THE INSTITUTIONAL (CATHOLIC/PROTESTANT) CHURCH IS GOD’S CHURCH. The Almighty warned that in the latter days a “little horn” would “cast the Truth to the ground” (Dan. 8:10-12;7:25). The institutional religious system (“the church”) is that end-time “little horn” which is identified in Revelation 17:1-5 as Mystery, Babylon–the Great (Catholic) Whore and her Harlot (Protestant) Daughters. This old adulterous hag will hold sway over the nations of the world during the final days of the final era of this world. She will lead the world in Satan’s attempt to bring the whole of humanity under His rule even as he has ruled professing Christianity throughout the past 1900 years. The following explains how he successfully rules “the church” from within the minds/hearts of his totally deceived parishioners.

CHURCH MINISTERS ARE CALLED BY GOD: The Lord, through HIS true messengers, warns us in writing what will take place in the latter days of the world. In Acts 20:29 we are told that “savage wolves” (Satan’s false prophets) had at that time already begun to “creep in unawares” (Jude 4), had “deceived many” (Mat. 24:5) by preaching “another Gospel” (Gal. 1:6-9) and exalting Tammuz–“another Jesus” (2 Cor. 11:4). Tammuz was the sun god that the church embraced in 364 A.D. The Lord, through His servants, warns that anyone who does not abide (obey) His Words has neither Himself nor God (2 Jn. 9:11), denies Christ’s name (Rom. 3:8)–the ONLY NAME BY WHICH BELIEVERS CAN BE SAVED (Acts 4:12)–and is a child (disciple) of Satan (Jn. 8:42-44). We are told in Romans 6:16 that the one we obey is the one we serve. We obey and serve the one we look to for spiritual truth. The Institutional Church looks to Satan and his church doctrines. Why? Because the people trust their ministers to tell them God’s Truth. The problem is that their religious leaders do not believe God’s Truth. For this reason God declares: “I have not sent them” (Jer. 14:14,15;23:21,32;27:15;29:9).

Jesus said to the Father: “Your Word is Truth” (Jn. 17:17). By rejecting God’s Truth and embracing Satan’s church doctrines, the church’s false prophets lead her to honor the words of Satan. I do not listen to church leaders. However, as He often does, the Lord recently led me to listen to one of Satan’s messengers who said to his television congregation: “In order to get to heaven, you must OBEY CHURCH DOCTRINE.” First, no man except Jesus has ever lived in heaven, is in heaven now or will ever be in heaven. Second, church doctrine consists of Satan’s hundreds of versions of God’s Truth. Read about heaven using that word as the key. Then read The Kingdom of God, key word–Kingdom. Jesus, today speaking from heaven through His Holy word, asks professing Christendom: “Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord’ then refuse to do what I say?” (Lk. 6:46). He says about the modern Catholic/Protestant Religious System (my name for “the church”): “In VAIN do they worship Me by teaching man’s commandments instead of My doctrines” (Mat. 15:9). Christ warns the modern (Laodicean) church: “Do not do for Me what the Gentiles (heathen) do for their gods” (Deut. 12:30,31). It is from heathen religions that the church has borrowed such concepts as Christmas, Easter, the trinity, the Sunday Sabbath, etc. Jesus reminds the church: “He that rejects Me (rejects His Words) has one that judges him–THE WORDS THAT I HAVE SPOKEN WILL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY” (Jn. 12:48). Jesus (the Word–Logos–“spokesman” of the Godhead) spoke every word in the Bible to His prophets and apostles who recorded them for us. Note: TO NOT BELIEVE HIS WORDS IS TO DESPISE HIM (Lk. 10:16), for Jesus (the Word) and His Words are one and the same: “IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS (ALSO A) GOD” (Jn. 1:1-4,14). “AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED THE WORD OF GOD” (Rev. 19:13).

Jesus continues to warn church people about false prophets who come as “ministers of righteousness” who serve the “angel of light” who has “deceived the whole world” into believing his false light which God calls “great darkness” because it is put forth as His (God’s) light (Rev. 12:9/Mat. 7:15/2 Cor. 11:14/Mat. 6:23). God’s true saints are commanded to “try the spirits” of those who come to us in His name (Eph. 5:11/ 1 Jn. 4:1), who preach whatever the creator of their particular church, denomination, faith, etc. declares to be “Bible truth.” They do this while denying what God has said through “holy men of old (who) spoke (and wrote) as they were led by God’s Holy Spirit” (2 Pet. 1:21). We are commanded to expose the “doctrines of devils” put forth by “wolves in sheep’s clothing” (Mat. 7:13-20). Other church “doctrinal truths” are as follows:

GOD’S LAW WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS: “To transgress (break) the Law is sin, for sin is the transgression of the Law” (1 Jn. 3:4). “The Law is holy, just and good” (Rom. 7:12). The coming Messiah would “honor and magnify the Law” during His time on earth (Isa. 42:13,21). What was nailed to the cross of Christ were Moses’ “handwriting of ordinances” which god made Israel obey because they refused to obey His Ten Commandments.

THE NEW COVENANT DID AWAY WITH THE LAW. THE NEW COVENANT WAS MADE WITH GENTILES: “In the LAST DAYS I will make a NEW COVENANT with the House of ISRAEL and the House of JUDAH. I will write MY LAWS (Ten Commandments) on THEIR hearts and in THEIR minds” (Jer. 31:31-33/Heb. 8:8-12).

JUSTIFICATION, ONCE RECEIVED, IS PERMANENT: Justification (forgiveness of all past sins) is awarded by a combination of man’s faith and God’s grace. However, once justification has been received, one must obey God’s Ten Commandment Law in order to retain (keep) one’s justification: “For it is not the hearers of the LAW that are just(tified) before God, but the DOERS OF THE LAW SHALL (CONTINUED TO) BE JUSTIFIED (Rom. 2:12). Read The Justification-Salvation Confusion, key word–Confusion. I suggest that you read each of the Justification series in that the Holy Scriptures have been misinterpreted relative to exactly what justification means and what must take place after having been justified in order to receive eternal life upon Christ’s return. Satan’s false prophets have ruined many lives with his false interpretation of justification. This is especially true for the Book of Romans.

MAN IS ALLOWED TO INTERPRET THE BIBLE: This lie resulted in Satan’s creation of the two-headed, multi-bodied abomination known as “the church.” The lie exists in spite of the Truth that the Holy Scriptures are of “no private (personal) interpretation,” which is the foundation upon which the denominational system is built (2 Pet. 1:20). The creators of the hundreds of different churches, denominations, faiths, etc. built their respective theologies based on their personal “improvements” of God’s Word. God pronounces a double curse on those who substitute such Satanic “truths” for God’s Truth (Gal. 1:8,9). Because Jesus equates Himself and His Words (Jn. 1:1-4/Rev. 19:13), by perverting (interpreting) His Words (Gal. 1:6,7), the various “churches” within Christianity have each created their own Jesus (2 Cor. 11:4) whom they honor each Sunday, Christmas and Easter. God commands that we commemorate Christ’s DEATH, not His birth or His resurrection. Not surprisingly, the church does the exact opposite by rejecting God’s commandment and creating two of their own. She did the same thing to God’s Sabbath. Only God can create Truth. The church is filled with self-defined gods.

God commands His ministers to speak only His oracles (logion–word) which glorify Him (1 Pet. 4:11). Anyone who does not speak His Words has not been sent by Him and is in rebellion against Him (Jer. 20:30-32). Because the church has refused to believe and obey His Words, God has sent her “strong delusion,” causing her to “believe a lie” and to develop a “reprobate mind” (2 Thes. 2:9-12/ Rom. 1:28). He warned that time would come when true God-seekers would lament, “Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity and unprofitable things” (Jer.16:19), which perfectly describes the numerous heathen doctrines and practices which the church embraces, proving that “the mystery of iniquity” (Lawlessness) is at work” within her (2 Thess. 2:7).

Religious man refutes this, claiming that there is a place where God seekers can reject any of God’s Words they disagree with and still be “saved” due to His grace. I heard a woman say that about the Lord’s Sabbath. God’s grace supposedly allows church people to do as they please and get away with it. These are the people about whom Jesus said: “… draw nigh to Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me. In vain do they worship Me ….” (Mat. 15:8,9. These people call themselves “Sinners Saved By Grace.” Old Testament prophets “spoke from the mouth of God” (2 Chron. 36:12-14). Holy men of old, led by the Holy Spirit, spoke and recorded His Words “for our instruction who are living at the end of the age “(1 Cor. 10:11). God’s Very Elect saints believe and obey His Words. L.J.