<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087</id><updated>2012-01-16T22:07:50.207-07:00</updated><category term='Encouragement'/><title type='text'>Perverted Christianity</title><subtitle type='html'>I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.  Galatians 1:6-8</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>49</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-6665860321254262515</id><published>2012-01-16T22:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T22:07:50.227-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fear of God: the beginning of Wisdom</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Pro 9:10  The fear of the LORD &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; the beginning of wisdom: … &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Today's Christian tends to lack humility, seeks righteousness not from God, but from their idolatrous trappings: their ornate church building, their “services”.  Their fellow “Church” goers, you know 'Brother Jim and Sister Bobby Sue, they're always here every time the “Church” door is opened'.  That kind of flattery really gets to some people's heads.  Every time they're singled out as being faithful “Church”-goers, or tithers, they get another layer of self righteousness on them, pretty soon, like if you were to keep applying varnish to a table, it's going to take a massive sledge and chisel to break through it and find some humility in there!  The self-righteous like to wear their best clothes, and they raise their hands the highest and sway prominently during the “praise and worship” sessions in their “Church”, maybe you've seen this type?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;There's also another kind of self-righteousness or self-worship going on in Christendom.  It's intellectual one-upping your brother or sister, for example, you correct them in a public way over some minor doctrinal point, and inside you feel a bit superior to them.  Or, a group of people studying the Bible come up with a new take on a certain scripture, others disagree, but they refuse to reason through the scriptures regarding their “new” revelation. Instead, they utter phrases like “if you have ears to hear”, or something else, as if everyone but them has a spirit of stupor, or strong delusion because they “heard” from God.  Now, of course we know there are cases of God revealing His Word to His people, and not to others, but you had better be able to defend your beliefs when called on, and not just give a flippant remark in response to an honest question (1Pe 3:15).  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Still worse yet, others believe they have received a “Special” revelation from God and they are now going to charge the rest of us if we want to understand it!  Of course, no matter how you try to justify it, it is merchandising the Word of God (Mat 10:8), and you should expect Jesus to be angry with you for it (Joh 2:14-16).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Worst of all is the person who thinks it's all a game, and they, being so much smarter than others, can banter about the true meaning of scriptures with people just to prove how much superior they are than you.  They have no fear of God, don't really believe what they are saying, but they take pleasure in trying to make the Christian, who is studying his or her way to the truth, look like fools, as all who believe in God must be, according to these intellectual worshiping people.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;A few examples of people whose basic problem is they lack humility.  Pride is ruling the heart and mind, but the LORD has said:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Isa_13:11&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;  And I will punish the world for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;And Jesus speaking of the Kingdom of Heaven said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Mat 18:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;  And said&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Mat 18:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;The Bible is full of warnings to us:  Humble yourselves, do not exalt yourselves, be meek and mild, do not boast, do not try to reign over your brothers and sisters, do not chase after the things of the world, these are the habits of the pagans, the heathens, those who are without God (Mat 6:32).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Mat 6:33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; 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margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-6665860321254262515?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/6665860321254262515/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=6665860321254262515' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/6665860321254262515'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/6665860321254262515'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2012/01/fear-of-god-beginning-of-wisdom.html' title='Fear of God: the beginning of Wisdom'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-8743262824173388899</id><published>2012-01-09T19:01:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2012-01-09T19:45:30.543-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Calling the Lost Sheep of the True Israel of God out of the Harlot Church</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Two thousand years ago most of the children of Israel rejected their Messiah, the Lord God destroyed physical Israel, particularly Jerusalem, and its Temple (Mat 23:38, Luk 21:20-24), which had been turned into a place of merchandizing by the religious hierarchy (Mat 21:12-13), as today's Church has also become.  Instead of animals to sacrifice they sell books, tapes, and CDs, promising greater prosperity in all the things of the flesh.  No matter how wonderful you think your pastor or favorite televangelist is they have no right to sell the Gospel. Claiming it to be a tithe is still selling the Word of God.  No matter how the issue is spun, the Bible says freely you have received, freely give (Mat 10:8). They are the modern day Pharisees. They, like their spiritual ancestors, keep the truth of the Gospel from their congregations, and make their disciples into twice the children of hell they are (Mat 23:15).   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The promises, originally given to Abraham and his physical descendants (Gen 12:1-3, Gen 17), were now given to believer's in Jesus Christ only (Rom 15:8, Gal 3:16), and the children of physical Israel that weren't killed in the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD were scattered and made captives of all the nations of the earth (Luk 21:24).  The apostle Paul likens Israel after Jesus' finished work on the cross as an olive tree.  Believers in Jesus are grafted in to the olive tree and non-believers are torn out of it.  It isn't a matter of the “Church” replacing Abraham's physical descendants as Israel, it's the Lord God rejecting those who rejected His only begotten Son.  Moses prophesied the day:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Deu 18:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;And Peter, on the day of Pentecost, restated the prophesy to the children of Israel, and warned them again:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Act 3:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Act 3:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  And it shall come to pass, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;And many other warnings were given to the children of Israel, but still, only a few thousand repented and believed on Jesus as their Messiah.  They, along with the gentiles who believed, became the Israel of God (Gal 6:16).  Israel after the flesh would shortly be destroyed, but those that harkened (Act 3:23) unto Jesus would avoid the destruction and flee Jerusalem as He warned them to do (Luk 21:20-21).     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Why wouldn't they hear the Messiah?   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; margin-top: 0.04in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mat_17:5&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;  While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;It isn't that they weren't told to harken, to obey, they were (Deu 18:15, Act 3:22-23), but, they didn't believe He was who He said He was.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Joh 5:37&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Joh 5:38&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Joh 5:39&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Joh 5:40&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Joh 5:41&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;I receive not honour from men.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Joh 5:42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Joh 5:43&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;What could cause so many to fall away from the Word of God? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;To not know the time of His coming, to recognize their savior (Luk 19:44)?  The same thing that happened to most of the lost sheep of Israel has happened to the so-called “Church” today.  They've exchanged the Word of God, or commandments, for the traditions of men (Mat 15:3-9).  The book of Daniel points to the time of the Messiah (Dan 9:24-27). Isaiah points to the purposes and conditions of His coming in much greater detail (Isa 7:14, 8:14-15, 28:16, 42:1-4, 49:1-7, 50:4-9, 53:1-12).  Had the Israelite's of the time of His coming studied the scriptures, they would have known and been ready to receive Him, but, just as today, they listened to men who told them what they wanted to hear, not the truth (2Ti 2:15, 2Ti 4:4, Tit 1:14).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Take heed from the stories in the Bible regarding the children of Israel, and do not fall into the same traps and snares they did (1Co 10:11).  Today's obstacles to salvation are even greater than then.  2 Th 2 tells us that in the last days there will be a “great falling away” preceding the return of Jesus Christ.  We are clearly in these times as most of the professing Christians in the world look to their governments for guidance, and abide by the laws of man over the commandments of God.  The Word of God has been so twisted and distorted that's its original meaning is lost and God's “children” don't care, in fact many take pleasure in their man made traditions and idols, such as their church buildings and flags and books, CDs and DVDs, supposedly Bible-based, that leads them away from the Holy Spirit and to follow the flesh.  The great falling away of God's “people” has caused these lost souls to covet wealth and self righteous adulation in their false temples, known as churches. To support the wars of the devil's kingdoms, and to practically worship a condemned people and a forsaken, desolate piece of land in the middle east.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Take a few minutes here and think these things over carefully:  Are you following God's commandments or the traditions of men when you support the government's wars?  The Bible tells us that the whole world lies in wickedness (1Jo 5:19) and that the kingdoms of the world belong to Satan (Mat 4:8-9).  Why would a “Christian” let him or herself get talked into fighting for Satan's kingdoms?  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Mat 5:9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Blessed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Mat 5:38&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Mat 5:39&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2Co_10:4&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;  (For the weapons of our warfare &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Despite all the scriptures to the contrary, most self proclaimed Christians still think it's a good thing to fight for the kingdoms of the world.  No matter what country you fight for or against, it's still Satan's!      Therefore, only Satan can win when his kingdoms fight against each other in the flesh.  If you've read and understood this you know you've been misled, you've been deceived by the very thing which you've been taught was supposed to teach you about God and His Word, the “Church”, instead they've led you into breaking His Commandments.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Another grievous example of man’s traditions taking precedence over the commandments of God is in the area of money.  Despite several warnings from Jesus, self pro-claimed “Christians” still chase after wealth and material possessions like the pagans do (Mat 6:32).  Pastors implore their congregations to give more and more, they need bigger Church buildings, more people in the Churches, more of everything, bigger houses, more expensive clothing and cars.  With the promises of material gain for themselves, many Christians think what the Lord intended as giving as your heart leads (2Co 9:7), is really a religious stock market, or a magic money multiplier.  Instead of making disciples of Christians and leading them to endure to the end and salvation, the modern religious leaders are more like CEOs of corporations that are judged by the balance sheet, and not the character of their congregations, a perversion of the purpose of assembling together for fellowship and worship of God.  You're not under the law, you aren't required to give 10 percent of your earnings, although the religious leaders like you to think that, but as was said above, Christians are to give as their heart leads, not under compulsion, not under false doctrine, but cheerfully, from a pure heart, expecting nothing back.  Think carefully about this Christian: why would the LORD lead you to chase after that which makes it harder to enter into Heaven?  Is the purpose of the Church to make money or to gain salvation for the lost?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Mat 19:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  Then said Jesus unto his disciples, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Verily I say unto you, That a rich man         shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Mat 19:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk 1:53&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk 6:20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Blessed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;be ye&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk 6:21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Blessed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;are ye&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;are ye&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;that weep now: for ye shall laugh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk 6:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;from their company,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;and shall reproach&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;you,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk 6:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk 6:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This is the state of today's “Church”, totally corrupted by and conformed to the world.  Completely removed from its original calling, which is to gather a people out from the world, call them out of the world as God called Abraham out, and to remain faithful to Him and obey His commandments.  Instead, the average “Christian” is as corrupt and immoral as the pagan non-believer, divorce rates are as high or higher, infidelity, hard-hearted, giving only to family, if that, not to all who ask. Wanting old Covenant punishments for all others, but New Covenant forgiveness for themselves.  Far more interested in the things of the world than the Word of God, and happy to pay others to tell them what they want to hear, rather than study God's Word for themselves.  Delighting in the false doctrines of prosperity and raptures and wars, et al.  They have become, just as the children of Israel 2,000 years ago, a people who won't recognize their Messiah and their Messiah will not know them either when He returns (Mat 7:21-23).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Worse than not knowing Him, they now align themselves with a group of condemned blasphemers who DENY His Coming, His DIVINITY, and all the things He FULFILLED on the CROSS (Joh 3:18)!  The Bible is crystal clear on the gathering of the Tribes of Israel, it can only be done by the Messiah (Deu 30:3), and concerning the physical descendants of Abraham, none can be blessed, or be brought back into Covenant with God until they acknowledge the Messiah (Mat 23:39)!  The result of nearly 200 years of Dispensational, or duel Covenant Theology in the churches' has been the creation of a false religion known as Judeo-Christianity, which of course is an oxymoron: how can you join one religion that believes its Messiah hasn't yet come, to one that believes He has come?  To deny Christ is of the antichrist, plain and simple (1Jo 2:22-23).  If your “Church” leaders won't tell you that, then you are obviously going to the wrong place to learn about the Bible.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Why is it so important to understand the True Israel of God (Rom 11, Gal 6:16) is spiritual, like as the kingdom of Heaven?  Why do you need to know that a True Jew, or Israelite is one who's heart is circumcised (Rom 2:29)?  Why do you need to know that the true Temple of God is the body of Christ, the believer (2Co 6:16), and not a physical building the unbelievers want to restore in Palestine?  Because it is the essence of the New and Better Covenant promised by all the Old Testament prophets, of which Jesus Christ is the mediator (Heb 8:6, 12:24).  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;2Co 6:16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;them;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;2Co 6:17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;thing;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; and I will receive you, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;2Co 6:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Because, only if you know these things will you truly be able to be in Covenant with the LORD.  You must know who you are in Christ in order to be truly saved, to fulfill your duties and obligations and to not be deceived as most in the “Church” are.  The truth is not taught in the “Church” any more, as Paul said “sound doctrine” is no longer tolerated (2Ti 4:3).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The “Church” has convinced a majority of Christians that they are “saved” regardless of what they do or believe.  They have deceived you into giving up your birthright in Christ to a group of unbeliever's in Satan's counterfeit “Israel”.  Becoming spiritual Esau's, when, of course you need to become as Jacob (Rom 9:13)!  They've made merchandise of you and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and you've made them rich in the process, hoping and lusting after riches yourselves.  The religious hierarchy, whether it be massive like the Catholic “Church” or some of the larger denominations, or just a pastor in a small local “Church” that inserts himself between you and the True Mediator of the New and Better Covenant, Jesus Christ, have been deceived, and now deceive whoever stays in their man-made temples (2Ti 3:13), teaching for doctrine the traditions of men and not the Commandments of God (Mat 15:2-6, Mar 7:8-13, Col 2:8).   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Think Christian, think hard, pray and ask for God's Wisdom (Jas 1:5), His Holy Spirit leading you to all truth (Joh 16:13).  Remember how God called Abraham out of his homeland (Gen 12:1)?  Remember that Church means a called out body of believers, not an physical, material institution (see Strong's G1577).  Near the end of the book of Revelation God is calling His People out yet again (Rev 18:4).  The “Church” has fallen away from God (2Th 2:3), is conformed to the world (Rom 12:2, 2Th 2:10-12), and even frequently commits spiritual fornication with the world (Rev 14:8, 17:2, 17:4, 18:3, 18:9, 19:2)!  The worst is yet to come for the so-called “Church”.  Just as He destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 AD, He IS going to do the same to the Harlot Church and those that do not harken and obey His command to come out of her!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rev 18:4&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Think of all the false doctrine's this man-made religious institution called the “Church” has given you? Isn't it obvious that if you stay in her you'll be physically destroyed?  Following that logical conclusion, won't your soul also be relegated to the Lake of Fire as well?  Yes, of course it will, but, it doesn't have to be that way.  Care enough about God’s Word to study it, rightly divide it (2Ti 2:15) and recognize where you should be and where you shouldn't be, whom you should seek fellowship with and who not to (2Co 6:14)&amp;nbsp; A Christian must know who they are in Christ!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-size: large;"&gt;1Pe 2:9&amp;nbsp; But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;&amp;nbsp; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: &lt;br /&gt;1Pe 2:10&amp;nbsp; Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Come out of the “Church”, warn others to do the same.  Accept your spiritual birthright, you are the Israel of God, you, the believer in Christ, not the unbelievers who call themselves Jews and Abraham’s descendants.  As for them, pray for them and preach the good news to them, don't help them to store up God's wrath against themselves, as they are surely doing now.     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;When the Messiah started His ministry He said He came only for the “lost sheep of Israel”.  They were lost sheep because their “shepherds” had led them astray:   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Jer 50:6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;on&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Join me and my brothers and sisters as we seek to call today's lost sheep of the true Israel of God out of the “Church”, join us in the true Israel of God, and come out of the man-made temples of false doctrines, idol worship and spiritual fornication.     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Luk 21:36&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt;Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Pray always,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark201@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;dmark2012 on Skype.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-8743262824173388899?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/8743262824173388899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=8743262824173388899' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/8743262824173388899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/8743262824173388899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2012/01/calling-true-israel-of-god-out-of.html' title='Calling the Lost Sheep of the True Israel of God out of the Harlot Church'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-3573848615809964603</id><published>2011-10-04T08:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:23:07.463-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Christ IS the Fulfillment of the Promises to Abraham!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;This is the final summary we're goingto make of our position regarding the promises to Abraham and hisseed.  We believe we've have made the case from the Bible alone,while those who attempt to say God has not fulfilled His promises toAbraham or his physical seed, need to go outside the Bible to try toprove theirs.  One scripture says it all, once again:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gal3:16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not,And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which isChrist. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Promises, plural, more than one, notjust salvation, and seed as in one, the Lord Jesus Christ.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Many like to say that some, or all ofthe promises were unconditional, but that is easily refuted.  Godcalled Abram out of his homeland and made promises to him, if Abramhad refused to leave per God's instruction, would he have beenblessed? Of course not!  Abraham believed God and obeyed Him.  Isaacand Jacob also obeyed God and trusted in His promises, these are thenatural branches of the Olive tree referred to by Paul in Romans 11,which represents the Israel of God.  Read Hebrews 11 and see theothers who trusted and obeyed before Christ's coming, these also arethe natural branches. There are a few mentioned, but most ofAbraham's physical seed fell away from God, didn't trust Him, didn'tobey Him, and that is why they are no longer eligible for anypromises made to their forefathers, they all died in their sins. That's why a new Covenant had to be made, as promised by God:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Jer31:33&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; But this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;shallbe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After thosedays, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, andwrite it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be mypeople. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Jer31:34&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every manhis brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, fromthe least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for Iwill forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Heb8:1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; Now of the things which we have spoken &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;thisis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand ofthe throne of the Majesty in the heavens; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which theLord pitched, and not man. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:wherefore &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;itis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing thatthere are priests that offer gifts according to the law: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moseswas admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for,See, saith he, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in themount. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much alsohe is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established uponbetter promises. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For if that first &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;covenant&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for thesecond. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saiththe Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israeland with the house of Judah: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in theday when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land ofEgypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded themnot, saith the Lord. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after thosedays, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and writethem in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall beto me a people: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man hisbrother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the leastto the greatest. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins andtheir iniquities will I remember no more. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb8:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; In that he saith, A new &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;covenant,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;ready to vanish away. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Heb12:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the livingGod, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Heb12:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which arewritten in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits ofjust men made perfect, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Heb12:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood ofsprinkling, that speaketh better things than &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;thatof&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Abel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb12:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped notwho refused him that spake on earth, much more &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;shallnot&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;we &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;escape,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;if we turn away from him that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;speaketh&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;from heaven: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb12:26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying,Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb12:27&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;word,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that areshaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot beshaken may remain. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb12:28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us havegrace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godlyfear: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb12:29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For our God &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;a consuming fire. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Because most of Abraham's physical seedhad failed to trust and obey God, and lost their inheritance, a newway was made to bring the natural branches back in, and at the sametime to fulfill the promise to Abraham that all the people's of theearth would be blessed also:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gen12:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, andmake thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gen12:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseththee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Godthrough Jesus Christ, as the seed of Abraham, as the mediator of thenew and better Covenant, has and will continue to fulfill Hispromises to Abraham, through His only begotten Son, not through thephysical descendants of Abraham:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Heb12:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood ofsprinkling, that speaketh better things than &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;thatof&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Abel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Heb12:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped notwho refused him that spake on earth, much more &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;shallnot&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;we &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;escape,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;if we turn away from him that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;speaketh&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;from heaven: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; font-style: normal;"&gt;Inother words those that didn't obey and trust God, didn't follow thelaw, those that “refused him that spake on earth“, died in theirsins, and can no longer be partakers of the promises to Abraham.  Andthe same fate awaits those that refuse to listen to and obey JesusChrist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Deu18:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst ofthee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Act3:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord yourGod raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall yehear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Act3:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; And it shall come to pass, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed fromamong the people. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Act3:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after,as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Act3:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which Godmade with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall allthe kindreds of the earth be blessed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Act3:26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him tobless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large; font-style: normal;"&gt;Asthe scripture says if they reject Christ, they die in their sins,unable to participate in the promises:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Act3:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; And it shall come to pass, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed fromamong the people. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Joh8:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Isaid therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if yebelieve not that I am&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;he,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;yeshall die in your sins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;The scriptures say all the prophetsforetold this from Samuel to the greatest prophet born of women:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Mat11:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;VerilyI say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath notrisen a greater than John the Baptist …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Andwhat did that great prophet say to his fellow kinsmen of the flesh? Don't worry, you are saved by race?  Fear not, you're God's chosenpeople?  It doesn't matter how you behave, don't worry  about the lawor God's commandments, trust in your race, your flesh, not God? No,of course not! He said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk3:7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him,O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath tocome? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Luk3:8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not tosay within yourselves, We have Abraham to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;our&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raiseup children unto Abraham. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk3:9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every treetherefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and castinto the fire. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Somuch for the salvation by race theology, and to die without salvationis to die in your sins, and that means without inheritance to any ofthe promises to Abraham.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Howthen can the promises be fulfilled, who can be an heir?  Both thenatural and spiritual heirs of Abraham, through faith and obedience,through the seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ!  The natural branches tornout of the Israel of God because of unbelief, can be grafted back inif they come to believe, and the gentiles become branches also,through faith in Christ.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-size: large;"&gt;All things weremade through Him, by Him, and some claim He can't fulfill all thepromises made to Abraham?  He is the Word made flesh, the lamb of Godsent to redeem the earth.  To fulfill the promises to Abraham, and toDavid.  He, in the flesh, was a descendant from Adam through Abrahamthrough David to his birth of the virgin Mary.  Christ reigns in thehearts of believers now and in the future, as the Lion of the Tribeof Judah, He'll return to rule and reign over all with His saintsforever!  All promises have and will be fulfilled through Him, andHim alone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Remember,the Bible says that Jesus Christ is the Word and was there from thebeginning:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Joh1:1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and theWord was God. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Joh1:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; The same was in the beginning with God. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Joh1:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing madethat was made. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Afinal point of contention is why the mention of the 12 Tribes in the7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;chapter of the Book of Revelation? God's prophet Elijah said:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: 0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;1Ki19:9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, theword of the LORD &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;came&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;1Ki19:10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: forthe children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thinealtars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;even&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;1Ki19:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Yet I have left &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;me&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed untoBaal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;AndPaul speaking of this exchange says:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rom11:1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also aman Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;of&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the tribe of Benjamin. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rom11:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not whatthe scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to Godagainst Israel, saying, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rom11:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars;and I am left alone, and they seek my life. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rom11:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myselfseven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;theimage of&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Baal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Paulwas Saul, an unbeliever of the tribe of Benjamin, torn out of  theOlive tree, which represents the Israel of God, and then grafted backin by faith and obedience to Christ.  The disobedient and unbelievingphysical seed of Abraham were indeed torn out of the Israel of God,but they aren't cast away permanently, unless they remain inunbelief.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Readagain what God says about the 7,000: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Ihave reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed theknee to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;theimage of&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Baal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Bowinga knee to an image is idolatry, or more specifically a form ofspiritual fornication. Now read what is said about the 144,000, or 12Tribes of 12,000 each: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rev14:1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with himan hundred forty &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rev14:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and asthe voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpersharping with their harps: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rev14:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and beforethe four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song butthe hundred &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;forty &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rev14:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; These are they which were not defiled with women; for they arevirgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.These were redeemed from among men, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;being&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rev14:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without faultbefore the throne of God. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Thekey here is “These are they which were not defiled with women; forthey are virgins. “ In Revelation's symbolic or spiritual language,not defiled from women is another way of saying that they have notspiritually fornicated or committed idolatry with the whore, the endtimes fallen “church”, always referred to as a woman.  They haveheard and obeyed God calling them out of the great Harlot.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Nowlet's put the two together: The point is they are free from theidolatry that caused so many of Abraham's physical seed to perish. After Christ paid the price for sinful man to be reconciled to God,both the natural branches, like Paul, and the gentiles, who believedon Christ became branches in the Olive tree representing the Israelof God, along with the natural branches never torn out.  Somehow thegentiles are translated into the 12 Tribes, they must be if they arealso the seed of Abraham through Christ.  The number 144,000 is usedin the book of Revelation, but this could be just symbolic, and manymore hopefully will be sealed and protected before the Lord's wrath. In any case, the use of the 12 tribes of Israel in no way infers thenecessity of a physical continuance of the seed of Abraham for anypromise to be fulfilled.  The genealogies in Matthew chapter 1 andLuke chapter 3 are only there to show that Jesus Christ, in theflesh, is definitely a direct descendant of Abraham, through David,thus as the seed of Abraham, He and He alone is the fulfillment ofGod's promises to His called out servant Abraham.  And we, as Hiscalled out of the conformed to the world “church” are Abraham'sspiritual descendants, and we live by faith also.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Thereare many theories about a continuance of Abraham's physical seed tothis day, being blessed and still considered His (God's) chosenpeople.  I think we've disproven these in a satisfactory manor.  Tosay these theories are dangerous is an understatement, look at whatmany so-called “christians” believe is Israel today:  A nation ofunbelievers that came to being by slaughtering the rightfulinhabitants of the land, and continuing an ethnic cleansing of theland to this very day.  Some believe a royal line of descendantscontinues to this day, and that they have to have a person“physically” on the “throne of David” until Shiloh comes. Shiloh has come, and He is Jesus Christ! How much more royal can youget than the King of Kings??  All of these theories are myths createdto at the very least diminish the divinity of Jesus Christ, and thefinished work of the cross.  They all say yes, Jesus, plus somethingelse to fulfill God's promises.  To that we say a rousing No!  JesusChrist is all in all!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Eph1:21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, andevery name that is named, not only in this world, but also in thatwhich is to come: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Eph1:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; And hath put all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;things&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;under his feet, and gave him &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;tobe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the head over all &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;things&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;to the church, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Eph1:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Andwe give warning right from the Bible to those who continue on intheir myths and fables, and continuing on past Christ in the genealogies, there is no need for it and that is why they stop at Jesus in the Bible:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;1Ti_1:4&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which ministerquestions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;sodo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; margin-top: 0.04in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;1Ti_4:7&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;rather&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;unto godliness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; margin-top: 0.04in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2Ti_4:4&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; And they shall turn away &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;their&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; margin-top: 0.04in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tit_1:14&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turnfrom the truth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; margin-top: 0.04in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tit_3:9&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, andstrivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; margin-top: 0.04in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;2Pe_1:16&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt; For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we madeknown unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, butwere eyewitnesses of his majesty. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Andfinally, we close where we started, with the verses proceeding Paul'sproclamation that Christ IS the seed of Abraham, may the Holy Spiritguide you into all truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obeythe truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently setforth, crucified among you? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gal3:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the worksof the law, or by the hearing of faith? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gal3:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now madeperfect by the flesh? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gal3:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;itbe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;yet in vain. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and workethmiracles among you, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;doethhe it&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him forrighteousness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are thechildren of Abraham. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathenthrough faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;saying,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;In thee shall all nations be blessed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: forit is written, Cursed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;every one that continueth not in all things which are written in thebook of the law to do them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;itis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;evident: for, The just shall live by faith. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall livein them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made acurse for us: for it is written, Cursed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;every one that hangeth on a tree: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles throughJesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit throughfaith. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;itbe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;but a man's covenant, yet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ifit be&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not,And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which isChrist. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; And this I say, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law,which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, thatit should make the promise of none effect. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal3:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; For if the inheritance &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;of the law, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;itis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;no more of promise: but God gave &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;to Abraham by promise. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;DMark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Skype: dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; 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margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Joh 13:34&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Joh 13:35&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;By this shall all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;men&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Today's “Christians” are broken down into thousands of different denominations, divisions within divisions, separate buildings, and some even use their own versions of the Bible!  How did things ever get this way?  It didn't happen by loving one another as Jesus commanded.  Most often it happens because people operate by the flesh and not by the Spirit.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Jas 3:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  Who &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Jas 3:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Jas 3:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  This wisdom descendeth not from above, but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; earthly, sensual, devilish. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Jas 3:16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  For where envying and strife &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; there &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; confusion and every evil work. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Jas 3:17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Jas 3:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Groups split up into smaller groups, perhaps one of the group has a strong personality and draws others to follow, and then of course, there's the natural inclination to laziness: “why should I study if so and so will do it for me?” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;2Ti 2:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Other reasons are more appropriate sounding, a division over interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, a refusal of one or more to heed the warnings of the elders, and on and on it goes.  Generally speaking, the lusts of the flesh draw away brothers and sisters from one another.  Of course there are valid reasons for casting out former brethren, or for leaving a group of believers that won't heed a call to repent.  But I assert here, and I've been guilty of it, that most division comes from fleshly behavior, acting like the Pagans we're called out of, and refusing to reason through the scriptures in love and mutual respect for each other, and with proper humility, e.g. it's possible for even the most learned among us to be wrong occasionally!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;In the current times we live in, most of us agree we are in what the Bible refers to as the end times, but that's about where the agreements end.  Some groups believe that they'll be raptured out before the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Great day of his wrath”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; is come (Rev 6:17). I don't agree with that belief, but for anyone who wants to reason through the Bible regarding it, I will.  The Lord help me to act in love as He has called me to do.  If we come together as humble and loving disciples of Jesus Christ, and pray for understanding, for unity, and for truth, the Holy Spirit will guide us&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; “into all truth” &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;(Joh 16:13)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Keep in mind, if we are still in disagreement, or inconclusive, after praying and reasoning , we are all still on a need to know basis, it may be the Lord chooses not to reveal certain things yet:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Joh 16:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;This doesn't mean we should stop seeking truth, but it's the Lord's way of telling us, stop, regroup, gather together what you've been shown, and be sure you understand, all of you, and soon He'll reveal more as needed.  If we don't act this way, again, divisions will occur, our part of the body of Christ will splinter apart, some will go in opposite directions, one leading this group and another that group, before you know it we're a dozen groups, each sure the others are wrong, and some convinced the rest are on there way to Hell!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;This reminds me of a thought, or a dream I had, can't remember which now.  I'll have to quickly give you some background so you'll understand.  My in-laws and I met a little over 10 years ago, our first meeting was memorable for the fact that it quickly established the rest of our relationship.  We had a disagreement on what it means to be a “Christian”, and who might be a good example.  They were still jubilant at George W. Bush's “election” and quite pleased that a real “Christian” would now occupy the White house.  When I informed them of my opinion of Bush Jr, that pretty much set the stage for the rest of our relationship.  Was I wrong to inform them? No. Did I do it from love? No.  If I had taken the time to get to know them better, to build on the things we shared, then later in mutual respect and love we could have possibly come to the obvious conclusion about Bush, as now we (almost) all see the bad fruit he bore.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Instead we went from possibly being part of the body of Christ, being more than a family, but actually being brothers and sisters in Christ, to adversaries.  Looking back at it, what does it matter really?  I was right, they were wrong, they rejected the truth, I tore down their idol Bush Jr., they don't love the truth, they're probably going to Hell anyways, whatever!  Right!?  Wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Back to that dream, I was in a new place, wasn't sure where, but I knew it had something to with the afterlife.  I was dead and was trying to figure out where and what was happening.  I looked around and saw people I knew vaguely, not well, then I saw my father-in-law … my heart sank, I had to be in Hell if he was there too!  I looked at him, he looked at me, from the way the blood had run out of his face, white as a ghost, he obviously had the same thought!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Joh 13:34&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Joh 13:35&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;By this shall all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;men&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I've tried really hard to turn things around, to show them the true Gospel, but it may be that they will never receive from me that which God has given me, because of my error in our first meeting.  I've forgiven them, shouldn't they have forgiven me too? Yes.  But the fact is I played a part in their continued deception by the great Whore AKA the “Church”.  I was, and am apparently still, a stumbling block to them.  That hurts.  The message here is to think before you speak, be careful to not offend if it can be avoided.  Act in love and gently correct and reproof, you'll probably get better results than to attack their idols right off.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Jas 3:17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Jas 3:18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Look at the groups on the Internet, listen to the podcasts, the message I'm hearing the loudest is we have received the hidden knowledge of the Lord, we're the Remnant, the 144,000, the Chosen ones whom God has revealed this to, listen to us, don't question us, if you disagree you're obviously not one of us, you don't love the truth, and numerous other unpleasant implications, etc..  Groups of people formed into little cliques, usually led by dominant personalities, that mock and/or predict terrible things for those that disagree with their interpretations.  This isn't my idea of fellowship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Rom 12:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;of himself&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rom 12:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Rom 12:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  So we, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;being&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The wisest among us must remain humble, must remember that without the Holy Spirit  guiding us we would all be deceived.  Furthermore, we were all deceived by false doctrines at some point weren't we?  It would do us all well to remember the Lord's Words concerning how we want to be treated:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Luk 6:31&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If you are in error you would want someone to gently correct you, not make you feel like an idiot, or an unsaved wretch.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Surely there are circumstances where reasoning through the scriptures, no matter how gently and lovingly, will be of any use.  You'll know when you're dealing with unreasonable people, whose aim is not to learn, but to confuse the truth, or to continue the merchandizing of the people.  The Pharisees at the time of Jesus' first coming were good examples.  Look how our Lord dealt with them, He knew their hearts were evil, but He still spoke the true Gospel to them, and when they refused it He harshly condemned them:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Mat 23:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;yourselves,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Mat 23:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Mat 23:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;He wasn't gentle, He wasn't loving, their actions had proven they weren't seeking truth, but ways to trick Him and to get rid of Him.  But, when Nicodemus, also a Pharisee,  came to Him, He was gentle and patiently explained the Gospel to him (see John CH 3).  And when the rich young ruler came to Him and sincerely sought of Him, Jesus replied:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Mar 10:21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Lord knows the hearts of men, we don't, so we'll have to exercise extreme caution before we brand someone as an enemy of the Gospel and unworthy to hear the truth.  We are not alone in this world though, we have the Holy Spirit of God to aid us in our work:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;1Co 2:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;1Co 2:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;1Co 2:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;1Co 2:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;them,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; because they are spiritually &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;discerned. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;There are many things that the Lord will reveal to us, in His time, and we have to be patiently studying our Bibles and earnestly and faithfully seeking the truth.  Along the way we'll encounter those whom we're counseled to not “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. (Mat 7:6)” &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;And we'll meet our brethren, who also seek the truth, as we do.  To honestly know the difference we'll have to continually seek God the Father through His Holy Spirit:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Co 2:10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  But God hath revealed &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;them&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;If we find ourselves becoming unloving towards others, extraordinarily harsh in our responses, or too pious and haughty in our responses to the honest truth seeker, then it is time for us to repent and begin again.  If we no longer have the patience to defend our beliefs in a fair and respectful manner, then it's time to judge ourselves and seek the Lord, not for new and exciting revelations, but for to create again within us a true love for our brethren, a pure heart and for a renewing of a right Spirit within us (Psa 51:10).  In this condition, no matter how much we know or think we know, we are of little use to anyone, because we are such bad examples of the love of Christ that we'll turn away far more than we'll turn to Him:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;1Co 13:1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;as&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;1Co 13:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And though I have &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;the gift of&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;1Co 13:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And though I bestow all my goods to feed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;the poor,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;Skype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; 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font-size: medium;"&gt;Read carefully what I am going to tell you, because your response will determine your fate.  You yourselves have been duped by your religious leaders, and in the process, most of the world has been deceived also.  The Messiah, promised to the children of Israel, has already come.  Nearly 2,000 years ago He came and ministered to the children of Israel exclusively, He was rejected, and put to death by the religious leaders of the day. He came to take away the sins of the children of Israel and a few accepted Him, believed on Him, and they were and are saved.  He came as “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;” When He returns, it is not to save unbelievers, He will be “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the Lion of the Tribe of Juda&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Andalus, serif; font-size: medium;"&gt;”!  Returning to destroy His enemies, you who deny Him, who oppress those that believe on Him, are among His enemies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;His first coming and crucifixion was foretold in the book of Daniel to the very year, still, most of the children of Israel rejected Him.  Most of the religious leaders denied Him, and led themselves and their followers to destruction.  The blind leading the blind.  The book of Daniel says:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.  Know therefore and understand, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;shall be&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.  And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;shall be&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.  And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The proper interpretation of the above scriptures places the Messiah's coming and death by crucifixion, and the fulfillment of the prophecies stated &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;at approximately 2,000 years ago, during the 70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; week, the prophesy has been completely fulfilled, and any religious leader that claims differently is in error, any that say the Messiah has not yet come are False Prophets! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;The prophecy of the 70 weeks as relayed to Daniel by the Angel Gabriel is broken down into 3* parts: 7 weeks, 62 weeks and the final week, the 70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; week.  It begins at the decree to rebuild Jerusalem issued by Cyrus approximately 457 BC.  The decree to and subsequent rebuilding of the Temple took approximately 7 weeks or 49 years.  The 62 week period is from the last book of the Tanakh given to the children of Israel, Malachi, to the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ.  A period of 434 years. The 70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; week, the final 7 years, starts with the coming of the Messiah (27 AD) and His baptism and the Holy Spirit of God descending upon Him (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Know therefore and understand, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;that&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;shall be&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;.  Half way through that final 7 years, the Messiah, Jesus Christ, was crucified (30 AD) by the Romans, because of the treachery and deceit of the religious leaders of the children of Israel, and the consent of the people who were deceived by them, (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;and roughly 3 ½ years later with the stoning of Stephen (book of Acts 6:8-15, 7:1-60), an early martyr for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the 70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; week ends (34 AD), and by roughly 40 years later, Jerusalem was completely destroyed as predicted in Daniel (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;) &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;and by the mouth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Luk 19:42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  Saying, &lt;/span&gt;If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;which belong&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk 19:43&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Luk 19:44&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Over the years many efforts have been made to discount or discredit the book of Daniel.  Ranging from it was not written by Daniel, to it was written after the events foretold in it, to changing a few of the verses to make it of no effect in foretelling the coming of the Messiah Jesus Christ, whether it's already happened or still to come, etc..  Various vested interests have sought to change the words and dates and times to benefit their own particular prejudices and have been successful.  Millions of Jews have died, believing falsely, their Messiah was still to come.  Today, unbelievers in “Israel” and apostate Christians have formed alliances to continue rebuilding an earthly kingdom, as if it could somehow bring about salvation for either one.  It will not, and the latter could care less about the former's state of salvation, their desire to rebuild an earthly kingdom comes from a twisted view of the Bible and has nothing to do with loving or caring about the unbelievers or Jews in “Israel”.  The first two of the three Abrahamic religions have a current common enemy thanks to false flag operations and continued propaganda: the Muslims.  Behind all this deception, using the deceived as moral high ground to hide their wicked actions, is an unseen group of people, surely aligned with Satan himself, that seek to control all the resources and peoples of the lands they covet.  These evil deceivers are like puppeteers controlling each side (including all three of the major Abrahamic religions) with strings, fomenting hatred of each side for the other, ensuring continued death and slowly gaining the evil desires of their blackened hearts and souls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Seek the Lord diligently and see if this is true!  Pray, study and seek the truth, don't listen to others, find out for yourself:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Blessed &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; 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 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; meditate &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;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.  The ungodly &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; not so: but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; like the chaff which the wind driveth away.  Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.  For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;As the unbeliever's strive to reclaim an earthly kingdom like Solomon's, killing the innocent along with their perceived enemies, as they plot to rebuild a temple and restore animal sacrifices as a way to salvation, remember the scriptures, which say to do so is of no use:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Thus saith the LORD, The heaven &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; my throne, and the earth &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; my footstool: where &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; the house that ye build unto me? and where &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; the place of my rest?  For all those &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;things&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; hath mine hand made, and all those &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;things&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; have been, saith the LORD: but to this &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;man&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; will I look, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;even&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; to &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;him that is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.  He that killeth an ox &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;is as if&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;as if&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;as if he offered&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; swine's blood; he that burneth incense, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;as if&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.   I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;that&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; in which I delighted not.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(the book of Isaiah)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.  To what purpose &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; the multitude of your&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; sacrifices&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.  When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?  Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; iniquity, even the solemn meeting.  Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;them.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.  (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;the book of Isaiah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;From the book of Hosea:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;They shall not offer wine &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;offerings&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;sacrifices &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;shall be&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.  What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?  For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;places&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;shall be&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; in their tabernacles.  The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; the prophet &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; a fool, the spiritual man &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Your religious leaders are blind fools, twisting the Word of God to fit the traditions, and fleshly lusts of men.  2,000 years ago they led your forefathers to reject the Messiah and today they are leading you to hate and reject the only one who can save you!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;From the book of Isaiah:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; in Jerusalem.  Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;stone,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;That tried and precious cornerstone is the Messiah, Jesus Christ!  The only way to break the covenant with death and hell is to accept the covenant offered that the Blood of Christ purchased for us, for you!  “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;” He is the corner stone of the true Temple which the Lord Himself will bring to us who believe, it can't be built with human hands, and it cannot be won with money or wars, but by faith alone!  He is the one Moses prophesied of:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.  And the LORD said unto me, They have well &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;spoken that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; which they have spoken.  I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.  And it shall come to pass, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; of him.  (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;from the book of Deuteronomy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Again, for 2,000 years now, those that have not “hearkened” to, or obeyed and believed in Him have died in their sins!  Time is short, turn to the truth.  Remember, when you see Him coming in the clouds, if you live that long, it's too late, your time will have passed you by just as it did the children of Israel at His first coming.  May the Lord our God change your heart so you come to believe and accept the only path to reconciliation with Him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;The book of Hosea says “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;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&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Skype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Andalus, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;* My understanding of the 3 parts of the 70 weeks was advanced by an excellent article by James Lloyd which can be seen here: &lt;a href="http://www.christianmediaresearch.com/cmc-64.html"&gt;http://www.christianmediaresearch.com/cmc-64.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-8794659637839987305?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/8794659637839987305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=8794659637839987305' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/8794659637839987305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/8794659637839987305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2011/04/to-unbelievers-calling-themselves.html' title='To the Unbelievers Calling Themselves “Israel”'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-899206567029788439</id><published>2011-02-22T11:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:30:27.406-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Leading Zionists' to the Truth</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;To the apostate  Zionists':&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;There are several verses in the Bible that will lead you to the truth regarding Satan's counterfeit Israel in these end times.  Perhaps none clearer than the following:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Act 3:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Act 3:23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  And it shall come to pass, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Deu 18:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;John Wesley's commentary:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 3:22&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  The Lord shall raise you up a prophet like unto me - And that in many particulars. Moses instituted the Jewish Church: Christ instituted the Christian. With the prophesying of Moses was soon joined the effect, the deliverance of Israel from Egypt: with the prophesying of Christ that grand effect, the deliverance of his people from sin and death. Those who could not bear the voice of God, yet desired to hear that of Moses. Much more do those who are wearied with the law, desire to hear the voice of Christ. Moses spake to the people all, and only those things, which God had commanded him: so did Christ. But though he was like Moses, yet he was infinitely superior to him, in person, as well as in office. See &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Deu_18:15&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 3:23&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  Every soul who will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people - One cannot imagine a more masterly address than this, to warn the Jews of the dreadful consequence of their infidelity, in the very words of their favourite prophet, out of a pretended zeal for whom they rejected Christ.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;In the Torah and the Tanakh, and the Old and New Testaments, it is made clear over and over again what is the fate of those who don't hearken to, or listen to and obey the promised prophet, the Messiah, Jesus Christ!  No one has an excuse for being misled; it can only happen when you let others, paid servants of the world government incorporated “Church”, do your thinking for you.  If you had been studying your Bible for yourselves and been led by the Holy Spirit you would not be deceived by these wolves in sheep's clothing:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;2Ti 2:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  Study &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The Word of God says if the “Jews”, or physical descendants of Abraham, who were in Israel at the time of the Messiah's coming failed to hear Him, or obey and accept Him as their Messiah, they will be “destroyed from among the people”.  It doesn't say regardless if they accept Him or not they'll be restored to a physical Israel after a Holocaust, it says there won't be any physical Jews left that rejected Christ, again, they will have been “destroyed from among the people”!  Therefore, the people living in modern day Israel are not “God's chosen people”, not physical descendants of Abraham, but a group of people making a fraudulent claim to a land never promised to them or their ancestors!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype: &amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-899206567029788439?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/899206567029788439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=899206567029788439' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/899206567029788439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/899206567029788439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2011/02/leading-zionists-to-truth.html' title='Leading Zionists&apos; to the Truth'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-4982446461298154813</id><published>2011-01-14T23:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:33:27.057-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Zec 12:1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Zec 12:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; against Jerusalem. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Zec 12:3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;The fleshly minded, the carnal Christians and Jews imagine that these verses mean the Lord, upon His return, will destroy the enemies of modern day “Israel” and reestablish an earthly kingdom for a group of people that don't believe in Him, and may or may not be physical descendants of Abraham.  As if their physical lineage even mattered:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Mat 3:9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;our&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;As everyone should see plainly from John's statement to the Pharisees and Sadducees, their physical lineage makes no difference to their salvation.  They had to repent and believe on the One God sent like everyone else.  The prophets from the time of Adam and Eve until John the Baptist pointed to Jesus as the only way, but today as it was 2,000 years ago, the wicked, the false prophets, the wolves in sheep's clothing, attempt to point the people into another direction.  Sadly, for those that don't study the Word of God for themselves, they are easily led astray.  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Mat 7:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the gate, and broad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Mat 7:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Because strait&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the gate, and narrow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Mat 7:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Mat 7:16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Ye shall know them by their fruits...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Their fruits are a flock of sheep that echo the same false doctrines that they teach, and tax free gifts, bought by the price of trying to serve two masters, conformity to the world, equaling enmity with the Lord. At the local church level these could simply be mistakes made because too many are allowing others to tell them what the Scriptures mean, instead of studying for themselves. But what about the level above, where the local church pastors are trained, the denominational colleges, the seminaries?  Could it be that they have another agenda?  Could it be that they have been corrupted by forces opposed to the True Gospel? Isn't it obvious by the nonsensical teachings coming from the church?  Unbelievers labeled as “God's Chosen People”, Just wars and Prosperity doctrines and homosexual pastors are not honest mistakes, but the deliberate result of corrupt leadership corrupting the local pastors and congregations.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;If you would have told the apostles John or Peter or Paul that 2,000 years later most of the “church” would believe that a group of people claiming to be Jews, still not accepting Jesus as the Messiah, would proclaim themselves “God's chosen people” and reside in ancient physical Israel, with the financial and political help of the “church”, they would say it surely is the end times, for they have fallen away from the true Gospel!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;They would say “what physical descendants of Abraham”? For it is written any that do not hear and obey the voice of Jesus were long ago cut off from God's people : &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 3:22&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 3:23&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  And it shall come to pass, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;that&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;And again, anyone that has died without accepting Jesus as Savior is lost without hope: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 8:24&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;he,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ye shall die in your sins.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Or perhaps mention Mat 3:9 again, or try to explain that your physical birthright isn't what gets you into the Kingdom Joh 3:3-7.  Or, finally and perhaps most persuasively explained by the apostle Paul: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal 3:16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Gal 3:26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gal 3:27&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gal 3:28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Gal 3:29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;  And if ye &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;be&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;The physical birthright along with being under the law ended with the coming of a new and better Covenant, which Christ purchased for all who believe, whether Jew or Gentile, and it is the only way to salvation, period!  This is basic Bible 101, but over the years, bit by bit, the “church” lost its love of the truth, 2Th 2:10-12, lost its way, and fell under strong delusion as a result. And now today, a majority of the people in the “church” believe that the antichrist unbelievers occupying Palestine are “God's chosen people” and that they, the “believers”, are going to be raptured out of the earth!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;The rich men of the earth that oppress us are happy to use the religious high ground provided by the apostasy we've covered above for their Satanic purposes.  They say it's God's will for “his people” to ethnically cleanse Palestine and to attack all the countries around to establish their security.  This is madness from both a Biblical and secular viewpoint, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;but we are probably less than a half year away from an Israeli/US attack on Iran which could start WW III&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;, and at the very least kill thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;put the finishing touches on the world's economic collapse&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;.  If the church you attend has fallen away from the true Gospel and is teaching something similar to what we've discussed and Biblically rebuked, you need to discuss these matters with the leaders, or elders and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;if they won't hear you, you'll have to come out of that church.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;Skype: dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-4982446461298154813?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/4982446461298154813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=4982446461298154813' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/4982446461298154813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/4982446461298154813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2011/01/behold-i-will-make-jerusalem-cup-of.html' title='Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-4738796191810392133</id><published>2010-12-15T12:06:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:36:59.329-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;What times we live in Brothers and Sisters!  Amazing times, truly astonishing!  With one after another seemingly miraculous event occurring we can sit back and be dazed by it all, or we can do what we should be doing:  Studying the Word of God!  For ourselves, for direction, for edification, and to be able to edify others!  That doesn't mean we listen to others, and call that study, No!  We should all know better than that by now, shouldn't we?  We listened to others and we found ourselves praying for soldiers to be successful in slaughtering innocent men, women and children in another false flag operation, for unbelievers to occupy ancient Israel and ethnically cleanse the rightful inhabitants, praying for riches despite being told it makes it near impossible to be saved, and on and on.  We learned these false doctrines from men and women who gained from it, because the more they tickled our ears with these flesh based fantasies, the more tax free money flowed in to the “church”!  They called it God's favor, I call it the fraudulent fleecing of the flock by the Wolves in Sheep's clothing!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;They get materially richer, you get poorer, both spiritually and materially.  Woe unto them, God forbid, if they don't repent they'll go the Lake of Fire, and some of the flock they deceived will go with them, if they don't wake up and repent! Please keep in mind the Lord's Warnings:   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Mat 24:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  And Jesus answered and said unto them, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Take heed that no man &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;deceive &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Mat 24:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; deceive &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;many.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Mat 24:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;And many false prophets shall rise, and shall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; deceive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt; many.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;Mat 24:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;it were&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;possible, they shall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; deceive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; the very elect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;As you can see from Jesus' Word the deception will get worse and worse until the end times, with most of the bride of Christ committing spiritual fornication with the worldly beast system, urged on by their fleshly lusts and false teachers until the point of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;2Th 2:3:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;  Let no man deceive you by any means: for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;that day shall not come,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; except there come a falling away first ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Who won't appear until the “falling away first”? What day then shall come?  The coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!  That's how we know we're in the end times, solid Bible teaching is largely rejected by the “church”, and paid incorporated servants of the government pass lies off as God's Word and profit materially from it.  Again all the deception is based on the lusts of the flesh:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;We are not promised anywhere physical blessings such as lots of money or expensive clothes or a large fancy house, but the flesh seeks after these things, to the adverse effects on the Spirit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;We are not called to support, pray for, or partake in earthly kingdoms which war against other kingdoms, no matter the reason, always lies.  Our Lord's Kingdom is not of this world, and our weapons are not carnal, i.e., rifles, bombs, tanks, etc., but spiritual, as in PRAYER! We pray for the Lord to tear down the satanic strongholds!  To do anything else is of the flesh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;We are not called to support unbelievers in occupying the ancient land of “milk and honey”.  What did  God's original chosen people have to go through to be allowed in in the first place?  Think about it.  How many died in disobedience while awaiting permission to cross the Jordan into the land?  Even Moses himself wasn't allowed in.  Again, today's false prophets lead the flock into serious error over the Israel of God. Clearly it is a Spiritual entity, not the physical land! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; They want to bring Jews all over the world to physical Israel, what good will that do? They want to help the Jews rebuild a physical temple? for what? animal sacrifices? why?  Apart from Christ will they die in their sins in “Israel” just as they would wherever they came from … of course!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;And think about this: what is the Israel of God? Isn't it the spiritual entity spoken of by Paul in Rom 11? represented by the olive tree, unbelievers broken off and believers graffed in? This then is the Israel of God, and the Temple of God is each of us, being fitted together as spoken of by Peter:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; 1Pe 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;... and finally as Jesus Himself reveals &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;  And this then is what Christ's disciples should be looking forward to as far as Israel and Jerusalem go. SPIRITUAL! Not physical, and those that don't may claim Christ as their Messiah, but they are clearly walking after the flesh and have not entered into the Kingdom of Heaven, neither can they in their preoccupation with the flesh.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Finally, think this over, all the points raised in this short article, remember that much of today's church has corrupted itself by conforming to the world by chasing after the things of this world.  This is in no way the spotless bride Christ is returning for.  The “church”, like the Lord's first intended bride, the children of Israel, played the harlot and are now only storing up wrath against them selves as they await the Lord's return.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;Rev 18:4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;This a clear call for God's chosen people to come out of the world, with its wicked flesh based structures, the “church” now fully incorporated, physically and spiritually!  The only place for us now is in the wilderness, outside of the beast system, awaiting the sure and soon return of our Lord! Do NOT be deceived!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wildernessremnant.com/"&gt;S&lt;/a&gt;kype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-4738796191810392133?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/4738796191810392133/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=4738796191810392133' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/4738796191810392133'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/4738796191810392133'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/12/mat-244-and-jesus-answered-and-said.html' title='Mat 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-5498012878637455584</id><published>2010-11-07T22:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:40:07.064-07:00</updated><title type='text'>And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;For the longest time we couldn't find anyone to fellowship with, in person, or even on the Internet.  Now the Lord has guided a few of us together on social networks like Facebook and excellent Internet ministries such as &lt;a href="http://watchmenweekly.com/"&gt;http://watchmenweekly.com/ &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://revivemeolord.wordpress.com/"&gt;http://revivemeolord.wordpress.com/&lt;/a&gt;  and &lt;a href="http://thirdgreatawakening.org/"&gt;http://thirdgreatawakening.org/&lt;/a&gt; to name a few. We have enjoyed reading and listening to the Spirit led work of these brothers and sisters in the Lord immensely.  Their fellowship has encouraged us greatly, but, now we feel led to take another step in faith, to reach out to others in person, preach the True Gospel to a potentially hostile audience instead of only to the Choir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Most of us are aware that the country we physically live in is controlled by powerful, moneyed elites that are well along in their plans to destroy America and the rest of developed world.  Very soon we'll have to communicate another way, the Internet will be shut down, or heavily restricted.  Money transfers, travel, self employment, all things pertaining to civil liberties and personal freedoms will be greatly curtailed.  In a series of overreactions to false flag operations we'll be living under martial law or something closely resembling it, but called something else (think George Orwell) very soon.  We'll have to devise new ways to spread the Gospel, new ways to encourage each other and to build the Spiritual Kingdom of Heaven as we await our Dear Savior's return.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Some are stocking up on food and water, and guns and ammunition, and others are leaving the country.  As we have sought the Lord out on these matters we hear to be of good courage, preach the True Gospel and store up faith.  Faith is the only way to please the Lord and faith in the Lord will be the only way to endure till the end.  As disciples of Jesus Christ no one could honestly be able to Biblically justify taking up arms against the government.  Hoarding food and water might be of some benefit, but what will you do when someone asks you for them? Will you turn them away and say, sorry I can't help you, you should have prepared better?  No: nowhere in the New Testament are we told to store up food and water or any other treasures on earth, but to store up treasure in Heaven instead.  As the Lord explained in Matthew 6 these are the actions of Godless pagans, not His disciples.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;As we seek the Lord and His Kingdom, His righteousness, He'll lead us to our place to await Him. He'll provide what we need to endure as we obey and rely on Him.  We also know that the Lord has called His people out of the government incorporated churches into the wilderness, and as He supplied His people in the wilderness a few millenia ago, He'll do the same for the faithful that have heard His Calling today.  We know the Lord's plans are the same from the time He called Abram out until this final generation of believers.  Called out of the corrupt Satanic kingdoms of the world into the wilderness, prepared to inherit and receive the promises of the Lord Almighty!  Will you heed His calling, will you overcome your flesh by the Holy Spirit and be accounted worthy to escape the things to come?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;In the next few weeks we'll be preparing meetings with the local church leaders to assess their spiritual state, and attempt to lead them from apostasy to the path to salvation, if required and if they are willing. This is to continue the warning ministry of Perverted Christianity.  And we'll be bringing a sister site on line that deals mainly with the body of believers in the wilderness in these end times.  We just wanted to let you know what we've have been hearing from the Lord and what we plan to do, this is not to say that we are more Spiritually gifted than any others, or that we are uniquely chosen for this purpose.  We fully recognize many of you are far more able, intellectually and financially to undertake the work, but we feel led, and each of us must do what we feel led by the Holy Spirit to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Revelation of John 12:6: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype: dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-5498012878637455584?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/5498012878637455584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=5498012878637455584' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5498012878637455584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5498012878637455584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/11/and-woman-fled-into-wilderness-where.html' title='And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-7061286223554891451</id><published>2010-11-02T15:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:41:40.912-07:00</updated><title type='text'>All these the Beginning of Sorrows (Mat 24:8)</title><content type='html'>Dear Brothers and Sisters,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Shortly things are going to get worse, much worse, for most of the population of the earth.  There is going to be much suffering, deprivation and pain.  Those of you who have been deceived into thinking you are going to avoid it by being raptured to Heaven have another thing coming.  Don't let the deceptions confuse you into losing faith in our beloved Savior, it wasn't Him who deceived you, it was the false prophets, woe unto them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Faith in God is the only weapon we truly have to overcome to the end and be saved.  By faith we believe that the Lord hears our prayers and that He is abiding in us and through Him we can overcome the world also, as He did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Romans 10:17:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Romans 14:23:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;... for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;II Corinthians 5:7:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Galatians 3:11:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;... The just shall live by faith.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Galatians 3:26:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ephesians 2:8:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hebrews 11:6:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;By the end times, we as believers should have acquired much testimony to build our faith and endure the tribulations which are coming.  All of us have had trials and tribulations to overcome, but in the end times, we'll all go through them together, or at least, at the same time.  Again, faith will be the key to our survival, or ability to endure the tests which are coming soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Revelation of John 12:11:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;We know that the rich men of the earth that oppress us are turning the screws ever tighter, taking away all that they can to make themselves richer and make our lives more difficult.  We must not fear them, or their master Satan.  We must not bend a knee to them, or to their master.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Romans 11:4:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;We know that our weapons to fight against evil are prayer and faith in God alone, to overcome the strongholds of the enemy, the trials to come.  We also know that God will not give us more than we can bear, that He alone is our refuge, our strong tower, the shining light which leads us out of darkness and into the splendid light of His salvation.  Remember all these things, remember the Word of God, remember that we are His children, not of this world, but awaiting the Kingdom to come.  Remember that this life in the flesh is but a sliver of eternity with the Lord Jesus Christ!  Keep your eyes on Him alone and walk by faith.  Do not fear any man, or anything that man can do to you, but speak the truth, declare it boldly no matter the consequences.  Now more than ever be led by the Spirit of God and not the flesh. Remember, these are indeed the beginning of sorrows, but for the believer, it is also nearer to  our Savior's return!  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;John 16:33&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-7061286223554891451?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/7061286223554891451/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=7061286223554891451' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/7061286223554891451'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/7061286223554891451'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/11/all-these-beginning-of-sorrows-mat-248.html' title='All these the Beginning of Sorrows (Mat 24:8)'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-1270308235777382096</id><published>2010-10-20T23:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:47:36.642-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The True Israel and God's Chosen People</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Is there an issue that divides the Church more than modern day Israel?  So divisive and emotionally charged is this issue that I have personally seen or heard of many relationships broken over it.  Brothers and sisters become enemies over it, hurling accusations of antisemitism and false prophets and apostasy, etc.  As seekers of the truth we can't avoid it, as many churches do.  So what is the truth?  Was Israel reestablished in 1948 by God, for God's “chosen people” as most people believe?  Are the people in modern day Israel descendants of Abraham, and if so does that entitle them to the ancient land of Israel?  Are they supposed to rebuild the temple and await the Messiah for their salvation? Should Christians aid them in defending the land and continued settlement building?  We'll answer these questions and more, all from the Holy Bible.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;Was Israel reestablished in 1948 by God: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The political nation state of Israel declared its statehood in 1948, about a week after it had begun an ethnic cleansing operation against the non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine*.  America, against the advice of some of its wisest leaders**, recognized the new state, despite the campaign of terror they were waging against the Palestinians.  The Zionist political state, at birth showing its true nature, should have been a warning that kept a wise country from recognizing them.  America's one-sided actions for the political state of Israel have continued to this day.  Many religious leaders in America believe if America doesn't support modern day Israel, in whatever they do, God will destroy America***.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;* &lt;a href="http://www.deiryassin.org/"&gt;http://www.deiryassin.org/&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=554"&gt;http://www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?id=554&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://middle-east.yu-hu.com/peacewatch/dy/dypail.htm"&gt;http://middle-east.yu-hu.com/peacewatch/dy/dypail.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;** &lt;a href="http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/savelives.html"&gt;http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/savelives.html&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/gates060410.htm"&gt;http://www.countercurrents.org/gates060410.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080702013349AA6FD7H"&gt;http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080702013349AA6FD7H&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;*** &lt;a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=98552"&gt;http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=98552&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWMmVIAtHAU&amp;amp;feature=channel"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWMmVIAtHAU&amp;amp;feature=channel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.biblicist.org/bible/divide.shtml"&gt;http://www.biblicist.org/bible/divide.shtml&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Despite the absolute support of modern day Israel from the George W. Bush administration, including more arms and money than ever before.  Despite a refusal to push Israel for serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians, and to stop the illegal settlement building activities, America has declined rapidly. It's engaged in two major wars with Islamic countries and several other minor combat missions, and is bankrupt, its economy in tatters, and its military personnel are strained to the breaking point.  If this is God's favor for supporting “Israel” unquestionably, I would really hate to see His Wrath!  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Of course these Christian Zionist religious leaders are wrong in their beliefs about modern day Israel, and in fact America's blind support for Israel is leading to America's destruction. Further, the start of WWIII is as close as an attack on Iran that these Zionist maniacs, masquerading as men of God, are screaming for!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;As true disciples of Christ, we are not supposed to be aiding in building kingdoms of the earth, we are awaiting the kingdom to come, ruled by Jesus Christ. If it was God who reestablished Israel in 1948, why would He give it to unbelievers, whose purpose is to rebuild a Temple to begin animal sacrifices so that they can be ceremonially clean?  Isn't this a repudiation of Jesus' work on the cross, a further act of rebellion?  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Christian Zionists never ask why, nor do they have any answers for these questions:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Why would unbelievers be brought back to Israel by God?  The Bible is clear, that repentance always precedes God's blessings.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mar 1:15&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  And saying, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;If we, as believers, are the true Temple of God, and together we are lively stones being brought together to form a spiritual house, with Jesus Christ as the Corner stone, the true Temple of God, what purpose would God have to bring the unbelievers back to historical Israel to rebuild a physical temple?   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I Corinthians 3:16:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I Peter 2:5:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;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.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Luke 20:17:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And he beheld them, and said,&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt; What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? 18 Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Revelation of John 3:12:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;Are the Jews in modern day Israel still “God's chosen people”? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;As hard as it is to understand and accept, with the ubiquitous Zionist influence of the news, church and public education, today's Jews are unbelievers, condemned to die in their sins, condemned to a fate worse than death by unbelief:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;John 8:24:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;These verses are straight forward and clear, everyone that has died from Christ's first coming to the end of time, who have rejected Christ as the Messiah, will die in their sins.  Dispensationalists and others have tried to twist the simple teaching to say there are other ways of salvation, but I know of no other way, nor would I bet eternity on it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Therefore, to say a condemned people are God's “chosen people” is to twist the Words of Jesus, and the Apostles:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ephesians 1:4&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;II Thessalonians 2:13:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;I Peter 2:9:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Revelation of John 17:14:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;These 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.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 22:11 - 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 14 For many are called, but few are chosen.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;But many will still say the “Jews” are God's chosen people!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;I say to that, who is a Jew?   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Romans 2:28:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Revelation of John 3:9:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:26  For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:27  For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:28  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:29  And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The verses above make it clear that the true Jew, the true Chosen of God are so because of their faith in Jesus Christ, not by birth or good works or any other reason, faith in Christ alone!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;But, God gave the land to Israel:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The promises, meaning the land and all the other blessings, were/are based on this scripture:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gen 12:1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;This promise was given to Abraham, and God did indeed make of him a great nation.  Abraham's faith was and is a great blessing to all of us who believe, he was the first man who trusted almighty God and God not only blessed him, but he became God's friend!   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;James 2:23:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;And Jesus said the same about His disciples:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;John 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. 16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;God gave the land to Abraham's descendants, and took it away, and gave it back again, and took it away, and it is dizzying to think about it, but, God is the same forever and ever, the disobedient will be punished and those that humble themselves and repent will be brought back into the Kingdom of God.   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mar 1:15&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  And saying, &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;The last time God punished the Jews was the most severe, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Jesus pronounced the curse and the reason for it to the Jews in Jerusalem at the end of Matthew 23, He also gave them the only way to redemption, to recognize that He was indeed, their Messiah.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:29  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the        prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:30  And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:31  Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:32  Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:33  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:34  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:35  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;altar.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:36  Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 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!  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:38  Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:39  For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Until they that rejected Him repent and say, “you are the Son of God, our Messiah, blessed are you that came in the name of the Lord”, and then they too can enter into the Kingdom!  This is God's marvelous plan for all, this is the truth about salvation, only through Jesus Christ, this is what Paul meant when he said:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;By God's Grace, He made a way, &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; way, to be reconciled unto Him, through faith in His only begotten Son!  Although He sent Jesus to the Jew first, He still fulfilled all the promises to Abraham:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gen 12:3 … and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;All  families, all people, all races, everyone that will repent and  believe on Jesus Christ and overcome to the end will be saved!  And  all the promises made to Abraham a&lt;/span&gt;nd his seed are fulfilled  through Jesus Christ as the Scriptures testify:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:16  Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:17  And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:18  For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:22  But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;be given to them that believe.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The promises, the land, all the rest are not by law, or by birth, but by faith in Christ ONLY!   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 4:13  For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 4:14  For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;To say I am a descendant of Abraham and therefore all the promises are mine by virtue of that fact is false, the Scriptures are more than clear on this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Luk 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 9 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 4:4  But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 4:5  To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 4:6  And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 4:7  Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;What is the true Israel of God?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Is it the land now called Palestine, where there is no peace and the condemned unbelievers devise ever harsher treatment to try and break the spirits of those who refuse to leave?  No, the true Israel of God is spiritual, like the Kingdom of God, which flesh and blood cannot enter, as represented in Romans 11.  Paul explains that the Israel of God is likened to an olive tree and that unbelievers are like branches “broken off”, and believers are “graffed in”:   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:17  And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:18  Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:19  Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:20  Well; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt; Be not highminded, but fear:  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:21  For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:22  Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:23  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;b&gt;: for God is able to graff them in again.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:24  For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;The &lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;Key&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt; to any present or future blessings or promises, is faith in the only begotten Son of God, the Messiah!  If you read the above verses, you'll see it says that very same thing twice! Verses 20 and 23.  It isn't that God has replaced Israel with the Church, it is that He has taken unbelievers out of His Israel and put believers in.  Unbelievers are condemned, period!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Now listen closely brothers and sisters, you are the true Jew by faith in Christ!  You are part of the true Israel of God by faith in Christ!  The true Temple of God is the believer who is being fitted together with other believers to form it, with Jesus Christ as the Chief Cornerstone!  If the Zionists or Dispensationalists want to call that “Replacement Theology” so be it, they are blind and are leading the blind into the ditch along with themselves!  They seek a physical kingdom and we seek a spiritual one, and the twain shall never meet.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;My dear brothers and sisters, rejoice today and forever for what Jesus Christ did for us, for the whole world, for all who repent, obey and believe, our hearts circumcised by rebirth through the Holy Spirit, we have become the true Jews in God's eyes.  For all those that are in unbelief, they are now gentiles in God's eyes, whether they are physical descendants of Abraham or not.  Walking after the flesh, their hearts turned to stone and eyes and ears closed.  They've made the lies of false doctrine their refuge.  They are Spiritually dead because they've rejected God's only begotten Son, they should expect nothing but condemnation and a fearful ending when the Lord judges them.  All those that further the lies of Zionism, and the rest of these damnable heresies should expect the same fate, because you've led God's people astray.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Amen!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://www.perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-1270308235777382096?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/1270308235777382096/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=1270308235777382096' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/1270308235777382096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/1270308235777382096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/10/true-israel-and-gods-chosen-people.html' title='The True Israel and God&apos;s Chosen People'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-1348596011863926158</id><published>2010-10-14T13:48:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:50:59.445-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Deception in the Church</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;In these end times we see many deceptions, the worst of these are so iniquitous as to possibly cause your name to be taken out of the Book of Life!  The false prophets in today's government incorporated Churches are partly responsible for this falling away from the truth, but, so are the people who go to these  institutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 7:13&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the gate, and broad&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 7:14&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Because strait&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the gate, and narrow&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;is&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 7:15&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;We have all been warned many times in the Bible to beware of false teachings, but, there's always something else more important than the Word of God for some people.  Perhaps they believe “Pastor Joe” or Pastor so and so would never lead them astray?  Did you ever stop to think maybe Pastor so and so doesn't know the truth either?  Don't you read your Bibles for yourselves?  It goes back to do you want to know the truth? or do you just go to Church because you think that will keep you from God's Wrath?  The Word of God tells us we have to love the truth, and seek it out diligently, or serious consequences will follow:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;2Th 2:10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;2Th 2:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;2Th 2:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;2Th 2:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Going to Church doesn't save you, in fact it's where you're deceived into thinking you are saved!  Think about it, how much time do you spend in Church studying the Bible? Not much, right?  Perhaps your Church has a Wednesday night Bible Study, or for an hour after Church service, but when you are supposedly studying, actually you are listening to a “pastor” or the pastor is using a study guide from some apostate religious corporation, right?  You, yourself are just reading what they tell you to read and then “they” tell you what it means, right?  Is that studying, or is that being told what to think and believe?  This is again not loving the truth, this is accepting someone else's truth.  You, brother or sister, are responsible for studying the Word, seeking the Truth through the Holy Spirit, and then sharing those truths in fellowship with your brethren.  That is what disciples of Christ are called to do, not build large buildings, call it a church and pay someone to do the studying and thinking for them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;2Ti 2:15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Act 17:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  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. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Act 17:12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  Therefore many of them believed …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Joh 16:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Study the Word of God for yourself, pray for the Holy Spirit to lead you into all truth.  Don't take anyone's opinion on something, search the Word like the Bereans did to see if it's true!  Don't assume because someone stands up in front of a “Church” that they know, or will tell you the truth.  The truth is what you must seek, and in past history the religious leaders have failed the people often, look it up in the Bible.  We all know that many Old Testament prophets foretold of Jesus' coming, in fact in Daniel chapter 9 the children of Israel were told to the exact year when He would appear!  But, what happened though?  Most didn't know when He was coming, the religious leaders had led them astray:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Luk 19:44&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Because they were deceived, they didn't know their Messiah was coming, most rejected Him and died in their sins.  Their Great City and Temple were destroyed, many were killed and the rest that didn't accept the Messiah were scattered all over the world!  Those few Jews who did know the truth were saved because they listened, believed and fled Jerusalem as Jesus told them to (Luk 21:20-24).  The temple destroyed, the city where the center of their worship was, gone, without God, scattered to the four corners of the earth, this was clearly a punishment that was a type of Hell, a hell on earth for those that had rejected the Word of God and His Messiah.  This is, of course, the greatest deception ever known, but the religious leaders of today are no better.  They are leading you to the same fate.  Let me give you a few examples of false doctrine that are common in these times:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;The Prosperity Doctrine:  God wants you to be wealthy and blessed with material riches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  With one verse from the Bible this doctrine can be destroyed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Luk 18:25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Once saved always saved:  Once you are saved your salvation cannot be taken away. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; This is easily disproved, if you are saved then your name is in the book of life, right?  If your name can be taken out of the Book of life then you can indeed lose your salvation!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Rev 3:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Christians should take part in wars: If my country calls me to war I must go, we have to defend our country.  If I am fighting for a just cause God will be on my side.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  Over the years many have tried to justify wars and Christians taking up arms against other peoples.  This too, is easily disproved, if you'll read your Bible and believe what it plainly says:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: maroon;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Exo 20:13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  Thou shalt not kill. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mat 5:21&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;whosoever shall&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;kill shall be in danger of the judgment:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mat 5:22&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mat 5:38&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mat 5:39&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Luk 3:14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;any&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; falsely; and be content with your wages. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mat 26:51&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: grey;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;his&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: teal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Mat 26:52&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  Then said Jesus unto him, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;How many Christians have died in these wars for the devil's kingdoms?  Died to make the rich men of the earth richer as they funded both sides of these wars?  Not one should have, but the religious leaders talked them into believing that it was/is God's will for them to do so.  There may indeed come a day where you have to die, but do it for your faith in Christ, and not to further the kingdoms of this wicked world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;There are many more examples of religious deception I could write about, but I hope you get the point.      If your Church is teaching any of these false doctrines, then confront the leadership and if they don't repent, get out of there as fast as you can!  You may be physically alone in your battle, and many of your “friends and family” will turn on you, but, remember that many are on the broad path to Hell and only a few choose the straight and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;narrow&amp;nbsp;way to salvation (Mat 7:13-14).  The Almighty and the Truth are on your side, be bold and stand on the Word of God!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Hos 4:6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;  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. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-1863639460575729797</id><published>2010-09-26T21:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:52:58.651-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Zionist Revisionist History</title><content type='html'>Whether you actually believe the lies the Zionists tell, or just further the Zionist disinformation campaign is of little importance. &amp;nbsp;You use religion as an excuse to justify the apartheid and genocide and ethnic cleansing of the rightful inhabitants of the land, the Palestinians. &amp;nbsp;The Book of Deuteronomy Ch 28 &amp;nbsp;also clearly states that the land was taken away from the Children of Israel for their failure to live by God's commandments. &amp;nbsp;The New Testament says the Temple was destroyed and the Jews scattered from the land for their killing all the prophets God had sent to them and rejecting the Messiah. &amp;nbsp;Eze 34, and Zec 2 both clearly state that only the Messiah can bring the children of Israel back to the promised land. &amp;nbsp;Many Jews, while rejecting Jesus as Messiah, at least know they cannot take back Israel by force, or political chicanery, to do so is evil and rebellion to God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speaking about the evils of Zionism from a secular point of view, all but those suffering from "S&lt;b&gt;trong Delusion&lt;/b&gt;" (2 TH 2:11) or in secular terms, from delusion by Zionist Revisionist History, know full well that peace existed in Palestine between the few Jews who lived there, and the Muslims and Christians, until the evils of Zionism reared its ugly head. &amp;nbsp;When it became clear that the Zionist Jews were determined to steal the land of the Palestinians, commit terrorist acts to ethnically cleanse the land, and had no interest in sharing the land peacefully, made abundantly clear by the Deir Yassen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deiryassin.org/"&gt;http://www.deiryassin.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;massacre of woman and children, headed by Menachem Begin, a future Prime Minister of "Israel". &amp;nbsp;After this brutal and horrific act of terrorism &amp;nbsp;by the "Israelis" against the women and children of Deir Yassen, the rightful inhabitants of the land, then the Muslims began to unite and fight back, you know - actual self defense! &amp;nbsp;The Zionists were better armed by the French, British and Americans and they defeated the poorly supplied Arabs. &amp;nbsp;They never gave back the land they conquered in clear violation of International laws and now falsely claim self defense as they continue to steal the land of the Palestinians.&lt;br /&gt;In summation the Zionists came to the land of Palestine, declared by word and evil deed their intention to make it a state for Jews, and only Jews. &amp;nbsp;And then began a campaign of terror and military exercises to capture as much of the land as they could, and ethnically cleanse the land of all but Jews. &amp;nbsp;They never relinquished the land they conquered per international law and now claim self defense of occupied lands, to justify further theft and terrorism and military violence committed agains the rightful inhabitants, the height of "Chutzpah"!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Chutzpah"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Chutzpah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-on-gaza-and-chutzpah.html"&gt;http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-on-gaza-and-chutzpah.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you know what that word means? &amp;nbsp;And when the rightful inhabitants object to the torture and further theft of their homes and farms and resist, they're called terrorists by the occupying Zionist forces. &amp;nbsp;Sadly, because of the Zionist ownership or effective manipulation of most of the mainstream press, many people are fooled into believing the lies of the Zionists. &amp;nbsp;The Occupiers claim self defense of lands they illegally occupy and the rightful inhabitants of the land are called terrorists for actual self defense!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 5:20 &amp;nbsp;Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is a Zionist? &amp;nbsp;A Zionist is a person, usually professing belief in the religion of Judaism, that believes that God has unconditionally given them the ancient land of Israel. &amp;nbsp;They believe they have the right to occupy the land and remove the non-Jewish inhabitants in whatever way they see fit, as the land is for Jews only. &amp;nbsp;They totally ignore all Biblical proof to the contrary, and have actively sought to confuse the truth among religions, such as Judaism and Christianity, and secular institutions e.g. public schools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Christian Zionist is a person professing the religion of Christianity, but deceived by Zionist influence in interpreting the Bible. &amp;nbsp;For over 1800 years the Church believed correctly that only the Messiah could bring back the children of Israel to its promised inheritance. &amp;nbsp;Also lost due to the evil influence of Zionism on Bible truth was the knowledge that not just Jews, but Christians, were joint-heirs to the promises made to Abraham. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:16 &amp;nbsp;Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:26 &amp;nbsp;For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:27 &amp;nbsp;For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:28 &amp;nbsp;There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Gal 3:29 &amp;nbsp;And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 8:16 &amp;nbsp;The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 8:17 &amp;nbsp;And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reading the scriptures above makes it very clear that all who are in Christ are heirs to Abraham's promises. &amp;nbsp;But the Zionist' influence upon the Church has deceived many. &amp;nbsp;Many have given up their promised inheritance to the Zionist Jews that are in rebellion to God. &amp;nbsp;They call those that deny Jesus Christ "God's Chosen People" and believe that God will take them to Heaven (The Rapture Deception) and then come to save the unbelievers occupying modern day "Israel" from a future Antichrist. &amp;nbsp;They have given up Biblical Truths and fallen for Zionist fables. &amp;nbsp;They support the Zionists in their ethnic cleansing and in their blasphemous efforts to rebuild a physical temple in Jerusalem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is that no one can be of God, or God's chosen, unless they believe in Jesus Christ:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 14:6 &amp;nbsp;Jesus saith unto him, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The further truth is that the people that were once God's chosen have denied Jesus, and God the Father, and now their religion is no longer from the Torah, or Old Testament, but from man-made traditions called the Talmud. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The greatest truth of all is that if the Zionists, both Christian and Jew repent from their wickedness, turn from their evil ways and humble themselves and accept that Jesus Christ was and is the Messiah, they too can be saved! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 11:23 &amp;nbsp;And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 10:12 &amp;nbsp;For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 10:13 &amp;nbsp;For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 10:14 &amp;nbsp;How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rom 10:15 &amp;nbsp;And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christian Zionists read verses 14 and 15 very closely: you are there told what your duty is to the unbelievers, both Jews and Gentiles. &amp;nbsp;Preach the Gospel to them! &amp;nbsp;Not send money to build separation walls and settlements by forcing out the Palestinians. &amp;nbsp;Not to send money to rebuild a temple, thus denying the true Temple! &amp;nbsp;Not to further their rebellion to God and doom them to eternal punishment. &amp;nbsp;But to preach the true Gospel to them, that no one can be saved apart from Jesus Christ, they cannot know God apart from Him, they'll wither and die apart from Him. &amp;nbsp;The only way to be saved is through Jesus, amen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype: dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-1863639460575729797?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/1863639460575729797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=1863639460575729797' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/1863639460575729797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/1863639460575729797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/09/zionist-revisionist-history.html' title='Zionist Revisionist History'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-3691577382426411902</id><published>2010-09-15T14:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T11:54:28.062-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Word of God is truth indeed, but the interpretation of it is another matter.</title><content type='html'>To say that May 14th, 1948, is the correct interpretation of Isa 66:8 is to say that the unbelievers, the condemned, inherit the kingdom. The Bible says those who do not believe "...&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; John 3:18" and that "... &lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &amp;nbsp;Rev 21:8" and Jesus said to the unbelievers after He pronounced their fate:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:38 &amp;nbsp;Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:39 &amp;nbsp;For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you read the verses prior to Isa 66:8 and understand them, you see that they proclaim not a physical Israel, but a spiritual Israel, the coming Kingdom of God, which all physical Israelites were invited to enter first by the Messiah Himself, but most rejected. &amp;nbsp;Isa 66:1-2 show God telling them they cannot build Him a house, He has made the entire heaven and earth and they think they can build Him a house? &amp;nbsp;This of course speaks to the vanity and foolishness of rebuilding a temple in "Israel", after the finished work of Jesus on the cross. &amp;nbsp;It speaks also to the fact that the He is not looking for sacrifices at the Temple, but to the man who has humbled himself and is broken by the realization of his own wicked nature and desires to change, to seek God's mercy, to repent:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 9:13 &amp;nbsp;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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hos 6:6 &amp;nbsp;For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 66:1 &amp;nbsp;Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 66:2 &amp;nbsp;For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;b&gt;and all those things have been&lt;/b&gt; ...", the temple and its sacrificial system are things of the past. &amp;nbsp;"&lt;b&gt;But to this man will I look ...&lt;/b&gt;", to the man who fears the Lord and cries out for His mercy! This is a foretelling of a new and better covenant:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Heb 12:23 &amp;nbsp;To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Heb 12:24 &amp;nbsp;And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 66:3 &amp;nbsp;He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 66:4 &amp;nbsp;I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They rejected their Messiah, Jesus Christ, "&lt;b&gt;Behold, the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world,&lt;/b&gt; Joh 1:29", and chose to do evil instead, their sacrifices equal to murder, their gift offerings equal to pig's blood, thus He gave them strong delusions. &amp;nbsp;Eyes that saw but didn't understand, ears that hear but don't perceive:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 13:13 &amp;nbsp;Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 13:14 &amp;nbsp;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:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 13:15 &amp;nbsp;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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 13:16 &amp;nbsp;But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And Isa 66:5 refers &lt;b&gt;NOT&lt;/b&gt; to the occupiers of present day Israel, but to those that rejected Jesus and cast out their physical brethren that accepted Him as their Messiah:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 66:5 &amp;nbsp;Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Wesley's Commentary on Isa 66:5 &amp;nbsp;You - That truly fear God. Your brethren - By nation. Cast you out - That cast you out of their synagogues, cast you out of their city, and some of you out of the world. For my names sake - For my sake; for your adherence to my law. Glorified - Thinking they did God good service, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 16:2 &amp;nbsp;They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 16:3 &amp;nbsp;And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 16:4 &amp;nbsp;But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isaiah 66:6 refers to the punishment prophesied here first, and then directly by the Lord Jesus Christ on the unbelievers and murderers of God's Prophets:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 23:34 &amp;nbsp;Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 23:35 &amp;nbsp;That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 23:36 &amp;nbsp;Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 23:37 &amp;nbsp;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!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Again John Wesley's Commentary: Isa 66:6 &amp;nbsp;A voice - The expression of a prophetical extasy, as if he said, I hear a sad and affrighting noise; it comes not from the city only, but from the temple, wherein these formalists have so much gloried. There is a noise of soldiers slaying, and of the poor people shrieking or crying out. Of the Lord - A voice of the Lord, not in thunder, but that rendereth recompence to his enemies. Thus he seems to express the destruction of the Jews by the Roman armies, as a thing at that time doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 66:6 &amp;nbsp;A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 66:7 &amp;nbsp;Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in Isa 66:7 before her travails she brought forth her deliverer: Jesus Christ! &amp;nbsp;Those that would believe were delivered, none of them died in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, because they heard and obeyed the Lord's commandment to flee:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Luk 21:20 &amp;nbsp;And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Luk 21:21 &amp;nbsp;Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The deliverer came and rescued His people from the wrath of God that fell on the unbelievers, those who saw and heard Jesus, those that believed. &amp;nbsp;Again, John Wesley:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isa 66:7 &amp;nbsp;Before - The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a man - child, before her travail, and without pain. Doubtless it refers to the coming of Christ, and the sudden propagation of the gospel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So having read the verses from Isa 66:1-7 and now reading Isa 66:8 in its proper context what does it mean:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Isa 66:8 &amp;nbsp;Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Travails of Zion, or Israel brought forth the man - child, Jesus Christ:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 4:17 &amp;nbsp;From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mar 1:15 &amp;nbsp;And saying, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And those that repented and believed His Gospel were now the true children of God, whether they be Jew or Gentile (Rom 1:16, Rom 10:12, Gal 3:28, Col 3:11). &amp;nbsp;The nation born in a day was the true Israel of God, not a physical Israel made up of unbelievers. &amp;nbsp;Modern day "Israel" is Satan's counterfeit to the Israel of God. &amp;nbsp;The Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven and the Israel of God are all synonymous; They all represent the Kingdom preached by Jesus Christ that believers enter into spiritually (1Co 15:50). And they will inhabit the Kingdom to come that will be brought down from Heaven to them (Rev 3:12, Rev 21:2). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those that believe in man-made Israel, a nation of unbelievers, that seek to rebuild a temple to reinstate animal sacrifices are deniers of Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross (Mat 10:33)! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:35 &amp;nbsp;This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:36 &amp;nbsp;He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:37 &amp;nbsp;This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:38 &amp;nbsp;This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:39 &amp;nbsp;To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:40 &amp;nbsp;Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:41 &amp;nbsp;And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:42 &amp;nbsp;Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:43 &amp;nbsp;Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:44 &amp;nbsp;Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:45 &amp;nbsp;Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:46 &amp;nbsp;Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:47 &amp;nbsp;But Solomon built him an house.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:48 &amp;nbsp;Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:49 &amp;nbsp;Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:50 &amp;nbsp;Hath not my hand made all these things?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:51 &amp;nbsp;Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:52 &amp;nbsp;Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:53 &amp;nbsp;Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:54 &amp;nbsp;When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:55 &amp;nbsp;But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:56 &amp;nbsp;And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:57 &amp;nbsp;Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:58 &amp;nbsp;And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:59 &amp;nbsp;And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:60 &amp;nbsp;And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. 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Their response was a host of Zionist propaganda, using the Muslims as their "boogey man" to justify rebuilding a third temple, no Biblical evidence. Why? because there is NONE! &amp;nbsp;It was a long reply, so I made it into an article for the website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the link to the video from CBN: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UmYO0EtfU"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UmYO0EtfU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the links the person who responded posted: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UmYO0EtfU"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enT0-OnpPHM&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKwRyKCxKfc&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKwRyKCxKfc&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hAL_phaNQE"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hAL_phaNQE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc3tmu3HvYM&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc3tmu3HvYM&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8Za-LteHo&amp;amp;feature=related"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz8Za-LteHo&amp;amp;feature=related&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREXQl96Gvg"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREXQl96Gvg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH7OpuXblF8"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH7OpuXblF8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREXQl96Gvg"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cREXQl96Gvg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKHV4-tA8w"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKHV4-tA8w&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCEb5Op0KE"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtCEb5Op0KE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked why was the Temple torn down, not by whom. &amp;nbsp;The crux of your argument appears to be that Muslims are bad, therefore the Jews are good and deserve the land of Israel and that's why Christians should support Israel and rebuilding the temple. &amp;nbsp;The temple was torn down and the Jews were dispersed from physical Israel as Jesus said because of unbelief, disobedience and the murder of all of God's prophets, including the only Begotten Son of God, Jesus Himself:&lt;br /&gt;Matthew 21:33 - 46 is clearly a parable given by Jesus to the Jews of what they did to all the prophets God had sent to them to correct their wicked behavior and what would happen to them if they did the same thing to Him:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:33 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:34 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:35 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:36 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:37 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:38 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:39 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:40 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:41 &amp;nbsp;They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:42 &amp;nbsp;Jesus saith unto them, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:43 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:44 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:45 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 21:46 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take note that in Mat 21:45-6 the unbelieving Jews were already plotting against Him, also take note that in Mat 21:38-39 Jesus prophetically tells of His own death and betrayal by the unbelieving Jews, and in 21:40 He asks them what will God do to those wicked ones? And in response Mat 21:41 the Jews predict their own punishment, just as David did before Nathan the prophet:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;" — If this answer was given by the Pharisees, to whom our Lord addressed the parable, they thus unwittingly pronounced their own condemnation: as did David to Nathan the prophet (2Sa_12:5-7), and Simon the Pharisee to our Lord (Luk_7:43, etc.). But if it was given, as the two other Evangelists agree in representing it, by our Lord Himself, and the explicitness of the answer would seem to favor that supposition, then we can better explain the exclamation of the Pharisees which followed it, in Luke’s report (Luk_20:16) - “&lt;b&gt;And when they heard it, they said, God forbid&lt;/b&gt;” - His whole meaning now bursting upon them." (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Bible Commentary)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus says in Mat 21:42-43 that He is the cornerstone which the builders rejected, and the Apostle Peter says it again Acts 4:11, and in 1 Pe 2:4-10 he lays out what it means:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:4 &amp;nbsp;To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:5 &amp;nbsp;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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:6 &amp;nbsp;Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:7 &amp;nbsp;Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:8 &amp;nbsp;And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:9 &amp;nbsp;But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:10 &amp;nbsp;Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter explains that Jesus is a "&lt;b&gt;living stone&lt;/b&gt;", and rejected by the Jews to who He came to save, is made the Chief cornerstone of the "&lt;b&gt;Spiritual house&lt;/b&gt;" of God, which IS the True Temple of God, which as it says in 1Pe 2:5 is also made up of believers "&lt;b&gt;Ye also, as lively stones&lt;/b&gt;", who are also Temples of God:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Co 3:16 &amp;nbsp;Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, Jesus said to the unbelieving Jews:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 2:18 &amp;nbsp;Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 2:19 &amp;nbsp;Jesus answered and said unto them, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 2:20 &amp;nbsp;Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 2:21 &amp;nbsp;But he spake of the temple of his body.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 2:22 &amp;nbsp;When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously the Jews in Israel don't believe in Jesus as their Messiah and don't understand what the true Temple of God is, but, you as Christians have no excuse, the scriptures are clear on this. &amp;nbsp;Nowhere in the you tube videos was a Biblical case made for rebuilding a physical temple a third time, because it is not Biblically supported! &amp;nbsp;If you believe the physical temple needs to be rebuilt still, in light of the Biblical evidence otherwise, you are victims of the Zionist propaganda machine which has distorted the Bible and caused false doctrines to be preached in the Churches, repent and come back to God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"What Zionist ideology projects is a grotesque parody of the kingdom of God – a land without the temple, an earthly fullness without a heavenly focus. From the beginning it was not so. And if it be that a temple building is included in the plans of these modern architects of the kingdom, while they yet spurn the claims of Jesus, the promised seed of Abraham, the Christ of God, what is this but another Babel-tower, another titanic attempt to erect the cosmic focus by autonomous human effort, another repudiation of the grace of God and his redemptive provision of the true holy temple-city from heaven? Such a pseudo-temple the man of sin might occupy but the Son of Man, himself the true temple, would ultimately destroy it. Any response from the Christian community, dispensational or other, that does not challenge the Zionists’ appeal to God’s covenant with Abraham to justify the present Israeli occupation of Palestine represents a tragic failure to confront them with fallen man’s absolute lack, in himself, of claim on God’s covenanted kingdom and with the sinner’s desperate need to find restoration to God’s favor through Jesus Christ. To show sympathy to the Zionist in his defiant claim is to hide from him the gospel of God’s love and to encourage him on his unbelieving way to perdition apart from Christ, the sinner’s only hope." Meredith Kline, Kingdom Prologue (Wipf and Stock, 2006), p. 347.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, to support the Zionist's plan to rebuild the physical temple is to be an accomplice in their rebellion to God, their blood will be on your heads. &amp;nbsp;The temple was merely a way for God to temporarily atone for the sins of the people through the blood of animals, until the time of Jesus:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 1:29 &amp;nbsp;The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Jesus died on the cross the veil of the Temple tore in two!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 27:50 &amp;nbsp;Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 27:51 &amp;nbsp;And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 27:52 &amp;nbsp;And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 27:53 &amp;nbsp;And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Mat 27:54 &amp;nbsp;Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"'&lt;b&gt;And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom&lt;/b&gt;' — This was the thick and gorgeously wrought veil which was hung between the “&lt;b&gt;holy place&lt;/b&gt;” and the “&lt;b&gt;holiest of all&lt;/b&gt;,” shutting out all access to the presence of God as manifested “&lt;b&gt;from above the mercy seat and from between the cherubim&lt;/b&gt;” - “&lt;b&gt;the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest&lt;/b&gt;” (Heb_9:8). Into this holiest of all none might enter, not even the high priest, save once a year, on the great day of atonement, and then only with the blood of atonement in his hands, which he sprinkled “&lt;b&gt;upon and before the mercy seat seven times&lt;/b&gt;” (Lev_16:14) - to signify that access for sinners to a holy God is only through atoning blood. But as they had only the blood of bulls and of goats, which could not take away sins (Heb_10:4), during all the long ages that preceded the death of Christ the thick veil remained; the blood of bulls and of goats continued to be shed and sprinkled; and once a year access to God through an atoning sacrifice was vouchsafed - in a picture, or rather, was dramatically represented, in those symbolical actions - nothing more. But now, the one atoning Sacrifice being provided in the precious blood of Christ, access to this holy God could no longer be denied; and so the moment the Victim expired on the altar, that thick veil which for so many ages had been the dread symbol of separation between God and guilty men was, without a hand touching it, mysteriously “&lt;b&gt;rent in twain from top to bottom&lt;/b&gt;” - “&lt;b&gt;the Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was NOW made manifest&lt;/b&gt;!” How emphatic the statement, from top to bottom; as if to say, Come boldly now to the Throne of Grace; the veil is clean gone; the mercy seat stands open to the gaze of sinners, and the way to it is sprinkled with the blood of Him - “&lt;b&gt;who through the eternal Spirit hath offered Himself without spot to God&lt;/b&gt;!” Before, it was death to go in, now it is death to stay out." (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Bible Commentary)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amen, and truly He is the Cornerstone to the True Temple of God, and we believers are lively stones making up the true Temple:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rev 3:12 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I've answered my own question, I ask you, or any other Zionist, another question: why does a physical temple need to be rebuilt?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-2389074050213101937?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/2389074050213101937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=2389074050213101937' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/2389074050213101937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/2389074050213101937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-was-temple-torn-down-in-70-ad.html' title='Why Was The Temple Torn Down in 70 A.D.?'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-648634500132955140</id><published>2010-08-25T12:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-25T12:18:35.515-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Temple of God</title><content type='html'>We are all familiar with the historic Temple of God, aren't we? &amp;nbsp;The physical Temple was built by David's son Solomon. &amp;nbsp;God's spirit resided there and it was the center of the Children of Israel's worship of God. &amp;nbsp;Animal sacrifices were made there as a way to temporarily atone for sin, before the "Lamb of God" came to "Take away the sin of the world" (Joh 1:29). &amp;nbsp;It was a physical precursor to the final spiritual Temple of God, spoken of by Peter and John the Apostle, and directly revealed by Jesus Himself in Rev 3:12:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rev 3:12 &amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God's final plan for the salvation of man does not include a physical temple that His Spirit resides in, no, it is all about Jesus Christ. &amp;nbsp;To deny this is to deny the truth and to deny God the Father and His only begotten son. &amp;nbsp;In the finished work of Christ on the cross is all that is necessary for the believers. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Php 3:18 &amp;nbsp;(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Php 3:19 &amp;nbsp;Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The physical Temple was destroyed twice, once by the Babylonians and finally by the Romans. &amp;nbsp;Some misguided shepherds of the Lord's sheep would have you believe that the physical temple must be rebuilt. &amp;nbsp;As you are reading this many Christians and Jews are working to rebuild the physical temple. &amp;nbsp;You have to ask yourself why? &amp;nbsp;As we're going to show you, there are no scriptures that prophesy a rebuilding or a need to rebuild the physical temple a third time. &amp;nbsp;The Scriptures show clearly that believers in Jesus Christ are now the true Temple of God:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Co 3:16 &amp;nbsp;Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would Christians want to align themselves with unbelievers? &amp;nbsp;Why would they worry about a physical temple being rebuilt? &amp;nbsp;Why would they feel any kind of affinity with those that pray to a wall of rocks? &amp;nbsp;Is the Spirit of God in the wailing wall ... or is it inside of believers? If the temple were to be rebuilt, would the Spirit of God reside there? &amp;nbsp;The scriptures couldn't be more clear, read the scripture above again, we believers are the temple of God:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2Co 6:16 &amp;nbsp;And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as Peter tells us, we believers are indeed the Temple of God, and together we make up a "Spiritual house" filled with the Holy Spirit of God! And if we'll overcome to the end Jesus will make us "pillars in the temple of my God"! (Rev 3:12) &amp;nbsp;We are not to be looking for a rebuilt temple here on earth, as the unbelieving Jews were and are, their fathers were also looking for earthly things which led them to reject the Messiah at His first coming:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:4 &amp;nbsp;To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:5 &amp;nbsp;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.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:6 &amp;nbsp;Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:7 &amp;nbsp;Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:8 &amp;nbsp;And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:9 &amp;nbsp;But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Pe 2:10 &amp;nbsp;Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will we all be turned into rocks? No, of course not, it's an analogy relating to the original physical Temple. &amp;nbsp;And in place of the animal sacrifices we offer "Spiritual sacrifices". &amp;nbsp;Clearly we are shown that God has no plans for a third physical temple, where then do the misguided shepherds get this doctrinal error from? &amp;nbsp;Well, they've completely missed the Scriptures which describe the spiritual nature of God's true Temple, and the fact that they are told that God no longer dwells in temples made by human hands:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Act 7:48 &amp;nbsp;Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands ...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They also seem to have missed the fact, just as the religious leaders of the Jews did and do, that Jesus refers to Himself as the Temple:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Joh 2:19 &amp;nbsp;Jesus answered and said unto them, &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did Jesus rebuild the physical temple three days after His death on the cross, or did He arise from death in three days? &amp;nbsp;Isn't that clear enough proof of what the true temple of God is?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your religious leaders are telling you that a physical temple must be rebuilt to bring about Jesus' return, then as you've been shown, they are wrong, and their focus in on the things of this world and not the things of God:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Jn 2:15 &amp;nbsp;Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Jn 2:16 &amp;nbsp;For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;1Jn 2:17 &amp;nbsp;And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Their minds are set on the flesh, not on the Spirit (Rom 8:6-7). &amp;nbsp;They don't love the truth and cannot tell it to you, because they don't know it (2 Th 2:10-12). &amp;nbsp;They cannot rightly divide the Word of God, they cannot understand the difference between the physical temple or the spiritual, neither can they understand the difference between physical and spiritual Israel 2 Ti 2:15, Rev 3:12, Heb 12:22-24). &amp;nbsp;Just as those that were the Children of Israel's teachers at Christ's first coming misled their flock, and caused most to die in their sins for rejecting their Messiah (Joh 8:24), so too will your religious leaders of today lead you on the wide gate to destruction:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 7:13 &amp;nbsp;Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 7:14 &amp;nbsp;Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 7:15 &amp;nbsp;Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't be deceived Brothers and Sisters, those that preach a different gospel are indeed cursed, and you will be too if you don't flee from their houses of idolatry, falsely called the "Church" (Gal 1:6-8). &amp;nbsp;Come out of the darkness of the carnally minded "Church" into the marvellous light of the truth (1 Pe 2:9, Rev 18:4)! &amp;nbsp;Claim your rightful inheritance as "the People of God" (1 Pe 2:10)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eph 2:19 &amp;nbsp;Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eph 2:20 &amp;nbsp;And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eph 2:21 &amp;nbsp;In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eph 2:22 &amp;nbsp;In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:disciple@perverted-christianity.com"&gt;disciple@perverted-christianity.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perverted-christianity.com/"&gt;http://www.perverted-christianity.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-648634500132955140?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/648634500132955140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=648634500132955140' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/648634500132955140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/648634500132955140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/08/temple-of-god.html' title='The Temple of God'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-5664419372364355992</id><published>2010-08-16T20:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T14:34:56.869-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Worshipping the Beast System</title><content type='html'>I like to look at the posts of people online, to see where their thinking is at. &amp;nbsp;Self-professing Christians in particular. &amp;nbsp;What I see is the product of their teaching. &amp;nbsp;From birth to now we've been deceived by a system that has made America and God equal, in the minds of the deceived, that is. &amp;nbsp;In Church we sing "God Bless America" and/or pray for our leaders and soldiers, in school we say the "Pledge of Allegiance" and are taught that America was established by divine intervention and is God's last hope for mankind. &amp;nbsp;At events such as concerts or sporting events we stand and honor America, hands over hearts, hats off, solemnly silent. &amp;nbsp;That America and God are the same or have similar desires for the world is constantly reinforced through our lifetimes, by schools, by misguided parents, by TV, by films, by apostate members of the clergy, from birth through death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;M&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"&gt;at 24:4 &amp;nbsp;And Jesus answered and said unto them,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Take heed that no man deceive you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 24:5 &amp;nbsp;For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 24:11 &amp;nbsp;And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a person fights for "America" it is thought that he/she is doing a noble, even Godly duty for their country, and, even for God Himself. &amp;nbsp;The soldier is unquestionably a hero, without even thinking there’s a Pavlovian reaction to the soldier, something along the lines of “thank you for your service to our country”. &amp;nbsp;No analytical thinking is allowed here: you can’t say wait a minute, doesn’t God say “thou shalt not kill? &amp;nbsp;Didn’t Jesus tell us to “love our enemies”? &amp;nbsp;To “turn the other cheek”? &amp;nbsp;Or why are we fighting this group of people? &amp;nbsp;We are so programmed that our military forces are defending our freedom, that very few of us question what these military forces actually do. &amp;nbsp;This is a subtle, yet definitive example of America’s authority superseding God’s or as if God Himself is telling us to support the troops, or commanding the troops to destroy America’s enemies! &amp;nbsp;The Church surely should be standing up here to remind us that it is NOT God’s will to have America’s military forces killing people around the world in wars based on lies! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2Co 10:3 &amp;nbsp;For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2Co 10:4 &amp;nbsp;(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But they won’t, or very few will, and if they do, they risk getting in trouble with their true masters, the U.S. government. &amp;nbsp;And in this matter the government has a good case against the offending church, you see our government buys the church’s silence with an agreement to let them not pay taxes. &amp;nbsp;It’s called a 501c3 non-profit corporation, and when a church agrees to it they have agreed to let the government tell them what they can and can’t teach in their church. &amp;nbsp;For a few dollars they’ve exchanged Christ as the head of their church, to the U.S. Government. &amp;nbsp;It’s crucifying Christ all over again for thirty shekels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eph 5:23 &amp;nbsp;For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is just one of the ways the church has conformed to the world, has succumbed to the deceitfulness of the world, following the traditions of men and not the commandments of God. &amp;nbsp;All of the actions above that the church and those who are deceived and remaining in the churches do are not the will of God. &amp;nbsp;Fighting for the beast system that rules the world with out mercy and demands absolute obedience to its wicked economic system is far from what Jesus would want for those that say they are His disciples. &amp;nbsp;The fact that those in the military think they are doing God a service shows just how lost they are! &amp;nbsp;It is not just those that actually do the killing and dying for the beast whose salvation is in danger, those that support it, and pray for it in their Babylonian churches are indeed in danger of Hell’s fire!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The biggest sin is that in giving a country a status that is too close to the reverence God demands and deserves you are committing idolatry, trying to &amp;nbsp;serve two masters. &amp;nbsp;The true servants of God are warning the apostate church of her wickedness, she can’t be reformed, she’s too attached to the beast system, but God is definitely calling those who still have eyes to see and ears to hear out before it’s too late.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Exo 20:3 &amp;nbsp;Thou shalt have no other gods before me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 6:24 &amp;nbsp;No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"&gt;Mat 7:21 &amp;nbsp;Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rev 18:4 &amp;nbsp;And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;click here to email us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perverted-christianity.com/"&gt;&lt;http: www.perverted-christianity.com"=""&gt;&lt;/http:&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-5664419372364355992?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/5664419372364355992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=5664419372364355992' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5664419372364355992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5664419372364355992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/08/worshipping-beast-system.html' title='Worshipping the Beast System'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-8067461402755812126</id><published>2010-07-31T16:24:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T14:33:03.512-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. (Luke 6:20)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus Christ gives several warnings to the rich … that riches are a hindrance to their salvation. If you think the issue of man-made Israel is a divider of the “Church”, launch into this teaching next time you have a few of your “christian” friends by for a Bible study.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Luk 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can it possibly be true? Just being rich sends you to Hell? I know some of you are already rolling your eyes and reaching for the x at the top right of the screen, but before you do that let’s dig into the scriptures and see what God has to say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Type riches into a Bible search engine, I like E-Sword, if you don’t already have it you can download it here: &lt;a href="http://e-sword.net/"&gt;http://e-sword.net/&lt;/a&gt; it’s free and a great tool for Bible Study.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you search, starting with the Old Testament you see mostly examples of God blessing His people with "riches", from Abraham and Lot, through Abraham's descendents up to the richest of them all ... Solomon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1Ki 10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;As you continue through to the books of Psalms and Proverbs, a new theme begins to emerge:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Psa 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Psa 52:6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:&lt;br /&gt;Psa 52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pro 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pro 11:28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you get into the New Testament, or the New Covenant sanctified by the Blood of Jesus Christ, the generalized warnings become more explicit and extreme:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luk 18:18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?&lt;/span&gt;Luk 18:19 And Jesus said unto him, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.&lt;/span&gt;Luk 18:20&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt; Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luk 18:21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.&lt;/span&gt;Luk 18:23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 18:24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!&lt;/span&gt;Luk 18:25 &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luk 18:26 And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?&lt;br /&gt;Luk 18:27 And he said, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The scriptures above are Jesus' teaching on riches, each repeated throughout the synoptic Gospels, it's safe to say it's important teaching! Let's examine them closely:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first is from the parable of the sower and Jesus says that the cares of this world, specifically riches, choke off the effectiveness of the Word. This causes the person to become unfruitful. What does it mean to become unfruitful? It means you are not bearing good fruit, which Jesus says is the way to know the true character of men:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mat 7:16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?&lt;br /&gt;Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.&lt;/span&gt;Mat 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;A bad tree bears bad fruit and is good for nothing but to be cut down and burned, clearly an analogy for the person’s final destination in Hell! This is obviously very serious, and how did this happen to the person who didn’t bear good fruit? The deceitfulness of riches made the Word of God of no use, or no guiding force to this person who let riches get between them and God! Now, according to the scriptures they will spend eternity in Hell, unless they repent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can you see the difference in God’s purposes from Abraham to Jesus’ twelve disciples? While the true Church of God is still a called out people, they no longer are building kingdoms on earth, acquiring great lands and possessions, but are now looking forward to the Kingdom to come!  Preaching the True Gospel to their neighbors, so as many as will receive it by faith can join them in the Kingdom that is being built for them, they don’t have to build it, but will inherit it by faith! Again, as plain as it should be to all of us by now, wealth will only get in the way of our purpose, our preparations for the Kingdom to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1Ti 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.&lt;br /&gt;1Ti 6:7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.&lt;br /&gt;1Ti 6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.&lt;br /&gt;1Ti 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.&lt;br /&gt;1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of modern "christianity's" shepherds spend their time justifying fleshly impulses to gather wealth, and treasures, and other worldly activities. America and the “church” have melded into one gross, apostate union for the worshipping and pursuit of wealth and power. The “church”, in its fallen state, has lost sight of the true Gospel and can no longer discern spiritual things, the closest they get to spiritual is their demonic tongue talking, a grotesque display of Satan’s influence over the fallen “church”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This lack of spiritual discernment, which came about through the falling away from the true Gospel, or the “Way, the Life and the Truth”, is the result of letting the flesh lead:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.&lt;br /&gt;Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the Bible says, “the wages of sin is death”, (Rom 6:23) and spiritual death is first to come to those who are led by the flesh. No longer loving the Word of God, but only seeking a new way to turn it into personal gain, they jump from one form of apostasy to another. From chasing after treasures as the non-believers do, to attempting to gain control over their neighbors by an unholy alliance with political organizations, to backing military forces as they slaughter innocents at the will of the moneyed elite, to supporting man-made Israel in their rebellion against God. The farther they get away from God the worse their iniquities, the blind leading the blind into a ditch, as Jesus said. Where will it all end:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 20:11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, today if you still have any part of a conscience that is not seared; if you have any stirring of the truth still in you, fall on your face and repent. Do it today, right now, cry out to God, with a heart broken and sorrowful at being led astray by false doctrines. Reclaim your birthright as a joint heir with Jesus Christ. Praise God almighty, it’s not too late, today you can begin anew. Humble yourselves, admit you were deceived, swallow your pride, cast out your religious spirit and set your minds on God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;click here to email us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-8067461402755812126?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/8067461402755812126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=8067461402755812126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/8067461402755812126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/8067461402755812126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/07/blessed-be-ye-poor-for-yours-is-kingdom.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. (Luke 6:20)&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-5636405965519961450</id><published>2010-07-24T23:10:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-24T23:18:26.825-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Theology of False Crosses</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Luk 9:23 And he said to them all&lt;/span&gt;, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of us who are quite familiar with “church-speak” have heard the phrase “take up your cross” many times. But what does this really mean to modern-day Christians? And, most importantly, what does JESUS mean when He tells us to take up our cross daily?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you ask most American Christians today, they think they are “taking up their cross” every time they head to the voting booth. They take up their cross every time their cashier at Wal-Mart says “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” From the liberal media bias to the bum on the street corner fouling up their neighborhood, American Christians believe wholeheartedly that they have so many crosses to bear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But is this what Jesus meant when He said we are to take up our cross daily? What does the cross of Christ truly represent?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Truth can be found in the context of the preceding verse in Luke chapter 9:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Luk 9:22 Saying&lt;/span&gt;, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Luk 9:23 And he said to them all&lt;/span&gt;, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 9:25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?&lt;br /&gt;Luk 9:26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What does it mean to take up the cross of Christ? According to the verses above, taking up His cross directly relates to proclaiming (and living out!) His Words….His teachings…..His True Gospel!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What Jesus is trying to tell us here in these verses is that if we truly take up our cross daily, we’re going to suffer the same things He did. If we truly proclaim His radical, life-giving Gospel, we’re going to be rejected by the religious leaders of OUR day. We’re going to be subjected to scorn, ridicule, and for some…even death. How many times did Jesus warn us in the Gospels that the Truth is a double-edged sword, dividing us from family and friends?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you see, the True Gospel is much too radical for most modern-day “Christians.” So to remedy that, they water-down and twist the Words of Christ, much like Satan did to Eve in the Garden of Eden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Did Jesus REALLY mean that we should give to all who ask of us? Surely not! For we must be good stewards. What He REALLY meant was&lt;/em&gt;…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Did Jesus REALLY mean that we should give even more to those who steal from us? Surely not! For we must render justice. What He REALLY meant was…”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Did Jesus REALLY mean that we should love our enemies and do good to those who persecute us? Surely not! For we must fight for our rights and defend, by violent force if necessary, whichever nation we are born into. What He REALLY meant was…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Did Jesus REALLY mean that His Kingdom is not an earthly one? Surely not! We live in the United States and He wants us to make ‘Christian’ laws for people to follow! What He REALLY meant was…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sound familiar? Over and over again I see modern-day Christians stripping the radicalism from the very radical teachings of Jesus Christ, and turning them into something entirely sinister: The ways of the world. There is nothing special or new about these doctrines modern-day churches are touting. People are craving the TRUTH. They want real answers. But they can go to any atheist and come back with the same line of garbage that most churches are offering them these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then these modern-day Christians sit there dumbfounded and wonder why Christianity isn’t growing like it did in the New Testament. It’s because you’re not teaching the same TRUTH that the Apostles taught! You’re not offering people the opportunity to know the REAL Jesus. The radical, non-conformist Jesus Who identified with the poor, the outcasts, and the least of society. You can’t tell people that they have to believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior in order to be saved, and then turn around and tell them not to believe anything He had to say!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My friends, it is time for the true followers of Jesus Christ to take up our crosses. We must take the cross of the True Gospel, of course to the non-believers, but also to those within the churches who have been taught NOT to believe. And there, my brothers and sisters, is where you will make your enemies. Look to the Scriptures and see who hated Jesus the most. It was the religious men of His day, those who should’ve known that He was speaking the Truth! The non-believers gravitated to the True Gospel, but the self-righteous religionists hated Him so much that they sought for reasons to kill Him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it will be the same for us, just as Jesus warned. We will lose friends, family members will grow distant, and church “leaders” will look on you with hatred and spite. Because of their self-righteousness, they will convince themselves that you have backslidden, and maybe even add you to their prayer list. But do NOT be deceived.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I leave you with these words from the Apostle Paul:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1Co 16:13 Be alert, stand firm in the faith, be brave, be strong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Junia Mark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;disciple@perverted-christianity.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perverted-christianity.com"&gt;http://www.perverted-christianity.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyrighted 2010 Perverted Christianity&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-5636405965519961450?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/5636405965519961450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=5636405965519961450' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5636405965519961450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5636405965519961450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/07/theology-of-false-crosses.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;Theology of False Crosses&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-6250248607195107772</id><published>2010-07-19T22:08:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T22:29:45.921-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Arizona's New Immigration Law makes Following Jesus' Commandments Illegal</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mat 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:&lt;br /&gt;Mat 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:&lt;br /&gt;Mat 25:43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contrary to the opinions of some Americans, people south of the border are also God's children. If some of these people come across the border, illegally, as far as man's laws are concerned, and one of God's children on the north side of the border tries to help them in anyway, even giving them a drink, they have also broken the law according to the racist, ungodly lawmakers in Arizona. These race-baiters, these hypocritical, pharisaical, demagoguing sacks of dung, and their idiot constituents, have proven themselves to be the lowest forms of life on the planet. Without an ounce of Christian charity and evil on a level barely imaginable to Satan himself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hereby urge all the people in Arizona, of Mexican or Latin descent, and those with a conscience, who haven’t moved already, to organize and vote these white scoundrels out of power. You know there’s more of you than them. You may have to persevere a while as the Black Americans in the south east did. I have seen first hand how they crowd you into the slums of Phoenix, because I’ve lived amongst you. I know too that you are nothing like these people who persecute you, and most of you find it hard to believe that they can hate you so much for just wanting to better your family’s lot in life. Do not lower yourselves to their level by resorting to violence or hate, but persevere and trust in the Lord. We know a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ would never back such evil “laws”, and would be on your side trying to right the wrongs done. Remember the Words of our Lord:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mat 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;&lt;br /&gt;Mat 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember that even if you never get the things your oppressors receive in this life, you have a reward in Heaven waiting for you and, God forbid, if they never repent of their evils and meet their maker in their fallen condition:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Luk 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s the fate awaiting those so cruel, or cowardly, as to obey laws that are so obviously against Christ’s commandments. When a government makes obeying Jesus Christ illegal, that government should be opposed peacefully until the laws are overturned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now let’s speak to the many so-called “Christians” who back this abomination to Christ’s call to love our neighbors. I warn you of the grave consequences of your racist, xenophobic actions: and I now have a clear conscience regarding this matter. Your eternal fate is of your own design; you should have known better:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mat 25:44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?&lt;br /&gt;Mat 25:45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some links that are helpful to further understand this issue:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/may-21-2010/churches-and-arizona-immigration-law/6322/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed:pbs/religionandethics-video(wnet/religionandethics-video)"&gt;http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/may-21-2010/churches-and-arizona-immigration-law/6322/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed:pbs/religionandethics-video(wnet/religionandethics-video)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.otherwords.org/articles/what_drives_many_mexicans_to_come_here"&gt;http://www.otherwords.org/articles/what_drives_many_mexicans_to_come_here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;disciple@perverted-christianity.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.perverted-christianity.com/"&gt;http://www.perverted-christianity.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-6250248607195107772?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/6250248607195107772/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=6250248607195107772' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/6250248607195107772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/6250248607195107772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/07/arizonas-new-immigration-law-makes.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;Arizona&apos;s New Immigration Law makes Following Jesus&apos; Commandments Illegal&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-5321364542136965066</id><published>2010-07-19T17:43:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-19T17:53:42.763-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Root of Apostasy: the Traditions of Men</title><content type='html'>Or why you think you're saved, but, Jesus will tell you:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus anticipates your whining about how you did this and that, you voted for Republicans, you voted to close your borders to illegal immigrants, (even though we were all illegal immigrants at one time) you voted for the guy who said he was anti-abortion, you fought city hall to put up a Nativity scene at Christmas, you called up the public school and yelled at them for teaching Evolution, you even stood up at your "Church", held your hands up, looked extra "spiritual" and declared something earth shattering like "I believe we're in the end times", or "I think the economy is going to do badly this year" all of this you supposedly did in His Name:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mat 7:22 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?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still you're going to hear the above response from the Lord on Judgment day! And why are you going to hear that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mar 7:6 He answered and said unto them&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.&lt;br /&gt;Mar 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mar 7:8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.&lt;br /&gt;Mar 7:9 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus laid out His commandments plainly throughout the New Testament, or Covenant. Let's go through a few and see how the traditions of men that most "Christians" cling to have made your "worship" of God in vain, and will lead you too, to be labeled a worker of iniquity:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Luk 6:27 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,&lt;br /&gt;Luk 6:28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Most "Christians" don't even love their neighbors, let alone their enemies, no, modern "Christians" hide behind legal entities like the "government" or the "Church" and think that they are innocent of the crimes committed by these entities. Kind of like the scribes and Pharisees mentioned by Jesus:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mat 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;So when "America" goes around the world killing, stealing and corrupting at will, you say I didn't do that, but, I say you go to a "Church" that is sanctioned and incorporated by the same "America" that has slaughtered over 6 million people in their wars for profit in the last 50 years! Yes, it's true, your "Church" is incorporated by the U.S. government, and your "pastors" lead you in praying for the leaders and the military forces of America that are responsible for the deaths of over 6 MILLION people in Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan and thousands upon thousands of others around the globe! All of them innocent, and all of the wars based upon lies, every one of them!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, if you weren't following the traditions of men, no matter what lies the war profiteering puppet masters have their puppets tell you wouldn't shake you from your Christ-centered convictions to love your enemies, not to kill them, to do good for those that persecute you, not drop bombs on them. But, long ago your country, you, and your "church" conformed to the world and have been worshiping the Lord in vain ever since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Luk 6:29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_____________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Luk 6:30 Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give to EVERY one that asks me for something? Well, surely not the bums on the street, they're just going to use it to buy drugs or alcohol! Surely not to my next door neighbor, I saw him waste the money on something or another, blah blah blah. Is there an exception in Jesus' command? I see none, but, the traditions of men have taken to saying things like, well, you have to be a good steward of what God has given you, so be wise and don't give it to a bum, give it to your "Church" instead. Or, send them to a homeless shelter, or a soup kitchen, etc. If you go to many of today's "Churches" and ask for help, you most likely will get referred to a soup kitchen or homeless shelter. Why? The traditions of men have made the command of Jesus to give to anyone who asks of you of no effect. Many of the "Churches" that will send a beggar elsewhere couldn't give to someone who asks help from them without defaulting on their mortgage payment anyways. The traditions of men say that a local community of believers has to have a specific building to assemble in, whether that community can support it or not, after all it's not really "Church" if it's at somebody's house! is it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The traditions of men make the commands of God of no effect, and you that turn aside from God's commandments and conform to the world will in the end hear the sad and final words of the Lord:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not too late for you now though back-slidden "Christian"! Come to your senses before it’s too late, put aside all of the demagoguery of the left and the right and the corrupt politicians and turn to the light! To the way, the truth, and the life: John 14:6&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;disciple@perverted-christianity.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyrighted Perverted Christiany 2010&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-5321364542136965066?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/5321364542136965066/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=5321364542136965066' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5321364542136965066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5321364542136965066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/07/root-of-apostasy-traditions-of-men.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;The Root of Apostasy: the Traditions of Men&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-5262432964241316828</id><published>2010-07-16T19:29:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T14:29:51.061-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Dangers of Christian Zionism: a Self Fulfilling Prophecy</title><content type='html'>This modern view of the end times has succeeded in tying together various strands of false doctrine, into a package of Biblical untruths that could not only lead to the loss of salvation by the deceived, but to a catastrophic series of wars. The basic tenements of Christian Zionism, derived from the false doctrine of Dispensationalism and a host of modern day delusional end time false prophets, are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #009900;"&gt;1. God has two separate covenants of Salvation, one for the Church and one for the Jews, and that all His dealings with each are separate and distinct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Joh 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The above scripture makes it clear that faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved, as do several others:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 4:10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mar 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Act 4:11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.&lt;br /&gt;Act 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as all God’s dealings with the Jews and the Church being separate and distinct, this too is easily refuted by the Scriptures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gen 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.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here God tells the serpent (Devil) that the seed of the woman, Jesus Christ, will conquer his seed, and in the scriptures below, God tells Abraham that all the families of the earth will be blessed through his seed, and Jesus confirms that Abraham knew what God meant, he had foreseen the day of the Messiah coming and was glad:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gen 12:3 … and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Joh 8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;God’s dealings with the Church and the Children of Israel are not separate and distinct, but His purpose for Abraham and His purpose for His Church are the same:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,&lt;br /&gt;2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;God’s unchanging desire for His Chosen People, whether they are Jew or Gentile, is the same from Genesis to the Book of Revelation. To be separate from the world and to look forward to a Kingdom to come:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mat 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #009900;"&gt;2. That God wants to reestablish the Jews, an unsaved people who believe that they alone are “God’s Chosen People”, and that’s why they have a right to the land of Israel, regardless of their unbelief, which caused the loss of their homeland in the first place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Belief in Christ is a requirement to continue on as part of God’s chosen people, or the Israel of God, as the Apostle Peter makes clear to the Jews:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.&lt;br /&gt;Act 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peter refers to the punishment God stated in the Old Testament or Covenant for abominable acts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lev 18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;And the prophet Daniel speaks of the abominations that caused the Jews, their Temple and their city to become desolate:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dan 9:27 … and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The he mentioned in Daniel 9:27 is not an antichrist figure, as so many Zionists believe, but Jesus Christ. This is confirmed by the following scriptures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Luk 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 21:21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Jesus like Daniel, tells the Jews that they, and their Temple and City, are going to be destroyed, as a result of their abominable actions. There is no mystery as to why:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 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!&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Having clearly foretold their destruction, He finishes by telling them the way back to the Grace of God, by accepting that He came as their Messiah, in His Father’s Name. Paul also tells the unbelieving Jews the way back into God’s Grace:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rom 11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jews and Gentiles grafted into an Olive Tree, which represents the Israel of God, the Chosen people, God’s chosen people:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1Pe 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:&lt;br /&gt;1Pe 2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Col 3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again, because it is a clear and definite rebuke of today’s inhabitants of Israel, in their fallen, unbelieving and disobedient state cannot claim the title of God’s chosen people, as Peter told them directly:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.&lt;br /&gt;Act 3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that prophet mentioned by Moses is clearly and inarguably Jesus Christ and the Jews did NOT listen to Him, and they have been destroyed from among God’s People as promised.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In closing out section 2 of the article, I’ll use an analogy to describe today’s Zionists:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Zionists remind me of children whose parents have promised them a reward IF they behave. For example, if you’re good and clean your rooms and do your homework we’ll take you out to get an ice cream cone. Well, their rooms are a mess, they didn’t do their homework, they didn’t remember that part, but they sure remembered that Mom and Dad promised them an ice cream cone! The Zionists remember the part in the Bible where God promised the land to Abraham’s Seed, but they completely ignore the warnings found in Deuteronomy and Leviticus about being cast out of the promised land for disobedience/unbelief! They still refuse to do their homework, or clean their rooms and when Mom and Dad aren’t home they’re going to sneak out and steal the ice cream cones from the kids next door!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deu 28:58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD …&lt;br /&gt;Deu 28:63 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.&lt;br /&gt;Deu 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;3. That Christians should support the unsaved Jews financially, politically and militarily to be blessed by God.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you’ve been reading so far, you should already know this is false, but let’s add some more scriptures to back up this conclusion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gen 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee …&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God is here speaking to Abraham, an individual, not a group of unbelieving Jews thousands of years later. As we’ve shown above, unbelieving Jews are no longer part of God’s chosen people, but are cut off (the Bible uses the harsher term destroyed in Acts 3:23) from among His people until they repent and believe in Jesus Christ. To further amplify this, Paul tells us the true seed of Abraham is Jesus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And John the Baptist says the birthright as Abraham’s physical descendents means little, while remaining unbelieving and unrepentant:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mat 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Apart from Jesus you can NOT bear good fruit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Joh 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.&lt;br /&gt;Joh 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.&lt;br /&gt;Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.&lt;br /&gt;Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.&lt;br /&gt;Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.&lt;br /&gt;Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;4. If Christians don’t support the unsaved Jews then God will curse the nations they live in with hurricanes, earthquakes, draught, famine, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Not only should Christians not support the unbelievers, but they should have nothing to do with them other than preaching the Gospel:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mat 10:5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:&lt;br /&gt;Mat 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. …&lt;br /&gt;Mat 10:14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.&lt;br /&gt;Mat 10:15 Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Christian Zionists, does it sound like Jesus is going to punish those who don’t support the man-made state of Israel? No, of course not, it sounds like He is going to punish the unbelievers who rejected Him!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;To conclude these two sections, if you truly want to bless the Jews than preach the Gospel to them, do NOT encourage their continued rebellion against God!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;6. Jesus Christ will quietly appear and “Rapture” out of the world His “Church”, afterwards, an Antichrist figure will lead physical Israel into rebuilding the Temple, reinstituting animal sacrifices and cause a peace treaty to be signed between physical Israel and her enemies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the correct interpretation of Daniel 9:27 above we learn that while this verse is used incorrectly by Zionists to support a false belief in a Third Temple, there is no Biblical evidence to support this. Indeed for a Christian to believe in, and worse yet, support the unsaved Jews in building a Third Temple is mind-boggling! A Temple … animal sacrifices? For what? Haven’t you read that believers are the true Temple of God?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1Co 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That God doesn’t accept animal sacrifices, that Jesus Christ is the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world? There is no need for a Third Temple, for Jews to build one is just storing up further wrath upon themselves, and for Christians to support this is proof that they are under strong delusion:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2Ti 4:3 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;&lt;br /&gt;2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.&lt;br /&gt;Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.&lt;br /&gt;Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.&lt;br /&gt;Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.&lt;br /&gt;… Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.&lt;br /&gt;Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New Covenant, or second, is sanctified through the blood of Christ, the first through the blood of animals, is taken away, or made of no effect by the greater Covenant between God and believers in Christ. Clearly, animal sacrifices are useless to an unbeliever.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Joh 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.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #33cc00;"&gt;7. In the midst of a prophetic week, which is 7 years, believed by the Zionists to be Daniel’s 70th week, the Antichrist will turn on physical Israel, declare himself to be God, desecrate the Temple and lead the world in attacking Israel. Only a miraculous intervention by Jesus Christ, apparently His 3rd coming, will save them, and thus all Israel will be saved, or so they believe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’ve proven from the scriptures that the above scenario centered on a third temple isn’t Biblical, but, it doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen. This is where the self-fulfilling prophecy comes in. Combining Biblical truths with the Zionist fables we can arrive at a possible situation where the Jews have continued on their way to ethnically cleansing their “land”. Thousands upon thousands of Arab Christians and Muslims who lived there peacefully with all before the Zionists came to Palestine, are murdered and or displaced into other countries. Israel, fully backed by the U.S. militarily and politically and financially continues on its path to create ersatz Israel, or greater Israel. The current situation, where the U.S. and Israel and their allies deny the right to Iran to create nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, their right as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and increase hostilities with them to a point where full scale violence erupts over it. Either Israel or the U.S., or both, attack Iran under the guise of destroying their nuclear capabilities, causing horrendous civilian casualties and Iran retaliates by trying to block the straights of Hormuz to cut off oil supplies to the west, and conducting offensives into Iraq to go after the U.S. forces permanently stationed there. The world’s economy teeters on the brink of destruction because there’s no energy to do work. The U.S. and Israel and their allies respond by using “tactical nukes“ to stop the “Islamofascists” from destroying the world‘s economy by blocking and or destroying the world’s oil supplies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During this time of war, a man claiming to be a Jew, takes control of “Israel” and destroys the Mosque on the Temple mount, and they begin rebuilding the Temple. “Israel” now has physical borders from the Mediterranean to Iran and they and their allies continue to slaughter Muslims as they march across to China’s border, in an attempt to isolate Russia and China. Now the Temple has been rebuilt and animal sacrifices have been reinstituted, the unsaved Jews believe they are saved and they feel like they’re on top of the world:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, the Christian Zionists are expecting to be raptured out at any minute. Of course, the long sought after “Rapture” doesn’t happen. During this time anyone who protests against the Zionist take over in the middle east is taken into custody. Dissenting voices in the Church are silenced and Zionism becomes the world’s official religion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a result of not being raptured “Christians” around the world begin to look at the charismatic leader in “Israel”, he, being aided by the enemy, the devil, begins to do false signs and lying wonders, perhaps stages his own death and resurrection and fools many “Christians” and “Jews” into following Him as their Messiah:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rev 13:13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,&lt;br /&gt;Rev 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:&lt;br /&gt;Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And in the “Churches” he tells the people through his false prophets that they have to receive the mark of the “lord” to save them from the coming destruction. Falsely referring to:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rev 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, in actuality they are taking the Mark of the Beast, thus dooming themselves to the Lake of Fire:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During all this time, the faithful remnant, the true Israel of God, both Jews and Gentiles, but now one in Christ, were protected and waited for their Lord to come for them. They continuously sought after the truth and walked after the Spirit, not the flesh. They didn’t worship physical Israel or their own countries, they were strangers to this world. They didn’t store up treasures on earth and they awaited their treasures to come:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rev 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 21:5 And he that sat upon the throne said, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Behold, I make all things new&lt;/span&gt;. And he said unto me, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Write: for these words are true and faithful&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 21:6 And he said unto me, &lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 21:7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death …&lt;/span&gt;Rev 21:27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Perhaps some of you reading believe the above scenario to be impossible, you’d never fall for that. Think again, open your eyes and see how far you’ve fallen away already:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You’ve tried to combine your allegiance to both God and Country despite being told from the Bible that it cannot be done:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Luk 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You’ve made idols out of your country, your churches, your money and everything else that stands in the way of living your lives in accordance with the true Gospel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Mat 13:22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the Church of Jesus Christ has fallen away and they’ve lost, or never had, a love for the truth and in so doing they’ve turned to fables and God will treat them accordingly:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;&lt;br /&gt;2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God …&lt;br /&gt;2Th 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,&lt;br /&gt;2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.&lt;br /&gt;2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:&lt;br /&gt;2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of studying your Bibles and searching for and praying for the truth to be revealed to you, you paid professionals to tell you what you wanted to hear. To encourage your self righteousness as you increased your bank accounts. Because of these fables you turned the other way while your country and “Israel” slaughtered millions around the world. You didn’t speak up, even if you wanted to, because you and your “pastors” were not free to, you were incorporated servants of the government (501c3 incorporated institutions of the U.S. government) because your church leaders had agreed to this, so as to not have to pay taxes on their filthy lucre! You didn’t realize that Zionism, and Prosperity doctrines, and Rapture Doctrines were all false. You listened to the false prophets, you listened to the wolves in sheep’s clothing, because you wanted to. “Just make me feel good”, you said, “God bless America”, you said, you talked the talk, you knew your church speak well. You didn’t walk the walk though, you didn’t walk after the spirit though. Encouraged by your false prophets you walked after the flesh and reaped the rewards of it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.&lt;br /&gt;Rom 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn’t have to be that way though, you don’t have to suffer a fate worse than death, you don’t have to go through that. God is not willing that any should perish, Amen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn’t God who wants all these things to come against you. God isn’t forcing the Zionists to rebel against Him. The truth is plain for all to see, it is the wicked desires of your own hearts that have brought you to a condition of apostasy, of rebellion and twisting the Holy Scriptures to justify getting what you want. It’s not the Zionists who rule the world, it’s the rich men of the earth that oppress us, who cheat us, who turn us against each other, they, guided by their master, Satan. They simply use the natural fleshly desires to get us to do what they want:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jas 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.&lt;br /&gt;Jas 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:&lt;br /&gt;Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.&lt;br /&gt;Jas 1:15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.&lt;br /&gt;Jas 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;The end times scenario described above doesn’t have to happen, if it does become a self fulfilling prophecy, it will happen because the rich men of the earth will use the desires of the wicked to cause it to happen. Neither do you have to go through it and through a fate worse than death, repent now, this very minute, while there’s still time:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee …&lt;br /&gt;Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.&lt;br /&gt;Rev 3:6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;You’ll have to change though, you’ll have to begin to love the truth and seek it with your whole heart. Jesus Christ is the way, the life and the truth, and to love Him and obey Him is the way to salvation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daniel Mark&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dmark2012@gmail.com"&gt;click here to email us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Skype:&amp;nbsp;dmark2012@gmail.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3921053611858550087-5262432964241316828?l=perverted-christianity.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/feeds/5262432964241316828/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3921053611858550087&amp;postID=5262432964241316828' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5262432964241316828'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3921053611858550087/posts/default/5262432964241316828'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://perverted-christianity.blogspot.com/2010/07/dangers-of-christian-zionism-self.html' title='&lt;strong&gt;The Dangers of Christian Zionism: a Self Fulfilling Prophecy&lt;/strong&gt;'/><author><name>Daniel Mark</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02483656240361960052</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921053611858550087.post-8855686930736823214</id><published>2010-07-08T14:28:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-08T14:35:14.775-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Kingdom of Heaven isn't left or right, it isn't Capitalist or Communist.</title><content type='html'>The Kingdom of Heaven isn't left or right, it isn't Capitalist or Communist, Socialist or Militaristic. It can't be voted in or voted out, it can't be won by military force or bought with earthly treasures. It is not built by human hands, in fact flesh and blood cannot enter into it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Act 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Children of Israel, expecting an earthly kingdom, rejected their Messiah, and today they are trying to build their own earthly kingdom and are being helped by delusional "Christians" who don't understand the Bible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Luk 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,&lt;br /&gt;Luk 19:42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.&lt;br /&gt;Luk 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,&lt;br /&gt;Luk 19:44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the call to Abraham and up until His glorious return, The Lord has called and IS calling His people out of the earthly kingdoms, to preach the True Gospel and to await the Kingdom of Heaven, not attempt to build their own kingdoms! To take part in kingdom building is to conform to the world, to be caught up in the sins of Babylon. In these end times, it is more important than ever for the true Christian to heed the Lord’s call to come out!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gen 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:&lt;br /&gt;Gen 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:&lt;br /&gt;Gen 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.&lt;br /&gt;Gen 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him …&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.&lt;br /&gt;Rom 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rev 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Christian Brethren, understanding the difference between the two kingdoms, earth and heaven, and the dangers of conforming to the one and being shut out of the other, may be the difference between salvation and eternal damnation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mat 7:21 Not every 
