He Who has Ears to Hear


	Chapter Eleven He Who has Ears to Hear Part Six It was only after King James himself commissioned the new English translation at the Council of Hampton and the fallout over the Gunpowder Plot that Catholics were commanded to take an oath of allegiance to King James and denounce the Pope. Only here in history did Roman Catholics voluntarily come and worship before the feet of the king named James, who was the head of the Anglican Church and their earthly king. We read further of the lasting effects of the failed Catholic Gunpowder plot in “The Stuart Century” by S. Reed Brett: “But the real effect of the plot was to be seen not so much in Parliamentary statutes as in the reaction of the mass of the people. A howl of execration against Roman Catholics went up on every side. The common folk did not stay to draw nice distinctions between different kinds of degrees of Catholics. In the eyes of the nation all Catholics were alike traitors. The Marian persecution had already made Roman Catholicism odious and precluded its return as the State religion. These effects were confirmed and intensified by the Gunpowder Plot.” S. Reed Brett, The Stuart Century, (London, Great Britain: George G. Harrap & Co. LTD, 1961) p. 29 Therefore, coupled with the spread of English power and might, through the power of the Word of God preserved in the King James Bible, our Lord fought against those of the church of Pergamos exactly as He promised in Rev.2:16: *“Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.”* This our Lord did by the fruit of a king named James. It was here that papal authority began a worldwide decline by the power of God’s Word as promised. It was at his feet as the king of England that the Roman Catholics of the synagogue of Satan did, by oath of supremacy, worship at “thy” feet as prophesied in the Book of Revelation. It was by this king that the Word of God was faithfully preserved, held custody of and faithfully copied. “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.” Here the Lord states that He knows their works: they kept His Word and they did not deny His name. What does it mean to keep His Word? First, it means to observe, practice and adhere to His Word. Certainly, the godly men of the seventeenth century placed their trust in the Lord with a zeal that lead them to worship Him from morning to evening every Sunday. The Bible formed the basis of English law during this time and immorality was not tolerated. Second, the word *“keep”* has several other meanings that apply to those that preserved the Word of God in the King James Bible: Keep -To preserve or maintain. -To guard, defend. -To have the care of. -To continue to hold. -To cause to remain. -To tend -To have custody. This was the work accomplished by King James himself when he defended, cared for, preserved, tended, kept custody, and maintained God’s Holy Word by his “special command.” But the most important work accomplished in this translation stems from a retrospective look at the weightiest meaning of the word to keep: to copy carefully. King James supported “one more exact Translation of the Holy scriptures into the English; . . .” that is now also known by the eponym “The Authorized Version.” We read on the title page: THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENTS TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATION DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND. The word diligently means “with steady application and care.” This is the work that these men accomplished in the diligent, careful translation of the Holy Bible, exactly interpreting from the original languages into the “English Tongue.” They carefully observed the conformity of the truth from the original languages and carefully copied and preserved the Word of God not only for England, but as history reveals, for the whole world. Unto King James, God opened the “door of faith” by the Holy gospel. The Lord opened the door of salvation through His Word throughout the World. The synagogue of Satan could no longer stand before His Word as the Lord fought against the “church of Pergamos” exactly as He had promised. The open door began with the first earthly king to widely distribute the Holy Scriptures to all people. The Lord gave this church age a *“little strength”* and the gospel and religious liberty prevailed in many nations throughout the earth. This began in 1611. Stating that the church of Philadelphia starts in 1730 or 1750 with the great missionary movement ignores the truth of God’s Word and the truth of history that shows the decline of papal power starting in 1611 with the King James Bible. The decline of papal power started 150 years earlier than credit is given by those who site the above dates as the starting time. Likewise, who can show any missionary that can fulfill the prophecy of the synagogue of Satan: 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. For the Lord to require any man to worship at the feet of another man, it can only be through the civil reverence that the Lord commands us in giving honour unto whom honour is due: “Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.” Romans 13:7 The word worship in Revelation 3:9 means in the original Greek to “prostrate oneself in homage.” In Webster’s 1828 dictionary, it lists worship as: To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.” Several observations must be kept in mind with this verse. First and foremost, who is speaking. There is no place in the Scriptures that the Lord requires any man to fall at the feet of another man unless that man is in authority. Therefore, since it is the Lord Jesus Himself speaking in this verse, the word worship can not be in reference to worshipping God. Secondly, the Scriptures do command that we submit ourselves to the laws of man: “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.” (I Peter 2:13-14) Thus, if one is commanded to honour the king by prostrating yourself before his feet, if this is the expected custom, then the Lord commands us to submit to this civil reverence. For that reason, this verse is prophetically speaking of the Lord placing the Roman Catholics at the feet of a ruler who has kept and preserved the Word of God. There is only one king in the history of the world that has fulfilled this prophecy. His name is King James I & VI of England and Scotland. The great missionaries of the 1700’s and the 1800’s cannot fulfill this prophecy. Therefore, the dates of the “Missionary church” set forth as 1750 cannot be substantiated by a close study of the Word of God alone. Therefore, in this second letter to the churches, by the word of the “Faithful Witness,” Jesus Christ Himself, he establishes by two separate witnesses the beginning of the church age delineated by the church of Philadelphia. By the Word of God alone we see: 1) The witness of God’s Word fighting against the evil of the Vatican through the King James Bible and the “open door” of salvation. 2) The witness of the synagogue of Satan (i.e. the Roman Catholics) coming to worship (give civil reverence) to the king of England after he “kept” and “authorized” the translation we now call either the “Authorized version” or simply the King James Version. Both of these prophecies were fulfilled by the time that the King James Bible was distributed to all the people of England in 1611 from the king’s printers. The letter ends with a promise to those who overcome. “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name." Thus, the Lord Himself has given the starting point and completion point for this church age prophetically predicted by the church of Philadelphia. Stating that this church age begins in 1750 as the great missionary churches ignores the fruits of the King James Bible for nearly one hundred and fifty years. Please review the Scriptures listed above and prayerfully consider the truth of the study on the church of Philadelphia. Stating that the church of Philadelphia begins in 1750 ignores the labour of the man named King James himself. Stating that the church of Philadelphia begins in 1750 ignores the *“faithful witness”* and His promise to fight against them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, and that cause His people to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication. During the time of reformation when the Roman Catholic pontiff still had rule over the kings of the earth, the Word of God was shackled by false teachers. The Lord who will carry the government upon His shoulders took back the temporal power of the government over the church that Constantine had stolen by the false doctrine of Balaam. The Lord used the temporal power and might of the English monarchy to reestablish freedom of worship and freedom to read the Word of God openly. This is what history teaches if you carefully study it. Jesus only can open and no man close and shut and no man open. He sets up the kings of the earth and turns their heart wither so ever He will. The temporal power of papal Rome declined by the work of no man but by the Word of God alone, freely reigning over the hearts and minds of men. The *“Faithful Witness”* so testifies. The Lord has conquered the synagogue of Satan which say that they are Jews and are not and do lie, by the sword of His mouth which are the Holy Scriptures alone. The triumph was immediate and widespread as prophesied by the Lord Himself. This is the testimony of Jesus, the faithful witness concerning the time of the church of Philadelphia. The testimony of the good fruit of the King James Bible is the knowledge that the KJV has been the focus of all heartfelt revivals in the last four hundred years. The church of Philadelphia is much more than just the “missionary” church that most commentators declare. In fact, with out the King James Version, there would not have been a significant missionary movement with the Roman Catholic hierarchy still in place. This hierarchy fell only by the sword of *“my mouth”* which is the Word of God. The church of Philadelphia is the age of heartfelt worldwide revival brought about by the open distribution of the Holy Scriptures by the order, decree and authorization of a king named James. The King James Bible is the fruit of a king named James and by his fruits we do know him. Laodicians - The lukewarm church - 1900 to the Second Coming: “And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” Revelation 3:14-22 The church of Laodiceans is a church that has no commendations from the Lord. It is the church that the Lord will spue (vomit) from His mouth. It is a church that thinks highly of itself, but is instead poor and blind and wretched and naked. The church of Laodiceans is the church age that we are living in today. The beginning of this church age is witnessed by two separate items. First, the Lord testifies against the Darwinian theory of evolution by stating that He is *“the beginning of the creation of God.”* Second, He is the *“true and faithful witness”* which testifies against the perversion of His Word from the Alexandrian cults that first became widely popular with the Revised Standard Version around 1900. This was the age of questioning God’s word, questioning God’s creation and exalting the creature instead of the Creator. Yet, the Word of God states differently: 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. . . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” (John 1:1-3 & 14) The church of Laodiceans are “lukewarm.” “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” This is the age of tolerance, the age of acceptance of all things considered abominations by God such as homosexuality, lesbianism, fornication, adultery and all manner of sins of the flesh. This is the age of “love” without understanding the sacrifice of true love that the *“faithful witness”* gave for our sins. The simple interpretation of this phrase is given later in the same passage: “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” The Lord wishes that we were *“hot”* or *“zealous,”* but instead we are lukewarm, tolerating evil when we should rebuke it. The Lord wishes that we were *“cold”* and that we would *“repent,”* but instead we are lukewarm, and we relish our sinful flesh. Nearly every child that has attended a fundamental Christian church in our age can quote or possibly would recognize Philippians 4:13 if asked: *“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”* Yet how many teachers would recognize Philippians 4:12: “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” Here, Paul demonstrates that he knows how to be both “hot and cold,” to be zealous and to repent, to both abound and to suffer need. The hallmark of the church of Laodiceans is that of spiritual indifference and shame. *“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”* Yet, those of this church age can not see their nakedness because their eyes have been blinded by false doctrine and unrepentant hearts. They have seared their conscience with a hot iron. “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked:” The church of the Laodiceans have let that “women” leaven all three measures of meal. Yes, in this church, even those churches that came from the lineage of the one true church, these have also let their guard down and have not earnestly contended for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints: “Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.” Matthew 13:33 This is the church of the Laodiceans who tolerate the evil “woman” and her MYSTERY BABYLON sun god religion, enjoying Easter bunnies and Easter eggs and keeping the worship days of the pagans, and so teaching them as the doctrines of God when they are instead nothing but the traditions of men that make the commandments of God of none effect. This is the church of the Laodiceans that lifts up the scholarship and theology of the *“woman”* who has sought to destroy the Word of God for nearly two thousand years. This is the church that teaches the false doctrine that only the original manuscripts were preserved, thereby leaving the novice at risk of not believing in the divine preservation of His Holy Word. This is the church that is filled with carnal riches, but has not sought the higher things of God from His Word alone. This is the church that says it is rich but is instead blind and wretched and naked. The Lord offers a remedy for the spiritual decadence of this church age: “I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.” The Lord gives first of all a warning in the phrase, *“I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire.”* This phrase is used in the Bible only three times. Here in the book of Revelation and then in I Peter 1:7: “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” This is a direct warning to the church of Laodiceans to stand up through the trials of faith unto the praise and honour of His appearing. The sense of warning of pending judgment is even more clearly heard when reading the third place in the Bible that this phrase is found on the great and terrible “Day of the Lord:” “And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” Zechariah 13:8-9 Please take special note that each set of these verses that use this phrase have a reference to the return of our Lord either for the church or for Israel. There are many that are blinded to the simple fact that the Lord will test the faith of His church before the rapture. In Luke chapter seventeen, the Scriptures speak of the time of the end: “And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.” (Luke 17:26) The book of Genesis records only that the earth was corrupt and filled with violence. So shall it be before the return of the Lord. This is one of the signs of the times that we are to look for. The Scriptures proceed to give us another sign of the times in this same chapter: “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” (Luke 17:28-30) Just as we can easily see the violence and corruption taking hold of every aspect of life in this country and throughout the world, so also does the book of Genesis illuminate the times of Lot that is both a sign of the times and a direct warning to the church of this age. It was the sodomites that surrounded Lot and went to break down his door. It was the sodomites that accused Lot of judging them. It was the sodomites that came to abuse the two men of God. So likewise shall it be in the days of the Son of man: “And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs by a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that the wearied themselves to find the door.” Genesis 19:9-11 Who can dispute that we are vexed by the sodomites in America today with same sex “marriages” performed by the mayor of San Francisco against the stated constitution of California. “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.” (II Peter 2: 6-9) The United States of America is in the process of fulfilling this prophecy before our very eyes. The end result of this process is that the sodomites will come to break down our doors. The righteous will be delivered but not before they are vexed by the ungodly and the unlawful. They will accuse us of being their judge. In fact my fellow brethren in the Word, the persecution by the sodomites has already become the law of the land in Canada where in 2002, a Canadian tribunal declared that the Bible is hate literature. Therefore, anyone that quotes the Bible regarding the sin of the sodomites can be and have already been prosecuted and convicted by our northern neighbor. Are you ready, my fellow brethren in the Lord to stand for the Lord in this time of spiritual decadence and carnal tolerance? Are you ready to put on the righteous robes of holiness and forsake the sins of this world? “. . . and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear,” Or will you continue in the temptations of the world that is even now in our churches and homes. The children of this world have rejected God’s Holy Word. “And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.” (Mark 4:13-15) Likewise, the Lord tells of their destruction by strong delusion because they do not have a love of the truth: “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.” II Thessalonians 2: 10-12 The church of Laodiceans is cautioned to anoint their eyes with eyesalve so that they might see: “. . . and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.” In II Peter, the Scriptures tell us what this eyesalve is: “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” II Peter 1: 3-11 Consequently, the shame of the church age of Laodiceans is that most members of this church are still in the world and are still carnal. They bless themselves in their worldly riches but are poor toward the things of God: “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind and naked:” There are also many who have not considered the cost of discipleship so that when persecution and affliction come, they will fall away. The terrible truth of the churches of the Laodicean age is that there will be few present before the Lord in the kingdom and the others will be lost because of cares of the world and of shallow spirituality that has no true knowledge of the Lord: “And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they ore offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.” Mark 4: 16-19 Wherefore then, how can any man be saved in this age? Simply as in all other times, by the hearing of God’s Word and by the faith of the works that He did at Calvary. “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all would come to repentance.” (II Peter 3:9) The Lord tells all of this church of the Laodiceans how to be saved and how to make sure of our election and calling: *“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.”* The Lord is the evangelist of this age and promises to everyman everywhere that He will come and knock on the door of faith and salvation: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” This is the seed that is sown in the good ground: “And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred. Mark 4: 20 We have now come full circle in our discussion of Revelation chapters two and three. We started with the Biblical truth that faith comes from the hearing of God’s Word. In Romans 10:17, the Bible states: “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” We have further explored the parables of the kingdom of heaven, God, the Father, and the Son of man showing that they are all speaking of the new covenant which is the church bought with a great price. The parables are given for understanding only to those who have an ear to hear. May it be that all that read of the mysteries and parables of the kingdom of heaven would have ears to hear: “And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” Mark 4: 11-12 May it be also that the believers of this age would understand the great price that the Lord paid with His own shed blood for His church and for His Bride. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.” Matthew 13: 44-46 In Matthew 13: 37-38, the field is the world for which the Lord Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world. The treasure is the church that was hidden and ordained from before the world was created. (I Corinthians 2: 6-8) The pearl of great price is also the church that the Lord has bought with His own body. Please take special note that the Lord considered the price that it would cost Him before the foundations of the earth were laid and that He sold all to purchase this great treasure and this pearl of great price. For we are bought with a price and we are to glorify God in our body and in our spirit: “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” I Corinthians 6: 19-20 My fellow brethren in Christ, we are all bought with a great price and we shall all stand before the Lord Jesus to give an account of all those things that we have done in our body whether good or bad. We shall all reap as we have sown and the Bible also states that we shall all suffer loss. I write this small essay unto you that you might be persuaded, knowing the terror of the Lord. Return to Home Page (www.kjv1611revealed.com)