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PART V
BIBLE TEXTS VERIFY TODAY’S APOSTASY IN THE CHURCH
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he [Jesus Christ] shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.” Deut.18:19.
“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved [those whose names are on the church books], where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” I Pet.4:17,18.
Those in leadership roles, who, to this day, have rejected the Gracious Light sent from GOD, through His servants the prophets, have held back the heaven-appointed work that will usher the 2nd Advent of the LORD Jesus Christ. This procrastination only gives Satan more time to torment men and disfigure the image of GOD in man. A false assurance has been given by the religious leaders of our generation that the Gospel message has been accepted and is being carried to the world. But the fact remains that the effects this message will bring to the world are no where to be found, being evidenced by the following fact that Christians are being baptized into a religious system promoting the perpetuation of sin in the church itself. It is even alleged that the pagan Sunday is so sacred that it is vital to man’s survival when its origins can historically be traced back to Nimrod, the son of Ham whose family was cursed of his father Noah for its sinful ways (Gen.9:20-25, 10:8-10, 11:1-9). It is this corruption of the Sacred Law that will mislead the religious world when the threat to the survival of man comes to the forefront of public awareness. This is the one unifying factor between Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Spiritualists, the New Age, and Atheists: they all stand as one in their utter denial of the authority of the 4th Commandment of Jesus Christ (Jn.8:58). The very Law Jesus obeyed to redeem us these religions of the Earth refuse its truth and blessing. To turn from any of GOD’S Laws is to turn from the life provided within its jurisdiction (Ja.2:10-12).
The sin(s) that the religions of the world refuse to repent from shows their half-hearted service to GOD. Therefore, the dominant church denominations must face the fact that they are back to square one on the Gospel commission of Jesus Christ and GOD’S call to universal repentance from all sin. As a result, the Bible teaches that the leaders in the church have continued to be more responsible for every affliction and death of the last 150 years than any two-bit tyrant, Spiritualist, covert Jesuit, New Age advocate, Muslim, or Atheist (Eze.34).
The Bible is crystal clear about the reality that two world wars, the Great Depression, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, today's war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and literally all suffering and death today rests in the hands of professing Christians, Catholic and Protestant alike (I Ki.18:17,18)! And these men always point away from themselves concerning the Bible's list of crimes against humanity (Jer.2:35). Claiming innocent hands, they always come out smelling like a rose while others take the blame (Gen.3:11-13). But the day is coming that the aroma from today’s Christianity will be exposed as nothing more than a Glade Air Freshener (Dan.2:29-45). All self-flattering speeches, sermons, and evangelistic props used to exalt the church, even the numerous conspiracy books on the New World Order and other secret societies: the Jesuit Order, the Illuminati, the Free Masons, the Bilderburgers, Skull and Bones, the artisans of witchcraft, and even the Hells Angels motorcycle gang (who demand the transgression of every Law of GOD as part of their initiation), all being passed around in Christian circles to blind them to the true issues of salvation (I Cor.2:2), these are the never-ending volumes of the sinful schemes of men. All this does is to eclipse the reality of GOD’S call carry out “the gospel of Christ,” “and him crucified” (Rom.1:16; I Cor.2:2). A man can spend a thousand years itemizing the never-ending volumes of the sins of men and never bring us one step closer to the coming of Christ! Without the Truth to expose the falsehood, the end can not come, period (Matt.24:14)!
Corporate Christianity is as a blind, deaf, quadriplegic in a wheelchair who thinks he is ready for the Olympic Games. But the LORD says, “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: 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. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” Rev.3:17-19. To refuse to acknowledge His Words, “Because thou…knowest not,” shows how faithless, naked and blind sin has made men professing His Holy Name. GOD’S Words of rebuke to today’s Christianity who foster the proliferation of sin in the church are unmistakable, “Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.” “His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.” Isa.43:24; 56:10,11.
In summation, the world’s religious leaders merely build the kingdom of this world, not the Kingdom of Heaven (II Pet.2:17-21). The pen of Inspiration affirms the church’s rejection of GOD’S last work in the Earth. One of a hundred examples: the King James Version of the Holy Bible does not hold the place of preeminence as it should. The “Received Text,” or “Majority Text,” restored to western Christianity by the Dutch scholar, Erasmus, whose manuscript origins can historically be traced back to the great Bible scholar, Lucian of Antioch, (who edited the Apostles original Manuscripts), which, before him, were all assembled and organized by the Apostle John in his closing days in Ephesus; this is the only text that can historically be traced back to the hands of the Apostles themselves (Benjamin Wilkinson, Truth Triumphant). The GOD of Heaven did not leave us blind without a paper trail, though most of true Christian history has been surgically removed, beginning in 600 A.D. when pope Gregory I burned the two palatine libraries of the Waldensian Christians whose documented history extended back to within twenty years after the death of the Apostle John, according to Calvin’s associate, Beza.
With the numerous “modern” translations whose core teaching contradicts the King James Version in every potent, most-convincing text exposing the snares of Satan’s schemes to seduce the church away from Christ’s salvation it is evident that in today’s Christianity betrayal to GOD’S truth is thematic. From the Ten Commandments (Rev.22:14), from the unconscious state of the dead (Eccl.9:5,10; Ps.146:4), to the prophecies verifying Christ as the Saviour of ALL mankind through simple arithmetic (Dan.9:24-27): and even GOD’S judgment of the ungodly at the second resurrection, not before (II Pet.2:9), the church stands naked in its ignorance. Simply put, today’s doctrines are the bitter fruits of Satan‘s sophistry! How can unity rule the church when everybody reads from a different Bible? where literally hundreds of contradictions occur between the various translations, where the very words of Christ have been removed, including portions of the LORD’S prayer itself (NIV)? The Bible simply asks, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” Amos 3:3.
Today’s Christianity claims to be an advocate of the Bible, descendants of the apostolic church. But corrupt translations abound, reducing the “received text,” or “majority text” to be little more than a byword today and a special target of attack and criticism; using the few inaccuracies of the KJV translators as the means of rejecting the very manuscripts of the original Greek and Hebrew, proven to be handed down from the Apostles themselves to the church in the wilderness (Rev.12:6), and from the church in the wilderness to the Reformers, and from the Reformers to us! In essence, the Church has supplanted Christ’s Truth with confusion by promoting contradicting manuscripts, despite GOD’S many warnings to never meddle with His Holy Word (Deut.4:2; Rev.22:18,19). The Bible condemns every man who has maligned GOD’S Word. And yet, according to these ‘scholars,’ “All Scripture is [not] given by Inspiration of God.” II Tim.3:16. |
