“Books of Ace”
By Ace Orense
“Books of Ace” is a compilation of books written and compiled by Ace Orense.
These books are inspirational Christian books written to inspire and to inform the children of God.
All of these are written for the honor and glory of the Almighty God.
Books of Ace
1. Yeshua
2. Second Coming of Christ
3. The Divine Warrior
4. Angels of God
5. Children of God
6. Teachings of Master Jesus
7. Parables of Jesus
8. Miracles of Christ
9. Yahweh
10. End of the World
Yeshua
By Ace Orense
“Yeshua” is Aramaic for the name “Jesus”.
Yeshua or Jesus means “God saves”.
He is Emmanuel which means “God with us”.
Yeshua, Jesus Christ, is the God who died for man.
Yeshua is Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Yeshua is God the Son, the Second Person of The Holy Trinity, Three Divine Persons in One God, The One True God.
He is the only begotten Son of God the Father Yahweh.
Yeshua is the Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One of God, and the Holy One of God.
Yeshua is the Messiah, the Savior of man, prophesied by the prophets such as David, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Zachariah, and many others who has foretold of the coming of the Lord.
Christ is the Creator of all things.
“For through him, all things were made, and all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made”.
John 1:3
Yeshua is the Lamb of God.
Yeshua is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
Yeshua is the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.
Yeshua is the Prince of Peace, the Prince of princes, the Wonderful Counselor, the Author of Salvation, and the Everlasting Father.
Yeshua is the Incarnate Word.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. “
He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
John 1:1-4
Yeshua is the immortal Son of God. Though he suffered and died on the cross two thousand years ago, he was resurrected and lives unto life everlasting in heaven, seated at the right hand of the Father.
Yeshua is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
He was the ultimate sacrifice who died as a ransom for men who deserves eternal punishment in hell.
He is the Lamb without blemish, pure and holy,
a sacrifice pleasing and most acceptable to the Father Yahweh.
“For the wages of sin is death.”
Through the first Adam, sin entered into the world.
Through the second Adam, Yeshua, salvation has been given unto man and man was forgiven on account of the blood of Christ Yeshua.
The Birth of Christ Yeshua
In the year 0-4 A.D., on the sixth month, God sent the Angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, in the country of Israel, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.
And when the angel had come to her, he said “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women.
And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God.
Behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shall bring forth a son; and thou shall call his name Jesus.
He shall be great and shall be called the Son of
the Most High; and the Lord God will give him the throne of David, his father, and he shall be king over the house of Jacob forever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
But Mary said to the angel, “How shall this happen, since I do not know man?”
And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee; and therefore the Holy One to be born shall be called the Son of God.
... But Mary said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word.” And the angel departed from her.
Luke 1:26-38
And she brought forth hr firstborn son, and wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.
John 1:14
There were shepherds in the same district living in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.
And an angel of the Lord stood by them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them.
And the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which shall be to all the people; for today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you, who is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign to you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.”
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men of good will.”
… So they went with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger.
Luke 2:8-16
Three kings from the East went to Jerusalem for they have seen the star and they were informed by the angels that the King of the Jews has been born, the Son of God.
They travelled to Jerusalem and offered gifts to the Holy Child, of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
The birth of Jesus Christ is one of the most spectacular events that has ever happened in human history.
The birth of Yeshua is the divine action which allowed God to participate in Sacred Humanity.
God has become one of us. Yeshua is “Emmanuel” or “God with us”.
God the Son became flesh and dwelt among us to redeem man from sin, to open the gates of heaven, and to save the sinners from eternal punishment in hell, and to destroy the works and the power of Satan upon man.
Yeshua’s birth is a divine act of love of God for his creation made upon his very image and likeness, man.
His birth reminds us of the infinite love God has bestowed upon man.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only- begotten Son, and whosoever whom shall believe in him
may not perish, but may have everlasting life.
For God did not send his Son into the world in order to judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.
He who believes in him is not judged; but he who does not believe is already judged, because he does not believe in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.
John 3:16-18
Yeshua is the Lamb of salvation.
He who believes in Him shall merit eternal life in heaven, in the company of God, his holy angels and his saints.
The Lamb of God is Yeshua, our Lord and Master, the Savior of the world, the Son of the living God.
God’s plan of salvation has been carried out through Mary, the Mother of God.
Mary is the mother of Christ, who is God the Son, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity.
As God the Son, Yeshua is God, one with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, Yeshua is God, God the Father Yahweh’s Second Person of Divinity.
This leads to the doctrine that Mary is the Mother of God.
Mary gave birth to the Son of God.
God has no beginning and has no end.
God is infinite and eternal.
God was not created and he exists for eternity.
God is immortal. He cannot die.
Only the body of Yeshua died but he is immortal, as he rose from the dead on his resurrection.
The birth of Jesus Christ is the infinite love of God for man.
The Baptism of Yeshua
Yeshua came from Galilee to John, at the Jordan River, to be baptized by him.
John the Baptist said, “It is I who ought to be baptized by thee, and dost thou come to me?
Jesus answered and said to him “Let it be so now, for so it
Becomes to fulfill all justice.”
Then John the Baptist baptized Yeshua.
After the baptism, Yeshua came up from the water.
And behold, the heavens were opened to Yeshua, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him.
And behold, a voice from the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
The baptism of Yeshua is his initiation towards his mission of saving man.
He himself was baptized to make an example to be followed by the people of God.
He was baptized by John, for John was a holy man of God, pleasing in the sight of God.
The Holy Spirit descended upon him upon his baptism.
This is to signify that Yeshua truly is the Son of God.
The Father Yahweh announced during Yeshua’s baptism that Yeshua is His one true begotten Son.
“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Yeshua is the Son of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Everything that the Son does was what the Father has sent him to do.
He came to fulfill the law and to accomplish what the Father has commanded him.
Yeshua was sent by God to save mankind.
John the Baptist
Yeshua was baptized by John the Baptist, a holy prophet of God.
John is great in the sight of God. He never took wine or any fermented drink. He was filled with the Holy Spirit, even from birth. He brought back many of the people of Israel to the Lord God.
John is in the spirit and power of Elijah.
He turned the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous-to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the desert of Judaea and saying “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
John the Baptist was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:
“A voice of one calling in the desert, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”
John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist.
John’s food was locusts and wild honey.
John baptized many people in the Jordan River.
When he saw many of the Pharisees and the Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them:
“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tee that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to bear. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly clean out his threshing floor, and will gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
John the Baptist prepared the way for the coming of Yeshua, Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
John was a holy man of God who preached in the country of Israel of repentance and following God.
John baptized the people of God with water in the Jordan River.
John the Baptist in one of the great prophets sent by God to man.
The Child Jesus
On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived.
When the time of their purification according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn male is to be consecrated to the Lord”) and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”
Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. When the parents brought in the Child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the Law required.
Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying:
“Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace.
For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.”
The child’s mother and father marveled at what was said about him. Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother:
“This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against., so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.”
There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four.
She never left he temple but worshipped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them at the very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about he child to all who were looking forward for the redemption of Jerusalem.
When Joseph and Mary had done everything required by the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.
And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
Luke 2:21-40
The Boy Jesus at the Temple
Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.
When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom.
After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it.
Thinking he was in their company, they traveled for a day.
Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends.
When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished.
His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this?
Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”
“Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
Luke 2:41-52
The Temptation of Yeshua
Yeshua fasted for forty days and forty nights.
He went to the desert.
He was lead there by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.
He grew hungry and thirsty.
Then Satan came to him to tempt him.
Satan said “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Then the devil took him to the holy city and had made him stand on the highest point of the temple.
Satan said “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down ; for it is written, He will give his angels charge concerning thee; and upon their hands they shall bear thee up, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.”
Jesus said to him “It is written further, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”
Again, the devil took him to very high mountain, and showed them all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.
Satan said to him, “All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Begone, Satan! for it is written, The Lord thy God shalt thou worship and him only shalt thou serve.”
Then the devil left him; and behold, angels cam and ministered to him.
Matthew 4:1-11
Yeshua was tempted by Satan to show and prove that he is obedient to the Father Yahweh and that he is truly the Son of God, worthy of praise, honor, and worship.
Satan has no power over Yeshua.
Satan tempted Yeshua to sway him from his mission of salvation yet he failed for Yeshua is mighty in word and in power and is the true Son of Yahweh, the living God.
Jesus Clears the Temple
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
To those who sold doves, he said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!”
The Miracles of Yeshua
Jesus Changes Water to Wine
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.
Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
“Dear woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied, “My time has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
Then he told them. “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine.
He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said,
“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
This, the first of his miraculous signs Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.
Jesus Heals the Sick
People brought to Jesus all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, the paralyzed, the deaf, the mute, the lame, and the blind, and Jesus healed them all.
Jesus healed many.
Jesus made the blind see by touching their eyes and spitting on the mud and placing it to their eyes.
And by uttering words of command such as “Ephatha”, which means “be opened”.
Jesus made the deaf hear by spitting and putting his fingers into their ears.
Jesus made the mute speak by spitting and putting saliva onto their tongues.
Jesus made the lame walk.
Jesus Casted Away Demons
Jesus casted away demons from those who were possessed.
One instance was when a man, demon-possessed was healed by Jesus.
Many demons possessed this man and their name was “Legion”, for they were many.
Jesus drove out the demons and sent them to a herd of pigs which drowned themselves to the river.
There were many people demon-possessed, who were healed by Jesus by casting the evil spirits away.
The demons confessed and cried out that Jesus is the Son of God.
Jesus fed five thousand and four thousand people on separate occasions. He did this by the miracle of the multiplication of bread and fish.
From the a few loaves of bread and a few fish, he multiplied it, and a few thousand people ate basketfuls of bread and fish.
Jesus Walks on the Water
When the apostles of Jesus were in a boat on the lake during the fourth watch of the night,
they saw Jesus walking on water.
Peter asked Jesus if he could come on the water too.
Jesus said “Come”, and Peter went towards Jesus on the water. When Peter was sinking, Jesus took hold of him, and said, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Jesus Resurrects the Dead
Jesus’ greatest miracles were raising the dead, resurrecting them back to life.
Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead
Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb of Lazarus.
It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
“Take away the stone,” he said.
“But Lord,” said Martha, the sister of Lazarus, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there for four days.”
Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he said this, Jesus called in aloud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son
Jesus went to a town called Nin, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out-the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.
And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Do not cry.”
Then he went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still.
He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”
The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. They were all filled with awe and praised God.
“A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said.
“God has come to help his people.”
This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.
The Teachings of Yeshua
Yeshua taught his disciples how to pray.
Yeshua taught them the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father.
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Yeshua teaches his disciples to love their enemies, to bless those who persecute them and who curse them.
Yeshua taught his disciples the two greatest commandments:
Thou shalt love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
Thou shalt love your neighbor as yourself.
Yeshua commands his disciples to love one another as he has loved them.
Yeshua teaches his disciples to ask, seek, and knock to God.
‘Ask and it shall be given to you. Knock and it shall be opened to you. Seek and you shall find.’
Yeshua teaches his disciples not to resist an evil person.
‘If someone hits you on the right cheek, offer the left.
If someone takes your cloak give the other. If one makes you run mile go for another one mile.’
Yeshua teaches his disciples not to murder.
Those who are angry at his brother is guilty of sin.
Those who say “You fool”, will be in danger of eternal punishment in the fires of hell.
Yeshua teaches “What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world yet lose his own soul.
Yeshua teaches his disciples that the greatest in the kingdom of heaven should be like a little child, innocent, pure and clean of heart, without malice, pleasing to the Father, like the holy angels.
Yeshua teaches that the greatest in heaven must be the servant of all.
For Jesus came not to be served but to serve.
Jesus said that He and the Father are one.
For the Father and the Son are of one essence,
God, yet distinct.
Jesus taught his disciples many other teachings in the form of parables.
Jesus taught his disciples to give to the poor.
He says, “If thou wilst to be perfect, go sell everything thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasures in heaven, then come follow me.”
The Cost of Being A Disciple
Jesus called his disciples. The cost of being a disciple is
great but greater are the rewards awaiting for them in heaven.
Matthew 4:19 “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
Matthew19:21 “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
Matthew 16:24-27 “If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For he who would save his life will lose it; but he who loses his life for my sake will find it. For what does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, but suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his own soul? For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will render to everyone according to his conduct.”
Luke 14:26-27 If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. And he who does not carry his cross and follow me, cannot be my disciple. Hate: love less. Jesus does not command us to have a feeling of hatred towards our relatives, but teaches that we should not pay attention to their requests if these are detrimental to our spiritual welfare.
Luke 9: 59-62 and he said to another, “Follow me”. But he said, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.” But Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their dead, but do thou go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” And another said “I will follow thee, Lord; but let me first bid farewell to those at home.” Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” The disciples are to devote themselves without delay and distraction to their higher calling.
The Calling of the Apostles
Yeshua began his mission.
He preached in Israel. He casted away demons.
He healed the sick. He raised and resurrected the dead back to life.
It was then, when he has called his apostles who were fishermen and tax collectors by trade.
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew.
They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”
At one they left their nets and followed Jesus.
Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in the boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets.
Jesus called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Jesus.
Matthew 4:18-22
Yeshua also called Levi who is Matthew, son of Alphaeus.
Matthew is a tax collector.
Yeshua went to Matthew. Matthew was sitting at the tax collector’s booth.
“Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
Mark 2:14
He appointed twelve apostles that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.
These are the twelve apostles:
1. Simon(whom Jesus called Peter)
2. James son of Zebedee
3. John brother of James son of Zebedee
4. Andrew
5. Philip
6. Bartholomew
7. Matthew
8. Thomas
9. James son of Alphaeus
10. Thaddaeus
11. Simon the Zealot
12. Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus
The sons of Zebedee, James and John, were named by Jesus as Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder.
The twelve apostles accompanied Jesus wherever he goes and preached to the people, healed the sick, casted away demons, and aided Jesus in his ministry of salvation.
The apostles were filled with zeal in serving their Master Jesus.
The three apostles, Matthew, Mark, and John, wrote the three gospels of the New Testament of the Sacred Scriptures as testimonies to the life and works of Jesus Christ.
The eleven apostles except Judas preached into the whole world travelling as far as Asia and Europe proclaiming the Son of God, Jesus Christ, baptizing people of God into his kingdom, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
All twelve apostles, except John the Beloved, whom Jesus loved the most, were martyred.
Saint Peter, the fist Pope of the Holy Roman Catholic Church was crucified upside down.
Some other apostles were also crucified, some clubbed to death, some killed with the sword, some beheaded, some thrown from a high pinnacle.
Only John the Beloved was spared from a brutal death after suffering in the hands of his persecutors.
John was sent to Patmos where he wrote the last book of the Sacred Scriptures, the Book of Revelation.
John due to old age, died in the island of Patmos.
All of these twelve apostles remained faithful and loyal to Jesus except Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests and the temple guards with thirty pieces of silver.
Satan entered Judas and made him surrender Jesus to the chief priests.
Judas betrayed Jesus with a kiss to pinpoint who Jesus was to the men who are to arrest him.
Judas, with his thirty pieces of silver, bought a field where he fell headlong.
Judas ended his life by hanging himself on a tree.
His body burst open and all his intestines spilled out.
The people of Jerusalem called that field Akeldama, the Field of Blood.
After Judas died, and after the death and resurrection of Yeshua, the eleven apostles appointed Matthias, as the twelfth apostle to take the place of Judas who fell away.
It is written in the book of Psalms,
‘Let their habitation become desolate and let there be none to dwell in it. And His ministry let another take.’
Matthias became the thirteenth apostle of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Yeshua Suffers In the Hands of Man
After praying in agony in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus was arrested and was presented to Caiaphas, the high priest of the Sanhedrin.
Afterwards, he was presented to Pontius Pilate and to Herod to be examined and to be judged.
He was then ordered to be crucified by Pontius Pilate as demanded by the crowds of Israel.
The Passion of Christ Yeshua
The soldiers of the procurator took off his clothes for the scourging of his body.
They put on him a scarlet cloak.
Yeshua was flogged by the soldiers with sharp, thorned whips, blood flowing down from his body.
A crown of thorns was plaited on his head, and a reed into his right hand.
His head bled for the crown of thorns was filled with sharp-pointed thorns.
The soldiers bended their knees before him mocking Jesus, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!
The soldiers mocked him and spat on his face.
They struck him on the head again and again with a staff.
The soldiers beat Jesus to the ground.
The soldiers, after a few days of scourging Jesus,
then prepared to crucify him.
Jesus was made to carry a wooden cross from the
place of his imprisonment to Golgotha, where the people witnessed him suffering.
In Golgotha, The Place of the Skull, the executioners nailed Jesus on the wooden cross. His hands and his feet were nailed onto the cross.
The soldiers put above his head the charge against him, written, THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
The Death of Yeshua
From the sixth hour, the year 33 A.D., there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
There were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, Mary, his mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, Mary Magdalene, and John the Beloved.
Yeshua said to Mary, his mother, “Woman, behold thy son.” Then he said to John, “Behold, thy mother.”
And John took Mary, mother of Jesus to his home.
About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabacthani, “that is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Jesus then said, “I thirst.”
Jesus said unto the Father, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’
Some people at the crucifixion then put a sponge soaked with the wine on a stalk of hyssop and putted it to his mouth. When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is done!”
The sun was darkened and the curtain of the temple was torn in the middle for there was an earthquake.
And Jesus cried out with a loud voice and said, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
With that he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
~According to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
The Resurrection of Yeshua
The Resurrected Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
On the Sunday morning after Jesus’ death, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus. She saw that the stone had been removed form the entrance.
She ran to Peter and John the Beloved, saying that Jesus was taken from the tomb and that they do not know where they have put him.
John and Peter ran to the tomb. Peter saw the strips of linen lying there and the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’ head.
The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.
And so they went home. Mary Magdalene stood outside the tomb crying.
As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb.
She saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been laid, one at the head and the other at the foot.
They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” She turned around and saw Jesus standing there.
She did not realize it was Jesus.
“Woman,” he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (teacher)
Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
On that Sunday evening, the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews.
Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that, he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Jesus Appears to Thomas
The other disciples told Thomas that they have seen the Lord.
Thomas said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.”
A week later, the disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put you finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed;
blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.
Jesus and the Miraculous Catch of Fish
Afterward Jesus appeared gain to his disciples, by the Sea of Tiberias.
It happened this way: Simon Peter, Thomas(called Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together.
“I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night, they caught nothing.
Early in the morning Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
He called out to them, “Friends, have not you any fish?”
“No,” they answered.
He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.”
When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
Then the disciple who Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!”
As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards.
When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.
Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.”
Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.
Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.”
None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.
Jesus Ascends Into Heaven
The disciples of Jesus met together for Jesus’ departure.
Jesus was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
The disciples were looking intently up into the sky as he was going,
when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
“Men of Galilee, they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken form you into heaven,
will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
Yeshua has accomplished what the Father had sent him to do, to die on the cross, to open the gates of heaven, to
save the souls of mankind.
Yeshua is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
Yeshua is the ultimate sacrifice for the redemption of man from sin.
Yeshua was obedient to the Father, even unto death.
The death of Yeshua and his crucifixion reminds us of the Son of Man’s infinite love for man.
No greater love can be shown by anyone than the love shown unto us by Our Lord Jesus Christ who is a God who died and laid his life for man.
Second Coming of Yeshua
At the end of the world, Christ Yeshua will come again to earth.
At that end of the world, there will be wars, strife, famine, and pestilence. There will be great earthquakes.
Stars will fall down from the sky.
The sun will be darkened. The moon will be turned into blood.
Nations will rise against nation.
At the end of days, Yeshua will come again and return to earth to
reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Yeshua will wage war upon the Antichrist and his kingdom.
Yeshua will descend with thousands of angels on white horses dressed in white robes of fine linen.
Yeshua, the Lion of Judah, will defeat the Antichrist.
The Beast and the false prophet will be thrown down to the fiery lake of sulfur where they will be tormented forever and ever.
Then Satan will be chained and imprisoned in the Abyss for a thousand years.
Yeshua will triumph.
Yeshua will reign on earth with his saints for a thousand years.
After one thousand years, Satan will once again be released and he will deceive many nations and will gather a vast army from Gog to Magog in the final battle of Armageddon to wage war upon the
Divine Warrior, Jesus Christ, on the final struggle between good and evil, between Yeshua and Satan.
Then God will send fire from heaven to devour Satan and his army.
Then there will be a long era of peace and tranquility on earth under the kingship of Yeshua.
The kingdom of Jesus Christ will have no end.
Then the dead shall be judged on the last judgment.
Death and Hades will give up the dead in them, and the seas and the earth will give up the dead in them.
All the souls of every creature shall be judged by God.
He will separate the sheep from the goats.
The righteous, the sheep, shall be on the right side while the goats, the wicked, shall be on the left.
The righteous shall merit eternal life into the paradise of God, in heaven, in the company of God, the holy angels and the saints.
While the wicked shall be damned into eternal punishment into the lake of fire where they shall suffer and be tormented forever and ever.
God will create new heavens and a new earth for the former things will pass away.
Then a Heavenly Jerusalem will descend from heaven, there the people of God will dwell forever and ever.
God will give it light.
There will be no more death nor suffering nor pain anymore, for the people of God will dwell with God forever.
The Lamb of God shall be their King and will reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, forever and ever.
Conclusion
Yeshua is God’s gift to man.
Yeshua is the living infinite love of God for man.
Yeshua is seated at the right hand of the Father.
Yeshua will come again to judge the living and the dead.
We await and anticipate his return.
Yeshua will come soon and triumph as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Yeshua is the glorious Son of God.
His kingdom will have no end.
~End~
May this book inspire you to love and honor, serve and worship the Master Yeshua, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. May it inspire you to imitate Yeshua and to live by his teachings and by his example.
God Bless you.
~Ace Orense
This book, entitled “Yeshua”, was written by
Ace Orense on December 4, 2008.
Second Coming of Christ
By Ace Orense
The Messiah Yeshua, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, two thousand years ago, ascended into heaven and was seated at the right hand of the Father Yahweh after he was crucified, died, and was buried, descended to the dead, and then resurrected after three days unto life everlasting.
The prophecy of the Second Coming of Christ was prophesied in the books of The New Testament of The Sacred Scriptures. The angels in white robes who appeared to the apostles of Christ prophesied His return.
They said, “The same way you see Jesus ascend into heaven is the same way you will see him return and descend from the heavens”.
Jesus himself foretold his return. With the cry of command of an archangel, with the sound of the blowing of the archangel’s trumpet, Christ with thousands of angels shall descend from the heavens and return to Earth to reclaim his kingdom from the clutches of the Antichrist. Jesus says he will return at the end of the world.
He will come like a thief in the night when no one expects he would come. He says that there will be false Christs pretending to be him, leading man astray in the last days, and he warns us not to believe in them.
Jesus says that every eye shall see him return and descend from the heavens like the lightning which shall be seen in the east and in the west.
The dead in Christ shall rise first which is the first resurrection.
The just who are still alive at the Second Coming of Christ will all be changed and will be caught up in the clouds to meet Jesus in the air.
Thousands of angels shall accompany Jesus upon his return.
Jesus says that his return will be like the fig leaves. When the time is near, the leaves of the fig tree fall down. So will it be at his Second Coming.
The stars shall from the sky and the sun will be darkened and the moon’s color will turn into blood and then not give its light.
There will be great earthquakes which never occurred before in the past.
There will be famine and pestilence. There will be drought. Volcanoes will erupt. There will be wars and strife. By these omens, people will know that the Second Coming of the Lamb is near.
The Lord Jesus Christ shall return to wage war against the Antichrist and to end the tyranny and havoc caused by the evil one.
The Lamb of God shall once again save mankind.
Jesus Christ is the Savior of mankind.
Jesus will descend from heaven in full glory and majesty, in the company of thousands of angels, on white horses dressed in white robes of fine lined.
Jesus will reign as the Kings of Kings and Lord of Lords.
He will triumph against the forces of Satan.
After Jesus has reclaimed his kingdom, there will be a long era of peace and tranquility. He will reign with his saints who has done his will and served him, for a thousand poetical years, and then Satan, from his chains and prison, after one thousand poetical years, will be released again to deceive the nations and to once again wage war against the Lamb.
Satan will gather a vast army from Gog to Magog to battle with Christ and his army in the final battle of Armageddon.
Satan and his minions shall encamp and surround the holy city of God
but God will send fire from heaven to destroy Satan and his followers.
Then the kingdom of Jesus Christ will triumph.
Jesus Christ and his saints will reign on earth forever and ever.
The earth and the heavens will pass away and then a new heaven and a new earth shall be created by God. There will be no need for a sun anymore for God will give it light. The New Jerusalem shall come down from heaven and will be the abode of the children of God.
The Last Judgment in the end will occur. All the dead shall be presented to God and He will be the judge. Death and Hades shall give the dead from it, the seas and the lakes shall give the dead from it, and the earth shall give the dead from it. All of the souls of the creatures of God will be judged by God each according to his deeds.
The sheep will be separated from the goats.
The righteous ones, the sheep, shall inherit eternal salvation and shall enter into the paradise of God. While the wicked ones, the goats, shall be put to eternal damnation into the lake of fire, where hell and all the evil angels and evil creatures shall be thrown and they will suffer and be tormented forever and ever.
The saved will enjoy eternal bliss with God and with the angels and the saints in heaven forever and ever.
Then a Heavenly Jerusalem will come down from heaven, there the people of God shall dwell forever and ever.
There will be no more suffering, nor death, nor pain, for God will dwell with man forever.
The Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, will reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
We await the return of the Master Yeshua to restore all things.
The servants of Our Lord Jesus Christ will be co-heirs with Jesus to the kingdom of God when he returns in full glory and majesty.
The Second Coming of Christ will undoubtedly be the greatest and most important event that will ever happen in human history next to Jesus’ birth two thousand years ago.
The Second Coming of Christ will be such a grand event to be witnessed by all the peoples of the Earth.
The omens are appearing one by one as time goes by. The Second Coming of Christ will come soon... maybe sooner than we think.
Lord Jesus, come quickly.
Passages about the Second Coming of Christ from the Sacred Scriptures:
“Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming ‘I am the Christ’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of the birth pains.
Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by many nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
…then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one on the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now-and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. At that time of anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect-if that were possible.
So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of man. Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
“Immediately after the distress of those days “’the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
At that time the sign of the Son of man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels
with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As long as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.
..No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing that would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left; Two women will be grinding with a handmill; one will be taken and the other left.
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. ..So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect him.
Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
Listen, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.“
“Where, O death is your victory?
Where, O death is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 51-57
“It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
After, he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky?
This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
Acts of the Apostles 1:7-11
Master Yeshua will come soon. We, the people of God, ought to be prepared for his glorious return.
We, the servants of God, must make ready mankind for the Second Coming of Christ.
We must do our very best and strive to love and praise, honor and worship, and glorify Our Lord Jesus Christ.
We must act immediately to preach the everlasting gospel to the ends of the Earth.
Master Jesus at the of the world will once again come to Earth to save mankind in the near future to rescue us from Satan and his minions.
We, in anticipation with joyful hope, await for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us prepare mankind for the return of our Master Yeshua.
Let us spread the everlasting gospel to all the peoples of the Earth.
Come Lord Jesus Christ, come quickly!
~End~
May the reading of this book inspire the servants of God to prepare mankind for the Second Coming of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
God Bless you all.
~Ace Orense
This book, entitled “Second Coming of Christ”, was written by Ace Roland Orense on December 3, 2008.
The Divine Warrior
By Ace Orense
The Lamb of God
The Lamb of God is the Savior of the world.
In the end, he will once again come to rule on earth as the Mighty King.
The Lamb of God is the Messiah Jesus Christ.
Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.
And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?” But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll
or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders.
He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. He came and took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on the throne. And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb.
Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
And they sang a new song:
“You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood, you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.”
Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.
In a loud voice they sang:
“Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!”
Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing:
To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, forever and ever!”
The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshipped.
Revelation 5
The Lamb of God is all-powerful. He was the only one worthy to open the scroll and the seven seals.
The Lamb is being prepared for his next mission, to save mankind from Satan and the antichrists.
The Lamb is a warrior getting ready for war.
The Divine Warrior shall come.
The Divine Warrior is a lion, The Lion of Judah.
Divine Warrior shall descend onto earth from, heaven. When he returns to earth from heaven, he will wage war against the Antichrist.
The Divine Warrior will be relentless. He will not hold back.
Together with his thousands of angels, he will make war against the Satans.
The Divine Warrior will come to destroy the kingdom of Satan on earth.
The Divine Warrior, upon his return to earth, shall save mankind from the clutches of the Antichrist.
He will slay the Antichrist and the false prophet with the swords coming out of his mouth.
The Divine Warrior is the Lamb of God, the Savior Jesus Christ.
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns.
He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads on the winepress of the fury the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written:
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great.”
Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army.
But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf.
With theses signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshipped his image.
The two of them were thrown alive in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
The rest of them were killed with the sword that comes out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.
Revelation 9:11-21
The Divine Warrior comes to destroy the kingdom of Satan.
He shall descend from heaven with myriads of angels with him.
The Divine Warrior will descend from heaven, with the shout, with the cry of command of an archangel, with the trumpet call of God.
Christ will resurrect the dead.
All those who died in Christ will rise first, which is the first resurrection.
Those who are still alive, on the Second Coming of Christ, shall be caught up in the clouds to meet Christ in the air.
The bodies of the righteous shall all be changed.
The Divine Warrior will reclaim his kingdom.
And his kingdom will have no end.
The Divine Warrior will utterly be victorious.
Jesus will reign with his saints for a thousand years.
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God.
They had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands.
They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.
This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, nut they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth-Gog and Magog-to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. The marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Revelation 20:1-10
Satan will be chained after his defeat, for a thousand years.
And when the thousand years has passed, Satan will be once again released. He will deceive the nations. He will gather up Gog and Magog, in the battle of Armageddon, the last war and struggle between good and evil, between the Divine Warrior and the Dragon.
Jesus Christ will battle Satan once more, for the final conflict.
Satan and his great army will surround the city of God, and then fire from heaven, from God, will devour Satan and his army.
Then Jesus Christ will reign on earth with all of his followers.
After a long era of peace, the world will be renewed.
The Last Judgment
The dead shall all be judged.
Hades and death shall give up the dead in it. The seas and the earth shall
give up the dead in it.
All of the souls shall be presented to God.
And God will judge all of the souls of all the living and the dead.
The sheep will be separated from the goats.
The sheep, the righteous ones who has served, and obeyed, and loved God shall merit eternal life and shall be welcomed into the paradise of God in heaven, in the company of God, the angels, and the saints.
While the wicked, the goats, shall be doomed and shall be thrown and kept into the lake of fire forever, where Hades and death, has been thrown where the evil angels, the devils, are reserved unto eternal punishment.
God will create a new heaven and a new earth.
For the former things, the heavens and the earth will pass away.
Then, the heavenly Jerusalem shall come down from heaven.
There, the righteous ones shall enjoy unending happiness with God and with the Lamb, who will give it light.
God will then dwell forever with man.
There will be no more suffering, nor pain, nor death.
The saved will enjoy eternal life with God forever and ever.
Conclusion
The Divine Warrior is immortal and invincible.
His reign has no end.
The Divine Warrior is the Alpha and the Omega.
He is the beginning and the end.
He is the Author and Finisher of souls.
~End~
May this book inspire you to rely upon the Divine Warrior,
The Lamb of God, the Savior of the world, Our Lord Jesus Christ.
May this book make you anticipate and await for the Second Coming of the Divine Warrior.
~Ace Orense
This book, entitled”The Divine Warrior”, was written by Ace Orense on December 5, 2008.
Angels of God
By Ace Orense
Introduction
Angels are non-corporeal beings or spirits who are ministers, servants,
and messengers of God. They do God’s bidding and serve God for eternity. They are often perceived as beings with wings of swans and of beautiful countenance. In art, they are often drawn with swords, spears, shields, lilies, or scrolls and are sometimes depicted as children with wings as often miscalled as cherubs. Cherubs are not baby angels but fierce angels with flaming swords as detailed in the book of Genesis in the garden of Eden. Angels have always been a part of human history as they played the roles of guardians, messengers, and rescuers of the holy people of God.
The rich art has always had angels in paintings, drawings, sculpture, and icons. In literature, angels were accounted for in poetry, stories, novels, essays, books, and scrolls. Even in music, angels are also recorded in songs and hymns such as My Angel Gabriel, Saint Michael hymn, Cherubic hymn, and in other angelic songs and hymns.
The angels were created, according to the book of Enoch, on the second day of creation, while other sources say on the fourth day of creation.
According to the book of Enoch, the angels were formed out of fire.
For the heavenly troops, the angels, God looked at a hard rock, and from the gleam of his eyes, lightning struck the hard rock and he cut off a great fire from it. From the fire, the angels were formed. Ten troops of angels were formed from the fire. ~from the book of Enoch
Excerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church About the Angels:
The angels, according to Saint Augustine, are spirits by nature. Their office is ‘angel’. The angels are servants and messengers of God, with their whole beings. They always behold the face of the Father in heaven. They are the mighty ones who do God’s word, hearkening to the voice of his word.
The angels are messengers of Christ’s saving plan: “Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?”
There were numerous accounts of the angels intervening with man accomplishing God’s divine plan:
The angels closed the garden of Eden. The angels protected Lot; saved Hagar and her child; stayed Abraham’s hand from slaying his son Isaac, communicated the law by their ministry; led the people of God; announced births and callings; and assisted the prophets. They protect the child Jesus in his infancy, serve him in the desert, strengthen him in his agony in the garden. It is the angels who evangelize by proclaiming the Good News of Christ’s Incarnation and Resurrection. They will be present at Christ’s return, which they will announce, to serve at his judgment.
The Hierarchy of Angels
According to Pseudo-Dionysius, there are nine choirs of angels.
This is the angelic hierarchy he formulated:
The Nine Choirs of Angels:
1. Seraphim
2. Cherubim
3. Thrones
4. Dominations
5. Virtues
6. Powers
7. Principalities
8. Archangels
9. Angels
This angelic hierarchy is the most accepted of all the other angelic hierarchies formulated by great theologians, teachers, and thinkers.
The Roman Catholic Church accepts this hierarchy.
The choirs of angels are divided into three spheres:
The First Sphere:
Seraphim
The Seraphim are the highest choir of angels created by God.
They are the burning ones.
They are celestial beings who surround the throne of God.
They have six wings, two to cover their face, two to cover their feet, and to for flying. They cover their face as modesty. They cover their extremities as alacrity in God’s service. All this for reverence of the divine majesty.
Isaiah 6:2-7
I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. Seraphim were stationed above; each of them had six wings: with two they veiled their faces, with two they veiled their feet, with two they hovered aloft. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts!”
they cried one to the other. “All the earth is filled with his glory!” At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember which he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with it. “See,” he said, “now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged.”
The Seraphim, according to the third book of Enoch are four. They are said to burn the tablets of Satan which accuses the people of God. It is said that the prince of the Seraphim is Seraphiel. Seraphiel is said to have the body of an eagle and the face of a man. The seraphim are said to have an enormous height as big as the seven heavens.
Some of the Church Fathers proclaim that Saint Michael the Archangel is the prince of the Seraphim.
The Seraphim are incompatible to mortal sin for they have the excess of charity. They burn with the flames of the love of God.
Members of the Seraphim choir are:
Seraphiel, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Sealtiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, Jehoel, Metatron, Lucifer(before his fall) ;(according to various sources)
Cherubim
The Cherubim are angels of God filled with divine knowledge and are fierce angelic warriors armed with flaming swords. The Cherubim means “fullness of knowledge”. Most of the cherubim were loyal to God but some of them fell from grace. Cherubim is compatible with mortal sin for they are filled with knowledge and knowledge is compatible with sin.
Accounts of the Cherubim in the Holy Scriptures:
After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. Genesis 3:24
.. and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, but each of them had four faces and four wings. Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings, and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved. Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox, each also had the face of an eagle. Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward: Each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body. Ezekiel 1:5-11
Members of the Cherubim choir are:
Michael, Lucifer(before his fall), Gabriel, Raphael, Raziel, Kerubiel (according to some sources)
Thrones
The thrones are angels who minister to and bear the throne of God.
The Second Sphere:
Dominations
The dominations are angels who regulate the cosmos and the universe.
Virtues
The virtues are angles who inspire the children of God to become good, holy, and obedient to the Holy Will of God.
Members of the Virtues choir:
Jehudiel(according to some sources)
Powers
The powers are warrior angels who constantly battle the evil forces of Satan.
Members of the Powers choir:
Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel (according to some sources)
The Third Sphere:
Principalities
The principalities are chief angels who are in command of the third sphere of angels, the choirs of the archangels and the angels.
Archangels
The archangels are chief angels who are in command of the last choir of angels, the angels. “Archangel” means “chief angel”. They are warrior angels who do God’s bidding. They are ministers of God who are often sent to the people of God on earth. They are messengers who give important messages to the holy ones of God, to his prophets and to his people.
The Archangels are chief angels who are in command of the lower angels.
The Archangels are the angels often sent by God to accomplish missions on earth and are sent to the people of God to give them messages, to inspire them, to rescue them, to defend them, or to instruct them.
The Archangels belong to the eighth choir of angels.
Members of the Archangels choir are:
Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Sealtiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, Metatron,
Lucifer(before his fall), Pravuil, Raguel, Sarakiel, and others. (according to various sources)
Angels
The Angels belong to the ninth choir, the last choir of the third sphere, of the angelic hierarchy.
These angels tend directly to humans.
Of this choir belong the guardian angels.
The angels act as guardians for humans.
They protect, inspire, guide, warn humans of upcoming dangers, and accompany humans throughout their entire lives.
The books of Enoch record a hierarchy of angels:
The Hierarchy of Angels According to the Books of Enoch:
1. Irin and Qaddishin
2. 8 crown princes
3. Serafim
4. Ophanim
5. Kerubim
6. Chayyoth
7. Merkabah
8. Tafsarim
9. Shinnanim
10. Erellim
11. 72 Princes of kingdoms
12. Keepers of the 7 Halls
13. Princes of the Seven Heavens
14. Angels of the Seven Heavens
For an in-depth line of details, read the third book of Enoch.
The Angels
Michael
Saint Michael the Archangel is one the most prominent angels. He is one of the chief princes or one of the highest angels of God. He is in command of thousands or millions of angels. He is the chief warrior angel of God’s army of angels.
In the end of days, there will be a war in heaven and Saint Michael and his
Angels will fight against Satan and his angels.
Revelation 12:7-9
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down-that ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Saint Michael the Archangel belongs to the choir of the cherubim.
Michael means “Who is like God?”. Other variations for the name Michael is Mikael, Micael, or Mikha’il.
Michael is the captain of the Lord’s army. He is the vanquisher of Satan and all his minions.
Accounts of the Archangel Michael in the Holy Scriptures:
At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of great distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. Revelation 12:1
But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” Jude 1:9
Saint Michael can be invoked during demonic attacks. The Prayer to Saint
Michael the Archangel would be helpful.
Michael is said to be the prince of the seventh heaven, according to the third book of Enoch.
Gabriel
The Archangel Gabriel is the chief messenger of God. Gabriel is one of the seven angels who stand in the presence of God. Luke 1: 19
Gabriel means “Strength of God”.
Other variations of his name are “Gavriel” and “Jibril”.
He was sent to Mary to announce that she will be the mother of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.
In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
Luke 1:26-28
But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give the throne of his father David and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.”
Gabriel will announce the Second Coming of Christ.
In the book of Enoch, Gabriel sits on the left hand of God.
Gabriel rules over Ikisat, paradise, and the cherubim.
He rules over all that is powerful.
Gabriel is the angel of fire.
Gabriel is the prince of the sixth heaven Makon.
~Book of Enoch
Raphael
Raphael is the healing angel. Raphael means “God heals”.
Raphael could also be spelled as “Rafael”.
Raphael is one of the seven angels who stand before God.
Tobias 12:15
He accompanied young Tobias on his journey and helped him restore his father’s sight.
He taught the young Tobias that devils can be driven away by the smoke of the heart of a fish on coals and that the gall of the fish is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a white speck, and it can cure.
Saint Raphael the Archangel can be invoked to heal the sick.
The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael are the three only named angels in the Holy Scriptures.
Metatron
The Angel Metatron is believed to be the prophet Enoch who was taken up to heaven and was transformed into a fiery angel.
Metatron means “one who occupies the throne next to the divine throne”.
When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years. Enoch walked with God, then he was no more, because God took him away. Genesis 5:21-24
Two angels of snow took Enoch to the heavens. He was toured to the ten heavens. Upon arrival at Araboth, the tenth heaven, God asked the Archangel Michael to clothe him with divine garments and anoint him with oil. He was transformed into an angel. His flesh and his whole body became a living fire. His height grew as
big as the height and width of the earth. 72 wings, 36 on each side sprouted on his back. He was given 365 eyes.
He was given a throne and a crown by God patterned after his own throne
and crown.
He became the 9th highest angel after the 8 crown princes.
~from the book of Enoch 1-3
Enoch pleased God and so he was taken up to heaven and was transformed into an angel.
The Metatron is one of the highest angels who was exalted because of his good virtue.
Sandalphon
The Angel Sandalphon is believed to be the prophet Elijah who was transformed into an angel.
Sandalphon means “one who wears sandals”. Sandalphon could also be spelled as “Sandalfon”.
Elijah when he was taken up to heaven by divine chariots of fire and horses of fire was transformed by God into the Angel Sandalphon.
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire
and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. 2 Kings 2:11
Sandalphon is the Master of Heavenly Song. He is said to chant heavenly songs, giving praise and worship to The Almighty God.
Lucifer
Lucifer who once was a resolute angel, out of pride and his desire to become equal to God, fell from grace and became evil. He deceived a third of the entire angels and led them to rebellion against God.
Lucifer once belonged to the angelic choir of the Cherubim.
Here is an account of Lucifer in the Scriptures:
In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a man and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god. Ezekiel 28:2
“You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the garden of God;.. You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones. You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, O guardian Cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before the kings. By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching.
All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.” Ezekiel 28:12-19
Lucifer means “bearer of light”. His name was changed to Satan, which means “adversary” after iniquity was found in him. After he has fallen from grace, he was cast into hell with all of his minions.
Raziel
Raziel is a cherub and one of the first angels God has created. He is also one of the highest angels.
Raziel is the keeper of the secrets and mysteries of God and the universe.
Radweriel
Radweriel is the 5th highest angel, next to the Irin and Qaddishin, according to the third book of Enoch.
He is said to utter praises to God, thereby giving birth to angels from the words of his mouth.
He is the father of many new-born angels he gives birth through his mouth.
His height is of a colossal size.
Seraphiel
Seraphiel is the prince of the Seraphim according to the third book of Enoch.
Seraphiel means “Seraph of God”. Seraphiel could also be spelled as “Serafiel”.
He is said to have the body of an eagle and the face of a man.
His height is as that of the seven heavens.
Kerubiel
Kerubiel is the prince of the Cherubim, according to the third book of Enoch. Kerubiel means “Cherub of God”. “Cherubiel” is a variation of the name Kerubiel.
He is said to have four wings and four faces, of a man, of a lion, of an ox, and of an eagle. Kerubiel has a colossal size same as those of the other Cherubim.
Barachiel
Barachiel is the dispenser of the blessings of God.
Barachiel showers divine providence to the people of God.
Barachiel is an archangel.
Barachiel means “Providence of God”
Uriel
Uriel is the punishing angel. He is one of the fiercest angels.
Uriel is the chief angel who punishes demons and souls of the damned in “Tartarus” or hell.
Uriel means “fire of God”.
Uriel is an archangel.
Sealtiel
Sealtiel is the incense-bearer. He offers the prayers of the saints and of the faithful to God.
Sealtiel means “Seal of God”.
Sealtiel is an archangel.
Jehudiel
Jehudiel is the dispenser of God’s mercy.
Jehudiel prays for those who are seeking or who are in need of God’s mercy and dispenses God’s mercy towards them if God wills it.
Jehudiel means “mercy of God”.
Jehudiel is an archangel.
Irin and Qaddishin
The Irin and Qaddishin are the highest of all the angels according to the third book of Enoch.
The Irin and Qaddishin constitute the supreme council of heaven.
The Irin and the Qaddishin are as big as the seven heavens and they are the biggest angels in heaven.
The Irin are two. These angels are the twin sentinels.
The Qaddishin are two. These angels are the holy ones. They are also twins.
Daniel 4:14 By decree of the sentinels is this decided, by order of the holy ones, this sentence, that all who live may know that the most High rules over the kingdom of men: he can give it to whom he will, or set over it the
lowliest of men.
The Irin decrees while the Qaddishin sentences every case in the court of heaven.
~ From the third book of Enoch
Anaphiel
Anaphiel is one of the 8 crown princes, therefore one of the eight highest angels according to the third book of Enoch
Anaphiel means “Branch of God”.
Anaphiel is the angel who punished the Metatron with 60 lashes of fire when he did not stand when Acher saw him on his throne in heaven.
~From the third book of Enoch
Ophphaniel
Ophphaniel is the prince of the Ophanim.
Chayyliel
Chayyliel is the prince of the Chayyoth.
Rikbiel
Rikbiel is the prince of the Merkabah angels.
Sopheriel the Life-giver
Sopheriel the life-giver is the angel who gives life.
Sopheriel the Killer
Sopheriel the Killer is the angel who takes away life.
Pravuil
The archangel with the quickest wit. He is one of the angel scribes who record everything that occurs. He was the angel who instructed Enoch using the books form the storehouses of heaven.
8 Crown Princes
The 8 Crown Princes are the 8 highest angels according to the third book of Enoch. They are the most exalted of all the angels of God.
They enjoy a rank superior to that of Metatron.
Members of the 8 crown princes:
Irin, Qaddishin, Anaphiel, Radweriel, Seraphiel(according to some sources)
Tafsarim
The Tafsarim are chief angels. They are in command of the sarim.
Members of the Tafsarim choir:
Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael (according to some sources)
The Four Living Creatures:
The four living creatures surround the throne of God.
They unceasingly say: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.” They give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives forever and ever. Revelation 4:8-9
The four living creatures, if they are angels, must be the highest of all the angels. They were recorded in the book of Revelation by Saint John.
The four living creatures have six wings each. The first was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third has a face of a man, the fourth was like an eagle flying. They surround the throne of God. Revelation 4:7-8
The four living creatures are the highest of all the creatures of God.
Four Angels of the Most High
Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Phanuel
These four high angels surround the throne of God and they are almost always in the company of God. They escort God wherever He may go.
These four angels are the four highest angels of God. They are the royal angel princes.
The Heavens
According to the books of Enoch, there are ten heavens.
The first heaven is Shamayim, the closest to Earth.
The fourth heaven is Machanon.
The sixth heaven is Makon, ruled by the Angel Gabriel.
The seventh heaven is ruled by the Archangel Michael.
The ninth heaven is Kuchavim.
The tenth heaven is Araboth, the abode of God, ruled by the Angel Cassiel.
According to other sources, there are about 955 heavens.
For detailed information regarding the heavens and its rulers, read the first three books of Enoch.
Conclusion
The number of the angels is innumerable. Their number as accounted in the Holy Scriptures is a thousand thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand. They are approximately 101 million.
Throughout history, the angels have been in participation in the service of God in the ministry of God’s saving plan through their messages, through their saving missions, through their angelic inspirations, and through their assistance to the holy ones of God.
Angels are lovable. They are instruments of God’s love. We should pray to the angels and invoke them, and ask for their inspiration, guidance, and protection. We should thank God for giving us angels who serve as our guardians and protectors.
Together, let us unite with the angels in one bond of loving, serving, magnifying, and glorifying the Almighty God. May the blessings of the holy angels of God be upon you.
May God send forth his mighty angels and illuminate man with God’s light.
Note:
For more references, please read the books of Enoch. The story of the angels, its creation, the watchers, the archangels, the fall of some, the creation of the universe, the ten heavens, the meeting of Enoch and God are written on the first two books of Enoch while the hierarchy of angels and the transformation of Enoch into the Angel Metatron are written on the third book of Enoch.
~End~
May this book inspire you to seek assistance, guidance, and protection from the holy angels of God.
May God inspire you through his angels to do good to everyone and to glorify Him by serving His Son Jesus Christ on earth as it is in heaven by
spreading kindness and by giving love towards all, and by spreading the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to all mankind, and by living the examples of Christ.
Let us be in union with the holy angels under one bond serving God.
God Bless you.
~Ace Orense
This book, entitled “The Angels of God”, was written on
December 1, 2008 by Ace Roland Orense.
Children of God
By Ace Orense
Introduction
The children of God are sons and daughters of the Father God Yahweh.
We are all invited to be sons and daughters of God and therefore to become co-heirs of the kingdom of God with Yeshua, our Lord Jesus Christ, our brother. In order to attain sonship to God, we must first of all be baptized with the Holy Spirit, as Christians, being born again by spirit into the glorious kingdom of God, with Christ Jesus as our head.
After we have been baptized, we then will have the right to say Abba, Father. As baptized Christians and sons and daughters of God, now that we are born again, we must allow the Holy Spirit to dwell within our bodies and within our heart and soul, as our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Holy Trinity, with the Father and the Son, one God forever and ever.
As babies in the kingdom of God, the new Christians shall obediently follow and obey the commandments of their Father God. They shall live the teachings of God’s Only Begotten Son, our Lord Yeshua (Aramaic for Jesus). As sons and daughters of God, they are encouraged to love Him, serve Him, and honor Him.
The children of God shall honor, glorify, and magnify their Father Yahweh and his kingdom by serving His Son, Jesus Christ, in the unity
of the Holy Spirit.
As sons and daughters of God, they shall inherit the blessings and graces the Father will bestow upon them.
Children of God ought to please God by serving Him, by doing His will, and by obeying Him.
They are little images and reflections of our brother Jesus Christ.
The Virtues of the Children of God:
Faith and good deeds are the food of His children.
Faith without good deeds is dead but faith with deeds sown shall reap a good harvest.
Love is the greatest virtue of them all, which shall be used by God’s children to honor and glorify Him.
Charity is the perfection of love. Children of God are encouraged to give to the poor and help and give to those who are in need.
Kindness is one of the greatest virtues a child of God has. It touches the hearts of the people around him.
Goodness is the main characteristic of the children of God for their Father who is in heaven is a good God.
Holiness is the perfection of the goodness and the virtues of a child of God. The holy children of God are the ones who please God the most; therefore, we should ought to do our best to become holy.
Piety is a religious virtue a child of God should have for piety leads to holiness.
Humility is necessary for the children of God to grow and mature.
Without humility, a child of God cannot please God.
Humility is pleasing in the eyes of God. A child of God is humble and obedient to the Holy Will of God.
Pride is the opposite of humility. This is an abomination to the eyes of God. Pride is selfish and leads to fall and destruction.
An example of a creature puffed out by pride is the enemy, the angel Lucifer. He, out of his perfect beauty, riches, and intelligence became proud and coveted the throne of God. He desired to become equal to God. Therefore, God leveled him to the ground and cast him into hell, together with his angels.
God exalts the humble but levels down the proud.
Courage is the bravery to do the Holy Will of God no matter how hard and no matter what the circumstances. A very good example is Our Lord Jesus Christ whose courage is very remarkable for he suffered under the hands of man and was nailed onto the cross without any complaints. Other good examples are the saints, the prophets, and the martyrs who courageously preached to people about God and his kingdom, and served God in perfection even under the savage of persecution.
Obedience is a very good virtue. It allows the children of God to be loyal and faithful to God and his commands. Obedience blossoms and spiritually matures the children of God. The perfect example of obedience is Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was obedient to the Father God Yahweh even unto death.
Chastity is the virtue of consecrating our body and soul to God.
Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit which is why we should be careful not to defile it but keep it holy.
Continual state of virginity is very pleasing to God.
The virgins and eunuchs are given fidelity’s choice reward.
It is a reward given by God to the holy ones who preserved their virginity.
Yet those who marry do not sin but serve, in the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, as procreators of the children of God.
Our body, soul, and spirit were created by God, therefore belongs to Him.
The Mission of the Children of God:
The children of God, as sons and daughters of God, are encouraged to spread and glorify God’s kingdom by any means they could do and by the gifts and talents given to them by God.
Children of God ought to glorify God by serving Him out of love.
They are beacons of light to the world and to all the creatures of God.
They shall live by the Word of God and act upon it and live through it.
They shall be stewards of goodness and kindness in a world filled with hatred and violence, and evil and corruption.
They shall be exemplars of humility, chastity, piety, modesty, and obedience to shine as bright stars of God.
They are beacons of mercy, giving to the poor and to the needy, visiting the sick, and helping those who are in need and those who are in distress and oppressed.
They live in a life of prayer, praising and worshipping God, praying for the salvation of souls, the conversion of sinners, and for the kingdom and people of God.
Children of God live a life of holiness, serving, worshipping, loving, honoring, and glorifying God in perfection, with all their heart and soul, and strength and mind.
Children of God live and practice the teachings of Our Lord Jesus Christ and obey all of the commandments of God.
Children of God love God with all their heart, with all their soul, with all their strength, and with all their mind.
Children of God love their neighbor as themselves.
Children of God love their enemies. They bless those who curse them and persecute them.
Children of God are disciples of Christ, our Master Yeshua. They carry their own crosses and do follow Jesus without hesitation and without any delay. They, likened to the apostles, are fishers of men.
Children of God are sent by God to proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God.
Children of God prepare mankind for the Second Coming of the Savior Jesus Christ.
Children of God live the examples of Christ.
Children of God live ad die for God.
Children of God are God’s gift to the world.
Servants of God
Children of God are servants of God.
They do God’s bidding and obey God’s Holy Will.
They act upon the Word of God.
Children of God serve God without any hesitation and without delay.
Their deep love for God inspires them to obey Him and do His Will.
As servants of God, they give to charity and sow seeds of love to all mankind.
They are lovers of men. For man was created in the image and likeness of God.
They serve God inexhaustibly without complaints.
Children of God serve the Master Yeshua (Jesus) out of love.
Children of God are laborers of God sent to take care of His vineyard,
His kingdom, to sow, to cultivate it, trim it, and to make it bear fruit.
Children of God toil for the kingdom of God.
Children of God unceasingly serve God continually, without ever planning to stop.
Children of God serve Him even unto eternity.
Future Citizens of Heaven
The children of God, as sons and daughters of God, will all soon be welcomed into everlasting reward, into the paradise of God.
For they have served God on Earth unceasingly and with good effort,
and have done the Holy Will of God, and lived and obeyed His commandments and teachings of Master Yeshua.
Children of God are future citizens of heaven.
When their short time on Earth is up, they will be taken up to Heaven
by the holy angels of God or by God Himself.
There, they will receive their eternal reward.
Blessed are those who come and serve the Lord for their reward is great in heaven.
Little Angels of God
Children of God are little angels of God.
Blessed are the children of God for they are as little angels.
Like the holy angels of God, the children of God are in participation of serving God with His saving power.
Children of God and the holy angels are in unison serving God and doing His will.
Children of God are like the holy angels, who have an outpouring of love for God.
Children of God, like the holy angels, are holy and wholly desire and act to serve the Lord.
Children of God are like the angels who are pure in heart and in spirit.
They are like the angels who have no malice and are perfect servants of the Lord.
Children of God are little angels, for in heaven, the children of God and the holy angels are as one.
Conclusion:
The children of God are the light of the world. They are sent by God to illumine the world with God’s light and with His divine love and by His saving power.
They are sons and daughters of God who minister to mankind, serving God in perfection, unceasingly, without hesitation.
They are little angels carrying out God’s Will on Earth.
They are the gift of God to the world.
~End~
May this book inspire you to become Children of God and join all of his
servants in fellowship to worship, praise and serve the Lord.
May you spread and propagate the reading of this book to all Christian families to be in unison with all the children of God serving God with faith and good deeds.
God Bless you and your families.
~ Ace Orense
This book, entitled “Children of God”, was written by Ace Roland Orense
on December 2, 2008.
Teachings of Master Jesus
By Ace Orense
The “Teachings of Master Jesus” is a compilation of the teachings of Jesus Christ, handed down to his disciples from early Christianity.
All these were taken from the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, written in the New Testament of the Sacred Scriptures.
The Master Jesus Christ has taught his disciples many a teachings.
His teachings were the fulfillment of the Law given to Moses by Yahweh, the Almighty God.
The teachings of Jesus Christ enlighten those who hear it.
Those who follow his teachings are most likely to be saved.
For Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
He who follows Jesus shall merit eternal life.
Jesus is the Resurrection.
He gives life to those he will.
The teachings of the Master aid those who hear it and act upon it.
It instructs the followers to obey God, to do good, and to show kindness to everyone.
The very teachings of Jesus Christ laid the foundation, and is the heart and core of Christianity.
His teachings show the right way for the people of God.
These are the teachings of the Master Jesus Christ:
The Beatitudes
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 5:1-12
The beatitudes are the rewards that will be given unto those who are good and obey and follow God.
Thou shalt not kill
You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the Sanhedrin.
But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.
Matthew 5:21-22
Thou shalt not commit adultery
You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away.
It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away.
It is better for you to lose one part of your body tan for your whole body to go into hell.
Divorce
“It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.
Oaths
“Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago,
‘Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord.’
But I tell you, Do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. Simply let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’, and your No,’ No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.
An Eye for an Eye
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
Love for Enemies
You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.
He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Giving to the Needy
“Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness, “before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men.
I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.
Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Prayer
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.
I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to the Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like the pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
“This, then, is how you should pray:
“Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name,
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.
For if you forgive men when they have sinned against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
Fasting
“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Treasures in Heaven
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness.
“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
You cannot both serve God and Mammon.
Do Not Worry
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor has been dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Judging Others
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
“Why do you look at the speck of saw-dust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs.
If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
Ask, Seek, Knock
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
“Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you , then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
The Narrow and Wide Gates
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
A Tree and Its Fruit
“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart.
For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
The Wise and Foolish Builders
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, lord,’ and do not do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock.
When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. But the one who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it collapsed and its destruction was complete.”
Sin, Faith, Duty
Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that caused people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
So watch yourselves.
“If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, ‘I repent,’ forgive him.
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
“Suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep.
Would he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? Would he rather not say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
The Little Children and Jesus
People were also bringing babies to Jesus to have him touch them.
When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them.
But Jesus called the children to him and said,
“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.
Sell Everything Thou Hast
A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good-except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”
“All these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said.
When Jesus heard this, he said to him.
Sell everything thou hast and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
Peter said to him, “We have left everything to follow you!”
“I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields-and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
The Greatest in The Kingdom of God
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
He took a little child and had him stand among them, “Whoever welcomes one of these children in my name welcomes me: and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”
Whoever Is Not Against Us Is For Us
“Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”
“Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “No one who does a miracle in my name can be in the next moment say anything bad about me, for whoever is not against us is for us. I tell you the truth, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because he belong to Christ will certainly not lose his reward.
Marriage at the Resurrection
At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage;
they will be lie the angels in heaven. But about the resurrection of the dead-have you not read what God said to you, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead but of the living.
The Greatest Commandment
“Love the Lord God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind.”
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
The Lamp of the Body
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness. Therefore, if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it dark, it will be completely lighted, as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”
The Narrow Door
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’
But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away form me, all you evildoers!
There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.
People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. Indeed there are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”
The Sheep and the Goats
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before hi, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothed you?
When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?
“The King will reply, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me’.
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart form me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?
“He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Conclusion
The teachings of Jesus Christ are the heart and core of Christianity.
The teachings of Jesus Christ are very important and very essential to the life and works of the children of God.
By these teachings, we learn the Way to Holiness, the path to the kingdom of heaven, the way to eternal life.
Let us reflect on these teachings and act upon them.
The teachings of Jesus Christ is the light to all men.
~End~
This book, entitled “Teachings of Master Jesus”, was written on December 7, 2008
May this book inspire you to hear the teachings of Christ and to act upon his words.
God Bless you.
~Brother Ace Orense
“Parables of Jesus”
By Ace Orense
Our Lord Jesus Christ, when he lived on earth two thousand years ago, preached to the people of Israel. He taught them many a things which leads to eternal life, the Way of Holiness, the path of salvation.
He taught his disciples to love God above all things.
He taught his disciples to love their neighbor.
He even taught his disciples to love their enemies.
He taught his disciples to carry their own crosses and follow him.
He taught them to sell what they have and give to the poor.
He taught them to obey the Ten Commandment of Yahweh given to Moses.
Jesus taught his disciples many a things which leads to holiness and to the preservation of souls, leading to eternal life.
Jesus taught them that He is the Resurrection, that whoever who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
Why Jesus Speak in Parables
With all his teachings, the most interesting things were the parables he had spoken.
Jesus taught his disciples many parables for it is the way he would open their mind and their hearts to his teachings which leads to salvation and eternal life.
Jesus said: “The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
Though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
For this people’s heart has been calloused;
They hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.
But blessed are your eyes because they see,
And your ears because they hear.
For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed
to see what you see but did not see it,
and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
Matthew 13:11-17
Jesus meant that people harden their hearts to listen to his words.
In order to open their hearts and their minds to his teachings, he taught them in the way of parables.
There were many parables taught by Jesus to his disciples.
Here are some of them:
These are the Parables of Jesus as written in the Holy Scriptures:
The Parable of the Sower
A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop-a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
“Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:
When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart.
This is the seed sown along the path.
The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.
But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time.
When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.
But the one who received the seed on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”
Matthew 13:1-23
We should hear the Word of God and understand it.
We must bear fruit by listening, spreading, and acting upon the Word of God. We must not let Satan take away what is sown in us by God.
We must stand firm and be strong against evil.
We should not fall away because of persecution or trouble.
We must not let the worries of life and the deceitfulness of wealth
hinder us from doing the works of God.
The Parable of the Weeds
“The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
“The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good weeds in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?
“’An enemy did this,’ he replied.
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
“’No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest.
At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring them into my barn.’”
“The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.
The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
“As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
The meaning of the parable of the weeds is this, the good and the evil will live together. The evil must not be destroyed first because the good will be harmed along. The good and the evil shall be allowed to grow and live together. Afterward, at the judgment, during the harvest, the good will be separated from the evil. The evil will be tied up together and will be thrown into eternal fire, the eternal punishment, in hell. The good, on the other hand, will be welcomed into the kingdom of heaven where they will receive their eternal reward.
The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.
When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy, went and sold all that he had and bought that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls.
When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything
he had and bought it.
The meaning of the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl is this,
when one has found the kingdom of heaven, he will give up everything he has to attain the kingdom of God.
The Parable of the Net
“Once again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fishermen pulled it up on the shore. Then they sat down and collected the good fish in baskets, but threw the bad away.
This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
“Therefore every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
The harvesters of man are the angels. The good will be sent to heaven while the evil will be thrown into hell at the end of age.
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
“See that you do not look down on one of these little ones.
For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.
And when he finds the lost sheep, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home.
Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says.
“Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
I tell you the truth that in the same way, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
The parable of the lost sheep means that God will go out to search and find the child of God who wanders away as a sinner and is lost.
He will see to it that the ones who wander away be put back into his arms under his care.
He will be happier with the sinner who repents than with the just who remained with God, faithful.
God will be full of joy when he gets those who wander away back to him.
The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
“Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
The servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
“But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him.
‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.
“His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’
“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.
When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
“Then the master called the servant in.
‘You wicked servant,’ he said ‘I cancelled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’
In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
“This is how my heavenly Father will treat each one of you unless you forgive your brother form your heart.”
The parable of the unmerciful servant means as the Father has shown us mercy, so shall we be merciful and show mercy to those who sin or debt against us. Those who will not show mercy will be punished.
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
“About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.
“He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
“’Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman,
‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius.
When they received it, the y began to grumble against the landowner.
‘These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work
and the heat of the day.’
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am not being unfair to you.
Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go.
I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you.
Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money?
Or are you envious because I’m generous?’
“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
The parable of the workers in the vineyard means like this, those who have served the Lord, even at the last hour, will be rewarded the same as those who have worked in the first hour.
God is generous. Even though you were called late, he will still reward you as those he rewarded earlier.
It is never too late to serve God.
The Parable of the Tenants
“There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a journey. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
“The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. They will respect my son,’ he said.
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
“Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, “they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”
Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:
“’The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone;
the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
“Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away form you and given to a people who will produce fruit.
He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
The parable of the tenants means like this, the vineyard is the kingdom of God. The tenants are the people who are in his kingdom.
The Father is the owner of the land where the vineyard is.
The evil ones killed the prophets of God, whom he sent to gather his people.
Even the Son of Man, Jesus Christ was not spared by the evil ones.
The evil killed the Son of God, for he is the heir to the throne.
The Father, the Mighty One, who sees everything, will unleash his fury on the evil who have wrought evil and killed the prophets and his Son.
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.
Then he sent more servants and said, ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready.
Come to the wedding banquet.’
“But they paid no attention and went off-one to his field, another to his business. The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.
The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.
Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’
So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.
‘Friend’, he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ The man was speechless.
“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”
The parable of the wedding banquet means like this, many are invited to the kingdom of God but only a few comes to his banquet.
There are some who comes to his banquet but are not worthy and therefore, cannot partake into the kingdom of God.
Those who are evil and not fit for the kingdom will be thrown into eternal punishment in hellfire.
God sent his prophets to invite people to his kingdom, yet those invited persecuted them and killed them.
Those who are righteous and worthy are welcomed into the heavenly banquet of God where they will feast on what has been prepared for them, into eternal happiness in the kingdom of heaven.
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
“At midnight, the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
“Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
“’No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both of us and you.
Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
‘But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived.
The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet.
And the door was shut.
“Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’
They said. ‘Open the door for us!’
“But he replied, ‘I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.’
“Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
The parable of the ten virgins means, we should be prepared for the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
We do not know the day or the hour he will come.
Those who are prepared will be united to Christ.
While those who did not prepare for his coming, shall be departed from him.
The Parable of the Talents
And it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to another one talent, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received the five talents went at once and put his money to work and gained five more.
So also, the one with the two talents gained two more.
But the man who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in he ground and hid his master’s money.
“After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. The man who had received the five talents brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’
“His master replied, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.
Come and share your master’s happiness!’
“The man with the two talents also came, ‘Master, he said, ‘you entrusted me with two talents; see, I have gained two more.’
“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.
Come and share your master’s happiness!’
“Then the man who had received the one talent came.
‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not gathered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’
“His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not gathered seed?
Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back it with interest.
“’Take the talent form him and give it to the one who has the ten talents.
For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance.
Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken form him. And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
The parable of the talents means that we should make use of what God
has given us, be it talent, or knowledge, or skill, or wealth, anything which God has given us, and make it bear fruit.
Those who are lazy and does not use what God has given them, God will take away what has been given to them.
~Taken from the gospel according to Matthew
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
“A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So, too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
The parable of the good Samaritan means that we should help those who are in need of help. When someone is in need, we should not hesitate to help them. We should be merciful and generous to those who are in need of help. Anyone who needs help or who is in need is our neighbor.
We should love our neighbor as ourselves.
The Parable of the Lost Coin
“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says,
‘Rejoice with me, I have found my lost coin.’
In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
The Parable of the Lost Son
“There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his brother, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.
“Not long after that, the younger son go together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.
After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!
I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son, make me like one of your hired men.’
So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
“The son said to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you, I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
“But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate.
For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’
So they began to celebrate.
“Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. ‘Your brother has come’, he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’
“The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years, I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders.
Yet you never even gave me a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’
“’My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad because the brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
The parable of the prodigal son means God will rejoice and be happy if he sees a man who went astray yet comes back to him to ask for forgiveness.
The prodigal son are the sinners who went astray yet goes back to the Father, repenting.
If we turn away from our unholy life and go back to God, repenting, he will forgive us our sins and accept us in his kingdom.
The Parable of the Srewd Manager
“There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. So he called him in and asked him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you cannot be manger any longer.’
“The manger said to himself, ‘What shall I do now? My master is taking away my jub.
I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m ashamed to beg-I know what I will do that, when I lose my job here, people will welcome me into their houses.’
“So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you woe my master?’
“’Eight hundred gallons of olive oil, he replied.
“The manger told him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it four hundred.’
“Then he asked the second, ‘And how much do you owe?’
“’A thousand bushels of wheat,‘ he replied.
“He told him, ‘Take your bill and make it eight hundred.
“The master commanded the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly.
For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light. I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.
So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?
“No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve both God and Mammon.”
The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.
He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among men is detestable in God’s sight.
The meaning of the parable of the shrewd manager is like this, the Father gives us many gifts, in the form of wealth, possessions, skill, talents, looks, abilities, and other gifts. It is for us to make use of what has been given us and to take care of what is given for God has blessed us with many a things.
If we can be trusted with a few gifts, we can be trusted with many.
If we cannot be trusted with a few, we cannot be trusted with many.
So let us take care of what has been given to us by God, that he may be pleased with us and give us more.
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
“For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually wear me out with her coming!’”
And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?
I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly.
However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
The parable of the persistent widow means that people should always pray and not give up.
For God is a good, merciful, generous God.
If we keep asking him, he will grant our prayers for he knows what we want and what we need.
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
“Two men went up to the temple and pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men-robbers, evildoers, adulterers-or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector mean like this, the sinners who humble themselves before God and ask for his mercy will be justified and forgiven, and exalted, and will be accepted by God.
Those who exalt themselves before God will be humbled.
The Parable of the Ten Minas
“A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.
So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.
‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’
“But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say,
‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’
“He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they have gained with it.
“The first one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten more.’
“Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’
“The second came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned five more.’
“His master answered, ‘You take charge of five cities.’
“Then another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth. I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’
“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant!
You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow? Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?
“Then he said to those standing by, ‘Take this mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’
“’Sir,’ they said, ‘he has already ten!’
“He replied, ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.
But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them-bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”
The parable of the ten minas means like this, those who were entrusted with many and has bear fruit, will be given more.
Those who were entrusted with a few, but did not bear fruit, it will be taken away.
We should see to it that with what God has given us, we should use and make it bear fruit.
We should take care of the gifts God has given us.
We should use it for his glory.
If we are trustworthy to take care of what God has given us, he will give us much more.
If we did not take care of what he has given us, and did not use it for his glory, it will be taken away from us by God.
~From the gospel according to Luke
Conclusion
The many parables taught by Jesus gives us a clear view of the kingdom of God and with how God deals with man.
Let us ponder, reflect, and meditate upon these parables.
For they will prove helpful to us in our daily lives on how we can take part of the kingdom of God.
Let us learn from what the parables point at.
The parables give us light on how to deal with our fellow men and with God.
These parables will lead us to a life of holiness, which leads us to eternal life with God.
~End~
This book, entitled “Parables of Jesus”, was written on December 2008
by Ace Roland Orense.
May this book inspire you to do the works of God.
May this book make you follow the Way of Holiness by meditating and reflecting, and by living the Parables of Jesus.
~Ace Orense
“Miracles of Christ”
By Ace Orense
“Miracles of Christ” is a compilation of the miracles performed by Jesus Christ, two thousand years ago.
It was written and accounted for in the gospels of Matthew, Mark Luke, and John, who testified it, accurate and true, in the New Testament of the Sacred Scriptures.
Jesus Christ, when he lived on Earth, two thousand years ago, performed many a miraculous signs and miracles.
Jesus changed water into wine.
He healed the sick.
He made the blind see.
He made the lame walk.
He made the paralyzed move.
He made the deaf hear.
He made the mute speak.
He multiplied fish and bread.
He even raised the dead back to life.
These are the Miracles of Christ as written in the Holy Scriptures in the Books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John:
Jesus Changes Water to Wine
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee.
Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
“Dear woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied, “My time has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
Then he told them. “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine.
He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said,
“Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
This, the first of his miraculous signs Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee. He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him.
Jesus Heals the Official’s Son
Jesus once more visited Cana in Galilee, where had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
“Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders, “Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
Jesus replied, “You may go. Your son will live.”
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.
When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”
Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his household believed.
This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee.
The Healing at the Pool
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews.
Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.
Here a great number of disabled people used to lie-the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there, and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool where the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”
At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”
So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”
The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.
Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”
The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.
Jesus Heals the Sick
Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, and the paralyzed, and he healed them.
Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.
Jesus Heals Many
When Jesus came into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever. He touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to wait on him.
When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick.
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
“He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”
The Healing of Two Demon-possessed Men
When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him.
They were so violent that no one can pass that way.
“What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted.
“Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”
Some distance from them a large herd of pigs were feeding.
The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
He said to them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. Those tending the pigs ran off, went into the town and reported all this, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.
Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region.
Jesus Heals a Paralytic
Some men carrying a paralytic, lying on a mat, tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles in the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, son, your sins are forgiven.”
Then he said to the paralytic, “Get up, take your mat, and go home.”
And the man got up and went home praising God.
Jesus Resurrects A Dead Girl and Heals a Sick Woman
A ruler of the synagogue, named Jairus, came and knelt before Jesus’ feet.
Jairus pleaded Jesus to come to his house because his only daughter, a girl of about twelve, was dying.
But come and put your hand on her, and she will live.
Jesus got up and went with him, and so did his disciples.
Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak.
No one could heal her.
She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped.
She said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed.”
“Who touched me?” Jesus asked.
When they all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.
But Jesus said, “Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.”
Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet.
In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed.
Jesus turned and saw her, “Take heart, daughter,” he said” your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” And the woman was healed from that moment.
While Jesus was still speaking, someone came from the house of Jairus,
the synagogue ruler. “Your daughter is dead.” He said. “Do not bother the teacher anymore.”
Hearing this, Jesus said to Jairus, “Do not be afraid; just believe, and she will be healed.”
When he arrived at the house of Jairus, he did not let anyone go in with him except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s mother and father.
All the people were wailing and mourning for her.
“Stop wailing,” Jesus said. She is not dead but asleep.”
When Jesus entered the ruler’s house and saw the flute players, and the noisy crowd, he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.”But they laughed at him knowing that she was dead.
After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and said, “My child, get up!” Her spirit returned, and at once she stood up. Then Jesus told them to give her something to eat. Her parents were astonished, but he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened.
News of this spread through all that region.
Jesus Heals the Blind and Mute
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out,
“Have mercy on us, Son of David!”
When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”
“Yes, Lord,” they replied.
Then he touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith, will it be done to you”; and their sight was restored.
Jesus warned them, sternly, “See that no one knows about this.” But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.
While they were going out, a man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus.
And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowd was amazed and said, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it is already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and but themselves some food.”
Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
“Bring them here to me,” he said. And he directed the people to sit down on the grass.
Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves.
Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Jesus Walks on the Water
During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to his disciples, who were on a boat at a considerable distance from land because the wind was against it. Jesus came to them walking on the lake.
When the disciples saw Jesus walking on the lake, they were terrified.
“It’s a ghost,” they said and cried out in fear.
But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.”
“Lord, if it is you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you in the water.”
“Come,” Jesus said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him.
“You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down.
Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”
When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret. And when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all their sick to him and begged him to let the sick just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched him were healed.
Jesus Heals the Daughter of a Canaanite Woman
A Canaanite woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon came to Jesus, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession.”
Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying after us.”
He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs.”
“Yes, Lord,” she said, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
Then Jesus answered, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.”
And her daughter was healed form that very hour.
The Healing of a Deaf and Mute Man
Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the man.
After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers on the man’s ears. Then he spit and touched the man’s tongue.
He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, “Ephphatha!”
(which means, “Be opened!”) At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.
Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. People were overwhelmed with amazement. “He has done everything well,” they said. “He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”
Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand
Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee. Then he went up on a mountainside and sat down. Great crowds came to him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others, and laid them at his feet; and he healed them. The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel.
Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to sent them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.”
His disciples answered, “Where can we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?”
How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked.
“Seven, they replied, “and a few small fish.”
He told the crowd to sit down on the ground.
Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people. They all ate and were satisfied.
Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. The number of those who ate was four thousand besides the women and children. After Jesus had sent the crowd away, he got into the boat and went onto the vicinity of Magadan.
Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida
Jesus and his disciples came to Bethsaida. Some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, “Do you see anything?”
He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.”
Once more Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.
Jesus sent him home, saying, “Do not go into the village.”
Jesus Heals a Boy With a Demon
When they came to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and the teachers of the law arguing with them.
As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him.
“What are you arguing with them about?” he asked.
A man in the crowd approached Jesus and knelt before him. “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that ahs robbed him of speech. Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples to drive out the spirit but they could not heal him.”
“O unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.”
So they brought him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?”
“From childhood,” he answered. “It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.”
“’If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for him who believes.”
Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe, help me overcome
my unbelief!”
When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the evil spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” he said, “I command you come out of him and never enter him again.”
The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out.
The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead.”
But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.
Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out? “
He replied, “This kind can only come out by prayer.” “Because you have so little faith, I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there.’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Two Blind Men Receive Sight
As Jesus and his disciples were leaving Jericho, two blind men were sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was going by, they shouted, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
The crowd rebuked them and told them to be quiet, but they shouted all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
Jesus stopped and called them, “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked. “Lord,” they answered, “we want our sight.”
Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed Jesus.
Jesus Heals a Demon-possessed Man
Jesus and his disciples went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.
When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet.
No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.
When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at he top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Swear to God that you won’t torture me!” For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you evil spirit!”
Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”
“My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.
A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.”
He gave them permission, and the evil spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.
Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who was possessed by a legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. Those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man~and told about the pigs as well. Then the people pleaded Jesus to leave their region.
As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. Jesus did not let him but said, “Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”
So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.
Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit
Jesus and his disciples went to Capernaum and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an evil spirit cried out, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are-the Holy One of God!”
“Be quiet!” Jesus said sternly. “Come out of him!” The evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.
The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching-and with authority! He even gives orders to evil spirits and they obey him.” News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.
Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight
Then Jesus and his disciples came to Jericho.
When they were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus, Son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside begging.
When he had heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more,
“Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.”
So they called to the blind man, “Cheer up! On your feet! He is calling you.”
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him.
The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.”
“Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
Jesus Heals A Man With Leprosy
While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.
Then Jesus ordered him, “Do not tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”
Jesus Heals the Centurion’s Servant
Jesus entered Capernaum where a centurion’s servant whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die.
The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant.
When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, “This man deserves to have you do this, because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.” So Jesus went with them.
He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed.
For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, “I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel.” Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son
Jesus went to a town called Nin, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him. As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out-the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.
And a large crowd from the town was with her. When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Do not cry.”
Then he went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still.
He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!”
The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. They were all filled with awe and praised God.
“A great prophet has appeared among us,” they said.
“God has come to help his people.”
This news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and the surrounding country.
Jesus Calms the Storm
One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the lake.” So they got into a boat and set out.
As they sailed, Jesus fell asleep. A squall came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.
The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!”
He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. “Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples.
In fear and amazement they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obeyed him.”
Ten Healed of Leprosy
Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him.
They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.”
And as they went, they were cleansed.
One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in aloud voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him-and he was a Samaritan.
Jesus asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?
Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
Then he said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
A Blind Beggar Receives His Sight
As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging. When he heard the crowd going by, he asked what was happening. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”
He called out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
Jesus stopped and ordered the man to be brought to him.
When he came near, Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”
“Lord, I want to see, he replied.
Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.”
Immediately, he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God.
When all the people saw it, they also praised God.
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
As Jesus went along, he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam(which means Sent)”. So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked,
“Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”
Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insister, “I am the man.”
“How then were your eyes opened?” they demanded.
He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
“Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead
Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb of Lazarus.
It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
“Take away the stone,” he said.
“But Lord,” said Martha, the sister of Lazarus, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there for four days.”
Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
When he said this, Jesus called in aloud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
The Resurrection of Jesus
The Resurrected Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
On the Sunday morning after Jesus’ death, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb of Jesus. She saw that the stone had been removed form the entrance.
She ran to Peter and John the Beloved, saying that Jesus was taken from the tomb and that they do not know where they have put him.
John and Peter ran to the tomb. Peter saw the strips of linen lying there and the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’ head.
The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.
And so they went home. Mary Magdalene stood outside the tomb crying.
As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb.
She saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been laid, one at the head and the other at the foot.
They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” She turned around and saw Jesus standing there.
She did not realize it was Jesus.
“Woman,” he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (teacher)
Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.
Jesus Appears to His Disciples
On that Sunday evening, the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews.
Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!”
After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” And with that, he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
Jesus Appears to Thomas
The other disciples told Thomas that they have seen the Lord.
Thomas said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.”
A week later, the disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put you finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”
Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed;
blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.
Jesus and the Miraculous Catch of Fish
Afterward Jesus appeared gain to his disciples, by the Sea of Tiberias.
It happened this way: Simon Peter, Thomas(called Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together.
“I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night, they caught nothing.
Early in the morning Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
He called out to them, “Friends, have not you any fish?”
“No,” they answered.
He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.”
When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
Then the disciple who Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!”
As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards.
When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.
Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.”
Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn.
Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.”
None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.
Jesus Ascends Into Heaven
The disciples of Jesus met together for Jesus’ departure.
Jesus was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.
The disciples were looking intently up into the sky as he was going,
when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them.
“Men of Galilee, they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken form you into heaven,
will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
Conclusion
The many miracles of Christ are testimonies and proofs that Jesus, truly is the Son of God.
Jesus is the Divine Healer. Nothing is impossible with him for Christ is God.
Jesus is all-powerful that he healed the sick and even raised the dead back to life.
Jesus himself, who died on the cross, rose from the dead, back to life.
Jesus is truly a great healer.
No one has ever matched the miracles done by the Master Jesus.
Jesus is truly the Son of the Living God.
~End~
This book, entitled “Miracles of Christ” was written on December 2008.
May the reading of this book allow you to love, honor, and serve the Divine Healer, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
May this book be a living proof that Jesus is the true Son of the Almighty God as manifested by his many wonders and miracles.
God Bless you.
~Ace Orense
“Yahweh”
By Ace Orense
Yahweh is the Supreme God.
Yahweh is the Most High God.
Yahweh is the Creator of heaven and earth.
Yahweh is God the Father, the First Person of the Triune God,
The Most Holy Trinity.
Yahweh is the Father of the Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Yahweh means “I am Who I am”.
In Hebrew, the name of Yahweh is “Yod He Vau He”.
Yahweh is the God of Israel.
Yahweh is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Yahweh created the universe and everything in it and upon it, visible and invisible for six days, the six days of creation.
Yahweh is the God of Moses, whom He used as his prophet to the Israelites.
Yahweh saved the Israelites from the hands of the Pharaoh and the Egyptians using his servant Moses.
Yahweh sends his prophets to the people of the Earth from time to time, epoch to epoch, generation to generation.
Yahweh is our Father who is in heaven.
He always watches us from heaven.
He loves us and cares for us, for we are his creations, made in his own image and likeness.
Yahweh is the Divine Source. He is the source of everything.
Yahweh is God.
Yahweh is omnipotent, all-powerful.
There is no existing being who is more powerful than Yahweh.
Noone is above Him.
He is the creator of every existing creation.
Noone is greater than Yahweh.
Yahweh is omnipresent. He can be anywhere all at the same time.
Yahweh is omniscient, all-knowing.
Yahweh knows everything. There is nothing hidden from the mind of Yahweh.
Yahweh’s omniscience reaches everything. Nothing escapes from his sight.
His omniscience penetrates the depths of his creatures minds.
He can read our minds. He can read our thoughts.
He can read our hearts.
There is no secret hidden from Him. He sees through the darkness.
He can perceive everything.
Yahweh is invincible. He has no weakness.
He exists. He has no beginning. He was not created.
His power has no limits.
There is nothing impossible with Yahweh.
He can take any form he wants to take.
He can be at any size he wants to be.
Yahweh is infinite.
Yahweh cannot be defined.
Yahweh is indescribable.
Yahweh cannot be perceived.
Yahweh cannot be grasped.
Yahweh is beyond understanding.
Yahweh is beyond everything.
Yahweh is good.
He is infinite goodness.
He even produces goodness out of evil.
He can produce light from darkness.
Yahweh is Light.
All power and honor and glory is the Father’s.
Yahweh is Divine Majesty.
Yahweh is all-pure and all-holy.
He has no blemish.
He has no defect.
Yahweh is perfect.
There is nothing he lacks.
He is complete.
Yahweh is Allah, Jehovah, Yod He Vau He, Jod He Vau He.
The real name of God the Father is Jod He Vau He.
Yahweh is God Almighty.
Yahweh is deserving of all our love, praise, and worship.
Because Yahweh created us, it is only rightful for us, his creatures, to give Him honor, glory, benediction, praise, worship, benevolence, fear, and awe.
For Yahweh so loved the world, He gave us His only Son Jesus Christ,
His only-begotten Son, His direct emanation, His Substance, His Second Person of Divinity.
The Holy Trinity is God in Three Persons, The Three Persons of the Divinity of God is Yahweh, God the Father, First Person of the Holy Trinity, then Jesus Christ “Yeshua”, God the Son, Second Person of the Holy Trinity, then the Holy Spirit, Third Person of the Holy Trinity.
These are the three manifestations of God, the Triune God, The Most Holy Blessed Trinity.
Yahweh is the Godhead among the Holy Three.
Yahweh is the First Person of the Holy Trinity.
All three are co-equal yet the Father is the Source, from whom the Son and the Holy Spirit emanated.
Jesus’ own words saying “The Father is greater than I”, means the Father truly is the greatest among the Holy Three.
Yet Jesus declares that “I and the Father are one” and “He who sees me has seen the Father”, and “I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”
The words of our Lord Jesus Christ testify that God is one. Jesus and Yahweh are one.
And so God is one in three persons of Divinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
As the Father is the First Person, he is Supreme among the three yet co-equal with them in essence, substance, and authority.
The Father has sent the Son to redeem the world.
It is the Father who has sent. Therefore the one who sent is greater than the one sent.
Yahweh is greater than Jesus. For the Father is above the Son.
Yet the Father loves the Son, that everything the Father has, He has given to His Son Jesus Christ.
Everything that the Father has, he has given them to the Son.
Yahweh loved man so much. He made man in his own image and likeness
to rule over the creatures of the earth.
Yahweh made man to make them his children for He is a good, loving father.
Yahweh wanted something to be loved. And so out of his intelligence, creativity, and power, he formed man from the dust of the earth according to His own image and likeness.
Yahweh is our sweet and loving Father.
Man is God’s children. He created man to be loved by Him.
And so He gave man many a gifts, providence, graces, and blessings.
He gave man the earth to live in, a body to use, food to eat, water to drink, plants to eat, animals to be consumed.
The blessings and graces given by Yahweh to man are innumerable.
He gives man gifts not only corporal but spiritual.
The greatest gift Yahweh has given man is no other than His Only Son, the Messiah Jesus Christ “Yeshua”.
He offered mankind a way to be saved from their sins, transgressions, and iniquity.
It is through His Son, His Second Person of Divinity, he willed man to be saved.
For Yahweh wills all man to be saved, not to die in their sins.
Death came forth from the disobedience of the first man from earth, Adam, by eating the fruit form the forbidden tree, which Eve his wife gave him, who was tempted and deceived by Satan who was in the from of a serpent.
Yet life came forth from the second man from heaven, the life-giving spirit who gave life and purchased eternal salvation for many a souls.
Satan is the chief opposing power, the usurper of Yahweh’s power and dominion.
Satan originally was a good angel, Lucifer (“Light-bearer”), a cherub, who was created with the seal of perfection, with complete wisdom and perfect beauty.
He was perfect in his ways until sin and iniquity was found in him.
He desired to be equal to Yahweh. He wanted to become God.
And so Yahweh casted Satan (“Adversary”) from heaven and casted him to hell, the abode of the damned.
Among all of Yahweh’s angels, the Archangel Michael arose and swore to defend the kingdom of God from Satan and the demons (“evil angels”).
When there was a great war in heaven, Michael and his angels fought against Satan and his minions and the dragon Satan did not prevail and was cast down to the earth.
In the end of days, Yahweh will once again send the Messiah, his only Son Jesus Christ to save mankind from the clutches of Satan and the Antichrist.
Yahweh loves mankind so much that He saves mankind from time and time again sending his holy ones for their saving missions.
Yahweh and Jesus are one.
Yahweh wanted to save man so much that he appears as His Second Person of Divinity, Jesus Christ “Yeshua”.
Yahweh is the Infinite Almighty God.
Yahweh is Infinite Goodness.
Yahweh is a great and wonderful God.
We, as Yahweh’s creatures, ought to give glory, love, praise, and worship to Yahweh, the Almighty God.
In the end, Yahweh will create a new heaven and a new earth.
There, we his faithful children, will be in constant union with Him, Yahweh, the Father Almighty and we will share happiness and infinite joy with Him in paradise forever.
We, his children cry out to Him, Abba, Father.
His mercy fails no one.
Glory to Yahweh, the Almighty Father.
Glory to His Son, Jesus Christ “Yeshua”.
Glory to His Holy Spirit.
All the power and the glory and the honor are Yours, Almighty Father, Yahweh, forever and ever. Amen.
Conclusion
Yahweh is the Supreme God.
He is the creator of all existence.
Yahweh is the Divine Source, the source of everything.
Yahweh is the First Person of the Holy Trinity, One with the Son and with the Holy Spirit.
Yahweh is Omnipotent, all-powerful, Omniscient, all-knowing, and Omnipresent, ever-present.
Yahweh is Infinite Goodness.
Yahweh is the Beginning and the End.
Yahweh is our Heavenly Father.
Yahweh is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Yahweh is Our Almighty God.
~End~
May this book, entitled “Yahweh” enlighten the children of God and make their Heavenly Father be known to them, Yahweh, our Creator.
May this book make you love, honor, glorify, and worship our good Father, Yahweh.
God Bless you, children of the Father.
~Ace Orense
This book, entitled “Yahweh”, was written by
Ace Orense on December 2008-January 2009.
“End of the World”
By Ace Orense
The End of the World is at hand.
We are living in the last days.
We are living the last pages of the Book of Apocalypse.
Soon, the world will end.
The end of the world has been prophesied by the prophets long ago and the omens and the signs are one by one appearing.
We have seen wars, earthquakes, famines, strife, pestilences, diseases, and many other signs which signal the end of the world.
These are some of the prophecies of the end of the world by the prophet Isaiah and by Saint Peter the Apostle:
The devastation of the Earth was prophesied many times in the Holy Bible.
To cite a few, read 2 Peter 3:7 by the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Read 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
Isaiah24:1 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants.
Isaiah 24:18-20 The floodgates of heaven are opened, the foundations of the earth shake. The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken. The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls-never to rise again.
Isaiah 65:17 Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Prior to the End of the World, Christ will come a second time to redeem the world and to save mankind from the clutches of the Antichrist and the False Prophet.
Here are some of the prophecies of the Second Coming of Christ and the End of the World:
“Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming ‘I am the Christ’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of the birth pains.
Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by many nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
…then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one on the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now-and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. At that time of anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect-if that were possible.
So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of man. Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
“Immediately after the distress of those days “’the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
At that time the sign of the Son of man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels
with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
“Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As long as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.
..No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing that would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left; Two women will be grinding with a handmill; one will be taken and the other left.
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. ..So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you do not expect him.
Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
Listen, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.“
“Where, O death is your victory?
Where, O death is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15: 51-57
“It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
The Acts of the Apostles 1:7-8
The world will end soon. We just don’t know exactly when, but the time is near for the omens are occurring one by one.
We have to change our ways and become good for we do not know the times and dates.
For the children of God, we should not worry, because we know that in the end, Jesus Christ, the Messiah, will come again to save us.
We have to repent for the end is near.
We all have to change and be good.
We have to turn away from sin, out of the darkness, into the light, which comes from God.
There is so little time.
We have to make a change right now.
Let us wait and hope for the Second Coming of Christ.
Let us all pray and go to church and listen to our priests and pastors.
Never cease to pray for the Lord will graciously hear the prayers of the faithful.
Let us love one another and give to charity.
Let us preach the gospel to the ends of the earth while there is still time.
Let us obey all of God’s commandments without hesitation.
As time passes, the hourglass is turning, we have to evangelize the world and make everyone change to be good and to turn back to God who is waiting for us to return to Him.
As this world is coming to an end, let us hope and aspire to partake in the new heaven and the new earth which God will create.
In the new heaven and the new earth, we the children of God will live in eternal happiness with God and in the company of the holy angels and the saints.
Let us all wait for The Messiah, Jesus Christ “Yeshua” to return to earth and to save us once more.
We need not panic. We just have to pray and change according to the Holy Will of God.
Let us all pray.
Let us all do goodness.
Let our faith aflame.
Let us give to charity.
Let us obey all of God’s commandments.
Let us love God, above all, with all our heart, with all our mind, with
all our soul, and with all our strength.
Let us love one another.
Fear not. Jesus will save us.
It is the Father’s will for us, his children, to be saved.
The end of the world is at hand.
Let us all give glory, honor, praise, and worship to the Almighty God.
Let us all love God and fear him. For God loves us so much that he lavished us with innumerable corporal and spiritual gifts.
Let us not worry about the end of the world but be ready.
Redemption and salvation is at hand!
Glory to the King!
Our Lord Jesus Christ will save us at the end of the world.
Conclusion
The end of the world was prophesied by the prophets from long ago.
And now, we are living the last pages of the Book of Apocalypse.
The omens are occurring one by one.
We have to be ready. We have to be prepared for the end.
Let us not fear and panic for the Messiah, Jesus Christ will save us once again in the last days.
After the end of the world, there will be a new heaven and a new earth, where we, the faithful children of God will live in everlasting happiness with God and in the company of the holy angels and saints.
Let us walk in the ways of God that we may one day be with Him and live in paradise, and live in eternal happiness forever.
~End
May this book, entitled “End of the World”, make the readers ready for the coming end of the world. May it propel you to change and to do good
in anticipation of what is to occur.
May it bring you back to God, to turn away from sin and see the light.
God Bless you.
~Ace Orense
This book, entitled “For the Master Jesus”, was written by
Ace Roland Orense, on 2008 to 2009 A.D.
May these books inspire you to love and serve the Lord.
May it make you share the knowledge and the love of God to all man.
May it enlighten you and inspire you to spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to all man.
May these books make you lovers of God.
~Ace Orense
Jesus Is My Shepherd
Composed by:
Ace Orense
Jesus is my shepherd, I shall not want,
He tends the herds in green pastures, I offer him my chant,
From rocky roads and struggles, he rescues me,
From distress and pain, he delivers me,
From storms, lightning and rain, he shelters me,
His love will never wane, deeper than the deepest sea,
More vast than all the galaxies, way more than a billion centuries,
Though I grow weak and weary, I know he cares for me,
Diamonds, gold, and rubies, would never amount to thee,
Bend down all knees before his majesty, Christ most holy,
To God be the glory.
Jesus is my Shepherd,
Whom Shall I fear?
Jesus is my Shepherd,
I know he loves me dear.
Christ laid down his life for us,
We ought to lay down our lives for our brethren,
Coz we all God’s Children,
Love one another, love one another,
Believe in the mighty name of Jesus Christ,
In his presence let us arise,
Your sins have been forgiven on account of him,
Those who obey his commandments
Live in Him and He in them,
Christ has come in the flesh as an atoning sacrifice for our sins,
We live in Him and He in us,
His love is made complete in us,
Son of God, Savior of the world,
Live in love, Live in God,
Believe in Him, Listen to His Word,
Believe in the name of the Son of God,
That you may have eternal life,
He who has the Son has life.
Jesus is my Shepherd,
Whom shall I fear?Jesus is my Shepherd
I know he loves me dear.
The Life of Brother Ace Orense
Ace Roland Mendoza Orense or Brother Ace is a layman of the Roman Catholic Church, who envisioned establishing The Yeshua Movement, an organization meant to glorify Jesus Christ and to prepare mankind for his Second Coming, under which are the Fraternity of the Knights of Christ, and the Sorority of the Sisters of Christ, established for the kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He was born on September 28, 1979 at Makati City, Philippines. He is the firstborn son of Orlando Rodriguez Orense and Marlene Mendoza Orense. He was baptized as a Roman Catholic on March 30, 1980 at Don Bosco Parish Church at Makati City, Philippines.
Here is a description of Brother Ace’s appearance and stature: Ace is 5”9’3/4 feet in height, has a body mass of around 220 pounds, has average build, has dark brown hair, has brown eyes, and has a fair complexion.
His family is from the comfortable middle class. His father, Orlando Orense is an engineer while his mother, Marlene is an ordinary housewife.
Ace grew up in the city of Las Pinas, Philippines.
He studied elementary and high school in Catholic schools like Elizabeth Seton School and Saint Francis of Assisi College in Las Pinas City, Philippines. He was an above average student who often was ranked among the honor roll. When he was ten years of age, he joined the Knights of the Altar as a sacristan or altar server. It was then that he first felt that inner calling to serve The Master Jesus. He served the Holy Church as a sacristan from 10 years until 15 years of age and then 22 years until 28 years of age. All in all, he has been a sacristan for 13 years.
Brother Ace studied in colleges such as Mapua Institute of Technology, taking up Electronics and Communications Engineering, Saint Francis of Assisi College, continuing the same course in engineering, AMA Computer University, taking up the same course in engineering and Information Technology, ABE International College, taking up Tourism, and at NIIT, taking up web designing. He is to further continue his studies.
Brother Ace worked at different establishments as a factory worker, computer technician, proofreader, waiter, call center agent, and as a teacher.
He was also an entrepreneur. He ran a billiard center at the garage of his house in Las Pinas City, Philippines.
Brother Ace was a romantic lover. All in all, so far, he had 11 girlfriends.
Brother Ace’s earlier life was filled with merriment in the company of his friends. He loved partying in clubs and engaged himself in other social activities.
Brother Ace was a rap singer and a composer. He composed rap gospel songs such as Jesus Is My Shepherd, God’s Children, Angels of God, Blood, Two Thousand Years, What Profit Is It For A Man, Armageddon, God Is Love, Tomorrow, and many others.
The gospel songs he composed were all inspired by his deep love for the Master Jesus.
Brother Ace is a literary writer.
Brother Ace is the author of “Books of Ace”, a compilation of inspirational Christian books composed of books such as “Yeshua”, “Second Coming of Christ”, “The Divine Warrior”, “Angels of God”, “Children of God”, “Teachings of Master Jesus”, “End of the World”, “Miracles of Christ“, “Parables of Jesus”, “The Good Shepherd” “The Life of Brother Ace”, and many others. To date, Ace is still writing many a books for the evangelization of the people of God.
The Mystical Life of Brother Ace:
Brother Ace has always dreamed of being a saint. He desires to become an angel one day. One of his dreams is to go fishing on a boat, on a blue lake with Jesus, his master, the person he loves the most.
Brother Ace first felt the presence of Christ on the year of the Lord, 2002 when he was 22 years of age. The Lord Jesus Christ would speak to Him either as The Santo Nino (The Child Jesus) or as the adult Christ, His dual manifestations. Master Yeshua would speak through Him by a manifestation called divine possession. The Master Yeshua would continually save Brother Ace from perils brought about by Satan and his minions.
And when in the company of little children, Brother Ace would be possessed by The Child Jesus narrating them stories about the Holy Scriptures like Noah’s Ark and preaching to them to be good and to be obedient to their parents.
In the year 2003, Brother Ace went to a faith healer as told by the Master Yeshua. It was the time of the conflict between the Master Yeshua and Satan. The healer roared like a devil and was possessed by Satan Lucifer while Brother Ace was possessed by the Master Yeshua. This was the conversation: Jesus: “Away from my throne.” Lucifer: “I got here first.” Jesus: “You are evil.” Lucifer: “Thanks.” Jesus: “I will explode the Earth for man has become evil.” Lucifer: “Explode it.” Jesus: “1, 2, 3, The Earth will explode (singing)”.
The conversation was said in the Filipino language, in Tagalog.
Then Brother Ace and Jesus left Satan and his medium. Great is the necessity for Brother Ace to preach the gospel to the ends of the Earth for the End of the World is near, Jesus declared it. Latter, the same year, The Master Jesus, once again took possession of Ace for the message of warning. Jesus shouted out furiously to groups of people on the road this ultimate message: “Change, all of you, The Earth will explode!!!” Then Brother Ace was taken to the hospital and was injected by the nurse with Valium.
The devastation of the Earth was prophesied many times in the Holy Bible. To cite a few, read 2 Peter 3:7 by the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men. Read 2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. Isaiah24:1 See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants. Isaiah 24:18-20 The floodgates of heaven are opened, the foundations of the earth shake. The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken. The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls-never to rise again. Isaiah 65:17 Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. This is biblical proof to the words of Christ regarding the End of the World.
To continue, Brother Ace was sent to rehabilitation centers for several times for a few months each time because of his strange behavior. He was prescribed to take medicine for depression for an indefinite period of time.
This did not end Brother Ace’s mission for God. February 2007, Brother Ace went to Baclaran Church in the Philippines to hear mass. Then, the angels began to sing through him in angelic tongue. When he went outside, he saw an old woman begging for money. He treated her at McDonald’s a cup of coffee and a piece of hamburger, then gave her 100 pesos. Afterwards, he went outside. He saw a crippled, lame boy begging for alms for it was his birthday, the boy said. Brother Ace suddenly touched the boy’s legs and cried out,”Abba! Abba! Dios! Dios! Dios!” Then, he asked the boy to follow him by walking faster and faster then invoked The Angel Raphael while touching the legs until he made him run and jump. Hallelujah! A miracle performed through the power of God. Not only that, a Muslim policeman saw the miracle and he narrated what happened to two passers by, an old woman and an old man with eye disease. The cop brought the two old folks to Brother Ace. Brother Ace asked the old folks one after the other to open their eyes and not to close it while he blew on his index fingertips while uttering an angelic incantation unknown to him and touched their iris. Afterwards, the old woman’s eyes dropped a lot of tears and said she could see better. The old man could also see well after the healing.
Other accounts of the miracles performed by Brother Ace through the power of Christ: He made two old lame men walk on separate occasions, one in Las Pinas City, February 2007 and one in Pandacan, Manila, March 2007 in the Philippines. He healed an old woman sick with fever in Baclaran, month of February, year 2007. He healed a man with lumps in Cavite, year 2007. He healed his mother from witchcraft, year 2003. He healed a woman from witchcraft, year 2004 in Las Pinas City. He healed a man with a weak aching leg, year 2007 in Valenzuela City. He healed a teen-ager with a foot cramp, year 2007 in Valenzuela City. He casted away an evil spirit from his friend’s body, year 2007 in Las Pinas City. All of these miracles were performed in the Philippines.
These were miracles and living proofs that anyone can be used by God to show His mercy unto those who are sick and who are in need of help.
February 14, 2007, Brother Ace went to a visionary in Las Pinas City, Philippines, who could see and talk to God. The Master Yeshua appeared to the visionary and anointed Brother Ace. Jesus laid His hand on Ace’s head and touched his cheeks, making him smile. Brother Ace felt His presence and his mother even raised her right hand while it occurred. Brother Ace pleaded that God may make Him into an angel. Jesus said yes. He inquired his new name. The visionary spelled out “Cristel”, meaning “Christ is God”. The visionary said that Brother Ace will be the third highest angel and that he will be given two wings of an angel.
That night, holy angels possessed Ace and delivered this message to him and his mother and sister: “Your son will be the Archangel Cristel. Your brother will be the Archangel Cristel”. Ace may become the Archangel Cristel, the Angel of Christ.
Prior to that, the year 2003, a healer told Ace that he is the Angel Gabriel, and because he is good, God will make him God.
And in the year 2008, this message was flashed to Brother Ace while he was praying in the Adoration Chapel at Las Pinas City, Philippines:
“GABRIEL IS YOUR NAME”, with text in red color.
December 2008, a woman possessed by God told Ace that he is already an angel.
She said that Ace is the Angel Gabriel, according to God.
Ace may be the Archangel Gabriel Incarnate or the Archangel Cristel.
The year 2007, Ace met a young man who claims to be an angel.
The young man told Ace that Ace is the fourth coming, meaning the fourth sent, among Moses, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, with Ace being the fourth messenger of God.
Whatever the true identity of Ace is, he is a true servant, prophet, and son of God.
On March 2007, Saint Michael the Archangel spoke to him through him by possession on March 2007. Afterwards, this appeared on his left thigh in red marks: ACE TR 444. “444” is an angelic number for the angels were probably created on the fourth day of creation. This might mean that Ace is or will be an angel.
Brother Ace has mental telepathy, mediumistic capabilities, and telekinetic capabilities. He could talk to people from far away places. He is a medium of Yahweh and Yeshua. He could move small objects by merely pointing at them.
He usually moves flowers held in the hand and moves it by pointing his fingers to it.
On March 16, 2007, He said “Body, show unto me what happened 2,000 years ago.” Then he slapped his forehead to activate his command. Suddenly, his body moved and he appeared to be tortured, whipped, and then crucified while he kept crying, Abba! Abba! Abba! And he was suddenly speaking in Aramaic, re-speaking the words uttered by Christ during his crucifixion. His clothes were taken off during the process with only the underwear left. Afterwards, his palms and toes began to itch, and then triangular nail marks appeared. Ace obtained a bloodless stigmata.
Several years prior to that, this appeared on his left wrist in red marks: “El Yulo” ” El Yulo” when translated means “The Yule”. Brother Ace might be the Yule of the Second Coming of Christ.
The Master, Yeshua will return soon as prophesied by Brother Ace.
God the Father Yahweh manifested Himself to Brother Ace.
Year 2003, Brother Ace was accompanied by his parents to CCF, Christ’s Commission Foundation, a Christian Church in Sucat, Paranaque, Philippines.
There, two women gifted with the Holy Spirit prayed over Ace. When asked to close his eyes, there appeared the vision of God the Father. He was dressed in the cleanest white robe and He was wearing a cone-shaped, spiral, golden crown covering Hid head while a picture of Jesus praying was flashing. The Father has white complexion and His hands are stretched towards me. He was bare-foot. Brother Ace was in perfect bliss and in ecstasy for he has seen the beatific vision. The Lord Yahweh appeared to Ace. He jumped and shouted out for joy. “Blessed are the clean of heart for they shall see God.”
Year 2007, The Father was so angry with the evil of man. He possessed Brother Ace in his house in Las Pinas City, Philippines in the middle of the night and shouted out “Why do you worship money? If the nearby Church will not be filled by people in the morning, there will be an earthquake in Manila!”
Brother Ace went to the nearby Church to inspect if the Church will be filled by mass-goers. At 6am, luckily, the Church was filled by people. Then Yahweh said: “For your sake, I will spare your people.”
Yahweh is The Most High God. He is infinitely good yet he could be provoked to just anger if we would worship other gods. For Yahweh is a Jealous God.
Brother Ace’s heart is always close to the poor. He would often give alms to the poor and when he has money, he would treat them with food. There were a number of occasions when he would give what he has to the needy.
Mark 10:21 “If thou wilt be perfect, go, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou wilt have treasure in heaven; and come follow me. “
The mystical and supernatural life of Brother Ace has led him in the spirit of prophecy and healing and charity, establishing The Yeshua Movement, the Knights of Christ, and the Sisters of Christ.
He is inspired with a burning love and zeal for God and for his Master Jesus to write books, compose songs, sing praises to God, and pray unceasingly to God.
Brother Ace is a prophet and a servant of The Lord Jesus Christ.
Brother Ace continually serves, honors, magnifies, and glorifies God through his many gifts, his ministry of preaching, prophesying, and healing.
The life of Brother Ace proves that anyone who wishes to serve God will be aided, guided, inspired, and protected by God and his angels.
Servants of God will be exalted and glorified and will be rewarded in heaven, in the company of God, his people, with the angels and the saints.
All those who love and serve the Lord shall be called sons and daughters of God.
Brother Ace Orense
Prophet, preacher, healer, and Servant of God
Founder of the Yeshua Movement, the Fraternity of the Knights of Christ and the Sorority of the Sisters of Christ
Author of “Books of Ace”, a compilation of inspirational Christian books
Author of the books “Yahweh”, “Yeshua”, “Second Coming of Christ”, “The Divine Warrior”, “Children of God”, “Angels of God”, “Teachings of Master Jesus”, “End of the World”, “Miracles of Christ“, “Parables of Jesus”, “The Good Shepherd” “The Life of Brother Ace” and many others
Composer of the rap gospel songs “Jesus Is My Shepherd”,
“God’s Children”, “Angels of God”, “Blood On The Face Of The Moon, “Armageddon”, “The Four Horsemen”, “Change The World”, “God Is Love”, “Tomorrow”, “Two Thousand Years”, “What Profit Is It For A Man”, and many others
May The Almighty God bless the life and works of his servants and make it bear fruit. May God inspire, guide, save, and instruct his laborers for his kingdom.
Let us altogether worship God who created the heavens and the earth, the seas and the fountains, mankind and all the beasts, the birds, the fishes, and all the creatures and the whole universe and all of his wonderful creations, our Father Yahweh.
Let us altogether worship the God who died for us… the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Let us altogether worship the God who gives life, who keeps us holy and acceptable to the Father, The Holy Spirit.
For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours, Almighty Father, forever and ever.
Kindly send copies of all these written to everyone.
All this for the love of Thee, and for the glory of Thee, Master Yeshua.
Glory to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever.
Come Lord Jesus!
~Fin
