Acts 4:12  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Deuteronomy 30:15  See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Deuteronomy 30:19-20  I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

The good news of the Kingdom of Heaven in the hearts of His followers on Earth has been spread from Pentecost till now; with His Ekklesia still under persecution to this day, just as it was prophesied.

2 Timothy 3:12  Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

The balm is found in John 16:33  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Matthew 28:20  ……, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

Revelation 2:10  Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

Revelation 1:5-6  And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.

Revelation 5:10  And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

Those of us, who, without having accepted the blood covenant made by Yhwh, through Yehowshua, as our remedy, are still DEAD in trespass and sins.

Is it possible to get into the Kingdom of Heaven, whilst still DEAD in sin?

[Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.]

Proverbs 21:16  The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.

In order to better answer this question, we first need to ask the following question,-

Can we be a part of the BEAST’s system, and simultaneously be under Yehowshua’s government at the same time, with Yhwh’s approval?

Matthew 4:10  …Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

1 Corinthians 10:21-22  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Romans 6:13-23  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.  For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

What kind of death is, therefore, acceptable to our Saviour?

1 Peter 2:24  Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

So, you see, there is a death that a believer will experience, but it is death to the sins that control our lives, through accepting the freely offered covenant of grace, through Yehowshua the Messiah.

When a man or woman accepts the blood covenant with Yhwh, through His only begotten Son, he is known to be “born again”, or “born of the spirit”. He now has authority and power to keep the law of liberty, and experience freedom in this liberty.

The Apostle, Paul said it was a daily experience for himself, where a renewal of grace is consciously received.

1 Corinthians 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

John 3:5-8  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

By what instrument can we be born again?

Psalms 119:11 
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

1 Peter 1:23-25  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:  But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

What and where is the key to the Kingdom of Heaven, opening the way of life?

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Revelation 1:13 & 18.  And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.- I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

Matthew 16:17-19  And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, [Petra, meaning a little stone, or pebble] and upon this rock [Petros, meaning the Foundation Stone, Corner Stone, as described in 1 Corinthians 10:4  And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.] I will build my church;[ ekklesia (make my coming out)] and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Isaiah 22:21-23  And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder [Compare what is on his shoulder in Isaiah 9:6…. and the government shall be upon his shoulder]; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

Revelation 3:7-10  And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Yehowshua has shut the door to the governments of this world under Satan’s usurpation of authority, and has opened the door of the Kingdom of Heaven to whosoever will have eyes to see, and shall enter into this kingdom with the key that has been given to all His Apostles. We are then His Ambassadors.

 This key represents authority to obey Him, and authority to deny earthly “authorities” our servitude.

Mark 13:34  For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

 Luke 9:1-2  Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

What is the form of His government?
 
How does Heaven’s Governor run His government, His Ekklesia, here on earth?
Matthew 20:25-28 But Yehowshua called them [unto him], and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Are you being controlled by a government which exercises dominion over you?

If you are, then you can not, at the same time, be in the government established by Yehowshua the Messiah; therefore, the form of your government can not be of authentic faith, it will simply be presumption, Satan’s counterfeit for faith. Is it not written in Romans 14:23 that ............... whatsoever is not of faith is sin?

1 Corinthians 10:12  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

How is the best way to test if you are under servitude to, or in allegiance with a false government?

 Try to hand back all their documents, certificates, registrations, rates notices and licenses, refute their oppressive laws, then continue to do the things Yehowshua died that you may freely do, and which He commanded you to do, then see if you do not experience interference and persecution from that government.

“But”, one may argue, “We live under a DEMOCRACY!”

Do you indeed? What is the definition of a democracy?

DEMO means the people. CRACY means rule. The word DEMOCRACY therefore, means the people rule, they are the GOVERNMENT. They instruct their MINISTERS what to do, say and enforce, and the MINISTERS serve and obey them. Is this the way it is in AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and in the U.S.A.?

Even if it is the case, a DEMOCRACY is still not the kingdom Yehowshua died to establish; and will, if correctly operated, at best, only serve to control those who want to be immoral. It does not change the heart, or grant an entrance into eternity. In short, it is not the Way, and will not have the Truth and the Life for any PERSON’s redemption from sin and sin’s wages.

Let every man remain subject to Yehowshua’s superior authority when it is manifest through His ministers, in the spirit of love; but should we go under another man’s foreign authority in exchange for benefits and gratuities?

1 Corinthians 6:14-17  And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Have you sold your birthright of human rights and liberties under Yehowshua’s Kingdom, in exchange for gifts and benefits?

Genesis 25:30-34  And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.  And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?  And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Have you sold the sweat of your brow to go under the authority and power of another?

Nehemiah 9:36 Behold, we [are] servants this day, and [for] the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we [are] servants in it:

Nehemiah 9:38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

Are we not setting ourselves up for, and are we not now making compromises that weaken and prepare us to receive the MARK OF THE BEAST? Are we not imaging the BEAST when obeying IT; and are we not doing despite to the Spirit of Grace who died to set us free from this abominable AUTHORITY?

Did not Yehowshua promise to set the captives free and at liberty?

Then is not the command from our Governor, relevant, as found in Galatians 5:1  Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Are we not counseled against being connected by as much as a thread to foreign “AUTHORITIES”?

In Bible prophecy, a “beast” represents a nation, country or kingdom.

Daniel 7:17  These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

Daniel 7:23  Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

(The book of Daniel is the key to unlocking the book of Revelation.)

What world power is depicted as another beast with two horns, speaking as a dragon in the following verses?

Revelation 13:11-18  And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

The United States of America has a document called the declaration if Independence, which declares that they are the land of the brave and a land of the free, a land without a pope, and a land without a king. America was founded on the two horned  principle of civil and religious liberty. She even built a statue so this would always be remembered. She was founded upon righteous principles, principles patterned after her Saviour, known as the Lamb in John 1:36  And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

 Later, her promised liberties vanished like the morning dew, and she unashamedly began to bare her teeth and now speaks as a dragon; declaring and threatening war on all who would not stand with her tyranny. She now exercises all the power of Rome, the previous beast who ruled the then known world, before her.

Sadly, as the U.S.A. grew, she became a despot and a tyrant, ignoring her own Declaration, and amendments. We hear her President say in a voice of blasphemy,” who is not for us is against us”. She has more atomic and nuclear power than any other country in this world. The U.S.A. has already unleashed fire from heaven upon her enemy Japan when she dropped two atomic war heads on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. She once spoke as a lamb, but now speaks as a dragon; and exercises all the authority of Rome. Her laws are now Roman law, known also as Statutes, Maritime law and Commercial law; (as are the Australian laws as ratified George Bush’s cohort, John Howard her Prime Minister.)

The beast that depicts the U.S.A. in the following verse should wake us up.

Revelation 13:14  And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

What miracles has the U.S.A. perpetrated upon the world?

If you still really believe in the fake “moon landing”, you may never understand how the U.S.A. gained so much power over those who dwell on the earth, causing us to make an image to the Papacy, who received a wound through the Reformation, by the sword, the word of YHWH.

What other nation ever brought fire down from the sky in the form of two atomic bombs?

Are we not warned not to worship, (serve) other gods?

Revelation 14:9-14 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. (Then in contrast to these PERSONS, we read) Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.  (The next event is...) And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.

Sadly most of the world will go the way of the beast and the dragon.

Revelation 13:4  And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

Revelation 22:12-18 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward [is] with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, 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. I Yehowshua have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the CHURCH es. I am the root and the offspring of David, [and] the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. ...

The meaning of the seal of Yhwh, and the MARK of the BEAST as seen in Revelation 14:9-12  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, may be better understood as we examine other texts which utilize similar phrases.

Deuteronomy 6:1-14  Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:  That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.  And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates. And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full; Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.  Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

Deuteronomy 11:8-20  Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey. For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.  And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.  Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them; And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

Exodus 28:36-38  And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD. And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be. And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:3  Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

Ezekiel 3:8-11  Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart, and hear with thine ears. And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

It all comes down to choice, and intelligent decisions. We either accept the AUTHORITY of the present bogus, usurping, human government by serving and obeying those who will persecute us if we do not; or we will serve Yhwh.

The latter has promised benefits and rewards that are going to be “out of this world”.

Which side do you stand on?

Joshua 24:15-16  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;