Below,
I set out my reasons why I do not attend church:
God
tells us that the time for His judgment on the churches is come and that
judgment begins with the churches that His people are in:
1Pe 4:17 For the time is come
that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it
first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey
not the gospel of God?
This
same proclamation of judgment first beginning with God’s people (the churches)
is similarly shown in the Old Testament:
Eze 9:6 Slay utterly old and young, both
maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark;
and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were
before the house. {utterly: Heb. to destruction}
God
shows why this judgment is taking place, it is because the man of sin (Satan)
is seated in the churches as god and is being worshipped as god by the
churches:
2Thess 2:3 ¶ Let no man
deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away
first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
But what is the “falling away”?
In 2Thess
2:3, I find that the Greek of the term “falling away” is the feminine of the
Greek term translated “divorcement”:
From Online Bible:
2Th 2:3 Let no man
deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come
a falling away <646> first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son
of perdition;
646 apostasia apostasia ap-os-tas-ee'-ah
feminine of the same
as 647;
TDNT-1:513,88; n f
AV-to forsake + 575 1, falling away 1; 2
1) a falling away, defection, apostasy
647 apostasion apostasion
ap-os-tas’-ee-on
neuter of a
(presumed) adj. from a derivative of 868; ; n n
AV-divorcement
2, writing of divorcement
1; 3
1) divorce,
repudiation
2) a
bill of divorce
Thus
God is showing that the New Testament churches (the wife, the feminine partner)
has been written a spiritual bill of divorcement (for all of her perverse
corruptions and spiritual adulteries against Jesus Christ, her husband) even as
her predecessor, the Old Testament church:
De 24:1 When a man hath taken a
wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour
in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write
her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her
out of his house. {divorcement: Heb. cutting off}
Jer 3:8 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel
committed adultery I (God) had put her away, and given her
a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went
and played the harlot also.
Rev 3:14 ¶
And unto the angel of the church of
the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the
beginning of the creation of God;
15 I know thy works, that thou
art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee
out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest
not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
And,
as a result of this divorcement, God removes His restraining Holy Spirit from
amongst them (2Thes 2:7) spewing them out of His mouth and this has resulted in
the churches going further into their adulterous satanic sins without remedy.
But, how does Satan cause himself to be
worshipped as god in the churches after their divorcement? It is by him
appearing as a messenger of light and his ministers (the church leaders and
workers) as servants of righteousness and apostles of Christ:
2Cor 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing
if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be
according to their works.
Mat 24:11 And many false
prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
What are some of the external observable
evidences of Satan’s activities in the churches? He causes the churches to
experience signs and lying wonders which are counterfeits of what the early
churches experienced in the book of Acts to make his phenomenon appear to be
genuine acts of God:
2Thes 2: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders, 10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they
might be saved.
Mat 24:24
For there shall
arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were
possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Such false signs as the modern-day speaking in
tongues are an indication given to those that practice this phenomenon that
they do not believe and are unsaved:
1Co 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to
them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying
serveth not for them that believe not, but for
them which believe.
On the contrary, prophesying which is to declare
God’s word truthfully (as I am doing) serves only for those who believe but not
for those who do not believe because it is only the believers who are given
spiritual ears to hear!
And next, what are some of the abominable
spiritual (unseen to the naked eye) activities carried out by Satan in the
churches, the very temple itself? We
read:
Dan 8: 10 And it waxed great, even to the host of
heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the
ground, and stamped upon them. {to the
host: or, against the host}11 Yea, he (Satan)
magnified himself even to the prince (Jesus Christ) of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice
was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary (the churches—the temple) was cast down. {to: or,
against} {by him: or, from him} 12 And an host was given him against the
daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth
to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. {an host…:
or, the host (the
folks within the churches)
was given over for the transgression against the daily sacrifice} 13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another
saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be
the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression
of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under
foot? 14 And he said unto me, Unto
two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Thus, the folks (host) in the churches are not
able to see the great deception that has taken place and this is God’s doing
for their backsliding away from the truth of His Word and so He (God) sends
them strong delusion that they should believe the lie (deception) of Satan’s
lying signs of speaking tongues, miraculous healings, financial and bodily
prosperity, etc.:
2Thess 2: 11 And
for this cause God shall send them (the
host within the churches) strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The result is that the churches have fallen and become
the very habitation of Satan and his devils and his foul spirits:
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with
a strong voice, saying, Babylon
the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the
hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Just to make sure of what entity is
1Pe 5:13 The church that is at
Alas! The true gospel is no longer to be found
in the churches:
Re 18:23 And the light (the
gospel) of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom
(Christ
who has departed) and of the bride (the
elect) shall be heard no more at all in thee (Babylon): for thy
merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived.
What therefore should God’s true people (those
upon whom God has placed the mark as shown above in Ezek 9:6) within the
churches do when they become aware of this? God tells us to come out of her (
Rev 18:2 And he cried mightily with
a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become
the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of
every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance
of her delicacies. 4 And I heard another voice
from heaven, saying, Come
out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye
receive not of her plagues. 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God
hath remembered her iniquities.
Re 14:7 Saying with a loud
voice, Fear God, and give
glory to him; for the hour of his judgment
is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and
the fountains of waters. 8 And there
followed another angel, saying,
Re 18:10 Standing afar off
for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city
2Cor
6: 14 Be
ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion
hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16 And what
agreement hath the
We
see the same teaching in the Old Testament even as God prophesies of this same
era:
Isa 52: 11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing;
go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
12 For ye shall not go out with haste, nor
go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be
your rereward. {be…: Heb. gather you up}
The
YLT translates verse 12 thusly:
12 For not in haste do ye go out, Yea,
with flight ye go not on, For going before you is Jehovah, And gathering you is the God
of Israel!
I wish with all my heart to be obedient to God’s
Word, the whole Bible, this is one of the strong evidences that God has indeed
set His mark upon me:
Joh 14:23 Jesus answered
and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my
Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Re 1:3 Blessed
is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this
prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the
time is at hand.
Mt 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of
heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
I certainly do not want to be included with
those that do not obey:
1Pe 4:17
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of
God: and if it
first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey
not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved,
where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
What about you?
If your response is different than mine then you
have taken your lot with
Rev
18: 6 Reward her even as
she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup
which she hath filled fill to her double. 7 How much she hath glorified herself,
and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and
mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is
the Lord God who judgeth her.
THE END
Author: Paul Aarons
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