Big buildings and religiosity cannot deceive those in the spiritual world who are looking at us. The fact remains that you can be religious, you can be rich, you can have the most beautiful religious building in the world, but if you are unrepented, have not surrendered the serpent seed and have not believed in the message of the Son, you're still a child of the devil. You still need to repent.

The need to go to the temple so that we can inquire of God and find His presence was already implanted in us when we came into this world.

Our system of worship came from Old Testament times. It all began with the Jewish Nation, called out through the patriarchs, starting with Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, who was later named Israel. Israel 's descendants propagated and became a nation, which was eventually divided into 12 tribes. The nation of Israel was given the covenants, the commandments and the tabernacle. Moses was tasked to build the tabernacle.

The tabernacle was a movable structure which the Jews brought with them as they moved from one place to another, in accordance with God's commandment to Moses. It was the center of Jewish worship during that time. The tabernacle was where God dwelt and that was where the people would inquire of Him.

The tabernacle was divided into two parts: the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holiest. Nobody could approach the Holy of Holiest except the High Priest, because that was where the Shekinah glory of God dwelt.

The First Chosen Nation

To begin the salvation of His chosen people, God talked to Moses. He led the Israelites out of Egypt through the wilderness and into Canaan, the Promised Land. When they had attained peace in their land, Solomon built a permanent structure according to the commandments that God gave to their patriarch, Moses. They called this the Temple in Jerusalem, for it was built in Jerusalem, the capital and chosen city. King Solomon built the temple in a grand and glorious manner. The division within the temple was the same-the Holy Place and the Holy of Holiest.

The Israelites were supposed to be the model of the salvation works that were to be completed in man, so they were given the covenants and the presence of God was with them.

But their mistake was that they stopped right where they were. They just wanted to remain a physical people with a physical temple and a physical king. They wanted to continue with their temple-centered worship which was done through animal sacrifice. In the temple, the High Priest would go to the Holy of Holiest to atone for their sins. When he came out, they would jump for joy because it meant their sins had been forgiven for a year. They would do this year after year, unaware that it was not the perfection of the Father's salvation works.

The Old System of Worship

All of that was just a shadow of the things to come; the beginning of God's dealing with man in completing His salvation works. The Jews forgot that the real plan of the Father was to complete the salvation of man. God dwelt with men and drew close to them, so that they could inquire of Him continuously.

Although it was a grandiose thing for the Jewish people to have the temple within them and the Shekinah glory present in that temple, that was not yet the solution to the problem of sin. Their form of worship was temporal. It was not perfect. How could man, who was separated from God, come back to Him?

To complete the salvation of the Jewish people, the Father sent His Son Jesus Christ to complete what was incomplete. But they did not understand that.

So they persecuted Jesus Christ. They crucified Him on the cross. They did not realize that it was the Father, who dwelled in Him as His temple. The Jewish people, especially the High Priest and the keepers of the Temple, could not accept this truth, because this would make them irrelevant. They would lose their jobs and the prestige that they had among the people. The glory would all be centered upon one man and that was Jesus Christ, whom they thought was an impostor, a heretic, and a false Messiah.

That was their story. But we now know that the Lord Jesus Christ came to save us from sin. The Christians also know this truth; however, they continue with their temple-centered worship. Christianity and other religions like Buddhism, Shintoism, Islam and many others build temples for the One Supreme Being. This is where they go to inquire of Him and this is where the keepers of the temple are. They are the keepers of their faith. And when you come to the temple, you go through them, because they are the way to the One Supreme Being, whom they call God.

But this is not what the Father wants.

The Phasing Out of Temple-Centered Worship

The coming of Jesus Christ , the Son of God in the Jewish setting signified the phasing out of temple-centered worship. That is what He said to the Samaritan woman in John 4:20-24.

20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

21 Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem , worship the Father.

22 "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth."

Jesus Christ was speaking of true worship. He told the woman that the hour was coming when the true worshipers would neither worship on that mountain where the Samaritans used to worship, nor in Jerusalem , where the Jewish people worshipped at the Temple , because God is a Spirit and those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth. He said that these were the worshippers that the Father sought after.

Many people in Christianity try to read these verses but they cannot understand what these mean because they still have the old paradigm and the old mentality of temple-centered worship in them. Their mentality is to build a big building or a big temple.

King Solomon built the temple in a grand and glorious manner. The division within the temple was the same-the Holy Place and the Holy of Holiest.

It is not true that God dwells in their house of worship because they have a nice building. He already phased out temple-worship when He came in the Jewish setting.

What was written in the Old Testament was only a 'shadow of the things to come.' It was not yet the perfection and the completion of man's salvation.

You can build the most magnificent building like the one Solomon built, but if the serpent seed is still with the people that come inside, it is useless. They just cover their sins from year to year, but the serpent-seed problem, which is the spirit of disobedience inherited from Adam and Eve, is not yet solved. It is not yet taken out.

The Taking Away of Sin

This was the reason Jesus Christ came. John the Baptist had introduced Him as the 'Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world' (Jn 1:29 ). His preaching about repentance and the surrendering of a person's will meant the surrendering of the serpent seed, for a greater governance-the will of the Father.

Satan camouflaged himself in the will of man. In fact, the will of man is the serpent seed. You may call it democracy, monarchy, or totalitarianism, but as long as it is the will of man, it is still the serpent seed. In the end, it will always go against the will of the Father. The will of the Father, which is the will of God, is the righteous seed that should be implanted within us. This was God's plan from the very beginning.

The Word of God in Acts 17:24 -25tells us:

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands.

26 As though he needed anything.

27 Seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

You can build a house for the Father, but He doesn't need that. He was the one who built everything. God made the world and all the things therein. He made the fish, the gold, the silver and everything that is on earth and out of the earth. He is the Lord of heaven and earth, and He does not dwell in temples made with hands.

He Dwells Not in Temples

Unless the serpent seed is solved, the temple-centered worship means nothing in the spiritual world. The bottom line is: when the Spirit of God looks at us, He doesn't see the buildings. What He sees are the people in the building and the question is which of them are His children, and which are not.

Big buildings and religiosity cannot deceive those in the spiritual world who are looking at us. The fact remains that you can be religious, you can be rich, you can have the most beautiful religious building in the world, but if you are unrepented, have not surrendered the serpent seed and have not believed in the message of the Son, you're still a child of the devil.

An Eye Opener

Acts 17:24 to 25 is an eye opener. You may have read it so many times but unless the Son would come to let you understand it, you won't be able to comprehend it. The religion closest to God then was not Christianity, nor Buddhism, nor Islam. It was the Jewish religion, because the way their temple was built and their way of worship was commanded by God Himself.

The Jewish people did not know that all of that was just temporal, or that it was not the permanent solution to the problem of sin. Jesus Christ was the permanent solution of sin because He brought the message that He, being the Son of God in the Jewish setting, was the Father's temple. As the Son of God in the Jewish setting, He told them, "I am the model. I am the way, the truth and the life. No one goes to the Father but by me." (Jn. 10:26 ), He was trying to tell them that He was to be their example.

You know why they were so angry with Him when He said 'I am the way'? It was because during His time, the way was the High Priest. The High Priest used to be the way, the truth and the life for them. He was the only one that could come to the Holy of Holiest and approach God. He was the only one that could come out and say, 'all your sins are forgiven, you can leave now.' He was the only one that could pronounce whether they were clean or unclean. He held power over their lives. The High Priest was the keeper of the temple and no one could approach God and inquire of Him except through him.

The True High Priest

Jesus Christ came and changed all of that. He became the High Priest. He became the Temple. The Father no longer dwelt in the temple made with hands. He dwelt in His own Temple -the Son in the Jewish setting. The Son said, "you cannot go to the Father except you go through me." (Jn. 10:26)

The High Priest and the keepers of the temple feared that this proclamation would make them irrelevant. They could not take this. But that was the truth. Hebrews 10:5-6 reads: "Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:"

The Father wanted a body and He wanted to take that body to complete His salvation work among the descendants of Adam and Eve. The ones closest to Him were the Jewish people, because they were the ones whom He had chosen to become the model of salvation. But He could not find that body among them. They still had the serpent seed within them. The High Priest was supposedly the highest personality when it came to approaching God, and should have been the holiest and closest to Him, but God did not choose him. Even the High Priest had the serpent seed within him. The High Priest and the priests were shocked by this.

Jesus Christ had revealed that the Father did not want a temple anymore. He no longer wanted to go there to receive their sacrifices and burnt offerings.

He wanted to dwell in a body. However, He couldn't dwell within the bodies of His chosen people, the Jewish people. He couldn't find a body from among them, because they were all children of the devil.

He came to solve that. But they would not let Him, so He prepared His own body, born of His Spirit. That was where the Father dwelt. So the Father no longer dwelt in the temple. He dwelt in that body; it became His temple. That was why Jesus Christ said, "I am the way, the truth and the life." (Jn. 10:46)

In John 14:8, Philip asked Him, ".show us the Father and it sufficeth us. Jesus Christ answered, "Philip you have been with me for a long time yet you have not known me, he that hath seen me hath seen the Father. Why do you say show us the Father? Don't you know that the word I speak unto I speak not of myself but the Father that lives in me."

Burnt Offerings No More

In Hebrews 10: 6, He said, "In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure."

The Father had no more pleasure in their burnt offerings. Over and over again, the Jewish people would confess their sins, but go back to their old ways and sin again. Then they would come back to God again and give obeisance to Him, give Him a peace offering and then sin again. The serpent seed just laughed within them.

As the Son of God who came to complete man's salvation, Jesus Christ did not want this outward show of religiosity. It was all hypocrisy in His sight. The Spirit of God wanted to go within man and kick out sin. He would no longer accept burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. He would no longer accept indulgence for sin, because no amount of money can pay for a person's sin.

Hebrews 10:6 shows us that this no longer gave the Father any pleasure because it did not solve the problem of sin. You may be a religious fanatic, but if you still have the serpent seed, you are a religious child of the devil in His sight.

He even rebuked the religious fanatics in Matthew 23, when He told them, "You hypocrites, you are just white outside but inside you are full of dead men's bones."

In verse 27-28 He said, "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."

Jesus Christ saw that they were outwardly religious, but inside, they were full of dead men's bones. They were like white sepulchres, painted beautifully outside, but rotten inside. These are like the temples today. What are these magnificent temples like inside? What we are inside is what is now important to the Father.

I ask you this: Have you repented and rejected the serpent seed, which is the spirit of disobedience against the will of the Father, or are you a white sepulcher? He saw the hypocrisy of the religious people in His days and He saw that it had to stop. He said that God is the truth and those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in truth. (Jn. 4:24)

Jesus Christ came to give us the good things that were to come. He came by a greater and perfect tabernacle and that is the residence of the Father-His Son.

The Father's Residence 

In the Gentile setting, He chose a body from among the descendants of Adam and Eve. The body which He has chosen as temple in the Gentile setting is the Appointed Son.

This temple is the dwelling place of the Father in the last days. This temple is not made with hands. It's the perfect tabernacle wherein the Father wanted to dwell from the very beginning. This is the perfection and the completion of His salvation works, when the serpent seed was finally taken out of the fallen Adamic race.

And it all began in His Appointed Son. He is God's tabernacle. To inquire of the Father, one must come and see the Son because the Son is the way, the truth and the life. No one goes to the Father but by the Son.

The Holy of Holiest

The Father and the Son is the Holy of Holiest in this temple. Nothing can come between the Father and Son relationship. Nothing can separate that. Anyone that comes in between will die.

The Holy Place is the body of the Son that dwells with the people. That is the body that you see, the body that eats with you, plays basketball, drives a motorcycle and plays golf with you. That is where you can come. That is the Holy Place .

But only the Son of God can go to the Holy of Holiest. If you become a son of God like me, you can go and be with me there. Nothing can come between us, just as nothing can come between the Father and Son.

No one can come in between the relationship we have with the Father and Son. No relatives, no friends, no person, not anyone with a high position or anyone that is rich or powerful can come between that relationship. That is the holy of holiest in man, and that is where the Father dwells, in our spirit. That is why we became the children of God. I am the model for that. I am loyal to my Father. I can come in and out of the presence of the Father, knowing that I have become His Son and am loyal to Him all the way.

He wanted to dwell in a body. However, He couldn't dwell within the bodies of His chosen people, the Jewish people. He couldn't find a body from among them, because they were all children of the devil.

I have the Father's spiritual DNA. Nothing can come between my relationship with Him; not even my brothers or sisters in the flesh, or my relatives and friends. No one can go there except the Father. It is solely reserved for the Father. If you'll go there to take the place of the Father, you'll die. He is the one that is now sitting on the throne. That was where Satan sat before, because we were his children through the serpent seed that we have inherited from Adam and Eve. Now the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, lives there.

The Completion of His Salvation

It's amazing that His purpose and intention has already been fulfilled. When the temple was already built during the days of Solomon in the physical Israel, he invited all of the people to come to the capital, which is Jerusalem. It is the same today.

The establishment of the Kingdom Nation of the Father is all happening in the spirit. We are now under the leadership of the Son. We are the spiritual Israel. We are His own spiritual Jews. Davao City is the Water Center of the world. This is where His laws are going to come from and it shall be a light for all the nations of the world. The Kingdom Capital is found here. This is the New Jerusalem that He promised.

Doing the Father's Will

In His prayer, He said, "Our Father which art in Heaven, hollowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come." (Matt. 6:10) No one saw the Kingdom come. For it is not a physical Kingdom. Wherever the perfect will of the Father is being done, that is where the Kingdom has come. And the perfect will of the Father cannot be done unless He has perfected salvation in man.

How can He perfect the salvation in man if the serpent seed is still there? How can the serpent seed be taken away from you except you repent? How can you repent, except you accept the message?

I did all of that when He called me. As my first parents Adam and Eve used their own freedom of choice to disobey, I also used my own freedom of choice to obey. I accepted the message and I repented using my own free will. The transplantation happened within me in Kitbog, where the righteous seed grew.

The Implantation of the Righteous Seed

While I was still very young in my obedience to the will of the Father, the devil bombarded me with all of the weapons in his arsenal: persecution, hardship, obstacles, maligning, and blaspheming. Every known weapon of the devil was unleashed upon me to destroy that little righteous seed that had begun to sprout within me. But I said, if I die now, I die here in Tamayong, doing Your will, Father. I will follow You.

So, the righteous seed survived and the Father told me, "You are My Son." He sent me to the world for 20 years. I came back, and He let the world know that I am His Son. As the appointed body, I am now revealing the will of the Father to the world. His Son is now the chosen, appointed body wherein the Father can dwell. His Son is His appointed residence and temple on earth today. That is where His New Jerusalem, the Kingdom Capital will be. Only those that are born in the Spirit, those who are repented children of the Father, who have become sons and daughters of God, will be able to see that spiritual City.

We call it the Covenant Mountain and Prayer Center . It's small, about 9 to 10 hectares only. But that piece of real state is where the complete, perfect will of the Father is being done. The spiritual laws of the Kingdom will flow from the Kingdom Capital, the New Jerusalem, to the hearts and minds of His people.

These laws will be written in the minds and in the hearts of the repented people of the Father who have surrendered to His will and who have said, "From now on Father, we will join Your Son. Not our will but Your will be done in us. We reject the serpent seed, the spirit of disobedience against Your will. We are now accepting the righteous seed, which is obedient to Your will. This is the new spirit that you have promised in Ezekiel 26:36."

The Son is our model. The Father can trust him because He is His Son. He is no longer going to trust the servants. The servants are only obedient when in front of the Father; when His back is turned, they become little devils. 

The New Temple

He has produced a Son. Inside and out, and whether the Father's back is turned or not, the Son is for the Father. The Son is here to obey the complete will of the Father, nothing more, nothing less. The Son is here for the pleasure of the Father. That's why he is the chosen place and residence of the Father.

The Son is born in the Spirit, so when worse comes to worst, the Son always goes back to the Spirit, where his loyalty is deposited. Though it may cause his death and dishonor, and he may lose everything, he will follow the Father. That is the Son.

The works of salvation have been completed. All children of God who have been born in the Spirit, who have repented of their sins, rejected the serpent seed and accepted the righteous seed are being invited to be with the Son. You cannot say that you are sons and daughters of God unless you join me. That is impossible because when you inquire of the Father, you have to find His temple. The Son is the temple where the Father dwells. The Son is also His voice. From Him will you know His perfect Will.