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“HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS, BUT RATHER EXPOSE THEM. FOR IT IS SHAMEFUL EVEN TO SPEAK OF THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE DONE BY THEM IN SECRET.” (Eph. 5:11-12.)
GOD HIMSELF COMMANDED US TO FLEE FROM, AND EXPOSE FALSE PROPHETS AND THEIR DANGEROUS, SOUL-DEVOURING DOCTRINES, (Deut. 13:1-11; Eph. 5:11; 2 Jn. v. 9-11; Gal. 1:6-10; 3:1-2.) |
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“You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. You SHALL NOT FOLLOW A CROWD TO DO EVIL, nor shall you testify in a dispute to turn aside after many to pervert justice.”
“You shall not show PARTIALITY to a POOR man, [just because he is poor,] in his [unjust] dispute.” “If you show partiality [to the rich,] you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.” - Ex. 23:1-3; Jam. 2:9. |
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The Lord’s people are robbed and plundered; they are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses. They have become a prey, and none delivers, for a spoil, and no one says: Restore them! Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come? [Who will stand up and say: Give back the bound, abused, blood-bought nation of the Lord Jesus Christ!] (Isa. 42:22-23.) |
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“As many as desire to make a good showing in the flesh, these would compel you to be circumcised, [or keep certain parts of the OT’s ceremonial or ritual law,] only that they may not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ. For not even those who are circumcised keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised, [or turn away from Christ to go back to the OT covenant, the law,] that they may boast in your flesh. But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new [BORN AGAIN] creation. And as many as walk according to THIS rule, peace and mercy be upon then, and upon the [spiritual] Israel of God.” (Gal. 6:12-15.) |
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· OAC continued: TO ‘CRUCIFY OUR SINFUL FLESH’ OR SINFUL THOUGHTS, ON THE OTHER HAND, MEANS TO REFUSE TO “BE CONFORMED” TO THE SINFUL WAYS OF THE WORLD, BUT TO CHOOSE TO ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT, (THROUGH OUR KNOWLEDGE OF, AND OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTHFUL CONTEXT OF SCRIPTURE,) TO “TRANSFORM OUR MINDS,” (OUR SOULS, NOT OUR HUMAN SPIRIT,) SO THAT WE CAN “UNDERSTAND ON A MENTAL LEVEL WHAT IS THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD” FOR OUR LIVES, (ROM. 12:1-2; 1 PT. 1:13-15; 1 THS. 5:21.)
OAC Catechism: “Who can hear the voice of Christ today?” (Answer: Lu. 10:16: “My sheep know My voice.” Who hears you, Apostles, hears Me.”) “How can we receive Christ today?” (Answer: Lu. 10:16: “Who receives an Apostle of Christ, receives Christ, and who rejects you, Apostles, rejects Me.”) [IN THE QUOTED VERSE, LU. 10:16, JESUS COMMISSIONED HIS 70 DISCIPLES (NOT APOSTLES!) TO GO OUT AND PREACH THE COMING OF THE SPIRITUAL, UNSEEN KINGDOM OF GOD; OPPOSED TO THE JUDAIST EXPECTATION OF A PHYSICAL, POLITICAL KINGDOM OF GOD HERE ON EARTH. AS JESUS HAD NOT SUFFERED AND DIED TO ATONE FOR THE SIN AND CURSEDNESS OF HUMANKIND YET; AS JESUS HAD NOT RISEN AND ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN YET, OLD ISRAEL WAS STILL UNDER THE OLD TEMPLE-DISPENSATION: THE OLD COVENANT OF GOD, (Heb. Chapters 7-9.) AS SUCH, THESE 70 DISCIPLES COULD HEAL THE SICK, BUT ONLY SAY TO THEM, “THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME NEAR TO YOU,” (Lu. 10:9.) HOWEVER, AFTER JESUS’ BODILY ASCENSION, ON THE DAY OF PENTECOST, HE SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT TO INDWELL EVERY SINCERE BELIEVER AS A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE OF GOD, (Acts 2; 1 Cor. 6:17-20.) HENCEFORWARD, (UNDER THE NEW TESTAMENT-COVENANT,) THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF GOD AND NOT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, AS THE OAC VIEWS THIS, WOULD BE ‘WITHIN’ THEM. FROM NOW ON, THE KINGDOM OF GOD WOULD RESIDE INSIDE THE BORN AGAIN ‘HEART,’ OR HUMAN SPIRIT OF EVERY SINCERE BELIEVER. (THE OAC BLENDS THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, AND BELIEVES THAT BOTH THESE DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT ALLOCATIONS OF GOD’S KINGDOM ARE ‘INSIDE THEM;’ THAT IS, INSIDE THEIR ‘ENLIGHTENED,’ ‘SPIRITUAL’ MINDS.] - (1 Ths. 5:23; 1 Jn. 12-13; Gal. 4:6-7; 1 Cor. 6:1-20.)
The Pre-tribulation Rapture, one-man antichrist and Zionism of OAC/NAC successor, Edward Irving: The doctrine of the Pre-tribulation Rapture teaches that the ‘church’ will secretly be ‘raptured’ or snatched away from the earth just before the ‘Real Tribulation’ begins, so that the ‘church’ will in no way suffer the global oppression of the antichrist in the form of one particular man, i.e. ‘Peter Pointer.’ This, of course, will coincide with, and be time lined by the restoration of the country Israel; the restoration of Israeli temple-worship and animal sacrifice, and the salvation of the nation of Israel as a whole. Margaret’s ‘end-time’ prophesies was inspired by the Masonic/Catholic teachings of 1827: Dave Macpherson declares in his book, ‘The Incredible Cover-up,’ that the doctrine of the Pre-tribulation Rapture sprang from the 1830 prophesies of Margaret MacDonald, who fell into a trance while uttering the supposedly ‘divine’ revelations of the Pre-tribulation rapture; the restoration of the ‘holy land’ or Israeli State, the one-man antichrist that will rule the whole world, etc. At that time, Edward Irving was a minister in the Catholic Apostolic Church. He was also Margaret’s ‘priest.’ Three years before Margaret’s revelations, in 1827, Irving had published his translation of the Spanish book, ‘The Coming Of The Messiah In Glory And Majesty,’ by Emanuel Lacunza. Lacunza belonged to the Masonic Jesuit Order of the Roman Catholic Church. In this book, Lacunza wrote that there will be a “secret rapture of the church some time before Jesus’ return.” Moreover, Lacunza first published the book under the alias, Rabbi Juan Josafat Ben Ezra. He thus pretended to be a Christian Jew, because he knew that Protestants treat Jews with respect, but they will not listen to a During that time, a man named John Darby was the leader of the global, interdenominational Plymouth Brethren. These ‘Brethren’ moved freely among the churches of different denominations, using freemasonry lingo and dogma to illustrate their teachings. When Darby heard of Margaret’s ‘revelations,’ he immediately met and conversed with Edward Irving. From then on, Darby and the masonic Plymouth Brethren became the wings on which these incredible end-time ‘revelations’ were carried to every corner of the globe. Lacunza, Edward Irving, and the Plymouth Brethren also inaugurated Christian Zionism: Based on the literal fulfillment of some Old Testament prophecies during New Testament ‘end times,’ the Israeli timeline of the Christian Zionist Movement, (which, today, is being disseminated by Evangelicals such as John Haggie and Messianic Jews,) also sprang from the Spanish pen of Jesuit priest Emanuel Lacunza, as translated by Edward Irving. Together with the doctrine of the Pre-tribulation Rapture, the doctrine of the Israeli timeline was also carried forth by John Darby and his masonic Plymouth Brethren. Gary M. Burge wrote in ‘Christian Zionism, Evangelicals, and Israel,’ “The [1800s] Albury conferences brought together Edward Irving’s innovative pre-millennialism, Lewis Way's preoccupation with the literal and futurist fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies and Joseph Wolff's quest for the 'lost tribes’ of Israel. These meetings… and the journals and books published… such as the Morning Watch, provided the catalyst for what became the increasingly popular conviction that God had a continuing and separate purpose for the Jewish people, apart from the [New Testament, born again, blood-saved, body of Jesus Christ…] While the conviction that such events would occur in their own life time proved unfounded, the belief that such [literal end-time] events were nevertheless predicted in the Bible became the theological foundation for 20th Century Christian Zionism...” According to the WHOLE of the New Testament, (the New Dispensation, the New Covenant of God,) which was written in the blood of the Lamb; Jesus Christ Himself utterly and completely annulled the Old Testament temple-dispensation with its hierarchical order of physical priests and temple-worship in favor of His Spiritual Kingdom in the born again ‘heart’ or spirit of every sincere believer from ‘every tribe, and tongue, and nation’ – Israeli Jews included! (Heb. 7-10; 1 Pet. 2:9-10; Gal. 6:14-16!) And so, the teaching of Jesus, as well that of His disciple Paul, focuses wholly on the Spiritual Kingdom of God. For this reason, Paul was NOT speaking of a literal restoration of the Old Testament nation of Israel in Rom. 11! Praise God, for today, many thousands of Jews are individually and through personal faith, coming to a saving knowledge in the Lord Jesus Christ— which is the fulfillment of Paul’s teaching in Rom. 11! Yet, even modern Messianics and Christian Zionists teach that God has kept open separate channel or ‘special’ way of Salvation for Old Israel as a nation— national, instead of personal salvation, which does not rest entirely on the complete atonement of His Son Jesus Christ, according to the full context of His New Testament covenant! Could the atonement of Jesus Christ have been insufficient, then, so that God would lead Messianic Jews back to the Old Covenant; back to temple-worship; even back to the re-institution of temple-sacrifice? This had been Jesus and His disciples’ fight with legalist heretics all along, as Paul explained in Gal. 2:21, “I do not set aside the (New Testament) grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.” In fact, such ridiculous notions attempt to prove our Lord Jesus a liar, as He Himself had said, “I Am the truth, the way, and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Me!” ‘Jesus is Mediator of a better covenant… In that He says, ‘A new covenant,’ He has made the first obsolete… to vanish away,’ (Heb. 8.) ‘Jesus is High Priest forever according to the Order of Melchizedek,’ (Heb. 4:14; 5:6.) ‘Jesus is [THE] Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man,’ (Heb. 8:1-2.) Jesus’ Biblical timeline for the ‘gathering of the saints:’ Most eschatologians, (those who study the end-times,) agree that the term ‘Rapture’ was unheard of prior to 1830, until Margaret McDonald was coaxed by her priest, Edward Irving, to utter her so-called ‘revelations.’ Before that, Jesus’ return for His truly born again, obedient children was known as the ‘gathering of the saints.’ - (Mt. 24:29– Mt. 25:45; Rev. 19, 1 Ths. 4:14-18.) The original texts, from which the Bible was eventually translated into English during Medieval times, were continuous writings, without the divisions of chapters and modern descriptive headings. Anyone who studies the chapters of Mt. 24 and 25 in combination with each other, will be able to see that the well-known but non-contextual doctrine of the Pre-tribulation rapture does not coincide with Jesus’ prophesy concerning the end-times. The Lord Jesus’ said in these chapters, (from Mt. 24:29 — Mt. 25:46,) “Immediately after the [‘GREAT’] tribulation of those days… the sign of the son of Man will appear in heaven… And He will send His angels with the great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect… (1 Ths. 4:16.) But of that [exact] day and hour no one knows… Then two men will be in the field, one will be taken and the other left… Then the kingdom of heaven, (not the kingdom of God,) shall be likened to 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom…” [John also prophesied in Rev. 19, ‘After these things… I heard the voice of a great multitude… saying, “Alleluia!... for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready…”] Jesus continued in this passage, “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants [or those who profess His Name,] and delivered his goods to them… And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations [or rather, all the ‘Christians’ from all the nations, who confessed His Name, (Mt. 25:40; 2 Cor. 5:10; 1 Cor. 11:31-32; Mt. 7:21-24; Jam. 2:12-20,)] will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats… Then He will [judge all those who confessed His Name according to His Royal Law of love, Jam. 2:12-20, saying] to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave Me no food… I was thirsty…” The Rapture and the one-man antichrist: Widely disseminated since 1831, (especially in modern-day Pentecostal and Charismatic circles,) the doctrine of the Pre-tribulation Rapture also predisposes the idea of the ‘last’ antichrist in the form of only one man, (or the antichrist beast in the form of 4 distinct men throughout history, i.e. Caesar Nero, Alexander the Great, Napoleon or Hitler; while the forth is still unknown.) The rise of the forth human antichrist, (as preached by Lacunza and Edward Irving, and spread globally by Darby and his masonic Brethren,) remains closely linked to the physical restoration of Old Israel, the rebuilding of the temple on the temple mount, the re-inauguration of temple-worship and -sacrifice in Jerusalem. However, the Biblical extent and depth of these prophesies, which describes the fourfold antichrist beast of the Books of Daniel and Revelation, go way beyond the one-man antichrist theory of Lacunza and Irving. According to the context of these passages, as well as their literal fulfillment in the course of recent historical events, the one-world, political beast operates through different philosophies, working together as one. Throughout recent history, the beast revealed itself as a leopard, (humanism,) as a lion, (British imperialism,) as a bear, (communism and socialism,) and as a dragon, (totalitarian one-world, masonic rule;) but it remained ONE beast. Allegorically, the ‘four beasts,’ envisioned by Daniel and John, are the emblems of these incredibly destructive entities, which have been ruling the world in juxtaposition to one another during the last two to three hundred years, (Rev. 13.) In Dan. 7:23-25, Daniel actually calls the ‘four’ beasts “four kingdoms,” not a ‘one-man’ antichrist.
The ‘Angelic’ Apostle: Wikipedia explained the hierarchical ranking-order of the OAC as, “Bishop (referred to as [Chief Apostle or] "Angel,” following the passage in Rev. chapters 2-3,) Priest and Deacon…” OAC Catechism: “In what does the Mission of God exists?” (Answer: “Only in the “Apostolic” Mission.”) “From where do the Apostles come today?” (Answer: From the promise of Jesus Christ: In the end of the world the Son of man will send forth His angels, and Angels are the ministers of God, so are the Apostles: Ministering Angels - Mt. 13:40-43; Gal. 4:14; Heb. 1:14.) [ILLUMINIST-FREEMASON BLAKE ‘SPIRITUALIZED’ THE BIBLE AND MADE THIS COMPLETELY UNBIBLICAL STATEMENT, “Swedenborg is the Angel sitting at Jesus’ tomb…” THE PASSAGE IN MT. 13 DOES NOT MENTION ‘APOSTLES’ AT ALL; IT EXPLAINS THE PARABLE OF THE ‘GOOD AND BAD SEED.’ JESUS PLAINLY STATED THAT GOD’S SUPERNATURAL HEAVENLY SPIRITS, THE ANGELS, AND NOT HUMAN MINISTERS, WILL “CAST THE BAD SEED INTO THE FURNACE OF FIRE, [ETERNAL HELL;] THERE WILL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.’ IN THE SAME WAY, HEB. 1:7-14 DOES NOT RELATE TO HUMAN PREACHERS. HEB 2:7 CLEARLY STATES THAT CHRIST JESUS, WHO IS GOD HIMSELF, THE CREATOR OF THE ‘WORLDS,’ (spiritual and material worlds,) CREATED HUMANKIND AS A DIFFERENT SPECIES FROM THE ANGELS. AS HUMANKIND WAS CREATED ‘LOWER’ THAN THE ANGELS, THE HEAVENLY ANGELS OF GOD WERE ‘SPECIALLY CREATED’ TO MINISTER SUPERNATURALLY TO HUMANITY. HUMANITY IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SPECIES FROM HEAVENLY ANGELS. IF HUMANS COULD BECOME ANGELS, IT WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN ANOTHER INTERSPECIES ABOMINATION AS DESCRIBED IN Gen. 6! |
