Job 15:15-16 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Mankind is in a mess. Iniquity had become a common liquor being drank intoxicated the human race.
We are living in an idolatrous, evil and deceitful age. Laodicean, people’s right they call it; Nations are rising against each other.
Mankind is living in absolute delusion.
We need the Lord Jesus Christ to rescue our souls from the destruction that is bound to come upon the human race
Women are usurping authority over men and they want to call it equality. The popular saying is that what men can do women can do better. This had crept into mainstream religion, called Christianity.
In the beginning it wasn’t so. Women learned in silence.
1 Timothy 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Revelation 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
We need to be zealous to repent as the blood of Jesus can cleanse us from all iniquity. Then would we spend less time giving ourselves false hopes, congratulating ourselves that we are right with God. The Lord knows our hearts.
May the Lord help us all and may he clean us from all iniquity.
(PROVERBS 18:12) Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
Friends lets us consider this saying; “coming events cast their shadows before them”. The wise man teaches us that us that a haughty heart is the prophetic prelude of evil. This canker is a slow poison as some would call it. It creeps in slowly and before long it is devastating .One starts good and lowly but suddenly destruction come upon such a one.
(Proverbs 11:2) when pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
(Proverbs 15:33) the fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honor is humility.
(Proverbs 16:18) Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall
Pride is as safely the sign of destruction as the change of mercury in the weather glass is the sigh of rain.
Men who have ridden the high horse, destruction has always overtaken them. Horse depicts power. In order words power drunk men.
King David aching heart shows that there is an eclipse of a man’s glory when he gave too much attention to his greatness
(2 Samuel 24:10) And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
Nebuchadnezzar the mighty builder of Babylon creeping on the earth devouring grass like oxen until his nails had grown like bird’s claws and his hair like eagles feathers.
(Dan 4:33) The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. Pride made a boaster a beast. It also once made an angel the DEVIL, Lucifer.
God hates high looks and never fails to bring them down. All the arrows of God are aimed at proud hearts.
Friends is our hearts haughty this day? The heart can be very deceitful. In Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
For pride can get into a believer’s heart as well as a sinners heart. It can delude him into dreaming that he is rich and increased in goods and hath need of nothing,
(Revelation 3:17) 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:
Friends are we glorying in our graces or talents? Are we proud of ourselves looking down on others? Let us not let self-conceit overwhelmed us, it may be pulled up by the roots. Our mushroom graces will wither in the burning heat and our self-sufficiency will become as a straw in the dunghill.
Friends lets us live at the foot of the cross in deepest lowliness of the spirit, God will not forget to make us smart under his rod. Destruction will come to us oh… if we unduly exalts ourselves, a destruction of our joys and our comforts though there can be no destruction of our soul.
Wherefore He that glories let him glory in the lord (2 Corinthians 10:17)
(2 Corinthians 11:2-4) For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him
In the beginning, Eve was actually deceived not Adam.
*Adam was not deceived* but identified with his Wife, Eve in order to redeem her. This typified Jesus Christ when he came to redeem His Bride by the shedding of His own blood.
God sent men and prophets continued to forewarned the church to learn from the example of Adam and Eve, lest the church will be deceived.
One thing that is impossible is; the elect cannot be deceived.
(Mark 13:22) For false christ and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
Today, many are deceived and also deceiving in the religious mainstream and in these last days of the end time message. It is not to a surprise though, it had been prophesied of in the Bible.
(2Thessalonians 2:11) and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
As much as the Holy Spirit is working and sealing the bride of Christ, the Antichrist spirit has also emerged and pulling away non-predestinated seed for Satan. Do not be fooled and never be a victim neither.
A worship not centered on the Revelation of Jesus Christ but focus on man -made systems creeds, dogmas and adoration of man-made heretical views is never showing the way to heaven.
💧The deceived church is a church who has put their fears and trust in Man (men) and not the Word of God.
(Proverbs 29:25) The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
🌹The deceived church is a church so organized with a hierarchical system with a headship other than Christ Jesus.
(Colossians 1:18) And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. God’s church is a mystical body.
🌾The deceived church is a church which binds itself with a false glory, boasting of the number of congregants , aesthetic beauty of their architecture and held strings of degrees of theology of their self-styled preachers that is not based on the Word of God.
🍃The deceived church is a church that lay emphasis on sensations and glossolalia (speaking in tongues) as being the evidence of having received the Holy Spirit.
(1Corinthians 12:30) Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
🌻The deceived church disobeys the Word of God and have substituted it with commandments of men (Quotes of men) and not patterned to the true biblical teachings.
(Matthew 15:9) But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
🪶The deceived church is a church that has lost focus on heaven and salvation of the soul but rather centering her teachings on the prosperity and well-being on earth.
(Colossians 3:2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
🍂The deceived church is a church not abiding in the true biblical teachings of Jesus Christ but feeds on dead and man-made doctrines. They only boast of their personal achievement, pride and how they have been able to subject a number of branches. Don’t be fooled, Jesus Christ mentioned his church:
(Luke 12:32) My little flock Fear not, *little flock*; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
🦅The deceived church is drawing so many souls to hell. May the precious blood of Jesus Christ plead the cause of every seed of God found in that circle? (Matthew 23:15)
The Lord God created us in other to have fellowship with us. We read in Genesis that at the cool of the day in the Garden of Eden, he would come to his created beings for fellowship. He endowed his created beings with their freewill and wanted them to exercise their free will for as much as he did not want them to be robots. Also his created beings were to live eternally if they chose the way to the tree of life. Unfortunately they chose the way of death, the tree of knowledge good and evil. And the death passed on to all. The bible says for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Job saw man’s trouble from the beginning and wrote of it.
(Job 14:1-2) Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Nevertheless there is a consolation for us if we continue and abide in Christ Jesus our Lord. Apostle Paul wrote:
(Philippines 2:1) If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
We are consoled and our hearts shall not fail. (Psalm 73:26) My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
The Holy Spirit of God comforts us in this present world that belongs to Satan. This comfort comes only if we abide in Christ. If you abide in me and my words abide if you…..
(John 14:16) And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever;
He is not only a comforter but also teaches us the deep things of God if we make ourselves available and open for the leading of his spirit.
(John 14:26) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you
In tribulations of this world, again God is our comfort and a strong tower.
(2 Corinthians 1:3-4) Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
We also have this assurance that as this present world isn’t our home, when we sleep in the Lord, at the last trump, we shall arise. There is a resurrection and we shall be changed.
(1 Thessalonians 4:14-18) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words
These are comforting words to our soul if we continue in Christ Jesus. May we be comforted brothers and sisters of like precious faith.
(1Timothy 3:16) And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Christ is the perfect *revelation* of God. He is the Expressed Image of the eternal Spirit .God does not receive anointing. He rather anoints. He is the Anointing.
Jesus is Humanity and Christ is Divinity.In all it was not a separate spirit from one. It was the one Spirit manifesting himself in the flesh. In Jesus Christ dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead.(Colossians 2:9) for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
The body of Jesus didn’t pre-exist.
(Hebrew 10:5) wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me
God prepared a foetus in the womb of Mary. It was a Word body. None of Mary’s blood has anything doing with Jesus Christ. It is a blasphemy to teach that Mary’s blood has a connection to the birth of Jesus Christ. Jesus blood was a sinless and pure blood.
There is a clear difference between a *Child* being born and a *Son* given Baby Jesus when he was born grew as a child and have to receive a Son ship spirit.
(Isaiah 9:6) for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, and The Prince of Peace.
(John 3:6) that which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The Word was made flesh only when God incarnated Himself in the Man Jesus at His baptism in River Jordan before multitude of people fulfilling the prophecy of Malachi 3:1
(John 1:1-2) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
The body of Jesus didn’t *pre-exist* in the old testament before the virgin birth but rather the *Word* (word body). The Word was with God.
(Isaiah 55:11) So shall my Word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
The Word has expressed itself in diverse manifestations. This same Word manifested itself to Moses in the burning bush as *I Am That I Am.* *He was the Rock that followed the children of Israel.*
(1 Corinthians 10:4) and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that *Rock was Christ*. Take notice, that Rock was Christ. (Not the body of Jesus).
God has chosen one body to reconcile the world back to himself through our Lord Jesus .
(2 Corinthians 5:19) To wit, *that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself*, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Jesus Christ was not just a man but He is the CHRIST.
(Acts 2:36)Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
There is no other person who is another Christ. All prophets in the Bible were part of the word but He Jesus Christ was the full Word of God.
Is it not only Jesus Christ who came to express this fullness of God and in whom was written the volume of the Book?
(Hebrews 10:7) Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do thy will, O God. (Psalm 40:7).
He is the logos in the written form.
(John 5:39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
No other book bear this record apart from the Sacred Scriptures. He is the revealed Word of God. Though many good books, tapes, sermons could testify to this fact but can only point to it.
Notice that the prophecy of Isaiah 9:6 calls for a SON, not a child, to be given as a sacrifice for sin (cf. John.3:16-18). Hence, the Anointed Man, Jesus, is called the last Adam or the second Man in contrast to the first Adam or first man who was created and made a man, a son of God, and not a child. Also, God never once appeared in Theophany as a baby, a child or even a youth because the Word Body always appeared as a mature person.
(John 1:14) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth..
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord” (Lk.4:18-19, cf. Isa.42:6-7; 61:1. Read also John 1:32; 3:34).
With the WORD incarnated in Him, Jesus was able to lay down His life to bring forth fruits.
(John 11:25-26)“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die…” .
(1 Cor 15:45) Jesus was no longer just a living soul, He “was made a quickening spirit”, a life-giving spirit
That the fullness of the Godhead had dwelt in Christ Jesus bodily did not imply that the whole heaven was drained of the Almighty Spirit completely. God, who is a SPIRIT being, is always OMNIPRESENT (because He is omnipotent and omniscient). So, not all of God was in Christ Jesus, but all that God was was in Christ Jesus. The body of Jesus was merely the dwelling place (the temple) and the full representation (glory) of God. In other words, God put His Spirit without measure in the Son. Jesus was, therefore, the full expression of God’s attributes.
A very important statement made by Jesus is found in His prayer in John 17:3. He said,
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
This statement clearly supports the truth of One True God and that Jesus Christ was sent as the direct manifestation. Jesus Christ is the Life of God. He is THE WORD of Life.
(1 Corinthians 15:28) and when all things shall be *subdued* unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that *God may be all in all*.
( Revelation 10:7 ) But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
The mystery of God is hinted both in the old testament and then coming to the new testament .
The “ *Mystery of God* ” is actually hinted in the Old Testament. It had been wrapped in mystery in the prophecies, by the prophets, on how God would show His Mercy to the Gentiles . (Isaiah 11:10, Isaiah 42:6, Isaiah 49:6,Isaiah 49:22 , Isaiah 60:3, Isaiah 62:2, Jeremiah 16: 19)
*As it was declared to his servants the prophets* To Abraham the prophet of the LORD, God established His Covenant :
(Genesis 17:7) And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
(Galatians 3:29) And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise Progressively this declaration concerning the Gentiles being grafted into the promised word of God in the old testament are read as follows :
(Isaiah 11:10) And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
(Isaiah 42:6) I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.
(Isaiah 49:22 ) Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
(Isaiah 60:3) And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
(Jeremiah 16:19) O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
In the New Testament, Paul revealed that God had made known to him this mystery, which was hidden before the foundation of the world, “that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the Gospel” (Eph.3:6).
(Ephesians 3:2-6) If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) . Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel.
(Romans 16:25-26) Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.
(Romans 11:24-25) For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Now, the purpose of the precious message of the Seventh Church Age Messenger, William Marrion Branham is to separate the Wheat from the Tares, and the True Believers from the Make-believers and Unbelievers. (Read Matthew 13.)
It aims to lead the Elect out of darkness and out of the bondage of the world and its religious systems into God’s Divine Word . And as the true elected members of the Body of Christ are being gathered into the WORD, the “ *Mystery of God* ” ( *which is the Dispensation of Grace to the Gentiles* ) shall be drawn to a close. So, the “ *Mystery of God” should be (not is) finished* . Yes, the grafting of the wild olive tree would have been accomplished. And until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, the Gospel cannot be returned to Israel. (Read Romans 11.)
Note: It is clear that in the “Mystery of God” the Gentile Church has become a part of THE COVENANT which God had made with Abraham, and which He had declared unto His Old Testament prophets .
Yes, “In the days” of the ministry of the Seventh Angel (to the Laodicean Church Age) when he shall begin to sound forth his voice , *his message* – the “Mystery of God”, which God had made known to His prophets of old, should (ought to) be finished (accomplished, fulfilled). And when that happens, time shall no longer delay the return of the Lord’s Christ. Hence, the “Mystery of God” is the period of time which God had allocated for the grafting of the Gentiles into His Promised Word, just “as He had declared to His servants, the (Old Testament) prophets* ”.
If God created everything, did God create the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19? Why is it so destructive? Is it God’s fault?
Genesis 1:31 tells us that immediately after creation week, “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good” (emphasis added throughout). If that is true, did God create the COVID-19 virus? The answer is both “yes” and “no.”
What we know and don’t know about microorganisms
First, we need to remember that God created all life-forms on earth, and all life is extremely complex.
“There’s been a huge amount of progress in the past several decades as well as ongoing studies in cell biology labs around the world to understand how aspects of our cells work and what happens when they stop working properly in disease and aging, but there’s still an astonishing amount that we don’t understand about this fundamental unit of life” (“5 Things We (Still) Don’t Know About Cells,” Allen Institute for Cell Science, Sept. 24, 2018).
Within this complex world of “life,” God created microscopic entities called bacteria. Bacteria are essential to the survival of higher life-forms, including humans. However, many types of bacteria can be either beneficial or detrimental, depending on where they are and how many there are.
For a human to be in perfect health, the thousands of species of bacteria—totaling trillions of bacterial cells—must all be in an enormously complex, harmonious balance. Likewise, the bacteria in the plant and animal world—including our environment and food sources—must all be in perfect, harmonious balance. Of course we know that is not always the case in our world.
God also created viruses. We typically think of a virus as being only harmful; but there are beneficial viruses that assist in the development of our immune systems, and others that destroy harmful bacteria or even other dangerous viruses.
As defined by the MedicineNet article “Medical Definition of Virus,” a virus is “a microorganism that is smaller than a bacterium that cannot grow or reproduce apart from a living cell. A virus invades living cells and uses their chemical machinery to keep itself alive and to replicate itself. It may reproduce with fidelity or with errors (mutations); this ability to mutate is responsible for the ability of some viruses to change slightly.”
Notice the part about reproducing with errors (mutations). A built-in capacity to become modified was a part of the original viruses God created.
Notice the part about reproducing with errors (mutations). A built-in capacity to become modified was a part of the original viruses God created.
A world cursed and cut off from God
Also remember that ever since the first humans rejected God’s authority (see Genesis 3), the world has been cut off from God and not functioning under His rule.
As Christ told His disciples shortly before His death, “I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me” (John 14:30). The ruler of this world is Satan, from whose mind all the evils and suffering of this world have sprung.
This world of futility will be replaced by a better world
Romans 8:20-21 describes this current world in contrast to a perfect world that is coming in the future, with the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth:
“For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
God allowed the creation to be “subjected to futility” and under the “bondage of corruption” because mankind rejected His rule and the blessings it brought. But when Jesus Christ returns and God’s rule is restored on earth, the world will be freed from “futility” and “corruption”—as mankind learns to obey God and enjoy the blessings obedience brings.
“The LORD will take away from you all sickness”
After God delivered Israel from slavery in Egypt, He told them, “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
“You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock. And the LORD will take away from you all sickness” (Deuteronomy 7:12-15).
The perfect, ingenious Designer has built into His creation the dynamic—or law—of cause and effect, which is predicated upon His eternal, living laws. In ways far above our understanding, the bottom line is that when God’s laws are obeyed, the creation is in harmonious balance and provides health, happiness and every good thing. When God’s laws are defied, the intricate balance of those wondrous systems breaks down, and every unpleasant consequence results.
Yes, God created viruses, but no, COVID-19 is not His fault
Did God create the virus that causes COVID-19? Yes and no. Yes, God originally created viruses as part of His astoundingly intricate—and good—creation. But the novel coronavirus—and its rapid global spread—came about as a result of the capacity for viruses to become modified, along with a world cursed by the consequences of sin and led by its ruler, Satan the devil.
In this world, the wonderful balance God intended for His creation has been devastated on many levels. In the world to come, that balance will be restored as part of the future “restoration of all things” (Acts 3:21).
COVID-19 is yet another reason we should pray daily, “Your kingdom come” (Matthew 6:10).
(Revelation 2:6) But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
(Revelation 2:15) So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
The Word of God is the absolute that direct the path of every true seed. *Nicolaitanism* is a doctrine adopted into Christianity which has no root in the word of God. Anything that has no root in God’s word is anti (the word of God) or simply against Christ. The mystery of iniquity is this: That men put their will above the perfect Will of God
No wonder in this era of this Endtime, God is gathering his seed and so is the Enemy (Satan), also gathering the tares.
Nicolaitane come from the word of Nicko, N-i-c-k-o. Nicko, which means “ to conquer or to overthrow.” Nico-laitanes, “overthrow or conquer the laity.” In the early church history the five fold ministerial gifts were in place in the Church of the living God . After the Apostles slept, the enemy introduced a doctrine (Nicolaitanism) such that they were going to have some Arc- bishops, and popes, and so forth. But Jesus Christ hated it . He hates it yet today what do we see in the religious mainstream ?.
Nico-laitanes, (Nicko, “overcome”) or, “overthrow the laity.” The laity is “the church.” To “Overthrow or conquer, or take place of the laity.”
Thus, taking out of the church the resurrected Lord Jesus with signs and wonders among the believers, and put men voted in to be. In other words, an overseer trying to take the Holy Ghost away from the laity and give it to an order called; *the holy order of men, placing them over the laity.
*Simply it is a doctrine that takes the Holy Ghost out as the Leader, and give them a holy order of men, and place them over the laity. *
This doctrine has no root in the word of God but rather the Bible spoke against it all the time. If you are an elect of God, you would not even dare adding to God’s word.
Many a time you would see a little assembly springing up, at a little time they become so organized and develop into something else. Not taking its grounds on the word. This is the spirit which promotes hierarchical system in the things of God.
Jesus Christ said this to his disciples:
(Mark 10:42–44) But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great one’s exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Jesus Christ taught his disciples never to assume anyone being the chiefest
( Mathew 23:10-11) Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
True servant of God never take this honor for themselves and calling themselves names for you to know how holier or nearer they are to God.
(Hebrews 5:4-6) And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto him, thou art my Son, today have I begotten thee. *
Anyone who assume a position that belongs to Jesus Christ is standing on a dangerous ground.
(Colossians 1:18) And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
You may call Jesus Christ the Chief shepherd. He is Apostle of apostles, Prophet of prophets, Teacher of teachers and more so the master of the flock .
(1 Peter 5:4) And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Believers should really accord respect to servants of God and esteem them highly but not in a way of unbiblical grounds which tamper with the word of God. An organizational spirit will lift up a man and not Christ as being the head.
Some of these Nicolaitan names include
*Pope, Archbishop, Most Reverend, very most Reverend, General Overseer, Senior Pastor (As in denominational Head), Founder and general Bishop, Chief Warrior and so forth, just to mention a few. *
If Jesus Christ hates it, then flee from such heresy.
Without holiness no man can see the Lord the Holy Scriptures declare
(2Timothy 2:19) Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let everyone that nameth the name of Christ departs from iniquity
(John 9:3) Man was created in the *image* and *likeness* of God until sin came to Marr that glorious image of God which is a spiritual death.
Death means separation from God. When Man broke the commandment of God, he dis -fellowshipped from God’s presence. Sin has brought death to the whole World and the entire human race.
In the Old Testament iniquity is visited upon children and until the fourth generation.
(Exodus 20:5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
For the Sin committed at the garden of Eden, didn’t only affect a fourth generation but the whole human race.
It required that something be made to redeem man from sin. The fig leaves used by Adam and Eve to cover their nakedness, couldn’t take away their Sin. It takes God’s own blood through our Lord Jesus Christ to take away this Sin.
But did you ever stop to think what it cost to have it? Did you ever realize just the price that’s behind it; what judgment was and what the penalty of sin was? How cruel must sin be, when it caused the Son of God to go to Calvary, and God would strike Him, and turn His face from Him, and smite Him, and He would be afflicted.
The nature of God is Holiness.
(Isaiah 6:2-3) Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
(1 Peter 1:16) Because it is written, be ye holy; for I am holy.
Today many false teachings are being propagated leading men to continue with their sinful lives. One of such doctrines is, once you become a Christian, it doesn’t matter what you do.
Apostle Paul gave this rebuke:
(Romans 6:1-2) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Many who are ignorant follow this belief and are wallowing in sin, claiming they are still saved.
This last church age has seen a lot of women in the religious mainstream wearing garments that never portrayed any inner beauty in them but displaying of indecency such as women trousers (Duet 22:5), miniskirts and some other jewelries’ just to mention a few. (Isaiah 3:16-26).
William Braham the prophet of God, forewarned this generation of a moral decay where morality has been relegated to nothing. We have seen the insanity on the streets today where women are almost naked on the streets, invading of lesbianism and gayism and how so many countries are being forced to imbibe into it. The Bible foretold it earlier.
(Luke 17:26-30) And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise, also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed.
These are examples to us to know that the Lord will not spare if we fall short of it. God never spared the angels and how much less humans.
(2 Peter 2:4-7) For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked
*God’s Provision*
God has made a provision for us through His Son our Lord Jesus Christ and the blood of His covenant. In these days of the last church age, there is a message on the land, pointing us to the Son (Christ Jesus) which is the light of God’s word, only in that can we resist the pressures of sin.
(Hebrews 3:15) While it is said, today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. *
(Hebrews 10:14) For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.
(Hebrews10:17) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
(Hebrews10:18) Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST 