Christ Jesus: The Revolutionary

By: Gen. James Green

"Did Christ really exist?," ask those of the "Higher Criticism" towards the Bible camp.

YES! CHRIST JESUS was the founder of Christianity, its cult leader, and its New World Order founder. The attacks against its authenticity and veracity are still in progress my friends. "Christianity" will prove to be as revolutionary as Christ; both the secular power (Rome) and the religious power (Judaism) tried to kill both. Jesus rose from the dead! Biblical Christianity will keep resurrecting also.

Hermann Reimarus, prof. of Oriental languages (Hamburg, Germany), on his death in 1768, left a 1,400 page manuscript on the life of Christ. Six years later, Gotthold Lessing published portions of it as the "Wolfenbuttel Fragments." Reimarus argued that Jesus can only be regarded and understood not as the founder of "Christianity," but also as the final and dominant figure in the mystical eschatology of the Jews-i.e., Christ Jesus thought not of establishing a new religion, but of preparing men for the imminent destruction of the world, and God's Last Judgment of all souls ("Caesar and Christ," Will Durant, p. 553).

There is no end (well, almost) to the sources that either DENY Christ's existence, or have His mission skrewed. There is no end (well, almost) to those who try to convince us of all those (apparent) irreconcilable differences between the Christ of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and the Christ of John. Heinrich Paulus, in 1828 wrote 1,192 pages in which he proposed a rationalistic interpretation of Jesus' miracles. Many believe, and have written/said that He worked magic. Others classified them as myths. Still others said they were all in the imagination.

We could go backwards-all the way back to the first century Ekklesias, or go forward to 2015... and we will find plenty of myths, legends, and disbeliefs etc. about Christ.

Really, there isn't much proof outside the Bible that Christ existed. But there are a few. In Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews (A.D. 93?) we find a quote about Jesus called the Messiah (see xviii, 3). But there are those who suspect that this is an interpolation (see Scott E., "First Age of Christianity," 46; see also Schurer, I, 143. This conclusion applies also to the Slavonic version of Jos.; Guignebert, op. cit. 148). There are plenty of those that counter this though. sri ert sou

The oldest known mention of Christ in pagan literature is in a letter of the younger Pliny (ca. 110, v, 8.). Five years later, Tacitus wrote a lengthy quote mentioning Christians- "a race of men detested for their evil practices, and commonly called Chrestiani... (the founder Chrestus [or Christ]; see Tacitus, XV, 44).

Tacitean in style, force, and prejudice that of all Biblical critics, only Drews questions it authenticity (see Goguel, 94; Klausner, 60; see Arthur Drews German philosopher [1865-1935, p. 554].

Suetonius (ca. 125?) mentions persecutions against the Christians in "Nero," p. 16, and reports Claudius' banishment (ca. 52) of "Jews who, stirred up by Christ (impulsore Chresto), were causing public disturbances" (Id., "Claudius," 25), the passage is like that found in Acts 18:2-a decree of Claudius that "the Jews should leave Rome."

Some point out that these only prove the existence of "Christians," not of "Christ." But, "Christianity" takes its name from "Christ." The converted Jews (to Christianity) had started a Christian Ekklesia in Rome prior to AD 52...to merit the attention of an imperial decree.

It is also pointed out, about the middle of this 1st century, that Thallus, in a fragment preserved by Julius Africanus (see Goguel, 9, 184), argued that the abnormal darkness alleged to have accompanied the death of Christ was a purely natural phenomenon/coincidence; the argument took the existence of Christ Jesus for granted.

It was Paul that most believe puts forth clear evidence for Christ-no one I've read of questions the existence of Paul. Well, this article is not about this debate, but about who Jesus was (and is!), and His mission especially about the "revolutionary" things He taught.

FIRST

WE HAVE a prophetic Word about this revolutionary found in Isaiah 61:1, 2. This was a prediction of Jesus' mission: preach glad tidings, heal the brokenhearted, preach deliverance, heal the blind (both naturally/spiritually), and set the down-trodden free.

In reality, many feel that Jesus was "out of character" in some of His preachings, especially His denunciations of the "religious" (see Mt. 23 for example). Hey! This fits His character as much as it fits His love-mercy-compassion-forgiveness side. We just don't want to see or hear His "other" side-judgment!!

Worse yet, our sissy critics question: "Was His teaching/preaching on everlasting Hell that both unbelievers and sinning believers will suffer in inextinguishable flames?" The same Greek word ("everlasting" or "eternal") was applied to those who make Heaven-so if there is no end to Heaven's reign, there is no end to Hell's existence.

Jesus tells, without protest or feeling, how the poor man in Heaven (paradise) was not permitted to give one drop of water to the rich man in Hell (see Luke 16:25). Read the story...the rich man had the opportunity, in his stay upon earth, to get it right with God, but FAILED TO DO SO!! ewe

Jesus tells us: "Judge not, that ye be not judged" (Mt. 7:1). You mean Jesus tells us never to judge? NO! He merely is condemning the habit of criticizing others while ignoring one's own faults. It is perfect and right to JUDGE sin or the sinner as long as we are submitted to Christ, His will, standards, and ethics etc. What Jesus was condemning was judging in an unjust manner. Verse 5 is the Key. He calls those who are guilty of sin, while judging the sins of others, HYPOCRITES. ALL THESE "LOVE ONLY" JUDGES FAIL TO APPLY V. 5.

Verse 15 plainly tells us to: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." Verse 16 implies judgment or discernment. Even verse 6 implies judgment (or discernment): "Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine..." Wow! Jesus is calling names again!! (see Jn. 7:24= "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment;" likewise see 1 Cor. 5:12; 1 Jn. 4:1; Gal. 1:9 and 1 Tim. 4:1). So, verse 7 must not be used as an excuse for laxity in exercising Christian discipline (see also Mt. 18:15).

JESUS CURSED? REALLY?

YES! This "loving Jesus" was a revolutionary. His birth, mission, death, and resurrection from the dead was revolutionary... unmatched in human history.

His acts and teachings turned the world upside down (see Acts 17:6). We might call His life the "Birth of Change"... He BLESSED and CURSED. But His REVOLUTION (which means "change") was met with lots of resistance. His "revolutions" started with a "resolution" to CHANGE things-to put new wine in new wineskins (racial Judaism was the old wine skins-Christianity became the New Israel, being filled with the new wine of the Holy Ghost).

Jesus not only blessed the little children, He taught His disciples to "bless them that curse you" (Mt. 5:44). This was revolutionary indeed, for Israel always cursed their enemies: "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you" (Mt. 5:44, KJV).

The word translated "love" originally means "to welcome, entertain, be well pleased, contented," and in the LXX it has as a wide reference to the English word. In the New Testament, however, it denotes the love of God for man, and of man for God (1 Jn. 3-5) and the benevolent loving-kindness which seeks the material spiritual good of others (1 Cor. 13). So, when Jesus commands "love of enemies," He thinks primarily of personal relationships and perhaps also of the relationship of small groups. Such love is the supreme test of the Christian's character. His teachings, of course, had both religious and political implications. The Jews were repulsed by the Gentiles, and they also had hatred and divided loyalties among themselves.

We know that Jesus loved and blessed, but did He hate and curse? Yes! (I have a great deal written on this already; see my "Wrath of God" magazines, free). Jesus cursed both men and cities that would not receive His Gospel... and even the fig tree that bore no fruit (see Mk. 11:12-14). He pronounced WOE upon the "religious" in Mt. 23. Jesus' "harsh and unloving" Words were a severe denunciation of those leaders/false teachers.

THE SPIRIT OF JESUS SHOULD BE NOTED:

Not a bit tolerant, politically correct, permissive, or accommodative.

Be it known unto all you "Babylon Jesus" disciples, that Christ was meek, but not WEAK-HE DID NOT TOLERATE SIN. He was true enough and real enough to His calling/mission-to be ANGRY with and against EVIL (see Mt. 21:12-17; Jn. 2:13-16) and to utterly denounce both sinner and sin/corruption in high places (vv. 23, 25). Too bad we don't have revolutionaries like Jesus today. The world would be CHANGED quickly. Oh, no, we've got diaper-wearing, thumb-sucking sissies like Joel Osteen company-lots and lots of "religious" tots.

HEY PREACHERS/TEACHERS

AREN'T YOU CONCERNED about keeping God's Word as sharp as a two-edged fiery sword-so as to cut and burn the Hell out of you and those who hear it? Sorry for asking! Snakes, flakes, and fakes like you are no better than those whom Jesus CONDEMNED: hypocrites, children of Hell, blind guides, fools, extortioners, whited sepulchres, unclean, full of iniquity, serpents/vipers, and murderers of His Word and His children!! These names/descriptions were spoken by One who died for your rotten souls. REPENT sinners!

You snakes, flakes, and fakes love to be popular-love those unrepentant adulterers, fornicators, sodomites, murderous Muslims, thieves, liars, workers of witchcraft etc., etc. You call yourselves "God's ministers," but you are of Satan. You love the world, the world's honor, titles, and love to distort, twist, pervert, skrew God's Word to fit your filthy lifestyles. You professional religionists who prey off the people... you appear "spiritual," but in truth, you are "demonic."

God's Word-from Genesis to the book of Revolution (Revelation) commands believers to beware of such FALSE leaders. Where, oh where, are those who will judge between the good and evil? They have been TERRORIZED into silence by these snakes, flakes, and fakes. Be it known unto you, leaders and followers, those of the church, who, in the name of "love," "unity," and toleration, refuse to share Jesus' spirit (righteous wrath) and attitude towards those who distort/pervert Jesus' original teachings and are participating in the EVIL deeds of those snakes, flakes and fakes (see 2 Jn. 10, 11).

Revelation 18:4 tells us to "Come out of her (Babylon Jesus Churches), My people, that ye be not partakers of her SINS, and that ye receive not of her PLAGUES." Note this, dear "Jesus is love, love, love only" people: "Reward her even as she of rewarded you, and DOUBLE unto her DOUBLE according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her DOUBLE." Not only this JUDGMENT/PUNISHMENT, but "...she shall be e utterly BURNED with FIRE: for strong is the Lord 2 God who judgeth her" (v. 8). The same of compassionate, loving Jesus is also the wrathful Revolutionary in the end.

HEBREW OR GREEK?

THE MODERN, backslidden, Hell-bound church wants Jesus to be like the calm Greek sage, but NOT the Hebrew prophet who pointed out the sins of Israel. Jesus' convictions (of right and wrong) consumed Him; righteous indignation (then and now), co-existed with His profound love for "lost" humanity. This love/wrath was side-by-side, enabling Him to move with passionate faith and fury. You just can't separate them: they work according to the needs/deeds of men.

Jesus was pointing fingers, calling names, pronouncing WOES upon those who had them coming...just like the true prophets of old. We don't find Him saying: "Oh, I'm sooooo sorry." NO! His Words were the blend of sword and fire...even like a hammer that breaks to pieces. He also met resistance. like the Hebrew prophets of old.

"Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly" (Jn 10:24).

The phoney Jews (whose father was Satan) wanted a plain answer out of Jesus; instead they got a stern lecture (vv. 25-39).

Jesus broke custom with the Jews by conversing with the woman of Samaria (Jn. 4:1-45), in which many believed on Him (v. 39). Up to this point, Jesus shared the "kingdom" message with His LOST people, the Jews. Did Jesus break His own command by doing this (see Mt. 10:5-16)? He commanded His disciples "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not" (v. 5); hence, after His death, they hesitated to take the "Good News" to the pagan world (see Acts 10-11).

Jesus said the same thing about pagans on two occasions (Samaritans were considered pagans by the Jews although they were half Jews):

1-Mt. 10:5 and,

2-he said the same thing to a Canaanite woman, saying: "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel"

(Mt. 15:24). Did He break His Father's commandment?
 

REVOLUTION

YOU SEE, some Revolutions can be bloodless and non-violent. In suggesting modifications and mitigations of the Judaic Law, Jesus, like Hillel, did not think He was overthrowing it; He said in Mt. 5:17: "Think not that I am come to DESTROY the law (moral) or the prophets, I am not come to DESTROY, but to FULFILL."

What Jesus actually did was expand/extend the moral law. Adultery was considered a SIN (see Ex. 20:14). But here in Mt. 5:28 we find this commandment extending deeper: "But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."

The heart of the whole New Testament was to get God's laws into the believer's heart, not just in his/her head. The "shadow," i.e., Old Testament, was being replaced with the "substance," i.e., New Testament.

You deceived "New Testament only" folks need to realize that the New Testament is rooted and grounded in the Old Testament. The "law" that the Christian is obliged to keep consists of the ethical/moral principles of the Old Testament (see Mt. 7:12; 22:36-40; Rom. 3:31; Gal. 5:14 etc.) as well as the New Testament teachings of Christ (who was the bridge) and His apostles (see Mt. 28:20; 1 Cor. 7:19; 9:21; Gal. 6:2 etc.). These "laws" reveal the nature and will of God the Father for ALL people for ALL time. Old Testament "laws" which applied directly to ancient Israel (sacrificial/ceremonial/ social/civil) are no longer binding (see Heb. 10:1-4; e.g., Lev. 1:2, 3; 24:10). "We must not view the law," one Bible scholar writes, "as a system of legal commandments by which to obtain merit or forgiveness and salvation (see Gal. 2:16, 19)." He goes on to state: "The law must be seen as a moral code for those who are already in a saved relationship with God and who by obeying it, express the life of Christ within themselves (see Rom. 6:15-22)." (Dr. D.C. Stamps, "The Full Life Study Bible," p. 11). So, having been set free, by the power of the Gospel, from the power of sin, we become "love slaves," living by faith by being under the "law" to Christ (see 1 Cor. 9:21). In doing this, we fulfill "the law of Christ" (see Gal. 6:2), thus faithful in ourselves to the requirement of the law (see Rom. 8:4; Gal. 2:19; 3:19; 5:16-25).

It is, I believe, the power of the Holy Ghost (or Spirit), is what impels us onward and upward (note Rom. 5:5). The verb "shed abroad" is a present perfect tense, signifying that the Holy Spirit continues to empower our lives (hearts) with divine love. It is this ever-present experience of God's/Christ's/Holy Ghost's love that sustains us in our daily walk/warfare, and assures us that our hope for future glory is not illusory (vv. 4, 5).

Jesus also taught EMPHATICALLY (along with all New Testament writers) that doing the will for the Father is an ongoing condition of entering/remaining in the Kingdom (see our trilogy "Once Saved, Always Saved?"-free).

TRANSFORMATION

JESUS TRANSFORMED many things by the force of His character. He added to the Law the injunction to prepare for the Kingdom by a life of justice, kindness, and Spirit warfare. He hardened the Law in matters of sex/divorce (Mt. 5:31, 32), but softened it toward a readier forgiveness (Mt. 5:21, 22), and reminded the religious/hard-hearted Pharisees that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (He made it a point to "break" their Saturday Sabbath-Mk. 2:25). He also relaxed the diet code and cleanliness code (although we should watch what we eat and do-it can be very dangerous to our health!), and omitted certain fasts. He challenged the ritualism of Judaism and spoke radically and aggressively about righteousness. He condemned conspicuous prayers, showy charities, and even condemned riches, (not that they are evil in themselves, but the love/lust for riches was condemned).

FORGIVE SINS?

OH, THIS ONE got the Jews MAD!! Speaking in the name of God was also considered blasphemy (see Mt. 9:6).

He went so far as to tell the chief priests and the elders of the people (when they challenged His authority-Mt. 21:23) that: "...the publicans and the harlots go into the Kingdom of God before you" (v. 31).

Was Jesus just in calling the scribes and Pharisees a brood of snakes? We don't know who was present when Jesus lashed out at them (Mt. 23), but there were some agreed that the Law should be softened, even humanized. Many even agreed with Jesus' revolution (Nicodemus being the one we know best).

INEXORABLE JUSTICE

I WANT to end this writing by examining the law of retaliation Genesis 4:15; 9:6. This theme Jesus took up in Mt. 5:38-42: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away."

This did not set well with the zealots of His day, for they wanted a violent revolution against the Romans.

Jesus knew of this law: "And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him" (Gen. 4:15); "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man" (Gen. 9:6). This principle of justice known as the lex talionis, was codified by Moses: "Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot" (Ex. 21:24). From this point on, one had to watch his/her relationship with God very closely. Of course, today, "our legislators have retained," as one pastor/peace activist has said: "only provisions concerting liability." But not so with (holy) Israel-no compromisers were allowed, and no excuses accepted.

In Jesus' day, the people of Israel were all too ready, willing and able, to use HOLY VIOLENCE...they were perturbed with Him for being "passive," and not "aggressive." He was "passive aggressive!"

Numbers 35:19 speaks of "the gaal," (phonetic: gaw-al', Strong's H1350) or "the avenger of blood": "The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him." The gaal was the victim's next of kin, see also Lev. 25:25: "If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold." So, gaal is intertwined with vengeance and redemption (see Lev. 25:47, 48).

Both in the book of Isaiah and the Psalms, God Himself is "the gaal"-with the double meaning of avenger/redeemer of his people (see Isa 48:20; 43:1. The payment of a ransom is never omitted from the duties of the gaal (note: cpts. 52 and 53 show us another idea of gaal: He is the one who redeems Israel by taking upon Himself the chastisement of God. Jesus the Christ does this. In the New Testament we read this: "And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging" (Mk. 10:45).

You see, in this revolutionary way, the law of retaliation was transmuted. True, its demand for justice, and for righteousness, could never be abolished-Jesus the Christ died for OUR SINS; His Father gave Him to be a propitiation (see Rom. 3:25; 1 Jn. 2:2; 4:10: hilasmos/hilasterion (Strong's G2435) = "atonement, an expiator."

Within salvation is found deliverance, healing, freedom etc., both physically and spiritually. Remember, Jesus broke the Jewish Sabbath by healing a woman (who was in the synagogue [in the separated area of course!]) with a deformed back. He demonstrated His love, mercy, compassion, and redemption before one drop of blood was spilled (see Lk. 13:14-16. The Synagogue was indignant at this!).

VIOLENCE VS. PEACE

IN JESUS' HOMETOWN, in the Nazareth synagogue, He read from Isa. 61:1: "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound."

"...To preach deliverance to the captives" (Lk. 4:18)...is this what the Jews had been waiting for? One translation (NIV) reads: "...to proclaim freedom for the prisoners." Weren't the Jews captives/prisoners of Rome? Yes! Was this "freedom" coming by violent force, or by non-violence? Was this revolutionary their liberator who would reestablish the Davidic dynasty and FREE THE PEOPLE from Roman domination? Was this the Jewish Jubilee in the making?

Isaiah spoke of the "year of the Lord's favor" (Isa. 61:2; Lk. 4:19). The Jubilee demanded, for starters, expropriating the lands of the wealthy and liquidating the usurious system by which the ruling class prospered...the "poor" got excited, the rich feared... the ruling class got underway to stop this revolution.

JUBILEE'S LANGUAGE

THE ADJ.: "favorable" (Heb. ratson, comes from the verb ratsah (Strong's H7521), meaning either "to pay a debt"-when it refers to the person paying it, or "to be favorable"-when it refers to God accepting the payment. The King James Version uses "acceptable," which points to the double meaning of ratson (Greek=dektos, Strong's G1184). One might want to read Lev. 26:41-43.

Note: In the passage here in Luke, Jesus quotes Isaiah's prophecy (about Himself), but stops with: "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord" (v. 19 of Luke 4). But Isaiah continues with: "of vengeance." For Isaiah "vengeance" and "mercy" are one and the same. In this context, the "year of favor" proclaimed by Jesus involved a judgment as well as a pardon/forgiveness of God-this was the Good News!

FREEDOM

ISAIAH REFERS to "freedom" (Strong's H1865, deror= "liberty;" see Lev. 25:10; Ez. 46:17). These strongly suggest that deror was used as a technical term referring to the periodic liberation of slaves as prescribed by Moses.

The word aphesis (G859-liberty/freedom), in Luke 4:18, translates both shemittah (H8059)= "release" (see Dt. 15:1-11) and deror. The Greek uses, as said, aphesis, which comes from the very aphiemi (G863)= "to send away, to liberate, to leave aside, to remit a dept." So, it can mean: "liberate a slave," or, "the remittance of a debt."

Note that one of Jesus' revolutionary statements was: "The son of man has authority on earth to forgive (Gk.aphiemi) sins." (Mt. 9:6). Another one of Jesus' revolutionary statements is in Mt. 26:28-29: "This is My blood of the covenant which is poured out for many (tribes, cultures of the world's people) for the forgiveness (aphesis) of sins..." For Jesus-the world's Messiah, the jubilean remission of debts extended to ALL areas of life.

RESTORATION

WE MUST also note that there is the notion of restoration in this language. The Word jubilee (yobel, Strong's H3104) later became associated with the Latin word "jubilum" (from jubilare= "to rejoice.)" "Philo," as pointed out by Andre Trocme: "a contemporary of Jesus, rightly designated the Jubilee by the term apokatastasis (Strong's G605). This word means to reestablish something or somebody to his previous state, a restoration or restitution of prisoners or hostages." Andre goes on to say: "the very purpose of the Jubilee was to 'reestablish' the tribes of Israel as they were at the time they entered Canaan" (A. Trocme, 1901-1971, was the pastor of the French village of LeChambon who helped organize the rescue of Jews during the Nazi occupation. There is a movie about this in which I've seen several times).

What may be said about this, as Trocme said, is that when Jesus proclaimed "good news" to the poor, liberty to the captives, and sight to the blind, His speech in that synagogue that day was no sermon of religious platitudes. It was a speech about spiritual, social, and cultural revolution. That speech about Jubilee was a preeminent sign of the Father's justice and redemption on earth. That "revolution" started with a "resolution"-to change the world!

Today

FRIENDS, we MUST keep this revolution going. If you have grown weary in this war, then you need a revolutionary refreshing. One author has well said: "While revolutions are critical, they must continually be refreshed, rejuvenated, and reformed. It is up to each one of us to stay refreshed in the Lord." As I have been ACTIVE in the Lord's work since Dec. 1971, trust me, I need to be refreshed, rejuvenated, and reformed. No one can do this for me. I must seek God, ask of God, and receive from God what I need to keep going in this world-revolution. Things aren't looking good these days. The falling away rate is high; new recruits to fill the ranks are scarce.

What Christ started, He is well able to finish...but He expects His soldiers to finish also.

One last thought (which I will take up in part two): Jesus' primary revolution starts in the hearts of men, women, boys, and girls. He told Pilate in Jn. 18:36: "Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence." He

was making the distinction between the physical and spiritual. Paul echoed this in Romans 14:17: "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy usness, Ghost."

BREAK DOWN OF JESUS WORDS TO PILATE:

1) JESUS' REVOLUTION is "not of this world." What He meant was that it did not originate in this world BY FORCE. It originated in the heart of the Father, for the world's people... to be FREE of demonic domination;

2) If His revolution was purely physical then, His "servants would fight," but this does not mean that His revolution has not caused wars, revolutions etc. in this world (read Mt. 26:51-56 in context); Rather than using carnal weapons (see 2 Cor. 10:4), Jesus' followers are ARMED with spirit weapons (see Eph. 6:10-18). However, it must be noted that this does not mean that Jesus' soldiers are totally indifferent to God's demand and ordination for JUST government, justice, law, or order to curtail and punish evil and evil doers. His true people must reflect His nature and His light in this fallen world (see Rom. 13):

3) Jesus' Kingdom certainly has rules, balances checks, and punishments. When Pilate asked Jesus if He was a king, Jesus told him: "... Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice" (Jn. 18:37).

Nowhere do we find Jesus advocating the use of arms (physical weapons)... only truth! And this truth is the Sword! (see Mt. 10:34-the "sword," were and are His Words). Did not His Words bring division in His day? Yes! They did so intentionally. Faith in Him caused great division, like a sharp sword. It brought separation; the Old Testament Kingdom was being cut away. Truth, dear ones, will bring opposition, division, and LOTS of persecution. The defense of the New Testament faith against heresy (like what we find in today's backslidden and lost Babylonian church) will bring division;

4) The Christian's strength is not in physical force or worldly power, but in the Cross. Only in renouncing worldly power did the New Testament Ekklesia find God's power-it eventually conquered the very force that held Israel captive at one time-ROME!

So, like Jesus, we too are to "bear witness unto the truth" (Jn. 18:37). To compromise Biblical truth for the sake of "unity" is to err from truth. Biblical truth is one thing we must never compromise (see Jn. 17:8, 17; 2 Thes. 2:10). Think about all of this.

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One Hell of a Revolution

By: Gen. James Green

"THE CHURCH IS BACKSLID!" BUT WHY AND HOW?

HERE ARE many reasons and methods to this MADNESS. "Sane" exegetes, while they ostensibly adopt the same method of investigation, and while they actually agree in many points respecting the "solution to the pollution," in some cases reach sundry conclusions as to HOW to deal with these ineluctable nuances. Some depend upon sheer conjecture, and some on facts. Nevertheless, it is fair to say that these exegetes explore the divergences presented by each other.

Frankly, most church leaders ARE the PROBLEM, not the SOLUTION... and they just don't care to present a Biblical solution. Fame and fortune have replaced faith and fairness. This is the PROBLEM!!

Most church leaders could care less about "truth"-"exegetical truth." They suppose this concept to be unnecessary in a fast-food generation...just feed the sheep (who I feel are goats!) any ol thing. But Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, points to TRUTH (Jn. 14:6) as the WAY unto the Father. Jesus also tells us: "...ye shall KNOW THE TRUTH, and THE TRUTH shall make you free " (Jn. 8:32).

There is Spirit truth, and written truth. Most rely upon written truth. Most rely upon written truth-Scriptures-"saving" truth and "keeping" truth are revealed only from God "by His Spirit" (see 1 Cor. 2:10), which does not originate from any person (1 Cor. 2:12, 13). But who is hungry for Biblical/Spirit truth? Very, very few I must say.

SPIRIT BIBLICAL TRUTH

THESE, SADLY, have not been pursued with much vigor. The "good life" (not the "good news") has stimulated the church's appetite. Christological discussions, debates, and investigations are slowly but surely disappearing. Theological studies have been replaced with meritorious, hubris, and prodigious endeavors.

DENY SELF? (MK. 8:34)

(Strong's G533, aparneomai: "to disown, abstain;" G575, apo: "separation, departure, cessation, reversal, etc.")

HERE IS the real PROBLEM folks: the LOVE of SELF!!, and the lack of DENIAL of SELF!! Here in Mark 8:34-38, Jesus deals with the COST of (true) discipleship (the antithesis of church-membership) (see also Mt. 16:24-28; Lk. 9:23-27).

Here we have Jesus pointing to the Cross (before He experienced it!) as the instrument whereby the "self-life" is to be placed. "Oh, not, NOT that bloody Cross stuff!" YES! Most church leaders of today try their best to AVOID this "cruel and unloving" subject. Sorry, it is central of the "good news." But, I can see why this "Cross stuff" offends the modern, backslid Churchite-they are abysmally languid in spirit (more effeminate than militant), and the Cross of Christ is a symbol of suffering (1 Pet. 2:21; 4:13), death (Acts 10:39), shame (Heb. 12:2), ridicule (Mt. 27:39), rejection (1 Pet. 2:4), and self-denial (Mt. 16:24). The church sissy la-las will certainly AVOID this subject and will RUN from experiencing it. Was Jesus crazy in telling the people to deny themselves, take up the Cross-their/our Cross-, and follow Him? But hey!, I thought that "Jesus is crazy about us" (Rev. Joyce Meyers), and you need to "Have your best life now" (Rev. Joel Osteen)? I could go down the line and mention all the GREATS! that AVOID the "crucified way."

Do your own study if you think Heaven is obtained by "living the good life," "loving self," or "treating self with respect and dignity." HA! This is not salvation, but damnation.

ARE WE Ashamed?

IN THIS SAME narrative, Jesus makes this uncordial statement: "Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words...of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed..." (Mk. 8:38). In other words, all those who seek to AVOID the "Cross," seek to be safe and sound from suffering, persecution, and identification with Christ, will be AVOIDED by Him.

We could call v. 38 the law of retribution, which Christ willfully carried out, that NO ransom can be given. This bringing into prominence of the contrast with the Lord Jesus and His Words, by means of έvτn yεvεa is only given here in the vivid delineation of Mark; and there is conveyed in it a deterrent power, namely, from making common cause with this yεvεά by the DENIAL of Christ.

We have both a WARNING and an ENCOURAGEMENT in this verse.

So, dear professor of Christianity, where do you stand? Accepting Jesus as Lord, not merely Savior, but LORD, demands not only believing the "truth" of Jesus' Words (and the Gospel writers), but also committing ourselves to sacrificially follow Him. This choice between DENYING/DYING to ourselves, and living for our own selfish selves must be made daily.

Why have preachers/teachers stopped telling this amicable truth? Jesus was and is the "friend" of the sinner-He wants us to be saved, not damned.

EXCLUDED!

WHAT A DREADFUL word!!-EXCLUDED!! Excluded from the Messiah's Kingdom-the man/woman/boy/girl who does not DENY themself...not living daily for Him... not crucifying the "self-life" (as did Paul in Gal. 2:20; 6:14; Rom. 6:6). 10 You can't live the "crucified way" unless you hate the self-life, the world, the devil! NO WAY!! And this is exactly the problem: those who profess to be "Christian" live a crossless life...but live a very contentious life whereby they, as Hebrews 6:6 tells us: "...they CRUCIFY to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open SHAME." These are the ones that "fall away" (v. 6a).

Forget the "once saved, always saved" stuff; it is not true. This 6:6 phrase (in the original Greek parapesontas, from parapipto, G4045) is an aorist (=a verb tense in Greek that denotes past action

without indicating completion, continuation, or repetition of this action) participle, and should be rendered in the past tense: "If they shall fall away, "to literally: "having fallen away."

So, when we despise the Cross, we despise Jesus Himself. Lack of self-denial kills the Spirit of Christianity more than anything else. We can kill ourselves just as effectively by passing up the Cross, as much as by bombs. There is a prophetic poem that says:

"Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood of dammed, the tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocency is drugged. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of intensity."

I think this part of the poem shows us what man becomes and will do when the center collapses.

Look around friends-the world is about to go into anarchy; the crossless/Christless church is celebrating its independence FROM God. The solution to the pollution is Repentance Revolution.

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 THE ARMY OF GOD AND ITS Mission Part 1

 -General James Green- (2016)

MISSION” and “Missions” are at the edge of the Christian's life and are inhérent in the very heart of the Ekklesia.

By "Christian" I mean those born again, Spirit-filled, obedient ones who have, and are, separated from the world in mind, and will; dedicated, consecrated...SOLD OUT to do the will of God in/on earth. Now that little description separates the real from the false.

If I use the word "Church" or "church" I do not mean this sick inane mess we know as the contemporary Church that pretends to be God's Army. NO! The real Church/church is God's Ekklesia (Gk. called out ones...from the world). So, let me settle it with my readers that I DO NOT believe that this inane thing is anything but men's invention. The word "inane" comes from Latin "inanis"-empty,

foolish, senseless, silly, absurd, void of intelligence, shallow, pointless, asinine, ridiculous, dumb, stupid, idiotic, fatuous, etc., etc.

Now that I've made myself clear, when I use the word "Church" (Catholic / universal) or “church” (any local gathering of God's true people), I will distinguish them by using "worldly Church/church." Mostly I'll just use the words "Army of God.".

Mission Possible or Impossible?

IS IT POSSIBLE to account for the Church's worldwide penetration and (slow) growth without focusing on her sense of mission? We who have labored at the task of "Taking Jesus To All The World" (Matt. 28:19), know that we have slowly but surely penetrated the nations of this present world with the (Pure) Gospel (for the unsaved / pagan) and with the overcoming message-dominion, discipline, deliverance, = warfare for the (genuinely) saved.

On the other hand, the Worldly Church (WC) has successfully spread, with haste, her denominationalism, delusions, and damnations.

The main difference between the True Church (TC) and the Worldly Church (WC) is numbers and money. The True Church's Mission has been, and will forever be, to please the Lord Jesus...to carry forward that which “Jesus began both to do and teach." (Acts, 1:1), in the power of the Holy Spirit/Ghost (Lk. 4:1,18), not in the power of man or men.

Where is the miracle-working power of the WC today? Absent! Where is the Spirit's guidance? Absent! Where is the obedience? Absent! Yet when we read Luke's inspired writings (esp. Acts), Luke provides us with: (a) a definitive pattern of the activity of the Holy Spirit to be followed during the entire Church age. Do we witness this among the WC? Not much. Entertainments and money grabbing have replaced the miracle-working-power of the Holy Ghost; (b) data for developing a doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and (c) revelation concerning how the ministry of the Holy Spirit must relate to the lives of the believers in Christ. Note, if you will, specifically two elements in the book of Acts that are theologically and practically normative: 1) the baptism in or a filling (up) with the Holy Spirit as God's promise for ALL believers (see Acts 2:39, cf. 1;5, 8; 2:4, 4:8, 31, 8:15-17; 9:17; 10:44-46; 13:9, 52; 15:8; 19:1-6. Most denominations of today either quench or deny the Holy Spirit. Some literally hate Him; 2) the numerous "acts" of the Holy Spirit that provided the church/Church with the standards righteousness, which are in part or totally missing today. Witnessing in the power of the Holy Spirit is terribly lame or entirely lacking today. All this BIG SHOW stuff in churchianity today is not the Holy Spirit, but works of the flesh (e.g. demons!): you turn off the power and where, oh where is the BIG PRAISE?, the light shows?, the mesmerizing preaching? GONE!

Back to my question: "Is it possible to account for the Church's worldwide penetration and growth without focusing on her sense of mission?" Yes and no. No, if you mean the true Army of God, the Ekklesia. Yes, if you mean churchianity. The Contemporary Church (CC) can penetrate and grow without focusing much on her sense of mission. Remember, money and men are the worldly Church's goal-not discipleship. But the Army of God (AOG) has discipleship in mind, e.g., "building strong Christian soldiers."

Get Real, People!

STOP PLAYING AND GET TO PRAYING—there is a war on. Although we may think theologically, we also must match that with ACTING evangelistically. No ivory-tower theatrics in this Army. If we teach and preach, we must practice.

Stop finding ways to disbelieve God's Written Word, for there is something there to instruct and to stimulate everyone who gets serious with his / her Christianity.

I write on misology at an opportune time; Islam, Communism / Socialism, and dozens and dozens of other nefarious "isms" are pounding away against Christianity with their acrimonious words and deeds. Few are the brave that will stand up these days for Jesus without compromise.

THE WORLD OF OF MEN AND WOMEN

THEY ARE THE OBJECT of God's, and our, mission (Jn. 3:16). Men and women, boys and girls, are not an abstraction, they are souls in need of salvation/redemption. Therefore, it is indisputable that mission are characterized by God's longing for the lost to be saved, for God's Word tells us in 2 Peter 3:9 that the Lord is "not willing that ANY should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance." Also, in the book of Acts 17:30 we find this: "And the times of this ignorance (vv. 16-29) God winked; but now COMMANDETH all men everywhere to REPENT,” (see also Rom. 3:25). To shorten this writing, not giving a long study on "repent" and "repentance," let me just give you the Greek definitions here:

Greek

"matanoeo" [Strong's #3340]

This term is the one most commonly translated in the New Testament as "repentance” and literally means "to change one's mind or purpose, to repent.” From this same root comes the noun "metanoia". “after-thought, repentance” (Liddell, 503). This is a reversal of thinking. You see yourself differently: as fallen and corrupt.

"metamelomi” [Strong's #3338]

This term carries a more emotional implication and literally means, "to feel repentance, to rue, regret.' In four of the five New Testament occurrences, the ESV translates it as “change(d) his /their mind(s)." From this same root comes the noun "metamelos”: “repentance, regret" (Liddell, 503).

"epistrepho" [Strong's #1994]

Although never translated as "repentance", this word furthers the understanding of God's clear command for a change of mind, a heartfelt sorrow for sin, and a turning from sin. It means "to turn about, turn round; to return; to run towards; to correct, make to repent; to turn oneself round, turn about; constantly turning" (Liddell, 302). This is a change of the will. This is decidedly turning from sin and the ways of sin to follow the ways of Christ.

Army Church

OUR TASK IS therefore reduced to the question: "What is the essential character of the Army Church in the New Testament (N.T.)? Briefly I want to mention four characteristics:

1) People of God, or God's people as we see in 1 Peter 2:9-10, are described thus: "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." Note please how "people" is used. In v. 9, three nouns with similar meaning are used: “race” (Gk: genos = a particular people); “nation”

Gk. = ethnos-understood not so much politically and geographically as culturally and sociologically; hence, a group people); and "people" (Gk. laos in the Biblical context it is used with reference to a specific people in contrast to the other peoples of the earth). We find "laos" repeated twice in v. 10, and is used in Biblical thought to distinguish God's own people from the world's. So, this particular use of "laos" is carried over from the Hebrew concept of "lam"; the noun used in the O.T. to distinguish Israel from the "goyim", or the Gentile nations.

(See Acts 26:18/ Hos.1:9-10; 2:23)

Peter uses 3O.T. passages (Ex. 19:5; Isa. 43:20, and 61:6) to point out for us how God's plan for salvation / redemption of the world was not frustrated by the failure of ancient Israel, and that a new Ekklesia/community/cult was founded by and around Jesus the Christ, whom God has made the principal Comerstone in the construction of His new "living" temple (cf. v. 5), and who has taken the place and inherited the honors and names of old social Israel hence, the Ekklesia Army/community has become the NEW Israel, and God's plan of salvation is being fulfilled in and through her missionary endeavor.

So the fact that the N.T. Ekklesia has taken racial Israel's place is indicative of her election in Christ—"a Chosen race", made up of both saved / redeemed Gentiles and Jews (see 1 Peter 2:10).

Let it be known that New Israel is God's sovereign will and work. We can say as the writer of Hebrews (11:13) says, we are a pilgrim community, whose builder and maker is God (Heb. 11:10). We can also rightly say that we are an eschatological community on the go. Therefore, dear readers, we cannot give absolute commitment to the state (USA); to any political, ideological, economic or cultural distinctives, as sooooo many do today. This means and I'm sure some will call me a "FANATIC"”—that we do not live from or for ourselves, but from and for the sovereignty of our crucified-risen-glorified cult leader, Jesus Christ the Lord our Commander-in-Chief over His Ekklesia Army.

Body of Christ

2) The Church is understood in Scripture as "the body of Christ," a metaphor expressing the spiritual and functional reality of the universal Church (Catholic). (Universal Church = Catholic Church)

The Catholicity of this spiritual body has a sociological dimension that now includes other colors/ nationalities, not just Jews (1 Cor. 12:12; Eph. 4:4, 12, 16).

Temple of the Holy Spirit

3) In 1 Corinthians 6:15 Paul speaks of Corinthian believers as members of Christ and in 6:19 affirms that they are the temple of the Holy Spirit (see also Eph. 2:14-22; 4:16; 1 Cor. 3:9~16):

Institution

4) The Church (consisting of Christian soldiers-2 Tim. 2:1-4) is also institutional. By this I mean it has adopted (over a period of time, which I will later discuss) certain specific functions, rites, roles, goals, doctrines, etc. Sadly, the Church over the centuries has adopted some bad things, especially over the last hundred years-today the Church has become split between "Churchianity" and "Biblical Christianity." I've written numerous articles on this already (see our Recreant Philosophers, Stinking Rotting Corpse, and Clowning Around booklets).

We here at ACMTC decry the authority of the false (backslid, apostate) Church, which is now what the world sees as THE Church, the genuine Church. Never the less, both grow together in the world, one bringing forth false fruit, the other real.

Before we pass on to part two whereby I will cover the concept (false) of partial and absolute universalism, let me deal more with the Church as an institution.

Traditionally, the letters in the N.T. are divided into two groups:

1) The Pauline epistles and the Catholic epistles (not Roman Catholic). The latter we call "Catholic" because the letters are addressed to the Church in general rather than to a particular congregation or individual. In all these we find the Church Army on the way to becoming an "institution."

2) From the call of John and Jesus to REPENT to well after their deaths, we see the emerging institutional Church the Holy Spirit guiding. By "institutional," I do not mean "denominational," this came much later of course.

Roughly around A.D. 100 -140, the Christian movement is approaching new challenges and problems (the delay of the "parousia” being one), new difficulties and needs were developing.

Jesus

With that, the movement-the movement had settled down to the task of being the Church Army in the world, fighting the good fight of faith, contending for the faith, and rescuing the perishing and the erring.

As time passed the "parousia" was no longer immediately expected, the soldiers of Christ were learning to adjust to the destruction of Jerusalem and their Temple, and relations with Judaism and the Roman Empire.

The Church therefore developed its own institutions, outside of Judaism, in order to spread the "Good News" and raise up solid Christian disciples/ soldiers...in the world. This naturally demanded some sort of an organizational structure, a decision-making apparatus, and a "definition of the function of its soldiers and officers.” This resuscitated the establishment of a creed, a canon, and an organized ministry. Hopefully, the Holy Spirit would overshadow all this. We must admit that *religious* man can ruin things, establishing and erecting things that are not ordained by God nor for His glory, but for man's benefit and glory. We certainly see this in today's worldly Church—it is actually more "goat” than “sheep.”

FINAL CANON

SOME CHRISTIAN LITERATURE of this period did not find a place in the final canon of the New Testament: a letter written by Clement, bishop of Rome, to the Church at Corinth; letters written by Ignatius, 'bishop of Antioch, to various Churches as he was on his way to martyrdom in Rome; and the Didache ("Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles by the Twelve Apostles”), a Church order from Syria. In addition, some Christians of this period were being influenced by a growing Gnostic movement still in contact with Judaism.

In the era of the "emerging church" (to be distinguished from today's, "Emergent Church"), it was faced with a threat from within, just as we are today. Then it was the growing influence of Gnosticism, today it is sheer backsliding and apostasy whereby the churchites openly Rebel like Hell, having become reprobate in word and in deed...even accepting and ordaining practicing homosexuals and performing same-sex marriages, hence, an ABOMINATION!!

Frankly, I personally see no recovery for today's worldly Church, I only see a need for those who have not become spiritual whores to GET OUT! So, the call to "COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE" is sounding loud and clear-and I for one have exited Babylon years ago.

God is still going to have a real and pure people, a people out of a people out of a people.

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The Army of God and Its Mission Part 2

  -GENERAL JAMES GREEN-(2016) 

DIRECTOR of the Institute of in-depth Evangelism, B.A., M.A., and M. Div., was quoted as saying: "History and Eschatology: However, one must not lose sight of the Biblical tension between the "now" and the "not yet” of the kingdom. On the one hand, the kingdom materializes in the concrete historical struggles of liberation. On the other, "the horizon must be kept open, toward the ultimate and definite Kingdom."

With the above statement, let us examine his "now" and the "not yet" aspect in Scripture. mentioned beforehand the "partial" aspect of God's Kingdom in other writings as opposed to what many now teach, the "allness" of salvation.

For awhile these two divided camps agree on many things, the division between only the repentant is included in the Kingdom of God (KÓG) versus the all will eventually be saved/included, e.g., "universalism" salvation or the call to ALL is certainly Scripture, e.g., salvation as an offer to ALL men, yet, the Bible teaches, IS NOT appropriated automatically but there's an act of faith, repentance of sin, belief in Christ Jesus - and ALL those who do not respond in the above REMAIN in their sins/transgressions. John 3:36 plainly teaches us this: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.". This verse alone refutes universalism - the false idea that ALL will eventually be saved in the end...without repentance. This falseness is popular today. It gives way to lazy evangelism or no evangelism at all. I have written on this already, but allow me to delve into this falseness a bit further.

Heretic Robert Schuller and Billy Graham (Note: Both Are Now Deceased).

I COULD QUOTE MANY "CHRISTIANS" who hold to this false notion, but let me quote heretic Schuller and Billy Graham. Their "religious humanism” is very dangerous; it is seductive evil. Billy Graham once said that Schuller "has done some of the greatest things for the Kingdom of God of any man in our generation." HA!!! LIKE ROBBING PEOPLE AND COVERING THEM IN HERETICAL SLIME!!!

R. Schuller's now-defunct house of prostitution, aka, the Crystal Cathedral, was a mockery of Biblical Christianity. Below is a recorded conversation between these two "religious' giants:

Robert Schuller asked Graham, "What do you think is the future of Christianity?" Graham's response was: "Well, Christianity and being a true believer [?] you know, I think there's the Body of Christ. This comes from ALL THE CHRISTIAN · GROUPS around the world [ROMAN CATHOLICS and all SIN-PRACTICING and QUEER- SUPPORTING DENOMINATIONS_`included!!??]. Outside the Christian groups, I think everybody who knows Christ, whether they are conscious of it OR NOT, they're MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST." [What?]

[Graham] went on to say: “...whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, they are members of the body of Christ, because they've been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts that they need something that they don't have, and I think that they turn to the only light they have [YOU MEAN MUHAMMAD, OR THE MOON-god ALLAH, OR BUDDHA??!!], and I think they are SAVED, and that they are going to be in heaven with us.’’

Schuller queried: ‘‘What, what I hear you saying is that it's possible for Jesus Christ to come into human hearts and soul and life even if they've been born in darkness and never had an exposure to the Bible. Is that a correct interpretation of what you are saying?’’

Graham replied: "Yes, it is, because I believe that..."

[John 3:3-"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot

see the kingdom of God.”

Quoted portion from Dr. Cathy Burns' Billy Graham and His Friends, pp. 18-19.]

Billy Graham once believed that Jews (and other religionists) were lost if they did not repent of their sins and become born-again Biblically. He blames his change of mind on the ecumenical movement. Billy boy says in A Prophet with Honor, p. 225, "The ecumenical movement has broadened my viewpoint, and I recognize now that God has His people in all Churches." Enough said about goofy Schuller and backslid Billy.

Universalism's Problem

THIS "PAIN IN THE SPIRITUAL BUTT has been with the Church ever since the days of Origen. I won't go into all the controversies except to point out that ultimately this issue hinges on the reality of the Gospel and Biblical teaching of the N.T. that salvation is made available to ALL and judgment which continues upon ALL who deny and reject this free offer.

Scriptures, which are not a few, teach directly and indirectly, explicitly or implicitly the "Plan" of salvation and the certainty of both present and future judgment.

Scriptures also teach the "Narrow gate" vs. the "Broadway" (Lk. 13:23). The Johannine passages that deal with the universality of both the LORD'S love and His wrath (Jn. 3:16, 36, etc.). The universal reconciliation and judgment passages in Paul's writings (1 Tim. 4:10; 2 Thes. 1:9), the warnings found in the epistle to the Hebrews (Heb. 2:2; 4:1; etc.), and the story of the judgment day in Revelation 19:11 etc.

Only God Knows!

SPEAKING OF HIS JUDGMENTS or last-day judgment: This is only known to Him (and whom He chooses to let know).

So, in the Gospel presentation, there is both the positive-men can escape Hell-and the negative-no salvation...no escaping Hell. This negative side has to do with the fact that His FINAL WRATH has only been postponed, not revoked-the latter idea (revoked) being what so many would like us (and themselves) to believe. Backslid evangelical Rob Bell tells us that "Love Wins Out," meaning that God's love will not allow anyone to go to Hell.

Sorry, Mr. Bell, THERE IS STILL A HELL!!!

Thus, my dear Christian brothers and sisters in the Lord, the true Gospel ALWAYS leads to a call to repentance.

IF...

IF ALL ARE SAVED, if there is no final judgment, why call the sinner to turn from their sinfulness? Why do we find judgment in all the N.T.? Almost every sermon in Acts has judgment mentioned. Why does the apostle John emphasize over and over the terrible peril of unbelief? Why does Paul boldly, coldly and bluntly declare that those who disobey the Gospel will suffer the WRATH of God? (2 Thes. 1:8). Why does Jesus over and over again bring up the subject of Hellfire?

Our job as witnesses is not finished dear ones. God some day will judge the world-yes, this all-loving, all-compassionate God will divide the sheep from the goats (a fitting metaphor). Don't be taken in by all these "God is love and He will not punish anyone" liars.

Mission represents the URGENCY of this tension. -Playing Church only adds to God's Wrath.

We have a LOST generation right now, right here in good ol' USA, in need of a Savior-many are searching.

NO OPTION!

LISTEN UP!!! No option is available to the Church; to be the Church Army signifies commitment to the urgent enterprise.

Let me say here, mission is not simply an informative task but alsó a passionate plea for souls to come to Christ and be saved. SAVED!! Not to join ACMTC or any other Church, but to find Jesus and be SAVED! (Check out 2 Cor. 5:20, esp. in the Amp. Bible).

But we keep running up against this antithesis of "all are already saved because they are God's creation," or "all will eventually be saved because God loves them."

But if ALL men are saved, or will be saved, why all this missions urgency? If ALL men are already, or will be reconciled to God, wouldn't it be logical to see that God's Word does not contradict itself? Seems like the Holy Spirit would make it known to All men that they are already saved; but, you see, the Holy Spirit convicts men of sin and of unrighteousness.

Today's worldly Church cares little for Biblical salvation, only Church attendance and tithes. They are more interested in the quantitative, not the qualitative. "The teachings and warnings about the perilous consequences of unbelief and the certainty of God's judgment / punishment has faded into the background. Now we have boys like Joel Osteen teaching us to "Have Your Best Life Now. This would be good if he meant giving your WHOLE life WHOLLY to Christ, not giving your WHOLE life in pursuit of fame and fortune as he and his wife does.

Now Not Yet

THE CHURCH, the TRUE Church, holds to the tension between the "now" and the "not yet." believe that the Kingdom of God is now; I also believe that its fullness is yet future, its completeness. We experience the Kingdom of God presently, and (hopefully) will'eternally, forever, be in it with Jesus. Both the prophetic and the apocalyptic are realities.

The Kenosis

BOTH THE PROPHETIC and the apocalyptic are supported by the N.T. Scripture. God became a man, born of a virgin, called Jesus. "This Kenosis has its greatest expression," as one Bible scholar writes, "in the struggle of the cross. Out of the feeling of forsakenness, however, emerges hope for the future (“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit"). Thus, the present is negated in the liberating action of the cross and pushed unto the certainty of God's future." Thus, we have the promised Savior, the substance, coming in due time out of the shadow.

You see, we can be "caught up" in the Spirit, as at Patmos John was, whereby he experienced both the "now" and the "future.” He could see what was going on around him, yet he could sail into the future. This is hope, dear ones, HOPE. If all he had to do was endure the present, and accept it as determinative of his future, this would lead to depression.

Jesus made reference to this when He told Nicodemus, "And, no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man WHICH IS (present tense) in heaven” (John 3:13) Jesus could experience heaven while on earth. So can we!

LET US PRAY

WE NEED TO PRAY for those who are stuck in the mire of Churchianity that God will free them. We need to pray for those who have come out that they will let God lead their lives, for many are wounded and need healing and direction, as we did once. Let us pray that we will continue to be a strong contender for Biblical Truth and hopefully become more influential in the thinking of dead theologians and churchmen and churchwomen...to inspire them to grab hold of the true meaning of missions.

God knows that there needs to be a welcomed return of the basic essentials of the Christian faith, which has been laid aside or trashed for popularity and prosperity.

The revival of the occult, the sick fascination with LGBTQ Esex, the lust for wealth, the craving for entertainment and so on, gives us every reason to fight the good fight of faith.

Salvation for mankind is not outdated, NO!!! The Kerygmatic, missiological, scriptural, ecclesiastical, praxeological and liturgical need reemphasizing.

Recognizing that the Church Army is the bearer of the Gospel of liberation (from sin) to others must first be liberated from all that hinders its true Christ-expression or robs it of a true sense of its own responsibility. I figure this is why today's worldly Church isn't concerned with the salvation of souls, its very own soul is bound to the world.

We may have come out of the world, but let us allow the Holy Spirit to drive the world out of us. How can we tell others to be free if we are bound? How can we witness about unity of the faith if we ourselves are divided? The harsh reality is this: The Church is divided; the world is divided. This ironic state of being is getting us nowhere.

So, in the light of our awareness of this dramatic reality of the worldly Church,

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

We're doing all we can here at ACMTC. We print and send out tons of free materials for both the lost-sinner, the Church- sinner, and the and the front-line soldiers. JOIN US IN THE WAR FOR SOULS!!! Amen.

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"Our All Mighty [Pantokrator] God"

By: Gen. Jim -- 5/21/19

"All Mighty!" This thrills my soul. It lets me know that the one I belong to and serve is “All Sovereign,” He “… reigns over (all) the nations, He is the King of all the earth” (Psalms 47:7, 8); “… the world is Mine, and all its fullness” (Psalms 50:12); All Mighty God is all powerful/all controlling (His name appears both as a noun and adjective). Found relatively rarely in pagan literature, but frequently for “God” in Greek Old Testament (LXX) and in early Jewish writings.

Genesis 17:1 mentions “… I am Almighty God” to Abram (first time mentioned), then we find AG mentioned in Genesis 28:3; 35:11; 43; 14; 48:3 and 49:25 [note: Hebrew word found in Strong’s Concordance #410); “shadday,” SC #7706]. The Hebrew world “shadday” or “shad-dah’ee.” The prim root = “shadad,” which means “powerful” (passive impregnable); “to ravage,” “destroy,” “spoil,” and “utterly lay waist” – hence “ALL POWERFUL!” (See our publications “Wrath of God” book 2, for full articles on AC).

The New Testament (N.T.) Greek name for “All Mighty God” is “Pantokrator” (9 times in Revelation). In 2 Corinthians we run across “The Lord Almighty” where Paul quotes from Hosea 1:10; Isaiah 43:6: “I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.” (See Wrath of God #2 for “Pantokrator” in pagan writings, which some believe is due to Jewish influence).

As a Divine Designator/tion, “Pantokrator” is found at least 150 times in the Greek O.T./LXX: for most part, it is a rendering of “seba’ot” (yahweh, zebaoth 120 times), which is feminine plural of “sabah,” i.e. “armies’ of “The Almighty God of Armies.” I’ve written many articles about God’s Armies which consists of both His Covenant and pagan armies. He claims to be “… from eternity I AM He; there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I act (WAR), and who can reverse it?” (Isaiah 43:13). He claims in Isaiah 44:6 that “I AM the first, and I AM the last; besides Me there is not God.” He defines Himself as the “Living God” as opposed to the “dead gods” (antithetical) of the pagan world, hence, “nonpareils” (French), i.e. “no equals!” He is the Shekhinah that has no equals!

Many scholars believe that “Pantokrator” should be interpreted as an intensive abstract-plural, i.e. as an expression of “Divine Might,” which I believe also. [Note: the LXX/Greek O.T. uses “pantokrator” far more times than the Hebrew text: some believe the reason was because of Alexander the Great, and adopted by the Greek Jews (Hellenistic) and, finally, by the Romans [note: The Roman Empire uses it as religious epithets of their rulers, such as sater, epiphanies, deus et dominus, etc. = “ruler cult;” see 1 Macc. 1:11-15 etc.]

The book of Revelation mentions “Pantokrator” a grand total of 9 times, proving to us readers His true character of divine attribute: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was (in O.T./early N.T. writings) and is (now in earth), and is to come,” physically in the future. Are we ready?

In truth, His unlimited power is typically apocalyptic – hidden, but, He IS demonstrating more and more of His awesome power via weather to prove to man that He is still in charge. Do we acknowledge it? Yet? Will we?

The book of Judith (written between 150-100 BC) mentions “Kyrios pan tokraton,” always in the context of inimical threat either still existing or having been repelled (see Judith 4:13; 8:13; 15:10; 16:5, 17). Judith 16:17 says, “Woe to the nations that rise up against My people. The Lord Almighty will punish them on the day of judgment,” i.e. “Victory of Kyrios pantokrator.”

1 Macc. Uses the same expression: 1:25; 3:22, 30; 8:24; 15:8 in reference to repulsion, i.e. driving back forces. 8:18 tells us that “They… trust both in weapons and audacity, but we (God’s covenant people) rely on the God Almighty who is able to overthrow our assailants and the whole world with a nod of His head.”

We serve the very same God today! Creator, Lawyer, Judge and Executioner. He is RULER of ALL!! 3 Macc. 2:23 we read: “LORD: Lord (kyrios), King (basileus) of Heaven, ruler (despotes) of all creation, Holy among holy ones, sale ruler (monarchos), all-Sovereign (pantokrator), pay heed to us who are sorely vexed by a wicked and corrupt man, reckless in his effrontery and mighty. For you who created all things and govern (epikraton) the whole world are a just Ruler (dynastes)…” (3 Macc. 2:2,3).

The Bible lists other names to describe Deity: “El, Elohim” (God); others are descriptive titles such as El Shaddai, i.e. “God Almighty,” El Elyon, e.g. “God Most High” (from the great Exodus), “Jehovah” is the personal name of the God of Israel.

El = “to be strong;”

Elohim = “fullness of might;”

El Shaddai = “Almighty,” “Destroyer;” (see Wrath of God 2 for full discloser of this word).

Jehovah = “to be,” “sacredness” (Hebrew); the name “Adonai” (“lord”) was substituted for it later on; Jehovah being the God who is heard in the tempest, the “storm God.” (See Job 37:6 where it speaks of “the heavy rain of His strenght.”)

Names can be traced from the Exodus period to the revolution of Jehu – the prophetic period – from the destruction of the nation of Israel, onward. Israel’s self-consciousness, as a nation, was virtually identical with its consciousness of ‘J’ – its God: Jehovah = “God of Hosts” was used as the loftiest name for ‘J’ – suggesting His “Royal Majesty” and infinite power= ALL POWER! Jesus, the resurrected Jesus/Lord, used the phrase: “All authority (power) has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” (Matthew 28:18).

“Almighty God” once was The God of America – now it’s “Political Correctness” god… the god that is malignant, the agitprop god, i.e. political propaganda that causes atrophy. The WASTING AWAY of political/religious/social/class/race/economic parts of the body called United States of America. This dystrophy disorder has taken over, most churches that ONCE claimed The Almighty God as their God. Political and religious bastards and dastards, sycophants with screwed idiosyncrasy have voted God out of the nation, hence, a bestial milieu covers the land. But this has only brought on God’s wrath seen and experienced in His weather and President in the Oval office, who is amoral yet claims a form of deity.

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"Adikia, Ponēria, Pleonexia, Kakia, Phtonos, Phonos, Erin, Dolos, Kakoētheia, Psithuristēs, Katalosos, Theostugeis, Hubristēs, Huperēphanos, Alazōn, Epheuretēs Kakōn, Goneusin Apeithis, Asunetos, Asunthetos, Astorgos, Aneleēmōn."

What in the hell do these words mean? These Greek words describe HELL from whence they come!

Paul wrote about the “age of shame” in which he lived, and men lived in past generations. He writes about the AWFUL AGE of SHAME in Romans 1:26,27, where the Lord ABANDONED humankind to act out their dishonorable passions, sexual villainy, and the lowest kind of degeneracy. Verses 26 and 27 describe homosexuality (male) and lesbianism (female). Paul writes about the human race given wholly, totally over to what was/is against nature. (Since I’ve written dozens of articles on Romans one, I’ll just define what the above Greek words mean).

Shameful

The NKJV uses this word (v.27) as does the Amp. Bible, the Living Bible, et al. Other versions use “indecent.” Jude uses the word “shame” in V.13: “raging waves of the sea (i.e. sinful humanity), foaming up their own SHAME...” (see Phil. 3:19, NKJV). So, what does SHAME mean? Strongs #152 -aischune from 153, aischunŏmai, means “disgrace, dishonesty, and disfigurement.”

When we read Rom. 1:26-32, we get a word picture of a shameful lifestyle, one of a destructive lifestyle, irremediable because of men’s/women’s stone-heart and made up mind to commit “shameful” acts of sex. Their villainous acts of Ta Kathēkonta, (Gk.) “the things it befits a man or woman to do.” (a Stoic phrase).

We live in a time and generation in which these very same sins are paramount. The Roman/Greek world in which Paul lived was one of shamefulness and shamelessness.

It was Virgil who wrote: “Right and wrong are confounded; so many wars the world over, so many forms of wrong; no worthy honor is left to the plough; the husbandmen are marched away and the fields grow dirty; the hook has its curve straightened into the sword-blade. In the East, Euphrates is stirring up war, Germany; nay, close neighboring cities break their mutual league and draw the sword and the war god’s unnatural fury rages over the whole world; even as when in the circus the chariots burst from their floodgates, they dash into the course, and, pulling desperately at the reins, the driver lets the horses drive him, and the car is deaf to the curb.” (Roman poet: author of the Aeneid).

All that reminds me of World War 1 & 2 and all the wars in between up until 2023. Along with carnal warfare came the “war” to overthrow God’s moral laws (for human conduct), resulting in Political Correctness and Wokeism, in which all SHAMEFUL sex-acts are promoted and honored!!!

Well, if we read Rom. 1:27 closely, we will see that the guilty “received their due and necessary rewards for their error.” So, it will be NOW! God will judge and punish the guilty and bless the righteous. Do not ever think, the evil will get by- they will face God in this life or the next one to come.

We live in a time and season where unlawful sex and violence is rampant. Tacitus was another observer who wrote: “I am entering upon the history of a period, rich in disasters, gloomy with wars, rent with seditions, savage in its very hours of peace... All was one delirium of HATE and TERROR... He who had no foe was destroyed by his friend.” (Tacitus, A.D. 55-120; Roman historian). Tacitus could very well be describing the World in 2024 also... so many wars (nations), so much infighting in our government (Dems hate GOPs, wokeism against God and His people, blah, blah, blah!).

During the reign of Tiberius, Suetonius wrote, “No day passed but someone was executed.” (Tiberius: Roman emperor, A.D. 14-37; Suetonius: Roman biographer and historian, A.D. 69-140; Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, 42 B.C.-37 A.D.) One does not need to whack off heads with a sword. No sir, just assassinate their character- they will be good as DEAD. And, so, heads are ROLLING in politics as I write this.

Clement of Rome wrote: “It is well that they should be cut off from the lusts of the world, since every lust wars against the spirit and neither fornicators, nor homosexuals... will inherit the kingdom of God.”

A.D. 96 (1.34).

“Rome could neither bear its ills nor the remedies that might have cured them,” wrote Livy, the Roman historian. Titus Livius, aka Livy (59 B.C.- 17 A.D.) wrote about all the social, sexual, war ills of Rome. Paul offered the Gospel (the remedy) to Rome- many sinners were “cured” of their social/sexual sins.

 "I see Rome, proud, perishing, the victim of her own prosperity," wrote Propertius, the poet (50-15 B.C.) I, like him, see America’s pride (hubris) which is causing her to DIE spiritually. She is the VICTIM of her very own SHAME and SINFULNESS!!! Our prosperity is literally killing us- too much “good times.” Then we have Juvenal, the Roman satirist (Decimus Junius Juvenalis, A.D. 60-140) who wrote: “The earth no longer brings forth any but BAD men and COWARDS. Hence, God, whoever He is looks down, laughs at them and HATES them!” Seneca the Roman philosopher, dramatist, artist, and statesman (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) wrote: “Stricken with the agitation of a soul no longer master of itself.”

Has not Amerika, aka America become like ancient Rome? Worse! For America was a nation built upon the WORD of God- not that it was a “Christian” nation, but a nation full of Bible believing folks who feared God and took God’s Word seriously. Today, God’s Word is nearly OUTLAWED from the public square. If He is spoken of, it is usually in terms of PC/WOKE BS! Juvenal was said to have said of Rome: “A luxury more ruthless than war broods over Rome... No guilt or deed of lust is wanting since Roman poverty disappeared.” Seneca also had his say-so on the issue of money, the RUIN of the true honor of things... “We ask not what a thing truly is but what it costs.” “... that bitterness which flows the very fountain of pleasure,” wrote Lucretius (Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher, 96 B.C.- 55 B.C.). Tacitus agreed: “Crime became the only antidote to boredom, until the greater the infamy, the wilder the delight.”

In the years of ancient Rome, the age of unparalleled immorality/Shame, men, women, and children were out of control, even though there were certain laws against certain sex sins et al. All one has to do is research the history of Ancient Rome (and Greece) to see the ungodliness/Shame that the early Church had to deal with. Not only was ancient Israel in a backslidden, rebellious state of affairs, the pagan nations all about were engulfed in immorality of every kind.

                                           Those Greek Words

                                              Romans 1:28-32

It depends on what translation one reads from; their words are interchangeable. I am using The Daily Study Bible series (by world-renowned Scottish N.T. professor, William Barclay (The Westminster Press (1955; revised edition, 1975)).

"Just as they have given themselves over to a kind of knowledge that rejects the idea of God, so God has given them over to the kind of mind that all reject. The result is that they do things which it is not fitting for any man (i.e. humankind) to do. They are replete with all evil, villainy, the lust to get, viciousness. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, the spirit which puts the worst construction on everything. They are whisperers, slanderers, haters of God. They are impotent men, arrogant, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to their parents, senseless breakers of agreements, without natural affections, pitiless. They are the kind of men who are well aware that those who do such things deserve death, and yet they do not only do them, themselves, but also heartily approve of those who do them." Most Commentators, including Barclay, believe it is not so much that God sends judgment on a man/nation, as that they bring judgment/punishment on themselves when they give no place to God in the scheme of things; I certainly believe this.

The catalogue of evil and dreadful things Paul mentions are things pertaining to a “godless” life. Jesus also gave a catalogue of evil and sinful things in the Gospel of Mark (7:14-23). His list of defilements is like Romans 1 (to be examined shortly). Jesus makes it clear that “...nothing which goes into a man or woman from without can render that man or woman “unclean,” everything that goes from the outside goes into the stomach; but what comes out of a person is what renders them “unclean;” evil designs, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetous deeds, evil deeds, guile, wanton wickedness, envy, slander, pride, folly.” – all these, Jesus said, render a person “unclean.” Romans one and Mark seven are REVOLUTIONARY passages. Barclay’s list of Greek Words is found at the beginning of this article, right under the “Age of Shame” (title). The English words are thus: “Evil, Villainy, Lust, Viciousness, Envy, Murder, Strife, Deceit, Evil-Naturedness, Whisperers and Slanderers, Haters of God, Insolent Men, Arrogant Men, Braggarts, Inventors of Evil, Disobedient to Parents, Senseless, Breakers of Agreements, Without Natural Affections, and Pitiless.”

One should look these Greek Words up. If you are reading from the KJV or NKJV, the following English Words are found: “Unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unloving, and unmerciful.

 I don’t think Prof. Barclay did justice to #2, “sexual immorality” (NKJV et. Al.). He uses the English word “Villainy.” (Gk., Ponēria). The following is how he describes Ponēria: “Prof. Kenneth S. West, in his the N.T. Expanded Translation, uses the words “pernicious evil,” He writes: “Being filled” (quote from Rom. 1:29) is a perfect participle. The perfect tense in Greek speaks of a past completed action having present results.” He is saying that the persons (in study) had disapproved of holding God in their knowledge, hence, were FILLED with the 21 sins mentioned in VV. 29-32. What does he mean by “pernicious evil?” The Interpreter’s Bible uses “fornication” (V. 29), one can’t help but see that Paul referred to homosexuals/lesbians in VV. 24-27. I have written many LONG articles on this subject, (some of which are up on our website). “Fornication” (Strong’s Concordance #4202= “Pŏrnĕia,” from 4203, “pŏrnĕuō”= “harlotry, adultery, idolatry, unlawful lust (of either sex),” from 4204, “pŏrnē”= “an idolator, harlot, whore,” from 4205= “pŏrnŏs”= “a male prostitute, debaucher, whoremonger.” This Greek word is where we get the word “porn” (homosexual or heterosexual). Unlawful sex is the main theme in Roman’s one. Barclay says that “ponēria,” i.e., “villainy” is what Paul meant, not “fornication” (which includes male/male sex sins). Most Bibles refer to sex-sin, not mere “doing harm.” But homo-sex can and does include “badness,” “cruelty.” Why Barclay fails to mention sex-sins I do not know. Sins against nature and sins against society is what Paul is writing about. Prof. Adam Clarke, in his “The N.T. Epistle to the Romans” (1814), uses the Authorized Translation, which uses the word “fornication” as well. He states in his Critical notes: “Fornication, ‘all commerce between the sexes out of the bounds of lawful marriage; and others have uncleanness.’” (Paul makes mention of “fornicator,” “homosexuals,” and “sodomites” in I Corinthians 6:9, NKJV et. al.) In fact, he writes a lot against “sexual immorality” in chapters 6 and 7. I see no reason why he would call the sin of sodomy, villainy/ponēria (which it is but leaves the average reader to believe sexual immorality wasn’t included in Paul’s “evils” catalogue!)

 Barclay in his “Letter to the Corinthians Bible Series, uses the words fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, and sensualists in his comment on 1 Cor. 6:9-11. Why did he use “villainy”/ “ponēria” in his catalogue of evil in Rom. 1:29, when most translations use fornication, homosexuals, or sodomites? In I Cor. 6 he writes: “Paul breaks out into a terrible catalogue of sins, that is a grim commentary on the debauched civilization in which the Corinthian Church was growing up.” He goes on to write, “There were fornicators and adulterers... sexual laxity....” He says, “fornicator is especially unpleasant; it means a male prostitute....” Well, fornicator means more than that, it includes all unlawful sex-sins, including homosexuality and lesbianism in the all-inclusive word fornicator. He does go on to write (pg. 53), “We have left the most unnatural sin to the end- these were homosexuals... (be they male or female) but does not use this word in his Romans one Bible Study.

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"You Can't Stick A Square Peg In A Round Hole!"

(Homosexual Insanity!)

By: Sgt. Major Amos

COMMON SENSE CONDEMNS the homosexual/lesbian (along with the Scriptures). Everyone functions by some level of common sense, and everyone believes in it to some degree. HT [There's an old child's toy that comes to mind. It was usually a rectangle-shaped hollow box, with holes cut in the top. Each hole in the top was different a circle, a square, a triangle, a star; and each one had a complementary (wooden) shape that would fit into it - a cylinder piece for the round hole; etc. The wooden shape was made to fit perfectly into its respective hole and then drop into the box. Obviously, the purpose of the toy was to put the correct part into the correct corresponding hole. An old cliche arose from this classic child's game: "You can't stick a square peg in a round hole!" This cliche signifies the common sense idea that certain things are complimentary and certain things are not; CERTAIN THINGS ARE MADE TO BE PUT IN CERTAIN PLACES AND NOT IN OTHER PLACES!

Even pagans know this principle. You don't put a USB cord in a Firewire port, or a headphone jack in a three-prong power outlet. I'll add: you don't put a penis in an anus or in another person's mouth (or foreign objects, including your tongue, in a vagina). YOU DON'T STICK A "SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE!"

Why don't people just look at what they're doing? Homosexuals/Lesbians aren't FACING THE TRUTH.

IF YOU ARE A HOMOSEXUAL/LESBIAN, PLEASE READ THIS, AND THINK ABOUT IT CAREFULLY:

Look at what you do when you perform homosexual/lesbian acts: is it really "natural"? Do those parts really "go there"? SERIOUSLY.

Why is it so serious? Because God says that He will HURL YOU INTO HELL for doing it (Luke 12:5- on fearing God; and see 1 Cor. 6:9-10; Rev. 22:15; Rom. 1; 1 Tim. 1:10; Lev. 18:22; 20:13-on the SIN of homosexuality/lesbianism)!

We care enough about you to tell you this TRUTH. In fact, you lack the TRUTH in your life, and that's why you find yourself hopeless, wanting, confused, Hellbound.

Jesus said, "the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). In context, He was talking about freedom from SIN.

For you "Christians," the Bible says we're to "Stand therefore [hold your ground], having tightened the belt of truth around your loins..." When you don't want to face the truth, you throw your belt away. With no belt around your loins, your loins quickly become exposed.

If you were a "Christian" before you became a homosexual/lesbian, here's the problem - it all started with throwing away your belt.

Truth girds us. True, the above Scripture is talking about the born-again Christian's armor, but "common" truth even girds the sinner through his or her conscience. If you would accept TRUTH through following your God-given conscience, "common" truth would gird you about; then you could accept Gospel Truth, REPENT of your sins and be saved!!!

NO WRITTEN LAW – STILL JUDGED

Jude 1:7-"Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Sodom had no Bible, as one man wrote. The prohibition against "fornication," then, must be a universal principle, applying to the men of Sodom (and all other men in all times) through the vehicle of their GOD-GIVEN moral consciences.

And what exactly is "fornication"? Ekporneuo (εупорνεúш) is the Greek word here: it's a compound word with two parts, formed from ek, meaning "originating from out of," and porneuo, meaning "to act the harlot, (literally) indulge unlawful lust (of either sex)." [Definitions from Strong's.]

Put together we have a generic term denoting a whole category of SINS that are "originating from an indulgence in unlawful lust of either sex." Well, how do you know what's "unlawful"? What "law" are we talking about here? One of two: either (1) the law of conscience, which He put in all men a moral sense of right and wrong; or (2) the Law of God as revealed in His written Word.

Since those cities weren't under the Old Testament Law, God must have judged them for a violation of conscience. That means this whole category of sex sins called "fornication" in Jude v. 7 denotes a group of sins that are transgressions of UNIVERSAL LAWS FOR WHICH ALL MEN ARE ACCOUNTABLE.

So, Sodom broke sex laws, that's clear. Jude verse 7 alone does away with any other ludicrous ideas (like the idea that Sodom, Gomorrah, and the surrounding towns were destroyed for something silly like inhospitality!). "Sodom and Gomorrha... giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."

Is there any other qualifying information here as to WHAT KIND of "unlawful" sex the Sodomites were engaging in? Yes. They were "going after strange flesh." This is very interesting!

GOING = ἀπέρχομαι "to depart, that is, go is aside or behind"

AFTER = Ŏпíοш = "to the back"

STRANGE = ἕτερος = "the other or different: altered"

FLESH = σάρ = "flesh (body)"

[ALL DEFINITIONS FROM STRONG'S EXHAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE.]

PUTTING TOGETHER THESE DEFINITIONS, IN CONTEXT WITH "FORNICATION," WE DRAW THIS OBVIOUS CONCLUSION:

The Sodomites "departed by turning aside from normal, LAWFUL sex, to sex that took them TO THE BACK of DIFFERENT flesh (the only other choice besides a woman: a MAN), which had to be ALTERED (-an ANUS is NOT intended to be used as a receptacle for a PENIS, so its function MUST BE ALTERED)."

HOMOSEXUALITY WAS THEIR SIN. INCREDIBLE! HOW MUCH MORE EXPLICIT DO YOU WANT, FOLKS!

TO THE HOMOSEXUAL "CHRISTIAN": WORK OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION – YOU CAN’T!

Philippians 2:12 - "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, ... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." If you're not "obeying," you can't be commanded to "work out your own salvation" like these obedient people. If you haven't started receiving God's commands, not even through conscience, you cannot be commanded further.

In addition to conscience and the penetrating indictment found in Jude verse 7, we know that homosexuality cancels your salvation according to 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (cf. Rom. 1 where lesbianism is also specifically named). And now you shout, "But those are PAUL'S words!" Well, Jesus told Peter, "Feed my sheep," and Peter fed us all the truth that Paul's epistles are "Scripture" (2 Pet. 3:16). So if you don't like Paul, take it up with Peter, or rather Jesus in fact, take it up with the Holy Spirit by Whom "Scripture" comes forth (2 Tim. 3:16 cf. 2 Pet. 1:21).

If you cannot be "commanded" at all, you cannot obey Jesus, who said, "If you love me, keep my commandments" (John 15:10). 20moH

We better fear God more and listen to the whole indictment in 2 Peter 3:16, which speaks about the things that Paul wrote:

"...the ignorant and UNSTABLE TWIST AND MISCONSTRUE [PAUL'S WORDS] TO THEIR OWN UTTER DESTRUCTION, JUST AS [THEY DISTORT AND MISINTERPRET] THE REST OF THE SCRIPTURES" (AMP).

According to Peter, the consequences of not listening to Paul, or twisting what he said, are DAMNABLE TO YOUR SOUL.

If you would just look at what you do as a homosexual/lesbian, and would see how it IS completely UNnatural and would REPENT and TURN from your wicked ways! - you'd be cleansed from the STAIN OF SIN and the accompanying insanity.

It's TRUTH YOU NEED, and TRUTH YOU NEED FAST. "Sanctify them [PURIFY, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, MAKE THEM HOLY] by the Truth; Your Word is Truth" (John 17:17, AMP: the Words of Jesus in a prayer to GOD THE FATHER).
 

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Promises Salvation in Spite of Sin

By: General James Green -- 1/3/24                             

One Bible scholar wrote:

“It is a travesty on Biblical scholarship that the eighth chapter of Romans should be used to encourage a SECURITY that promises salvation in spite of sin.”

If one reads Romans 8 carefully, one will see how many times the word “if” is used: “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit IF indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now IF anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And IF Christ is in you... But IF the Spirit... dwells in you... For IF you live according to the flesh, you will die; but IF by the Spirit... you will live... and IF Children, then heirs... IF indeed we suffer with Him... But IF we hope for what we do not see... IF God is for us, who can be against us?,” VV. 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 25, and 31. [ See my articles on the “if”/ “then” clause for extensive research on the words “if” and “then” (as in Rom. 8:17)]

Since I have written other articles on “Once Saved Always Saved?” and “Can a Christian Lose His Salvation?,” I will be short. This question has caused a great separation in the Body of Christ. I have over the span of 5 decades read from many scholars, theologists, preachers, experts in the Greek et al. Some teach what I call true security as opposed to a false security, which breeds a fake hope, carelessness, and unfounded confidence. True security (TS) demands knowledge of the “conditions” on which it rests. The “if”/ “then” clause bears this out. Rom. 8:17 is a case-in-point: “and IF Children (of God), THEN heirs.” To be heirs one must have the Spirit- the “condition.” Greek scholars point out that “if” (8:17) is “ie,” introducing a fulfilled condition. That is, the Spirit constantly bears testimony in company with our human spirit that we are Children of God... heirs. Only IF one has the Spirit, we come into possession of the privileges of sonship; sonship is a permanent and assured possession IF one stays in the faith- a “condition.”

True security demands complete obedience. There are inexhaustible texts- O.T./N.T. that contrast the “right way” as opposed to the “wrong way.” The perseverance of the saints is #5 in the “Once Saved Always Saved” TULIP doctrine;

#1 is “Total Depravity”;

#2 is “Unconditional Election”;

#3 is “Limited Atonement”;

#4 is the “Irresistible Grace”;

#5 is “Perseverance of the Saints.”

No one objects to the #5 but, as one author wrote, “It is the ‘perseverance of sinners’ that must be opposed.” Once Saved – Always Saved teaches one CANNOT lose his or her salvation no matter how in the hell they live. No “conditions,” just assurance! Jesus made it clear in John 10:27-30 that His sheep hear His voice, and they follow Him. Every word is sublimely true. His sheep have eternal life. The absolute safety of the sheep is certain. BUT there is another statement (implied): what about the sheep who do not follow Him, i.e. straying, or of another fold? Can they cash in on His promises? What of those who sin and still believe they’ll make it in? Please note, these are all present-tense statements: “They are hearing My Voice;” “They are following Me;” “I am giving eternal life;” those who are so doing “shall never perish.” There is no post-tense, “They once heard My voice.”

Jesus starts out His discourse with, “...he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door,” the “condition.” Can one merely join a church, without heart repentance, and be in Jesus’ fold? NO!

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Praise God! This is the hour and this is the generation that God has declared His revolution. This is the hour that God is declaring revolution against the standing religious order of our day. And you know that's exactly what Jesus Christ came preaching. He came preaching revolution. The priesthood had grown cold, the tabernacle order had passed away, and God was bringing in a new order. That was the New World Order through Jesus Christ, the Son. When Jesus came preaching, He decried the fraudulent practices of the priests because the priesthood had gone so far into idolatry, they had gotten so far into fleshliness, they had gone so far into carnality and so far away from God that He declared to them "You are of your father, the Devil." Now when Jesus came preaching, He came preaching division. He did not come to bring a false unity in that sense, but He came to bring division. (See Mt.10:31,35)

A lot of people, if you declare the truth to them, they say, "Oh you better be quiet because you're bringing division. You're bringing division in the body of Christ." Well I dare say to you that if I had ticks on my body, and they were sucking my blood, and if I had lice on my body and they were sucking my blood, and if I had fleas on my body and they were sucking my blood, and someone comes up to me and they pour some disinfectant over me to kill those bugs, I'm not going to resist them. I'm not going to say, "Stop it, you're causing division. Don't do that to me because you are bringing division." All they are trying to do is set me free from a bunch of parasites, leeches and blood suckers.

The so called body of Christ in this generation has a lot of false baggage. It's got a lot of parasites, it's got a lot of blood suckers, it's got a lot of leeches that have attached themselves to it and they're bringing it down. They are bringing it down and sucking out the life blood. With the revolutionary word there comes a separation, and God brings forth a separation between the precious and the vile, because it's God Almighty who desires that His bride be a spotless, wonderful woman who is pure and undefiled. And if you think that God Almighty is satisfied with the body of Christ in it's present flea-ridden condition, you are falsely deceived. God desires a purified people, God desires a Holy woman to be His bride. God does not desire some whore who's got lice on her from the pit of hell saying, "I am yours", after she's laid with everything in town.

A lot of times, when you get rough on rats in reference to the whorish condition of the church, people say, "You're talking dirty, you're talking nasty." But come with me to chapter 17 in the book of Revelation and we will find out what God Almighty called such things. We will find out what the Lord Himself has to say and we will find out if we are talking dirty or if we are talking nasty or if we are talking the truth. Hallelujah! It's funny how people can sit in front of the one-eyed devil called the television, how they can suck in Sodom all day long and all night long and then they can go to church with their filth-ridden eyes and present them up to God and say that they are Christians. They are so deceived they think there is no defilement in them whatsoever after they've sucked in every sin that comes out of the pit of hell. After they've watched murder, after they've watched fornication, after they've watched perversion acts, after they've watched adultery, after they've watched child sex, after they've taken in every unclean thing, they have the audacity to say, "I'm holy before God and I will lift up my hands unto Him." I'm telling you they are lifting up their hands to vanity because God turns His back on them. God is not interested in us as we sit in our defiled, sin-ridden conditions and refuse to repent. He turns His back away from us because that is the condition of harlotry. It's true, yet if you dare to declare what it is everybody wants to act like they have virgin ears. They want to act like, "Oh don't say such things. Oh don't talk like that because you're talking nasty, you're talking dirty." Well let me tell something, what the church has done in this hour in the face of Jesus Christ the Lord and in the face of God the Father is more than nasty and more than dirty, it's BLASPHEMY!!

Chapter 17, book of Revelations. Everybody always wants to get a bunch of spine tingly thrills over the book of Revelations. "Oh tell me what it all means." Well I'm going to tell you something that it means tonight and you're not going to like it. "And there came one of the seven angels and which had the seven vials, and talked with me saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth had committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." Now what is it saying about this great whore? It says that she sits upon many waters. Listen to me carefully, by God's principle there is the river of life and by God's principle the waters are meant to flow out to us. We are meant to get fresh waters continually, the fresh inflowing of the Spirit Life, the fresh washing of the Spirit Life. We are meant to receive the fresh coming again and coming again and coming again and coming again of the rivers of Life.

But what does it say? It says that the great whore sitteth upon many waters. So what do you think the church system built by man is? It's many waters that are stagnated, it's many waters that are polluted, it's many waters that are infected and full of filth and defilement, full of excrement and human waste. And it says that the great whore is sitting upon those many waters. In other words, God's people, or those who would desire to be God's people, go into these whore houses called churches looking for something from God, yet because of the great whore in the Spirit dimension, who is reigning over those places, what do they get? Do they get pure, undefiled Spirit water? No! They get filthy, polluted, corrupted water. Amen. And then it says that she is sitting there like a queen, like a big whore, reigning and ruling over those waters. And why is she ruling over those waters? So that the souls of men will be poisoned. When you drink dirty water, when you drink defiled water, when you drink water that's got excrement, filth and all matter of disease in it, you die. And what is the great whore's plan but to kill God's people. To cause defilement and to cause death. It says that she sits upon many waters. She is sitting there like a big dam, and the pure waters of the Spirit cannot come in to nourish and cleanse God's people because they are being controlled by a huge demon power.

We can also see that this queen is a whorish spirit, for it says, "With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication." Worldliness! She plays the whore with the world, fornicating with the kings of the earth. Now, I'm going to give you some signs of the false church which is ruled by the great whore. Number one: You will find a corrupted rulership bringing forth polluted water, dirty water, filthy water, unclean water. Defiling, causing disease, causing sickness and death among those who drink it. Number two: A system that commits fornication with all the kings of the earth. In other words, a love affair with worldliness, lapping it up, sucking it up, putting it on, eating it, drinking it, looking at it, becoming one with it. Has she kept herself clean and undefiled for Jesus Christ our Lord? No, she's laid with everything. Fornication with the kings of this earth. Now you stop and think about what that fornication means. It means the taking in of the worldly spirit, the taking in of the ungodly spirit the taking in of the hellish spirit that brings death. So we see that the whore has got two points of death. Why does God despise the whore? Because she murders. She murders His children. It is nasty, ugly and evil when you really look at it. The whorish spirit that poses itself as the work of God.

Continuing on, "And the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." The whorish spirit says it's OK to love this, it's OK to love that, it's OK to lay with this, it's OK to take part of that, it's OK, it's OK, it's OK, it's OK. And that is how the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk with the wine of her fornication. Her fornications are so tremendous and so great and so extensive that anybody who even drinks of what she is putting out becomes drunk on that fornication. The great religious whore is so mingled with the world, so defiled, so polluted, so corrupted, so wicked, so perverse that all who come in contact with her become drunk.

Then it says, "So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication." It says her cup was full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. Today General Jim was preaching a message and he was blasting away, through the power of the Holy Ghost, at the fornicating life that goes on in the average church in this hour and how the church has turned aside from loving Jesus Christ the Lord to loving everything that is of the world. And as he was teaching, his language got straight out and he was declaring it like it is. What the Lord was showing me is how for too long, too long, too long ministers have hidden the sins of the body of Christ, pretending they are not there. I've seen how ministers have hidden their own sins, how ministers have hidden the sins of the church, and they say everything is OK. They've put on a fake show, they've put on a fake face.

It says her cup was full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication!

In the old days when women used to dress Godly, when women used to dress like the bride that Christ desires, when women use to keep themselves unspotted from worldliness, the first thing you would notice as different between a chaste women and a whore was that the whore had herself all decked out. She would be decked out, painted up and ready to beguile anything that came along with a false face and a false image. The whore would be all done up in flashy attire, with all kinds of jewelry, all kinds of stones, all done up with gold and silver and just flashing those eyes, enticing those fools who happened to cross her path. Why? Because that was her game, that was her purpose, to entice, seduce, and cause death. Amen. This warfare is very graphic and much larger than we think.

We're living in a generation where even women who declare they love Jesus deck themselves out like harlots. They deck themselves out to beguile, to seduce, to bring into the web of death. You say, "Well I love Jesus." Well I say you dress like a whore, and you have the countenance of a whore, and you have the aura of a whore. It's because the precious and the vile have become so co-mingled, so mixed together that mingled seed has come forth. And today, if you don't look like the world, you're not accepted in the whore's church. If you don't dress like the world, if you don't act like the world, then you're not accepted. You're pushed off like some old person, you're pushed off like some prude, like some fanatic. Hey, let me tell you something about the word "prude". Everybody has made prude into a naughty word, into a bad word, into a derogatory phrase, but did you know that the word prude comes from the word prudence, which is a virtue? Prudence is a Christian virtue that we are suppose to gain. But ever since psychology came onto the scene, the cruelest insult that somebody can throw at you is that you are a "prude".

Going on here, we're going to take a closer look at the whore. It says she was arrayed with purple and scarlet and decked with gold and pearls and precious stones. Look at this luxury, look at all this abundance, look at all this blessing enjoyed by the church of today. False blessings! False blessings! Today's motto is: "Go for the gold, honey. Forget about God, go for the gold". Forget about God, forget about His standards. Forget about His righteousness and just strive for material prosperity. It's true, multitudes of Christians today are nothing but a bunch of greedy people. Money grabbers, lusting after prosperity. It tells us that she had a gold cup. It doesn't say she had a plastic tumbler, it doesn't say she had a mason jar, it doesn't say she had an old tin cup, it says she had a golden cup. And what was it full of? Abominations and filthiness of her fornication.

Continuing in verse 5, "And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." Now listen, you think there is nothing wrong with a little bit of the world? You think there's nothing wrong with a little bit of gold grabbing? You think there's nothing wrong with a little bit of flirtation with evil? Let's read on, and remember that this is the same woman who is so luxuriously attired with all that the world has to offer. "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints". In other words, she drinks their blood! She loves to see them die, she loves to see them cruelly punished, she loves to see them tortured, she loves to see the true ones put to death, she loves to see the true ones persecuted, she loves to see the true ones destroyed because then she drinks of their blood. It says it right there in black and white. It's not some ghost story I made up or some cannibal vampire scare tale. It's right there in the Book of Revelation. You read it, chapter 17. "And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration." In other words, wow what is this thing? What is this power? It says the writer wondered with great admiration at this source of power. bas Listen, the whore has been a murderer from the beginning, and when we as Christians and believers copy ourselves after the whore, we become murderers also, because the blood of the saints is what we take in when we side with that spirit. We partake of her filthiness and abominations when we side with that violence, when we side with that worldliness, when we side with that fornication. You wonder why there are so many babies murdered in this generation? I'm going to tell you why? Because Satan has deceived women and he has taught them that it's no longer a noble thing to keep your virtue and it's no longer a noble thing to enter into a marriage covenant. He has taught them it's no longer a noble thing to be a mother and to keep the precious fruit of the womb. Now those things are despised, hated, scoffed and mocked and women, not only here but around the world, have become one with the great whore, the great murderess. The blood of millions of babies slaughtered, hacked to pieces, without even a chance to be redeemed, without even a chance to live, so that the mother can fornicate all the more fully. If that's not the work of Satan himself, if that's not the work of death and destruction, if that's not the work of the greatest deceit that the female species has ever swallowed, then I don't know what it is. It's the work of the whore!

And in this generation the whore has put out her enticement, she's put out her beguilement, she's put out her enticing array, and she's saying, "Look like me. Act like me, lay with me and you can drink blood too." Think about that women. Take a look at yourself. Go home, go where you can see a mirror and take a hard look at yourself. Who are you decked like, who are you arrayed like, who are you trying to deceive, who are you trying to bring into your nest? Who are you trying to bring under your spell? Who are you following? Jesus or the great whore? You say that you're a Christian. You say that you love Jesus Christ the Lord. What does Jesus's bride look like? It says she's pure, it says she's spotless, & she's undefiled. It doesn't say that she's decked herself out, it doesn't say she's got a cup full of fornication, it doesn't say that she's worried about her pearls and her gold and her silver and all of her paint. Ha! It doesn't say that at all. Something is deadly wrong. You are acting just like the whore and yet you're saying you love Jesus Christ. I wonder how much blood do you have on your hands?

When you go to your church do you keep your eyes upon Jesus Christ the Lord? Or do you look out and around the congregation, looking over to find someone whom you can look at, looking over to see who you might entice, looking over to see who might look at you and who might think you're something. You're something all right. You're following the whore and you're bringing forth death. You know it's about time, and I'm preaching to men as well as women, it's about time women girded up your loins like men and women of God. It's about time that they put back on the buckler, that they put up the shield of righteousness, that they girded themselves up and go forth proclaiming death to the whore and life in Jesus Christ the Lord. Godly women are meant to be life to the true body of Christ, life to the poor innocent children that are brought forth because of the filthiness, filthiness, filthiness of their mothers. Multitudes of children are brought forth unto death, brought forth to be mutilated and thrown in the garbage can at some hospital or clinic.

You know we need to stop and think about what we are doing. Women don't need to be mindless dupes let alone to go their own way. We don't need to think of ourselves like, "Oh I'm just a dumb broad, you know, a mindless woman. I just have to do what all the other women do." The truth is that you have to make your own choices, and you better walk it right with Jesus. You better keep yourself from filth, you better keep yourself from fornication, you better keep yourself in the righteousness of God. Amen! Another point that needs to be mentioned is that many men cause women to act out the part of the whore. They get their kicks from watching their women twitching around and acting like some prostitute. But they don't realize that the same woman is going to murder their baby. And when they face God in eternity and when they stand before the judgment seat of God, God is going to turn around on man in all his lustfulness and He's going to say, "Let me tell you something, depart from me because you've got blood on your hands. While you were so concerned with getting a hot piece of flesh, you caused the murder of an unborn child. You've caused the murder of an innocent one. You've not only caused one murder, but you've caused many murders! You've had your hot flesh and now you can burn forever". We better get down to the basics, we better get down to reality. We better get down to what's right and what's wrong again. Because we are all going to stand before God and many of us are going to be damned along with the whore. We are going to burn forever because we have chosen to take on her covering, we have chosen to take on her fornication. We have chosen to take on her lust, to take on her murder. If the shoe fits, wear it.

"And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns." It goes on here about the beast and the seven heads, the seven kings. Then it talks about the ten horns in verse twelve. "And the ten horns, which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast." Now listen carefully, "These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them". Now listen, in this generation which we are living people are so quick to bow down to the power of the beast. They're so quick to bow down and lick the feet of the beast. Christians I'm talking about, so called believers in Christ Jesus, so called ones that are followers of the Lamb. They are so quick to come under the authority of the beast. They're so quick to bow down and worship the image of the beast so they won't have any troubles and they can continue in their fat, prosperous lifestyles. They're so quick to say, "Oh yes beast, you are god. Just let me have all the world has to offer."

It says these ten have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast, and that they shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them. I said if we stand in God, God stands, and we stand because He stands. I don't care how strong the beast is. I don't care how many kings are professing their authority. I don't care how it looks like the one world order is going to take over and the one beast mind is going to win out. If we stand in the Lamb, we prevail. Amen. For He is the Lord of lords and the King of kings and they that are with Him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And we are tested in every one of those realms. We are called, we are chosen and faithful. God will test our hearts in every one of those realms to see if we are worthy of the Lamb.

Going on here we read, "And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate, and naked and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire." Now what is the end of the whore? Does it say that she was swept off on some white horse to live happily ever after? Does it say that she is lifted up in glory? Does it say that she is marvelously crowned by Jesus Christ? No, no, NO! It says, "They shall make her desolate and naked." In other words, she is going to be exposed for what she is. And that is what is coming forth in this hour, the exposure of the whore. Do not be shocked when the whore is revealed. Do not be shocked when the skirts of filthiness are ripped off the church, when her abominations are displayed. Because it says they shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

So we see that the end of the whore is not glorious, the end of the whore is not marvelous, but the vengeance of the Lord is executed on the whore. The warning is this, know who's side you are on. Know who you are serving and what you are serving. You had better know who it is that you love. Do not be enticed and do not be beguiled, and do not be taken away from the righteousness of the All Mighty. Because the God that we serve, All Mighty Jehovah, is a God of Holiness, He's a God of righteousness, He's a God of power and glory. Amen! And Jesus Christ the Lord is coming back looking for His bride, and she's not going to be a defiled, filthy, fornicating, murdering whore. If you belong to the whorish system known as the church, and you've become defiled, this is the day to repent before God. This is the day to cry unto God and say, "God cleanse me of the abominations, of the fornication, of all filthiness of the flesh and spirit."

The end of the whore is destruction, and it's not just destruction in one form either. It says they eat her flesh and burn her with fire. That means it's going to be cruel, that means it's going to be hard, that means it's not going to be loving. because God hates sin. God despises abomination and God despises the whore. Be sure whose side you are on. Take a look at yourself, take a look at your actions, take a look at your motivations. Are you greedy for gain? Are you fornicating with the world? Are you committing all manner of adultery? Are you guilty of murder? Let the Holy Ghost search your heart.Let the fire of God burn you. Let yourself be revealed in His light and in His glory. We don't get by with our fornications, we don't get by with adultery, we don't get by with gold grabbing., we don't get by with murder, we just think we do. But in the end we are all accountable before God All Mighty. We will all answer for our deeds and be accountable for the Truth that has been delivered unto us. This is the hour of revolution against the filthy religious spirit that seeks to damn our souls. This is the hour to make WAR AGAINST THE WHORE!

Are you on the road of “Some Where” that leads to “No Where?” The church for the most part is in transition...transiting from the “Great Whore” to transgenderism – the Dylan Mulvaney type! Time to REBEL against HELL!!!

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Liberation Theology, Patriotism Theology

General James Green

THIS HOUR OF POLITICAL UNREST, growing violence, and loss of purpose, the devil is using many counterfeits to proclaim his message of destruction. One of the methods that he is using to try and mock the purposes of God in this hour is through counterfeits of the Lord's Army. Recently, a major magazine in the USA featured an article on militant racist groups who are proclaiming that the true believers should arm themselves with physical carnal weapons. Arming yourself like this is a type of behavior that is dictated by fear and not by faith. God does not ask us to arm ourselves with literal weapons. He does tells us to arm ourselves with the weaponry of the Spirit (e.g. the Word of God, the Holy Spirit, the shield of Faith). But the tactics of the devil are not new, and his weaponry never changes, neither do his goals in war. For the devil has always intended to destroy and devastate men's lives, not to save them, and wherever the enemy can breed hate, fear, and suspicion, he knows that he will gain ground and is almost certain of victory: namely, destruction.

As we study the Scriptures, we find it is a stormy book: there are battles and revolutionary movements; and while in places we see green pastures and feel the sweetness, yet these things are given amid convulsion of social order, upheavals of kingdoms, the presence of enemies and terror, the marching of armed forces, the pestilence that walked in darkness, hurricanes of disaster that swept the land, and destructive rivers that overflowed their banks. But God is ever the King. He hath founded His kingdom upon the seas and established it upon the floods. Multitudes turn to the wrong way, but in the thick of the fight and amidst the clamor of the world there is the voice of a great multitude amidst the mighty thunderings, saying, "Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth."

It seems that in these hours, two groups are emerging which are going to prove to be equally destructive and hateful in their operations. On one end of the spectrum, we have the "Liberation Theologists" who are behind the majority of the Communist uprisings in the Third World. These liberation theologists promote their rotted pottage as "true Christianity" when in fact, it is everything but that. It involves, in its wild scheme for power, the destruction and murder of thousands and sometimes millions of people who are in opposition to this theology. This false Christianity is very popular and of much appeal to the young and idealistic who desire to help the poor and free them from the oppressors, however, the main tenet that this belief works on is rebellion against civil authority and overthrow of governments. This was not what Jesus Christ taught.

It is the duty of an American citizen to do all in his power to elevate the moral character of the people. The hearts as well as the heads need cultivation. "Righteousness exalteth a nation." The holders of the destiny of a nation like ours should be moral as well as intelligent.

The other extreme which is being used by the devil for the same goals of destruction and hatred of human life, is the mentality which is growing here in the USA by leaps and bounds: "Patriotism Theology." In this line of thinking, Americans are taught to worship their ancestors or the patriots, and at the same time, they are encouraged to bear carnal weapons to protect their patriotic ideals. The only problem with this line of thinking is that it ends up in the same ballpark as Liberation Theology- DESTRUCTION AND HATRED.

This deception is very subtle and appealing to the American mentality, for it stresses protection of home, family, and God and country. However, enclosed in all of these heart-rendering ideals is the subtlety of the devil, and that subtlety is HATRED FOR ANY AND ALL WHO ARE NOT "WHITE, RED- BLOODED, AND ALL-AMERICAN." Many of those who have involved themselves in this theology have followed the same path as the Communists whom they are trying so hard to fight: they have given themselves over to civil disobedience-AND VIOLENCE.

The Lord Jesus Christ never taught us to be a respecter of persons, for He tells us to go into ALL THE WORLD and teach and preach that which we have learned from Him. If Jesus was a respecter of color, He would never have given such a commandment.

Wherever the devil has laid a cunning trap, those who become ensnared will reflect his mannerisms. [This is how we know that Patriotism Theology is wrong, because those who become involved in it exhibit such things as violence and hatred, which things are not at all the mannerisms of Christ toward the lost world whom He's trying to win.]

There is truth that must expose error, and whenever we as Christians are called upon to proclaim a truth, e.g., the truth that Communism is EVIL, or the DECEPTION of Catholicism, or the PERVERSIONS, we are not to hate people.

God never asks us to despise the captives, but to free them.

Where you can tell if something has gone overboard and is being used by satan is when you examine the fruit of it and see if those who are in captivity are being en- couraged to be freed by the shed blood of Jesus Christ, or if they are simply despised because of the race/group they belong to.

"Righteousness exalteth a nation" (Prov. 14:34). Righteousness promotes the life of a nation. Good has in it the seeds of life. It is constantly reproducing itself. It has in it the potency of increased harvests of good: It produces thirty, sixty and an hundredfold. Evil has within itself the principle of decay. Its tendency is towards death, disintegration, destruction.

Righteousness promotes the prosperity of a nation. Evil does not pay well [but it PAYS IN FULL!!!]. Good does pay well. It is true of nations as well as individuals that "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come" (1 Tim. 4:8).

The aim and purpose of America was once defined by some as: "The diffusion of happiness, through the development of character, by a process of gradual growth, the secret of which is the indwelling of God in humanity, the end of which is the brotherhood of man." How far she has fallen!!!

It will be well if all the social and civic duties taught by the prophets shall be studied again by modern teachers. If there was a need for righteousness then, THERE IS A GREATER NEED FOR IT NOW.

As Christians, let us not be blind to the forces that are at work, and just because there may be a particular theology with which we can agree in ideal, let us examine the fruit before we become mindless participants. Let us see if souls are being redeemed or if sinners are just being branded and hated and violated. We should never rush headlong into something without a careful and prayerful consultation with our Lord, Jesus Christ. This does not make us pacifistic, but it makes us realistic in that we only work where we see our Father working and do not waste God's time, strength, energy and resources on a political game which only ends in disaster for someone.

"A man's foes shall be they of his own household" (Matt. 10:36). With the state it is the same as with the individual: the worst enemies are those that are within. As a man's most deadly foes are his own passions, so a state's foes are a certain type of its own citizens. The judge who misapplies the law, the official who takes bribes, the politician who uses his influence to liberate criminals, the big business man who crushes a weak opponent or oppresses his employees, the stock shark who gobbles up the public savings, and the host of others who profit from evildoing-these are the men who endanger America.

The battle is between the forces of disintegration and those of righteousness. It is an age-old battle, and it will last for years to come. We are but privates in a gigantic war of opposing forces headed by Christ on the one hand and satan on the other.

The weapon we fight with is a Christlike life. Light overcomes darkness; therefore, let us turn on the light. Good overcomes evil; therefore, practice the good. Love vanquishes selfishness; therefore, let us seek the love of Christ.

The weaponry of the devil is increasing in this hour; the deceitfulness of his tactics is on the rise; and God, in His mercy, is revealing the infiniteness of His plan for people's lives. But, just as in a natural war, weapons and advancements increase with knowledge, so too for the Christians: our weapons and advancements increase with our knowledge of the enemy.

We should never once consider that the roaring lion has ceased from his roarings, but let us constantly be spiritually alert and ready to pray for God's guidance, FOR THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL BUT SPIRITUAL, AND THE WAR WITH SIN AND THE DEVIL IS EITHER WON OR LOST IN THE SPIRIT.

The deciding factor in evaluation of both of these deceptive theologies (Liberation Theology and Patriotism Theology) is this: Is the end, destruction and violence, as well as hatred? Since it is a loud "YES!", it is safe to conclude that both "theologies" ARE IN ERROR.

On the other hand, if we seek to follow the Lord with a pure heart, He will never leave us nor forsake us, but He will lead and guide us into all truth, and He will use us to free the captives of sin and to see men and women redeemed from the bondages of satan. True freedom, true liberation, true love of God, can only come thru a consecrated relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, and a burning knowledge of the cross, and living the real crucified life. These are the fruits that are hard to gain, the ones that we must lay our lives down to gain: these are the lasting rewards, the ones that will outlive any civilization or government – ONES THAT WILL LAST FOR ETERNITY!

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Delusions and Illusions

By: Gen. Jim -- April 2024

 

Delusion: a persistent false psychotic belief; delusional;

Illusion: a mistake idea; misconception

“A serious casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth,” writes a Christian educator. Of late I have been accused of being out-of-step with the changing times – by still believing in the (archaic) Bible. While it it true that some things have changed over the centuries concerning atheist Israel. New Israel, i.e. born again believers (in Christ Jesus), live under the substance not the shadow.

Principles of God that have found their fulfillment in a “Spirit” people as opposed to the “law” only.

Malachi 3:6 tells us, “For I am the LORD, I do not change…” The same LORD GOD as the Old Testament is the same in the New Testament. His character – Holy and Righteous – has not changed. So, why are we, His New Testament covenant people, supposed to believe He has changed as to accommodate the changing times?

If He said certain actions/thoughts were “sin” in both O.T./N.T. what right do we have to correct God? The world expects this of us and the liberal church is doing this.

We have educated ourselves into imbecility! Take a good, long look at the world. What do we see? Modern man/woman of the world is confessing that the world is more divided now than ever. Many of the world and church is bemoaning the “delusions” and “illusions” they have believed to be true but are not true.

Phantasmagoric! Incredulous as it may be, people are still willing to live and die a lie! The trajectory is certain – “death of truth.” But too many won’t give up their idyllic D/I for reality: Realize – Real Eyes – Real Lies. Even in the face of disillusionment, men/women still will justify it… even to their death.

Our current national malaise – DIVISION – was prophesied about years ago by General Deborah Green. The Spirit spoke thru her and said that the US of A would be DIVIDED, hence, coldness towards one another (see/hear the “Ship-rock” prophecy).

What looms is a “disconnected” nation with aberrant behavior OUT OF STEP WITH GOD!!! … A nation that is miserable as HELL yet refuses to grab hold of HEAVEN.

The democRATic party lives in the delusion/illusion paradise...that their party is – IS! -- the SAVIOR OF America. They falsely believe they are RIGHT when they are soooo WRONG. They will fight to the death to maintain their “idyllic D/I.” There are some in their party that REALIZE they are supporting REAL LIES...seeing the truth-of-the-matters with REAL EYES but too fearful to speak out.

People live in FEAR and DREAD everyday. Where can they escape a “shooter?” No one is safe, yet, for most, they crave their own way, their freedom, all the while being a prisoner to themselves. One psychologist wrote: “It is not unprecedented that as a young nation begins to reach its adolescent years, it craves freedom from any restrain and, in psychological terms, seeks to repudiate its father.”

This America had done and is doing – seeking a “better” life (that is fraught with delusions and illusions). America, as I write, is at WAR with Biblical Truth, hoping to forge a new breed of iconoclastic/YouTube/Facebook etc! Gods and goddesses, which combine linguistic/idiosyncrasies/apocalyptic/trickeries, delusion and illusions as a New World Avant-Garde… to END the silly nation that man is suppose to abide by God’s moral/ethical/eternal laws that govern man’s behavior. This humanistic machination looms over our nation as I write. The principle means to accomplish this is to take CONTROL of America’s thought life (if I can use an outdated term here): BRAINWASHING: Nomenclature – the science and art of presentation. You know, if this nation wants delusions, God will comply. Second Thessalonians chapter 2 talks about, “Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that Day will not come (the coming of Christ) unless a falling away comes first…” (2:3). Paul goes on to write: “Therefore God will send them (ones who reject truth) a strong delusion, so that they should believe the lie that they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (v.11, 12).

You, see, God IS supreme over all nations of this world (Psalms 47:8). He is all knowing (Psalms 33:13-15). He loves the righteous and hates the violent.

One BIG illusion/delusion under which modern man lives is that god loves unconditionally – no repentance required to be accepted into His kingdom. Sorry, not true. By denying Biblical truth, men have created a “delusional” God. The Bible is man’s point of reference by which we test veracity.

“Truth” is truth only if you believe it to be truth, as the saying now goes. “Truth” is now vacuously used as truth; inane, empty, blank, and stupid. Has America been turned over to a reprobate mind, a strong delusion?...that does not REALIZE her rabid condition, refuses to see thru REAL EYES of the Spirit, & I believe will continue to endorse & promote REAL LIES & “woke” LIARS that make up the larger percent of the democRATic party.

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Does Leviticus Only Condemn Idolatrous Homosexual Practice?

An Open Letter from Robert Gagnon

WHEN THE BIBLICAL ARGUMENT is made that human sexuality was designed for male and female, and the Bible condemns homosexual relations, one of the responses for the defense is that those portions of the Bible that appear to condemn homosexual relations are not really condemning homosexual relations in general but only a particular kind of gay sex say, gay rape or gay sex associated with idol worship. Robert Gagnon, author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice, responds to this argument in part in the guest post below, responding to Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network and author of Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate.

An Open Letter to Justin Lee, Author of Torn:

I Do Not Believe Lev 18:22 and 20:13 Indict Only Idolatrous Forms of Homosexual Practice by Robert A. J. Gagnon

Dear Justin,

I would like to bring to your attention a matter that has come to my attention.

In your book Torn, you make a grand total of one reference to my work on the Bible and homosexual practice (unfortunately ignoring all the other arguments and evidence that I bring forward). In that one reference I believe that you are misleading. You write on p. 177:

Some scholars, arguing that the Bible doesn't condemn modern-day gay relationships, maintained that this passage was actually intended to condemn ritual cult prostitution, a form of idolatry in that culture that involved male-male sex. But hey, they were arguing in favor of accepting gay relationships, so they might be biased. What did the other side say? Pretty much the same thing, it turned out.

You then cite me as allegedly agreeing with this point:

On Leviticus, Gagnon writes: "I do not doubt that the circles out of which Leviticus 18:22 was produced had in view homosexual cult prostitution, at least partly. Homosexual cult prostitution appears to have been the primary form in which homosexual intercourse was practiced in Israel" [The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Nashville: Abingdon, 2001), 130].

To this you add: "So scholars on both sides of the argument agreed that this probably had something to do with cult prostitution. That made sense to me...."

Where you mislead readers is in not letting them know that this remark of mine comes in the context of a three-page section entitled, "The Connection with Idolatry" (pp. 129-32), whose whole purpose is to make the case that the Levitical prohibitions of man-male intercourse are NOT limited in their indictment to cultic prostitution. Indeed, the very next set of sentences (same paragraph, no less), which you fail to mention to readers, is (emphasis added):

However, male cult prostitution was not the only context in which homosexual intercourse manifested itself in the ancient Near East generally. It was merely the most acceptable context for homosexual intercourse to be practiced in Mesopotamia, certainly for those who played the role of the receptive partner. In our own cultural context we think that the banning of male cult prostitution does not take into account consensual, non-cultic, loving homosexual relationships. In the cultural context of the ancient Near East the reasoning has to be reversed: to ban homosexual cult prostitutes was to ban all homosexual intercourse. In any case, the authors of Lev 18:22 could have formulated the law more precisely by making specific reference to the qedeshim [= 'the consecrated ones,' an ironic reference to these cult figures] (as in Deut 23:17-18), if it had been their intent to limit the law's application. That they did not do so suggests that they had a broader application in mind. Moreover, the Levitical rejection of same-sex intercourse depends on Canaanite practices for its validity about as much as the rejection of incest, adultery, and bestiality.

Prior to my remarks that you quote, I state (emphasis again added): Few today give this argument [i.e. that the Levitical prohibitions of man-male intercourse were prohibiting only cultic or idolatrous forms of male homosexual practice] much credence and for good reason. The repetition of the prohibition against homosexual intercourse in 20:13 does not follow immediately upon the references to child sacrifice in 20:2-5, but rather is sandwiched in between prohibitions of adultery and incest (20:10-12) and prohibitions of incest and bestiality (20:14-16). The link with child sacrifice in Lev 18:21 probably involves nothing more than threats to the sanctity of the Israelite family....

I continue: There is also the inconsistency in the application of 18:21 on the part of those who use it to limit 18:22 to cultic contexts. Those who contend that the broadly worded proscription against same-sex intercourse should be confined to cultic prostitution do not contend that the narrowly worded proscription of child sacrifice to Molech had no implications for other forms of child sacrifice. It is not likely that 18:21 was formulated as narrowly as it was in order to leave the door open for child sacrifice to other pagan gods besides Molech, or even to Yahweh. Clearly the authors and framers had in mind all kinds of child sacrifice-indeed infanticide of any sort. By what rationale, then, is a narrow proscription to be taken broadly but a broad proscription only narrowly?

The paragraph above comes immediately before that part of my book that you cite as confirming your view that "this passage was actually intended to condemn ritual cult prostitution" and only ritual cult prostitution.

Elsewhere in the book I make clear that in the history of the interpretation of these Levitical prohibitions they are never construed as indicting only homosexual acts in the context of cult prostitution. On the contrary, they are taken in the broadest possible sense. For example, the first-century Jewish historian Josephus explained to Gentile readers that "the law [of Moses] recognizes only sexual intercourse that is according to nature, that which is with a woman. But it abhors the intercourse of males with males" (Against Apion 2.199). There are no limitations placed on the prohibition as regards age, slave status, idolatrous context, or exchange of money. The only limitation is the sex of the participants. According to b. Sanh. 54a, the male with whom a man lays in Lev 18:22 and 20:13 may be "an adult or minor," meaning that the prohibition of male-male unions is not limited to pederasty.

You do acknowledge in your book that, according to the interpretation of some, Paul's indictment in 1 Cor 6:9 of "men who lie with a male" (arsenokoitai) refers back to the Levitical prohibitions: the Greek words for "lying" sexually (koite) and "male" (arsen) are found in the Septuagint (i.e., the standard Greek Old Testament) translation of Lev 18:22 and 20:13. Yet you consider the allusion only possible and ignore the array of other arguments that I bring forward to show that Paul didn't limit the term to acts involving cultic prostitution or pederasty (312-32).

It seems to me that fair citation of my work would have required you to note these facts and deal with the half dozen or so arguments that I raise rather than give your readers the false impression that I support your conclusion that Lev 18:22 and 20:13 are taking aim only at homosexual activity performed in connection with idolatrous worship. To be sure, you go on to express some doubt about whether the Levitical prohibitions condemn only cultic forms of homosexual practice. Yet you leave readers with the impression that while such an argument is not fully conclusive, it is probable.

So unjustifiable is the claim that Lev 18:22 and 20:13 reject only idolatrous forms of homosexual practice that even a Bible scholar who is strongly supportive of homosexual relationships and who has written more on the issue of sexuality in ancient Judaism and Christianity than any other scholar acknowledges that the Levitical prohibitions are absolute. According to William Loader, while some argue that these prohibitions refer only to "male cultic prostitution in Canaanite religion," "the wider context

goes beyond the cultic, as does the verse about bestiality which follows. Most [scholars] conclude that Lev 18:22 does condemn same-sex anal intercourse between males in general and is not restricted to particular settings" (The New Testament on Sexuality [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012], 25]). Loader accepts this consensus. He also notes that while "the texts almost certainly envisage anal intercourse the texts can hardly mean approval of every other form of same-sex engagement apart from anal intercourse" (ibid., 23).

I could go on and easily show that your reading of other biblical texts, including the story of Sodom in Gen 19:4-11 and Paul's indictment of homosexual practice in Rom 1:24-27 (to say nothing of, Jesus' teaching on a male-female requirement for marriage), ignores numerous weighty counterarguments against your claim that Scripture only clearly indicts specific cultic or exploitative forms of homosexual practice. Why would you bother to write (or a publisher to print) a book on the subject that systematically ignores the mountain of evidence from historical and literary contexts that challenges your prevailing perspective?

I find it puzzling that in your book you say that you were "disappointed" that the Bible didn't "clearly answer" your question about the rightness or wrongness of committed homosexual relationships between consenting adults (187-88). As it is, I see no indication in your study of the most relevant biblical texts that you ever gave careful consideration to the biblical witness. One would think that for such an important issue you would have done so, all the more since you even wrote a book about your wrestling with this and related issues. It is not too late to do your homework on the subject; a belated enterprise, certainly, but not too late.

I would be happy to discuss in person and publicly with you what the Bible says about homosexual practice. I'm sure that some church or churches out there would be willing to sponsor such an event and defray the costs. If you are confident in your view that Jesus and Scripture generally give no clear guidance about the kind of homosexual relationship that you want to be in, then such an event will give you ample opportunity to advance your cause.

Blessings, Rob

Prof. Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D., Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

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"Perverted Persons”

By: Gen. Jim -- 2/12/24

The politically correct, liberal, woke, church of America is making a mockery of God and His Word. “How? You say.” By allowing practicing sex perverts to be part of their congregations, even promoting them to positions of authority etc. Today’s RECREANT church is an ABOMINATION unto God, His Word, and His TRUE ONES. This faithless, disloyal, apostate thing calling itself “Christian” is in truth CHRIST-LESS!!!

You ask, “Isn’t the church supposed to be open to sinners?” You bet. But the ONLY WAY to become a true Christian is to REPENT of one’s sins, not merely joining a church. The Bible lays out for us the way to become a Christian (see our site on how to get saved).

Way back in the 1970’s we (my wife and I) stood against the LGBTQ movement, not because we hated those “victims” trapped in that “DEATH STYLE,” but contrary we desired, prayed for them to TURN or BURN!

I have literally written hundreds of articles/teachings on video/CDs/DVDs, on this subject. I’ve done my homework. Since John the Baptist, Jesus Himself, and all the NT. authors taught against sex-sins, be they heterosexual or homo, this should concern any and all who are of that death-style. There is not a single Scripture in the OT./NT. where sex-sins esp. homosexuality/lesbianism et al. are condoned, honored, even praised/celebrated. This should tell us something. But all this is PUSHED ASIDE as “old school,” “outmoded,” “abrogated” blah, blah, blah. But I’m yet to find any pervert – male/female/trans – to give me Scripture to back up their claim that God loves them in their PERVERSIONS/ABOMINATIONS. Oh, many have tried to instruct me on morals and ethics (see my “Gay Way” series for them vs. the Word of God.).

They claim that the Jewish Holiness code (Levitius 18) does not apply to today's church. And they breakout in a cold sweat trying to disprove all those NT. texts that condemn homo/lesbian activities (starting in Romans chapter 1 – Revelation).

Before I put forth those OT. texts, e.g. 1 Kings 14:24; Deuteronomy 9:4, 5; 20:18; 23:17 etc. let me quote from Paul’s epistle to the Corinthians: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be DECEIVED. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites… will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9 NKJV).

This, my friend is NT., which is rooted and grounded in the OT. What Paul wrote is backed up by Scripture, plus he wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost (2 Timothy 13:16, 17).

Paul did not stop with “thou shalt not” negatives, but follows up with, “And such WERE (past tense) some of you. But you WERE washed… sanctified… justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God,” (I Corinthians 6:11). What does that tell us? Did Paul give an invitation to join his church… bringing their sex-sins with them? No! But why do these PC/woke? liberal churches do it? “Come as you are, stay as you are, God loves you!” Really? Yes, God loves the sinner but not their sins. Period. You are invited but not your previous death-style. TURN from it and be saved.

Paul does not stop with v. 9 and 11, oh, no, he mentions “sexual immorality” in vss.13, 18 (twice), and he mentions it in 7:2. Do you think he didn’t mean what he penned? Look up all those texts on sexual immorality. Look up the meaning in the Hebrew/Greek et al. There are NO EXCEPTIONS! None! Either we TURN from our sins by heart repentance or we play church harlot (v.15). This goes for the heterosexuals as well. (Read Jude 7 where Jude also mentions sexual immorality/strange (queer) flesh, which brought the vengeance of eternal fire upon the perverts of Sodom and Gomorrah. He calls the sinful, sensual persons (v.19), i.e. soulish or worldly, not godly!

Our Text:

1 Kings 14:22-24: verse 24 mentions “perverted persons,” (NKJV). The Amplified Bible has “sodomites” (i.e. male cult prostitutes).

I have gone over these verses before but one more time won’t hurt.

Just ponder the exegesis of v. 22-24. We’ll find the words abomination/evil/perverted. Do these 3 words sound like what our Holy God would “celebrate?” Yet today’s recreant church celebrates them.

There are nuances to the words pervert, perverted, perverteth, and perverting in both Hebrew and Greek. The words “perverts” and “sodomites” are exchangeable. The KJV (footnote 1 Kings 14:24) reads: “Cultic prostitution involving both sexes was carried on at the Canaanite religious shrines. These DEBASED practices become a stumbling block to Israel's spiritual experience. They would contribute to God’s judgment of Judah” (see 2 Chronicles 12:1, 2, etc.).

The Jews had built high places, and images (phallic?), and groves, 1 Kings 14:23. (See Jude 3:6, 7/1 Kings 3:2, 3, footnotes, KJV).

Clarke’s commentary and critical notes (ref. 1 Kings 14:24) reads: “There were also sodomites in the land,” “kedeshim,” consecrated persons; persons who had devoted themselves, in practices of the great impurity, the service of the most impure idols.”

Do you think that non-religious sodomites were any worse off than the devoted ones? Sodomy is sodomy!

There were prostitutes of either sex within the temple in the service of the deity (see the Aphrodite Phoenician cults). Research tells me that there were 3 types of “sacred” prostitutes, 2 were belonging to the temples: the “qadishtu” (i.e. Hebrew word is “qedheshah” or as in 1 Kings 14:24, the male “qadhesh and the “ishtaritu,” i.e. a woman joined to the cult of Ishtar.

From Amos to Ezekiel the prophets uniformly and vigorously condemned these SINFUL practices. Yet, today, here in USA la la land we have whole church denominations et al. devoted to what God calls an ABOMINATION.

Pure Rebellion!

After Israel's exile there was no need for condemnation, since the worship was free from sexual ritualism. This does not mean that sexual perverts did not exist.

The reason (at least one of them) God drove out the pagan tribes for the sake of His people, He did not want His people contaminated. Look how this sex-sin has spread since the wink and nod of the US government/recreant church agreed on same-sex unions. This then went to the next level (towards HELL!) to same-sex marriages. This downward trend is still going on, the “trans” issue is now the “idol” to be worshiped will baby sex be next? Will this nation become like unto Sodom and Gomorrah, 1,000 times worse? Can we say YES?!

This sexual perversion is a plague, an evil contagion: “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good,” Paul wrote (Romans 12:21). The good is abstaining from evil. Duh!

We don’t need to wear masks (COVID), we need to STOP immoral sexing, killing (abortion). Sadly, America has been dragged into the filthy gutter to fight Him.

The whole pernicious movement of the LGBTQ plus is killing souls and bodies. The abominations of the Canaanites (sex-sins, occultism, murder etc.) was not eradicated by Israel (as God commanded); they were assimilated.

Now we have “ministers of God” (ad nauseam) claiming to be our social and spiritual mentors for a new age. Please read Psalms 1:1. Ungodliness may not wear the garb of wickedness. It may observe the social decencies. It simply leaves God of the Bible out of consideration, bringing in the god of this world, Satan.

Today’s church and state has taken down the “No Trespassing” signs (with little exceptions). Now America walks in the vulgar and profane counsel of the Ungodly: serpentine, shameless, satanic, sick, sardonic, sinister, spiteful, immersed in the swamp of Gay Pride, prejudice, bigotry, and self-indulgence.

Since Amerika has walked in the counsel of the Ungodly, the next step downward into the slime of the swamp of moral/ethical deterioration is to sit our red, white, and blue butts “in the seat of the scornful” (Psalms 1:1). Oh, now this current generation of PERVERTS love to SCORN what is right and good. They SCORN the old way, i.e. the godly way. Just listen to their rants and chants. The seat of godliness is scorned as outdated, harsh, cruel and unloving. They flippantly chant “Let conscience be your guide,” then, as one sane person wrote, “and then wheedles it into a pettifogging attorney for the defense of his/her desires.”

So, my dear readers, am I lying that Amerika has surrendered to the counsel of the ungodly (esp. the Politics), to the way of sinners to the seat of the scornful, i.e. the way to conformity with the world. Every sin mentioned in the Bible is found in these 50 states of America. Did I forget something?

We now turn to Deuteronomy 9:4 where the WHY is found for the driving out the pagan nations of Canaan: “… it is because of the WICKEDNESS.” Verse 5 repeats it again. And we know a part of that WICKEDNESS was sex-sins, especially homosexuality and lesbianism. (See also Leviticus 18:3-30. Both homo/hetro sex-sins are made mention of including sex with animals!)

Furthermore, the Lord's warnings and instruction continued in Deuteronomy 20:17: “You shall UTTERLY DESTROY them” (the wicked). I did a research study article years ago called “Divine Genocide.” This command (by God) does not set well with all the liberal bleeding hearts that believe God Himself sinned in giving this “cruel” command. Verse 17 mentions by name the wicked nations – given totally/wholly to unrighteousness. The reason was simple: “That they teach you (Israel) to do after ALL their ABOMINATIONS, which they have done unto their gods (i.e. demons); so should ye sin against the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 20:18).

The words “utterly destroy” translate the Hebrew verb “hrm,” a special term used in the institution of holy war. True, this is hard to comprehend (humanly speaking), nevertheless this is part of God’s love character. Do not nations operate in the same way? Death penalties etc., life imprisonment. We say, “They deserve to die!” In regards to child perverts et al. In wars such cruel things happen without much thought, for war is war.

What do we think of Exodus 15:3? “The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is His name…” (See Psalms 68:4; Deuteronomy 31:35; Isaiah 47:4; Jeremiah 10:16). (See Strong’s Concordance #3050 (Hebrew) for the name of the LORD = Yahh or Jah = the sacred name: Jah, the Lord, Most vehement, from 3068, yehovah = (the) self-Existent or Eternal.

So, Jah/Yah is a WARRIOR! He is presented here as a military metaphor, who are we to complain how the LORD/Lord operates? Are we His counselor? God’s holy nature consists of both love and hate. The law of “holy war” was a special institution of early Israel before the monarchy (see Deuteronomy 1:19-33; 3:18-22; 7:1-26; 20:1-20; 21:10-14; 23:9-14; 24:5; 25:17-19; 31:3-8 et al). God was and is the LORD/Lord of history: good, bad and ugly.

All one has to do, as I did in our “Wrath of God” series, is research those many Bible texts which highlight His severity in righteousness WRATH, FURY and INDIGNATION, his jealousy over His people and kingdom. Wars exist because of human sin. What would happen to this nation if there were no laws against law breakers? Would you not be disturbed? You liberals who want to disband the police are courting disaster for sure. And you dumb dumbs that want to empty out prisons or have no prisons are courting disaster.

And all you sex-crazed perverts that want all laws rescinded against, you need to be put in a mental ward… for the sake of the welfare of the nation.

God’s command to utterly destroy the wicked in Canaan was rooted and grounded in His Holy nature.

Deuteronomy 23:17 we find the words “perverted one,” as well in 2 Kings 23:7, “perverted persons.” Here the reform of Josiah was outstanding (read chapter 23). He attacked all the places of SIN, of idolatry/abomination. Verse 26 we find the words, “fierceness of His great wrath, which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations.” You see, God’s holy nature demands ACTION-to-REVOLUTION! He vent His anger on both His sinning people and upon the pagan nations!

Do we honestly believe He has grown old and senile, soft on sin? HA! Better snap out of your stupor you stupid! What do yo think we have going on here in Amerika? God told us years ago that this nation wanted sin, therefore He would cram it down our throats till we vomit. Can we deny the vomitous atmosphere that hovers over this nation daily. We’ve become a SIN SICK CURSED nation of abomination.

We have a choice: God has set before us life and death, blessing and cursing (Deuteronomy 30:19). It is obvious this nation has chosen death and cursing, hence, we’ve become a horrid STINK unto our righteous God. We have chose to celebrate with the “perverted ones” of the LGBTQ plus camp. We have chose to MURDER our pre-born. We have chose to act like devils (with exceptions: there are some, as we here, that choose life and blessing).

Final Word

The texts we’ve looked at, “perverted one(s)” tells us much about their character and condition, (both God’s people and the pagan nations). Are we not witness to the PERVERSIONS in both church and state here in the United States of Amerika? Nothing less than a Holy Revolution will cure us: the solution to the sin pollution is Bloody Revolution! The Blood of Jesus cleanses us of all sin. America, like ancient Israel, has become VAIN in it’s imaginations concerning God and His laws. This nation proudly blasphemes His name daily, the worship of sex is totally out of control. We dishonor God by honoring “perverted persons.”

Honestly, do you think we can go on and on in our rebellion? We have BAD actors in this nation right now ready and willing to steal, kill and destroy! There is MUCH trouble ahead if we do not repent and return to sanity.

The LORD spoke thru the prophet Hosea these words: “I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughter-in-law when they commit adultery, because the men themselves consort with the harlots and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes – a people without understanding will come to ruin” (Hosea 4:14 NIV). Here we see the mercy of God extended. Read v.1-13. Verse 12 says “A spirit of prostitution leads them (Israel) astray.” Chapter 5:4 says, “A spirit of prostitution is in their heart,” demon if you will!

Persistent sin can and does make repentance impossible (see Jeremiah 13:23, see also John 8:34 and Romans 6:6, 16).

Jeremiah said of Judah’s sin that it was engraved with an iron tool (NIV – 17:1). Another version read “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with the point of a diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart…” (NKJV). Israel's heart was so hard it took a diamond point to write upon it! One of the hardest stones known (see Ezekiel 3:9; Zechariah 7:12.).

God told Ezekiel that He would make his head hard as flint because Israel's heart/head was obstinate. So it is today, God has made our (my wife and me) foreheads hard as flint for the job we’ve had to do in proclaiming His judgments (see our Words of the Spirit booklets/DVDs etc.) We’ve had demons out of HELL trying to STOP us in God’s proclamations against sins of every sort. We’ve been severely persecuted, prosecuted, assaulted, slandered, hated, hunted and hounded for our diamond stand against the “spirit” of this age.

We’ve had property stolen and destroyed. We’ve had SWAT raids and DA lies made up against us. We’ve had children taken away (kidnapped) even one grown man who was held against his will by one top “Cult deprogramming” in the US (at least he at that time was deemed so). We’ve had guns put to our heads, shot at, hoped to be killed. But, my dear friends we are still here and have not bowed to the queer. We pray for these “perverted persons” that they will surrender their lives to Christ.