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Pentecost 2000
"The Seven Church Harvest" #5
Thyatira
Fred Coulter - May 26, 2000
This is the Seven Church Harvest #5, and we’ve come in our overview of the
seven churches of Revelation 2 and 3, we have come to the church at
Thyatira. So let’s go there. Revelation 2, and let’s begin and
read this concerning Thyatira. Now as I mentioned before. The
seven churches in Asia represent at least three things, maybe four.
#1) Represents the churches that were then.
#2) It represents a prophetic history of the Church of God down
through time.
#3) It represents the attitudes that anyone in any Church of God,
let’s put it this way, in any congregation of God down through history could
have at any time.
#4) If the pattern follows that we have in the book of Revelation,
that you have seven seals, out of which comes seven trumpet plagues, out of
which come last plagues. If we have that pattern with the churches,
then we have the seven original churches, the seven down through history,
and could it be at the end time we are also going to have seven churches as
God views the churches.
Maybe not as clearly defined as the original seven, but never the less I
think it’s profound that these things are happening today, right now today.
So let’s read the message to the message to the church at Thyatira.
“And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira…” And as I mentioned
this probably means “messenger” because I cannot conceive of an angel in
good standing with God that would get into the depths of Satan. And
the Greek there is angelos, which is used for messenger as well as
angel. “…These things saith the son of God, Who hath His eyes like
unto a flame of fire, and His feet are like fine brass;…” (Rev. 2:18). Now he’s saying that He sees and He
knows, and is penetrating as fire, and His feet like fine brass. Now
fine brass can have an illusion to judgment.
“I know thy works [so they all have works], and charity, and service, and
faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than
the first” (vs. 19). Now how many have seen the video “Israel of the
Alps”? Ok, if you haven’t seen it write in and ask for it and we’ll
send it to you. But that shows what happened to the Waldensians.
Now the Waldensians, because as we will read here and I think fits it very,
very nicely, and this video was done by the Seventh Day Adventists.
And I think it’s very profound that they connect themselves with Thyatira.
Because they also had a woman prophetess called Ellen G. White. So
they have their works.
“Nothwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou [allow]
sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach
and to seduce My servants to commit fornication…” (vs. 20). Now when
we drop back here to Pergamos we find in verse 14, the last sentence there,
“…to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.” Here
it’s reversed. Here they commit the spiritual fornication first and
then they eat the things sacrificed to an idol. And I believe eating
things sacrificed to an idol has nothing to do with meat, but has to do with
the Eucharist. The introduction of the Eucharist.
“And I gave her space to repent…” Now God always does that. He
always gives space for repentance. So whenever there is sin, if people
prosper and sin for a while they need to be careful and not mistake that as
approval. Because if it’s sin it’s sin even if you prosper in the sin
because there is pleasure in sin for a season. Don’t mistake that as
God’s approval. Maybe He’s just giving you space to repent. And
I think that the space for repentance for a lot of people who have been in
the Church of God is probably right now getting smaller and smaller, and
smaller and smaller, and the judgment is going to come. Just like it
did here.
“…I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her
into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will
kill her children with death; and all the churches…” Now right in the
middle of the seven churches, this is it. All the churches “…
shall know that I am He which searcheth the reins and hearts:…” So God
is showing that there is individual judgment upon all of us. “…And I
will give unto every one of you according to your works” (vs. 21-23).
“But unto you I way, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not
this doctrine, and which have no known the depths of Satan, as they speak, I
will put upon you none other burden. But that which ye have already hold fast till I come” (vs. 24-25). Then He gives the admonition to
overcome.
Now let’s go to Revelation 17, and this is the fornication that is coming
upon the whole world. Now, I don’t know if I’m going to do it for the
Feast of Tabernacles or before the Feast of Tabernacles but I’m going to
give a sermon concerning the beast, and the United Nations. How many
have heard what’s going to happen in September at the United Nations?
All right. They are coming together to lay the ground work to have
world government, taxation upon international things so that they will have
a separate income, and how then they can devise a way to get rid of
sovereignty for all the nations. And the Catholic church is right
smack in the middle of it.
And now, when I say the Catholic church, I am meaning all of the religions
of the world because they’re all coming home to Rome because that is Babylon
the Great. But I think the commentaries in the 19th century
and the first part of the 20th century, and obviously going back before that, they could not conceive of a
world dictator. So like the Seventh Day Adventists, what they did,
they said the beast of Revelation 13, both of them represent the Catholic
church. Because you see the Catholic church in the ages before, like
at the time of the reformation with the Protestant churches coming out, the
Catholics ran the government. The church ran the government.
They told the kings what to do. And so they could not conceive of a
time when there would be a civil government that would be a dictator over
the whole world.
Now Revelation 17 tells us that also the one that is going to do the
directing will be the woman. And so here Revelation 17:1, and we’ll
see this is the same system referring to Jezebel, we’ll go back and see that
in a little bit… Verse 1, “And there came one of the seven
angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me saying unto me, come
hither; I will shew unto thee the judgement of the great whore that sitteth
upon many waters [you know that means nations, kindreds, tongues, and so
forth]: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,
and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her
fornication” (Rev. 17:1-2) And we’re all made drunk with it.
Part of that is the whole educational system. Part of that is the
religious system. And it’s all being combined together now because I
don’t think that any of us have had a clue as to how involved the Catholic
church has been with the United Nations.
How many have heard of Robert Muller? Ok. He received a
special, a special crucifix of pure gold from the Pope when he came to the
United Nations to speak, because he is a New Age Catholic. This book
here details a lot of it by Kah.
Ok, let’s continue on here, verse 3. “So he carried me away in the
spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured
beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of
abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (vs. 3-5).
Now I’m going to follow this up with a sermon entitled, “They mystery of
lawlessness”, or “The mystery of iniquity”. And Alan Knight does a
wonderful job describing it here. And by the way he came up last
Sabbath and was with us up in Fairfield. He lives just about 30
minutes away from where we meet up there. And I mentioned to them, I
thought he did a good job in describing the mystery of lawlessness, and also
the depths of Satan, and we’re going to see that the depths of Satan gets
down into actual Satan worship. So you see how far those in the Church
of God can go in their apostasy away from God. So that labels her.
Let’s go back and see about Jezebel. Jezebel and mystery Babylon the
Great are the same system under different names. So what we are being
told back here in Revelation 2… Now let’s go back to 1 Kings 1.
So the message to the church in Thyatira is labeling very clearly that they
are having the same problems that the children of Israel did with Jezebel.
Another thing that’s important. What did the apostle Paul write
concerning women? He said, “I do not allow a woman to teach”, that is
and have authority over a man. So here we have this great sin, not
only of a woman teaching, but bringing false doctrines. Let me just
say this. If in the occasion…remember the occasion of Josiah?
And when they found the law in the temple. There was no one to tell
them the truth except Huldah the prophetess over in the wardrobe area of the
temple. So they went and talked to her and she gave a message from
God. So women can give messages from God provided that they know the
truth. But she didn’t do it publicly. She did it privately.
So that’s not to put women down and say they’re of no account. That’s
just to say that women are not to be preachers and prophetesses publicly in
the way that Jezebel was here.
Now let’s come back to 1 Kings 15:25. “And Nadab the son of Jeroboam
began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and
reigned over Israel two years. And he did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made
Israel to sin” (1 Kings 15:25-16). Now what happened when Jeroboam set
up the golden calves? What did he institute? He instituted state
religion, and he made himself a high priest and offered on the altar.
Now what do the two calves represent? Sun worship, because between the
horns of the calf were what? The sun disk. So you have sun
worship.
Now let’s read on. “And Baasha the son of Ahijah of the house of
Issachar, conspired against him; ….” No I’m reading chapter 15 aren’t
I? (Laughter) No wonder. Well, it’s evil all the way through
anyway. Ok, let’s pick it up here in verse 25. It’s ok, chapter
15 fits in there. The reason is that at the top of this section of
chapter 16 in my King James Version it says 1 Kings 17.
Ok, now verse 25, “But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did
worse than all that were before him. for he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin to provoke the LORD God of
Israel to anger with their vanities. Now the rest of the acts of Omri
which he did, and his might that he shewed, are they not written in
the book of he chronicles of the kings of Israel? So Omri slept with
his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his
stead. And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began
Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned
over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years” (1 Kings 16:25-29). Now
just kind of double the iniquity of Clinton and times it by almost three.
“And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him. And it came to pass, as if it had been a light
thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat…” Now
notice the comparison here. We need to get the severity of the sin of
marrying Jezebel. “…That he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of
Ethbaal king of the Zidonians [notice his name has Baal right in it], and
went and served Baal, and worshipped him” (vs. 30-31). Now what we
need to understand is this. Israel did not go into captivity because
of Sabbath-keeping. Israel did not go into captivity because of holy
day keeping. They went into captivity because they served Baal and
Ashtoreth, which is the same system that we call Catholicism today.
Only Catholicism has been Christianized by putting Christian sounding names
on all of the pagan abominations. That’s why it’s called the mystery
of iniquity.
“And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had
build in Samaria. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke
the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were
before him” (vs. 32). So this is telling us how bad and evil, and
miserable that this was. So then we have our first introduction of
Elijah. And so what does he do? He goes and tells Ahab that
there’s going to be famine.
Now, so many people want to be Elijah it’s incredible. I told you
about the psychologist in Israel, didn’t I? He works for the
government and his job is this: to handle all the religious kooks that come.
And there are a lot of Jews who are religious kooks. They think they
are reincarnations of David, Jeremiah, and especially Elijah. And
there was this time when this man came in and he said he was Elijah.
And of course he had to keep him from doing trouble and try and talk him out
of it and get him to go home and be calm. So the next day another man
came in and said he was Elijah. So the third day he decided to do
this. He had them both to breakfast and didn’t tell one or the other
that they were coming. They sat down to breakfast and said, “Elijah
I’d like you to meet Elijah.” (Laughter)
And that’s a big mistake that a lot of people do. They look in the
Bible to try and find some spectacular position for them to fulfill, like
Elijah or Ezekiel. If anyone wants to find themselves in the Bible as
to who they are, you go to one place: All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God, and start there. Anything else beyond that is
nothing more than just vanity, and self-serving. And what happens in
all of those cases is this: in their vanity, their mind and their ideas
become their idols. Now you think about that. Every thought that
exalts itself above the word of God, which people follow and use and worship
and adore and promulgate is idolatry. And I don’t think many people
have understood that. Did we have that in our Church of God
experience? Yes, we had Elijah, we had Ezekiel, we had the only
apostle on earth. And all of those became then what? Idols.
Did people worshipped the man? Yes. Do they still do it today?
Yes. We need to understand that. So let’s none of us…and besides
if you want to be Elijah, please do this. Go find yourself a widow
woman with a boy, and go quietly minister to her and her son for 3 ½ years.
And eat flour, and make sure that you have the powers so that God will make
the flour and the oil last out of the barrel and out of the cruse for 31/2
years. And then come and tell us you’re Elijah and then we’ll believe
you. Ok?
Chapter 18:1, “And it came to pass after many days, that the word of
the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto
Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. And Elijah went to shew
himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria. And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the
governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that
Obadiah too an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed
them with bread and water.)” (1 Kings 18:1-4). Well the long and the
short of it is, Obadiah went and told Ahab that Elijah’s coming and he has a
message for you. So he did.
Let’s come over here to verse 17. “And it came to pass, when Ahab saw
Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?”
Now isn’t this always the way? The same thing Satan always does.
He attacks the messenger, right? Can’t refute the message. This
is called today in the White House, spin control. “And he answered, I
have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have
forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel,
and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the
groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table. So Ahab sent unto all
the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount
Carmel” (vs. 17-20).
Now here’s the message that then we can apply to the church at Thyatira.
We’ll analyze this a little bit. “And Elijah came unto all the people,
and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people
answered him not a word” (vs. 21). Now let’s analyze this statement
for a minute. What happened to these people with their Baal worship?
They got dumbed down, didn’t they? Yes. When you, in your mind,
get so dumbed down from the truth that the true God is only an opinion in
your mind and not an absolute firm belief by faith, you’re in trouble.
Now that’s what’s happened to the Churches of God. They have gotten
dumbed down so much that doctrine then becomes an opinion. And
then you do presto-chango and then you put in the NIV Bible and voila, now
you’ve got Satan’s corrupted Bible to help foist off his doctrine. So
all we’re doing in these things are repeating the same the thing that the
children of Israel went through.
So God is using this in Revelation 2 to tell us what was the doctrine that
they had in the church at Thyatira. They had the doctrine of Baalim
and Ashtoreth only under a Christianized form. That’s what they were
up against in Thyatira. And along with Baal worship comes Sunday
worship, and Christmas, and Easter, and New Years. And Chris was
telling me about some information where, what was his name, a man called
Dave Meyers who’s done a good job in exposing the occultism of all the
holidays of this world. And I’m sure that he’s got some excellent
information concerning that. But every one of the holidays of this
world has an exoteric meaning, meaning that this is for the general public
to consume. Then it has an esoteric or inner meaning, which means the
true meaning of this is the worship of Satan. So it’s exactly the same
thing that we have in the church at Thyatira.
When these men come into our midst, and it’s always true, the agents of
Satan the devil infiltrate the true Church. Have you ever heard of a
true minister trying to infiltrate the Catholic church? (Laughter)
I mean, think of it. Or infiltrate a Protestant church? No.
But they always infiltrate the true Church. So that’s why we always be
on our guard. Now we’ll see that a little later this afternoon.
Now then you know the rest of the story. God showed who was God with
the offering and the sacrifice by Elijah. And the prophets of Baal
they did their thing, you know, they stood up and down and yelled and
screamed and flagellated themselves and blood dripping on the ground, and
all of that trying to bring about, you know, an answer from Baal. And
of course Elijah mocked them and really brought out the truth and God showed
them. And of course his prayer was a very short prayer. He said,
verse 37, “Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that Thou art the LORD God, and that Thou hast turned their heart back
again.” You see it’s not long prayers. It’s believing effectual
prayers that’s important.
Ok now, let’s carry this a little but further. We covered some of
this last night but I’ll cover just a little bit of it today. Let’s
come to Isaiah 5. We covered that last night but we’ll do it again
today to show what happens because this is exactly what happened when
Jezebel came in. They take the word of God, they change it… Now when I
got into the motel I wanted to check on the news and see what was happening
and so forth. And after the news was over they had a Catholic mass.
And I watched this Catholic mass, I mentioned this a little bit last night.
But this Catholic mass was something. I haven’t watched one in a long
time. Normally I figure oh well, I’ll just you know, channel surf past
it. Decided I’m going to watch it. So here’s the priest and he’s
going through his thing, you know. “Da-da-da-da…A-a-a-amen.” You
know. And you could see all of the Gnostic teaching, the Nicolaitan
teaching, and more particular when you get this book and read it by Alan
Knight you’ll understand it, how that they with the Eucharist they lock the
bread up in the little tabernacle, which is an idol. And then when
they have a mass they unlock it and take it out. In other words,
Christ is the prisoner of the priest. And God is the one who has to
answer to the commands of the priest to come in the bread with His literal
presence. And the people out there know nothing. You talk about
dumbed down. They know nothing. And it was really something to see
that. And how they just all like, just like lemmings they all get up
there and go gahh, you know and have the bread stuck on their tongue and all
that sort of thing while the priest merrily drinks the wine. Which
they do. I watch them, they did drink it. Then they play this
music and then since it was on television they showed all the statues and
idols and then they showed scenes of the heavens and clouds and angels and
nice music, and everybody all uplifted. Well not knowing God this is
very appealing. And they go out of there justified. That’s
exactly what happened with Jezebel. The end result is found here in
Isaiah 5.
Verse 20, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil [and that’s
what they do with their idols]; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight [to
have these doctrines]! Woe unto them that are mighty to drink
wine [now think of this as spiritual fornication, the spiritual wine], and
men of strength to mingle strong drink [and we will allude to that as the
depths of Satan when we get back to Revelation 2 in just a minute]: Which
justify the wicked for reward…” (Isa. 5:20-23), as long as you pay for an
expensive mass you can have all your sins forgiven. Or if you’re the
king of France, I forget who the king was but it was one of the Louis’s that
really had a very sinful life and the Pope sent a message through the
cardinal saying, “You can have all your sins absolved if you will do a good
work for the Pope.” And he says, “What’s that?” And he says,
“Kill the Huguenots.” So he did. Hundreds of thousands.
Verse 24, “Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame
consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their
blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD
of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.” And that’s
the first thing that they do, and we have New Testament Gnostics today,
which say that we don’t need the Old Testament. Same thing that
infiltrated the early Church. Got the quotes right here, which you
will hear on number 4. That’s what they have done. They
compromise with deceit. They blend things together.
Now let’s look at a couple things that are very important. Let’s come
to 1 Corinthians 10 and let’s understand something concerning the word of
God that I mentioned last night but I’ll just kind of review a little bit
here.
How powerful is the word of God? Well, Hebrews 4 says it’s a sharp
two-edged sword. But how powerful is the word of God? In other
words, if you want to know a fact does God mean what He says? Yes.
We saw that it’s living, that it’s quick. But God commanded and things
were created. So we should not take any of the word of God lightly.
And that’s the very first thing that these prophets do. They come
along, now you remember the Savrinities event? What did he bring in?
Greek philosophy. Hellenistic philosophy, straight from the cauldron
of Satan the devil.
Now Paul tells us something very important. Let’s come here to verse
20 because it all gets back to… and remember the first thing they try and
do, always remember this in anyone bringing a secret agenda or heresy:
1) They change the nature of God and Christ.
2) They change the Passover.
Those are their first two steps. Why are those the first two steps
that they take?
1) To get you away from the true God so you’re
worshiping a false god.
2) To get you out of covenant with Christ, which
the Passover is the covenant. And if you are in covenant with Christ
and remain in covenant with Christ then you cannot be deceived.
That’s how important the Passover is. So that’s why they go after
these first two things. Same thing happened here in Corinth. And
the thing that people like to do, and what the Hellenist Greeks did was
this: they claimed and they said, which Alan Knight documents here, that
what happened was, God revealed through the Hellenistic pagan religion the
things which were going to come with the New Testament. So when they
heard these things they said, “Wow, now we’ve got people we can really
convert.” Because the Hellenistic religion did away with all animal
sacrifices. And it became an inner religion, a religion of the mind,
and they had their sacraments. And Valentinus, who was one of the
first Christian Gnostics, said that if you took the sacraments of the
Gnostics you would become invisible to demons and they would not bother you.
Now that’s almost akin to the Eucharist, isn’t it? Not quite.
Close to it.
Notice what Paul says, “But I say, that the things which the
Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would
not that ye should have fellowship with devils. You cannot drink the
cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils…” Now what did we see
concerning the cup of mother Babylon. That is the cup representing all
the doctrines, representing all the things of Satan the devil. That’s
the same cup as Jezebel. You cannot do it. “…Ye cannot be
partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. Do we
provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?” (1 Cor.
10:20-22). Now this all has to do with the church at Thyatira.
Now let’s come to 2 Corinthians 6:14. Now today with the ecumenical
movement going on religion then becomes an opinion and as long as it is a
good opinion. And a good opinion means this: I accept you regardless
of what your religion is if you accept me. And that’s why in any
discussions with people concerning the Bible, never let them say, never let
them get away with saying, “That is your opinion.” You can answer
back, “No, it’s not my opinion, it is the word of God.” Even if they
won’t hear you at least it’s going to be a witness to them. You know
as I mentioned last night, now’s the time we need to stand up for Christ.
Stand up for the truth.
Remember what God told Jeremiah? He said, “Jeremiah, go to and fro in
the streets of Jerusalem and see if there is one man that stands for the
truth. One man that will do what is right, and I will pardon the whole
thing.” Couldn’t find a single man. Let that not be in the
Church of God today. Let it be that we stand for the truth. And
when people ask us questions we give them the straight answer. Maybe
they really want to know. And if they don’t want to know then at least
it’s a witness against them. And just like the thing that we had there
with the man in Judaism. He was greatly offended when we told him the
truth about Judaism and so forth, but now he has apologized and has seen
where he’s been wrong. And that’s taken a period of three years to do.
So you see also think in the long term with these things.
All right, 2 Corinthians 6:14. “Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers…” This is directly against ecumenism. Brethren,
if we don’t have unity in Christ with the Spirit of God there will never be
any unity at all. Do you understand that? Men coming together
seeking to do good, to bring groups back together and hopefully reconstitute
Worldwide Church of God, or whatever is never going to work. And the
reason it’s not going to work is because they are not seeking Christ.
Now I have this printout from Likeminds, where the man was bragging and
saying, “Why, we don’t have a statement of beliefs.” Because we don’t
want to be locked into it, because we may be wrong and then we’ll have to
explain why we change. “Therefore our group is very loving and warm.
We have those who believe in a 15th Passover, those who believe
in a 14th Passover. We even have those who attend a Baptist church and they’re in
our prayer group and they pray with us. We have those who believe in
the Trinity, and those who don’t. And those who eat unclean meats and
those who don’t. And we get along just fine.”
Well let me tell you something. That mental attitude is their idol.
That is their idol. Here’s what Paul said. “…For what fellowship
hath righteousness with unrighteousness?…” And either there is the truth of
God and we follow it and keep it, or it is a matter of opinion. “…And
what communion hath light with darkness? What concord hath Christ with
Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And
what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of
the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them;
and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Wherefore come
out from among them…” (vs. 14-17) the opposite of ecumenism. Since we
covered Elijah, was he not…didn’t he consider himself the only one?
And then God had to console him and say, “Well now Elijah, don’t be so
depressed. You know, I have 7000 that haven’t bowed the knee to Baal.”
And he didn’t know a single one of them. It’s the same way with us.
There are people out there that we don’t even know of that God is dealing
with. God is not restricted to any organization. God is going to
do what He is going to do.
Now recently down in New Zealand, there was a woman down there that runs
sort of a boarding house. And she had one young man who was in college
move out, so she put an ad in the paper for someone else to come in.
So a young man answered the ad, and he came from a church group in New
Zealand that never heard of Worldwide Church of God, never heard of Church
of God 7th Day, but they are a church group which keep the
Sabbath and the holy days, and the 14th Passover. So you see we don’t need to get all lifted up and get all
exclusive. God is going to do it. Hopefully we can be part of
what God wants us to do for what He’s going to do. But that was really
something. The key is Christ in you (we’ll cover that this afternoon),
is the hope of glory. That is the profound substance of God’s way.
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing…”, and we could add there: or believe
the unclean thing. What is the unclean thing? False doctrine
coming out of the cup of mother Babylon. “…And I will receive you, and
will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be My sons and daughters, saith the
Lord Almighty” (vs. 17-18). So, boy I tell you, that’s something.
We really need to understand that.
Now, remember they condemned back there…now let’s go back to Ezekiel 14,
because Christ warned the Thyatirans about eating things sacrificed to
idols, or idolatry.
Ezekiel 14. Now let’s apply this to false doctrine, false interpretations
of the Bible, misuse of the word of God, as well as to the literal idol that
is made. Now years ago when I was writing the Harmony of the
Gospels, the man who encouraged me to write it, David Grady, he called
KABC in Los Angeles, the big super-power station there, and they had a
religious program on called, Religion on the Line, from nine to midnight.
And he was able to get me on there for four Sundays in a row. And I
was there with a Jewish Rabbi, and a Catholic priest. And I could tell
you several stories concerning that but I’ll just relate one.
Every Sunday night someone duly calls in and asks the Catholic priest why
they worship idols. And he said, “We don’t worship them, we just have
it for a reminder. We just have it for veneration and so forth.”
And so when He got done I said, “Well, in the Ten Commandments…” Now
you know what the Catholics did to the second commandment don’t you?
In the shortened version, they removed it. I said, “…it says you shall
not make any idols of anything, in heaven above…” and so forth. Well,
needless to say at midnight I got out of there quickly because the Catholic
priest was a big 300 pound German called Duelmeier, and I got out of there
as quickly as I could. (Laughter)
Now, idolatry starts in the mind. That’s what’s so important.
The making of an idol is a manifestation of the imagination of the mind.
Now, hold your place here and come to 2 Corinthians 10, then we’ll come back
here to Ezekiel 14 in just a minute.
Let’s pick it up here in verse 3. “For though we walk in the flesh,
we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ…” (2 Cor. 10:3-5). And as I mentioned during the
days of Unleavened Bread, that this is how you overcome. It starts
right here. Everything starts right there in your mind, all false
doctrine, all idolatry, all lust and fornication, and adultery, and
thievery, and covetousness, and everything else. So that’s why in
overcoming, if you can cast it down when it raises itself up then you can
have success in it.
Now let’s go back to Ezekiel 14:1. “Then came certain of the elders
of Israel unto me, and sat before me [this was before Ezekiel]. And
the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, these men have set up
their idols in their heart…” Now that can be anything that is contrary
to the word of God. “…And put the stumbling block of their iniquity
before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?” Now notice
what idols in your heart can do. “Therefore speak unto them, and say
unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that
setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer
him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; that I may
take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged
from Me through their idols” (Ezek. 14:1-5). Notice how that fits in
with the church at Thyatira and sacrificing things unto idols.
“Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD, Repent,
and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from
all your abominations” (vs. 6). It’s the same message that God gave to
the church at Thyatira, isn’t it? Almost identical. And when you
talk about the house of Israel you are also spiritually talking about the
Church of God. And so that’s why it is so important that we really
stick with the word of God. That’s so fundamentally important.
That we don’t have ideas, and we don’t have thoughts that we exalt above
God, whether of self, whether of doctrine, whether of other people, or
whatever it may be because it can all become an idol. And then when it
comes to it’s full bloom and manifestation, then it’s going to be
consequences that God is going to take care of.
Now isn’t it almost the same thing? Let’s read it here. Verse
7, “For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth
in Israel, which separateth himself from Me, and setteth up his idols in his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and
cometh to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer
him by Myself: And I will set My face against that man, and will make
him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My
people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD” (vs. 7-8). Now in reading this I want you to think about the
church experiences that we have just recently gone through in these last few
years. Has God done this? Has He answered them? Yes.
Himself? Yes, and in some cases with death. God is not to be
mocked. That’s the whole message of Revelation 2 and 3.
“And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD
have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand upon him, and
will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel. And they shall
bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall
be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him; that the
house of Israel may go no more astray from Me, neither be polluted any more
with all their transgressions; but that they may be My people, and I may be
their God, saith the Lord God” (vs. 9-11). Now that’s almost identical
to 2 Corinthians 6 isn’t it? The wording is just a little different.
Let’s understand this. Let’s come to Isaiah 40. Now what
happens when we do this? Now, this also gives you a perfect
prescription on how to have true Godly humility. Humility is not
something you put on. Humility comes from knowing God. And when
you understand it, Isaiah 40, when you understand it God is the most humble
being in the universe, correct? Yes He is. So true humility is
not something you work up. True humility is not something you put on.
True humility comes from the Spirit of God from the word of God because you
understand the greatness of God.
Now let’s look at what happens when idols are set up, and let’s think of
this of Thyatira and Jezebel, back there in Revelation 2 as we read this.
Let’s begin in verse 18. “To whom then will ye liken God? or what
likeness will ye compare unto Him? The workman melteth a graven image,
and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. He
that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot…” And that’s what the Aborigines do in the
jungles, they get a tree that won’t rot. The American Indians make
totem poles, etc. “…He seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a
graven image, that shall not be moved. Have ye not known?
have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning?
have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and in the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to
nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. Yea, they shall
not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take
root in the earth: and He shall also blow upon them, and they shall
wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. To whom
then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One” (Isa.
40:18-25). He’s showing how foolish that idolatry is. Absolutely
incredible.
He says, “Lift up your eyes on high, and behold Who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: He calleth them
all by names by the greatness of His might, for that He is strong in
power; not one faileth” (vs. 26). That’s quite a lesson in idolatry.
There are several lessons here in idolatry going through here, these
chapters in Isaiah 40.
Now let’s come back to Revelation 2 and let’s analyze a little bit more
concerning the church in Thyatira. And again I will mention the video,
“The Israel of the Alps”, and you will see how the Catholic church literally
wore out the Waldensians. Slaughtered them, killed them most
unmercifully. Let’s go back and read this chapter 2 again. This
Jezebel, verse 20, calls herself a prophetess, that you have allowed her
“…to teach and to seduce My servants to commit fornication and to eat things
sacrificed unto idols.” We covered all about the idols.
Let me read to you some of the things that took place during the historical
era of the church of Thyatira. This covers from 600 A.D. clear down to
1965. We have the elevating of the Pope, kissing of the Popes foot,
image worship, use of holy water, canonization of dead saints. And
Pope John Paul II just made 26 saints in Mexico, didn’t he recently?
For what purpose? Politically. To overthrow the political party
and the political system in Mexico, which since the revolution has not
allowed the Catholics to control the political party. That’s what it’s
all about.
998 Fasting on Fridays and during Lent.
1097 Celibacy of the priesthood
And oh, by the way, while I was up here in West Springfield I drove around
to see of the sights and I saw this big, looked like a church up on the
hill. You go down here just a little ways and looks like a church.
And I thought, “I bet that’s Catholic.” But it didn’t look really like
full-fledged Catholic church, but it was up on the hill. So I drove
around. I drove up there and guess what it was? It was a
nunnery. A Catholic brothel. Prayer beads.
1184 The inquisition.
1190 The sale of indulgences.
1215 Transubstantiation
1220 Adoration of the host.
And they do worship it. They bow down before it. Can you
imagine if you’re so superstitious that you bow down before a crumb of
bread? Amazing.
Bible forbidden to laymen.
1414 Cup forbidden to people at communion.
1439 Doctrine of purgatory declared.
1439 Doctrine of seven sacraments affirmed.
1508 Ave Maria approved.
1534 The Jesuit order was founded.
And the Jesuits are still doing their dirty work. How many have seen
the full Jesuit oath?
1545 Tradition granted equal authority with the Bible.
And the Mormons do that too. They say, “We believe the Bible in so
far as it’s accurately translated. But they never show you where it’s
falsely translated. And they bring out the book of Mormon. And
Mormonism is nothing more than Gnosticism.
1546 Apocryphal books put in the Bible.
1854 Immaculate conception of Mary.
1864 Syllabus of errors proclaimed.
1870 Infallibility of the Pope declared.
And what happened shortly after that? Twenty-four years after that
all the Papal states were taken away from the Pope by Garibaldi. So
God gave His punishment. He gave space for repentance.
1930 Public schools condemned.
1950 Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
1965 Mary proclaimed mother of the church.
And as soon as the Pope can do it, to make Mary the mediatrix,
co-redemptrix with Christ. Queen of heaven.
Now then, let’s read on here in Revelation 2:24. “But unto you I say,
and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which
have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none
other burden.” Now is it possible to go clear into the depths of
Satan? Yes. All you have to do is read about king Manasseh in
the Old Testament, and he went into the depths of Satanism. Now the
depths of Satanism include…
Let’s go back to Deuteronomy 18:9. “When thou art come into the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the
abomination of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire…”
This is becoming a novelty situation of mind over matter with those people
who believe in helping to get into the depths of your being, and find your
real self. Yes, Anthony Robbins, and many others. “…Or that uses divination…”, that is to call up demons, or to have angel help.
Today, one of the big movements is the angels within. “…Or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter
with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do
these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy
God doth drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt be perfect with
the LORD thy God. For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearken
unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy
God hath not [allowed] suffered thee so to do” (Deut. 18:9-14).
And all of that leads into the depths of Satan. When you understand
the truth of Masonry then you will understand that when they get to the
highest degree it is open known worship of Satan the devil. And you
cannot get any deeper into Satanism.
Now then, the depths of Satan. Let me begin reading here on page 207
of the book by Alan Knight of Primitive Christianity in Crisis.
“…We are seeking to unravel a mystery that unites multiple religious
traditions encountered in previous chapters – the mystery cults, Gnostic
Christianity and modern Hellenistic Christianity.” That’s why Hebrews
becomes a very fulcrum book in understanding this. And when you get
this book and you get done with this book you will be able to understand
that all Protestantism is Hellenistic Christianity. All Catholicism is
Hellenistic Gnostic Christianity. And we can say it with profound
assurance that that is so.
“This is the story of Thyatira, the fourth of seven churches held up by the
apostle John as examples of the problems New testament churches in general
experienced over time. What is special about this church is its
problem with antinomian [that is lawless] apostasy linked to false teachings
described as ‘the deep things of Satan.’ [Or the depths of
Satan.] This is a theology described as being at the root of the
tolerance of sin at Thyatira (Rev. 2:20-23)” (pg. 207).
And there is a Chaldean connection. See, so that’s why I tied
together beginning, mystery Babylon the Great and Jezebel, and now we come
full circle to the depths of Satan.
“The Chaldean Oracles are short fragments of text preserved in the writings
of various Hellenistic authors. The fragments themselves are believed
to go back to the Chaldean priesthood of ancient Babylonia, hence the name.
It is in the Chaldean Oracles that we find numerous references to spiritual
depth in relation to the highest God, the supreme Father. One of the
terms we find is ‘Paternal Depth.’ This is the equivalent to the Depth
of God the Father (or Satan, as John insisted it really was)” (pg.208-209).
So here is a quote from one of the Chaldean Oracles, which ways, “Such is
the Mind which is energized before energy, while yet it had not gone forth,
but abode in the Paternal Depth, and in the Adytum of God nourished silence.” So whenever we get into these things of
silence and meditation…that’s why I mentioned Deepak Chopra, that’s his
name.
“This fragment describes the Depth of the Father as spirituality in its
purest form” (pg. 209).
Because the Gnostics would come in and say, “Look, you Christians have just
the fundamental things. We have a revelation, which was given to us
after the resurrection of Christ. And now we have new understanding.
And part of that new understanding you need to realize is that the Sabbath,
which was created by the God of the Old Testament and those evil angels, is
evil and you need to get rid of it and come to the new creation – the eighth
day. Come and worship Jesus with us on Sunday.” That goes back
to Clement, and Origen, and all of them.
Ok, page 213: “First we are told that Christ, ‘the Son’, came forth
from the Depth itself:”
Did not Paul say that you have received another Jesus? Did not Paul
say…here let’s go to Galatians 1. Hold your place and go to Galatians
1. And this becomes important for us in relationship to what was going
on. When you understand that these Hellenistic Gnostic Christians, and
they called themselves Christians, believe also in angel worship.
We’ll see that here in just a minute. But notice what Paul says here
concerning the Gospel, and this was written in 52 to 53 A.D. And what
did he write to the Thessalonians in 2 Thessalonians? He said, “For
the mystery of iniquity does already work.”
Now notice what he says, Galatians 1:6. “I marvel that ye are so soon
removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another
gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would
pervert the gospel of Christ” (Gal. 1:6-7). Not throw it away –
pervert it, and preach another Christ. Which he told the Corinthians
in 2 Corinthians 11, that if somebody comes preaching another Christ and
brings another spirit, you count it all as wonderful…new understanding.
What was told when they were changing the doctrines? Wonderful, new
understanding. (Laughter) See.
Now notice verse 8. “But though we [which includes Paul and all the
brethren, and all the apostles] or an angel from heaven…” That becomes very
important because Hellenistic Gnosticism and Hellenistic Christianity
believed in angels. As a matter of fact this afternoon when we get
into Colossians 2 you will understand that even more. But this is why
he mentions it here. “…Preach any other gospel unto you than that
which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said
before, so say I now again…” Now I can understand with the emphasis
and the power with which Paul wrote, why this is so important. What is
this? This is idolatry. Another thought. Another gospel.
Another Christ. A perversion. That’s why he was so emphatic with
this. And I tell you, if he is I’m going to be. If it offends
some people, so be it. Maybe it will help them repent. “…If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him
be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to
please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of
Christ” (vs. 8-10). That’s the way it needs to be. I mean there
is a demarcation point which is clear.
All right, now let me read this to you. “What are the specific
religious teachings attached to Paternal Depth Theology in Valentinian
Christianity? It is found in one of the Valentinian texts from Nag
Hammadi [that’s the Gnostic writings about Christ], The Gospel of Truth.
We will now be looking at a series of passages from this Gnostic Christian
text that reveal the full range of religious beliefs involved in Peternal
Depth.”
“First we are told that Christ, ‘the Son’, came forth from the Depth itself
[now here’s the quote]:
“. . . his Son . . . who came forth from the depth, he spoke about his
secret things, knowing that the Father is a being without evil. For
that very reason he brought him forth in order to speak about the place and
his resting-place from which he had come forth…”
From which came the doctrine, which exists today that your rest is in
Christ and He has done it all for you. That’s coming out of the depths
of Satanism. Did Christ do everything for you? Does He keep the
Sabbath for you? No. It’s amazing.
“…from which he came forth, and to glorify the pleroma [now we’ll talk
about the pleroma this afternoon, that means “the fullness”], the greatness
of his name and the sweetness of the Father.”
“We learn several important things from this passage. First, notice
the Depth is designated as the ‘resting-place’ of Christ. So
now divine rest in Christ is added to the pleroma [the pleroma is
fullness] in being identified with the Depth.”
“In this passage also, Christ is depicted as having come to reveal the
existence of the Depth and to speak about the ‘secret things’ because
the Father is ‘a being without evil.’”
Then it gives another quote:
“. . . nor did they think of him as small nor that his is harsh nor that he
is wrathful, but (that) he is a being without evil, imperturbable, sweet . .
. .” [Verses the God of the Old Testament, Who’s imperturbably evil
because His has anger and He has hostility, and He brings correction.
This is some stuff.]
“This is the typical Gnostic teaching that the true heavenly Father is pure
love, nonjudgmental and without anger, in contrast to the harsh, punishing
and demanding God of the Old Testament. Resting in the Depth of God is
viewed as a beautiful state of communion with the all-loving Father, who
offers access to the spiritual Depth freely, by his grace (the sweetness
of the Father), not placing demands or requirements on his worshippers
as Yahweh does” (pg. 212-213).
Now let’s talk a little bit about the pleroma. Page 214, the Paternal
Depths they are talking about here:
“Therefore, all the emanations of the Father are pleromas…”
Remember when Savrinidies said God is everywhere. God does not have a
body. God does not have a head. God does not have eyes.
God does not have hands. He doesn’t need it because God is in
everything. And what comes from God are emanations. This is
going right back to Hellenistic Paganism where then these emanations then
are the energies coming from Satan. So what the Church of God heard
was the depths of Satan brought to them by Savrinidies who is a Greek
philosopher. And by the way he was also half Turkish, meaning he was
an Esauite. Think on that one for a while.
“…and the root of all his emanations is in the one who made them all grow
up in himself.”
“According to the Valentinians, all enlightened Christians are pleromas in their own right, patterned after, connected to and nourished from the
master pleroma or Depth of the Father, through Christ.” (pg. 214)
I tell you this is some stuff. Page 216:
“The word pleroma itself means “fullness” [and we’ll talk about that
a little more this afternoon]. Once you ‘know’ the Depth of God you
have become spiritually perfect and spiritually complete. [Now follow
this.] Your root is established in Christ. You have need of
nothing. There is no need to strive for perfection by obedience to the
law, nor anything external, for you are internally complete, possessing the
Depth of God within yourself. Notice also that spiritual truth is
revealed exclusively from within [you determine what is right and
wrong, not the law of God]…”
“Valentinian Peternal Depth theology contains many elements strikingly
analogous to modern Protestant teaching, including self-sufficient grace,
and drawing guidance exclusively from the Spirit [that is the inner self]
rather than any external source such as codified law” (pg. 216)
Page 221: “…once Valentinian Paternal Depth theology is translated
into modern terminology you find essentially the same spiritualized
lawlessness taught throughout Hellenistic Christianity today.”
Now I call your attention: where did Paul warn twice of the unpardonable
sin? In which book? Hebrews, chapter 6 and chapter 10, because
those Hellenistic Christians were getting into the same thing that we see
today in Protestantism. I mean this is profound stuff brethren.
This is amazing.
“It is the same radical grace alone theology, demanding rejection of
written biblical law in favor of obedience to the Spirit, and promising a
guaranteed salvation that cannot be revoked, regardless of one’s conduct”
(pg. 221)
Now then, that’s what Baptists today believe. A woman in the Church
asked her Protestant friend one time, because she was talking about the
Rapture, that God was going to rapture them up – take them. And she
asked her, she said, “Let me ask you a question. Since you don’t have
to keep any law, what if you were right in the middle of the act of
committing adultery when the Rapture came. Would you be raptured?”
“Yes.” Talk about a lawless theology.
Now this is out of the book here, The New World Religion by Gary Kah. Now if this book Primitive
Christianity in Crisis is the right hand, this book The New World
Religion, by Gary Kah is the left hand. Now he says concerning
Cayce, he “…blended certain Christian ideas and terminology with the ancient
religions of the occult. He tried to redefine Christ by turning Him
into an occult figure who would fit all of the world’s mystery religions—an
impossible task. Summarizing Edgar’s erroneous religious views,
biographer Thomas Sugrue states.
“The system of metaphysical thought which emerges from the readings of
Edgar Cayce is a Christianized version of the mystery religions of ancient
Egypt, Chaldea, Persia, India, and Greece. [And that’s what the coming
Beast will be.] It fits the figure of Christ into the tradition of one
God for all people, and places Him in His proper place, at the apex of the
philosophical structure; He is the capstone of the pyramid” (pg. 77).
Page 97, now this is talking about New Age thought in the churches.
“Price’s theology emphasizes man’s supernatural “God-like” qualities…”
Now part of this whole humanistic New Age movement is to what? Tap
the inner powers within. You have greater powers than you know.
This goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden brethren.
“Price’s theology emphasizes man’s supernatural “God-like qualities and
presents the idea that man is quite capable of achieving heaven on
earth—that is, if he allows the “universal energy” [which then as Alan
Knight describes, “from the Paternal Depth to emanate down”] to direct his
life. His philosophy is typical of New Age spiritual leaders. In
his 1981 book, The Super Beings, he theorizes,
“It has been said that behind all [science] fiction is a basis of fact.”
Then he goes on to ponder about the things that were written:
“What did the original creator of this comic strip and movie character have
in mind when he fist conceived the idea? [That’s the idea of Superman.
And what is the most favorite movies of the kids to day? Superman.
What is another movie? Star Wars 1-2-3. And let the what be with
you? The force. See, you’ve all been propagandized right?]
Did he intuitively believe that man may someday evolve [And evolution is in
it, you see.] into a super-human creature with “out of this world” powers?”
Now why are they striving for cloning? I’m going to ring my cow bell.
(Ring) I’ll mention again when I do the one on the Beast. Is it
possible that they could genetically splice into a human being genes from a
beast so that the Beast who comes on the scene will be literally be a beast?
Possible. They can now with gene splicing, grow human ears on the
backs of mice. Enough said.
“He goes on to surmise,
Modern Science reports that the entire universe is made up of energy.
The Illumined Ones [and they have the hierarchy and the principalities and
all of that in there] tell us that this Energy is in reality the One
Presence and Power of the universe—all Knowing, all-Loving, everywhere
present, and that this pure Mind Energy is individualized in man, as man.”
So what do we have, the whole New Age religion. Back to the pure
pagan Gnostic teachings, and it’s being taught in the schools.
Now just one more quote, page 116 and 117, and this is by Barbara Marx
Hubbard who is a Jew:
“ ‘Born of a Jewish agnostic, affluent background in 1929, I received no
spiritual training.’ Her “seeking” let her down many paths until
eventually she read The Phenomenon of Man by Teilhard Chardin.”
Now Teilhard Chardin is a Catholic New Age priest. And he has had a
lot of input into the United Nations through Robert Muller. So you
need to get this book and read it. I mean it is something.
“She explains,
It was an epiphany for me. [That is a new birth.] There is a
continuing, evolving pattern in the process of nature that leads to greater
whole systems, higher consciousness and freedom…and it’s going on NOW.
It’s unfinished. The world is evolving, not just the individual.
Not only do I have unused growth potential…so does the world…so does our
species…and so does the universe! Something new is coming. the
magnetic attraction was right. I could trust my intuition.”
Now then, that’s why they try and get all people to think these things so
there can be (have you heard this) a “quantum leap” in human evolution.
Where all of a sudden we leap and we become super-men and super-women.
Well what all that is doing is setting us up for demon occult control.
This whole world is going to be controlled by it. I mean brethren we
are sitting right on the threshold of the greatest and biggest deception to
hit this world. That’s why first the Churches of God were taken down.
Now that’s why we cannot sit back and just let it continue to happen.
Now she continues on with her revelations:
“The floodgates of my mind had opened [now she’s demon possessed]. It
saw as if an unseen hand…”
Have you heard that before? Brethren, that is a Masonic term, and
when Herbert Armstrong preached it, which he was encouraged to do by Stanley
R. Rader and was known by Stanley R. Rader that that was a Masonic term to
get him into the big-wigs of this world. Christ is not coming as an
unseen hand. What Herbert Armstrong was preaching, and he didn’t know
it, was New Age Satanic preaching leading the way to the coming of the
Beast. Now if there are some of you who are offended because you
idolize Herbert Armstrong, then be offended. That is the truth.
“It was as if an unseen hand was activating the memory bank of my brain.
I organized nothing. I “thought” of nothing. I simply recorded
the stream of ideas….Sometimes a voice that called itself “Jesus”
interpreted authoritatively….In other passages it seemed as though the
voices were those of our elder brothers and sisters who have gone before
[and that’s called the hierarchy – the principalities and powers we’ll talk
about this afternoon]… I fell that “I”…”
Notice, ‘I feel that I’. And that’s what this whole New Age thought
is about is I. That’s why they teach little kids self-esteem.
“…–my normal walking, conscious personality, who has been a
seeker—virtually co-created the text with a hierarchy of other, higher
selves…Other sections seemed to come from a collective species
consciousness.
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