Was Judas Saved?
Occasionally, I receive this question. There’s something about this man, Judas Iscariot, that is interesting and shrouded in mystery.
“He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same will betray me. The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.” Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You said it.”” (Matthew 26:23-25 WEB)
Jesus clearly pronounced woe upon Judas the betrayer. His eternal fate will be so terrible that it would be better for Judas if he was not born.
Why is his fate so terrible, and seemingly much worse than other sinners?
“While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.” (John 17:12 WEB)
Judas is only apostle who is lost and not saved, among the twelve original apostles. Mattias took his place afterwards.
Jesus could not have said it any clearer. Judas Iscariot is lost and not saved.
But the world has probably not seen the last of Judas. In the Bible, there is only one other person who is called “the son of destruction”.
“Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.” (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 WEB)
In my opinion, it would be foolish to quickly assume that Paul was referring to a different person, when the first one to utter the title “son of destruction”, was Jesus Himself. Paul was likely alluding to Jesus’ words, and this allows us to draw the connection between “the man of sin” and Judas Iscariot.
This person is likely the same one written about in the Book of Revelation: “the beast who sustained the fatal wound”, “the beast who rises out from the abyss”, and “the beast who was, who is not, and who will be present”.
In my study of the Bible, I believe that Judas will be coming back from the dead, in time for the Tribulation. He did not just betray Jesus for forty pieces of silver. He made a deal with the devil to inherit the whole world. Just as the devil possessed him back then, so will he use him as a host again. Judas’ end of the bargain was to agree to become…the Antichrist.
“I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”” (Genesis 3:15 WEB)
In the first prophecy of the Bible, we learn that there will be hostility between the serpent’s offspring and the woman’s offspring. This is not talking about hostility between unbelievers and believers in general.
What people don’t know is that the word “offspring” is “zaraka” in the original Hebrew, and it is in the masculine and singular tense. This means that God was specifically referring to one male offspring each.
We know that the woman’s offspring is Jesus Christ. The serpent’s offspring will be the Antichrist. There will be an epic clash between Jesus and His arch-nemesis—the one whose feet He washed on the night that He was betrayed by him.
We know who wins in the end. Give praise to our undefeated Lord Jesus Christ—the King of kings and Lord of lords who reigns forevermore!
I wrote much more in detail about this in my book “Sandcastles Don’t Last Forever”. This identity of the Antichrist just one of the topics covered within, but mainly, the book teaches about eternal rewards, how to maximize them, and how to live a worthy life by fulfilling your God-given calling. It will be an eye-opening read: http://bit.ly/sandcastlesdontlastforever
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Empowered and Supplied for Godly Work
“God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.” (Genesis 1:27-29 WEB)
When God created the heavens and the earth, He made everything before making man on the sixth day.
This shows us His fatherly love, that He wanted man to enjoy His finished work.
Adam didn’t have to toil for food. The trees in the Garden of Eden already had fruits growing on them as a result of life.
If Adam felt hungry, he only needed to reach out and pluck the fruit to eat it. He could eat anything he wanted and as much as he wanted—except for the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Adam did work: he cultivated the Garden of Eden, sowed seeds which sprang up easily without toil because there was no sin in the world at that time, and Adam named the creatures in the garden and God told him to be fruitful with Eve and fill the earth.
Adam was tasked to grow mankind’s population and to lead them, as well as all other living creatures on earth, as a ruler.
However stressful labor was never part of God’s design for man.
Although there was much work assigned to Adam, coupled with a grand vision of splendor, it was meant to be easy and enjoyable work.
After all, Adam was perfectly healthy and abundantly supplied with everything he would ever need. He had authority over all creatures which could assist him in any way he needed. Adam also had close fellowship with Yahweh God (the pre-incarnate Christ).
Stressful labor was a curse upon mankind as a result of Adam’s sin.
“To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”” (Genesis 3:17-19 WEB)
Fast-forward to today, through the cross, Jesus has already redeemed us from the curse of stressful labor by shedding His precious blood to make atonement for our sins.
God assigns a calling to each of us, but we aren’t supposed to fulfill it in a spirit of heaviness or stress.
Abba God’s will is for us to enjoy life through Jesus’ finished work at the cross, to freely receive everything we need in life, whether it be provision or health.
Out of that rest and blessed state, we can go forth in the anointing and power of the Holy Spirit to grow the population of the “new mankind” on earth.
A new race born of the Spirit and not of the flesh.
Abba God still wants us to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the whole earth with a church that’s holy and prepared for Him.
A royal race of priests that are adopted into His family.
What was lost in the Garden of Eden is being progressively being restored to even greater glory than before.
Dear child of God, you have meaningful work to do, and it’s not for the sake of trying to get provision.
See yourself as being planted by Abba God in a garden. Wherever you are working, reframe it from being just a job, to a realm you’re meant to exercise dominion over in Jesus’ name.
Feel free to receive as much provision and health as you need to fulfill your calling—see abundance of supply all around you.
You have been redeemed from stressful labor, so enjoy your work and fulfill your destiny of growing the new human race through impregnating the hearts of men: sow the seeds of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
God gave Adam herb-yielding seeds to sow if he needed food. Remember to set aside a portion of your finances as seeds for sowing—don’t eat all the seeds.
Be a blessing to those whom the Holy Spirit directs you to.
The seeds you sow will bear fruit and produce food for you by causing abundant harvests of provision to come your way.
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【一筆一畫的秘密】THE SECRET IN YOUR NAME
(English writing below)
師父曾說,如果自己運氣不好時,可以多寫自己的名字來補運,但只限吉祥的名字。😁
「李季謙」這名字是我師父取的。我的原名,主頑固,與六親和他人的關係不好。名字裡有帝王之格,很年輕就會做領導性的工作,但帝王帶兵打江山時,必定會有血光之災,會受傷流血,因此原名有開刀住院格,而且到老都是如此。
當時我和師父沒見過面,是我第一次打電話給師父時,他在電話中爲我分析名字。他說的都對。確實在我十二和十三歲時,我的眼睛就已開刀過兩次,還留下疤痕,也因長期腸胃不好曾住院。無論是家裡或外面,人緣都不好。我讀書時,就已被老師認定有領導能力。出來工作時,事業運賺錢能力也扶搖直上。可以說,無論我在哪裡就職,要突顯自己的才幹,得到官位或加薪,從來不是問題。但,一切的好,都必須付出代價。
我原本是單姓單名,父親取的。父親、爺爺、大伯和我妹一樣是單姓單名,很是獨特,令許多人誤以爲我不是新加坡人。因爲名字別緻,又有延續李家傳承的感覺,我告訴師父我不想改名。
師父便笑說是我固執作怪,不要改名的原因不實際。真正要延續家族傳承,讓祖先臉上有光,不是保留個名字就算,而是自己本事做出來的事情。如果自己的名字讓自己一直出事,何來的成就可言,又豈是祖先想看到的?祖先沒讀什麼書,如果懂姓名學,他們怎可能不要我有個好名字助運呢?
我特別喜歡我名字裡的「謙」字。師父說將來我會有大成就(他沒說是哪方面),這字會提醒我不要太驕傲。因爲人紅是非必定多,這「謙」字的甜度,比我原名更討喜,能減少許多別人對我的誤會。
師父取名,甚是用心,有遠見。因為我尚未拜師,根本沒想到自己會做今天這樣的工作。
我的身分證仍然保留原名,算是對祖先的一個交代。但在外和家人之間,都是稱呼我的新名。我覺得就猶如有些人爲自己取洋名一樣,祇是漢字的靈動力遠遠超過英文字母,能夠給予我的加持是非一般的。如果你現在稱呼我的原名,我還會倍感陌生呢!
我改名已13年,確實一年比一年好。
學姓名學,必需先學八字學。因爲名字是後天,八字是先天。名字是用五格來斷吉凶。每個字有自己的五行和音律。讀不懂客人的八字,無法深入知道她他名字的缺憾在哪裡,更沒辦法以一個良名去彌補她他八字的不足。可惜我在姓名學方法沒有天賦。學了許久,能很好的解析一個名字,卻無法爲客人取良名。所以需要改名的客人,我都介紹他們去找師父。
但,人是多疑的,有些祇是空有發財夢,卻並非幹大事的料。
客人中,有些拖了許久,才聯絡師父。如果是爲自己,就算了。但有些是爸爸媽媽級的人物,爲自己的愛情結晶,也依然自私。
事先已告訴某位媽媽,她孩子名字很不吉利,會如何如何,我勸她去找師父改名。她說會來找我看孩子的八字,我笑笑。妳在我面前說的是幾句真話,妳當我真不懂嗎?怕傷了妳的自尊,給面子不說破而已。
後來,幼女真的出事了,她才嘗試聯絡師父,說她認為現在是「好時機」。(不是錢的問題)
母愛,不見得真的是最偉大的。雖然孩子不是她最疼的,如此拿孩子的命運來冒險,也是有過失。
大家要懂,你口中說的「好時機」是你自己的一種感覺,不見得和現實吻合。說不定,因為你的婆媽,你已錯過了最佳的時機了。
另一位男客人,也說他會找師父改名。我一樣笑笑。一個男人,有多少本領,就算沒有照片,在臉書私訊裡講幾句話,我便已知。更何況,我已見過他本人三次。他,最終也沒有找到師父。
改名改命,不是你拿錢給我們,我們就「應該」、「必須」、「肯定」爲你服務。你在一旁偷偷觀察我們時,我們也一樣在觀察你,看你有多少耐力與誠意,看看你會不會去幫助社會。
自古,學風水命理的都知道,客人必須有德,我們才能教他如何改命造命。這是祖師傳下來的戒律。違背了這個戒律,爲了名利,胡亂教導,罪業深重。自己不是見死不救,如果真是這樣的心態,我們何必寫那麽多文章,免費供大家閱讀冥想?祇是有些人,真的不能讓他好命有錢,會累人累己的。
不是錢跟地位,決定你能不能夠有良名。你的八字,你的面相有德,你自然而然就拿得起一個良名。
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Shifu once said that if you find your fortunes dwindling, you can write your name in repetition to boost your luck. Condition is it must be an auspicious name in the first place. 😁
My current Chinese name 李季謙 was given by my Master. My old name dictated my stubbornness and poor relationships with my family. It carried the fate of an emperor, which explained my many leadership positions from a young age. Like an emperor leading his men to fight for his empire, there was bound to be bloodshed. This will cause me to incur more injuries, that call for surgery and hospital stay, all the way to old age.
At the time, I had never met Shifu in person. In my first phone call to Shifu, he analysed my Chinese name over the phone and was accurate on every count. Indeed when I was 12 and 13 years old, I underwent 2 eye surgeries and had scars to prove for it. Due to long-term stomach issues, I was hospitalised before. Be it family or external relations, I did not have good interpersonal relations. During my schooling days, my teachers saw my leadership qualities and groomed me. After I started working, my career luck and money-making abilities were always rising.
You can say that, no matter where I went, being recognised, getting promotions and pay raise were never a problem for me. However, as with all things good, there was always a price to pay.
My original Chinese name only had a single Chinese character, given by my father. His own name, just like those of my grandfather big Uncle and my sister, is also of a single Chinese character. It was different from the norm and because of that, many thought I was not a Singaporean. I felt my name was quite special and formed a continuity of the Lee’s family lineage, so I told Master that I did not want to change my name.
Shifu laughed at my stubbornness and impracticality. He said the true way of continuing the family lineage and bringing glory to our ancestors lies not in a name, but in achievements accomplished with my own abilities. If my name was going to bring me misfortunes, how would I have any sustainable achievement and would my ancestors wish to see me constantly in trouble? Given the little education of my ancestors, would they not want me to have a good name to aid my fortune in life, if they had known better?
I am especially fond of the character 謙 in my current name. Shifu predicted that I would have great accomplishments in the future. Although he did not said in which aspect, this character would remind me not to be proud, as gossip tends to surface when one's popularity surges. The sweetness in this character 謙 is much more likeable than my original name, and it will help minimise misunderstandings others have of me.
Shifu always put in such meticulous effort and foresight in crafting Chinese names.
I was not even a disciple of him at that time. I had no idea I would be doing what I am doing now.
My identity card still retains my old name, as a mark of respect to my ancestors. But in my work and with the family, I use my current name. I think of it as somewhat like coining a Christian name. Most people do not have their Christian names in their ICs either. But my edge is that historically, Chinese Han characters are more powerful in influencing one person's luck, than English alphabets. So the empowerment I get is definitely extraordinary. If you address me now by my old name, I would feel very alien indeed!
Since my name change 13 years ago, I have seen improvements year after year.
When we learn anthroponymy, we must first master the subject of Bazi. Because names are acquired, whereas Bazi are inherent. The auspiciousness of a Chinese name is determined by the five grids. Every Chinese character and its pronunciation has a different unique element. If you are unable to decipher the Bazi of a client thoroughly, you will not be able to find out what is regrettably missing in his/her Chinese name. Nor will you be able to come up with a good name to make up for the lack in the client's Bazi.
Unfortunately, I have no talent in anthroponymy. While I can analyse a name very well, I am unable to coin good Chinese names despite learning for many years. Hence, for clients who have this need, I always refer them to Shifu.
Alas, humans are suspicious by nature. Some only dream of riches but have no real ability to achieve it.
Among clients, some took too long to contact Master. If it is only for one’s own benefits, I could not care less. But some were parents seeking improvement for their own children, yet were too selfish to act swiftly.
I once told a mother that her child's name was very inauspicious and what would happen in the future. I advised her to look for Shifu for the change of name. She said she would seek my help in getting her child's Bazi read.
I smiled to myself. You really think I have no idea how much truth there is in your words? I kept mum because I did not want to hurt your pride.
Later on, her youngest daughter really got into trouble. She attempted contacting Shifu, citing that "it is a good time now". No, she didn't have money issues.
I had seen enough to say this: a mother's love isn't always the most noble.
The daughter was not her favourite child. But to risk your child's destiny this way, it is a sin.
Please understand that your “right moment” is based only on your own feeling, which may be incongruent with the reality. For all you know, you might have let the "best moment" fleet past because of your indecisiveness.
Another male client told me that he would definitely look for Shifu to change his name. I also just smiled. I do not need to meet a man in real life, to know how much real ability he truly has. It is telling enough from a photo or a mere few words exchanged via PM. Moreover, I had seen him thrice. He eventually did not seek Shifu's help.
Just because you are willing to fork out money, it does not mean we MUST, SHOULD, SURELY will serve you.
Changing your name and destiny for a fee is not a given, nor is it our obligation. As you secretly observe us from the sides, we are also doing the same. We see how much sincerity and perseverance you have and whether you will give back to the society.
Any one who learns Chinese Metaphysics should know that since ancient times, a client must have virtues before we can help him/her to transform and establish his/her favoured destiny. This is a precept laid down by the grandmasters. If we flout it for the pursuit of profits and fame, we would be heavy sinners.
Do not think of us as someone who will watch you sink and die. If we are indeed of such character, why would we put up so much free content, videos and articles, for your consumption and thinking? There are indeed people that do not deserve more riches in life, otherwise havoc to oneself and others will ensue.
Wealth and status do not decide if you can have a good name. If you possess virtues in your Bazi and facial features, you will definitely be able to carry a great name.
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