The Coming Out of the Elect of God
by the Watchman Dana G Smith
keywords: Elect, God, LORD, Jesus, Christ, Gentiles, Babylon
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Today the witness is growing daily as more speak out against the possibility of America staying as it is. Especially in the alternative media, television, radio, and the internet. The only ones who seem devoid of knowing what is going on is the media big three or four should I say. These would be ABC news, NBC news, CBS news, and Fox. Then add to this CNN, and myriad of newspapers who also seem to be in a fail safe mode. That is, the blindness, one sided approach, and socio-economic agenda that relates more to Stalin era policies than our own Constitutional Republic, which today is virtually dead. The consensus seems to be that we are or have been a Democracy, but today with our current administration in the White house, the socialist agenda and European political aspirations have taken over.

Of course, the above statements come from my belief that what is going on is the judgment of God upon this nation. As well, that this judgment will continue in waves and as a woman in the heaves of birth, called lovingly ‘birth pangs’ here. But we know that during the ‘birth pangs’ there is nothing loving about that. In fact, it brings the one giving birth to near death in the birthing process, so to speak that is. This nation today, no doubt, along with all the nations will face the most traumatic times in history.
It is here that I introduce you to the ‘Coming out of the Elect of God’, which in some camps relate the word Elect here to mean the nation of Israel in scripture, especially found in Revelation. I do not argue the fact that God chose the Hebrew nation, revealed himself to them, brought our Jewish Messiah through the line of David. The Lord also chose to bring in the Gentiles here through this Messiah and for you let it be known I am talking about Jesus Christ, which is his English name. For the Lord fulfilled all the prophecies and law given regarding him and we also call him his Hebrew messianic name, i.e. Y’Shua Ha Massiach. Of course some of the spelling variants apply here to Messiah, Messiach, Massiach etc. We know, of course, to whom we speak. Isaiah speaks to this Messiah coming and his book is filled with Prophecies concerning the Son, who was to come, has come, and is coming again.

A Light to the Gentiles

Isaiah 49:6  And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Isaiah 49:8  Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
9  That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
10  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
11  And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
12  Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
13  ¶Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the LORD hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.

For the purpose of this article, however, the ‘Elect’ of God is described as those who through faith in Y’Shua, Jesus Christ and having received him by faith, follow him as LORD, keeping his commandments as he said too!  These are both male and female, Jew and Gentile, having become one in Christ Jesus.

Receiving Christ!

John 1:11  He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
John 1:16  And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Keeping Christ’s Commands!

John 14:21  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
Acts 1:2  Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

The Covenant of Promise, Blessing of Abraham!

Galatians 3:14  That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3:22  But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Galatians 3:26  For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.29  And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

It is to that end, however that by faith, having believed in and trusted Christ Jesus who was sent by God the Father, we of the Gentiles, that is all nations and peoples who are not the Hebrews have seen the light and come out of grave darkness. It is that walk, however that we in America especially have had trouble, for the time span of decades have seen much division, trouble, argument, hatred, bitterness, strife, and carnal affections within our fellowships.

For instance when I speak of Commandments, the church in America thinks Law. This three lettered word “law” for the church in America brings fright. For to walk in this so called “Law” from the gentile American perspective is to walk out of salvation. But the truth is, Jesus said to keep his commandments. A word search of this word commandments in the new testament alone brings many scriptures to bear. There is no doubt, we are under grace, saved by the faith in Jesus, through his blood. This is the blood of the covenant, as Jesus the Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed for the sins of many. But to what I speak now, that is ‘commandments’ directly points to the people of God walking in what Paul called the ‘spirit’. For the deeds of the flesh fulfill the curse and the sin that will destroy us, but the deeds and walking in the Spirit will bring us into that place where we please the LORD. Now for many in the church just using the word commandment here is enough to turn them off. Lest you do so also, let me remind you of the scriptures above, “if you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love” so said the LORD himself. You cannot simply shred away his commandments from the Christian life, if you do, then you walk as a ‘child of disobedience’.  But this article is not on convincing you to keep commandments, it is on ‘coming out of Babylon’.

Come out of her, my people

Revelation 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

The word ‘out of’ above means “from, out of a certain place.” Remember Lot, he came ‘out of’ Sodom along with his family. He was warned not to look back. His wife did so and became a pillar of Salt. What this tells us is that to come ‘out of ‘ Babylon, or any other place that has such ‘spirit of harlotry’ in it, means that we cannot come out just physically, but we must have a regenerated heart and soul in Christ. It is to that end, we must strive, for we are not of this world. We live in it, but we have overcome the lusts and desires through the LORD and the supply of his Spirit all bound up in the promises of God.

The warning in Revelation 18 is to those who are the people of God, the elect. These are the ones who are scattered in the earth as well as Babylon. For the warning is applicable to all believers. We are to come out of her. Her ways, lifestyle, lusts, and desires are not to be shared or desired by the people of God. The warning is that we must ‘come out’ of her, the harlot so you are not a partaker with her. She will received for her sins, coming plagues and when that is finished, then death.  We are not to have fellowship with or be a partaker with others either in fellowship or without a fellowship in the sins and desires of Babylon. For Babylon has become a refuge, a haven, and a prison for every kind of demon, lustful desire, and attitude against the LORD God.  We must not let Babylon infect us, although it may affect us. Through temptation, trial, persecution, hatred, and violence, yet we can overcome.  We must get up, get out, and remove ourselves from this.

The Trial of your faith

1 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:
8  Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Mortify your members upon the earth

Colossians 3:4  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5  ¶Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6  For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
7  In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8  ¶But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
9  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
10  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
11  Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

Now let me say also that we as believers are to be ‘light’ and ‘salt’ to the world. We are to be those ready to bring to the unbeliever, the one who is lost, the true Hope we have in Christ. We cannot remove ourselves to Mars or Pluto, but we can through Christ remove or come out of this world. Then when the time comes to leave Babylon as well, we can then leave as Lot did, or find safety as Noah did!  For the LORD knows those who are his!

Having Escaped the Corruption that is the World

2 Peter 1:3  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:
4  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.

1 John 5:4  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:5  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

It is here that we as the elect must put to death or mortify, through the Spirit of God the deeds of the body and the flesh. Although we lived in these before we came to Christ, we are now ‘new creatures in Christ Jesus’. Because we are as he is, like him, serving the Father in the name of the LORD Jesus, and for this, the world will hate us. As such, the world will come against us. This also is the ‘war’ that Satan, the dragon, the beast has been waging against those who followed the LORD God from the beginning. The war before Christ’s victory on the cross was a matter of being the ‘accuser of the brethren’. Now since Christ’s death on the cross, the devil is cast down, his accusations mean nothing and can’t touch us because of the ‘blood of the covenant’. But today, this enemy wages ‘war’ against the Saints of God and has done so since the early church.

The Overcame HIM, the beast, that old dragon called Satan

Revelation 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Revelation 12:17  And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Therefore, let us understand our duty and follow Christ Jesus with a pure heart devoted to him. It is not for us to walk in the things as we used to do. Let us not give in to the old platitudes of ‘churchianity’ and the ‘sugar plum Jesus’ that fills American Christiandom. Let us throw it all off and follow the LORD with the desire to do what he asks of us. Our marching orders are in Revelation. We have overcome by the ‘blood of the Lamb’, but the race is not over yet. We must understand this race is run by us and we must have within us the ‘testimony of Jesus Christ’ to tell an lost world of our savior and his love. As we walk let us also keep the ‘faith of Jesus’ alive within our hearts and souls. Do this by seeking the LORD with all your heart, reading his word, keeping those things he says too! Walk daily, standing on the promises of God, fasting, praying, and looking to the Author and finisher of our faith, Jesus Christ, who overcame, and so shall we, if we faint not!