Dear Brethren,
As we see from the news there are hard times ahead, but fear not says Yahshua! He has overcome the world and we shall too, as long as we abide in Him. We can’t look to the government or any worldly institutions, but we must keep our eyes on Yahshua! We have His promises to sustain us. The world will try to make us fearful with news of terrorism, economic meltdowns, and other news that’s designed to scare us into conforming to the world’s way of thinking. But if we’ll abide in Yahshua and keep our minds focused on the True Gospel, read our Bibles and meditate upon the Word of Yahweh day and night we’ll be able to overcome anything the world throws at us, in Christ! Let us come to the Father through Yahshua:
Joh 14:6 Yahshua saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And then as we abide completely in the Father and the Son, remember that our life is Christ, He is life!
Gal 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of Yahweh, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
By faith we’ll live in peace, trusting Yahweh for all our needs, always seeking His Kingdom and His Righteousness. We won’t be concerned if our earthly treasures are lost, because we know that our true treasures, our true rewards are in Heaven!
Fear not!
Joh 16:33 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.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Be Separate from the World Says Yahweh!
Be Separate from the World Says Yahweh
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Yahweh, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
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 Yahweh.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith Yahweh, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith Yahweh Almighty.
As we’ve seen in our other writings, most of America’s “Christians” live by an evil system that is by its nature an offense to Yahweh. Taking advantage of the poor is called “good stewardship”. The fatherless are left to fend for them selves for the most part. Widows and mothers with children whose husbands have left them are demonized if they seek help from the government, but the "churches" offer them little, too busy paying off mortgages?
The wealthiest corporations are given every economic advantage and the middle-class, or what is left of it, is being mercilessly squeezed out of existence until there are only the rich and the poor. Wars are endlessly fought leading to millions of innocent deaths and massive profits for the same wealthy, based on lies. Privatization and deregulation have led to obscene profits and business practices that anyone with a conscience should be ashamed of. Worse yet, very soon these actions will lead to terrible hardship for all but the wealthiest.
The Churches have conformed to the American way of doing business and their success is now based on numbers, similar to corporate balance sheets. Still, most in the “Church” don’t grasp that they are faraway from Christ and in grave danger of being shut out of the Kingdom forever!
Most in the Church say “Yahweh bless America” as if there is some reason why He should? Most in the Church say “Yahweh bless our troops”, as if Yahweh would want them to be successful in killing innocent civilians whose only crime is living on top of land with large amounts of oil or natural gas. Most in the Church say “Yahweh bless Israel”, without a clue that they're asking for the enemies of Yahweh to be blessed as they continue to criminalize preaching the Gospel to its own citizens and commit the most heinous crimes against the Palestinian people.
Most in the Church will not listen to what we are saying; just dismiss us as fringe elements. They’ll go to their Churches on Sunday and get a pep-talk from their financial advisor, masquerading as their Pastor, about how Yahweh wants them to be rich.
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;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
We, as believers and Disciples of Christ should know that riches are a hindrance to our relationship with Yahweh, not a blessing, but spurred on by apostate leaders in the Church, who excite the lusts of the flesh within them, many “Christians” are seeking material gain and not Spiritual:
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with Yahweh? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of Yahweh.
Jas 4:5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
As the “Christian” gets farther and farther from the True Gospel, and closer and closer to conforming to the world, he/she hears the voice of the world and it shuts out the Word of Yahweh, unless it can be twisted into supporting the lusts of the flesh. The “Christian” starts to believe things like: We should be rich and we need to store up wealth here on earth, war is acceptable and Yahweh is on our side as we democratize and “Christianize” the world for Christ, we need to form political groups so we can get laws passed to “Christianize” America, We need bigger Churches and wealthier ministries to prove how blessed we are…
Slowly, over time, following the lusts of the flesh and not the Holy Spirit, being lovers of themselves and not the truth most “Christians” are serving Mammon and not Yahweh. They don’t want to hear that we are to forsake the lusts of the flesh and pick up our crosses and follow Yahshua, no; they want to hear endless promises of prosperity and that before things get too bad here on earth they’ll be raptured away. In short, the time has come when most “Christians” will not endure sound teaching; they can no longer hear the leading of Christ. As a result when we are called to come out of this evil system and be with Yahshua forever they won’t hear it:
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.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and Yahweh hath remembered her iniquities.
Instead they’ll be the ones spoken of by Christ in the following warning:
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Yahshua, Yahshua, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Yahshua, Yahshua, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Praise our Heavenly Father and His only Begotten Son, Yahshua, for it’s not too late! Repent from serving the world and not Yahweh and listen to and live by His Commandments on how to live:
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Mat 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!
Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve Yahweh and mammon.
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value then they?
Mat 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
Mat 6:28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 But if Yahweh doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Amen! Read the entire Sermon on the Mount, Mat chapter 5-7, read it again and again, for in it Yahshua lays out how we are to live, yesterday, today and forever! And if we follow it we’ll not be conformed to this world. Think on it when so called Christian leaders are trying to twist its simple and beautiful meaning into something that serves the lusts of the flesh, and in refusing to go along with them know that you are doing the Will of Yahweh, you are storing up treasures in Heaven, Yahweh Almighty will be a Father to you, and receive you as His sons and daughters!
Yahweh bless you and yours,
disciple
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Yahweh, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
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 Yahweh.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith Yahweh, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith Yahweh Almighty.
As we’ve seen in our other writings, most of America’s “Christians” live by an evil system that is by its nature an offense to Yahweh. Taking advantage of the poor is called “good stewardship”. The fatherless are left to fend for them selves for the most part. Widows and mothers with children whose husbands have left them are demonized if they seek help from the government, but the "churches" offer them little, too busy paying off mortgages?
The wealthiest corporations are given every economic advantage and the middle-class, or what is left of it, is being mercilessly squeezed out of existence until there are only the rich and the poor. Wars are endlessly fought leading to millions of innocent deaths and massive profits for the same wealthy, based on lies. Privatization and deregulation have led to obscene profits and business practices that anyone with a conscience should be ashamed of. Worse yet, very soon these actions will lead to terrible hardship for all but the wealthiest.
The Churches have conformed to the American way of doing business and their success is now based on numbers, similar to corporate balance sheets. Still, most in the “Church” don’t grasp that they are faraway from Christ and in grave danger of being shut out of the Kingdom forever!
Most in the Church say “Yahweh bless America” as if there is some reason why He should? Most in the Church say “Yahweh bless our troops”, as if Yahweh would want them to be successful in killing innocent civilians whose only crime is living on top of land with large amounts of oil or natural gas. Most in the Church say “Yahweh bless Israel”, without a clue that they're asking for the enemies of Yahweh to be blessed as they continue to criminalize preaching the Gospel to its own citizens and commit the most heinous crimes against the Palestinian people.
Most in the Church will not listen to what we are saying; just dismiss us as fringe elements. They’ll go to their Churches on Sunday and get a pep-talk from their financial advisor, masquerading as their Pastor, about how Yahweh wants them to be rich.
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;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
We, as believers and Disciples of Christ should know that riches are a hindrance to our relationship with Yahweh, not a blessing, but spurred on by apostate leaders in the Church, who excite the lusts of the flesh within them, many “Christians” are seeking material gain and not Spiritual:
Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with Yahweh? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of Yahweh.
Jas 4:5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
As the “Christian” gets farther and farther from the True Gospel, and closer and closer to conforming to the world, he/she hears the voice of the world and it shuts out the Word of Yahweh, unless it can be twisted into supporting the lusts of the flesh. The “Christian” starts to believe things like: We should be rich and we need to store up wealth here on earth, war is acceptable and Yahweh is on our side as we democratize and “Christianize” the world for Christ, we need to form political groups so we can get laws passed to “Christianize” America, We need bigger Churches and wealthier ministries to prove how blessed we are…
Slowly, over time, following the lusts of the flesh and not the Holy Spirit, being lovers of themselves and not the truth most “Christians” are serving Mammon and not Yahweh. They don’t want to hear that we are to forsake the lusts of the flesh and pick up our crosses and follow Yahshua, no; they want to hear endless promises of prosperity and that before things get too bad here on earth they’ll be raptured away. In short, the time has come when most “Christians” will not endure sound teaching; they can no longer hear the leading of Christ. As a result when we are called to come out of this evil system and be with Yahshua forever they won’t hear it:
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.
Rev 18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and Yahweh hath remembered her iniquities.
Instead they’ll be the ones spoken of by Christ in the following warning:
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Yahshua, Yahshua, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Yahshua, Yahshua, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Praise our Heavenly Father and His only Begotten Son, Yahshua, for it’s not too late! Repent from serving the world and not Yahweh and listen to and live by His Commandments on how to live:
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
Mat 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
Mat 6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!
Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve Yahweh and mammon.
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value then they?
Mat 6:27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
Mat 6:28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 But if Yahweh doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Amen! Read the entire Sermon on the Mount, Mat chapter 5-7, read it again and again, for in it Yahshua lays out how we are to live, yesterday, today and forever! And if we follow it we’ll not be conformed to this world. Think on it when so called Christian leaders are trying to twist its simple and beautiful meaning into something that serves the lusts of the flesh, and in refusing to go along with them know that you are doing the Will of Yahweh, you are storing up treasures in Heaven, Yahweh Almighty will be a Father to you, and receive you as His sons and daughters!
Yahweh bless you and yours,
disciple
Friday, August 15, 2008
God Bless America?
The United States calls itself a constitutional republic and a capitalist economy and is so proud of its “free-market” system it attempts to export it the world over by any means it has at its disposal, including military. The American ruling classes are quick to praise its “free and fair elections”, its freedom and liberty and equality for all, but, are these statements true? Have they ever been true?
Much of the ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the political, educational and religious establishments tout America as Yahweh’s great gift to mankind and the envy of the world. It was supposedly founded as a Christian nation, in fact most of the original founders believed it was, but that changed quickly because of the international banskters. All of its foreign policy aims are altruistic, they claim, for other’s good, not the good of the few who make the policy. Freedom of the press and the three separate but equal branches of Government will ensure that the Constitution is defended and followed to the letter, and that the country will remain “of the people, by the people, and for the people” forever.
Or so we are supposed to believe. So its citizens are taught from birth to death – few question it.
The reality is none of these claims are true, fiction, in short: fairy tales!
From the beginning the ruling class paid lip-service to freedom and equality for all, but in reality the laws were designed to benefit the “Rich Men”. Voting rights were only given to land owners, the rest of the people were little better than slaves. Over time civil rights were demanded and given and taken back in accordance with the whims of the ruling class and the struggle for them by the working class.
Now, in theory, all have the right to vote but it’s still denied to many through various nefarious means such as limiting voting times and equipment depending on the racial make up of the district, switching voting sites, and improperly removing eligible voters based on their likely voting patterns and legal and illegal technicalities. Importing illegal immigrants and giving them the right to vote, or has often been done using third party companies to "count" the votes, and overturn the citizens wishes. Whole books could and have been devoted to the issue of depriving people of their right to vote, suffice it to say here that it is done often and usually with immunity and because of this to say America has free and fair elections is ludicrous!
Currently in the United States, using a combination of brain-washing from birth, public education and control of the news services by the “Rich Men” (AKA international banksters, predominantly edomite jews, who control the central banks, or money suppplies of all the white Christian countries of the world, and almost every other country too) of the earth most Americans have been duped and don’t realize that it’s all a show put on to deceive them into being compliant corporate slaves/citizens.
The young are manipulated by the lies they hear from the public education system and the news media, and worst of all their own family members into volunteering to fight America’s Wars of Empire (For the jew bankers), for freedom and liberty they’re told, when in fact most of us have neither and never will. As for the targets of the “wars for Democracy, Freedom, or Liberty” their rights are always a cover story to the theft of their country’s natural wealth and sovereignty.
The truth is America has been under the control of the “Rich Men” that oppress the rest of us from its inception. (James 2:6)
There has been an ongoing battle for the wealth of the country from the beginning. At times the middle class or the largest part of the country has fared better than at other times. In these last days, the middle class are being squeezed out of existence, by design, by the “rich men” that really control the direction and the laws of this country. Aided and abetted by corrupt politicians the laws are skewed to protect their riches, enlarge them, and give them virtually everything they want at the expense of the working class, or majority of the population.
Little by little, the benefits that all should have: decent wages, housing, education and healthcare are becoming privileges that fewer and fewer have. The wealth of the nation is becoming evermore concentrated at the top. By design the decent paying jobs are shipped overseas, replaced with low paying service jobs with little or no benefits. By design the vast majority of the country is forced into debt to keep up with expenses, to maintain a decent standard of living. Credit cards or refinancing their houses (or both) to take advantage of over inflated real estate values was the only way most could come up with the money to stay afloat in the last ten years.
Now the “Rich Men” have decided that it’s time to shrink the money supply, no more easy credit, and millions are at the end of their ropes. The economy won’t grow, home values are falling, and prices are rising, the job market is still shrinking and most have no where to go but down. Many owe more for their houses than they are worth; they don’t make enough to pay their bills and they have no where to turn for help. A large portion of these people will lose their houses. By design you get people over extended and in financial trouble, force them into bad loans, then move to tighten the money supply and as they lose their jobs, get hopelessly in debt, the “Rich Men” are in perfect position to move in and buy everything up for a fraction of what it’s worth.
Again, this is all accomplished with the cooperation of corrupt politicians, comparable to the “Publicans” spoken of in the Bible. And it isn’t the first time it’s happened, but, since the Great Depression of the 30’s it hasn’t happened on such a large scale as the catastrophe that is right around the corner for America and the world.
How could anyone be so cruel as to do this to millions of people on purpose? Don’t they realize the pain they are going to cause? Don’t they realize this will destroy hundreds of thousands of families and lead to death from hunger, diseases untreated, rising crime and suicides from the incredible despair they are causing … By Design?! In the past it was called rigging the scales to cheat people, nowadays it’s a lot more complex, but the outcome is the same, the rich steal from the poor and because they have the “law” bought and paid for it’s legal and they will get away with it … in this world! No wonder the Yahweh and His Prophets are so harsh toward the rich:
Mat 19:23 Then said Yahshua unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Luk 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Let’s close by summarizing the lies:
Much of the ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the political, educational and religious establishments tout America as Yahweh’s great gift to mankind and the envy of the world.
Of course false, and a case of the blind leading the blind (Mat 15:14)
Keep in mind that all of the wars started by the "Rich Men" were wars of aggression, of choice, resulting in the deaths of MILLIONS of innocent people and they were all started by lying to the American people!
It was founded as a Christian nation…
Freedom of the press and the three separate but equal branches of Government will ensure that the Constitution is defended and followed to the letter, and that the country will remain “of the people, by the people, and for the people” forever.
As we’ve said already the press may be free, but if it’s owned by the “Rich Men” who oppress us - it’s not likely to go against its masters and it doesn’t. This is a vital piece to the brainwashing of America’s citizens and it was accomplished by the politicians being bribed by the “Rich” to allow them to buy up the free press to the extent that it’s just corporate propaganda now and no longer a safeguard of freedom. The three separate but equal branches of government have also failed to check each other. If congress or the press had done their jobs in the past regarding the recent past regarding Iraq, millions of people that are dead as a result would be alive now. The press, the three branches of government and a military-industrial-congressional complex without a conscious – just a lust for more and more money have turned America into the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967, and it’s just as true today. All this to make it sadly true the following parody of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address finale: a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
As Christians we are to expect this kind of behavior from the world:
1Jn 5:19 We know that we are of Yahweh, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
That’s why we are to be separate from this world: It’s evil, its rulers are evil and they all serve the evil one - that is Satan! America’s socio-economic system, masquerading as a capitalist-democratic society is an evil Babylonian system – an offense to Yahweh!
2Co 6:14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath a temple of Yahweh with idols? for we are a temple of the living Elohim; even as Yahweh said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith Yahweh, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith Yahweh.
Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
No, unless we allow the Word of Yahweh to be taken from us by following after the Babylonian System. If we act like the Apostates do, the Pagans, the unbelievers and chase after the things of this world then:
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.
Our Savior Yahshua gives us all the answers we need:
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Mat 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if Yahweh so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Yes, there will be trials and tribulations in this world and when you refuse to be a part of the compromise with the world you’ll suffer and be persecuted. Again Jesus' Words are the way through it:
Joh 16:33 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.
And in Christ we shall overcome it too.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Yahweh bless you and yours,
disciple
Much of the ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the political, educational and religious establishments tout America as Yahweh’s great gift to mankind and the envy of the world. It was supposedly founded as a Christian nation, in fact most of the original founders believed it was, but that changed quickly because of the international banskters. All of its foreign policy aims are altruistic, they claim, for other’s good, not the good of the few who make the policy. Freedom of the press and the three separate but equal branches of Government will ensure that the Constitution is defended and followed to the letter, and that the country will remain “of the people, by the people, and for the people” forever.
Or so we are supposed to believe. So its citizens are taught from birth to death – few question it.
The reality is none of these claims are true, fiction, in short: fairy tales!
From the beginning the ruling class paid lip-service to freedom and equality for all, but in reality the laws were designed to benefit the “Rich Men”. Voting rights were only given to land owners, the rest of the people were little better than slaves. Over time civil rights were demanded and given and taken back in accordance with the whims of the ruling class and the struggle for them by the working class.
Now, in theory, all have the right to vote but it’s still denied to many through various nefarious means such as limiting voting times and equipment depending on the racial make up of the district, switching voting sites, and improperly removing eligible voters based on their likely voting patterns and legal and illegal technicalities. Importing illegal immigrants and giving them the right to vote, or has often been done using third party companies to "count" the votes, and overturn the citizens wishes. Whole books could and have been devoted to the issue of depriving people of their right to vote, suffice it to say here that it is done often and usually with immunity and because of this to say America has free and fair elections is ludicrous!
Currently in the United States, using a combination of brain-washing from birth, public education and control of the news services by the “Rich Men” (AKA international banksters, predominantly edomite jews, who control the central banks, or money suppplies of all the white Christian countries of the world, and almost every other country too) of the earth most Americans have been duped and don’t realize that it’s all a show put on to deceive them into being compliant corporate slaves/citizens.
The young are manipulated by the lies they hear from the public education system and the news media, and worst of all their own family members into volunteering to fight America’s Wars of Empire (For the jew bankers), for freedom and liberty they’re told, when in fact most of us have neither and never will. As for the targets of the “wars for Democracy, Freedom, or Liberty” their rights are always a cover story to the theft of their country’s natural wealth and sovereignty.
The truth is America has been under the control of the “Rich Men” that oppress the rest of us from its inception. (James 2:6)
There has been an ongoing battle for the wealth of the country from the beginning. At times the middle class or the largest part of the country has fared better than at other times. In these last days, the middle class are being squeezed out of existence, by design, by the “rich men” that really control the direction and the laws of this country. Aided and abetted by corrupt politicians the laws are skewed to protect their riches, enlarge them, and give them virtually everything they want at the expense of the working class, or majority of the population.
Little by little, the benefits that all should have: decent wages, housing, education and healthcare are becoming privileges that fewer and fewer have. The wealth of the nation is becoming evermore concentrated at the top. By design the decent paying jobs are shipped overseas, replaced with low paying service jobs with little or no benefits. By design the vast majority of the country is forced into debt to keep up with expenses, to maintain a decent standard of living. Credit cards or refinancing their houses (or both) to take advantage of over inflated real estate values was the only way most could come up with the money to stay afloat in the last ten years.
Now the “Rich Men” have decided that it’s time to shrink the money supply, no more easy credit, and millions are at the end of their ropes. The economy won’t grow, home values are falling, and prices are rising, the job market is still shrinking and most have no where to go but down. Many owe more for their houses than they are worth; they don’t make enough to pay their bills and they have no where to turn for help. A large portion of these people will lose their houses. By design you get people over extended and in financial trouble, force them into bad loans, then move to tighten the money supply and as they lose their jobs, get hopelessly in debt, the “Rich Men” are in perfect position to move in and buy everything up for a fraction of what it’s worth.
Again, this is all accomplished with the cooperation of corrupt politicians, comparable to the “Publicans” spoken of in the Bible. And it isn’t the first time it’s happened, but, since the Great Depression of the 30’s it hasn’t happened on such a large scale as the catastrophe that is right around the corner for America and the world.
How could anyone be so cruel as to do this to millions of people on purpose? Don’t they realize the pain they are going to cause? Don’t they realize this will destroy hundreds of thousands of families and lead to death from hunger, diseases untreated, rising crime and suicides from the incredible despair they are causing … By Design?! In the past it was called rigging the scales to cheat people, nowadays it’s a lot more complex, but the outcome is the same, the rich steal from the poor and because they have the “law” bought and paid for it’s legal and they will get away with it … in this world! No wonder the Yahweh and His Prophets are so harsh toward the rich:
Mat 19:23 Then said Yahshua unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Luk 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Let’s close by summarizing the lies:
Much of the ruling classes and their mouthpieces in the political, educational and religious establishments tout America as Yahweh’s great gift to mankind and the envy of the world.
Of course false, and a case of the blind leading the blind (Mat 15:14)
Keep in mind that all of the wars started by the "Rich Men" were wars of aggression, of choice, resulting in the deaths of MILLIONS of innocent people and they were all started by lying to the American people!
It was founded as a Christian nation…
Freedom of the press and the three separate but equal branches of Government will ensure that the Constitution is defended and followed to the letter, and that the country will remain “of the people, by the people, and for the people” forever.
As we’ve said already the press may be free, but if it’s owned by the “Rich Men” who oppress us - it’s not likely to go against its masters and it doesn’t. This is a vital piece to the brainwashing of America’s citizens and it was accomplished by the politicians being bribed by the “Rich” to allow them to buy up the free press to the extent that it’s just corporate propaganda now and no longer a safeguard of freedom. The three separate but equal branches of government have also failed to check each other. If congress or the press had done their jobs in the past regarding the recent past regarding Iraq, millions of people that are dead as a result would be alive now. The press, the three branches of government and a military-industrial-congressional complex without a conscious – just a lust for more and more money have turned America into the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world” as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967, and it’s just as true today. All this to make it sadly true the following parody of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address finale: a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
As Christians we are to expect this kind of behavior from the world:
1Jn 5:19 We know that we are of Yahweh, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
That’s why we are to be separate from this world: It’s evil, its rulers are evil and they all serve the evil one - that is Satan! America’s socio-economic system, masquerading as a capitalist-democratic society is an evil Babylonian system – an offense to Yahweh!
2Co 6:14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath a temple of Yahweh with idols? for we are a temple of the living Elohim; even as Yahweh said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith Yahweh, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
2Co 6:18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith Yahweh.
Luk 6:22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
No, unless we allow the Word of Yahweh to be taken from us by following after the Babylonian System. If we act like the Apostates do, the Pagans, the unbelievers and chase after the things of this world then:
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.
Our Savior Yahshua gives us all the answers we need:
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Mat 6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Mat 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Mat 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Mat 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Mat 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Mat 6:30 Wherefore, if Yahweh so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Mat 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Mat 6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
Mat 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Yes, there will be trials and tribulations in this world and when you refuse to be a part of the compromise with the world you’ll suffer and be persecuted. Again Jesus' Words are the way through it:
Joh 16:33 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.
And in Christ we shall overcome it too.
Mat 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Yahweh bless you and yours,
disciple
Monday, August 4, 2008
Capitalism and Christianity - A Match Made in Hell!
The “Church” has defiled itself. It has committed idolatry; it has prostituted itself in the search for larger congregations and bigger buildings and personal wealth for its leaders. It has turned from serving Yahweh to serving Mammon. We have hundreds and hundreds of wealthy “Church” leaders preaching an apostate message of wealth as a blessing from Yahweh. Spiritual fornicators!
Despite our blessed Yahshua’s numerous warnings to the contrary, there is a never-ending string of sermons that teach the gullible to pray for wealth, give money to get back money, ten, thirty, a hundred times or more! These teachers of apostasy are wolves in sheep’s clothing and there is ample warning in the New Testament about them:
1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;* but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1Ti 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Tit 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of Yahweh; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Tit 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
1Pe 5:2 Feed the flock of Yahweh which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
* John Wesley defines Lucre as “All that is gained (above food and raiment) by ministering in holy things is filthy gain indeed; far more filthy than what is honestly gained by raking kennels, or emptying common sewers.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown say: not making the Gospel a means of gain.
John Gill says: not covetous of getting money, of amassing wealth and riches together; or desirous of popular applause and glory from men.
Matthew Henry: One who is not greedy of filthy lucre, who does not make his ministry to truckle to any secular design or interest, who uses no mean, base, sordid ways of getting money, who is dead to the wealth of this world, lives above it, and makes it appear he is so.
Seems pretty clear to me, but, when you start down the path to riches you tend to stop thinking clearly. You justify the excesses by saying things like “we’ll be able to reach more people with the “Gospel”, “it takes a lot of money to preach the Gospel”, “if I don’t charge $99.95 for my new book I won’t be able to reach more people”, etc., etc. In reality though you start buying more expensive suits, cars, housing, you start hiring on more people, usually family, and giving them larger salaries and of course the “leader” deserves a bigger salary. The largest ministries and their leaders today have assets in the millions, salaries of over a million dollars a year! They have their own planes! How far away from the apostle Paul is that? But that’s where chasing after riches will lead you, far from Yahweh and in the lap of Mammon.
Mar 10:23 And Yahshua looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of Yahweh!
Mar 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Yahshua answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of Yahweh!
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.
What has happened over the past 2,000 years is that the Words of Yahshua Christ have been twisted to justify the lusts of the flesh. That’s how the “Church” has gone from being content with food and clothing to seeking wealth as a “sign” of Yahweh’s blessing. The “Church” has corrupted itself and is using the principles of capitalism to run its operations. The “leaders” lie and extort “tithes” out of their congregants as if we are still under the law.
2Co 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for Yahweh loveth a cheerful giver.
The pastors hand out cards and ask their flocks to write down their salaries and then give that to the bankers to get them to approve a loan based on 10% of the salaries for a bigger, better “Church” building. They attend seminars on how to get bigger audiences, bigger buildings, more finances. They draw up business plans and instead of being concerned with feeding the flock they are more concerned with their bank accounts! They are not churches any more but businesses! Next they’ll be selling shares of stock!
If you’re in a “Church” like this, try and turn them back to Yahweh and away from Mammon, if you can’t, then leave. I can tell you from personal experience that riches corrupt the most sincere believers, and you are not likely to have any success in turning them away; the lure is very powerful, a very strong delusion, but you and I must continue to try.
Yahweh bless you and yours in Yahshua's Name,
disciple
Despite our blessed Yahshua’s numerous warnings to the contrary, there is a never-ending string of sermons that teach the gullible to pray for wealth, give money to get back money, ten, thirty, a hundred times or more! These teachers of apostasy are wolves in sheep’s clothing and there is ample warning in the New Testament about them:
1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;* but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
1Ti 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Tit 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of Yahweh; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Tit 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
1Pe 5:2 Feed the flock of Yahweh which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
* John Wesley defines Lucre as “All that is gained (above food and raiment) by ministering in holy things is filthy gain indeed; far more filthy than what is honestly gained by raking kennels, or emptying common sewers.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown say: not making the Gospel a means of gain.
John Gill says: not covetous of getting money, of amassing wealth and riches together; or desirous of popular applause and glory from men.
Matthew Henry: One who is not greedy of filthy lucre, who does not make his ministry to truckle to any secular design or interest, who uses no mean, base, sordid ways of getting money, who is dead to the wealth of this world, lives above it, and makes it appear he is so.
Seems pretty clear to me, but, when you start down the path to riches you tend to stop thinking clearly. You justify the excesses by saying things like “we’ll be able to reach more people with the “Gospel”, “it takes a lot of money to preach the Gospel”, “if I don’t charge $99.95 for my new book I won’t be able to reach more people”, etc., etc. In reality though you start buying more expensive suits, cars, housing, you start hiring on more people, usually family, and giving them larger salaries and of course the “leader” deserves a bigger salary. The largest ministries and their leaders today have assets in the millions, salaries of over a million dollars a year! They have their own planes! How far away from the apostle Paul is that? But that’s where chasing after riches will lead you, far from Yahweh and in the lap of Mammon.
Mar 10:23 And Yahshua looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of Yahweh!
Mar 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Yahshua answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of Yahweh!
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.
What has happened over the past 2,000 years is that the Words of Yahshua Christ have been twisted to justify the lusts of the flesh. That’s how the “Church” has gone from being content with food and clothing to seeking wealth as a “sign” of Yahweh’s blessing. The “Church” has corrupted itself and is using the principles of capitalism to run its operations. The “leaders” lie and extort “tithes” out of their congregants as if we are still under the law.
2Co 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for Yahweh loveth a cheerful giver.
The pastors hand out cards and ask their flocks to write down their salaries and then give that to the bankers to get them to approve a loan based on 10% of the salaries for a bigger, better “Church” building. They attend seminars on how to get bigger audiences, bigger buildings, more finances. They draw up business plans and instead of being concerned with feeding the flock they are more concerned with their bank accounts! They are not churches any more but businesses! Next they’ll be selling shares of stock!
If you’re in a “Church” like this, try and turn them back to Yahweh and away from Mammon, if you can’t, then leave. I can tell you from personal experience that riches corrupt the most sincere believers, and you are not likely to have any success in turning them away; the lure is very powerful, a very strong delusion, but you and I must continue to try.
Yahweh bless you and yours in Yahshua's Name,
disciple
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
I'm in the World, but, No Longer of it!
I'm in this world, but, I'm no longer of it. How can I be, and believe on Yahshua Christ? I tried, I went to Church and listened to the Preacher's version of the Gospel, how they had conformed to this world. How they could chase after the pleasures of this world, money, big houses, new cars, political power, wars, etc., and twist that to the message of the True Gospel and it didn't add up. When I first looked into the Bible, or being saved, I went to see a Lutheran pastor, and he gave me a Bible, which I read frequently. After a while of just reading the Bible I went to a few different Churches, some of them had very low key services, some tried to put on a show, and some completely turned my stomach! None of them, to me, seemed to be what the Bible called for in a Church.
I went to a few Baptist Churches and their services were very laid back, they'd read a few verses of the Bible and try and explain what they meant, or in most cases explain away the plain truth of Yahshua's Words, listen to some bad music, pass the offering plate around and go home. The same thing happened at the Lutheran and Methodist and Episcopal Churches I went to. Basically they didn't say much of anything. Or they'd take a hard line against a few of the sins which most of the Churches are in agreement on, homosexuality, gay marriage, adultery, etc. If they didn't do that then the preacher would go out of his or her way to not offend anyone.
I went to a couple "Charismatic" or "Pentecostal" Churches and they would put on a show. They talked in tongues, or so they said, no one was there to interpret. When they talked in tongues they all seemed to say the same thing, or make the same sounds anyways. Then they would all shout and raise their hands and then run around the Church and hop on one leg or any number of things that the "spirit" was leading them to do. When my wife and I didn't feel led by the "spirit" to do the same, others under the "spirit" would encourage us to just fake it until we were under the same "spirit" as they were.
Usually the messages were to pray for the Church to grow and for us as members of the congregation to grow our bank accounts as well. I have heard quite a few sermons like this and to be honest my flesh really wanted to hear it. "Gods wants me to be rich"! "We'll honor Yahweh by showing how wealthy He has made us and our Church"! When we have the largest and fanciest Church building and the preacher is driving a BMW and the parking lot is of full of Hummers and Lexus's, Cadillac's, etc., we'll know we are blessed! Problem being the Bible says:
Mat 19:23 Then said Yahshua unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 19:24 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. Luk 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Luk 18:22 Now when Yahshua heard these things, he said unto him, 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.
Luk 18:23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
Luk 18:24 And when Yahshua saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
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.
Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Riches, as Yahshua and the Apostles explain very carefully in the verses above are a hindrance to salvation, not a sign of being blessed! In my opinion, this is trying to serve mammon and God at the same time:
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.
So in the "Church", for the most part, there's an apostate (fallen away from the true Gospel, or conformed to this world) Gospel being preached every Sunday.
After a few years of this, I quit going to Church and started watching televangelists. This opened up a whole new area for apostasy to come in. Of course the same false doctrine of the "Prosperity Movement" was prevalent. But there were new lies, The "Rapture", or how Yahweh was going to take the "Church" out of the world and then destroy everyone that was left, unless they accepted Yahshua Christ. There was the "Dominionist Theory" or how Yahweh is calling His "Church" to take control of the world, by military means if necessary, so that Christ can return for His "Church". This particular area of apostasy was what led to me to drop out of organized religion all together and started me on my search for the Truth. A couple of my favorite televangelists at the time, Charles Stanley and John Hagee were emphatically supporting the American invasion of Iraq. In fact they were going so far as to say if we didn't support the President in the war we were going against Yahweh. That was indeed the final straw.
The apostates were no longer content to steal money from the gullible with false teachings, they now were publicly supporting military action which has so far led to the slaughter of over a million innocents in Iraq!
They were doing it in Yahweh's Name, they said, according to their interpretation of prophetic scriptures. In preaching their message of military action they proved that they had totally disregarded Yahshua's' commandments to His disciples, and that they had no understanding of the new Covenant, or just complete disregard for it, for the sake of bloodlust. In other words they are either Biblically incompetent or they are warmongers.
Mat 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
Mat 5:39 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.
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in Yahweh, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Luk 3:14 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 any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Yahweh bless you and yours,
disciple
http://www.perverted-christianity.com
I went to a few Baptist Churches and their services were very laid back, they'd read a few verses of the Bible and try and explain what they meant, or in most cases explain away the plain truth of Yahshua's Words, listen to some bad music, pass the offering plate around and go home. The same thing happened at the Lutheran and Methodist and Episcopal Churches I went to. Basically they didn't say much of anything. Or they'd take a hard line against a few of the sins which most of the Churches are in agreement on, homosexuality, gay marriage, adultery, etc. If they didn't do that then the preacher would go out of his or her way to not offend anyone.
I went to a couple "Charismatic" or "Pentecostal" Churches and they would put on a show. They talked in tongues, or so they said, no one was there to interpret. When they talked in tongues they all seemed to say the same thing, or make the same sounds anyways. Then they would all shout and raise their hands and then run around the Church and hop on one leg or any number of things that the "spirit" was leading them to do. When my wife and I didn't feel led by the "spirit" to do the same, others under the "spirit" would encourage us to just fake it until we were under the same "spirit" as they were.
Usually the messages were to pray for the Church to grow and for us as members of the congregation to grow our bank accounts as well. I have heard quite a few sermons like this and to be honest my flesh really wanted to hear it. "Gods wants me to be rich"! "We'll honor Yahweh by showing how wealthy He has made us and our Church"! When we have the largest and fanciest Church building and the preacher is driving a BMW and the parking lot is of full of Hummers and Lexus's, Cadillac's, etc., we'll know we are blessed! Problem being the Bible says:
Mat 19:23 Then said Yahshua unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 19:24 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. Luk 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Luk 6:24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Luk 18:22 Now when Yahshua heard these things, he said unto him, 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.
Luk 18:23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
Luk 18:24 And when Yahshua saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
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.
Jas 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
Riches, as Yahshua and the Apostles explain very carefully in the verses above are a hindrance to salvation, not a sign of being blessed! In my opinion, this is trying to serve mammon and God at the same time:
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.
So in the "Church", for the most part, there's an apostate (fallen away from the true Gospel, or conformed to this world) Gospel being preached every Sunday.
After a few years of this, I quit going to Church and started watching televangelists. This opened up a whole new area for apostasy to come in. Of course the same false doctrine of the "Prosperity Movement" was prevalent. But there were new lies, The "Rapture", or how Yahweh was going to take the "Church" out of the world and then destroy everyone that was left, unless they accepted Yahshua Christ. There was the "Dominionist Theory" or how Yahweh is calling His "Church" to take control of the world, by military means if necessary, so that Christ can return for His "Church". This particular area of apostasy was what led to me to drop out of organized religion all together and started me on my search for the Truth. A couple of my favorite televangelists at the time, Charles Stanley and John Hagee were emphatically supporting the American invasion of Iraq. In fact they were going so far as to say if we didn't support the President in the war we were going against Yahweh. That was indeed the final straw.
The apostates were no longer content to steal money from the gullible with false teachings, they now were publicly supporting military action which has so far led to the slaughter of over a million innocents in Iraq!
They were doing it in Yahweh's Name, they said, according to their interpretation of prophetic scriptures. In preaching their message of military action they proved that they had totally disregarded Yahshua's' commandments to His disciples, and that they had no understanding of the new Covenant, or just complete disregard for it, for the sake of bloodlust. In other words they are either Biblically incompetent or they are warmongers.
Mat 5:38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
Mat 5:39 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.
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in Yahweh, and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Luk 3:14 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 any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Yahweh bless you and yours,
disciple
http://www.perverted-christianity.com
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Israel, the United States, and the "Strong Delusion"
The Word of Yahweh can manifest spiritually and physically, it’s also cyclical, or can occur more than once. 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; 2Th 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called Yahweh, or that is worshipped; so that he as Yahweh sitteth in the temple of Yahweh, shewing himself that he is Yahweh. These words of Yahweh In 2nd TH 2 were happening at the time of Paul’s writing it, He is referring to the serpent seed of the Edomites who had infiltrated the priesthood, killing the Levites and by the time Yahshua was teaching in Jerusalem made up most of the “jewish” religious hierarchy, under the direction of the Roman appointed tetrarch, Herod, who was also an Edomite. So these serpent seed Edomites were in control of the priesthood and Temple, in effect saying we are Yahweh’s priests, again already by the time Yahshua arrived to redeem only the lost sheep of the house of Israel Mat 15:24. Israelites not edomites.
If we believe the futurist interpretations of it, the Temple will be rebuilt and an antichrist figure will cause it to happen again shortly, in even more explicit terms. In this Epistle Paul warns of the dangers to the Apostates, or those that fall away from the true Gospel. In the end times, the times we live in now, those that call themselves the "Church", have as a whole lost their love of the truth! The "Church" for the most part has been deceived by false doctrines that "tickle their ears", or that justify the lusts of their flesh. Included is the belief that modern, secular, satan’s counterfeit Israel is the Israel of Yahweh, and that we're called to support them or be cursed. We're required to support them in their battles with their neighbors and their land expansion plans, and if we don't Yahweh will destroy America.
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.
This verse is used (by the judeo christian Apostates) to show that we as a nation must support modern day satan’s counterfeit Israel in all ways or else face the wrath of Yahweh. What it doesn't take into consideration is that the promise is to Abraham, not Israel as a nation, as Abraham himself never even stepped foot into the Promised Land in Palestine. Later Yahweh makes the promise to Abraham's seed, which many in the "Church" falsely assume to be modern day, secular Israel. This is a case of mistaken identity, or more precisely identity theft with monstrous ramifications that’s been going on for over 2,000 years now.
As a result of their sin and the divorce and casting away of our brethren, the edomites, who are of Esau, Gen 36:8 … Esau is Edom (Esau race-mixed with Canaanite women, dishonoring and disobeying Yahweh and his parents, destroying his seed) moved into Palestine or Judea and over hundreds of years they finagled their way into being in control of the formerly Levite priestly positions. By the time our beloved kinsman redeemer Yahshua arrived in Jerusalem they were in charge of the Temple, referred to as Herod’s Temple, the edomite Roman appointed tetrarch of Judea. More than half of the New Testament is Yahshua arguing with the serpent seed demons over the Word of Yahweh.
To correctly understand the Word of Yahweh 2 Timothy 2:15 you have to use concordances and dictionaries, and the historical contexts and more, or else you are getting fake preconceived notions of what is actually being said by our Father, what He wants us to know; like everything else, the Biblical narrative is controlled by the edomite jews who through control of the money supply manage news, entertainment and educational curriculum’s etc.
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.
Excellent example of what I’m trying to get across here: not all of the seed of Abraham are promised, i.e. the promises are reckoned through Isaac, then Jacob. Not Cain, not Ishmael, not Esau, not the children of Abraham’s later wife Keturah, but only the 12 Sons or Tribes of Jacob Israel. Not to many but to one, the promised seed, which is Christ. Christ also means anointed G5548, the seed of Jacob Israel is the anointed seed. Yahweh said Jacob is my portion: Deu 32:9 For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. The judeo Christian apostates like to twist these scriptures and claim all you have to do is believe and you’re saved!
Gal 3:29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
If you’re of the anointed seed of Jacob Israel, you’re heirs to the promises made to Abraham. He, Yahshua Christ, who again came only for the lost tribes of Jacob Israel Mat 15:24, who had been dispersed hundreds of years previous, is indeed the fulfillment of all the promises Yahweh made to Abraham and his seed! Yahweh divorced our ancestors and cast them off, by His own law He could not remarry them unless He died, and that’s what Yahshua, who is Yahweh incarnate, or the Word made flesh did.
Joh 8:37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
Again, excellent example of what I’m trying to get across here: not all of the seed of Abraham are promised, certainly not the edomite jews whom Yahshua is talking to; they were the edomites who had the seed of Abraham in them, but it was mixed with Canaanite serpent seed, and they usurped the roles of the Levite priests and Yahshua told them they weren’t His, they didn’t know Him or the Father, couldn’t hear or understand Him John 8.
Unfortunately, most of the "Church" today believes that a group of serpent seed demons calling themselves Jews and Israelites, living in a part of the land where ancient Israel was are the "Israel of Yahweh". I can assure you that the earliest disciples of Jesus did not believe that! This false belief leads to the "Strong Delusion" mentioned in 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. 2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The belief that modern day, apostate, secular satanic counterfeit Israel is the true "Israel of Yahweh" gives moral and religious high ground to the endless wars based on lies in the middle east. To the killing and horrible treatment of the people who rightly live on the land that our ancestors were scattered from. A large portion of the modern "Church" support the continued genocide of the people living there and forcibly removing them, bulldozing their houses and sending them to refugee camps, imprisoning them, torturing them, and depriving them of the necessities of life. Many of today's "Churches" actually send money to satan’s counterfeit Israel to accomplish these atrocities, they actually believe Yahweh will bless them for it. Strong Delusion.
At this time, the U.S. and satan’s counterfeit Israel are on the verge of starting World War III because Iran threatens to develop nuclear energy. [originally written 15 yrs ago, still the exact state of affairs] Iran, a country that has not attacked another country in the entire history of the United States, is the target of international economic sanctions because it wants to develop nuclear energy. satan’s counterfeit Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons and no one says anything about that. But if Iran wants to develop nuclear energy the U.S. and satan’s counterfeit Israel and their allies in hypocrisy and blood and oil lust are willing to start W.W. III over that. And the modern day Church cheers on the aggressors and uses their political connections to try to push through ever more extreme measures through Congress until they have the war they desire, which may well bring on a world wide catastrophe. Strong Delusion.
Another verse commonly used by the apostates is:
Dan 9:27 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 it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
This much misinterpreted verse is used by the apostates to say "he" the anti-christ, shall make a peace treaty with the satan’s counterfeit Israel, which will then rebuild the Temple and live under the Mosaic law again. In Bible prophecy one week equals 7 years and in the middle of the 7 years the anti-christ will turn on Israel, "cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease" by sitting in the rebuilt Temple, calling himself Yahweh and demand that the "Israelites" worship him. They'll refuse and then the anti-christ will destroy most of the world and the "Israelites" except for a remnant and at the last moment Yahshua will return and the remnant will then accept Him as Messiah and they'll be saved, and so will all Israel be saved too. Of course the "Church" according to these end time delusions, will be gone already, raptured away before Yahweh pours out His vengeance on the serpent seed. Sound like a fairy tale? That's because it is!
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;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
In truth, which we strive for and has been received through the Holy Spirit, the prophecy the Angel Gabriel gave to Daniel has already been fulfilled! It concerns the 70 weeks or 490 years from the return of the Israelites to their lands from their Babylonian captivity, the rebuilding of the Temple in times of trouble, to the ministry of Yahshua Christ. The Yiddish speaking identity thieves in Palestine have twisted the True Gospel of our Beloved Yahshua to the point that most of our kinsman have no idea who they are and who they’re supposed to be worshiping.
As disciples of Jesus Christ we are called to make disciples of, or preach the Gospel of Yahshua Christ to our kinsman. I can tell you that most of our brethren are so deceived that they are going to hate you for telling them the truth, call you vile names and exclude you from their gatherings. You won’t have many friends, but you’ll have the best friend you could ever have in Yahshua, our Kinsman Redeemer. Speak truth, love the truth, remember He is the Way the Life and the Truth! Repent from not loving the truth of the Gospel and be healed of the "Strong Delusion".
Yahweh bless you and yours,
a disciple of Yahshua
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Who Are My Brethren?
The term "unity" is the new catchphrase in many churches today. We are told that Yahshua wants us all to be united, the "us" being those who claim Yahshua (Jesus) Christ as our Savior. We are told that it doesn't matter what our doctrinal differences are, as long as we all agree that Christ is the Messiah and we accept Him as our personal Lord and Savior.
I definitely agree that Yahshua wants His Church to be united. We don't have to use conjecture on this, because He said it quite plainly when He prayed to the Father "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." (John 17:21)
But this then begs the questions: Who are we supposed to be one with? Is it anyone who claims to believe in Yahshua (Jesus) Christ? Do the doctrinal differences between us make any difference?
Fortunately, Yahshua answered these questions also.....
Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. (Matthew 12:47-50)
So Yahshua was trying to point out here that all of them were the offspring of Jacob/Israel through Abraham, as they were who He came to save Mat 15:24 ... I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But, that isn't enough alone, they had to be found doing the will of the Father at His return, Whosoever shall do the will of the Father which is in Heaven.
Doing the will of the Father certainly encompasses accepting Christ as your Savior, but it would seem that the wording implies that there is more to it than that. This is only the first step.
Which brings us to the doctrinal aspects of becoming one with one another. We know that Yahweh God rejoices in the Truth, and that He desires His creation to know the Truth. In the Gospel of John, chapter 14, Yahshua makes these profound statements:
If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:23-26)
These Scriptures are extremely important for several reasons:
1) Yahshua clearly states that His Words are the Words of the Father. In other words, the teachings of Christ represent the will of the Father.
2) Yahshua states that those who love Him will keep His words (teachings) Acts 5:32 And we are His witnesses of these things; and also the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey Him. We will know those who do not love Him because they will not keep His sayings. (teachings)
3) Those that believe on Christ and keep His Commandments will receive the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, Who will teach us ALL things!
Notice that Yahshua doesn't say that those who believe His words, but rather, those who keep His words. The original Greek word used there is tereo, which means "to attend to carefully, to observe, take care of, to guard."
Wow!
Let me tell you something, friends...you can turn on any religious channel and very rarely will you find someone actually tereo-ing the teachings of Christ! They are very good at explaining them away, however.
"Jesus didn't really mean to love our enemies, what He meant was......"
"Jesus didn't really mean that it's hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, what He actually meant was....."
"Jesus didn't really mean that we're not to look at someone who is not our spouse and lust after them, what He meant was....."
"Jesus didn't really mean that we're not to store up our treasures here on earth, all He meant was......"
And I could, quite literally, go on and on here.
But the bottom line is this: Those that try to explain away the teachings of Christ, those that twist those teachings, pervert them, and try to make them more appealing to the flesh......According to Yahshua Christ Himself, they do not truly love Him, and they are not His brothers and sisters. If they are not His brothers and sisters, then He surely doesn't want His followers, those that keep His teachings, to be united with those who don't!
So with that in mind, I will not be referring to those who pervert the Gospel as brothers or sisters. For clarification purposes, from this point forward I will be referring to these modern-day Pharisees as " apostates."
Webster's dictionary' defines apostasy as: "abandonment of a previous loyalty or defection." This reminds me of Jesus' warning to the church in Ephesus in Revelation chapter 2 when He said: thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Many Christians today have left their first love. They have defected from solid, simple teaching in the Words of Christ. They have abandoned their previous loyalty to Him, in order to make the Christian "lifestyle" more palatable to the flesh. According to Yahshua Himself, this is not acceptable.
There are many well-meaning Christians out there right now who are trying to adhere to His teachings, but they become confused and frustrated with the churches. The problem now is that apostasy is so rampant, especially here in the U.S., that it's difficult to break free from it. In order to separate yourself from the apostasy, it usually means that you will be looked at as a radical, a malcontent, an "extreme fundamentalist." When you try to warn others of their apostasy, you will be called judgemental and divisive. Some day, it may even cost you your life. These are not easy things to endure, and so many Christians won't even attempt it because they don't want to "rock the boat."
Well, our goal is to rock the boat as hard as we can, so that hopefully some will have the scales removed from their eyes before it's too late for them. The Church is struggling badly right now, laden down with false teachers, bad doctrine, and fleshly adherents. We need to be about the call Yahshua Christ put on us which is preaching the Good News to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, even to those who are lost but claim to be found.
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. (1 John 2:28,29)
I definitely agree that Yahshua wants His Church to be united. We don't have to use conjecture on this, because He said it quite plainly when He prayed to the Father "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." (John 17:21)
But this then begs the questions: Who are we supposed to be one with? Is it anyone who claims to believe in Yahshua (Jesus) Christ? Do the doctrinal differences between us make any difference?
Fortunately, Yahshua answered these questions also.....
Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. (Matthew 12:47-50)
So Yahshua was trying to point out here that all of them were the offspring of Jacob/Israel through Abraham, as they were who He came to save Mat 15:24 ... I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But, that isn't enough alone, they had to be found doing the will of the Father at His return, Whosoever shall do the will of the Father which is in Heaven.
Doing the will of the Father certainly encompasses accepting Christ as your Savior, but it would seem that the wording implies that there is more to it than that. This is only the first step.
Which brings us to the doctrinal aspects of becoming one with one another. We know that Yahweh God rejoices in the Truth, and that He desires His creation to know the Truth. In the Gospel of John, chapter 14, Yahshua makes these profound statements:
If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:23-26)
These Scriptures are extremely important for several reasons:
1) Yahshua clearly states that His Words are the Words of the Father. In other words, the teachings of Christ represent the will of the Father.
2) Yahshua states that those who love Him will keep His words (teachings) Acts 5:32 And we are His witnesses of these things; and also the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey Him. We will know those who do not love Him because they will not keep His sayings. (teachings)
3) Those that believe on Christ and keep His Commandments will receive the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, Who will teach us ALL things!
Notice that Yahshua doesn't say that those who believe His words, but rather, those who keep His words. The original Greek word used there is tereo, which means "to attend to carefully, to observe, take care of, to guard."
Wow!
Let me tell you something, friends...you can turn on any religious channel and very rarely will you find someone actually tereo-ing the teachings of Christ! They are very good at explaining them away, however.
"Jesus didn't really mean to love our enemies, what He meant was......"
"Jesus didn't really mean that it's hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, what He actually meant was....."
"Jesus didn't really mean that we're not to look at someone who is not our spouse and lust after them, what He meant was....."
"Jesus didn't really mean that we're not to store up our treasures here on earth, all He meant was......"
And I could, quite literally, go on and on here.
But the bottom line is this: Those that try to explain away the teachings of Christ, those that twist those teachings, pervert them, and try to make them more appealing to the flesh......According to Yahshua Christ Himself, they do not truly love Him, and they are not His brothers and sisters. If they are not His brothers and sisters, then He surely doesn't want His followers, those that keep His teachings, to be united with those who don't!
So with that in mind, I will not be referring to those who pervert the Gospel as brothers or sisters. For clarification purposes, from this point forward I will be referring to these modern-day Pharisees as " apostates."
Webster's dictionary' defines apostasy as: "abandonment of a previous loyalty or defection." This reminds me of Jesus' warning to the church in Ephesus in Revelation chapter 2 when He said: thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Many Christians today have left their first love. They have defected from solid, simple teaching in the Words of Christ. They have abandoned their previous loyalty to Him, in order to make the Christian "lifestyle" more palatable to the flesh. According to Yahshua Himself, this is not acceptable.
There are many well-meaning Christians out there right now who are trying to adhere to His teachings, but they become confused and frustrated with the churches. The problem now is that apostasy is so rampant, especially here in the U.S., that it's difficult to break free from it. In order to separate yourself from the apostasy, it usually means that you will be looked at as a radical, a malcontent, an "extreme fundamentalist." When you try to warn others of their apostasy, you will be called judgemental and divisive. Some day, it may even cost you your life. These are not easy things to endure, and so many Christians won't even attempt it because they don't want to "rock the boat."
Well, our goal is to rock the boat as hard as we can, so that hopefully some will have the scales removed from their eyes before it's too late for them. The Church is struggling badly right now, laden down with false teachers, bad doctrine, and fleshly adherents. We need to be about the call Yahshua Christ put on us which is preaching the Good News to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, even to those who are lost but claim to be found.
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. (1 John 2:28,29)
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