Be thou perfect

"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; Walk before me, and be thou perfect." Ge.17,1. "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." Ge. 5:24.

At exactly one year before the coming of the promised son to Abram, God appeared to him

to demand perfection. Enoch who is the seventh from Adam, had the grace and favor to walk before God, i.e. uprightly and in integrity, because he should not see death, but had to be taken up. Whenever God wants to do something great with his family, he demands them to walk with Him in unusual uprightness and integrity.

Hear what David says: "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart." Ps. 15:1-2. In chapter 24, David adds (vers 4) "Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity” “who does not lift up his soul to an idol" (NIV) “Who does not hand over his heart to deception” (Segond). Still we can read more with David "Examine me, O Lord, and prove me, try my reins and my heart, for thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy Truth." Ps. 26:2-3.

Soon God will do great things, namely, to take up his bride at the seventh age after the apostles. Indeed, as Adam who was the father of all the seed died, likewise the apostles who are the fathers of all that believe in Jesus through their word died at the age of Ephesus. All those who followed Adam, up to Jared, the sixth after Adam, and father of Enoch, died. Similarly, after the apostles in the age of Ephesus, followed the age Smyrna, the age of Pergamus, the age of Thyatira, the age of Sardis and the age of Philadelphia, and they passed through death before they see the fulfillment of redemption. But the bride of the seventh age, the Laodicean age, like Enoch, who was the seventh, shall see her redemption without going through death. That is why God brings all back to perfection with her: God requires from her: "Walk before me, be blameless: speak the truth in your heart, do not hand over your soul to vanity, walk in Truth"

"Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!” Lk. 14:15. Those that will take meal in heaven are the same that will abide in the tent of the Lord, that will ascend into the hill of the Lord, that will stand in his holy place (Ps. 24:3): here, it is the rapture of the bride of Christ. You can also be included, if you do not hand over your soul to lie, but walk in the Truth. There are errors to which God could turn a blind eye from the second age to the sixth age, as they were not ages of perfection. But in the first age of the Church, with the apostles, the truth was proclaimed in all its purity. As of the check-out of the Apostles, the Church began to allow in non apostolic doctrines.

Beginning with Martin Luther, at the age of Sardis, God gradually restored the apostolic teachings. Truth should gradually take over its place and hunt deception out. And at the seventh age, God needs to perfect the bride of Christ, she must appear before him without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and blameless (Ep. 5:27). The Word came down from heaven, He was made flesh to dwell with us, and then He ascended back to heaven where He had come from. Similarly, the Church which is expected to be taken up is the Church-Word. Whatever did not come from heaven shall never ascend to heaven: dogmas, precepts, currents, opinions preached in churches without proceeding from heaven shall remain on earth. Only the Word made ​​flesh in the Bride of the Lamb shall ascend to the holy hill of the Lord, because it came from there.

The book of Job shows us three wise men: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. These three wise men developed speeches of wisdom and higher knowledge for days, trying to convince Job to recognize his faults and repent, so that the evil might be removed from him. Their teachings and maxims had an unequalled force of conviction. All readers of this book may find nothing wrong with these wise who, all in all, thought they were advocating the cause of God, "I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker." Job 36:3. It will be very strange to see God's response to these 'advocates of the Most High': "And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, that the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: because ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath" Job 42:7.

Many are they who set themselves up as servants, if not advocates of the cause of God. They speak of God with zeal, passion and utmost; yet as these three men, they do not speak in righteousness: they are just fanatics of God, but the Word of God in their mouth is not Truth. Job spoke of God in righteousness, he was honest, he had the revelation that those who are in Christ are sinless and innocent before God (Ps. 6;9-10; 26:1; Ro. 8:1). Also, by revelation he knew that for us, the innocent ones in Christ, evil does not reach us because of sin we might have committed, as it is written, "He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities." Ps. 103:10; but so that his glory may beam out: "Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents sinned: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." Jn. 9:3.

So Job spoke of God in revelation, his friends spoke of God giving their perception, saying what they thought to be true, "Men of understanding shall be of my view, the wise man who listens to me will think like me" (Segond) Job 34:34. God is against anyone who speaks of him in his perception, or by what he thinks to be true. The servant who walks in righteousness and is upright before God is the one who proclaims the Word of God faithfully, abiding by its wording, without mixing his perception and what he thinks to be right. Eliphaz and his two friends were certain to please God in this business, but how big was their surprise! they were sincere but in the wrong. If you are sincere in your relationship with God, that's already some good thing: now query whether you are not in the wrong. Anyone that is sincere in the wrong, the same is the fanatic or follower. And we should recall that it is the fanaticism of the Jews which called ​​the blood of the righteous to fall on them and their children for generations.

Job was restored in a double portion on his integrity, but the wrath of God was kindled against the fanatics. Soon the Church that walks before God uprightly, which does not hand over her soul to deception, but walks in the truth, shall be restored in the double portion of the fame the Apostolic Church had. And those who speak of God by what they think to be true, and those who amaze the world today by lying miracles shall all be ridiculous.

So there are those who are not upright because they are mistaken, though being sincere. God commands Job to pray for them, that God may forgive them if they repent of their error and walk in the truth. But there are also those who are not upright from the bottom of their heart. Of these all are Jannes and Jambres who knowingly oppose the Truth. And about them, the Spirit expressly says: "But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest to all, as their’s also was." 2Tim. 3:9. Of these are also all Simonists who seek God with a hidden agenda to have the power of the Holy Spirit for magical purposes and ruling over God's people. The Spirit told their great-grandfather Simon the magician, "Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight God. Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity" Ac. 8:21-23.

Those who seek God sincerely and honestly, being not in righteousness or integrity, have been misled by these Jannes and Jambres and Simon the magician. They simply need to turn their souls away from lies, only turn to the truth with all their heart and walk in the Truth, and God shall approve them.

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