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Conscience – Summary, Part 16

[Study Aired February 17, 2024]

Following is a list of the fifteen primary shades of our conscience studied in this series. Further subtleties of the generic “Evil Conscience” could be generalised and further identified. Either way, they, too, will be classified as an “Evil Conscience” to eventually and personally judged with an exclusive “Good Conscience” (1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged).

Accusing and Excusing Conscience
Natural Man’s Conscience
A Defiled Conscience
An Evil Conscience
A Convicting Conscience
A Purged Conscience
An Insensible Conscience
A Good Conscience
An Answering Conscience
A Pure Conscience
A Witnessing Conscience
A Conscience Void of Offence
An Emboldened Conscience
A Weak Conscience
A Seared Conscience

We saw that outside the overwhelming peace of a Good Conscience, founded on daily living Christ’s Laws, lies the many tortures of our disappearing Evil Conscience inherently compelling us to accuse, excuse, hide, and even lie; such is the nature of our flesh from birth formed in corruptible flesh.

Psa 51:5  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. 

Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  

Rom 5:12  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 

Rom 2:12  For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 
Rom 2:13  (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 
Rom 2:14  For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 
Rom 2:15  Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) 
Rom 2:16  In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

We have seen in this Conscience series of studies that our God-designed conscience is a motivational force that compels our flesh to hide from our sins and eventually and unequivocally acknowledge them. The Elect of God will have a 100% guarantee that they will acknowledge their sins preceding the first resurrection. The overwhelming majority of humanity raised to judgment in the Lake of Fire will starkly remember how they terrifyingly died just a seeming instant ago when they are raised at the end of the One-Thousand Year rulership under the rod of iron (there is no memory in death, be the time lapse 6,000 years or 10 seconds before resurrection) only to be raised to more appallingly face the same sins to which they died. 

Rev 20:7  And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
Rev 20:8  And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Rev 20:9  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

There is an indeterminate time between the death of all humanity in verse 9 and the Lake of Fire, which is a symbolic extension of having just been devoured in flames. God, and now humanity in spirit form, are not governed by time.

Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are [everyone ever to exist not in the First Resurrection], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever [age lasting chastising fire. A chastising is useless if it results in a fabled “eternal death”; paradoxically, there is an eternal death of death since it is extinguished forever (Rev 20:4)].

Humanity, now raised to immortality and nightmarish spiritual blackness with most retaining the memory and strong delusion of writhing in a literally burning hell forever, will recall every harrowing nuance of conscience these studies in part identify for them to 100% acknowledge their sins. Upon their books being opened before them to be judged by their own mouths, they will be returned to outer darkness and have a symbolic seventeen-year timeframe to mull their frightful uncertainty, typified by Joseph’s brothers upon seeing him, their ‘savior’ from famine (Joseph representing Christ) alive. The irony will be that they will wish for death, and being spirit, they will not find death since death is being consumed in the same fire they find their anguished selves.

Gen 50:15  And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father [Jacob] was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite [H7725 – ‘turn back’ for vengeance upon them] us all the evil which we did unto him. 
Gen 50:16  And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, 
Gen 50:17  So shall ye [Everyone in the Resurrection to Judgement facing the fire] say unto Joseph [Christ and his Christs], Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

These following verses happen to the entire world at the return of Christ and disparagingly again upon their resurrection to judgment – the Lake of Fire. It is only the Elect of God who, by Christ’s faith and with joyful amazement in this age, receive those mountains and rocks falling on their Babylonian falsehoods. They have no wish to hide from the face of their Husband, knowing that He will cause them to gloriously “stand” before Him dressed in His white robes (Rev 19:6-10 and later, the world in Revelation 7:9-10).

Rev 6:15  And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 
Rev 6:16  And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 
Rev 6:17  For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

It is easier for us, by our Lord’s strength with a trembling heart, to look now upon every nuance of our evil consciences being burnt up in this timeframe before Christ’s return. How much more will those in the Lake of Fire, ‘the rich men’, without the knowledge of Christ’s commands we have, be utterly tortured mentally by the “great gulf” fixed between them and Christ’s Bride while figuratively asking Lazarus (the Bride) to dip ‘her’ finger in water to cool their parched tongues (Luke 15:18-31).

In the meantime, in these seeming last days before the return of Christ, the world is gleefully gulping down every last drop of amplified sins, outshining Egypt, Old Jerusalem, Sodom and Babylon’s debauchery. Every person ever to exist, and in their time, will have gluttonously drunk their fill of customised evil that this world and their associated hatred for Christ’s doctrines violently enslave. The Elect of God is experiencing in this age the learned joy of downing every remaining drop of our Lord’s wrath from His cup of correction to be deemed worthy to impose a merciful double portion according to their works on their brothers and sisters in the Resurrection to Judgment (Rev 18:5-8).

Isa 30:1  Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Isa 30:2  That walk to go down into Egypt [Babylon], and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh [Oneself/mankind], and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

Jer 25:26  And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach [another name for Babylon, the world] shall drink after them.
Jer 25:27  Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you [In the Resurrection to Judgement, don’t you think that a flood of memories of evil consciences will cause these folk to deeply desire to die under the hail of rocks? Ironically, they will, His word].
Jer 25:28  And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.

Notice in verse 26 of Jeremiah 25 that the location of the world’s kingdoms far and near is in the north and is where judgment comes for self-judgment (Jer 11:5-16, Psa 75:6-7, Jer 1:15-16, Jer 50:3, Jer 50:41). Spiritually, it means that the kings of the world, and particularly individually in our heavens, it is we who have ascended to the pinnacle of physical and imagined spiritual wealth of the north and now sit on God’s throne, effectively stating that we are God (certain elements of the WEF and others are blatantly stating that blasphemy today). She is Babylon within, inclusive of the outside world who drinks from the same cup of filth identified as “after them” ~ the Lord’s Elect. That “them” are the Lord’s remnant who are given to first believe in Christ’s word and go before Sheshach and drink the cup of the Lord’s wrath. Today, they tremble at the Lord’s word, and every undertone of conscience starkly convicts them to be given to remain bound in the simplicity of a “good conscience”. Afterward, the world follows along in the Great Harvest of Souls in the Resurrection to Judgment, the Lake of Fire, to have their consciences temporarily (for however long the Lord deems necessary ~ 17 = 10+7) mentally, meaning, spiritually tormented for purification in the process of the “creation of God.”

Rev 3:14  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;

Joh 10:34  Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods [remembering that there is one God, the Father of us all, bringing mankind into himself as one God]?

In Jeremiah 25:27, the “them” is speaking of Israel, who is first to be severely chastised for the fullness of time represented as “seventy years” (Psa 90:10, Jer 29:10-13) and for the spiritually discerned, subtly represents Egypt, Sodom, and Old Jerusalem collectively represented as Babylon within us today! The Lord’s Elect are the first to drink from the very same cup Jesus gave His disciples to drink at the Passover, symbolising the same chastising event to all mankind. We all initially drink from the same cup of putrified doctrines of men until we are drunk on our self-righteousness, fall down and spew on its strong delusion of claiming to be god by the power of our strength.

It is the Lord’s plan that man is created from the dust of the earth, corruptible as an experience of evil to humble him. Verse 28 of Jeremiah 25 peals the thunder of God’s command that we all “shall certainly drink” the flesh of every imaginable corruption opposed to God to satiate our cravings until the symbolic quails vomit (Num 11:18-20) from our nostrils. Today, the upwards bell curve of worldwide corruption that is sanitised as inclusive, non-judgmental and loving is breathtaking. The modern ‘Pharisees’ against the putridness of the world are more guilty spiritually since they, our brothers in Orthodox Christianity, believe that they hold the oracles of God, not aware of the strong delusion that they are not now saved while advocating fighting for God, as formally did Peter and the Jewish Christians in Jesus’ time.

Joh 18:10  Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus. 
Joh 18:11  Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? 

Joh 18:36  Jesus answered [Pilate], My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

We have graphically seen from this Conscience series of studies that every sin is associated with our conscience, and we are learning not to “accuse” others and “excuse” ourselves but rather admit that we individually (and as a collective) are that man of sin (2Sa 12:7-13), the “son of perdition” (2Th 2:1-12) who has drunk every last drop of the cup Christ drank, only He without sin.

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and [the Elect first, followed by the world] fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church: 
Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; [we drink the same cup]
Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints [the Elect of God only in this age and later in the Resurrection to Judgement]: 
Col 1:27  To whom God would [will] make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles [the world inclusive of Gentile Christianity]; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: 
Col 1:28  Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
Col 1:29  Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

The beautifully understood paradox is that the cup of the Lord’s wrath upon mankind has a positive cup of pure love called Christ, the new wine of truth and purity that is Him and He in us.

In the expectation of never having to account for an “Evil Conscience”, I am unashamedly known to endlessly and with immense joy repeat,

Son 1:2  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.