SECRET SOCIETIES CONTROL THE RISE AND FALL OF RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS

(The Religious “Beast From The Earth,” Rev. 13:11-18.)

PART 3: JUDAIST/ROMAN CATHOLIC ASSAULT FROM WITHIN THE MIDST OF JESUS’ ASSEMBLIES

Renette Vermeulen

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Continued from PART 2, Jesus’ baptism with the Holy Spirit and with Fire; Martyrs at the gates of hades

PART 1, The Kingdom Now Beast that Crucified Jesus

PART 4, Christian Giants, Fairy Godmother Mary and the Church Ring

PART 5: The Way or Ecclesia Converted to Roman Catholic Christianity

CONTENT: 1) Secret Societies infiltrated the early assemblies of Jesus’ Followers of The Way. 2) “Christians are NOT the ‘chosen race!” 3) The ‘infallible, godlike apostles’ are Judaist/Roman Catholic church myths. 4) The apostles also had to grow in knowledge and obedience to the Scriptures. 4) Despite the apostles’ teaching, destructive secret societies gathered strength. 5) Believers’ defense against false teaching.

HOW SATAN TRIPPED THE UNCONQUERABLE “FOLLOWERS OF THE WAY”

The Followers of The Way, as seen in Part 2 of this book, knew exactly what was happening to them and why they had to endure “the [persecuting] baptism with fire,” (Mt. 3:11-12! Acts 9:2; 19:23; 22:4; 24:14.) God allowed that suffering, hardship, and death to wean them on a mind level from the world. They had to die emotionally to the incredibly strong desires of the “flesh,” to learn obedient service to the truth of Jesus’ Word in the leading of the Holy Spirit, (Heb. 5:7-8; Rom. 12:1-2 & chapter 8; Gal. 3:19-21.) The Followers of The Way knew their enemy was fully conquered by Christ and thus, they embraced complete commitment to Him as The Only Way to defeat onslaughts, (Col. 2:9-15; Rev. 12:11.)

Satan could NOT snatch [grab or take] Jesus’ real believers out of His hand by physically persecuting them, (Jn. 10:28.; Heb. 11.) Even the devil’s most torturous means of intimidation did not stop or sway them. Instead, persecution pressed them into mental maturity and full obedience to Jesus’ commission. Obedience to His Word and Holy-Spirit control will always sustain their health and growth in Christ, (Mt. 28:18-20.)

Being the evil genius that Satan is, he must have stepped back to take stock of the devastating losses he suffered during those early years. The devil soon realized that the war for the complete salvation, redemption and blessing of all believing humanity was eternally won by the unchangeable truth that Jesus “made a spectacle” of him at the cross, and more so when the Holy Spirit indwelt all genuine believers as His living temple at Pentecost, (Col. 2:9-15; 1 Cor. 3:16-17.) It was impossible to stop the mission of the Followers of They Way to rescue souls from his kingdom of darkness, because Satan remained unable to tear them away from God by means of physical war. As long as they remained cemented in Christ’s Truth — especially while they knew they were “complete in Christ” and lacked nothing of eternal value because this world is NOT their home, they advanced unstoppably to heaven in Holy-Spirit power; calling all the willing souls they met to join them, (Col. 2:9-10; Mt. 7:21-27.)

Once Satan realized that The Way to heaven, (Jesus Himself; God’s Word in Holy Spirit power,) cannot be spiritually destroyed or altered by war or anything else, he then knew that the only strategy left is to stop The Followers of The Way’s progression“ against the gates of hades” or spiritual death. To achieve that, he had to get true believers away from The Truth of God’s Word, and thus, away from Christ Himself. The only way to do that was to begin a secret, underhanded battle for their “minds,” thoughts, and beliefs, (2 Cor. 6:6-18; 10:3-6; Eph. 10-18.) The one who controls the mind of a person controls his actions, life, and eternal destiny. Romans 6:16, “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves; whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to eternal life? But thank God ; though you were slaves of sin, [past tense,] you [chose to seriously] obey Him, and so you were delivered [from that sin — past tense.]”

Satan could not drive Jesus’ followers forcibly away from The Truth. Thus, he decided to entice and deceive them to willingly leave The Spiritual King and His spiritual Kingdom for a ‘divine’ ‘kingdom here on earth.’ A false, physical kingdom that attempts to replicate the Kingdom of God inside the born again ‘hearts’ (spirits) and ‘souls’ (minds) of believers in Christ, (Lu. 17:21 KJV; 1 Ths. 5:23; 1 Cor. 6:15-20.) Satan knows God will NOT curb the deliberate, bad choices of free-willed humans. To trip them, he has to prey on their desires and decisions to accept his lies.

► But because Satan and his demons are spirits, he had to set up secret human agents to convince Christ’s believers to follow him. Hence, he turned to his original deception, which caused all of humanity to fall away from God in the garden in Eden, (Gen. 2:8-24; Rom. 5:12!)

This time, he used human snakes who masquerade as “angels of light;” (2 Cor. 11:13-15 KJV.) Sneaky church clergies who sow deception in the minds of believers, subliminally preached: “Did God really say you must suffer and crucify yourselves for Him? (Gal. 2:20-21.) Look at the pagans, how gloriously they serve their “gods” in temples. Will an almighty, all-good God really ‘baptize you with the fire of persecution,’ instead of making you rich, comfortable, ruling ‘little gods and christs’ on earth? Come on! You were created in His image — live as christs and gods!”

►► Once the Followers of The Way began to accept his lies as truth, Satan could execute his plan to replace Jesus’ difficult, Narrow Way with an easy Broad Way that satisfies the sinful senses, (Mt. 7:13-14.) His deceptions are usually so convincing, people do not realize that the entire concept of a religious-political, (‘spiritual home’ under ‘kingdom-now, church rule’ here on earth, will always remain an eternal death trap. “For the things that satisfy the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is NOT of the Father in heaven, but of the world,” (1 John 2:16.) What the natural “flesh” or body require is NOT sin, but “lust” is a sinful, insatiable distortion of natural need and desire!

► As soon as The Followers of They Way were deceived to enter churchianity, (Acts 11:26,) the devil proceeded to set up his ambush by replacing The Word of God, (Jesus Christ Himself,) and the “ecclesia,” (the gathering together of the Followers of The Way in homes,) with a grand, outward, religious church system, (gleaned from pagan temple, satanic worship;) calling them “christians” or “little christs,” and “manifest sons of [a false] “god;” [who are allegedly ‘God in the flesh’ here on earth,]” (Acts 11:26-28.)

►► The Lord Jesus Christ is the ONLY HEAD of His truly, spiritually born again Body and Holy-Spirit temple, (Col. 2:9-15; 1 Cor. 3:16-17.) HE IS ALSO THE ONLY ETERNAL HIGH PRIEST MELCHIZEDEK OF HIS ONLY GENUINE FOLLOWERS OF THE WAY — HIS REAL SPIRITUAL PRIESTS AND KINGS as described in 2 Peter 2:9-10 KJV! Their everlasting birthright is also ONLY found in Jesus Christ (John 1:12-13; 3:3-6 KJV.)

►► Conversely, Satan placed all deceived church members under the false authority of his church clergies, who are the proverbial “ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing;” ruling people worldwide through truly godless, (Acts 17:24-25,) christian divisions or denominations, (1 Cor. 1:13!) “For he who preach another Jesus and gospel, [brings] another spirit,” [NOT The Almighty Holy Spirit — the One and Only True God!] (2 Cor. 11:4!)

►► Hence, CHRISTIANS OR ‘LITTLE CHRISTS’ ARE NOT “THE CHOSEN RACE!!!” (Acts 11:26!) “GOD SO LOVED THE WHOLE WORLD, HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON, SO THAT WHOEVER BELIEVE, [ACCEPT, AND FOLLOW HIM,] WILL NOT PERISH…” (Jn. 3:16; 1:12-13!) AND SO, “GOD DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES [churches] MADE BY HANDS, AND HE IS NOT SERVED BY [nonexistent clergies,]” (Acts 7:44-50; 17:24-25.) An estimated 50,000 denominations that worship false “gods,’ (2 Corinthians 11:4,) and require ‘salvation’ by ‘church sacraments,’ surely worship the devil in disguise.

THE TAMPERING WITH THE CONTEXTUAL TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD TO JUSTIFY THE ONSLAUGHT OF DECEPTION

If one ministers to Muslims, for example, it is necessary to know that these unbelievers and other religionists attack the authority and authenticity of God’s Word, the Bible. Interpreting the Bible verse-by-verse, they find many so-called ‘contradictions,’ which supposedly ‘discredit’ New Testament Scriptures as the Word of God. Truthfully, christians also view Scripture uncontextually and on a verse-by-verse basis, while conveniently avoiding Scriptural ‘discrepancies.’ For instance, Mark wrote that “one” possessed man came to Jesus in the country of the Gadarenes, while Mathew states there were “two.” The Gospels differ slightly on events during the crucifixion, the resurrection, and so forth.

· But these are not deliberate, destructive heresies, and can therefore be interpreted in the light of this explanation of Paul, “We have this treasure, [the knowledge of God’s truth in the full context of Scripture and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,] in [feeble] earthen vessels, that the excellence of His power may be of God and not of us,” (2 Cor. 4:7.) Fact remains, contrary to Satan’s iron-fisted methods of control, the God of the Bible, especially during the New Testament Covenant of grace, does NOT override the free will of anyone, (1 Cor. 14:32.) The Word, which God breathed into the writers of the Bible was indeed perfect, even though it flowed from imperfect, ‘earthen vessels’ onto paper.

· The deliberate dissemination of false doctrines as found in all christian churches, however, is another matter. Nevertheless, the many attempts to erase the contextual truth of God’s Word were of no avail, because Jesus declared that “heaven and earth will pass away, but [the contextual truth of My Words will by no means pass away.” Sadly, the atrocious crime of tampering with God’s Truth is still escalating tremendously in our day.

· In Jesus’ time, He directed a serious warning to the Old Testament Hebrew Sanhedrin, which Peter repeated to false New Covenant teachers and preachers, (2 Peter 2:1-3.) He said in Mathew 15:6;9, [paraphrased,] ‘Adding your traditions to My Word, you falsified My Word… and you pay Me lip-service while your hearts are far from Me. But in vain, [completely uselessly] you worship Me, following the commandments of [religious] men…’ All types of religious church devotion mean absolutely nothing because it rejects God’s True Word to cling to false church doctrines, norms, and forms. “You have made the commandment of God of no effect, [nullifying the Word in your own lives] by your [temple/church] tradition, which you have handed down… (Mark 7:9-13.) And many such [terrible, blasphemous] things you do.”

Those who even have just in inkling that they are caught in the traps of the false church system are still scratching in darkness to find real light, while they should run to “come OUT OF HER lest they share in her sins and receive of her plagues!” (Rev. 18:4.) There is NO Authentic Christ-Light found in churches “where God does NOT dwell and clergies [do not exist,] (Acts 17:24-25! Churches are run by secret masonic and other satanic agents since late 1 A.D.; teaching their false masonic dogmas and clinging to their false church ceremonies and secret agendas.

· Their dangerous dogmas masked with Scriptural truth seem to appear everywhere we look. The deliberate twisting, misinterpretation, omission, false translation, and abuse of Holy Spirit-inspired Scripture are grim but growing realities in our day. The many twisted translations of the Bible and the proliferating numbers of uncontextual interpretations testify to the fact that we are living in the last of the end-days.

Someone summarized our responsibility to “test and prove [everything] to see whether it is of God,” when he said, “Searching Scripture is not a matter of [mere head-knowledge,] but of life!” Hence, Paul and Silas found “more fair-minded [people in Berea than among the disciples in Thessalonica,] in that they received the Word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out [for themselves] whether these things were so.” (1 Ths. 5:21; 1 Jn. 4:1-2; 2 Cor. 13:5; 1 Cor. 14:29.) Searching for “all truth” is the greatest service we can do to ourselves.

By grace, the words of Peter still ring true. He wrote, “Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking… [about things that are] hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures… Beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked. But grow [continually] in the grace and knowledge of our Lord…’ – (2 Pt. 3:15-18.)

Peter’s serious sermon supports the Words of The Lord Jesus Christ in Jn. 8:31-32, “If you abide in My [full, contextual] Word, you are My disciples indeed. And [then] you will [increasingly] know the truth, and the truth will set you free!”

THE “INFALLIBLE APOSTLES”

Every person on earth under the New Testament Covenant, except the sinless Man Jesus Christ, must be personally and spiritually born again, (Jn. 3:3-6; 1:12-14.) But most of christianity’s estimated 50,000 denominations revere Jesus’ first disciples, especially Peter and Paul, as so-called ‘infallible,’ ‘godlike apostles.’ Nearly two millennia of Catholic, Calvinist, Lutheran, and other church elevation transformed them into ‘perfect,’ ‘all-knowing,’ sinless, deified [Roman Catholic] saints.’ However, since the fall in the garden in Eden, God Who became the Man Jesus Christ was the only perfect, sinless human being who ever walked the earth, (Heb. 1:1-14.) Just as Mary, the absolutely human mother of the Man Jesus, the so-called ‘infallible apostles’ also had to experience the spiritual rebirth through Christ’s full atonement, which completely won the spiritual war on Satan, (Col. 2:8-15.) Then followed the usual process of “renewing their minds” through personal growth in Scriptural knowledge and obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit, (Rom. 12:1-2; Jam. 1:21-22.)

► They all remained ordinary, imperfect humans on a literal level; dedicated to the God of the Bible by His grace. They still had to wrestle with their weaknesses; they still made mistakes. Peter and Barnabas began to “fear those of the circumcision, playing the hypocrite with Judaists,” (Gal. 2:11-16.) Paul confessed in Romans 7:15, “What I am doing, I don’t understand. What I want to do, that I do not practice, but what I hate, that I do.” Paul was speaking about the battle for the mind — fleshy thoughts and beliefs, desires and emotions that attack the truth of Scripture and the holiness of the indwelling Holy Spirit, (Rom. 8:1-12; Col. 2:9-15.)

► However, can anyone who knows the contextual Truth of Jesus’ Gospel, and understand His complete atonement in the place of all believing humanity, (Colossians 2:8-15,) accept that Paul would discard Jesus’ Gospel truth to ‘command’ ‘God’s rejection of women?’

First, Paul stated the following Truth, “[Spiritually in Christ] there is neither Jew nor Greek, [race,] neither slave nor free, [status,] neither male nor female, [physical gender,] for all [true believers] are ONE in Christ Jesus.” Second, another “Paul” then seemingly declared, “Women will be saved by bearing children — [and only] if [the children] continue in faith, charity and holiness,” (1 Tim. 2:15.) ► Could Paul, who met Christ on the road to Damascus and then fought unto death for God’s Truth about everything, (2 Cor. 11:25-30,) suddenly teach that the perfect atonement of Christ does NOT save women, because ‘Adam was formed first and Eve was deceived, but NOT Adam, and so God only forgives men, not women.’ Thus, “Paul” allegedly claimed, [Therefore] I do not allow women to speak or teach…” (1 Tim. 2:11-15.)

► In reality, “GOD created both male and female in His own image, blessed them both, and commanded them both: “Be fruitful… fill the earth and SUBDUE IT; [together] HAVE DOMINION OVER [everything] that moves on the earth,” (Gen. 1:27-28.) Horrendously, Adam “was with Eve” at the fall, but did not say a word to withstand Satan, protect Eve, or obey God, (Gen. 3:6-16!) God did NOT give man permission to “rule” over all women or even just a man’s own wife. Instead, HE WARNED EVE, “Because you desire your husband more than Me, he will abuse you.”

► Rather than oppressing women, Joel prophesied in the Old Testament, “[After the cross and since Pentecost,] God will pour out His Spirit on all [genuine believers from all nations,] (Joel 2:28; Acts 2:17-19! Jn. 3:16!) [Both God’s believing] SONS AND DAUGHTERS WILL PROPHESY... AND ON HIS MENSERVANTS AND ON HIS MAIDSERVANTS HE WILL POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT AND THEY WILL [preach and teach to fulfill Christ’s New Covenant commission globally,]” (Mt. 28:18-20.) CONCLUSION: Just as church clergies, the real Paul must have been suffering severely from double-mindedness and a lack of Scriptural knowledge to suddenly forsake God’s Truth to teach satanic rubbish about blood-cleansed women — which is clearly impossible from the context of His many Epistles. The lies that attempt to destroy God’s calling on women servants could only have come from church clergies, (Acts 17:24-25,) who added such devilish lies to Scripture in an attempt to discredit Paul and nullify his sincere work in Christ. Paul’s following command proves his innocence: “Test and prove everything; [especially uncontextual Biblical teaching;] abstain from all evil and hold fast what is good,” (1 Ths. 5:21-22; 1 Tim. 2:15!!) Scripture must always be understood according to the full context of the Bible — viewed from the perspective of the eternal New Testament Covenant in Christ, (Mt. 26:28! 1 Jn. 4:1-4.)

What’s more, the apostles did not receive ‘superior revelation’ as clergies suggest. The contextual Gospel of Christ as we ought to know it and practically live in it, came mainly through the Epistles of Paul – some time towards the end of 1 A.D. Paul did not die much sooner, as most ‘historians’ allege. His Epistles mainly point to the time after the first Catholic/Judaist church was established at Antioch; derailing lots of Followers of The Way from Christ’s truth, to join ► “Mystery Babylon The Great. The [church] mother of [some 50,000 denominational harlots:] abominations of the earth. And she, [the church system and her deceiving clergies, are still] drunk with the blood of the [genuine] saints and martyrs of Jesus],” (Rev. 17:5-6; Heb. 11:36-40; Gal. 2:15-3:1; 3:2-21; Acts 11:26.) Happy go-lucky, man-pleasing clergies only came into being during and after the establishment of the church system, (Acts 11:26.) Yet, none of the apostles received ‘superior or extra-Scriptural revelation.’ To root out confusion, God, after first schooling the apostles in His Scriptural [Old and New Covenant] Truth, simply used them to explain Jesus’ Words in greater detail and thus more clearly - in context and according to the real order of events, (Acts 18:25-26.)

► Thus, the ministry of the apostles center on apologetics – the defense of the Gospel. In fact, God called and still calls and equips all the authentic servant-‘elderly’ of the body of Christ to guide and guard His blood-redeemed body of believers; to defend the truth of the Gospel, to discern error, and to expose false teachers, idolatrous doctrines, and sinful pagan practices hiding behind the Almighty Name of Jesus Christ, (Phil. 1:17; Eph. 5:10-11.) The Spirit Filled Bible 1991 explains, “The Gospel came to the [disciples] not only in word, but also in power, suggesting a balanced mix of intellectual argument, the Spirit’s power, gifts and miracles, and personal response,” (Mark. 16:16-18, 1 Cor. 14:22.)

►► The apostles constantly addressed the church-clerical lack of mind-renewal through causing ignorance of Scriptural truth and disobedience to the Holy Spirit, (Rom. 12:1-2.) Paul was merely one of the ecclesia’s spiritually mature, serving ‘elderly,’ [deliberately mistranslated by Roman Catholic priests as ruling ‘elders.'] He wrote in 1 Corinthians 3:3, “I could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as carnal, as to [newborn] babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, [the first things that form the foundation of the Gospel,] for until now you were not able to receive solid food, for you are still carnal… [You have until now, not renewed your minds or thoughts and beliefs through Scriptural truth to understand and obey God’s perfect will, Rom. 12:1-2.]”

What Paul meant was that we all, (all elderly or so-called ‘elders’ included,) must continually “grow in knowledge and in grace… to become doers of the Word.” As seen in Romans 7:7-25, Paul, writing in the first person, shares his personal struggle with the desires of “the flesh” (or sinful thoughts and other human weaknesses,) to encourage and teach the body of Christ by example.

Paul knew that a lack of soulical or emotional growth, (1 Thessalonians 5:23,) spells certain death for believers. Therefore, the writer of Hebrews 6:1-6 commanded, “Leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us all [continually] go on to perfect [understanding of God’s Word and will, (Romans 12:1-3,) not [needing to] lay again [and again] the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God; of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection… and of eternal judgment… For it is impossible… if they fall away, [through their willful lack of growth in knowledge, and the resultant disobedience to God’s Moral Law of Love,] to renew them again to repentance…’

This is a harsh teaching, but it is a stern warning that we must NOT play church with God, (Mark 7:6-13,) and put off our mental growth in Christ; thinking we don’t have to do it today as we can do it tomorrow, (Rom. 12:1-3.) It will always be difficult to “teach an old dog new tricks.” Hebrews 3:15-27 warns, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts [and provoke God to anger like old Israel did.]” Still, by His mercy, God deals sovereignly with everyone. Thus, He promised in John. 6:37, “I will not turn away anyone who comes to Me [in sincerity.]”

GOD’S EXPANDING REVELATION

As said, Paul wrote most of his epistles during late 1 A.D.; some time after the establishment of the church. When he wrote the epistle to the Romans, “he had not yet been to Rome yet, but he had been preaching since AD 36… This epistle to the Romans is therefore a mature statement of his understanding of the Gospel,” as all the apostles also had to grow emotionally through the renewal of their minds, to live in obedience to the Word and the leading of the Holy Spirit. [Spirit Filled Life Bible, 1991 — beware modern translations.]

► As in the sky-rocketing, contemporary church madness we now face, Paul’s so-called ‘new’ teachings did not fit into the chaotic criteria of some of the early assemblies. Thus, he wrote a second epistle to the Corinthians stating that he was “defending his conduct and ministry, addressing the neglect of poor followers in Judea, and he urged them to give [not tithe!] liberally and cheerfully’ to the poor,” (2 Cor. chapters 8-9.)

► In 2 Corinthians chapters 10 to 13, Paul focused their attention on the spiritual battle [not ‘war’ against the fully defeated enemy for the minds [or thoughts] of men; comparing this battle to the false teachings of the Kingdom-Now cults that were ministering from their midst. While he was confined and awaiting trial in Rome, Paul wrote the Epistles of Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. “It appears that after those writings, and especially in his epistle to the Colossians, Paul was deeply stirred by an expanding revelation of [the form and function of the body of Christ.] Now seeing the assembly of believers as Christ’s body and as God’s instrument to confound and overthrow evil spiritual powers working through humans,” Paul began to grasp and unveil the full mystery of the real body of Christ. He finally began to understand God’s “intention to form a spiritual temple; His spiritual body of believers, to express Christ’s fullness on earth, (Col. 1:15-23.) To do that, God united all sincere believers into one, spiritual nation, [Hebrews and gentiles, men and women, slaves and free,] in whom the Holy Spirit Himself dwells to equip, empower, and mature [the sincere members of His] body to the end, so that they can extend Christ’s spiritual victory over evil on a physical level, by bringing God’s Truth to renew the minds of man,” (Col. 1:11-14; 2:8-15; 3:1-11.)

► No one knows who wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, and so no one can be certain when it was written. However, it “compares the outdated covenant of the Old Testament (Hebrews 8:13) with Jesus’ Covenant of the New Testament [like no other Book.] It boldly presents the High Priest ministry of Jesus after the order of Melchizedek. Thus, Christ and His New Covenant priesthood, [the entire sincerely born again body of Christ,] (1 Peter 2:9,) did NOT receive ministry by [physical] inheritance (Hebrews 5:5-6,) but by the direct call of God, (Jn. 3:16-17.) In striving to keep his readers from apostasy, the writer emphasizes the superiority of Christ to all that has gone before in Old Testament times.”

The Hebrew historian Josephus indicated that James was also stoned to death “as he too, addressed the contemporary church directly. In Chapter 2 he rebuked the church clergies who caused the [Followers of The Way] to neglect their ecclesias or home gatherings and Moral duties.”

Peter wrote his first epistle when he, too, was maturing spiritually through the renewal of his mind. Here he “encourages suffering believers because of their obedience to Christ, and focuses their attention on the [Spiritual] Kingdom of God. His second epistle is a passionate defensive writing, which exposes the false sermons of church clergies, which would lead people into apostasy, (2 Pt. 2:1-3!)

► Those clergies denied the Lord, exhibited a sensuous lifestyle, and ridiculed the idea of Jesus’ return. Not different from modern Kingdom-Now preachers , who will supposedly even conquer death, the last enemy; ‘restoring’ God’s ‘kingdom now on earth before Jesus’ return.’]

“These [idolatrous] characteristics [of false church doctrine] fit the Gnostic doctrine, [salvation through pure doctrinal head-knowledge,] which developed more fully in the second century, but whose roots were fixed during the first century. “John, in his first, second and third epistles, written about AD 90, brings the Gospel of Christ entirely into perspective. As if John, too, addresses the growing need of modern believers, he focuses on [reaching eternal life in heaven] through faith in, acceptance of, and [Moral] obedience to Jesus, (1 Jn. 5:13; Jn. 13:34.)

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