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I—The Restoration of the Gospel 
II—Special Edition: Justification by Faith 
III —The Charismatic Movement 
IV—Church Unity and the Gospel 
V—Special Edition: Justification by Faith and the Charismatic Movement 
VI—Justification by Faith and the "Holiness" Movement
VII—Justification by Faith: Law and Gospel 
VIII—Do We Distort the Gospel? 
IX—Justification by Faith and the Current Religious Scene
X—The Question of Authority 
XI —The Burning Passion of the New Testament 
XII —Pointers on How to Read the Bible 
XIII—Justification by Faith and Christian Ethics 
XIV—Justification by Faith and Eschatology 
XV—The Upside-Down Gospel 
XVI—Sanctification 
XVII—Antichrist Today 
XVIII—The Radical Nature of Justification 
XIX—The Reformation Doctrine of Justification By Faith
XX —Understanding the Roman Catholic Doctrine of Justification by Faith 
XXI —Justification by Faith and the Bible 
XXII —The Old Testament 
XXIII —New Testament Eschatology 
XXIV—Nothing But the Gospel 
XXV—The Primacy of Justification 
XXVI—The Centrality of the Gospel 
XXVII—Election
XXVIII—Special Edition: Covenant (part 1) (part 2)
XXIX —Theology and Body 
XXX—The Righteousness of Christ 
XXXI—The Man of Romans 7:14-25 
XXXII—Christ Our Righteousness (Part 1) 
XXXIII—Christ Our Righteousness (Part 2) 
XXXIV—Christ Our Righteousness (Part 3) 
XXXV—Christ Our Righteousness (Part 4) 
XXXVI—Christ Our Righteousness (Part 5) 
Christ Our Righteousnes (Special Issue, PDF only) 
XXXVII—The Kingdom of God 
XXXVIII—Man (part 1) 
XXXIX—Man (Part 2) 
XL—Man (Part 3) 
What Is Man? (Special Issue, PDF only) 
What Is Life? (Special Issue, PDF only)
XLI—Preaching Christ from the Old Testament 
Christ, the Meaning of All Scripture, Life and History
(Special Issue, PDF only) 
XLII—New Testament Witnessing 
XLIII—Restoring the Gospel to Its Rightful State 
XLIV—Essays on Justification by Faith 
XLV—Jesus Christ the Elect 
XLVI—Protestants in Crisis Over Justification by Faith 
XLVII—Justification by Faith and John Henry Newman 
XLIX—The Gospel as an Evangelical Confession of Faith
L—What is the Gospel? 
LI—Amazing Grace (PDF only) 
LII—Justification by Faith and "The Mark of the Beast 
Papal Rome
"...And all the world wondered after the Beast. And they worshipped the Dragon which gave power unto the Beast: and they worshipped the Beast, saying, Who is like unto the Beast?...Then I saw another Beast, coming out of the earth. He had two horns like a Lamb, but he spoke like a Dragon.... He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the Beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an Image to the Beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the Image of the Beast, that the Image of the Beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the Beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the Beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666."
The Wine of Babylon—
This We Deny...
1. Teaching that before Christians can enter heaven they must reach a state of sinless perfection in this life wherein they no longer need to be justified by faith alone and rely solely upon the imputed righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ is a serious departure from the word of God.
2. Teaching that the righteousness by which a believer is justified is a quality within the heart of the believer is a serious departure from the word of God.
3. Teaching that God must first impart or infuse goodness, virtue, and love into a sinner's heart before God can accept and save him unto eternal life and is a serious departure from the word of God.
4. Teaching that the grace of God which justifies a believing repentant sinner is a quality found within the heart of the believer rather than a quality and disposition in the heart of our loving, merciful God is a serious departure from the word of God.
5. Any teaching which confuses, obscures, or mingles the imputed righteousness of Christ with the imparted righteousness of Christ is a serious departure from the word of God.
6. Any teaching which declares that repentant sinners must be sanctified or regenerated before they can be justified is a serious departure from the word of God.
7. Teaching that justification before God is obtained by following the example of Christ's holy life rather that by faith alone in His substitutionary, perfectly sinless life and atoning death on Calvary is a serious departure from the word of God.
8. Teaching that the sanctifying regenerating work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of the believer is at all meritorious and contributes in any way to our justification before God is a serious departure from the word of God.
9. Teaching that any person is ever justified before God by obeying the Ten Commandments is a serious departure from the word of God.
All have sinned and all continually fall short of the glory of God. There is only one Person who has ever perfectly fulfilled the righteousness of the holy Law of God. That Person is our Lord Jesus Christ. He alone is good. He alone has met all the Law's demands for holiness and righteousness. And He alone is the One with whom the Father is well pleased. Believers will always be justified before the glory of God by the perfect imputed righteousness of the Lord.
10. Teaching that only sinless, perfectly sanctified "Saints" will go directly to heaven is a serious departure from the word of God.
11. Teaching that those believers who have not reached perfectly sinless sanctification will suffer in a place called "Purgatory" is a serious departure from the word of God.
12. Teaching that certain believers called "Saints" have attained to such a state of holiness that they are completely without sin either in thought, word, motive, or deed is a serious departure from the word of God.
13. Teaching that God's mercy and absolution from sin's guilt or punishment are dispensed through the personal word and mediatorial office of a person called a "priest" and that sinners obtain the mercy of God and absolution from sin's guilt or punishment by
"Going to Confession" and contritely confessing all of their sins to this person who is called a "priest" and who is addressed in the "Confessional" with the words, "Father, forgive me for I have sinned...." followed by a complete listing of their known sins is a serious departure from the word of God.
14. Teaching that the partaking of any of the "Seven Sacraments" is in any way essential for the forgiveness and justification of a repentant believer in Christ is a serious departure from the word of God.
15. Teaching that the elements of the Lord's Supper are actually transformed into the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ is a serious departure from the word of God.
16. Teaching that a so-called "priest" is actually re-sacrificing the Lord Jesus Christ as a propitiatory offering is a serious departure from the word of God.
17. Teaching that baptism is not only a symbol but actually an act of cleansing from sin is a serious departure from the word of God.
18. Teaching that Christian parents should have their little children sprinkled with water or "christened" in baptism is a serious departure from the word of God.
The word of God clearly teaches baptism by immersion for believing, repentant sinners who are old enough to believe in Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. While circumcision of infants was the covenantal sign of the children of Abraham in the Old Testament,
the New Testament covenantal sign is water baptism by immersion for believers in Christ who are old enough to have faith in Him. Little children who are not of sufficient age to have personal faith in Christ are sanctified by the believing parent. Children are covered by the blood of Christ because of the faith of their believing parents until they reach the age of accountability.
19. Teaching that celibacy is in any way a higher state of holiness than that of non-celibate believers is a serious departure from the word of God.
20. Teaching that lighting candles or prayers for the dead are effectual for relieving the "suffering of souls in purgatory" is a serious departure from the word of God.
21. Teaching that the repetitious chanting of prayers (no matter how pious the content) is at all pleasing to our Lord is a serious departure from the word of God.
22. Teaching that the doing of penance (Hail Mary's, Our Fathers, pilgrimages, self-denial, or any other form) for the remission of sin or its punishment is a serious departure from the word of God.
23. Teaching that believers ought to join monasteries or nunneries where they can practice celibacy and devote their lives to poverty, penance, prayers for the dead, self-flagellation, lighting of candles, and other useless forms of sacramentalism is a serious departure from the word of God.
24. Teaching that believers are to venerate, respect, adore, or show devotion to an image, icon, relic, or artistic representation is a serious departure from the word of God.
25. Teaching that the virgin Mary was immaculately conceived, was without sin, and that she can intercede for sinners and answer prayers directed to her is a serious departure from the word of God.
26. Teaching that the virgin Mary has been bodily raised from the dead is a serious departure from the word of God.
27. Teaching that believers ought to petition the "Saints" for either spiritual or temporal assistance is a serious departure from the word of God.
28. Teaching that any so-called leader of the church (whether a pastor, priest, bishop, or pope) has the power to either include or exclude any one from the kingdom of God is a serious departure from the word of God.
29. Teaching that the "apostolic succession" of the "Popes" of Rome is the way to identify the true Christian church is a serious departure from the word of God.
The true Christian church is that fellowship of believers which adheres to and faithfully follows the same evangelical gospel which Christ and the apostles taught. Any man who teaches contrary to the doctrine which Christ and the apostles taught is an Antichrist regardless of his claim to "succession" or appointment to church leadership.
30. Teaching that the apostle Peter was the first "Pope" and rock upon which our Lord Jesus Christ built His Church and that religious leaders in the church are entitled to be addressed as by the title of Reverend, Most Reverend, My Lord, Father, or Holy Father is a serious departure from the word of God.
The true Christian church is built upon the Rock, Christ Jesus the Son of the living God. The "keys" to the kingdom of God which were entrusted to the apostle Peter were the words of his confession of faith in Christ as the Savior of the world, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Thus, it is the Gospel, not the personal word of Peter or one of his "successors" which contains the key to open the gates of paradise to any repentant sinner who puts his faith in the merits of the Son of God.
31. Teaching that church leaders ought to wear clerical attire, vestments, or robes which are distinct from the attire of the common ordinary believer is a serious departure from the word of God.
32. Teaching that certain portions of the fellowship meetings of believers ought to be spoken in a language which the common believer does not understand is a serious departure from the word of God.
33. Teaching that:1.) the opinions of venerated post-apostolic churchmen called "Saints" and 2.) "Church Tradition" are of equal authority with the Bible in deciding matters of doctrine and morals is a serious departure from the word of God.
34. Teaching that a church leader can issue a decree, pronouncement, or ruling in matters of policy, doctrine, or morals which must be considered inerrant and infallible when this leader is speaking " ex cathedra " is an abomination and an Antichrist.
35. Teaching that divorce is an unforgivable sin and that remarried people are living in a continual state of sin is a serious departure from the word of God.
36. Teaching that the church ought to employ the civil powers of the state to enforce, propagate, or coerce the practice of religion is a serious departure from the word of God.
37. Teaching that any individual person or religious organization has the power to alter, delete, or in any way change the holy Law of God, the Ten Commandments, is a serious departure from the word of God.
38. Teaching that the Second Commandment can be eliminated is a serious departure from the word of God.
39. Teaching that the Fourth Commandment can be tampered with to indicate that the Sabbath day is not the seventh day of the week but rather the first day of the week is a serious departure from the word of God.
40. Teaching that the Tenth Commandment can be divided into two commandments is a serious departure from the word of God.
41. Teaching that believers need not seek, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to conform and transform their lives to begin to reflect the spirit and letter of God's holy Law, the Ten Commandments, is a serious departure from the word of God.
42. Teaching that man is by nature immortal and that those who are not saved will burn alive for all eternity in hell fire is a serious departure from the word of God.
The saved believers will put on immortality on the Last Day at the "first resurrection". Then after one thousand years, the lost will be raised back to life in the "second resurrection". Satan and the fallen angels and the lost will suffer the full measure of Divine justice and punishment according to the record of their sins and then be completely destroyed—burned up by the unquenchable fire of God's final punishment—eternal death.
43. Teaching that the atonement for sin was not fully finished at the cross is a serious departure from the word of God.
44. Teaching that: 1.) God has foreordained and elected who will be saved and who will be lost and 2.) that the grace of God is irresistible for those thus foreordained and elected of God for salvation and 3.) that believers in Christ cannot turn back to unbelief and be lost is a serious departure from the word of God.
Election for the believer is "in Christ". God has not foreordained who will be saved and who will be lost. God's foreknowledge must not be misconstrued as predeterminism. Our Lord died for the sins of the whole world. The Holy Spirit through the preaching of the gospel calls all to believe and repent. It is God's will that all should be saved through faith in Christ. However, the grace of God is not irresistible. Men and women can and do harden their hearts and refuse to believe to their own eternal loss. It is true that the natural man is in bondage to the prince of this world, Satan. But the Holy Spirit attends the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ and thus enables the hearer of the Word to believe. But those who repeatedly resist the call of the Holy Spirit in the preaching of the gospel are in very real danger of committing the unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit and being eternally hardened in heart when the promptings of the Holy Spirit to repent and believe in Christ as savior can no longer be heard by the unrepentant sinner.
The repentant Christian believer is secure in the grace of God and the blood of Jesus "keeps on cleansing from sin" so long as he continues to trust only in the blood of Jesus for his salvation and confess that he falls short of the glory of God.
45. Teaching that sanctification is by faith alone is a serious departure from the word of God.
The true Gospel teaches that justification is by faith alone. True sanctification however is by faith and works. It is a cooperative work in which the believer has an active part to play.
46. Teaching that Christ's death on the cross was not an atoning sacrifice for sin but merely a "moral influence" is a serious departure from the word of God.
47. Teaching that there is another means to a knowledge of the true God other than that of the true Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is a serious departure from the word of God.
48. Teaching that our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit are not fully part of the Godhead—eternal, without beginning or end, all knowing, all powerful, immortal, self existing, possessing life unborrowed and underived—is a serious departure from the word of God.
49. Teaching that God does not act to punish, either in this life or on the final day, those who oppose His will, but that the ruin of the unbelieving sinner is merely the natural outworking of sin's natural consequences is a serious departure from the word of God.
The word of God affirms the ruinous natural consequences of sin, but further affirms that God will justly punish and destroy all who ally themselves with Satan.
50. Teaching that miracles and "speaking in tongues" are a proof of divine favor is a serious departure from the word of God.
The miraculous ability to preach and teach and pray in an actual foreign language such as was manifested in the early church is a true gift of the Holy Spirit. However, the nonsensical babbling that is heard today in "Pentecostal" or "Charismatic" circles is an erroneous counterfeit of the true gift.
51. Teaching that the church will be secretly "raptured" before the final tribulation is a serious departure from the word of God. (See footnote #1)
52. Teaching that the events of the modern state of Israel are in any way the fulfillment of kingdom prophecy is a serious departure from the word of God. (See footnote #2)
53. Teaching that before the Christian era God saved men by the works of the Law and that it is only since the Christian era began that God saves men by grace alone is a serious departure from the word of God.
God has always saved repentant sinners by His unmerited grace alone through faith alone in the promised seed, Jesus Christ.
54. Teaching that the various feast days, fast days, and ceremonial sabbaths of the Old Testament such as Passover, Pentecost, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles, (which were shadows and types pointing forward to Christ) are still to be observed by Christians today is a serious departure from the word of God.
55. Teaching that the laws of circumcision, tithing, kosher diet; and the various civil and ceremonial laws and rituals of the Old Testament are still to be enforced today by the church as binding upon the Christian conscience is a serious departure from the word of God.
Those who wish to tithe, or observe the dietary regulations, or even be vegetarian may do so as a personal choice but not as a binding rule in the church.
56. Teaching that all believers ought to observe "Christmas" or "Easter" as if these holidays were a part of the true apostolic Christian faith is a serious error.
Those who do observe these holidays as secular holidays should do so without prejudice towards those Christians who do not observe them. Halloween, however, is a satanic abomination.
57. Teaching that the theory of origins commonly called "Evolution" is in any way true and compatible with the Christian faith is a serious departure from the word of God.
58. Teaching that the seven days of the creation week in Genesis are merely a metaphor for long eons of time rather than actual twenty-four hour consecutive days; or that the Genesis account of the origin of Man, the Fall, and the entrance of sin and death is mythical, allegorical, or at all unfactual is a serious departure from the word of God.
59. Teaching that God used evolution as His creative process over millions of years to gradually produce a highly evolved human-like life form into which God breathed an "immortal soul" and thus created the first human beings called Adam and Eve is a serious departure from the word of God.
60. Teaching that the Biblical account of Noah's Flood is not a literal factual record of a world-wide flood which destroyed all human life on earth save those eight persons in the ark of Noah is a serious departure from the word of God.
61. Teaching that God is merely an impersonal force is a serious departure from the word of God.
62. Teaching that reincarnation is a process of "soul migration" to an eventual state of "oneness with the Godhead" is a serious departure from the word of God.
The true Gospel teaches that each one of us lives on this earth for only one lifetime. The uniqueness and value of each individual as precious in the sight of our loving God is a glorious truth. God loves us as individual persons and He will preserve us as individuals even in our resurrected bodies.
63. The common practice of....
Modern Sorcery: such as extra-sensory perception, psychic power, mind over matter, positive mental attitude, prosperity psychology, metaphysics, will-power building, self-esteem building, mind science, believing-is-seeing, self-realization, human potential movement, imagination techniques, remote sensing, self-love techniques, and channeling are a serious departure from the word of God.
64. Teaching that human beings pre-existed as spirits without bodies prior to life on earth is a serious departure from the word of God. Also, teaching that certain "racially inferior" races existed on Earth before the creation of Adam and that the Genesis record of Adam's creation is only the record of the creation of the so-called "Aryan" race is a serious departure from the word of God. All of the present-day ethnic groups have their genetic origin in Adam and Eve. There are no "non-human" ethnic groups. All have been created in the image of God even though this image has been drastically marred through the fall of Adam and the subsequent degeneration of the human race since then.
65. Teaching that it is necessary to search out the genealogy of one's ancestry and be baptized for one's deceased relatives so that they might be saved is a serious departure from the word of God.
66. Teaching that angels were once able to have sexual relations with women and produce a race of super-humans is a serious departure from the word of God.
67. Teaching that Christians may join secret oath-taking Luciferian gnostic societies such as the Freemasons and the Illuminati is a serious departure from the word of God.
68. Pornography, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the radical feminist movement are serious sins.
69. The indiscriminate abortion of unborn babies except in cases of rape or when the pregnancy places the mother in life-threatening danger is a serious sin. In cases of rape, the rapist, not the rape victim, must bear the sin for the abortion if the mother choses to abort the fetus. Abortion as a method of birth control is a very serious sin. Pregnancy is defined as having occurred once the viable fertilized human embryo attaches to the uterine wall of the mother. Birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy is not a sin.
70. Teaching that the word of God supposedly predicts certain specific post-apostolic era events in history such as the French Revolution; the rise of the United States of America; the fall of the Ottoman Empire; the taking of the pope prisoner by France in 1798; the Lisbon Earthquake in 1755; meteor showers in New England in the 1840's; a literal 1260 years of papal rule from AD 538 to 1798; or a literal 2300 year period from 457 BC to AD 1844 when our Lord supposedly "entered into the 'most holy place' of the heavenly sanctuary" to begin the "hour of God's judgment" are serious errors and a failure to rightly discern between the figurative and literal portions of the word of God.
71. Teaching that the seven churches, the seven seals, and the seven trumpets of the book of Revelation are specific dated eras in church history; and also teaching that the "1260 days", or the "3 and ½ years", or the "42 months", or the "2300 evening and morning sacrifices" of the apocalyptic portions of scripture refer to specific literal dates in history is a serious error and a failure to rightly discern between the figurative and literal portions of the word of God.
72. Teaching that our Lord was telling His church to literally wash one another's feet before observing the Lord's Supper is a serious error and a failure to rightly discern between the figurative and literal portions of the word of God.
73. Teaching that by studying the Bible one can ascertain the time of Christ's Second Coming is a serious departure from the word of God.
74. Teaching that believers can have visions and dreams and prophecies which are to be regarded as of equal authority to the Bible and of "continuing authority" in matters of faith and doctrine is a serious departure from the word of God.
Only the Bible is to be considered as authoritative in matters of faith and doctrine. We must not despise prophesying in the church, but any prophecy in the Christian church today must be judged by and found to be in harmony with the word of God. Immature apocalyptic interpretation and unfaithful doctrine must be repented of and abandoned.
75. Teaching that the book of Daniel was written during the inter-testamental period of the second century BC and that the visions of Daniel are merely dealing with the desecration of the Temple by Antiochus Epiphanes and the subsequent Maccabee revolt against his rule is a serious departure from the word of God.
The book of Daniel was written in the sixth century BC during the Babylonian captivity of Israel and is a true prophecy of the coming of the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Savior and Redeemer of the world. The desolating "Little Horn" of Daniel 7, 8, and 9 represents the efforts of Rome (not Greece) to overthrow the true gospel and replace it with a false gospel and false priesthood.
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Babylon Is Fallen!!

The satanically inspired error of so-called "Christian Dispensationalism" which foolishly supports the Zionist movement in Palestine is causing world-wide persecution of Christians at the hands of Muslims. This world-wide conflict will find Christians caught in the middle between the forces of the Zionists and the forces of the Muslims. The Christians in predominately Muslim areas must clearly declare themselves as non-Zionists and not aligned in any way with the deluded Dispensationalists who think that God is rebuilding a modern State of Israel in order to restore a Jewish home-land in Palestine. Christians all over the world must heed the warning of our Lord regarding this persecution that is taking place-- "...the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service." John 16:2 and Matthew 10:23 "When they persecute you in this city, flee to another." God will provide a way for you to find refuge in the midst of this terrible time of suffering. But you must distance yourselves completely from the fanatics who support Zionism, Dispensationalism and Futurism. Use every outlet of the media in your area to let it be known that you do not support Zionism. Christian leaders everywhere must openly declare that Zionism does not represent the sentiments of your congregations.
Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth!!! The final plagues of God's wrath are coming upon all those who are conspiring to make void the true gospel of Jesus Christ and God's holy Law, the Ten Commandments. Those unrepentant nations which permit legalized homosexual marriage, pornography, and nudity to be culturally accepted and even displayed on their television stations will feel the full wrath of God's judgments.
Flee from the wrath to come!! Flee to Jesus! Call upon Him now while He may be found!!! It is now time for all who are trusting in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ for their acceptance with God and keep His commandments to leave the large cities of the world. God's judgments of warfare, earthquakes, famine, floods, diseases and pestilence will be allowed to fall on all who receive—"The Mark of the Beast"
Regarding the very near future...
Woe! Woe! Woe to the unrepentant inhabitants of the world! Our Lord Jesus Christ is withdrawing His protection which He has been providing to the ungrateful despisers of His word and He is now allowing Satan to have complete control of all who have rejected His word. God has been patient and long-suffering with those who have thought that He does not see the willful sin in the high and low places of this world. His Spirit has been gently calling every son and daughter of Adam to faith in Christ and repentance of sin, but He has been grieved by the hard-hearted despisers and resisters of His mercy. Now the measure of the world's iniquity has reached its limits and He is about to withdraw His protecting Spirit from the world. God's patience and mercy have come to an end and now all who are indifferent to His mercy will perish in their sins. The December 26, 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka and the August 28, 2005 hurricane in New Orleans are only the beginning of sorrows coming upon the earth. Soon many more of the largest of this world's modern cities will be struck by natural and man-made disasters. Those who are living without regard to God's Law and living only to please themselves will perish without mercy.
Lying Wonders!
Satanic lying wonders are coming upon all the world to deceive all who reject God's Law, the Ten Commandments, and refuse to repent of their sins and believe the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ. Because of the sins of—pride, lawlessness, neglect of the poor, hardness of heart, corrupt government leaders and judges, religious persecution, murder and genocide, human rights violations, spiritualism, black and white magic, slavery, sexual perversion, prostitution, homosexuality, legalized gay marriages, pornography, immodesty, nudity, radical feminism, indiscriminate abortion of the unborn, drug abuse, drunkenness, child abuse, wife abuse, bowing down to idols, praying to the dead, worship of demons, disrespect of parents, the love of money, materialism, unthankfulness, and Darwinism—God is now releasing His protective hand and the winds of strife are descending upon the modern Sodom and Gomorrahs of today. Hollywood and the movie/television industry which are corrupting the entire world with immorality, spiritualism, and violence will especially feel the fierce anger of the Lord. The laughter of the world will be turned into mourning.
Jesus Christ has died upon the cross of Calvary and paid the penalty for the sins of the entire world which, since the fall of Adam, is dead in trespass and sin. In Jesus Christ there is hope and assurance for even the vilest sinner. Now is the time to seek His face in repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. In the gospel of Christ all are being called to trust in God's unmerited grace by faith alone in the blood of Jesus Christ to wash away all their guilt and sin. God will justify, pardon and give eternal life to everyone who turns to Him. The free gift of forgiveness and eternal life is promised to all who accept the invitation to come to Jesus Christ to partake of the cleansing water of life. Let "whosoever will" call upon His name and He will not only freely forgive, but He will give the gift of the Holy Spirit to begin to write God's Law upon the heart of the forgiven believer.
Will you cast yourself upon the mercy of God in Christ? He will daily lead you in the path of truth and love and righteousness. Pray this simple prayer to Jesus now and He will in no way cast you away!
Lord Jesus, I know that my life is full of sin and selfishness. Please forgive me of my sins and reckon me as righteous through faith in your sinless life and atoning death on Calvary. Please write your commandments upon my heart and daily teach me to call upon You for your forgiveness and unmerited grace. Be the Lord and Shepherd of my life and let me learn to love and forgive and serve others as you have loved me and forgiven me and given Yourself to die for my sins.
I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now read these few Bible verses and the message which follows very carefully and let the meaning fill your soul !
"The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek Him; but His power and His wrath are against all them that forsake Him." Ezra 8:22
But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who push the truth away from themselves. 19 For the truth about God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts. 20 From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities -- his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse whatsoever for not knowing God. 21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. The result was that their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people, or birds and animals and snakes. Romans 1:18-23
But no, you won't listen. So you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself because of your stubbornness in refusing to turn from your sin. For there is going to come a day of judgment when God, the just judge of all the world, 6 will judge all people according to what they have done. Romans 2:5-6
...no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what His law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it. 21 But now God has shown us a different way of being right in His sight— not by obeying the law but by the way promised in the Scriptures long ago. 22 We are made right in God's sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done. 23 For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious standard. 24 Yet now God in His gracious kindness declares us not guilty. He has done this through Christ Jesus, who has freed us by taking away our sins. 25 For God sent Jesus to take the punishment for our sins and to satisfy God's anger against us. We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing His life for us. God was being entirely fair and just when He did not punish those who sinned in former times. 26 And He is entirely fair and just in this present time when He declares sinners to be right in His sight because they believe in Jesus. Romans 3:20-26 NLT
For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. Romans 11:32
Through the popular media outlets of radio, television, and Hollywood movies Satan—the Father of Lies—has prepared the world to believe that life has evolved on the earth and throughout the universe. Even the atheistic and/or agnostic scientific community is searching for the meaning of life and looking to the stars to find the answers in their quest for the ultimate "unification theory". With great expectation all are looking for "contact" to be made with extra-terrestrial life. These proud unrepentant false teachers mock the word of God which teaches that the universe was created in six literal days only 6,000 years ago.
The Sabbath commandment, which calls all the sons and daughters of Adam to "remember" the seventh day Sabbath and worship the Creator and Redeemer of the world as a memorial to God's eternal power in His creating the universe is despised by the world and disregarded as a mere myth and fable. God will not be mocked however. His word is truth and He will vindicate His Law and His word before all the world.
Satan will disguise himself as a highly "evolved" alien visitor and attempt to unite all of the world's religions under his power. All who reject the clear word of God will fall down and worship Satan as their savior and lord. Satan will appear to all upon the earth and will offer to bring in everlasting world peace by bringing unity, world brotherhood, and a New World Order to all who will worship him as God. He will claim to be the Messiah of the world and he will unite with the Pope of Rome and those other apostate religious leaders involved in the "Ecumenical Movement" in his last overwhelming deception. Those who are thusly deceived, including even atheists and agnostics, will bow down and worship him and will receive his false spirit.
Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10 and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 14 He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter. 16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-17
This false christ will claim to be able to communicate with the dead. His demons will impersonate the virgin Mary, the popular "Saints", Lilith, and other mythical heroic personages of the past who will appear all over the world and endorse his lying claims. He will especially hate God's holy Law and will claim to have the authority even to change the Ten Commandments by falsely claiming that the seventh day Sabbath of the fourth commandment has been changed to the first day of the week.
Seated upon the throne of the Pope in Vatican Rome, Satan will falsely claim that the modern State of Israel is a fulfillment of bible prophecy as a sign that the kingdom of God is about to be established upon the earth. All the religions of the world including the followers of Mohammed, the Jewish people, the papacy, unfaithful Protestants, and even the Hindu, Shinto, and Confucian believers will bow down and worship Satan as the savior and ruler of the "New World Order".
The true Christ said in John 5:40-44
"And you will not come to me, that you might have life. I receive not honor from men. But I know you, that you have not the love of God in you. I am come in my Father's name, and you receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive. How can you believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that comes from God only?"
All who refuse to bow down and worship this false christ will be labeled as "terrorists" who oppose the universal peace of the New World Order. God's faithful people who reject the lying claims of this false "christ" will become the objects of worldwide scorn and persecution.Those who join with Satan in this final apostasy will receive the fullness of God's wrath in the Seven Last Plagues and the final Mark of the Beast, while those who believe the true gospel of Jesus Christ and reject this lying deceiving false christ will receive the final Seal of God's approval and be protected from the final plagues. Then the end of the world will come when all who have united with Satan will be destroyed by the brightness of Christ's second coming. God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but He will surely destroy those who choose to sin and refuse to repent.
For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live! Ezekiel 18:32 NIV
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-10 2
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.
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