the truth in their lives: "...unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever." (2 Jn. 1-2). The Holy Spirit, which is the Spirit of truth, dwells in us. John wrote a blessing as a greeting "in truth and love" from the Father and the Son to these believers . He wrote, "I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father." He wrote of a commandment that they had from the beginning from God - to love one another. Walking in the commandment of God IS love, John said (v. 3-6). Jesus also taught that this was the basis of all the law and the prophets - to love God, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. It is the same love by which God so loved the world that He gave His Son to save it. We teach in truth, His Word is truth, and we correct in love, showing Christ on the cross, that all may come to repentance and find the salvation of God, and everlasting life. We are not only to talk the talk, but to walk the walk. Peter wrote to the believers about truth and love also: "Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." (1 Pet. 1:22). In another epistle from John, he wrote to a believer named Gaius, whom John said that he loved in the truth: "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." (3 Jn. 1-4). The Church has become caught up in the teachings of prosperity, but as John wrote, the prosperity of the believer must begin with the truth in us. Then John continued in his epistle to Gaius commending another believer named Demetrius, saying: "Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true." (v. 12). Truth testifies of truth. Is your record true? A delusion is coming, even deceiving the elect if it is possible. It will not be a relativism of truth as told by the world, and men with agendas and biases, that will keep us from this coming powerful delusion. It is the Word of Truth, God's Word, that will continue to testify to the eternal saving truth that does not change. "Father I pray that we would know the truth of Your Word, and that we might walk according to it, and being sanctified in it, that we might show forth the salvation of the new birth. In Jesus' name. AMEN." *Based on Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson's 6/11/23 message to the church. To contact us, submit a prayer request, give a praise report, or to support this ministry: P.O. Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705 OR Everlastingcovenant@ymail.com. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, theshroudofturin.org, and END TIME SCHOOL, also on Facebook. You can also get a free ebook titled "The Shroud of Turin- A Perfect Summary" at www.TheShroudofTurin.org/freebook.

Hath God Said?*

Over and over in scripture, we see the people of God fall because they ignored the Word of God. This was so from the very beginning in the Garden of Eden. The serpent began to question Eve regarding the commandments of the LORD to them, saying to her, "Hath God said...?" (Gen. 3:1). The Word of God seems to be so easily questioned, but it is that very Word that formed the substance of all creation. In Gen. 1:1-3, in the beginning God, Elohim aleph-tav in Hebrew, spoke light into being, and light then existed in obedience to His Word. God then spoke all other things into existence. The aleph-tav written after the name of God indicates the Person of Jesus Christ, who said "I am the Alpha and the Omega, which is the same expression translated into Greek. It is confirmed in scripture that Jesus was not only present in the Genesis creation, as the name of God indicates, but was the Word of creative power spoken by God: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men." (Jn. 1:1-4). Not only was the Word the power behind creation, but the Word is a person, which is Jesus (Jn. 1:14). The Word is light and life for all who live. Not only does the Word create, but it sets apart and sanctifies because it is truth. Jesus prayed to the Father regarding His disciples: "...they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but...keep them from the evil...Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." (Jn. 17:14-17). Regardless of what men choose to think, the Word of God is not changed: "For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." (Rom. 3:3-4). God's Word is backed up by His faith, and His faith in Himself is without any doubt. This guarantees us that, unlike the case with men, what God says, He will do! God said from the beginning of His creation of man, that He created them in His image: "...male and female created he them." (Gen. 1:27). Regardless of what man believes, or what changes they make to their bodies, their DNA will clearly identify them without exception as either male or female. This is the challenge to all of us. What makes us disregard what we know is the truth? Why do we choose to believe what men say more than what God says? Jeremiah wrote: "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is...The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately (anas - incurable, desperate, sick) wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." (Jer. 17:7-10). We all have a date with God. There is only One who can cure these incurably wicked hearts - the One who voluntarily died in order to do it, Jesus, the Word, light and life of creation. There is another factor that causes men to ignore truth and choose the lie - financial gain. The LORD anticipated the effect of gain upon truth and justice: "And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous." (Ex. 23:8). We have seen in current headlines how the reputation of a Supreme Court judge has been placed into question because he, as one of the highest judges in the land, accepted many expensive gifts over the years from the wealthy, claiming that he didn't see it as wrong. Scripture, however, will not let us deny the truth: "Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates...and they shall judge the people with just judgment. Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee." (Deut. 16:18-20). A great deal of harm and wickedness has been committed for the sake of a gift, or financial gain of some kind. Even God's people in scripture were condemned for their greed. God condemned the watchmen of Israel, calling them "greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter." (Isa. 56:10-11). Of Jerusalem, the LORD said, "In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the LORD God." (Ezek. 22:12). The LORD says again of His people: "The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, is not the LORD among us? No evil can come upon us." (Micah 3:9). There was total corruption, yet they thought the LORD was still with them! Paul wrote to Timothy to be content with what we have: "But godliness with contentment is great gain...And having food and raiment let us be therewith content." (1 Tim. 6:6-8). We see very little of this kind of contentment. Paul warned that those who desire to be rich, "...fall into temptation and a snare, and into foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (v. 9-10). Paul wrote for us to flee these things, and "...follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness." (v. 11). Another way that men have twisted God's Word to please and satisfy themselves is in regard to a sign of God's everlasting covenant, which He made with all flesh. The LORD promised Noah, that He would set His (rain)bow in the sky, to assure all living, and to remind Himself of His promise never to flood the earth with water again: And God said unto Noah, This (rainbow) is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth (Gen. 9:12-17). What have we done though to the rainbow, this powerful token of an everlasting promise from God? Isaiah wrote that the earth was defiled because its inhabitants broke the everlasting covenant of God (Isa. 24:5-6). They transgress the laws, and change the ordinances of God, as well as breaking the everlasting covenant: "Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left." This sounds like the kind of devastation that would occur from nuclear warfare. We also ignore the law of God clearly recorded in Deut. 22:5 and Lev. 18:22 regarding sexual unrighteousness that we see among us today. When we do so, we are saying loudly and clearly, "Hath God said?". The LORD has forbidden us to sacrifice our children to idols, a form of which we see in our society today (Lev. 18:21). From this has come a money-driven industry, which was founded in eugenics and racism as history records. Paul wrote that "the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." (see Rom. 1:18-32). The prophet Isaiah wrote of "the woes" which would fall upon men "that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!" (see Isa. 5:8-23). Of His own people, the LORD declared: "For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves." (see Isa. 3:4-12). This is not God's intentions for man. He wants to restore the relationship He had with man in the Garden, but not by compromising with the world. This country is being destroyed from within, and we must each decide which side of the fence we're on. It's time to choose whom we will serve. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. *Based on Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson's 5/7/23 message to the church. To contact us, submit a prayer request, give a praise report, or to support this ministry: P.O. Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705 OR Everlastingcovenant@ymail.com. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, theshroudofturin.org, and END TIME SCHOOL, also on Facebook. You can also get a free ebook titled "The Shroud of Turin- A Perfect Summary" at www.TheShroudofTurin.org/freebook.

If I Had One Wish*

Today is the Feast of Shavuot, or Pentecost, when God delivered His covenant to the children of Israel from Mt. Sinai. After Jesus' resurrection and ascension, it was also on Pentecost that the disciples of Jesus in the Upper Room received the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as He had promised them. The Word of God is not just to be read, but to be absorbed into the inner man, and to be a manner of life for us: "Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her and she shall keep thee...Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. For they sleep not unless they have done mischief...unless they cause some to fall." (Prov. 4:5-8, 14-16). It is about what is in the heart: "Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known. Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." (Prov. 14:32-34). The Prophet Jeremiah prophesied the Word of the LORD promising a new covenant to His people that would not be like the previous covenant which Israel broke. In this new covenant: "I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people...they shall all know me...for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." (Jer. 31:31-34). We claim to be believers in the New Covenant, but it is to be in our hearts - not just our mouths. If I had one wish, it is that we would walk in the New Covenant. Ezekiel wrote about the LORD's promise to sprinkle clean water on us, and cleanse us from all filthiness and idolatry. In the New Covenant we know that we are washed with the water of the Word of God. The LORD also then promised us a new heart and spirit: "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh." The LORD also promised to give us His Spirit for a specific purpose: "And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." (Ezek. 36:25-27). In Psalm 51, David repented for murder, and asked God to renew a right heart in him, and not to take His Spirit from him. David understood that there needed to be an inward work in him by God. Jesus told those who believed in Him that to be His disciples, they must abide in His word. He said, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (Jn. 8:31:32). The wages of sin is death, scripture says, but the power of the work of the truth within us makes us free. The religiously strict Pharisees rejected Jesus' implication that they were "blind", but Jesus told them that the fact that they claimed to be able to see, or understand, meant that their sin remained with them. They claimed to see, but they still walked as if they were spiritually blind. (Jn. 9:40-41). In the Book of Hebrews, we read that although the old covenant and tabernacle were a shadow or pattern of heavenly things, the new covenant is more excellent in every way, established on better promises. This true tabernacle of the new covenant was not pitched by man, but by the Lord Himself, and is the fulfillment of the prophecy we read in Jeremiah above. (Heb. 8:5-6-12). Jesus died to fulfill this promise of God. I have studied the Shroud of Turin for years and all of the evidence gathered, both scientific and scriptural, confirms the Gospel accounts of His suffering and His resurrection. How can we neglect so great a salvation? If I had one wish, it would be that this kind of message would go "viral" and bring in the harvest of God. What was a form of righteousness under the law of Moses, has become righteousness in fact for those who believe by faith. Faith is an inward work of the heart that becomes joined with the Word of God that is heard: "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." (Rom. 10:5-10). This salvation comes to both the Jew and the Greek, or Gentile, by the same manner, by faith. The Gospel is not just to be heard, but to be obeyed, making Paul ask the question that Isaiah prophetically posed: "Who hath believed our report?". Faith comes by hearing, and hearing, by the Word of God (v. 13-17). If I had one wish, it would be to "blow the minds" of people here and around the world with the message, and with the book "NAZAH", because of the time. We were dead in our sins, but Christ made us alive. We once walked according to the course of the world, but now we are quickened in Christ through grace, raised up, and made us sit together in the heavenly places with Christ. What an awesome thing to be made to sit in heavenly places with Christ! We were once completely distanced and separated from Israel, without God, and without hope. But Christ has destroyed that separation, and joined us together and made both one through Him by the cross. "For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." ( see Eph. 2:1-18). On this Feast of Shavuot, two loaves of leavened bread would be waved before the LORD, a symbol of two peoples being joined through Christ, and filled with His Spirit. We have become fellow citizens with the saints, of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus as the chief cornerstone (v. 19-20). We are being fitted together to grow into a holy temple of God. All of this begins with faith in each heart, "For by grace are ye saved by faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." (Eph. 2:8). If I had one wish, it would be that we have this understanding, for Jesus is coming soon for a church without spot or wrinkle. *Based on Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson's 6/5/2022 message to the church. To contact us, submit a prayer request, give a praise report, or to support this ministry: P.O. Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705 OR Everlastingcovenant@ymail.com. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and theshroudofturin.org, endtimeschool.com.

The Truth vs The Lie*

With the proliferation of lies all around us, how can we know who's telling the truth when each side accuses the other of lies? We need to know the Word of God, which not only warns us of the danger of lies, but also gives us the knowledge of the truth. As we will see in scripture, it is important to God to assure us that His Word is truth: "For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." (Rom. 3:3-4). Because God judges based upon His Word, His Word must be indisputable in truth. From the beginning, Satan has wanted man to believe that God's Word is untrue. Satan's lie has continued from that time to be based on the question, "Hath God said...?" Titus wrote that acknowledging of the truth is next to the quality of godliness (Titus 1:1). He goes on to write: "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began." (v. 2). From the opening of Genesis, which begins with the Hebrew phrase, Barasheit Elohim (Aleph Tav/Alpha and Omega), the promise of eternal life was given to man. The pictographic meaning of Barasheit is "The Son of God crushed, His hand on a cross". Not only is the counsel of God immutable, or unchangeable, but He also swore to the truth by an oath to doubly assure us of the truth of His promise. Because God has given us this double assurance of the truth of His promise to us, we can have hope in eternal life like a sure and fast anchor. It is that hope, based upon a true and proven promise, that allows us to enter into the holiest place of God, behind the separating veil (see Heb. 6:16-19). It was so important to God that our hope rests upon our assurance of His truthfulness, that He sent truth in the form of His Son: "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." (Jn. 6:14). You cannot come to God based on a lie of man or devil. You cannot believe a lie and say that it is Jesus. Jesus is the truth that oversomes the law of sin and death. There were those who would not believe the truth that Jesus brought. They could not hear it, nor receive it. They chose instead to submit themselves to lies, and the father of lies because it encouraged their lusts: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not...He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God." (Jn. 8:43-47). The fact that many did not believe Jesus in that day, and continue to refuse the truth, is so the prophecy of Isaiah would be fulfilled: "He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them." (Jn. 12:37-40, Isa. 6:9-10). Many religious leaders in Jesus time who did believe Him were afraid of what others, particularly the Pharisees, would say about them, and that they might be put out of the synagogue for their belief: "For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God." (Jn. 12:42-43). We should not be ashamed or afraid regarding the truth of which we have been assured by God. Others across the world are being martyred and persecuted for this faith in the truth. Not even Jesus, Himself, but the Word that Jesus has spoken will judge us in the last day, because Jesus only spoke the Words of truth that were given to Him by the Father to speak (v. 47-49). The commands that Jesus spoke which were from His Father were and are life everlasting (v. 50). Isaiah, as he prophetically brought the revelation of the Messiah forth, wrote: "Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I." (Isa. 52:6). The one who speaks the Father's words is Jesus, as He told us above. Isaiah continues to write about the beautiful feet of him who brings the gospel, the good tidings of good that publishes salvation..."that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!...for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." (Isa. 52:7-10). Isaiah makes it very clear that the salvation of God will come as a Servant who is marred and wounded, not because of His own sin, but for the sins and transgressions of others (see Isaiah 52 and 53). This truth could not be subject to challenge because all flesh and all of the nations would "see" this salvation. It would not be hidden, nor proclaimed secretly, but the good tidings of good would be proclaimed and published across the earth. Many nations would be sprinkled (NAZAH), and Kings would see the evidence of this Person who brings salvation, even when no one has told them (Isa. 52:15). The prophetic words of Isaiah speak the powerful truth of the Messiah, fulfilled exactly by Jesus. There has never been anyone else who has so accurately fulfilled ths prophetic Word of God. We have additional evidence of the truth, that agrees with the scriptures in Isaiah, and other scriptures, in every way, and that allows all to see, which is the Shroud of Turin. Others have tried to hide this evidence with lies, but the evidence, as the LORD proclaimed in Isaiah, speaks for itself. We can see the importance of truth as the sure foundation of God's Word. It is, and always has been, everlasting life to those who hear it and believe it. The truth we accept or reject, and the lies we believe, will make the difference between our going to heaven or hell. As the creation of the new heavens and the new earth are manifested, the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven is lighted, not by the sun or the moon, but by the glory of God and the light of His Son, the Lamb (Rev. 21:23). "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." (v. 27). As Jesus declared, "Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am the Alpha (Aleph) and Omega (Tav), the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." (Rev. 22:12-15). How we receive the truth or not will judge us. We will either live because of the hope we receive in the truth, which is everlsting life, or we will believe the lie, and perish. *Based on Dr. Kenneth E. Stevenson's 7/25, 21 message to the church. To contact: P.O. Box 154221, Waco, TX, 76705 OR Everlastingcovenant@ymail.com. You can also find us on Faebook, Twitter, and endtimeschool.com.