The Gates of Hades Shall Not Prevail My Church: Spoken in God’S Own Words

By Robert E. Harris

This book is an unusual book than others because it is spoken in Gods own words. During these times of democracy, crime, war, equal rights, and spiritual abandonment, which seemingly occur every other decade, the world is moving into a chaos of division. There are divisions all over the world, and they are becoming more intense with anger, revenge, radical movements, misunderstanding, and hatred. In this book God is speaking against these detesting spirits that people are accepting in their everyday lives. He then explains how to overcome the chaos that comes from the world and the chaos that overtakes our souls and spirit. God also speaks about that great sin that causes great men in the churches in America, in the synagogues of Israel, and in the Roman Catholic churches all over the world to stumble without them being aware of their sin. God wants to tell the world what causes His anger, and He wants to tell the world what makes Him happy for our benefit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 25, 2011
• ISBN: 9781449746735

Robert E. Harris

Robert E. Harris is a compassionate writer, who loves to inspire and teach hope in stories that reveal the greatness in everyone, big or small. He writes briskly through thorough information that sparks the imagination in an entertaining way. Robert writes with rich detail intriguing in anecdotal information. He has ventured in various genres such as women fiction, children books, commercial fiction, and historical fiction.

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Why Are God’s Saints in the Wilderness for Long Periods of Time?

The Lord God gave me a proverb while I was writing a poem for all the saints.

God made an oath to deliver Israel from the land of Egypt. In this oath, in which we were also included, He promised to bring us to a land flowing with milk and honey—the glory of all lands.

This land is His glory. We are not allowed to enter or remain in it if we have abomination or idols in our hearts. These are hateful things, and pompous attitudes, arrogance, and things exceedingly vile in our hearts are forbidden in the eyes of God.

The Holy Spirit points them out to us, but we sometimes refuse to see them or deal with them. Before we can visit that land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands, we have to open our eyes and see the vile abomination that fills our hearts, that has plagued our forefathers and will plague our descendants. We need to allow God to purge it or burn it away, just like the three Hebrew boys who were forced into the furnace with the intention of killing them, but their bindings were burned, along with the impurities of their hearts, but they were saved by God. When they left the furnace they were free, and they walked in true love, humility, joy, and peace—not just for God, but for men also.

Jesus said in 1 John 4:20, Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen (New International Version). This is the fullness of Jesus Christ, that we love God and love one another. This is the Promise Land and the Glory of the Lord.

Jesus, My Next-Door Neighbor

When I was a youth, I walked next door to my neighbor’s house. I had never met him. As I approached the door, I noticed a sign that read, Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you; for everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened.—Matthew 7:7

After I read the sign, I knocked on the door. A Man came to the door and said, Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be fed—Matthew 5:6. He then invited me in to dine with Him. He fed me and I ate. He kept feeding me and I ate more and more. He fed me so much I was filled to the brim.

I stayed with Him for three days, filled to the brim. Then it was time for me to go, so I left to digest all He had fed me. As time went on and life passed by, I found myself knowing how to swim in shallow water, but as I was moving into deeper waters, I had difficulties. I couldn’t go back, and I feared going forward.

Then I thought about my neighbor, the Man next door. He had fed me so much and it had lasted so long; I thought maybe He would have an answer as to what I should do next.

So I started over to His house, and as I approached the gates, this time the sign at the entrance of the gates stated: Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. Listen to my instruction and be wise; do not ignore it. Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway. For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord. But whoever fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.—Proverbs 8:32–36

After reading this sign, I knew immediately I had to come to Him every day to get instructions, to be able to survive this next level of my life. I needed to be watching at His gates daily, moving even closer, waiting at the post of His doors, until I found Him so He could guide me daily.

The Gates of Hades Shall not Prevail against My Church: In God’s Words

When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.—Matthew 16:13–16

I had often asked God, What do the saints do at the sign of the times? And how shall we endure to the end? This is when He took me to the Scripture, and Jesus said, blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.—Matthew 16:17–18

So I began to look closely at this Scripture to see where God was trying to take me. My eyes were set on this rock, and whatever God was pointing out to me seemingly was in the rock.

Now, I have to admit that at first I thought Peter was the center of attention in this Scripture, because Peter’s name represents stone, or a rock.

But then I looked at Jesus and remembered when He and Peter were walking to Jerusalem, and Peter made a suggestion to Jesus, and Jesus said, Get behind Me, Satan.—Matthew 16:23

We might think that Jesus called Peter Satan. But the Holy Spirit revealed to me that Jesus was looking in the invisible—or shall we say the supernatural? Jesus is deity, so He saw the invisible and it became visible. Now, in distinguishing between Peter and the Rock, the Holy Spirit had me look at what Jesus told Peter, Flesh and blood didn’t reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

Right there, the Rock was significant because it was God’s Spirit that revealed to Peter that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of God, and the Rock.

Now I was convinced, from the questions I asked earlier, that it will take the Holy Spirit to keep us. Let me explain. We will have to learn how to tune our spirit, which is inside us, to the prompting and leadership of the Holy Spirit. In other words, we have to give the Holy Spirit full authority over our spirit. God speaks to the human spirit and not to the human mind. After He has spoke to our human spirit, it is then understood by the mind. Our minds can hear voices, including evil, from everywhere, but when God speaks to our spirit, it is backed up by Scripture. If you learn to listen to your spirit as the Holy Spirit speaks to you, it helps you and keeps you from falling into deception and helps you clean up confusion.

One day, God visited me in the Spirit and spoke to my spirit concerning the church and everybody in it—mainly the shepherds and the congregations. God had been prompting my spirit, but I couldn’t understand clearly what He wanted. Then, on that very night, God took my spirit to another level in a vision He was showing me. It concerned the shepherds of the church. God pointed out the faults of the shepherds in this era of churches. These faults were the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.

God strongly placed these faults in my spirit to warn the church of its own deception right under their noses. The shepherds, pastors, bishops, priests, and so-called leaders need to be very careful about the deception within themselves through money, riches, and fame. God said His church will