Not sure how you have arrived at these conclusions. Sounds like you are making a god out of your own doctrine.
Also displaying an attitude of tribalism toward the Body of Christ. Trashing some 2,000 denominations you take issue with.
And why? You personally disagree with their doctrine. So you stand in judgment over them. Calling them Apostate.
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Dear St. SteVen,
The body of Christ was devoured by wolves shortly after Paul died. None of the sheep were spared:
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
Paul's knowledge of the coming apostasy of the church greatly distressed him. For three years, Paul warned the churches day and night (with tears) of what was about to befall them. It was not some far off event that would only occur near the literal end of this age as some believe. The apostasy was going to apply to most of them before they died. You should not take Paul's warning lightly.
Even Christ said this about the coming apostasy:
Mat 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Why do you believe that the church (or some of the church) was able to avoid the deceptions of Satan in light of what these scriptures above teach?
Christ also said this concerning new believers who only have the Early Rain of the Spirit:
Mat 13:24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
Shortly after Christ plants His seed of the Holy Spirit (Early Rain) within a person, Satan will come to them and plant his seed within them, too. Satan's seed is the spirit of anti-Christ which will remain within the believer until the time of the harvest (when Elijah's 3 1/2 years of drought ends). At the time of the harvest, Christ will give the fallen away Elect believer the Latter Rain of the Spirit and heal their spiritual blindness. Now with "eyes that can see", the believer will see the Abomination of the Desolation (Mat 24:15-16) that had previously occurred within themselves (God's Temple). After they realize this truth, Christ's judgment will fall on them and remove the spirit of anti-Christ (Mat 24:40). The wheat (the child of God) will then be harvested into the barn (Kingdom of Heaven).
Christ also said this:
Mat 12:43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself SEVEN other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
The spiritual symbol of an unclean spirit represents a spirit which teaches Satan's false truth through lies and deceptions.
Since a new believer remains
spiritually blind (
Mark 8:21-25) after receiving the Early Rain of the Spirit, they cannot replace their worldly false beliefs with the truth of Christ. ONE unclean spirit leaves but comes back with SEVEN more. The number "seven" represents perfection. In this case, the number seven represents the perfection of Satan's lies/deceptions which come to a believer by the indwelling of the spirit of anti-Christ. Now, instead of ONE unclean spirit within the believer, they now have EIGHT. The number eight is a spiritual symbol which represents a
new spiritual condition. In this case, the new spiritual condition is
worse than the first.
This "worse than the first" spiritual condition causes the believer to become a
False Prophet, a
Man of Sin, a
Minister of Satan and a
Seven Headed Beast with Ten Horns & Crowns.
The pathway to salvation for all the Elect goes through the apostate church. It cannot be avoided because Satan's deceptions are too powerful.
Consider the parable of the Ten Virgins. When a believer receives the Early Rain of the Spirit, they become espoused to Christ. While they wait for the Bridegroom to return for the wedding (conversion event), all ten virgins will fall asleep (lose their salvation) at night (time of their spiritual blindness). Then at midnight (deepest part of their blindness when Satan has fully deceived them), the call of Elijah will announce the return of the Bridegroom. Since the Elect (the Wise Virgins) have the extra flask of oil (represents the Latte Rain), they will be able to go out and meet Christ when He returns (His second coming).
Consider Paul's conversion experience. Paul received the Early Rain of the Spirit on the Damascus Road. It was at that time that Paul called Jesus "Lord" and became His servant. Paul's blindness represented his spiritual blindness when he had to be lead by the hand. Paul then spent three days (represents a spiritual process) in Damascus where he remained blind and could not eat or drink (bread & New Wine). In Damascus, Paul stayed at the house of a man named "Judas". This represents that Paul had become a man of sin just as Judas did. Then as Paul prayed (answered the call of Elijah), Ananias (represents Christ) travelled to Paul on a street named "straight". This represents that Paul's repentance made the pathway straight for Christ to come. When Christ came, Paul received the baptism of the Spirit (Latter Rain) and the scales fell off his eyes. It was only then that Paul was able to see and eat.
Consider the story of the woman taken in adultery. When the woman (represents the Elect, the bride of Christ) was brought to Christ, she had been committing adultery with Satan (represents the sin of Adam and Eve). Because of her sin, she was under the penalty of death as required by the Law. To restore the woman, Christ writes in the earth (represents the Early Rain when Christ first writes the Law in a person's heart). However, after Christ writes in the earth, the Pharisees still accuse the woman and do not drop their stones. Christ then writes in the earth a second time (represents the Latter Rain). This time, the Pharisees drop their stones because the Law can no longer accuse the woman. She is now converted and saved.
I could present additional teachings that all say the similar things (here a little and there a little). The time an Elect believer spends between receiving the Early Rain and the Latter Rain is always a time of falling away and becoming worse than the first (a man of sin). None of the Elect can avoid it.
Because all the Elect will fall away and become unfaithful (means they mix in their own works with faith), they will all become a man of sin They will remain in this lost condition until Christ "comes again" and pours out the Latter Rain. Only then will they see the A of D. If a believer can't look back and see this truth as it applies to themselves, then they are still under the deceptions of Satan and they remain unconverted and unsaved.
Joe
