I put the following remarks on a brother’s Facebook TimeLine for which I was roundly rebuked. I accepted the rebuke and deleted it. The remark was given in response to his advertising a book entitled “The Man of Sin.” But, since this is my own Facebook page, here it is.
My heart truly grieves as I see the results of the Word falsified by the church of this age. Everything in the Kingdom of God will not be counted worthy for the Kingdom of Heaven. In this life, the church is in a probationary period. A parable of five wise virgins and five foolish underscores this reality.
Of the seven churches of Asia recorded in Revelation chapters two and three, all were not approved of our Lord who had John to write to them to warn of their error. In the end, there were two women (churches) represented, one the virgin bride of Christ which became his wife. The other church is depicted as a harlot woman. Jesus called on almost all of the churches mentioned in Rev. two and three to repent of their error.
I wonder if Jesus were to address the modern Apostolic church who have adopted the false teachings of the End-time, what would he say? In my mind, there is no question that he would call upon her to repent. However, I am persuaded that few will purge out the old leaven. In the end, everything in the present day Kingdom of God will not be permitted in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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I suppose that I’m the oddball, an ugly duckling in Apostolic ranks. I do no subscribe to any of this kind of reasoning and teaching. In fact, I resent the fact that so many carnally minded Apostolic people who profess to have the (Holy Ghost) divine teacher within, who promised to lead us and guide us into all truth would conceptualize these things in the natural. The reason the book of The Revelation of Jesus Christ was written in graphic code was to exclude those who think carnally, unable to spiritually perceive what is meant by the representative code recorded there. God’s enemy, the carnal mind is not permitted on the grounds of Divine Revelation, as recorded in the book.
Absolutely no where in the Revelation, the unveiling of Jesus Christ, His apocalypse, is an actual human antichrist found in it. Why….! If thinkers of this sort were around when Jesus said, “except that you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood…,” (St Jn 6) we would have those who would try to take a bite out of the flesh of Jesus and drain a pint or two of his blood for to drink.
Void of the divine teacher who would willing instruct if we would not default to false teachers and false Apostles of which there are not a few. Thank you, C.I. Schofield, and Tim LaHaye. Thank you, Hal Lindsay, Thank you John Hagee, Clarence Larkin and thanks to all the bible schools who teach from his many beautifully designed charts, especially those found in his book entitled “Dispensational Truths.” Everlasting damage has been done to the body of Christ from which there is little hope of recovery, except by a true spirit of repentance and purging of the heart.
There is a sealing going on.
Many who claim the Holy Ghost, which is righteousness, peace and joy, (Rom 14:17), the kingdom of God shall be eternally barred from the Kingdom of Heaven…..no matter how much education, grace and honor is bestowed upon us in this lifetime. It is a work of ANTI-WORD….i.e. AntiChrist to pervert the Word of God, to cast it down into the dust of carnal thinking.
There is a price to pay for this class of iniquity. I fear it will be eternal….no matter how much one may speak in tongues and jump pews and baptize converts in Jesus’ Name. Who can ever forget John Kershaw’s message at the Louisiana Youth Campmeeting in June of 1967? It was entitled “Count Down to the Rapture.” Who can ever forget the Endtime Magazine that advertised in 1993 that there were only seven years before the rapture.
I had a conversation with the author at the Gen. Conf in Salt Lake City in October 1992 in which he told me that he was trying to raise enough money to publish one million of those magazines. He must have raised it because a tall stack appeared at LIfe Tabernacle in Houston. I helped myself to about a half dozen of them. I still have two copies. It made the author a little unhappy with me when I told him plainly there would be no rapture as he was prophesying within seven years of 1993, which he intended to put in his magazine.
False prophets are multiplied by the litter all of whom have their roots planted in this false “end-time” teaching. Who can forget the 88 reasons the rapture will happen in 1988? As a very young child I was skeeered half to death when a preacher came to our church just days before Israel was recognized as a nation. He said if the UN recognized them as a nation, the church would be gone. I was greatly relieved that it did not happen as prophesied by this false prophet because I knew that I was a bad little boy and would certainly miss it. I can’t even remember how many false prophets that I heard who having eaten from this evil tree of knowledge. It seems that I’ve heard most of them. Yet they proliferate and profane, proliferate and profane, proliferate and profane, ad-infinitum.
They are workers of iniquity, having no divine authority…lawless projectors of the false, a word purpotted to be the Word of God. After these many men in Matt 7 claimed to have cast out devils, prophesied and did many wonderful works in the name of Jesus, none of which Jesus denied, he told them to depart from him, he never knew them. They were obviously Oneness preachers. They addressed him….LORD, LORD. They knew who is was just as many know who he is today, yet, workers of lawlessness, having no divine authority of their works.
I tremble in my boots when I hear men of my own Jn 3:5/Acts 2:38 pedigree running after the ways of these multitudes of false prophets.
Speaking of the 3.5 years which is falsely understood as the middle of a future tribulation period….. That 3.5 years was concluded at the stoning of Steven in Acts 7….the final conclusion of the 70 weeks of Daniel. The previous 69 weeks was climaxed at the baptism of Jesus when John introduced Him as the Lamb of God and a voice out of heaven introduced him his God’s only begotten son in whom He was well pleased. Hence, the commencement of the 70th week. The first half of the 70th week was finished when Jesus was cut off, but not of himself at his death on the cross. The countdown to the end of the 70 weeks as found in Dan 9, was never chopped off and sent down through many centuries before fulfillment. When the nation of Israel officially rejected the gospel at the stoning of Steven. That 70 weeks of prophecy was completely fulfilled as his death while the heavy stones pounded his precious head. He was heard to say, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” Divine love never dies but lives eternally.
God then turned from the Jews and used the man who held the coats of those who stoned him to bring in the “gospel of grace,” the gosple hid from them until this day. Paul called it “….my gospel.” Anyway, I may be scorned and ridiculed and may even be blocked, it would be a small price to pay… Meanwhile I tremble in fear. All of you, my dear brothers, cause me to shake in fear as I know that the grounds of the Revelation of Jesus Christ are prohibited from your spiritual mind but quite agreeable to the carnal mind. You are not allowed to profane the Revelation. I also fear that the Kingdom of Heaven will also be eternally barred from you. Oh, how sad. I feel like I could cry a river of tears as I see the havoc these many false prophets have inflicted on the precious body of Christ. If I am blocked after this, I will know why. If I live, I live in Christ. If I die, I die in Christ. So be it. In Him is all glory and honor.
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There is much that I could add to the foregoing but I will save it to later. I may start a teaching on this subject of the Word of God. When the Word, who IS, IS God is falsified, it is ANTI-WORD….”ANTICHRIST” if you will. John said in his day, that there were already many of them. We have many of them today, modern day Endtime is one of the main culprits
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