When you as a Christian begin the program of confessing your sins you are not to go searching through your personality for sin or listen to the accusations of Satan or become gloomy and introspective. If you do the Lord will stop the process. You will have the strength to undergo eternal judgment only as long as you remain joyful and triumphant in Christ, realizing fully that as long as there is no known sin in your life you are completely without condemnation.

Do you remember the calling forth of Lazarus on the fifth day? The raising of Lazarus portrays our spiritual resurrection. Then the graveclothes were unwrapped portraying the work of eternal judgment.

The student of the feasts of the Lord will recognize the pattern: the blowing of trumpets on the fifth day typifying the resurrection; the Day of Atonement on the sixth day typifying the eternal judgment of sin; the feast of Tabernacles on the seventh day typifying the coming of the fullness of God and Christ through the Holy Spirit to make Their eternal home in our personality.

We are being judged now so when the Lord returns, our sentence will be to receive the redemption of our physical body.

If we do not confess our sins now, choosing instead to walk in the appetites and passions of the flesh and soul, we will not receive a redeemed body at the coming of the Lord. We will have ruined our own resurrection.

I notice today the emphasis on unconditional love, that there really is no penalty for not serving the Lord. I think this doctrine is closely akin to the idea that eventually Satan himself will be forgiven.

The current overemphasis on God's love, on the grace of forgiveness, and the pre-tribulation rapture, are horses from the same corral.

The notion of unconditional love professes to acknowledge the deep love and compassion of God. Actually it has nothing to do with God's love. The New Testament teaches plainly, in the parable of the talents, the door shut against the foolish virgins, the branches cut from the Vine, the express declarations of the Apostle Paul that Christians who continue in sin will not inherit the Kingdom of God, that the penalties for disobedience to God are as awesome as the rewards to the victorious saints.

No teaching, whether or not it involves God's great love, is of God if it is contrary to the written Word. The doctrine of unconditional love, as it ordinarily is taught and understood, is clearly contrary to the written Word. Therefore it is to be rejected as destructive of the work of salvation in our life.

Ours is an hour of repentance, in America at least. The Christians who are hearing from the Lord will tell you that Jesus is calling for repentance. It is time for the beginning of the spiritual fulfillment of the Day of Atonement, for the work of eternal judgment against the powers of darkness.

The Day of Atonement will last throughout the thousand-year Kingdom Age and is the purpose for the Kingdom Age. The great kingdom-wide fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles is the new heaven and earth reign of Jesus Christ.

Now is the time to get rid of your sin. The waters are troubled. Take full advantage of what is available now because an age of moral horrors is at hand.