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2 Ths. 2:9-12, ‘The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who PERISH, because they did not receive the LOVE OF THE TRUTH, that they might be saved. For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie.’
2 Cor. 5:10, ‘For we must ALL appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each [believer] may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.’
Mt. 25:31-46, ‘When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then he will sit on the throne of His glory. All the [religious people] will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep [true disciples] from the goats, [religious, disobedient believers].’
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(Continued from church onslaught on the assemblies) © COPYRIGHT NOW UNBANNED PUBLICATIONS
DESPITE THE APOSTLES’ EFFORTS, THE ONSLAUGHT OF SECRET SOCIETIES GATHERED MOMENTUM Trojan horse ‘brethren’ Paul wrote in Galatians 2:4, “[Old Covenant ritualism and church hypocrisy have entered the ecclesias of The Followers of The Way.] And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in, who came by stealth to [the still existing home ecclesias of The Followers of The Way,] to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ; that they might bring us into bondage.” (Acts 9:1-2.) These ‘brethren’ were Judaist/Roman Catholic leaders from the Jerusalem Council, who established the first church at Antioch, (Acts 11:26.) They insisted on ousted, (Hebrew 8:7,13,) Judaist circumcision of even Gentiles as a requirement for salvation, (Gal. 5:1-14!) Thus they launched great onslaughts on Paul’s resistance against their replacement of The Followers of The Way with ‘the church,’ (Hebrews 9:8-12.) He steadfastly refused to yield to them. Not ONLY because of their unscriptural church, (Acts 17:24-25,) but because he also rejected their self-induced clerical ‘authority.’ Paul did NOT accept the bondage of the [ousted Old Covenant] over the Freedom of Jesus’ Genuine Gospel, (Eph. 2:19-20!) [Credit: Spirit Filled Life Bible 1991 version — beware later translations.] Still, in Trojan-horse style, by stealth and deceit, just as modern Masonic/Roman Catholic Jesuit Orders still operate, secret members of the Hebrew/Roman Catholic church) infiltrated the assemblies of believers to attack the blood-cleansed body of Christ from the INSIDE; deceitfully controlling even Barnabas and Peter! (Gal. 2:11-21.) Their handiest tools were the distortion of Scripture in general; confusing the two very different Old and New Testaments or Covenants of the Bible, and counterfeiting the spiritual manifestations and ministry of the Holy Spirit. This produced soul-consuming legalism in churches, terrible misunderstanding of Bible interpretation, and the way the gifts of the Holy Spirit and God’s authentic miracles function in the real body of Christ, (1 Cor. 12:1-31.) ► As a result, Paul cried out in Galatians 3:1-13, “O foolish [Followers of The Way,”] have you suffered so much [temple and church persecution] in vain? (Verse 4; Heb. 11:36-40!) [Did you learn nothing through your ”baptism of fire” or ‘baptism of suffering?’] Who [in the church] has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth… [Rebellion and deception are as idolatry and witchcraft,] (1 Sam. 15:22-23.) Having begun in the Spirit, [accepting Jesus’ salvation, blessing, and the Holy-Spirit indwelling through your personal, spiritual rebirth,] are you now being ‘made perfect’ by the flesh? [Following church religion instead of Jesus; keeping certain ceremonial ordinances of the ousted, Old Covenant such as the ceremonial law’s circumcision, and other false doctrines, (Heb. 8:13; Gal. 3:10-25,) “For as many are of the works of the [Old Testament’s ousted, ceremonial] law are under the [entire] curse [of the law, Deut. Chapter 28.] For it is written, cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things, which are written in the… [ceremonial] law, to do them… Christ has redeemed us [past tense] from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us… that the blessing of Abraham, [the entire state or spiritual position of blessedness, Deut 28,] might come upon [ALL believing disciples] in Christ Jesus…” (1 Pt. 2:9-10.) Galatians 2:21, “I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness [and blessing] comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.” ► False, legalistic obedience to the Old Testament, ritual or ceremonial law, which Jesus completely fulfilled and than cancelled, (Hebrews 7:11-25,) cannot buy salvation, redemption, or blessing. Yet, even modern believers are supposedly ‘cursed’ by ‘robbing’ God of nonexistent Old Testament tithes, which only pertained to the old temple-dispensation (Malachi 2:7-17; 3:6-10,) which was also completely cancelled by Christ at the cross, ([Hebrews chapters 8-10; 8:7,13.)
GOD’S DEFENSE “You will know them by their fruits” Jesus, in His infinite wisdom, instructed His believers beforehand, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the [false religious] gate and broad is the [deceitful religious] way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Beware of false prophets, [teachers, pastors, evangelists,] who come to you in sheep’s clothing, [to lead unsuspecting souls on the broad way of church christian religion;] because inwardly they are ravenous wolves. ► You will know them by their [unrepented, bad] fruits…” (Mt. 7:14-29.) Therefore, we shall actually know all “ravenous wolves” by no other way than by their continuous, evil conduct. Through their constant, unrepented bad “fruits,” they prove they care only about themselves and what they can get out of others. They cannot help but show their evil hearts by their greed, immoral lifestyles, selfishness, slander, addictions, dishonesty, manipulation, infidelity, false doctrines, lies, deceit, and stubbornness to repent from the abuse of God’s Truth, extortion, oppression, etcetera. ► In Mathew 7:14-29, Jesus was not speaking about ‘weaknesses’ or ‘making mistakes,’ which all humans are prone to. His words cut deeper than our feeble humanity. Even while striving hard to honor God in everything we do, we still sometimes fail miserably, (Jam. 1:21-25; 3:1-2.) The Lord was actually addressing unrepentant sin and decided, unchanging human character; forged through constant, willful continuance in sin and thus, posing a serious danger to not only the offender himself, but also to other people and believers in particular. Mostly to their own benefit, believers must “exercise their senses to discern good from evil… and exercise themselves towards godliness… to abstain from all evil” — while unrepentant people deliberately “exercise their senses to commit evil [more perfectly,]” (Heb. 5:13-14; 1 Tim. 4:7.) From such “men of corrupt minds who are destitute of truth… [we must] withdraw ourselves,” (1 Tim. 6:3-6.) For the sake of our spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being, we must refuse to “fellowship with them” as far as possible, and “abstain” from the evil works of such ungodly users of God and His blood-redeemed people, (Eph. 5:11-12; Ths. 5:21-22.)
OUR BEST DEFENSE: “Test and prove everything to see if it is from God/” That excludes supposedly sending evil people to hell — which is only God’s domain, (1 Ths. 5:21-22; 1 Jn. 4:1-4.) Christ Jesus commanded in Mathew 7:1, “Judge not, that you be not judged.” He was not forbidding constructive criticism or the condemnation of willful, unrepentant wrongdoing. We must actually discern and reject the bad ‘fruits;’ not hypocritically attempt to condemn the person. Sinful and selfish criticism is “the spirit of faultfinding that overlooks and covers one’s own shortcomings and sin while attacking and destroying the personal character of others, [which is spiritual and emotional murder,] (Mt. 5:22.) ► In obedience to the contextual commandments of Jesus, Paul wrote his epistles to warn believers against dangers; not to destroy them but to guide and help them. It goes something like this, (paraphrasing:) “How can one be deceived into thinking that life-style does not relate to faith in Jesus? If believers deliberately and unrepentantly persist in sin, they will face the same final destiny as all others who choose to remain in sin.” Paul’s point is clearly not condemnation. He arrests their attention to awaken them to their deception, (Rom. 7:7-25.)
Paul and the other apostles did not preach unconditional salvation or eternal security apart from obeying the contextual, New Testament Covenant Word of God, (John 14:15-16.) The issue here is NOT the sincerely born again believers in Christ, (John 1:12-13; 3:3-6,) who continually grow in His knowledge, faith, and grace, but still “sometimes stumble,” yet hastily returns to God’s forgiveness through sincere repentance, (1 Jn. 1:8-10.) All sincere believers were saved and stand solely by God’s grace in Christ Jesus. Yet, those who unrepentantly and willfully continue in sin are not really born again, saved, or part of the spiritual Kingdom of God. Such we will know by their persistent sinful behavior or bad ‘fruit,’ (1 Jn. 1:7-10; Jam. 3:2; 2 Ths. 1:8.) ► Contrary to what the doctrine of ‘once saved, always unconditionally saved’ teaches, Paul warned in Ephesians 5:5-7, “No fornicator [or] covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the Kingdom of God…” He continued in Galatians 5:19-21, “…Those who [unrepentantly] practice adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outburst of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, [slander, blasphemy…] will NOT inherit the Kingdom of God.” In the context of deliberate, unrelenting sin, (and may we all remember that false teaching and false religious practices form the worst kind of sin,) living eternally in the kingdom of heaven is not even mentioned. So such willful, spiteful, ungodly breakers of the Moral Law, are attempting to play ball with the Almighty, Ever-present, All-knowing God, and thus do not belong to Him at all, (Jn. 13:34.) Read PART 3 again, The Roman Catholic Assault from Within the Midst of Jesus’ Assemblies
Continue to PART 4, Christian Giants, Fairy Godmother Mary and the Roman Catholic/Protestant Church Ring
PART 1, The Kingdom-Now Beast that crucified Jesus PART 2, Martyrs at the gates of Hades; Baptism with fire PART 5: The Way or Ecclesia Converted to Roman Catholic Christianity |