LIFE AFTER DEATH: Another of Satan’s heathen-based deceptions involves the “truth” that believers go directly to heaven following death where they live happily ever after. God responds: “The dead know nothing, have no reward, no knowledge, no wisdom, do not praise the Lord, do not remember God” (Eccl. 9:5,6,9,10/ Ps.115:17;6:5). David is still in his grave (Acts 2:29). .Jesus is the only man to ever reside in heaven (Jn. 3:13/1 Tim. 2:5). If death ushers the believer directly into God’s presence, why is death the believer’s “enemy?” (1 Cor. 15:26). If the righteous dead are in heaven now, who are the “dead in Christ” who will rise from the earth to meet Him in the clouds upon His return to earth? (1 Thes. 4:16,17). Read Life After Death, key word–After. Read The Resurrections, key word–Resurrections.

SUNDAY SABBATH: God’s people have always observed His seventh day Sabbath. Satan first changed Sabbath observance for his people in A.D. 321 when Roman Emperor Constantine decreed: “Let all the judges and town people, and all the occupations of all trades within the empire rest on the Venerable Day of the Sun”–Sunday, the day heathen “converts” to Catholicism honored their god (Tammuz). This ruling applied to all within the Roman Empire. In A.D. 364 the Bishop of Rome made the ruling official for the empire’s official church–Catholicism–everywhere in the world. He ruled that “Christians must not Judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, resting rather on Sunday.” The fact that he had to force the change from Saturday to Sunday proves that God’s people were still celebrating His Saturday (7th day) Sabbath in A.D. 364–333 years AFTER the founding of the New Testament Church. Nowhere does the Lord authorize man to change a word, not so much as a jot or tittle in His eternal Law by which He rules His people. Read about God’s Sabbath using the key word–Sabbath.

CHRISTMAS: In Jeremiah 10:2-4 God warns: “Learn not the ways of the heathen, for the customs of the people (Heb.–“Gentiles”–heathen) are vain, for one cuts a tree out of the forest, decks it with silver and gold and fastens it with nails and hammers.” Though as many as seven pagan groups honored their respective gods on December 25 each year for hundreds of years, God’s people refused to do so. Christmas was outlawed in America until 1681 when Satan’s people gained control of the church, sending her into full apostasy mode where she remains until this day. The Apostle Paul warned that prior to Christ’s return to the earth the church would sink into full-fledged apostasy (falling away from God)–2 Thes. 2:3. The process had already begun when he wrote his letter to the churches of Galatia around 53 A.D., less than a generation after the church was founded in A.D. 31 (Gal. 1:6-9). God’s young church was already drawing away from Him.

CHRIST’S RESURRECTION: Jesus stated numerous times that the “sign” (proof) of His Sonship was that He would be resurrected exactly three days and three nights after being placed in the grave. Believing that He lied about the time element, churchman corrected Him, insisting that He was in the grave only one day and two nights, which is the “sign” of the man who became the sun god–Tammuz (Eze. 8:14) who supposedly arose from the grave after one day and two nights (Friday night, Saturday, Saturday night). The counterfeit church embraces Tammuz–“another Jesus” (2 Cor. 11:4)–and pays homage to him weekly and annually. Over half of professing Christianity celebrates so-called “good Friday” on which Jesus was supposedly crucified. He died at sundown on Wednesday and arose at sundown on Saturday. Read The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, key word–Resurrection.

SYMBOLS: In His Law of Life God stated: “Thou shall have no other gods before (other than) Me.” He goes on to describe those other gods: “Thou shall make no graven (hand-made) image in the likeness of ANYTHING in heaven, on earth or in the water, for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God” (Exo. 20:3). The almighty views any man-made religious image–be it a cross, fish, picture, statue, beads, person, animal, bird or serpent–as another god. Using such symbols in the worship of Him is IDOLATRY. It does not matter how man views a symbol, it is how GOD views it that matters. He views ANYTHING used in the worship of Him as another god which man has placed before Him–has placed between Him and the believer. Read Church Symbols, key word–Symbols.

SALVATION/ BORN AGAIN: Jesus plainly stated that when a man is born again his bodily composition changes from physical to SPIRIT (Jn. 3:6-8/1 Jn. 3:2). The change is total and signifies that the believer is saved and born again. Deceived churchman (Rev. 12:9) believes Satan who tells him that he is already “saved” and “born again.” Though Jesus made it clear that in this life we have only the “hope of salvation” (Rom. 8:24,25), and that only those who obey Him “until the end shall (then) be saved” (Mat. 10:22/Rev. 2:10), church people believe Satan who tells them that they are saved and born again in this life. Read Hope and Salvation and Born Again, key words Hope and Born respectively

ORIGINAL SIN: In the 4th century A.D. a Catholic priest named Augustine while ministering in an area of North Africa called Hippo, was being pressed by his congregation to baptize their small children who were dying at a high rate from a disease that had stricken the area. Knowing that children did not sin, Augustine was forced to come up with a reason to baptize them that would be accepted by his church superiors. His solution was to declare that they had inherited Adam’s sin, which meant that all of mankind had inherited Adam’s sin gene and that all were therefore born sinners. The lie was accepted and soon spread throughout the Catholic world. An excuse to sin was too good to be restricted to the Catholic Church. Satan’s popular lie soon became church truth throughout all of professing Christendom where it is declared “God’s Truth” to this day. Question: While describing to Adam and Eve the curses their sin had incurred, why did God not mention by far the worst curse of all–that their sin would infect every human being who would ever be born? Answer: because God cannot lie. A man reaps what HE sows, not what someone else sows (Gal. 6:7). Satan’s “born sinner” ruse was not heard of for the first 300 years of church history. If it was true, why did God keep it a secret for so many generations?

In order to involve Jesus’ death in this hoax, the church determined that, having inherited Adam’s sin, man is merely doing what is “natural” when he disobeys God. Having inherited Adam’s sin gene, man has no control over his actions and can therefore not be held accountable for them. Therefore, Jesus died so that He could be obedient FOR church people–to obey God in their stead. Repentance is simply man telling Jesus what he has done so that Jesus can make the guilt go away. As I stated in the previous segment, Christianity is by far the most convenient (come as you are–stay as you are/ you want it–you got it) religion on earth. Bear with me as I again repeat the little ditty I made up that reflects the church’s attitude toward sin: “Sin and grin, my friend, for in the end, you still win. Pie in the sky, sin till you die, for in the sweet bye and bye, you still get to fly.” To the churchite, sinning is a win-win activity. He can sin any time and any way he pleases, and his “punishment” is eternal life in paradise.

Another spiritual irony is the fact that no churchite would agree that a family’s children are thieves because their father is a known thief. No one would agree that thievery is “in the family blood line.”

However, billions of churchites “know” that they became sinners at the instant of their conception. Why? BECAUSE THEIR ORIGINAL FATHER WAS A SINNER. THEY “KNOW” THAT ADAM MIRACULOUSLY TRANSFERRED HIS SIN GENE INTO THE SPIRITUAL DNA OF EVERY HUMAN EVER BORN. ACCORDING TO PROFESSING CHRISTENDOM, SIN IS DEFINITELY “IN THE HUMAN BLOODLINE.” Therefore, the church sinner just needs to continue to: “Sin and grin my friend, for in the end ….” L..J.