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Christian
Media Communiqué WHILE
YOU WERE SLEEPING Part
V
“I fear, lest by any means, as the
serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted
from the simplicity that is in Christ. 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 him” (II Corinthians 11:3, 4).
To put it another way, through the Scripturally
anticipated period which features “signs and wonders” that tend to
validate the False Prophecy they’ve been taught throughout their
lifetime, vast numbers of believers are on the wrong track. Worse yet,
as the false teachers in the churches frequently warn the flock that a time of
great apostasy is coming, the believers fail to realize the apostasy referred
to in the Scriptures achieved a toehold in Christianity before they were
born, and it is now the majority view. Thus, literally millions of Bible based believers feel
secure in their religious perspective, and do not realize they are in deadly
peril. Obviously, a historical perspective is useful concerning what the
Christians believed in various eras (in order to place these things in
context), but the Scriptures are sufficient to track down the
truth. “All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (II Timothy 3:16,
17) Not only does the Bible tell us the Word is valuable
for correction when we’ve gone off course, but it mandates that a
periodic review of the individuals’ relationship to truth is in order. “Examine yourselves, whether ye
be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (II
Corinthians 13:5). This verse is a bit awkward in the old King James
English, but since we don’t trust modern translations, it’s worth
the effort to decipher what the Apostle Paul is communicating. The verse is
telling the believer to review what they’ve come to believe about Christ,
to prove that He is living in you, and guiding you. Then that last phrase could
be paraphrased as `unless of course, you find that after you’ve examined
yourself, you cannot confirm that you are on the right track.’ Indeed, the word “reprobate” can be defined
as no longer able to determine right from wrong, so this admonition points to a
very serious matter. This periodic re-evaluation is complicated by the
“Strong Delusion” which is to come, mentioned in the New Testament.
The Bible specifically warns that in the last days, God Himself will send a Strong
Delusion. Since context is king (as the saying goes), we should point
out that the Apostle Paul was addressing the believers, and the release of Antichrist.
He reminded the Thessalonians they had discussed this
subject when he was present in Thessalonica. “And now ye know what [is
restraining the evil] that he might be revealed in his time” (II
Thessalonians 2:6). Many have taken verses like this to deduce that this
indicates the eventual arrival of “the” Antichrist, because it says
“he [will be] revealed in his time” –
however the dragon – who is easily identified as Satan who is a Spirit
– is also referred to as a “he.” “And when the dragon saw that he
was cast out into the earth, he persecuted the woman which
brought forth the man child” (Revelation 12:13). Thus the use of “he” does not mandate the
text is referring to a human being. For that matter, even the Holy Spirit is
mentioned in a similar text, with the use of “I” and
“me.” “As [the disciples] ministered
to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me
Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called
them” (Acts 13:2). In any event, the letter to the Thessalonians
addressing the Christians does go on to say that that it is in the context of
the restrainer being removed, and with “that Wicked” being
revealed, it is then that God will send a Strong Delusion. “For this cause God shall send them
Strong Delusion, that they should believe a lie…and then shall that
wicked be revealed” (II Thessalonians 2:11,8). This is solid proof that a “Strong
Delusion” will be a significant factor in the world, towards the time of
the end. In the Greek dictionary – usually called a Concordance -- the
underlying Greek word for delusion describes it as “A
straying from orthodoxy” – which explains why that same word is
rendered “error” in other verses: “Ye are of God: he that knoweth God
heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of
truth, and the spirit of error” (I John 4:6). Thus, the word indicates a deluding error,
that strays from orthodoxy, and as we’ve already noted, it occurs in the
latter days when Antichrist is released. This is why the False Prophets of the Rapture
Cult fight so fiercely denying the fact that the doctrine of the
Rapture is a recent development, and has not been here throughout the
Christian era. For over eighteen centuries, the consensus of Christian prophecy
has been that God has chosen the Christians, to be in the same role that
Israel was in the Old Testament, shining His light to the Gentiles. “And the Gentiles shall come to thy
light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising” (Isaiah 60:3). As Israel turned away from the role of the mediators of
the LORD’s righteousness to the nations (Gentiles in the text), God chose
to Spiritually inhabit the Christian believers through His only begotten Son,
just as he had previously shone His light through the house of Israel. In the process, He also fulfilled many of His eternal
promises to redeem Israel. To His Son, God the Father said the following: “It is a light thing that thou
shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the
preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that
thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6).
Since Jesus explicitly told the Christians that we
are now the light of the world, the claim that the Jewish flesh and
blood people, who largely reject Christ and are supposedly still chosen by God,
is blasphemy. To the Christians, Christ said these epic words: “Ye are the light of the world. Ye
are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith
shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and
to be trodden under foot of men (Matthew 5:13). This continues the unfolding of the Lord’s
revelation of Sequential Recapitulation (or “doubling”), in
which the patterns of prophecy are repeated in a supernatural way, initially in
the Flesh and Blood vessels in the Old Testament, then through the Spiritual
version of Israel in the Christian age, and finally through the third and final
Era of Antichrist. For instance, in the book of Hebrews, we
learn that when Moses was making the tabernacle where the LORD
would manifest Himself to the Israelites, God told Moses to make each aspect of
the tabernacle exactly the way Moses had previously seen them, when he was in
the holy mountain where he saw heavenly things. “Moses was admonished of God when he
was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things
according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount” (Hebrews 8:5).
The New Testament further asserts that the rituals, and
the tabernacle, and even the priest himself, as seen in the Old Testament, are
earthly shadows of the Spiritual reality of the kingdom of God. “[Jesus is] a
minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched,
and not man…[which] serve unto the example and shadow
of heavenly things” (Hebrews 8:2, 5). In previous revelations through Christian Media,
the Lord has revealed that even the “doubled” aspects of the BC
era of physical Israel are not only doubled in Spiritual ways in
the AD Christian age, they are doubled again – with
the roles reversed – in the Age of Antichrist. Thus, since we are now in the timeline where the Spirit
of Antichrist prevails in the physical world, Flesh and Blood Israel is now in
the role of Antichrist, and the Spiritually constituted body of Christ
is in the role of Israel. But more on the particulars of the three
timelines, BC, AD, and the Era of Antichrist will
have to wait for the next installment of While You Were Sleeping. -- James Lloyd To
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