Church-False Message:
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God has a great Controversy against the church. God had a great controversy against Israel. God ended up hating them both. Now that is a strong and powerful statement. Such a strong statement needs be proven and I SHALL.
Today is Monday, October 18, 2004. It is now 6PM. This morning God began speaking to me about bringing His controversy against the present-day church. He has already given me several messages against this church, all coming in a row, which I neither planned nor sought out. I never intended to write any of those messages but God gave them to me one right after the other. I have wanted to get to another message for a good while now, but can’t get it done. God keeps dealing with me about His controversy against the church. I must obey Him and bring what He wants me to teach.
The reason I say God hated both Israel and the church is because they have proven to be one and the same. I have already solidly proven this in many messages. Old law Israel became the seven-headed church. They brought all of the old ways of law and the priest system right into the church. Neither of these systems were truly ever of God. Now I know this is going to be hard for anyone to see but if you wish to come out of darkness into light you are going to have to accept and see this truth.
Both old Israel and the church were in total disobedience to God and went contrary to His ways. They both set up systems of their own ways and not God’s ways. Neither one was obedient to God’s Word.
Amos 5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
Now see the above verse says that God has a word AGAINST Israel. The virgin of Israel is FALLEN. She shall rise no more. She is forsaken. That is the first time Babylon fell. She is fallen, is fallen. {Rev. 18}. Twice ‘she’ fell. I taught on this in ‘Twice dead, plucked up by the roots’. This is a powerful message against the church, which you need to study. If His word is against her and she fell to rise no more, then she is hated and done away with.
This is a good place to start the controversy against the church. Almost all churches teach that God will establish Israel again. But see that here He said she will rise NO MORE. Do you believe God or the church? As I have said before why would the church teach this? The reason is because the church is old Israel in disguise.
Amos 5:10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
The churches hate those who rebuke in their gates and they hate those who speak uprightly, just exactly as Israel did, for they are old Israel. They have the same characteristics.
Amos 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
The church fulfills this same evil doings. They tread upon the poor, take all they can from him to build their houses of hewn STONE. They are full of sins. Their pastors are almost all adulterers, liars, cheats, and money-hungry robbers. In this message I shall prove that accepting pay for preaching or any other work for God is the mark of the beast. Paying the preacher is having the mark in the hand. Accepting pay for your work for God is having the mark in your head. This alone marks almost all and possibly every church today, as a beast church.
Amos 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing. 5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him. 5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
The above Scripture shows that the time is when the wrath of the Lamb is starting to be poured out upon the church. The Day of the LORD is the time of his wrath. I had several visions from God about the very thing spoken of is this scripture. I saw people running and screaming in stark fear. They were in all the streets. Now the streets and highways represent the different churches. The churches are the path or the roads, thus the highways. This is showing the Wrath of God coming against this naked church. To them the Day of the LORD will be darkness and not light.
Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Now the above statement is a strong and powerful word. This is GOD saying he hates and despises something. When God hates something, we had better take notice of it!
Isa 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Open your spiritual eyes and read the above verses. God said I delight not in the blood of animals. This proves that God never at any time told them to do this thing. God never at any time approved of slaying those animals. Yet the church has taught us all that God required this. It is just not true. The blood of animals never at any time cleansed those people. So where did this practice come from? It came from the sin of Adam and Cain. THEY started this animal sacrifices. Now I know that is a strong and controversial statement. I teach things most people never heard, so I cannot do as most minister, just say things and expect others to just believe it because some teacher said a thing. I prove everything I say with written Scripture. Yet people still refuse to believe it. The same people will believe the most outrageous lies just because some fancy preacher says it. He never gives them one word of proof, yet they just accept it.
Isa 66:2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
[God looks to or accepts a men with a poor and contrite spirit and trembles at his word.
66:3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
[Now I see here no time period mentioned. So this applies to ALL time. God said killing an ox is to him the same as slaying a man. Sacrificing a lamb was to God as cutting off a dog’s neck. Offering oblation is the same as offering swine’s blood. Burning incense is blessing an idol. Now is not all of this the OT law way of worship? Sure it was. Yet this proves God never approved of this practice! But he said they chose their own ways. This proves it was THEIR way and not God’s way. God never chose that form of worship! He said these things were abominations. People, listen to this. It is God’s Word, not mine!]
Isa 66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
[Now here God said they chose that in which He delighted not. This was their abominable animal sacrifices and the burning of incense and offering oblations. See? God said he never delighted in these things! It was their own ways. Who started these abominable practices? Satan, which is Adam and Cain!]
Isa 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
[Now this verse proves that someone tried to sanctify themselves and purify themselves in some garden behind some tree in the MIDST. Now the only place in Scripture which answers or explains this is what Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden. That tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in the MIDST of that garden. The Word clearly says that they ATE of this tree. Paul said by the LAW is the knowledge of sin. Rom 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
…the motions of sins were by the LAW and brought forth DEATH. The day you eat of it you die! How much clearer need it be said? You who claim sex is this tree, where is your Scripture saying by sex is the knowledge of sin? Or one which says by sex came death? Wake up! Open your blinded eyes!
Ro 7:7 What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Ro 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. Ro 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
…I had not known sin but by the LAW.(did not say I knew sin by sex). I had not known lust EXCEPT THE LAW said Thou shalt not covet. This proves he is speaking of that ten commandment law. Thou shalt not covet. So how is this something God despised? He hates people trying to serve him by LAW. He wants us loving righteousness and obeying Him and doing good because we have His love and grace in our hearts. He does not want LAW in our hearts. Notice he said we were alive without the law. That was Adam and Eve before they sinned or took up the law and tried to sanctify themselves with the blood of a swine. Remember God said in Isa. 66 that to slay a lamb is the same as offering swine’s blood. So there is no difference. See the law demands animal sacrifices which makes the death of Jesus and His shed blood of no effect.
This is solid proof that the LAW is that tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I have proven this with God’s Word. Now let all those false teachers which say it is something else bring forth one verse of Scripture proving their lie.
Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
{The commandment was unto death}.
Ro 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
{The law was the thing which caused their sin to slay them.}Ro 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Ro 7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
{The law itself is holy and good. It is not the law which is bad. This fact throws some churches into believing they must still go by law and keep those commandments as a way of serving God. But see that God said he hates this system? But when you try to go under this law, sin results and sin brings forth death. Why? Ro 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
Without the LAW sin was DEAD. The law revived sin. When Adam went to law he brought death by his sin. Ro 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
See Jesus delivered us from the LAW. Why? Because so long as one is under law they are dead in sins. So it was the law which He had to deliver us from in order to save us. Now if sex had been the original sin, then Jesus would have to deliver us from sex in order to save us. See how foolish this becomes? How then should more people be born?
Gal 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
….justified by law? That goes back to Isa. 66 where they sanctified themselves behind that tree in the midst of the garden. So this shows why it brought forth death — they fell from grace. By grace are you saved, not by the works of the law. If this is not plain enough for you, please go back to the first grade and learn to read!
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Ga 5:18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Acts 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
Now see that those Jews were trying to bring the Christians back under the bondage of LAW. They were claiming you cannot be saved without keeping the law. Paul said by GRACE are you saved.
What did Peter say? Ac 15:6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter. 15:7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 15:10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 15:11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Peter said God put no difference between Jews and Gentiles. He called that law a yoke of bondage. This proves that law is the bondage Jesus delivered us from. He agreed with Paul that we are both saved by GRACE. So who are you going to believe? Your lying church or these Apostles who wrote the NT? Also notice that when a question like this arose all of the men of God came together to discuss this and seek the right answer. Where is a church today that handles question in this manner? Know of any? No! They go by the whore churches method = one man tells the others what to believe and they are not allowed to question his decision. I say this system is of the devil.
Ac 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
This is their final answer = we gave no commandment to keep the law. Yet the pastors today harp that you must tithe, keep a Sabbath day, go to their set time and place for ‘worship’. All of this is law. You must also pay this man to rule over you. This too is law and the mark of the beast.]
Now did Jesus agree with this? Let’s see. Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
[Here Jesus said God has had no pleasure in the OT burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin. Is not this is full agreement with all the other Scriptures on this subject? Sure it is. If you or your ‘church’ disagrees, then find one verse which said that God required these sacrifices or had pleasure in them.]
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
[Jesus was the one who did the will of God, not those OT priests killing sheep and goats. Notice it said ‘thou wouldest not’. What does this mean? It means God did not want these things! Again it said he had no pleasure in them. It is repeated twice here to ESTABLISH this as truth!]
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
He took away that first or law covenant. He established the second which is by the blood of Jesus and His grace. If you go back to law, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you do despite to the spirit of grace and his blood will not cover your sins. See that it said we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. This is why God never required or enjoyed or accepted the animal sacrifices. This is Adam’s rebellion and sin. He brought up the animal sacrifices for sanctification. He ate of the law tree. He fell from grace. His sin remains for he knowingly and willfully did this sin.
Now I know you are wondering why I have gone into all of this. It is to show you that all of the churches today have gone right back to that tree of law. They all teach you must tithe and attend their little local assembly. This fits the old way of having to have a ‘certain’ place to go to for worship. It totally belies the NT way of what Jesus taught that neither in Jerusalem or in that mountain do we worship. We worship in Spirit and in truth, not some certain place. See then that all the churches are into lies and deception telling you that you MUST attend some local church at a certain time. They tell their people that they MUST go somewhere. This is setting up a law which God had taken down.
The church offers their ‘sacrifices’ of money, but to what avail is it? Their ‘fed beasts’ are their paid preachers. God is full or fed up with their being made ‘fat’ this way. Jesus said freely you have received [the messages] freely give. GIVE. This is the Mark of God. This is the Mark of the true Church. Notice how these ‘fed beasts’ have perverted this saying: they hound it into the members that it means for them to give their money to them. But that is not what Jesus was speaking of. He was telling his disciples that they were to give the spiritual food to the people. How different these preachers are today!
Isa 1: 13–the ‘calling’ of assemblies is INIQUITY to God! The solemn meetings are iniquity to God. He said they are a trouble to Him and He is weary to bear them. This is very strong words. It is saying that God despises the set time for assemblies and the churches solemn meetings. To Him it is sin. In verse 14 He makes this very clear that God HATES their appointed feasts. Appointed feasts means a set time and place to get together and supposedly ‘eat’ the Word or ‘have church’.
‘Have church’, ‘go to church’, local church, local assembly are all terms these ‘fed beasts’ use to chain their prisoners to them and keep them paying them to preach. But I did a search and found that none of these terms are even ONCE written in the Word of God from Genesis through Revelation. So then I ask you, where did this doctrine come from? It could not have come from God, for he said not to add to His Word. So it had to come from Satan. Satan is the father of lies.
God then tells them he will not hear their prayers. Then He tells them to wash and make themselves clean. The only way to do this is by repenting, being baptized in water in the Name of Jesus Christ and coming under His shed blood. Then they must learn to do well, seek judgment and help the widows and fatherless.
Now this Scripture in Isaiah and Amos both bear witness that God hates the church’s called or appointed assemblies and their paid preachers. God said he hates these feast days. So if He hates this how is it His true way or true Church? Cannot be!
Check your churches method of doing things and what they teach you and compare it with the Written Word of God. If you do not, then you are willfully letting these hirelings lead you into destruction. If you do not care enough to study the Word to find truth, then you will lose your soul. If your church and beliefs do not agree with the Word, if it is not written in the Scriptures then it is lies and destruction.
The early church, which is the only true Church in the Word, went everywhere, out into the world preaching to everyone. They were in a complete unity. But notice these churches today. They are all divided, even among those of like beliefs. Their ‘fed beast’ of a pastor tells them it is their DUTY to be at their own local assembly each time they have a get-together. In other words if they should go visit some other brother or sister church God will be against them. They will be cut off. They will thus sin. Yet the preacher lives in adultery and lies and robbery etc. This is saying that God cannot and will not bless them or be pleased with them if they leave church A and go worship with church B. Is not this division? Sure it is. Does this fit the Written Word? If you think so, I ask one of you to show me where that verse is.
Another thing I hear pastors saying to their people is that they can never rise above the pastor! In other words they are saying they are the priest or go-between for the people and God. They are saying that those children of God cannot go and receive anything directly from God for themselves, they must come through that pastor! This is a blatant doing away with of the work Jesus died to accomplish, which was to take away that middle wall and open the way into the Holy place so we can ALL GO TO GOD FOR OURSELVES. We do not need a human intercessor now for Jesus is our only intercessor. Yet these self-glorying men lift themselves up as the only one who can receive something from God. In other words, they are making themselves god to the people.
We are told we can all come boldly into the presence of God ourselves. People, if your pastor tells you such things, you need to get up and run as fast and as far away from him as you possibly can. He is leading you straight to hell fire. He is denying you your God-given right to come to God and to study and grow and learn from God for yourself. These same pastors never study and receive true revelation. They are not giving you anything but lies, for they cannot prove a thing they teach with written Word. Yet you pay him a big fat salary to lead you astray, for you are too lazy or just too uninterested to study and worship yourself. You pay him to tell you what the Word says. It will take you to hell. I am warning any who might ever read this. You are paying a man to lead you to hell. He has disconnected you from God.
There is not a church in this land which you could not easily prove it is not of God if you would just compare it with the Word. It is just as the law system was at the time of Jesus. That law system was esteemed as the only way to serve God, and yet I have proven here that it was never of God. The church system today is the same. It has never been of God. It has never done things according to the Book of Acts and the only true Church. Yet almost 100% of people today, both those who ‘go to church’ and those who do not go, will agree that going is the only way to serve God. Yet not one single verse of Scripture says we must GO ANYWHERE. Show it to me! The only place Jesus told us to go was out into the world to preach to those out in the highways and hedges. Yet the church system today does not do this. They sit like a spider and wait for some unsuspecting soul to come into their web for destruction. They claim you must come to them for salvation.
Very few of them pray for the sick. Most of those who do are not really healing anyone. It is just a dead form. They will still run to the doctor when something is wrong. They have no real faith. They have totally departed from God’s standard of a Holy Life. They teach you that only the men ministers can teach in their ‘church’. Yet the Word says we are all to grow up and teach the Word. We are all to minister. We are all priests and kings to God. Yet they hold their people in paralysis and keep them from ever growing up one tiny bit in Christ. This is done to keep you bound to them and having to attend their theater and pay them. Shame on you! Most of them will tell women they cannot minister. Yet women are the very first ones Jesus anointed and sent out with the gospel message. Check your church with these things. If it is not being done exactly as what is written in the Word then it is of Satan. It is Satan’s kingdom on earth. Satan’s seat in in the church. Satan’s ministers are paid to lead you astray. God’s ministers do this freely as Jesus told us to do.
Amos 5:22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 5:23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 5:24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Notice God again speaks of their ‘fat’ beasts. This is the highly paid preachers. God will not regard the fake peace offerings of these ‘fat beasts’. Then notice that God said Take away from me the NOISE of your songs, for I will not hear the melody of it. Powerful indictment against ‘church’, for almost their entire doings is singing and making melody. Yet God despises this very thing. Now God is not against our singing and making melody in our hearts to Him. He said to do this. But this is speaking of the THEATER-style meetings of their solemn assemblies. Yes, when singers and musicians get up on the ‘stage’ and ‘perform’ it is something God despises. Yet this is the main ‘course’ of their feasts. Both the ministers and all the spectators [members] are sitting and watching and listening to this performance. Their hearts and minds are not on God. They are NOT worshipping, even though they call it that in order to deceive their own hearts and the hearts of others. But they do not get in touch with God in this manner. Most of them never even give God one single thought during the entire ‘assembly’.
Many of them have their little flirtations going on and they are thinking of how well the performers are doing or how well they are dressed and how they think they look to others. Many are sitting there thinking of what they will eat after the get this affair over. Many are thinking of their jobs and what they plan to do tomorrow. I KNOW. I have heard many tell this very thing. Most of the people at these appointed ‘assemblies’ are just there socializing. Watch them visiting with each other and laughing and talking of their carnal things before and after the ‘services’. So their minds are not on getting in touch with God. So of course they do not. Yet they leave thinking that they have done their ‘duty’ to God by attending the appointed solemn meeting. Their ‘fed beasts’ have done such a thorough job of teaching them that this is required of God and the way to Heaven that they all fully believe that just because they paid their dues [or tithes] and watched the show at the solemn meeting that they are covered for another few days from their sins and now can go out and perform their sins again until the next appointed assembly.
I have heard these ‘fed beasts’ and others say they get their strength on Sunday to take them through till Wednesday. And then they get their strength on Wednesday to take them to the next Sunday. My, my. Such evil! And all in the name of the Lord. I call this ‘leap-frog’ religion. Nothing in the Word of God speaks of such a religion as this. It is just more of the fat beasts way of binding their prisoners to them. They lead the unsuspecting subjects to think that unless they faithfully attend the appointed assemblies they will not have salvation after a few days absence. The Word of God teaches that we are sanctified only one time. The Holy Ghost is in us and will not leave us. Serving God is a DAILY affair. So see that NOTHING of this ‘church’ fits the Word of God!
We are told that the Apostles, [of whom many of these fake churches claim to be like] met together and broke that bread of life EVERY DAY.
Mal 3:16 Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 3:17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
Now this speaks of those who have their minds on God and speak often to each other about the LORD. This thing of an appointed assembly twice a week and watching a show there, is NOT speaking often of God and thinking upon his name. This is a way of life each and every day or it is not true salvation. God gives His true children His food and strength each and every day. We love and worship him seven days a week. There have been small groups all down through these years who were truly hungry for God and went about having home prayer meetings and Scripture study with each other. These few had their mind on God and were the true Church. They got together with one thing in mind and that was to get in touch with God and receive life and strength from HIM. There is no strength to be had from watching ‘theater-style’ fake worship. There is no strength gotten from listening to some paid preacher running the aisles and screaming lies or talking about things in the world. That is about all anyone ever hears at these ‘appointed assemblies’.
Amos 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone.
Now lets examine this a little closer. They build houses of hewn stone. Is this called for by God? Is God in it? Does it give God any glory? Does God approve of this? Does He love it?
Now if this is truly a work for God and worship to Him, His Word will tell us. He will tell us somewhere to do this thing and set His approval on it. If it is not commanded in the Word, then it is works of man and not of God. This work of man will be the stubble which we will burn and consume in the Day of the LORD.
God calls these houses of stone ‘palaces’ in the Word. So let’s find out some more about how God feels about these palaces.
Remember now that the ‘fed beasts’ took from the poor to build these houses of stone. But God said for them to help the poor and the widows. Did they do this? No.
Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
Here God says that he hates [abhors] these palaces. You may say well this applies only to Jacob of old. But no. Remember that everything of the OT is types and shadows of everything in the NT. So Jacob represents the church. Israel is the church. Everything said of the OT Israel applies to the NT Church. Unless you receive revelation of the Spiritual meanings of all Scripture then you did not get the truth yet. You must transfer all of these things to us today or you are missing the reason for the word. It will do you no good until you see it for yourself today. Every single word in the Book applies to US today.
Also you need to realize that the Word of God is about spiritual things and not the things of the worldly system. Most of the ‘fat beasts’ teach it from the worldly standpoint. They are so carnal minded that they call Russia the land of the North. See they have no spiritual understanding. God did not speak of these earthly things. He spoke of the things which pertain to Him and spiritual matters. You will never receive truth trying to ‘figure’ out the Word this way. And that is about all the ‘fed beasts’ ever seem to speak of.
Psm. 78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high PALACES, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Now the above verse is very needful to prove that God calls the ‘sanctuary’ palaces. See God’s palace or sanctuary is spiritual and not of stone. Now that is what marks the real difference in the true sanctuary or palace and the false palace. God said our body, flesh, is his temple. But the church built palaces of STONE. God said he hates the stony heart. He despises the palaces of stone.
Psm 122:7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy PALACES.
Here again we have proof that God calls His spiritual place palaces. That is the needed two witnesses. So it is established.
Isa. 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant PALACES: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Notice here the word ‘desolate houses’. This pertains to the desolation pronounced upon Israel by Jesus. It also means the desolate palaces of the church. It is their hewn stone buildings. Wild beasts does not refer to four-legged animals. It is the beasts spoken of in the Word. It is these fed preachers and members who live in the flesh after Satan. They are crying in these desolate stone palaces. Her time being near speaks of the Day of the LORD soon to destroy her.
Now to prove that God calls the places of worship a palace: 1ch 29:1 Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God. 1ch 29:2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God…… 1ch 29:3 Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God..
1ch 29:19 And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.
Isa. 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her PALACES, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Thorns represent the law in the Scripture. This is saying the church picked back up the destroyed seventh-head of law. They run their churches by law and not grace. Grace is equality for ALL, everyone. Grace is love. It is opposite of law. When the fed beasts preach that their prisoners must tithe and must attend the appointed assemblies, this is putting them back under law. This is the thorns which came up in her [church] palaces. Now see that it is an habitation of dragons [devils]. This is the same thing Revelation spoke of that she became a cage of hateful birds, which is devils spirits.
Jer. 6:5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her PALACES.
Here we have prophecy for the work of the ones who bring the wrath of the Lamb on this false church. We will go up and destroy her palaces.
Lam. 2:5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her PALACES: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Now what could be plainer? This proves that God was an enemy to these palaces and destroyed them. Here again remember that what happened to Israel is prophecy for what will happen to the church. They are the very same in Scripture and prophecy.
Lam 2:7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her PALACES; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
Now this verse makes it clear that God is speaking of his sanctuary when he speaks of her palaces. He gave them into the hand of the enemy. This is the destiny of this church system of today. It will fall into the hand of her enemy, the second witness of God.
God said his church is his witnesses. Now go to the letters in Rev. to the seven churches. See if He ever stated there that they were witnesses of God. It is not there. So where is that Church which was a Witness of God? In the Book of Acts and no where else. It is that true Apostolic Church, of which there is obviously none of them visible in the world today. No church in the land matches this true Church. None of them have the type of assemblies that early Church had.
To be led of the Spirit is to not have a set or appointed time or place for assembling. The Spirit has not dictated that we must have ‘church’ each Sunday morning and evening or each Sunday in the middle of the evening or on Wednesday nights. If anyone knows of such a Scripture please show me where it is. I simply cannot find it.
The Apostle Paul met with women down by a river. This was the leading of the Spirit. They did not put on a talent-show. He did not scream at them. They prayed together. This was the true worship. The apostles met together every day and prayed. That was the true worship. Every member was just as important as any other member. All were ministers. Both the men and the women were all into the ministry. It is not just certain men who minister. We are all called to teach the Word to everyone. The early church went everywhere preaching the Word to everyone.
This is the true commission from Jesus to His true Church: Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Go Ye into all the world and preach to every creature. So there you have it. That is what a true church is doing = going into all the world and preaching to everyone they find. Where is it? Know of any? Know any who have those signs following them? If so, then you see the true church at work, that is if they are preaching the true Apostolic message Peter preached. That is if they are built upon the true foundation. There is only one true foundation. What is that?
Mt 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Now that is the one and only true foundation for the true church. Do you know who Jesus really is? Does he know you? Peter had a revelation from God the Father. He said You are the Christ, the SON OF THE LIVING GOD. He did not say You are God, now did He? You know he did not. He did not say you are the second person in a God head now did he? No, of course not. He did not say you are God robed in flesh, now did he? No. He did not say you are God the Son, now did he? Yet all of these things are what the churches of today teach and try to build upon. I ask any of you to find me even one of those statements written in God’s Book. If it is not there, then some man made it up and it is a lie. What are you believing and building upon? Rotten wood.
Jesus verified that this is the true foundation for His true Church. So now, do you know of any church built upon this true foundation? If so, please tell me where and which one it is. I know of none. Every church visible in the world today, that I know of, is built upon a false foundation of sand, saying that Jesus is God. Now that is the foundation every church is built upon. But it is a false foundation and a false teaching. It will crumble and fall when the wrath of the Lamb, the storms, descend upon it. And it is soon to fall.
Luke 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Now that is where the true Church is today. Obeying our Lord’s command. Go OUT into the highways and hedges. Go into all the world. Go out. Do not stay inside one little local theater. How can this fulfill our Lord’s Command? Try to build up a certain number in this little theater building of stone. Shew! Fake as can be. Now these fed beasts, the paid preachers, claim this means to go invite folks to come into their little stone building. Is that stone house [or wooden building for that matter] God’s house? Of course not. His House is his kingdom. It has not one thing to do with their little ‘local assembly’ or their theater. It means being a ‘Phillip’. Go OUT into the world and find and make converts to Jesus. Baptize them and go on your way to where the Spirit leads you next. God will take care of that child of his.
Jesus said Make not my Father’s House a house of merchandise. So what do most of the churches do? Get right into selling. They are into yard sales, chicken suppers, candy selling, cook book sales, and just about anything else you can come up with.
But the worst of it is this: They are into buying and selling the things of God. Now that is the mark of the beast. I told you I will show that to you in this message.
Mt 25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 25:9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
All the virgins [churches] had the lamp which is the Word. Only the wise had oil, which is the Holy Ghost. Notice that those who thought they could buy it were not known by the Lord. They are those with that mark of the beast church.
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Now the fed beasts [paid preachers] have led the world to believe that this means that someday the government will pass a law that only those who have 666 stamped onto them some kind of way will be able to go out and buy natural things. It does not pertain to this at all. It is totally spiritual, as is all of the Word.
But what is it really saying. Read it. Listen to it. He said no man might [or be allowed] to buy or sell, SAVE or except those who have the mark of the beast. Now it is saying that you cannot do this buying and selling unless you have the mark that you belong to the beast. The beast is the natural kingdom of Satan on this earth. And where is that?
Rev 2:12 And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; 2:13 I know thy works and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is:
So, Satan’s SEAT or throne, is in that church. What? Sure. The kingdom of Satan is in the church. That is why everything they do is contrary to what is written in God’s Word. They do not obey anything spoken of in the Book of Acts. Some of them practice Baptism in the name of Jesus, [but for the wrong reason], and this deceives them into thinking they are the true church. But it takes more than that. It takes being on the right foundation.
That is why there are seven churches. The dragon had seven heads. These seven churches are those seven heads in the NT times. So if you go by the teachings of these seven churches, you are marked with this beast. If you buy or sell the things of God you have this mark. A true child of God CANNOT buy or take pay for doing the work of God, for we know our Lord said freely GIVE. And He did not say freely give money to preachers or to build stone buildings. He told his ministers to FREELY GIVE the bread of life out. Freely lay hands on the sick and heal them. Freely baptize them, out in the open, in a large body of water. But what do these paid preachers do? Go build a nice, warm tub inside their church theater to do this wetting of people in. Is it true baptism? Show me an example of it in the Word. If it is not written, it is not God’s Word or ways. If it is not God’s way or word, then it is of Satan.
Now I proved that the virgins were out to buy the oil. It means the Spirit or salvation. See that the lack of this oil kept them from being able to go into the marriage. So it had to be spiritual. You could be without a singly earthly item and that would not keep you out of the marriage. But the lack of the Spirit will. So this proves the buying and selling was speaking of receiving the Spiritual things. So those who sold it and those who tried to buy it were cut off from God. So then the buying and selling of the Word or Spirit of God is the mark of this beast church. It is the seat or throne of Satan.
This all heads up in the Laodicean church. Read each of the letters. You will see that these could not be the true Church of God. No way.
Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
God said I will spue you out of my mouth. This is their condition:
- Lukewarm– not on fire for God; no spirit.
- Wretched — miserable — no joy of the Lord.
- Poor — does not have the riches of God.
- Blind — Cannot see or understand the things of God or His Word.
- Naked — does not have on the covering of God’s Spirit or the righteousness which is our Holy Garment.
Now all of these conditions are caused by this false church. It absolutely blinds people just as that law of old did. This church is totally under law. So it blinds its people into darkness by its lies. It makes them naked for it does not cloth them with the righteousness of Holiness and truth or the Spirit of God. They are covered but not with God’s Spirit. They are covered with Satan’s spirit and therefore they are naked spiritually. It is not speaking of not having on a dress or pants or anything natural. It means they are spiritually undone. This is caused by belonging to this false church and believing her lies.
The old law system was not serving God according to faith. Therefore it was never truly of God. God has never desired for anyone to be under law. It is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. To be under this law tree is to be away from life and God. Grace is the Tree of life. Only by the Grace of God will anyone ever have eternal life. It cannot be purchased with the works of the law. So this law and this church system are one and the same. They both blind people and place them into darkness. This is why they are blind. The church picked back up the law. Jesus destroyed that seventh or law head at Calvary. But the Word said that the head which had that deadly wound in the head was healed. Thus this church revived this dead head of law. This was accomplished by that old Israel nation moving into the church system to continue their plundering and destroying the Work of God.
Every church which tries to keep laws as part of their service or salvation is of this dead system. And personally I do not know of one which is free from this law system. They all teach you must tithe, you must go to their local appointed assembly, and many of them teach you must observe a certain day of the week as your Sabbath. Any of these things places you back under that dead head of law and will cause you to lose your soul. All of these things shows that mark of the beast. Remember that the beast is not a thing but natural men walking after their own way. Remember God showed that when they chose to sanctify themselves behind that tree by the blood of swine, that they chose their own way. God had forbidden them to do this thing. God forbids us to wear garments pertaining to the opposite sex, but the fed beasts say it is fine, for they must pet their prisoners who pay them to deceive them and make them feel at ease in their sins.
Any church which partakes of any of the holidays is into idolatry. It is devil worship. None of it is written or commanded by God. So it is works of man. The Church was supposed to teach the world Godliness and lead it away from idols. Yet this church system in the land to day is the LEADER of all this mess. They are responsible for keeping this junk alive. Is it of God? Of course not. It is of Satan.
Any church which decorates or celebrates X-mas is into devil worship. Any church which observes Easter is into devil worship. It is all idols. If you observe the watch-night mess, it is idolatry. It is witchcraft. So where are you? Which Church are you in? You had better do some serious checking up and prove if you are in the true Faith or not! Paul said you should do this. You had better listen to Paul.
If you are guilty of paying some man to ‘teach’ you the Word instead of studying it yourself, you have the mark of the beast. If you buy [and that is what this is] you have that mark. You are paying a hireling to do what God commanded YOU to do. You are just lazy, and uninterested, and do not wish to feed upon the Word. What little [if any] Word is given out in these theater-style churches, is not sufficient for you to grow or live on. You will lose your soul. Take warning. Take heed. You are on the road to hell fire.
These ‘churches’ now pay a man [the pastor] to visit the sick. They just glory when this highly paid man does some of the work he is paid to do. “OH wonder how he does it all?” they will ooze. Well, if you were paid $65,000.00 a year or so-so, wouldn’t you visit some too? But there are some of the members who still visit sometimes. No one is ‘awe’ struck over this! Wonder why? This one is not being paid to do the visiting. I am not guessing at all of this. I have personally heard it all from these ‘church’ folks. It truly makes me sick! And I am sure it makes God sick also. They are paying this man to do what God commanded them to do = visit the sick. But in reality God meant for us to ‘visit’ [supply their needs] by healing them!
Now there is where the true Church is manifested. Heal the sick. That is a command from Jesus to His True Church. Where are they? Don’t just pray for them, heal them. Some of these false churches just ‘load’ these false ‘healers’ up with money, food, and all kinds of other ‘goodies’. He will tell them I am not doing it for money. But let them stop giving it to him and see where he goes.
I have personally had contact with one who receives all these things for fake healings. They believe he does not do this for money. But he told me personally that if he did not have his big house payment, he would not have to do that ministry. He also told me that one placed him into a ‘not-so-nice’ motel and he left and went to another one. He was too good for that one, I suppose. Sure does not sound like the sufferings of the true Apostles. He also complained because that pastor then took out of his ‘pay’ the extra price of the better motel. Some Christianity, huh? [Both of them supposed-apostolic].
Now I am telling you all of these churches are nothing more than money-making systems. They all have big bank accounts. They claim to be a storehouse. They use the law system of the OT to back this up. This places them into the law system and the Levitical Priesthood. There is no salvation in that system. But what did Jesus say about these ‘storehouses’?
Jer. 50:26 Come against her from the utmost border, open her STOREHOUSES: cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left.
Now this chapter in Jeremiah is speaking of the end-time destruction of this old mystery Babylon of the church system. See that it said open her storehouses and destroy her utterly. Let nothing be left of her. This is fulfilled in Rev. 18. Come out of her my people that you receive not of her plagues. Your only hope for salvation now is to come out of her. Leave them. Get out into the wilderness with the true Bride of Christ. She is outside this filthy church system which does everything contrary to God and His Word.
Jesus said His true Church is a RIVER. It is a well of living water. It is NOT A STOREHOUSE. If your church is a storehouse it is of the devil. It deals with money. Now if it is storing up the Spiritual things to have to give out, then it will be fine.
Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have STOREHOUSE nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Now here Jesus is plainly saying that his people are not to have a storehouse. We are to live by faith. Faith is not laying up Hugh amounts of money into a bank.
I have proven by Scripture in this message that the old law system was of Satan and not of God. Now I know you think that because God gave the law, and the law is holy, that it could not have been of Satan. But look at it. If God was never pleased with this system then it was not his way. He said it was man’s way. Man chose his own way. God added the law because of their sins. This is how they knew or understood what sin is. But God never told anyone to serve him by keeping laws. The law brought in the blood of animals which is an abomination to God. Paul taught us that to go to law is to fall from Grace and cause Jesus to be of no effect to you.
So all of this proves that law is not of God. It is not saying his law is not holy, it is. But he never intended for us to live by law. We may only be saved by Grace. Grace and Law are opposites. Grace is God’s way. Grace is love, unity, obedience to God. Grace is charity. Law demands death for every transgression. It is not love. So it is not God’s way.
See that the law dominated the OT. Now the church brought the law into it. See that church dominates the NT. Yet they are both the same law system which God hates. So neither one is of God. They are both of Satan. The law itself is not of Satan, but taking up law and trying to live by it and serve God under law is of Satan. God said the day you eat of this tree you will die. So you cannot have live by law. This makes law be of Satan. Every church today followers this law system of one man being paid to rule over the others and of you having to tithe to build stone buildings and pay this man. So the entire system is of Satan.
People you had better listen and wake yourself up in time to freely receive some oil from God. Very soon it will be too late.
When we point to the powerful things done by the early church as our standard, most churches today will say those things are not for us today. They say those things were done away with. But God does not say that. There is no other standard of ‘church’ in the Word. To say it is not for you is to admit that you are not in the true Church, for you deny God’s chosen way and choose a dead, blind and miserable way. If the gifts of the Spirit are not at work in your ‘church’ then your church is dead and of Satan. The Old Covenant is the only thing God said he did away with.
I stated in this message that the law system was not of God. Now I will show you Scriptures which prove that those serving under the law were not of God and did not know the true things of God.
Mt 15:1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, 15:2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 15:3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 15:4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 15:5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; 15:6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. 15:7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
The Pharisees were one of the most devout groups of people serving under that old covenant of law. But you will see here that Jesus called them hypocrites which taught the commandments of men and made the commandment of God of none effect by their tradition.
Now notice that the commandment of God is singular. I have seen that in the NT the law of God is mentioned in the singular as one commandment and not many. The one commandment of God is to LOVE. Now I am showing you that these Pharisees fit exactly with the church of today. You might say Which church? Any and all of them.
The traditions of the churches today cross all of God’s Word. They are into celebrating heathen holidays. They decorate green trees which is expressly forbidden In Jer. 10. They exchange gifts as Rev. 11 records. They teach a false birthday of Jesus and keep the ancient sun-gods birthday calling it the birthday of Jesus. They keep the idolatrous Easter doings and call this Jesus’ resurrection. It is their false traditions doing away with God’s command for a holy life.
They partake of everything the world does. They have the ungodly television sitting right in their home and I grant you they spend much more time there ‘feeding’ on the evil things of Satan than they do praying or studying the Word of God. And that is one reason they are into false teachings and know not truth.
It was the Jews, whom almost everyone still to this day, believes were the true people and chosen of God, who killed or had Jesus killed. They proved by this that they knew not God nor God’s Holy Word. If their serving God by the law was the true thing of God then they would have known Jesus and loved him.
John 18:35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.
Now see that Pilate said that it was Jesus’ own nation, the Jews and the most important person under law, those chief priest, which delivered Jesus up to be killed. So if this priest-hood and these Jews of law were the true people of God and knew truth, WHY were they the ones who wanted Jesus killed? Then it was these same law people who went about killing the Christians and persecuting the Church of God. Now I ask you, if they knew the truth and they were pleasing God why is this true of them?
If the law gave them understanding of God why did they not recognize the Son of God? And it is true that they were serving God strictly by that law. Paul, before his conversion, lived a strict Pharisee life, blameless under that law. He was not out in the world living a sinful, ungodly life. But He knew not truth and he was persecuting the true children of God, the Christians. But just as soon as He himself became a Christian, then those Jews began trying to kill Him. See, they were not the people of God. If they had been, then they would have been Christians also. But they hated the Christians and wanted them all killed. I say this is proof that they knew not God under law.
John 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
Now see how ‘devout’ these Jews and priest were. They were setting Jesus up to be killed, yet they would not go into the judgment hall, lest they be defiled so they could eat the passover. Eat the passover. Yet here they are seeking to kill and destroy God true passover. See this proves they knew not God or His Son or truth. So how was serving God under the law of Moses bringing them to know God? It did not.
John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: FOR HE WROTE OF ME.
Now here Jesus tells those law people that they did not really believe Moses. Yet they fully thought they were Moses disciples. It is the same with this church today. They fully believe they are Jesus’ disciples, yet in truth they know not God nor His ways. They are in the very same darkness and error that those Jews of old were. They fully believe that their ‘church’ system is the one and only way or means of serving or knowing God and having salvation. Yet they do not match any of the things Jesus shows his true church will be and do. So they are in the same error those Jews were under law. They fully believed that the law was the one and only way of knowing and serving God. Yet all of this proves they had completely missed God. It will be proven soon that the church has also fully missed God.
I know almost everyone of you will say the church is different. But is it? Let Jesus tell us.
Mt 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Now isn’t it the hireling pastors of today who take from widows to build their own bank accounts up and to build their stone buildings? Sure it is. Do not they deceive themselves and the people by teaching them they must tithe in order to obtain Heaven? Yet tithing is part of that old covenant which God hated and did away with. Therefore they feel justified in taking the widows last mite.
Mt 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 23:34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 23:36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
Notice here that Jesus called these religious folks of his day serpents and vipers. They are the descendants of the old Serpent, Adam, which is the devil. Fill ye up the measure of your fathers. That is exactly what the church of today is doing. That is why it has continued so long. God is waiting for them to fill up the measure of their fathers….why?
Re 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Re 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Mt 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth,
Seemingly two different groups of people here are told the very same thing. ? Old Jews, Jerusalem, and Babylon of the end time, are both told they are guilty of all the shed blood upon earth. So how then can they be different? Are they really two different beings?
Isa 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
Isa 47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered,–Re 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked [here both groups are said to be naked]. So it is obvious that they are the same group.
Isa 47:7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 47:8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 47:9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. 47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
Rev 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Now notice that both old Babylon in the OT and Babylon in the NT say I am and none beside me. Both claim to be a queen and will be no widow. The church claims to be the wife of God. That is the queen this is speaking of. Old Jerusalem, Jews claimed to be married to God. The church claims that Jesus is God and that they are his wife. This is one and the same organization. Notice it said for both of them that their destruction comes in one day. This day is the Day of the Lord when He brings his wrath on her and destroys her. This is solid proof that they are the same being = OT Babylon = Jerusalem, the one who is guilty of all the shed blood on earth……and the NT Church Babylon who is guilty of all the shed blood on earth…..both destroyed in one day…both claiming to be the queen and the only one….both burned with fire. Both were into ‘merchandising’. Both had the knowledge and wisdom of Satan. [Eze. 28].
The merchants are those who buy and sell the things of God. Thus both groups are into merchandising, which God forbids. They are the foolish virgins. Notice she was called the virgin daughter of Babylon.
Now I do not see how anyone could deny any further that Israel of the OT and the Church of the NT are both the same Babylon. If you think not, then find and prove by Scripture who these two groups claiming to be the wife of God are!
And it is proven in Mat. 23 in Jesus’ own words that they are the serpent seed. They are the serpents. They are the descendants of Adam. How can you blind yourself to this any longer without outright calling God a lie?
Jesus was speaking to the Jews of His day in Mat. 23 when he pronounced them desolate and said they will be judged for all the blood shed on earth. So then who was he speaking to in Rev. 18 when he told them they are guilty of all the blood shed on earth? How many can be guilty of this? I say you are willfully blind if you deny this much Scripture saying the same thing. They are both destroyed in one day. How can you not see the connection?
So now if you say this NT Babylon is NOT the church, then please tell me who it could be. It has to be the prominent religious group of today. It was the prominent religious group of Jesus’ day. They claimed to be the one and only way to God = law. The church today claims to be the one and only way to God. They are one and the same. They are both Babylon whom God despises. They both claim to be rich. So it is solidly proven here that the church of today is that old Babylon group of the OT. That is why she still goes by law. Everything the church does today is just as she did in the OT law group. That is why she worships idols so much and harps tithing so much. It is her way of robbing the poor and the widows and others. It is her means of building her hewn stone buildings. She dotes on material goods and money. That is why she ‘sells’ the preaching of the Word. You MUST pay any preacher if he delivers any 30 minute sermonette in a church. He usually receives a large pay for his little ‘discourse’. It is not the food of the Word. It is all lies. Don’t pay him and you will not see him again!
Now I want to address one more aspect of this churches lies. They all with one accord stress that you MUST attend their regular services or you will lose out with God. So I ask you, where did the Word teach this? Where did the NT ministers teach this? Where is it recorded? I want to read it.
In Acts 16 the jailor asked Paul what he needed to do to be saved. Now go read that. Did Paul instruct this man and his family to ‘go to church’? If so show me where he said that. He told them to believe on Jesus and he surely told them to be baptized for the man was baptized at midnight! Yet I do not find where Paul said one word about joining and being faithful to some local church or assembly. Do you? Strange that the ‘apostolic’ ministers of today stress this as the very foundation of being a Christian and on your way to heaven, isn’t it? Not only them but all other churches as well claim this is the only way to be saved and please God. Now I just wonder where they get this teaching. Paul obviously did NOT teach this.
In Acts 10 Cornelius asked Peter how to be saved. Did Peter instruct these new converts to ‘go to church somewhere’? ‘Join a church and forever after attend it regularly, or lose your salvation’? I do not find that in the Word. He also instructed them to repent, believe and be baptized. That is all I can find that he told them.
In Acts two a large group of Jews asked Peter what must we do to be saved. Now did Peter tell them to join and attend church? I find that not. He told them believe, repent, be baptized. That is all he instructed them to do.
In Acts eight Phillip converted a whole town. Did he instruct them to go to church? No. He baptized them and had the Apostles come lay hands on them so they received the Holy Ghost. Not one word is ever said to these people either by Phillip or Peter or John about the need to attend church. [Now some may say well they probably did tell them this and it is just not recorded. HUH? There you go ADDING to God’s Word! This is a sin punishable by losing your soul. If it is not written it is not true nor should anyone teach it.]
When Ananias came to Paul in Acts nine he never said one word about the need to attend church. Now did He? Why?
In Acts 19 Paul met 12 believers and told them they needed to be baptized in Jesus Name and receive the Holy Ghost. Not one word was said about the need to go to church somewhere.
Again in Acts 8 Phillip converted the eunuch to Jesus. He told this man to believe that Jesus is the Son of God and to be baptized. After this the man went on his way rejoicing. Phillip probably never saw this man again. Why did he miss this opportunity to instruct the man and us in the need to attend some local assembly? Why? If it is so important, why did none of these Godly ministers of the NT not teach it to anyone? What is wrong here? Why is this important matter LEFT OUT OF THE SCRIPTURE?
According to the record, none of these men ever one time told anyone they needed to ‘go to some church’. Yet this seems to be the MAIN message from all preachers today….if you do not go somewhere to church and have church and assembly yourselves you are on your way to hell. If this be true, why is it left out of the Scripture? How does God expect us to know this thing? He said not to add even one word to His Word. So how am I to know this is truth? The Word does not say it anywhere. God said in the mouth of two or three witnesses EVERY Word is established. I have given here six or more instances in the Word where salvation is being dealt with, and not one of them mentions the need to go to church or anything of that nature.
So am I to believe that those men did not know the true way of salvation? Am I to believe that they did not know the way to stay with God? Why is the message of the church today so different from what is written in the Word? Which one am I to believe? Which one do you believe? Everyone had better find out which you believe…..these hirelings today or the Written Word of God. Almost every place or every place it is mentioned that they were gathered together, it was in someone’s home or out by a river or in a chariot. Why is it different today? The most glorious meetings I have ever been in were in home settings, not some fake theater church.
I truly believe that we will be judged by the Written Word and not by what some paid preacher says. I truly believe that IF going to church is important as they teach, then all those ministers recorded in God’s Word would have taught it to their converts. I have heard these ‘fed beasts’, pastors, tell the people that it is their DUTY to go to their own local assembly and not attend some other assembly. I ask WHY? Is God not over there just the same? Could they not receive something from God over there the same as the other place? Couldn’t they worship God over in another church the same as their ‘regular’ church? If not, I wonder why not? Is God going to cut that person off because they went over to that church instead of this church? What foolish stuff they have going on in order to have as large attendance as they can and get all the money they can. Aw ha. I think that is the answer, they know their ‘member’ might give some of their money to the other preacher if they leave ‘home’ and go visit their neighbor and ‘worship’ with them.
And Where did this teaching of this DUTY come from? What verse? What NT writer? If it is not written it is not true. If there are not two witnesses in the Word saying this, it is a lie. Now somebody show me one verse saying this. If it is true religion, it would be recorded in God’s Word. So examine your church. Examine your preacher. Examine your own beliefs. Do they match the Word? Is your church really of God?
All churches today teach the people that they must ‘freely give’. They ALWAYS connect this with the members giving money to the church or preachers. They have so hounded this lie to the church that everyone believes this is what Jesus was speaking of. But let me ask you one simple question. Did you ‘freely’ receive your money? Most of you did not. Most of you worked for your money. It was pay for a job you did. Jesus said freely you have received, freely give. So if you did not freely receive your money what was Jesus speaking of? Who was he speaking to? He was speaking to the ministers.
He was telling them they freely received their message and gifts of the Spirit from God so THEY [not the people] must freely GIVE out their message and gifts. But isn’t it right the opposite in the church today? You all know it is. The people are hounded and pounded constantly that they must give money to the church and preachers. I just want one Scripture teaching this. The people have to give their money and pay a man for a little message which most certainly is not the truth of God’s Word. Why spend you money for that which is not bread? Isa 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
The above Scripture makes it clear that the members are supposed to receive the Word of God, the meat, water, wine and milk of the Word without money and without price. Why has the entire church world missed this truth? Because the love of money is the root of all evil. So why is the church and its ministers so much in love with money and so concerned with money? Why do they not freely give out their messages and gifts? Oh they claim loud and long that they are not doing their ‘work’ for money. I say let them prove it. Stop paying them and see how many stay in their ‘ministry’. This would eliminate almost everyone of them and rid the church of her hirelings who teach lies for money. And don’t for get that taking or giving money for this work of God is the mark of the beast. Get this truth or lose your soul!
Don’t forget also that Jesus said all it takes is two or three and He is there in their midst. So anywhere and anytime two Christians assemble together and speak of God, they are fulfilling the Scripture to not forsake the assembling of yourselves together. It did not say, go to church. The true people of God are the church. When I go to town the church is there with me. When I go to bed, the church is there with me. When my Christian brothers and sisters get on the phone and fellowship over the Word, we are in our church. We are assembled. The hirelings have taken this verse and run wild with it for their own advantage as they have all the rest of the Word.
Paul said examine yourselves and see if you be in the faith. I say you need to listen and obey this word. Examine yourselves and your church and see if it is the true faith.
Now I know most everybody involved in church today thinks that building big, fancy buildings is the work of God and is how they glorify Him. But is this taught in His Word? No. If this is the work of God His Word would tell us to do that and He would set His love and approval on it.
But I proved at the beginning of this message that God hates those stone buildings he calls castles. He has set to destroy them all. Yet the millions of unsuspecting souls who finance these multi-million dollar projects are led to believe that they are doing God a service which He will bless them for and which He approves of. Where is even one Scripture backing up this teaching? I know of none. If this were the work of God Paul and Peter would have been busy building buildings. But they did no such thing.
Most church folks and especially the greedy, proud ministers, always go back to the OT to the temple Solomon built and try to use this to justify and even obligate the church to do the same. But did God ever tell David or Solomon to do this thing? No, He did not! In fact He protested this thing when David first mentioned it to God. Now the hirelings have come up with a false teaching to justify anything they wish to do which crosses God’s Word and it is this: They claim God has both a perfect will and a permissive will. But upon searching this out God proved to me that this is another false teaching. I knew in my heart this could not be true, for if God says a thing is right, it is the only thing which is right. He never changes his mind, like wishy-washy parents do, and let their children go ahead and do the thing they have told them not to do. Now they use the thing of God finally letting Balaam go do what the king wanted him to do. But see that God only let Balaam have his own way.
God will never force anyone to obey His will. He will let anyone have their own way if they choose not to go God’s way. But it will cost you your soul. If God’s Word says a thing and you go contrary to this you are walking in rebellion and your own way. God will allow you to do this. But you are not in some ‘permissive will’ of God. You are in rebellion and your own way. God said not to commit fornication. Yet many Christians and preachers freely commit this sin and think nothing about it. They are walking in rebellion and sin and their own way or will. These same people will scream loud and long that they wish to be in God’s perfect will. If this were true, they would forsake these sins which they know God forbids.
2ch 2:6 But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
Now Solomon said these words and it shows that man cannot build a house for God. His purpose was to burn sacrifice to Him here. But I proved in the beginning of this message that God never at any time required or accepted these burnt sacrifices. So this was NOT an acceptable project to God. It was man’s own desires and pride.
1ch 17:1 Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains. 17:2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee. 17:3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in: 17:5 For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another. 17:6 Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
Now here we are shown that David had a desire to build a house for God. But God shows that he has never said a word to anyone that they should build Him an house. See it is the same as He said about the animal sacrifices that He never required this thing. He let them do what they chose to do. For it was all types and shadows of the pure Heavenly things. These OT shadows were made after the PATTERN shown them which is the Heavenly things. So their shadows are not to be followed in the NT. Paul said the things concerning them were examples for us NOT TO FOLLOW.
God had gone from tent to tent. In other words from one family to another. That is His way. He dwells not in houses made with hands. In 1 Chron. 28 and 29 David told Solomon to follow the pattern of this house which he had already drawn up. David had made plans for a simple building which God has shown him. He had already prepared all the materials Solomon would need. He had provided gold, silver and all manner of things in abundance. He had provided iron and wood for nails and other things. But if you study the actual making of this building you will find that Solomon departed from this and made such a lavish building that it did not resemble God’s plan at all. There was no iron at all used in this building. Solomon worked many, many men for years providing the materials he actually used in the building. It was NOT the building God and David had planned.
Now this is a type and shadow of the NT falling away. As they have left off the simplicity of the true Apostolic Church and sacrificed the Holy Ghost Gifts for carnal and monetary things, they exchanged this glory for big, fancy expensive buildings. God hates them. He will destroy them just as surly as He sent Nebuchadnezzar to destroy this temple Solomon built. Do you think that if God had been pleased with this thing that He could not have protected it? Sure He could have and would have. But it was not what God wanted so He destroyed it. People today look to their large numbers, large bank accounts and expensive building as proof that God is with them and blessing them. It is a lie of Satan. The proof that God is with a people is when they manifest the gifts of the Holy Ghost and obey the signs Jesus said would follow His true people. When they heal the sick, cast out devils, discern spirits, speak with other tongues and pray always and live a Holy Life, then this is the true work of God. It is the only thing God will ever accept and place His approval upon. Everything else is wood, hay and stubble and is set to be destroyed in the fire judgments of God.
So again I say examine yourselves. Which set of rules are you living by? Which building are you part of? The one God built or the one men built? Do you go by money and crowds or do you manifest the gifts of the Holy Ghost?
Ac 7:44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; 7:46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 7:47 But Solomon built him an house. 7:48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, 7:49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? 7:50 Hath not my hand made all these things? 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
See here Stephen said those who build houses with man’s hands do as their fathers did = always resist the Holy Ghost. He said God dwells not in houses made with hands. So why is the church today all caught up in building these man-made temples? For they are not of God.
By: Jo Smith