Anti-Christ
May 12, ’08 9:13 PM
by freeborn551 for everyone
The real danger of teaching that anti-Christ is one particular man, or time, is this…. it keeps everyone from realizing that the real danger is SELF.
Here is the proof:
Ro 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Eph 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness
Col 3:8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Col 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
See. all of the above shows us that the trouble is in our OLD MAN, which is first-man, Adam, or human nature.
As in Adam, all die; so in Christ shall all be made alive.
We must crucify our old man, or first, Adamic nature, for it is the enemy of God. If people constantly are made to look for a bad pope, some other leader, or such, to be the man of sin, or anti-Christ, then they will not see that the trouble is in ourselves and we must destroy that old way, and become new creatures in Christ Jesus.
So Adam is the man of sin, the one through whom sin entered this world, It is in everyone, until Jesus takes it out and fills us with the Holy Nature of God, by the Holy Ghost.
Sure the popes are bad. but then so is all sinners. some have more power than others, but the power to send anyone to hell is only that person themselves.
Popes killed millions, but they could not take Salvation from them. Only a disobedient heart can do that to any of us. So, antichrist is the disobedient heart.
What Is the Tree of Life?
Do you know what the tree of life is? Think on this, for your own sake. Do you truly know? or even wish to know? Do you think it is important, or not?
How many ways does scripture tell us give us eternal life? Tree of life? River of life? Believing? Receiving Holy Ghost? Living Holy and enduring till the end? Words of life? Well of living water?
Eat my flesh and drink my blood, said Jesus.
Now which of these ways do you have or intend to have? Is that tree a natural, earthly tree, as some false teachers declare? If so, where is it? What kind is it? How are we to find it and eat of it? Then how about eating his flesh? How are we to do that? Or drink his BLOOD? my, my.
So if the tree of life is in heaven, how are we to get there, before acquiring Life? Then why did Jesus die for us, if there is another way of obtaining eternal life?
If Jesus himself is this tree of life, are you then saying that MARY GAVE BIRTH TO THE TREE OF LIFE?
If so, then she is of more power that it is, for she gave it life or birth. … a tree?
Did Mary actually birth the TREE OF LIFE, OF WHICH WE MUST….EAT…TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE?
If Jesus was speaking of his natural human body, when he said, eat my flesh, then Mary is that tree’s mother.
Since Jesus himself, is now in heaven, how are we going to get a bite of his body and a drink of his blood? especially since flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven.
That false doctrine kind of leaves (us) in a great dilemma, right?
Ask your paid preacher to answer these questions for you and give me your answer.
By: Jo Smith… 8-29-2014
God’s Time
{taken from an old message on bottf\
Most people are in total confusion about these things. Two nights ago, I had really been praying for God to take me deeper into the word. As I was praying and mediating, God said to me “thousand does not mean numbers”. Well, I knew that God had said it to me. As always, when he tells me something I seek for proof in the Word. I asked Him, then what does it mean to you.
I looked up ‘thousand’ in the Hebrew dictionary. It showed that this word’s original meaning was not a number, but it meant to learn, then to teach, utter. It meant the mother, the bond of the family; it meant the ox head, which it said, was the first letter of their alphabet. The ‘ox’ is the first stage of Christian experience; the first head of the four faced living creature.
Then, I looked up twelve; this has almost the same meaning; not a number. Then, cubic, this also meaning the same thing. Year also has this kind of meaning; so does, day, time, and month.
So, then the next night, the Lord kept me awake almost all night showing me things I had never known before.
The ‘thousand’ years is not referring to a certain number of years. It is a condition of a certain time. The 144,000 does not mean that many people. The 12,000 sealed does not mean that many people. It has not one thing to do with ‘how many’. Twelve means, in the Hebrew tongue of the Scriptures, to double, and other things I will not take the space to type here. You look these things up, and study it.
12 x 12 gives the 144. This is doubling it. The description of the Holy City shows the gates to have on them the names of the 12 tribes of Israel; not the natural people, but the true people of God; from all nations.
The 12 foundations has the names of the 12 apostles; this means they laid the foundation; the new testament teachings. All of the true Christians are in this City.
The walls of 144cubics. But this, is not a distance measure. It is made up of all God’s people. It said the height and breath are equal = 4 square; but this is not showing architecture; it shows that the o.t. and n.t. saints are all there as part of this Holy City.
The 144,000 is not how many; it shows that after he sealed those teachers (the 12,000 from each tribe) the great multitude, of Rev.7:9 came in. He said they were from ALL nations, kindreds, peoples, and tongues. Every one of them; this includes the natural Jews and everyone else. This is all of God’s people from the beginning with Eve.
The 1,000 years is also not a certain number of years. I will go into this in another message.
Jo
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Now:
Since God has shown me the new revelation of the mingling of their seeds, I came to see more on this kind of ‘understanding’. Mis-understanding these things has led the world into complete error and darkness and telling lies against God and his Word.
God said a DAY with him, is as a THOUSAND years. and a thousand years is as a DAY.
So going by the above revelation, we see that it is not as man keeps time. Even by our method, look at this: we have 24 hours in a DAY. But when the 24 hours is completed, we do not say, it is hour 23 or 24. We say it is another DAY.
Same with minutes: 60 minutes make an hour. But when the hour is up, we did not lose the 60 minutes. They are still there. We just say another hour is passed. See, the minutes are still there, in the hour; the hours are still there in the day. yet it took the 24 hours to complete a day.
So it is with God. When God told Adam, in the DAY you eat, you will die, we find that this did indeed happen. Within that thousand years, (making up that one day), Adam died. Not one of those men ever made it to the full DAY, for God had pronounced it so…that they could not now live a full day, which was a thousand years.
So without God revealing these things to one, they have no idea what God is speaking of; yet they just go around teaching all kinds of made up junk or lies.
We all need to be very careful to say only what God said and wait until He reveals more truth to us to speak.
by: Jo Smith… nov 23, 2004
Gnosticism?
| What is Gnosticsim?It comes from the word “gnosis” meaning to know. Gnosticism was a philosophical system built on Greek philosophy. It added a Christian flavor when Christ impacted the world. Promoters of this ancient view were Simon Magus, Marcion, Saturninus, Cerinthus and Basilides. The Gnostics are traced to Carpocrates, and were supported by Valentius, Theodotus, and Artemas.Gnosticism was built on Greek philosophy that taught matter was evil and the Spirit was good. They taught docetism, a dualism which promoted a clear separation between the material and spiritual world. Christian Gnostics said since matter was evil, God could not really incarnate in a human body, He only appeared in human form and only appeared to suffer, it was an illusion. It was stated when Jesus walked on the sand you could know by seeing his footprints that were left. In this Jesus could be a pure spiritual being in an evil world and not be contaminated by it. The Gnostics supposedly had knowledge of God that was exclusive. They considered themselves superior to the average Christian. The Gnostics prior to Christianity taught that man is composed of body, soul, and spirit. The body and the soul are man’s earthly existence, and were considered evil. Enclosed in mans soul, is the spirit, a divine substance of man. This “spirit” was asleep and ignorant and needed to be awakened. It could only be liberated by this special knowledge, that would be called by the modern term illumination. (This teaching is also found in Caballa.)Writers of the New Testament (the apostles) condemned the Gnostic teachings. There are numerous epistles that address this ancient heresy that is now having a revival. Paul emphasized a wisdom and knowledge that comes from God and does not concern itself with idle speculations, angelic visitations, fables, and a amoral lifestyle (Col. 2:8-23; 1 Tim. 1:4; 2 Tim. 2:16-19; Titus 1:10-16). Paul addresses the Gnostic influences in portions of Colossians as a direct threat to Christ being our salvation and His being sufficient in all things. To overcome the indulgences of the flesh (the “Colossian Heresy” ) the Gnostics taught a false philosophy, which denied the all-sufficiency and pre-eminence of Jesus Christ (Col. 2:8). When he wrote that “in him dwells All the fullness of the deity bodily” it was a rebuttal against the Gnostics.Ethical behavior among the Gnostics were on two ends of the spectrum. Some tried to separate themselves from all earthly evil in order to avoid contamination, other Gnostics were libertarians. The exclusive spiritual knowledge meant their having the freedom to participate in all sorts of indulgences. Since they had received divine knowledge and were enlightened, it didn’t matter how they lived in the body, because the flesh was evil.This became a serious issue even after the apostles. We read the refutations of the Gnostics by the early church fathers that were theologians and apologists. Some of the more important ones are Irenaeus, Against Heresies; Hippolytus,Refutations of All Heresies; Epiphanius, Panarion; and Tertullian, Against Marcion. Irenaeus (A.D. 130-200), who had firsthand experience of Gnostic teaching, called those who blaspheme the Creator “agents of Satan” (Irenaeus, Against Heresies 5.26.2). Hippolytus, in a graphic description of certain Gnostics who called themselves the Naasenes (from the Hebrew nahas, “snake”) or Ophites (from the Greek ophis, “snake”), who were worshipers of the serpent. Because they received secret knowledge, as the serpent offered to them what he offered Eve in Genesis. Irenaeus describes the vision of Marcus the magician who sees the Supreme Tetrad descended from invisible, unnameable places in the Pleroma in female form to reveal to him something never before revealed to God or man, who he really was and how he came into being.Some of the Gnostic documents are Letter to Rheginus, Treatise on the Three Natures, Apocalypse of Adam, the Gospel of Matthias, Acts of Peter, and Acts of Thomas. The Apocryphon of James, The Acts of Peter, the twelve apostles, the treatise on the resurrection, three editions of the Apocryphon of John with the creation story reinterpreted. In the early church there were so-called infancy gospels that were written to fill in the details of the early unrecorded years of the life of Christ. “The Birth of Mary,” a work written in the middle of the second century; “The Protoevangelium of James,” written about the same time; the first “Gospel of Infancy,” composed about A.D. 400; which narrates the birth of Mary to innocents. Theses were stories circulating at the beginning of the second century all the way through the fifth century. These works included stories of Jesus forming clay figures of animals and birds that he made walk, fly, and eat. Another account has a child who runs into Jesus and falls down dead. These examples are representative of the fanciful nature of the accounts. It has been proven that Islam had taken stories from these apocryphal writings.It was the apostle Paul who warned in Galatians 1 “If we or angel from heaven brings any other gospel, they are accursed. Notice that he includes he himself among the “we” as the apostles, making the point that anyone can find themselves removed from the truth if they do not hold fast to the truth. So even a witness of Christ in the early church can be subject to this. They held themselves to a higher standard.For more on Christian GnosticismThe Christian Gnostic teaching is traced by historians to Simon Magus a magician in Samaria. He is said to have written the Gnostic work entitled The Great Revelation in which Simon is the Messiah, not Jesus. Menander was one of Simon’s disciples. He preached that those who followed him would not die, and that instead of Jesus being crucified it was Simon Magus.Their philosophical system had a structure of emanations that began with God the supreme self existing Spirit who through epochs of time emanated from Him other beings, called AEons (Gr.pleroma-fulness). Through them He limited His own infinite being manifesting in each, one of His divine attributes. Since matter was evil God could not have created the world directly. The gap between the spiritual world and the physical world was bridged by a series of emanations. Then this divine Spirit called AEon united himself to the material body of Jesus. Christ was descended from the heavenly stratosphere and united himself with a person whose body was formed out of psychic substance. So He was not truly God nor human. Cerinthus in the late 100’s taught the Gnostic teaching of the existence of AEons and emanations from the eternal God. Also that Jesus was the natural Son of Joseph and Mary and the Christ came upon Him at His baptism and left him at the crucifixion (like the Ebionites and the New Age teaches today), so only a man was crucified. Salvation to the Gnostics came by knowledge and experience. Those who did not have this knowledge (esoteric truth) were associated with ignorance. They received direct revelation from the Spirit which was more important than the word.They used allegorical interpretations, spiritualizing literal meanings. Other promoters were Basilides and Saturninus in the early second century and Marcion, Valentinus, and Tatian, who was formerly orthodox fell into this view later on in his life. Iraneaus took the time to research and read their writings and spoke with them and became their greatest opponent debating them. He wrote, “These men falsify the oracles of God and prove themselves evil interpreters of the good word of revelation. They also overthrow the faith of many, by drawing them away, under a pretense of [superior] knowledge, from Him who rounded and adorned the universe; as if, forsooth, They had something more excellent and sublime to reveal, than that God who created the heaven and the earth, and all things that are therein.” (Iranaeus, Against Heresies, Book 1)From The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology “The Valentinian solution to the problem of evil is that the good god (the ultimate depth) with his consort (silence) initiates the birthing process of (or “emanates”) a series of paired deities. The last of the subordinate deities (usually designated as Sophia, wisdom) is unhappy with her consort and desires, instead, a relationship with the ultimate depth. This desire is unacceptable in the godhead and is extracted from Sophia and excluded from the heavenly realm (pleroma). While Sophia is thus rescued from her lust, the godhead has lost a portion of its divine nature. The goal, therefore, is the recovery of the fallen light. But the excluded desire (or lower Sophia) is unaware of its fallen nature, and depending on the various accounts, either it or its offspring, the Creator, begins a “demiurgical” or birthing process which partially mirrors the “emanating” process in the pleroma and ultimately results in the creation of the world. The upper godhead (pleroma) by its divine messenger (often called Christ or the Holy Spirit) tricks the Creator Demiurge into breathing into man the breath of life, and thus the light particles are passed to a light-man. The defense strategy of the lower godhead (realm of the Demiurge) is that the lightman is entombed in a body of death which, under the direction of the Demiurge, has been formed by its pseudosubdeities, also known as “the fates” or identified with the realm of the planets. The Garden of Eden story is then transformed so that the biblical tree of the knowledge of good and evil becomes a vehicle of knowledge (gnosis) established by the heavenly or pleromatic realm. But the tree of life becomes a vehicle of bondage and dependence established by the demiurgical realm. The divine messenger from the pleroma encourages man to eat from the tree of knowledge; and in so eating, man discovers that the jealous Creator-Demiurge (often linked with misspelled forms of Yahweh such as Yaldabaoth or Yao) is not in fact the ultimate God but really an enemy of God. Man, as a result of divine help, thus comes to know more than the Creator. In anger the Creator casts man into an earthly body of forgetfulness, and the pleromatic realm is forced to initiate a process of spiritual awakening through the divine messenger. The divine messenger is frequently identified with the figure of the Christian’s Jesus Christ, but such identification has some very significant alterations. Since the divine realm is basically opposed to the creation of the lower realm, bodies at best are part of the created process and therefore need only to be regarded as vehicles which the divine may use for its own purposes. The divine messenger Christ, for the purpose of modeling the divine perspective, “adopted” the body of Jesus at a point such as the baptism and departed at a point such as just prior to the crucifixion. It is the risen “Jesus” or Christ, devoid of bodily restrictions, that based on the modeling has power to awaken man from his sleep of forgetfulness. This assumption of the body of Jesus by the divine messenger is generally termed as adoptionism” and is related to docetism, wherein Christ merely appears to be a man. Gnostics are those set within a world where they are the spiritual persons (pneumatikot) who possess the light particles and need only to be awakened in order to inherit their destinies. In the world there are also said to be psychic persons (psychikoi), who are a grade lower and need to work for whatever salvation they may be able to attain. The Gnostics often identified such psychics with Christians and understandably irritated the Christian heresiologists such as Irenaeus. The third division of this view of humanity is composed of material person likoi or sarkikoi), who have no chance to inherit any form of salvation but are destined for destruction. Accordingly, it should be obvious such a view of anthropology is very deterministic in orientation. (pp. 445-446 The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology Edited by Walter Elwell) |
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Are You On Safe Ground?
~~~~~ Are you on safe ground? ~~~~~~
by: Jo Smith…. April 15, 2015
God has laid this message heavily on my heart. So many will try to reach heaven, but will fail; so said Jesus = many shall seak to enter in and will fail.
Now why is this? It is simply because they seek to come in some other way than the one and only way that God said we must come in by: THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.
Then again, Paul warned us that they would bring in another ‘jesus’. This ‘jesus’ is an idol, not at all matching what God’s word tells us about the true Jesus. Jesus taught us to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES. Again, study to show yourself approved to God.
So then why is it that the entire church-world is following the false ‘jesus’? They failed to obey and SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.
I will be bringing in many different portions of messed up ‘religion’ in this message. So read it all.
First: WHOSE NAME DO YOU CALL OR GO BY OR TESTIFY FOR?
This is a big place where many are totally missing God and his truth.
if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
There now, the above tells us that we must be called by HIS NAME.
But churches are full of people who want to go by some other name; not the name which God told us we MUST GO BY = THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.
You might say, well I go by his name…. but do you really? Do you say, I am baptist? not the name of Jesus, now is it?
You may say, I am methodist; again, not the right name.
Many say, I go by Branham. I testify for Branham. I declare that you MUST believe in this man, branham, to be saved or in the Bride of Christ? Bride of Christ? Then why the name, branham?
These deceived folks, going by branham, go so far as to declare that he is an OT type PROPHET. So let’s explore the only place for truth on this matter; (see, they did not obey Jesus and search the right source = the Scriptures.)
Well, I did, and here is what I learned:
Hebrews 1 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Now the above verse tells us very clearly that God only spoke to the fathers by the prophets, IN TIME PAST. But now, in these last days He speaks by his SON.
So to declare that we have/had a PROPHET in these last days, is flat denying that God only speaks to us in these days, by his SON. It is denying the only name under heaven whereby we must be saved = THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.
Lets go further on this subject:
1 Corinthians 3 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
Notice verse 4: Paul said those who claim to be of one certain man, even himself or another important person in the church, they are CARNAL. Does not scripture say to be carnal minded is DEATH?
He further stated that we are ALL ONE. So then, see that calling yourself by some human man is separating this ONENESS of God’s people and sinning by being partial? You do set one member of Christ, (if they are in Christ), above some other member and this is SIN.
Further, Paul stated that every member, or joint of the body of Christ should supply NOURISHMENT to this body. This means that each and ever member of Christ should receive revelation, or SPIRITUAL MEAT, FLESH, BREAD OR FOOD, from God, and then be able to feed this nourishment to the body of Christ.
But what do ‘churches’ do? They set one member of this body up above the others, call him ‘pastor’ and PAY him to do this work, and thus deny this to all other members. Sure they do. Just let one ‘insignificant’ member of this ‘church’, begin obeying Jesus, studying the Scriptures, and have God teach him….. and see if this church ever allows this little member a chance to give this FOOD to the body. They most certainly will not. And if this member does tell his truth to someone, outside the ‘church’, they will black his name and run him out.
So when deceived folks run around declaring that only this one ‘man’ whom they are testifying for can declare truth, they are in fact denying the command for all members of Christ to study and supply nourishment to the body of Christ. Thus, they also excuse themselves from the command to search the scriptures and this is precisely why they are so deceived. This is exactly why they failed to understand that in the New Testament times, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A PROPHET TO WHOM WE MUST GO FOR TRUTH OR HEALING OR SUCH.
Now I will give you several scriptures PROVING that no such prophets exist since John the Baptist. (NT prophets merely have the gift of prophesy which any member of the body can have).
The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
The law and prophets refers to OT TYPE prophets. They go with the LAW. NT prophets go with the apostles. It is a total different working of God. No one has to run to these prophets to receive anything from God. In fact to do so is denying that we are all ONE and each one must be responsible to God to study the word and feed this body.
The above verse solidly proves that this OT type prophets ended with JOHN THE BAPTIST.
More proof:
Micah 3: 6
Therefore night shall be unto you,
that ye shall not have a vision;
and it shall be dark unto you,
that ye shall not divine;
and the sun shall go down over the prophets,
and the day shall be dark over them.
7
Then shall the seers be ashamed,
and the diviners confounded:
yea, they shall all cover their lips;
for there is no answer of God.
Who is the above verse spoken to? THE OT PROPHETS. They have no vision; it is dark to them; they shall not divine or prophesy; the sun went down over the prophets and their day is dark. So how do I know this is speaking to OT prophets? Again, we must search the Scriptures for the answer. Study to show thyself approved to God. Study what? Scripture. So here we go:
Zechariah 13 Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
13 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
3 And it shall come to pass,that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive: 5 but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith theLord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.
8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
I wrote this entire chapter, for this is very needful to get the truth of it across.
When is this speaking of? The day that a fountain was opened for cleansing from sin. This could only be the day Jesus was crucified.
This agrees with Heb 1, that in these last days, which began with the death of Jesus, God only speaks by his SON.
Look at verse 2..He said I will cause the prophets to pass out of the land.
Verse 3.. when any shall yet prophesy, (meaning after Jesus)… he is speaking LIES in the name of the LORD. His parents should thrust him through when he prophesies. (strong indictment against any further prophets, after the Son was here).
Verse 4 … in the day that Jesus died, the prophets shall be ashamed of his vision when he has prophesied; neither should he try to deceive others into thinking he is a prophet. He is speaking lies.
Verse 5… he shall say, I AM NO PROPHET, but a husbandman. This is NT ministry.
Now to prove that this is speaking of the time when Jesus was crucified: verse 6… speaks of the wounds in his hands. Verse 7 goes on to prove this; awake o sword against my shepherd. Smite the shepherd. This can only be speaking of the time of the death of Jesus. Anyone claiming to be a prophet since then is SPEAKING LIES.
Verse 8 … At this time two parts shall be cut off and die…what is this? It is the LAW AND PROPHETS. Goes back to the law and prophets were UNTIL JOHN. They were THEN cut off.
Verse 9.. I will bring the third part through the fire and refine them as silver and gold. They shall call ON MY NAME and I will hear them. I will say they are my people. This is only to those who stay with and on the only name for salvation = JESUS CHRIST.
So, calling someone a prophet, since Jesus Christ was here, is such a big evil that this entire chapter is concerning this matter. Yet, many so-called prophet’s followers, simply listen to this false prophet and fail to search the Scriptures, so they could not learn this important truth.
So, where does prophets show up again, in Scripture, after Jesus came?
Isa 9: 14
Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail,
branch and rush, in one day. (here again we see that God cut off this head and tail; = OT prophets.
15
The ancient and honourable, he is the head;
and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
There you have it .. the prophet that teaches lies is the tail, or ending of the matter. So we proved in Zec 13, that anyone who pretends to be a prophet since Jesus came on earth, is telling LIES. So these so-called prophets in the last days are the tail or telling LIES. All liars shall have their part in the lake of fire. When YOU repeat these same lies, you are just as guilty. When you proclaim the name of these lying prophets, instead of the name of JESUS CHRIST, you are part of this tail.
You who cling to some ‘prophet’ and set this MAN above other members of the body of Christ, are dividers and deceivers. You do deny what Jesus told us…that anyone who BELIEVES, can do the same works he did. Yet you deny this to the members of Christ, due to your accepting this lying prophet and denying the oneness of the body of Christ.
Any member of Christ can heal the sick, and should.
Any member can and should study the Word of God and receive revelation. These same people should then feed their FLESH, or food to the body of Christ.
Jesus died for us, so we all may come boldly to the throne of Grace and into the presence of God and receive from God for our own selves. To deny this to anyone is fighting against Jesus Christ and his kingdom.
If you look to this prophet, even though he is dead or alive, and think you cannot and should not do the same works of Jesus Christ, just because you ‘think’ that ‘prophet’ did it, is denying NT salvation.
Jesus died to give this power to all of us. It is not invested in some one man or prophet. Many of these lying prophets faked miracles and with these false miracles, they have deceived millions.
Why? It is simply because these millions failed to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES.
Some deceived people have turned aside to an idol named Allah. So where is this told to us in scripture? Some try to follow Jehovah; but they are trying to climb up some other way, than JESUS CHRIST, and they are thieves and robbers. Anyone trying to get to heaven, or be bride of Christ, any other way than the name of JESUS CHRIST is a thief and a robber. All such will have their part in the lake of fire.
So I conclude this first part of the message with this: You are only safe if you stay only with the NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. Your ‘prophets’, pastors, church, or others will not give you what you have to have to acquire eternal life.
A Bastardized Church
~~ A BASTARDIZED CHURCH ~~
The meaning of ‘bastardized’: Word Origin and History for bastardize
v.
1610s, “to identify as a bastard,” from bastard (q.v.) + -ize. The figurative sense, “to make degenerate, debase” is earlier (1580s), probably because bastard also was serving as a verb meaning “to declare illegitimate”
bastard in the Bible
In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word _mamzer’_, which means “polluted.” In Deut. 23:2, it occurs in the ordinary sense of illegitimate offspring. In Zech. 9:6, the word is used in the sense of foreigner. From the history of Jephthah we learn that there were bastard offspring among the Jews (Judg. 11:1-7). In Heb. 12:8, the word (Gr.nothoi) is used in its ordinary sense, and denotes those who do not share the privileges of God’s children.
Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Mat. 16: 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Upon a ‘certain’ rock, or foundation, Christ builds his CHURCH, and the GATES of HELL cannot prevail against that Church. The gates of hell are ministers of LIES, which BASTARDIZE the church, and brings it down to below the status of bring SONS OF GOD.
What is that FOUNDATION? Peter’s answer, that God the Father, which is in heaven, gave to Peter >> thou are the Christ, the SON OF THE LIVING GOD.
Any other foundation or teaching, brings about bastards and not sons. A bastard never knows his ‘father’. He cannot inherit the estate of his Father.
He does not go by the father’s name. He cannot know or do what his father stands for.
So, let’s investigate the difference between the True Church which is standing on that true foundation, and the bastardized church. It is important to know for sure which one of these ‘churches’ you are part of. Your eternal destination depends on this.
You must go by the Word of God for the right answer. You cannot depend on any man’s words or thoughts. It must be the pure truth of God. God is not going to judge anyone on the sayings of anyone except his very OWN WORD.
Jesus, the spokesman for God, said, study to show yourselves approved to God, rightly dividing the word of Truth. He said search the SCRIPTURES. So this is the one and ONLY means of determining if you are into the true Church, or the bastardized church. The gates of hell have bastardized every visible church in our world today. Only a small remnant remains of the true church today.
Do you KNOW your spiritual Father? Are you very sure? If HE does not fit what Scripture says about him, he is the false dad, and you are a bastard.
1. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever. I change not. So is your ‘jesus’ the same today as he was yesterday? If not, you belong to a bastardized church.
a. Jesus healed the sick by pure faith: Does your ‘jesus’ heal the sick today, without the help of man? By pure faith?
(I have actually heard people who ‘claim’ to be ‘christians’ declare that God does NOT heal today. They say you must run to some doctor or a man. These bastards even sneer and mock anyone who still believes that Jesus is the very same healer today, that he was 2,000 years ago.
b. A certain bastardized church puts out their own literature, instead of going by Scripture. In some of their materials, they have published stories and pictures, of a ‘god without hands’. They publicly stated that God has no hands but our, (man’s) hands. They firmly declare that God is helpless today without some man’s hands doing the work for him. They firmly declare that God cannot heal today without some doctor and his medicine. They published a broken statue of their ‘jesus’ without any hands, and their ‘story’ said what a perfect picture this was of showing that their ‘jesus’ is helpless today with OUR HANDS. This is satanic humanism.
Their bastard children rejoice in this false, satanic message, for they do not wish to be associated with anyone who believes in faith healing. I ask, whose hands helped God create the sun, the moon, the stars and the earth? If that God is helpless today, without man’s hands, then whose hands created that sun?
And if God alone created the universe, what rendered him helpless without man’s hands, after God created that man? See, it is a foolish doctrine of DEVILS. Those who believe this satanic message are bastards and their church is a bastardized church.
The bastard members of this bastard church will spend hundreds of dollars, buying the lies which this bastard church or denomination, publishes. Yet these same bastard children will flat refuse to read a free message, which proclaims that Jesus and his Father are still the very same today, as they were in the past or will be in the future.
These bastard children gladly pay hundreds of dollars a month to pay some bastard preacher to tell them their lies, ignoring the fact that the true God said that this is a hireling and cares not for the sheep, but is only after their money. God told us that this thing of buying and selling is the mark of the beast, yet these bastards will fight with all their might to keep this truth hidden from everyone. After all, if the bastard preachers let this truth be known, then he would lose his free-loading money.
Jesus said, FREELY you have received, FREELY give. What did Jesus say to give? Read it. He said, that which you have FREELY received. So the money you labored for is not FREELY RECEIVED. See, these bastard preachers, hirelings, have perverted the Word of God to back up their own evil plans. They have drilled the lie into their bastard members, that it means for the members to give part of their money to the preacher, to pay him to preach. Yet Jesus never taught any such thing. Jesus was telling the MINISTERS to freely GIVE the gifts and messages to others, that God has so freely given to them.
These bastards have totally TURNED this message up-side-down, to make prey off the ones who pay them. The bastard members of this bastardized church will never find truth, for they refuse to even listen to anyone whom God sends to them, bringing truth. They HATE TRUTH. They wish to worship their idols and still be counted as children of God.
They will not read a message such as this one, and therefore they will never hear the truth and come into the light of God. They can read any trashy book, sit for hours watching some trashy movie of playing some silly game, but they cannot take a few minutes to read a message which gives out the truth. Therefore they will be without excuse when they are judged by God and cast into hell fire.
Satan has deceived his bastard church into thinking that as long as they faithfully attend his ‘church-meeting’, and pay his preacher, that they are fine, on their way to heaven, and have need of nothing. They do not obey the true Jesus and study the Word of God, seeking His truth, so they go on believing the lies of this satanic church, for this is what they want. They want their idols and entertainment. They must have the idol holidays, so they refuse a God which DEMANDS them not to do those heathen things to him.
2. Do you know the true Father? Jesus said his Father was in heaven. Jesus said his Father was greater than him. Jesus said, I do always the things which please my Father. Jesus said, touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father and My God. Jesus said, I can of my own self do nothing, but what I see my Father do, I do. Scripture says that Jesus is the son of Joseph, so he had to be speaking of his SPIRITUAL FATHER, which is God.
a. The bastard church claims there are three different people making up one god. They say all three people are equals. Yet Jesus said, My Father is greater than I. Jesus said His God was a SPIRIT. Jesus said, a spirit has not flesh and bone as ye see me have. So Jesus clearly did not claim to be God or the Father.
So now examine which of these things you believe: what Jesus said, or what your bastard church says.
Then there is a bastard church which declares that the one and only person who is God, left heaven and got into Mary and became a helpless human baby. Yet this baby had no spirit or mind of his own, for his God was his own spirit. This then makes Mary to be the mother of a god. Yet they flat deny that Mary is mother of God. so confused! This is a BASTARDIZED CHURCH. They cannot bring their lies into harmony with the Word of God. So they just ignore the Word of God.
The one thing that ties all of these bastard churches together is: the lie of an incarnate god and keeping the heathen HOLIDAYS.
That, egg hunts, tree decorating, gift exchanging, to celebrate their ‘god’s birth and death, and resurrection, is the SURE MARK OF BEING A BASTARD, SATANIC CHURCH.
GOD..HAS…NEVER…BEEN …BORN… OR DIED…OR HAD TO BE…RESURRECTED.
Jesus said: Mark 16: 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Here, Jesus clearly shows that baptism is part of being saved. Yet the bastard churches flat deny this. They do set their bastard preacher’s words above the word of Jesus, whom they claim to know and believe in. Why then do they call him a lie?
Jesus said, certain signs shall follow those who BELIEVE. they shall cast out devils; speak with new tongues; lay hands on the sick and they shall recover..etc. Yet the very people who claim that all they must do to be saved is just say I BELIEVE……and these same people flat DENY all of these signs. So they do call Jesus a LIE. Their bastard preachers tell them, oh that was just for the apostles. Yet Jesus said it was for all who BELIEVE. Either they lie when they say the BELIEVE, or they call Jesus a lie…that these signs do NOT follow believers.
The bastardized church claims that baptism is only to show they believe and to join a church. Yet not one word is ever stated in all of God’s word, to join any church. It is satanic doctrine. Those who believe these lies are bastards and not children of God. The gifts of the spirit are for all of God’s children, yet these bastard churches claim it was only for the early apostolic church. See the baptism of the Holy Ghost and these powerful gifts is the sure mark of being a true church of God, so to be without this, is to be bastardized or to be below the status of a church of God, or to have lost all that power.
3. Jesus said, my sheep KNOW my VOICE and they follow me and a stranger they will not follow, for they know not the voice of strangers. In order to KNOW HIS VOICE, he must SPEAK TO US. Yet these bastard children hate the very thought of a God who SPEAKS to his children. I declare to you, that if your ‘god’ does not speak to you, lead you with his Spirit, then you are a bastard and not a child of the true God.
In their mind, their god is a deaf and dumb idol, for he cannot speak to them. How then can God teach you, if he cannot and will not speak to you? How are you his child, if He never speaks to you? And if He is speaking to you and leading you with his Spirit, how is it that you cannot come into his truth, which fits his written Word, and come out of the lies of the harlot church, which has brought forth BASTARD CHILDREN?
Those who ‘think’ they know god, and yet cannot come into his truth, cannot read his Word and learn his Truth, for they know not the voice of the God whose word it is. They are not his child, so they do not know his LANGUAGE. The words of the book have no meaning to them, for they are of a foreign language to them. God has to teach you his language in order to be able to read his Word, and understand what it is saying. How else could so many millions of folks read the same book and never come out of their darkness and lies? How is it that they go on year after year believing the lies of the bastard church?
4. The true church knows that God declared there would be no more prophets after John the Baptist. They also know that God did away with the OT Law system. Yet these bastard children would not depart with this OT system for anything. They hold that they must still run to some ‘prophet’ to hear from God. They sneer at anyone who declares that God speaks to us personally and we need no prophet to intercede between God and us. We know that we can come boldly to the throne of Grace/God, and He will teach us himself. Woe to anyone who clings to this bastard church and refuse the truth of God.
Go back to the meaning of bastardized. It means to be illegitimate and polluted, a foreigner to God, and living beneath the privileges of a child of God. So all of the churches today fit this description. They live beneath what Jesus said would be signs of being believers. They do not believe in the power of God for us today, so they are bastards.
How are you polluted?
Jesus said be ye holy and clean, abolishing the filth of the flesh and spirit, perfecting Holiness in the fear of God. God said be holy for I am holy. Yet the bastard churches claim that no one can be holy; no one can live without sin and be clean. See, they are polluted. They are unclean, claiming to have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus. Liars, they are.
5. God demanded for his people not to attempt to do anything to him which the heathens do to their gods. Deut 12.
Job 3 declares that God abolished the day of the birth of Jesus. Jer 10, expressly forbids setting up trees and decorating them. He declared that this is the word of the Lord, not his own words. God said this is the way heathens worship their idol gods, do not do this to me.
Jer 20 agrees with Job 3, and said, (being the word of the Lord)… let not the day of my birth be blessed. This is three witnesses of God demanding us not to partake of such ungodly stuff as celebrating the birth of the son of God and especially with gift giving and tree decorating.
Yet the bastard churches WOULD NOT THINK OF GIVING UP THEIR HEATHEN HOLIDAYS. Yes, you are bastards and not sons, no matter how often you run to your little theater church building, and no matter how much you claim to speak in tongues or such, your lives prove you are bastards and not sons. Some of the bastard church leaders even teach their deceived followers to FAKE TONGUES in order to pretend they have the Holy Ghost. And believe it or not, these deceived folks do that thing and teach it to others. They could NOT believe in the truth of this, and fake it. Why fake it, if you believe there is a true gift? I know and have the true gift; never believed in faking it. It can only be ministers of satan who would declare this thing to children seeking the Holy Ghost. I .. HAVE… HEARD… THIS …WITH MY OWN EARS, FROM A MINISTER THAT MANY HOLD UP AS A GREAT MAN OF GOD. SO MUCH DECEPTION.
This bastard church claims to celebrate the resurrection of their ‘god’ by doing another heathen idol holiday = easter. Yes, say they, we must do egg hunts and all such mess, to honor the resurrection of our god. They even set up this heathen mess in their church buildings and expect the true God to accept them and their idol worship. Deceived and being deceived. The GATES OF HELL HAVE PREVAILED AGAINST THIS BASTARDIZED CHURCH.
You, bastard church, claim to be rich and in need of nothing; yet you are naked, poor, miserable, blind and do not even know it. Which church? Any you deny that Jesus is still the same today, that we need a prophet today, that you can still sin and be right with God, that Jesus does not heal today, that you can do your HEATHEN HOLIDAYS and God will accept you in this sin. You are deceived and a bastard. If you were a true child of God, you would seek for his truth, open up your heart to receive his truth and turn from your lies and sins. If you partake of these bastard church, you are part of it and will receive of her plagues.
By: Jo Smith…. August 7, 2015
~~ A BASTARDIZED CHURCH ~~
The meaning of ‘bastardized’: Word Origin and History for bastardize
v.
1610s, “to identify as a bastard,” from bastard (q.v.) + -ize. The figurative sense, “to make degenerate, debase” is earlier (1580s), probably because bastard also was serving as a verb meaning “to declare illegitimate”
bastard in the Bible
In the Old Testament the rendering of the Hebrew word _mamzer’_, which means “polluted.” In Deut. 23:2, it occurs in the ordinary sense of illegitimate offspring. In Zech. 9:6, the word is used in the sense of foreigner. From the history of Jephthah we learn that there were bastard offspring among the Jews (Judg. 11:1-7). In Heb. 12:8, the word (Gr.nothoi) is used in its ordinary sense, and denotes those who do not share the privileges of God’s children.
Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Mat. 16: 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Upon a ‘certain’ rock, or foundation, Christ builds his CHURCH, and the GATES of HELL cannot prevail against that Church. The gates of hell are ministers of LIES, which BASTARDIZE the church, and brings it down to below the status of bring SONS OF GOD.
What is that FOUNDATION? Peter’s answer, that God the Father, which is in heaven, gave to Peter >> thou are the Christ, the SON OF THE LIVING GOD.
Any other foundation or teaching, brings about bastards and not sons. A bastard never knows his ‘father’. He cannot inherit the estate of his Father.
He does not go by the father’s name. He cannot know or do what his father stands for.
So, let’s investigate the difference between the True Church which is standing on that true foundation, and the bastardized church. It is important to know for sure which one of these ‘churches’ you are part of. Your eternal destination depends on this.
You must go by the Word of God for the right answer. You cannot depend on any man’s words or thoughts. It must be the pure truth of God. God is not going to judge anyone on the sayings of anyone except his very OWN WORD.
Jesus, the spokesman for God, said, study to show yourselves approved to God, rightly dividing the word of Truth. He said search the SCRIPTURES. So this is the one and ONLY means of determining if you are into the true Church, or the bastardized church. The gates of hell have bastardized every visible church in our world today. Only a small remnant remains of the true church today.
Do you KNOW your spiritual Father? Are you very sure? If HE does not fit what Scripture says about him, he is the false dad, and you are a bastard.
1. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever. I change not. So is your ‘jesus’ the same today as he was yesterday? If not, you belong to a bastardized church.
a. Jesus healed the sick by pure faith: Does your ‘jesus’ heal the sick today, without the help of man? By pure faith?
(I have actually heard people who ‘claim’ to be ‘christians’ declare that God does NOT heal today. They say you must run to some doctor or a man. These bastards even sneer and mock anyone who still believes that Jesus is the very same healer today, that he was 2,000 years ago.
b. A certain bastardized church puts out their own literature, instead of going by Scripture. In some of their materials, they have published stories and pictures, of a ‘god without hands’. They publicly stated that God has no hands but our, (man’s) hands. They firmly declare that God is helpless today without some man’s hands doing the work for him. They firmly declare that God cannot heal today without some doctor and his medicine. They published a broken statue of their ‘jesus’ without any hands, and their ‘story’ said what a perfect picture this was of showing that their ‘jesus’ is helpless today with OUR HANDS. This is satanic humanism.
Their bastard children rejoice in this false, satanic message, for they do not wish to be associated with anyone who believes in faith healing. I ask, whose hands helped God create the sun, the moon, the stars and the earth? If that God is helpless today, without man’s hands, then whose hands created that sun?
And if God alone created the universe, what rendered him helpless without man’s hands, after God created that man? See, it is a foolish doctrine of DEVILS. Those who believe this satanic message are bastards and their church is a bastardized church.
The bastard members of this bastard church will spend hundreds of dollars, buying the lies which this bastard church or denomination, publishes. Yet these same bastard children will flat refuse to read a free message, which proclaims that Jesus and his Father are still the very same today, as they were in the past or will be in the future.
These bastard children gladly pay hundreds of dollars a month to pay some bastard preacher to tell them their lies, ignoring the fact that the true God said that this is a hireling and cares not for the sheep, but is only after their money. God told us that this thing of buying and selling is the mark of the beast, yet these bastards will fight with all their might to keep this truth hidden from everyone. After all, if the bastard preachers let this truth be known, then he would lose his free-loading money.
Jesus said, FREELY you have received, FREELY give. What did Jesus say to give? Read it. He said, that which you have FREELY received. So the money you labored for is not FREELY RECEIVED. See, these bastard preachers, hirelings, have perverted the Word of God to back up their own evil plans. They have drilled the lie into their bastard members, that it means for the members to give part of their money to the preacher, to pay him to preach. Yet Jesus never taught any such thing. Jesus was telling the MINISTERS to freely GIVE the gifts and messages to others, that God has so freely given to them.
These bastards have totally TURNED this message up-side-down, to make prey off the ones who pay them. The bastard members of this bastardized church will never find truth, for they refuse to even listen to anyone whom God sends to them, bringing truth. They HATE TRUTH. They wish to worship their idols and still be counted as children of God.
They will not read a message such as this one, and therefore they will never hear the truth and come into the light of God. They can read any trashy book, sit for hours watching some trashy movie of playing some silly game, but they cannot take a few minutes to read a message which gives out the truth. Therefore they will be without excuse when they are judged by God and cast into hell fire.
Satan has deceived his bastard church into thinking that as long as they faithfully attend his ‘church-meeting’, and pay his preacher, that they are fine, on their way to heaven, and have need of nothing. They do not obey the true Jesus and study the Word of God, seeking His truth, so they go on believing the lies of this satanic church, for this is what they want. They want their idols and entertainment. They must have the idol holidays, so they refuse a God which DEMANDS them not to do those heathen things to him.
2. Do you know the true Father? Jesus said his Father was in heaven. Jesus said his Father was greater than him. Jesus said, I do always the things which please my Father. Jesus said, touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father and My God. Jesus said, I can of my own self do nothing, but what I see my Father do, I do. Scripture says that Jesus is the son of Joseph, so he had to be speaking of his SPIRITUAL FATHER, which is God.
a. The bastard church claims there are three different people making up one god. They say all three people are equals. Yet Jesus said, My Father is greater than I. Jesus said His God was a SPIRIT. Jesus said, a spirit has not flesh and bone as ye see me have. So Jesus clearly did not claim to be God or the Father.
So now examine which of these things you believe: what Jesus said, or what your bastard church says.
Then there is a bastard church which declares that the one and only person who is God, left heaven and got into Mary and became a helpless human baby. Yet this baby had no spirit or mind of his own, for his God was his own spirit. This then makes Mary to be the mother of a god. Yet they flat deny that Mary is mother of God. so confused! This is a BASTARDIZED CHURCH. They cannot bring their lies into harmony with the Word of God. So they just ignore the Word of God.
The one thing that ties all of these bastard churches together is: the lie of an incarnate god and keeping the heathen HOLIDAYS.
That, egg hunts, tree decorating, gift exchanging, to celebrate their ‘god’s birth and death, and resurrection, is the SURE MARK OF BEING A BASTARD, SATANIC CHURCH.
GOD..HAS…NEVER…BEEN …BORN… OR DIED…OR HAD TO BE…RESURRECTED.
Jesus said: Mark 16: 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Here, Jesus clearly shows that baptism is part of being saved. Yet the bastard churches flat deny this. They do set their bastard preacher’s words above the word of Jesus, whom they claim to know and believe in. Why then do they call him a lie?
Jesus said, certain signs shall follow those who BELIEVE. they shall cast out devils; speak with new tongues; lay hands on the sick and they shall recover..etc. Yet the very people who claim that all they must do to be saved is just say I BELIEVE……and these same people flat DENY all of these signs. So they do call Jesus a LIE. Their bastard preachers tell them, oh that was just for the apostles. Yet Jesus said it was for all who BELIEVE. Either they lie when they say the BELIEVE, or they call Jesus a lie…that these signs do NOT follow believers.
The bastardized church claims that baptism is only to show they believe and to join a church. Yet not one word is ever stated in all of God’s word, to join any church. It is satanic doctrine. Those who believe these lies are bastards and not children of God. The gifts of the spirit are for all of God’s children, yet these bastard churches claim it was only for the early apostolic church. See the baptism of the Holy Ghost and these powerful gifts is the sure mark of being a true church of God, so to be without this, is to be bastardized or to be below the status of a church of God, or to have lost all that power.
3. Jesus said, my sheep KNOW my VOICE and they follow me and a stranger they will not follow, for they know not the voice of strangers. In order to KNOW HIS VOICE, he must SPEAK TO US. Yet these bastard children hate the very thought of a God who SPEAKS to his children. I declare to you, that if your ‘god’ does not speak to you, lead you with his Spirit, then you are a bastard and not a child of the true God.
In their mind, their god is a deaf and dumb idol, for he cannot speak to them. How then can God teach you, if he cannot and will not speak to you? How are you his child, if He never speaks to you? And if He is speaking to you and leading you with his Spirit, how is it that you cannot come into his truth, which fits his written Word, and come out of the lies of the harlot church, which has brought forth BASTARD CHILDREN?
Those who ‘think’ they know god, and yet cannot come into his truth, cannot read his Word and learn his Truth, for they know not the voice of the God whose word it is. They are not his child, so they do not know his LANGUAGE. The words of the book have no meaning to them, for they are of a foreign language to them. God has to teach you his language in order to be able to read his Word, and understand what it is saying. How else could so many millions of folks read the same book and never come out of their darkness and lies? How is it that they go on year after year believing the lies of the bastard church?
4. The true church knows that God declared there would be no more prophets after John the Baptist. They also know that God did away with the OT Law system. Yet these bastard children would not depart with this OT system for anything. They hold that they must still run to some ‘prophet’ to hear from God. They sneer at anyone who declares that God speaks to us personally and we need no prophet to intercede between God and us. We know that we can come boldly to the throne of Grace/God, and He will teach us himself. Woe to anyone who clings to this bastard church and refuse the truth of God.
Go back to the meaning of bastardized. It means to be illegitimate and polluted, a foreigner to God, and living beneath the privileges of a child of God. So all of the churches today fit this description. They live beneath what Jesus said would be signs of being believers. They do not believe in the power of God for us today, so they are bastards.
How are you polluted?
Jesus said be ye holy and clean, abolishing the filth of the flesh and spirit, perfecting Holiness in the fear of God. God said be holy for I am holy. Yet the bastard churches claim that no one can be holy; no one can live without sin and be clean. See, they are polluted. They are unclean, claiming to have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus. Liars, they are.
5. God demanded for his people not to attempt to do anything to him which the heathens do to their gods. Deut 12.
Job 3 declares that God abolished the day of the birth of Jesus. Jer 10, expressly forbids setting up trees and decorating them. He declared that this is the word of the Lord, not his own words. God said this is the way heathens worship their idol gods, do not do this to me.
Jer 20 agrees with Job 3, and said, (being the word of the Lord)… let not the day of my birth be blessed. This is three witnesses of God demanding us not to partake of such ungodly stuff as celebrating the birth of the son of God and especially with gift giving and tree decorating.
Yet the bastard churches WOULD NOT THINK OF GIVING UP THEIR HEATHEN HOLIDAYS. Yes, you are bastards and not sons, no matter how often you run to your little theater church building, and no matter how much you claim to speak in tongues or such, your lives prove you are bastards and not sons. Some of the bastard church leaders even teach their deceived followers to FAKE TONGUES in order to pretend they have the Holy Ghost. And believe it or not, these deceived folks do that thing and teach it to others. They could NOT believe in the truth of this, and fake it. Why fake it, if you believe there is a true gift? I know and have the true gift; never believed in faking it. It can only be ministers of satan who would declare this thing to children seeking the Holy Ghost. I .. HAVE… HEARD… THIS …WITH MY OWN EARS, FROM A MINISTER THAT MANY HOLD UP AS A GREAT MAN OF GOD. SO MUCH DECEPTION.
This bastard church claims to celebrate the resurrection of their ‘god’ by doing another heathen idol holiday = easter. Yes, say they, we must do egg hunts and all such mess, to honor the resurrection of our god. They even set up this heathen mess in their church buildings and expect the true God to accept them and their idol worship. Deceived and being deceived. The GATES OF HELL HAVE PREVAILED AGAINST THIS BASTARDIZED CHURCH.
You, bastard church, claim to be rich and in need of nothing; yet you are naked, poor, miserable, blind and do not even know it. Which church? Any you deny that Jesus is still the same today, that we need a prophet today, that you can still sin and be right with God, that Jesus does not heal today, that you can do your HEATHEN HOLIDAYS and God will accept you in this sin. You are deceived and a bastard. If you were a true child of God, you would seek for his truth, open up your heart to receive his truth and turn from your lies and sins. If you partake of these bastard church, you are part of it and will receive of her plagues.
By: Jo Smith…. August 7, 2015
Robbers In The Church
~~ Robbers in the church ~~
but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
handling the word of God deceitfully
James 1: 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
This word, VISIT, here, does not mean to go see them. It means to supply their needs. So, unless you and your church obey this, you are into false religion.
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
(This speaks of doing good unto all men, especially the people of God. It is not telling us to pay a preacher or priest.)
For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
as it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
(Where is one verse saying that if you give to a preacher your righteousness remains? It is not in the Word of God, so it must be the word of Satan. Whose word are you paying to sit and listen to?)
HE HAS GIVEN TO THE POOR. MIGHTY MESSAGE. NOT PREACHED IN YOUR ‘CHURCH’.
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. (give to those who need; not to preachers)
But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
2 Corinthians 8:3-5Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4 praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering TO the saints.
(Notice, this said, MINISTERING….TO… THE SAINTS; NOT TO SOME PREACHER).
10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago. 11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 14 but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: 15 as it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
Here is a church which made up a gift, to be sent by some of the ministers, to some poor saints. Paul sent several ministers to deliver this gift to those in need. It was NEVER meant to be given to any preacher, but to saints in need. So when one group was prospering, they helped those in need. Then when those began to prosper they would in turn help others in need. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY GOD said for us to GIVE. This is showing that in true Christianity, equality is the only way. So setting up one man, to rule over the church, and paying him a big salary, so that he is above the others, is not of God, but of satan.
This one is powerful:
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
Addicted themselves TO the ministry of the saints.
All of these verses teach that we are to give to the necessity of saints. I cannot find one single verse telling us to pay a preacher. Where did that ‘doctrine’ come from? Why is the entire church world operating under this FALSE DOCTRINE?
I say it is a strong conspiracy of lust-filled men, who pretend to be ministers of God. Yet they are in reality ministers of satan. They think the gift of God can be purchased with money. So they drill this false teaching into the unlearned ‘sheep’ that they have control over, that they must pay a preacher, in order to please God and to have salvation.
It is a doctrine of devils, for no scripture bears this out. Let them bring forth their scripture which tells the saints to give to the preacher.
The have twisted a few verses, as they do for all their false doctrines, to try and make the Word of God say what they want it to say. For this, they will receive a bad place in hell.
1 Corinthians 16Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
16 Now concerning the collection FOR the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. 2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come. 3 And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. 4 And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
Preachers totally slaughter the above verses, in order to deceive unsuspecting souls into giving their money to them. Woe to them. They are GUILTY of HANDLING THE WORD OF GOD DECEITFULLY.
And I mean it is a world-wide deception and conspiracy. Read verse one carefully: “collection…FOR…the saints”. Not FROM the saints. Big difference. FOR THE SAINTS. It was not for Paul and Paul did not take nor teach them that they needed to give anything to him.
Notice that Paul said he would send the ones chosen by that church to take their gifts to those poor saints in Jerusalem. Paul was NOT taking this gift for himself. Nor was he going to take it alone. These were honest, God-fearing ministers of God. They were not ministers of satan, coveting other men’s money.
The main purpose of this message is to show you how these covetous preachers have robbed the poor, by leading the people to believe that they must give their money to them; pay them to preach. Pay them to pastor your church. Pay them to visit the sick, etc. It is satanic.
But what is the worst result of this evil doctrine? It actually robs those in need of receiving the help that true Christians would have given to them, IF THEY had known that this is actually what God requires. Instead of helping those in need, you are padding the pockets of men who are too lazy to work, and/or just want more.
These wolves in sheep clothing have joined the ranks of ‘preachers’ for the very purpose of having an easy living and preying off the ignorant who think they are serving God.
These false ministers run back into the OT and pick up on tithing, which was to feed the hungry and take care of the priests, who had no inheritance among Israel, and they try to bring this into the NT church. But that is full error, and has the hurtful result of putting themselves and you back under the law, by which is no salvation. So, instead of helping you have salvation, it keeps you from it. Serious business, right? Sure.
Many hurting people could have and would have been helped IF the ignorant church members had gotten into the word of God, and not allowed these hirelings to deceive them into PAYING A PREACHER instead of helping the sick and needy, as God commands us to do. This is nothing short of ROBBING THE POOR.
They are handling the word of God deceitfully. God will bring them into judgement for this evil. God will bring you into judgment for allowing this evil to prosper and did not study his Word and obey it.
When the DAY is over, and judgment strikes, you will all see that your church was actually a seat of Satan, and had not one thing to do with the pure religion of God. You have not obeyed the Word of God at any point. You and your preacher/church are guilty of ROBBING THE POOR.
You are all going to be shocked when you are told by God that your ‘church’ had not one thing to do with Him, but was the seat of satan.
Rev 2: (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan
12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; 13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is.
So there you have it, church is the seat of satan, synagogue of satan.
Beware lest you lose your soul, paying that preacher and not obeying the word of God.
By: Jo Smith….August 23, 2015
Other Religions Other gods
Other religions; Other Gods.
Is it fine with the true God, if we allow other religions and their false gods into our country? Let the Word of God be our answer. Here is a message God gave me a little bit ago as I was eating and reading the Word of God.
God told us have no other Gods before me. Worship Him and him only. God is a jealous God and will not put up with our honoring other gods and other religions.
1 Kings 11King James Version (KJV)
11 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
2 Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
7 Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
9 And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
10 And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the Lord commanded.
11 Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.
14 And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.
God rent the kingdom away from Solomon because he had allowed other religions with their idol gods, into his life, kingdom and home. He had built temples for these idols gods and bowed to them.
Because of this sin, God gave ten tribes to Jeroboam. Jeroboam then made idols for the ten tribe nation to worship. So God brought him down also and rent the kingdom from his family. God is not going to bless anyone or any nation that allows false religions and idol gods into their life.
America has been deceived into thinking we must just allow any religion and their gods into our land and allow them to build idol temples for their idol gods. God is no different today than He was with Solomon. God is still demanding that we worship HIM AND HIM ONLY. You can go against this if you please, but it will cost you eternal life and much trouble in this life.
We have allowed islam and its idol allah, into our nation and let them build temples to this wicked religion and fake god. But you see, it is beginning to fall.
God also said that when his people do wicked, he will lot those who hate us rule over us. We just came out from under that. Aboma and his ‘wife’ declared their hatred for our nation and they ruled over us and about destroyed us with their wickedness and bringing in false gods into our nation.
After Solomon died and his son, Rehoboam came to the kingdom, the Israelites asked him to lighten the load Solomon had put on them. He asked the old men for counsel. They told him to lighten the load. He rejected this advise and asked the young men, his age, for counsel. They told him to make the load much harder. He listened to these young ‘bullies’ and in doing so, the ten tribes left him and set up the ten tribe nation.
Our nation is following this same route: listening to young bullies and going away from what our founding fathers set up for us. Now gays and murdering babies is accepted. Islam is accepted and they can build idol temples here and now they are taking over our lives, our schools and our government. Only a true turning back to the True God can save us. We cannot and must not allow these idols to continue in our nation.
cp 12: 33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
Notice, Rehoboam was afraid the Israelites would return to Judah if they went back there to worship, so he set up two idol calves for them to worship. He also set up a feast month or date, out of his own heart, or just was he decided, to worship God in. He also set up the basest of folks, who were not Levites, to be priests.
Now this is the same thing as the churches today thinking they can just decide on a date to ‘celebrate’ Jesus, his ‘birthday’ and resurrection and other such stuff. They say, ‘we do not know the day, so we chose this one’. The church sets up pastors after their own hearts, just because he can make music or is pretty, or any such. They do not seek God’s will and just let anyone in. It is totally away from God now and in the decay mode and about to crumble with a loud crash.
Will God accept such mess? He never has so why would he do it now? It will not ever work. We must ALWAYS do to God ONLY what HE commanded us to do. We are not God and cannot set these things up. It is blasphemy to think you can just to do God as you please. You must never read the Word of God, to think He will accept your made up junk.
A man of God came down from Judah and prophesied against the altar at Bethel, where Jeroboam sacrificed to his idol god. God had told this man not to eat or drink in this place and not to return the same way he came. An older prophet came to the man of God and told him that an angel had told him to get this man of God to come home with him and eat and drink. The young prophet fell for this and went with him.
As a result a lion came on him and killed him. Even if an angel tells you things against what God has said, you must not listen or obey him. You must always obey what God has said.
God has told us……..DO NOT LET FALSE GODS OR RELIGIONS INTO YOUR HOUSE. America, you must purge these false religions and idol gods out of this nation. You churches think you can just set up days and times that you chose. You set us idols, santa, easter eggs and bunnies….and all such mess.
God will send the destroying lions on you if you continue this idols worship. You who uphold isalm and their idol, allah and mohammed are going to be destroyed.
By: Jo Smith….April 3, 2017
Goliath Must Fall-By Larry
Goliath Must Fall
Most everyone thinks that 1 Samuel 17 is just a story about David and Goliath. No, it is not just a story about David and Goliath. If you have no spiritual understanding, yes it is just a story. But the ones with the spiritual understanding know that 1 Samuel 17 is a war going on in the spiritual. David is showing Jesus or flesh or Jesus the Christ which is spiritual. I hope you can see that there is a fleshly side of Jesus and a spiritual side which is Jesus Christ. Goliath( Adam) is showing satan or Lucifer. The reason I said Lucifer is because he and Goliath and Adam all fell. All 3 fell. But the church organization revied Lucifer, Goliath, and satan. They even have a seat for the 3 which is one. Satan’s kingdom is just like the kingdom of God. His body is one as Jesus Christ body is one. One body and many members. That is the reason we must make Goliath and his kingdom fall. Just as Jesus the Christ made Goliath, Adam, Lucifer fall. We need to do the same. These Goliaths ( churches. pastors etc. must fall. These Goliaths have the authority that their daddy (Adam) has. Goliath is in charge of or controlling other people.Is this not what these pastors, preachers etc. do? Sure it is.To prove that the seat of satan is in these church organizations. Revelation 2:13 (KJV) 13 I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. ( yes, he sits in his throne seat in the churches. He sits up there lifting himself up as God. He is the high priest. I suppose you know who he is. He is the church pastor or elder bishop of whatever they call themselves. He is the one you look to and he tells you it is alright to worship your idols. idols worship is not of God. It is of Adam (satan) and under his control. The word says Acts 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,Acts 17:24 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; ( Satan) sits up there as most High and as if he is on the throne of God the Most High. These temples ( churches) made with hands are not of God. God is not in these temples ( churches).God dwells in his people and shall be in you. His Spirit that dwelleth in you. 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?As said earlier this about David and Goliath is spiritual warfare and we must defeat Goliath. All of this began in the book of Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Genesis 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.Genesis 4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.There was a fleshly side and a spiritual side in Eve. Cain was the fleshly side, the seed of Adam( satan) an Able was the spiritual seed which was of Eve. The strong’s meaning of Cain is possession and I looked up what possession meant; a. The state of being dominated or controlled. This is what is happening in these church organizations. These so-called men of God are as Goliath who has the desire to own or dominate the people. I know most of you will say my pastor does not. But you are so wrong. You will not hear from the true ministers of God but you are hearing only what they tell you and you like it. Yes, you like your evil idol holidays and every other thing concerned with it. The people perish from a lack of knowledge
There were 2 nations in Eve….. Genesis 25:23 And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. (My sister in Christ ( Jo Smith) wrote a message on two nations in one a few years back and it is a great message. I found the link to it, here. If you would like to read and I doubt if anyone reads it.http://forum3.aimoo.com/Buildonthetruefoundation/Church-Israel/Two-Nations-in-One-1-707752.html1 Samuel 17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. . 3 The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them. ( what is a valley? A low area of land between hills or mountain often having a river running along the bottom. What does this show us? It is a shadow or type of the Holy Ghost. John 7:38King James Version (KJV) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Psalm 1:1… Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. (This water of life comes from the throne of the living God. Not some man-made throne that lifts himself up above the people sitting in the seat of satan as a god. Ezekiel 28King James Version (KJV) 28: The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: ( what does this sea represent? it is water and the water in scripture represents; Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. (So from this is there are many people sitting under the leadership of satan and the church is the whore. But there are also people sitting under the leadership of Jesus and the apostles which is from the true throne of God and drinking from the pure river of water of life, clear as crystal. This water is from God and the Lamb. Interesting that he should mention God and Lamb. Showing two different ones. 2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. ( what is the meaning of array. From the Webster dictionary….. to dress or decorate especially in splendid or impressive attire : adorn. These Israelite were dressed the same as the Philistine Goliath was arrayed in.Your Goliath ( pastors, preachers etc.) and church are dressed the same as Goliath. More on this below.Eze 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. ( splendor, brightness, shining meaning the same thing.) 7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. I am going to have to leave off a few vs. because this is longer than I thought it would be. But no one will even get this far in the message. Only a few. But I am seeing some new things myself.
1 Sam 17:8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. ( the Philistine was calling for a man and there was not a man willing to go to battle this great giant. Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. ( there was none among Israel that would fight this great giant. he even called again for the Israelites to send out a man: 10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. 11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. ( they were afraid and dismayed because they did not have a man that would fight him.20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. ( he spake the same thing as before. Is there not a man? )25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.32 And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. ( praise God there was a man found that would fight this giant. there is still a few men and women that can still be found fighting this Goliath. These giants of these churches must fall. David is Jesus. Yes, he is symbolic of Jesus the Christ. Yes, David (Jesus) fought the Giant Goliath at Calvary and he won. The same as the true ministers of God are going to win. Rev 5:2 And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?3 And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; ( law of commandments contained in ordinances was the Goliath that Jesus killed at Calvary. But as usual the church revied this Goliath and we are still fighting against a giant.38 And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him. ( as I said earlier These Israelite were dressed the same as the Philistine Goliath was arrayed in. This was not the armor for David and he took off this armor. David or Jesus knew what the armor they needed; Ephesians 6:10-18Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. … ( they knew this was spiritual warfare and it was not only flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. David knew this but the other Israelites did not see it. They had no spiritual eyesight as most of you cannot see spiritual things.40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. ( what does stone mean in scripture? lets see. 1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. ( scripture says the people are stones that are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.But what is David ( Jesus) showing? Ephesians 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;( now that we see Jesus Christ ( David) was the chief cornerstone, what are the five stones showing? Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; ( there are your 5 stones. The true ministry of God in the brook. These are New Testament ministers.41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.46 This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.(David, Just like the lion and the bear he slew, Goliath shall come down too.For the battles, are not our’s but the Lord’s.)48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came, and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.I will close for now. I would loved to have commented on the list of the last scriptures. I also needed to say more about Lucifer. But if the Lord sees fit maybe I will.We must put on the whole armour of God and defeat this Goliath. As I said earlier this Goliath must fall and never let these church organizations revive him. People, we can no longer be as sheep led to the slaughter. We must arm ourselves. We cannot defeat Goliath with his own array. We must do as David ( Jesus Christ ) and take off the armor of Goliath. We are more than conquerors, we are warriors fit for the battle. We were trained for this battle. As same as David was trained. He was a shepherd and he took care of his sheep. We must be prepared to kill Goliath. We will take care of our sheep. We know that this is a spiritual battle. We have put on the whole armor of God. As is the title of this message, Goliath you Are Going To Fall. Job 40:10King James Version (KJV)10 Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beautyLarry Bray11/25/201711/26/2017
The Natural or Lie?
wow, great revelation God just gave me….I was sitting thinking on Gog and the mysteries there.
God just showed me from this ‘carnal’ way of trying to interpret Scripture,
where and how animal sacrifices came into being.
Adam/satan/serpent, took everything in Scripture to a natural, carnal interpretation; taking the words to their human, natural meanings…..
as in SHEEP….or GOAT…or WHEAT, or stubble…surely any beginner realizers that the SHEEP of God are NOT FOUR LEGGED ANIMALS….right?
or that CLOUDS does not mean the ‘water vapor’ up in the air? how many of you realize that the word CLOUD means a great crowd of people? do you ever study? or look up words..
Now, Adam heard God say, my sheep…hear my voice….he heard, Lamb of God….so he caused everyone to begin seeing the Word of God as NATURAL OR CARNAL..
the carnal or natural mind is not subject to the things of God…cannot be….so
no one
could ever get the truth….for Adam said, I am the son of God, so what I say is always right…..
and Eve believed him.
most folks ever since then has believed his lying mouth…
he said, kill those animals and offer their blood to God to get rid of your sins……but….
God said, I hate this….who required this of you? certainly I did not.
Adam said, women, keep quiet; be silent and obey men..meaning female humans and male humans…..
BUT…
God was never speaking of humans that way…..he said
in Christ there is neither…..male nor female…ye are all ONE.
now folks took that word ..ONE…and twisted the entire word of God…into lies and more lies and more lies.
all because they still listen to ADAM/SERPENT.
He said, serpent said….kill literal sheep..that is what God meant…..not for one minute.
Jo Smith …feb 12, 2018wow, great revelation God just gave me….I was sitting thinking on Gog and the mysteries there.
God just showed me from this ‘carnal’ way of trying to interpret Scripture,
where and how animal sacrifices came into being.
Adam/satan/serpent, took everything in Scripture to a natural, carnal interpretation; taking the words to their human, natural meanings…..
as in SHEEP….or GOAT…or WHEAT, or stubble…surely any beginner realizers that the SHEEP of God are NOT FOUR LEGGED ANIMALS….right?
or that CLOUDS does not mean the ‘water vapor’ up in the air? how many of you realize that the word CLOUD means a great crowd of people? do you ever study? or look up words..
Now, Adam heard God say, my sheep…hear my voice….he heard, Lamb of God….so he caused everyone to begin seeing the Word of God as NATURAL OR CARNAL..
the carnal or natural mind is not subject to the things of God…cannot be….so
no one
could ever get the truth….for Adam said, I am the son of God, so what I say is always right…..
and Eve believed him.
most folks ever since then has believed his lying mouth…
he said, kill those animals and offer their blood to God to get rid of your sins……but….
God said, I hate this….who required this of you? certainly I did not.
Adam said, women, keep quiet; be silent and obey men..meaning female humans and male humans…..
BUT…
God was never speaking of humans that way…..he said
in Christ there is neither…..male nor female…ye are all ONE.
now folks took that word ..ONE…and twisted the entire word of God…into lies and more lies and more lies.
all because they still listen to ADAM/SERPENT.
He said, serpent said….kill literal sheep..that is what God meant…..not for one minute.
Jo Smith …feb 12, 2018
Living In Bondage- By Larry
Larry Bray Truth or error?
6 hrs ·
Living In Bondage
The first place bondage is mentioned is in… Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
But let’s start this with Exodus ….1:8 Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. vs 9 And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
In the above vs’s is referring to the children of Israel, which came into Egypt where Joseph was already. And Joseph died, ( showing the death of Jesus ) and all his brethren, and all that generation.hen there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. Under the leadership of Joseph ( Jesus) the children of Israel had grown to be a mighty and strong and a powerful nation. Joel 1:6 King James Version (KJV)
6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. ( this nation was the Gentile nation. This nation rose up as a great lion. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. There were twelve lions. ( apostles) at the beginning and multiplied and grew daily. Acts 6:7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. Acts 12:24 But the word of God grew and multiplied. Then there arose up a new king (Satan or Adam or pastor. All the same) over Egypt.)
Vs 10…. their enemies were Jesus and the apostles which were in grace. They were afraid that the Gentiles were going to join them and they would be able to defeat the Egyptians( law nation) Their enemies ( grace) had become a great nation. They had become very fruitful.
vs 11…. they set taskmasters ( pastors etc.) and they became slaves. That is what is happening in the church today. They are ruled over and have become slaves to their King. ( pastors etc) The people are living in bondage and they seem to like the bondage. They afflict them with their burdens. Paul said For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things.
Still on vs 11….. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. ( they built them high places in all their cities and say ” Look What I Have Done.” Bring your goods or treasures and put in the storehouse and we will build more”. ……They say “Seest thou these great buildings”? Yes, we do see those great buildings. But let me tell you something pastors etc. We are now your enemy and there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. Yes, I said that and so did Jesus. I have the authority by the word of God. I have the power or right to give orders. You with your organizations are coming down. I am not alone. There are others. We will destroy these temples that are made with hands. We will pull down these barns with their storehouses and you will not be able to build back. People in these barns you are in bondage. This is from God, get out while you can. Your Egypt built by Hebrew slaves are coming down. Yes, I was a Hebrew slave at one time, but I heard the voice of God call me to come out of Egypt and into the true Israel.
vs 12……. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel. ( yes, we are becoming stronger and we will and are multiplying in number. Yes you are grieving because the true children of Israel are no longer Hebrew slaves.)
13 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour ( as I said in the title, people you are living in bondage and it is only going to be a hardship, after hardship. You will be greatly afflicted.It is going to cause you to grow cold and colder in the Lord. Before long Rigor Mortis. Not a good site but true.
vs…. 14 And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. ( hard bondage is you are going to become stubborn and stiff-necked and you will not listen to a true Israelite. Which I believe the church is already at that stage. You have a heavy yoke which these so-called men of God put on you and you are going to serve Egypt no matter what. In mortar is showing that you are in miry clay and there is no way to escape. Where is your so-called man of God? He is nowhere to be found because he also is on sinking sand. That old Jerusalem is falling down because the building was built on sinking sand also. They were using slime for mortar. They were using bricks for stones. The true church was built on 12 stones and has the chief cornerstone holding it up. 1 Corinthians 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Revelation 21:14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
People once again you are living in bondage. Paul said Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? ( what did Paul just say? He said you desire again to be in bondage. I am so glad that I am not in bondage but have been set free by Jesus Christ.
Larry Bray
3/14/2018
The Serpent Lies
The serpent, (religious hypocrite) sent out a FLOOD ….out of his MOUTH….
speaking lies…lies. lies. You cannot quit sinning. You will always be a sinner and a liar. that is lies.
that is the flood.
Are you the one that got carried away with these lies? If you are reading this there may still be time for you to repent and obey the Word of God.
and be delievered from the serpent’s flood of lies. to say that some MAN causes other men to become something in God, is SATANIC WORSHIP OF THE CREATURE MORE THAN THE CREATOR.
you say, well I believe in this prophet, that preacher….I REST MY SOUL IN THE WORKS OF THAT OTHER PERSON…….not what I now do with my God and what my God does with me.
so you are drowning in the flood the serpent sent out of his mouth.
You say, well serpent was an animal who did adultery with Eve…..that is the stormest part of the FLOOD that the SERPENT sent out of his mouth.
“I will not listen to the pure word of God, if spoken by a woman son of God”…
(what? a woman son of God?)….they who are led of the Spirit of God are sons of God……so do you think that only men can be led of the Spirit…..
if so, you are drowning in the flood the serpent sent out of his MOUTH.
so now. run to that den on sunday and let that serpent continue to send your soul to hell fire.
Jo Smith
Go To Church
This is one of my good answers to someone at Yahoo, concerning running to man-made ‘church'”
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My brother: God is speaking to you. He is leading you. Please do not allow these who have not that leadership from God, discourage you from following on in this great way. God is calling his true sheep OUT OF HER today. Her? that church. that breast. that determination to be led of MAN. Sunday? who said so. One day a week? who said so? at a certain time? who said so? Paul, down by a river, worshiping with WOMEN. Yea.
early church IN HOMES? yes, there is the power and the glory.
praying together. studying together. worshiping together; not led of one man. listen to brother Amos:
5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
See, they hate your rebuke of this man-made ‘church’. I love it.
Listen again to Amos:
16 Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord
Isn’t this wailing in our streets today? why? the vineyards? the churches, where you ‘supposed;’ to be fed. But Isaiah, 28, said all the tables (places to be fed) are full of VOMIT. Who wants to eat vomit? not me.
So I got out, when God told me to.
Now listen to Amos again:
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
wow! strong words from God. He despises your FEAST DAYS. = your sunday get togethers. see, eating from a table full of vomit. God hates this stuff. People are BLINDED by organized CHURCH. They have appointed feast – a set time to get together.
god said, he hates this. It is NOT BEING LED OF THE SPIRIT.
WHEN DID THE SPIRIT SAY, GO TO CHURCH….GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY, OR SATURDAY?
I want someone to show this to me in scripture.
It is not there. Not anywhere. They do twist, forsake not assembling…for their own good.
all who are baptized into the body of Christ, are being ASSEMBLED.
It does not mean running to some man’s sunday feast; it is full of vomit.
Of course this will quickly be thumbed down out of existence, for men do hate us who rebuke in the gate and tell this world the truth.
so, more wailing in the streets. How long, oh you people, before you wake up and stop the madness?
one more word from Amos: 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Now see, God hates your noise your songs. he will not even listen to your stuff, for you do deny his true salvation, taught in Acts 2. You do deny healing by prayer/faith, alone.
Where Will You Inherit?
Nu 32:12
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
Nu 32:13
And the LORD’S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
Nu 32:14
And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
Nu 32:15
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
Nu 32:16
And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
Nu 32:17
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Nu 32:18
We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Nu 32:19
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
The things concerning Israel were all to teach us spiritual things, for our day. Everything which shall be, was shown in those twelve tribes of Israel. We can learn a lot of things by allowing God to show us these things, spiritual, for our day.
For a long time, I have been seeing, in some verses in Ezekiel, that it seems to me that there will be a people, who do not lose their souls in hell, but who also do not inherit a glorified body. I have not taught on this, yet, for I wanted to study it more and be sure of it.
It still needs much study. But for now, I want to show you the above verses, and how they seem to me, to be verifying this concept. Now, get this….I am not sure of this yet. I am not saying positively that this is how it is. But it certainly seems to be so to me.
I normally will not even touch on a thing until I am sure. But I want to show this, and see if we can get some feedback on it.
Notice, that the children of Israel were getting ready to cross Jordon and go into the promised land of Canaan.
But two and a half tribes wanted to inherit theirs on that side of Jordon, and not over on the other side. They had much cattle, and this land was good for cattle, so they did not wish to inherit on that side of Jordon.
Now think of what this is showing. They loved the carnal things more and did not wish to cross over into the ‘other side’. They did not wish to go into the promised land of Canaan. They said, we will not inherit on that side of Jordon with the others.
Eze 48:15
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
Those last chapters in Eze are showing the same thing as this in Numbers. Only this time it is spiritual. It is showing when Jesus returns and takes over this world, and divides it to his saints. It is laid out in the same ‘pattern’ of things as that concerning old Israel. That with them was only types and shadows.
A ‘profane’ place shows a natural, carnal place. I believe it is showing that there will be people, who will actually live on and on, in this natural world, without coming into the glorified state. I cannot absolutely prove this right now. But I honestly think this is right.
The people who do not serve God with the whole heart and soul, but who did try to live for him, and still love this side of life, I believe will be given life, and not hell, but still not be glorified into the eternal image of God.
I believe that only few will make it to that glorified state. And I think this explains a lot of why there are such divisions of understanding with God’s people. Some of us desire to bear 100% fruit. We wish to go all the way with God, while others are content just to say I have repented and am saved. They never really give their whole life to following God.
I do not believe for one minute that they will receive the same rewards as those who have given their all to serving God.
Paul made it clear in 1Cor. 15, that there will be differences in the glory of different stars, and that all will not have the same kind of body. This has to mean something.
I believe those two and half tribes who wanted to inherit on that side of Jordon, without going over, represent these who do not inherit a glorified body, for they were content on that side of Jordon and did not go on into the PROMISE.
I believe this promise represents the Promise of the Holy Ghost. They did not want that, but only to follow God afar off.
By: Jo Smith ~~ Aug. 26, 2008
Something From Luke
Something from Luke
Aug 12, ’08 1:46 AM
by freeborn551
Lu 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Lu 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
Lu 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. Lu 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Linda, last night, I could not sleep, so I got up to read. The Word opened to Luke 4. Marveled me, since you had written on this yesterday. I got some good things reading this last night.
God gave dominion, or rulership of this world to his son, Adam. Notice the devil said to Jesus, of the kingdoms of all the world, all of this is delivered unto me. I give it to whomsoever I will. That had to be Adam talking to Jesus, for God has given dominion of this world to no one else.
Then Satan said, I will give it all to you IF YOU WILL WORSHIP ME. See that? It is that same old evil spirit of Adam, wanting to be God; wanting to be worshipped.
Jesus said to him, Get thee behind me, Satan. Same words he said to Peter when Peter rebuked him for not wanting to be king now. So, Peter was in the very same roll as this one tempting Jesus. So it was another man. It was Adam.
The Devouring Lion
The Devouring Lion
Mar 30, ’08 12:40 AM
by freeborn551 for everyone
Eze 19:1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, Eze 19:2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. Eze 19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
1pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion
, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Eze 19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. Eze 19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion. Eze 19:6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
1pe 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion
, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Eze 19:7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Mt 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Mt 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate
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Jesus Is Building His Church
[here is a very good message, I am bringing over from our old MSN; Multiply]
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Jesus is building His Church
Oct 21, ’04 3:26 AM
by joie for everyone
Jesus Is Building His Church!
by Chip Brogden
“…upon this Rock, I will build My Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18b).”
What is the “move” of God? What is God doing today? What is God saying to the Church? Here’s what is happening: Jesus is building His Church. There is no “new” thing to be seen, said, or done: Jesus the Rock is building His Church upon the foundation of Himself. He is faithfully gathering the living stones together and is assembling them into a beautiful structure of gold, silver, and precious stones (I Peter 2:4-9; I Corinthians 3:9-17).
There is nothing wrong with the Church! That is, there is nothing wrong with the Church that Jesus is building, though there is much to be desired among those who are following their own building programs and blueprints, and calling it “church”. Jesus is assembling the saints together into a spiritual house. The problem is that some things we have come to believe to be “church” are not necessarily the Church. Although there is nothing wrong with the Church, everything that is called “Church” is not the “Church”. So what is the Church?
Let us look at this statement: “I will build My Church.” The first thing that strikes us about this thing called “Church” is simply that it is that which Jesus is building upon the foundation of Himself. More specifically, the word “church” is “ecclesia”, the called-out assembly. It consists of those to whom God has chosen to reveal His Son. This revelation of who we are in Christ and who Christ is in us is the key. Without this firm foundation we cannot know, understand or experience being part of the Church. Quite frankly, our religious head knowledge or credal affirmation is of virtually no significance. Even the repeating of the so-called “Sinner’s Prayer” means nothing apart from the revelation of Jesus Christ. May God give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ (Ephesians 1:17-23). Then, our prayer and confession will be based on Spirit and Truth revelation, not flesh and blood, second or third generation “knowing” (Matthew 16:17).
The Church is not built upon the individual Peter, but upon those who have been given revelation. Jesus builds His Church through revelation to individuals, the “whosoevers”. What revelation? The revelation of Himself. This revelation is sufficient to secure us as members of the Church that Jesus is building. When we understand that revelation is the only thing which matters we will cease trying to grow the Church or gain members through better preaching, musical entertainment, handsome facilities, demographic studies, and savvy marketing techniques. Instead, we will simply come to rely upon revelation and trust the Father to reveal the Son through the Spirit Who brings illumination to our heart. We are the Temple of God, a habitation for Himself, and this Church grows as a living thing (Ephesians 2:20-22).
Jesus is not building a denomination or founding a movement. The Church is not a denomination, but neither is it a non-denomination. It is not a steeple-house or institutional church, but neither is it a house church. Stated simply, the Church is a spiritual house of living stones, invisible to the naked eye, but clearly seen and known in Spirit. It is not an organization, but an organism. Who are its members? Those who have the revelation of Jesus Christ. Where are these members to be found? They are scattered in all directions, both inside and outside of Organized Religion.
Keith Green once said, “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to McDonald’s makes you a hamburger.” How true this statement has proved to be through the years. But we hasten to say that going to a house church won’t make you a Christian either. We thank God for the saints which are meeting in homes and rediscovering what it means to gather together in simplicity apart from the steeple-house, paid clergy, and denominationalism. Yet, Jesus did not say, “I will build My HOUSE church.” Since the Church is comprised of individuals who have the revelation of Jesus Christ, how or where they meet together is of little consequence. In Jerusalem, or in this mountain? Neither, says the Lord (John 4:20-24). Where we gather doesn’t matter to the Lord, but WHY we gather is of extreme importance to Him. If it is due to the revelation of Jesus Christ, we will worship in Spirit and Truth because the revelation of Jesus Christ draws us together. Why? Because our testimony is other-worldly, peculiar, spiritual. We are the called-out assembly, the ecclesia of Jesus. We are His particular treasure.
What we have, both within Organized Religion and within the house church “movement”, is a mixture of people. Some of them have the revelation of Jesus Christ, and some do not. We affirm that this revelation is enough to establish the Church, regardless of the outward appearances. Where this revelation exists, THERE is the foundation of the Church that Jesus is building. Since it is an inward revelation, a spiritual seeing and entering into, we cannot classify everyone as being the Church merely because they are within a system of Organized Religion, or even if they have come out of a system. Nor can we include or disqualify them because of where or how they meet. The meeting together is only a small part of the total picture. The question is not whether we are in or out of a human system, or how we meet, or what doctrine we lay emphasis on. The question is, have we seen the Lord? Do we have the revelation of Jesus Christ? We may be correct in outward appearance but have no inward revelation. Hence, not all who say, “Lord! Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of God (Matthew 7:21-23). Similarly, we may be politically or spiritually incorrect and offensive outwardly speaking, that is, according to what man values and esteems as good, acceptable, moral, and religious; yet the revelation of Christ is sufficient to bring us into the Kingdom with or without the support and approval of men, even the most spiritual and holy men.
“I will build My Church.” We maintain that the Church exists where individuals have the revelation of Jesus Christ: for when this revelation takes hold of a person, Jesus Christ will have the preeminence in all things (Colossians 1:12-19). It is not enough to tell people, “Jesus is the Head of the Church.” We cannot make Him the Head while gathered together and then expect Him to remain in the background while we live out our lives individually. Either He is Lord OF all, or He isn’t Lord AT all. When we see Him seated in heavenly places we will gladly and joyfully allow Him to be the Head over all things, not only in the Church, but in our marriage, family, and work. We will at once see that the Church does not belong to us. We will discern that hitherto we have viewed “church” as something that we must attend, build, or grow. With the knowledge that the Church does not belong to us we will relinquish our claims to it and begin to co-labor together with the Lord (I Corinthians 3:9). Then, it is a natural thing to give up our titles and positions and merely concentrate on building one another up in love. To give up title and position within a group that has no revelation of Christ is to invite chaos. This is why man feels the need to have some organization and established leadership among the saints, running the steeple-house much like a business with mission statements and top-heavy organizational charts, paving a one-way street of submission to some earthly head – because there is no vision of Christ. It is not more organization or leadership training that we need. We only need more revelation, and no man can give us revelation. It is the gift of God. Once obtained, we will with much rejoicing and relief fall into place below One Head and allow Christ to have the preeminence. “The Lord is my Pastor: I shall not lack (Psalms 23:1).”
Since it is the Lord’s Church, and no man’s, and since we are the sheep of His pasture, not man’s, we will stop referring to “Pastor Smith’s church” and “Brother John’s congregation”. The pastor is not the head of the Church. But then, neither is the teacher, evangelist, prophet, or apostle. Apostles do not build the Church: Jesus builds the Church, for it is His Church. All anyone can do is co-labor with Him. Anything done apart from Him will fall apart, for there is no other foundation but what has been laid, and that foundation is Christ (I Corinthians 3:11). If the foundation is faulty, it matters not one whit how beautiful the structure is. The apostles and prophets lay the foundation of the Church, which is the revelation of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:20), but it is still based upon a revelation that no man can give! The Spirit of Jesus must make Himself known in you (Galatians 1:11-18). Then others will build upon that foundation, which is your personal revelation of Christ in you and you in Christ. But no one at any time may lay claim to the Church, or any particular fellowship, as his or her own. The Church does not belong to a denominational office, church board, circle of elders, founding apostle, or individual pastor. At least, not the Church that Jesus is building.
How do we know if a particular work is the true building of God, part of the genuine Church? All we have to do is see who has the preeminence there. If an apostle or pastor is considered the spiritual head then Christ does not have the preeminence (3 John 9). If the elected deacons are in charge then Christ does not have the preeminence. We may give Him lip service and acknowledge with our mouth that it is His Church, but apart from revelation these are empty words. When the moment of truth comes man will always seize control, demonstrating that Christ does not have the preeminence there, and indeed, probably never had it to begin with.
How then do we know who has the preeminence? We need only look to see who gets the credit for the work. Men talk about “this great denomination” and glory in the works of their hands. Of course, with their lips they draw near to God, but their heart is far from Him. They are only trying to build a name to themselves and reach the heavens. The end result is confusion and vain babbling (Genesis 11:1-9). They are not co-laboring with Christ in the building of His Church, they are asking Christ to co-labor with THEM in the building of THEIR church. “We have done many mighty works in Your Name! Behold what manner of stones and buildings these are (Mark 13:1)!” And surely, great things have been accomplished, insofar as organization, wealth, property, and numbers are concerned. “But Jesus said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God (Luke 16:15).” If Jesus is building His Church as His own possession, then we cannot take the credit for it. We can only marvel at what He does and bow our heads in humble gratitude for allowing us to be a part of it.
What shall we do about Organized Religion? What shall we do about those who claim the Church as their own, who intend to build a name to themselves? What shall we do about the false religious system? We will do nothing at all; for, those structures not built upon the Foundation of Jesus Christ will fall of their own accord (I Corinthians 3:12-17; Matthew 7:24-27). How could it be otherwise? The only safe place to be is within the Church that Jesus is building. Besides, if we attempt to bring down the huge idol of Organized Religion we may well crush ourselves and others in the attempt.
What is the Spirit of Antichrist? It is that religious thing that makes war against Jesus and the Church that He is building. The Spirit of Antichrist is already gone out in to the world (I John 2:18) and has sown tares among the wheat. Indeed, in the last days the Spirit of Antichrist will dominate and rule the world system, attempting to blot out the true Church. Outwardly speaking it appears to be succeeding. Nevertheless, the Church that Jesus is building cannot be overcome by the gates of hell. Since it is built upon the revelation of Jesus Christ, nothing cannot stop it. Why? A man will not die for a tradition or a doctrine. But he will gladly lay down his life for the revelation of Jesus Christ. He cannot be disobedient to the heavenly vision (Acts 20:24; 26:19). He has found his Life (Christ) by giving up his life.
Yes, this world system, including man’s religious systems, is passing away: make no mistake (I John 2:15-17). The nations will be judged and will pass through the fire (Psalms 2). The earth will decay and finally dissolve altogether, consumed in the fire; the heaven’s will melt with a fervent heat (II Peter 3:7-14). The outward things are fading, perishing, evolving downward in a state of entropy. Look around you, saint of God. See the steeple-house? It will not remain for long. See the cathedral? It too shall pass. See the oceans? One day they will be no more. Look at the mountains – they will all be removed. See the cities? They will be destroyed. Heaven and earth will pass away.
What is my point? Simply this: the Church that Jesus is building will be the only thing which remains. The visible will make way for the invisible, the temporal will give way to the eternal, mortal will put on immortality (I Corinthians 15). A new heavens and a new earth will be made and the New Jerusalem, the Bride of Christ, the Church, will be completed (Revelation 21). We are that Building of God, built upon the revelatory foundation of Jesus brought by the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20). We are the Temple of God, therefore we need no earthly temple, we seek no earthly kingdom, and we expect no earthly reward (I Corinthians 3:16,17). We look for a City whose Builder and Maker is God, and we are that City (Hebrews 11:10). Jesus is building His church!
Disempowered-PT. 2
From: joie
Sent: 12/8/2004 11:07 PM
[Part two]
The baby church members [ and I do not mean real babies; but those who have not grown up in Christ] have been led to believe that they must just obey their ‘rulers��? their pastors, and believe whatever ‘he��?tells them. Therefore they are not studying for themselves. They are not obeying God in this way. They put forth no effort to grow up and learn to teach, heal the sick, cast out devils, or anything else. They sit back and think because they ‘go to church��?and pay their pastor, that they are alright. Nothing could be further from the truth. But the hirelings, your paid pastors, have kept you from growing up this way so you will stay in their little flock and make them be looked up to as some big man cause he pastors a little church! It stinks!
But I tell you, God is not going to accept this mess. He has told me over and over to come against this evil corruption in the churches. God is tired of seeing his little sheep misled and taken advantage of by you false shepherds. And I mean ALL OF YOU. Any pastor or evangelist, who sits up in front of a church, on a kingly throne, [pastors chair] to be looked up to as though he is something more than the average church member is setting himself up as your god. He leads you to believe that you can never go above him, or receive the Word from God for yourself, you must come through him. Thus he sets himself up as your god. When the entire congregation must sit facing a stage, and watch the pastor and the singers and musicians ‘perform��? this is of Satan. For it is saying that you, the members are less than they are. You are here only to listen to them. You must hear this pastor and are never given a chance to question what he says. You are never given a chance to ask question or being up something different even when you KNOW what he said is error and you know what is true. But the congregation MUST just accept what this man who sits in the seat of Satan tells you.
There is NEVER any chance is the week, when you all come together and sit down together, family style, and DISCUSS and study the Word together. What they, the hirelings call studying is your listening to THEM. God may have given you some great revelation during the week, BUT you are never given a chance to tell it. After all, you must come through this ‘man��?who sets himself up to be gazed upon and sets up on high above you, the members who pay him. He is SPECIAL, you know. But where did God say such stuff?
Now I am telling you those people in Paul’s day, did not look upon him as anyone special. They saw thousands of men and women going everywhere teaching, preaching, healing, and doing miracles. Yes. You have been led to believe by these wolves that only certain few select men did this. But no. The entire group of Christians did this. Men and women.
Those people did not just accept what Paul said because it was Paul. No. It said they searched the Scriptures daily to see if Paul told them the truth. That was their safety = they relied upon the Scriptures. If you do less, you are willfully closing your eyes and ears and shutting God out. He will shut you out. He will send you to hell for this.
The Church in the Book of Acts is the one and only true Church which had this power from on high to be a true Witness of God. The only way one will ever be a true Witness of God is to go back and be just like that Church. They were all ONE. This means they considered each to be just the same as all the others. They did not lift one up above another. All were ministers. They grew up quickly by feeding on the milk of the word and then the meat of the Word. They were FED by the ones who were more grown up than the babes. They met daily in homes and ‘broke��?the bread of life. This means they got together in each other’s homes every day and studied the Scripture together. They prayed together. They were strong in faith. When Peter was in prison, prayer was made without ceasing by the Church. They were in someone’s home. This was their meeting place. God heard their faith and sent an angel to take Peter out of prison.
Now I ask you, where is that power and faith today? Why is it not being manifested? Because they have left off this getting together each day in homes and studying the Word together. They are not praying this way. In their ‘churches��?they might have five minutes of prayer. Most do not do this much. But there is NEVER a time in their ‘meetings��?where you could take your time and pray and pray and pray and seek to get in touch with God. They will not give place to this kind of WORSHIP, for it interferes with their ‘program��? Now most will tell you they do not have a program, because it is not written down on paper, as some do it. But they ALL, without exception, follow the very SAME pattern of meetings. And it matters not how much they claim to let the Spirit have His way, they do NOT. They will not wait on the Lord. If someone gets into a true spirit of worship, and it continues more than a minute or two, they will either shut the person up, or just ignore him and go on with their ‘program��? I KNOW. I have been there too many times and seen it. If the Spirit is leading, please tell me how they always start at the same time and end at the same time? It is a program!
Even the very most ‘liberal��?in their worship, will still over-ride the Spirit and go on with their ��?/I>doings��? Very few of the members ever pray in the meetings. They are just there to watch the show. Very few of the members ever get into the Spirit. They are just there to watch the show. You know it as well as I do. And the bad thing of it is, this is the way the pastor and all the members want it. They are not going to have anything else. If one member grows up some because of personal prayer and study, then they begin to have spiritual dreams or visions or anything else, they never have a time or chance to share this with the rest of the body, for they are not a part of the show. The pastors have all the limelight. Of course it is shared with the singers and musicians.
In the early Apostolic Church everyone was encouraged to study, pray, heal the sick, cast out devils, and to grow up in Christ. They had the power. We are not told much about it, for the Word is very limited. But we are told enough to know that this is how it was. We know that much more took place than a book could tell about. The World could not hold the volume of such a book if it all was written.
Now when the false church began to take over control, and to bring in idol worship, such as x-mess and easter, and the other holidays, then they began to take control also of the manner in which the worship services were conducted. They began to set up theater-style buildings to copy after the worldly theaters. They began to set up one man to rule over the others. They began to pay this man and to get into buying and selling the things of God. The preachers all wanted it this way, for this gave them prestige and power and money. They began to get into this fake ministry for the money and power over the people. They copied the pope in setting up his throne chair in the church. This made the ‘leader��?set up above the others both in position and in being looked-up-to as a special person. This fed their human pride and ego. This broke the unity Jesus had established in His true Church. He had told them not to rule over each other. He had told them to love their neighbor AS THEMSELVES.
Jesus had said in honour esteem others better than yourselves. But these pride men wanted no part of such a thing. So as they changed the method of worship and the oneness of the believers, they destroyed the power God had given to them. As they brought up false doctrine after false doctrine, and replaced the true teachings of the Apostles, they broke the power God had given them.
As the churches fell to this glittering lights, decorated trees, paying one man to do all the work God had called for each Christian to do, and gave in to going to a man-made temple once a week, or twice a week, instead of getting together in homes each day, then they lost their power with God. They left off praying and studying the Word for themselves and began to depend on ‘going to church��?to get them into Heaven. Thus they no longer received the Holy Ghost. They changed the whole concept of salvation and twisted the Words of Paul so much that they began to say all that was necessary for salvation was just say you believe on the Son of God. They began to teach that you still sin every day. They said no one could ever be free of their sins. Thus they brought the blood of Jesus down to the level of the blood of animals.
But the most damaging thing they did was to heal that destroyed head of law. Yes. The early church had already began to be led back under the bondage of law even in the Apostles��?day. The Apostles warned them that if you go back to law, you will fall from grace and be lost. But they did not heed this warning. Most of them went right back to law. They thus did despite to the Spirit of Grace. They wanted their own works as did their father, Adam.
Each of these errors took away the power God had given the Church on the Day of Pentecost. Soon the church was so deep into the darkness that they had totally forgotten that power and all the truth taught by the Apostles. The fake ministers, the hirelings, changed every doctrine and brought up lies. These lies have been taught now for so many years that almost no one knows any truth. All the pastors and evangelists today are into these lies and setting themselves up as the go-between for God and the people. Thus they set themselves up as OT type priests. The OT type worship was totally done away with by God. So if you go back to any of it, you will be lost. If you close your eyes and ears to the truth of The Word of God and stay with the lies, you harden your own heart and seal your doom to hell fire.
About the only people today who still can hear or the very young and children. But these fake pastors are so much in tune with Satan to destroy their souls, that even the children who do go to their churches are sent outside to play while church goes on. They are defeating them before they even start. They are making sure these children never hear anything about God and His Word. Childhood is the very best time of life to win people to God and truth. But it is being denied to the children of our day. God will bring a nation and church into destruction for denying him the fruit of the womb.
Very few parents today teach their children of God at home. It is certain that the schools are not going to teach them. None of them know anyway. The church system is just as far away from God as any of these systems. They are not even concerned with the souls of their children. They are in league together to raise a complete generation of people who know not one thing about God or truth.
Almost all any church today is interested in is increasing their number and their money and their property they own. Their pastors are paid a very high salary for their little Thirty minute speech on Sunday. This is the mark of the beast.
I am more talking to you personally in this message. It has been on my heart a good while. God deals with me every day concerning this terrible condition in the Church today. God is very angry at how these churches are run, how their pastors are not willing to study the Word and everything about it. God told me personally several years ago to get the messages He is teaching me into the hands of as many churches and pastors as I can. I have tried to reach many pastors with these messages. No one has yet been interested and been willing to set down with me and study these things. No one has yet been willing to allow me to speak one word in their church. God told me it was Jesus being turned away, for I brought them the pure Word of God. It is this truth they are rejecting. They perish for lack of this true knowledge. It is the TRUTH which sets people free and gives them the power. Without truth, you will never have the power again.
Without truth you fall prey to all the delusions in the world. You fall prey to idol worship. You are loosing an entire generation of children to the devil. God will bring you into judgment because of this. You are unwilling to even consider the pure Word and seek to know the truth. You will not admit that you do not have the power the Apostles had, yet you will not seek to know what is keeping you from having this power. God has never changed His mind that this power should rest with His people. It is the lack of truth which is keeping you from having this power. The lies taught by your pastors is what has DISEMPOWERED YOU.
How long will you be content to just go watch a show, listen to a few minutes of screaming and running the aisles and listen to some singing and music while you die spiritually? Most of you have NEVER known what it is to truly get in touch with the Eternal God. Most of you have no idea what the power is like. Most of you have never had the faith to pray and heal the sick. I personally know people who have been in church fifty years and more who still feel no personal responsibility to heal the sick. They do not even have the faith to attempt to do so. They think it is the place of the paid preachers to do this. Yet God said it is the responsibility of every believer. Some think you need a special anointing to do these things. But no. Jesus said all you need to do is believe. The reason this condition prevails is because the paid preachers have lifted themselves up as the leaders and the ones to do these things. Yet most of them never do it either. Some make a pretense at it, but almost none of them really have the faith to heal the sick. Almost none of them have the gift to discern spirits, so they just allow anyone to come in who goes along with ‘their��?doctrine and do not question anything.
Almost all of those who call themselves APOSTOLIC Churches, will be in there decorating their green trees to celebrate ‘their Jesus��?birthday just the same as all other idol worshippers. Now they claim to teach the very same doctrine which Peter and Paul taught. So I ask you, WHERE DID THESE TRUE APOSTLES TEACH TO DO THIS MESS? Where does the Word show that they got involved in such evil? Show me one verse where God ever told anyone to do such things. Show me where making merry is ever involved in the true worship. Show me one verse where the apostles, whom you claim to be like, ever got up and did a sun-rise service on the world’s Easter idol worship. Where did the church of God keep these evil holidays? Yet you apostolics of today go along with every worldly holiday there is. Where do you get such things? How are you teaching and living as the true Apostles? It is not Scriptural. It is devil worship. All these things have broken your power. If you had the true Holy Ghost He would lead you and guide you out of this darkness into the true LIGHT.
If you had the true Holy Ghost, you would recognize the true voice of the Word which is in every one of my messages. You would recognize the truth of the Word when it is presented to you. Yet I have found not one minister who can recognize the truth nor who wants the truth. They are perfectly content to just go along with the set up system for it lifts them up above the brethren. And the people are content with the system, for it relieves them from any responsibility to worship every day and study and pray. So they wrap it up and let Satan rule.
I can find no one who is concerned enough with these things of God to get together and pray and study and try to reach the children with some truth. People wake up! These children today are growing up totally ignorant of anything of the true God. Why are you not concerned? Why is no one willing to help me spread this truth? Why are none of you concerned with this dead church system? Why are none of you upset because the power has been ripped away from you? Most churches today want no part of it. They scoff at the true worship and power of God. Most churches today have one person mumble a two minute ‘prayer��?and then they sing without any emotion or worship. Let someone come into their congregation and lift their hands or voice in praise to God and they will almost have a stroke. If you get too much into worship, they will escort you right out of there. They hate the true worship.But the so-called Pentecostals want no part of the truth of the Word. They are all so snobbish toward others that they are a snare and a disgrace to the loving God. They enter a public place drawn up into a shell and appear to feel they will become contaminated if they speak to someone who is not a part of ��?I>their��?little clique. I tell you it stinks in God’s nostrils. Try to discuss the Word with any of them and they will walk away. Even their pastors will not speak of the Word outside their church. They seem to think that they are off the ‘job��? After all they only get paid to do the Sunday and Wednesday night thing. Outside of that they are just as sinful and worldly as the rest of the world. If you try to get into a Scriptural discussion with any of them, they refuse. They do not speak of God outside their little theater. It is not their job to teach you outside their four walls. Such a disgrace to God! They cannot be true ministers or Christians. They love not the Word. If you love the Word, it is constantly on your mind.
Our lives are supposed to revolve around God and His Word twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Without this, you are just going to a club. You are deceiving your own heart. You are blinding your own eyes and closing your own ears. This hardens your heart and Jesus will never reach you.
You have left off to take heed to the Lord. You are more concerned with your X-mess holidays and mess like that than you are about souls and the truth of God’s Word. You are a disgrace to God. You ministers are responsible for causing the church to lose her power. You are the ones who disempowered the church. You are the ones blocking the true Word from coming into your church. You are denying the members any chance to hear the Word. You will not come into truth yourself and you block any who would. You are guilty and you will pay with your soul.
I have never asked one person to help me financially because I minister the Word. I have never taken money for doing the work of God. I have one person who helps me buy ink to print out these messages. I have told that person over and over I do not want his money. But he does it out of love of God so I accept it on those grounds. Now if there were only a few people out there who love God enough and are concerned with truth enough to help me distribute these messages, or learn truth and study and pray so the power and faith would be given, then we could do a work for God. But everyone is so caught up in their false doctrine, that there is no one who wishes to help a ministry such as mine which is OUTSIDE the main system of ‘church��? But I am telling you, God is finished with this fake church. It is doomed to destruction. It is only a matter now of His timing. But it is coming. You are fake and dead. You are a powerless church which is a disgrace to the living and all-powerful God. I mean all of you. Not just a few, but all of the theater style churches are doomed to destruction. You followed the pattern of the whore church for she is your mama. You set up little popes. No matter what you think, when one man sits up in front and has all the say in what goes and who speaks there, you are little popes. When you take pay for your job, you are little popes. When you tell your members they can never rise above you, you are a pope. Oh I know you will never admit it, but this is pure truth.
IF you think this is how the apostolic church in the Book of Acts operated, show me the Scripture which says so. Paul said we are ALL ONE. Equality is the only true Christianity. If God sends in a child of His to tell you something, and you keep that person out, you are acting as a pope. You are deciding who can speak in your little theater. God is not in control. God is not leading there, you are. You are rejecting the true knowledge of God. You will pay with your soul. You have disempowered the Church of God.
By: Jo Smith
Reply
Message 3 of 6 in Discussion
From: joie
Sent: 7/31/2005 3:54 AM
From: joie
Sent: 12/8/2004 11:20 PM
I know we do not reach many people with this group. and since this is now the only group I post to, I know my messages are not reaching many people. I truly feel a great burden to find a way to reach more people with the truth God has so graciously given me.
Now I feel more strongly about this message I have written today than any I have ever done. I feel very much led of God to try and reach many people with this message. I feel in this hour, this message is very needful.
So, even though, I know I do not reach many people, and that most of the ones we do reach are not in agreement with me, but I am asking, because I feel very strongly led of God in this matter, please, any of you who are truly concerned with the dead condition of the people today, and especially with the lack of teaching children, print this message out and try to give it to those you know, or take it and give it to preachers and church members.
If you can, just stand outside their door and hand them to a few. I know not many will take them or read them, but it is all we can do. This is certainly not for me, but to send out a call back to true faith in the Living God.
Take back the power Satan has defeated the church of. Come back to truth and unity. Without it, only doom awaits. This is not a message from Jo Smith’s mind. I am declaring to you today, this is a message from God. Both the one above and this plea for help in reaching some souls with this message.
If any of you post elsewhere and care to, post this there. I know most managers will only delete it, but maybe one soul will read it and be helped before it is deleted.
Only God knows how much or how little time is left to us to try and work a work for him. Try to help children find God. This is not my mind, I am telling you God is speaking every word of this to me.
If ever I was anointed to say anything, it is this message. It is burning so much in me right now, I am in almost an unspeakable spiritual atmosphere.
Just listen to the voice of this message. If you cannot discern that it is the Lord, please seek God while He may be found.
With His Love,
Jo Smith
Disempowered-PT 1.
From: joie (Original Message)
Sent: 12/8/2004 11:05 PM
~ Disempowered ~
Today is Wednesday, December 8, 2004. Now I know that the title of this message, ‘disempowered��?is not a true word. But it has merit here for the truth of this message. When God said, I will give power to my two witnesses, this means He empowered them. Ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me in all the earth. So the Baptism of the Holy Ghost is when, where and how God gave the disciples this great power, or he empowered them.
The meaning of the prefix, dis, means this: 1. do the opposite or absence of. – completely disannul.- deprive of a quality, rank or object.- exclude or expel.
So from this we see that to disempower one would be to deprive them of the power or to do the opposite or have the absence of the given power. So then if the church today is powerless, as we see it to be, then something had to have ‘disempowered��?them. So what took the God-given power away from them?
In simple terms, if the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, as on the Day of Pentecost, gave them this power, then if they fail to receive this Baptism of power then they will be disempowered But…. what caused them to fail to receive something so wonderful as this Baptism? Mainly it was this:
Ho 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Ho 4:7 As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
A lack of the right kind of knowledge caused God to reject this group of people. They had rejected this knowledge, so God rejects them. So this proves that it is absolutely necessary to have and accept the true knowledge of God, in order to have God accept us. You cannot make up doctrine, or just accept a hand-me-down doctrine and expect God to accept you on these terms. It will never work. You must study the Word as we are told to do, and prove if anything is true, according to the written Word of God, or if it is false. If you fail to do this, or if you see it crosses the Word at some point, yet you still hold to your false doctrine, then God will reject you. It is a dangerous thing to reject the proven truth of God. It will cost you eternal life. It will take you to hell fire. So you had better open your eyes and your ears and get willing to hear and see the truth. Get willing to accept the truth, if you desire eternal life.
Mt 13:12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Jesus said if you already HAVE, you shall be given more and therefore have abundance. Now what does this mean? It means that if you have the right faith, the right foundation, and an open mind [eyes; ears] then God will give you an abundance of revelation. This is that bread from Heaven which we must eat to have eternal life. If you do not have these things, if you close your eyes and ears, then you do not have the right faith, so what you think you do have, [a false belief] will be taken away from you. You are the one Jesus spoke of = seeing you see not. You refuse to let God show you his real truth. Hearing you hear not. You have eyes and ears [spiritually] but you refuse to let them operate. This keeps you from understanding so that you can be converted. You would rather go on in your false, Jezebel religion, than to open your eyes and ears and hear the truth. You closed your own eyes and ears and turned away from the truth when it was presented to you. So your spiritual healing will never take place.
Mark 8:18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Now here another writer shows that they have eyes and ears but do not see or hear. So what they do have will be taken away from them.
Lu 24:31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
Now see this reveals that to have your eyes opened is to know him or truth.
Ac 26:17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
This Scripture proves that to listen to God’s true ministers who bring the pure Word of God, will open your eyes and turn you from darkness to light, and this is to turn you from the power of Satan unto God. So when God sends a true minister unto you, bringing not man’s words but the pure Written Word of God, not adding to it nor taking away from it, and you refuse this word, then you will never see or be converted. But If you do as those did who searched the Scriptures daily, as God told us to do, to see if those things are true, then you will come into light and the power of God. If you refuse to open your mind and look into the Word and find out if you are hearing truth or not, then you are guilty of closing your own eyes and ears. This will lead you into total destruction. Just because you ‘believe��?a thing, just because your church and forefathers taught it, does not make it true or cause God to accept you on those grounds.
If you close up your heart, mind, to what you hear, just because it is not what you always believed, and cling to your doctrine, no matter how much the Word shows different, then you are guilty of closing your own eyes and ears against the truth. This places you into the naked, blind, lukewarm Laodician Church. You may scream and hollow that you are not in this church, but the very fact that you have closed eyes shows you are blind.
Ro 11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
This shows that having closed eyes and ears is the spirit of slumber, or sleep. Remember that all the virgins were asleep at one time. Only those who were willing to open their eyes to truth will awake to righteousness and have eternal life. These are the wise virgins. Are you wise? Let’s see!
Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Now this verse is to prove that we are dealing here with your understanding being enlightened. If you refuse enlightenment, then you are willfully blinding yourself, to your own destruction.
OK, The test. Are you wise?
Ac 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Now there is how you can test if you have an open mind or not. When you hear some word or message, do you receive it with all readiness of mind and search the scriptures daily to see if what you heard is truly the Word or not? Do you? Or do you just shrug it off because it does not fit what Mr. so-and-so taught. Or what your church teaches. Or what your ‘prophet��?taught.
If you find that the message brought to you does indeed fit the Word, is indeed quoting exact Scripture, then are you willing to change your mind and receive the engrafted word that you might be converted or saved or healed? If not, then you are willfully blinding your own self. Perhaps you are also blinding many others along with you? This is dangerous business. If you are guilty of deceiving others, you will have their blood on your own hands. Are your hands full of blood?
Are you willing to sit and discuss the issues brought up which you are in doubt of? When a matter of doubt or question came up in the TRUE Apostolic Church, they got together and discussed these things and looked into the Word and the leadership of the Holy Ghost and all came to see the truth. Once the truth was established by the Word, then all who refused it, were blinded and went into darkness. Where are you? Better be honest with your own heart. And if you are leading others, you had better be extra careful. Why are the ministers of today totally unwilling to discuss the Word of God with anyone who does not agree with their doctrine? It is because they have closed up their eyes and ears. They refuse to let light into their darkened mind. If they were walking in the Light, they would do as Peter and the other disciples did, they would get together and sit down and discuss these things and let the Word of God settle the question. But no, they are too afraid they might be an outcast. They are too afraid their little ‘prophet��?or pastor, or church would be proven wrong. They are unwilling to change their mind and let the truth come in.
The very fact that they are unwilling to sit and discuss differences with a brother or sister or let them come into their little theater churches and teach the truth, proves they have they eyes and ears closed. God showed me in a vision that when he sent me to different ones with the truth, and they refused it and would never give me a chance to say one word in their little theater, that this was Jesus standing at their door knocking and they refused to let him in. They reject the Word, so they are rejecting Jesus.
I have heard some of these pastors quote certain PARTS of verses, over and over, which they twist and try to back up their own false doctrine, and totally leave out the rest of the verse, thus taking away from the Word and blinding their people. This is evil and proves you have a closed up mind. You are a blind leader of the blind. Why would a ‘minister��?of the Word deliberately leave out part of a verse over and over and never come to grips in his own mind as to why he can never quote the entire verse? This is closing your own eyes and ears. This is willful blindness. God will take away your part out of the Book of life for you are taking away part of His Word, for it crosses your false doctrine. God will bring you into judgment because of this evil. Surely you must know something is wrong when you must leave out part of a verse to stay with what you think it should be saying?
I say to everyone you had better put down your own little stubborn mind and get willing to let God show you HIS truth. Your churches doctrine is never going to save you. You may attend some local theater assembly every day of the year all your life, but this will never take away your sin. When you cannot accept part of the Word, or a child of God sent to you, and let them show you the Word, then you are blinding your own self and what you have will be taken away from you. Nothing is left for you but outer darkness and hell fire. If you really have the truth, what are you afraid of? If you think you are right and they are wrong, then it is your duty to try and show them the truth. This is why everyone must get willing to sit down with anyone and discuss the Word of God. When you cannot and will not discuss the Word with anyone, you have a closed up mind. You are blind and in darkness.
So now, back to our original thought. What has disempowered the church? The above things are mainly to blame. You accepted the leadership of a pastor, church, evangelist, or some fake prophet, and let them blind you with their false doctrine. Then you in turn refuse to discuss the Word with someone who brings you something different. They might have messages full of Scriptures proving what they say, as all of my messages do, yet you STILL refuse to even discuss or consider that this person may have been sent by God and have truth you need. This is blindness and hardness of heart. God hates this kind of mind. God hates a hard heart and closed eyes.
According to Jeremiah and Ezekiel the pastors and shepherds are the very ones who led the sheep astray and blinded you. Yes, people, your own pastor is blinding you with his false teaching and causing you to be afraid to listen so anyone other than he or some other man teaching the same lies.
Many times God sends one of his children with truth to your church and your pastor has refused to let this person in to say even one word. This pastor has in fact blocked you from having access to the message sent from God. He himself is not interested enough in truth to study these things out and search the Scriptures daily to find if they are true or not, but then he blocks his church from having any opportunity to hear and judge for themselves if it is true or not. Thus they are leading you astray and into blindness. These wolves in sheep clothing, paid preachers, tell the church that they cannot receive anything from God except from them or some other ‘minister��? They claim that only a certain group of MEN, [they call a five-fold ministry] has anything from God and the only ones who can teach you or get you something from God.
But God said we may ALL come boldly to His throne of mercy and find grace and help. He said all of his children, both males and females, have access to his throne. He said we may all come and eat at his table. We may all minister. We may all be fed directly from God himself. We need not that any man teach us. If we have the anointing, God will teach any of us. Yet by the very fact of these ‘pastors��?driving this false teaching into your hearts, they block you from having any access to the glorious secrets God said He would give to any who love and fear him. They cause you to be blind and deaf. They cause you to lose your soul. The very men you pay to teach you are blocking you from hearing the glory God is revealing to some of His Children. And why? Because these same children heard God’s call to come out of Babylon, Jezebel, and dwell out in the wilderness with Him. So now He has given us the anointing and is teaching us His real truth. But these false shepherds, those who take pay for preaching, are standing in the way. They will not go in and they block you who might would accept truth if given the chance to hear it. I say to anyone who might ever read this, if your pastor or any minister is blocking your way and telling you that you may only receive the Word from some man minister, then you had better run as fast as you can away from this wolf in sheep clothing. He will blind you and send your soul to hell.
The pastors in the land today and before our time, have kept the people in their churches
as tiny, invalid babies all the days of their lives. They did this for their own evil, selfish purpose. They want so much to ‘pastor��?some church and be SOMEBODY, that they are all in a league together to keep people fearful and dependant upon them. They claim that you will only have salvation IF you attend theirs, or some other local church faithfully. They then claim you had better tithe. You had better not go somewhere else if your church is having a get together. But at the same time, they never teach you how to really pray. They never really study the Word and receive the true revelation to show you. They do not drive into your hearts the need for you to study the Word for yourself and learn truth. They do not put up with any member who does get into the Word and start questioning things. They will get rid of any member who does this, for they claim you are causing trouble and sowing discord. This is fear tactics they use to keep anyone out who studies the Word and finds that they are not teaching truth.
They want you dependant upon them. If you learn that God will indeed teach you, then they are afraid you will grow up in Christ and leave them. This will cut down on his number and money. They will only allow others into their ‘pulpits��?to teach who go along with the false doctrine of their particular church. If you disagree they will not let you in. Thus they block the people from ever hearing the truth God is giving to those who obeyed the call to come out of her.
They lead the people to believe that only certain men, certain ministers have any anointing to pray for sick and heal them. They never have a time where you get together JUST to seek God, pray, and study the Word TOGETHER.
You must ALWAYS just sit and listen to whatever THEY decide to tell you. If you attend their church ten years, you will hear the same message, [possibly, worded a little differently at times] over and over and over until you are so bored with ‘church��?you could just die, yet you are afraid to quit or change. They know not the Word, so they just preach the same message their ‘headquarters��?taught them way back. Now they may claim to be ‘independent��?but they still teach just what they were taught and never got into the Word and studied and learned what the real truth is. They receive the made-up theories from other men and therefore are only giving out a message which God forbids, for it came from human flesh, therefore is considered ‘female��?and not able to teach. Their message did not come direct from God and the word. Since they know not the Word, they cannot understand the truth when God sends it to them. So they just dismiss it and say away with it. They never give you a chance to hear and learn for yourself. They will actually tell lies on these true children of God, to cause you to be afraid to listen to them. These preachers all band together and refuse to let anyone in who is not agreeable with ��?I>their��?false teachings.
They have pumped you full of fear and kept you from growing up any at all. They know that if you grow up, you will not be dependant upon them, and pay them to tell you their lies.
They tell you that you can only get something from them or some other preacher down the road. This is a lie out of hell itself. It is designed to keep you tiny, invalid babies until you die and lose your soul. God said for us, ALL Christians, to STUDY the Word, search the Scriptures, pray for the sick, teach, cast out devils, and pray and grow up in Christ. But they lead you to believe that only certain ministers are to do this. Therefore, you put forth no effort to learn, to grow, to learn to pray, or any of these things which cause your faith to grow and you to come into the fullness of truth. So your pastor, whom you pay, is blinding you, leading you to destruction, and blocking you from hearing the real truth sent to you by God through one of his children which did get out and learn from HIM.
[cont.]
Not For The Better
Not for the better
Oct 16, ’04 2:42 AM
by joie for everyone
NOT FOR THE BETTER!
by Chip Brogden
“Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that you come together not for the better, but for the worse” (I Corinthians 11:17).
Jesus made it clear that “where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). Just two or three!
I thank and praise God that Jesus did not say, “Where two or three THOUSAND are gathered together, there I am.” He did not say, “Where two or three HUNDRED are gathered together, there I am.” And He did not say, “Where two or three DOZEN are gathered together, there I am.”
Jesus also did not say where the two or three had to be gathered together. He did not specify a church building or a living room meeting. And He did not say how many times a week they had to be gathered, or if the gatherings had to be structured or unstructured, open or closed, inside or outside.
By establishing His Presence in the midst of a group so small as two or three, Jesus repudiates our fascination with large numbers. Anyone can gather a crowd if you tell them what they want to hear. May I say that a large group has no more of the presence of Jesus than a small group. The numbers are irrelevant. Either Jesus is in the midst, or He is not. If Jesus is not in the midst of us then having a large group of people will not compensate for Him not being there.
I would rather sit on the living room floor with three people and have Jesus in the midst than sit in a service with three thousand people where Jesus is nowhere to be found.
Of course, Jesus can sometimes be found in large groups of people, but as my wife says, He tends to get lost in the crowd.
WHAT ABOUT ASSEMBLING TOGETHER?
Concerning our assembling together, the author of the letter to the Hebrews says:
“Forsaking not the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25).
Praise the Lord for the simplicity of this Scripture. Once again, we are not told WHERE to assemble (the local church). We are not told WHEN to assemble (Sunday morning). We are not told HOW OFTEN to assemble (three services a week, prayer on Tuesday, youth group on Thursday). Taking this verse by itself, it simply tells us to make the most of every opportunity we have for encouraging one another face-to-face. Yet it gives no direction about where, when, or how many times a week this is to take place.
As a pastor, I misused this verse all the time. I did it in ignorance, but the message I consistently sent out was, “You need to attend more, pray more, give more, and do more than what you’re doing. You need to be submitted to me so you can have a spiritual covering. You need to be accountable to a local body of believers. And if you don’t come to church every time the doors are open and if you don’t participate in every program we have available for you then you are forsaking the assembling of yourselves together!”
Is that really what this verse means? When you read the verses preceding this one it becomes apparent that the Spirit of God is not trying to get us to be more faithful to attend church services. In fact, when this was written, Christians did not have “church services” (or church buildings, for that matter).
So what does it mean? If you read the entire chapter (better yet, the entire letter), you find that we are being encouraged to draw near to God without fear, by a “new and living way”, through Jesus Christ our High Priest, Who has already assembled us together as the house of God in order to lead us into the Holy of Holies.
Based on what we know about the Lord’s Ekklesia, we could just as easily say, “Don’t forsake the house of living stones that Jesus is assembling together, because there’s no other way to draw near to God!” But people usually find what they expect to see, not what is really there. So we nullify the Word of God with our tradition, missing the blessing and turning it into a burden.
IN THIS I PRAISE YOU NOT
Jesus said if HE is lifted up then HE will draw all men to HIMSELF. Instead, we lift up religion and draw all men into an institution.
Are we suggesting that Christians should never go to church or have fellowship with others? Of course not. But we ask, can fellowship only occur in the context of a church meeting? Once we realize that our fellowship is supposed to be based on a relationship with Jesus, not a relationship with “church”, we will discover that there are more opportunities for fellowship OUTSIDE the local church building than there are INSIDE.
That is because Christ-based fellowship lasts as long as you are abiding in Jesus, while church-based fellowship only lasts as long as you are attending that church. When you go to their services and support their agenda then they love you. Once you leave, and they realize you are not coming back, they want nothing more to do with you. The reality is simply this: their fellowship with you is church-based, ministry-based, man-based, or money-based, but it is not Christ-based.
The true character of a church, fellowship, or ministry is not judged by how they receive you when you join, or how they treat you when you are there, but rather, how they send you when you go, and how they relate to you after you have left.
Paul told the Corinthians that when they came together it was not for the better, but for the worse. To be sure, they gathered together. They were faithful to assemble. But their gathering together was not a testimony to their faith, it was a testimony to their division. Actually, they were not assembling together at all, they were assembling separately. “Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you!”
The apostle says it would be better for them to stay home than to gather together for the worse, have division, teach heresies, despise the church of God, bring shame to one another, eat and drink damnation to themselves, and come together “unto condemnation” (see I Corinthians 11:17-34).
This is strong language. When was the last time you heard a message on that? What pastor is willing to stand up and say, “There will be no more services until we can learn how to come together for the better, and not for the worse.” Not many!
IN THE SPIRIT ON THE LORD’S DAY
Brothers and sisters, do not be deceived or troubled. If we are one with the Head then we are one with the Body, even if we are not physically gathered together; and if we are NOT one with the Head then we are NOT one with the Body, even if we ARE physically gathered together. How can that be? Because Jesus is building His Church, and it is a spiritual house, not a physical house.
Friends, there is a more excellent way! The Father is actively seeking and recruiting for Himself people who will worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Jesus is setting them free from vain worship and traditions of men, and He is gathering them together into a spiritual house of living stones. The Holy Spirit is leading them into an ever deepening, ever increasing relationship with Christ. With them, every day is “The Lord’s Day”!
While everything not established on Christ is being shaken, those who are being reduced to Christ are receiving a kingdom that cannot be moved. It is a wonderful time to be alive and to see God’s Purpose being fulfilled! Why would we be content with anything less? He has given us new wine and new wineskins. Let us seek the preeminence of Christ in all things, and when Jesus does gather us together in simplicity, He will be in the midst, and our gatherings will be for the better, and not for the worse. Amen.
The Rejected True King
I just thought I would put this here because so many people think that Israel over in that land is holy. But
that just shows just how truly deceived and brainwashed many so called GODLY folks are. Let us see
what just one of the many things that Israel has done in the past and still continue to do to this day. See,
many people that read about the OT thinks it is only a history book. And for the JEWS only.
Well, why would it be for them? Which brings me up to this section of scripture that proves that Israel
today follows nothing that GOD has told them to do.
1 Samuel 8:1-8 (KJV)
1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
7 And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
Samuel’s son’s did not walk in Samuel’s ways. Which was following GOD. They did evil in the sight of GOD.
Then, look who came…The great elders of Israel. And what did they request of Samuel? They wanted a
king to rule over them. They already had GOD HIMSELF. And yet they did not want HIM to rule over
them. They did NOT want anything to do with GOD and HIS HOLY rules. They did not want SPIRIT to
rule over them. They wanted flesh and blood to rule over them.
Do you think GOD did not know this? Look what GOD said in the above verses to Samuel. GOD said:
“Listen to the people”. They have not rejected YOU. They HAVE REJECTED ME. Right then and there,
All see what the great Israel of today thinks. They have been rejecting GOD and HIS Way since they
wandered in the wilderness. They rejected HIM when they made that GOLDEN CALF. They praised
that GOLDEN CALF in the WILDERNESS. That was there GOD. NOT the GOD that was speaking to
MOSES.
Israel still does that today. So why is this world blinded by the media reports and people when they say
Israel is HOLY and Righteous and that they are GOD’s chosen when they REJECTED GOD along time
ago?
On Judgement Day GOD will REJECT them FACE TO FACE.
The truth must be told about the false Israel and its false people.
Love Tweety
