Our Spiritual Awakening: Post #4 (Post #3 of Our Spiritual Awakening can be found here.) “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my NEW NAME.”  —Revelation 3:12 In this passage, Jesus is explaining that when he returns, he'll have a new name. Most Christians overlook this detail out of cognitive dissonance. How does this even make sense if we are told elsewhere in the bible that Jesus is coming again?  This isn't the first time that cognitive dissonance took hold of a prepared and faithful people. In 2 Kings 2:11 we read: “And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” This verse is talking about Elijah being taken away up into the sky never to being seen again. At least not until he returns, as was prophesied by the prophet Malachi: “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”  —Malachi 4:5 Because of Malachi's prophesy, the Jews of Jesus' time were waiting for “the Elijah” to come and prepare the way. So when Jesus showed up proclaiming the “kingdom of heaven,” the Jewish leaders couldn't accept the Good News. Instead, they critically ask Jesus' disciples where is Elijah. Confused, the disciples had to wait and asked Jesus the next time they saw him:  “'Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?' Jesus replied, 'To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things. But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.' Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.”  —Matthew 17:10-13 The words of Jesus in Matthew 11:13-14 are even more direct: “For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. And if you are willing to accept it, he is the Elijah who was to come.” Jesus is obviously telling his disciples that Elijah has already returned and that he has a new name.  You may ask, if this is true and the second coming of Christ has already happened, then why doesn't everyone know who he is? The answer is found by analyzing Revelation 3:12 more closely. When we do, we find that Jesus is saying he will reveal his new name ONLY to those people who have overcome. Overcome what? Pride and our evil nature, which we've all inherited from Lucifer/Satan. “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”  —Proverbs 16:18 Pride caused Lucifer to rebel against God. Pride caused the religious leaders of Jesus' time to reject Jesus. Likewise, it was pride that caused the religious leaders of our time to reject the new Messiah. But all is not lost. Because a minimum 144,000 people could accept the Second Coming of Christ for who he is, God could give Christianity a second chance. (Unlike what happened to the Jews of 70 AD.) But this second chance can easily be lost if Christianity doesn't fulfill its responsibility.  “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”  —John 6:29 People need to wake up to what is really going on in the world. We are in the last battles of the End Times. Already the Luciferian cabal has pushed Christianity to the brink of total collapse through its infiltration of the US government and MSM. Consequently, traditional family values are now considered to be politically incorrect. Likewise with the US Constitution. Yes, Trump and Q are making great progress in battling the Deep State, but unless they understand the full scope of this End Times war, America may end up like Israel of 2,000 years ago and lose its “saltiness.” (To be continued.)