Up-to-date summary: The church’s civil war is now in the organizational stage that has been gathering momentum over the past several years as the church’s apostasy (falling away from God) has gradually accelerated in speed and broadened in scope. The “little horn” of Daniel 7:8-21 is leading the movement from a position of global influence on both governmental and social levels. This “little horn” is described in Revelation 17:1-5 as a great whore which enjoys considerable influence in the governmental arena. The woman (whore church) is called “Mystery, Babylon.” She is depicted as riding (influencing) a Beast (government) in the final days of this age. Those who know the Bible recognize her as the Catholic Church which, over the past several centuries, has had a great deal of influence over the governments in the nations in which she has existed. Catholicism is the largest religion on earth. Her harlot (Protestant) daughters are in the process of returning to their mother (Catholic) church. The Lord has shown me that the whore system will, in the end, include other religions. This religious “coming together” (ecumenism) will evolve as all of the world’s religions unite into one entity–a one-world religious unit which will come against God’s Law obeying church which is identified as “The Church of God” 12 times in the Holy Scriptures. God’s true church is not to be confused with the denomination that has hijacked the title.

In the near future the entire world will come together under the singular leadership of the reigning Catholic Pope and will be empowered by the governments of the world’s nations who will join the Sunday Sabbath-Global Warming-Earth Day movement. Outnumbered millions to one, God’s church will reign supreme by demonstrating the power of their God for all the world to see via television, the internet, etc. The world’s people will be given one final, pre-tribulation chance to turn from Satan to Him through His tiny church. However, few, if any will turn to the Lord. Instead, they will continue to follow the “little horn” who, with the world’s governments behind her, will declare war against God’s true saints. The core reason for the religious civil war will be God’s Sabbath, which He called “My Holy Day … the Holy of the Lord” in Isaiah 58:13.

The Lord has not as yet revealed to me the extent to which the whore and her governmental and religious “lovers” will go in their attempt to punish God’s people. This war will be of relatively short duration. A point will be reached at which the Almighty will take His “little flock” to their “place of safety” where they will be protected and provided for over the following 3 1/2-year Tribulation Period. Read about the place of safety using the word Safety as the key.

With His people in their place of safety, the Lord will begin what is formally known as the Tribulation Period which Scripture tells us is a three-part endeavor. During part one Satan will be allowed to terrorize sinning man for 2 1/2 years during the period identified Scripturally as “the Great Tribulation.” Then for a brief period God will cause heavenly bodies to fall to the earth in an attempt to warn mankind to turn to Him while they still can. Many will have done so during the previous 2 1/2 years of terror and death. Following His “light show,” the Lord will pour out His wrath on sinners for the final year known Scripturally as “the Day of the Lord” during which time Jesus will return to earth. Read about these periods of death and destruction in the series titled The Great Tribulation and The Day of the Lord, key word–Tribulation.

We must not lose sight of the fact that the reason for all of this terror, death and destruction is SIN–MAN’S REFUSAL TO OBEY GOD’S LAW. Mankind has made sin a “natural pastime” since Adam’s fall in the Garden of Eden. Led by the Serpent of Eden (Satan), man, including churchman most of that time, has rejected God’s Holy Word in favor of Satan’s word which is always the “truth” that overrides God’s Truth. Satan’s attack on and pollution of the New Testament Church began soon after her creation in 31 A.D. Paul wrote his epistle to the churches of Galatia in the early-50’s A.D. The church had been in existence only a little more than 20 years. Notice what he says to that church in 1:6-9. The Apostle John wrote His epistles to the church about that same time. Read First John 3:1-10. In both cases the apostles were writing to the church about the church–THEN AND NOW.

Satan, always ready with “proof” of God’s numerous errors, has provided yet another so-called “Bible truth” to “prove” that Sunday is God’s special day of rest. This “truth” involves the theory that Jesus was resurrected on Sunday, which would automatically make the first day of the week special. He (Satan) has supposedly “proven” that Christ arose at sunup on that Sunday. Ironically, this was the day and the time when pagan sun worshipers paid homage to their god each Spring as they bowed toward the rising sun and prayed to him. His name varies according to which sun-worshiping nation one is discussing. The Catholic Church, after forcing sun worshipers to join her using the Roman army as her muscle, then accommodated them by changing the church’s Sabbath to Sunday in 364 A.D at the Council of Laodicea. Roman Emperor Constantine had changed the celebration of Passover to Easter in 325 A.D. to accommodate her followers. At that time he dictated that thereafter Easter would be honored on Easter Sunday at the time of the “Jewish Sabbath.”

Not being allowed to read the Holy Bible or hear it being read, Catholic parishioners assumed that their leaders were following God’s orders. Therefore, they assumed that what they were told about Christ’s resurrection was in fact God’s Truth. Read Christ’s Resurrection, key word–Christ’s to learn how Satan has deceived the church world into embracing his soul-damming lies. I grew up believing those lies, some of which are listed on this website’s home page. In fact, being ignorant of the Truth, I observed my church’s “Sunrise Service” each Spring by facing the rising sun and supposedly praying to the Creator God on Easter Sunday. Only later did I learn that I was in fact praying to and worshipping the sun. Praise God for His incredible grace. It is because of such church activities as observing the Sunday Sabbath, Easter, New Years, Halloween, etc. that we are commanded to test church leaders against the Holy Bible to determine which spirit (God or Satan) they are listening to (1 Jn. 4:1).

The facts surrounding Christ’s resurrection were that He died on Wednesday at sundown and was raised on Saturday at sundown. God’s day begins and ends at sundown (Gen. 1:5,8,13,19,23,31). Christ was in the grave three days and three nights–EXACTLY AS HE SAID SEVERAL TIMES IN THE HOLY BIBLE. Nowhere in the Bible are we told that Jesus arose on Sunday. Let’s do some elementary math: So-called “good Friday” to Sunday morning is one day (Saturday) and two nights (Friday and Saturday). That comes to one day and two nights. Jesus said He would be in the grave THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS. Obviously, church people cannot count to three.

NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE ARE WE TOLD TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH OR HIS RESURRECTION. WE ARE COMMANDED TO CELEBRATE HIS DEATH DURING THE PASSOVER CELEBRATION. The church does the exact opposite to what God commands her to do by celebrating His birth and his resurrection while exalting Easter (Ishtar)–the heathen goddess of fertility–instead of Passover. I saw a picture of a wooden statue of Ishtar (Easter) that had been discovered by an archeological team. I believe I counted six breasts on her torso.

Satan’s primary “proof” that the seventh day of the week (Saturday) is not God’s Sabbath is that the seventh day sabbath was supposedly created for Jews and other Israelites only. The death of the Jew named Jesus supposedly brought an end to the fourth commandment. Therefore, the church has concluded that the so-called “Jewish Sabbath” only applies to the Jews and the lost ten tribes of Israel. Read Who and Where is Israel Today? key word–Today. Ironically, the Sabbath was created four generations before the first “Jew” (Judah) was born. If the Sabbath is “Jewish,” then so are the other nine commandments which were given at the same time. In her zeal to do away with God’s stone-written Law, the Institutional Church did away with the very Law by which He rules His true church. Those who do not obey His Law are not His people–His rule, not mine.

The truth is that the true believers in God’s church are in fact spiritual Israelites/spiritual Jews. God’s Church is called “the Israel of God” in Galatians 6:16. In reading that verse one will notice that Biblical writers used the word “and” where we use the words “which is.” This word usage is found several times in the Scriptures and can be confusing. We use similar expressions at times when we say something like: “How is your wife? How is the best cook in the county?” It is understood that we are referring to the same person. The Who and Where series reveals where God sent the ten tribes of sinning Israel as punishment following her defeat and enslavement by Assyria. Today the nations where the different tribes settled describe themselves as “Christian”–the result of the ministries of the original apostles (Mat. 10:5,6; 24:14). The areas in which the Israelites settled include the modern nations of Northwestern Europe, the United States and British Isles. The Jewish people are the descendants of the House of Judah.

Concerning God’s dealings with “Israel” in the end times, recall that Jacob (Israel), having placed his hands on the heads of Joseph’s two sons, said: “My name (Israel) will be upon these boys”–Ephraim and Manasseh (Gen. 48). The descendants of Ephraim created what came to be known as Great Britain while the descendants of Manasseh founded what became the United States of America. These nations, along with the Middle-eastern nation known as Israel today, are spiritual Israel. Because of their rejection of the Lord’s Law, they will be destroyed, conquered and enslaved as were their ancient Israelite ancestors, and for the same reason–SIN–THE BREAKING OF GOD’S LAW (1 JN. 3:4, SPECIFICALLY COMMANDMENT #4 (EXO. 20:20:8-11; 31:13-12-17).

About 150 years after ancient Israel was defeated and enslaved, the House of Judah (tribes of Judah and Benjamin) were defeated and enslaved by Babylon. Many Jews (the House of Judah) were sold throughout the world as slaves because they followed in the sinful footsteps of the other ten tribes known as the House of Israel. That being historical fact, bear in mind that a major cause of the removal of both groups of Israelites from the land God had promised their father Abraham was their DESECRATION OF THE LORD’S SABBATH (by the Jews) and the REJECTION OF THE LORD’S SABBATH (by Israel). The only reason the Jews are still a nation is that they continue to recognize God’s Sabbath on the proper day. They have maligned it to the point that it no longer resembles the original Sabbath Day. But because they continued to acknowledge God’s Sabbath, they were allowed to return to the Promised Land in 1948 where they remain to this day. However, God will one day destroy the Jewish nation, the United States and Brittian. All three nations will be defeated, most of their people will be killed and the remainder will be taken as slaves to all parts of the world by the beast of Revelation 17. GOD WILL DO TO THEM EXACTLY AS HE DID TO THEIR SPIRITUAL ANCESTORS AND WILL DO SO USING THE DESCENDANTS OF THE SAME PEOPLE. Only those whom He will have taken to a place of safety (His Very Elect) will be saved from the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord. Read God’s Place of Safety in an Earthly Hell using the key word–Safety.

If you have not done so, the time to make the decision as to your Sabbath choice is now. The church has chosen the way of the devil. If you are part of that Satan-serving system, obey God’s command found in Second Corinthians 6:14-7:1. This decision begins with you making a final decision concerning of your SIGN—EITHER GOD’S SABBATH OR SATAN’S SABBATH. Warning: Begin “wearing” God’s sign and you will soon find yourself alone with only God, Christ and a minutely few others to keep you company. L.J.