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To the lurkers... stop and think.

The Word of God says:

Romans 2:28–29
“For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly... but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit…”

Galatians 3:29
“If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Romans 9:6–8
“For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel... it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise.”

Titus 3:9

“But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
(The Spirit knew men would one day try to hijack the Gospel with racial superiority, ethnic lineage, and bloodline idolatry. This verse was the safeguard — but Scofield, the Rothschilds, and Rockefeller made sure the church forgot it by 1909.)

Ephesians 2:14–16
“For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier... by setting aside in His flesh the law with its commands and regulations.”

And the Word of God was echoed by every early Church Father:

Justin Martyr (100–165 AD)
“The true spiritual Israel is not the race who descended from Jacob, but those who believe in Christ.”
(Dialogue with Trypho the Jew)

Cyprian of Carthage (250 AD)
“We Christians are the true people of God, though the Jews once were... the Jews, according to the flesh, were cast off.”
(Treatise 12, Book 1)

Eusebius of Caesarea (325 AD)
“The promises of the covenants made to Israel are now fulfilled in us [the Church]... The Hebrews have fallen from the grace of God.”
(Proof of the Gospel, Book 1, Ch. 4)

And GOD said:

“By calling this covenant ‘new,’ He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.” - Hebrews 8:13

And it did...


This isn't hard..

Every true Christian perfectly, understood:
The Body of Christ is Israel.
There is one flock.
One Shepherd.
One covenant. In Christ alone.
For 1,900 years.

Then what happened in 1909?
PT Barnum-ville happened.

The vipers from Hell printed a Bible from Hell — and like snakes, they slithered it into poor Appalachia and the rest of America during the Great Depression, between two World Wars, decades before people even had a TV or radio.

And their deception worked.
It worked like Hell — because that’s exactly where it came from.

And by the late 1950s, we had preachers on television 24/7 screaming:

“You’re not the Body of Christ!”
“You’re not the true Israel!”
“It’s the dirt over there — because the Rothschilds rolled into Palestine with UN tanks and murdered 20,000 people to take it!"
"Thats Israel now!!!!! Bow down you misled gentile fools, you're nothing!”
"And we need to send this new Israel you're going to worship some tanks and atom bombs, so get your checkbooks out because God wills it!!"

And you think God agrees with this?! :oops:
The same God who declared the Old Covenant dead 2,000 years ago now wants it rebuilt by men who reject His Son?!

Wake up.
They were deceived in 1917.

But this is 2025.
You have no excuse now.

Repent.
Turn away from Scofield and the Dragon.
And come back to Christ.


Because the Kingdom of God is not a Rothschild border war.
It's the Body of Christ — and there is no other Israel.

You were deceived into building the Global Church of Satan brick by brick.
And if your spirit didn’t immediately cry “Amen!” to everything above — then you’re not just inside it.
You are a part of its ministry.
 
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the churches need shepherds, not Bible teachers, plenty of Bible teachers out there but they do not warn you of the sin that is lurking around every corner to trap you, to enslave you. They do not convict you. we need shepherds that LOVE Jesus more then anything and feel the burden to protect to warn the flock of all the deceitful tricks of the world to ensnare us in sin.

Instead what we mostly get is people pleasing , that lightly use the word of God, but have no power, they tell people what they want to hear in order to fill seats, in order to be popular, instead they should be telling people what they need to hear in order to be saved, in ordered to have a spiritually strong congregation.

But there are still a few good ones out there if you look hard enough, and it is ever more important to work out our salvation though fear and trembling, to be intentional about our relation ship with Jesus and invest time into the needy. We have Gods word, we are the church, the remnant the few that will walk through the narrow gate.
 

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If you were a leader in the church tasked with restructuring and improving its architecture and format.

WWYD?

Are there significant improvements churches can make in the modern era with the advent of the internet, smart phones and social media?
Good topic.
The problem with many churches is that they are not relevant.

Of course, this depends on what audience you are going after.
People are most comfortable with what they think church should be like.
And that has to do with their religious upbringing.

On the other hand, some want church to be nothing like what they grew up with.
They want an open environment where any discussion is game,
to deal with what they are facing in this modern world.

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If you were a leader in the church tasked with restructuring and improving its architecture and format.

WWYD?

Are there significant improvements churches can make in the modern era with the advent of the internet, smart phones and social media?
The issue with church denominations is that they do not hold Christ Jesus as who he truly is for all as the Key issue !
For if they did no one would of walked away in fact !

People have been walking away from Church in droves from the 1960's, why well it's because they are founded on only Religion ? Not Christ Jesus in fact ! but their worldly Religious game play ? just as the Jews did ! and that's why they rejected Jesus and the Christ Jesus ! for their on a type of ego trip ? looking at themselves one may say ? thinking they make the ends ! as they boast of what they do ! or have did.
Reason is that they are not truly born again nor Saved in fact !

Not to mention that This world is full of Deceptions and Delusions ! Now If you believe that Jesus said so ! why not your eyes able to see ? Brainwashing tec is at play in this world, to be sure to be sure !

Jesus pointed out about the Sower ! and what happens in all that in fact and that is a Key point all must understand, if you want to progress with aiding people taking roots, so they can grow above the weeds etc.
 

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Finding a church that actually teaches the bible contextually, is gonna be very hard.

Actually going chapter by chapter and verse by verse.

ITS BORING! But guess what, it's the most beneficial. No one wants to sit there and listen to a person explain what the narrative is describing.

Typically, like I just watched on a live stream... a man will quote a passage from some random part of the bible, then come up with some bullcrap... which doesn't really HELP in actually enhancing what was of the WHOLE NARRATIVE, and therefore go on about their own speech of "What you should do..." or whatever....


Lol. It's so stupid. (that means its really sad and sucks for those people.)

Check out www.thegreatnewsnetwork.com click watch, and somewhere in those videos there are actually CONTEXTUALLY (verse by verse) given verse by verse videos you can choose to look at and from....
 
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The only Key to stop the failing of the church... is for a few out of the many.... to locate and settle in on sound doctrinal teachings.

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Not a few... but many will enter the wrong way.
Most don't even understand that what they are doing is the fulfilment of great apostacy foretold to occur during these times.

In which case, one can either self-examine with the understanding that what they believe and have been taught is MOST LIKELY in error, or die and wake up before the throne of God, having been duped by those foretold false teachers.
 
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If you were a leader in the church tasked with restructuring and improving its architecture and format.

WWYD?

Are there significant improvements churches can make in the modern era with the advent of the internet, smart phones and social media?
I would tell the people to go make disciples and meet with them, encourage them and teach them how to make disciples also. (2 Tim. 2: 2)
 

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God is not done with the Jews ? well no God is not doen with anyon
"God’s not done with the Jews!"

That’s the classic Scofield incantation, the magic phrase Zionist cultists chant to override the New Covenant, the Gospel, and every word Jesus Christ ever said.

Let me be clear: You are not a brother in Christ. You are a misled agent of the Dragon — defending a theology from Hell that the Apostles never preached, Christ never taught, and no Church Father ever affirmed.

Justin Martyr (100–165 AD)
“The true spiritual Israel is not the race who descended from Jacob, but those who believe in Christ.”
Dialogue with Trypho the Jew

The fact that none of this even gives you pause shows how deep the Dragon’s spell has sunk into your soul.

The New Covenant isn’t paused, it replaced the old.


“By calling this covenant ‘new,’ He has made the first one obsolete.” — Hebrews 8:13
Not paused.
Not delayed.
Obsolete.
Gone forever.

That's what God said and He didn't stutter.

The throne of David?

Christ already reigns on it — in Heaven.

“The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand…” — Psalm 110
“Exalted to the right hand of God…” — Acts 2:33

You quoted Zechariah 8:23 like it proves your cult’s delusion.

Here’s the truth:
The “one Jew” people cling to is Christ Himself.
Not the UN.
Not Netanyahu.
Not your Rothschild-funded bloodline idol.

"God’s not done with the Jews"?

Correct, because:

“A Jew is one inwardly…” — Romans 2:29
“If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed…” — Galatians 3:29
So yes — He’s not done, because we are now Israel in Him.

The Body of Christ is Israel.

You don’t preach the Gospel.
You preach bloodline idolatry, a rebuilt altar to the flesh, and a heretical fantasy where Jesus plays second fiddle to an ethnic false Israel of dirt.

And you accuse us of “gentile arrogance”?
No, that’s not arrogance, that’s the smoke of burning heresy, and the sound of the saints grinding your golden calf to powder.

The Gospel isn’t a synagogue with Gentile seating at the back of the bus.
It’s a new creation
One Body.
One Shepherd.
One covenant.

Either get on the bus, or get left under the spell you serve.
Because the axe is already at the root.

“Your house is left to you desolate…” — Matthew 23:38
“You are of your father, the devil…” — John 8:44


That’s what Jesus said.
And He didn’t stutter.

Anyone who defends Rothschild’s blood-soaked, Christ-rejecting counterfeit of Israel will not receive God’s praise — only His judgment.

Repent.
God is not done with the Jews ?
Well I would think that God is not done with anyone in fact !

The Old has become the New ! It was the workings of such that was finished off !
The Old is a Blueprint and the New is the way !

Lost people are lost, period !
Religious people are only just that, religious dupes ! until Christ Jesus came so as to to lift us out from such Deceptions and Delusions.
The Saints are above the Church fellowship for they are worthy of the Body of Christ Jesus as their Head !
Now Jesus went to save the OT Saints. for they were worthy of God ! for without them ? as Jesus was to come ! Moses said about who was to come !

So carnal religious dupes are on the same page ! for they have not been truly born again !
Jews of today are even an abomination just in regards the OT in fact ! that's sad. for they are under the ther power of the Talmud whore ! so are many who claim to be Christians in fact ! for they are in fact of this world, as I know of people like you have pointed out, who claim to be Christians and born again ? but they clearly are not in fact, for they Idolise the so called Jews ? but truly have no regards in reality in fact.
as such is all a deception in fact ! to use only so as to fool. cunning yes !

Why would one who is truly Saved look to the Jews of today for anything ? clearly such a one is not Saved ! not to mention they are only truly looking for the 2ed coming ? Now if one was truly Saved, in regard if you yourself are Truly Saved ! so when the second comming comes ? how are the Saved going to become more Saved ? :shockedx joy:smmnh:astonished:

As I said regarding them, as you have pointed out !
That I do know of such so called christian Satanic grubs ! for they clearly want people to be as mouth's to the fire !
It's their Burnt offering is what brings their b-Jesus ? down to earth as a Man, so as to dominate over the world !
Such gutless dupes have been brainwashed so as to think, that they who work so as to bring on the Burnt Offering will be raptured out before hand !
So the little darlings will not have to go through the flames !
That is part of the Deal !
Yet it was their workings, ( What they Sowed ) that will be what they brought on the Helfire !
They seriously belive that God does deals ? how stupid ! God does no deals ! Why would God do deals ! only gods do deals.
If God had to do Deals, how could such be God !

So if I were to say to people it is I, I am doing deals with God ! What total BS !o_O

Me on the other hand come from the point of that we abide in Christ Jesus and Only do his will, Period !

But this mob totaly hated me as I was saying one has to abide !
They peddled that once saved, always saved ? Deception a false type ! as if regardless what one does, kill etc is all fine ! They claim ? but their saved is a nothing to do with what Jesus is about at all in fact ! but remember that this world is full of deceptions and delusions in fact !
So when talking to this Mob, they would come up with lines ? and yes such lines were true lines out of the Bible ? but they had bastardised the ends of such lines ? very cleverly with such dog cunning ?
They use such intents as if trump cards and if you question such in regards the foremat They get so very angery !
It's all, You will obay us, We hand out the Lines ! and you just believe, Period !

Now the thing is that I know the Bible very well, and they are only Versed ? on the Bible.
They only make it out as they want in fact. They do not understand such truly on their own bat. They only have people who are above them that they seek from, they are as Slaves to that Order !
Now One that I know the best said that at the 2ed coming comes, he will be incharge of X amount of people !

Now the Devil comes first I believe, that's before the second Coming !

So we have such Dupes everywhere !
 

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This is literally and exactly what happens.

The raw, curious seeker — not yet “Christian” — decides to look for truth.


They want to find Christ, so they buy the Bible and a few early works of the Church Fathers,
the literal architects of Christianity. Then they begin reading it all..

Romans 2:28–29
“For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly… but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit…”

Galatians 3:29
“If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Romans 9:6–8
“For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel… it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise.”

Titus 3:9 “But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.” (The Spirit knew there would come a time when men would try to hijack the Gospel with racial superiority, ethnic lineage, and tribal bloodline idolatry. This verse was His safety valve to try to keep that from ever happening but Scofield, the Rockefeller's, and the Rothschilds saw to it that you forgot it from 1909 onward.)

Ephesians 2:14–16
“For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier… by setting aside in His flesh the law with its commands and regulations.”

Justin Martyr (100–165 AD)
“The true spiritual Israel is not the race who descended from Jacob, but those who believe in Christ.”
Dialogue with Trypho the Jew

Cyprian of Carthage (250 AD):
“We Christians are the true people of God, though the Jews once were... the Jews, according to the flesh, were cast off.” — Treatises of Cyprian, Treatise 12, Book 1

Irenaeus of Lyons (130–202 AD)
“They [the jews] are disinherited from the grace of God.”
Against Heresies, Book IV

John Chrysostom (349–407 AD)
“The synagogue is not only a brothel and a theater; it is also a den of robbers and a lodging for wild beasts.”
Homilies Against the Jews

Eusebius of Caesarea (325 AD):
“The promises of the covenants made to Israel are now fulfilled in us [the Church]... The Hebrews have fallen from the grace of God.” — Proof of the Gospel, Book 1, Ch. 4

And on and on and on and on..
So by the time they get all the way down to Hebrews: It's over...

“By calling this covenant ‘new,’ He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.”
— Hebrews 8:13

^ That's literally GOD saying that the old covenant is over, obsolete and will soon disappear into extinction.

And that was 2,100 years ago.. And it did..

So after reading the Word, these brand-new Gospel seekers look around —
and what do they see?

They see Evangelicals foaming at the mouth under the spell of the Dragon, screaming:

“Forget God! Forget what He and the Apostles & Church Fathers said!”
“Let’s rebuild the Old Covenant! Protect it! Die for it and send our Christian kids to die for it!!!”
“Give it nukes, feed it billions, and be sure to give it tanks and helicopters!”
“God said it would disappear? That’s blasphemy! We’re bringing it BACK, baby! Screw what God said!”


And when these new, unbrainwashed followers of Christ see all this — then flip on Fox News, the televangelist circus, and every Zionist-controlled propaganda outlet — they’re stunned, horrified and terrified.

Because it reveals three things:

#1. Most of the US Christian Church and the entire Western government is directly under a spell from the Dragon himself. They are completely under the veil.

#2. These people aren't Christians at all. They're a brainwashed, Jim Jones-like cult of Zionists who pretend to follow Christ while completely ignoring the word of God, the Apostles and every titan and architect of the Church itself for 2000 years.

#3. Not God, not the Apostles and not a single early Church Father taught what this Zionist cult believes in and to make matters worse,
they're not only under a spell from the Dragon, but in charge of our entire military apparatus and nuclear weapons.

This is what the new believers see.
This is why they walk away — not from Christ,
but from the impostor in His robe.

From the Dragon’s clergy.
From the Zionist altar.
From the pulpit that worships a flag instead of the cross.

This is who’s running your "church."
And their theology is from Hell.
Because that’s where it was born.


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And they’re so bewitched,
so deep under the Dragon’s spell
,
that not one of them even stops to ask:

“Why isn’t there a Star of David in the Bible?”

Because there isn’t.
Not once. Not ever.

The only “star” mentioned in scripture?

“You have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch
and Chiun your images,
the star of your god,
which you made to yourselves.”
— Amos 5:26 (also Acts 7:43)

That’s not the Star of David.
That’s the Star of Rephan
a Babylonian sigil of damnation.
An idol dragged from the pit…

They sacrificed children beneath this star.
Their priests drank blood beneath this star.

They danced, covered in the blood of those children,
during ritual orgies beneath this star.

It is explicitly, cursed by God,

And yet…

It’s the banner waving over your sanctuary.
The sigil painted on your pulpits.
The flag your pastors defend with blood and steel.
And unbelievably, even printed on your money to let you know who owns you.

And these Christians are so far gone,
so hypnotized by Scofield sorcery and Rothschild theology,
that they bow before a star God damned
and call it "holy".

That’s how deep the deception runs.

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That’s right.
We’re all living in a real-life, science fiction/horror film nightmare
and the Dragon is gripping the controls,
piloting this flaming, screeching train-wreck straight into the Lake of Fire.


“Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees.” — Matthew 3:10


Jesus warned plainly:


“You will be hated by all for My name’s sake.” — Matthew 10:22
“If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.” — John 15:20

And today, that persecution doesn’t just come from the world —
It comes from the Zionist pulpits.
From flag-waving churches under the Dragon's spell,
and from so-called Christians who scream “Christ!” while rejecting everything He said.

They have become the very Pharisees they claim to hate —
Casting out the Body of Christ, stone by stone,
To build an altar to a bloodline Jesus never sanctified:

The Synagogue of Satan.

And they helped lay every brick.
And they don’t even know it —
For the veil is thick, and the Dragon’s spell is enchanting.
Why don't you say what you really mean?
 

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Most don't even understand that what they are doing is the fulfilment of great apostacy foretold to occur during this times.

In which case, one can either self-examine with the understanding that what they believe and have been taught is MOST LIKELY in error, or die and wake up before the throne of God, having been duped by those foretold false teachers.

Don't you think God who wants us to walk in truth?
Will provide some teachers that are sound and good, which need to be sorted out of the many?

James 3:1 tells us....

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know
that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Note what it says?
"Not many."

Add to that.

2 Timothy 4:3, tells us there will be many bad teachers. Those who will tell people what they want to hear,
rather, then being able to tell believers what they are needing to hear!

The problem is outlined right here!

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires,
they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
I found a few good over the years.
Here is one excellent teacher that I am so glad I found by God's grace through prayer.
R. B. Thieme, Jr., Bible Ministries | Home



Grace and peace!
 

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Finding a church that actually teaches the bible contextually, is gonna be very hard.

Not is going to be, is already very hard to find now.




ITS BORING!

Anybody that says God's Word is boring does not the Lord very well and is not walking with Him as they should be.

He has the Word of Life! Everything the Lord has to say is very exciting!
 

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All you do is rag on the Jews with hatred and racism so we have to assume this

Show me in my post #41 up above..

Post #41 is Scripture.
Post #41 is Church history.
Post #41 is theology.
Period..

So go ahead — quote the 'hatred and racism' you claim is there.
Be specific.

Because calling out a false gospel that denies Christ is not hatred — it’s obedience.
And refuting bloodline theology with the Word of God is not racism — it’s sound doctrine.

If you read Romans 2, Galatians 3, Ephesians 2, Hebrews 8, and the writings of the early Church and came away thinking - ‘this guy just hates Jews,’ - then maybe it’s not me you’re arguing with.
It’s the Holy Spirit.
 
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Show me in my post #41 up above..

Post #41 is Scripture.
Post #41 is Church history.
Post #41 is theology.
Period..

So go ahead — quote the 'hatred and racism' you claim is there.
Be specific.

Because calling out a false gospel that denies Christ is not hatred — it’s obedience.
And refuting bloodline theology with the Word of God is not racism — it’s sound doctrine.

If you read Romans 2, Galatians 3, Ephesians 2, Hebrews 8, and the writings of the early Church and came away thinking - ‘this guy just hates Jews,’ - then maybe it’s not me you’re arguing with.
It’s the Holy Spirit.

But you enjoy doing it so much, it makes one wonder.

And, do not quote theologians as if you are quoting Scripture.
For some of them hated Jews....