A MESSAGE TO THE WORLD LEADERS
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can become lost in a
world saturated with information. Here
is a message you cannot afford to ignore or loose.
Two thousand years ago, John
the Baptist, a prophet of God, delivered this message to the people of
Those who have repented and
accepted this message, have received God’s unshakable promise that they will
inherit eternal life and become priests and kings in the
Rev 1:4 John, to
the seven churches which are in
Rev 1:5 and from
Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler
over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in
His own blood,
Rev 1:6 and has
made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. Amen.
Rev 5:9 And they
sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open
its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of
every tribe and tongue and people and nation,
Rev 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 But the
rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.
This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed
and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second
death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with Him a thousand years.
1 Cor 15:50 Now
this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
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1 Cor 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in
the Lord.
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1 Th 4:14 For if
we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him
those who sleep in Jesus.
1 Th 4:15 For
this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain
until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
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These passages, cited in their entirety for your convenience, express the
basic message that Jesus Christ brought to this world: human beings have been
placed on this planet for a transcendental purpose – eternal life in the
A call to repentance is a call to a life of righteousness. Those who respond to this call have God's
unshakable promise that they will receive eternal life in His Kingdom at the
resurrection of the dead.
This promise will be fulfilled shortly.
The world is in the throes of the greatest revolutionary change ever: a
change of leadership in every nation of the world. New kings and priests will take over and
install a rulership according to the law of God. The current world difficulties and
realignments are a prelude to that event.
This message concerns that change!
It is a call to repentance to every leader in the world. God will not change the leadership of any
nation before He gives them a chance to repent.
Jesus Christ is telling everyone that it is not too late to respond to
His call. He is giving you the chance to
receive an inheritance far greater than the one you currently possess. He said:
"The last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen"
(Mat.20:16).
“The last” meaning that you are among the last people to be called to
repentance in this age, and “the first” that you will be among the leaders in
His eternal Kingdom. Make sure therefore
that you are not only called, but also chosen.
This work is not being done in the name of any existing church or
religion, but in the name of God and Jesus Christ. Since all preach sectarian messages, which
have torn the world apart for millennia, it was necessary to raise an
independent work that carried the divine message unadulterated by current doctrines
and ideologies.
We expect no credit and no recompense for our work. We do not do this for
profit, but because the Almighty has laid this burden upon us and shown us that
this message must go out to the world while conditions still permit it. The Scriptures are telling us that those who
preach the true Gospel to the nations at this particular junction in world
history will pay a high price for their efforts. An unbelieving world brought up on a diet of
cynicism and deception cannot bear to hear sound knowledge and will avenge
itself on those who preach it. Be that as it may, we are privileged that the
Almighty has called us to fulfill His purpose.
The fact that we have no affiliation with any existing church or
religion, that we rely solely on the Bible and the Holy Spirit for guidance,
that we impose no burden on anyone, should give you an indication that this
kind of work is not possible outside the guidelines of the Holy Spirit.
When talking about His servants, Jesus Christ said, "You will know
them by their fruits" (Mat.7:16).
We say: know us by our fruits!
Your repentance and conversion are between you and God; we are merely the
facilitators of this process. We keep no personal records and no files aside
from our mailing lists and such as are required for legal purposes. Those who wish to have their names removed
from our mailing list, we will sadly oblige.
Having made our work and ourselves known to you, it is now up to
you. We declare, on the revelation of
God Almighty, that there is no other work on earth that preaches the true
Gospel of the
It will cost you nothing if you take up this challenge, but it could cost
you your inheritance if you ignore this call from Jesus Christ.
May God Almighty be your guide and help you take the right decision, for it
is not only your salvation that is at stake, but that of your people too.
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"Better a poor and wise youth
Than an old and foolish king
who will be admonished no more” (Eccl-4:13).
ARE
YOU IN THE RIGHT RELIGION?
Few things in the
world are more important than being in the right religion. The quality of your life and your future are
determined by the answer to this question.
But how would you know if you are in the right religion? And is one with no religion better off as so
many people carelessly believe
and foolishly proclaim
these days?
There are many ways of
determining which is the right religion and which is not, some more reliable
then others, but there is one simple test that is sure to always give you the
right answer. If you go through life and
fail to see a higher purpose to it, and if the thought of death terrifies you,
then you are not in the right religion.
Recently, a priest and a nun
of a certain denomination were confessing in a televised interview that they
refused to even contemplate death because, "death is a such a dreadful
thing." The priest, a former high prelate in his church, now in
retirement, went on to say how lonely he felt at times and how terrified he was
that when his time came there may be no one to hold his hand. He served in one of those religions that
forbid their priests to have a family.
As I was watching and
listening to them, I was struck by the emptiness in their lives. After spending their lives at the altar,
there was nothing positive that they could say about life, nothing that they
could look forward to in the end. Death
hang as a foreboding calamity over their heads, something they would have
avoided at all costs if they could.
Now if these people who
served in a supposedly Christian denomination, who were spiritual beacons to others, ended up with such a
depressing view of life and death, what condition must their followers be in?
Religion is supposed to give
people a transcendental purpose in life that cannot be grasped by the normal
physical senses. A purpose that becomes
apparent only through the exercise of one’s innermost thoughts and meditation
on the Word of God. It is like a window
being opened in your mind by the arrival of the Holy Spirit.
It is the thoughts that
determine the quality of one’s life and the possibility of one’s
salvation. That is why the founders of
Christianity placed so much emphasis on the need to purify and control one’s
thoughts and set them on the right path.
2 Cor 10:3 For
though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
2 Cor 10:4 For
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling
2 Cor 10:5 down strongholds, casting down arguments and
every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing
every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
2 Cor 10:6 and
being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
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What these passages are
telling us is that the feelings of our heart determine the quality of our
thoughts and the manner of our speech.
They make us holy or they defile us; they set us on the road to
salvation or on the road to perdition.
Apostle Paul amplified on these thoughts when he said:
Phil 4:8 Finally,
brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things
are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things
are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy; meditate on these things.
Phil 4:9 The
things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and
the God of peace will be with you.”
In comparing the lives of Jesus Christ, of His Apostles, and other holy
men down through the centuries, who have given their lives for the goal set
before them, with the lives of the priest and nun who were terrified at the
thought of death, one wonders what did they ever learn during their life in the
convent? What did they meditate upon in
their solitude, in their prayer, when they walked in their garden that they
ended up with such an uncertain state of mind?
What is even more puzzling is that their religion has turned death into
an extraordinarily complicated and expensive affair, with almost bankrupting
expenses for the survivors. Luxuriously polished coffins, expensive pomp and
ceremonies, meals, drinks and other paraphernalia, which the dead may never
have seen in their life, are lavishly expended in the name of the dead. They spend more on dressing up and fare
welling a corpse than they do on the living; nothing of the simplicity of the
burial of Jesus Christ, in whose name they supposedly do these things. And then they end up being terrified of even
the thought of death. Where is the logic
in all of this? Is this not hypocrisy?
Compare that with the example of Jesus Christ. As He hung up on the
cross, knowing that His time had come, He laid His soul into the hand of God
and said: “"It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His
spirit” (John
These are not the words of a desperate person who feared death. He did
not lament the loss of His life, and was not terrified to lay His soul in the
hand of God. He behaved and spoke as One who knew what He was doing.
John
John
Apostle Paul had a refreshing attitude towards death too and did not
panic when his end approached.
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Phil 1:27 Only
let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and
see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one
spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel, and not in
any way terrified by your adversaries,
Phil
Phil 1:29 For to
you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but
also to
Phil
Phil 2:1
Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love,
if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like minded,
Phil 2:2 having
the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Phil 2:3 Let
nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind
let each esteem others better than himself.
Phil 2:4 Let each
of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of
others.
Phil 2:5 Let this
mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who,
Phil 2:6 being in
the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made
Himself
Phil 2:7 of no
reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of
men.
Phil 2:8 And
being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to
the point of death, even the death of the cross.
Phil 2:9
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which
is above
Phil 2:10 every name, that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under
the earth, and that every tongue should confess that
Phil
Phil 2:12
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling;
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Phil
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Phil
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We could have quoted only the
first few verses to prove our point, but as you can see, the entire passage
makes a powerful case that this life has a higher purpose, and that there is
nothing to fear about death if one has the right relationship with God. Read
this passage again and ponder on the wonderful message that it conveys and the
great promises that lay in store for those who believe. For as you can see, the
Apostles were not terrified of death either.
They saw it as a necessary step towards a more fulfilling life in the
eternal
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1 Th 4:14 For if
we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him
those who sleep in Jesus.
1 Th 4:15 For
this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain
until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.
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Now can you see the
difference between the right religion and the wrong one? One offers hope and release from the fear of
death; the other brings sorrow and terrors of death.
Jesus Christ made this
unshakable promise to those who believe.
John
John
Well, do you believe it? You should, for it is true! It is all a matter of belief! When you die, your body perishes, but your
soul retains your mind and your beliefs, and it is these that determine your
destiny at the time of God’s judgment. The Almighty holds your soul in store
until the day of resurrection (Rev. 6:9-11), then you are given a new body - a
spiritual one – that shall never die, if, and only if, you believe. Belief of course implies obedience to God’s
laws, repentance of your sins, baptism, laying on of hands, and receiving of
the Holy Spirit.
That is why you need to be in
the right religion – one that implants the right thoughts in your mind, the
right feelings in your heart, preaches the right path of salvation, and gives
you the power to change your life through the Holy Spirit. That is the religion
of Jesus Christ, the Man who said that if you believe in Him, even though you
die, you shall be raised and live forever.
Not like the religions that leave their practitioners terrified of
death, not knowing what life is all about?
The wisest man who lived
before Jesus Christ, said this about life and death.
Eccl 7:1 A good
name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of
one's
Eccl 7:2 birth;
Better to go to the house of mourning Than to go to the house of feasting, For
that is the end of all men; And the living will take it to heart.
Eccl 7:3 Sorrow
is better than laughter, For by a sad countenance the heart is made better.
Eccl 7:4 The
heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, But the heart of fools is in the
house of mirth.
As you grow old you don’t
need to be held in bondage by fear of the last act of your life. Look upon that
event with joy, as the pinnacle of your life, when the crown of real and
eternal life is being placed on your head.
But for that you need to be in the right religion!
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Eccl 7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise
than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Eccl 7:6 For like the crackling of thorns under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
SIGNS
OF THE TIMES
While the world leaders talk of a new era of peace, progress and prosperity, the signs of the times point to a different reality. You need to be informed and take the right decisions if you are to survive the trying times ahead.
When we began the work of
witnessing the Gospel of the
We did not expect that a
pioneering work of this nature would draw in such a swift and savage reaction
from the ungodly forces of this world.
But now we realize that this is not a work for the fainthearted. We are no different from those who have come
in the name of Jesus Christ before us.
The work of God has never
been welcomed by this world, yet rather than discourage us it has given us confidence that we are on the right
path. Indeed, we are happy to join the
ranks of those who have suffered persecution for the Word of God and the
witness of Jesus Christ. After all, the
prophets of old, our Lord, the Apostles, and many of their followers, have
suffered severe persecutions and death, yet none lost their faith or
heart. As Jesus Christ said:
John
Throughout history, this has
been the fate of all true Christians.
Those who preach that Christianity is a religion of the privileged
preach a false gospel. The judgment of
God is about to fall upon the world and upon those who have misrepresented His
Gospel. Our role is to warn the
world that the great Day of the Lord is
at hand.
Isa 13:6 Wail,
for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the
Almighty.
Isa 13:7
Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man's heart will melt,
Isa 13:8 And they
will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain
as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will
be like flames.
Isa 13:9 Behold,
the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the
land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.
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A need for change in world
leadership is both required and unavoidable.
Leaders of nations have failed to bring peace and prosperity to this
world, while leaders of religions have failed to provide moral leadership and
spiritual enlightenment. That is why
after the day of the Lord, after the Great Tribulation, there will be a change
in both kingship and priesthood.
Rev 5:8 Now when
He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders
fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of
incense, which are the prayers of the
saints.
The rewards for those who
abandon their life of indulgence and dissipation for one of righteousness and
holiness are such that cannot be compared with anything that we know at
present.
"As it is written: 'Eye has not seen, nor ear
heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared
for those who love Him"' (lCor.2:9).
Since the beginning of the
world God has allowed human beings to experiment with every form of government,
social organization and economic system that they could think of. Now, as this age is drawing to a close, it is
clear that this has been a lesson in disappointment and failure. The world has learned that its ways lead to
death and that only governments and social systems based on the laws of God can
maintain proper living conditions and a dignified way of life for all people.
Humanity is now at the
crossroads. Since it cannot continue the
way it has so far, it must choose between the way of God or the way of
destruction. The warning delivered by
God to ancient
“I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you,
that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore
choose life, that both you and your descendants may live." (Deut.30:19).
The lesson the world leaders
should have learned, but which they seem incapable of learning, is that no
matter how hard they try, without God they cannot achieve a harmonious,
peaceful and prosperous society. Much
has been said about the so called “new world order” and its promise of peace,
progress and prosperity, but its proponents have never mentioned God in their
deliberations. That is why you can be
sure that this experiment will have the same ignominious end as all the
previous ones.
The prevailing anti-God
philosophy and attitude in the world are fast bringing this world to the edge
of the abyss. The current world
difficulties and realignments are a prelude to the most awesome event this
world has ever witnessed – a world conflagration of such intensity that the
survival of life on earth will be at stake.
Mat 24:21
"For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been
since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Mat 24:22
"And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but
for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.
A certain journalist wrote
recently: "Terms like turmoil and chaos... lose effect through
repetition. And in a world beset with
problems, there is a school, taking advantage of weariness with Armageddon
forecasts, that argues along the lines of, 'let them sort out their own muddle,
it won't affect us'. But even setting
aside issues like nuclear safety and common humanity, a plunge into the abyss
in a part of
The world cannot enter the
new age in its present condition. Man's rule on earth will give way to the rule
of God at the conclusion of six thousand years and the advent of the
The countdown to the
It is not a mere coincidence
that at this particular juncture in world history, life is being threatened
from several directions. People who know
little about biblical prophecies talk about the precarious condition of life on
this planet. This correlates well with
the prophecies of Jesus Christ who, two thousand years ago, foresaw a
calamitous end for this world. Are we
not living in those days now? How much
worse must things get before humanity realizes that it is heading towards
catastrophe?
The world has reached the
saturation point as far as population is concerned. The environment simply can no longer support
the ever-increasing population. It has
been estimated that within a generation the world population will double, then
in less than a century it will double again. It will then continue to double within an ever-reducing cycle.
One scientist remarked that
if the world survives to reach that level, life conditions would become so
miserable that death would be preferable to life. Well, for millions of people even now
merciful death would be preferable to a hellish life. For those dying of starvation and disease in
About a decade ago, when
images of starvation emerged from
What would it be like when
every country and every city in the world has doubled in size? The environment is already dying. Can the world support such an increase when
many resources are already in short supply?
Can the world afford not to turn to God while He may still be
found? Perhaps it is already too late.
What were considered alarmist
predictions a few decades ago, not only have been fulfilled, but exceeded many
times over. We are now learning about
world problems that only a few years ago were unheard of. A decade ago no one knew of AIDS. Half a decade ago there was no talk of the
thinning of the ozone layer. These
problems alone pose catastrophic dangers.
AIDS is threatening to destroy the regenerating power of many
nations. The thinning of the ozone layer
is posing a threat to the vegetation and the microscopic marine organisms, the
very support of life on earth, in addition to whatever harm they may do
directly to human beings.
In February this year
scientists raised the alarm when they discovered that the depletion of the
ozone layer is much worse than previously thought:
"New finding of
ozone depletion were so alarming, the scientists said, they decided to release
them before completion of the data analysis in late March. "Everybody
should be alarmed about this," said Michael Kurylo,
a research manager at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA). "We're seeing conditions
primed for ozone destruction. It's in a
far worse way than we thought." (SMH, Feb. 5, 1992).
Apocalyptic times are well
and truly upon us, yet people do not repent so that God may spare the world of
these cataclysms. Can you see now why
the sun is scorching the earth, and human beings suffer as a result?
"And men were
scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power
over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory."
(Rev.16:9).
Governments are unable to address these problems because they require
painful solutions. The people that elect
them are more concerned with the pain of hunger than with restoring the
ecological balance. Difficult problems
are often postponed and left for the next government to solve with the result
that little is achieved. Often they
prefer not to raise such concerns in public at all. Out of sight is out of mind. No one realizes that these problems will get
much worse and will not be solved unless and until people turn to God.
How many people remember the events of 1991? Aside from the Gulf War and the ecological
and social disasters that it created, how many know that in terms of natural
disasters 1991 broke almost every record since record keeping began more than a
century ago?
The US Congress allocates an annual percentage of its budget every year
for emergency situations, to help those nations that suffer calamities and
natural disasters. By May 1991, the sum allocated for the entire year was
already exhausted.
There were droughts, famine, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes,
mudslides, etc., too many to be listed.
Who remembers, for example, when approximately a third of
How many people know that large
tracks of the
Preoccupation with the Gulf War and events in the former
To compound
the misery caused by natural disasters, were those caused by human folly. The year began with the madness of the Gulf
War, and finished with the collapse of that bastion of atheism, the
People believe that communism failed.
Communism never failed, atheism did!
Communism never failed because it has never been tried. What they practiced in the
Soviet communism failed, but so has American capitalism. Such is the vulgarity of capitalism that at a
time when a company like General Motors is closing down dozens of factories and
laying off thousands of people, it grants its retiring Chairman an annual
pension of $US1.2 million. The Chairman
of Chrysler, who has an allocated salary of $4.5 millions, went to
No social conscience on the part of those who clamber their way to the
top. No Christian concern for one's
fellow human beings from the leading citizens of the, supposedly, number one
Christian nation on earth. Has no one
ever told these people that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle than for a rich man to enter the
Where are the spiritual leaders of that nation? What have they achieved? Why are they silent in the face of such
blatant greed and exploitation? Or are
they part of the same mentality?
The country wonders why its economy is faltering so badly. Unfettered capitalism is just as unchristian
as totalitarian communism. Soviet
communism has collapsed; now watch for the collapse of capitalism. Those who believe that the
This author grew up behind the “Iron Curtain” where a great part of his
education involved indoctrination about the “glorious future the
Out of that atheistic nightmare, God had to bring someone at enormous
personal sacrifice to preach His Gospel to the world, because those who had it
all the time made a mockery of it by turning it into a money making venture.
The
At a time when the world is facing the test of survival, few people
understand that there is a connection between current problems and the
spiritual decline of the world. Even the
Churches of God, who once prided themselves in their ability to understand the
prophecies of God, have fallen silent.
At a time that their input is needed more than ever, they are engaged in
an internecine war that is sapping their strength from within.
Once again, as it has happened throughout history, God has raised people
from the lowest levels of society to do His work. The message that John the Baptist delivered
to ancient
Mat 3:1 In those
days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of
Mat 3:2 and
saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!"
Mat 17:9 Now as
they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, "Tell the
vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead."
Mat
Mat
So repent, for the
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"He who is often
reproved, and hardens his neck,
Will suddenly be destroyed,
and that without remedy." (Pr.29:1).
DANIEL'S
END TIME TEN-NATION ‘BEAST-POWER’
REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME
Few prophecies have been
trumpeted with more vigor than those of Daniel about a ten-nation ‘beast-power’
that is supposed to rise up in the end-time in central Europe under the
leadership of Germany, and trample the world under its feet, particularly the
Anglo-Saxon people of Great Britain and the USA.
This is the main tenet of
what is perhaps the most widely publicized booklet of Herbert W. Armstrong, The
The booklet was written when
the European Common Market, the backbone of the rising ‘beast-power’, comprised
only of the original seven members, but the author was certain that in a short
time it would expand to ten nations.
Surprisingly, the booklet is still being advertised and distributed,
“free of charge”, not by the Worldwide Church of God, which is reportedly on
its last legs, but by a number of daughter churches, particularly the Philadelphia
Church of God, even though the Common Market, now renamed the European Union,
has long since passed the magic number of ten.
Now although I knew little
about biblical prophecies when I joined that church in the early 1970s, I had
reasonably good knowledge of world politics, and in my calculations I just
could not see how Britain and the USA could be devastated by a nuclear attack
from a union of ten Central European nations.
What puzzled me more was the fact that the
After much consideration, I
concluded that the author and his church must be wrong and I sent them a letter
explaining them why. But my opinion was,
as one might have expected, ignored, and the church continued to publish that
booklet right up to the death of Herbert W. Armstrong and beyond, only that
this ‘beast-power’ would now rise within the European Union, but still grouped
around
Now it is a well-known fact
that
I was attracted to that church mostly because they made appeal to reason
and intellect, and condemned mainstream Christianity’s reliance on tradition
and emotion. But I soon discovered that
these are the very things that they deny their members once they become hooked
on their religion. The one good thing
about that church though was that it made more use of the Scriptures than any
other church that I knew of. It was
through them that I became interested in the Bible. However it soon became obvious that although
their ministers make extensive use of the Scriptures, they don’t practice what
they preach. They seem to use the Scriptures
more to justify their preconceived ideas and erroneous practices, than to
discover the right Way and the correct teachings of Jesus Christ and His
Apostles. As I was to discover later,
many of their doctrinal teachings and practices are exactly the opposite of
what the Scriptures say they should be.
To give you two examples: Apostle Paul said that under the New Testament
there are no longer any dietary laws or restrictions on marriages based on
nationality or race.
1 Tim 4:1 Now the
Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith,
giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,
1 Tim 4:3
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God
created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the
truth.
1 Tim 4:4 For
every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received
with
1 Tim 4:6 If you
instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus
Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have
carefully followed.
Not only are there no such
restrictions in the New Testament, but those who preach such things are
inspired by demons. Yet so deeply rooted
are those false doctrines in that church and in its siblings, that even though
its ministers have read those passages hundreds of times they are unable to
extricate themselves from them. They go to extraordinary lengths to justify
themselves, even to the point of twisting the Scriptures. They have made a virtue out of enforcing
these “doctrines of demons” even more rigorously than the Jews.
Of all the fundamentalist
churches that we know of, we know of none that do not preach these “doctrines
of demons”, or which do not enforce the tithing doctrines that were anathema to
the Apostles.
Mainstream churches have
dietary restrictions – meat-less days, Easter lent, etc. – and interracial
marriage restrictions too. Any wonder
that they are all angry with us and reject our preaching.
It is not for noting that of
all the religious people in the world, God Almighty has chosen people of no
connection with any existing religions, who grew up in an atheistic world, who
were not trained to become ministers or priests, the task of preaching His
Gospel as a witness to all nations before the end comes. We take the Scriptures at their face value,
without giving them our own interpretation or justifying preconceived
ideas. We have no ulterior motive, and
no interest in turning the Scriptures into a moneymaking venture. We simply follow the examples of Jesus Christ
and His Apostles who preached the Gospel of the
When I joined the Worldwide Church of God, I
had a hunger in my heart for knowledge and was eager to learn about God and the
Bible as much as possible. I had
recently escaped from the atheistic communist world in which attendance at
church services was regarded as a rebellious act – enough to ruin one’s career
or even land him in jail.
I went along with what the
WCG ministers required of me, all the while studying the Bible and getting
myself acquainted with their doctrines and teachings. It was a slow process as my English was
rudimentary, yet within about three years I knew fairly well not only what they
preached and what their church stood for, but also I began to notice cracks in
their edifice. But it was unacceptable
for a church member to claim that he saw things better than the ministers, and
especially than the two great luminaries of the church – Herbert W Armstrong
and his son Garner Ted. So for a long
time I pondered on my discoveries and kept them in my heart until they burned
me from inside like fire. I truly believed that the WCG was the “one and only
true
Now coming back to their
contentious preaching about the end-time perils of Britain and the USA at the
hands of Germany and its allies, they had the whole scenario neatly set up for
1975. It was all explained in a freely
available and widely distributed booklet entitled “1975 in Prophecy”.
It was my misfortune to have
joined that church five years before that anticipated dreadful end, in the
midst of hushed but feverish preparations for the relocation of the church to a
place of safety, widely believed to be a deserted ancient town called
In those days, Herbert W. Armstrong spent most of the time flying around
the world in his own jet aircraft, visiting as many leaders as would receive
him, always with expensive gifts fit for a king. The area of the greatest interest to him was
of course the
Isa 19:23 In that
day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come
into Egypt and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians will serve with the
Assyrians.
Isa
Isa
Decades have passed since,
and neither the refuge to the place of safety, nor the Great Tribulation
eventuated as expected. The only people
that have been scattered everywhere are the survivors of Armstrong’s empire
after it collapsed and split into countless little clones.
Now all of these churches
still hold on to the notion that a ten-nation European colossus would rise in
central
Since the European Union
expanded beyond the magic number of ten, and shows little inclination of
turning against
Where is that power coming
from? Is it still the European Union,
the Commonwealth of Independent States, or some other force that is yet to be
identified? We shall let the Bible speak
for itself and show you how easy it is to locate where this power is going to
come from.
Herbert W. Armstrong knew
that this power would rise up in the north, the reference point being
If you look at a globe and go
north from
In the course of history many
nations have moved about and changed their names, yet it is surprising how
accurately the Bible still identifies those countries that are named in its
prophecies. Notice:
Jer 4:6 Set up
the standard toward
First of all notice that it
is God who brings disaster upon sinful people.
He also determines where that disaster comes from, not human beings,
therefore you can be certain that this prophecy will not fail. The geographical location in the north is
reinforced in several other places.
Jer 6:1 "O
you children of Benjamin, Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of
Now how do we know that these
prophecies do not refer to Turkey, Lebanon, Syria or even Iraq, as some
American evangelists have suggested recently, for these countries are also
located north of Israel. Here is the
answer:
Jer
Jer 6:23 They
will lay hold on bow and spear; They are cruel and have no mercy; Their voice
roars like the sea; And they ride on horses, As men of war set in array against
you, O daughter of Zion."
The nation in the furthest
parts of the earth, north of
Jer 30:4 Now
these are the words that the LORD spoke concerning
Jer 30:5
"For thus says the LORD: 'We have heard a voice of trembling, Of
fear, and not of peace.
Jer 30:6 Ask now,
and see, Whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man
with his hands on his loins Like a woman in labor, And all faces turned pale?
Jer 30:7 Alas!
For that day is great, So that none is like it; And it is the time of Jacob's
trouble, But he shall be saved out of it.
Jer 30:8 'For it
shall come to pass in that day,' Says the LORD of hosts, 'That I will break his
yoke from your neck, And will burst your bonds; Foreigners shall no more
enslave them.
Jer 30:9 But they
shall serve the LORD their God, And David their king, Whom I will raise up for
them.”
The day of the Lord and the
time of Jacob’s trouble are coming at the end of this age, therefore these
prophecies are for the time just ahead of us.
This passage also identifies the nations that shall be victims of this
power from the north. Three names are
mentioned:
When Jeremiah wrote this
prophecy, there was no longer a nation called
The two nations,
It is not mere coincidences
that during two World Wars these countries have prevented the world from
sliding into chaos and tyranny. During
the Second World War the democracies of
It is not a mere coincidence
either that most of the Bibles in the world, including those in many foreign
languages, have come out of these two countries. But the irony is that while they provided
hope and spiritual guidance to others, they themselves seem to have fallen into
a deep moral and spiritual morass. That
is why they will no longer have the strength to withstand the disaster that
comes their way from the north. God
however says that He will save them in the end.
These peoples together with
their sister nations of
Luke 4:5 “Then the devil, taking Him up on a high
mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
Luke 4:6 And the devil said to Him, "All this
authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me,
and I give it to whomever I wish.”
The disaster coming from the
north will fall upon all
The great day of the Lord,
known in the Bible as the Great Tribulation (Mat. 24:21), will occur at the
confluence between this age and the
There are yet more proofs in
the Bible that shows that Jacob's trouble does not come from the European
Community, but from an alliance led b y Russia.
Ezek 38:1 Now the
word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek 38:2
"Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the
Ezek 38:3
"and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you,
O Gog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal.
Ezek 38:4 "I
will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your
army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with
bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
Ezek 38:5 "
Ezek 38:6
"Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far
north and all its troops; many people are with you.
Ezek 38:7
"Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are
gathered about you; and be a guard for them.
Ezek 38:8
"After many days you will be visited. In the latter years
you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered
from many people on the mountains of
Ezek 38:9
"You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a
cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you."
Ezek 38:15
"Then you will come from your place out of the far north,
you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company
and a mighty army.
Ezek 38:16
"You will come up against My people
Ezek 39:8
"Surely it is coming, and it shall be done," says the Lord
GOD. "This is the day of which I have spoken.
Ezek 39:22
"So the house of
From that day forward not
only
It must be pointed out that
at the end of the Millennium there will be another tribulation, but not of the
same magnitude as the one at the beginning of it (Rev.20:7-9). We know this from the words of Jesus Christ
(Mat.24:21-22), who said that during the Great Tribulation God would intervene
to shorten the days so that a remnant may survive. Life must continue for another thousand
years, and that is why a remnant must be saved.
But at the end of the Millennium this whole world will come to an end
and a new world and a new heaven will be established. Life as we know it will come to an end and a
new life, eternal and based entirely on the laws of God, will begin for those
who are found worthy to be part of the
Daniel's prophecy therefore
must be fulfilled at the end of this age.
When that happens, and its time is truly at hand, you should be at peace
with your God for that is the only way by which you can escape the wrath of
God. Refuge in mountains or deserted
places can neither save you from the devastation of the Great Tribulation, nor
guaranty your salvation in the world to come.
……………….
"It is the glory
of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings
is to search out a matter" (Pr.25:2).
WILL THERE BE A NEW
BEFORE THE RETURN OF
JESUS CHRIST?
How important is it that a
new
For years, the Worldwide
Church of God evangelists have visited the Jewish leaders with one question in
mind: when were they going to build the new
Now we do not know what the
Jewish leaders thought of this phenomenon, but we can imagine their
bewilderment at being asked by, of all people, Christian evangelists when they
are going to build a
So what is the truth? Will there be a new
There is no difficulty in
finding out the answer to this question.
All you need to do is let the Bible speak for itself. But to do that, you need to have a fairly good
knowledge of the Scriptures, and being an evangelist or a Church leader these
days is no guarantee of that.
Let us first examine the
Scriptures that are often quoted as proof that a new
2 Th 2:1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,
2 Th 2:2 not to
be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter,
as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
2 Th 2:3 Let no
one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling
away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
2 Th 2:4 who
opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped,
so that he sits as God in the
There are a number of
unjustified assumptions about these verses that must be addressed.
- First, they do not say that a
- Second, they do not say that he will be sitting in the
- Third, they do not say that the
When the Jewish people
rejected Jesus Christ, God rejected them as His chosen people and with that He
rejected
The Christians became His
chosen people therefore the
Now we know that the Jews
will repent eventually and become God's people once more, but not before the
return of Jesus Christ:
"And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of
grace and supplication; then they will look upon Me whom they have pierced;
they will mourn f or Him as one mourns f or his only son, and grieves f or Him
as one grieves for a firstborn" (Zech. 12:10).
They will "look
upon" Jesus Christ "whom they have pierced" after He comes
back. It is then that God will grant
them repentance and they will mourn and grieve for Him as for a firstborn
son. Until then the Jews cannot built a
Other Scriptures often used
to justify the idea of a
"And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the
transgressors have reached their fullness, a king shall arise, having fierce
features, who understands sinister schemes.
"He even exalted himself as high as the Prince of
the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and the place of His
sanctuary was cast down" (Dan.8:23,11).
The usual questions asked in
relation to this verse are: "How could a sanctuary be cast down unless it
first exists? How could daily sacrifices be taken away unless they are being
performed?"
The problem is that those who
ask such questions play a trick on their readers. They quote Daniel 8:23 first then Daniel
8:11. In other words, they put the cart
before the horse. They reverse the order
of events and make it look as if they are yet to happen when in fact they have
occurred long ago. The 'sanctuary' has
been cast down and the 'daily sacrifices' have been taken away long ago, as we
shall prove.
A major problem with those
people is that they do not know history. They always imagine that the events they
do not know about must happen in the
future. It is a convenient way of
masking one's ignorance of the Bible and of history. Hence, we have the situation in which these
'seers' claim that ninety per cent of all the Bible prophecies are yet to occur
in the remaining years before the end of this age. According to them nearly six thousand years
of human history have passed and only a small percentage of biblical prophecy
have been fulfilled while the remaining few years will see an avalanche of
them. This comes from people who have
built an opulent lifestyle on their professed ability to understand and preach
the Word of God.
Their presumption of course
is not true, for the vast majority of biblical prophecies have been fulfilled,
as have, in large measure, been the prophecies they connect with the
Let us analyze the Scriptures
they quoted as 'proof' that a
The king that Daniel said
would arise in the latter time (
The evangelist who used
Daniel’s writings to 'prove’ the need for a
“Here again, referring
to these last days (Dan.9:26) we see that there must be in existence [a
This is a classic example of
people reading into the Scriptures what is not there. This is what Daniel
"And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut
off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall
destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And
till the end of the war desolations are determined.”
Can you imagine a 'Christian'
evangelist saying that these things must happen again when the whole world
knows that the Messiah was cut off nearly two thousand years ago and that the
city and the sanctuary were destroyed shortly afterwards by the people who cut
Him off? Talk about deception and people
masquerading as ministers of Christ! But
let us go on for there is more to come.
"Next, in that epochal book, I referred to
Again let us go to the Bible
and see whether Daniel 11:31says what this man says it does.
"And forces shall
be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they
shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of
desolation.”
No mention of the
"For Christ has not entered the holy places made
with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear
in the presence of God f or us; not that He should offer Himself often, as the
high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another - He
then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now,
once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of Himself."
"For the law, having a shadow of the good things to
come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same
sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach
perfect.
"For then would they not have ceased to be
offerecr.2 For the worshipers, once purged, would have had no more
consciousness of sins. But in those
sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of
bulls and goats could take away sins.
"Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
"Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me. In burnt and
sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure...
“Then He said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God". He takes away the first that He may
establish the second. By that will we
have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.” (Heb.9:24-25; 10:1-2, 5-6, 9-10).
If Jesus Christ put an end to
daily sacrifices once and for all through the sacrifice of His own body, how
dare those deceivers tell Christians that they must look to
Moreover, both the Old and
the New Testaments say that God does not desire animal sacrifices, but
obedience, worship and prayer to Him, something Jesus Christ amply did on a
daily basis. .
Psa 40:6
Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened.
Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
Psa 40:7 Then I
said, "Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me.
Psa 40:8 I
delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart."
Heb 10:5
Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and
offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.
Heb 10:6 In burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then I
said, 'Behold, I have come; In the volume of the book it is written of Me; To
do Your will, O God.'"
A new
As they have done with
virtually every doctrine and teaching of the Bible these false preachers have
also misrepresented what the
This is the
Rev 20:2 He laid
hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound
him
Rev 20:3 for a
thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and
set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the
thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a
little while.
Rev 20:4 And I
saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I
saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for
the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not
received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and
reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 But the
rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished.
This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed
and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second
death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with Him a thousand years.
And this is the
Rev 21:1 Now I
saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had
passed away. Also there was no more sea.
Rev 21:2 Then I,
John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Rev 21:3 And I
heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is
with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God
Himself will be with them and be their
Rev 21:4
God. "And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor
crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed
away."
Now there is another question
that has not been answered – the one about the 'abomination of
desolation’.
Where then will it be placed?
Let us go to
"Therefore when you see the 'abomination of
desolation,' spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place"
(whoever reads, let him understand), . . .”
Jesus Christ said that this
'abomination of desolation' will be standing not sitting, in the holy place,
not on the throne of God. What
difference does this make? All the
difference in the world!
The question is, since there
will be no
There is a popular proverb
which says that people can’t see the woods for the trees. Sometimes we fail to see things because they
are too obvious. So it is in this case. Everybody in the world knows that the term
“Holy Land” refers to the nation of Israel, the place on which Jesus Christ
walked when He was in this world.
For a long time we thought that it referred only to the place on which He
was crucified – the place on which He shed His blood, but now we realize that
we were too restrictive in our definition.
The whole
THE
IMPORTANCE OF CHOOSING THE RIGHT LEADER
How do you know if you have
chosen the right person as your leader?
The world has turned up side down the values and qualities that make a
great leader, but the followers of Jesus Christ are expected to know how to choose
their leaders. At a time when the world
is wallowing in deception, following the wrong person could cost you your
salvation. Here is what you need to know
about those whom you choose as your leaders.
Would you choose as your
leader one who supported those who killed Christians; who admitted having
difficulty in controlling the impulses of his human nature; who converted to
Christianity, reached the leadership of the church, and then caused havoc by
introducing doctrines that no one has heard of before?
Or would you vote for this
man: a non-conformist, in conflict with the leaders, associating with
prostitutes and the lower classes, gaining a following for himself then
teaching a religion that was in conflict with traditional beliefs?
Would you approve of any of
these people as your leader? Can you imagine the media headlines and the furor
among the people if persons with such records run for the presidency of the
Journalists and those who
work for the media, are accustomed to looking for matters that can be
sensationalized, commercialized, and trivialized, and more often than not that
can be taken out of context to suit their purpose – as we did to prove our
point – instead of the substance and intent of the matter that give meaning and
purpose to life.
Jesus Christ, the King of
Kings, and Apostle Paul, a king under Him in the
If you aspire to become a
leader in the
In the
Recently, a number of
unauthorized biographical books were published in the
This phenomenon tells us more
about the American media and the conditioning of the American public than about
the former President's family life. A
classic example of irresponsible, sensationalist journalism, that characterizes
this paragon of spiritual and moral decay that the
The American constitution
guarantees individual freedoms, but it cannot guarantee a sense of
responsibility. Thus, the freedom of religion
becomes the freedom to commit sin and blasphemy, and to worship Satan and other
pagan deities, while the freedom of speech becomes the freedom to meddle in
other peoples' lives and defile their memory.
President Reagan and his family had no power to redress this gross
violation of their private lives except to say that their friends would not buy
such books. Of course, a good friend would not want to pry into your past
life. The authors, no doubt, embellished
and misinterpreted some facts in order to make the books 'spicier' and more
titillating to the common taste. That is
a general characteristic of those who write this kind of material.
None of us were angels when we grew up (some never grow up), and many of
us are repulsed by the foolish things we undertook in the search for thrills
and entertainment. But as we mature we
should remember the words of King Solomon of Israel, the wisest man who ever
lived before Jesus Christ came into the world (lKin.3:12; Ecl.1:16. Luke
Eccl 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, And let
your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; Walk in the ways of your heart,
And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these God will bring you
into judgment.
Eccl
Eccl 12:1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your
youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say,
"I have no pleasure in them. . . “
When we repent, God wipes
clean our past errors. And if God
forgives and erases our past, should not human beings do likewise? Any human being who does not respect this
divine principle reproaches his Maker and commits blasphemy.
Christians do not delve into
other people's lives in order to expose their unsavory aspects.
We believe in repentance; we
practice it in our lives; we respect it in other peoples' lives; and expect
them to respect it in us. Our Lord Jesus
Christ said that we must forgive other people’s sins not seven times, but
seventy times seven (Mat.18:22). In other words, we must forgive others as many
times as they request it, as long as they are genuine about it.
It makes no difference what
they did in their past life. If they
show remorse and ask for forgiveness, we must grant it. Refusal to grant forgiveness is as
un-Christian as exposing their sins to the world. When people say that they are sorry for what
they did, the matter stops there. No one
has the right to meddle any further.
True Christians certainly do not do such things.
We know that a person cannot
become a 'saint’ overnight. The process of repentance and full spiritual
attainment is long and painful. It is a
difficult struggle to extricate oneself from past sins and errors, and no one
has the right to make it more difficult by meddling and exposing to the world
what the world has no business in knowing.
Even when people relent and go back to their sinful life, it is not for us
to judge them and start exposing their sins, unless it has a bearing on other
people’s salvation.
The Apostles of Jesus Christ gave us an example that we ought
to follow. Whenever they spoke of
people's personal sins they never revealed their names publicly (See Romans 1
and 2). They mentioned people's names
only when questions of doctrine and personal behavior arose that posed a danger
to the Church, but even then they did not delve into their private lives
anymore than they needed to (See 1Tim.1:20; 2Tim.2:17; 3John 1:9). It is God Almighty and Jesus Christ who deal
with such matters, who judge people, not we who are in the bonds of human
nature too. For as sure as day follows
night, if you expose other peoples sins unnecessarily, you will fall into the
same errors before long.
1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John
Eccl
Mat 7:1 "Judge not, that you be not judged.
Mat 7:2 "For with what judgment you judge, you
will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
Mat 7:3 "And why do you look at the speck in
your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?
Mat 7:4 "Or how can you say to your brother,
'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye?
Mat 7:5 "Hypocrite! First remove the plank from
your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother's eye.
When we pray to God, we say,
“Father, forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us” (Mat
Mark 9:42 "But whoever causes one of these little
ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone
were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.”
More often than not, sinful
people have few qualms about their sins for they keep repeating them without
remorse.
Prov 30:20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: She
eats and wipes her mouth, And says, "I have done no wickedness."
Exposing their sins means
nothing to them. But it is a different
story with those who have abhorred their past and embarked on a life of
repentance and righteousness. For them,
such an act would be devastating.
God annuls people's sins upon
repentance and although they still remember their sins (as they should), they
have the knowledge and conviction that God has forgiven them and wiped their
slate clean. Without that kind of
conviction and hope some people are as good as dead. Those who do not believe in God, in His love,
forgiveness and power of salvation, who have lost their hope and faith, easily
reach the point in which they can no longer live with themselves and commit
suicide. That is Satan’s way of solving
problems not God's.
When you are in deepest need,
when you see no other way out of your problems, turn to God and give Him a
chance, for He says that His strength is made perfect in our weakness. Only
then are you truly beginning to live a worthwhile life.
2 Cor 12:9 And He said to me, "My grace is
sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness."
Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me.”
Recently, there has also been
a spate of publications about the leaders of the Churches of God. They seem to have had no other purpose than
to reveal their sins. Indeed, they offer
disturbing reading. The problem is that
the authors do not deal only with their doctrinal errors but get right down
into the gutter, revealing things that no one should want to read about other
people's lives any more than he would want to read about his own. That is a satanic ploy designed to destroy
the Churches of God and to cause the faithful to stumble and loose their
faith. Once again we feel compelled to
remind them of the words of Jesus Christ.
Mat 7:3 "And why do you look at the speck in
your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?
Mat 7:4 "Or how can you say to your brother,
'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye?
Mat 7:5 "Hypocrite! First remove the plank from
your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your
brother's eye.”
In the same chapter Jesus
Christ gave His followers this warning.
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If you have something to say about
those who lead the Churches of God, if
you feel that they
are leading the people astray, expose their
doctrinal errors, but leave their past sins and private lives alone. The Churches of God represent the body of
Christ and if that body has an ill-fitting member, it is for Him to heal or
discard that member not for you.
Jesus Christ knows His body
better than anyone else. He knows whom
He appoints to lead His Churches and for what reason. If you knew the Scriptures, you would know
that there is a purpose in everything He does.
There is a reason why He allows hypocrites to lead His Churches. Did He not call the religious leaders of His
day hypocrites yet He told His disciples to obey them because they sat in
Moses' seat? (Mat.23:1-36).
The trials that the Churches
of God are experiencing these days are from above and are designed to test the
spiritual strength of their members. God
does allow such trials to occur from time to time, but woe to those who allow
themselves to become Satan's instruments in these trials. It would have been
better for them if they were never born.
The members who have taken an
easy ride throughout their lives, who have not prayed and worshipped the
Almighty in the manner that He expected of them, who have relied on others to
spoon feed them on spiritual matters, who have not done their homework and
studied the Scriptures, "to show themselves approved before God"
(2Tim. 2:15), will not have the strength to resist the wiles of the Devil
(Eph.6:11) and will find it hard to stand on their own feet at the moment of
their trial. They are likely become the
victim of deception and lose their salvation.
The
1 Pet 4:12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning
the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to
you;
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If you believe that you are a
member of one of the seven Churches of God listed in the Book
of Revelation (Rev. 2 and 3), you should rejoice
in your heart regardless of which Church Jesus
Christ has called you to be a member of. Every Church has good and bad within its
ranks and
Scriptures by using the command that Jesus Christ
gave to His people to come out of
(Rev.18:4), as meaning that they must come out of
the
Jesus Christ has never told
anyone to come out of His Churches. To the
members of the
If you remain close to God, if
you do not depart from His ways, you have nothing to fear about. Neither should you worry if you are being
disfellowshipped from a church for no fault of your own, or for doing the right
thing. A minister or a priest can put
you out of his congregation, but no man can put you out of the
You don't need to belong to any group of people to be in the
Study the Bible (Is.34:16; 55:1-3), and meditate on the law of God all
the time (Jos.1:8; Ps.119:97).
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Fellowship with Jesus Christ
and with His Holy Spirit, for so have the prophets, the Apostles, and all true
Christians down through the ages. Beware
of the deception, for many false prophets have come into the world, especially
now that we live in the last time. Look
to no man as your leader, but to Jesus Christ for He alone is a True Shepherd
and He will always guide you in the right direction.
John 10:9 "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me,
he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.”
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So do you know Jesus Christ,
and does He know you? That is the only
thing that matters.
1 John 2:3 Now by
this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
1 John 2:4 He who
says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar,
and the truth is not in him.
1 John 2:5 But
whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we
know that we are in Him.
John 14:6 “Jesus
said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me.””
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Heb 13:21 make
you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well
pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.
Amen.”