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How to tell an OT law church from a NT Grace church.

Right now I don’t personally know of even one NT grace church.  So how do we know?    That wounded head of law was healed.  Who healed it and brought it back up, after Jesus nailed it to his cross and took it out of the way?  CHURCH.   That is who healed it.  And today every single church that I know of today on this earth is either a heathen idle temple or an OT law church.  Those who are under the law are not cleansed from their sins because the Law Covenant was only with the blood of bulls and goats which Hebrews declares that it is not possible for the blood of animals to take away sins.

1. Adventist ….  They are not Christian because they go strictly by OT law.  Law and grace are opposites.  By Law one must be punished for their disobedience and sins.  There is no forgiveness or mercy under that law.  So those who choose to return or fall back to law, fall from grace and therefore will not be saved or redeemed.  

The adventist church worships idols.  That is one of the sure signs of being an OT law church.  Every church or person who still keeps the idol holidays are OT idol worshipers.   They do holidays or xmess, easter, halloween and others.  So they worship idols.  All who worship idols are not Christians but are antichrist. 

The adventist hold to the OT law that some animals are unclean and not fit to eat.  They think that eating animals is sin.  But what did Jesus say?  Nothing is unclean because Jesus cleansed it all at Calvary with his own blood.  

Mat. 15: ¹¹ Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

¹⁷ Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

¹⁸ But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Romans 14: 14 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

² For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

1Tim. 4: 4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

² Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

³ Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

⁵ For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

The above verses prove that anyone or church that forbids to marry or to abstain from meats have doctrines of devils.  This includes the adventists, the catholics, who forbid their priests and nuns to marry.  

2 The Catholics also prove to be an OT law church by the fact that they hold to the old priest system that God did away with. 

Lamentations 2: ⁶ And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

Here God shows that he had destroyed the buildings of assembly, their solemn feasts, [this includes all the OT law feasts and their SABBATHS;  He despised the king and the priest.  SEE?  God hated all of that OT system.  Isaiah 1 and 66 solidly prove this also.  So every church that still holds to sabbaths, idols, OT feasts etc.  and having to go to a set place is against the Grace NT system.  Therefore they fall back to the OT law system and it is death. 

V9: ⁹ Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.

The LAW IS NO MORE  her prophets are no more.  GOD destroyed that entire OT law system.  So every church that still teaches tithing, or any other part of that law is dead and lost.

On every count above the adventist and the catholic prove to be an OT law church and therefore are antichrist;  not Christian. 

3. The Mormons.  This group proves to be an OT law system due to all of the above and especially that they say men can have more than one wife.  How does this cross the teaching of Jesus? 

Mat. 19: ⁴ And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

⁵ And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

⁶ Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Jesus clearly taught that there should be just one man and one woman and they would be one flesh and that should not be put asunder.   So every one that permits a man to have more than one woman or wife are clearly defying the teaching of Jesus and have fallen back to OT law bondage.  

Also nothing this group teaches agrees with the word of God.

The Lutherans, the Episcopalians, the baptist, the methodist and all the others teach lies and no true doctrine.  They all worship the idols of the heathens, teach trinity, rapture, deny Jesus name baptism, thus denying his name, they deny the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the gifts of the Spirit therefore they are ALL OT LAW ABOMINATIONS.   They all deny everything that the only true NT grace church taught and did.  These are the ones in the Book of Acts. 

Every church that does not function as they did are OT law churches.  If they deny faith healing they are under law.  If they teach tithing and having to upkeep or pay a preacher to lord over the church, they are a false and OT law system.   Jesus said to his apostles, among you it will not be so that one rule over the other. 

Every church that teaches a difference in women and men Christians as to their work in Christ are OT law.

Paul said it was LAW THAT FORBIDS WOMEN TO TEACH OR SPEAK IN CHURCH.  So this alone proves that they are all OT law churches. 

Here is proof that in Christ or a NT grace church, men and women are the same:  Galatians 3: ²⁶ For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

²⁷ For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

So everyone who denies women Christians the right to teach or preach or any other work for Christ is an OT law system and doomed.  Why doomed?

Galatians 3: ¹⁰ For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

¹¹ But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

¹² And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

¹³ Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

This clearly proves that the OT law is a curse and by it no one will be saved.  There are many many verses that prove this same thing;  so all OT law churches are doomed.   They all worship the same old idols that they worshiped on the other side of the flood and that is why God destroyed them with the flood. 

Everyone who still holds that the Jews are a special people to God are under that old law system.  Jesus brought salvation and oneness to the entire world.  Over and over Scripture says There is no difference;  we are all one.  So if you still think God is going to turn back to that old nation of Israel and especially those who hold the evil idea of a third temple and some old heifer sacrifice are clearly under that OT lie.  Jesus is the temple of God and we are his temple.

God destroyed that old world with the flood mainly due to their idol worship and do you think He is going to allow you to get by with your idols?  Not for one minute.  All holidays are idol worship and I simply do not know of one church that does not do it. 

Everyone who thinks we are still to have a one day a week sabbath are under the old law.  The Book of Acts clearly shows over and over that they did it DAILY.  We are to worship God every day and the baptism of the Holy  Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues is clearly that Sabbath or rest to the soul.  Isa. 28.

This, then, these harlot OT law churches with their idols and lies are the evil Babylon system that God told us to COME OUT OF.  come out of her that you receive not of her plagues. 

Another way to tell if they are OT law churches is by the fact that they worship the false ‘Jesus’ that Paul said they would bring up.  Paul said they would bring up another Jesus and another gospel.  That is just what they did when they said that Mary had a baby god.  They all teach an incarnate god, yet not one single scripture names such a thing nor was it prophesied in the OT Scriptures.   Therefore all who teach this false doctrine are OT Law churches.  So in the end it proves out that every single church today is teaching a lying gospel and not going by the Word of God.  They all go by some man’s lies instead of God’s word, because they cannot prove one word that they say with written Scripture.   They all say you cannot be saved unless you believe that Jesus was or is God.  Yet not one scripture and not one person is all of Scripture said this. 

Some of them such as the methodists and catholics even deny baptism and just sprinkle a little water on folks.  No scripture teaches this.  Scripture clearly teaches that by water baptism do we have our sins remitted. 

By:  Jo Smith ~~~ September 1, 2026

Eggs, wings and feathers

By: Jo Smith ~~~~~ August 16, 2020

Job 39: 13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

14 Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

15 And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.

16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not her’s: her labour is in vain without fear;

17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

18 What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.

The above Scripture seems to have nothing to do with spiritual living, when you look at it with a carnal or natural mind. But God’s Word is spiritual and must be spiritually discerned. The carnal mind or

natural interpretation is death or the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It puts God’s word down

on a ‘human’ level or lowers it to be of no value, spiritually.

In order to understand the above spiritually one must look up the original Hebrew meanings of the

words. This takes time and lots of work. But Jesus said we must study the Word; search the Scripture.

This is why most people never learn the real truth because they refuse to study the Word.

OK, get started:

39:13 [Gavest thou] the goodly 7443 wings 3671 unto the peacocks 5965 8738? or wings 84 

and feathers 2624 unto the ostrich 5133?(wings and…: or, the feathers of the stork

and ostrich)

Verse 13… [Goodly]…

Here is the original Strongs: Strong: H7442

Orig: a primitive root; properly, to creak (or emit a stridulous sound), i.e. to shout (usually for joy):–aloud for joy, cry out, be joyful (greatly, make to) rejoice, (cause to) shout (for joy), (cause to) sing (aloud, for joy, out), triumph.

ME: It shows to shout for joy…sing aloud, for joy. be joyful.. Great Holy Ghost worship.

Peacocks: Strong: H5965

Orig: a primitive root; to leap for joy, i.e. exult, wave joyously:–X peacock, rejoice, solace self.

1) to rejoice
1a) (Qal) to rejoice
1b) (Niphal) to exult
1b1) to flap joyously (of ostrich)
1c) (Hithpael) to delight oneself

So once again we see the meaning of rejoicing or flapping joyously. (I love this; shows why we wave

our arms in worship.) ..to delight oneself.

Mind you, this is the original meaning of the word translated here as peacock.

Wing: Strong: H84

Orig: feminine of 83:–feather, wing. H83

1) pinion, wing
1a) of bird (ostrich, eagle, dove)
1b) of God (metaph)

Feathers: (This one is powerful)

Strong: H2623

Orig: from 2616; properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint):–godly (man), good, holy (one), merciful, saint, (un- )godly. H2616

1) faithful, kind, godly, holy one, saint, pious
1a) kind
1b) pious, godly
1c) faithful ones (subst)

So from the above we see that FEATHERS shows a Godly trait. I had often believed this to be

the real meaning of feathered fowl or birds, in Scripture. And this proves I was right. So the

people who receive the Holy Ghost and acquire a Godly spirit of being faithful, saintly, holy, merciful and kind are the ones referred to in Scripture as the birds that fly in the firmament. The apostles

were the main ones.

Church folks who stay carnal, no faith, no gifts of the Spirit and say they are still sinners are NOT the

feathered fowl or birds. The eagle and dove are our type. The carnal folks are referred to as brute

beasts or beasts of the field.

The fish of the sea are those who are yet to come to Christ. We must go ‘fishing’ for them.

39:14 Which leaveth 5800 8799 her eggs 1000 in the earth 776, and warmeth 2552 8762 them in dust 6083,

Verse 14: leaveth: Strong: H5800

Orig: a primitive root; to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.:–commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, 

1) to leave, loose, forsake

1a) (Qal) to leave

1a1) to depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone

1a2) to leave, abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatise

1a3) to let loose, set free, let go, free

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be left to

1b2) to be forsaken

1c) (Pual) to be deserted

I will pick back up with this after I show you what egg means:

Egg:

Orig: from an unused root (of the same form) meaning to bleach, i.e. (intransitive) be white; probably cotton (of some sort):–fine (white) linen.

1) byssus, a costly, fine white linen cloth made in Egypt

So from the above this ‘egg’ is showing RIGHTEOUSNESS.

So this person had begun a life with God. They had acquired some righteousness. BUT she left it behind. She abandoned it, forsook ie, neglected it. She let go of it. Why?

Earth:

Strong: H776

Orig: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land):–X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.

1. land, earth
   1a) earth
   1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part)
   1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven)

This person has settled for earthly stuff and not seeking heavenly heights. She has now become a member of a church.

Strong: H2552

Orig: a primitive root; to be hot (literally or figuratively):–enflame self, get (have) heat, be (wax) hot, (be, wax) warm (self, at).

1) to be hot, become warm
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be or grow warm
1a2) of passion (fig.)
1b) (Niphal) to become aroused, inflame oneself with
1c) (Piel) to warm
1d) (Hithpael) to warm oneself

She has not become passioned about her church and self. Inflame oneself…that is scripture and not a good thing.

Here is why she became inflamed in the wrong thing… she left her ‘egg’ or religion to warm in the

Dust:

Strong: H6083

Orig: from 6080; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud:–ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish. H6080

1) dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish
1a) dry or loose earth
1b) debris
1c) mortar
1d) ore

See, it is the same as the one who built their ‘house’ or spiritual life on the SAND.

It fell.

Earth, mud, ashes, dust, rubbish…that is what this person got into when she left her egg in the sand, or joined that church. She does not have the feathers, the shouting for joy. She BURIED her start and settled for a dead lifeless church meeting.

39:15 And forgetteth 7911 8799 that the foot 7272 may crush 2115 8799 them, or that

the wild 7704 beast 2416 may break 1758 8799 them.

Forgettest:

Strong: H7911

Orig: or shakeach \i shaw-kay’-akh\i0\plain\f3\fs21\cf23 ; a primitive root; to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention:–X at all, (cause to) forget.

1) to forget, ignore, wither
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to forget
1a2) to cease to care
1b) (Niphal) to be forgotten
1c) (Piel) to cause to forget
1d) (Hiphil) to make or cause to forget
1e) (Hithpael) to be forgotten

See, this ‘church member’ has forgotten the holy start she had. She got caught up in ‘church’ work

and forgot to be holy and Godly. The things of the Spirit of God were left behind and a carnal religion

took its place.

Foot:

Strong: H7270

Orig: a primitive root; to walk along; but only in specifically, applications, to reconnoiter, to be a tale-bearer (i.e. slander); also (as denominative from 7272) to lead about:–backbite, search, slander, (e-)spy (out), teach to go, view. H7272

1) to go on foot, spy out, foot it, go about, walk along, move the feet
1a) (Qal) to be a tale-bearer, slander, go about
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to slander
1b2) to go about as explorer, spy
1c) (Tiphel) to teach to walk

All the things above got into her life after she left off shouting for joy and buried her ‘egg’.

Crush:

Strong: H6695

Orig: or (feminine) tsuwqah \i tsoo-kaw’\i0\plain\f3\fs21\cf23 ; from 6693; a strait, i.e. (figuratively) distress:–anguish, X troublous. H6693

n m
1) constraint, distress, strait
1a) distress, anguish (fig.)

n f
2) pressure, distress

So from the above meaning of crush we find that the ‘church or foot of that paid beast/pastor, has

put this person under CONSTRAINT. Or law. Obligation…no freedom….no shouting for joy…’must

be at

your church when we have something…must pay tithes/preacher….must obey him…must not go

anywhere else, etc. This is law. This is how they put your joy out. This is how they crush your ‘egg’

or righteousness and further children. This is what happens when you join a church and become

held down by them. Paul said, not by constraint. Not by law.

Wild:

Strong: H7704

Orig: or saday \i saw-dah’-ee\i0\plain\f3\fs21\cf23 ; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat):–country, field, ground, land, soil, X wild.

1) field, land
1a) cultivated field
1b) of home of wild beasts
1c) plain (opposed to mountain)
1d) land (opposed to sea)

The above shows that this ‘dead’ religion is earthly; beast of the field. That is church and church folks/pastors. They are the wild beast that breaks your EGG or white or righteousness.

39:16 She is hardened 7188 8689 against her young ones 1121, as though [they

were] not 3808 hers: her labour 3018 is in vain 7385 without fear 6343;

Hardened:

Strong: H7188

Orig: a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) unfeeling:–harden.

1) to make hard, treat hardly, treat severely
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to make hard, make stubborn
1a2) to treat hardly, treat roughly

So, through the crushing of the foot of that beast of the field, (paid pastor), this person has become

hard against what she started out with, her egg.

Labour:

Strong: H3021

Orig: a primitive root; properly, to gasp; hence, to be exhausted, to tire, to toil:–faint, (make to) labour, (be) weary.

1) to toil, labour, grow weary, be weary
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to toil, labour
1a2) to grow weary, be weary
1b) (Piel) to weary, make weary, cause to go toilsomely
1c) (Hiphil) to make to toil, make weary, cause to be weary

The above shows that the beast who crushed her egg has put her under law or hard labour and caused

her to grow weary. Jesus said, ‘come unto to me you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you

rest’. But the beast said, no. do not go to Jesus to rest. I need you to labour for me. I put you back

under law and caused you to lose your egg.

Vain:

Strong: H7324

Orig: a primitive root; to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty:–X arm, cast out, draw (out), (make) empty, pour forth (out).

1) to make empty, empty out
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to empty, keep empty or hungry
1a2) to pour out or down
1a3) to empty out
1b) (Hophal) to be emptied out

So by putting that church member back under law or obligation he caused her to become empty.

He emptied her out….out of her joyous shouting and joyful worship and Godliness. Such a shame.

Fear:

Strong: H6342

Orig: a primitive root; to be startled (by a sudden alarm); hence, to fear in general:–be afraid, stand in awe, (be in) fear, make to shake.

1) to fear, tremble, revere, dread, be in awe or dread
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be in dread
1a2) to be in awe
1b) (Piel) to be in great dread
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to dread

The beast of the field or paid pastor​/prophet, caused the person to dread his religion, to be in awe

of him, thinking that only he can get something from God. This causes the ostrich or member to

lose their own joy and ability to feed from the word of God for themselves. Thus they have crushed

all the original life and joy out of this person. Now they only have a dread that they must be at

that church

every time that door is open. This is the poison that is constantly poured into the unsuspecting

church members.

 39:17 Because God 433 hath deprived 5382 8689 her of wisdom 2451, neither hath he imparted 2505 8804 to

her understanding 998.

Forget:

Strong: H5382

Orig: a primitive root; to forget; figuratively, to neglect; causatively, to remit, remove:–forget, deprive, exact.

1) to forget, deprive
1a) (Qal) to forget
1b) (Niphal) to be forgotten
1c) (Piel) to cause to forget
1d) (Hiphil) to cause to forget, allow to be forgotten

Because she did not continue in the joy that God first gave her, but fell under the spell of that beast, God has caused her to forget all that joyful shouting she once had. It is gone from her and now all she has is that law…. ‘better be here each time…..better pay those tithes, etc.’

Wisdom:

Strong: H2449

Orig: a primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act):–X exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.

See, that beast causes this person to not be able to teach themselves or make themselves wise.

Understanding:

Strong: H998

Orig: from 995; understanding:–knowledge, meaning, X perfectly, understanding, wisdom. H995

1) understanding, discernment
1a) act
1b) faculty
1c) object
1d) personified

Because this person put themselves down under that paid beast, God has not imparted to her any understanding or wisdom. She has cheated herself out of all Godliness by joining that church, allowing herself to be put under law

or constraint and standing in awe of that beast as though he is the only one that can hear from God.

 39:18 What time 6256 she lifteth up 4754 8686 herself on high 4791, she scorneth 7832 8799 the horse 5483 and his rider 7392 8802.

Lifteth:

Strong: H4754

Orig: a primitive root; to rebel; hence (through the idea of maltreating) to whip, i.e. lash (self with wings, as the ostrich in running):–be filthy, lift up self.

1) (Hiphil) to beat (the air), flap (the wings)
1a) meaning dubious
2) (Qal) filthy

The implication is terrible. The church member has become proud and lifting herself up on high thus she has become filthy and is only beating the air. Her life is now meaningless for anything to God. She thinks because she runs faithfully to that barn or storehouse that she is now better than those feathered fowl that stayed out in the open air and flew in the heavens.

Scorneth:

Strong: H7832

Orig: a primitive root; to laugh (in pleasure or detraction); by implication, to play:–deride, have in derision, laugh, make merry, mock(-er), play, rejoice, (laugh to) scorn, be in (make) sport.

Now she has become at her lowest. She is now mocking all that is truly Godly. She is now mocking the joy she once had with God. She is now mocking the joyful shouting of those who do have the Holy Ghost.

She is scorning the horse and his rider. This is Jesus in Revelation; also those who held to the joy of the Holy Ghost. We ride that spirit or horse.

The message revealed in these verses is awesome. I could never have seen this without searching for the original meanings of the words. This is the true spiritual revelation of this passage.

A person began a life with God and had some righteousness which shows as an egg; (white). But then she joins a church and is put under law or constraint to obey the beast of the field, that pastor. In doing so she becomes hardened toward the egg and becomes lifted up in pride and now actually mocks the joy she once had in God.

This is the true way of ‘churched folks’.

Who required this of you?

By: Jo Smith ~~~ August 10, 2018

Isaiah 1: 11~~To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord:

I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;

and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

12

When ye come to appear before me,

who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

God asked these Israelites, Who required you to sacrifice all these animals and think that is the way to me? He goes on to tell them that everything they do is an abomination to him….their songs, .. their burning incense. . even their Sabbaths. etc.

If God required this of them, why is he asking them who did it? Also why would it be an abomination to him? Have you ever wondered….. or did you even know this is in Scripture?

13…Bring no more vain oblations;

incense is an abomination unto me;

the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with;

it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Their solemn meetings are iniquity!

See God is telling them I want nothing to do with these things you call worship.

Hebrews 10: 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 in burnt offerings and sacrificesfor sin thou hast had no pleasure.

Here God tells them the blood of animals could never take away sins….(we have churches which say the same thing about the blood of Jesus….he can never make you clean and without sin).

But notice verse 5… God said he had no pleasure in those burnt offerings and sacrifice. So He did not require this. So then, who did?

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Here we have another solid proof that God did not require those animal sacrifices.

Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

Deuteronomy 18:19

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

Many people will fall here for they pretend to speak in His name and yet they do not hearken to his words.

Deuteronomy 23:21

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee

When you vow something to the Lord you better do what you say, for he will require it of you and it will be sin if you do not keep that bow.

Micah 6:8

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Now there is what God does require of us.

So the essence of this message is this: when you do what you call ‘worship’ who required it of you? Did God require what you do?

1. You say you must run to some church regularly each week. Who required this of you? where is it recorded?

2. You say you celebrate the birthday of Jesus…. Who required this of you? Where is that recorded?

Do you not know that God said, do not add one word to mine and do only what I have COMMANDED, OR REQUIRED you to do as worship to me.

So to be safe with God, you had better find what God requires of you and do ONLY THAT.

3. You say you celebrate the resurrection of Jesus with egg hunts and such… Who required this of you?

4. You run to your church to do a new years thing…who required this of you? Does God approve of it?

5. You must pay some man to preach to you and ‘pastor’ your church. Who required this of you?

6. You shun people that you feel are not as good as you. Who required this of you?

7. You think your duty is to be at your personal church whenever they have a doing. Who required this of You?

8. You decorate green trees and give out presents for your ‘jesus birthday party’. Who required this of you?

9. Now you even keep satan’s sabbath, halloween by doing your trunk or trick. Who required this of you?

It is all an ABOMINATION TO THE LIVING GOD.

Yet you all feel so righteous and holy and above others in your doing the things that are an abomination to God.

Anything Jesus said to do is REQUIRED. He said, search the SCRIPTURES. HE SAID present your body a living sacrifice; not being conformed to this world. Why do you not obey what he requires of you?

Amen!

THE DRAGON

Who do men say the dragon is?  Who do you say the dragon is?  Who do men say the serpent is?  Who do you say the serpent is?  Who do men say satan is?  Who do you say Satan is?  Who do men say the devil is?  Who do you say the devil is?       Think about this.  Before you read on, try to answer these questions, honestly for your own spiritual welfare.   Do you study the word of God?  Do you seek for His Truth?   If not, you will lose your soul.   Why is it that you do not care if you have the truth or not?

Do you not know that God said that all of these are the very same being?   For you who say that the serpent was and is a natural snake do you not also believe that the dragon is also a natural

Dragon?  Do you want truth or to just die in your sins and unbelief of truth?

So, you think it does not matter?  It does not matter what God says about anything?  Just listen to your preacher and that is good enough to get you into heaven?  Then ask him these same questions and see if he can answer them. 

Ezekiel 29:3

Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

So, if serpent is a natural snake, isn’t the dragon a natural animal as well?  Then you must say that Pharaoh is a literal dragon.  Makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it?  This is how people reason out that old serpent.

Now to prove that they are all the same:  Revelation 20:2

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Revelation 16:13

And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

So, we see that the dragon, beast and false prophet are all also the very same.  The unclean spirits came out of their mouth;  so it has to be words;  yes, the same lies that is the flood coming out of their mouth!

Revelation 13:11

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

So, this beast that came up out of the earth is the very same old dragon, pretending to be of Christ.  He is now at war with…. Who?  Who is the serpent at war with?  Whose SEED is that old serpent trying to destroy?  You truly need to find this answer and get it right or forever swallow the lies of the old serpent, dragon, satan, devil, false prophet.  They are all the very same evil at work.  BUT WHO DOES HE WAR AGAINST?

The man or the woman?  Whose SEED is he trying to destroy?  The man’s seed or the woman’s seed?  Be honest with yourself;  try to find this answer or forever believe the lies of people like william branham and almost all the others, who hate the woman. 

   Revelation 12: ¹² Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

¹³ And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

¹⁴ And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

¹⁵ And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

¹⁶ And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

¹⁷ And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Notice verse 12.. The DEVIL came down to us… V 13,  the DRAGON was cast to the earth… V 15… the SERPENT … trying to do away with the WOMAN. … the SERPENT cast the flood out of his mouth.. Against the WOMAN… 

V 16  … the same flood was CAST OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON… V 17. The DRAGON was wroth WITH THE WOMAN.  We never find that the serpent or the devil or the dragon was at war with the MAN.   Wonder why?  It is because that old serpent, the devil, the hypocrite, the evil man, the dragon is ADAM.  He hates the WOMAN.  But who is this woman and why does Adam hate her and her seed so much? 

The Woman is Eve.  She is the Mother of all LIVING.  This, living, means those who have the life of God in us.  Her Seed is the RIGHTEOUS people.  Her Seed is Jesus Christ.  Her promised Seed would destroy the head of that old evil Serpent.  This is why he hates her so much and seeks to destroy all of the righteous;  because we resist the devil and will eventually totally destroy him off this earth.  

Revelation 12:3
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

• Revelation 12:4
  And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

 V 3.. This dragon, with seven heads and ten horns is the very same evil serpent that was in the Garden of Eden.  His kingdom was cast out of Eden at the time of the great flood and came up on this earth as the Bear kingdom in Daniel.  This was under the head of Noah.  Then the same kingdom broke up into four heads:  Shem, Ham, Japeth and Abraham.  That is the Leopard kingdom in Daniel.  Then there was the last head under Moses.  All of these from Adam to the ending of the OT was this dragon kingdom of Adam. 

Jesus Christ was born under this last head of law.  HE is the little horn that came up after the other ten.  His resurrection brought about the destruction of that dragon kingdom.  There are two books of Generations in Scripture:  Genesis 5… the book of the generations of ADAM.  then Mat. one.  This is the Book of the generations of Jesus Christ.

Everyone who ever lived is in one or the other.  They are both still here, growing together until the Saints of the most High come into the Baptism of Fire….  The fire coming out of the MOUTH OF THE TWO WITNESSES… REV. 11,   It began with the words coming out of the first witness, the people in the Book of Acts.  Psalm 149 shows the second witness with the fire coming out of our mouth to finish the job….  And do away with the evil kingdom of Adam;  serpent,  dragon, satan, devil,  forever. 

So then why was Pharaoh called the great dragon?  It is because the spirit of Adam was in him.  The spirit of Adam, first-man Adam, is in everyone who is an antichrist.  That takes in most people because they do not worship Jesus Christ and obey him.   As in ADAM all DIE.   IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE.

Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

This is Adam saying ‘I am god’  I made these people for myself. 

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

This is Jesus doing away with that old dragon forever.   Jesus was given this earth when he ascended to heaven and sat on the throne of God.  The earth no longer belongs to Adam, serpent, dragon, satan, devil.  Sure, his evil is still here because Jesus has not yet finished the work of destroying that evil kingdom off this earth.  He is waiting and giving everyone time to repent and come into His Holy Kingdom.

When you see the evil and suffering on this earth and still will not repent and turn to Jesus and seek his welfare you will be turned into hell and destroyed. 

Isaiah 51:9

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?

Awake means resurrection.  This is a call to Jesus to wake up from the dead and do away with that old dragon.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

The above shows that Jesus with his Word/sword, will slay the dragon, the same as leviathan the serpent. Again proving that they are one and the same being. 

Psalm 91:13

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.  [spoken to Jesus]

Nehemiah 2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

In type, this is prophecy for the time when Jesus will destroy the gates of the evil kingdom of the dragon, old Adam. 

I think it is significant that the word, DRAGON, is mentioned six times in the OT and 12 in the new testament.  Six and twelve.  All twelve mentions in the NT are in the Revelation.   Here are the lists:

• All (18)
• Old Testament (6)
• Nehemiah (1)
• Psalm (1)
• Isaiah (2)
• Jeremiah (1)
• Ezekiel (1)
• New Testament (12)
• Revelation (12)

By:  Jo Smith ~~~~ August 3, 2026

WHO IS JERUSALEM 

Ezekiel 16:  16 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

² Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

³ And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

⁴ And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

⁵ None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

Say to Jerusalem, Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Cannan.  You are part an Amorite and part Hittite.  Is that who you thought she was?  I doubt it.  The serpent sent out a flood OUT OF HIS MOUTH…  words… to cause the woman to be carried away of the flood.   Revelation 12.

That flood came out of the MOUTH of the SERPENT.  Now!  How is a literal snake sending out a flood?  Hum.  can’t be.  So this old serpent is the same old lying serpent from the garden of Eden;  still trying to get rid of the woman.  So what was that flood?  It came out his mouth so it has to be words;  lies.  False doctrine.  And it seems to have worked.  Truth seems to have perished from the earth.  The old serpent has multiplied.  Now there are many of them = lying preachers/churches/governments.   All of them sending out lies and more lies to deceive the world with. 

Now back to who are these jews?  Jerusalem?  Israel? Chosen people?  Let Scripture show you.

Isaiah 19:  ²⁴ In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

²⁵ Whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.

See that?  Egypt MY PEOPLE.  Assyria the work of my hands.  Israel the third;  mine inheritance.

Doesn’t sound like what we have always heard, does it!

So see, Israel is not the first.  She is not what God called My People.  Don’t blame me;  this is pure Scripture;  God’s own word. 

Abraham had his first child with an Egyptian woman.  Moses married a black woman.  Boaz married a Moabitess and is the grandparents of King David.  An Israelite man married Rahab the harlot. 

Rebecca, the mother of Jacob, was a Syrian.  

Genesis 25: 20.. 

And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.  And since Abraham called these his own kin, so was he. They were Sarah’s people.

 Want more proof:  Deut. 26: 5.. ⁵ And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

 So this ‘nation’ is so mixed up with ‘others’ that no one could know who they really are.  But look at how many times Scripture calls Jerusalem THE HARLOT:  [and of course there are many more in the word;  but I can’t write them all; would make this message too long but if you truly want to know look it up.  Do some studying on your own or die in your ignorance. 

Jeremiah  3: 6;  

The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

Jer. 3: 8.. 

And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

Eze. 15: 16.. 

But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

Eze. 16: 16.  And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot there upon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

Eze. 16: 28.. 

Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

You should read Eze. 16.  It is full of this and a clear picture that Jerusalem, Israel, is not what/who you think they are.  She is the old whore against God.  She is the destroyed whore in Revelation 18.  It is the same old Israel in the wilderness.  IT is all who love their idols.  It is all who cling to law  and reject the grace of Jesus Christ. 

The New Jerusalem will be everyone on this earth who has obeyed the gospel of Jesus Christ by obeying Acts 2, 10, 8, and 19.  The one and only way into this Holy Jerusalem or the kingdom/body of Jesus Christ is this Holy Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire.  Without this you will not become a child of God.  He, as Jacob, adopted the sons of Jesus for his own.  But not if you disobey the Command to be baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, the only name under Heaven given among men whereby we may be saved.

By: Jo Smith ~~~ July, 30, 2026. 

Obedience

Should women have to be subject to her husband;  obey him?  Not the way men interpret this. They have it all wrong. God said the two are one. no one is to rule over any others. The spirit lusteth against the flesh and the flesh against the Spirit. That is what this is all about. All flesh/humanity is FEMALE TO GOD. So all flesh is to be subject to the Spirit… meaning you should live after the Spirit and not after the flesh…. inside your own self… if you live after the flesh or your own desires…. not being subject to the Spirit you shall die. It means you are to obey the Spirit of God and not your own flesh or desires. If you can’t rule over your own spirit you are dead in sins. trying to rule over your wife is evil and not of God. Jesus said among his people no one is to rule over anyone else. You are to rule over your own spirit; not someone’s else’s. 

Your wife has to do the same. The husband has to rule over his own spirit and allow his wife the very same power to rule over her own spirit. [ Know that no one’s salvation has to depend on another person;  hence the woman/wife MUST be able to live as she wishes;  not subject to a man;  even if he is her husband;  that is fleshly;  Jesus Christ is our true Husband and he is the one we must obey;  all of us;  not just male people.  

Also, remember Romans 1.  Never forget this important chapter    Men with men.  Women with women.  That is where many churches and men have put the world.  I have even seen men who think a wife cannot even stay in the same room where men are discussing…  supposedly, spiritual things….  I mean even in their own home.   This is pure evil.  But I have found out that most of the time these are homosexuals trying to put the wife all the way out. ]

Jesus allowed Mary to sit at his feet listening to him teach.  It means being in the same room with the men and being allowed to stay there;  then Jesus stood up for Mary when her sister, Martha, attempted to get Jesus to send Mary to the kitchen instead of staying where Jesus was teaching.  I have also sat under men with this evil attitude.  One of them, a fake ‘great man of God’…  and this man said no women will be in heaven  and said they need to be unlearned and in the kitchen.  See, they are of the devil.

In Christ there is NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE. IF YOU STILL WISH TO RULE OVER THE WIFE YOU ARE OF THE LAW AND WILL BE LOST; IN BONDAGE. ANY WOMEN WHO IS RULED OVER BY ANOTHER PERSON/HUSBAND. IS IN BONDAGE AND CHRIST HAS NOT SET EITHER OF YOU FREE. THOSE WHO TAKE OTHERS INTO BONDAGE ARE THEMSELVES IN BONDAGE. READ ALL OF THE WORD, NOT JUST ONE VERSE THAT YOU CANNOT INTERPRET RIGHT.

In the beginning God made them male and female and called their name Adam, in the day they were created.  Adam then changed her name to Eve and deceived her into eating of the law tree, so he could rule over her.  

But Jesus said, from the beginning it was not so that the man should rule over his wife.  He set them back on equal grounds as God had first made them.   He also showed that it was wrong for a man to take more than one wife.  Men changed all the ways of God;  perverted His way on earth, to their own hurt.

Women have been mistreated and put down ever since then.  But Jesus proved that the man was wrong in saying a woman cannot teach or preach the truth of God by appearing first to Mary, a woman.  He then commissioned this woman to take the first message of the resurrection to his men disciples.  He set it back as God had first intended it to be.  He also allowed the woman at the well, John 4, to go tell the men of her town about him.  There is simply too much proof in Scripture that a woman has the same rights as a man for this evil to continue to plague this world with violence. 

But evil men raised that hateful head of law right back up again and once again took his wife back into bondage.   There has been war and violence on the earth ever since then. 

As long as people make a difference between men and women concerning their ability to exercise the things of God, they are not in Christ.  IN Christ THERE IS neither male nor female but you are all one.

Paul showed this when He was teaching about the wife and husband… he said I speak concerning Christ and the church.  So why did men change it to humanity?  It was because they have that wicked old spirit of the serpent, in wanting to rule over others, since this means to be worshiped.  They want worship!  They want to sit in the seat of God;  to rule as God.

God said for the man to love his wife AS HIS OWN FLESH.  So there it is again…. The two shall be one flesh.  This is not possible when the man rules over his wife and even forbids her to take the Word of God.

By:  Jo Smith ~~~~ June 13, 2026