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The fear of the YHWH is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His
commandments: his praise endureth for ever. Psalms 111:10
Billions of human beings have been deceived from
understanding God's Truth. Underlying this deception is the "spirit of Antichrist"- the wrong approaches and false doctrines
perpetrated by 'religious leaders' throughout history!
"How so?" you ask.
Because there is a very real
Satan the Devil! Jesus twice called him the 'prince of this world' (John 12:31; 14:30). Satan is the great deceiver. The father
of lies! The Apostle John made it clear that Satan deceives the vast majority of mankind: "And the great dragon was cast out,
that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels
were cast out with him." (Revelation 12:9)
"But I am not deceived!" you might say. Do not be to sure!
Do you
understand the major deception that Satan has palmed off on mainstream Christianity? Are you awake to the worldwide religious
deception carried out in the name of 'Christianity'? This deception is so thourough that thousands of professing Christian
ministers and priests are themselves deceived and do not even realize that they are perpetuating a lie! Jesus described
the religious leaders of His day, the same holds true in our age: "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And
if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." (Matthew 15:14)
This mass deception is so widespread
and so believable because many of it's tenents "look good" on the surface. Most of it's practitioners will say that we must
believe in Christ. They say that Christians should exhibit love, kindness, mercy and patience, and that Christians should
"do good" to their fellow man- give support to hospitals, charities, the homeless, to orphans and widows. They say that Christians
should respond to Jesus's "law of love".
All of this sounds biblical. It all sounds very good!
But these practitioners
do not tell you that the laws of God are to be obeyed. They talk emotionally about Christ being 'Lord' of their lives, but
they inevitably fail to explain that if Jesus is 'Lord', we must obey Him! They will never tell you that Jesus directly
and consistantly taught obedience to all of the Ten Commandmants!
Because of this Satan-inspired deception, many of
the bloodiest wars in modern history have been waged by and between professing "Christian" nations! Does this make you a little
uncomfortable? It should! More importantly I hope it makes you think! Many of us have grown up in some mainstream church and
taken our religious beliefs for granted- assuming that what we hear is true. This is how many have unwittingly come to believe
a false gospel, a wrong way of life and another Jesus Christ!
One of the Greek words for "sin" in the New Testement
literally means to "miss the mark". Satan is content to let you 'believe in' God and Christ as long as he can still control
you, making you "miss the mark". His goal is to keep you out of the Kingdom of Heaven by blinding you to what is really happening!
God inspired James to write- "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble."
(James 2:19). James then explains how the true Christian must not mearly believe in God, but must surrender to God's
will and do what He says (v 20-23). He writes "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. "
(v.24)
"Justified by works?" YES- along with faith! Read it for yourself in your own Bible! It should be clear
that true Christianity involves more than just accepting, in faith, Christ's death- which is a free gift from God- as full
payment for our sins. When we accept Christ's sacrafice, when we are baptized, we must also make a literal "covenant with
our Creator" to quit sinning in the future- to truly surrender to let Christ live His obedient life in us throught the Holy
Spirit! God's inspired Word tells us "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of
the law." (1 John 3:4). So we must repent of sin, repent of breaking God's spiritual Law, the Ten Commandmants. This involves
a life of humble obedience- the "works" of keeping God's laws and commandments.
I want to be clear that no one can
ever earn salvation- it is God's gift! The true grace of God leads to the gift of salvation (Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 6:23).
Those willing to obey God (Acts 5:29, 32) and who are under true grace will be God's "workmanship, created in Jesus
Christ for good works" (Ephesians 2:10). God's grace does not eliminate the need for obediance and keeping God's commandments.
The Apostle Paul warned that one could receive the grace of God in vain (2 Corinthians 6:1). And while the Apostle Peter exhorted
Christians to "gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you
at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:13), he continues with the expectation that we do so "as obedient children"
(v 14).
But when men led by Satan, cleverly misuse"grace"- teaching a "cheap grace" without real repentance from sin-
it is the very essence of the doctrine of Antichrist! This false concept has allowed millions upon millions of professing
Christians to go through life regularly and habitually disobeying the Ten Commandments- yet still assuming they are "good
Christians"!
Jude was inspired to warn us of this very deception. "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto
you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for
the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained
to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
Lord Jesus Christ" (Jude 3-4).
Notice that he warns of false teachers using the idea of "grace" as a vehicle for "lasciviousness"-
unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence- Licence to disobey
the very laws of God!
"Oh, my minister would never do that!" you may protest.
Sorry, friends, but chances are
that they will verify what I am saying if you approach them with this question- "Does God require true Christians to keep
the Ten Commandments". If you ask this question, in these words, most ministers will begin to mummble something about being
"saved by grace". Then they may add that the Ten Commandments are a good moral guide, but that "you need not keep them since
you are saved by grace." If you press on and try to pin them down to a staightforward answer, they may try to skirt the issue,
or point you to the "new" commandment of Jesus. Or perhaps he will come right out and say what virtually all mainstream theology
teaches- that the Ten Commandmants were either "nailed to the cross" or that the Apostle Paul somehow "did away" with them!
This is the heart of the doctrine of Antichrist!
How so? And why is this such a serious matter? Because it creats a
"lawless society"- a society cut off from God and His plan since the Ten Commandments actually portray His character.
God's awsome purpose involves putting His "divine nature" into us throught the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:4). It involves our
going through a process of spiritual growth and "overcoming" to reflect the very character of God and to prepare us to be
fit to rule with Christ in His soon-coming Kingdom. Jesus directly states:"And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto
the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter
shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father." (Revelation 2:26-27)
The true saints of God are
being prepared by Him to replace Satan and his demon fallen angels in ruling over this earth! Satan is now the "god of this
world" (2 Corinthians 4:4). He is now the "prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience" (Ephesians 2:2).
The Apostle Paul tells us: "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and
if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels?
how much more things that pertain to this life? (1 Corinthians 6:2-3)
Why have you not heard a lot more about this
awsome purpose of the true Christain? Because the 'father of lies' wants you to stumble!
Among Satan's deceits, surely
none is as great as his system of "counterfeit churchianity"! Jesus and His Apostles warned that this would happen!. Paul
said " Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come [Christ's return], except there come a falling away
first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition... For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who
now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming" (2 Thesselonians 2:3- 7,8). Notice that
this false religious system is called the 'mystery of iniquity'-LAWLESNESS! Shortly before Christ's return, it will be headed
by a figure called the "man of sin" or the "son of perdition". This man will perform lying wonders (v. 9) and the deception
will be so strong it threatens to "deceive the very elect"!
Realize Paul said this false Christianity was already at
work when he wrote these verses- even as it is today. The proponents of this lawless system speak about love and about the
Lord- but they leave out Christ's powerful instructions to keep the commandments of God! When a young man asked Jesus how
to inherit eternal life He answered "if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." (Matthew 19:17)
Who claims
the authority to "do away" with this clear teaching of Jesus Christ? Does your minister? Does your church?
Again Paul
warned the Christians of his day "For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive
another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with. (2 Corinthians
11:4)! Unwittingly, to be sure, most of us have grown up hearing about "another Jesus", and "another spirit". and most definitly
"another gospel" than the one Jesus and His Apostles preached!
If you are willing to face reality, if you want to fulfill
the very purpose for which you were nborn, you need to understand what this doctrine is and avoid it at all cost! Heed the
warning in Revelation 18 "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues."
Jesus Himself warned us "Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am
Christ; and shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:4-5). Note that it is the MANY that will be deceived! How? Because "many" false
teachers come "in Jesus name". Get that?! They use Jesus name to deceive people! They come as "Christian" preachers and teachers-
yet their message is contrary to what Jesus Himself preached! "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore
it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according
to their works." (2 Corinthians 11:14-15)
Because "Christian" is stamped on the outside of the package, most unthinkingly
assume that Christ approves of what is on the inside of the package! But these deceived people fail to really study their
Bibles. They fail to "prove all things" as God commanded, so they are easily deceived by a false "Christianity" based on the
doctrine of "Antichrist". They buy into the lie- "because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thesselonians 2:10-12)
Wake up to the Truth!
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