Date: 2026-08-06

The Assyrians

When you read the Bible you'll see in the old and new testament that God knows the hearts of men. It is something to take in concern all the time because it explains a lot. For instance, when you read about that God uses literally the Assyrians to punish His own people. Now when you read that at first glance you first think like, that is not fair, is it? Because when the Assyrians came they slaughtered a lot of Jews. 

You would almost think that it isn't even their doing. But hell, it is their doing. God made a covenant with the Jewish people and He also warned them what would happen if they turned away from Him. And that explicitly means turning to evil. So they would be punished for that.

Now the fact that God gave the Assyrians a target does not mean the Assyrians are not guilty of anything. Because in their hearts they were already evil. Probably evil with no hope of salvation. God sees through the hearts of men. And because God is righteous He would not put a righteous man in the lead for punishing the Jews. ( If there were any righteous men... ).

So, yes, those Assyians are guilty and on the day of Judgement they will be held accountable and punishment from God will be according from His Righteous Judgement. But also the Jews who turned their backs to the Lord, they will also receive what is due to them.

Today's governments

Even in this day, especially now with Iran and israel prophecies are being fulfilled. But let no-one in government who uses evil think he is righteous because he maybe doing a part in God's plan. So we have to think again before drawing conclusions. Iran and its proxies are being used for evil because they are evil to the core. They have genocide in their minds and they did not make secret of it. In fact they openly said it in the UN - Israel is to wiped from the chart they said.

All of what is happening on the world stage is for the Glory of Jesus Christ in the first place, and second for the redemption of Israel. The sad part is the evil minded do not know they are being used. Because a chance for ever lasting life is for all who are walking around on this planet. But if the heart does not want the light, it stays in the dark.

Rebirth

Another example of maybe something that is misunderstood is the assumption that once you are baptized in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost you are saved. But that can't be that simple. Because birth in itself is not controlled by you. And so there is no ritual that enforce Holy Spirit to endwell you. In this case it is a devine decision and a devine event that comes when God sees fit, (if at all). We can conclude that first by the first thing we have to remember:

• What is the condition of the heart?

If you want to be baptized, but you are not ready to give up idolatry or some other sin, God may not give you rebirth at all, unless you are ready to be done with sin, even the ones you do not know of. Sadly in false churches people think they are saved while they are not. Therefore read the Bible and pray for revelation to see the Truth.

Secondly look at the conversation between Nicodemus and Jesus in John 3:1-21. With emphasis to this: 

⁷ You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ ⁸ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

So you do not know when exactly you are born of the Spirit. This confirm it. The Holy Spirit does not say: "here I am"... You can't know.

The spiritual rebirth in essence means to be converted to be like Jesus Christ. And that needs a new heart, and that is what Jesus promised. The work of the Holy Spirit is to make pace with you to change your heart. And when that happens YOU are really changing. Because if you change for the good of God, it is not your work!

Understand the moment you are saved is the moment when God decides to have His Holy Spirit endwell in you. That moment in itself is mostly not kown by anyone at all. But when the Holy Spirit endwells you are immediately starting the proces of sanctification. And that takes time. There are certain tells that verify your salvation is granted and that you are working on sanctification:

• You have a great thirst to know all about Jesus Christ, the Bible
• You want to learn more about how to live like Jesus
• You are beginning to see much more evil around you then you are used to, you begin to hate the world
• You are beginning to see evil in yourself that you did not see before you were saved
• You are seeing answers pooring in various ways for the questions about the Bible that you prayed for - this not coincidence anymore that is the Holy Spirit helping you!
• You are beginning to deny yourself more and more, to do the things of God
• Your consious is ever more troubled with righteousness

The voice of the Spirit keeps you on the right path, because He is the One who troubles your mind when you are about to do someting wrong. Don't mistake the term "voice" for that The Holy Spirit is talking to you. There is no dialog here. He troubles your mind or sets your mind to things of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. 

To me as I understand Scripture, the baptizing event is something that Jesus did and we should do too, but it necessarily does not mean for us that this is the moment that we receive the Holy Spirit. The baptizing is a sort of confirmation event to the church with the intent to become a brother or sister - because from our point view - we simply cannot see if you are saved. Like the people who received the Holy Spirit with pentecost, they were probably baptized weeks, or months ago. But they received the Holy Spirit at pentecost as they were followers of Jesus - and did not forsake Him.

What about you

Are you going to change your heart too? The Bible says, you cannot possibly do it on your own, you need God's help - you need spiritual rebirth. Amen.