Chapter 16: Pagans in the Pulpit (Page 4 of 4)
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The carnage
of modern Christian doctrines is the work of spiritual deception,
poured through the willing carnality of the clergy. This fact is
dramatically illustrated by Mr. Helmut Koester. Writing in the
July/August 1995 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Mr. Koester
said, “It is a simple historical fact that Jesus was an Israelite
from Galilee, and that he understood himself to be nothing else but a
prophet in Israel and for Israel- a venerable tradition.”
Mr. Koester
continued, “Biblical scholarship has known for more than a century
that the Gospels of the New Testament are not direct transcripts of
the teaching and ministry of Jesus. Rather, they are the result of a
long development of traditions about Jesus in the early Christian
churches. ... Very few words of Jesus have been preserved in their
original form. ... Alterations were made according to the needs of the
early Christian communities; explanations by Christian preachers were
attached to parables of Jesus ... many new words were added. It also
seems likely that all the Christological titles of Jesus (Messiah,
Lord, Son of Man, Son of God) did not have their origin in words of
Jesus but rather in the life of the church that worshipped Jesus as
savior.”
Helmut
Koester says that Jesus Christ was just another Jewish prophet, that
he did not say the things attributed to him, that his truth has been
aggrandized by legend, and that his title as Son of God was only the
fantasy of his adoring followers. Who is Helmut Koester? He is a
Lutheran pastor and professor of New Testament Studies at Harvard
Divinity School.
The dead
carcass of Modern Christianity can be laid at the feet of the bishops,
pastors, deacons, and clergymen who run it. Many do not believe that
Christianity is superior to other religions. Many do not believe the
Bible is the inerrant work of God. Many do not believe that Jesus
Christ is the Son of God.
Today’s
pastors have not been taught by the spirit of God, but rather, have
been cloned in special schools called “seminaries.” The
proliferation of these institutional schools has usurped the place of
the Holy Spirit, and incarcerated Christianity in an iron casket of
unchangeable, human, denominational dogma.
According to
the HDUS, “The [Episcopal] church sponsors 10 accredited seminaries
in the United States, plus three overseas; nine colleges, a
university, and about 6,745 nursery through high schools for boys and
girls.” With this kind of pervasive denominational programming, what
chance do people have to ever find the truth?
Worse yet,
at the Christian seminaries the pastors do not learn about God, they
learn the atheism of “modern scholars.” These scholars now believe
that the patriarchs of the Old Testament never existed. They assert
that everything in the Bible prior to the Babylonian captivity in 496
BC was invented by Jewish scribes. As given in the EDT, “The
traditional theory that the Bible as a whole and in every part is the
word of God written, held currency until the rise of modern critical
theories a century ago.”
Under “Theological
Liberalism” the EDT continues, “Also known as modernism, this is
the major shift in theological thinking that occurred in the late
nineteenth century. ... Higher criticism questioned the authorship and
dating of much of the biblical literature and rejected the traditional
understanding of the Scriptures as divinely revealed oracles. ...
Christianity was merely one among many religions, all of which were
relative to their time and circumstance, and thus it had no claim to
finality.”
This
revolting position is summed-up by Harvard Divinity School Professor
Koester, “There is no way that allows Christians to reaffirm the
superiority of their religion- no matter how high one’s christology
is.”
The
Christian seminaries long ago sorted the scriptures into categories to
support canned denominational doctrines. As students at these
institutions, future pastors do not study the Bible, they study “doctrines.”
They learn how to explain the entire Bible from pre-cast,
denominational perspectives. Their thinking is trained to see a
packaged point of view. They are taught to repeat the denominational
liturgy. Their opinions are formed to fit the mold or they don’t
graduate. And no pastor is given a position in any church unless he
agrees to perpetuate the party line.
Seminary
training removes inspiration, revelation, individual conscience, and
God, from the ministry. Helmut Koester provides a startling example:
“It is impossible to know for certain what Israelites or Jews, or
for that matter Christians, could or could not believe in the first
century C.E. [AD], before both Judaism and Christianity established
boundaries for their beliefs at the end of the second century.”
The New
Testament was entirely written within the first century A.D. But
apparently to Mr. Koester, the New Testament itself does not specify
what the first Christians believed. At the Harvard Seminary it seems
that the Bible is no authority whatsoever. Instead, professor Koester’s
religion is based entirely upon the doctrines canonized by the
Organized Church structure, two hundred years after Jesus Christ.
These are the doctrines and perspectives that he learned in seminary.
They told him what to think, and he obeyed. Professor Koester does not
understand the Bible, nor does he teach it. And he may well have
trained the pastor at your local church.
Seminaries
like Harvard have recruited today’s clergy and beguiled them.
Together with these enlistees, the seminaries have polluted
Christianity with Humanism. These groups no longer stand for absolute
truth or morality, but rather, flow with the ever changing tide of
sordid public opinion.
Quoting from
the EDT, “A survey of recent writing by evangelicals on ethical
concerns reveals a profound desire to allow for the pluralism of
contemporary American society. Many evangelicals oppose the
reinstatement of prayer in public schools; some go so far as to
support a woman’s right of abortion under this mandate for tolerant
pluralism. ... Homosexual ministers or priests are accepted in some
mainline Protestant denominations, which themselves serve as key
advocates for the further advancement of homosexual rights.”
Obedient to
Satan’s mandate, the clergy now approves of perversion. Under the
topic “Homosexuality” the EDT says, “Tolerance of homosexuals
has greatly increased, within and outside the churches and within the
Christian ministry. ... Like all congenital deviations from the
normal, established homosexuality has to be accepted and lived with.
... An alert church will not ostracize but befriend those whose
constitutions and circumstances make Christian living harder for them
than for most.”
While
rushing to defend the perverts, the modern clergy have become the
outspoken servants of Humanist rancor. And by endorsing perversion in
the present society, they have made themselves the adversaries of
white, heterosexual Christians. As given by Pastor Koester: “Even in
this country many people still use the name of Christ in their
campaigns of hate against Jews and against Blacks and against
homosexuals.” To pastors like Koester, biblical values have become a
hate crime.
Modern
Christianity is now a pagan religion. Like the paganism of old, it
allows its patrons to traverse the boundaries between right and wrong,
with an appeased conscience and even a sense of superiority.
The pastor
at your church has no intention of setting you free. He will never
point you toward the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. He knows
nothing of God’s true plan for Sonship.
Instead, he
wants you in a spiritual prison, writhing in guilt to further an
alien, godless, political agenda. Professor Koester continues: “If
we can find forgiveness and healing and renewal and hope in the
Christian message, we have to accept also our share of the burden and
guilt of a Christian history that is less than glorious, from the
anti-Judaism of Luke’s Acts of the Apostles and the anti-Jewish
legislation of the emperor Theodosius to the deafening silence of most
Christians and their leaders at the time of the Holocaust.”
According to
Helmut Koester, the Christians are to be punished for what God wrote
in the book of Acts, and they are to be held eternally hostage for
anyone having ever tampered with the Jews.
While you
place yourself in the care of this sick clergy you will never find the
truth of God. Instead you will be captured in a net of social
concerns, enslaved to a ruthless self-condemnation, berated in an
arena of political castigation, and made a mindless proponent of the
adversary’s agenda. Her prophets are light
and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they
have done violence to the law. ... the unjust knoweth no shame.
Like Satan
in Eden, the clergy of Modern Christianity are deceived by their own
beauty. They think that a Doctor of Divinity degree conveys truth,
revelation, wisdom, insight, and spiritual maturity. And
art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of
them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of
babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
But in
reality, a theologian’s diploma is the evidence of a crippled
spirit. It is the glaring proof of a mind successfully shackled to the
lies of the demon horde. Have ye not cast out
the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have
made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so
that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and
seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
Today’s
clergy can only regurgitate the enslaving doctrines of the carnal
denominations. The priest and the prophet have
erred through strong drink, ... they err in vision, they stumble in
judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that
there is no place clean. They rain doubt upon God’s character
and the veracity of the Bible, turning your faith aside to Satan’s
Humanism. And this was foretold by the wisdom of God: My
face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret
place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
The
organized clergy have erased the high goal of Sonship and replaced it
with politics and entertainment. Woe unto you,
scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of
heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye
them that are entering to go in. They obscure the path to life
with human creeds and social causes, and they make their followers
into spiritual dependents that could not possibly survive the journey.
They have seen vanity and lying divination,
saying, The LORD saith: and the LORD hath not sent them: and they have
made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
From behind
their high rostrum, the rhetoric of the modern clergy is destroying
the religion and people they were supposed to serve. But this was the
primordial strategy of the demon horde- corruption from within. Satan
has always moved to corrupt God’s truth from inside the very
organizations that were called to receive it. Even
so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full
of hypocrisy and iniquity. Truly, they are pagans in the
pulpit. Many pastors have destroyed my
vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my
pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
The
motivation for this desolation can be found in the common unctions of
unregenerate man. To a shameful extent, the modern clergy have given
themselves to the ecclesiastical system for pay, power, and prestige.
With the approval of their seminarial degree, they enjoy a fallacious,
easily-won honor, and the undeserved leadership of their fellow man.
The lure of steady gain and community standing are the new call to the
ministry. As in the days of Balaam, “pray-for-pay” is still a
lucrative, enticing occupation. Ye see your
calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not
many mighty, not many noble, are called. ... That no flesh should
glory in his presence.
The clergy
of Organized Christianity are hirelings. They are directors of a
multi-billion dollar syndicate. They establish fiscal goals and
financial targets. Just like any other modern business, they hope to
buy and sell and get gain. To this end, they offer holy oil, crosses,
pendants, trinkets, travel, prayer, lobbyists, videos, and amusement,
in exchange for dollars and adoration. Many
shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth
shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise of you.
These
merchant priests measure their success by TV ratings and financial
statements. They are of the world: therefore
speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. They hope
to build bigger buildings. They aspire to sit as chairmen of sprawling
corporations. They do not live for the will of God. Rather, like all
executives, they desire to influence public policy, and hold sway over
the lives of their patrons. Walking after
their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having
men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
Because of
these secular, human goals, the ministers of today dispense whatever
doctrines are easiest to sell. For, lo, I will
raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be
cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is
broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh
of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
The people
who patronize the modern priesthood preserve the fears of ancient
Israel. At Sinai the Israelites were afraid to learn from God
one-on-one, so they pushed Moses to the pulpit. In Canaan they
rejected God’s leadership and so forced Saul to become king. It is
human nature to reject a personal, intimate relationship with God, for
most people want to be coddled by something visible. Thus they flock
to any flashy program where they can abdicate responsibility and enter
the security of a physical, soothing ministry.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but
after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and
shall be turned unto fables.
It is this
human desire for protection that has erected the oppressive structures
of priestly orders that staff the present 22,000 Christian
denominations. Today these smothering layers form a many-tiered
ceiling between you and your God.
Under this
canopy, God is far removed. He cannot speak directly to his people.
His living water falls on an episcopal umbrella. His light is blocked
and his voice muffled. He is expected always to funnel his revelation
and guidance through some pastor or organization. And each of these
groups acts as a filter of God’s truth to those in their care. How
can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the
honour that cometh from God only?
Amazingly,
most Christians relish the comfort of being told what to do, and what
to think. They seem to lack the inspiration and motivation to search
for God themselves. Ensnared by their need for human approval, they
choose instead a surrogate system and content themselves in the
placating, anesthetic doctrines of Organized Christianity. Because
of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out
of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the
praise of God.
If you
continue to draw your strength from human pastors or institutions,
your spiritual vision can only remain stunted. You will remain as a
child, needing always to be spoon fed.
In group
interaction your ideas of God are denigrated by peer pressure. You are
required to compromise the things God tells you as you acquiesce to
the beliefs of the group. With this compromise comes an addiction to
their approving fellowship. This craving will become overpowering,
until soon you will be willing to accept their authority in place of
your own spiritual conscience.
Few will
ever leave-off this human succor, for most are unwilling to face the
pain of being ostracized by their friends. Worse yet, after a short
time in the system, their vision grows cold. Then they are no longer
able to detect their own emptiness, their benumbed mind, or their
addictive dependence.
Moses was
the first clergyman; he led the people out of Egypt and into the
Wilderness of Sinai. But Moses was not allowed to enter into the
promised land of Canaan. So also the clergy of today can lead you out
of sin and into Salvation, but they cannot take you into Sonship.
Though you may have begun your spiritual walk in a church, you must
not remain there. At some point you must grow up enough to stand on
your own spiritual feet. You must gain the ability to discern the
truth from the Bible, and feed yourself. You must develop a personal,
all encompassing relationship with your Heavenly Father. Therefore
leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto
perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead
works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of
laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal
judgment. And this will we do, if God permit.
The haughty
ministers of Modern Christianity, and those who dutifully follow them,
are targeted for catastrophic loss. For the
leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of
them are destroyed. The organized clergy have too long peddled
their goods to the trusting and naive. Every
plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind
lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Those who
lock up the liberty of Sonship and offer instead the chains of social
programs, are working to their own shame. Who
in their wickedness repress and hinder the truth and make it
inoperative. Romans 1:18 (Amplified). These priests and their
carnal doctrines will bear no lasting fruit. And
if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD
have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him,
and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. Soon
the entire system of the modern clergy will come to its end. For
both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found
their wickedness, saith the LORD. Wherefore their way shall be unto
them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and
fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their
visitation, saith the LORD.
In a swift
coming day the praise of men that now clothes the clergy will be
stripped by tempestuous storm. Verily I say
unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of
God before you. The preachers who anchor themselves between the
people and their God will be brushed aside, and learn the remorse of a
parasite that has lived off that which belongs to God alone. Many
will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
If you are a
seminary trained officer in Organized Christianity, congratulations.
You are presiding over a crisis of global spiritual bankruptcy that
makes pagan Rome look pious. Your teachings, attitudes, and goals,
have spawned the greatest moral degeneracy ever witnessed in the human
race. Whatever you have been doing, it is not working. The Christians
are no longer the light of the world, because your denominationally
canned, Hindu Humanist doctrines, are the adversaries of God. Therefore
thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies,
therefore, behold, I am against you, saith the Lord GOD. And mine hand
shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they
shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be
written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they
enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord
GOD.
Save your
justifications for your God when you see him. But rather, shred your
prefabricated doctrines. Wash your motives from pride and greed. Get a
new Bible and start over. While you can, seek God from a new and pure
desire to know him personally and only. Find the truth of Sonship.
Lead by courageous example. Tell the people about God’s invincible
sovereignty, his limitless love, and his plan to bring forth
autonomous Sons who are born in his own image. Then loose your
listeners. Send them out to meet Jesus Christ for themselves and
entrust them to his care alone. For I beheld,
and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor,
that, when I asked of them, could answer a word. Behold, they are all
vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and
confusion.
The
ponderous structure of Modern Christianity is a mutation that has
grown contrary to nature. Jesus Christ symbolized this ugly, twisted
organization, in his parable of the mustard seed.
Mustard
normally grows as a small herb; only a few varieties are shrubs. Which
indeed is the least of all seeds. The flowers are composed of
four petals, arranged opposite one another in the form of a cross.
Like the small but potent mustard herb, the true church was designed
to remain modest, select, intense. Fear not, little
flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the
kingdom.
But in
accordance with Jesus’ prediction, the Christian church bolted from
its design. Instead of remaining as a small and willowy herb, it grew
as a cancerous anomaly, and became a towering tree.
Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble
it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast
into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree.
Having grown
as a gigantic, alien weed, Organized Christianity then became home to
the fowls of the air. And the fowls of the air
lodged in the branches of it.
Throughout
the Bible, the fowls of the air symbolize Satanic power and spirit. As
a “type,” they never change. They always represent something
sinister or harmful, and never represent anything good. The fowls
represent the doctrines and demons that gobble up the truth and life
of Jesus Christ. A sower went out to sow his
seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden
down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.
As foretold
by Jesus, the present “Mustard Church” has become a haven for the
fowls of the air. It has grown contrary to its design. It has become a
monstrous juggernaut of evil doctrines and human programs that deny
the liberty of Sonship. It has become a spreading canopy of branches
that block the sunlight of God’s truth. And deep within the shadows
beneath, the devilish foul-feathered tenets of Modern Christendom find
refuge.
Jesus Christ
provided a second, similar view of the modern church in his parable of
the leaven. There he described Organized Christianity as becoming
permeated with the noxious doctrines of fleshly hypocrisy. Another
parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven,
which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole
was leavened.
Leaven is
yeast, a single-celled fungus. When kept lukewarm, leaven feeds on
meal and reproduces itself, bubbling, bloating, and swelling to many
times its original size. Since leaven causes a “puffing-up,” it
always represents carnality and hypocrisy. Beware
ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
As a symbol,
leaven does not change. It always stands for the sin and
self-exaltation of the fallen carnal nature. It never represents
anything good. Your glorying is not good.
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
The three
measures of meal represent the true church. This was the urgently
prepared, unleavened portion, that Abraham served to Yahweh when he
came to visit on the plains of Mamre. Abraham
hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three
measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
Jesus’
parable of the leaven said that hypocrisy and evil doctrines would
invade, contaminate, and eventually overcome the organized church, as
leaven spreading through meal. This is confirmed by the Companion Bible, where it states, “The common
interpretation as to the Gospel’s improving the world is the exact
contrary of the leaven corrupting the whole of the meal.” Today,
Organized Christianity has become an unpalatable bread, a festering
falsehood, bloated with the fungal arrogance of sanctimonious display.
Throughout
the Bible the Christian church is symbolized by a woman, because a
woman has the ability to reproduce life, but she must first get that
life from her husband. So also, a Christian can reproduce the life,
power, and destiny of Christ in his own spirit, if he first gets the
spirit seed from Jesus.
In Acts
16:16, Modern Christianity is symbolized by a damsel. And
it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with
a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by
soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These
men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way
of salvation. And this did she many days.
Like this
damsel, Modern Christianity is overwhelmed by a religious spirit which
knows only the most simple truth. Every Sunday she cries the same
thing, that Jesus is the servant of the most high God. Week after week
she affirms that Jesus can show you the way to salvation, but this is
all she has to say. Though this elementary truth is correct, it
remains the tiresome, repetitious cry, of a callow spirit that knows
nothing more. And from this redundant whine, she brings her masters
much gain.
Organized
Christianity has turned vendor, hocking Salvation and Holiness as
commodities. And she shall turn to her hire,
and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon
the face of the earth. And her merchandise and her hire shall be
holiness to the LORD.
Selling her
wares for cash, esteem, and tax deductions, Organized Christianity is
symbolized by the harlot of Proverbs 7. Behold,
there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of
heart. She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: now
is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.
Like a
harlot, Modern Christianity solicits in the streets, offering temporal
comfort to the easily satisfied. Her goods are the lying doctrines of
Modern Christian “love.” These are Entertainment, Prosperity,
Tolerance, Rapture, and a Sensual Heaven. So
she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto
him, ... I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved
works, with fine linen of Egypt. ... Come, let us take our fill of
love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Though she
should have remained in sacred, intimate relationship to her husband,
the modern church has stripped for the common, trading away her
marriage for the diseased thrill of many suitors. Then being abandoned
by God, she turned to seek the approval of men. For
the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: he hath taken a
bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. With
her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of
her lips she forced him.
This whorish
system is polluted with the venereal doctrines of all her past
patrons: the Canaanite Queen of Heaven (Mary worship), the Trinity of
Isis, the child sacrifice of Molech (abortion), denominational Baals,
the Hinduism of Christian Humanism, and Satan’s invincible Hell. None
that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of
life. These she dispenses for money, infecting all who touch
her. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox
goeth to the slaughter, ... as a bird hasteth to the snare, and
knoweth not that it is for his life.
In
Revelations 17, the church is pictured as a woman, sitting astride a
beast. And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet
coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten
horns. The beast symbolizes the oppressive governments of man
that have crawled the earth since Eden. The woman is Organized
Religion who has ridden every government since the first theocracy in
Egypt. The woman which thou sawest is that
great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
On the
outside, Organized Religion appears royal, sensual, and enticing. But
inside, she is polluted and toxic. And the
woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full
of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her
forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
The whore
called Mystery Babylon represents Organized Religion. She has spawned
pagan Idolatry, Hinduism, Islam, Jewry, and Modern Christianity, all
in the name of God.
From the Companion
Bible, “Babylon is the fountain-head of all idolatry and systems
of false worship. This is the ‘mystery of iniquity’ seen in all
the great ‘religions’ of the world. All alike substitute another
god for the God of the Bible; a god made either with the hands or with
the imagination, but equally made;
a religion consisting of human merit and endeavour.”
In the
Christian sphere this mother of harlots is Roman Catholicism, and her
daughters are the Protestant denominations. These organizations have
massacred the people of earth, first with sword and flame, then with
lying doctrines, and now with fleshly programs that anesthetize the
spirit. All nations have drunk of the wine of
the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are
waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Organized
Religion rides the beast from the abyss, as part of Satan’s
onslaught to prevent the birth of the Sons of God. From the golden
image at Babylon, to the Catholic Crusades and Inquisition, to the
stillborn dogma of modern denominationalism, Organized Religion is the
butcher of the Adamic race and the Gospel of Sonship.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the
blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
The
organized churches of Modern Christianity are not the true church;
they are not the Sons of God. They are a deranged mustard of grotesque
growth, home to the pagan doctrines that devour truth. They are leaven
festering with a pontifical clergy and prideful patrons. They are
demonic damsels peddling Pablum for gain. They are a great whore,
spreading diseased concepts of God, while riding the honor of worldly
governments.
These are
convoluted structures of human ego, tangled with spiritualism, and
knotted with error. For many shall come in my
name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. They thwart
a personal relationship with God. They are the adversaries of
individual maturity. They are spiritual women who have grabbed onto
Jesus Christ but refuse to receive his seed and become what he is.
They want his name but demand to live by their own human creeds. In
that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat
our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy
name, to take away our reproach.
Organized
Christianity has discarded the truth, clung to demonic doctrines, and
slandered the one true God. For this he will destroy her and her
followers. If thou wilt not hearken unto the
voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and
his statutes which I command thee this day ... the LORD shall send
upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest
thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou
perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou
hast forsaken me.
By accepting
the errant doctrines that ridicule the sovereignty of God, Organized
Christianity has embraced the lethal contagion of idolatry. For this
the struggling form of feminine Christianity will quickly come to her
end. Even now, diseased and failing, she is poised for her own
destruction. The Bible declares that the very governments that have so
long carried her, will turn on her and kill her. And
the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the
whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh,
and burn her with fire.
The Ten
Horns represent the last global political power of this age. They are
the final earthly government of the confederated New World Order. They
are synonymous with the Ten Toes of Daniel 2:41-44. And
the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no
kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
This global
atheistic theocracy has adopted Christian Humanism as its new state
religion. Accordingly, it has declared war on traditional Christian
values, and even the whorish system is now under full siege. Though
her doctrines are errant and juvenile, even these are now being
dismantled by legislation for Affirmative Action, Environmentalism,
Feminism, Indigenous Rights, Minority Rights, Gay Rights, Child
Rights, and Abortion. The government of the United States though once
founded upon God’s grace, has itself become part of the devouring
beast. Traditional Christianity is no longer “politically correct,”
and the courts have ruled it illegal in the public sector.
Take heed therefore how ye hear: for ... whosoever hath not, from him
shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
The Ten
Horns are even now entering their hour of turbulent power. As an ill
wind, they herald the approaching Millennium, and already the breezes
bluster.
In a tempest
of prophetic evil, old style Christian ethics are being swirled into
the legislative dumpster. Traditional Anglo-Saxon liberties have been
blown away, as dust in a squall. Christian truths are rolled into
Humanist doctrines. Homosexuals are gusted into American culture by
presidential edict. Moral values are swept aside by federal funding
for alternative families. Godly precepts are spun into a wild whirl of
ungodly, “human rights.”
As sand in a
gale cuts flesh, the minds of children are scoured in the public
schools. In a furious storm they are transformed into children of the
state, children of the world, but never children of God. Prayer in
school is gone, but abortion and perversion stalk the land, as the
precepts of true Christianity are labeled a hate crime.
But even all
this conquest by the New World Order is according to the purpose of
God. For when the Israelites adopted the idolatry of Canaan, God moved
to destroy his own people. And so it is today. When Organized
Christianity adopted the whorish doctrines of Humanism, she justified
her own destruction, and for this God will slay her himself.
As this
dispensation grinds to a close, God will utterly renounce the
organized denominations. The whoredom of Modern Christianity is slated
for annihilation. And a mighty angel took up a
stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus
with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall
be found no more at all.
When the
Ever-Living God has concluded his purpose in Organized Christianity,
this apostate system will come to her end. Therefore
shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine;
and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God
who judgeth her. The churchy entertainment will cease. The
voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall
be heard no more at all in thee. The billion dollar budgets
will fail. Alas, that great city, that was
clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold,
and precious stones, and pearls! For in one hour so great riches is
come to nought.
The
denominational creeds will crash. For no man
buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and
silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and
purple, and silk, and scarlet ... and souls of men. The tiny
truth she has, will be taken. The light of a
candle shall shine no more at all in thee. The courtship of
Jesus Christ will end, and no more Sons will come out from her. The
voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all
in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy
sorceries were all nations deceived.
When this
harlot crumbles into the dust, her builders will fall with her. The
pompous clergy have too long usurped the place of God and sucked their
prestige from the blood of their brothers. Be
not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye
are brethren. The ministers who demand obeisance to church
authority, and deny the liberty of an individual relationship with
God, are compiling their own epitaph. Ye eat
the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed
... and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
These errant
preachers will come to know an overwhelming shame. Therefore,
ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD; as I live, saith the Lord
GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat
to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither
did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed
themselves, and fed not my flock; therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the
word of the LORD; thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the
shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand.
When
Organized Christianity fails, those people onboard will go down with
the ship. When their doctrines of Prosperity and Rapture prove
fruitless, their spiritual hopes will crash as a wave on the rocks. There
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Those who trust in a
denomination will never find themselves either godly or immortal.
Though you should be a perfect Catholic or Pentecostal all the days of
your life, yet this distinction will not reproduce in you the
character, power, wisdom, or life of Christ.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
The
attitudes that will keep you out of Sonship are not condemned by the
world. You can appear to be a Christian of “good” moral fiber, and
still retain human values, beliefs, and limitations. For
Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. Those
who orbit the mind of man and remain addicted to human delicacies will
miss the high calling of the Sons of God, and tremble in the day of
their showing. In that day a man shall cast
his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one
for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; to go into the
clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear
of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to
shake terribly the earth. Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his
nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Those who
trust in Organized Religion have drawn near to a church, rather than
to God himself. Do not mingle your spirit with this consuming disease.
Come out of her, my people, that ye be not
partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Stay
home and for the first time in your life, truly study your own Bible. Drink
waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own
well. ... Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Pray for
revelation and be willing to change. Examine your own beliefs
diligently, and search for God with the light of his spirit. Forsake
her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment
reacheth unto heaven. Never let your doctrines harden like
cement, for now you know only in part. Remove
thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: lest
thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel ...
and say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
Have the
courage to seek God personally, alone, by yourself. Humble your spirit
to his mighty hand and turn to him with your whole heart. Battle
through the confusion, and tarry with him until he forms his wisdom
within you. When it pleased God, who separated
me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his
Son in me ... I conferred not with flesh and blood.
God’s
purpose in Organized Christianity is, at best, only to provide an
initial point of contact, an early maternal feeding, for the Sons that
he calls. A woman clothed with the sun, and
the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be
delivered.
The Sons
that are born out from Organized Christianity will yearn for a depth
of understanding and a height of revelation that far surpass the
paltry doctrines of the modern church. These will gladly receive the
spirit seed of life from Jesus Christ. Then they will leave the wily
woman that succored them, and be drawn to their Father. In their
personal walk and daily trials, they will reproduce the experience of
Jesus in their own lives. These will come to spiritual maturity and
grow to become what he is. Behold, ye
despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a
work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto
you.
These
offspring are the Sons of God. They are born from the spiritual
genetics of God, and they alone will enter into the timeless
perfection of begotten immortality. Their feminine, whorish mother,
goes nowhere. And she brought forth a man
child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child
was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
The time is
short and the Millennial Sabbath is fast approaching. But God will not
allow the Millennium to be established by humans, lest the
unregenerate once again rise to boast of their own works.
Instead, God
will bring the Anglo-Saxon Israelites to their knees. The Ten Horns
will destroy Christianity, and the godless specter of Christian
Humanism will sweep over the land. As in the days of old, the deluded
and forgetful Israelites will be conquered by their enemies.
When the
Kingdom of Judah was conquered by Babylon, all but a handful of the
captured people bowed to the new state enforced pagan religion. And so
shall it be again. The masses of Israel are even now bowing low to the
sensual Hindu worship of Christian Humanism. Israel is to be enslaved
to the New World Order, and all but a select few will be found
groveling at its image of gold. This captivity will be a time of tears
and grievous trial. And there, as in the days of Gideon, all Israel
will await a supernatural deliverance by the Sons of God. And
the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the
city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and
the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
The evil
that is invading this country is the work of God. It is purposed to
effect a repentance in some, and an indictment of the rest. It will
not be stopped by a Republican congress, neither will the feeble
efforts of Modern Christianity ever stem the tide of global
lawlessness.
The ominous
New World Order prowls upon the primordial purpose of God. It will
leap upon the democracies of men and shred Organized Christianity as a
girl is ripped by a beast.
Finishing
with this destruction and thirsting for more, this apostate system in
crazed fury will eventually turn itself against the Sons of God, who
are soon to be born. And I saw the beast, and
the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make
war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
These Sons
will slay the Ten Horns in a cataclysmic confrontation. This will
bring a violent and permanent end to both human religion and politics
on planet earth. These [the Ten Horns] shall
make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is
Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are
called, and chosen, and faithful.
This is the
Day of the Lord, and it hovers just beyond the horizon. In that dark
day of ruined government and failed religion, every man’s face will
be dire, and wet with tears, and pressed to the earth in lamenting
humility. For the LORD shall judge his people,
and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is
gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
And from
that pall of thick, black gloom, will arise the brilliant light of a
new day. And I saw a new heaven and a new
earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.
The
structure of Organized Christianity is the concoction of man, not the
work of God. According to the EDT, “Critical study of the gospels
reveals that Jesus probably did not give teachings for the purpose of
establishing and ordering the church. Rather his whole life and
teaching provide the foundations upon which the church was created.”
The elevated
priestly caste of Organized Christianity is likewise the creation of
man. According to Schaff’s History, “The idea and institution of a
special priesthood, distinct from the body of the people, with the
accompanying notion of sacrifice and altar, passed imperceptibly from
Jewish and heathen reminiscences and analogies into the Christian
church. ... The New Testament knows no spiritual aristocracy or
nobility, but calls all believers ‘saints’. ... Nor does it
recognize a special priesthood in distinction from the people, as
mediating between God and the laity. It knows only one high-priest,
Jesus Christ, and clearly teaches the universal priesthood, as well as
universal kingship of believers.”
Organized
Christianity has been fashioned by human thinking, as a device to
accomplish human goals. It is not the true church of Jesus Christ.
But while
this denominational monstrosity has been strutting around the planet,
God has not been idle. For even in the troublous days of Noah, when
all the people were deceived and sneering, God was doing an awesome
work amongst them, secret in their midst. God was building an ark, and
to all but eight souls, this work was foolish nonsense.
So also it
is today. While Organized Christianity revels in their apostate
doctrines and fleshly programs, God is building a living ark, though
few there be that find it. The gate is wide,
and the road well paved, that leads to destruction; and through it the
majority go. How narrow the gate, and difficult the path, that leads
to life! and they are few who find it! Matthew 7:13.14 (Fenton).
While on
earth, Jesus Christ did indeed establish a true church, but it is not
a denomination. It is a select and quiet following, unnoticed by the
world. These are they which were not defiled
with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the
firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
The true
church of Jesus Christ is represented by the woman at the well. Jesus
waited for this woman and met her alone when she came to draw water in
the heat of the day. Jesus therefore, being
wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the
sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith
unto her, Give me to drink.
The woman at
the well was an outcast within her community. But Jesus called her to
a personal relationship, and provided her with fresh and powerful
instruction. The hour cometh, and now is, when
the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh such to worship him. This woman was
selected for extraordinary honor. She was the first person on earth
ever to receive the full, personal revelation, of the true identity of
Jesus Christ. The woman saith unto him, I know
that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will
tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am
he.
Dazed by the
grandeur of this personal knowledge, the woman abandoned her earthly
possessions and ran to tell her neighbors of her royal encounter. The
woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city,
and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that
ever I did: is not this the Christ?
Unlike the
harlot of Modern Christianity, this woman did not then have herself
ordained and assemble her friends for food, fun, and fellowship.
Instead, she told each of them to go out and meet Jesus Christ for
themselves, alone at the well, in the heat of the day. Then
they went out of the city, and came unto him. ... And many more
believed because of his own word; and said unto the woman, Now we
believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves.
This woman
represents the true church of Jesus Christ. She exists today, and like
the woman at the well, she has no name. She is not Methodist, Baptist,
Catholic, or Pentecostal. If your religion has a denominational name,
it is not the true church of Jesus Christ.
When Jesus
met her, the woman at the well had served five husbands in succession,
and was living with a sixth man out of wedlock. The five husbands
symbolize the flesh, the five senses that all men serve in constant
self-gratification. The sixth man represents the metaphysics of
Organized Religion, the errant doctrines that can never be a legal
husband.
Those people
who yearn for a life beyond slavery to their own five senses, will
eventually begin to search for God. Most will then enter an illicit
relationship with Organized Religion.
But if their
spirit hungers for God, they will refuse to marry this charlatan.
These rare individuals will never be satisfied with bake sales,
ceremonies, and superficial doctrines. Instead they will seek out
Jesus Christ himself, alone at the well, in the heat of the day. There
they will learn his secrets and become what he is.
The true
church of Jesus Christ is also represented by John the Baptist. At the
time of Jesus there was already a vast organized religious structure
in existence. But God did not go to that structure with his new
revelation. Instead he bypassed their entire religious network, and
the word of the Lord went to John, alone in the wilderness. Now
in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar ... Annas and
Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the
son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Today also,
the true priests of God are not found in religious organizations. They
are a scattered few, the men and women who understand Sonship. These
priests do not have a church, they are the church. These individuals
are becoming the truths that others just read about. For
though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not
many fathers. In lonely communion they are following the
blueprint of Jesus Christ, and their ministry is by example. Be
thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
The true
priests of God do not gather believers into bundles, with a view to
building a business. Rather, they equip them and dispatch them, to
meet Jesus Christ for themselves. If the Son
therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. These
ministers do not preach their Father’s truth for pay or prestige.
Rather, they share because they cannot hold it in. Feed
the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not
by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready
mind.
Both Jesus
and John the Baptist operated outside the religious structures of
their day. Both were rejected by the organized church, and killed by
the civil government. Both paid for their truth with their own lives.
And it is only people like them, who will ever attain to Sonship. Jesus
also ... suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him
without the camp, bearing his reproach.
The ministry
of Jesus Christ was one of example. He established a pattern that you
are expected to follow. He personally tested and validated all the
scriptures that can make you into what he is.
As Jesus
walked through the experiences of his earthly life, he described what
was happening inside him. Except a man be born
again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. He sought an intimate,
private relationship with his Father. When he
had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to
pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone. He
obtained his own spiritual maturity through the unjust sufferings of
earth. For it became him, for whom are all
things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory,
to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Jesus was
faced with crucifixion, a grievous evil, orchestrated by his Father’s
hand. It pleased the LORD to bruise him; he
hath put him to grief. In that hateful, crazy situation, he
tenaciously clung to his Father’s sovereignty and superior wisdom. Thou
couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee
from above. Jesus responded to undeserved evil with
forgiveness. Father, forgive them; for they
know not what they do. By this he authenticated the process for
becoming immortal love. Greater love hath no
man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. This
self-sacrificial love, in the face of evil, is the substance of God. To
know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be
filled with all the fulness of God.
Through
willing surrender unto self-sacrifice, Jesus established the New
Covenant for all those who would follow. At his resurrection, he
became the first spiritually begotten Son of God, in the fullest
possible sense. We declare unto you glad
tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God
hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised
up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my
Son, this day have I begotten thee.
By this
resurrection, Jesus obtained an inheritance as a firstborn Son. This
inheritance is all the same character, wisdom, power, life, and
substance, that his Father possesses. Saying,
All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Jesus became
the physical Son of God when he was born from Mary. But he did not
become a “spiritually begotten” Son until his resurrection. Physically
born from the line of David, but powerfully defined a Son of God, by a
resurrection from the dead, through a spirit of holiness. Romans 1:3,4
(Fenton).
A virgin
birth does not produce a spiritually begotten Son of God. It produces
an Adamic man born without a carnal nature. For
since by man [the sinless Adam] came death, by man [the sinless Jesus]
came also the resurrection of the dead. If a virgin birth were
required to produce a spiritually begotten Son, Jesus would be the
only one. But he is not the only one. He is the firstborn of many
brothers. That he might be the firstborn among
many brethren. It takes both a physical, Adamic birth,
and then a resurrection, a spirit birth, to enter the fullness of
Sonship. Except a man be born of water and of
the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Jesus Christ
is the firstborn Son because he was the first to pass completely
through the earthly process of spiritual begetting. By this he became
the prototype for all his brothers. These are the rest of the Sons of
God who will be born from the Adamic race. Jesus
Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of
the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.
There is no
Organized Church that understands this example of Jesus. To some he
was only a human prophet. To others he was a manifestation of Yahweh.
But to a precious few, Jesus Christ was born a sinless Adamite, filled
with the spirit of God. He then completed a spiritual gestation on
earth and by this process obtained all the substance of deity. And
this is the hope of Sonship. Until we all
attain to the unity of the faith, and of the comprehension of the
Son of God; to a perfect manhood, to the standard height of the
perfection of Christ. Ephesians 4:13 (Fenton).
After his
resurrection, Jesus planted a portion from his victorious, overcoming
spirit into his disciples, as seeds into soft earth. “As
the Father sent Me, so in the same way I send you.” And having said
this, He infused Himself into them, and said, “Receive Holy Spirit.”
John 20:21,22 (Fenton). Those who will become the Sons of God
must receive this spirit seed from Jesus Christ. This seed will join
with the spirit in a man or woman, and a new conception will occur. A
new spirit life is formed. This fledgling entity is an embryonic Son
of God. If any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature.
These new
Sons must then follow the example of Jesus. They must mature their
spirit life in suffering, and kill their carnal natures. They must
learn to see God sovereign over every good and every evil- they must
not hide their hearts from pain. When undeserved suffering enters
their lives, they must trace its source to the hand of their Father.
As the cataclysmic significance of this realization thunders into
them, their Adamic natures will die. Saying,
Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not
my will, but thine, be done.
Comprehending a new spiritual destiny, unveiled by their betrayal and
pain, these embryonic Sons will forgive those who wronged them. For
our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. This is the New
Covenant established by Jesus Christ, and each initiate Son must
ratify this covenant individually in his own life. Gather
my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by
sacrifice.
By this
process of spirit birth, the Sons of God will be born into the
substance of divine love. For love is of God;
and every one that loveth is born of God. Like Jesus they will
come to possess the substance of deity. To
gain an idea how far the love of Christ exceeds our research: so that
you may be perfected with all the perfection of God. Ephesians 3:19
(Fenton).
By this victorious overcoming during their earthly lives, they will be scheduled for the First Resurrection. And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
All the Sons
of God will walk the same path as Jesus Christ. They will overcome the
greatest adversaries ever devised by the mind of God. God has made
these adversaries, and summoned them to the clash, specifically for
the maturing of his developing Sons. He that
overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he
shall be my son.
These Sons
will be born from the spiritual genetics of God, and take their place
as the fully begotten brothers of Jesus Christ. For
both he that sanctifieth [Jesus] and they who are sanctified [You] are
all of one [God]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them
brethren.
The goal of
true Christianity is to follow the process that Jesus Christ
demonstrated, and to become what he is. We
all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are
changed into the same image. His life and example reveal the
secret path to Sonship. Christ also suffered
in your behalf, unto you leaving behind a pattern that ye might follow
in his steps. 1 Peter 2:21 (Emphasized).
Christianity
is not some prissy social game for the easily offended. It is the very
real, spiritual technology of God, calling you to share his character,
substance, and dwellingplace. The glory which
thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are
one.
The true
church of Jesus Christ is not a building, or any denomination. It is
an association of individuals that has spanned the ages- it is the
Sons of God. The general assembly and church
of the firstborn, which are written in heaven ... the spirits of just
men made perfect.
These Sons
will reject the oppressive ecclesiastical structure and its absurd
dogma. They will turn away from the noise of human programs and the
praise of men. They will not be satisfied with pagan doctrines, nor
the fearful lies of carnal self-preservation. They will not be
deceived by singers, sacraments, chants, pot-lucks, proselytizing,
buildings, brunch, or any other doings. They are not concerned with
ceremonial doing, but with becoming the fire-fashioned beauty of
immortal love.
The Sons of
God will seek out their Father in spirit and truth, and find him in
every situation. For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. They will pursue him
as indefatigable warriors. As men ravenous for battle they will wield
a sword against their own carnality, pushing always forward to
overcome every foe. From the days of John the
Baptist until the present time the kingdom of heaven has endured
violent assault, and violent men seize it by force as a precious
prize. A share in the heavenly kingdom is sought for with most ardent
zeal and intense exertion. Matthew 11:12 (Amplified).
These noble
beings will conquer the promised land of Sonship, following their
Older Brother to become what he is. Because as
He Himself is, we also shall be, in that world. 1 John 4:17 (Fenton).
At the end
of this age all the firstborn Sons of God, led by Jesus their Captain,
will come together to form a corporate, many-membered, ruling council,
known as the Body of Christ. For as the body
is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body,
being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
Those who
attain to this body will become the rulers of the universe. They will
inherit the double portion of a firstborn in Israel. Giving
him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of
his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
As priestly
shepherd-kings they will lead the creation, dispensing judgment unto
righteousness. As saviors they will loose the bands of darkness from
Israel, Adam, the world, and the stars. The dead will be raised. The
sinful will be changed. Those of Organized Christianity will be
redeemed from their delusions, taught of Sonship, and brought into the
fulness of spirit life. And saviours shall
come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom
shall be the LORD'S.
Your
Christianity is pure, only to the extent that you can see yourself
sharing in the example and destiny of Jesus Christ. Beloved,
now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall
be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him.
Achieving
this destiny rests entirely upon your establishment of an intimate
relationship with Jesus Christ and your Heavenly Father. Your
spiritual success has nothing whatever to do with the churches,
sacraments, doctrines, devils, fellowships, ceremonies, entertainment,
or teachings of Organized Christianity. By the wisdom and design of
God, they are but pagans in the pulpit.
We know also that the Son of God has come, and has endowed us with intellect, so that we can recognise the True; and we are in that Truth, with His Son Jesus, the Messiah. This is Divine Truth and Eternal Life. Dear children, guard yourselves from idolatry. 1 John 5:20,21 (Fenton).
End of Chapter 16: Pagans in the Pulpit.
Psalm 22:27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Psalm 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psalm 65:2 O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Psalm 66:3,4 Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Psalm 148:7,8 Raise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word.
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Isaiah 1:25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin.
Isaiah 29:24 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Isaiah 43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Isaiah 45:22,23 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Isaiah 46:4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Isaiah 49:6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
Isaiah 49:25,26 But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. … And all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 52:10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
Isaiah 63:17 O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Isaiah 66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 3:12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
Jeremiah 3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Jeremiah 33:6-8 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Amos 5:8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, … The LORD is his name.
Micah 7:18,19 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
Habakkuk 1:12 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
Zechariah 10:6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Luke 1:70,71 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us.
Luke 3:5,6 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Luke 20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
John 6:12 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Acts 27:22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship.
Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed.
Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one [Adam] judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one [Jesus] the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Romans 11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Romans 11:26,27 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Romans 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
1 Corinth 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
1 Corinth 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinth 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1 Corinth 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
2 Corinth 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Ephesians 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.
Philippians 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Colossians 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 Timothy 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men.
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us.
Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Revelation 5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
Revelation 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
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