THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY
OF THE CHURCH
BY MIKE BALLOUN
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THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY
OF THE CHURCH
PART 1
Eschatology
refers to things that have a prophetic impact. It is the study/science of last things;
including the Last Days/the culmination of this Age. The dictionary definition:
the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of
humankind.
The
theological institutions of Christian denominations, made up of Religious
redeemed men, are full of leavened eschatology inspired by this Worlds Babylonian system over
the centuries unto today. In every generation, a minority of humble servants
who have not bowed
their knee to Baal may be found. But with that being
said, Christians in general have no idea of the origin of their thoughts and
beliefs, or that they run destructively contrary to God and His Word. But the enemy and god of this world who
inspired them does. In that Satan is in an
all-out spiritual war to maintain his current status and authority in this
Realm; its earth and its heaven from whence he rules over mankind. (Ephesians
6: 12, Isaiah 24: 21, Revelation 12: 7-9)
From the
Garden of Eden, Gods intent for
His Theocratic Government in this Earth was revealed in His Written account of
the Creation of Man. Satans intent is to disqualify mankind
from that
Thus, the
Nation of Israel was set aside. They were rejected as unworthy and were cut off / disqualified
from the celestial part of His
Millennial kingdom. (But not permanently disqualified
from taking the earthly portion of Gods Theocratic Government in this Realm, as that was an
irrevocable promise given to Abraham. (Genesis
15
& 22) See Romans 11 where
Note
that leavened Denominationalism has twisted and spiritualized the Old Testament
Scriptures of Israels sure
inheritance and says the Jews have been replaced / cut off
permanently and Christians have replaced them in the inheritance of the
Kingdom promises. This is critical doctrinal leaven. For God
has appointed only a parenthetical insertion
of time (of up to now approximately 2000 years), to call out a Nation of people
from the Gentiles (Matthew 21: 43)
to inherit the heavenly portion of the Kingdom of Christ (Hebrews 3: 1) that had
been rightly Israels,
until the
fullness of the Gentiles come in (Romans
11: 25) when God will once again deal with the
Jews leavened blindness. In Romans 11: 20-23, Paul also
warns the Nation of the One New Man who were grafted
in due to
The destiny
of the soul after he has secured eternal life and after
this Age, (eschatology) is tied into the
parable given by Jesus in Matthew 22: 2-14
The kingdom of heaven (the greater privilege
beyond being redeemed, of ruling as the Bride
of Christ in His Millennial Kingdom
from the heaven associated with this Realm - Revelation
20: 4-6) is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son (the Nation
of Israel, as they are called Gods firstborn son in Exodus
4: 22), And sent forth his servants (prophets) to
call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Again, he
sent forth other servants (more prophets),
saying, Tell
them which are bidden,
Behold, I
have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are
killed,
and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. But they made light of it,
and went their ways, one to his farm, another
to his merchandise: And the remnant took his
servants, and entreated them spitefully,
and slew them (
In the
parable of Matthew 22: 2-14, there is a
compelling change from the Nation of Israel to the nation of the
One New Man.
But just as Israel was not ready in their hour of visitation when Christ came
to set up His kingdom, many redeemed in the church (who were invited to the
feast / offered the Kingdom) are also going to be found unprepared (found as
having no garment of
worthiness to Rule at the time of the Marriage Supper) when He comes to set up
His Millennial Kingdom in
this Realm. A lack of a wedding garment represents unreadiness, which is in
contrast to the fine linen garments of preparedness which are the
righteousness of the saints. See Revelation 19: 7-9
Let
us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him:
for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And
to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean
and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of
saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are
called unto the (air / heaven of this
Realm - 1st. Thessalonians 4: 17) marriage
supper of the Lamb (at the time
of the First Resurrection). And he saith
unto me, These are the true
sayings of God. These garments are of the Bride who had made
herself ready by works of
faithful righteousness (done after redemption) in loving service to God. These are they who qualify to be in the Kingdom of heaven. For
many are called, but few are chosen could be better
interpreted as Many are called, but
few choosen. An example
of Christs stubborn
unfaithful servant who is found unworthy will be shut
out of the Wedding and bound hand and foot in a locale of outer
darkness (compare with Matthew 25: 30). This
punishment is not just punitive, nor eternal, but answers to every farthing of
debt left owing Him for refused faithful service to God after redemption, as
well as corrective and refining (Matthew 5: 26).On the one side is the awesomeness,
wonder, and glory, and on the flip-side of being accepted as a faithful
servant, is the severeness of judgement that can come
upon the apathetic, lukewarm, unprepared, hard-hearted, backslidden, or
apostate redeemed person once they die and stand before the Judgement Seat of
Christ. (2nd Corinthians
5: 10) (If Israel
was judged 70Χ7 in exponential judgement in order to have a purged people, how
much more will New Testament believers, who have been redeemed by the Blood of
the Lamb, given greater Written promises, and the indwelling power of the Holy
Spirit within us to overcome, be judged? See Hebrews 10: 26-31
For
if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation,
which shall devour the adversaries. He
that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of
how much sorer punishment,
suppose ye, shall he be thought
worthy, who
hath trodden under foot the Son of God,
and hath counted the blood of the covenant,
wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy
thing,
and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
For we know him that hath said, Vengeance
belongeth unto me, I will recompense,
saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.It
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.)
Christian
teachers with their leavened eschatological understanding today do not
understand the vital connectivity between
There was
doctrinal leavening to an extent at that time (late in the 1st
Century), but it would become exponential, and fatal during the time of
Again,
Spiritual connectivity in doctrinal Truth to the Hebraic-Roots is what connects
the old covenant Messiah with the New Testament Christ. It is the key to
understanding prophecy as to why Jesus is the King of kings and also the Lord
and God of this world in a coming future sure reality. His Return / Coming to
set up His Kingdom in this Realm after a 7-year Tribulation Period and then
rule over this Earth and its heaven for a thousand years, is Pre-Millennial in
view and Truths eschatology. The leavened alternative teachings of Amillennialism (the teaching that there is no Millennium) and Post-Millennialism (which teaches that Christs Return is after the
Millennium) have a deadly leavening effect in the Earth, yesterday and today,
because they deceive people from the Truth about Gods literal coming
Millennial Kingdom, causing them to become then religiously
apathetic. Being willingly blinded by their love for
this World, they fail to see the Truth of the worthiness of faithful service to
Christ as required to be resurrected or caught up and enter into the exclusive
literal Millennial Kingdom of Christ, which is to be established soon in this
Realm. Nor do the merely redeemed realize that along with this sure
sorrow-filled loss, exacting punishment for those redeemed who refuse to be instructed in the Truth and stubbornly remain in a state
of deceived lukewarmness towards Gods great Salvation Plan. It will not matter
whether they lived to see those days manifest or not, or if they are alive in
those final days as Christs recompense Judgments transcend time. A
Pre-Tribulation, or Mid-Tribulation Rapture of the Select worthies and the
doctrine of Pre-Millennialism eschatology, when clearly discerned, speak both of the severity and the mercy of God. Whereas
most denominations are Amillennial or Post-Millennial, and tend to
Antinomianism.
Sadly, Satan
is doing what he did with Eve; deceiving her and
trying to cause the Son of God to abdicate His future Throne in this Realm
for
the benefit of His lost Bride. (Which is to say, Scripture states that Adam was
not deceived; only Eve, and that Adam, without his appointed wife and regal
Co-heir, could not enter into Dominion in this Realm. Although it does not
follow that Christ, like Adam, would follow his bride into death, as Christ has
already secured eternal glory, regality, and the gift of eternal life for His
Bride, but now she must be found worthy in herself to rule with Him in this
Realm. And for her to disqualify herself from ruling
in regality, potentially and typically it would type that Christ would follow
His Bride into loss of regality in this Realm in the future and allow Satan to
continue to rule.)
We need to clearly see Anti-Millennialism and Post-Millennialism
eschatology in the light of Scriptures clear unleavened eschatological teaching of
Pre-Millennialism. In that the person who stands in belief of either of those
two other demonically conceived End-Time theologies is both deceived and in danger of defiling
others and standing with the enemy against Gods purposes. It is deceived hostility between Truth and
error, between righteousness and unrighteousness, between God and Satan.
Catholicism
and Protestantism stems from
Historically,
Calvin and Luther did not understand the difference between the Gift of justification and the
Prize in sanctification; the two parts of the great Atonement
of Christ. And millions follow the
broad way that leads to destruction having drank
from the cup of the Harlot, and will suffer the sad consequences of the just
judgments of Christ levied on His redeemed faithless servants. Some of those
will be severe, particularly for teachers, as theirs
is the greater accountability. Especially
those that have callously twisted and re-defined the Greek
words to their benefit in order to make their leavened doctrinal beliefs seem
more solid. Satan has used such leavened Church Tares to corrupt key Greek words in Scriptures text
from the early centuries to maintain a deceitful and
destructive hold on Eschatology, and on the vital understanding of the
End-Times. He has stolen from the Redeemed that they might be disqualified,
being content with their one talent (see the
parable of the talents in Matthew 25: 14-30), that they
might become Laodicean in nature, apathetic and without revealed knowledge of
the grave judgments which they will face at the Bema of Christ. (2nd Corinthians
5: 10, Hebrews 9: 27). Again, while all 66
Books of the Bible are infallible, and perfectly inspired by God and written by
men as directed by the Holy Spirit, men still have
twisted and leavened the Truth to suit their satanically inspired doctrines.
Today, what is taught in Christendom, and received as Truth,
when closely examined by the sincere of heart, it is soon discovered
that it is not reflective of what is in His New Testament Word. As some key New
Testament Greek words also were redefined in their
meaning to accommodate error of doctrine developed after the 4th
Century (several key words we will look at throughout this series).
The enemy has
put Christians in a spiritual fog. Its one thing for Satan to experience the loss in his kingdom
in the those being redeemed out of his kingdom in Christ, but from the enemys wicked viewpoint, its
entirely another for the redeemed person to come into the working knowledge of
sanctification in the knowledge of Gods full Salvation Plan. Satans
final destiny is more impacted when the redeemeds eyes are opened to Truth and
are made acutely aware of his diabolical intent to deceive and disqualify us
from the Millennial Kingdom inheritance and
replacing him in this heavens ruling, while he is chained up for that 1000
years in the Pit
within Hades. Overwhelmingly, Christian eschatological viewpoints are mostly aligned with what
their denominations or their own families believe versus their having compared
their views with the Truths of the Bible for themselves. Christians believe
what they believe and do not have a solid basis for what they believe about
Scripture, only what someone else has told them. And
even if they study the Word, it is with denominational eyes or some religious
bias that skews their view from seeing the Truth. There has been so much wrong
teaching in that which
is evil is called good, and that which is good called evil that
is going unquestioned because of what has been passed down generation after
generation, which has fed the fuel for the dominantly materialistic religious
views of today
New, even more diluted, tributaries are branching
forth out of old fully leavened denominations which
are disqualifying millions more from the inheritance of the Millennial Kingdom
of Christ, due to the End-Time prophesied false doctrines, including that of Gain
is Godliness.
Paul, that
great Pharisee, had no idea he was contrary to God. This is also true of
sincere denominationalized Christian teachers who unwittingly have been blinded by satanically inspired doctrines and resist Truth.
Many Christian leaders today believe wrongly, as Paul - [at first] - did, and many
continue to kick
against the pricks,
and would even die for their beliefs. They have fervor, but they are in
ignorance. They are sincere but sincerely wrong. There are great consequences
for teaching error, as Shepherds will be
judged more harshly for misleading the sheep.
(James 3: 1) It is a
real challenge to break through the wall of years of indoctrination of
denominational corrupting leavened error and come to a place of enlightenment
and understanding, but God is able to do just that to any who are sincerely
willing, in light of the grave consequences, to turn from doctrines
of men
and seek His Truth. Once God reveals it to us, we must not be
derailed from correcting our error and must not shirk our responsibility
over those we have been entrusted to teach. As teachers, a
blessed place to be is to be able to speak His Truth boldly and peacefully with
assurance in our own hearts, after we have 1)
made sure we have a good translation of the original Scriptures 2) made sure of the right
interpretation of the good translation 3)
made the correct or right application of a given passage after comparing
Scripture to Scripture.
To recap, the
advancement of Gods Plan to
develop redeemed children into governing first-born sons
requires a vital spiritual connectivity by the Nation of the One New Man
(called primarily out of the Gentiles), to the Old Testament Kingdom promises
of the Theocratic Kingdom. Without which, you cannot connect the Old
Covenant Messiah with the New Testament Christ. As weve
discovered, this dis-connectivity is the featured
leavened doctrine of all denominational schools of thought; the disqualifying
teaching of the New Testament Tares, all by the deceitful design of Satan, to obscure the Truths
found in Pre-Millennialism eschatology
of the Coming of Christ and His worthy
Bride to establish His Theocratic Kingdom in this Realm in His Millennial
Kingdom, Who are Scripturally ordained by God to replace Satans current evil
theocratic kingdom. (Revelation 20: 4-6)
In
this lesson, we are laying the foundation for the superstructure, and in future
lessons will go further into more details as to what various Denominations
believe, but not too much in depth, as it is much better to spend time on the
Truth versus what is not Truth
as it is better to light a candle than to rail
against the darkness.
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THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY
OF THE CHURCH
PART 2
In our last discussion,
we learned that Eschatology is a discourse on the last things/Last Days, and that
the dictionary definition is: (the part of theology
concerned with the culmination of this age, death,
judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of
humankind.)
Having stated and summarized our
intentions in the previous lesson, we continue
End-Time Christian
eschatology centers around Christs Second Coming and establishing His
Millennial Kingdom in this Realm. There are 3 schools of thought. Pre-millennialism,
Post-millennialism, and Anti-millennialism (also known as Amillennialism). The first two
differing groups, Pre-millennialists and Post-millennialists, agree that before the
end of the world, which is to say before the creation of the New Heaven and
Earth (Revelation 21: 1), there is to be an extraordinary Age of a
thousand years in which justice and peace will prevail in the Kingdom of
Christ, according to Revelation 20: 1-6 (to be shown below). Pre-Millennialist teachers of Biblical eschatology declare that
Christs Second Coming will take place before that Millennium, which
answers to that Millenniums beginning. The Post-Millennialist teachers of Biblical eschatology say that the Second Coming
will not take place until after
that peace-filled Millennium. The Amillennialists declare
there is no Millennial reign of Christ upon this
Earth.
Revelation 20: 1-6
And
I saw an angel come down from heaven,
having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil,
and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years, And cast him into
the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive
the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given
unto them: and I saw the souls
of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the
thousand years were finished.
This is the first resurrection. Blessed and
holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on
such the second death hath no power,
but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a
thousand years. (Note that the Bible should be
taken literally, except for where it is absurd to do so. But sadly, many men and denominations teach traditional
doctrines that have, for centuries, been spiritualized to allow for leavened
doctrines.)
It is acknowledged that not all of any group believe exactly the same, yet the general beliefs are
here summarized to show that the 3 interpretations of the Bible are as
different and as hostile as light is to darkness, and as unleavened is to
leavened! (A summary of those 3 specific views follows
in the next few paragraphs which includes added brief Scriptural insights noted
in parenthesis along with specific citations from Wikipedia noted in quotes.)
Beginning with the last mentioned, as a
generalization of this traditional view
the
Anti-Millennialists teach there will be
no Millennial reign of Christ
and His Righteous on the Earth (much less from the unseen heaven related
to this Earth, as they have no light at all in the matter). They
interpret the 1000 years of Revelation 20: 6 as
symbolic and not a literal duration of time. They teach that the Millennium
began at the Resurrection of Christ, and that it has
already spiritually begun and is running concurrently with this present
(evil) Age. So, Christs reign is that of a spiritual
nature and at the of end of this present Church Age, He
will return in final judgment and establish a permanent
Kingdom reign in the New Heaven and New Earth. Anti-Milennialists / A-millennialists also say that the chaining of Satan began at the
beginning of the spiritual millennium (2000 years ago) and therefore he has been chained and is now (currently) prevented
from deceiving the Nations.
They believe that the (merely redeemed)
Church and its spread in the Gospel (of Grace) is the Kingdom, and that it
will forever be. Their belief being that Christ now rules from Heaven with
the departed saints. The Eastern
and
Briefly, the
Post-Millennialist eschatological teaching is that there is a Golden
Age
/ Millennial period of time, not necessarily literally a thousand years, but is
taken symbolically, as a period of time when Christian
ethics
(that are supposed to be currently at work) will prevail in the World, after
which Christ will Return. So, Post-Millennialism
holds that Jesus Christ establishes his kingdom on earth through his preaching
and redemptive work done in the first century and that he equips his Church with the gospel, empowers the church by the Spirit, and
charges the church with the Great Commission (Matt. 28: 19) to disciple all
nations.
Post-millennialism expects that eventually the vast majority
of people living will be saved. Increasing gospel success will gradually
produce a time in history prior to Christs return in which faith,
righteousness, peace, and prosperity will prevail in the affairs of men and of
nations. After an extensive era of such conditions, Jesus Christ will return (in the Second Coming) visibly, bodily, and gloriously,
to end history with the general resurrection (without any real distinction between the First and Second
Resurrections. As post-millennialists, like A-millennialists, generally contend
that the departed redeemed go to Heaven to be with Christ) and the final judgement after which the eternal order of the New Heaven and Earth follows. Post-millennialism
teaches Satan is bound and also teaches that
the forces of Satan will gradually be defeated by the expansion of the
Pre-millennialist
eschatology teaches Revelation 20: 1-6 as literal and is the oldest
of the interpretations (in the first century known as Chiliasm from the
Greek word meaning thousand) and
states that Jesus will return Bodily to the Earth and usher in a Millennial
Kingdom on the Earth (note that the Kingdom will also include its unseen
heaven).Premillennialism is often used to refer
specifically to those who adhere to the beliefs in a literal earthly millennial
reign of Christ as well as a rapture of the faithful coming before or after the
Great Tribulation preceding the Millennium.
(The correct
and alternative Pre-Millennial view being that those living followers judged as
faithful will join Christ in a First-Fruits rapture at the mid-point of the
Tribulation Period, and then there is a second rapture or Harvest towards the end of the 7-year
Tribulation Period which is of the surviving faithful living who are caught up
to join Christ in the air / first heaven along with the faithful dead in
Christ in the First Resurrection out from among the dead at the sounding of the
Last Trump. {See 1st Thessalonians 4: 16-7
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall
rise first:Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. }
This rapture is before the final Great Vintage where Christ pours out the Wrath of God on His enemies. John,
in the 14th Chapter of Revelation, uses this eschatological
terminology based on Gods established use of the agricultural symbolisms of
the first-fruits, the harvest, and the vintage.)
Pre-millennialist
eschatological exegesis (interpretation) takes the chaining of Satan and being cast into the Pit in the center of Earth as literal and it being immediately
after the coming 7-year Tribulation Period at the return of Christ to the
Earth. That chaining for a 1000 years runs concurrently with the Millennial
Kingdom of Christ in this restored Realm after which Satan will be released for
a short period of time on this Earth. (True
Pre-Millennialist eschatological exegesis of Revelation 20: 1-6 sees the martyrs and faithful of Christ ruling with Him in the
THE SAD GREAT SPIRITUAL DISCORD IN
ESCHATOLOGICAL EXEGESIS
(supposed systematic interpretation) ANSWERS
TO SATANS SUCCESSFUL DESIGN OF AN ANCIENT SYSTEM IN THE CONTINUAL DISQUALIFYING OF TENS OF MILLIONS
OF GODS REDEEMED FROM THE CATCHING UP FOR THE LIVING FAITHFUL AND BLESSED FIRST
RESURRECTION (the out-resurrection from among all the other dead - see Philippians 3: 11, Luke 20: 35 where in the Greek, it is called the resurrection out from among the dead), AND FROM THE GLORY-FILLED SALVATION OF
THEIR SOULS, LEAVING THEM REDEEMED
BUT FAR SHORT OF THE FULLNESS OF GODS SALVATION PLAN AND THEREBY SUBJECT TO
FEARFUL JUDGEMENTS AT CHRISTS BEMA ACCORDING TO MANY SCRIPTURES
THROUGHOUT THE GOSPEL AND EPISTLES AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION. (To use but one Book as an example, see Hebrews
2: 1-3; 3: 12-14; 4: 1, 11; 6: 4-8; 9: 27; 10: 26-31, 38, 39; 11: 6; 12: 17, 25, 28, 29.)
UNLEAVENED Eschatology
Scripturally, the Lord
and the Holy Spirit connect the culmination and termination of this present
evil World / Age leading up
to Christs return comparatively with the ancient Age of Noah (see Matthew
24, specifically Verses 36-44 and Genesis
6: 1-13
which
speak of the condition of the Earth in the Last Days being as it was in the
time of Noah, which was exceedingly corrupt and full of violence.) The
tumultuous last days of those times of Noah and these times (Last Days) were
declared by God, but yet were / are viewed with darkened minds in apathy by
those experiencing them. Correct eschatology counters apathy. The Last Days,
through Scripture, are thereby to be discernable to Gods people, but the
specific day and hour is untold. The state of the World in the Last Days will
be like unto the days of Noah
which is to say
discernable from both sides of the Flood. Pre-Flood with lawlessness in selfish
pursuit of carnal desires, and in spite of the warnings of Enoch and Noah, they
were unconcerned and carried on with their self-absorbed un-repented wicked
lives right up to the flood.
Additionally, the End-Times comparison of Scripture includes those days
of Noah
following the Great Flood / Judgement of God. (Read Genesis
9: 1-18, 25; 10: 1, 6-10, 32; 11: 1-9. These
passages of ancient Biblical history reveal todays universal two-part
corrupting World system: the secular part and the religious part of Mans legalized lawlessness,
which were devised by satanically-inspired Nimrod, the first Anti-Christ, in his bride City of Babel / Babylon.
Scripture revealingly, and as will be seen, justly connects them also with the
End-Times judgments to come upon this present progressively as predicted,
unreconcilable evil Age. (2nd Timothy 3: 12-13 with Revelation
17-19: 3) And
upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
New Testament
(eschatological) Mysteries is a term used to proclaim that merely religious
men who have not sought the Truth by Gods prescribed ways have no means by
which they may comprehend them. The word Mystery here is used by the Holy Spirit to associate the End-Time Woman
with ancient
Genesis
3: 15
holds forth a Saviour from the seed of woman. This Truth
sailed the flood waters with Noah. Ham was profane and his seed Nimrod was the
first typed (foreshadow of) Anti-Christ this side of the Flood, and was the
builder of the first City;
The designed intent of
the Babel / Babylonian System was a post-Flood refining and re-establishing of
Pre-Flood devised successful alternatives by the serpent to appeal to the flesh or fallen
carnal nature of Man, to ease his state from the Curse of God pronounced in the
Garden of Eden, in order to maintain control by appealing to the appetites of
his darkened soul and further alienate man from God and His regal purpose for
creating him. The wicked Devisors of the scheme for mans continuing
idolatry were fallen angel spirits along with Satans first king-priest
demigod; Nimrod, the seed of Ham, who was demonically-inspired. The wicked
spirits goal being that Man and his seed, in answer to Genesis 3:
15, would
continue to disqualify themselves from replacing them and ruling in this Realm
as Gods Theocratic Government.
(An eschatological Truth was revealed at
least in a limited way to Abraham,
which involved him and his seed / Seed in the future receiving a part in not
only the Land God gave them as an everlasting possession, but a part in the heaven associated
with this Earth. This was also shrouded in mystery, and was to be revealed by Christ at His First Coming. (Genesis
15: 5; 17:
8;
22:
16-18,
Hebrews11: 16 with Matthew 13:
11,
Hebrews3: 1,
Philippians 3: 14) And because of the Systems
of Babels religious leavening
effect, the heavenly kingdom
inheritance in Gods
Theocratic Government Truth shrouded in a mystery was obscured
/ unperceived and lost to the Old Testament Covenant people of God / the Nation
of
And while Gods chosen
people then descended into the darkness of this Worlds MYSTERY Babylonian Harlot system, God called out another Nation of
people out of the Pagan Gentiles. They, being the redeemed in Christ out of
paganism were then called to be found more worthy upon further examination at
Christs Judgement throne for the Celestial part (wherein Satan and fallen
angels now rule over this Earth) of Christs Theocratic Government in this
Realm, which the religiously leavened Nation of Israels leaders rebelliously shirked.
And again, Mystery Babylons
system of progressive leavening assault on the New Testament people of God /
the Nation of the One New Man (as predicted by Christ in the heavenly kingdom
parables, and by the Apostles; Peter, Paul, John and Jude) through the tare teachers, after the
Apostles passing away, would finally cause its complete corruption from Gods
point of view. And for the last 1700 years, the spiritual
Nation
of redeemed people of God have joined the spiritual
Nation
of Israel in being assimilated into Mystery spiritual
Babylons Harlotry. Millions of people in the conglomeration of Christendom follow the
Harlot and drink of the same corrupting poison that
RETURNING TO
Those wicked spirits /
fallen angels, being superior in intellect and more universal in experience,
were in coalition with Nimrod, and they revealed new inventions,
and directed the re establishing and furtherance of
cultural Pre-Flood developments, with means of circumventing Gods Word (the
prophetic words of Enoch, spoken or written, that also sailed the seas with
Noah - see Jude 1: 14-15) with
misdirecting instruction, which laid the groundwork and set up the
superstructure for this current Worlds two-pronged evil system,
2300 years before Christ. That system being that which is secular; denoting its own morals, attitudes, activities, or other
things that have no spiritual or religious basis; and then also that which
would be religious or spiritual which would naturally appeal to
the unescapable religious thoughts of Man; flesh-centered spiritual
alternatives of pagan god worship.
Then and there, was the
first God-defiant organization by
From
That two-part deceptive
system which began in Babel / Babylon has historically been used
by God to bring judgement on His people (see Jeremiah
29: 21-23 where God
delivered Israel into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of
Babylon, as judgement for their sin) and in continuing connectivity of the Old
Testament and the New Testament, Babylon is again seen as being used as a part
of Gods End-Time Judgments
but this time on both leavened
Nations of His people. (Jeremiah 30: 7, Daniel 9: 24-27, Revelation 4: 12; 17: 1-19: 6) Then, as in the
pattern of God afterward judging Israels enemies after using them to judge His
people, (as in Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon), so it is in the anti-type in that after
Gods enemies are used in the End-Times
to
administer judgement upon Gods house / Gods people, then comes Gods
judgement on Mystery, Babylon. (See 1st Peter 4:
17
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? See
also Revelation 17: 16 & 18:
8-9)
Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon
(being the type for the Anti-Christ and his spiritual bride, which is the imitation
of the anti-type which is found in Christ and His New Jerusalem Bride - Revelation
21: 2) were the
key players in ancient Israels great demise 1600 plus years removed from
Nimrod and Babel. And it will be
These two eschatological events (Gods
Judgments on His House and then His Judgments on the willing wicked
executioners) finalize through the Anti-Christ, whose capital will be
But Christian
religious leaders are drunk in the Babylonian system,
and like the Scribes and Pharisees, they are now blind in Scriptural understanding of Gods revealed
eschatology and are blinding
others
to Scriptures Last Days warnings to His People. (Revelation
18: 4-5s call for His people
to come out of spiritual
Since the time of
The recorded warnings come but months
before Mystery Babylons and Her Anti-Christs woeful judgments fall upon
them which climax with Jesus Christ appearing from the first heaven, removing
in a moment the scales from the eyes of all beholders on the Earth, as He
thrusts through the clouds and bursts visibly into this Earths atmosphere. (2nd Kings
6: 17, Revelation 19: 11-21.) (We pray that God
takes the religious Babylonian scales off the eyes of deceived Godly men now
and let them see these Mysteries
that may only be revealed by the means of His eschatological Word seen
in its sanctifying Truth, and having
mercy on them and those they would have otherwise led in harms way
in Jesus Name we sincerely ask.)
This is the crux of the matter concerning
the Corruption of End-Time Eschatology
In the search for Truth in Gods Word,
one must go back not to the denominational forefathers
understanding and teaching, nor back to just 2000 years of Church History to
Christs First Coming, nor even back to Moses Law and Gods people redeemed
out of
They were disqualified by the serpents
twisting of Gods Words in the Garden which ended in the
catastrophic near-destruction of Man in Noahs Day. Noahs
recorded Words from God were again leavened by the serpent, resulting in
They started out as a Nation that stood
out wholehearted in that Calling, and stood uncompromisingly against the Paganism
of the World. But that being only for a short while until (that which Gods
Nation of Israel did before) leavening corruption led the Nation of the One New Man / Christ followers
unto compromising and finally incorporation into Babylons Paganism through the
Babylonian, in nature and form, Roman Emperor Constantine. And so
it may be easily discovered in history, that what was openly Pagan for 2300
years before Christ and for about 300 years after Christ, now became for the
great part Christianized. A better description would be Christianized
Paganism.
The ruling idolatrous Babylonian Pagan wolf has now put on sheeps clothing; that of nominal / lukewarm Christianity. It was thereby
able to devour / extinguish the light of the Truth-bearing Nation, bearing
Witness of God in the Earth in Gods Gospel Calling after
Redemption to the Redeemed unto overcoming
this Worlds Babylonian System and thereby overcoming its author, unto a celebrated worthiness unto inheritance in His Sons
And in exchange, leavened nominal
Christianity became Paganized, todays Paganized
Christianity
being now veiled in Babylonian nature and form, and (*
setting aside for a moment the Reformation)
for 1700 years, has grown rich and is in need of
nothing down unto
today, 2023. (Matthew 6: 22-23, Revelation 3: 15-22.)
* The reformation rightly
having separated in protest against works
only theology as it relates to being saved / redeemed
yet Protestants
have maintained for the most part the 1700-year-old
Christianized
Babylonian
eschatology).
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THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY
OF THE CHURCH
(Matthew
13: 31-33, 2nd Timothy 3: 1-9)
PART 3
Both these texts speak to
this time we live in which had become corrupted by the
time the Apostolic Age ended
Another
parable put he forth unto them, saying,
The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed,
which a man took, and sowed in his field:Which indeed
is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it
is the greatest among herbs, and becometh
a tree, so
that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which
a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal,
till the whole was leavened. [Matthew 13: 31-33]
This know also,
that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters,
proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
Traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof: from such turn away. For
of this sort are they which creep into houses,
and lead captive silly women laden with sins,
led away with divers lusts,
Ever learning, and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres
withstood Moses, so do these also resist the
truth:
men of corrupt minds,
reprobate concerning the faith. But they
shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be
manifest unto all men, as theirs also was. [2nd Timothy 3:
1-9]
Eschatology is that great part of
Biblical knowledge that deals with the end of this current 2000-year-old Age,
with death and judgement, with the Heavens and
Hades / the intermediate place of the - [disembodied souls (Psa.
16: 10; Acts 2: 27) of the] - dead, and the eternal
state.
The word of extreme importance for the
deliverance of todays leavened Christian with a sincere heart that is being
advanced in these exposιs, is the clear understanding of the prophesied great deceiving
leavening effect upon the early Church, after the Apostles would pass, until
the whole of sanctifying Church theology was corrupted. That specific
forewarning prophecy to the Church, beginning with Christ and echoed by the
Apostles, sadly culminated in the 4th Century (300 AD to 399 AD)
with continuing edicts of the Roman Emperor that effectively caused the Church to be
amalgamated into Babylonian Paganism wherein she is now today unwittingly,
comfortably, and apathetically entrenched.
Apostolic Truths
guiding hand to the early Church, in regards to true eschatology, was that the
redeemed (having the gift of eternal
life)
who were true witnesses of Christ, could rightly have faith-filled anticipation
of an inheritance in Christs future [millennial] Kingdom. This early
Church understanding was that the promise of regality in His Future
Kingdom at His Second Coming was
attained through overcoming the World and satan
in Christlike righteous behavior. This true eschatology filled the
early Church mightily with selfless willingness to suffer in the crucifixion of
the flesh / carnal soul in pure,
consecrated, obedient service to Christ for about 300 years. Until a number of
notable pagan tares rose up among the wheat with corrupting
doctrinal leaven to remove or pervert the Kingdom of (this) heavens inheritance from the
Apostolic Message. See Matthew 13: 33
Another
parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven,
which a woman took, and hid in three measures of
meal,
till the whole was leavened. Here is the verse with commentary
a
woman
(Mystery, Babylonian harlotry system) hid (the Greek implies that
it was hid stealthily) in (Gods Word
of King and Kingdom Truth) three measures (over a period of time)
till
the whole (theological / religious belief system
of the
Church) was leavened. This happened during
the 100 years of the 4th Century. (For more on the leavening by Mystery,
The nominal Church chose to follow the
path of least resistance when the Roman / Babylonian system held forth the
olive branch of acceptability offered by Constantine,
the Emperor of Rome. They chose, what turned out to be, paganized Christianity
in compromising self-preservation over further suffering and persecution as
true witnesses of the only God and His Redeeming Christ and returning King Who
is coming to reward His faithful and punish His enemies and establish His
greater Kingdom on the Earth.
The challenge presently is to shed light
on the continuation of the Churchs corrupted eschatological belief system of
the 4th Century in order to awaken the deceived redeemed from the
leavened lukewarm religious state and come out of Mystery, Babylon, and live a
life commensurate to attaining the Kingdom inheritance and escape Mystery, Babylons judgments.
Judgments every generation of leavened Christians will experience, not just
those who are alive drinking of Her cup at the time of
His Return, but all the redeemed of Christ throughout the generations since His
First Coming, who lived a life reflective of Her leaven and refused to come out
of Her during their lives. These will face judgments in accordance to Her sins, and they will lose eternal [Gk. Aionios] life glory, albeit they will retain
their gift of eternal life once every farthing due to God by them is paid. This
Babylonian system is a lying, thieving, corrupted secular and religious system
purposefully designed to steal the redeemed Christians inheritance in the
regal part of the literal Millennial Kingdom of Christ, in the revitalization
of this Realms heaven and earth, which is a work of Christs to begin at His
Return. This inheritance is being stolen right out
from under the noses of the apathetic redeemed deceived Laodicean religious,
leaving only the frightful judgments for unfaithful service behind. This
message of awakening the sleepy-headed lukewarm Christian is the most relevant
and important thing that Christians will be confronted with in their lives. Its not a popular message, in fact the birds (a type for
demons) are lined up to immediately devour and steal away the seed so that it
will not take root on fertile soil.
The Kingdom of heavens
ruling in Gods Theocratic Government is Scriptures doctrinal great common
denominator that flows from Genesis and the Old
Testament through the New Testament Book of Revelation (read and compare Genesis 1: 28 and Exodus
19: 3-6 with 1st Peter
2: 9 and Revelation
20:
4-6 and note the regality and the charge to take
dominion as kings and priests associated with the inheritance of the Nation of
the One New Man in Christ). It is this
Message of Mans right of royalty proclaimed by God
that is encapsulated in the Word of Genesis 3: 15 and perceived by the
enemy. Satan then designed the lethal corrupting system of
Religious Babylonian Paganism mixed into
Christian foundational doctrines perverted the Truth of Gods salvation plan (which is to say that after a man was redeemed, there was the further necessity for spiritual maturity unto
overcoming of the flesh, the
World, and Satan in order to
qualify to rule in resurrected regality). This
perversion of truth, for the most part, came over that period of 100 years
during the 4th Century, which involved key human
players;
starting with the Roman Emperor Constantine,
who hid the first measure of religious paganism into nominal Christianity
to
Augustine (354AD to 430AD) who assimilated Roman / Babylonian paganism into
Christian Church theology.
So it was (as
any sincere seeker of Truth may find out) that the leavened theology of the 4th
Century departed from the guiding hand of Apostolic foundational Written
Truths. And the leavening has continued over this long
Age of eschatology (that Age being from the time of
Luther didnt understand the accounting
which all the redeemed shall be called to at Christs Judgement Bema where
exacting recompense for good and evil works will be
justly carried out to the last farthing. And where
determination for a select worthiness for the First-fruits rapture and the
First Resurrection in the literal
The Mystery, Babylonian Harlotry
continued unimpeded, perpetuating the disqualifying leavening darkness of
Paganism that cleverly masqueraded and maneuvered among the presumed sincere brilliant (but blind) religious men in maintaining the
redeemed man in spiritual darkness to essential foundational understanding of
the Scriptures. That being of Gods Salvation Plan of Mans
spirit, soul,
and body, through the redeemed spirit / Spirit-led overcoming worthiness, united again together in a Resurrection glorious spiritual
form, as the New Creature, who would then rule with His Son in His Kingdom in a
Theocratic Government in this Realm for a 1000 years.
So it was that
the reformation leaders did not actually reform the leavened
Yet misconceptions in the Church still
prevail, like the wide un-passable chasm in Hades, and will
according to Scripture right up to the Second Coming, just as they did at the
First Coming. And the large portion of the Body of
Christ will be taken in utter surprise. As were the Antediluvians (those who
lived at the time of Noah before the Flood) at the close of their 120 years of
scoffing. Or surprised like Lots remaining family
members on the day of his departure beginning the day just like any other;
proceeding as usual down the streets of
THE
LEAVENING OF TRUTH
After seeing the big picture from Genesis
to
Revelation, the
Babylonian systems intent is to: 1.) keep men from being redeemed and 2.) even more
importantly, to keep redeemed men from seeing the Call of God to rule in this
Realm. The Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth developed many
alternative religions for Man to align themselves
with, to keep them in the first place from being Gods redeemed. As it is only the redeemed of God who can then be called to rule with Him in
His coming Kingdom. When a man is born again, he becomes an heir; but
heirs do not inherit until they come of age. (Galatians 4: 1-2) And even then, along the way of life, he may disinherit
himself by misconduct. Only those who spiritually mature
beyond mere babes
of redemption, who grow in selfless Christlikeness, will come into the
inheritance. (Romans 8: 17, Acts 20: 32) (A doctrine
of Truth typed by the children of Israel redeemed out of Egypt and all [potential (possible)] heirs of the promised land, yet - [because of their disobedience and unbelief] - only a few went in.)
So it became necessary to deter Gods
redeemed in the Earth from their inheritance by way of their disqualifying
themselves by introducing false corrupting doctrines into Gods Written Word.
What is disqualifying todays redeemed is his own false doctrinal beliefs
that deter him from answering the call to the literal coming [millennial]
In the 4th Century, the Roman
/
We begin with a summary of the
Theological eschatology of Catholics today, adapted from the United
States Catholic Catechism for Adults:
When the Redeemed ask sincere questions,
this is their response
(our comments in parenthesis)
Question: I would really like to know the Truth as to what happens to us (redeemed)
after we die?
Answer: Our Church (Catholic) teaches that immediately after death, our
soul separates from our earthly body and we stand before God for judgement. We
then enter (the)
heaven, Purgatory or hell (eternal lake
of fire) . (The) Heaven is the
ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the
state of supreme, definitive happiness. Those who are free from all sin (purged by
Mass) enter heaven
immediately. Purgatory (in Hades in the center of the Earth)
is a place of purification, for those who
die in a state of grace and friendship (redeemed)
with God but
who are not yet fully purified. Those in Purgatory are assured a place in (the) heaven after their purification. We pray for those in
Purgatory, that they may soon be with God in (the) heaven. Hell is for
those who have willingly chosen to reject God and his love. If we persist in a
state of serious sin, we damn ourselves to hell (the eternal
At
the end of time (after the prevailing of the Catholic
Church in this World), our
Lord will come again (to this Realm) to judge the living and the dead. All souls will be rejoined with their
bodies (at this time), and those in Purgatory will be joined to the blessed in (the) heaven. The Last Judgement will reveal
that Gods justice triumphs over all the injustices committed by his creatures
and that Gods love is stronger than death.
In answer to the 4th Century
Catholic Churchs external works for salvation doctrine and its wicked and oppressive leavened
Biblical doctrines and practices (made evident in the murderous precedent of
its first Pope / Constantine and its well-documented
history), Protestants / protesting ones came forth in the 16th Century, religiously and
defiantly, with their equally
leavening doctrine.
At the heart of their revolutionary
protesting was their
re-defining of the meaning of Truths declaration of being saved / having Eternal / everlasting life by grace only (through faith, and that not of yourselves;
it is the gift of Gods grace only; without works). So it was
/ is, having not come into any further light on Truths meaning of Eternal / everlasting Life it was / is taught by
false teachers today as an all-inclusive Scriptural term (in that they say if
you are redeemed, you inherit the fullness of Gods Salvation
Plan,
regardless of your walk). But Scriptural Truth holds forth a
two-fold meaning for Gods salvation of Man: in that Eternal / everlasting Life has two different
applications; that of Duration
and Quality. And this Truth should be
understood in conjunction with Gods
THE
TWO APPLICATIONS OF LIFE
Eternal (everlasting) Life having to do
with Gods gift (Romans
8: 15)
by imputation to all His redeemed children
and the other application, which is Quality
Eternal Life
plus Glorious Life; having to do
exclusively with Gods reward / prize endowed to first-born sons. (Philippians
3., Luke 20: 35, Romans 8: 29-30, Colossians
1: 27; 3: 24)
Eternal Life
having
to do with justification / merely redeemed
children or babes
(Hebrews 5: 13-14) and Quality Eternal Life plus Glorious Life
having to do with sanctification /
spiritual maturity of the redeemed found
worthy of the inheritance as first-born
sons / joint heirs with Christ; the First Born. (Romans 8: 17,
1st Peter
2: 2, John 17: 17)
Eternal Life having to
do with forgiveness of guilt for inherent Adamic sin in the renewal of the spirit; (Romans
5: 12)
Quality Eternal Life plus Glorious Life
having to do with reward for the redeemed / rebirth of the spirit who went on
in the overcoming of the sin nature
inherent in the soul unto a son of God. (Romans
8: 1-14)
When and if Eternal Life and Eternal Life plus
Glorious Life are joined together in the soul (1st Corinthians 15), it will be at the appointed time of the 7-year
Great Tribulation, in the catching up of
the faithful living and also at the
First Resurrection out from among the dead, as a part of Christs Return to
this Realm in the End of this Age. (1st Thessalonians 4: 16-17.) That united
Life realization will have been as a result of recompense of reward for works after redemption by the sanctifying Word of Truth (John 17), and for having lived
on the Earth in sanctified faithful service to Christ. This being determined at
Christs Judgement Seat that all the redeemed must answer to.
Eternal Life and Eternal
Life plus
Glorious Life united
together equal= Gods Great Salvation Plan; that of Man ruling in regality as First
Born Son / sons, and replacing Angels / angels as the ruling authorities in
this Realm; its heavenly and Earthly parts of
His Coming Millennial Kingdom. (Hebrews 2: 3 with 3: 1)
Babels system was
designed by the fallen ruling spirits to remove the threat of this invasion in
their ancient and present Kingdom (the Earth and its heaven) by a qualified
Man. That qualifying of a people to rule in this Realm is to be found in
Scriptures redemption of the Nation of Israel and their Call to holiness. A
Nation that was disqualified in its being incorporated into Mystery,
The sincere redeemed of the Lord among
this group also darkened in spiritual
This being a hodgepodge of religious
tares teaching on the afterlife without Scriptural Truth basis (the afterlife
eschatological Truth of Scripture will be addressed
more thoroughly shortly in a future lesson). One of the foremost
teachers of that time (the 16th Century) in the beginning of that protesting tributary, from whom an entire
denomination of the redeemed was formed, wrote: It is therefore as absurd and unsuitable that they, the
righteous (merely redeemed), should do
good works, as if they were to say God
should do good, the sun
should shine, the pear-tree
should bring forth pears,
three and seven should make ten,
as all this ensues of necessity of the case from the nature of the thing. This leavened doctrine
is; that by imputation of Christs righteousness (they, in
great error, apply it to mean; both justification and sanctification)
to the merely redeemed without any consideration of [good] works, that all Gods salvation plan for Man
is secured!!! (This smacks of religious retaliation exegesis for the Catholic
Churchs long oppressive heresy.) Nevertheless, this is a complete rejection of
Christs exhorting Words to His Church; in the
necessity of overcoming the disqualifying carnality in the soul for inheritance
in His glorious eternal life. (See
Revelation 2
& 3, the
guts of the doctrine of the Book of James
and the Book of Hebrews, and Christs personal
excluding Words to the redeemed relative to the Kingdom inheritance in Matthew Chapters 5- 8; and also Romans Chapters 5-8.) This is still drinking from the deceiving cup of
Mystery,
The religious doctrinal lie promoted by
Mystery, Babylon through the Old
Man within every redeemed
person, whose fallen nature is akin to it (it being exceedingly sinful), cannot
clearly be discerned because the redeemed person fails to differentiate in his
mind the Old Man interjecting into his reasoning from that of the voice of
Truth. Unfortunately, the New Mans reasoning
is [often] un-renewed to the Word
of God; so he grabs onto the false doctrine of Grace
Only
Message, which appeals to the Old Mans nature of
wanting no accountability, with joy and rejoicing. (Because of this lying
religious reasoning being received as Truth, the redeemed is deceived from the necessity of suffering with Christ and
overcoming the Sin Nature within, the World, and Satan in qualifying worthiness
to rule in the Coming Kingdom in the deceivers stead). Those purveyors of this false
doctrine say that Christ has already done it for the Redeemed He suffered
so you would not have to suffer He overcame so you would not
have to overcome! He rules from Heaven over the World
and when you die, you will be made perfect in holiness glory and will immediately
go to Heaven and rule with Him forever! This is lethal
leavened doctrine.
All Religious corrupting leaven, no
matter what doctrinal falsehood, or from which denomination in came forth (as they
are all eating out of the same corrupted pasture and all are flowing from the
same tributary), work together unanimously for one purpose; to dissuade man
from Truth in Gods Salvation Plans purpose; that of
an attained worthiness for ruling regality. (1st Peter
2: 9 with Philippians
2: 12-13)
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THE CORRUPTED
ESCHATOLOGY
OF THE CHURCH
PART 4
The religious
leaven of hypocrisy in the priests of the Old Testament Church
of God had turned them into formalists; as the Law of Moses and its ceremonies
and ordinances had long since been corrupted when Jesus the Messiah walked upon
the streets of
Luke 17: 20
And
when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when
the kingdom of God should come, he answered
them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not
with observation
The religious leaders of the Nation trusted
entirely upon their being the seed of Abraham for having a part in that coming
Kingdom which Daniel foretold). In asking when
the
It is without doubt, to those
who bother to fully investigate in order to see if
these things be so
that Christs Words of ministry were to Israel (He being sent to preach that
Israels Kingdom was at hand) and His Words were wholly concerned with their
Kingdom inheritance, particularly that heavenly portion of which they were
ignorant, and that He was
that Son
of David to reign on Davids Throne. (Matthew Chapters 1-12
being about the presenting of the Kingdom and the King to
Being without sanctifying power, the Jews
religious
economy became fractured, resulting in 3 main denominations; Pharisees,
Sadducees, and Herodians. Though these 3 greatly
differed doctrinally, yet all three shared in common the belief in
The dispensation of the Law of Moses and
its ceremonial ritual observances was then terminated
in around 52 AD with Pauls first imprisonment in
The 8 Holy
Spirit-inspired authors set forth the tenets of the New Testament Truth.
As the One New Man, we have freedom from the
yoke of slavery under the Law of Moses that the principles of maturing holiness
might be better fulfilled in the Atonement grace and
mercy of Christ under the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. Alas, it
also proved difficult to the nominal One New Man Nation / Church having lost
the Apostolic personal witnesses and their loosening
of their grip on their Written Testimony, to maintain their connection to the
Vine. They became just as susceptible to the enemys ancient deceiving devices
and leavening doctrinal corruption as was the nominal Jew under the Law
susceptible to corruption. My people will live by faith
was the Old Testament little understood Truth and it is the New Testament
little understood Truth, as faith was / is redefined /
put out of its Scriptural setting. And for a while,
the Body of Christs doctrines were kept pure in the selfless service of its
faithful. But with the passing of the guiding hands of
the Apostles, doctrinal leavening error began to stealthily come in. And the Church, which was founded on the New Testament
spiritual freedom, completely gave up that freedom, and followed
The
To perpetuate this oppressive religious
hierarchy, the
Again, what is
specifically targeted and satanically designed, and amalgamated into the Church, has to do
with the obscuring and eliminating if possible the New Testament doctrine of
the sanctifying of the redeemed in holiness, in their having worked out in
overcoming him, the world, and the flesh in worthiness of character in the
soul, to qualify to rule in this Realm in Satans stead. That is revealed in eschatological Truth in Scripture; in first his
expulsion from the heavenly portion of this Realm then being claimed by Christ
and His faithful followers, followed shortly by his expulsion from the earthly
portion in that he is chained by an Angel of God and imprisoned in the Great
Pit of Hades, as the restoration of Gods Jewish contingent to rule in the
earthly portion of Christs Millennial Kingdom. And that aion /
Age-lasting inheritance prize being secured in the
glory of the first resurrection out from among the remaining dead
in Hades, just prior the literal coming of Jesus the Christ to this Realm to
establish His Millennial Kingdom.
The other side of that
eschatological Truth being that the redeemed
who were disqualified for the Kingdom inheritance for unfaithful service
after being saved (a determination made at the Judgement Seat of Christ after
death), then those merely redeemed
would suffer the loss of eternal / age-lasting
glorious life and judgement consequences for unfaithful service during that Millennial
/
Age-lasting Kingdom, while in
Hades, the intermediate place of the dead. And
upon the termination of that Millennial Age, would be raised up in the General
Resurrection of all the remaining dead, and having their Name found in the
Lambs Book of Eternal / everlasting imputed justification life
would enter
into His Kingdom having a non-glorious portion of the New Earth and New
Heaven.
Looking to a bit of
history as a side-note, the Greek language originated up to 1500 years before
Christ in modern-day Turkey and was the language that is used in the writings
of the New Testament; a collection of Christian texts originally written at
different times by 8 authors in the Koine Greek
language (in street Greek / which was commonly spoken at the time). Greek was
used because it was the best choice to reach the masses; it being the native
language of those 7 churches in the Book of Revelation as an
example. The Latin language began about 700 to 1000 years before Christ. It
began among those in the region of
It has briefly been stated
and in summary shown in these lessons that the corrupting of the nominal
Christian Church was galvanized with the edicts of Constantine early in the 4th
Century which began at the time of the paganisation of the New
Testament Church that emerged as the Catholic Church;
followed immediately by the spewing out of the Lords mouth and His departure
from walking among the candlesticks. The full corruption of
doctrinal leaven (its foundational Theology being Augustinian, and Augustine
being the renown theologian of that same era) was
advanced in the Church by Latinizing the Greek text. That is to say, by
redefining key Passages of Scripture in order to adjust the Word of God to fit
their corrupted doctrine, they redefined the meaning of certain Greek words and
inserted Latin terms into Greek Scriptural text.
There were / are a number of fatal
leavenings from the Apostolic Truth of the gift and the heavenly Kingdom
calling prize / the two-parts of the Atonement of Christ in the paganizing of
the Church in the 4th Century. But none more full of disaster for
the redeemed than the disqualifying leavened doctrine of eschatology
surrounding the meaning of eternal life in it being
intentionally corrupted to be understood as but singular in its application (see
last lesson) along with the doctrine concerning where a soul goes when they
die. Being thus blinded to Scriptural doctrinal Truth
to clear Kingdom-qualifying theology, the heart and full intent of Gods great salvation plan
can be ascertained. Into the 3rd Century, there was no question among the redeemed in the Body of Christ as to where they would go
upon death. Throughout Scripture, Truth says every soul, at death, goes
to Hades; the temporary place of the dead in the
interior of the Earth, and maintains that they are still there. (See Acts2: 34 where 50 days
after Christs Resurrection, Peter is preaching at
Pentecost and refers to David as still being in Sheol.) That doctrinal Truth was then generally maintained up until the 4th
Century Babylonian paganization of the Church.
This great foundational Truth is clearly discerned in Scripture and it is the only
criterion, standard, and guide we may appeal to
and no religious eraser may
remove it. For it is not attested to by one or two
Verses or Passages, but is the general sense conveyed to us throughout the entire Bible. We
must appeal to Scripture for Truth in unbiased, heartfelt sincerity. And pray the Holy Spirit will lead us into the unleavened
Truth as we diligently believe and respond to what all the Writers of the
Scriptures wrote. Both that in harmony and contrary to what is
asserted as Truth by either friend or foe, this denomination, or that
denomination. This may mean our leaving religious traditions, along with
leaving friends and family behind to follow the Truth. (Matthew
10: 32-38)
Church history may be
divided into that period of time between Christs First Coming and the fall of
the western Roman Empire in 476 AD, and then that period of time from the
Middle Ages until the 14th and 15th Century when the
Renaissance began, also when the Reformation was materializing
in the 16th Century, when notable men like
Luther and Calvin protested against the one and only Church, which was
Catholic. These Protestant /
protesting ones (most notably Luther and Calvin) fell far short of the mark of
1st Century Apostolic Truth in that they rightfully protested
against the Catholic Churchs theology of works only and
practices such as the selling of indulgences, but they kept the focus there and
left the Churchs corrupted eschatological error alone. (Thats
the problem when man only wants to reform something that is
already leavened and corrupted at its root, which Christ has abandoned, instead
of COMING OUT OF HER!) Luther and
Calvins new denominations essentially maintained the worst of the Augustinian
theology of the Catholic Church and its eschatology in Latinized
Christianity. A designed doctrinal leaven (designed by fallen spirits)
continues here into the 21st Century in its highly effective
beguiling and disqualifying of Gods redeemed children
from Christs
Scripture declares these Truths:
1. The Bible
divides all men
into two groups; the redeemed and the unredeemed.
2. It then
divides the redeemed into two groups; the carnally-minded ruled by the flesh; and
the spiritually-minded who mind or live led by the spirit / Spirit and become
the adopted First-born ruling sons of God. (Romans 8)
3. Scripture
presents the Theocratic Kingdom of God with Man as co-rulers from two views;
one as it is now, in the formulating dynamically in this evil World / Age a
people worthy to rule with His Son while the High Priest and future King
intercedes in Heaven on their behalf in their overcoming the flesh, the world
and the devil, while sin abounds around them and Satan is loose in this Realm. The other is; that Theocratic Government, having been filled in all
it ruling offices, manifests with the Kings Return and ruling worthy Bride is resurrected from among those
dead in Hades and celestial and earthly thrones are filled
and they shall
reign with Christ a thousand years, and that being while this realms present
ruler is chained and imprisoned in the Pit of Hades. (Revelation
19
and
20: 1-6)
4. Scripture
declares all redeemed men as members and heirs of the Kingdom being formulated,
but not all heirs will be found worthy to enter the Kingdom of Glory (there
being a difference between children of God and
first-born sons of God). Many will be disqualified
from the Kingdom inheritance. (See Matthew 5: 20, Galatians 5, 1st Corinthians
6, and Ephesians
5)
5. The state in which the redeemed
die will be the state in which they stand before the Judgement Seat of Christ
to be judged according to their works; be it evil or good, while they lived
under test and trial. The just result being either reward of
eternal / everlasting life plus eternal / everlasting glory, or punishment
(lesser and greater) which will be Millennial Age-lasting until the 2nd Resurrection, with the passing away
of the first earth and heaven, where their name is found in the Lambs Book of
eternal / everlasting life, and thus being exempt from the eternal /
everlasting damnation in the Lake of Fire.
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THE CORRUPTED
ESCHATOLOGY OF
THE CHURCH
PART 5
Post-Millennialism,
A-Millennialism, and Pre-Millennialism are 3 critical
distinctions of Biblical Theology and its Eschatology (the part of theology
concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of
humankind). The primary Bible Passage around which this great controversy
revolves is Revelation 20: 1-10
And
I saw an angel come down from heaven,
having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent,
which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years, And cast him into
the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive
the nations no more, till the
thousand years should be fulfilled:
and after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of
them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the
dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in
the first resurrection: on such the second death hath
no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and
shall reign with him a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired,
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the
earth,
Gog,
and Magog, to gather them together to battle:
the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of
the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about,
and the beloved city: and fire came down from God
out of heaven, and devoured them.
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are,
and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
We have been setting forth the Truth of
Scripture that sheds forth light on the satanically designed disqualifying lies
of Post-Millenialist and A-millennialist Theology and
Eschatology; light on its origin, its reasons for its doctrinal corruption, and
the severe consequences for the deceived redeemed of Christ who blindly follow
their pernicious ways. Namely these today are those who have followed 4th
Century Augustine Theology and
Eschatology, Augustine having laid the doctrinal foundation for the Paganized
Post-Apostolic Church which then developed into Roman
Catholicism. Some much needed light came upon the evil
of the Church hierarchy and their corrupted theological doctrines of salvation / redemption by works. This was
brought about by Luther and others, in protesting the Churchs un-Scriptural wicked
redemption theology. However, in their fervor, they passed by the Truth and flew
over into the other religious ditch of an all-encompassing doctrine of - [the future (see 1 Pet. 1: 5, 9, 13-17, R.V.] - salvation
by Grace Only, which is an equally corrupted and corrupting message, with
similar consequences for the redeemed.
Augustines leavened Eschatology
of Predestinationalism was also hardly disturbed in the Reformation, in that it
continued in the 16th Century and beyond, with some revisions, in
Protestant camps of Calvinism, Arminianism, Lutheranism, and Roman Catholicism.
That corrupting doctrine continued down unto todays
Their corrupted theology and eschatology
concludes that the all-encompassing gift
of
Gods
Grace
(defined now in the acceptance of the leavened singular application of eternal life) means; the undeserved unmerited favor
of God (the second application or meaning of the word grace being
the divine
influence / power of God through the Holy Spirit upon the heart, which is [also] needed to walk in
sanctification). Corrupted Theology teaches only the first application
of the word grace. They say this redefined greae
that
abounds is based solely upon the acceptance of the work of the Cross (without
understanding and consideration of the continuing intercessory work of Christ
in Heaven as High Priest at the right Hand of the Father, Who solely intercedes with the
sanctification of the redeemed in view). They dont realize
that Christs role as High Priest in Heaven is no less than the work He did on
the Cross, as it has to do with sanctification beyond the free
gift,
unto the [future] salvation of our soul. In
teaching only the single application / first definition of grace, they espouse that the redeemeds sins are
forgiven; past, present and future (that
false ear-tickling eschatology centered around a false theology in the meaning
of the gift of eternal life that
sets forth the false hope of an all-encompassing acceptance by God in
worthiness at the time of death, and an immediate welcoming into Heaven). Thus, in teaching that there is no
accountability for a person after theyve been
redeemed, they are saying / implying that the redeemed have impunity / exemption
from punishment or the injurious consequences of their present or future
willful actions in the flesh. Tares who teach this leaven,
in one way or another, teach that Redemptions Bloods efficacy extends to the coverage of their licentious behavior
when judged at the Judgement Seat of Christ. In that, they
say that when you stand before the Judgement Seat, you will be seen as white as
snow and as righteous, which is partially true in regards to justification by
the first application of His Atonement (the gift),
but at the Bema, we are judged personally as to whether we then walked in
sanctification, and our recompense is based on our works done after our
receiving of the gift. Or they say that at
death the evil works of the redeemed will be judged, but not the man himself. But can a man be judicially judged separate and apart from
his deeds? Can a murderers deed be judged justly
apart from the murderer? Can the murder be judged and condemned and the
murderer be justly set free? Pure
Antinomianism. Antinomianism means against the
law
and theologically, it is the belief that there are no moral laws God expects a
Christian to obey. It is basically a license
to sin.
Antinomianism is wholly resisted in Scripture. It will be seen that according to Scriptural eschatology, that
the redeemed shall be judged for what he does with the gift. (See Revelation
22: 12 where Christ
is speaking to those in the churches
And,
behold, I
come quickly; and my reward (recompense) is
with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.) Additionally, these leavened doctrines
of false teachers completely ignore everywhere within New Testament Scripture
that points to Israels stubborn
failure and grave historical judgments as an analogy of unacceptable behavior
in the New Testament redeemed. Which came with even graver consequences justly due those
(redeemed) who spurn the Blood of Christ that purchased them. (1st Corinthians
10, Hebrews 3 & 4 & 10, Revelation 2 & 3, Matthew 25, etc)
The Jews salvation being typical of Christs New Testament
salvation
which consisted of redemption (coming out of
The leavened Church confounds Truth of
Scripture in order to maintain its hold on its blindly following adherents, in
that its misleading doctrines assign all Old Testament Scriptures blessings of
IT
MUST FIRST BE UNDERSTOOD THAT A CHIEF TRUTH OF SCRIPTURE in both
Testaments is the duality of the Gracious gift of God to the
redeemed of eternal
life (zoe) 1) in the first degree of Gods Salvation Plan
for Man (the first application of the free gift)
which has to do with the quantity or length of time of life (zoe),
purchased by Christ, imparted by
imputation to the spirit of each
living soul at rebirth. (Man was created as a triad being; in that he is a living soul,
and he has a spirit and a body. At rebirth, you receive zoe life into
your spirit and your spirit animates you (your soul), and through that, we are
either sanctified or not.)
2) Within that
freely imparted zoe
life (zoe
imparted at rebirth, which is what God animated your spirit with), is the
latent seed of the second degree of Gods Salvation
Plan
for Man
which must be brought forth in the redeemed by the renewal of the mind
to the Words of Christ, and then the activation of the free will in obedience
being the appropriation of Grace (the
divine influence upon the soul) in continuing, under test and trial, in this
evil 2000-year old Age, in loving faithful sprit / Spirit-led selfless works in
obedient service to the Lord. This being the
God-appointed process of sanctification unto holiness to be worked out in fear and trembling in the soul, in realizing the hope
of life far beyond the gift of life / zoe that equates (in the first degree) to justification from
eternal death, to the greater prospect or potentiality contained within the
nucleus of that gift of life / zoe
that of the prize /
the REWARD of eternal glorious life (zoe) in the First
Resurrection. Zoe
/ life may be developed in the soul of the redeemed,
but due to Biblical leaven, it is undeveloped and aborted. (Think
in terms of Christ coming to give life (the gift) and life
more abundantly (the prize)
- John 10: 10, or Mark 4:
26-29s first the blade, then
the full ear of corn the blade is the zoe gift and the ear is the zoe
of eternal glorious life).
Glorious Life to the soul (at the return of
the spirit Ecclesiastes 12: 7,
Luke 23: 46, with 1st Corinthians 15) is promised
to be manifest in the FIRST RESURRECTION
(out from among all the other dead in Hades) at CHRISTS RETURN, when He comes to judge His enemies and reward His faithful
in establishing the Millennial / Age Messianic Kingdom. Gods realized
Theocratic Government in this Realm being determined before the foundation of
this World.
From Adams seed
of a womans promise
extended to Abraham being prophetically declared all the way to Malachi; and then
from the Book of Matthew to Johns
Book of Revelation. The common thread of Truth is still the
Sovereign Rule of the Messiah, the Son of David, after this Mysterious Age, when
He Who defeated Satan as the Son of Man on Earth and in the bowels of Hades, was Caught
up to Heaven in Resurrection power, the
First-Born from among the dead, Who deferred His Reign and Kingdom to enter
Heavens Holy of Holies, not to be King, but the Great Intercessor, to finish
His work among the redeemed until the
fullness of the Gentiles come in. Then
He proclaims He will Return to this Realms heaven, take His investiture as
King of Kings, and raise up His worthy
saints in glory from among the living
and the dead, and remove the incumbent
ruler (Satan) from office and Throne, and will establish His Millennial Kingdom
with His faithful, and assign them as co-rulers to their thrones and rule in
this Realms heaven and earth.
UNTIL THEN, THERE WILL BE NO REALIZED PEACE FOR
MAN OR GOLDEN ERA ON EARTH. THERE WILL BE NOTHING BUT INCREASING
DARKNESS IN THE WORLD AND IN THE LONG-STANDING
PAGANIZED CHURCH. SATAN REMAINS THE RULER OF THIS REALM THROUGHOUT THIS PRESENT WORSENING
EVIL AGE AS THE EVER-PRESENT ADVERSARY OF THE REDEEMED WHO CAN
ONLY BE SANCTIFIED IN WORTHINESS TO RULE WITH CHRIST IN THIS REALM BY
OVERCOMING SATAN AND HIS WORLD.
UNTIL THEN, THE GATES
OF HADES - [see Matt. 16: 18, R.V.)] - WILL PREVAIL OVER ALL MEN WHO PASS THROUGH HER GATES AT DEATH AND
ARE THERE SEPARATED INTO PLACES OF COMFORT OR TORMENT. [See (Luke 16: 23-26, 28, R.V.)] - THERE IS NO PRESENT RESCUE FROM THE
UNDERWORLD OF NEW OR OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS, NO DYING AND
GOING TO HEAVEN, NO PRESENT
CO-RULING WITH JESUS WHO IS NOT YET RULING. IT IS ONLY AT HIS PERSONAL COMING TO THIS REALM AT
THE BIDDING OF THE FATHER, THAT THE
GREAT INTERCESSOR WILL THEN TAKE HIS INVESTITURE AS THE KING OF GLORY, AND PUNISH GODS ENEMIES, AND
TAKE THIS REALM BY FORCE FROM SATAN, AND
RULE IN THIS REALM WITH HIS RESURRECTED WORTHIES FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, UNTIL SATANS FINAL FATE IS REALIZED IN THE
LAKE OF FIRE. This is the Truth of
Scripture rightly portrayed from Genesis through the 10th Verse of Revelation
20.
This [Biblical
teaching] is Pre-Millennialism.
And so it is rightly portrayed that in
this present 2000-year Age of the Father, God is calling out by redemption life
/ zoe a
people from the Gentiles TO DEVELOP AND
BE FOUND WORTHY to rule from this Realms heaven over the Earth in that Messianic Kingdom. The Old
Testament prophets and saints, by no fault of theirs, did not foresee this
present AGE / dispensation. It and
its purpose was a mystery hid in the mind and plan of God. The Jews vision was
set beyond a time they did not envision; to the
prophesied preeminence of the Nation of Israel in the Earth, promised by God to
Abraham and David. And becoming religiously minded,
and thereby short-sighted, they were completely absorbed in the thoughts of
their glory-filled Earthly Messianic Kingdom, the time-frames and events having
been set forth in prophecy which they did not fully comprehend, even when told
personally by their Messiah.
Conversely, the New
Testament Church since the 4th Century, has become doctrinally fully
leavened and is far-sighted in that they are so deeply absorbed in the gift of Eternal (quantity) Life that they
have failed to see and comprehend the Words of Christ about the necessity of
the redeemed to inherit in
His Millennial / Age Kingdom in this Realm (it coming first,
chronologically-speaking). In that they must qualify in faithful service and be judged at - [or after (see Heb. 9: 27, R.V.)] - death as being worthy or unworthy of its inheritance. (They are
far-sighted in that all focus is placed on the distant
future of life in eternity as opposed to focusing on being counted worthy of
co-reigning with Christ in His Millennial Kingdom in the nearer future, which
is what determines our place in eternity. Most of Scripture focuses on and
points to the
To somewhat repeat: The
Apostles of Christ taught Pre-Millennialism; a literal future Kingdom of a
thousand years to be established on this Earth at the Return of Christ at the
End of this now 2000-year old Age of Grace and Mercy in Gods calling out of a
qualified Bride from His New
Testament people to be rewarded for faithfulness in the process of
sanctification, as His true witnesses in the Earth. And at His
Return, theyll be resurrected in Millennial glory out from among the dead in Sheol / Hades, out of the
realm of the dead in the underworld of this Earth. Satan, who now rules this
World, will then be chained and cast into that place
called the Pit
in the underworld and imprisoned for that same / concurrent 1000 years. After
which he will be released for a little
season
and he will deceive and lead the Nations of the Earth in one final revolt
against the Lord, His Great City, and His then living Jewish contingent
preeminent on the Earth, and resurrected ruling Saints. Bringing forth this Earths
last Fiery Judgments from God out of heaven, when Satan, and his, will be cast eternally into the
The critical crux of the matter is for todays redeemed who are being deceived and hold the Truth in unrighteousness (Romans
1: 18
For
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness
), to awaken unto a
living in practical righteousness that equates to overcoming, in the
comprehending of the great unseen battle for our soul in our gain or loss of
Millennial Kingdom inheritance, and sure deserving punishment for loving the
World more than Truth. This inheritance is the further appropriation
of Grace / the Holy Spirits influence on the maturing of the redeemed soul,
and that only by being actively engaged in the process
of overcoming the flesh, Satan, and the world. To be done in the fear and hope of favorable
judgement at the Judgement Seat of Christ (2nd Corinthians
5: 10), unto the realization of the hope of First Resurrection glory. (Colossians 1: 27) To be one of those found worthy of that Millennial
Age (Luke 20:
35, Luke 19: 16-19), like Paul
who was fully engaged with every fiber of his being for the prize of the
out-resurrection from among the dead in Hades and to rule
with Christ in His Coming literal Millennial Kingdom. (Philippians
3: 11, 2nd Timothy 4: 7.) Has the Church any
such hope of glory? NO! Is not this hope a Scriptural necessity? (1st
John3: 3) YES! Why then does the Church not have such - [a God promised
(see Psa. 2: 8; cf. Acts 7: 5ff., R.V.) millennial] - hope? Because that hope has been stolen since the 4th
Century by tares and leavened Scripture, in philosophical theology
developed in brilliant religious minds whose reasonings were inspired by
satanic forces, being without the
spirit of wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of God, unable to rightly divide the Word of Truth.
The stakes could not be higher as Mans
great adversaries are not
flesh and blood, but the
determined unseen ruling evil spirits in this Realms heaven, fearfully intent upon
thwarting Gods salvation plan. That
part which they are
acutely aware of; that of Man attaining unto the second
degree of Gods Salvation Plan
(of glory-infilling) in resurrection worthiness at Christs Return. They, by
ancient design and modern application, are obstructing by evil chicanery to
appeal to mans cursed nature and draw him away from life unto death, by
disqualifying himself from the intent of God for Man to rule in this Realm.
They promote a philosophical religious theology originally designed at
So it is
critical for the Redeemed to personally see that eternal life has a dual
application and also that standing
and state in Christ are two different things in exegesis of
Scripture Truth. Draw a horizontal line
above the line, write redemption standing; we
are 100 percent in Christ in that eternal gift of justification life / zoe standing. Below the line
write; state of
sanctification, with the Numbers 10, 20, 30, all the way to 100. This
represents our souls spiritual condition; a dynamic (ever-changing) state that may vary from 1 to 100.
Eliminating or obscuring
this vital Truth; the revelation of the gift versus the prize from the
understanding of the redeemed, was historically and is today the greater intent
of the wicked spirits in maintaining the leavening corruption that was placed
in 3 portions in the Word of God given to the First Century Church over a
period of time, starting and finishing in the 4th Century in the
paganizing of the Post-Apostolic Church. Thereby amalgamating
the world age (Millennial;
the next Scripturally declared age),
and the (out) resurrection
from the dead, neither marry, nor are given
in marriage
In the Greek, which was
the language appointed by the Holy Spirit used to write the New
Testament, one critical word that had to be corrupted was the noun aion meaning age with its adjective aionios / age lasting.
The essential significance of aionios is
to convey the thought of quality
although time is not
absent, but it is secondary. Historicaly then, what happened was the Latin translators
(commissioned by the Latin Roman Catholic Church) translated the word aionius to the Latin word aetemus/aeternitas from which the English words eternal
and eternity and everlasting are then translated.
That Latin translation from the Greek was named the Vulgate Bible.
Who wrote the Vulgate? The Vulgate is
largely the work of Jerome who, in
382 (as a member of the then
burgeoning and all encompassing Catholic Church), had been commissioned by Pope
Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina (old
Latin) Gospels (a large number of hand-written Latin translations from the original Greek text
of the New Testament) which was being then used by the now
fully-leavened and paganized Christian Church that had just came into existence and took full control of
Christendom earlier in that same Century. It should be understood
by todays Christian that nominal Christian leaders accepting of the Roman
Emperor Constantines hand of fellowship then led the Post-Apostolic Church into an
amalgamation into Romes ancient Babylonian Harlot System that became known as
the Catholic Church.
So it was that the word aionios
was intentionally translated in the New Testament by translators 1700 years ago
to wrongly convey the leavened thought of eternity (which is short of Truth in
that its secondary meaning refers to time, but its first meaning refers to
quality), and to mean eternal with its
Latinized single application of Life and time. This was first done in Latin,
then perpetuated in English translations down to
todays Versions.
So historically it can be easily verified that Jerome,
raised in Catholicism, took Latin translations of the New Testament Greek
texts, not neccesarily the Greek texts themselves, and incorporated them into
the Vulgate, thereby formally
Latinizing and reshaping the Apostolic Theology and its eschatology necessary
in the perpetuating of its corrupted hierarchy by its fully leavened theology
and its eschatology. And with revisions, it is still
used today by the Catholic Church.
So then in the closing of the 4th
Century, there was the consolidated Latin version of the New Testament and the
Greek Version of the Old Testament written before Christs First Coming, called
the Septuagint. After the passing of 12 Centuries of corrupted
darkness in Roman Catholic religious hierarchy known as the Middle
Ages,
which began to close in the Renaissance, came the partial Reformation of the 16th Century with the
Protestant (protesting ones) movement, with its notables; Luther and Calvin
leading the way. That which led to the early 17th
Centurys King James Authorized Version of his own translation, which is still
widely used today.
Now the translators of the New Testament King James Version
(being Protestant / protestors of Catholic theology of salvation
by works)
and
the supposed holders of the fullness of truth; that of salvation
by grace only
were commissioned by the English Monarch to make an English Version of the
Bible. Who, like Jerome before them, did not go back to the New Testament Greek texts, but used the Latin translations of the Greek, so the King
James Version, in grave error, like the Vulgate, then translates from
the Latin word aternitas to the
English wordseternal and eternity.
Had the translators of the King James
1611 Version went back to the Greek, they would
have translated the Greek word aionios as did
other Greek scholars who have since correctly translated its meaning: to age-lasting with a view towards
quality. Much more insight can be gleaned
from the Book, The Dualism of Eternal Life, A Revolution in
Eschatology
which was written in 1916 by Stephen
Speers Craig. See link below.
https://www.themillennialkingdom.org.uk / DUALISM
COMPLETE BOOK.htm
Although this is a rather lengthy
discourse, the stealth of the enemy does not allow for a brief disclosure. It is hoped that enough Scriptural and historical evidence is set
forth to free the blinded religious eyes of the person who sincerely seeks the
Truth that can set one free from corrupted Theology and its eschatology.
Particularly by showing the reasons for corrupting the Truth as to where the
soul goes at death and why it goes there, which is to be
addressed further in the next lesson.
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THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY
OF THE CHURCH
PART 6
Take heed to thyself, and to thy
teaching.
Continue in these things; for in doing this
thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee. [1st Timothy
4: 16]
The indictment being set
forth in these teachings
is against the teachers in the corporate Church; who
heeded not themselves to walk in the Words of Christ and of His Apostles, who
continued not in the doctrines of Christ, and who are leavened in theology.
Christendoms eschatological corruption, which was manifest in the 4th
Century, continues down to today. Its doctrinal teachings neither save the soul of the teacher for resurrection unto
the
Leavening out the two parts of Gods Salvation Plan;
Redemption
life and Sanctification / more abundant life (being granted eternal life at
redemption versus being granted eternal quality of life for walking in
sanctification).
That ancient Babylonian System was
designed by evil spirits at Babel for Man then burgeoning on Earth,
specifically for one purpose; to deter Gods redeemed people from Gods higher calling; to be chosen
(based on worthiness) to rule in this Realm in Satans stead. That
materialistic religious Harlots System that had successfully blinded Israel
from its greater calling beyond redemption, likewise, quickly assimilated into
the Nation of the One New Man (Christianity) after a few decades, in the 4th
Century, in that the Ancient Babylonian Harlot emerged with another seductive
face; Catholicism. The Body of Christ, which then
allowed itself to be ruled by a hierarchy of pope and priest, then needed a corrupted theology with corrupted eschatology
that would Scripturally allow for its continuing doctrinal existence
even down to today.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, come
out of her, my people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. [Revelation
18: 4.]
John calls the Woman riding
the Beast
a Mystery. She is portrayed in the 17th Chapter of Revelation as a picture of
The plea and indictment, which
transcends
time, against His people is now
Centuries old. That doctrinal corruption of His New Testament
Word, particularity of His Kingdom, has been progressively corrupted by tares
planted by Satan among Christs wheat. And it
was fully corrupted in the 4th Century, quickly followed by Traditionalism; which is to say, doctrines of demons have replaced Truth,
and sorrowfully, it continues to be misrepresented as Gods Word to the
corporate Body of Christ, generation after generation.
The Book of Revelations plea and
indictment are also the prophetic Word that answers to Gods
appointed End-Time Wrath upon His enemies at the soon closing of this current
Age of Grace and Mercy, when the term my people takes on the Last Days context of both
Jew and Christian. It is in this Age ending, that the fullness of that
prophetic Word unfolds
that of the fulness of
the Gentiles come in (Romans 11); that
calling out of another people more worthy from the Gentiles (Matthew
21: 43), after
which He will then restore the Tabernacle of David and its people. (Acts
15: 14-16
Simeon hath declared
how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of
them a people for his name. And to this
agree the words of the prophets; as
it is written, After this I will return,
and will build again the tabernacle of David,
which is fallen down; and I will build again the
ruins thereof, and I will set it up
)
His people whom He
owns are those of the Millennial Age, judged worthy and therefore chosen / elect to rule in
His then-to-be established Theocratic Government in this Realm. (Genesis 1: 28, Matthew 29: 28; 22: 14.) This recorded prophetic plea of
Scripture Come
out of her (the Babylonian
religious harlot system of materialism and love of this World) My people is the appeal for His
deceived redeemed people today, in this last minute, to awaken from holding
the Truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1: 18) to righteousness (1st John
2: 24-25). And awaken from the ancient stupor of partaking of the
Religious Harlots disqualifying theological and eschatological defiling cauldron
of lies of Post and Anti-Millennialism that has poisoned the Body of Christ for
Centuries. (Jeremiah 51: 7, Ezekiel 23: 28-35, Revelation 18: 6.) Those lies steal the Truth of understanding from
the New Testament Redeemed, of the sure literal fulfillment of Gods
irrevocable Old Testament promise to fully sanctified Abraham and
his seed, that of the Jewish Messiah to resurrect them from among the dead in
Hades, and to establish His Millennial Kingdom of Israel in the Earth over the
Gentiles. And those lies have also stolen the Truth of the
New Testament 2000-year-old promise of the celestial Millennial Kingdom reward
of the First Resurrection for the redeemed who yielded while alive on the Earth
under test and trial to being sanctified, in the power of the Word and Holy
Spirit, unto loving faithful obedient service to the Son of God / Son of Man,
and to also literally rule
from the first heaven of this Realm over the Earth.
False leavened doctrines were
strategically and progressively placed in 3 measures in Gods Word (Matthew
13: 33) which spiritualize
its literal
Truths and thereby effectively deny
Christs Pre-Millennial literal Return / His soon Coming from
the Heaven of heavens. His first presence is to be first manifest in this
Realms unseen heaven, where He will then take His Pre-Millennial long awaited
investiture as King of kings. (Daniel 7, Revelation 4 & 5) Then
comes His Pre-Millennial administrating of the Fathers Wrath in End-Time
Judgments upon His enemies, which concludes with the Pre-Millennial restoration
of the Jews and the Nation of Israel. (Revelation
4-19, Zechariah 12-14.) His Pre-Millennial expulsion of Satan and the
evil spirts from this Realms heaven and Earth occurs
at the end of this present evil Age. (Revelation
12 & 20: 1-3.) His Pre-Millennial great shout to the Overcomers to come
forth then resounds in
the bowels of the Earth and the Gates of Hades only then swing open and His
Judged worthies begin to spring forth upward in the prize of the First Resurrection. (Philippians
3: 11, 14, 2nd Corinthians 5: 10, Luke 20: 34-36; Revelation 3: 21) They will be then
clothed in incorruptible immortality, in brilliant glory, and caught up into
the Air of this
Realms heavenly place to the Throne of God, forever free from deaths sting. (1st Thessalonians 4, 1st Corinthians
15;
Revelation 19;
2nd.Corinthians
5: 1-11.) Caught up to that
Pre-Millennial Celestial wedding of the Bride (Revelation
19: 7) to that Pre-Millennial assignment to
thrones where they will rule with Him in regality over this Earth for a
Thousand years. (Revelation 2: 26-27; 20: 4-6.)
Post-Millennial and Amillennial disastrous
doctrines of the Corporate Church create a New Testament manifestation of the
Church being in a state of Lo-Ammi / not
My people
(as God had previously said to Israel when they failed in their Calling). This
New Testament redeemed are born again from above, but are kicking
against the (Truth corrective) pricks
in that these followers persistently ignore conscience and
jolting circumstances along the way in living as a child of God in the
Babylonian religious system theology and eschatological doctrines. They divorce theirselves from sanctification by Christ but yet they are in Christs Body which leaves the
redeemed full of false theology and its corresponding deadly eschatology and
thus with a false sense of security in their future after they die.
Romans 8: 12-13a
So
then, (redeemed) brethren, we
are debtors, not to the flesh, to
live after the flesh: for if ye live after the flesh, ye
must die
If we, after being redeemed, do not stay vitally
connected to Christ and His sanctifying abundant zoe while alive
under test and trial, then at death we shall have died in our presumptuous sins
and enter Hades as one of the dead (spiritually dead), and remain there during
the Millennial Kingdom, until the 2nd Resurrection before the White
Throne of Judgement where then distinctions are made. (Revelation 20: 6, 15.)
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THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY
OF THE CHURCH
PART 7
The indictment and
statements we have been making against the Church (those who are supposed to sow the seed of Christ in the World as His
witnesses) is in accordance with the Prophetic Words of Christ
concerning the fermenting (leavening) of His
doctrines and undue rising of the Church in
political esteem. His New Testament doctrines
(Matthew 5 - 7) related to
His future mysterious heavenly Kingdom to be established in this Earths
heaven. (Matthew 13:
11.) In that soon after He
had sown its realities
into the hearts of His called out ones; the wheat field would
suffer the tares of the enemys sowings, with their corrupting doctrinal
leaven that would progressively and then completely corrupt the Truth of His
glory-filled Message with demon-inspired false theology and eschatology. This
would cause the counterfeit Church to grow inordinately, until the time came
when Christ would finally spew the religiously indifferent and presumptuous
Church from His mouth. (Revelation 3: 16.) Which according to History, most likely occurred in the 4th
Century. (Matthew 13: 24-33.)
This is a spiritual and historical fact that can be verified
and determined by any redeemed Christian whose heart is troubled enough to
look.
The Spiritualizing
of Scripture (that was quite naturally to be taken literally) became the means by which Satans Tares perverted the Truth (the Mind) of God and Will
(the commands) of God, and by combined Babylonian-like secular and religious
power (with chicanery) removed the Church from its original doctrinal
positions. New Testament exegesis in interpretation of Biblical events and
teachings became figurative, emblematic, and pictorial, and this to allow for
Satans religious sophistry in redefining Scripture meaning
Hath
God really said? (As when he asked this
of Eve in the Garden of Eden.)
This was that
devastating 4th Century leavening doctrinal obscurantisms (the
practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from
becoming known) by the newly formed and self-appointed ruling religious hierarchy, of pope
and priests
which resulted in the abandonment of the doctrines of where the soul goes when we die and
why
the doctrinal leavening crime continuing unto today, being
perpetrated by her (the Catholic Church) and her 15th and 16th
Century denominational protesting (Protestant) sisters partial reformed
theology and equally deceiving eschatology. Which then accounted
unto
till
the whole (doctrine of the Kingdom of heaven) was
leavened. It was then
that Christs creed of Hades / the intermediate place of the dead and His
Apostles doctrines of the Kingdom of heavens was
lost, irretrievably, to the fully leavened / corrupted Church.
The Churchs (both in
its initial Catholic 4th Century and in its Reformed 16th
Century state) redefining of Christs eschatological Words effectively
nullified any necessity of Christs literal Return to this Realm, any necessity
for Him to establish a literal Kingdom in this Realms heaven and Earth, or any
need for a literal First Resurrection out from among the Dead for a reward / prize for His
overcomers.
It is not the obscurity
of Scripture that causes confusion among the redeemed. There is no
mysterious veil over the Scriptures, but religious scales upon the redeemed
eyes. Scales that may be removed when the sincere
heart of a redeemed soul is confronted with the Truth.
Scriptural
Truth in eschatology on WHERE
THE REDEEMED GO WHEN THEY DIE
Luke 16: 19-31 speaks of a certain rich man; it is not a parable. It is literally to
be understood. It is not to be seen
figuratively or spiritualized. It is a Word of warning by the
Lord with names of real people. Here is it for reference
There
was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple
and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every
day:
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus,
which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich mans table:
moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass,
that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels
into Abrahams bosom: the rich man also died,
and was buried; And
in hell (Hades in Greek [See also R.V. and other better
translations]) he
lift up his eyes, being in torments,
and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus
in his bosom. And he cried and said,
Father Abraham, have mercy on me,
and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his
finger in water, and cool my tongue; for
I am tormented in this flame (not the Lake of Fire, but a place of
torment).
But
Abraham said, Son (the term Son meaning he
was a redeemed son of Abraham), remember that
thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things,
and likewise Lazarus evil things:
but now he is comforted, and thou
art tormented. And beside all this,
between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so
that they which would pass from hence to you cannot;
neither can they pass to us, that would
come from thence. Then he said, I pray
thee therefore, father,
that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house:
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them,
lest they also come into this place of torment. Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets;
let them hear them. And
he said, Nay,
father Abraham: but if one went unto them from
the dead, they will repent.
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the
prophets, neither will they be persuaded,
though one rose from the dead (this being proven true in
that they didnt believe the New Testament Lazarus when he came back from the
dead when Jesus resurrected him, in fact, they wanted to kill him). We
are taught by Christ in this Passage, as in all Scriptures, that our earthly
material bodies are in outward form a duplicate of what our fallen spiritual
souls body is. In that, when we die, we retain our physical bodys personal
appearance, which is seen in that the rich man
recognized Lazarus and Abraham. We retain our souls senses of; intellect,
memory, emotions, imagination and will; and the earthly material bodys senses
of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and also
speech. Being clothed in Hades is apparent from other
Scriptures; in Samuels appearing (1st Samuel
28: 14), and the Martyrs
robes (Revelation 6: 11), and the
future clothing and regalia of the Bride. (Revelation 19: 8; 3: 11.)
Hath
God really said?
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die
[Genesis
3: 4] Into the too eager reasoning of the unrenewed mind and merely redeemed soul, comes
these comforting words
You shall not die! Surely Gods
redeemed cannot die for it is Written that you have Gods
gracious gift of eternal
life. And it is also declared that at death, you go immediately to HEAVEN to be with Christ. This appealing specious eschatological doctrine is an
invention of the deceiving religious system, designed and orchestrated by Satan
and the fallen angels, who are diabolically more clever.
When the mind is renewed to the [Scriptural] Truth, the religious
scales come off our eyes! But to the mind unrenewed to the Truth, Satans lies
are a welcomed substitutional reasoning to appease oneself from the fearful implications of the Lords Words
if you (who are
redeemed) live after the flesh, ye must die and
narrow is the
way, which leadeth
unto (abundant First
Resurrection glorious) life, and
few there be that find it. Leavened doctrine tells you that you dont have to swim upstream, but Matthew 7: 14 says,
and
broad is the way (meaning; in the willing
reception of a substitute way of teaching that avoids any accountability or
suffering) that leads unto destruction
(meaning disqualification
judgement for the First Resurrection and Millennial Kingdom and just retributive punishment in Hades, declared
at the Judgement Seat of Christ, for poor or evil stewardship of those who have ignored the warnings of Scripture and received a lie and
are satisfied in being merely redeemed. To die means to die
in your sins
and remain in Hades in the state of death during the
We might in the first place ask, Why
do redeemed Christians with the gift of eternal life
die?
The Curse of death was the warning in the Garden and also
the penalty of Adam and Eves rebellion. It was the just judgement for the
Crime of rebellion against the Creator. Death always
means separation as opposed to how life always
means Union. Having been made in the image of Elohim, filled and
covered in glorious union life and
splendor, which uniquely identified them with their Creator, but alas, they
had taken His Name in vain by rebellious sin. They had become self-conscious rather
than God-conscious, and they were then stripped of glory (unfallen beauty),
unclothed of the keenest likenesses of union
life, and death was immediately realized in their triad
being. They became dead in the spiritual
sense of breaking union life;
dead in spirit and soul, and then also physically, in that
immediate corruption of death set into their bodies,
that would sooner or later result in their physical body returning to the dust
it was made of, causing the separation of the spirit, and soul, and body. (2nd Corinthians
5: 2-4) But the soul being spirit
material; which is incapable of disintegration, was now in a state of
defilement and of death / separation from the Creator. Yet, having been repentant
and then redeemed from an eternal death state sentence by the blood offering of
an animal, its efficacy (propitiation for life) was yet
without resurrection life power. It fell short
of Mans complete restoration of union life
back into the Holy Presence of God. In answer to the future
redeemed / justified state by faith and blood, and the redeemed who then would
live by faith (Habakkuk 2: 4, Hebrews 10: 38), and the state
of future unredeemed souls; Sheol / Hades was formed in the interior of the Earth, as the
place soon to house all the future dead, until
Gods determined and promised complete marvelous Salvation Plan for Man and restoration of all things (going
back to Lucifers Fall) be accomplished. In their sorrow, Adam and Eve
had been given the promise of the Seed Who would defeat Satan and fully
reconcile them back to God in a future (even greater) Resurrection life
as the New
Creature,
into full glorious union with
God in reunited spirit, soul and body.
Death, throughout Scripture, is declared a universal uncleanness. (Leviticus
11: 31) The common nakedness standing of all men
born of the seed of Adam is only made apparent and exasperated by the dis-spirited and dis-embodied
soul at death. That uncleanness is typed in Exodus 28:
42-43. Being
unclothed is the standing in which we will continue, living or dead, until the
Resurrection, when we will receive that house (tabernacle
clothing) from heaven (2nd Corinthians
5: 2-4
For
in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be
clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that
being clothed we shall not be found naked.
For we that are in this tabernacle (earthly body) do
groan,
being burdened: not for that we would be
unclothed, but clothed upon (with a new
body), that mortality might be swallowed up
of life.
See
also 1st Corinthians 15:
52
we shall all
be changed, in a moment, in
a twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead (in Christ) shall be raised incorruptible, and we
(redeemed dead
in Hades, sanctified in Christ, being yet naked, and wholly un-presentable,
unsuitably clothed to approach the Throne of God, but had been judged worthies
at the Judgement Seat of Christ, having made themselves ready for the First
Resurrection and heavens wedding while alive under test and trial on the
Earth)
shall
be changed. WHEN?
At the last Trump,
at the end of this present evil Age, which is a change to be affected only by Christ at Christs
Return, (1st Thessalonians 5: 23, John 5: 25-29), when the entire worthy Bride is to be brought back into
greater Union with Him (John 17: 21-23), not by
ones and twos over Centuries, but all together. Christ calls His chosen Bride from beneath, and they shall rise (as opposed to descend) unto Him -
1st Thessalonians
4: 16, John
5: 28) out of Hades Paradise - [see Luke 23: 43, R.V.] - / Abrahams
Bosom,
and be changed in a moment into - [immortality] - the New Creature, with
celestial body, returned spirit, and clothed in regal glorious attire. They
being now abundantly fit - [after Resurrection or Rapture (See Phl: 3: 11, & Rev. 3: 20,ff., R.V.)] - for presentation at
the Throne of God,* for the investiture as kings
and priests in His Sons
[* NOTE: Here is Scriptural proof
that Elijahs initial translation from
Earth into Heaven was NOT
into Gods Presence where our Lord Jesus in now seated at His right hand!
Elijah, being one of Gods two
witnesses
when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the
abyss shall make way with them, and overcome them, and KILL them: (Rev.
11: 3, 7, R.V.)! All previous resurrections of souls
from Death to Life by Gods prophets, Apostles; and by our Lord Jesus Himself,
died some time later and entered Sheol / Hades: and Elijah CANNOT be an exception to the
divine rule!:- If these men die the
common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath
not sent me. But if the
Lord make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up,
and they
go down ALIVE into Sheol
(Num. 16:
29, 30. R.V. margin.)]
The Old Testament type (Leviticus
16: 17
And
there shall be no man in the tabernacle
when he goeth
in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come
out
) is
fulfilled in the anti-type. (Hebrews 6: 20; 9: 24, 28) Christ, the High
Priest alone,
having fully propitiated by the Cross and separation death, and being
Resurrected from among the dead, now is interceding with the Father for the
full effect of such a great salvation Atonement alone in the
Third Heaven. That is to say, He intercedes alone in the 3rd
Heaven (no man is with Him) for the spiritual maturing of the members of His
household into worthy ruling First-born sons. (Hebrews 1 & 2).This
great Work of intercession coming soon to its close in the fullness of the Gentiles come in and
the times of the Gentiles has run its prophesied course, then
the Heavenly Holy Tabernacle and its Thrones are removed from Heaven and set
again in this Realms unseen heaven (Daniel 7: 9-14, Revelation 4: 1 -
5: 14), when the
Son of Man shall take His investiture as King, and remove the evil incumbent of
this World, and to establish His Kingdom in the bringing up of His Co-Ruling
Bride unto Himself in that they shall be caught up together with them
(the living with the dead in Christ at the same time) in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Now they will take dominion and rule as the Lords Bride in Gods
long waited Theocratic Government in this Realms heaven and Earth. (Genesis
1:
26-28.)
When we redeemed die, we either die dead
(in state,
not standing - John 8: 23-24) or alive in Christ
(alive in state - Mark 12: 26-27). And we are judged and assigned our places accordingly in
Hades / the intermediate place of the dead. (Luke 16: 22, 23, Matthew 25: 30, Jude 13.) Where we are taken to in
Hades by the Angels is based on if we died alive in Christ or if we were dead in Christ (meaning that though our standing is being
justified with eternal life, but we yet die in our sins, in that our behavior
is as the spiritually dead). If we redeemed un-repentantly
sow to the flesh while we are alive, being then disengaged from the
sanctification / maturing process of the Father (growing from redeemed children
unto worthy ruling first born sons), we cannot expect to reap of the comforts
in Hades after death; much less of the First
Resurrection with glorified bodies and spiritual promises in the Kingdom of
Christ in the next Age. (Ephesians
6: 8, Matthew 5: 26, Luke 12: 59.)
Scripture declares that
after the dead alive in Christ
are caught up in the First Resurrection, the merely redeemed dead in
Christ
(those redeemed who died in an unfruitful state of failure in service unto God)
will remain in Hades in a state of death for the Millennial
Age until the 2nd Resurrection and the Great White Throne Judgement
when all compartments of Hades will be emptied of the dead. Then will further distinctions be made among the remaining dead;
the redeemed and unredeemed, according to their works, and that in accordance with evil works worthy unto
everlasting damnation, or good works. The unredeemed Gentiles who having
not law, but following their hearts, shall be judged accordingly, as
will the unredeemed Jew who lived his life in sincere consecration to God in
anticipation of redemption, or the redeemed in Christ or the redeemed under the
Law of Moses who were not apart of the First Resurrection, who died in their
sins. The determination as to what debt to God is yet owed or may be cleared, is now at the doorstep of the New Heaven and Earth,
in that every farthing has not been paid for some. Every man will have had an
opportunity to be covered by the Blood of Christ. At
the Great White Throne, the retarded, and the children, and babies, and those
having never heard the Gospel, will also be judged
accordingly as to the circumstances of their lives, and their culture,
according to what is written in the books that are opened. (Revelation
20: 11-15.)
We, who are aspiring to be found apart of
the living redeemed at the Judgement Seat, must be faithfully
watching and praying that we be found worthy of inheritance in His Millennial
Kingdom. Watch
ye therefore,
and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand
before the Son of man (in the First Resurrection out from among the dead).[Luke
21: 36.] We must stay in vital
spiritual union with Christ while being matured under test and trial
while in this World, minding the things of the spirit / Spirit, not the flesh,
being not under the bondage of keeping the Mosaic law with our sure failure and
its sure condemnation
but knowing we most certainly are bound to its moral
law and the revealed greater of Christs; but now under the law of the spirit
of life in Christ Jesus, kept by the power of the Father. We must yield
our members in service unto Him, in order to be led by
the Holy Spirit into all the freeing soul cleansing Truth, being transformed
into the image of Christ by the renewing of the mind, and being lovingly obedient
to the teachings of Christ and His Apostles. We must take
note of the solemn warnings in Scripture of
the Vine and branch, the 10
virgins, the Judging of the servants, the Kingdom Parables,
Christs Mount of Olives exhortation in Matthew Chapters 5-7,
the examples and warnings of wayward
Israel given to the New Testament redeemed (1st
Corinthians 10), the warnings of Revelation 1-3,
the 5 great warnings of the Book of Hebrews, etc
along with the Communion bread and wine that are to constantly
remind us to stay in vital communion with Him that we may be changed into His
likeness.
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THE CORRUPTED ESCHATOLOGY
OF THE CHURCH
PART 8
We have spoken in regards
to the corrupted and corrupting Theology and Eschatology of todays Church; the
spiritualizing and spiritualism of Post-Millennialism; including how they
believe that Satan is currently chained in the Pit of
Hades, and how they teach that we, the redeemed, will win the World to Christ
and then Jesus will come
etc. And we have also spoken
about the equally corrupted and corrupting teaching of Anti-Millennialism; and
how they teach no literal Millennial Kingdom of Christ and nor Christs
subjects ruling on the Earth or its heaven. They hold the passages dealing with
the Millennium symbolically, in that they teach that it has already begun, and
we are currently in the Church Age. These and other Post
and Anti-Millennialist demonically designed, false,
disqualifying teachings are designed by the enemy in order that the
redeemed may not see any necessity in overcoming for Christs promised Kingdom
inheritance. These teachings effectively destroy the love and faithful service
of most Christians.
Then we looked at the Gospel of Grace Only message which
teaches that all redeemed go to Heaven when they die
in that the Resurrection
of the dead
takes place at the time of the bodys dying, and not when Christ Returns. (2nd Timothy
2: 16-18.) They also believe that the spirit is the person (as opposed to the
biblical Truth that God made Man a living soul and we have
a spirit that communes with God). That false doctrine in essence implies that
Scripture has nothing to say about the First Resurrection of Reward. (See Luke
20: 35, Luke 14: 14, Hebrews 11: 35, Revelation 20: 4-6.) They teach
that God has forgiven the redeemed for all past, present, and future sins and
will not therefore punish the redeemed for sins after redemption, neither here
or in the hereafter. Thus, having that Laodicean effect on the redeemed which creates a false assurance that all
is well. They have leavened the Truth of Scriptures For
if you live after the flesh, ye shall die
[Romans
8: 13.] They totally ignore the consequences for
sinning after redemption, as seen in Hebrews 10: 26-31
For
if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He
that despised Moses law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of
how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall
he be thought worthy,
who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and
hath counted the blood of the covenant,
wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy
thing,
and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? For
we know him that hath said, Vengeance
belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
And again, The Lord shall judge his people. See also
2nd Timothy
2: 12b, 13, Colossians 3: 25, Galatians 5: 21; Ephesians 5: 5.
Such is the state of Christs apostate
Church today. It is completely leavened in its denial
of the necessity for overcoming, which is taught throughout the Scriptures. For they are blinded in their deep-rooted attachment to
Spiritualism and the Babylonian Harlot. The warning to merely redeemed
Christians today is proclaimed louder than ever in
Scripture, Come out of her, my
people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues. [Revelation
18: 4]
God created Man (as He did Spirits / Angels)
to be everlasting beings. Man is a living soul made in the image of
God. Therefore, Mans living an endless
existence is in his spiritual DNA and is confirmed
everywhere in Scripture. The first Mans body was a mold formed out of earth
material, then God breathed into that mold spirit (God is
spirit
and spirit is eternal life) through / into his
nostrils. Man, being impregnated, then became a living soul with spirit and a
living form-fitting body. The other beings (animals) made of the earth are called living
creatures in that they
also have souls and life, but of a lesser kind.
In that, it is not said God breathed life into them, nor are they
made in His image, nor is it said
that these lesser earthly creatures have spirit within. Thus,
Adam came into blissful living consciousness having had spirit
life
with its innate power, breathed into
him. Then, with this union
life, beyond endless existence life, Man was found to be in a very good state of perfect union with his Creator.
Before the fall of Adam, it was pronounced that, in that day
you shall surely die. Since that day of sin, when that very
good
communion spirit-led life was severed, Mans spirit life then became greatly
diminished, and he became reliant upon soul
life, independent from his God-given spirit life. Man was now to be led
and controlled by his carnal reasoning. Mans state of endless existence in
bliss on Earth, being now under the eternal Curse of His holy justice, was as a result of that death / separation sentence
from his Creator. The souls material body, being dependent on the greater life, would
gradually corrupt in a temporal existence on the Earth, cursed with toil and
struggle (under test and trial).
So it is that when the body of a Man
dies, it goes back to dust from which it was made, Mans spirit faculty
goes back to God Who gave it, and he; being the stripped-down soul, in endless
existence, goes to Hades
in the belly of the Earth; the intermediate or temporary place God then
prepared for the dead. (Matthew
11: 23; 16: 18, Luke 10: 15, Acts 2: 31, Revelation 1: 18, 6: 8, 20: 13-14.)
And consequently, all Man-kind are born under the
Curse of death, being born of Adam (Romans 5: 12), and like
Adam, all Mankind must be stripped of body and spirit at death. So it also is that the soul; with its earthly body or without it, has endless existence.
With earthly body, the souls existence is on the Earth; without the earthly
body, the souls confined existence is assigned to Hades.
The Redeemer of Mankind, the eternal Son
of God, was sent by God; giving up His glorious union
with the Father, became incarnate. He was found in
fashion as a man,
born a Jew, under the Law of Moses, and being then the sinless Son of Man,
became the holy propitiation that answered to Gods Curse of endless existence
in the state and place of death upon Mankind. His
earthly body was given up to die on the Cross; His [animating] spirit faculty
went back to God, His body went to the grave, and He - [as a disembodied soul] - went to Hades in the belly of the
Earth. Setting the pattern and tracing the fate of every cursed soul born of
Adam, who would have been otherwise condemned to that endless existence in death
and thereby
dead unto God.
To receive Jesus, the Christs
sacrificial offering personally, is to be born again; this time from above in
the gift of communion zoe / life
from God in our latent inanimate spirit, answering to the redemptive power of
the Lamb of God. This gift of zoe / life (the re-animating of our spirit) while the
soul is living on the Earth, has the promise of life that will
be found to keep the resurrected soul from everlasting damnation in the
Our redeemed
souls spirit is the
returning faculty by which the sum of our eternal inheritance in life will finally be imparted at Resurrection. In
that when the body of the redeemed (or the
unredeemed) dies, the spirit returns to God,
but at the First Resurrection, the now weighted
spirit according to rendering at Christs Judgement Seat, returns to the soul,
and is raised up out of Hades unseen into the
first heaven, being made a New Creature, in a brilliant spiritual body, in
greater or lesser awarded glorious abundant life.
(See 1st Corinthians
15
where it speaks of how just as there are different glories of the sun, moon,
and stars, so also is the different glories / brilliances of those being
resurrected; the weight of their fruit born in life corresponding to the
brilliance of their glories.)
The redeemed living on
the Earth are in standing with God; alive in spirit,
but in state our soul and body are in death, being
bound to the soul nature. Being redeemed unto God and staying in vital
spirit-led connection to Christ is to remain under the law of the spirit of
life in Christ Jesus, free from the law of sin and death. And when our body
dies, we will have died in Christ, and go to Hades Paradise- Abrahams
Bosom
and we will be the dead [physically but] alive
unto Christ
awaiting the First Resurrection
which is the return of our spirit and the
putting on of a spiritual body. It is then, finally, that the salvation of the soul
is
manifest, when Hades is left behind and death is forever
robbed of its sting. But on the other hand, if we redeemed,
while living on the Earth do not stay connected to Christ, maintaining our spirit - [see
Num. 14: 24, R.V. which is a different spirit] - in vital union with Christ
by minding the things of the Spirit
/ spirit
but follow after the flesh, then when our body dies, we will die in our sins and be the dead dead
unto Christ during His Millennial Reign above. (Note that at the
end of the 1,000 years, is the 2nd Resurrection and the Great White
throne Judgement, when those redeemed will now experience the return of their spirit unto them,
which had the Seal and gift of eternal life and escape eternal death in the
Lake of Fire.)
According to the Lord, the Angels carry
all disembodied and dispirited souls into Hades, unto their appropriately
determined place. Both the wicked un-redeemed and also
those who are redeemed but yet whom the Lord judged wicked and
slothful,
(who were unrepentant and living in sin and disobedience in various sins), are
just as the unredeemed when they die. For both the wicked and slothful redeemed servant and the wicked
unredeemed soul, these places and punishments, revealed in Scripture, comprise
the places of Death in Hades
1) outer
darkness is where the wicked and slothful fearful and
unprofitable servants are bound and cast (Matthew
25: 25-30.)
2) where some will becut in
sunder and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers (this
speaks to those certain hypocritical redeemed teachers
and pastors who - [deceived,
took advantage of] - and abused Christs servants
while alive to their own gratification of the flesh, who are not at death
differentiated from the worldly unredeemed as seen in their like punishment
during the Millennium of Christs Kingdom above, with no distinction being made
until the 2nd Resurrection, when their names will be found in the
Lambs Book of Life - see Luke 12: 45-48.) 3)
blacknes of darkness (reserved for the
redeemed who have gone the way of Cain, Balaam, and Korah - see Jude 13.) 4)
Those who knew the Lords will, but judged God critically, are to be beaten with many stripes
or beaten with few stripes (for
deeds done in ignorance - Luke 12: 47-48.) 5) delivered unto
the place of Torment (the redeemed selfish
servant who, like the Rich Man, lived a calloused life of leisure while those
around him suffered horribly). None of the redeemed shall leave these
places of Death
. until every farthing is paid. (Matthew 5: 26.)
SATAN FEATHERS HIS ARROWS WITH TRUTH
Lets address the
3 Scriptures on which the false misdirecting theology and its eschatology are
built upon concerning where the redeemed go when they die. These
scriptures are: 1)
when He
ascended up on high, He led captivity captive
2)
To
be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. And
3) But I am in a
strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be
with Christ;
for it is very far better
Their reasoning in
believing that the redeemed go to the 3rd Heaven at death being; the Father is in
Heaven and Christ is with Him, therefore Christ is in Heaven. True enough
but
is this the only place Scripture declares Christ is? He is in at least three
places
1) in Heaven (Hebrews
1: 3, Acts 7: 55.) 2)
on the Earth (Matthew 28: 20; 18: 20) 3) and in the underworld of Hades (Psalm
139: 7-8
Whither
shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If
I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if
I make my bed in hell (Hades in
the Greek),
behold,
thou art there.).
Certainly, it should not be argued against that Christ will
then be wherever we
are when we are dead. The falsely reasoned doctrinal thought is; that at death
we go to be with Christ in the third Heaven / Paradise, but that is what our
enemy would have us believe, for he wrests Scripture from its
Truth so as to appeal to our self-excusing flesh (in order to comfort
and give the redeemed a false sense of security without accountability).
But what does Scripture say? It should be understood that Scripture reveals three different
locales referred to as
Scripture also reveals
there are multiple heavens, in that there is: 1) the heaven of this Realm which is unseen by human eyes where in
the spirit forces are engaged in the governing of this Earths inhabitants, 2) then theres the third Heaven or
Heaven of heavens wherein it is Written that God resides and
reigns over His Creation (our Father Who art in Heaven
yet who
would say that the Father is not here as well?). It is
that Heaven which Christ spoke of while on the Earth
And no man hath ascended
up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which (mysteriously
speaking, said that He at the same time) is in heaven. (John 3: 13.) Looking at Christs
Presence in any one of these places, just from but a physical point of view, we
may note that light (which is but the creation of God)
travels so fast that in a twinkling of an eye, it may
travel once around the Earth.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again (to this Realm), and
receive you unto myself; that where I am (in the first
heaven, where His Kingdom over the Earth will be established, not the 3rd
Heaven), there ye may be also (throughout the
(So it is then
Pre-Millennial when He calls His Bride
up and out from the redeemed within Hades that in the first
place this prophetic Word of John 14: 1-3, of
preparing and receiving begins to be fulfilled, and then in the fulness of this prophetic
Word, after the Millennial Kingdom, in the New Heaven and Earth, it is filled
with its fullest and complete meaning. (Revelation
21: 1-2.)
Luke 16 reveals the
historic event related by the Lord. Many teachers of the Bible have accepted
the Truth that Scripture had always portrayed that at death, all men go to the
Place of the dead in the interior of the Earth, called Sheol in the
Hebrew and Hades in the Greek. But then in gross error, they teach that the
events of Luke 16 were before
Christs Resurrection and the event of Ephesians4: 8 (leading captivity captive) reveals that
Hades was therein emptied of its redeemed inhabitants. But lets look at the term led captivity
captive
Either the
term and Passage means; the captives are transferred in a new
captivity or that the captors are captured. The term is
one Paul applied and quoted from the Old Testament. (Judges
5: 12, Psalms 68: 18.) It was a military term
set forth to mean the victor led his enemies
captive.
That is to say; in a degrading procession and display of their
deserving defeat (that which Colossians 2: 15 had in view
And having spoiled principalities and
powers, he
made a shew of them openly, triumphing
over them in it.)
Scripturally it was not a
term of celebration in leading the rescued
in parade, and hardly would Paul have used it so.
Moreover, all Christs
pre-Resurrection declarations (the Words which he
spake unto them, while He was yet with them) were confirmed by Him post-Resurrection
Go ye therefore,
and teach
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I
have commanded you
(that would include Luke
16: 1-31s
three examples which fill up the warning of Deuteronomy
15: 7-11 with New
Testament meaning). In that all His pre-crucifixion
instructive declarations were to have a post-Resurrection
application.
Additionally, we redeemed must consider how such a doctrine with its error-filled
implications may be found Scripturally sound considering that Peter, on the day
of Pentecost; being 50 days after Christs
Resurrection and 10 days after His Ascension to the Heaven of heavens, declared
that David yet remained an
inhabitant of Hades! (Acts 2: 34, 29.) And foremost this specious doctrine
strategically dilutes the declarations of Christ and His Apostles about the
fearfulness of His Second Coming and deters the redeemed from pursuing maturing
holiness in the hope of glory; the reward
of the First Resurrection. (Luke
20: 35, 1st Corinthians 15, Philippians 3: 1; Revelation 20: 4-6, Colossians 1:
27.) These False
doctrines disincentivize the redeemed in the overcoming of the
disqualifying sin nature, Satan, and the World. (2nd Timothy
2: 16-19.)
They are as a lullaby to put the redeemed believer to sleep as opposed to being
engaged in battle against the enemy of
our souls.*
[* See 1 Peter 1: 9,ff. -
glorified, obtaining, the end of the faith a - {salvation which is yet future and ready to be revealed in seasons last (verse 5, Lit. Gk.)}
- salvation of souls.
But what of the
Resurrection at
Christs
death on the Cross? And the graves were opened; and many
bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out
of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared
unto many.
[Matthew
27: 52.]
From this Passage, can we determine in what condition they arose? Could these be Old Testament saints whose appearance confirmed
Jesus as the Prophets Messiah of Israel? Or
could they be contemporaries of that day whom the people would have recognized
as having died (whose bodies would have had to have been dead only up to 4 days
prior, as was the case when Christ resurrected Lazarus)? Are
they referred to as the blessed as those of Revelation 20: 6?
Blessed and holy (for without holiness no
redeemed man will see the Lord) is
he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no
power (consider the implication), but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
Is there even a hint of the First Resurrection glory and
incorruptibility and immortality found in 1st Corinthians
15
accompanying
them? Where is it said that they ascended with Christ
or went to Heaven? This in no way is descriptive of the promised Resurrection of Daniel
12.
This was not then Christs New Testament promised
resurrection in glory, but more in the nature of the bodies of known men in
resuscitation, and being (not as angels who had been prone to appearing, but
men) a marvelous sign to certain redeemed Jews who were observing Passover, in
the confirmation in identifying Jesus the Son of God and Son of Man as the
Passover Lamb of God. After which their bodies returned to the Earth and
they - [at some unknown
time later] - returned
to their place of comfort in Hades in full assurance of the promised Last Days Resurrection of Daniel
12: 1-3.
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