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Jo Kelly | PentecostalTheology.com
~WHO IS THE BRANCH?~
Scripture declares “the BRANCH” to be the Lord, Himself. He builds the temple of the Millennial, not a literal temple in the time of tribulation, although one may be allowed to be erected by men.
The Lord will not be born again, as suggested, as he arose in a new spiritual body and lives forever. We, as born again believers, are the body of Christ on earth called “living stones” of the NT tabernacle, or temple of God that Christ is still building on earth, until the very last “lively stone” or pebble has been added to the whole building and assembly.
Christ tabernacles in us, today, not in earthly temples made with hands. Antichrists, Satan, and demons all desire to infilterate this spiritual temple of living stones God builds and set themselves up, as “if a god on earth.” They desire to do so before the invisible God of heaven visably appears in clouds of glory to every eye and defeats them. He hda Satan bound in the bottomless pit, for 1000 years, and casts the beast and false prophet into the Lake of Fire at His coming to the earth..
It matters not if men in Jerusalem erect a building, or a tent; as was the first tabernacle in the wilderness. If God’s people assemble together, there, Antichrist can declare in the midst of the living stones to be God, among, or in, any tabernacle or tent, called God’s, that men may erect. We are God’s tabernacle but many who call themselves “lively stones” have been corrupted by sin, such as many in the seven churches at Turkey, in Asia Minor, as seen in the Book of Revelation. Some left their first love, became lukewarm, lied, sinned, and are seen as being spewed out into tribulation as a result.
Peter explained the house or tabernacle of God is now being built on earth, one stone at a time. 1 Peter 2: 5…….”You also, as living stones, are BUILT UP into a spiritual HOUSE , a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
Paul also explained the temple Jesus built under grace. 1 Cor. 3: 16….”Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?” Paul further taught in Ephesians 2: 22: “In whom ye also are BUILDED together for an HABITATION of God through the Spirit.” He said, in 1 Cor. 3: 16–“Know you not that you are the TEMPLE of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?”
Ephesians 2: 21: “In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy TEMPLE in the Lord:”. QUESTION…..Can Antichrist, or earthly men, defile their temple or building of God, individually, or corporately, by transgression, blasphemy, etc? Paul warns us in 1 Cor. 3: 17 and teaches this truth, “If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, WHICH temple you are.”
God does not dwell or live in earthly temples but inhabits (dwells) in the praises of His people, his habitation in the midst go His living stones built together as His house..
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There can NEVER be another Jesus born, as some suggest, or incarnate on the earth, as the only begotten Son of God, God in flesh. The Church of the Almighty God, also known as “Eastern Lightening”…falsely teaches and claims Jesus has already returned back to earth and was incarnated in the body of a Chinese woman, and is now judging people. Beware of such deception, especially teachings with pictures that are being tagged by these people on the timelines of many Christians on FB! This group goes by different named.
This same Jesus who ascended will descend in like manner as He was seen ascending to heaven. The BRANCH is the one and only Jesus Christ, foretold in Scripture, and will fulfill every jot and title of prophecy. There is going to be a remnant of believers reconciled in Jerusalem at His coming who ARE the temple of God He is still building on earth, at His coming. Antichrist and Satan’s defilement among any of His body on earth will be eliminated at the return of the MESSIAH to earth.
Isaiah prophesied and said, “A SHOOT will come up from the STUMP of Jesse; from his ROOTS a BRANCH will bear fruit” (11:1). Jeremiah announces that one day in the future the Lord will raise up for David a “righteous BRANCH, ” who will reign as the rightful heir to the throne (23:5). Zechariah prophecies that this royal BRANCH will be the one who will rebuild the temple (6:12-13).
In Genealogy, offspring of ancestors are symbolically called BRANCHES of the family tree, beginning with the known common ancestor of history. The BRANCH of the Scriptures is foretold in prophecy as being a “RIGHTEOUS BRANCH” and is of the ROOT and OFFSPRING of David, from his father, JESSE.
Isaiah defines and describes this coming and person, and the details of his descent from Jesse, Father of King David.
Isaiah 1: 11 And there shall come forth a rod out of the STEM of Jesse, and a BRANCH shall grow out of his ROOTS:
2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
4 But with righteousness shall HE JUDGE the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
1. NO ONE can fulfill the Scriptures above except the only RIGHTEOUS ONE.
2. NO ONE can judge or smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, but the RIGHTEOUS ONE.
3. NO ONE can slay the wicked with the breath if his lips but the RIGHTEOUS ONE.
Isaiah 53: 2….2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender PLANT, and as ROOT out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
The Scriptures tell us specifically who “the BRANCH” refers to and his earthly Genealogy, as to royalty, as well as being righteous, eternal, heavenly royalty. Jesus descended from the Davidic line and is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
John wrote, “4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. 5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the ROOT of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
May the BRANCH be glorified who was, is, and is to come!
Baruch Ha Ba B’Shem Adonai
by- Jo Ann Kelly
J. P.’s Inspirations-2018
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Oduol Michaels
All this is sham Jo Kelly. It does not follow the text as it is!
Jo Kelly
Oduol Michaels…..If it were as you ( falsely accuse), you would be able to prove what you claim, by Scriptures. However, we understand you cannot refute rightfully truths of Scripture. Not only does it follow texts, but rightfully divides texts. In the mouth of two or three witnesses ever word is established. I gave you more than three witnesses to establish facts. Your words are the recognized “”sham.”. The truth can set free from one’s own ideas and agree with God’s Word, Oduol.
Oduol Michaels
Your confirmations are fake. My question was very simple. Yeshua (Jesus) is not coming until after the son of perdition sits on the temple of God as God. This temple is not the people but a brick and mortar temple. Your interpretation is corroded. So in our bodies as the temple of God, where will the abominations of desolation be?
The Great Apostasy
2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of [a]Christ had come.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of [b]sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits [c]as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4.
Oduol Michaels
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits [c]as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Jo Kelly
Study the Scriptures, Oduol, learn who the BRANCH is and where God says He dwells today. What was the tabernacle in the wilderness? It was a portable structure, a tent of meeting, and the tent or building itself is not the tabernacle God dwells in, today, but it is His people He dwells in. Moses had a tent of meeting. Then God gave him instructions for another tent, or tabernacle, with curtains, etc. They offered sacrifices. There was the temple in Jerusalem, for sacrifices, but the members of His church are His sanctuary, today, and we are a living sanctuary, as he does not dwellm
not a building made with hands. From what I understand, curtains have already been made by Jews for a tent of meeting, called tabernacle by them, of God. Have you never read of Jerusalem, itself, being called a tabernacle, or tent in the day of the Lord? The Prophet, Isaiah, l said, “Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a TABERNACLE that shall not be taken down; not one of its stakes shall ever be removed, neither shall any of its cords be broken.”
Oduol Michaels
Jo Kelly: –
You can give very many descriptions, but all in all we are the people of God. And we perish because of lack of knowledge, and this is the reward:
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Hosea 4:6.
In this I can judge very many things in the churches and conclude the reason why God shall forsake the Churches as being His priests. So there shall be one Lord and master instead of these many Churches. He will chose for a leader for all the Churches:
8 But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’; for One is your [a]Teacher, [b]the Christ, and you are all brethren.
9 Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.
10 And do not be called teachers; for One is your Teacher, the Christ.
11 But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
12 And whoever exalts himself will be [c]humbled, and he who humbles himself will be [d]exalted.
Matthew 23:8-12.
Jo Kelly
Oduol, study to show yourself approved! You talk bad about women,claiming they are to dress like Muslims, which is false, are not to teach, etc., as you evidently do not know the truth. Have you never studied how Apollis was taught a more EXCELLENT way by a New Testament WOMAN who helped Paul, as did her husband? Understand this, there was no church in Hosea’s day except the church of the wilderness, as to Israel. They were specifically spoken to and admonished, and punished. This is instruction for you. The warnings given Israel told of their moral state and we do not have that moral state, who are true believers and are definitely not perishing but very much alive in Christ! Read verses 1 and 2 as to their sins! Thank God, we who are true beluevers have been delivered because we have inowledge in the land! LESSON….Get knowledge by seeking God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit or one can fall as these.
Oduol Michaels
Jo kelly: –
You are very ignorant. If you wife washed the clothes of your friend when you sit down on the table to instruct him, is that teaching Him. But since you and your wife are one, and you have both agreed to serve God, that means that you are both working to enrich God’s mission. That is subjection to the wife. Actually you are both teaching the Church. God cannot contradict His law. You pic the verse by Apollos, and you forget what Abraham told Sarah when God appeared to Him. It was the same Sarah that was used by Peter as an example of what the Church women should be. She used to call his man Lord and not by his name Abraham:
Submission to Husbands
3 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives,
2 when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear.
3 Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel—
4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the [a]incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
5 For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands,
6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.
1 Peter 3:1-6.
PLEASE READ THE DETAILS OF THE TEXT, WOMAN!
Oduol Michaels
AND YOU CONDEMN ME BY USING THE NAME WOMEN. FOR ME THE LAW IS THE LAW, WHETHER YOU HAVE A BIG MOUTH OR NOT. EVEN THE FALLEN ANGEL CALLED LUCIFER (SHINING ONE) WHO WAS GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL WAS CONDEMNED BY GOD IN HIS GREATNESS. YOU ARE NOT ANY SPECIAL JO KELLY, AND IT IS THE TEXT THAT IS DECLARING THAT YOU ARE LACKING UNDERSTANDING:
10 Yet the fortified city will be desolate,
The habitation forsaken and left like a wilderness;
There the calf will feed, and there it will lie down
And consume its branches.
11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them,
And He who formed them will show them no favor.
Isaiah 27:10-11.
HIGHLIGHTS IS THE LAST PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURES. I AM NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE FORTIFIED CITY, BUT ABOUT THE NATURE OF WOMEN. AND MY MAIN ISSUE HERE IS THAT YESHUA (JESUS) WHO CREATED YOU IS THE ONE WHO SHALL NOT SHOW YOU FAVOR, AND HE WILL NOT HAVE MERCY ON YOU WOMEN. AND WE ALL KNOW THE PROPHECY ABOUT THE BRANCH. HIS FRUIT SHALL BE SWEET TO ALL MEN WHEN SEVEN WOMEN IN THE CHURCH WILL TAKE A HOLD OF ONE MAN AND GIVE HIM THEIR BODY AND FOR MARRIAGE. AND THEY WILL NOT ALSO DEMAND THE MAN TO WORK FOR THEM AS THEIR SLAVE. THEY WILL MAKE MEN TO BE KINGS AND PRIESTS TO GOD AS CHRIST IS:
16 Moreover the Lord says:
“Because the daughters of Zion are haughty,
And walk with [a]outstretched necks
And [b]wanton eyes,
Walking and [c]mincing as they go,
Making a jingling with their feet,
17 Therefore the Lord will strike with a scab
The crown of the head of the daughters of Zion,
And the Lord will uncover their secret parts.”
18 In that day the Lord will take away the finery:
The jingling anklets, the [d]scarves, and the crescents;
19 The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils;
20 The headdresses, the leg ornaments, and the headbands;
The perfume boxes, the charms,
21 and the rings;
The nose jewels,
22 the festal apparel, and the mantles;
The outer garments, the purses,
23 and the mirrors;
The fine linen, the turbans, and the robes.
24 And so it shall be:
Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench;
Instead of a sash, a rope;
Instead of well-set hair, baldness;
Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth;
And [e]branding instead of beauty.
25 Your men shall fall by the sword,
And your [f]mighty in the war.
26 Her gates shall lament and mourn,
And she being desolate shall sit on the ground.
Isaiah 3:16-26.
Therefore:
Jerusalem’s Glorious Future
4 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying,
“We will eat our own food and wear our own apparel;
Only let us be called by your name,
To take away our reproach.”
The Renewal of Zion
2 In that day the Branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious;
And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and appealing
For those of Israel who have escaped.
3 And it shall come to pass that he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy—everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem. 4 When the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and purged the [a]blood of Jerusalem from her midst, by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning,
Isaiah 4:1-4.