Last Days Timeline, A literal interpretation of biblical prophecy, second edition by Gregory Supina - HTML preview

in a restored relationship through the atonement of Jesus’ sacrificial blood. On top of this, they add the sin of worshipping Mammon, by esteeming and serving money, selfish ambition and worldly careers, by making decisions which affect life and love based upon financial considerations., in the same way the secular citizens of Satan’s world order do. And they pursue gain through violent and unjust warfare against their siblings in God’s family of humankind, then strive to become elite rulers of hierarchical systems, so they might be served instead of serving others through the spirit’s love.

If anyone esteems and serves anyone or anything other the High King and only authoritative Teacher, who is our Creator God, that one is an idolater. This includes the worship of oneself. Or, if anyone takes to heart the doctrines and precepts of anyone or anything in opposition to the teachings of the Holy Spirit’s to our human spirits, to live by that counsel of false gods, then that one is indeed worshipping that authoritative person or thing as one's god, as the ruler of one's own destiny. As soon as anyone adheres to “the doctrines of man,” one is a humanist who worships man, and cannot truly worship God. Yet this is exactly what we have seen Israel do during its entire Roman captivity, for 1800 years. Throughout their exile, Israel has embraced humanistic doctrines and worshipped man.

Even before the second century, many in Israel adopted the religion of Greco-Roman humanism, beginning with Platonic anthropological doctrines that no longer differentiated between the mind of the human spirit and the mind of flesh. They also followed many pagan customs, such as Babylon’s custom of wearing a head coverings while praying. Then they embraced more pagan beliefs as time went on. They wallowed in the dead and lifeless precepts of the men who loved themselves and their possessions more than God. Thus, they definitely worshipped pagan gods. Especially after the 19th century, after Napoleon's “emancipation” and his strong humanistic influence, the majority of Jews in the world fully adopted the religion of secular humanism, and overtly worshipped human gods.

Israel has long forgotten God's intended spiritual meanings of His words and His law, and followed the traditions of their human gods for two millenniums. They have syncretized countless humanistic teachings with biblical teachings, always in ways which have corrupted or completely nullified God's Word. Yes, some still outwardly revered a wooden box with a scroll of the Old Covenant Scriptures in it, and worshipped the physical paper and ink which recorded the words of God's Law. But they cared nothing for God’s intended meanings of those words, nor sought the just, equitable and loving life which God’s actions throughout history exemplified. So their reverence for that box amounts to nothing more than the worship of a wooden idol. And they did this in stone buildings which they also worshipped. But their spirits in their hearts refused to heed the words God gave for their spirits. Yet they all saw how none of the true prophets sent by God, nor any of His other faithful servants, ever did such things. All true servants of God cared nothing for scrolls or temples of stone, but only for meanings of God’s words and the Holy Spirit of God inside His stone temple. They all sought only God's opinion, caring nothing for man’s opinions, even when men burned their scrolls or their temple. God taught Israel this lesson many times in history, yet they still do not love that truth.

Still, Israel’s foolishness came from delusions sent by God Himself, and God not only cast them into those delusions as a punishment for their loveless sins and lies, but also because that foolishness has preserved His Word in this world. Then their delusions have also kept the physical descendants of Jacob separate and distinct, as God's priesthood,. So their delusions have not been nearly as harmful as the delusions that God cast the rest of the world into, nothing like the Satanic humanism of the secular Roman psychopaths we have seen throughout history. The stupid, insane, dark delusions of the oppressive Gentile secular humanists throughout history are staggering, such as those of the torturing and plundering Roman Catholics, the murdering and enslaving colonialists, the totally ruthless French Revolutionaries, the soulless Nazis, the merciless Russian and Chinese Communists,

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the deadly and destructive Western Capitalists, and so on. But the exile of deluded Jews has served a good purpose in the end, for it preserved Israel as a distinct people throughout two millenniums, and did eventually lead to a restoration of a remnant of Israel, as many began to return to their homeland.

Now some might argue that Moses’ prophecy was not speaking about the expulsion of the Jews in the second century. Yet Moses told us how Israel would be plucked from their land in a severe way, where God actually “took delight” in ruining and destroying their vile and hypocritical identity with Him, as His people. But look at the captivity of the northern kingdom of Israel in Assyria (722 BC) and the captivity of southern kingdom in Babylon (586 BC). We never saw the kind of slaughter, enslaving and expulsion of Israel that we saw during the first and second centuries AD. After Rome put down the first Jewish revolt in AD 70, the second Jewish temple was destroyed, just as it was by Babylon in 586 BC. But the Babylonians left a remnant of Jews in the land and treated the captive Jews comparatively well. Then Persia conquered Babylon and one of her kings returned the Jews to their land, and another king helped to rebuild God’s temple, within 70 years of Babylon’s conquest.

Nothing like that happened after the Romans destroyed the temple and sent Israel into captivity. Rather, Roman oppression continued in the land of Israel, inciting a second Jewish-Roman war by about AD 132. When that second rebellion ended in AD 135, it resulted in an extreme, extensive and massive destruction of all Jewish communities in Israel, as well as the slaughter of 580 thousand Jews, not including the starvation of countless others, or the enslaving of many thousands. Then Rome forced deportation of almost all Jews from Judea and renamed their land “Palestine.” From that day on, the land of Israel was always outright owned by factions of the modern Roman Empire, which includes the Ottoman Empire. Gentile Roman humanists owned Israel right up to the 20th century, in spite of God granting the eternal stewardship of His land to Israel, and in spite of the fact that God forbids anyone to own any land, nor any entity upon any land, because all belongs to Him alone. Then, for almost 2,000 years, Roman factions have systematically persecuted Israel. Later, when the Muslims took Israel, they even taxed trees, which caused the residents to cut down all its forests. Warring armies also poisoned Israel’s waters to prevent enemies from marching across it. Thus, the people there abandoned farms and pastures, transforming Israel into a virtual wasteland. So this Roman destruction and forced exile of all of Israel is surely what Moses prophesied about.

After most of Israel had adopted the religion of Roman humanism, it had become exceedingly evil and factious. And that is when God caused Rome to destroy her. Israel was not simply immoral and worshipping Baals, as they did in other times. Rather, most Jews became humanists and were worshipping man, which is far worse. For their humanism caused them to persecute and kill one another, as each ambitious wanna-be human god falsely claimed ruling authority in the name of Yahweh God. Then, during the last Jewish-Roman war, Israel followed a false messiah called Bar Kochba (or Kokhba). And he was an angel of death, filling the land with hatred, lies and unjust violence. Like the Gentile Roman humanists, he too relied on the cunning and strength of men, not upon God. He was not a light in the dark world, but preached the same darkness espoused by all the other slaves of Satan's world order. During that revolt, the Jews murdered Jewish Christians and other Jews who would not join their rebellion. Then they murdered unarmed or captive Roman soldiers and civilians too. Of course, the secular Roman humanists had been murdering Jews as well, which is where those humanistic Jews got the idea of murdering Romans. But the Jewish murdering of Roman soldiers and citizens horrified Rome, and became their official reason for hating all Jews.

Rome continued to persecute Jewish people forever after the Bar Kochba rebellion. And this hatred was perpetuated by Rome’s false humanistic church, the Great Prostitute. To this day, the factions of both theistic and secular Roman humanism continue this endless war against Israel, the war which

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Daniel and other prophets warned Israel about. Also, because the Jews later realized that their very Roman humanist, Bar Kochba, was a false messiah, but still wanted to slander Jesus (to prevent their people from believing in their true Messiah), they systematically muddied all their interpretations of the Messianic prophecies in the Scriptures, even interpretations they taught for centuries. The second century was when they began to “spiritualize” Messianic prophecies, when they began to say they were so allegorical and obscure that no one could know what they meant. And, to this day, they still nullify the Scriptures about the Messiah, certainly all the Scriptures that prove Jesus is their Messiah.

Thus, looking at all this evidence, we are forced to conclude that the prophecy of Moses was indeed referring to the time that Rome deported all Israel from their land. Also, Jesus spoke about this Roman destruction while His disciples were admiring the beauty of their Jerusalem temple. He told them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down” (Mat. 24:2, ESV). Furthermore, Jesus said this to Jerusalem:

Luke 19:42-44: “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for

peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your

enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side

and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave

one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation” (ESV).

This certainly proved true. Because the humanistic Jews bowed before hypocritical rabbis, who had transformed God’s Law from a guide to loving justice into physical rule upon rule and carnal precept upon precept, God handed them over to the delusions they cherished. So the Jews knew nothing of God’s truths, which are “the things that make for peace.” In fact, even as they were surrounded in Jerusalem in AD 70, as their people were starving and dying, different humanistic Jewish factions, who each worshipped different Jewish human gods, murdered one another behind the city’s besieged walls. Then, after the horrors of this rebellion against Rome, they set another king before themselves (Deut. 28:36), so they could once more make war against Rome, their worshipped humanist named Bar Kochba. Then they not only killed innocent Gentiles, but also murdered other Jews. Therefore, because they did now know the time of their true Messiah’s peaceful visitation, and joined with the beast’s Roman army to murder His body of flesh, God sent Israel’s ally to destroy her and cast the remnant of her people out of her eternally promised lands. And there Israel would remain until shortly before the end times, until God brought some back to Israel to rebuild His temple for their Messiah’s return. So, if Israel did not believe Jesus when He prophesied about her destruction, and also believed that their Messiah would not die on cross, as Psalm 22 and Isaiah 53 declared, they should have believed Daniel’s prophecy, that they would have nothing after the Messiah’s death:

Daniel 9:26, (WEB): “After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off off, and

shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the

sanctuary.”

Daniel prophesied that the Messiah would be “cut off” (killed) by the prince and the people of the fourth kingdom, who are the Romans. So the true King and Messiah of Israel, the heir to David’s throne, “shall have nothing” at that time, meaning He will not rule Israel and the rest of the world at that time. Then “the people of the prince” (who are the people of the fourth kingdom, that is, the Roman Empire, which belongs to the future demon-inhabited “prince” called the beast, “shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.” That is, Daniel prophesied that Rome would destroy Jerusalem and its temple. Since Daniel gave this prophecy after the first temple's destruction in 586 BC, he was speaking about the destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem. And that second temple was

 

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destroyed by Rome in AD 70. And there has never been a third temple built since then. However, Rome did not destroy Jerusalem in AD 70. Rome did not destroy Jerusalem until AD 135. Thus, since Daniel prophesied that both would be destroyed after the Messiah (the “Anointed One” of Israel) had come and was “cut off,” both were destroyed after Jesus’ body died, within a period of about 70 years of Israel’s rebellion against the fourth kingdom (i.e., it began in AD 66 and ended in AD 135). So all that Daniel prophesied came true, exactly as he said it would, yet Israel denies it.

Then Ezekiel gave another warning to Jerusalem, about the time of the Babylonian invasion of their land and city, just before she began her Babylonian captivity in the Gentile wilderness, where some Jews remained in the diaspora until the last century. Now Daniel, while in the Babylonian captivity, said that Israel would fail to receive the New Covenant of the Messiah, with its atonement for sin until a latter time. And Ezekiel, who was also a contemporary of Daniel and Jeremiah, had learned directly from God as well as from Jeremiah’s prophecy about God’s New Covenant. But God, through Ezekiel, rebuked only the sins of natural Israel, saying God Himself would need to cleanse that false church from her sins in the latter days. Only then would she enter the New Covenant of salvation from lies and sins through the Messiah, that is, when Jesus finally returned to the earth.

Ezekiel 16:32-34,40-42,46-63, (ESV): “Adulterous wife [Here God is speaking to Judah and

Jerusalem, the ‘sister’ of Israel’s tribes to the north,. The northern tribes were called Israel, and the southern

tribes were called Judah. Jerusalem and its temple, with the presence of God were actually in the tribal regions

of Benjamin, but this was part of Judah, although that temple existed for all Israelites, not just for Judah.] ,

who receives strangers instead of her Husband! [Israel’s and Jerusalem’s ‘Husband’ is God. So God is

here accusing Israel of worshipping false gods, such as human gods, instead of Him.] Men give gifts to all

prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from

every side with your whorings. So you were different from other women in your whorings.

No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given

to you; therefore you were different.... They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they

shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. And they shall burn your houses and

execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the

whore, and you shall also give payment no more. So will I satisfy My wrath on you, and My

jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.

Judah and Jerusalem paid false Jewish teachers who had adopted and syncretized Babylonian traditions with biblical teachings. She even sent and paid for pagan Babylonian scholars and officials to visit her and give her religious counsel, then further syncretized their pagan beliefs and practices with her false worship of Yahweh, the God of Israel. Judah also gave gifts to pagan lands, like Egypt and Assyria, to bribe them to fight for her against her enemies. Thus, Judah and Jerusalem became a spiritual prostitute, an adulterous bride of God. But the pagan nations that Jerusalem and her priests and her kings admired so much acted in ways that were utterly ruthless and thoroughly unjust toward the people, especially toward the poor. To those pagans, human lives had no value other than the amount they could exploit for each one’s own personal profit. Thus, if God’s priesthood and bride admired them more than Him, then He would hand them over to their greatly esteemed Babylonians.

Judah and Jerusalem thought they were worshipping Yahweh in a perfectly right and devout way, even while they also worshipped demonic pagan gods and heeded their unjust counsel at the same time. Briefly, one king of Judah, Josiah, cleansed the city and the surrounding territory of idols and objects of pagan worship, and also stopped the sacrifice of children to the demon Baal. But no human ruler, not with any amount of physical force and censorship, could cleanse their spirits and remove the corrupting lies from the minds of those spirits. Only God can do this. Then Josiah’s

 

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successors immediately returned to the false worship practised in Judah. Still, in spite of all Judah’s horrible sins and crimes, Ezekiel also spoke about God’s wrath departing from Jerusalem at a future time. There would come an appointed time when God would be calm again, no longer angry with her, although this would be long after God destroyed her through her lovers, Babylon and Rome.

“And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your

younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. Not only did you

walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were

more corrupt than they in all your ways. As I live, declares the Lord [Yahweh], your sister

Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. Behold, this

was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and

prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an

abomination before Me. So I removed them, when I saw it.”

Here Israel’s northern tribes are called Jerusalem’s ‘elder sister and Samaria. And Samaria was the first to spiritually prostitute herself, by syncretizing the doctrines of Baal and other Assyrian gods with the teachings of God. Thus, Samaria was the first to be destroyed by God through her “lovers,” that is, by the Assyrians. But the northern tribes of Judah later did exactly the same thing, which made Judah worse than Samaria, because they should have learned from Samaria’s downfall. Thus, God called Judah by the name of “Sodom,” after the exceedingly wicked city that God destroyed in Abraham’s day. Then God mentions their “daughters,” and the Jews referred to religious gatherings of their people, what we might call synagogues or churches, as the “daughters” of their land. So the “daughters” of Israel’s northern tribes are the false churches in her. After Israel/Samaris separated from the southern tribes of Judah in the days of Rehoboam (c. 931 BC), they built false temples for themselves and immediately began to worship false gods. Then they only grew worse over the years, incredibly unjust and exploitative, without even a hint of repentance throughout their existence, and totally disregarded all of God’s rebukes. So this is why God utterly destroyed Samaria in the end.

Here the southern tribes of Israel, in Judah, who are also figuratively called Sodom, were portrayed as the “younger sister” of Samaria, because they took a little longer to fall into the same sins as her corrupting “older sister.” Judah only began to fully syncretize the doctrines of demon gods, the precepts of the new Assyrian kingdom of Babylon, as well as adopt Babylon’s hierarchical systems and unjust secular ways, after Israel/Samaria did. Judah learned their corruptions from the Samaritan and Assyrian/Babylonian false teachers in Jerusalem. And again, Judah’s “daughters” would refer to the false churches in her land. Jerusalem and Judah, with her “daughters” even became worse than Israel/Samaria. Although Samaria fell in 722 BC, and Judah remained relatively unharmed for more than a century after that, Judah learned nothing from the way Samaria was plundered from her own pagan “lover,” even though God had prophesied her demise in great detail long before it occurred.

Judah and Jerusalem still stood when Ezekiel made this prophecy. But Jerusalem was not spared because of her righteousness! Rather, God’s temple and the entire land had been repeatedly defiled by kings and by the people, and only remained relatively unharmed through God’s grace, while God was still sending His prophets to her and demanding her repentance. But her pride in her own false righteousness and fake wisdom caused her to stubbornly refuse to repent. And this is the only reason God that destroyed her. But God did not allow Babylon to destroy all of Jerusalem. Babylon left most of Jerusalem intact. That city was only utterly destroyed—in a way that caused all the Jews to be removed from Jerusalem’s midst, in order to transform it into a completely pagan city—by the Romans in AD 135. So it was only during the Roman destruction that this prophecy by Ezekiel was

 

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fulfilled. God “removed” or exiled the Judean remnants of Israel when He called the fourth kingdom of Rome to destroy her, because of her sins, after she became an idolatrous humanistic abomination.

Eventually, every humanistic false church commits all these sins. And notice God did not condemn Jerusalem’s sexual sins, which were also numerous. Although God compares Jerusalem to Sodom, God said nothing here about her sexual orgies, homosexuality and child sacrifices. Rather, God struck at the root cause of her other sins, such as the kinds of sexual exploitation practised in both Sodom and Jerusalem. It was their selfish, egocentric worship of false gods, especially themselves and other esteemed human beings, which caused their other sins. Thus, God here condemned their idolatrous self-indulgence, along with her selfish lack of charity and cruel arrogance above all, as the greatest of their “abominations” in His eyes. Greed and an insensitivity to the plight of the poor and needy is always an undeniable sign of a “haughty,” self-esteeming, self-worshipping, false church, one who thinks their doctrines, invented by men and demons, are superior to God’s loving and just teachings. Such sins will always be an “abomination” no matter how many churches practise them.

“Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than

they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have

committed. Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters.

Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the

right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your

sisters appear righteous.”

It was indeed an insult for Judah and Jerusalem to be called worse than Samaria, since they had treated Samaria as a grossly inferior, polluted and corrupted neighbour for almost a century. But, even though Judeans made sacrifices in Jerusalem and performed rituals in God’s temple, and all in the name of Yahweh, they merely did so because they thought they could win God’s favour and thus manipulate Him. In other words, they treated the real Creator God just like the pagans treated their demonic gods. So Judah denigrated and insulted Yahweh through their worship, especially since they claimed to worship Him while they exploited the poor and disobeyed all His other just and loving laws as well. They were not truly serving in His name, nor esteeming and honouring His name through their worship, but actually slandering His name, and were thus doing the exact opposite of worshipping Him. Since all their decisions and all their works were done in the names of their lying rabbis or in their own names, through their own thoughts of their own minds of flesh, none served anyone in God’s name. In fact, their false religion taught the people to be arrogant, ruthless and greedy, which is how sinners worship Satan, not the real God. And Satan’s children were the ones who prospered and flourished most in those false churches, in the same way they do in Satan’s world order. Thus, because Israel was eternally associated with Yahweh’s good name, but did nothing good or loving to be associated with His name, God was obliged to eventually remove His presence from them by destroying His own temple, and by scattering them into Satan’s world order with the rest.

Israel no longer did anything for Yahweh, nothing from genuinely humble and contrite spirits, nothing through honest love and a deep respect for the Father of their elect spirits. In fact, they marginalized, cast out and persecuted the true prophets and the heavenly Father’s true spiritual children. For they hated the true and faithful elect, because they hated the real God, who demanded costly justice and equity, and did not allow exploitation for personal profits and pleasures. It was through their hatred of God that they dared to merge the doctrines of men and devils with the teachings of God. Yes, they physically partook in a few of God’s feasts and rituals, but only because they were fed and could use them to gratify their lustful and greedy minds of flesh, to appease their own carnal appetites and intentions. They did not attend God’s commanded rituals to remember God

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and His ways, not to fulfill God’s just and loving desires and intentions. And, in reality, their sin of fake worship was a worse sin than murder and adultery, since that selfishness promoted all the sins of the flesh, including murder, sexual immorality and theft. And, since Samaria merely worshipped the sexually immoral and violent Baals in the names of those Baals, not in God’s name, Judah had sinned far more than Samaria. For Judah had made the name of Yahweh synonymous with their sins.

Judah even stole from God Himself. For they refused to offer what God intended to be used for His good works, for helping women without husbands, orphans, the poor and the homeless immigrants. Instead, they kept their tithes and other offerings for themselves, for self-indulgent pleasures. And that kind of negligence towards siblings in the family of humankind is a form of self-worship, which breaks the first, second, third, fourth and eighth order commandments (all of the first four of the Ten Commandments and its prohibition against theft). So Judah committed sins which wer far worse than the last six commandments, since the Ten Commandments were given in the order of their priority, as was the custom in the days of Moses. Their idolatrous self-worship broke the first two of the Ten Commandments, and all the other laws associated with them. Then their deliberate false doctrines broke the third of the Ten Commandments, and all the other laws associated with that. And, because of these, they never received true atonement in their relationship with God, so they could never enter His Sabbath rest either. So their breaking of these first four of the Ten Commandments, and all the other laws associated with them, made them more repulsive to God than those who commit sins like murder, sexual immorality, theft, slander and covetousness. Yet Judah also sinned in those ways as well. Thus, Judah’s false churches clearly deserved to be called filthy “abominations.”

And now we need to remember this, since almost all the churches today commit the same sins that Judah and Jerusalem did back then, because today’s churches also syncretize the religious lies of men and demons with the words of God, the wrath of God is also about to fall upon them during the end times. Judah and Jerusalem also sacrificed their children on alters to Baal, just as our churches do today, in many ways, such as by ignoring their children through selfish ambitions, to advance their careers in the name of the demon Mammon, or through the use of abortions as birth control (although God does allow abortions for medical and compassionate reasons). God recognizes that today’s churches partakes in exactly the same “abominations” that Israel and Judah committed back in Ezekiel’s day. And today’s churches have received more truths than Judah and Israel did in the days of ancient Assyria and Babylon, since the first advent of the Messiah has already occurred. So, with God’s Word available to all, and with God’s Holy Spirit available to all, today’s churches have less of an excuse for their many greedy, exploitative, ruthless sins. Therefore, their punishment in the end times will be worse than that received by either ancient Israel or ancient Judah. Yet the churches today continue to syncretize pagan Platonic doctrines with the teachings of God’s Word, and refuse to stop their exploitation of siblings in the family of humankind. In fact, they grow worse every year.

However, all that happened to ancient Judah and Israel occurred for a good purpose, to scatter His priesthood throughout the world, so they could eventually proclaim their Creator’s just and equitable love throughout the world, when they learn to serve and esteem Yahweh again. Likewise, the ever-growing apostasy of today’s churches is also for God’s purpose, to create a dichotomy, to force the true elect out of those false humanistic churches, so He can welcome them into His true, sacrificial, just, equitable and loving New Covenant church during the revival of the sixth seal’s era. In the end, all the elect will be healed, perfected and completed on our last day, together at the gates of heaven.

“I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom [Judah] and her daughters [her

assemblies or churches], and the fortunes of Samaria [the scattered northern tribes of Israel] and her

daughters, and I will restore your [Jerusalem’s] own fortunes in their midst, that you may bear

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your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them. As

for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and

her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to

your former state. Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your

pride, before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach

for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines,

those all around who despise you. You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your

abominations, declares [Yahweh].”

Here God promised that, in the future, in spite of all their destructive sins, He will restore the tribes in Judah and the city of Jerusalem, as well as the northern tribes of Israel called Samaria. For, in the end, God, not man, will make Jerusalem a place of worship, both for the elect Jews and the elect Gentiles. But God is not going to restore Jerusalem for the humanistic churches who falsely claim to have replaced the old Israel, nor for the secular white supremacists or Muslims, especially not for those who ruthlessly persecute and slander the Jews. And, of course, this prophecy is speaking about God doing this in the end times, not long before our Jewish Messiah will return. When Jesus returns, all will be restored in full. For God shall then cleanse the true Israel, all the elect souls who are the physical descendants of Jacob. Then God’s Holy Spirit will teach their spirits directly, causing them to repent into His truth and out of their sins. Yahweh Himself will purify them and make them just, righteous, equitable and loving, so all their spirits will spontaneously serve, esteem and love Him.

Ezekiel was not the only one who prophesied this redemption of all Judah and all Israel. All the other Jewish prophets and the Jewish apostles prophesied this too. And that makes it impossible to believe the replacement theology of the false humanistic churches, who claim that God has forever rejected the descendants of Jacob, and started a new Gentile church from scratch, that is their own humanistic church, with their exploitative hierarchies of vain human men. In reality, God is not as fickle as they would have us believe, but is always faithful, and entirely able to redeem His own elect from all the lies and sins that have trapped them. His earthly punishments, including the deaths of our temporary flesh, may seem harsh to our temporary flesh. But the fact remains that our spirits cannot die, and the judgment day at the gates of heaven will not be an earthly day of 24 hours, but rather stretch out as long as God chooses, until every child born in His image is entirely redeemed by His own teaching and training on that day. Furthermore, He will redeem many into His true church during the end times, including the entire remnant of Jacob’s physical descendants, both from Judah and Samaria.

When Israel separated from Judah in the days of Rehoboam, and Jeroboam led the northern tribes into idolatry and blasphemy by creating golden calves for them to worship in Dan and Bethel, and even called those pagan-like idols by the name of “Yahweh,” Jerusalem condemned the northern tribes of Israel/Samaria. But during the days of Ezekiel, Jerusalem had been committing the same kinds of false worship, even in a more insidious manner. For Jerusalem did not openly erect idols of physical gold and falsely call them by the name of “Yahweh.” Instead of making physical idols, which the devout could see with their eyes of flesh and reject as blasphemy, the priests tricked the devout, by syncretizing the pagan doctrines of their foreign friends with the teachings of the Bible, in subtle ways that most common souls could not readily discern. Although some overtly apostate Jews in Judah and Jerusalem also erected shrines for the worship of demon gods like Asherah right in the temple of Yahweh (see II Kings, et al.), this was not the principal way that the devil’s children were corrupting God’s church. Rather, the unfaithful priests mostly polluted the hearts of God’s people by tolerating acts of injustice, exploitation, greed and immorality in the church and, more importantly, cunningly altering God’s intended meanings of His words to condone those evil deeds and cruel sins.

 

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The priests and elders, who were to judge the people primarily by teaching them the interwoven principles and truths of God, raked in a profit and gained pleasures of the fleh from compromises with wicked financial and sexual exploiters. So those priests and elders cunningly justified their prostitution with the demon gods and their human minions. Through eloquent words, they tricked the people into thinking they were truly worshipping Yahweh by their religious services, even while they nullified God’s words by proclaiming the lying, deluding, unjust, ruthless doctrines of false gods.

But the just, equitable, loving Creator of all existence cannot tolerate His holy name being associated with all that evil, and cannot compromise with loveless spirits. And, since the lovers of those priests and elders were Babylonian pagan priests, God incited the partners in their spiritual adultery against them. God turned Babylon against the Judah, to destroy the city of Jerusalem and the temple, as “the penalty” for her sins of syncretizing unjust and exploitative Babylonian traditions with His own true, just words, and for worshipping human and demonic gods falsely in His name. For that false church figuratively “sat upon the back of Babylon,” by adopting its precepts and the lies of its oppressive, enslaving pagan religion. God caused Judah’s wicked spiritual lover to abuse her, just as God also caused Assyria, the spiritual lover of Samaria, to abuse her a century before that. Then Yahweh set out to destroy the kingdoms of Assyria and Babylon shortly after they harmed His bride. Likewise, Jesus will soon send the spiritual lover of false synagogues and fake churches, who is the humanistic Roman beast, to destroy them. The churches whom Jesus, in the Revelation, called the Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters, who now sit on the back of that same beast, will be burned to the ground by their dear beast. And it will be shortly after this that Jesus will destroy the beast himself.

“For thus says the Lord [Yahweh]: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have

despised the oath in breaking the covenant, yet I will remember My covenant with you in the

days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. Then you will

remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder [the northern

tribes of Israel] and your younger [the tribes in Judah], and I give them to you as daughters, but

not on account of the [current old] covenant with you. I will establish My covenant with you,

and you shall know that I am [Yahweh], that you may remember and be confounded, and

never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you

have done , declares the Lord [Yahweh] .”

God’s promise to deal with Judah as she had dealt with her siblings in the family of humankind was an ominous threat. For the Old Covenant penalties for Israel’s intentional and wickedly motivated spiritual and physical murders and adulteries was death. Through Ezekiel’s prophecies, God had infallibly testified about how they broke His loving Old Covenant laws, which outlined how they must justly and equitably relate to Him and all whom He brought into the spheres of their lives. His church of Israel openly agreed that they and their descendants would obey the words of this covenant in the days of Moses. And each individual Jew in each subsequent generation also personally ratified the terms of that oath, albeit implicitly, on the very day that each willingly called oneself a citizen of the Israel, for declaring citizenship in God’s church of Israel is an oath to serve as Yahweh’s priest.

God’s “covenant with [Israel] in the days of [her] youth” refers to His eternal Abrahamic Covenant, made with all God’s chosen future descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to the end of earthly time. God made this irrevocable covenant in the beginning, when He began to create His priestly nation of Israel, to extend the reach of the solitary priests descended from Seth, whom He sent out into the world in previous times. For, although God still sends solitary priests out into the world, God also required the cooperating and unified body of a priesthood to receive and guard His written

 

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words, to teach the truth, to train in loving righteousness, to rebuke the sins of the world, to care for the needy, to find the lost elect, and to serve as His shining hands and enlightening mouth on earth.

The “days” of Israel’s “youth” were from the days of Abraham, up to the days they left Egypt. But their “youth” did not refer to the days of their Exodus from Egypt, when God revealed His Old Covenant Law to them, since that occurred more than four hundred years after Jacob entered into Egypt. Rather, their ?youth” was during the days of the patriarchs, when the only covenant God had made with His priesthood of Israel was His eternal Abrahamic Covenant, which only contained the promises of what God would do for her, and was therefore unconditional, since nothing in it required Israel to do anything. But, when God gave His Old Covenant Law to Israel during the Exodus, and required them to guard His Law in their hearts lest He turn against them, He never even implied that His Old Covenant relationship with them would be eternal. Yes, the briefly outlined principles of just and equitable love in that Law are eternal, and will never be nullified, not even in the spiritual realm of heaven. Rather, those 613 laws of the conditional Old Covenant, written as case laws in the most succinct manner possible, will be far more fully defined, harmonized, integrated, fleshed out and fulfilled in heaven, and this process has already begun on earth, through the works of our God Jesus.

So only the fulfilled meanings and intended uses of God’s Old Covenant Law is eternal, not the purpose of the outline or mere “shadow” of His Law, which was to govern Israel’s relationship between their eternal spirits and the eternal Creator of all existence. And the highly conditional Old Covenant relationship with God was merely a “shadow” of the new relationship that God would make with His priesthood of Israel, when God came to them in a body of human flesh, as their Messiah. So the new, final and “everlasting covenant” relationship in this prophecy through Ezekiel refers to God’s New Covenant in the Messiah Jesus. And this was to be a covenant that God Himself “will establish” with Israel. That is, the Hebrew word translated as “establish” means “to raise up, accomplish, make to stand,” and implies that God’s actions, not human actions, will fulfill all the promises of His future covenant, as well as all that is needed to perfect the covenant relationship.

In other words, that future covenant would be an eternal, unconditional covenant like God’s original Abrahamic Covenant with Israel. In that New Covenant, God Himself would write His fulfilled meaning and intended application of His Law upon their hearts, in the minds of their spirits. Yes, this prophecy also referred to a covenant binding Israel to God during the days of Ezekiel, but this was a different and lesser covenant, God’s Old Covenant relationship with Israel. And, only in the future, after the time of Ezekiel, would Israel receive the salvation of the Messiah’s New Covenant, and God would not fulfill all the other promises of that New Covenant until the end times, until the days of the Messiah’s second advent, when the third temple stood. Only during the times of the Roman beast and his defeat would Jerusalem become the mother of both the northern tribes of Israel and the tribes in Judah. Thus, their salvation would not be through their Old Covenant relationship with their God.

All the Jews were to be saved by God through a New Covenant relationship with Him. Since God is here speaking about a covenant which He “will establish/raise up/cause to stand” with Jerusalem, in the future, after the days of Ezekiel and after Israel’s Old Covenant relationship in Ezekiel’s day, this prophecy of God was referring to the New Covenant that Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, had also prophesied about. This prophecy could not be talking about the Old Covenant, which God already had fully established with Israel with Israel in the days of Moses. No, that conditional Old Covenant would pass away, since God’s prophecies through Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel declared that His future Messianic New Covenant relationship with Israel would be like His unconditional and eternal relationship in His Abrahamic Covenant, and fully supersede His current Old Covenant relationship.

 

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God Himself would “establish” the future New Covenant. God Himself would cause Israel to know that He is Yahweh their God, experientially and inwardly, that is, in the minds of their spirits. The hearts of the Jews would stop worshipping a fake Yahweh through superstitious practises of their flesh. No longer would the minds of their flesh believe that their physical rituals could somehow pacify the wrath of the Creator of the universe, while their infantile spirits wallowed in the mud of complete ignorance about His just, equitable, loving laws and ways, even as they had nullified His Law by replacing it with a Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman version invented by the minds of men, and while they also worshipped those inventors of that fake law as human gods, then also bowed before demonic pagan gods like Mammon. One cannot worship any other gods and the real Yahweh at the same time. But liars had made Israel too afraid of those false gods to ever stop their superstitious and ignorant service and esteem of those false gods. Therefore, the real God Yahweh would expose the weaknesses and evil of the counsel which those liars gave to Israel. First, Yahweh would come to Israel in the body of their Messiah, and free all past and future elect spirits from the eternal penalty which Satan legally demanded for their sins. Then, through their Messiah, Yahweh would crush all who taught and blindly followed the lies of human gods, proving that He alone is their God. Finally, in the end times, the Messiah would save all Israel by utterly annihilating both the false churches and the secular deceivers who spread the lies of Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome.

In the days of Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel, God’s priesthood nation of Israel worshipped a false “Yahweh,” a man-made idol whom their false priests and fake elders invented and simply called by the name of “Yahweh,” in the same way that various churches today have invented false gods and called them all by the name of “Jesus.” Since Jerusalem used this deception to falsely claim that they were esteeming and serving “Yahweh,” while they actually worshipped ruthless, violent, sexually exploitative demon gods like Baal, Asherah and Mammon, they clearly did not comprehend a single thing about the real God Yahweh. For, to know the real God Yahweh is to realize that there is only one Creator who rules over all existence with justice, mercy, equity and love. And this means that no human being, nor anything else, can be god. It is only what the real God reveals, either through His creations and His words spoken through His true prophets, or personally to human spirits through His Holy Spirit, can be true and worthy to be followed. No words of human beings or demons, no matter how eloquent and carnally compelling they might be, can supersede God’s words. Nor can any infantile humans bear exclusive authority to interpret God’s words, since God is well-able to teach His own words to the spirits of His people without any human intervention. And superstitious feeling of the flesh, such as assuming that “God spoke” to you while playing Bible roulette, cannot ever replace actually letting your spirit hear and heed God’s Spirit. Only God can save the earth and its people, and He will soon return to this earth, so He might then destroy all the lying savior gods.

To truly worship the real God, one’s eternal spirit must love, serve and esteem our God Jesus within the parameters of the real truth He reveals to one’s spirit—not through false doctrines invented by men and demons, nor by intellectual and emotional thoughts in one’s mind of flesh. When we truly comprehend this, then our sins will be forgiven and we shall receive atonement, in a way that fully restores our right relationship with the real Yahweh in Jesus. This gift is granted by Yahweh through His New Covenant promises, which have been fulfilled and ratified by our Messiah, Jesus. Thus, until these recent times, shortly before the Messiah returns to rule Israel and all the world, God did not bring most of the descendants of Jacob back into the promised land, which He had permanently granted to them, nor into His New Covenant salvation. His carnally minded church of Israel had to remain in exile until just before He was about to restore the knowledge of His salvation in all the earth. But He will soon do that, during the sixth seal’s era. So He has begun to bring them back, but

 

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only about a third of the world’s Jews, about the same portion of Jews living in Israel during His first advent. And no prophecy ever claimed that God would return literally all of the Diaspora all at once. Rather, the prophecies say that He will return all the Jews, both the northern and southern tribes, to the land of Israel after He returns in glory, after He gathers all into His New Covenant relationship. Yet prophecies also stated that some Jews will exist in Israel during the end times, before Jesus returns, a large enough population to do the works of rebuilding His temple and fighting in the war against the Roman beast. So some but not all Jews will return to Israel, that is, until Jesus returns.

Only after the salvation of all the elect Gentiles on earth, which will be after the great sixth-seal revival of His true church causes a completed dichotomization between all the elect and non-elect throughout the world, will God actually return all the repentant children of Jacob to their land. Then they will all discover their atonement and their fully restored His relationship with God. From the beginning, our God Jesus paid for and forgave all the sins of all the elect in Israel, to free them from the enslavement of all their lies and sins. But, until He finished disseminating His fulfilled meanings of His laws and ways into all the world, along with the knowledge of His true attributes of loving justice, God could not make His natural church of Israel into adequate priests who could rightly serve the world as His true representatives on earth, not in the way He promised Abraham in His eternal Abrahamic Covenant. Before Yahweh could restore all Israel as His New Covenant church, all elect Gentiles on earth first had to know Yahweh and His ways, and some chosen Gentiles even had to be joined to Israel’s new priesthood, to serve Him like Levites. So God could only return the entire remnant of Jacob’s descendants, together with the Gentile priests joined to her, into the land of His faithfully serving priesthood nation of Israel, after all occurred to prepare for His second advent.

So about a third of Israel remained or had returned to their land during the time of the Persian Empire, and that third lived there while Satan’s third and fourth humanistic empires of Greece and Rome were developing. But God exiled even that third in the early days of the beast’s kingdom, just before the demonic religious essence of the highly factious Roman Empire began to spread out into all the world. For, at that time, God also began to seed His truths everywhere on earth as well. And this is why He cast out even this third of Israel in AD 135, and why almost all Jews remained in that exile for almost two millenniums. However, when the time came to rebuild His nation priesthood of Israel, God returned about a third of third to do the works of preparing land, rebuilding the temple and developing its infrastructure. For, just as God determined that about a third was required to do these works during their Greek and Roman captivity, He also chose a third for this purpose during the end times, just before their captivity will end. And, when it ends, all Israel will return to the land.

So the return of that first third was predestined and prophesied just before and during the end times, just before and during the generation which will endure the plagues of the sixth and seventh seals. For some Jews had to be living and worshipping in Jerusalem, as well as rebuilding the land of Israel before Jesus returned, in order to fulfill all of the prophesied events of the end times, including the prophecy that Jacob’s physical descendants will be in Jerusalem to greet their Messiah on the day of His glorious and victorious return on the Mount of Olives. This third return of that third to the land of Israel was prophesied to begin in times of great troubles and wars, which have been occurring since the first Zionists entered at the end of the 19th century. But the whole of Israel, all Jews in the world, were not to return until their Messiah brought peace to the world, after the day Jesus returns.

Birth of the Great Prostitute

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the Jewish writers like the apostle John, as well as in the language of prophets in both the Old and New Testaments, a spiritual prostitute could only refer to one thing, an apostate people who had previously worshipped the true God, that is, a false church in particular. Of course, most of the false churches today insist that they are not false churches, and like to imagine that all churches have been faithful to God since the days of the apostles. So these false churches do not like to admit that John was referring to a great false church when he prophesied about the Great Prostitute. And they say that John would never have been worried about a false worldwide church associated with the Roman beast, because God would never allow such a thing to happen. However, God did allow such things to happen even in John’s day. And John was indeed worried about such things. In fact, Jesus and all the apostles wrote about false churches, in the same way all the prophets wrote about the apostasy of God’s church of Israel. The New Testament’s epistles also indicate that a false church was about to replace the true church. The apostles frequently spoke of deceivers moving into the church to corrupt it and take it captive. For instance, the apostle Paul wrote this in his letter to another true preacher:

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears

they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away

from listening to the truth and wander off into myths” (II Tim. 4:3-4, ESV).

Notice how Paul here prophesied that “the time is coming.” He did not declare that it might come, nor say that it would not come if the church, through its gloriously self-inflating “free will,” would successfully resist the coming apostasy. Rather, Paul prophesied that false teachings of a false church were inevitable, predestined. And his prophecy came true within the very next generation. It began even before Paul’s death, then occurred exactly as he prophesied, within about fifty years. The very churches that our God Jesus established through His apostles developed “itching ears,” and grew eager to hear a new humanistic gospel, after the end of the century. For that new fake gospel told the people that they could become their own gods, able to create their own eternal destinies for their own glory. Since this appealed to their little infantile egos of flesh, even more than any of Satan’s other temptations, the entire church fell for those lies. So the Great Prostitute was born at that very time.

The devil’s ultimate false religion of humanism, primarily expressed in the form Middle Platonism during the early days of the Satanic beast’s kingdom, was designed to be extremely stealthy and very flexible. So it could be adopted by any of his other false religions without being detected. For the religion of humanism does not care about the kinds of lies that anyone might want to believe about oneself or others, since its entire purpose is to focus all of one’s attentions on whatever “suits one’s own passions.” Thus, any kind of religion can be corrupted by humanism, because one can worship any kind of human or demonic god while one also worships oneself, by esteeming and serving one’s own passions as one’s first and foremost priority. However, the purest form of humanism worships oneself and nothing else, which is what Satan does, and basically what the future beast will do. That is, Satan’s own personal religion is what some might call atheistic secular humanism, the narcissistic worship of oneself alone, where one does whatever one desires without any regard for the welfare of anyone or anything else, since this is the complete opposite of God’s primary attribute of just love.

Paul told us that the people in a future false church, “according to each one’s own strong desires, [each] itching ear will accumulate teachers of life and faith for themselves” (κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας ἐπιθυμίας ἑαυτοῖς ἐπισωρεύσουσιν διδασκάλους κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν). In other words, the false church will be very individualistic, no longer a unified body or family with one mind and one purpose inherited from their one Father, as all were taught and trained by the Holy Spirit of their oldest Brother, Jesus. Instead, each one would believe and behave according to whatever strong desires or passions that had been stirred up in their emotions and thoughts. Each would become a

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slave to the lies and delusions poured into their brains of flesh by demonic or human deceivers. So each one’s ear would itch with carnal longings, and actively seek religious teachers who could scratch that itch to one’s own satisfaction. None would honestly seek the real truth about either themselves, others or anything else, because their vain flesh would not want to hear anything about any moral and spiritual realities, only about the lies and delusions that could gratify their own lusts.

But the elect, whose spirits can only be gratified by real truth and the love which that selfless truth builds, must realize that God Himself is the only one who can teach their spirits about the realities of their eternal homes, and about His kind of just, equitable love. So only God Himself can ever teach and establish His own true church and His own kingdom on earth. And He does so through a lengthy process requiring many generations, as each infantile generation accepts His counsel just a little bit more. Also, God’s prophecies never really told us that the Messiah would come to command all the souls on earth to believe His words, then kill all who refused to instantly believe Him and bow before Him. Of course, that is what humanistic psychopaths want, and what they believe the Bible says. But those teaching from false humanistic churches are deadly wrong. Only their cruel, pagan Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman slave societies built their kingdoms through autocratic demands of an elite, and all their hierarchical kingdoms were used to build up the Satanic beast’s kingdom on earth, not God’s kingdom. So now let the elect look back at how our God has gradually worked the principles of true justice, equity and love into the world since the days of Adam, and how Jesus has since revealed more of those effective truths in the world since His first advent. Each and every generation of loving elect souls from the beginning, especially in these last days of instant communication, have firmly established a few more precepts of biblical justice, irrevocably in them.

Yes, in the end God will kill all who refuse to believe His words, then rule the world for the sake of His elect. But the prophecies of Scripture tell us that those deadly sixth and seventh seal events will only occur in the last generation which is living before Jesus returns. This is because only that last generation will be completely dichotomized. Only that last generation will know the biblical truths that previous generations discovered and confirmed. After “knowledge shall be increased” and spread throughout the world, then “the time of the end” will come, as Daniel prophesied (12:4). The plagues of God’s wrath shall then pour out over all the earth, because only that last generation will have no more excuse for believing in the exploitative hierarchical systems that keep making Satan’s unjust world order “great again” through exploitation. Rather, most elect, with spirits having learned enough to repent into God-like love, will have been divided from the non-elect, who can never truly love, who will be without excuse for their lies and murders. But that last generation of elect before the return of Jesus will all clearly understand how the one Creator God has always demanded love in and from His family of humankind. From the beginning, God grew fruits of unbiased, forgiving and equitable justice for all, where love can grow in truth and peace. The real God has always sought democracies that elected only His chosen elders, whom we were to recognize evidentially, by the just, equitable, honest and loving fruits of their spirits, by their God-given inner compulsion to selflessly serve the people. And the real God has always called for the nullifying of Satan’s works, for the elimination of class systems and slavery. God has never wanted any of His elect children to worship a few human gods lording it over many artificially deemed inferiors whom they exploit.

Biblical prophecies have repeated confirmed that God’s wrath and judgment will only fall upon the entire earth after God has revealed His truths throughout the world and after He has solidly affirmed it to all His elect, which will be after communications of these truths reach everywhere on earth and after He causes the great revival of His church during the sixth seal’s era. When no one can claim to be deceived about Yahweh, the Creator God in Jesus, and after everyone has had a chance to repent

 

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into His created moral and spiritual realities to build up love, God will destroy those who still hate Him and reject His truths that He manifested in His creations and His Word. After all know the real God’s innate attributes, especially His primary quality of His Spirit’s just kind of love, He will then come to utterly destroy Satan’s world order, with His wrath focused on the beast’s ruthless kingdom of Roman humanism. Humanism will not be found anywhere on earth. After God separates the elect from the non-elect, He will destroy the non-elect. But, for now, God restrains Himself, since He does not want to judge the infantile and the ignorant too harshly, since they know not what they are doing.

God promised to expose the lies, deceptions and delusions of all false belief systems before He came to rule the earth, especially the lies of humanism. Before God comes to establish His authority in all the earth, He will first make His truths freely available to everyone on earth, and long enough to give all His elect a chance to learn those truths, to become a people prepared to rule the earth as His priests, together with Him. Even the wicked shall know the basics of what His truths actually are, as they reject them through the vain core wills of their proud non-elect spirits, so they can strive to be human gods who can do whatever they want, while taking no responsibility for those whom they harm and kill in their greedy, selfish pursuits. So those non-elect will stand without excuse, as God judges and destroys them all. Since they will all become more lying, deluded, murderous and hate-filled than ever before, even psychopathic, their earthly and eternal judgments will be on themselves.

After Jesus’ first advent and while the days of Paul were passing, and even from the very beginning of earthly time, God’s plan was to gradually build up His kingdom on earth, over a period of many centuries. For, in God’s creation of earth’s training ground, His spiritual power controls the flow of time in each individual elect spirit’s life on earth, and He designed that earthly time gradually teach each infantile spirit to be gradually exposed to concepts of good and evil. Then each elect spirit can pass on what he or she has learned to the next generation of elect spirits. Thus, each generation can build upon what the previous generation has learned, so that each generation does not need to start with nothing, and so that each generation of elect can partake in God’s work of teaching and training His elect children. So you can see how God’s plan for the training ground of material existence must work very slowly to prepare His elect for their eternal heavenly life, and why He also set aside a “day” at the end, a judgment day at the gates of heaven, to complete and perfect these preparations.

Then our just God also needed much time to prepare the wicked on earth for their utter destruction. For God can judge the motives and intentions of loveless spirits in heaven, but He cannot judge flesh on earth without first proving that their minds of flesh committed their lies and sins directly through intentional motives to defy His kind of loving justice and equity. Before Jesus returns to destroy all the non-elect on earth, the world needed to endure a lengthy history that fully exposed the selfish, ineffectiveness, futility and evil of all false beliefs, then communicate that exposure to all, as well as soundly prove the effectiveness, benefits and wisdom of His own loving truths. Because of this, God revealed to the apostles that they would form a temporary true church, to begin the dissemination of His truth, so His truth could enter the world before a long process of His Holy Spirit teaching His ways to the world, over a period lasting many centuries. And their apostolic church would be the first example of what the true church would be like in the end, when He returned. Yet that church would not last. First the unfolding of history’s lessons had to occur, and a false church had to come.

Paul spoke of that false church arriving, and told us that a “time will come when [the church] will not listen to the sound doctrine” (II Tim. 4:3). Then Jesus named that false church, and told John that this Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters would ride on the back of the Roman beast, protected and carried, financially and spiritually, by Satan’s manifestation on earth. But, after the vast majority of elect in the world have been prepared to receive Jesus as their High Priest, as their only Head of

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their revived true church, even as the King of the world, He will come to destroy the wicked, even the whole of Satan’s world-wide Roman kingdom, and He will establish His rule over all the earth.

This is why Jesus had to delay His second advent for such a long time, because He could only return to destroy the wicked and rule the world after He had completed this extremely long process, after He created a complete dichotomy on earth, one which effectively separated the elect from the non-elect throughout the world. For the whole purpose of God our Father is to shape the wills of His elect children, to educate the minds of their spirits, until their spirits genuinely comprehend and chose His ways through a pure, thoroughly informed and wise love for Him and others. And this cannot be done by force, nor by human wills. This kind of knowledge is experiential. That is, God will teach the concepts to His infantile children through His written Word and His creations. But their elect spirits cannot be fully know or understand them until they actually see how they function, and how even a corruption of one small part of each truth can cause devastatingly terrible results.

Since it takes time for a people to acquire experiential knowledge, and for it to build up to adequate levels over many generations, Jesus warned us that He would be gone for a “long time,” such as in His parable of the vineyard owner (Luke 20:9). Only after His elect knew that anything which falls short of His whole truth can cause great harm to His beloved on earth, and that only a rightly applied fullness of His truth can truly benefit His earthly kingdom, will Jesus return to judge and rule the earth. In the meantime, Jesus protects the spirits of His beloved elect from our sins of ignorance, and protects us from ourselves, through His grace which overlooks much of our ignorance and which will right all our wrongs during the judgment day in heaven. Jesus also heals and toughens our loved ones to withstand the wicked spiritual blows we stupidly administer. But we cannot stop listening to Him and neglect to learn loving righteousness just because His grace covers over our criminal sins through ignorance. Rather, we must keep looking to Him for more truth, and continue to grow more like Him, until He no longer needs to guard others from us, or us from our own self-destructive sins.

So Paul told us that the true church in his day was being corrupted. His true apostolic church was a lightening flash of glorious light, but was not meant to last long. First the truths revealed to the apostles had to be proven through many human experiences and historical events, through many failures in ignorance and successes through God’s wisely applied truths. Then, just before Jesus returned, when the world’s experiential knowledge had increased, and after the imparting of His love and truth during the great revival in the sixth seal’s era, a similar and even greater true church would be restored, and would last to the very end, even into all eternity, with Jesus as its only Head. As for that false church which would bully its way into dominance and smother the few remaining embers of warmth left in the apostolic true church, Paul prophesied this about it in his first letter to Timothy:

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by

devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of

liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods

that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with

thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. If you put these things

before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of

the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed” (I Timothy 4:1-6, ESV).

Here Paul was referring to “some” who “will depart from the faith.” And they would not entirely depart from those true Jewish Christians, to go out into the pagan Roman world order. Rather, these departing people would leave to form a false churches, since they would be “devoting themselves” to

 

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false doctrines which pertain exclusively to Jewish and Christian churches, not to secular Roman false doctrines. They would devote themselves to doctrines about unclean foods and forbidding marriages, which were not subjects of interest to secular Romans. So the context only allows us to interpret this as Paul’s warning about future false churches that will be formed by future deceivers.

The “latter times” which Paul spoke about in the above quote referred to the days after the apostles had died. In the Greek text of the first verse above, the prepositional phrase: ἐν ὑστέροις καιροῖς actually refers to “appointed times coming later,” or literally, “in a subsequent sequential time that is fit or fixed, destined or appointed.” God’s Spirit “expressly” told Paul about a predestined time that was to occur after he wrote this letter. And, in his day, some people in the churches to whom his letter was addressed had already been withdrawing from the faith that Paul and the other apostles preached. Instead of devoting their spirits to Jesus, their spirits began to heed men, and submissively “devote themselves” to “imposter spirits,” to “deceitful spirits,” and to “religious doctrines originating from demons.” In other words, Paul prophesied that a false church was forming, where “imposter spirits” would pretend to be “Christian” religious guides, just as “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (II Cor. 11:14, ESV). And their deception would be disseminated “through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,” who possess no inner conscience formed by God, who have non-elect spirits. Paul was telling us that fake teachers, pastors and elders would proclaim the doctrines of demons within the church, instead of the truth of God’s Word. For these nice and friendly religious leaders would be like Satan, who pretends to be an angel of light. “It is no surprise if [Satan’s] servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness” (II Cor. 11:15, ESV).

Here Paul was speaking of a church that would be so false that it would be outright demonic. Yet this false church would be so well disguised that common people would be unable to distinguish it from the true church. So who is this false church? Well, Paul provides us with some of its identifying characteristics. The first thing he states is that this false church will “forbid marriage.” They prevent, chastise, punish or hinder marriages. Do we know of any church which does this, one that would be ancient by our time, since it was already beginning to form and threaten the true church in the days of Paul and Timothy? Can we identify a false church rising up not too long after the first century, one that is so old that Christ’s Revelation even called it the mother of all the subsequent false churches?

Well, actually, we do. By syncretizing the doctrines of pagan Middle Platonism with the Scriptures, a false church began to form by the end of the first century, although it did not become established as a formal religion until the second century, and did not develop an authoritative governing body until the fourth century. But Satan’s Roman humanism definitely is the only real foundation of all the doctrines they teach and believe. That ancient false church, which has forbidden their priests to marry, and has even preferring them to have sex with prostitutes, is the Roman Catholic church. For, if their priests go to a prostitutes, their church forgives them if they do the human work of submitting to a magic sacrament, along with the human works of penance, and if they still remain free from the loving responsibilities of marriage and families, so they can continue to spread the humanistic lies of their false church, as the human heads and gods at the top of the artificial hierarchies in their church.

Yet, if any priests in the Roman church marry, as Peter and the other apostles of Jesus did, then those priests can no longer serve as priests, as the teachers of married men. However, Jesus and other Jews mostly chose married men as the teaching elders of their people, and only the married men who were well-able to take on the loving responsibility of developing a biblical moral and spiritual framework for their wives and children. Also, only priests in that false church can drink from the cup of wine at the Lord’s table, the wine which they believe literally becomes the blood of Jesus. So a married man, who cannot be a priest, nor his wife and children, cannot drink that wine. Yet Jesus said His physical

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blood was His New Covenant salvation (Mat. 26:28), which He shed for literally all His elect, to free all from their lies and sins, including the lies and sins perpetuated by false religions like Middle Platonism, which is the foundation for all core doctrines of that false church. And, while Jesus taught the people, He also figuratively referred to His body and blood as His teachings of truth (John 6:53-59), the truths which set all the Father’s elect children free into an abundant life of loving and being loved (John 8:31-32). So, in reality, that false Roman church is attempting to use the sacrificial death of Jesus to artificially cause their people to esteem and serve their priests as human lords and gods of their church, while denying His New Covenant’s full priesthood of all other believers in their church.

And that Roman church actually believes that marriage is worse than fornicating with prostitutes, because that false church will forgive priests who intentionally commit that sin, even priests who repeatedly commit that sin, and allow them to continue to be priests, but will not allow a priest to remain a priest if he legitimately marries. That Roman church forces all their human heads to make a vow which effectively defies what God taught in His Word about marriage, as well as what our God Jesus taught about making vows (Mat. 5:33-37). So none of their priests are true teaching and judging elders of the Messiah’s real New Covenant church. For none of Christ’s true elders become elders through an oath or vow, but only by the choice, teaching, training, calling and sending of our God Jesus. Likewise, a Roman salvation is fake too, since it is all by oaths and vows, through the magic sacraments performed by fake priests, who were all chosen, taught, trained, call and sent by other fake priests. But the salvation of the real Jesus is through His works for, in and through His Father’s elect children, and not through any works of any human beings. So that Platonic doctrine of forbidding marriage, which Paul prophesied to be one of the main identifying attribute of false churches (I Tim. 4:3), actually has some far reaching evil effects, even more than mentioned above.

Clearly that false Roman church heeds imposter spirits, by trusting Greco-Roman Platonism—which believed that things of the flesh that God created and called good, like marriage, somehow made a man less deep and spiritual. Yet, at the same time, that church impeded the thoughts of every mind of every elect spirit, by turning the soul’s entire focus upon physical things such as physical rituals, the accolades of carnal men, church buildings and so one. Then they taught their people to rely solely upon the thoughts in the mind of flesh, and called all the abstract or allegorical thoughts from their minds of flesh “spiritual,” just like the pagan Roman humanists did. If a man could force his brain of flesh to think thoughts which refused to recognize physical realities, then he was “spiritual,” no matter how ignorant, unwise and unloving those thoughts might be. This absurd, irrational kind of thinking pervades the Roman church. And that false church refuses to believe the physical realities which God created for our good, to teach and train our spirits to love in a just and equitable way. And, by placing their entire focus on material existence, they completely nullify the teachings of our God, Jesus. Furthermore, all the doctrines of this false church have deeply influenced and corrupted all the Protestant churches as well, since most came out of her, were born from her, as her daughters. Thus, this Roman church is clearly the false church which the Revelation called the Great Prostitute.

And Paul also said that another attribute of false churches would be that they “keep away from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the believing ones and by those having effectively learned the truth.” And, again, that Roman church, the mother of all false churches, has also done this from the beginning. Many say it was the “Circumcision Party” of Messianic Jews was the one who tried to force all believers, including all Gentiles, to abstain from eating foods that were not kosher. And that is true, because those “Christian” Jews ignored the New Covenant teachings of Jesus (Mat. 15:11), as well as subsequent teachings of His Holy Spirit to the apostles, even while those Jews called Jesus their Lord. But this attribute of abstaining from some foods certainly does

 

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not mean that the devout Jews who relate to God through His Old Covenant Law are a false church, because God has not yet brought them into His New Covenant relationship, and they do not yet claim that Jesus is their Messiah and Lord. Therefore, the Jews cannot be the false church whom Jesus called the Great Prostitute in His Revelation. Nor could the Messianic Jewish church be that Great Prostitute, since it is small, not great. In fact, the Messianic Jewish church almost completed faded out of existence by the second century, and was only revived recently. Besides, that false Jewish “Christian” church was not nearly as evil as the Roman church, since it did not preach nearly as much of Satan’s primary religion of Roman humanism, nor did it also forbid or hinder marriage.

To this day, the Messianic Jewish church or “Circumcision Party” does not teach doctrines that are nearly as bad as the teachings of the Roman church, although they are still practising humanists with hierarchical Roman systems and the same anthropological doctrines that distort their perceptions of Jesus and salvation. So the “Circumcision Party” is not the prophesied Great Prostitute, not the mother of all false churches existing today. However, we know the “great” prophesied false church was in the process of being born in Paul’s day, in the first century. In addition to this, we also know that this prophesied “great” false church was supposed to become extremely well-received and very popular among the Gentiles. So the Great Prostitute riding on the Roman beast, joined to the same antisemitic Roman beast who attacks Israel, cannot possibly be any kind of a false Jewish church.

There is only one false church that began to exist in Paul’s day and will still exist until the future era of the seventh seal, who had eventually become the mother of many other false churches and always remained popular among the humanistic Gentile heirs of Satan’s fourth kingdom, a false church that is known for forbidding marriage and would also “keep away from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving,” a false church that sits on the very border of the seven hills of the beast’s city of Rome. That “great” false church is clearly the Roman Catholic church. Even in her earlier days, as she was forming in the first century, that Platonic false church required her people to fast on certain days, or be expelled as heretics. And to this day, she still officially requires fasts and abstinence from certain kinds of foods on certain days, although most modern Catholics ignore those rules and only fast or abstain from eating meat on the Friday of Lent. So God’s prophecies granted through both Paul and John definitely indicate that the Roman church must be the Great Prostitute.

Before the end of the first century, false teachers overtook the true church, replacing Christ’s biblical teachings with pagan philosophies, cult practices and myths from Greece, Rome, Egypt and Persia. For instance, the Didache (a first century or early second century document) outlines formal church doctrines and it taught that all who fast on Mondays and Thursdays, like devout Jews and many in the apostolic church did, were hypocrites and were not true Christians. So that early church, which grew exponentially, judged the spirits of the elect through purely physical and non-biblical criteria. And that humanistic false church claimed that all true Christians fast on Wednesdays and Fridays (chapter 8), as the Roman church does in our day (Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and the Friday of Lent). So the humanly esteemed author of the Didache, and his church, were already hopelessly carnal, corrupt, superstitious and totally ignorant of God’s Word by the beginning of the second century, and probably at least a decade or two before then, since sometime late in the first century.

And, clearly, that very early false church also believed that salvation was through a combination of God’s grace and the performance of works done according to their church traditions, just as the Roman church also believes to this day. Those false churches do not believe the Gospel, that our New Covenant salvation is entirely through the works of God in our spirits, which then cause the effect of doing good works through the love of our spirits, according to the personal counsel of His Holy Spirit, in the way that James and the other apostles deemed to be evidence that our faith is alive

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and well. And even now, the many of the humanistic daughters that Roman church still believe that salvation is procured and maintained through physical deeds, such as by the sacraments of fasting and baptism. So we can definitely say that the mother of all false churches, which logically must be an ancient church, which even began in the first century, clearly must be the Roman Catholic church.

Also, a strong antisemitic bias had already developed in those Roman Platonic false churches by the end of the first century, causing them to reject many doctrines that even remotely appeared to be too “Jewish” for them. Furthermore, a Roman hierarchical system developed in almost all those false churches by that time. So almost all those churches were functioning in much the same way as pagan Roman temples, with human heads acting as the human gods of the people, pretending that they controlled the destinies of the people, even their eternal futures. They falsely taught the people that they held the authority to judge as equals with our God Jesus, or even instead of Jesus, although our God the Father granted only our God Jesus the exclusive authority to judge all human beings, that is, in the way those false elders claimed to judge, regarding all matters of life and faith, both in heaven and on earth. The Scriptures emphatically declare that none but Jesus can be the authoritative Head Teacher and Judge of all the men in His true church (I Cor. 11:3; Eph. 1:22, 5:23; Col. 1:18, 2:10,16-23), as well as the only true High King ruling over all the world. Yet those false humanistic churches ignored this critical teaching, which is essential for our salvation, solely because those power-hungry humanists wanted to be gods, like their father in hell. Then those false churches called their pagan-like high priests by titles like “bishop” or “pope,” since they did not know that biblical terms like “bishop,” “pastor” and “elder” were synonymous, as well as too arrogant to believe the command of our God Jesus, which forbade anyone from holding any titles of esteem which exalted them over their equal brothers and sisters (Mat. 23:8-12). So, through these delusions and lies, they physically persecuted, slandered and silenced any church or individual who did not conform to their evil ways.

And, just like the demonic priests in the pagan temples, these “bishops” taught a confused message consisting of biblical quotes syncretized with the supposedly “more literal” teachings of Roman Middle Platonism, and also merged with various “mystical” sources. So they completely expunged their church of all truly biblical doctrines pertaining to an elect spirit’s salvation through the works of Jesus, replacing the Jewish Messiah’s true Gospel with an entirely false gospel. The only kinds of doctrines they accepted had to be related to the popular humanistic doctrines of the day in the pagan Roman Empire, only the teachings which irrationally insisted that men ruled their own destinies.

That early false church, like most churches today, despised the truth that God alone controls the destinies of all men. So they insisted that all their precepts and laws must be invented by themselves, by the esteemed elite who established themselves as the gods of their churches. They did not allow the real God to be their God, because their own esteemed human “bishops” wanted to be worshipped as the highest gods and final authorities in their churches. Thus, their new fake gospel proclaimed almost nothing which did not conform to pagan Platonic teachings of the time, then also introduced many pagan cultic elements and pagan myths. Yet they painted all of this folly with Christian-like terms to make them appear outwardly “Christian.” For instance, in about AD 96, Clement, the “bishop” of a false humanistic church in Rome, taught the Egyptian myth of the Phoenix as though it were a fact (I Clem. 25:1 to 26:1). These kinds of teachings were brought into the churches very soon after John penned the Revelation. So, just after John warned the true apostolic church about the Great Prostitute, it was born and had even been growing as John was writing about it, and most of that church’s Platonic doctrines, cultic practises and myths had already begun to circulate within the Roman Empire. And, by the Middle Ages, that false Roman church had so violently persecuted those who spoke the truth that they almost entirely eliminated every trace of the true church established by

 

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Jesus and His apostles, as well as many of their writings. But God sent a spirit of strong superstition to them, which caused them to fearfully keep the Scriptures intact. Still, those words of God did them little to no good, since they taught so little about them, but so much about Middle Platonism, pagan myths and the traditions of their false teachers. Thus, their people also based all their faith on the principles of Platonism and pagan myths, and gained virtually no genuine knowledge of God’s Word or Jesus. Nor did many of the elect allow their spirits to be taught and trained by the Holy Spirit of Jesus for their true salvation, although some did, partially and unconsciously, by instinct.

Even by the second century, the now thoroughly paganized Platonic church did not seem to realize that God had always condemned antisemitism. In fact, antisemitic doctrines, such as replacement theology, had become essential to their identity. And they were using those false doctrines to falsely justify their false claim to be “thee one and only true church,” which supposedly possessed exclusive authority to teach and judge in the name God. Thus, the “Jewish” Old and New Testament Scriptures which always portrayed God as one who personally involves Himself with literally every detail of every individual human life, and all other living beings, was rejected. For human gods do not want a personal God, who saves the spirits of His elect children like a Father and Brother. Rather, all those humanists insisted that the heavenly god worshipped by their churches must be entirely impassive and impersonal, so that he would never interfere with their self-serving affairs and god-like dictates.

Thus, any who believed in a truly biblical God, in a loving Creator’s Spirit who personally saved each individual through His personal works upon each one’s spirit, were deemed heretical. For those truths contradicted their “free will” doctrines, which necessitated the existence of a passive and impersonal heavenly god who ignored human affairs, and thus placed the power of complete self-determination and salvation into human wills. By the second and third centuries, almost all churches were led by fake religious teachers who loved only the delusions and lies of the Roman religion of humanism, and preached only the teachings of Roman Middle Platonism. And, even by the second century, many Platonic scholars had already rejected the doctrines of determinism, which Plato himself had espoused. So they had already begun to teach the doctrines of “free will.” So, within just a few decades after the last of the true apostles had died, humanism was no longer merely creeping into the church. Rather, that religion of Satan’s Roman beast had already completely subjugated the entire church, and successfully nullified the Gospel of faith in Christ’s salvation in all Roman lands.

By the second century, the church taught their people to place all their faith in human beings; first and foremost in their human gods who earned the title of “bishop” from other human gods, then in themselves, in the own power of their own “free will” to submit to sacraments and other false teachings from their bishops. Lastly, they were to believe that their faith in human works could be effective in procuring their salvation because of “grace” from the impassive and impersonal god invented by their human owners at the top of the church hierarchy. And, in anyone quoted the Bible against this new kind of salvation through faith in man, by human choices, that one was a heretic.

Before long, the people in those fake humanistic churches began to persecute those who preached the true Gospel of New Covenant salvation, or even any partial truths against any of their lies. So those who knew any aspect of real truth became afraid to speak, lest the false church might torture and murder them. Consequently, it did not take long before the truth was so heavily censored that the people knew absolutely nothing about God’s real salvation, which is by the power of Jesus’ Holy Spirit, by Jesus personally teaching His loving ways to elect spirits. In fact, the people no longer even knew what a human spirit was, since the church only taught Plato’s anthropological doctrines, which defined a “spirit” as a “force” that turned thoughts either to the left or to the right, and that the words “soul” and “spirit” were synonyms. For those Roman humanists did not want the people to

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know that the mind of the eternal spirit and the physical brain of flesh are two different minds, lest their people might differentiate between the thoughts of the two minds, and let their spirits heed the Holy Spirit of the real Jesus, which would lead to genuine salvation and the utter rejection of their fake churches. So, by the second and third centuries, the people were trapped in the false churches.

And this was only the beginning. More teachings and cultural practises of Roman Platonism, along with its strong antisemitic bias, continuously poured into the so-called “orthodox” church, which also suppressed biblical teachings, often with violence. By about AD 325, the emperor of Rome, Constantine, took great interest in the false church, because he believed that Jesus was actually a manifestation of his favourite pagan god Mythros, and Constantine was the high priest of that pagan cult until the day he died. Thus, he also made himself into the head or high priest of the “orthodox” church and commanded that church to practise countless pagan and Platonic traditions. So pagan Constantine became the first real Pope of the Great Prostitute, who rode on the back of Rome, who not only silently accepted his pagan traditions, but also greatly profited from her harlotry with him.

In that new pagan Platonic church, the Scriptures were seldom taught. But, when a few were, the church hierarchy diligently practised the humanistic tradition of force God’s Word to be interpreted through the teachings of Platonism. For the church now believed that the “Jewish” Scriptures were all “allegorical,” but the teachings of sociopathic pagan philosophers, who supported the traditions of slave-societies like Greece and Rome, were far more practical and literal. And, of course, this violent and state-sponsored “orthodox” church became a rigid, censoring, dogmatic hierarchy, where its elite political heads held final authority under a pope, regarding all matters of life and faith. In other words, that church completely replaced Jesus Christ, and no longer allowed the Holy Spirit of Jesus to save anyone through His teaching and training as the one and only Head. And I should also mention that, as it is in our humanistic world today, this false church took up the value systems of secular Rome too. So the church evaluated each member according to one’s financial worth and political power. The greatest member was the one to whom Satan granted the most wealth and power in his unjust world order. And the one to whom God granted the most truth and wisdom had to be persecuted and murdered. So everyone had to prove oneself to be materially useful to earn any kind of status in the church. Thus, only those who could never love the real God, because they loved the demon Mammon, took over as the chief lords and gods of the church, then judged all others by the ruthless demands of money. So, due to the persecuting physical power of this great harlot church, a visible real Christian church could no longer practice true faith anywhere in the entire known world.

So now let us look at what Peter, an apostle who was with Jesus from the beginning of His ministry on earth, wrote about a false church that was rising up while he was doing God’s works in the true apostolic church. Then we can compare Peter’s warnings with what we have seen in the history of the Roman Great Prostitute and her harlot daughters, as well as how the teachers of those false humanistic churches are doomed to destruction. And remember, Peter implied that this false church would exist for many ages. Peter told us that this false church would be around so long after Jesus ascended that people would believe them when they claimed that their false ways would continue just as they were from the beginning, That false church would teach that Jesus will not physically return, nor change their ways, just as the Roman church does to this day. Nevertheless, that false church shall perish in the end, not long before Jesus returns, albeit after they destroy many souls.

II Peter 2:1 to 3:14 (ESV): “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there

will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even

denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.”

 

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This Scripture comes from the second letter that Peter wrote to the true churches of his day, particularly those in Asia Minor (Turkey). Silas helped Peter the first letter, and there Peter spoke like a pastor who was concerned about his sufferings brothers and sisters in Christ. In this second letter, Peter also writes like a loving pastor, but has become more concerned about false teachings entering the church, lies which distort biblical truths and delude the minds of his family in Christ. And he seems to have written this second letter alone, with even greater urgency and concern, since he did not even take the time to find a anyone to help him with the arduous task of composing the letter. So this implies that the false teachers entering the true apostolic church—whom he called “false prophets” because they also must have been claiming to have received their teachings directly from God—obviously vexed Peter even more than the physical hardships endured by his people.

Peter was the oldest of the original twelve missionaries (apostles) sent out by Jesus. But Jesus did not chose Peter to serve as a father to the other apostles because he was the oldest. Rather, Jesus chose him for this role because Peter was the most loving, caring and spiritually humble of the twelve. And Peter was also gifted with the ability to comprehend the very essence of God’s words, as they were taught by Jesus. Peter loved deeply, with wise empathy for God’s people, but his deepest concern was for their the well-being of their spirits. Above all, Peter desired clean spirits among his people, so their relationship with their God would not be hindered or severed in any way. So he was more of a pastor (shepherd) than a theologian, while other apostles, like Paul, were the theologians.

Because Peter was more of a pastor than a theologian, Jesus called Peter to comfort, encourage and guide His disciples in a very personal manner. So Peter humbly did this, as an older brother among Jesus’ other disciples. Peter never served as a rabbi, but never presided over anyone as any kind of authoritative head or lord, since only Jesus could be the true Head of every man. Thus, Peter never called anyone his own disciple. Rather, Peter—like all the other apostles and pastors of the true church—knew Jesus was, is and always will be the only true Head Teacher of every individual man.

Consequently, Peter did not address this letter “to my disciples,” but rather “to those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ” (II Pet. 1:1, ESV). Peter counted all true believers as having a faith of equal standing with the faith of all the prophets and apostles in history, because all true faith is a work of Jesus, our God. Literally, Peter here calls this: “faith resulting in righteousness originating from our God and Saviour, Jesus the Messiah” (because, in the Greek, this phrase, πίστιν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν καὶ σωτῆρος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, clearly uses genitives of origin). We are granted faith by lot (λαχοῦσιν πίστιν), that is, according to the appointed time, quantity and quality that God chooses and appoints for each of us, for this is often the ecclesiastical meaning of the verb λαγχάνω, and this certainly also would be its meaning here. In the light of all the Scriptures, this would be what Peter wrote here.

While Jesus walked on earth, Jesus knew about Peter’s love for His people. And this is why, after granting Peter understanding in his spirit, Jesus called him to serve Him as the senior disciple of His inner group of the three disciples, the group which served as His assistant teachers for the other twelve disciples, and where those twelve were called to assist in teaching and counselling all the thousands of disciples following Jesus. But all twelve always taught only in Jesus’ name, that is, according to the will and commands of Jesus. And all twelve only ever taught in the name of Jesus after His death on the cross too, because Jesus rose from the dead and now lives to be our Teacher.

Since this letter was written near the end of Peter’s life, not long before he seems to have been martyred in Rome, we know Jesus made Peter truly faithful until the very end of his life. Now here Peter, as an old and faithful teaching and judging elder in the true apostolic church, warns about false

 

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prophets, like those in Old Testament times. For those false prophets would destroy the faith and the lives of his brothers in the true churches, by turning their focus towards a materialistic Roman kind of life, where the relationship between their spirits and the Spirit of God would be greatly hindered.

Peter desperately warned those churches: “Yet false prophets also were caused to be among the people [i.e., in Old Covenant times], as also false teachers will be among you, those who introduce heresies of destruction without detection, denying them a Master, the one having redeemed them, bringing upon themselves a swift destruction” (Ἐγένοντο δὲ καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται ἐν τῷ λαῷ, ὡς καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν ἔσονται ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι, οἵτινες παρεισάξουσιν αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας, καὶ τὸν ἀγοράσαντα αὐτοὺς δεσπότην ἀρνούμενοι, ἐπάγοντες ἑαυτοῖς ταχινὴν ἀπώλειαν). This warns about teachers of false doctrines, about those who teach a false faith and unjust ways of conducting their daily lives (i.e., ψευδοδιδάσκαλοι). Peter said those teachers of false doctrines would come among them, at unspecified times after he wrote this letter. And he seems to have written this letter between about AD 65 to 68. These false teachers would “surreptitionsly introduce” (παρεισάγω) false doctrines among them. In other words, those false teachers would fraudulently misrepresent the true meaning of God’s Word, without the people detecting or discovering that they taught only lies and delusions.

This process of deception is indicated (1) by using the verb παρεισάγω, which means exactly this, and also (2) by calling these false doctrines αἱρέσεις ἀπωλείας (“heresies of destruction”), (3) as well as by telling us that these false teachers would deny or contradict the Master who had purchased or redeemed them (καὶ τὸν ἀγοράσαντα αὐτοὺς δεσπότην ἀρνούμενοι). Then Peter told us that these false teachers would be “bringing upon themselves a swift destruction. But this did not really say that God would strike them down immediately after they began to teach false doctrines. Rather, this “swift destruction” can refer to several things, such as the way those false prophets: (1) immediately cast themselves into a futile, empty, slavish and loveless lifestyle; (2) immediately condemn their souls to eternal hell hell through their deliberate deceptions they practise for the sake of their own personal profits and power; or (3) the “swift destruction they will receive in the end times, just before the return of Jesus. And, in neither the local or global context, does Peter actually imply that Jesus will always immediately destroy false teachers who stealthily infiltrate and corrupt churches.

Peter knew that fake prophets and false teachers thrived in the Old Covenant church of Israel, and gained much power and wealth through their lies, often without experiencing any negative physical effects during their lifetimes. Some periods of church history saw those kinds self-promoting liars prospering among God’s people for hundreds of years at a time, with any significant opposition. And here Peter warned that undetected false teachers and their lies would again infiltrate and corrupt the true church once more. And, according to all the apostles, the remedy for combating those lies is to rebuke those false teachers and their lies, demanding their repentance into the truth. Then, if any of them refuse to repent, those deliberate deceivers are to be expelled from the church. Furthermore, Peter knew God’s Law, which Jesus came to fulfill in us and through us. And that Law stated the purpose for God allowing deceivers to rise up among us, which is because “Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” (Deut. 13:3, WEB). Dealing with deceivers and their deceptions wakes up our spirits, and causes our spirits to seek God’s counsel. Also, if our spirits are awake, His voice in our hearts will warn us if some deluded, selfish son of the devil is lying. Whole concepts will pour into our spirits from God, turning our attention to His Scriptures and reminding us of His truths which expose those lies. Thus, when we must urgently deal with false teachers, our spirits become more dependent on God, seek Him more fervently, engage more diligently in our eternal education, and grow in our love for Him.

 

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Therefore, why would Peter tell us that God shall quickly destroy any false teachers who enter our churches? In the context of the next few verses (II Pet. 2:3b-4), it is obvious that Peter expected the coming false teachers to remain in some churches for a very long time. Thus, Peter did not imply that God would swiftly destroy them, although they would be swiftly destroyed on the judgment day. Thus, perhaps a better translation of the phrase, ἐπάγοντες ἑαυτοῖς ταχινὴν ἀπώλειαν, might be: “bringing impending destruction upon themselves.” That is, Peter was suggesting that these false teachers would condemn themselves to a destruction that would take place on the judgment day.

“And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be

blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words.”

I do not think “sensuality” is a good translation of the form of the noun ἀσέλγεια in the clause: καὶ πολλοὶ ἐξακολουθήσουσιν αὐτῶν ταῖς ἀσελγείαις. This noun indicates a ‘lack of self-constraint which involves one in conduct that violates all bounds of what is socially acceptable’ (BDAG3). But here, in context, Peter is talking about false teachers surreptitiously teaching false doctrines in a church. So these false teachers are not going to act badly in any way, lest the moral majority in those churches dismiss them as reprobates. Rather, those false teachers would need to look even more nice and friendly than the true teachers, so the people will like them even better than the true teachers.

To have the people believe their heresies, and to deeply infiltrate a group of morally inclined people, false teachers try to make themselves appear even more godly and erudite than the true teachers. So the noun ἀσέλγεια here does not imply one who violates the bounds of what is “socially acceptable.” Rather, it refers to one who does not do what is acceptable to God. And there is a huge difference between what is socially acceptable and what is acceptable to God. Some zealous Pharisees were an extremely moral people, and seldom ever violated the bounds of what was “socially acceptable.” They were usually smiling, warm, welcoming and outwardly loving false teachers, at least in the eyes of those who were loyal to them. Yet these same false teachers actually hated the real God, because God demanded true justice and rebuked their exploitation of His people, as well as how their false “love” could instantly transform into vengeful hatred against anyone who exposed their lies or sins, even family members and long-term co-workers or disciples. So those self-serving and very nice-behaving false teachers were continuously violating the bounds of what God deemed to be acceptable, because they did not love in the just, healing, constructive and beneficial ways of God, yet those charming psychopaths were superficially the most “socially acceptable” people in Israel.

Pharisaic leaders very often sought to harm or murder those whom they artificially deemed to be inferior human beings, and thus broke all God’s most critical laws (all that pertained to the first five of the Ten Commandments). Likewise, the false prophets in Old Covenant times, and the humanistic teachers who infiltrated the true New Covenant church, so they could gather tithing and serving disciples for themselves, did the same. Yet all of these appeared to be very “socially acceptable.” So, since Peter had been dealing with “socially acceptable” false prophets and false teachers all his life, we can conclude that this verse should be translated something like this: “And many will follow them outside of the ways acceptable [to God].” And those unacceptable ways usually would not involve overt “sensuality” or any other “socially unacceptable” ways like fraud or physical violence.

Since all God’s ways involve a just love built on a foundation of truth, Peter meant that “the way of truth will be blasphemed” because the followers of those false teachers will act in loveless and unjust ways that are not acceptable to God. For loveless injustice is a universal attribute of all false churches, the most pervasive characteristic of all who remain loyal to cult leaders who teach false doctrines. By these loveless and unjust fruits, we will know churches are false, like those Peter wrote

 

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about in this passage. It is through their loveless and unjust deeds falsely done in Jesus’ name that they slander His name and His “way of truth.” In other words, false teachers and their followers, by falsely calling themselves Christians, serve Satan’s goals. False churches help the devil by doing his works, by causing the sleeping spirits of the world to think that Christianity is loveless and unjust. Since most dull souls are caught up in the delusions of worldly pursuits, and blindly struggling to survive under the ruthless tyranny of Satan’s invention of money, they have no time to actually study what God wrote in all of His spiritual and physical creations, nor to meditate upon and wisely discern God’s intended meanings of His Scriptures. So they can seldom differentiate between true and false Christianity, and easily believe the lies that Satan illustrates through his false churches.

Furthermore, Peter provides another means of identifying these false teachers and their followers in their churches. Peter tells us that ‘in their greed they will exploit you with false words.’ And how many times have seen this occur in the fake churches throughout history? From the most ancient Roman Catholics to the evangelical churches of today, all demand a tithe from even the poorest of their trapped souls, even though Jesus, the apostles and all true New Covenant elders teach against tithing. For Jesus taught that each should give what each is able to give, and that each must receive what one needs. And this New Covenant law of Jesus not only fulfills the tithing laws, but also the Old Covenant laws which heavily taxed the wealthy, so that there would be no poor in His land. In other words, the only reason fake churches demand unjust levels of tax from the poor, but teach nothing about God’s laws to heavily tax the rich, is because those preachers want to become rich themselves, by exploiting the poor in the same way the worldly rich do, and certainly do not want any of the rich to be taxed, lest they themselves will be taxed. All the false doctrines of those false teachers are designed to gain power and revenue, while preventing their rich patrons from being subjected to the sound rebukes of God and His faithful children. For those false teacher seek power, and self-indulgent, ruthless lifestyles, at the expense of their people, as they blaspheme the true God.

In fact, just like the Roman Catholic popes, we now see false teachers in evangelical churches who are obscenely self-indulgent multimillionaires, even billionaires. Yet how can they live like that when Jesus taught that we cannot be Christians unless we forsake all the excess that God puts in our hands (Luke 14:33). And, when Jesus taught this, it meant, “For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed, but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality” (II Cor. 8:13-14, WEB). As for the rich, the words of Jesus also fulfill this Law of God: “you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for his need, which he lacks” (Deut. 15:7-8), without charging any interest and without taking any pledge, then cancelling that debt on the seventh year. Then Jesus also teaches all employers: “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates” (Deut. 24:14, WEB). But the rich become rich by not fulfilling this law and through forms of usury which directly or indirectly steal from the poor. Then those false preachers partake in those sins by condoning and even promoting those vile works of the wealthy, even by worshipping those exploiters. With many “false words,” those spiritual prostitutes steal services and money from the people in unjust and crooked ways, even causing the deaths of their own people and their children through their greed and their lust for power or esteem. Then those fakes exploit in countless other evil, unjust ways as well.

“Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God

did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them [down to the lower place of earth] and

committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment ; if He did not

 

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